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general-digest        Monday, January 10 2000        Volume 02 : Number 107

In this issue:

    Re: Incremental download software
    Re: Incremental download software
    Re: RPM web index
    Re: Incremental download software
    NW for sale
    Re: Incremental download software
    Re: Incremental download software /BACKUP
    Re: Incremental download software /BACKUP
    Re: /dev permissions
    Re: Incremental download software
    Titan-VI - configuring X
    Re: Titan-VI - configuring X
    Re: Error on Tulip interface

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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:53:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jamie Guinan <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software

Don't forget, you can always abort (ctrl-c) an FTP download,
then use the "reget" command.

- -Jamie

On 24 Dec 1999 [email-masked] wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if there is any Linux software for incremental download of 
> large files, such as the PC GetRight? This program downloads a file
> while the connection is idle (while reading a document etc) and if
> interrupted it resumes downloading form where it stopped, when
> connected to the Internet again. This allows a much more economical 
> download of large files, like Netwinder disk images.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Neoklis 

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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:56:33 -0500
From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software

[email-masked] wrote:
> I wonder if there is any Linux software for incremental download of
> large files, such as the PC GetRight? This program downloads a file
> while the connection is idle (while reading a document etc) and if
> interrupted it resumes downloading form where it stopped, when
> connected to the Internet again. This allows a much more economical
> download of large files, like Netwinder disk images.

I can think of two:
  - ftp (use the "reget" command to continue)
  - rsync -t --partial (keeps incomplete downloads)
NetWinder.org supports both.

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REBEL.COM  http://www.rebel.com/

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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 17:21:42 -0500
From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: RPM web index

"Andrew E. Mileski" wrote:
> Take a look at http://netwinder.org/~andrewm/redhat/
>      From the Index select "NetWinder (Untested)"
>      Select "The list of RPM indexed by date of creation "
>      Select the RPM you are interested in.
>      Select the RPM (page title) or source RPM link to download.

I found a bug in rpm2html, fixed it, and submitted a bug report to
the maintainer.

The bug: the web page for RPMS less than 3 days old can get overwritten
         when there are lots of RPMS in this category.  rpm2html should
         generate a new page instead.

You can find the patched SRPM at:
ftp://netwinder.org/~andrewm/redhat/SRPMS-all/rpm2html-1.3-1_nw1.src.rpm

Merry Christmas to all!

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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:15:51 -0500
From: "Zachary Williams" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software

http://fantaz.linux.tucows.com/kdehtml/net_util.html

Excellent site, by the makers of TuCows.  They have listed a program that
will act like getright/goZilla.

Zach
<[email-masked]> wrote in message
news:[email-masked]...
> Hi!
>
> I wonder if there is any Linux software for incremental download of
> large files, such as the PC GetRight? This program downloads a file
> while the connection is idle (while reading a document etc) and if
> interrupted it resumes downloading form where it stopped, when
> connected to the Internet again. This allows a much more economical
> download of large files, like Netwinder disk images.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards
>
> Neoklis

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:53:42 -0500
From: "Todd Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Subject: NW for sale

For Sale:
NetWinder DM - special
This is a 64/4 with the 2.0.35 kernel.  It doesn't follow the standard 'dm#'
disk imaging though it is from the the last stable release during the change
over from Corel to HCC.  The thing that makes this one special is it has a
'sales demo' image.  Many special things like an mp3 player, browser and
word processor (no names please).  It has been my own personal machine for a
year now and currently shows 265 days uptime.  Unfortuantely I'm subing out
on a new job and need some new hardware to do the work.  I'm not bailing
completely on NW, I've still got 3 more at work, and won't likely give them
up.

I have everything but the original documentation.  Asking $900 US.  I will
pay shipping anywhere in the continental US.

Todd

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:48:24 -0500
From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software

> I wonder if there is any Linux software for incremental download of
> large files, such as the PC GetRight? This program downloads a file
> while the connection is idle (while reading a document etc) and if
> interrupted it resumes downloading form where it stopped, when
> connected to the Internet again. This allows a much more economical
> download of large files, like Netwinder disk images.

Another favorite:  wget -c
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:29:54 +0800
From: Nenita Manaois <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software /BACKUP

hi,

i dont know if this is the right place to post this question but i hope
somebody would give an answer:

i have 3 servers (netwinder included) and i would like to configure
a back-up server for them.  i will be using a hdisk (13GB) to do this
which is installed in a 4th machine.  

any recommended *free* backup utility?  

thanks,
- -nenita

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Date: 29 Dec 1999 09:38:46 GMT
From: [email-masked] (Jim Tittsler)
Subject: Re: Incremental download software /BACKUP

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:29:54 +0800, Nenita Manaois wrote:
>i have 3 servers (netwinder included) and i would like to configure
>a back-up server for them.  i will be using a hdisk (13GB) to do this
>which is installed in a 4th machine.  

rsync is a very clever tool for doing "smart copies" between machines,
leaving the data on the "big machine" for local backup tools.  It can
be easily run over SSH, providing secure incremental backups.

http://rsync.samba.org/

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:37:27 -0500
From: Patrice LaFlamme <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: /dev permissions

Rod Stewart wrote:
> Look in /etc/security/console.perms...

Thanks! All is fine now :)

Patrix.

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:41:24 -0500
From: Patrice LaFlamme <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Incremental download software

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if there is any Linux software for incremental download of
> large files, such as the PC GetRight? This program downloads a file
> while the connection is idle (while reading a document etc) and if
> interrupted it resumes downloading form where it stopped, when
> connected to the Internet again. This allows a much more economical
> download of large files, like Netwinder disk images.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Neoklis

ncftp does this automatically.. Or it used to, now it kindly asks if you
want to rsume downloads, overwrite, etc...

Other cool things about ncftp: you can bookmark sites, it remembers
logins/passwords,
and a bunch of other features I've never used yet.

Patrix.

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:48:53 -0500
From: Patrice LaFlamme <[email-masked]>
Subject: Titan-VI - configuring X

Well, I went ahead and tried out Titan.  I downloaded the base image,
then proceeded to download RPMS over my 56k modem connection. 

I have one problem though: I can't get X to work.  I installed the
XFree86 rpms, and all the other x-related xtuff I needed, satisyfing all
dependencies, and then I just copied over the default XF86Config from a
build15 machine.  When I run startx, I get, after the usual output:

*** None of the configured devices were detected.***

Fatal server error:
no screens found

What am I missing?  It's probably a simple thing, but I can't figure it
out!

Thanks,
Patrix.

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:42:26 -0500
From: Patrice LaFlamme <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Titan-VI - configuring X

Silly me....  I had linked /dev/fb0 to /dev/fbcurrent, instead of
/dev/fb0current.

All works well now :)

Cheers,
Patrix.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:29:51 +0000
From: Gareth Boden <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Error on Tulip interface

Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> 
> Sounds like you have a hardware problem with the tulip alright :)  There
> are a couple of possibilities that might explain the problem, I'd
> suggest contacting support and having the unit exchanged as the most
> straightforward way to go.

I was worried it was a problem in the general case with the Tulip on
10MB networks, or some configuration I had failed to do correctly (along
the lines of the tulip_upgd), but having swapped over Netwinders it's
fine with a different one so it is indeed just a dodgy card. I'm in the
UK - should I contact the UK distributor or do we have to go the hassle
of sending it all the way back over there?

Gareth

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