Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Anderson
I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> I don't think so. I'm the one that has to support the box in the end, and why > should I pull my hair out administering OSX server when I know a Linux box can > do basically the same thing. Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you. You're being paid to pull yo

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs. Of course there's a lot of stuff missing. Also, to elaborate, all programs (packages) installed are potential security holes. With

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> So, again, please don't send automatic replies. Although you may not personally approve of the method it is an accepted method of blocking spam. YMMV and such. > On such an email address I'd be even more wary about using an > autoresponder because I don't want people that are potenti

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> It isn't just people on listserv's that will be annoyed: please never > send automatic replies; the "from" address is a lie anyway. This is one of the reasons I put a caveat about listservs not following rules. However, FWIW, on a business only address (which isn't subscribing to a list

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> Are there any other benefits of debian that out way it from OSX? Just out of curiosity, if you were running Debian what architecture would you be running it on? If you were going to be using the new G5 regardless, I'd point out that many applications benefit from 64 bit architectures (m

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
I've had very good success with the following: 1) Send all e-mails with your name not listed as a receipient to a probable spam folder. After a few weeks of tweaking (mailing lists and newsletters will get send there too) you will find just about everything in there the probable spam folder is sp

Re: sound woes with kernel 2.6.0 and 865 chipset

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
FWIW, Did you make clean before compiling the kernel? If you didn't those errors could be a result of previously compiled code. OTOH if you're an advanced enough user to want to compile your own kernel you probably knew that. HTH -Dan On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

Re: Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Anderson
> Is Knoppix based on Debian stable or Debian testing? Or am I looking at acompletely > different animal? Running Knoppix I got an entirely different looking desktop than I > did installing Woody and selecting a desktop install. And is the Debian Desktop > subproject at a point where I could jus

Re: yahoo wants to save cookies at /

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Anderson
FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. -Dan On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact > that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have > no permissions.

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
> Please share this knowledge. What executables are you awaree of > affecting non-Microsoft systems which are in general circulation and > which auto-execute on receipt by arbitrary systems in stock > configuration? > Although I would agree that most flavors of *nix are much less prone to exploi

GCC 3.3 Questions: Should I Install? Should I install with ProPolice?

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
I am trying to figure out Linux with the help of O'Reilly's /Running Linux/. It recommends that I do not install new versions of compilers unless absolutely necessary just in case things get broken by the new version of the compiler. I really want to install GCC 3.3 with ProPolice (http://www.r

RE: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
Here's a thought: why don't you create a group shutdown_privileges and allow anyone with access to the group to run a shell script like: #! /usr/bin/bash #wait 10 minutes before rebooting shutdown -r -t time 10 That would be more secure then allowing everyone access to shutdown, while at the sam

How do I run a program as it's owner?

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Anderson
I know there is some way to allow a program to run with permissions of it's owner (i.e. root) but I forget how to do this. What am I forgetting? Also, if I create a crontab file, will all programs run as nobody or with the permissions of the owner? And is it possible to see whether or not a cron

Where is Debian's initrd located?

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Anderson
I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on /dev/hde5). Where is the initrd for debian located? I currently have something like this for my debian entry: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 label="Debian Linux" root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/