Hi Rob, anything in /etc/cron.daily which would run at or about
midnight? Or any files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs or /etc/cron.d? Or
even a self-re-scheduling "at" job? ("sudo atq" will list any pending jobs)
On 13/03/2023 08:02, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote:
Hi all
I have an Ubuntu
Hi Peter,
I think your best bet is to get a barebones computer (Novatech?) and buy a
magazine with a cover DVD, then install from that.
Good luck!
Simon
Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote
>I have decided that I can modify my requirements. It seems that
>getting a computer with
Hi Peter,
On 01/06/2020 11:34, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/flash
I can read from the flash drive, but only write to it using
the command line as root, which is not very convenient.
Before you get the pop-up to work again, you could try
mount -o
To use multi-volume, do something like:
cd to directory with files
tar cvf /dir/out1.tar -M -L 52428800 *
(where /dir/ is a place to hold the 50GB tar files, and 52428800 is
50*1024*1024, the number of 1k blocks in 50GB)
It will write the first 50GB to /dir/out1.tar, then prompt with:
On 01/08/2018 11:35, David Anderson via Hampshire wrote:
On 30/07/2018 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote:
I'm maintaining a server that configured using Sendmail to send
outbound mail to the Internet via a Smart Host, eg.
You have to be careful about which ISP you use. Zen Internet
I've taken to installing ssmtp on my raspberry Pis to send emails, and
using my ISP's mail server as a forwarder (it's in my default Puppet
configuration for new nodes).
One simple config file, and you're set!
Simon
On 30/07/2018 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote:
I'm maintaining a
One other thing - if you put day of week and day of month entries, it
performs the task on both entries - e.g. if you put dom 1,15 and dow 1,
it will happen on the first and fifteenth of the month *and* on every
Monday.
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I originally mostly use www.rs-online.com and cpc.farnell.com (the
latter usually cheaper, but both do next day delivery), since they were
the only outlets for a while.
Others are now supplying them - I have just bought a zero from the
PiHut, and I've also used Pi Supply
On 06/03/2016 18:41, Roger Munford wrote:
I have a problem with a new, complex system for managing ethernet
connected solar inverters and the problem may well be down to missing
multicasts from a BT home hub.
For anybody that has followed what I have been trying to describe, do
BT Home
On 05/05/2014 15:27, Andy Random wrote:
Any suggestions on the best/current tools for duplicating a HD?
I have a Win7 laptop that I want to upgrade the disk in it so I can
dual boot it with Linux.
I had to to do the same thing recently with a laptop. I don't have the
mini SATA connector
On 26/04/2014 15:20, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
If user V tries to do the same then LibreOffice starts but after about 1
second of any application (e.g. writer) running it vanishes without trace.
User V has no problem running other applications on F and having them
display on box M.
Maybe run
Something like:
cd /media/nas/music
find . -name \*.mp3 | while read nam; do
mkdir -p /media/data/MP3/$(dirname $nam)
cp $nam /media/data/MP3/$nam
done
On 02/05/2014 08:55 AM, LUG wrote:
Hello all,
I'm hoping to call on the group's collective bash-fu to come up with
an incantation that
On 25/01/2014 00:09, Mike Burrows wrote:
Could there be a difference in the router between the way it handles
requests of wired and wireless clients?
I've come across the opposite setting on routers (you could decide
whether wireless clients could see each other), but unless you have
Happy New Year Rob!
You are probably better off using -t cifs (smbfs is old-style!), and
having rw,uid=fred,gid=fred in the options.
Simon
On 01/01/2014 11:54, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
Happy New Year -- my first post for a while.
I'm having a bit of trouble setting permissions properly
Have you added the rw,uid=fred,gid=fredgrp bit?
I've mounted a NAS disk on my machine with this in /etc/fstab:
//server1/disk /mnt/mydisk cifs
_netdev,nounix,rw,username=myuser,password=pass1,uid=me,gid=mygrp 0 0
(where my user name is me and its group is mygrp)
An ls -ld /mnt/mydisk
On 04/02/2013 20:13, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
1) Where is the best place to get one? Maplin or Farnell or RS?
