Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)

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> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> der.hans
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:22 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)
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> Am 01. Apr, 2001 schwäzte Craig White so:
>
> > download webmin <http://www.webmin.com> or
> <http://webadmin.sourceforge.net>
>
> Any news on this making it into any of the dists? I've liked it in the
> past, though my last look at it indicated that it's getting too
> complicated for its intended audience.
>
> Looks like it finally made debian unstable. Most cool.
>
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Actually, he made a deal with Caldera - it has been part of the Caldera
distro for some time.
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> > back up the smb.conf file (on RH7 - it's been moved to
> /etc/samba) and then
> > cat /dev/null/ > smb.conf so you can start from scratch.
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> Actually ">/etc/samba/smb.conf" is easier :). The
> ">/file/whose/contents/you/want/to/axe" method is usually the quickest way
> ( from the command line or shell script ) to regain the space used by that
> file. It's faster than "rm /file/whose/contents/you/want/to/axe" as far as
> returning the space to be usable.
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I only know what i know and am always grateful for a new technique.

Thanks

cat /dev/null > /etc/samba/smb.conf isn't really much slower, it is however
less keystrokes to do it your way.

Craig