Re: [PLUG] Puzzle with ssh

2024-01-21 Thread Ken Stephens
pv4-instead-of-ipv6-by-default> . Ken On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM Russell Senior wrote: > Not relevant to your problem at all, but it looks like you have an > extraneous ~/.ssh/.ssh directory. > > -- > Russell > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM Ken Stephens > wro

Re: [PLUG] Puzzle with ssh

2024-01-20 Thread Ken Stephens
Jan 11 16:35 .ssh Original error: kens@atlas's password: Permission denied, please try again. kens@atlas's password: Permission denied, please try again. kens@atlas's password: kens@atlas: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM Ken

Re: [PLUG] Puzzle with ssh

2024-01-20 Thread Ken Stephens
-o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa > username@server > > Alex > > On 1/20/24 15:12, Ken Stephens wrote: > > I have a laptop, a Jetson Nano, and a desktop/server. I had to rebuild > my > > laptop because of the usual reason for doing s

[PLUG] Puzzle with ssh

2024-01-20 Thread Ken Stephens
I have a laptop, a Jetson Nano, and a desktop/server. I had to rebuild my laptop because of the usual reason for doing something stupid. I have not been able to ssh into my server since. My Jetson Nano can ssh into the server. The server can ssh to both my laptop and Jetson Nano. The server

Re: [PLUG] Email back up at Aracnet/Spiritone.

2017-10-08 Thread Ken Stephens
David Fleck wrote: > On Sun, 2017-10-08 at 12:14 -0700, Ken Stephens wrote: >> I got into my email with my cpanel password. This is different from >> my old aracnet.com password. > > Did you have a pre-existing cpanel account? If the systems don't accept > my aracnet p

[PLUG] Email back up at Aracnet/Spiritone.

2017-10-08 Thread Ken Stephens
Hi, I got into my email with my cpanel password. This is different from my old aracnet.com password. At least I was able to get to my email. What a pain to not have my primary email available. Sure would have liked to have some notice that they were "upgrading". Once the upgrade started

Re: [PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

2017-09-29 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, david wrote: > >> The only simple way is to test it, and check the dmesg output or tail >> the /var/log/messages file. > David, > > Perhaps this weekend. > >> If the operating system only sees one device, then the case is doing >> something internal

Re: [PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

2017-09-28 Thread Ken Stephens
Larry Brigman wrote: > When you plug in the enclosure, messages from the kernel should show you > what has been detected. If it a USB storage devices, it should identify > which device the kernel assigned. > > On Sep 28, 2017 6:25 PM, "Rich Shepard" wrote: > >> I

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh [FIXED]

2017-09-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I'm out of ideas of what to test so I can fix this issue, and seek advice >> from experienced network admins. > Having tried all suggestions from my thread on LQ I re-read openssh web > pages, particularly the sections on

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Ken Stephens
Roderick Anderson wrote: > I am trying to contact the author of a 'LibreOffice Base' tutorial. > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/02/Base_tutorial.pdf > > I just ventured into designing an application for a local non-profit > organization. To make it portable across Windows, MACs, &

Re: [PLUG] HDHomeRun Config GUI loses connection

2017-09-01 Thread Ken Stephens
Larry Brigman wrote: > You need to determine which side is losing the connection. Silicondust > does have a decent Linux Forum. > Is everything up to date on the 14.04? I had tried to setup TVHeadend on > Linux. At the time I tried it, things > were not all that stable with the V4L drivers and

Re: [PLUG] Modifying business card field in LibreOffice

2017-05-30 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > If you have experience with the business card capability in LO5's Writer > perhaps you can answer a question. I want to change the content of one > pre-defined field (BC_COMP_MAIL) and have not found how this can be done. > > The field cannot be edited in place and

Re: [PLUG] computer freeze forcing manual reset and reboot question

2017-04-23 Thread Ken Stephens
logical american wrote: > Hello: > > I am looking for pointers on how to troubleshoot a thorny problem. This > afternoon at 4:30 pm, my openSuse > Leap 42.2 Linux OS froze up the keyboard, the mouse and left a black > screen. I tried some of the emergency > keyboard buttons, but they did not

