Linux-Misc Digest #679, Volume #19 Wed, 31 Mar 99 23:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Andre van Dijk)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) - origin of dollar sign (Steve Conover)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... ("Stuart Fox")
Remote root login ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: backup hardware and Linux (Jerry Normandin)
IP Masquerading ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re: exchange client that runs on LInux ("Chris Happel")
GNOME likes abuse? (or: a reboot cures all?) (Jeremiah)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Harry)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Jim Richardson)
Help! need MSproject like program! (graywolf)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (bill davidsen)
Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!! (Chuck Parker)
Re: am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation ("Steve Levitt")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Charles E Taylor IV)
Re: Is there a utility to image-copy a Linux disk? ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: Linux 2.0.36 NFS client crash Solaris 2.5.1 servers, but not 2.5. Lockd involved
? (James Macnicol)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre van Dijk)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: 30 Mar 1999 19:40:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:33:06 +1200, Enkidu wrote:
>Horst von Brand wrote:
>>
>> RedHat developed rpm and the whole installation for the
>> distribution from scratch, together with assorted administration
>> tools (control-panel, glint, among others) and they also host
>> (and fund) the Gnome development.
>>
>Bloatware. I suppose you'd go for it if someone were to meet you
>at the door of the supermarket, sent you round to the exit, and
>insisted that you take a trolley, packed the way that *they*
>decide is best.
Call it bloatware. Linux needs this to compete with other OS' The cool thing
about Linux is you don't HAVE to run the stuff if you don't wanna. Besides,
Gnome and Redhat don't really force you in to anything. You can customize Gnome
like mad also you don't HAVE to use the RedHat admin tools. If you feel like
it grab VI and hack away!
I think it's really unfair to critisize RedHat and other Linux distro's and
projects for making Linux easier, better, more populair and thus more accesible.
>> checking out who knows how many more and testing the whole
>> stuff together as a distribution. They are also active in
>> checking security.
>>
>As I said before, I prefer pristine code. If they patch it, it is
>not pristine. No "non-Redhat" patches can be applied. That makes
>it proprietary.
Use the source luke, just grab a tarball and compile the stuff. Or grab the
src RPM hack the patches roll your own RPM again and put it on the web.
sheez, RedHat and friends are not another Evil empire.
--
A. van Dijk Hmmm, I smell Bacon, Elvis is in the kitchen
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Denis Leary
icq : 4249631 Linux: What you read is what you get.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Conover)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) - origin of dollar sign
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:23:58 GMT
Here's a little history tidbit.
The dollar sign originated from colonial Spain. Something about how they
stamped gold - when they mined it from the colonies, they put it in bars and
put an S on it. Then once it went throught the straits of Gibraltar, they
stamped a line through it, and when they sent it back to the colonies, it went
through the straits again, and they put the second line through the S
-Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Edward Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
>>i have no idea why others would copy a symbol obviously composed from
>>the letter U and S, unless their country also had these very same
>>initials.
>
>- The US was the first major country to adopt 'dollar' as its main
>currency.
>
>- Consequently, people would say 'dollar' rather than 'US dollar',
>since dollars were associated with the US. They still do.
>
>- The $ symbol began to stand for 'dollar' rather than 'US dollar'.
>
>- When other countries started to use their own dollars, they copied
>the dollar sign, even though it was originally specific to the US.
>
>- Hence, to be totally unambiguous, you need to say $5US, USD5, or
>whatever, rather than just $5.
>
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:30:28 +1200
I'm going to take that as a compliment :)
Stu
John Thompson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Stuart Fox wrote:
>
>> My argument still stands - a PROPERLY configured NT box will not blue
screen
>
>Perhaps so, but it appears that the people capable of
>configuring NT "properly" so that it doesn't BSOD are
>scarcer than hen's teeth...
>
>--
>
>-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Remote root login
Date: 30 Mar 1999 20:30:52 GMT
I'm using Caldera OpenLinux 1.2, and have upgraded the kernel to
2.0.36. My problem is that I can't login as root from anything but the
localmachine. How can I change this?
Thanks!
