Re: [PLUG] question on obtaining the PID numbers of a batch command and finding out when a batch script has successfully terminated

2024-10-07 Thread Robert Citek
Sounds like you are wanting to manage parallel jobs. Have you looked into using the parallel command? https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ Regards, - Robert On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 8:42 PM American Citizen wrote: > I had to create this batch file > > > gp -q < xaa > xaa.results & > > echo "$

Re: [PLUG] Linux Malware

2024-10-05 Thread Robert Citek
Personally, I would start with the Appendix, to which Ben already alluded. Appendix 1: Initial Access CVE-2023-33246 is a vulnerability found in RocketMQ, which is a software that manages messages. This vulnerability allows unauthorized execution of commands on systems where RocketMQ is installed

Re: [PLUG] asking for the simple bash command for tail

2024-05-05 Thread Robert Citek
What makes you say "does NOT work" ? That is, what error message are you getting? Or how does the output you get differ from what you expect? Expanding on what Michael wrote, using the command below is similar to `tail -n1 myfiles*` but ensures `tail` only works on files ( not folders ), is able

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released

2024-04-25 Thread Robert Citek
Thanks for the notice. No worries about the URL. I pulled the Docker images. docker image pull ubuntu:noble-20240423 docker image pull ubuntu:noble docker image pull ubuntu:24.04 docker image pull ubuntu:latest The only issue thus far is that I had to pass a `--break-system-packages` option t

Re: [PLUG] trying to satisfy everyone's critiques on missing man pages for executables

2024-03-24 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM American Citizen wrote: > > On 3/24/24 07:55, Robert Citek wrote: > > zypper se --installed-only --format ta > > this failed too > > localhost:/ # zypper se -installed-only -format tabular | tee 000 > The flag o is not known. > local

Re: [PLUG] trying to satisfy everyone's critiques on missing man pages for executables

2024-03-24 Thread Robert Citek
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 11:16 PM American Citizen wrote: > I am attempting to provide enough information on the missing man pages, > so I spent about 3 hours this evening on this. > > I have a linux OpenSuse Leap 15.5 linux system. Running the zipper list > shows 7,443 installed programs for the

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-23 Thread Robert Citek
ng else, it's a much smaller problem space for your AI project. Regards, - Robert On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 9:48 AM Robert Citek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 6:04 PM American Citizen < > website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A few years ago, I took my Linu

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-23 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 6:04 PM American Citizen wrote: > A few years ago, I took my Linux OS which is openSuse Leap v15.3 or so > and ran a check on the documentation such as the man1 through man9 pages > (run the %man man command to pull all this up) versus the actual > executables on the syste

Re: [PLUG] RIP JJJ

2024-03-18 Thread Robert Citek
Indeed. Always enjoyed chatting with him during OSCON. - Robert On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM Maher, Jeff wrote: > This is indeed sad news. Always interesting and helpful at all the plug > clinics I attended. I'll miss him. > > Regards, > Jeff Maher > > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:02 AM Ru

Re: [PLUG] 'Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm' - ArsTechnica

2024-01-13 Thread Robert Citek
And/Or use password protected keys, disable passwords on the ssh service, require 2FA, and/or temporarily block IPs that are trying to guess passwords. You can also setup ssh key expiration dates via the authorized_keys file. `man sshd` for details. Regards, - Robert On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 1:40

Re: [PLUG] Extract only first line in each paragraph

2024-01-11 Thread Robert Citek
'\n' -v RS='' '{print $1 "\t" $2 }' line 1 line 2 line 1 line 2 line 1 line 2 eof Regards, - Robert On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:17 PM Robert Citek wrote: > Have a look at the IFS and RS variables in awk. IIRC, you can specify the > RS as '\n

Re: [PLUG] Extract only first line in each paragraph

2024-01-11 Thread Robert Citek
Have a look at the IFS and RS variables in awk. IIRC, you can specify the RS as '\n\n' and the IFS as '\n'. So printing the first line in a record becomes ' { print $1 } ' once those variables are set. ChatGPT came up with a similar answer. https://chat.openai.com/share/8b993033-af63-4954-a715-2

