[SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All I was performing backups across the network using Arkeia until one day the wrong tape was inserted and the whole tape cycle went haywire (as it requires you enter the right tape with the right label or you get a nice email in the morning asking you to insert the right tape - when infact,

RE: [SLUG] Help with backup tape

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Bryan
Thanks to those who answered my queries here this afternoon. The result of the disaster recovery was that i was able to get the dodgy HDD back up one more time, so used Samba to drag all the files over onto a CD using XP (sorry about that). We then installed the new 60GB HDD and am currently

[SLUG] What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Antony Stace
What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request. I want to see things like HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:12:23 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-Control: max-age=1800, must-revalidate .. .. .. Thanks for your wisdom!! Cheers Tony

Re: [SLUG] What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Young
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:58:29PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote: What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request. I want to see things like HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:12:23 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-Control: max-age=1800, must-revalidate In the

Re: [SLUG] What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Antony Stace
Thanks Chris. On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:00:10 +1000 Chris Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:58:29PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote: What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request. I want to see things like HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:12:23

Re: [SLUG] What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Saurabh Shukla
What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request. I want to see things like HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:12:23 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-Control: max-age=1800, must-revalidate .. .. .. 1) You can telnet to port 80 try 1)telnet

Re: [SLUG] What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Antony Stace
Thanks for the help folks! 1) You can telnet to port 80 try 1)telnet www.server.com 80 (You will see something like this) Trying www.server.com Connected to www.server.com Escape character is '^]'. 2)HEAD / HTTP/1.0 (press return twice)

Re: [SLUG] SLUG archives

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Biddell
At 14:51 9/04/02 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, Is there a way to get at the mailing list slug archives of prior to mid 2000? Dunno about the server, but I have them here on the workstation at home... yess, get life and all...:-) Anything in particular ? Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

RE: [SLUG] Help with backup tape

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Biddell
At 16:52 9/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Thanks to those who answered my queries here this afternoon. The result of the disaster recovery was that i was able to get the dodgy HDD back up one more time, so used Samba to drag all the files over onto a CD using XP (sorry about that). We then

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

2002-04-09 Thread Karl Bowden
Thanks ya all for ya effort in helping me. I found that editing the makefile in the tld of the kernel code tree and changing the two references of gcc to gcc3 works well. And just deleting the gcc file and replacing it with a symlink to gcc3 also works but that messes up the rpm system thing a

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Hyne
Generally, tapes are streaming, so it is possible that if the transfer rate across the network is slow then more tape may be required for the same amount of data. Really - you need to determine the bottleneck - can you tar from one machine to the HDD on another and see how long it takes -

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail giving 553 rejection errors.

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:46:44PM +1000, Matt Hyne wrote: Anyone know why it does it and what I can do to fix it ? Do you have a valid MX record for mydomain.com.au? -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] seeS why did lamont do a postfix for potato?

[SLUG] Re: What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request?

2002-04-09 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:58:29 +0900, Antony Stace wrote: What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request. the lwp-request (aka GET, HEAD or POST) script that comes with the perl LWP library is very good for this sort of stuff. works with all the stuff that LWP does too (https, http

[SLUG] Laptops ?

2002-04-09 Thread Wayne Crich
I am hoping to buy a new laptop in the comming months. Given the difficulty of getting one that will run linux and Xwindows. Ithought I would ask for any suggestions from those who have a working laptop bought here in Australia and for around $3000 Thanks Wayne -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Laptops ?

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Wayne Crich wrote: I am hoping to buy a new laptop in the comming months. Given the difficulty of getting one that will run linux and Xwindows. Ithought I would ask for any suggestions from those who have a working laptop bought here in Australia and for around $3000 It

Re: [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Croft
Mike and Martin, Thanks for your help. Those services kept rising from the ashes. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Lake
Nick Croft wrote: Mike and Martin, Thanks for your help. Those services kept rising from the ashes. Yeah we could have a UNIX movie Queen of the Daemons instead of Queen of the Dammned :-) xdm and gdm are like that too, kill'em and up spawns another vampire :-) Mike --

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi Matt I took your advice and tried backing up / on the backup server (excluding /dev and /proc of course) to tape and tar reported: Total bytes written: 1427005440 (1.3GB, 1.2MB/s) It took about 15 minutes to complete this. My fileserver has about 30GB worth of data. So, it would take

Re: [SLUG] Laptops ?