Re: [PLUG] Inkscape: crop image

2017-04-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > I believe we have some Inkscape users here who can point me in the proper > direction for cropping an image. > > The .svg image has too much white space and I want to crop it so only the > text and a thin border remain. Inkscape-0.91 is installed here. > > After

Re: [PLUG] scp issue

2017-02-24 Thread Ken Stephens
King Beowulf wrote: > On 02/24/2017 10:50 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >>> debug1: Connecting to salmo [192.168.55.1] port <>. >>> debug1: Connection established. >> The two hosts can communicate. >> >>> debug1: key_load_public: No such file or

Re: [PLUG] Translating spreadsheet file: XessSE to LO calc [RESOLVED]

2017-02-09 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> If not, suggestions on how to extract column headings and rows are >> certainly welcome. > Manual editing in emacs is doing the job. Would still be nice to know if > there's a universal spreadsheet converter. > > Rich >

Re: [PLUG] Needed: Modern equivalent of a "null-modem cable"

2017-01-15 Thread Ken Stephens
bro...@netgate.net wrote: > I've been watching this thread and I think the best solution, which > someone else already mentioned, is using some sort of external storage to > make the xfer. Even if you manage to get networking up and running you > still have the challenge of setting up an ftp

Re: [PLUG] Chromebook and Debian Jessie (Solved)

2016-12-27 Thread Ken Stephens
Don Buchholz wrote: > 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 >>&g

Re: [PLUG] Chromebook and Debian Jessie

2016-12-26 Thread Ken Stephens
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 server >> >> THE QUESTION, finally: >> How do I get out

[PLUG] Chromebook and Debian Jessie

2016-12-26 Thread Ken Stephens
Selinux is a way to lock down a Linux system. All I am trying to do is get a UNIX user to be able to open X windows. 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

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: convert all uppercase words to capitalized

2016-12-20 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Russell Senior wrote: > >> You maybe want a macro the seek to the next ALLCAPS word, then apply your >> helpful emacs built-in function on that word, then repeat the macro enough >> times to complete the whole document. > Thanks, Russell. I'll check

Re: [PLUG] CUPS and Brother MFC-7820N

2016-11-27 Thread Ken Stephens
Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/26/2016 11:12 AM, Ken Stephens wrote: >> You can get a list of files in a package by issuing: >> #>dpkg-query -L brother-lpr-drivers-laser > Thanks. > > I can see quite a few files with related names, but I can't tell which > one I shou

Re: [PLUG] CUPS and Brother MFC-7820N

2016-11-26 Thread Ken Stephens
Dick Steffens wrote: > I'm trying to get my Ubuntu 14.04 machine to work correctly with my > Brother MFC-7820N printer. CUPS finds the printer on the network. Using > either of the two drivers CUPS can see -- BR-Script3 (en) or > Foomatic/Postscript (en) -- I get the following printout: > > ERROR

Re: [PLUG] more desktop issues

2016-11-20 Thread Ken Stephens
Roderick Anderson wrote: > Denis, > > I didn't follow your first thread si may be offering something already > suggested. > > Open the case and reseat all the cables and check that any jumpers on the > HD are actually jumpering. > > Many years ago I had a bad jumper on a (SCSI) drive that caused

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-08 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Paul Mullen wrote: > >> Change it to a fully-qualified path, e.g. "~/.ssh/id_ed25519". > Paul, > > Aha! Progress of a sort. Now, when I enter 'ssh salmo:' I see 'ssh: Could > not resolve hostname salmo:: Name or service not known.' Of course, salmo is

Re: [PLUG] Cannot get to printer

2016-07-02 Thread Ken Stephens
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rich Shepard > wrote: > >> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >>> I had no problem until yesterday. It has likely been a number days since >>> I last used it, and maybe a system update was performed in

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

2016-06-26 Thread Ken Stephens
Nat Taylor wrote: > huh... never had that problem with virtualbox. So you need a driver for > qemu's virtual ethernet interface for windows? > Is this it? > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-31 Thread Ken Stephens
Russell Senior wrote: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >>> How are you removing the disk? Do you "unmount" it before pushing >>> the button on the disk drive? > John> In the past I always ejected the media from the optical drive > John> either by right-clicking on

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox Issue?

