Re: [PLUG] Web browsers not displaying images

May you've got some settings/preferences or add-ins tweaked ... 1) Close Firefox (and check process table to make sure nothing is still lingering). 2) Rename your $HOME/.mozilla to something like $HOME/.OFF.mozilla. 3) Make sure there is no $HOME/.firefox folder ... if there is, rename it t

Re: [PLUG] Replace Quicken with GnuCash...

I can't speak for GnuCash. I left Quicken for Moneydance a dozen years ago and never looked back. In the last twelve years I've made an initial purchase and one upgrade purchase. It is a Java application. IIRC, initially support was via a mailing list. They have a more polished system now.

[PLUG] fraud detection messages from PLUG

il servers.) It looks like the Office365 mail system doesn't like the PLUG list server?... but there are no problems unless I am the one sending the message. On 12/26/2016 5:55 PM, Don Buchholz wrote: > [This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear &g

Re: [PLUG] Chromebook and Debian Jessie

On 12/26/2016 4:01 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Mike C. wrote: >>> All the Google searches show how to use semanage, but with no status for >>> the selinux user that is created the Dbus cannot send messages to the X >>> window system. The >>> message I get is: >>> >>> Unable to contact settings serve

Re: [PLUG] More desktop issues

On 11/22/2016 10:56 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > The latest in this saga is that the machine appears to be functioning > normally. Two possible reasons: > > 1. I opened the case, cleaned out some dust, and reseated the sata cable > to the hard drive. The dust in my opinion was not bad. Checks o

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

Perhaps his file has strings, with slashes, other than dates? Pathnames perhaps. On November 15, 2016 10:53:54 AM PST, Robert Citek wrote: >On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Robert Citek >wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Rich Shepard > wrote: >>>Trying to change the date format

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

You need parentheses around the three sub-expressions on the LHS so when you try to use \1, \2, and \3 on the RHS, sed will know what matching text to use. Also, don't forget, you don't have ave to use the / character as an expression delimiter ... If my expressions contain / (e.g. path names),

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

On 11/7/2016 11:53 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, David wrote: >> I don't recall which OS, but this link has the two main streams: >> > dafr, > > And everyone agrees that when sshd is started it should create the server > hos

Re: [PLUG] Invoking ssh-agent in Slackware

Does "env | grep -i ssh" show the two environment variables (IIRC, one is for PID, the other points to a socket) ssh-add will need to communicate with the agent? On October 30, 2016 3:24:25 PM PDT, Rich Shepard wrote: >On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Russell Senior wrote: > >> My wild guess would be you

Re: [PLUG] Invoking ssh-agent in Slackware

Are you sure you want "ssh-agent -k" in .bash_logout? If you have multiple shells open with the same agent, then the first one you exit will kill the agent for all of them, right? On October 30, 2016 12:37:59 PM PDT, Rich Shepard wrote: >On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Robert Citek wrote: > >> This is

Re: [PLUG] booting from RAID1 problems

My first guess is that the motherboards are sufficiently different that the initramfs for the old one doesn't contain the correct driver modules for the new one. On September 27, 2016 8:56:57 PM PDT, Russell Senior wrote: >> "Russell" == Russell Senior writes: > >Russell> I have a debian

Re: [PLUG] Gkrellmd on RPi

Excellent, Chuck! Good to see the problem resolved. - Don On 9/24/2016 5:35 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Don Buchholz <mailto:buchh...@easystreet.net>> wrote: > > netstat -an -A inet > > > Here is what it gave me: > > p

Re: [PLUG] Gkrellmd on RPi

To see what ports are open for communication, try using something like "netstat -an -A inet". (On the road, so no system with man pages available. If I botched the area, you'll have to read the manpage.). 'lsof' might be useful, if you can give it a PID as an argument ... On September 24, 2

Re: [PLUG] Linux and AWS: Cloud Chronicles

On 8/30/2016 11:40 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of running >> those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the >> costs of leasing space and building out your own data center, th

Re: [PLUG] Where are 'at' commands stored?

use the "atq" command to list the at job queue use "atrm" to remove a job Hint: try "man at" ... On 7/28/2016 6:56 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I use 'at' to schedule one-off jobs by passing the command the file to run > and the time. What I've not been able to find is where the command is s

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

ion specifics. (3) Is there any kind of firewall running on your client host? On 7/11/2016 6:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:07:23 -0700 > Don Buchholz dijo: > >> (3) Try this command (as 'root'!) to see what the NAS is making >>

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

(1) "only root can do that ..." -- um, yes, generally, only 'root' is allowed to perform mount(8) commands -- so, you need to become 'root' (a) login to the console as 'root', -OR- (b) execute the command "su -" and enter root p/w when prompted,

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

On 7/11/2016 10:34 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:02:13 -0700 > Bill Barry dijo: > >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:42 PM, John Jason Jordan >> wrote: >>> I have discovered something that I should have noticed a long time >>> ago, that is, that the entire drive is owned by roo

Re: [PLUG] NOT QUITE SOLVED Re: Rsync to a NAS drive

Make sure any stale entries have been cleared from /etc/fstab and then reboot. On July 9, 2016 5:26:34 PM PDT, John Jason Jordan wrote: >On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 16:53:54 -0700 >John Jason Jordan dijo: > >>On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 16:40:02 -0700 >>Bill Barry dijo: >> >>>Check to see if the cifs-utils packa