Re: [PLUG] Replacing filesystem on partitioned/formatted hdd

2024-01-10 Thread Robert Citek
I second what Michael wrote. My only change would be to not use the '*' or replace it with a "." In that way any hidden files ( i.e. file beginning with a dot ) will be included in the rsync. That is, it would look like this: rsync -av /media/bkup1/ /mnt/usb1tb or this: rsync -av /media/bkup

Re: [PLUG] Looking for some WiFi AP Security Advice

2023-12-26 Thread Robert Citek
d-school way of setting off > rockets which was to insert a fuse into the butt end of the rocket and > light it off. > > But only marginally. > > Ted > > > -Original Message- > From: PLUG On Behalf Of Robert Citek > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2023 4:46 AM

Re: [PLUG] Looking for some WiFi AP Security Advice

2023-12-26 Thread Robert Citek
Thanks, Ted, for some wonderful examples of survivorship bias. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Not every kid survives to adulthood. And not every kid who does survive does so without losing or damaging some parts. Any EMT, Paramedic, or ER staff can tell you countless tales fro

Re: [PLUG] Using wget to download all files from a web site

2023-11-18 Thread Robert Citek
I'm curious to hear what you do next with the data. Regards, - Robert On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 6:38 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2023, Robert Citek wrote: > > > I was able to mirror the site in Google's Colab. Here's a gist with a > > notebook des

Re: [PLUG] Using wget to download all files from a web site

2023-11-18 Thread Robert Citek
I was able to mirror the site in Google's Colab. Here's a gist with a notebook describing what I did and its output: https://gist.github.com/rwcitek/8d3035f6d2931d80f0569d3964fa6e28 In the notebook, you can click on the "Open in Colab" button to run the commands in your own Colab environment. R

[PLUG] Remote work on downed server ( Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown )

2023-02-26 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 9:52 PM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > However during the entire pandemic I was still out and about - since you > can't do IT consulting on a server that's down remotely. By "server", I am assuming that you mean some system on rails in a rack in a datacenter with raised floor

Re: [PLUG] Is it dead, Jim?

2023-02-09 Thread Robert Citek
Courtois! - Robert On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 9:51 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > Has the PLUG mailing list died? > > Evidently not! Huzzah. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45?22'48" N, 122?35'36" W >

Re: [PLUG] Is it dead, Jim?

2023-02-09 Thread Robert Citek
It’s alive, Jim, but not as we knew it. - Robert On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 8:22 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: > Has the PLUG mailing list died? > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W >

Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

2017-10-24 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:23 AM, wrote: >> I recently encountered this and it turns out that my / partition was, >> indeed, full. At the last Clinic I added ~50GB of free space on the >> drive to /, making now a total of 84GB. And now it is happening again. >> Something in / has eaten the entire

Re: [PLUG] Bug? with tab completion in terminal

2017-10-14 Thread Robert Citek
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:02 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:57:19 -0700 > wes dijo: > >>you did state that there is plenty of space available, but did you >>check all drives/partitions? > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'check all drives/partitions.' The drive > where any

Re: [PLUG] Suppressing shell script output to screen

2017-09-19 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > Cron will e-mail them to the root account by default. Correction: to the account running the cron. Of course, if the user is root, then output goes to the root account. (thanks, Brooks). $ man cron | grep -A2 mailed cron t

Re: [PLUG] Suppressing shell script output to screen

2017-09-19 Thread Robert Citek
Cron will e-mail them to the root account by default. Usually, I redirect output from cron job entries to a log file so that I can review/parse them. For example: 03 * * * * /home/foo/bin/some_script.sh >> /home/foo/log/some_script.log 2>&1 The "2>&1" means redirect file descriptor 2 (STDERR) t