I've got mine from Farnell (2 off) and RS - Farnell were faster, but the
RS one was ordered in the initial rush for them, so took forever - they
are quicker now.
2) What else
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like Graphics, Programming and so on.
Right now I find nothing like that on Unity, but I feel sure
On 19/07/12 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote:
I freely admit to knowing next to nothing about Citrix but I thought
this was something akin to remotely controlling another PC - except
that the PC you're remotely controlling was virtual - is this wrong?
If I'm right, surely it means that all this
On 04/07/12 11:16, Clive Woodfine wrote:
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop
machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the
second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to
risk not being able to boot the other two. I
On 27/04/2012 23:33, Leo wrote:
However the dhcpd one still isn't being working, it is:
:msg, contains, dhcpd: /var/log/dhcpd.log
~
Chris,
I tried your suggestion and that indicates that it's definitely
reading the file, but it's still writing all the dhcpd logs to syslog,
rather than
On 28/04/2012 11:17, Leo wrote:
Aha, I think I've got it! Just found this line in dhcpd.conf:
log-facility local7;
So I changed the rsyslog rule to local7.*, rather than a :msg one and
it's started working. Although I'm now curious: how would I combine
the two, i.e. log to dhcpd.conf if the
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 22:21 +0100, Leo wrote:
On 25/04/12 08:05, Simon Reap wrote:
SOn 24/04/2012 20:21, Leo wrote:
(rsyslog.conf does contain $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf)
Have your tried this instead?
#includedir /etc/rsyslog.d
Just given that a try but it doesn't seem
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:55 +0100, Tony Wood wrote:
... might be of particular interest to readers of these lists.
It's on P47 if you happen to be passing a WHS Reading Room.
or at [1]!
[1]
SOn 24/04/2012 20:21, Leo wrote:
(rsyslog.conf does contain $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf)
Have your tried this instead?
#includedir /etc/rsyslog.d
Simon
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On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:06 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello folks
I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop
computers, so occasionally people press the power button on the server
by mistake, and it turns itself off.
[snip]
Before I do that, does anyone know of
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:34 +0100, Chris Liddell wrote:
On 19/04/12 16:28, Simon Reap wrote:
Have you tried a big stick?
On the server or the users.?
;-)
Definitely a LART[1] (big stick, mains wired up to the power switch -
you choose...) :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lart
On 05/02/2012 13:48, Jon Wilks wrote:
I have an Acer 8730ZG laptop that is about 2 years old but is no longer
working and I am after some ideas as to what to do with it as it is not
economic to repair it.
[snip]
It seems a shame to just take it down the dump. Any ideas?
Buy another dead
That's clutching at straws: gei means art or craft, and was only ever
mapped to gay after gay changed from happy to homosexual. You've
confused causation and coincidence.
On 28/12/2011 10:06, john lewis wrote:
Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage so much as adoption
of a Japanese
On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody??
Centigrade clearly doesn't to weather forecasters, several of whom have
recently said that temperatures of 11 degC are twice the seasonal
average - since twice implies
On 14/07/2011 13:05, Bob Dunlop wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 14 at 12:19, Chris Dennis wrote:
* I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT.
You can buy a wifi-adsl router for under a tenner online.
I think the one BT gives you retails for about 25+VAT without the
broken
On 11/07/2011 21:36, Leo wrote:
On my network when I copy data from one computer to another slowly, it
seems to slow down other connections, anyone know why this might be?
The details are:
Computer A is connected to switch 1
Computer B is connected to switch 1 via a powerline connection.
On Tue, June 14, 2011 1:37 pm, Rob Malpass wrote:
Does anyone have experience of wifi repeaters? I bought one [1] from
Novatech for under 40 quid but its manual is awful and badly translated.