2015-12-01 Thread Ken Stephens
Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/01/2015 07:59 AM, Robert Citek wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Dick Steffens >> wrote: >>> I run Windows 7 on VirtualBox. >> To be sure I understand correctly, Ubuntu 14.04 is the host OS running >> the VirtualBox hypervisor, which

Re: [PLUG] Python and Natural Language Toolkit

2015-11-18 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: > For a class I am taking (Applied Linguistics) the class has just been > given an assignment from a guest lecturer involving python and the > Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK). I need to do the work on my Xubuntu > 14.04 laptop, as I have no computers with any kind of

Re: [PLUG] Video Cable Adapter Needed

2015-10-25 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > The salesman at Free Geek provided the wrong video cable adapter with the > system I bought yesterday. My monitor has a DVI cable attached and the > system end is male. He gave me a male-male VGA cable with a female-VGA to > male-DVI adapter. What I need is a male-VGA to

Re: [PLUG] xterm font losing pixels

2015-09-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Weird behavior: > > Sometimes one of the characters in my gnome-terminal instances > (I typically run about 20) loses a few black pixels - on every > instance of that character on every terminal instance. > > > Restarting X fixes it - or else causes a different character >

Re: [PLUG] Firefox cannot locate localhost: httpd will not start [RESOLVED]

2015-09-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, bro...@netgate.net wrote: > >> I'd suggest checking latest entries in your http error and access logs for >> clues. > Duh, I completely forgot about them. Mea culpa! > > >From the access log: > > 127.0.0.1 - - [20/Sep/2015:06:37:33 -0700] "GET

Re: [PLUG] Firefox cannot locate localhost: httpd will not start

2015-09-21 Thread Ken Stephens
bro...@netgate.net wrote: > Rich, > > Check for config issues by running: > > apachectl -t > > or starting Apache in debug mode: > > httpd -X > > Kevin > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>I had to reboot this host a couple of days ago and now cannot access my >>

Re: [PLUG] VMPlayer host network only

2015-08-04 Thread Ken Stephens
Michael Rasmussen wrote: I'm trying to run an network isolated VM image for diagnostics. But I still need to communicate with the host system to scp log files and such. Host: Windows 7 CLient: SuSE Linux. Host based networking isn't working, Windows shows the VMware Network Adapter VMnet1,

Re: [PLUG] The Right Tool For the Job

2015-07-28 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: Don't recall. Worth a second try. Made certain the variable was exported with the version quoted and not quoted and still no joy. Thanks, Wes, Rich Rich, When I expect a variable to be in the environment and it isn't, I

Re: [PLUG] PLUG on LinkedIn

2015-07-08 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Michael Dexter wrote: I have been curious who is behind the PLUG LinkedIn activity or if it is a bot. Do people find this useful? Michael, Did not know it existed until your post. I would not find it useful any more than I find facebook useful.

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Ken Stephens
Denis Heidtmann wrote: Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as: Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79. Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure press any key to continue... key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just a flashing cursor.

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Ken Stephens
Ken Stephens wrote: Denis Heidtmann wrote: Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as: Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79. Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure press any key to continue... key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just

Re: [PLUG] Remote Printer Access

2015-06-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: Please point me to documentation where I can learn how to configure CUPS for printing from a different sub-net. I've not done this before and have not found the proper HOWTO. The printers are on the LAN (192.168.55.192 and 192.168.55.194) and a laptop is on a different

Re: [PLUG] Remote Printer Access

2015-06-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Ken Stephens wrote: Open the 631 port to the printer's lan if the printer is running through CUPS. Then CUPS should find it in adding a printer. Ken, On the laptop, using a Web browser, I opened http://localhost:631 and added the two printers

