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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2987

Today's Topics: 

  Re: Loosing internet after suspend    [ Kent West  ]
  Loosing internet after suspend        [ "John Patton"  ]
  Re: OT: clicky keyboards              [ Hugo Vanwoerkom  ]
  Re: Math Programme.                   [ Jonathan Kaye  ]
  Re: Network is unreachable email err  [ hce  ]
  Re: OT: clicky keyboards              [ Nate Bargmann  ]
  Re: backup script partly fails when   [ Benjamin Schmidt  ]
  Re: Debian on PCs                     [ Jonathan Kaye  ]
  Re: Loosing internet after suspend    [ "Sudev Barar"  ]
  reporting aptitude errors             [ roberto  ]
  Re: How Linux becomes Windows         [ cothrige  ]
  Re: backup script partly fails when   [ Haines Brown 

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:59:15 -0600


From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>


To:  debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Loosing internet after suspend

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John Patton wrote:

> After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet 
> access. When i try to restart networking, i get the following:
>
>   SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   Bind socket to interface: No such device
>   Failed to bring up eth0.
>
> eth0 is, of course, the card that connects to my cable modem. The only 
> way i know to get it back is to restart the computer! I've looked 
> everywhere i can think of to look, but i just don't know how to 
> reactivate that device.
>
> My wife is getting angry with Linux, which isn't good! If someone 
> could help me out here i would greatly appreciate it. Even just some 
> ideas about where to look would be good.

If it's a PCMCIA card, try removing/reinserting it. Not really a fix, 
but perhaps a work-around.


-- 
Kent


Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:03:17 -0600
From: "John Patton" <elov66@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Loosing internet after suspend
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After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet access.
When i try to restart networking, i get the following:

  SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
  eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
  eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
  Bind socket to interface: No such device
  Failed to bring up eth0.

eth0 is, of course, the card that connects to my cable modem. The only way i
know to get it back is to restart the computer! I've looked everywhere i can
think of to look, but i just don't know how to reactivate that device.

My wife is getting angry with Linux, which isn't good! If someone could help
me out here i would greatly appreciate it. Even just some ideas about where
to look would be good.

If you need any other information about my system, please just let me know.

Thanks in advance!

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After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet access. When i try to restart networking, i get the following:<br><br>&nbsp; SIOCSIFADDR: No such device<br>&nbsp; eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
<br>&nbsp; eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device<br>&nbsp; Bind socket to interface: No such device<br>&nbsp; Failed to bring up eth0.<br><br>eth0 is, of course, the card that connects to my cable modem. The only way i know to get it back is to restart the computer! I&#39;ve looked everywhere i can think of to look, but i just don&#39;t know how to reactivate that device.
<br><br>My wife is getting angry with Linux, which isn&#39;t good! If someone could help me out here i would greatly appreciate it. Even just some ideas about where to look would be good.<br><br>If you need any other information about my system, please just let me know.
<br><br>Thanks in advance!<br>

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Date:  Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:41:44 -0600
From:  Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: OT: clicky keyboards
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
> 
> If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
> this year, check out www.clickykeyboards.com for real IBM
> keyboards. Mine just arrived and I'm in heaven. 
> 
> I hate to bump a commercial enterprise like that, but I know many of
> you do lots of typing... 
> 


Bought mine now 14 years ago, still going strong.
For seat #2 bought another one. I won't use any other keyboard.

Hugo



Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:22 -0500
From: "Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: System Lockup
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I just experienced my first ever system lockup.  No mouse, no keyboard 
with an Iceape screen open.

I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then 
Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. 

In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system.  I am using 
linux-image 2.6.21-2-686.  When the system came up I entered grep SYSRQ 
/boot/config-$(uname -r) and got the response CONFIG_MAGIC-SYSRQ=y


So its there.  Either I did something wrong or it doesn't work with the 
problem I encountered.

Tom George



Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:14:17 -0600
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: OT: clicky keyboards
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On 12/09/07 06:36, Nate Duehr wrote:

> 
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
>> On 12/08/07 12:17, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:54:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> Listening to people sing in Italian (or German) about incest and
>>>> matricide is not my cup of tea.
>>>
>>> sounds like a python bit
>>
>> The language or the comedy troop?
>>
>> Anyway, no one can convince me that opera is nothing more than
>> pre-television HBO.
> 
> Your joke would be funnier if you used MTV or VH1 instead of HBO.