Re: [PLUG] Fixing incorrect hard link count in /proc/fs

2017-06-19 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, Robert Citek wrote: > >> Can you post the syntax of your find command? > > Robert, > > # find / -name qemu > > includes this: > > find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for `/proc/fs&

Re: [PLUG] Fixing incorrect hard link count in /proc/fs

2017-06-18 Thread Robert Citek
Can you post the syntax of your find command? Regards, - Robert On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >My Dell Latitude E5410 runs Slackware-14.2/x86_64. Running the 'find' > command produces an error that the hard link count in /proc/fs is incorrect. > There are more details

Re: [PLUG] Raid confusion

2017-04-03 Thread Robert Citek
Most likely, yes. The RAID (of any level) needs to be initialized, and that process will effectively wipe data on the attached physical devices. That said, there are some interesting RAID-like technologies that automatically expand across new devices, e.g. Drobo, acting like a hybrid of RAID and

Re: [PLUG] Changing password

2017-03-31 Thread Robert Citek
Try changing it using sudo: $ sudo passwd ${USER} Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:26 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On February 17 at the Clinic I needed to change my password on my > laptop. I simply appended '1' to the password, and that worked then and > continues to work fine.

Re: [PLUG] Using ssh-agent and ssh-add

2017-03-30 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Robert Citek wrote: > >> This is a simplified version of what I have in my ~/.profile : >> >> [ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && tty -s && exec ssh-agent bash --login >

Re: [PLUG] Using ssh-agent and ssh-add

2017-03-30 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> My laptops are not always on. When I do fire up one and want to exchange >> files with the desktop each transaction requires my typing my passphrase. >> Can I add ssh-agent and ssh-add to ~/.bash_p

Re: [PLUG] Problems running WordPress on http://localhost/ - was {Re: Network server and client simultaneously ...}

2017-03-29 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web > server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not > remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. > Hostname > FTP Username > FTP Password

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread Robert Citek
Sounds like you want autofs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 PM, John Meissen wrote: > > Do we still have any Ubuntu experts in the group? > > I have a number of systems that have cross-mounted filesystems. Generally > things work OK, but

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunnel

2017-03-03 Thread Robert Citek
have no access to that person anymore. > > Based on your experience, there were no issues that you have run into with > such deployment? > > -v > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > >> I would ask the person who told you that this is not secure t

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunnel

2017-03-03 Thread Robert Citek
I would ask the person who told you that this is not secure to elaborate. I have worked with a number of companies that do this. So I am as curious as you are. Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:01 AM VY wrote: > Dear All: > > I am supporting a client that has product linux PCs running

Re: [PLUG] monitoring MAGNITUDE of internet activity - how?

2017-03-01 Thread Robert Citek
Would /proc/net/dev give you the info you are looking for? $ sudo cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive| Transmit face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytespackets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed eth0: 168392

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

2017-01-14 Thread Robert Citek
They both have wifi[1.2]. Have them both connect to your wireless access point and they should both be able to talk to each other. But if you do want a direct connection, use a regular patch cable between them and manually assign each their own IP. Both of those systems have GigE NICs [1,2]. "Gi

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error, the sequel

2016-11-15 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >The sed command worked on the first file (it took two runs to get all the > dates, but what's another few milliseconds, eh?) but the second file has the > dates in mm/dd/ order. > >I modified the sed command to read: > > s#([0-9]{2}

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error [RESOLVED]

2016-11-15 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Robert Citek wrote: > >> $ <<< '1996/03/10' sed -re 's#([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})#\1-\2-\3#g' >> 1996-03-10 > > Robert, > >Yep. This works. I wondere

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

2016-11-15 Thread Robert Citek
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 from a forward

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

2016-11-15 Thread Robert Citek
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 from a forward slash (/) to a dash (-). >> There's a syntax error in my sed script: "file change-date-format.sed lin