I'm not a fan of the Novatech cheapie items - I bought a 40 quid wireless
ADSL router from them which
On 13/06/2011 07:36, Owain Clarke wrote:
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
Thanks, Keith, but I've done this, and it still prompts for password.
I am a member of the users group. Any other ideas?
The order of entries in sudoers is important - I think it uses the last
On 09/05/2011 03:32, Isaac Close wrote:
1) user password has a maximum of 8 characters, i've tried to change this with
passwd but it wont let me. (IMHO this is absolutely ridiculous and should NEVER
EVER be allowed on a production server).
I've got 10.4.1 on my MPC-L, and it happily takes
On 06/03/2011 17:42, Vic wrote:
Hi All.
I need some help with regexes in grep.
I'm trying to search for a pattern along the lines of:
foo(bar
I just did
grep 'foo(bar' file
and it worked fine.
(Ubuntu 10.10)
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I've recently acquired an iPod nano (cast-off from my daughter!). The
iPod supports podcasts, with the major feature that it remembers where
you have listened to in each one, and starts from that point if you come
back to that podcast after listening to something else. I have
subscribed to a
On 29/01/2011 16:06, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
Apparently the original CDs were going to be even smaller but some head
honcho's wife at Sony wanted a specific pieces of music without having to swap
a CD, so they added a few extra minutes to the standard (they could have added
more as it turns
On 06/10/2010 19:17, Rob Malpass wrote:
So basically this is the best of both worlds - if I know a programme
(especially radio) is coming on - I can set the PVR to get it. Or if
I've missed something good (I'm a big Radio 4 fan but not in during
the day) - I can get it via iplayer.
Radio
On 25/08/2010 18:13, Clive Woodfine wrote:
On 25 August 2010 17:29, Russell Morrisgren...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this Ubuntu?
I've seen System Monitor itself cause the CPU to show at 100%.
On 25 August 2010 17:25, Simon Reapsi...@simonreap.com wrote:
Yes it is a version of Ubuntu
Roger Munford wrote:
Why not disconnect the domestic circuit from the main BT box and then
connect the router to see if the fault persists. If it doesn't the
fault lies in your domestic circuit so you can methodically work your
way through the circuit connecting parts until the fault
On 06/06/2010 14:30, Vic wrote:
Cobalt Linux
expects a Ctrl-D on the keyboard before it will start that. And there is
no keyboard...
I wouldn't deploy a RAQ4 into an unattended production environment.
Vic.
Talking of which, I am happily running my Viglen MPC-L at the moment
doing
The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has
retired his program which is a shame.
The latest one I have is 2.42, but 2.72 seems to have been available.
Does anyone have a copy of it? It seems to be quite hard to find,
belying the old internet adage that once it's out
On 25/04/2010 19:48, Alan Blanchflower wrote:
I have 2.72:
http://alanblanchflower.co.uk/stuff/get_iplayer_2.72.tar.bz2
Thanks to Alan, Stephen and I now have 2.72, and thanks to jack we have
future versions too!
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On 12/03/2010 20:52, Dee Earley wrote:
(And wait for the inevitable replies of ignored :)
(Or will I get nothing now I have predicted it?)
(Anyone good at paradoxes?)
Every now and again, with some apparently random periodicity, my
daughters' school sends a test email to us saying, for
On 21/02/2010 11:00, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
Need some advice about how to automatically mount a nas at bootup on
jaunty. The googling I've done [1] suggests that the easiest way to
do this is to edit /etc/fstab which I've done.
However on reboot, I find that the directory is not
On 16/02/2010 12:05, john lewis wrote:
Which suggests the problem is only with ssh into benden, but am at a
loss as to what the problem actually is.
Permissions on benden? .ssh directory and known_hosts only readable by
the user?
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On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:31:13 -0500
Mat Grove m...@grove.me.uk wrote:
PS. I think this is the longest single message I have ever seen to
any Lug mailing list. You get the high score.
An honour which immediately passes to you, Mat, since you quoted
the whole of LL's email and added a bit of your
Lisi wrote:
Put otherwise, could too much RAM fry the mobo, and could it not do so until
the second boot up after installation?
