Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Hans Fugal
I heartily agree, although it bears mentioning that some distros are making the long-overdue migration away from System V init schemes (the symlinks in /etc/rc.d or similar places) to something better. e.g. Ubunutu is using upstart, which looks very cool, and Debian has optional support for

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread twitchej
I know this is not what you were asking for but it is none the less a good cross reference between the different *nix's. http://bhami.com/rosetta.html Regards, John Twitchell Quoting Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have seen a Linux Quick Reference Guide from O'reilly:

Backing up Linux from Win2k3

2006-12-08 Thread Chris Carey
I need to run an automated backup on a Win2k3 server of my Linux server. I wrote some scripts on the Linux to shut down services, backup to a dir, compress the dir to a zip/tar file with timestamp, start up services back up. Now I just need to get them moved onto the backup server. The server

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 06:56 -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: I heartily agree, although it bears mentioning that some distros are making the long-overdue migration away from System V init schemes (the symlinks in /etc/rc.d or similar places) to something better. e.g. Ubunutu is using upstart, which

Re: Backing up Linux from Win2k3

2006-12-08 Thread Bryan Sant
On 12/8/06, Gabriel Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft says... NTFS Size Limits - Architecturally: 16 exabytes minus 1 KB (2^64 bytes minus 1 KB) Implementation: 16 terabytes minus 64 KB (2^44 bytes minus 64 KB) 4 GB sure sounds small. Where do you get that info? Gabe I just

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Blake Barnett
On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 06:56 -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: I heartily agree, although it bears mentioning that some distros are making the long-overdue migration away from System V init schemes (the symlinks in /etc/rc.d or similar places) to

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:40 -0800, Blake Barnett wrote: launchd doesn't do runlevels, it's mostly designed with the desktop in mind, and so usually prefers to load things ondemand. But it can support dependencies, the WatchPaths and QueueDirectories can be used to enforce the order that

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:39:57PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: Except that my Tiger machine is actually Tiger Server, so launchd leaves a lot to be desired. At least they have cron running, slaved off of launchd. Tiger desktop does not have this and it is annoying to no end to have to hack

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Andrew McNabb wrote: Weird. I have cron running on my Tiger desktop system without having done any special configuration. I just ran crontab and stuff worked. Ditto here. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:00 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote: Weird. I have cron running on my Tiger desktop system without having done any special configuration. I just ran crontab and stuff worked. Guess I didn't look very hard on the tiger laptops I work on. Launchd did work ideally for a

Linux PDAs

2006-12-08 Thread Brandon Stout
I've been looking at these URLs: http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html http://www.access-company.com/products/linux/alp.html Interestingly, PalmSource has had some agreement or merger, which makes me wonder if PalmOS is going Linux... Anyway, these URLs beg the question: Who

Re: Linux PDAs

2006-12-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 16:22 -0700, Brandon Stout wrote: I've been looking at these URLs: http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html http://www.access-company.com/products/linux/alp.html Interestingly, PalmSource has had some agreement or merger, which makes me wonder if PalmOS

Re: Backing up Linux from Win2k3

2006-12-08 Thread Joe Crown
Bryan Sant wrote: I just like throwing out non-factual information to keep people guessing. As it turns out, the partition I copied a large tarball to was in fact FAT32. I was sure it was NTFS v5, but now I'm not so sure because I have a dialog in front of me saying that it's FAT (but can I

Re: Linux command comparison

2006-12-08 Thread Hans Fugal
Runlevels are a nice idea that I've not found much use for personally (except for single user mode, if you count that). In any case, there's nothing about runlevels that requires sysv init, it could just as easily be part of $newfangled_init, although it often isn't (as a design decision).

Re: Backing up Linux from Win2k3

2006-12-08 Thread Brandon Stout
Joe Crown wrote: Yes that's one article stating the FAT32 is limited to 4 GB file size. I think that is really funny though as FAT16 allowed up to 2 GB for the file size. So that really wasn't much of an upgrade in that regard. Fat16 has a 2g limit for an entire drive partition. In pre-fat32