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Tony Langdon | 3 Jul 2000 00:29
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RE: root email overflow

Oh well, fsck'd up that one. ;-)

Tony Langdon.
Systems Development and Support.
ATC Training Australasia.  Level 2 321 Exhibition St Melbourne  3000.
Phone:  1300 13 1983     WWW:  http://www.atctraining.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Davidson [mailto:puttputt <at> mail.ebbs.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 30 June 2000 17:04
> To: Tony Langdon
> Cc: 'chris.dowling <at> doi.vic.gov.au'; mlug <at> mlug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLUG]root email overflow
> 
> 
> Tony Langdon wrote:
> > 
> > rm /var/spool/mail/root
> > touch /var/spool/mail/root
> > chmod 700 /var/spool/mail/root
> > 
> 
> chmod 700?  rwx?? narh.. 600 (rw)
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chris.dowling | 3 Jul 2000 03:43
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ghost with linux

I have been playing around with making ghost images as backups for my linux
boxes and it seems to work pretty well, my question is more to see if
someone know anymore about this that I do.  Does anyone know way to dump
and image across the network without having to down the linux box and boot
up off a dos floppy with the ghost stuff on it??

Chris
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Adam Neat | 3 Jul 2000 04:02

Re: ghost with linux

Chris,

I've been wanting to do this for a while myself. Many systems don't
require nightly back ups but do require to be backed up after changes.
Things like firewalls and the likes.

I have tried (only briefly) dd'ing /dev/sda to cdrom (with tools in the
middle of course) but didn't get much success.

But, there the way you're talking about doing it looks to be more along
the lines of NFS root mounting. 

ie: 

1) system boots off a very small partition whihch contains the kernel
(basically /boot/*) 
2) the system then NFS mounts something like GHOSTBOX:/images/machineX
and copies down /, /var, /tmp, /usr, /home, etc which have been 'ghosted'
previously.

Not sure if this is along the same lines of what you talk about below ?

Regards

adam

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 chris.dowling <at> doi.vic.gov.au wrote:

> I have been playing around with making ghost images as backups for my linux
> boxes and it seems to work pretty well, my question is more to see if
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Robert Davidson | 3 Jul 2000 04:34
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Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

Hi All,

Since we import SuSE linux from Germany, we have some left
over and we want to donate it somewhere.

The SuSE stock is Version 6.3, there's close to 30 boxes
left, which we are not allowed to sell since SuSE is
crediting us with the value of them on our next order.

We have a choice as to destroying the stock or donating it,
and we'd prefer to donate it.

So, I am looking for suggestions of places we can donate
them to.  We want them to go somewhere that they will be
used, not just shoved in the corner and left to gather
dust.  The current version of SuSE is 6.4, but there is
another release just around the corner.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Robert Davidson.
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John Clark | 3 Jul 2000 09:32
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Re: Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

How about donating it to the first 30ppl that reply to you  :)
John Clark

Robert Davidson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Since we import SuSE linux from Germany, we have some left
> over and we want to donate it somewhere.
>
> The SuSE stock is Version 6.3, there's close to 30 boxes
> left, which we are not allowed to sell since SuSE is
> crediting us with the value of them on our next order.
>
> We have a choice as to destroying the stock or donating it,
> and we'd prefer to donate it.
>
> So, I am looking for suggestions of places we can donate
> them to.  We want them to go somewhere that they will be
> used, not just shoved in the corner and left to gather
> dust.  The current version of SuSE is 6.4, but there is
> another release just around the corner.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Robert Davidson.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mlug mailing list
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Robert Davidson | 2 Jul 2000 22:16
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Re: Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

John Clark wrote:
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> How about donating it to the first 30ppl that reply to you  :)
> John Clark
> 

hehe.. I'll talk to my boss about this, because it seems that some
people (3 already) want a copy for themselves.. I doubt he'll go for
it though because he was looking for suggestions for like schools,
organizations, etc..

Regards,
Robert Davidson.
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John Clark | 3 Jul 2000 10:35
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Re: Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

well you could try approaching some of the computer groups like MLUG,
LUV, and APANA (i'm a local comittee member)

Bye
John Clark

Robert Davidson wrote:

> John Clark wrote:
> >
> > How about donating it to the first 30ppl that reply to you  :)
> > John Clark
> >
>
> hehe.. I'll talk to my boss about this, because it seems that some
> people (3 already) want a copy for themselves.. I doubt he'll go for
> it though because he was looking for suggestions for like schools,
> organizations, etc..
>
> Regards,
> Robert Davidson.
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Scott | 3 Jul 2000 11:09
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Re: Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

I know i would like to give Suse  a try :-)

Snowball
"If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a
minute - he already does."
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From: "John Clark" <airwolf <at> garibaldi.babcom.apana.org.au>
To: "Robert Davidson" <puttputt <at> mail.ebbs.com.au>
Cc: <mlug <at> mlug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MLUG]Donation suggestions (for SuSE 6.3 stock)

> well you could try approaching some of the computer groups like MLUG,
> LUV, and APANA (i'm a local comittee member)
>
> Bye
> John Clark
>
> Robert Davidson wrote:
>
> > John Clark wrote:
> > >
> > > How about donating it to the first 30ppl that reply to you  :)
> > > John Clark
> > >
> >
> > hehe.. I'll talk to my boss about this, because it seems that some
> > people (3 already) want a copy for themselves.. I doubt he'll go for
> > it though because he was looking for suggestions for like schools,
> > organizations, etc..
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Roger Harrington | 3 Jul 2000 16:18

About Me

Hi All

I still have a bit of a hangup with Linux! Its so versatile that its
brilliant, but through its very versatility it makes the OS very complex
and therefore hard to set up.

Even though I have gone from RH 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 I still have major
problems with networking.  My latest was when I was updating a
pre-release version of Windows 98 to the current version, it blew away
the MBR  and I lost access to Linux. My bootdisk/recovery floppies did
not work (missing some files) so I did  a clean install. And now do you
think I can get the LAN working? Not on your sweet nellie!

So, once I have become a list member I will be picking your collective
brains as to how the hell make this machine stop being anti-social!

Look forward to making your various acquaintenances!

Roger
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hartr | 3 Jul 2000 22:38
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Linux Standard Base web site

Hi

Someone on this list asked me about the LSB web site. Unfortunatly I
succeeded in deleting the mail before I replied to it - my apologies!

So, for you and anyone else that is interested, the LSB web site is at
	www.linuxbase.org

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Red Hat, Inc
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