2002-04-09 Thread Stephan Borg
I bought a Dell Inspiron last month, and is happily running WinXP, Linux and XWindows. A google search came up with these useful sites: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://mobilix.org/Mobile-Guide.db/Mobile-Guide.html The first one provides Make Model Walkthroughs which I found the most

[SLUG] What files/directories to backup in RH ?

2002-04-09 Thread Tiwari, Rajnish
Hi All, Having installed RH recently, I am thinking of a strategy to backup important files onto another drive and/or CD ('cos it is a good thing to and also 'cos it is a case of _twice bitten, forever shy of seagate disk drives). I would like to know

Re: [SLUG] What files/directories to backup in RH ?

2002-04-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi Rajnish What I would do is backup /etc, /home, /usr and /var. That way if you have a system crash, you can just install a bare minimum copy of RH onto the HDD and restore those directories, reboot, and it should be back to normal. HTH, Gonzalo. On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:14, Tiwari, Rajnish

Re: [SLUG] What files/directories to backup in RH ?

2002-04-09 Thread Karl Bowden
I would just backup your /home/ directory, and maybe /etc if you have done a lot of config on the thing, (like a webserver etc..). I personally have my /home dir mounted by nfs (thinking about coda), and stored on my home server. If any machine other than the server goes down it's just a matter

Re: [SLUG] Laptops ?

2002-04-09 Thread Stephan Borg
Just while were on the subject of laptops, here is an old story about getting a refund for your bundled OEM software. http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html The current website to do such a thing is here: http://www.linuxmall.com/refund/ NB: I haven't tried for a refund, cause I

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Hyne
If Arkeia is backing up at 180Mb/min then this is equivalent to 3Mb/s, 2-3x faster than tar. Is Arkeia using compression ??? It is possible, and that may be why it is reporting faster transfer times to tape than tar is. You can also play with the tar blocking factor - it will depend on the

Re: [SLUG] Re: EMACS: auto indent customisations not loading

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:21, Simon Wong wrote: When I set it in my .emacs it shows 4 on startup but changes to 2 as soon as the major mode is loaded. Not sure if anyone was actually interested in what was happening here, however, it's now fixed so I thought I'd send in the solution. To ensure

[SLUG] Sendmail woes

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, In the final stages of recovering my system. The final hurdle is that mail cannot be received, although it can be sent. The following is in the rejected mail: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: can't create (user) output file)

RE: [SLUG] Help with backup tape

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Bryan
ooops, lucky I got the disk backup, I get Input Output errors on the original tape, other tapes work fine. Thanks for that command. Does one of the options display the files on the tape? -Original Message- From: Jon Biddell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2002 5:39

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Yes, Arkeia claims it's using 1.2 compression (with LZ1 I think). What sort of compression could I use with tar to achieve similar results to Arkeia? I tried compress gzip and it went just as slow What's the switch to play with the blocking factor? Also, I tried setting the block size to 2048

[SLUG] Using Smoothwall with iLINK

2002-04-09 Thread compsat
Greetings I have been tying to use iLINK (ham radio aided by the internet) I can't seem to get the port forwarding to forward the necessary ports. It works fine with the usual email and internet activities but not iLINK. If you have any suggestions thanks, or maybe someone can suggest a more

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Hyne
You can try using tar with the I flag - that will use bzip2 compression. However, if you value your data - NEVER use compression on a backup - should part (ie one bit) of the backup be corrupted (common with tapes) the whole archive is useless. Matt At Wednesday, 10-04-02 12:13 (+1000),

RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Bryan
This is part of it, I ma sure you don't want it all!! 36864034 drwxrwxrwx 2 root mail 4096 Apr 10 12:50 /var/auc/spool/mail 36864040 -rw--- 1 fclews popusers0 Apr 10 12:02 /var/auc/spool/mail/fclews 36864050 -rw--- 1 downerj popusers0 Apr

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail woes

2002-04-09 Thread Gareth Walters
- Original Message - From: Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Slug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] Sendmail woes This is part of it, I ma sure you don't want it all!! 36864034 drwxrwxrwx 2 root

Linux movies and songs - was - [SLUG] stopping StarOffice services

2002-04-09 Thread Christopher Booth
Reminds me of an idea I had of writing a song about linux. (somewhat similar in style to the War of the World's But still they come) A workmate told me aobut this other song which got big on TripleJ called Cows with Guns, I said to him, it's about time for another silly song to hit the charts.