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

2016-11-15 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Trying to change the date format from a forward slash (/) to a dash (-). > There's a syntax error in my sed script: "file change-date-format.sed line > 6: invalid reference \3 on `s' command's RHS" and I'm not seeing why. Here's > the scri

Re: [PLUG] Invoking ssh-agent in Slackware

2016-10-30 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> My inclination is to add a line to etc/rc.d/rc.local: > >Oops! Re-reading man ssh-agent tells me it belongs in ~/.bash_profile This is what I have near the top of my ~/.profile [ -z "$SSH_AG

Re: [PLUG] Identifying 32-bit only applications

2016-10-19 Thread Robert Citek
The 'file' command may be helpful also: $ file /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped Regards, - Robert On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > Use the ldd command. >

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubuntu 16 users?

2016-10-09 Thread Robert Citek
That depends on your use case. I have been using it for cloud instances and as the base in Docker containers. No issues, yet. Regards, - Robert On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > Is Ubuntu 16.04 stable enough to use, now? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > >

Re: [PLUG] I have an Ansible joke...

2016-08-31 Thread Robert Citek
For comparison on a small Digital Ocean instance (512MB): $ time -p ansible localhost -m shell -a 'echo helloworld' localhost | SUCCESS | rc=0 >> helloworld real 0.62 user 0.45 sys 0.16 $ ansible --version ansible 2.1.0.0 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path =

Re: [PLUG] Sorting CIDR Addresses

2016-05-13 Thread Robert Citek
Is this what you are looking for? $ dig +short www.google.com www.amazon.com www.twitter.com | sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n twitter.com. 54.239.26.128 74.125.28.99 74.125.28.103 74.125.28.104 74.125.28.105 74.125.28.106 74.125.28.147 199.59.148.10 199.59.148.82 199.59.149.198 199.59.150.3

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

2016-04-26 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Paul Mullen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:45:08AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > According to man cp -auf is what I should be using for what I want > > the command to so, but apparently there is something that I am not > > understanding. > > I don't un

Re: [PLUG] cloning old drive

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Anybody here have suggestions? What cloning SW is suggested? Windows 3.1, Compaq, 1GB hard drive. I am going to guess that this is a 90's-era system (i.e. about 20 years old). So, that drive probably uses an IDE connector and the CPU is

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-25 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > I don’t know if browsers support a local file for a proxy.pac or not. That > would be the first thing I would investigate. That's what I was not (and still am not) sure of. However, the site that I originally referenced did have this to

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-25 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > I’m making some assumptions here, and if they’re not true, you can either > correct me, or if the functionality i describe is what you want, take a look > at https://www.cryptomonkeys.com/2014/07/automatic-http-proxy/ where I detail > h

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-24 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Robert Citek wrote: >> I have a number of questions, but foremost is, how can I tell if the >> browser is using the proxy or not? > > Would whatismyip.com distinguish them? That worked per

[PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-24 Thread Robert Citek
Greetings all, I have created a SOCKS proxy on a remote server that listens on port :5150 and have manually configured my browsers (Chrome, Firefox) to use it. As the next step, I would like to create a proxy.pac file to automatically configure my web browsers to use the SOCKS proxy. I have crea

Re: [PLUG] Automating mailings at intervals of 1 hour

2016-02-11 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 02/11/16 16:10, Rich Shepard wrote: >>I have several hundred newsletter subscribers and, because my outbound >> mail needs to be relayed via my ISP's mail server there's a limit of 100 >> messages/hour per IP address. >> >>To accommo

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

2016-02-10 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I tried lsof, but unless I can figure out a way to grep or filter the > results it is useless - pages and pages of incomprehensible stuff. If lsof produced output, then some process is still writing/creating the file and you will not be a

Re: [PLUG] Renaming files at the command line

2016-02-03 Thread Robert Citek
Hello John, Here is one way: ls | while read file ; do let inc++ ; mv ${file} Keyword$((${inc}-1)) done Naturally, add some sanity checks (e.g. file does not already exist, handle spaces). You can also add wildcards or pipe into grep to restrict the file list. Good luck and let us know how

Re: [PLUG] What do you call a portable computer that ...

