Re: dd hung up by disk errors

2009-07-21 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
saved the bulk of your data, you may try to fill the holes using count to not overwrite stuff you You might want to look for dd_rhelp, a script around dd_rescue that automates that process. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abt

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
here. I do not recall any problems during installation, though. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: bash doubt

2008-05-15 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
+$0 l $LINENO: ' A. - -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkgr37kACgkQYmVfELZx7BpkwwCgos6hRSOzpj9PgBzAzpkDyVzN 94QAoO6iqIMnGtH87c2FxuSpTELKtUoY =wR0

Re: about tar backup

2007-12-04 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
and the name of the directory you want to backup. I do not quite understand what you are trying to accomplish, but this will backup the my_data directory to my_backup.tar: tar cvf my_backup.tar my_data/ A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Researcher & Sysadmin http://www.mpibpc.mpg.d

Re: .bashrc problem--"ls" output and root prompt

2007-08-22 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:14:04PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > PS1='\h\w $ '; export PS1 > > So, nothing fancy. How do i get my coloured "ls" back, > and my "#" prompt as sudo'ed root? Use \$ rather than a plain $ to get # as root.

Exim4, smarthost and local aliases

2007-08-21 Thread Ansgar Esztermann
m mistaken there, or I've messed things up elsewhere (but I don't know where). By the way, address rewriting according to /etc/email-addresses does take place. Any idea where to look next? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Researcher & Sysadmin http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/grubm