I've done this a couple of times with no ill effects (usually when I
don't know the motherboard limit, but do have spare sticks or RAM of the
same spec as the
Leo wrote:
I'm just looking for a way to skip the occasional check at boot, because
I don't want to wait ages for the computer boot. A lot of Ctrl-C does
the trick but then no disks get mounted so I end up spending just as
long mounting them manually as the computer takes checking them!
James Ashburner wrote:
Is the hard disk drive user replaceable? I'm interested in replacing my
home server with one of these to cut down on both costs and noise, but
I'd like more storage space.
I've not tried myself to replace it, but it is a standard laptop disk
drive, so should be
James Ashburner wrote:
Thanks Simon, just the information I was looking for :) Did you notice
if it was a SATA or PATA disk?
I've just checked /var/log/messages, and the installed disk is reported as:
hda: FUJITSU MHW2080AT, ATA DISK drive
so PATA.
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Alan Pope wrote:
2009/10/5 Simon Reap si...@simonreap.com:
I am running my lovely new Viglen MPC-L (yes, the UKUbuntu
podcast offer is still available!) as a headless home server.
If it's headless why start xorg at all? Why not just start vncserver
with whataver resolution
Philip Stubbs wrote:
2009/10/5 Simon Reap si...@simonreap.com:
This is on xubuntu 8.04 (which is what the MPC came with), but I
have the same problem on a debian sid server at work - on that one I
normally run it headless, but sometimes (i.e. when I accidentally
leave my work laptop at home
I am running my lovely new Viglen MPC-L (yes, the UKUbuntu
podcast offer is still available!) as a headless home server.
I do have a couple of things I need to work on.
One is that if I boot without a screen attached, the graphical
display defaults to 640x480 and, I think, 16 colours (certainly
Anton Piatek wrote:
For those that attended the Hants LUG meeting at Hursley on Saturday I
would appreciate feedback on how the day went.
Things that went well
Things that could have been done better
This should help improve any further meetings I run at Hursley
Anton,
Many thanks for a
Simon Reap wrote:
Tony's talk on the structure of debian
packages was particularly dense (in the information sense of the term)
Sorry, Anton, that was *your* talk!!
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Victor Churchill wrote:
2009/8/7 Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk:
Given the recent discussion of media centres on Linux I was amused to
read xkcd this morning and see this comic from Wednesday:
http://www.xkcd.com/619/
aieee! it is impossible to read just one page of xkcd!
Stephen Davies wrote:
As someone who has been writing software professionally since 1975 the
issue of releasing software with known problems (or items Fixed in Next
Release) has always concerned me.
At DEC, we used to document the 'known issues limitations' in the
release notes. I don't
Leo wrote:
#!/bin/bash
program | grep -v remaining\s*$
I would put the grep string in single quotes - anacron may be messing up
the trailing $
(BTW, did anyone else read the subject of this email and assume it was
carrying on the armoured ethernet thread?)
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Alan Pope wrote:
* Increased load on the server as the new version of gallery
introduces cpu-intensive photo scaling features.
If anyone has experience of mitigating these two outstanding issues
then I'm happy for us to move with the times and move to gallery2.
I'm sure there'll be some
Alan Pope wrote:
The solution, scrape off one of the tracks from the Intel card !
That takes me back a bit. We had some ISA SDLC cards which would lock
down IRQs 3 and 4, meaning that the serial port (also on IRQ4) wouldn't
work (no IRQ sharing on ISA). It turned out, looking at the
Isaac Close wrote:
Within 1 minute of reading your answer I have installed Flashblock, it was
very simple to do. Has it proved reliable for people so far, I wonder ?
Works fine for me, though I had forgotten I had installed it at first,
so wonderd why youtube and iplayer didn't show
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/6/16 pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com:
How really cares about 20 -100 MB difference these days ? Can't you
afford a 20 GB hard disk :P
Not when the disk is soldered onto the motherboard in my Eee 900.
