DNS tomfoolery

Hi, BIND keeps moaning at me about "Bogus MULTICAST A" resource records. I see that they are all as a result of queries to domains that host websites trying to sell Viagra / Cialis etc. (probably initiated by SpamAssassin). Does anyone have any ideas as to the incentive for spam-loving faux-Viag

Re: rsync and chown

These are all great suggestions! My current root-use-avoidance plans were to tar up each filesystem locally into a tarball owned by some special "backup" user, then rsync the tarball to another machine (rather than rsyncing the filesystem itself). The Mike Rubel page that Clive Menzies mentioned

rsync and chown

Hi! I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving end. I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there was a less sledge-hammer approach to the chown problem :) What's the