Ollie
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From: Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: backup hardware and Linux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:12:24 -0500
Matthew Hixson wrote:
>
> I was wondering what sort of backup hardware people are using with
> Linux. I am looking for some sort of a tape backup device, preferably
> SCSI. I will be needing to backup about 60GB of data on a weekly
> basis. Any thoughts on this? I am also considering going with the Jaz
> drive since it would be much faster to pull backups off of there if I'm
> looking for something in particular.
> Thanks in advance,
> -M@
>
> --
> Matthew Hixson - CIO
> FroZenWave Communications
60GB.. Gee I would go with BRU and a DLT Drive!
I use a 4mm drive with Linux and BRU! It does support DLT, I am saving
up for one!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IP Masquerading
Date: 30 Mar 1999 20:29:58 GMT
I've got IP masquerading to work now (took me a while!). I used to be
in a windoze workgroup, but now have my windows computer masked behind
the linux box. Is there any way I can get the windows box to see the
others in the workgroup? Or am I doomed to a life without my
workgroup?
Thanks
Ollie
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From: "Chris Happel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: exchange client that runs on LInux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:55:32 -0600
I have followed a number of messages in this thread, and have been surprised
that no one has mentioned exchange's web access. If you have IIS installed
and running on the exchange NT server, it's almost automatic (I had it
running with almost no effort on my server, until I installed SP4, which
seems to have broken it). Try http://(exchange server)/exchange. It wasn't
flawless, and the guy I had using it complained of having to do a lot of
refreshes, but it gave him full access to not just the mail, but the rest of
the "outlook" interface. I was a little disappointed in the speed, and
maybe my Java expectations were a bit too high, but I would think it would
be a better solution that re-booting. (I haven't tried it with Netscape on
Linux, but I would expect it to work). I guess the biggest drawback is if
you can't even get an admin to enable POP3, they more than likely won't turn
up IIS.
Chris Happel, MCSE
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Robert Binz wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Mike,
>You are on track. Many people suggested that I use pop3. But as you
>have found, many Exchange Admins have this thing about using it and
>turn it off. So you have to have a native client to talk to exchange.
>
>I figured if any people on the Net would have figured a way to talk to
>Exchange it would have been the Linux group. I guess I was wrong.
>
> Using the forward option is not a valid option since I have to have
>access to those darn public folders.
>
>Any one out there just looking for a good challenge and want to code a
>mail client that will talk to Exchange.
>
>Binz
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: GNOME likes abuse? (or: a reboot cures all?)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:45:45 GMT
Greetings,
After setting up my girlfriend's account on my box with
Enlightenment, I decided it was time to try out E+GNOME. I downloaded
it and installed it without a hitch last weekend (the RPM way, using
the current RPMs as of last Thursday): no dependency failures, etc.
It even works pretty well now; but it wasn't always that way...
My first task after starting GNOME was to try to change
the background of the panel. Attempting this caused the panel to crash,
usually to pop back up again, but sometimes completely disappearing.
Eventually, I called up another panel, and I was able to get the
background set on that one... but eventually it crashed too (when trying
to add launchers), and I lost it...
I also tried out gmc, and was rather disappointed by how
Explorer-looking it is... it also would crash on me after trying to
delete a file from it (right click, go down to delete).
The most serious problem I had was that the dialogs and
MDI sections of the GNOME control panel would do bad things... I would
try to access them, and no options would pop up. Instead, the free memory
would start getting used up. I could watch memory usage increase, until
it started cutting into swap. Then I'd get seg faults from 'ps', and
'top'. Since I saw no evidence this would stop, and it clearly wasn't
a Good Thing(tm), I killed X with <CRTL>-<ALT>-<BACKSPACE>.
Now, the curious thing is that most of these problems just
disappered by themselves. I probably rebooted sometime during the weekend
(to play a few Windows games), and that's probably when things got fixed.
How, I don't know.
After setting up my configuration, I set up GNOME for my
girlfriend. Things worked okay (I didn't try out any of the problems
I mentioned above, though), but I had the following strange occurance:
when running ee (0.3.8-5), I'd get "broken pipe" when I started the
"open" dialog. So I su'ed to my account, performed an 'xhost +localhost'
and fired up ee from my account. No problems. Curious, I thought...