2015-12-22 Thread Robert Citek
Google for "laptop with swivel screen" and you'll get a bunch of hits to choose from, including these two: http://www.picknshipcomputers.com/dell-latitude-xt3-13.3-inch-notebook-i5-2.5ghz-4gb-ram-320gb-hdd-windows-7-pro/ http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/elitebook-revolve/landing.html?jumpid=re_r11260

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox Issue?

2015-12-01 Thread Robert Citek
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 runs a VM instance that has Windows 7 as a guest OS. Is that correct? > The virtual C: drive has a capa

Re: [PLUG] How do I solve an internal error with Ubuntu.

2015-11-04 Thread Robert Citek
Does is sound like the issue on this page? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12426839 Regards, - Robert On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Genaro Hernandez wrote: > Hi. I have received this error message several times now. Error message: > > Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal

Re: [PLUG] Using GitHub Download

2015-07-11 Thread Robert Citek
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Will install git just for this type of situation. I use subversion so have > never looked at git. git takes a bit of getting used to if coming from CVS or subversion. But once understood, it's quite a nice VCS. Regards, - Robert _

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-11 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: > On 7/10/2015 8:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: This time I used e2fsck -fvp /dev/sda1 from the Ubuntu 12.04 live CD. No errors found. > > How is your disk partitioned? /dev/sda1 may not be the > damaged partition. To show us the disk

Re: [PLUG] gawk: modify field contents

2015-07-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Robert Citek wrote: > >> Do you know in advance which fields are text, integer, or floats? Or >> can a given field be of mixed data-type? > >Germane to cleaning the raw data prior to reading

Re: [PLUG] gawk: modify field contents

2015-07-08 Thread Robert Citek
Do you know in advance which fields are text, integer, or floats? Or can a given field be of mixed data-type? Regards, - Robert On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Larry Brigman wrote: > >> Messed that one up Sample data needed/wanted to verify proper o

Re: [PLUG] Configuring /etc/ssh/sshd_config

2015-02-07 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Rich, I suspect that something happened to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on salmo, or you have a different user on salmo than on caddis, or something happened to your private key on caddis. To tackle those in the revers order, run this commands on caddis and post the output here: ls

Re: [PLUG] Copying LVM installation to smaller disk

2015-01-27 Thread Robert Citek
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:50 PM, John Meissen wrote: > > rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said: >> In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same >> way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo: > >>rsync -av /src/foo /dest >>rsyn

[PLUG] Status Report - was [ Specifying a minimalist/instuctional/??? Linux install]

2014-12-13 Thread Robert Citek
On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Louis Kowolowski > wrote: > Point being, there are lots of helpful people around and this isn’t a > difficult problem to solve. > I am still unclear on exactly what "this problem" is. Is it wanting to install Debian on a local system? Is it wanting to create a cu

Re: [PLUG] Screen Rescue - Chromebook in the rain - Resolved - Now have bigger, more urgent problem

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Monday, December 8, 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > How do I convince my wife that we need to keep the new one? > What is your most creative idea on this? > For the same reason to have so many pairs of shoes: failover. Regards, - Robert ___ PLUG m

Re: [PLUG] External drive enclosures?

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: > On a related note, is there actually a difference between SATA and eSATA? Yes, sort of. "eSATA (e standing for external) provides a variant of SATA meant for external connectivity."[1] Unless the drive is going to be housed in and powered f

Re: [PLUG] Boosting WiFi Signals & Cellular Connection of Portable to 'Net

2014-12-04 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Rich, On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Is there an external unit that will allow my Slackware running laptop to > access the > 'Net via my account with Verizon Wireless? Have you looked at mobile hotspots from Verizon? http://www.verizonwireless.com/internet-devices/

Re: [PLUG] Debian Debootstrap and Multistrap - instructional material?

