Linux-Misc Digest #847, Volume #20 Tue, 29 Jun 99 16:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Redhat 5.0 SCSI Disk Error (Bryan Caudle)
Re: Documentation issues. (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Documentation issues. (Peter da Silva)
Re: Two quick questions. . . ("Prasanth Kumar")
Two quick questions. . . ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
/dev/dsp question (John Garrison)
Re: The System.map problems (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Documentation issues. (Peter da Silva)
Re: stop syslog logging of sendmail? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Linux MPEG player (Michel Bardiaux)
Re: Documentation issues. (Drazen Kacar)
NIC settings: what have i done?? (Arash Robubi)
Re: MODEM NOT WORKING (Bill Unruh)
Re: Wordperfect and color printing (Chris Aiken)
Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Debian 2.1, dselect/apt problem (Barry Samuels)
Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses (Conway Yee)
Re: Word Perfect (Bev)
How to see Linux files from Windows? (Carrie)
Re: Documentation issues. (Volker Hetzer)
Re: Automated benchmarking? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work ("Andreas")
Re: Glade manual? (Stephen Chadfield)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Miguel Cruz)
Re: Diamond Supra EXPRESS are NOT winmodem (Michel Catudal)
Re: Transferring /home from another disk??? (Robert Heller)
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From: Bryan Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 5.0 SCSI Disk Error
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:47:07 -0400
This error has occured more than once on an Intel Pentium machine
running Redhat 5.0, Kernel 2.0.35.
/var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: SCSI disk error :
host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000002
/var/log/messages.2:Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: Current error
sd08:01: sense key Hardware Error
/var/log/messages.2:Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: Additional sense
indicates Track following error
/var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: scsidisk I/O error:
dev 08:01, sector 232712, absolute sector 232775
/var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: EXT2-fs error
(device 08:01): ext2_readdir: directory #28779 contains a hole at offset
0
Here is info on the disk itself:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C3325A Rev: 6066
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Here is info on the controller:
General information:
Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x1
IO port address 0xec00, IRQ number 10
Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x8013f00
Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 4
I am trying to determine if the problem is hardware, if so is it the
disk or the controller? If not, would updating to a newer kernel help?
It seems like this is a new problem on a machine that has been running
OK for a couple of years. Thanks for any help you may have.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 29 Jun 1999 12:25:19 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Volker Hetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>
>> (I happen to think that if you can't type it directly and easily
>> you shouldn't bother calling it text and you might as well use
>> a binary format for storage because it won't be readable either.)
>Actually I disagree. Text files can be processed MUCH easier
>than binary files. You could use perl, awk, tcl, lex/yacc, whatever.
>With binary files you don't have those options.
In what way does text vs. binary make any difference to perl
processing? A regexp-friendly syntax would make a big difference,
but so far no one seems to be suggesting one.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 29 Jun 1999 17:23:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matt Curtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> On 28 Jun 1999 12:31:27 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Russ> Not everyone is going to have all those tools installed.
>That's a silly argument.
>That's like saying that you should write your scripts in awk because
>not everyone will have Perl installed.
I do that.
But then I don't think Perl is a "reasonable tool". I prefer Tcl over Awk
for the same reason I prefer SGML over TeX.
--
In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`-_-' Ar rug t� barr�g ar do mhact�re inniu?
'U` "Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting Jedi." -- Darth Fudd
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From: "Prasanth Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two quick questions. . .
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:09:14 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lavej$lt7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a quick question. Actually 2:
> 1) What is the standard defrag program for Unix?
There is no standad defrag utility. The Linux ext2 file system uses some
algorithms which minimize the need to do defrags by a great extent compared
to the Windows fat file system. There does exist some defrag utility in the
Sunsite archives but hardly anyone uses or maitains it.
> 2) Is there a way to see what directories on your hard drive is taking
> up the most space? Kind of like tree I guess but with a listing about
> how much space each directory is taking? One of the directories on my
> friend's system is taking up a lot of space and I don't know which one!
The 'find' command might be flexable enough to meet your needs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Two quick questions. . .
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:23:47 GMT
I have a quick question. Actually 2:
1) What is the standard defrag program for Unix?
2) Is there a way to see what directories on your hard drive is taking
up the most space? Kind of like tree I guess but with a listing about
how much space each directory is taking? One of the directories on my
friend's system is taking up a lot of space and I don't know which one!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/dsp question
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:16:49 GMT
Sometimes if a program crashes no other program can access /dev/dsp. Is
there a way to fix this other than rebooting the machine?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: The System.map problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:17:29 GMT
On 26 Jun 1999 11:51:33 GMT, AGX wrote:
> Hi,
> i have a problem with the system.map running different kernels.