Re: [PLUG] Equation may p0wn your hard drive

2015-02-19 Thread Ken Stephens
Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:49:28 -0800 Larry Brigman dijo: Not just hard drives but the whole of the electronics coming out of china in the near future. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 01:36:54PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: A couple of questions: 1) Does this include

Re: [PLUG] Remote Access Issue

2015-02-14 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: While out of the state last week I was not able to use ssh to access my office server. The hotel replaced their wifi with ethernet (yay, team!) so there was no problem obtaining an IP address from their provider's server. However, packets would go no further than a

Re: [PLUG] Audio noise

2015-01-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Dick Steffens wrote: Watched some recordings this evening with the new power supply in my MythTV system. There is some odd noise that is most prevalent while watching recordings. While still present, it's less noticeable with live TV. I tuned in a golf tournament so there would be segments of

Re: [PLUG] Cleaning Up Multiple Copies of a Library

2015-01-20 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: Somehow, libncurses is present in two copies, with different dates and file sizes. This may be the reason I'm having problems using unixODBC so I want to clean this up. Did not find the file containing libncurses; it may well be in one of the base Slackware files, such

Re: [PLUG] Tethering/Pairing via Bluetooth

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: Ed and Galen introduced me to using my Treo 700p to access the 'Net from my laptop via the VZ cellular network. I've bid on a USB bluetooth (2.0) dongle on eBay; there are many there if I don't win this one. Finding information on how to use it is quite a

Re: [PLUG] Printer not supported in Windows!

2014-11-19 Thread Ken Stephens
David wrote: On 11/19/2014 10:37 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, David dafr+p...@dafr.us wrote: On 11/19/2014 10:19 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I bought an hp officejet 4630, a multifunction printer. I got it installed and working in Ubuntu 12.04 using hplip. It

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-27 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Denis Heidtmann wrote: My keyboard gave up so I replaced it with one from FreeGeek. I discovered this new keyboard has a couple of extra keys next to the shift keys, making the shift keys smaller. How can I change the behavior of those keys to shift?

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Enters The Twilight Zone [FIXED]

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: Something broke last night (before midnight) and is now partially fixed. Help is needed to understand what borked and how to finish the repairs. Found the problem: the new /etc/postfix/main.cf is the default; it does not

[PLUG] What is the link to the slides.

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Michael, The speaker pointed to the link and did not say it or show it. Please email or have the speaker say the link to the slides. Ken ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] TUESDAY: October PLUG Advanced Topics: Living Desktop Environment-Free

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Michael Dexter wrote: On 10/21/14 6:08 PM, Leander S. Harding wrote: I've just posted the slides for tonight's talk on my website at http://lsh.io/plugtalk for those who can't make it or want to follow along on their own machines. Mindblowing. Not for everyone but... wow. Michael Neat

Re: [PLUG] OT: Gimp

2014-10-19 Thread Ken Stephens
Marvin Kosmal wrote: Hi... Just got new version of Gimp 2.8.. It will not let me scale a picture and save in JPG format. Must save in xcf and face book will not load that format. Am I the only one with this problem? I am running Linux Mint 17 TIA Marvin Marvin, You need to

Re: [PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-11 Thread Ken Stephens
Denis Heidtmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com wrote: Denis Heidtmann wrote: asus_wmi: Error removing rfkill notify handler /_sb.pcio.pop5 repeat ...pop6 repeat ...pop7 could not write bytes: Broken Pipe I have kernel 3.13.0 Ubuntu 12.04 Various

Re: [PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Denis Heidtmann wrote: asus_wmi: Error removing rfkill notify handler /_sb.pcio.pop5 repeat ...pop6 repeat ...pop7 could not write bytes: Broken Pipe I have kernel 3.13.0 Ubuntu 12.04 Various function buttons fail to work Googling gave me lots of very technical stuff that was way beyond

Re: [PLUG] cross-platform bash vulnerability widespread

2014-09-26 Thread Ken Stephens
Fedora users need to upgrade to at least 20. 19 repositories do not have the bash update. 20 does. Ken ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load