2014-11-28 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Robert Citek wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> My goal this time is educational making any install using >>> debootstrap &/or multistrap. >> >> I used Knopp

Re: [PLUG] Debian Debootstrap and Multistrap - instructional material?

2014-11-25 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > My goal this time is educational making any install using > debootstrap &/or multistrap. I used Knoppix within a VirtualBox VM to install Ubuntu Precise (12.04) using debootstrap. These are the commands I used. https://gist.github.com/rwc

Re: [PLUG] Debian Debootstrap and Multistrap - instructional material?

2014-11-24 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Richard, On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to do some heavily customized Debian installs. It > was suggested I > investigate debootstrap. My initial attempts were only a partial > success. While > searching for more information I came across multistrap

Re: [PLUG] Creating a filename for an open, but deleted, file

2014-11-14 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > [I am assuming the following, correct as necessary: the inode is >from a filesystem from /dev/sda1 and $inode is the numeric value of >the inode, and you run this all from the mount point of the >filesystem (the tmpname will ge

[PLUG] Creating a filename for an open, but deleted, file

2014-11-12 Thread Robert Citek
Greetings all, For a file that is open, but deleted, is there a way to create a new filename for it given either the file descriptor from the process or the inode? Thus far, my Google searches suggest the answer is "no". But I find that hard to believe. In the example below, I would like to cre

Re: [PLUG] Headless Linux Machine

2014-11-10 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Robert Citek wrote: >> I cannot speak for the Linux clinic, but if you are up for an >> adventure, you can try a few things before going. Here are two >> possible options: >> >>

Re: [PLUG] Headless Linux Machine

2014-11-10 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Ginger, I cannot speak for the Linux clinic, but if you are up for an adventure, you can try a few things before going. Here are two possible options: 1) attach an external monitor and install linux as you normally would 2) attach a single-port KVM switch[1], connect to it, and install as

Re: [PLUG] Data Centers in Portland

2014-09-26 Thread Robert Citek
On Sep 26, 2014 2:01 PM, "Robert Citek" wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> Does anyone have experience with or recommendations for data centers >> in the Portland area? >> >> A quick Google search shows there ar

[PLUG] Data Centers in Portland

2014-09-26 Thread Robert Citek
Greetings all, Does anyone have experience with or recommendations for data centers in the Portland area? A quick Google search shows there are a number of them in the area. Regards, - Robert ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.p

Re: [PLUG] Adding timestamp to log file entry

2014-09-25 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Rich, Assuming that is in a bash script, you can do something like this: echo $(date +%FT%T%:z) ${NEWIP} >> "/home/rshepard/getiplog" See the man page for date for various formatting strings. Regards, - Robert On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Cron runs a she

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

2014-09-17 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > $ 2>&1 curl -v -s http://grass.osgeo.org/ > /dev/null | cat -n > 1 * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache > 2 * Trying 140.211.15.75... > 3 * Connected to grass.osgeo.org (140.211.15.75) port 80 (#0) > 4 > GET / HTTP/1

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

2014-09-17 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Rich, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Please suggest where I might look for the source of this problem, or test > I can run to identify what is blocking me. Here are some commands from my system for comparison: $ dig +noall +answer grass.osgeo.org grass.osgeo.org

Re: [PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

2014-08-18 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:39 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 08/17/2014 09:38 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:02:47 -0700 >> >> I just tried it. The following commands executed without error (both >> drives were already mounted, and the folders in /media had already been >> cr

Re: [PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

2014-08-18 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, King Beowulf wrote: >> rsync -av --progress /media/Home2 /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 > >Adding the z option to rsync (that is, specify -avz) compresses the data > during transmission and increases transfer speed even

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Citek wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry wrote: >>> Boot to a live disk. >>> Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition, >> >> resize2fs w

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > Boot to a live disk. > Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition, resize2fs will only shrink the filesystem, not the partition. You'll still have to use fdisk or gparted for making the partition a bit larger than the filesystem. > create t