Excellent point.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile."  Santa-bot
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Date:  Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:47 +0100
From:  Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Math Programme.
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Michael Pobega wrote:


> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:38:54PM +0900, David wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Something of interest to those of a mathematical bent:-
>>
>> http://www.sagemath.org/
>>
>> Regards,
> 
> I read about this on /. today; Does anyone have any clue if there will
> be some sort of a Debian package for it in the future?
> 

You can find Debian binaries on the site now (seems to be for sarge) here:
http://sage.apcocoa.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/ (or 64bit)
Beware though 275MB!
Cheers,
Jonathan
-- 
Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:24:13 +1100
From: hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com>
To: "Mihira Fernando" <mihiratheace@gmail.com>
Cc: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Network is unreachable email error
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On 12/10/07, Mihira Fernando <mihiratheace@gmail.com> wrote:

> hce wrote:
>
> >
> > Indeed, my ISP blocks port 25. How can I config the postfix to change
> > to use 465 or 587? I have following  sasl_passwd:
> >
> > smtp.gmail.com webmail@gmail.com
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
>
> It would help if you can post results of postconf -n
> and show the relevant map files (with the passwords and ip addresses mangled of
> cause)


$ /usr/sbin/postconf -n
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = yes
biff = no
canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
config_directory = /etc/postfix
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
inet_protocols = ipv4
mailbox_size_limit = 51200000
masquerade_domains = bizmail.com.au
mydestination = mail.bizmail.com.au
myhostname = debian
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
myorigin = /etc/mailname
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = login
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_type = cyrus
smtp_tls_CApath = /etc/ssl/certs
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes

The bizmail.com.au is wrong, it was my old ISP, but I could not find
where the parameters get it from?



> Change your relay server parameters from smtp.gmail.com to [smtp.gmail.com]:587
>
> If you're using relay_server parameter in main.cf, modify it to look like this :
> relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
>
> If you're using transport maps, change the map file to look like this :
>
> gmail.com       smtp:[smtp.gmail.com]:587


I only use one file mailname and I have changed mailname to
smtp.gmail.com:587, but still got port 25:

Dec 11 22:07:47 debian postfix/smtp[5598]: connect to
mailc.microsoft.com[131.107.115.214]: Network is unreachable (port 25)



> your sasl password map file should have the following format :
>
> smtp.gmail.com  username:password


That's correct. I've only got three files contains specific mail
information in postfix:

1. mailname: smtp.gmail.com:587

2. canonical

yh      webmail.hce@gmail.com
root        webmail.hce@gmail.com

3. sasl_passwd

smtp.gmail.com  webmail.hce@gmail.com:mypassword

That was working fine to my previous ISP bizmail.com.au, or may be
because the postfix config set to:

masquerade_domains = bizmail.com.au
mydestination = mail.bizmail.com.au

I could not find postfix.conf, and where I can change those parameers?

Thanks Mihira.

Kind Regards,

Jim



Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 07:14:16 -0600
From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT: clicky keyboards
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* Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> [2007 Dec 08 07:02 -0600]:

> On 07/12/2007, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> wrote:
> > I have a bit of trouble with mine and the PS/2 to USB adaptor at work.
> > Upon a cold boot I have to unplug the cable from the rear of the
> > keyboard and plug it back in.  If the laptop has been in suspend, XP
> > will never see it again.  :-/
> 
> File a bug with Microsoft. :)


Snort!

I really don't care *that* much.  It's the company laptop where our IT
gurus saw fit to strip it of the Dell control software so I can't even
adjust such things as the sensitivity of the stupid scratch pad.  I
hate those things with a passion...

That why I own Trackpoint Thinkpads.

- Nate >>

-- 
 Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB          |  Successfully Microsoft
  Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @  | free since January 1998.
             http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/           |  "Debian, the choice of
             My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @            |     a GNU generation!"
        http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/       |   http://www.debian.org

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:06:01 +0100
From: strawks <strawks@yahoo.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: execution automatique a la deconnection sous gnome
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Salut,


> quelqu'un connait -il une solution pour executer automatiquement un=20
> script =C3=A0 la deconnection d'un user sous GNOME.
>=20
> (sous kde, il faut cr=C3=A9er le .shutdown mais sous GNOME)


Premierement, cette list est destinee aux utilisateurs anglophones, il
existe une liste specifique pour les francophone (debian-user-french).

