Back to Newsletters KEYWORDS=afio, wyse, emo, DAVROM CONSULTING Newsletter - Issue # 28 - Dated: Fri Jun 24 11:22:41 EST 2005 From the desk of David Clark Welcome to issue number 28 and to our new readers - we are 4 years old as of June 1st just gone so I guess 6-7 newsletters per year isn't too bad an average. I don't want to bury people in e-mail just for the sake of it. We've updated our web site a little (a few subtle changes to product pages) so feel free to browse around. Support has been Stallion EasyServers, SnapGears, SCO OpenServer installs, Linux, PHP programming and the beat goes on... There is a launch of SCO OpenServer 6 going on in New York at the moment so I will give you an update on what comes out of it next newsletter. I would like to thank the reader for their time in reading this newsletter. David.M.Clark UNIX Quote The UNIX industry doesn't need a market hype website to show it is the better cost of implementation solution, it just is. Old Wyses One of the main requests I have had lately is from customers who would like to see if there are any old second-hand Wyse terminals out there? If you have any old Wyse terminals that you are no longer using, please let me know as I have a few customers who may be interested in taking them off your hands. You can still purchase new Wyse terminals from us as well but it is a shame to see ye olde Wyse terminals that still work well being pushed into the water. EMO - Electronic Mail Organiser One feature I have always liked in UNIX/Linux e-mail environments is the ability to set away messages and forward e-mail onto other people automatically. But to the non-UNIX/Linux command line user, this option can often not be available unless you have someone who can set this up for you. To this end I set about writing a web based front end that allows you to set away messages and the ability to forward e-mails to different e-mail addresses on your UNIX/Linux e-mail server. The product is called EMO and I have setup a demo for you to look - please go to: http://www.davrom.com/emodemo Version 1.0 is already in place with a few customers and version 1.1 will be coming out soon to enhance the product based on customer feedback to date - as well as implement some PHP bits. If you would like any further information on EMO, please do not hesitate to contact me. Newsworth Items SCO OpenServer 6 started shipping in the USA on May 24th and SCO distributors here in Australia are awaiting their first shipment to meet customer orders. For more information on OpenServer 6 Please visit: http://www.davrom.com/osr6.html RedHat continues to promote Fedora Core 4 as their latest in the opensource community operating system release: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/fc4/ Mandriva (formally known as Mandrake Linux) 10.1 Official is now available for those who need an easy to use, advanced and well polished Linux system! Sun Microsystems to Acquire StorageTek for $4.1 Billion, Creating a Global Leader in Network Computing and Data Management. StorageTek are one of the worlds largest solution providers for on-line tape and disk storage/archiving technologies. Tech Tip afio - the cpio alternative. afio has been around on Linux for a few years and is a great alternative to cpio and tar if you need to backup an entire filesystem with compression of files. It has distinct recovery advantages over doing a cpio and then passing it to gzip/compress prior to putting the information on tape. afio has a cpio-like syntax and to perform a backup you simply type: afio -ovZ /dev/st0 (o - output, v - verbose, Z - compress files) To read back a tape you type: afio -tvZ /dev/st0 and to restore: afio -ivZ /dev/st0 finally to restore selectively: afio -ivZ etc/\* /dev/st0 would restore the /etc directory from tape. Back to Newsletters 
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