Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Mark Fraser wrote: > Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . Thanks for that. This is definitely the same bug, and it explains a whole lot of things I'm seeing. I know where to look now. Plymouth has repeatedly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Mark Fraser
On Monday 19 Apr 2010 16:31:10 Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there > > Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a > Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out > a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD > drive whi

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as ext

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Quinn
John You need to put the question in context. What is the man command used for? A) It displays information about the syntax for a command. B) It is the replacement for the boy command. C) It is a standard alias to ls -la | more. D) It is used to display formatted HTML pages. With al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread John Stevenson
On 19 April 2010 15:03, David wrote: > What does everybody think about these certifications? > > Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? > > http://www.lpi.org/certification > http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx > Some sample questions for the LPI remind

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Quinn
All Linux+ is now powered by LPI. See the press release from last week: http://lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/what_s_new/comptia_and_lpi_join_forces_to_a dvance_global_linux_workforce Bill -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Morley
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:03 +0100, David wrote: > What does everybody think about these certifications? > > Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? > > http://www.lpi.org/certification > http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx > > -- > David Lutton > m: 0779

[ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

2010-04-19 Thread David
What does everybody think about these certifications? Is one of them better to have, and are they both up to date? http://www.lpi.org/certification http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx -- David Lutton m: 07792 560341 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Brighton-lug-misc] Free UNIX shell account

2010-04-19 Thread louis taylor
>You could try asking for it on IRC or compiling it in your home directory. In the case of byobu it only needs a couple of files in your >home directory anyway. I already have installed it in my home folder. I was wondering if it could be installed globally, since I have found some small problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 19 April 2010 09:10, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the > repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's a perl based with a nice web > interface that allows backup using SMB, rsync over SSH, etc. > > It handles incremental back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, mac wrote: > > I can see that in an office, with a lot of data, having hourly, daily, > weekly, etc., snapshots is much more important. > > Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > The way my script (and I think rsync) works is that what is stored on my > backup location is only a copy of what was last backed up (i.e. last > night). If I wanted to restore a system to how it was say 3 days or one > week ago I don't think you can. Ah, I see. I do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 19/04/10 08:00, mac wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: > >> It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to >> recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it >> to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. > > Would you mind saying a bit more ab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to > recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it > to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. Would you mind saying a bit more about the problem with rsync? I've use