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) wrote: > Asking people who have direct experience with resolving this nightmare what > the best method is of migrating a production server install on a single / > partition to a multi-partitioned install. Can you expand on the description of

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Citek
FWIW, I ran this on my 12.04 LTS server system: $ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-trusty linux-image-generic-lts-trusty $ sudo reboot Now the message "Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support on 2014-08-07. ..." has been replaced with "Your Hardware Enablement

Re: [PLUG] Computer hell

2014-07-21 Thread Robert Citek
If this system turns into a brick, do you have a fall-back solution? That is, do you have a spare system from which you can restore your backups? Have you tested the restore recently? Regards, - Robert On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Yesterday, just before shutting

Re: [PLUG] Eee PC 701

2014-03-09 Thread Robert Citek
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Wayne, > > I have a eeePC 1000 I am using to view the Digital Oregonion. Works > just fine with Fedora 19. Small foot print makes it > work nicely on the breakfast table. > > Ken > Agreed. My 1005HAB works good enough with Ubuntu 10.04. Be

Re: [PLUG] Eee PC 701

2014-03-09 Thread Robert Citek
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 to let us know either way

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote: > >> You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to >> /usr/local. > > Robert, > >Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to overlap > extensively. I can unders

Re: [PLUG] Can we help Mike Cherba?

2013-06-02 Thread Robert Citek
Was his account protected by two-factor authentication? If not, that may be a step to consider. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en Regards, - Robert On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:21 PM, MJang wrote: > Folks, > > Clearly, his system or account has been broken into in some way.

Re: [PLUG] rsync overwrote newer files

2013-04-15 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: ... > rsync -avz * salmo:documents/workshop-presentations/nada-talk/ ... >What rsync syntax error did I commit? Sounds like you wanted the --update option: -u, --updateskip files that are newer on the receiver So

Re: [PLUG] shell script equivalent to #if 0 ... #endif

2012-08-17 Thread Robert Citek
If it's just for commenting out multi-line commands, you could wrap them in a subshell with the first command being exit: ( exit commands or comments ) Regards, - Robert On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Tim wrote: > > if false; then > {commands} > fi > > ?? > > > tim > > > On Fri, Aug 17,

Re: [PLUG] HD recovery services

2012-07-09 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > Several years ago I used http://www.dtidata.com/ They had a much > better price than several of the others I called (none had prices > online). They recovered all my data so I was happy. We had a client who recently ran into a similar issue: R

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

2012-06-24 Thread Robert Citek
It's called the "new tab page" http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-mozilla-firefox-remove-disable-hide-new-tab-page/ Let us know if this works for you. Regards, - Robert On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:15 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > After the latest upgrade to Firefox 13.0 I notice that when I op

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-05-31 Thread Robert Citek
It's not Open Source and requires Wine to run under Linux, but this has worked for me: http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer "I often get contracts in PDF format; rather than printing, signing, scanning, etc., I'd rather just drop my signature and the date into the contract."

Re: [PLUG] Copying File to Bash Command Line

2011-05-23 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > On 05/23/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> ... Is there a way to >>> include the entire configuration-options file on the command line >>> (after ./configure, or including that command in

Re: [PLUG] User not in /etc/passwd

2011-05-11 Thread Robert Citek
Yes, if that user exists in NIS or LDAP or some other authentication system. Regards, - Robert On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > All, > > Can you su to a user that doesn't exist in /etc/passwd? Is that possible? > > -- > Daniel Herrington > Director of Field Services >

Re: [PLUG] bash test...

2011-04-23 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > >> Works for me: >> >> $ EBS="/net/dbvol" >> >> $ if [ "${EBS}" == "/net/dbvol" ]; then echo yes ;else echo no ; fi

Re: [PLUG] bash test...

2011-04-22 Thread Robert Citek
$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.1.5(1)-release On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > What bash version are you using?? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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