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First post in ten years from me, just to say, "damn."

...I have my keys set up so I hold control and hit the left or right arrow keys to cycle through my desktops. Do you people not dig through the configs, or what? Fire up wmakerprefs, go to keyboard shortcut prefs and look for switch to next workspace or switch to previous workspace.

Sure, just about any of the GUIs will work. I'd suggest finding a decent video card (that will work with your AGP slot, obviously) that has support for hardware acceleration. I set up a FreeBSD 7.0 box running WindowMaker for a friend of mine a few weeks ago...Was a PII/300 with 256M RAM and...

m0n0wall, pfsense, they all work. I chose to roll my own with FreeBSD, since it's not hard at all to do.

I just call mine 'FreeBSD', which is a complete OS. :)

WindowMaker. Yes, people still use it. WMaker is fast, looks decent, doesn't require any silly X tricks to make it work properly and does everything a window manager should do without doing much more...Read that as "it manages my windows, gives me a way to theme the borders it puts on windows...

Have you considered reading the mutt man page? :) .muttrc is the file you're looking for. You also might consider the 'set folder' option. C'mon. Five minutes of digging would have found this for you. If you're running a mail server and not just reading e-mail, consider having Mutt talk to...

Threads like this one are the reason I stopped posting here a while ago. I decided to check how this forum was doing a few minutes ago and realized that some things will never change. What would Linux users have to feel smug or superior about if everyone ran Linux? :D

Definitely. That's the '69 your friend is restoring? I want mine without a vinyl top. :)

The '70 Charger had the full-surround bumper around the grill. It had two rounded rectangles the ran across the grill inside the bumper. In the movie 'Christine', Arnie's friend Dennis drove a '70 Charger. The '69 had the split grill. The '69 and '70 had the same tail lights. 1969 and 1970...

The Dukes drove a '69 Charger, not a '70. Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Figures...I hardly ever use the CD that comes with the mobo. Thanks.

So, I managed to luck in to an X2 5000+ "Black" and 2G RAM for $75. I picked up a mobo and 8800GT to use for now; I'll find another 8800GT down the road. The motherboard is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe. The problem is I can't find any software that will get temp readings from the board. The BIOS...

Also, why just Linux? Last I checked, this was a *BSD forum, too.

Yay, mine's waiting for me at home. Now I just need the rest of the parts to show up. :(

Got tracking numbers for mine about an hour and a half after I ordered on Monday. My 5000+ "Black" and 2G RAM also arrived today. It may be a good weekend after Thanksgiving after all. :)

Just ordered one online. Hopefully it'll get shipped soon. We'll see. My local BB didn't have any in stock.

I've been quite happy (and successful) with greylisting (using milter-greylist), ClamAV and SpamAssassin. Do you train your spamassassin? It helps quite a bit. Also, look in to sa-update to improve the rulesets that SpamAssassin uses.

I run FreeBSD on my PII/266 ThinkPad. It's not Linux, but...Whatever.

Hah, the devil's in the details. :) Glad you got it figured out.

Why don't you just create a virtusertable entry for the whole domain and have it redirect to a local user, then have an aliases entry for that local user that pipes through your application? Completely eliminates the need for the real user, doesn't require .forward silliness, etc. This has...

Ironically, this was a test I'd do for potential candidates when interviewing them for a job as a systems administrator. I'd ask them what platforms they were familiar with, then drop them in front of a different unix they weren't familiar with. For most of the applicants with only GUI-fied...

The correct answer, without knowing specific things you want to do, is "do stuff. Once the OS is running you can do whatever you want!" Seriously, you're expecting us to tell us what to do when we don't know what you want to do. What sort of answers do you expect?

Ironically, Caldera bought SCO. Before Caldera bought SCO and assumed SCO's name, Caldera bought DR-DOS from Novell and took over Novell's lawsuit against Microsoft. Caldera and Microsoft settled, with Microsoft paying an undisclosed amount to Caldera. They won that time. Looks like they will...

rsync would work nicely. So would tar piped over ssh, untarring on the other end. You could look at dump/restore, too...But I am not sure if Linux's dump/restore will work on a directory level...Or if it's still around, even.

WindowMaker. It's fast, looks good and stays out of my way. I don't need Beryl or any of that other flashy-but-useless stuff, so WindowMaker does just fine for me.

Nope, you're pretty much SOL unless you can persuade someone to port the stuff to OpenBSD for you or feel like doing it yourself. The individual BSDs don't have much code commonality any more. They can trace their lineage back to the same or close to the same starting points, but they've all...

Also a good suggestion. When I started my current job I found out that my predecessor had wrote good backup scripts, but never bothered to actually set up crontab entries for them. :)

Check /var/log/messages?

Yes. As long as the number's higher, it'll do what you want. It never hurts to not box yourself in, though. Why not leave yourself a bit of room? You never know when you might need it...Someone will want you to do something different once, etc. There's no reason to cram them all together and...

I would leave at least one extra level of dump available between your dump levels, "just in case." You never know when you'll need to do an "emergency" dump for some reason, and those extra levels can come in handy. You've got the idea right. On the first of each month, do a dump -0 for a...

If you're trying to back up an entire file system you will most likely need to be root on the machine you're backing up. If you're not, you're going to miss files. If your boss can't deal with this, do what I'd do and tell him to do his own backups, then. :) Not having root on the server you're...

Okay, you still didn't give us much info. What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to back up an entire file system/partition, just one user's files, a project's files or what? You are not the server's admin? The admin didn't want you doing anything as root on the server you're trying...

I prefer Debian cause they don't move things around, don't change things up without lots of warning, etc. They're consistent. RHEL/CentOS are both consistent if you stick to the same version number, but all bets are off otherwise. Of course, I prefer FreeBSD over all of them, but no one cares. :)

I certainly wouldn't pick CentOS over Debian for a server-specific role.

If you're trying to just back up all files for a user, look at rsync, tar/gzip or tar/bzip, etc. Write a script that does a weekly "full" backup, then does a find to find newer or modified files within the past day every night and back those up. There's lots of ways to do what you want to do...

If you're using dump to back up a file system, it would be a security risk to have a user other than root be able to create a dump of all files in the file system.

Like the others have said, awk will do what you want.

So you're trying to run something from root's crontab, but have the job executed as a different user? su can do that. Write your cron entry as something like su - user -c script.sh. If this is not what you're trying to do, can you give us a better example?

1) Any one will work. Take your pick. Which one do you know the best? If it just needs to work without issue, I'd think about rolling with Debian stable. Picking a distribution is a very personal choice, so go with whatever you want as long as you know how to administer it well. 2) Most modern...