After another reboot (to play more Windows games), the problem fixed
itself: ee no longer crashes.
Now, I still have some problems...
1) gmc still crashes on me at times... (though I don't really find it
that useful, so I haven't spent the time to diagnose what's going
wrong)
2) I notice lots of core files in my home directory... haven't figured
out what's been causing them, though.
3) the startup section of GNOME control center only keeps one of my
startup commands. I've kludged by creating a startup script and
using that as my one command, but that's clearly not how things are
supposed to work...
4) it's not really GNOME related, but Enlightenment doesn't like to
save all of my configurations. In particular, I can't figure out
how to tell it to show icons by default...
but besides those, GNOME has been solid for me, as has E.
So my question is:
* Does GNOME just need to be broken in like a new car, or did I not
RTFM well enough, and missed something in the set up that got fixed
by the reboots?
Thanks for reading,
Brian
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:42:30 -0500
> Since these are all word processors they are all totally
> unproductive in editing _text_ files. Besides which it is
> not the software that is productive; it is the person using it.
Earth calling Norman: you can use a word processor for editing
text files. Productive software is software that requires less
input to achieve the same result
> Because its a modal editor.
All text/word processors are modal; with ones that run on
Windows you change modes by pressing Alt or clicking the menu
bar. I'm getting the impression you're a big fan of vi and I've
sleighted your favourite utility.
> If continually moving your hand from the keyboard to the
> mouse and back does not slow you down you must be a terribly
> slow typist.
Norm, you've found your vocation. You were born to insult. I'll
slink back to my corner now, a broken man.
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: 1 Apr 1999 01:14:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:43:09 +1200,
Stuart Fox, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>
>>> Also, time for a few facts
>>>
>>> 1. NO operating system is bug free
>>> 2. Both Linux camps and MS spend considerable time locating and fixing
>bugs
>>> 3. A properly configured NT box will not Blue Screen, and will be as
>stable
>>> as a well configured Linux box.
>>
>>Hmmm. Not sure this is really the case, NT does Blue screen sometime
>>without explanation. One thing I do know for sure is that Linux is a
>hell
>>of a lot easier to get working again if it fails to boot. Scramble an NT
>>installation to much and its reinstall time. A key Linux quality is the
>>ability to recover a system if sometthing goes wrong. This can be very
>>difficult with NT.
>>
>
>I have some twenty or thirty NT servers under my direct or indirect
>influence, and they do not blue screen. The occasions when they do, it is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^
Do they blue screen? or not?
>usually because a third party driver is poorly written (e.g. some of the
>Compaq NIC drivers). In my experience, most NT blue screens are caused by
>hardware or hardware related faults (or letting some asshole who doesn't
>know what they're doing at your machine). Recovering an NT box isn't that
>hard, especially given there's such a wide ranging knowledge base available.
>I have never seen a NT box blue screen without a good reason.
>
>Stu
>
>
"They do not blue screen"
"When they do blue screen"
"...caused by hardware or hardware related faults..."
"never...without a good reason"
My linux boxes don't crash, no excuses, no waffling, they just don't.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (graywolf)
Subject: Help! need MSproject like program!
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 02:48:36 GMT
My new boss is requiring everyone to submit schedules
electronicly as MSproject files. I've got Applix for the
word and excel replacements. (Applix was able to
save the day recently by reading in corrupt excel
files that MSexcel couldn't!) But, even though
I can dual boot my computer and run MSproject
on winnt4.0, I'd much rather have a linux program.
Any clues?
thanks,
Robert Megee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: 31 Mar 1999 23:16:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graham Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| RedHat - the boxed set - by far the easiest to install.
Haven't tried Mandrake, have you?
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
What I find astonishing is not that my cat has started to sing, but that
he has taken up country-western. This morning he sang `Momma, don't let
your kittens grow up to be barn cats' in the shower, followed by a
pretty decent yodeling version of `Roundup time in Texas when the catnip
is in bloom.'
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From: Chuck Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!!
Date: 1 Apr 1999 02:55:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Stavros C. Kassinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a home LAN comprising of 2 linux boxes (Box-1 and Box-2). They
: are both running RedHat Linux 5.2 . The two machines are connected with
: 100base-T ethernet via a hub. Box-1 is the server connected to the ISP
: via DSL.