> The problem is that i use two version of the same kernel
> one with only EIDE support and another with SCSI support.
Huh, why's that?
> Why the System.map files is now (with kernels 2.2.x)
> strictly required ???
> There is a workaround for this ?
What about renaming the two files to System.map-EIDE and
System.map-SCSI, and then symlinking the one you need to
System.map?
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 29 Jun 1999 17:30:48 GMT
In article <cmVd3.97284$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>a) Whatever is being used to interpret the parsed document, and render
>it into...
>b) The output format.
If the end-user needs to understand either of these languages then whatever
you're using to interpret it is utterly broken.
>For instance, supposing you need to change the page size, is this
>handled in:
>a) The document?
Only with layout markup, and of course you really want to be using semantic
markup.
IMO you should specify this in the arguments/settings/properties to one
of the programs in the toolchain.
--
In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`-_-' Ar rug t� barr�g ar do mhact�re inniu?
'U` "Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting Jedi." -- Darth Fudd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: stop syslog logging of sendmail?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:17:37 GMT
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 03:27:48 GMT, Ken Williams wrote:
> My syslog.conf looks like the following. What do I have to change to stop
> sendmail logging in /var/log/messages? I have it all going to sendmail, so I
> don't want it in messages too.
>
> *.info;*.!err;mark.none;*.=notice;mail.none /var/log/messages
^^^^^^^^^^
Adding this should do the trick, IIRC.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux MPEG player
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:28:00 +0200
nlucent wrote:
>
> In article <7kpnue$sm9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a weird problem playing mpegs with xanim. I appear to get a
> frame
> > rate of only 2-3 frames per second and the video is distorted.
> However avi's
> > and qt's play just fine. I have a Matrox Millenium card and am
> running
> > RH6.0. The same mpeg's play fine under Win95 with MS Media
> Player. Are
> > there any other, better MPEG players for Linux? The KDE player
> appears to
> > just be a wrapper around xanim.
> Did you download and compile it or did you just use the one distributed
> on the cd? Xanim has hooks for proprietary codecs that I dont think are
> allowed to be distributed except for from the xanim webpage, so it may
> help to download the source code and codecs from the xanim web page and
> compile it yourself.
> Nick
I did that. The codecs are for QTs and AVIs. MPGs have various problems,
low frame rate, complains about "Unsupported frame type ...". The relase
notes
state that some types of frames are not supported, so I did not complain
to Marc Podlipec...
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Tel : +32 10 65.44.15 Fax : +32 10 65.44.10
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drazen Kacar)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 29 Jun 1999 17:36:57 GMT
Peter da Silva wrote:
> But then I don't think Perl is a "reasonable tool". I prefer Tcl over Awk
> for the same reason I prefer SGML over TeX.
Overly complex? No, that can't be it... Core dumped.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arash Robubi)
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.linux
Subject: NIC settings: what have i done??
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:10:13 GMT
Hi,
i have a linux box with two NICs. Last WE i tried to setup a
third NIC and misconfigured my system. Today i can't use any of my
network interfaces at the same time.
One NIC (3c509, formerly defined as eth0) is connected to internet.
The second one (3c503, defined as eth1) is attached to my lan.
When i have only the first NIC, everything works fine. After inserting
the second card linux does`t find eth0. It uses eth1 with the settigs
of eth0. It could also be that linux uses eth1's driver for eth0.
How can i tell linux that:
1) eth0 ist a 3c509 card, so load the right driver!
2) eth0 needs to get its config by bootp (which was done in rc.config)
3) eth1 is a 3c503 card
Perhaps i have some irq conflicts. How could i solve that. In which
files can i set those hardware settings.
Thanx
Arash :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: MODEM NOT WORKING
Date: 29 Jun 1999 18:29:39 GMT
In <7lat6i$9l1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Anand C R (Oracle Apps Consultant)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Zoom/FaxModem 56k-pci (model 2925) but for some strange reason
>it doesn't work. I heard that some Winmodems don't work with linux. I paid a
>high price for this, would be very disappointed to hear that it won't work
>with my Linux .........
>From the Zoom web page on the 2925
"For Win 95/98 and NT4.0"
Sorry. I think you have a winmodem.
