Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Brighton-lug-misc] Free UNIX shell account

2010-04-19 Thread Harry Rickards
On 18 Apr 2010, at 23:02, louis taylor lo...@taylor.bot.nu wrote: Does anyone know if these people will install software on the server? In particular byobu https://launchpad.net/byobu (which runs on bsd) You could try asking for it on IRC or compiling it in your home directory. In the case

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: snip It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. Would you mind saying a bit more about the problem with rsync? I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 19/04/10 08:00, mac wrote: Alan Lord (News) wrote: snip It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. Would you mind saying a bit more about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: The way my script (and I think rsync) works is that what is stored on my backup location is only a copy of what was last backed up (i.e. last night). If I wanted to restore a system to how it was say 3 days or one week ago I don't think you can. Ah, I see. I do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I can see that in an office, with a lot of data, having hourly, daily, weekly, etc., snapshots is much more important. snip Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the repositories) is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 19 April 2010 09:10, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's a perl based with a nice web interface that allows backup using SMB, rsync over SSH, etc. It handles

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Brighton-lug-misc] Free UNIX shell account

2010-04-19 Thread louis taylor
You could try asking for it on IRC or compiling it in your home directory. In the case of byobu it only needs a couple of files in your home directory anyway. I already have installed it in my home folder. I was wondering if it could be installed globally, since I have found some small problems

[ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread David
What does everybody think about these certifications? Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? http://www.lpi.org/certification http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx -- David Lutton m: 07792 560341 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Morley
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:03 +0100, David wrote: What does everybody think about these certifications? Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? http://www.lpi.org/certification http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx -- David Lutton m: 07792 560341

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Quinn
All Linux+ is now powered by LPI. See the press release from last week: http://lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/what_s_new/comptia_and_lpi_join_forces_to_a dvance_global_linux_workforce Bill -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread John Stevenson
On 19 April 2010 15:03, David david.lut...@gmail.com wrote: What does everybody think about these certifications? Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? http://www.lpi.org/certification http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx Some sample questions for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Quinn
John You need to put the question in context. What is the man command used for? A) It displays information about the syntax for a command. B) It is the replacement for the boy command. C) It is a standard alias to ls -la | more. D) It is used to display formatted HTML pages. With

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Mark Fraser
On Monday 19 Apr 2010 16:31:10 Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Mark Fraser wrote: Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . Thanks for that. This is definitely the same bug, and it explains a whole lot of things I'm seeing. I know where to look now. Plymouth has repeatedly