2014-09-16 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: I have no problems loading any Web site I want except for one: grass.osgeo.org. It works for others (probably everyone in the world but me) and just will not load here using Firefox, Opera, or Chromium. Ping works; returns packets quickly. Please suggest where I

Re: [PLUG] Device is busy

2014-09-01 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: My laptop has a share for /media so that my desktop can access a USB drive external to the laptop. Sometimes it just works, more often it requires considerable swearing to get it to work. This evening I have exhausted my store of expletives in one language and am

Re: [PLUG] Device is busy

2014-09-01 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:57:18 -0700 Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com dijo: Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know why NFS is such a PITA? Sometimes the portmap daemon stops running or is not started for unknown reasons. NFS uses this portmap daemon. See

Re: [PLUG] How to back up files with no video

2014-08-30 Thread Ken Stephens
Maybe you need to clean out the fan. Dust accumulates in the fan and the laptop will overheat. Mine just blue screens if it gets too hot. Yours may be getting the GPU too hot. Youtube will have a video on how to dissassemble your laptop. Ken ___

Re: [PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

2014-08-17 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: I have spent th past hour trying to make a backup of my Home to an external device and continue to fail. My Home folder is on a separate partition, /dev/sdb2.The problem is that I cannot boot to the installation and must boot to a live media. I have tried Xubuntu

Re: [PLUG] CDROM

2014-08-11 Thread Ken Stephens
Josiah Luscher wrote: You might also try lspci and lsusb if you have those installed. - Sy On August 10, 2014 9:24:49 PM PDT, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I didn't realize that GH was the part number.. I just wanted to make sure I can read the Slackware install disks. I

Re: [PLUG] Determining Why Perl Script Fails

2014-08-06 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: # The 'Service' option expects either the name of a filter # (in/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/*) or 'All'. # The default service(s) to report on. This should be left as All for # most people. Service = All # You can also disable certain services (when specifying all)

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: Ever since last weekend's aborted attempts to modify log rotation intervals (which were completely rolled back), one of the scripts in cron.daily (0logwatch; a soft link to /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl) stopped running.

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-21 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Russell Johnson wrote: Hmm. You could put a print statement in there that writes something to a file somewhere as the first thing, prior to any other processing… But that might not work either because cron usually does not inherit the users

Re: [PLUG] Capture of CSV data

2014-06-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Chuck Hast wrote: Hmmm I guess I did not get the data sample in it. Here is a sample. I know how to get csv files into spead sheets and i have sort of a idea of getting them into a db, but how do I handle a stream of data like that below. All of them are CSV formated, so once I can get one

Re: [PLUG] Torrent issues {more info]

2014-06-11 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:48:53 -0700 (PDT) a...@clueserver.org dijo: The file name information is mangled on the link I tried. I have seen it before. I am investigating the cause. The torrent hangs retrieving the metadata. It looks like there are no seeders for the

[PLUG] Just a question about defragmenting a windows NT SSD

2014-04-23 Thread Ken Stephens
This is not Linux or UNIX, but the system is sitting next to two Linux systems. Just wondering if it is a good idea to defragment an SSD. Ken ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Clinic! (And new *buntus)

2014-04-19 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Galen Seitz wrote: ... but here's how I have outbound mail configured. I'm relaying through easydns.com using sasl. main.cf: ... relayhost = [mailout.easymail.ca]:submission smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps =

Re: [PLUG] xmodmap Stopped Working

2014-04-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: In ~/.xinitrc are these definitions (there are no system versions so I modified those lines to all point to $HOME): For what is's worth, the definitions and commands for invoking xmodmap in ~/.xinitrc are also in

Re: [PLUG] xmodmap Stopped Working

2014-04-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: The obvious question unanswered here is what did you do last week? Anything like restore some file, install a new application, update an application? Ken, Not that I can recall. Actually, the answer is almost certainly

[PLUG] Linux Torvalds streaming

2014-04-03 Thread Ken Stephens
Michael, Thanks for streaming Mr Torvalds talk. Ken Stephens CAD 2 CAM ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] 403: Permission/Access Denied