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wordperfect and color printing
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:15:30 -0400
I got my Epson740 to print color by choosing a "QMS....... 10"
printer, and using my "lp" queue. I remember something posted
here about this a while back. There is some good information
here: http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/wpfonts.html
...hope this helps
...cwa
Vinh Le wrote:
> John Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Shouldn't this be dependent on your printer or the selected
> : printer driver?
>
> Yes, you are right!
>
> I have RedHat 6.0, so I used printtool to select my Epson Stylus
> Color 600 as my lp printer. The printtool tests worked, i.e.
> the Epson worked both as a generic printer and a postscript
> one with ghostscript used as the interpreter. Okay, so good,
> but...
>
> I have Wordperfect configured to use Passthru Postscript as the
> printer driver lp. It prints in monochrome. I switched the lp
> to Disk, and the postscript file it generated was indeed monochrome.
> ( I used gv to check this. )
>
> I added another printer driver, HP Color LaserJet 5 Postscript,
> and set it to write to Disk. The postscript file it generated
> did indeed have color ( used gv again ). The color selection in
> Wordperfect was also present. When I changed Disk to lp, my Epson
> would start dumping out uninterpreted postscript.
>
> I guess my general question is: How do I configure Wordperfect
> to print documents in color with my Epson Stylus 600 at
> 1440x720 or 720x720?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vinh Le
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses
Date: 29 Jun 1999 14:23:09 GMT
In <0MJd3.3313$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Gerbrand van Dieijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:49:43 -0500, hudini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:>WME wrote:
>:>>
>:>> Hi,
>:>> Are our linux systems immune from viruses?
>:>
>:>YES!
Writing virii for linux and anything else is possible. I think there
is a proof such programs can not be prevented completely (even in
theory). However virii are not effective since they generally will not
have permission to change a worthwhile number on binaries 99.9% of the
time. The other 0.1% of the time the code they are attatched to is
probably not used---most people use a very limited set of commands as
root, which is only used for sysadministrivia.
There has been one demo which never made any impression in the
wild. No other linux virii are known to exist. AFAIK all known virus
scanners for linux for M$ virii (this is useful on servers that strore
M$ binaries running samba, email servers, etc).
Hiding virii and trojans in source code is not likely to be very
effective---the odds of *someone* reading the code, spotting the
trojan, and sending out an alter very quickly are very high. A good
exploits database to increase the effectiveness of nasty code would be
hard work and require maintance as the old holes stop working. This is
non-trivial thing for a virus to manage.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Samuels)
Subject: Re: Debian 2.1, dselect/apt problem
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:39:02 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:14:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen
(Ray)) wrote:
> >As the package fails to upgrade is there anything that I can do about this?
>
> You can install it with dpkg directly, by giving it the --force-overwrite
> flag.
Ray
Many thanks. I tried that and it all worked. Running DSelect
afterwards cleared out any remaining .deb files.
Thanks again
Barry Samuels
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses
Date: 29 Jun 1999 11:50:09 -0400
In reference to the relative protection linux offers against worms...
> not used---most people use a very limited set of commands as
>root, which is only used for sysadministrivia.
First of all, this is no longer true. With many newbies with a
Microsoft background running linux systems as root...shudder... One
reads about this phenomenon all the time on colm.
Second, it has long been known that security precautions do NOT
provide absolute protections against trojans. [Yes, I know that
trojans are not virii but they are of the same ilk.] Properly written
worms can also infect *nix systems. I can not think of a theoretical
reason why virii can not also infect *nix systems. Its propagation is
simply more difficult.
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word Perfect
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:24:52 -0700
Reply-To: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rod Smith wrote:
> > I prefer word perfect over word star but word star is
> > able to read my word files with no problem whether I
> > use the fast save feature or I don't.
>
> Word Star? AFAIK, there's no Linux version of Word Star, nor any recent
> version for ANY platform. AFAIK, it died many years ago. Do you mean
> Star Office? That's an entirely different product.
For the traditionalists among us, the editor 'joe' has a wordstar-like
mode of operation.
GO CP/M!
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Cheers,
Bev
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From: Carrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to see Linux files from Windows?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:55:10 +0800
Hello,
I have just set up a Samba server in my linux with 3 windowsNT
connecting to it. But when i open my linux files in the windows NT, the
files cannot be displayed properly. I've heard that this may be the
problem of the different file format between NT and Linux. By what means
can i solve this?????
Thank you very much
Carrie ^_^!
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From: Volker Hetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:32:46 +0200
Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> (I happen to think that if you can't type it directly and easily
> you shouldn't bother calling it text and you might as well use
> a binary format for storage because it won't be readable either.)
