Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Sep 14 2019 19:39:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:

> mirrordir has a verbose option that shows you exactly what it is doing.  I
> agree that some utilities do not have a verbose option (or a good one) and
> you may find yourself wondering if it is working at all.  One of the utils
> I have used to do backups, besides mirrordir, is like that.

Yeah, but I'm still uncomfortable with CLI on linux -- doesn't give me 
enough feel for where I am and what I'm doing.

> I have never looked, but there may be one with a graphical interface out
> there somewhere which would show you its progress as it goes.

Don't care about the progress bars, but I want to be able to point at 
stuff in a file manager type interface, and select by function name not 
by weird commandline switch.

>> Only time I installed Samba, I wound up less networked than before. :/
> 
> Me also.  It turned out that samba had been updated to fix some security
> holes and the OS/2 Warp 4 version of Windows networking was no longer
> compatible with it.  :(

I had so little luck with Warp that I never got far enough to do any 
such thing!
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