2014-03-29 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: I've a local application with a BUI and a postgres back end. All this on Slackware-14.1 with httpd-2.4.9 and postgresql-9.3.4. When I try to access it firefox-24.4 refuses with the 403 permissions error. I've spent several hours rummaging around the Web and checking

Re: [PLUG] 403: Permission/Access Denied

2014-03-29 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: Have you setup server-info on this site. It will give you your effective configuration. It's a common module from apache. It is usually loaded with the default build. But it does require a configuration file. cat /etc/httpd

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading All Perl Modules

2014-03-12 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: A distribution upgrade means a perl upgrade and modules need to be re-installed. I found a solution on the web that uses this command: cpan upgrade /(.*)/ but when I tried using it from the cpan command line it failed with an error about an unexpected '('. What

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading All Perl Modules

2014-03-12 Thread Ken Stephens
Ken Stephens wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: A distribution upgrade means a perl upgrade and modules need to be re-installed. I found a solution on the web that uses this command: cpan upgrade /(.*)/ but when I tried using it from the cpan command line it failed with an error about

Re: [PLUG] Tuning httpd.conf

2014-03-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday I upgraded my server/workstation to Slackware-14.1 and have most applications working as they should. However, my accounting software (located in /usr/local/sql-ledger/) does not load when I enter the URL localhost/sql-ledger/login.pl in the browser. I

Re: [PLUG] Tuning httpd.conf [ALMOST RESOLVED]

2014-03-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, King Beowulf wrote: You may have to downgrade to apache-2.2 and then build/install mod_perl or try bleeding edge mod_perl from SVN. The Slackbuild.org folks are still looking into it I believe and mod-perl-2.0.8 was supposed to work There must be

Re: [PLUG] Eee PC 701

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Stephens
Robert Citek wrote: I have an EeePC 701 with Ubuntu 8.01 that I haven't used in years. It was great for what it was back in the day. But now it's a pretty low-powered system and Ubuntu 8.01 was EOF last year. Other than a novelty item, the EeePC 701 may be not worth your time. But be sure

Re: [PLUG] network traffic shaping for servers

2014-02-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:16:26PM -0800, Louis Kowolowski wrote: If you are using Linux, you might check out tc (http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/330252:weekend-project-configuring-qos-for-linux-routers-gateways) Thanks! tc was only moderately challenging to

Re: [PLUG] Linux documentation by a JOURNALIST? ????

2014-01-26 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: I think quality/useful documentation should cover at least What When Why Anyone know of a documentation project with that POV? Richard, . . Many years ago Eric Harrison explained linux to me: it has little tools each

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: What does your alternatives have for lpr and lp? Are they links to cups? Ken, I'm not understanding your question. If I look at the lpr man page it's provided by Apple since they bought CUPS from Easy Software a bunch of years

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-08 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Bill Barry wrote: Are these network printers or are they directly connected to the machine running cups? Bill, Networked. The LJ5 has a JetDirect card installed; the Color LaserJet 2500C has a HP print server ahead of it. Both can be pinged from

Re: [PLUG] Permissions on config files

2014-01-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: In general, is it a good practice to set config files (such as /etc/httpd/httpd.conf) to 444 once they are properly structured? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-07 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: Still issues with the rebooted server. Now I cannot print from the command Update: stopped and restarted CUPS. The report is that the scheduler has been restarted (cups: restarted scheduler. [OK]) but when I now try to print

Re: [PLUG] Belkin N900 Not Seen at 192.168.2.1

2013-08-11 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Larry Brigman wrote: ip addr add 192.168.3.4/24 dev eth0 Larry, Trying to add another IP address, in a different subnet, did not work for me. The Slackware syntax, route add -net 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0:1 returns

Re: [PLUG] fstab question

2013-05-14 Thread Ken Stephens
Marvin Kosmal wrote: Hi My home partition is running out of room.. I am a home2 and that seems work and mount on boot.. I change home2 and home. Computer wouldn't boot.. What did I do wrong Here is my fstab. proc/proc procnodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # /

