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Testing RAID with loop devices
How to test if RAID is working with loop device? Look what I did: 1...
Testing RAID with loop devices
Of course. Thedev-loop? devices are part of the RAID (not the whole RAID) so each would only contain part of the filesystem...not enough for debugfs (or anything else) to...
A few more newbie questions
I tried using "make menuconfig" and got the following: storage:-usr-src-kernel-source-2.4.27# make menuconfig rm -f include-asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make...
A few more newbie questions 4724
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:36:57 GMT, Marten Kemp staggered into the Black Sun and said: I Think You Meant "find -name*ncurses-* -print less". The man page for find is comprehensive, but it may...
A few more newbie questions 4725
Dances With Crows Aha. My mainframe background is showing. I'm used to typing delimeterstringdelimeter, where delimiter is a keyboard character that doesn't appear in string. Yep. apbreastude showed me that...
Fun Negroid Facts. The Future Of The Linux Market
There is some great stuff on the pages below. Don't be swayed by the liberal media, discover the truth for yourself. ChecKKK out the AFN FAQ website...
Fun Negroid Facts. The Future Of The Linux Market
Chicken Bone Morton Since you're obviously in complete denial yourself, you should learn some things before you post your moronic nonsense to the internet. Linux is a...
NVidia or ATI cards more Linux friendly
On 11 Sep 2005 10:22:43 -0700, Random Penguin staggered into the Black Sun and said: IME and from reports on the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy, nVidia cards are...
logrotate time to execute
helge Myetc-crontab file looks like this: $ catetc-crontab SHELL=-bin-bash PATH=-sbin:-bin:-usr-sbin:-usr-bin HOME= # M is minute to start: 00...
Why newbies don't RTFM
Hi guys. Even though I've used Linux before, I've never had to do any admin tasks until recently when I had to install a dual boot...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4732
Random Penguin In my opinion, there are several reasons that the documentation is cryptic and impenetrable by the novice. Note that these are *my impressions* as a...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4733
And all one has to do is look at what's installed. Oh perhaps the newfangled distributions don't bother installing the HOWTOs, but I...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4734
Sometimes people find solutions to problems they have with a given computer system through experimentation and improvisation. The solutions they come up with are often...
Why newbies don't RTFM... i686pclinux
On my system (Mandrake 10.1) 'man cd' returns just the first part of what you show below. To see more, I'd have to do 'man bash' then find the part...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4736
Dan Espen Guys, first off let's not get all up in arms about this. As Tim pointed out...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4737
quoting and attributions fixed up On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:05:34 +0800, Lee Sau Dan In the absence of an authoritative source of...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4738
Then, these are "atypical" users. :) The question is: why shift the burden of *system maintenance* to end-users? Windows has wrongly educated people that they have to take care of their...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4739
You buy your own ingredients (or pre-packaged dishes) and do your cooking at home. OK...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4740
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:10:33 +0800, Lee Sau Dan Because in many situations, there is no one else to do it. To take one example (out of many) consider a self-employed person...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4741
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:57:00 +0800, Lee Sau Dan That is a poor analogy because you seem to be...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4742
He can take his choice of life's various types of unfairnesses: He-she can, alternatively... (1...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4743
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:09:11 -0400, Rick Moen It seems similar to trying to fix an intricate bug - easy for...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4744
Thank you for that reference: I'll have to take a closer look at that tool. Yes. I thought it was a stunningly good...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4745
Jean-David Beyer Oh common now. How many of you Windows whiners know all the DOS commands? Do you know where the DOS help system is?! There are plenty of...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4746
Dave Uhring Simple: before posting to Usenet, I need to get linux to successfully connect to the web - a "trivial" something I and many helpful linux gurus are "still" trying to achieve on my system...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4747
Dave Uhring Thank you Dave for offering to help. You are correct, I did not provide...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4748
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:28:41 -0400, Jeff staggered into the Black Sun and said: The original problem you had was with kppp not being SUID, right? This is...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4749
Note that this is still true if "system" is read as being more general than just "computer system".) I don't...
Local workstation permissions was: Why newbies don't RTFM
I suspect the easiest way to do it would be to dynamically maintain a group for "users logged in at the...
Local workstation permissions was: Why newbies don't RTFM... 4751
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:43:32 +0000 (UTC), Dave Vandervies staggered into the Black Sun and said: There's a script typically invoked when a user logs into a local...