: I am using masquerating and ip-forwarding on Box-1 the server.
: Everything seems to work ok, both machines see each other and the world.
: From the client machine I can ping, telnet and ftp to machines outside
: the LAN.
: PROBLEM: The connection, even the local one just between Box-1 and
: Box-2, is slow. FTP transfer rates are only 1-5Kb/sec!!
: Does anybody have any suggestions where the problem lies?
: Thank you for any response.
Is your ethernet card possibly sharing an IRQ or memory address range with
something else, especially perhaps a SCSI interface card?
Also, make sure your IP addresses within your home LAN are designated
internal network addresses (ie, 192.168.1.x), and that only Box-1 has two
network interfaces set up.
So, for example:
Box-1:
eth0: 192.168.1.1
eth1: your.dsl.ip.address
Box-2:
eth0: 192.168.1.2
I don't know if this is still the case, but having two ethernet cards in
your machine that use the same driver used to cause problems. It works with
some cards, but not others. I don't know what DSL uses, but I'm assuming it
would be a standard 10base-T card.
Good luck,
/ chuck
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(_ / /_)(_\/ /\ (/_/ Student of Computer Science Ribosomal Database Project
/ Michigan State University Microbiology Department
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From: "Steve Levitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:02:56 -0500
RedHat 5.1 distribution:
kernel-2.0.34-0.6
smbfs-2.0.1-4
autofs-3.1.1-4
am-utils-6.0a16-4
samba-1.9.18p10-5
portmap-4.0-11
nfs-server-2.2beta29-5 (installed, not active)
nfs-server-2.2beta29-5 (installed, not active)
Trying to automount NT (host name=cc90014-a) folder g:\public (share
name=public) on mountpoint /mnt/cc90014-a/public.
Here's my latest stab at the auto.* files...
[root@levits03 steve]# cat /etc/auto.master
/mnt/cc90014-a/public file /etc/auto.cc90014-a
[root@levits03 steve]# cat /etc/auto.cc90014-a
public -fstype=smbfs ://cc90014-a/g
and, here's the outcome...
[root@levits03 steve]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart
Checking for changes to /etc/auto.master ....
Start /usr/sbin/automount /mnt/cc90014-a/public file /etc/auto.cc90014-a
[root@levits03 steve]# cat /var/log/messages
Mar 30 15:09:59 levits03 automount[890]: starting automounter version 3.1.1,
pat
h = /mnt/cc90014-a/public, maptype = file, mapname = etc/auto.cc90014-a
Mar 30 15:09:59 levits03 automount[890]: /mnt/cc90014-a/public: mount
failed!
[root@levits03 steve]# mount
/dev/hdb1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /dosc type msdos (rw)
/dev/hdb6 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb5 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
automount(pid685) on /mnt/cc90014-a type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=685,minproto=2,max
proto=3)
[root@levits03 steve]# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 99507 25629 68739 27% /
/dev/hda1 334256 149280 184976 45% /dosc
/dev/hdb6 191260 3037 178347 2% /home
/dev/hdb5 495714 211187 258926 45% /usr
Where am I going wrong?
Harald Fuchs wrote in message ...
>In article <rH3M2.13387$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>"Steven R. Levitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> You are absolutely right! The documentation for autofs does indicate
that
>> it will mount smbfs shares. I guess I missed that the first time through
>> the documentation. Thanks.
>
>> I turned the autofs utility back on, setup the auto.* files according to
all
>> of the examples I've researched, and restarted autofs. After many tries
>> last evening, I still can't get it to work.
>
>> I guess if I bang my head against the wall a little harder, I might have
>> some success.
>
>An alternative might be telling us _what_ won't work and what's your
>setup. smbmount on top of autofs works fine for many people,
>including myself.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:10:40 -0500
In article <uPZoDf8e#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Earth calling Norman: you can use a word processor for editing
> text files. Productive software is software that requires less
> input to achieve the same result
You can, but in the second sentence you neatly state why it's *not* a
good idea to use a word processor to edit a simple text file.
