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Hi guys,

I've got a server which runs a non-bootable array of drives in a software RAID5 configuration with ReiserFS as the filesystem and mdadm managing the array. A couple of days ago the server...

I started using Linux about a year ago, and jumped straight into the server edition, so basically I've had a lot of exposure to everything console-related. I'd like to install the desktop edition of...

I have recently dabbled in a bit of bash scripting, but I'd like to get some input from experienced users as to what scripting languages you guys use most often, and why. I've heard of people using...

Is it possible to automatically remap bad sectors when they are encountered? Or even better, to format the drive with, say, ext3 and scan for bad sectors and mark them as inacessible?

Now, to...

Flip, that's clever. Thanks! :-D This is even better than what I was hoping for; now I can pass it through some other checks too.

I need to find all the differences between 2 folder hierarchies. For example, folder1 and folder2 are nearly identical, except that folder2 may contain some extra files or subfolders. How do I find...

Thanks! You put me onto something, and after a quick Google I came across a solution here. The following taken from the aforementioned site:


if [ -f $filename ] translates $filename - if it has...

In the way that I originally posted, I am able to echo the variable without problems. It's only once I pass it to expr that I have a problem.

For some reason I'm unable to get expr to work with any parameters on strings that contain spaces. For example,


This works:

$ temp='Fantastic'
$ expr substr $temp 1 3
Fan

Thanks guys :) I didn't know about cygwin. I've just checked it out, and this will make life a lot easier. Thanks!

Hi all,

I've had a look at some backup systems, including Amanda and Bacula, but what frustrates me to no end is the (apparent) inability to initialise a manual backup with any of these systems....

Thanks, dendrobates' answer is great. Thanks to everyone else for the insight. :)

Hi everyone.

Being kinda very new here, I hope I'm posting in the right section. O:)

I've just installed Ubuntu Server 8.04, and I've noticed that "make" isn't installed by default, and neither...