Local workstation permissions was: Why newbies don't RTFM... 4752
It is similar, but I was trying to describe something finer-grained and more flexible than the checking mount...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4753
notbob I never not demanded anything, nor do I ever feel enbreastled to anything. As for time and effort, I've spent...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4754
Good for you. So has everyone who's learned to use linux. The main reason is because, since the typical newb asking the question doesn't provide any information whatsoever, just "me want", the reader must make...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4755
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:47:10 +0000, AZ Nomad I'm trying to be compbuttionate here, rather than...
Why newbies don't RTFM... 4756
Because that does what he wants .. tells him what commands may be likely to "delete directory". Because...
Available internal modems for Linux 4757
Snip... I did a Google search US Robotics 5610B hitting some possibilities (ignoring the Ebay listing) at Yahoo Shopping: SPONSORED LINKS * Modem Express: US Robotics Modem For...
Available internal modems for Linux 4758
Do you know if the lightning came in on the power line or the phone line? If it came in the phone line you should call your phone company...
How do I get red text on a black background in tcsh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:26:57 -0000, Grant Edwards staggered into the Black Sun and said...
READ THIS B4
C.O.L.A. Newcomer FAQ and Primer Edition: 14.079.0712.91P - 7-4-05 Group: comp.os.linux.advocacy Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Linux Reality Team Welcome...
READ THIS B4
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 02:20, Heather stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: You are also cross-posting this to... -alt.os.linux.suse;-comp.os.linux.misc;and -alt.os.windows...
Why Does Linux Have So Many Security Patches How Does One Keep Up
It looks like at least 2 or more per week! WOW!! Linux Kernel EXT2-EXT3 File System Access Control Bypbutt Vulnerability 2005-09-09 Linux Kernel SCSI ProcFS Denial Of Service Vulnerability 2005-09-09 Linux Kernel...
Why Does Linux Have So Many Security Patches How Does One Keep Up 4763
In a message on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:53:21 -0500, wrote : Because of modular programming and because the kernel as the very...
Why Does Linux Have So Many Security Patches How Does One Keep Up 4764
Well, I can't imagine that if someone has a system that is so important that it needs 24-7 uptime that there is not...
Why Does Linux Have So Many Security Patches How Does One Keep Up
Noone I imagine they ignore the security fixes to the kernels. Or they may read the release notes to the security fixes and decide they do not apply to...
Linux is a SECURITY DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4766
With all of these "vulnerabilities", how many Linux servers were actually successfully attacked? How many Linux workstations were actually...
Linux is a SECURITY DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4767
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Heather wrote on 12 Sep 2005 17:40:53 -0700 Hm... indicates the following. 09-13 Debian vulnerabilities fixed in sound package 09-13 Fedora core for DHCP update 09-12 RedHat XFree86 update 09-12 Gentoo Python PCRE...
Linux is a SECURITY DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4768
Christopher Shaker One: Robert Morris's worm that got out of control in late 1988. And of course that was not Linux proper, but the UNIX OS in...
Linux is a SECURITY DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4769
Jean-David Beyer I use Gentoo Linux to run a webserver, DNS, and DHCP among other things. I...
Vector Linux & USB ADSL modem problems 4770
Hi guys. I've settled on Vector Linux 4.3 for my old P3-866MHz comp with 128MB of RDRAM. It is really fast...
Vector Linux & USB ADSL modem problems 4771
Hi guys. I installed Vector Linux 4.3 on an old P3 866 MHz PC with 128MB RDRAM. I'm really happy...
Input Needed ext3: root and encryption
That's an interesting concept. Please excuse those questions below that may result from my lack of...
Input Needed ext3: root and encryption
Robert M. Riches Jr. There are encrypted keys stored on disk that authenticate the mount operation and user access. During mount a pbuttphrase must be entered then another pbuttphrase for the root user. Group access...
Backing up and encryption with GPG
I have an external USB HD. I have several user accounts to backup. I've heard that using compression is a bad idea because a .tar can be partly recovered in many...
Backing up and encryption with GPG 4775
shakiro I understand that is the case. I use tape as a backup medium. AFAIK, most tape drives have hardware...
Backing up and encryption with GPG 4776
I agree, but let's say I am administering several users. Can I count on these users to do or remember to do encryption of their sensitive...
Backing up and encryption with GPG 4777
Well I've tried on my home system or a dry run. Using GPG's symmetric encryption on a file system of about 3.8 GB produces an encrypted file of about 1.8 GB (about half the size...
Creating a file with timestamp 4778
Peter, Peter T. Breuer I know what SMP is. Even though there would be more than one process running on the...