--
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========================================================
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a utility to image-copy a Linux disk?
Date: 1 Apr 1999 01:59:36 GMT
In article <7dtp2h$5dd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Happel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Warren Odom wrote in message <7duauo$sor$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Sorry if my ignorance is showing, but I just want to make a more-or-less
>>image copy of my Linux disk, for disaster recovery (and do it quickly).
>>Sort of like DISKCOPY on DOS, but it would be nice if it let me copy to a
>>different size disk.
A good engineer listens carefully to the customer's
*requirements*. That's where you find out all the expensive
things that don't have to be in the solution.
This customer is smart enough to concentrate on his *needs*
and not jump to conclusions about the solution space.
Warren wrote:
> Or it wouldn't even have to be a block-for-block
>image
>>copy, as long as the same software could restore it to the original disk,
>in
>>the original format, on demand.
And that is the key. Warren doesn't need a drive image backup,
or even a partition image backup. He just wants to be able to
restore the contents of his file systems. Obviously,
this guy is smart enough to join the Linux Community.
>>Does such a utility come with Linux, or is such available elsewhere?
You betcha! It's on most rescue-install floppies.
>I believe Power Quest's Drive Copy (or Drive Image, depending on what you
I believe GNU tar+gzip, invoked from shell, will do what Warren
needs done.
Figure out where you're going to dump the backup.
For the sake of argument, let's say it's a Jaz drive at /dev/sdb.
Shut down to "single user mode" (by stopping X Windows and
running "telinit 1" at the console) so there are no pesky
daemons running around growing logs and creating temporary files.
To back up the entire system, go
cd /
tar -czv --exclude ./proc -f /dev/sdb .
The Jaz cartridge will contain a stream of bytes describing
the contents of the whole system, device nodes and all.
This description can be unpacked onto a fresh drive.
The fresh drive can even be partitioned differently,
as long as the new system has the non-root partitions
mounted when the restore is run. The /proc file system
is useless to back up, and contains a kernel memory
image that you should not *try* to back up or restore.
To recover from disaster, buy a new hard drive and partition
it and make fils systems on it with a rescue floppy.
Then mount the root in the rescue floppy's ramdisk, and go there.
Mount the other partitions as you want them to look. Then
tar -xpzvf /dev/sdb
and your system will be restored onto the new drive.
I had to do this once when I made a mistake with fdisk
and couldn't find my partition table printout.
I backed my system onto my last Jaz cartridge, knowing
the drive it was running on had no partition table and
would be utterly lost if the power failed.
You can also back up individual partitions this way. It's
less spectacular but more practical. Tar has a -l option to
stay on a single partition.
Be sure to inspect the media for errors after you make a tar
backup, because this format has zero error recovery.
Use
tar -tzf /dev/sdb
for that.
Cameron
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From: James Macnicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.0.36 NFS client crash Solaris 2.5.1 servers, but not 2.5. Lockd
involved ?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 1 Apr 99 00:06:42 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris Tuan Pham-Dinh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Alain Coetmeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > recently I've added Linux nodes
> > using kernel 2.0.36 from RedHat 5.2 and Suse6.0,
> > with autofs, amd, and NIS.
> >
> > when I use a tool called CSSC (clone of SCCS)
> > the solaris 2.5.1 server hangs.
> > I've tested on some 2.5 server and it work perfectly.
> I also have ran into the problem that Linux crashes the Sun Solaris
> server. Upgrading Linux to 2.2.3 seems to help. Upgrading Solaris to
> 2.6 or 2.7 should help too as it appears that this is a bug of solaris
> trigered by Linux. However my sys. admin. refuse to do that because it
> is too much of a hassle for him.
We had similar problems with Linux clients running KDE that
had users' home directories on a Solaris box crashing in the KDE
screensaver setup dialog (I think), as well as other random problems.
The server was also running 2.5.1 at that time. I seem to remember
that applying the recommended patch set on the 2.5.1 box did help and
also upgrading the kernel on the clients (fortunately we didn't have
many of those). I'm pretty sure we fixed that without having to
upgrade to 2.6 (2.7 wasn't out then).
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James Macnicol
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