Actually I disagree. Text files can be processed MUCH easier
than binary files. You could use perl, awk, tcl, lex/yacc, whatever.
With binary files you don't have those options.
Greetings!
Volker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Automated benchmarking?
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:55:24 GMT
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
:> Along these lines I've been thinking that an ongoing, automated
:> benchmark test might be interesting. Here's how I think it might be
:> able to work:
:
: It is handy to see how things stack up for comparative purposes, but the
: idea just goes too far. I ask you to hark back to ye ancient times when
: database benchmarking was the norm.
:
: Eventually, most of the databases ended up equal on the benchmarks, but
: sucked in the real world because the benchmarks were all that mattered.
Hmm, true. In benchmarks SQL Server looks great, but it's a total
joke next to Oracle in the real world. Need a different plan...
:> In short, no one gets to cheat, no one gets to lie, and the "winner"
:> (for the week at least:-) gets honest bragging rights for the Indy
:> 500 of benchmarks. :-) Thoughts?
:
: The Indy 500 runs only once a year, and there is a philosophy behind that
: (lets disregard the Nascar 400 and future F1 races there... ;). Something
: that gets to be commonplace, gets disregarded and cheap.
So then we need to constantly change the race course, and not tell
anyone what it will be before hand. Say, once a month a new
benchmark is used (web server speed, CGI speed, file serving,
database, etc). No one knows what the benchmark will be testing
before the tests. The different "sides" get two days to do whatever
tuning they like before the checkered flag is dropped. :-)
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"Nyet. Linux coder in next office."
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From: "Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:25:16 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
7laeqb$eot$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi Andy,
>
> I am sorry but I do not have an answer for you. However, i do have
> aquestion for you.I am having trouble booting into windows from the
> LILO boot loader. Did you place LILO in the master boot record? or in
> the linux root partition?
lilo is on the root partition and the nt boot loader in the mbr....
>I think this is my problem but I am not sure.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Chadfield)
Subject: Re: Glade manual?
Reply-To: Stephen Chadfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:23:21 GMT
Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Where can I find glade manuals?
Glade? That's an air freshener isn't it? I have always found the instructions
printed on the back of the package to be more than adequate.
--
Stephen Chadfield
http://www.aquamarine.demon.co.uk/
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Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:06:35 GMT
In article <7lar27$jsr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I disagree with your comment "The linux community isn't in the business
> of performing sleazy stunts.." Last I checked there were more than a
> few web sites maintained by Linux fanatics dedicated to taking shots at
> Windows NT and the typical my OS is better than your OS bantor.
Those aren't sleazy stunts, they're trash-talking web pages. A very
different beast.
miguel
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Supra EXPRESS are NOT winmodem
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:39:05 -0500
"�F!r�w�rk�" wrote:
>
> I have one ( Diamond Supra Express 56i Voice V.90 ) ISAand it works
> perfectly fine
PCI versions are winmodem though
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Transferring /home from another disk???
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:35:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic),
In a message on Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:05:18 GMT, wrote :
TZ> On 21 Jun 1999 22:57:40 GMT, Bob Tennent wrote:
TZ>
TZ> > Before mounting, you have to mke2fs on the partition.
TZ> > Copy the files so that permissions etc are preserved:
TZ> >
TZ> > cd /home
TZ> > tar cvpf - * | (cd /newhome; tar xvpf -)
TZ> >
TZ> > where /newhome is where the new drive is mounted.
TZ>
TZ> What's wrong with 'cp -ax'? Is there any particular reason why
TZ> people always seem to prefer using 'tar' for this kind of thing
TZ> (ie. moving to a new harddisk), although tarring/untarring is
TZ> slower than simple cp'ing? I've done quite a few HDD moves using
TZ> 'cp -ax', and it has never failed or caused any problem.
The *traditional* cp command is not very 'swift' (in the smarts sense).
cp does *not* handle links in the 'proper' way. And it does not handle
'special' files. 'cp' does not preserve either symbolic or hard links
-- it *should* not actually, since that would in fact break cp's proper
functionality. It also does not handle 'special' files (pipes and
device files) in the way you would want if you were doing a 'disk copy'
-- again this is *proper* for cp.
cp has *different* semantics from tar.
I am not sure if GNU cp handles permissions 'properly' either.
tar is 'designed' to make a backup archive and preserves links, special
files, and with the 'p' option, also preserves (and restores) all of the
permissions and file dates.
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TZ> Just curious ...
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TZ> Thomas
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