Re: [PLUG] System crashing

2013-03-13 Thread Ken Stephens
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:07:38 -0700 John Sechrest sechr...@gmail.com dijo: If you can, check to see what is happening to the temperature of the CPU when this is happening. I added the Xfce4 sensor plugin to the panel, so now I can see the temps. It shows CPU0 and

Re: [PLUG] /etc/sudoers Syntax

2012-09-23 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: I read the sudoers man page and look at the examples and still don't grok how to make a simple entry: I want to allow username 'pamela' to run a shell script in her home directory as root because the script runs two commands that need root permission. Do I need to

Re: [PLUG] Issues With New External Hard Drive: Need SysAdmin Help

2012-09-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: The hard drive in an external case I used for system backups appeared to fail with I/O errors. I replaced it with a new WD hard drive (sent as a warranty replacement months ago), and WD replaced the failed drive. Only a few weeks later, I'm seeing the same errors

Re: [PLUG] cut delimiter question

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Chris Berry wrote: I would generally use awk to do that, something like this: ls -alh | awk '{print $9 }' Chris, I thought of that but figured cut would be the better way. Apparenly not. Thanks, Rich Rich, Since long listing is formatted in

Re: [PLUG] awk syntax error, part ii

2012-05-25 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: I've looked in the ORA book and on line without seeing what I've written incorrectly in this script: #! /usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { FS = OFS = |} if ($3 ~ /Ag/ $4 ~ /0.000/) { print $1, $2, $3, -0.005 }; else if ($3 ~ /Alk_tot/ $4 ~ /0.000/) { print $1, $2, $3,

Re: [PLUG] awk syntax

2012-05-24 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: I'm re-reading the ORA 'sed awk' 2nd edition because I need to modify data files (130K lines in one and45K lines in another). Should be a simple script but I'm getting a syntax error trying to define the OFS. Here's a line of the data file:

Re: [PLUG] Sony Vaio Wireless Connectivity: One Step Closer

2012-04-18 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Russell Johnson wrote: Isn't it just deleting it out of it's own internal config?? Not sure I completely understand the context of your question, Russell, but ntpd explicitly drops eth0 from the routing table. The result is the same as root

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Stephens
Russell Johnson wrote: On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: No one else with a computer when I'm there. And, I suspect they'd look completely puzzled because they have no idea what 'DNS server' means. :-) Well, I also noticed in a message post what I replied to that you plan on

Re: [PLUG] Having trouble sending messages to the main plug mailing list via Thunderbird

2012-02-20 Thread Ken Stephens
just fine. ~Rob I believe I have encountered this as well but had not taken time to investigate. I removed all the quoted text and the messages go through. ~~R I use seamonkey and remove the title of the email to get the list to accept replies. -- Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Stephens
reason may be you need to switch pairs around. Another reason maybe bad memory. Have you been able to run a memory checker? It might ignore the BIOS. -- Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland, OR ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Scanning pci bus

2012-02-01 Thread Ken Stephens
adding the following line: ifconfig wlan0 up before the line: [ -x /usr/sbin/connmand ] /usr/sbin/connmand -W nl80211,wext It is running an ancient kernel, 2.6.35.13-23.1-netbook. Ken -- Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland, OR ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Scanning pci bus

2012-01-27 Thread Ken Stephens
or Fast Ethernet (rev b0) There should be a Ralink NIC in the list somewhere, but isn't. uname -r 3.0.0-15-generic -- Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland, OR ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Scanning pci bus

2012-01-27 Thread Ken Stephens
\-1f.3 Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller Do the blank text fields give me the possible address of the wireless NIC? What command do I use to power it on. The indicator list is lit, so power is being applied by the bios. -- Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland

Re: [PLUG] Perms and ownership of ~/.ssh?

2012-01-24 Thread Ken Stephens
the message might be telling me? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Rich, Your .ssh file should not be world readable or executable. Opens you to bad operators. -- Ken Stephens SV

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