Anyway, maybe the easiest solution may be to make gdm (or kdm or
whatever) execute your $HOME/.xsession script. For example your script
may look like this :
(Pour repondre a ta question, le plus simple serait p-e de faire
executer par gdm (ou kdm ou autre) le script $HOME/.xsession sur ton
compte. Par ex) :

#!/bin/sh

# Lancement de la session
gnome-sesion
# cette ligne est atteinte seulement lors de ladeconnexion
# Fin de la session

--=20
Regards,
strawks



Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:17:42 +0100
From: Benjamin Schmidt <b.schmidt@t-p.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly
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Ok, first: Why it doesn't work I simply don't know.

You should test if this is a problem with find, or the egrep command,
cpio or cat by making verbose output into a own log file.

But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find
/ -print ...". Instead use tar, like:

tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/*
--exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/mnt/*
(please test this first before going productive)

or use rsync. You will find a lot of examples in our great? world.

Best regards,
Benjamin Schmidt


Haines Brown wrote:

> I asked this question some time ago. I've a script in /etc/cron.weekly
> named "backup" (rwxr-xr-x root/root) that looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mount /media/mirror
> dirName=`date +%F`
> mkdir /media/mirror/"$dirName"
> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt" | cpio -pdmuv \
> /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vt 
> umount /media/mirror
> exit 0
> 
> I regularly get only partial backups when run by cron, but full
> backups if run from command line by root.
> 
> For example, in / I have two symlinks. Both are rwxrwxrwx root/root,
> but only one gets backed up.
> 
> Another example, /home gets backed up, but /etc does not, even though
> both are rwxr-xr-x root/root,
> 
> Yet another example: In / I have two plain text files, both are
> rw-r--r-- root/root, but only one gets backed up.
> 
> Plenty of room on the backup device (external UPS drive). My syslog
> reports the backup started. No other log entries of interest:
> 
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel /USR/SBIN/CRON[23041]: 
>         (brownh) CMD (/home/brownh/scripts/backup)
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel /USR/SBIN/CRON[23043]: (brownh) CMD (fetchmail) 
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: 
>         kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count 
>         reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with
>         ordered data mode. 
> Dec  9 04:00:01 teufel identd[23056]: started
> 
Do you need more help?X

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:14:06 -0800
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Re: Loosing internet after suspend
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:42:17PM -0600, John Patton wrote:

> Okay. I have a regular ethernet card built into my laptop's motherboard.


=2E..

>=20
> What i have done so far is make changes to the powersaved config
> scripts. I have instructed it to restart networking, acpid, and the
> firewall to no avail (before discovering that eth0 itself no longer
> existed in /dev). I then tried unloading and re-loading the module that
> my ethernet driver uses (natsemi), but that doesn't help.=20


how are you unloading and re-loading the module? see if you can
determine what modules natsemi relies on (modinfo) and remove those
modules as well. Then reinsert natsemi and see if that does the
trick.=20

you also might try udevtrigger to see if that picks it up.


>=20
> It seems to me that something in the boot process checks for the
> existence of that device (/dev/eth0) and creates it, but i can't figure
> out what that is. There must be some way to tell the kernel (or
> something) to create it! I just don't even know where to look though.
>=20
> Does MAKEDEV still work? My only thought is to manually create the
> device from the init.d/networking script if it doesn't exist, but that
> seems like a kludge and fragile besides. Basically i'm wondering if
> anybody knows of the proper way to do this.


probably what is happening is the network device and/or its driver is
not compliant with suspend2disk. So it's getting all messed up in the
process. YOu need to essentially reset the thing. I think you're on
the right track removing and reinserting that module, but I think you
need to take it farther and make sure you get the rest of it done. I
don't know a thing about that driver, but maybe it is loading some
firmware that doesn't get reloaded on the restart from suspend?=20

A

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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:15:15 -0800
From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
To: Debian List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: OT: clicky keyboards
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On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Miles Bader wrote:

> I agree the Apple II and TRS-80 keyboards were crap, but I have very
> fond memories of hacking on the VT-100.  I guess the keyboard feel
> wasn't all that great compared to a model-m or something, but there  
> was
> just something very nice about the whole package (the keyboard  
> _shape_,
> and key layout on the VT-100, for instance, were great)...