Re: [PLUG] Cannot get to printer

Just in case systemd is wrong ... 1) ps ax | grep cup 2) grep -r cup /var/log I'm not familiar w/ Ubuntu/Debian, but the first command is simply looks for anything in the process table that matches 'cup'. The second command does a recursive search for the pattern in your log files/folder. O

Re: [PLUG] Show of hands/poll on tcpdump

comfortable -- filtering on host name/IP, protocol (IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ARP ...), port, or MAC address -- more complex filtering (packet inspection) will require (man+Google)-Fu On 6/27/2016 10:55 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > If asked to self assess your tcpdump comfort level would you

Re: [PLUG] Needed: Virtual OS Driver [UPDATE]

On 6/26/2016 5:49 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Don Buchholz wrote: >> What distro is this? Can you run the "virt-manager" GUI tool? > Slackware-14.1/x86_64. Umm, OK. I've been doing quite a bit of (simple) KVM work w/ Fedora/RHEL-6.x/RHEL-7.x

Re: [PLUG] Needed: Virtual OS Driver [UPDATE]

Rich, What distro is this? Can you run the "virt-manager" GUI tool? Rather than 'virtio_net' have you tried specifying an emulated hardware option (e.g. have the QEMU/KVM system tell it's VM that's actually an Intel 'e1000' device)? - Don On 6/26/2016 5:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun,

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

Are you sure it's a zero and not the letter 'O'? Are there any spaces to the left of the '0'? On April 26, 2016 8:50:30 PM PDT, John Jason Jordan wrote: >On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:56:14 -0700 >John Jason Jordan dijo: > >>>You probably would benefit from the --delete flag. From the man page, >

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

On 4/26/2016 4:05 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:53:52 -0700 > Paul Mullen dijo: > >> This is a job for rsync, anyhow. The following command should do >> exactly what you want: >> >> rsync -avx /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail >> >> Don't remove the trailing slash on

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

On 4/23/2016 9:36 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 09:22:25AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> The command executed, but this morning I decided to enhance it by >> adding your handy reminder and a couple additional # lines copying and >> pasting your explanation of '-auf' fo

Re: [PLUG] Tool to test internet speed

Was that "25Mbps up" or "up to 25Mbps up"? Those two little syllables ... On February 16, 2016 9:13:12 PM PST, John Jason Jordan wrote: >On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:43:43 -0800 >Jim Garrison dijo: > >>On 2/16/2016 8:39 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: >>> On 2/16/2016 8:18 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

... also, # cd /var/log # grep -r If some daemon is responsible for restoring it, maybe it's logging the event. -Don P.S. I know there is interest in figuring out "why?", but I still think that nuking it in single-user mode would be a good test ... On February 10, 2016 7:12:00 PM PST, Bil

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

On 2/9/2016 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:24:20 -0800 > Ali Corbin dijo: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan >> wrote: >>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:17:41 -0800 >>> John Jason Jordan dijo: Xubuntu 14.04.3, up to date. Files ystem is ext4. S

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/29/2015 8:18 AM, Don Buchholz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:06 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>>> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: >> johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the >> johnxj> only way I know to fix this

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On 12/29/2015 12:06 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "johnxj" == johnxj writes: > johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the > johnxj> only way I know to fix this problem is to reboot the > johnxj> computer. Please don't tell me I must always reboot the computer > jo

Re: [PLUG] [OT?] Do functional cell phones exist?

On 12/22/2015 9:44 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm a senior citizen who has been referred to as living "out past > Estacada, even." As a convert from Windoz(tm) to *nix I presume > "do 1 thing. Do it well." Elderly relatives demand that I obtain cell > connectivity. I will cave in to their

Re: [PLUG] Small network managed switch?

They track more than traffic. They also track errors, types of errors, and traffic statistics are often broken down into different packet sizes. VLANs are another reason to need a managed switch. On November 16, 2015 9:20:28 AM PST, wes wrote: >> >> >> >> One member of the family that owns t

Re: [PLUG] boot failure

The "attempt to read/write outside of 'hd0'" message has me thinking your Grub installation was/is bad. Maybe a fresh "grub2-install" will fix it? I was wondering about the partition table, but if fsck(8) was able to scan/fix the partition(s), then the partition table data is probably OK. The co

Re: [PLUG] Running X application on remote host

Red Hat / CentOS systems will require xorg-x11-xauth be installed ... On 10/23/2015 7:33 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Until I purchase a new video card for my desktop I'm working on my laptop. > Access to alpine is via ssh, and I want access to a couple of business > applications on the blind ser

Re: [PLUG] Mail rejected - advice to resolve?

Michael, You might want to re-consider your .sig block. Using one of the "Seven Words" (see "George Carlin") can trigger a lot of message content filters. - Don On 8/1/2015 9:16 PM, Scott Bigelow wrote: > When I ran an e-mail server for a small company, MSN/Hotmail/Outlook was > the worst for

[PLUG] data recovery from broken hard disk drive

Co-worker asked if I had any recommendations for recovering files from a personal computer hard drive that won't spin up any longer. I been fortunate enough to not need such a service anytime in the last 10-15 years, so didn't have any suggestions. He did find a pointer to these guys in Google: