Guest ruddiger Report post Posted November 28, 2004 I'm completely new to linux, but for better or for worse I've installed already a few distros and a couple of times... After the installation I like to dedicate the next couple of hours (or days sometimes) to the general configuration, fine tunning and security settings. I am particularly concerned about the security issue, but also working in an enviroment that is nice is important! Rute is a great book, Would be nice to have a more up to date version of it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tuxxer 0 Report post Posted July 18, 2005 tar cvf /etc orig_etc.tar should make a file in /root called orig_etc.tar (if you like you can compress this with bzip2 orig_etc.tar Sounded like a good Idea , so when I tried it ,my terminal reponded with tar: /etc: Cannot open: Is a directorytar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I even cut and pasted from your post to see if it was an operator error with syntax and recieved the same message Any idea as to what may have gone wrong , like what directory I should have been in when or something. Running mandrake 10 community Tuxxer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iphitus 0 Report post Posted July 18, 2005 Gowator made a bit of a typo, it's the other way around. tar cvf orig_etc.tar /etc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spinynorman 0 Report post Posted July 18, 2005 Thanks, iphitus. I've amended Gowator's post. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
satelliteuser083 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2006 Tymestream wrote (on Oct 16 2004) "that rute guide is excellent too and in true open source tradition - free" I can't find out how to get a free copy, however (or even an unfree one :huh: ). Can anyone help? Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted February 15, 2006 You can use: urpmi rute to install it on your system. It's in the easyurpmi repositories as a pdf. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spinynorman 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2006 Tymestream wrote (on Oct 16 2004) "that rute guide is excellent too and in true open source tradition - free" I can't find out how to get a free copy, however (or even an unfree one :huh: ). Can anyone help? Thanks. There are lots of copies online. Here's one: linux.wombatsweb.com/rute/rute.html. ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
satelliteuser083 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2006 You can use: urpmi rute to install it on your system. It's in the easyurpmi repositories as a pdf. I now have it; many thanks :P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
