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

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

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released

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

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

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

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...

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 Linux OS which is open

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

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

Re: [PLUG] RIP JJJ

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

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

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

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

t $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\n' and the IFS as '\n'. So printing the first line in

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

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.

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

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

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

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 > To: Portla

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

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

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

and 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 describing what I

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

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.

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Is it dead, Jim?

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?

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

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Suppressing shell script output to screen

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> 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 -

Re: [PLUG] Suppressing shell script output to screen

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)

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

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> 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 li

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Raid confusion

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

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 >

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

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> 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

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

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

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 >

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunnel

y, I 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 <robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would ask the person w

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunnel

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

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

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:

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

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].

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error, the sequel

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

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error [RESOLVED]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> 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

Re: [PLUG] Sed syntax error

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: >>Trying to change the date format from a forward slash (/) to a dash (-). >> There's a syntax

Re: [PLUG] Identifying 32-bit only applications

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: >

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubuntu 16 users?

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

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

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 > >

Re: [PLUG] cloning old drive

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

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

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

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

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

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a number of questions, but foremost is, how can I tell if the >> browser is using the proxy or not? > >

[PLUG] proxy.pac

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

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

Re: [PLUG] Renaming files at the command line

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

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

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/

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox Issue?

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Using GitHub Download

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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.

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jim Garrison j...@jhmg.net 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

Re: [PLUG] gawk: modify field contents

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 rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Larry Brigman wrote: Messed that one up Sample data

Re: [PLUG] gawk: modify field contents

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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 it into R

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

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

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:50 PM, John Meissen j...@meissen.org 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

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

On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lou...@cryptomonkeys.org'); 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

Re: [PLUG] External drive enclosures?

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Tyrell Jentink tyr...@jentink.net 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

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

On Monday, December 8, 2014, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us 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

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

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Robert Citek wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My goal this time is educational making any install using debootstrap /or multistrap. I used Knoppix within a VirtualBox

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

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net 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.

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

Hello Richard, On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net 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

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

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net 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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] Headless Linux Machine

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

Re: [PLUG] Headless Linux Machine

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 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: 1) attach an external monitor

[PLUG] Data Centers in Portland

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

Re: [PLUG] Data Centers in Portland

? On Sep 26, 2014 2:01 PM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [PLUG] Adding timestamp to log file entry

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 rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

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

Hello Rich, On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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

Re: [PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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

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

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org 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

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

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: Boot to a live disk. Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition, resize2fs

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

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

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 joh...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday,

Re: [PLUG] Eee PC 701

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

Re: [PLUG] Eee PC 701

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com 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

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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

Re: [PLUG] Can we help Mike Cherba?

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 m...@linuxexam.com wrote: Folks, Clearly, his system or account has been broken

Re: [PLUG] rsync overwrote newer files

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com 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

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

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 tim-pdx...@sentinelchicken.org wrote: if false; then {commands} fi ?? tim

Re: [PLUG] HD recovery services

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org 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

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

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 joh...@comcast.net wrote: After the latest upgrade to Firefox 13.0 I

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

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

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Carlos Konstanski ckonstan...@pippiandcarlos.com 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

Re: [PLUG] bash test...

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Russell Johnson r...@dimstar.net 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 yes Making it a single equal sign resolved the issue. I am using

Re: [PLUG] bash test...

Works for me: $ EBS=/net/dbvol $ if [ ${EBS} == /net/dbvol ]; then echo yes ;else echo no ; fi yes $ EBS=/net/dbvolx $ if [ ${EBS} == /net/dbvol ]; then echo yes ;else echo no ; fi no I suspect the error is elsewhere. Regards, - Robert On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Russell Johnson

Re: [PLUG] Apache or PHP configuration problem

What do your apache logs say? Could it be an issue with the end-of-line character? If you create this file on XP, does it render correctly? htmlbodyHello/body/html If you creat that file on linux and copy it over, does it render correctly? Do something similar with a simple php and css file.

Re: [PLUG] bash test...

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

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, MJang m...@linuxexam.com wrote: When networking is configured to start normally, you can connect to it with SSH like any other remote system. How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages? That would be very

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Robert Citek wrote: How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages?   virsh start YourVM --console Nice. How do you connect to it? I have set up

Re: [PLUG] An awk-ward Question

Would this work? echo BC-2:2009-02-15:Flow:150.00:ft/sec:Temperature (field):7.40:oF:Conductance,Specific:2058.00:umhos/cm:pH:7.40:Std Units | awk -F: '{ print $1:$2:$3:$4:$5 ; print $1:$2:$6:$7:$8 ; print $1:$2:$9:$10:$11 ; print $1:$2:$12:$13:$14 ; }' The same in perl: echo

Re: [PLUG] Linux web cams?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: I have had good luck with Logitech web cams.  We used one for my son's science fair experiment to make time-lapse movies of slugs.  We found a reference to Cheese as an is-it-working kind of ap.  We used motion

Re: [PLUG] 'buntus

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Bruce kd7...@gmail.com wrote: I would like some comment from your vast pool of experience as to what this writer said.  Most of my curiosity  stems from the latter half of this article.  Pointers to articles, other distros, etc. are all welcomed.  If they come

Re: [PLUG] Unable to unlock root utilities on Intrepid (Solved)

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Michael mich...@jamhome.us wrote: One cannot use sudo where there are issues at boot and the system is in run level one prompting for a root password to do (for example) file system maintenance. I would like to test that scenario in Ubuntu. How could I

Re: [PLUG] Unable to unlock root utilities on Intrepid (Solved)

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: Do whatever to corrupt your disk so you need to run fsck in single user mode at boot. Here is what I did and was unsuccessful at creating a problem. On my system, /dev/sda1 contains the root '/' filesystem, so I

Re: [PLUG] Unable to unlock root utilities on Intrepid (Solved)

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM, chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com wrote: If someone knows how to create such an issue, I'm curious to hear about it. did you read the rest of my message?  i explicitly told you how to do it SAFELY in the part immediately following the part you replied to.

  1   2   >