The root filesystem on the eee is 4G, the home filesystem
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:09:49PM +0100, Vic wrote:
#define min(a, b) ((ab) ? a : b )
I'll live with this use. Concise, readable (once), and above all
hidden from view at the point of use.
Until someone does
min (a++, b++)
and wonders
Rob Malpass wrote:
2) Is there a way I can scroll around my own desktop if this sort of thing
happens again? To be clear, what has happened here is that, running in the
14 point font which I must observe with my eyes, the window is bigger than
the desktop. Desktop is 1024x768 so what I
Andy Smith wrote:
Oh yes, definitely. For example I find myself doing multiple file
renames in a shell script even though almost every system comes with
a rename script/command these days.
That's the important bit: *almost* every system has these commands and
fixes. It's good to know
I have an aged Dell GX110 under my desk, with an integrated i180
chipset, which I normally run headless. I do have a nearby screen that
I sometimes plug in (a Dell P1110). When I boot the machine with the
screen plugged in and it starts X, it happily sets the resolution to
1280x1024 (the
Sean Gibbins wrote:
I have a headless mini-itx box that I run as a server. When I want a gui
session I log in over ssh and type the following:
vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x768
I do use vncserver on other machines (Debian and Mandriva, for example),
but here I want to be able to use
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/3/6 Lisi hants...@googlemail.com:
On Friday 06 March 2009 09:55:21 Jacqui Caren wrote:
FWICR There are ways to get a linux box to auto login to a desktop
It can certainly be done with KDE, and is sometimes a good idea where
physical
access to the
Paul Stimpson wrote:
Hi,
I'd recommend talking to Absolute Music in Poole. They are really nice people
and have some great prices (I picked up a £199 Tapco audio interface for my
PC for £70). If you call in advance they will make sure the item you want to
see is in the showroom for demo.
Lisi wrote:
I have googled, but without success.
How do I flush the DNS cache on a Netgear DG834G v.4?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
(almost a joke - my ancient DG834Gv1 occasionally needs a solid kick to
get its wireless working properly)
Simon
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Paul Stimpson wrote:
Hi,
I just installed Kubuntu Intrepid on my spare hard drive. I'm trying to move
all my Thunderbird mailboxes and settings over from FC10. I copied the
.thunderbird directory over by dragging it onto my Truecrypt-encrypted
external drive then booted the Kubuntu drive
Tim wrote:
Secondly, where is the perl interpeter installed, is it /usr/lib/perl5
or /usr/lib/perl I need to make a link from the interpeter to /usr/bin/perl
or change the first line of a lot of scripts, I am opting to make the link
I would advise against making a symbolic link for perl -
Jacqui Caren wrote:
I would advise against making a symbolic link for perl - I have done
that, and perl couldn't find its modules. The symlink was from
/usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl, so perl looked in /usr/local/lib
for modules, instead of /usr/lib.
???
Perl -V will tell
Jim Kissel wrote:
It's a bit behind the times, but colour printing via my Xerox 8550
Phaser was never a problem until I upgraded to 8.04. Now the colours
are muddy Printing the Ubuntu logo gives:
reds that are dark brown
oranges that are brownish ornage
yellows that are a dull goldish
Victor Churchill wrote:
The ssh man page sayeth:
SYNOPSIS
ssh lots of options [EMAIL PROTECTED] [command]
...
If command is specified, it is executed on the remote host
instead of a login shell.
Something's not right..
I htink it is the 2instead of a login shell that is causing
Vic wrote:
At the moment, I'm only interested in what Amarok puts out. I can hear it
through headphones, but not through the onboard speakers...
Sounds more like a hardware problem to me. Have the speakers output
anything at all? Do they work with a liveCD from another distro?
Simon
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On Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 13:36:20 +0100, Stuart Matheson wrote:
(Moving from the ceiling switch to a wall-switch would have required
re-routing the power cables; definitely a job I couldn't manage
myself.)
since it's in the bathroom, you ought to have it checked by
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