Re: Booting from a USB Drive

GOOD NEWS!!! I got it working. I can now boot on this external drive without having to jump start from a live cd and chroot or any of that. It seems that my mkinitcpio.conf did not include 'usb' as one of the hooks for building the initial RAMFS image. I figured the RAMFS was failing some how s

Re: Booting from a USB Drive

Fantastic! And where did you find this mkinitcpio.conf? Was that in Arch Linux? Did you look in any others (sounds like not yet)? And what did you have to do after adding the usb entry (like remaster an iso, or ...)? Larry On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > GOOD NEWS!!! >

Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook

I would have to politely disagree with the previous 2 postings. I see a lot of sys admin jobs out there. But like any profession it is having the right skills at the right time. I think Linux admins with enterprise experience are in demand now. But the key is having a broad base of knowledge and ch

Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook

the old school JOAT it admin is still in need but mostly in museums and schools where you need more skills available and they cannot afford as much outsourcing/specialization, but this breeds its own difficulties as well. I see a number of positions of all flavors go by. but i think diversificatio

Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook

So i already graduated out of system administration? dang.. i wasn't done with that part yet... "I see the career path for the admin is moving up to system engineering and or then to IT management." -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going

West Side Plug Meeting

TONIGHT, DECEMBER 8, 2010 West Side Meeting Start: 19:00 End: 22:00 NOTICE: MEETING DATE CHANGES FOR HOLIDAYS More Info: Because Thanksgiving and Christmas are so close to our "regular" meeting dates, we are COMBINING those two meetings into ONE. The JANUAR

Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook

On 12/08/2010 10:19 AM, Shawn Badger wrote: I would have to politely disagree with the previous 2 postings. I see a lot of sys admin jobs out there. But like any profession it is having the right skills at the right time. I think Linux admins with enterprise experience are in demand now. But the

rsync help the gramma

I have an ext hdd that i copy my stuff to every few months. I think that i am copying everything all over again each time. What I'd like to do is just copy files that have changed. This is the command i have been using sto...@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo rsync -azvH /home/stormy/ /media/october pleas

Re: rsync help the gramma

You're pretty close to ideal there. I use rsync -avEHh --delete-after --progress $SOURCE $DESTINATION Generally no need to sudo for your own homedir, and "-z" is really only useful for network copying (it compresses in-transit, not on disk). That will only copy over changes between the source and

Re: rsync help the gramma

ok, great, so do i just do this; sto...@stormy-desktop:~$ rsync -avEHh /home/stormy/ /media/october or do i do this : sto...@stormy-desktop:~$ rsync -avEHh --delete-after --progress /home/stormy/ /media/october sorry to be so stupid, but i rely on you guys for this ;) thank you!! betty On 12

Re: rsync help the gramma

Do not think yourself stupid! I know software developers who are afraid of anything on a command line. The fact that you are using rsync is a long ways from anything close to stupid! Excellent work. Alan On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, betty wrote: > ok, great, so do i just do this; > > sto.

Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook

Yeah, I'm in the process of learning some new skills since mainframe software programming has gone to the pasture to be burried! I regret I didn't pick up and begin learning some of the newer technologies some years ago so no time like now to get started. I've been giving thought to sys admin wo

Re: rsync help the gramma

Yes, I commend you for going for the command line tools like that. Tackling rsync is no slouch by any means. Frankly, I can rarely remember all the command line options for rsync and have to either constantly look at the man page or previous working examples. I would also create little one or two