What I remember most about the VT-100 is that it had the loudest  
system bell I'd ever heard.  There was a 3" speaker in the bottom of  
the keyboard.

Overall I preferred the VT-330.  It was much more compact, and the  
amberchrome CRT was easier on the eyes than the VT-100's black-and- 
white tube.



Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:15:43 -0600
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: Debian user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian on PCs
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On 12/11/07 06:05, John Talbut wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users'
> experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the
> www.linux-laptop.net site?
> 
> It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I
> could have had a sight of .config, xorg.conf and driver information from
> others who had experience with the same machines.  And I could pass on
> my experiences.


The snotty answer is http://lists.debian.org/users.html but what you
probably want is something like these:

http://www.debian-administration.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile."  Santa-bot
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Date:  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:08:46 +0100
From:  Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Debian on PCs
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John Talbut wrote:


> Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users'
> experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the
> www.linux-laptop.net site?
> 
> It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I could
> have had a sight of .config, xorg.conf and driver information from others
> who had
> experience with the same machines.  And I could pass on my experiences.
> 
> John

Hi John,
Maybe this isn't exactly what you're asking but a substitute for it. You can
try a live CD that you can download and burn on any platform. I
particularly recommend Knoppix. Just stick the live CD in the drive and
boot up. You can then investigate all settings (xorg, etc.) at your
leisure. If Knoppix is happy with your pc then it's a pretty good bet that
Debian will be also.
Cheers,
Jonathan
-- 
Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:52:29 +0530
From: "Sudev Barar" <sbarar@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Loosing internet after suspend
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On 11/12/2007, John Patton <elov66@gmail.com> wrote:

> After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet access.
> When i try to restart networking, i get the following:
>
>   SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   Bind socket to interface: No such device
>   Failed to bring up eth0.
>
> eth0 is, of course, the card that connects to my cable modem. The only way i
> know to get it back is to restart the computer! I've looked everywhere i can
> think of to look, but i just don't know how to reactivate that device.
>


Same here. Right now I am using lenny on a AMD4 laptop. The problem
extends to wireless device too which other wise work when laptop is
booted. Additionally I am not able to suspend but only hibernate the
machine.

I have not yet given this problem a priority as this is not urgent
issue with me ??? no wife to nag ;-) ??? but the same laptop was
working fine when I had Ubuntu6.06 on it earlier.

The common issue with both was that as this is a wide screen laptop I
have too add vga=771 as additional parameter at boot time (edited
/boot/grub/menu.lst to make it persistent)

-- 
Regards,
Sudev Barar

Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.



Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:04:19 +0100
From: roberto <roberto03@gmail.com>
To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: reporting aptitude errors
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hello
i am receiving a long list of errors from aptitude but i do not know
how to copy and post them here ...

i have checked /var/log/aptitude but the log stops on march, since
probably on this machine there have been  no update from that date up
to now

thank you very much
-- 
roberto
OS: GNU/Linux, Debian



Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:46:44 -0600
From: cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How Linux becomes Windows
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Dirk <noisyb@gmail.com> writes:


> I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar bullshit.


I agree about HAL, and the thing really just makes me nervous.  I was
apparently right too, because when I turned it off via update-rc.d, my
box started singing about somebody named Daisy.

The one I really don't understand though is avahi.  I kept seeing this
in my ps output and really had no idea at all what it was.  I tried to
find out, but couldn't.  Did the CIA write this thing?  Finally I turned
it off too, and nothing exploded so far.  But, just what is all this
stuff anyway?  Personally, I thought avahi was some sort of fruity
shampoo my wife uses.

Patrick



Date:  11 Dec 2007 08:24:07 -0500
From:  Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly
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Benjamin Schmidt <b.schmidt@t-p.com> writes:


> But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find
> / -print ...". Instead use tar, like:
> 
> tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/*
> --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/mnt/*


Benjamin, thanks for the suggestion, but I had a problem with the
script:

        Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

I don't understand this error. 

-- 
 
       Haines Brown, KB1GRM

	 
        

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