Re: [PLUG] Cannot delete files in .Trash

2015-12-18 Thread Roderick A Anderson
Did you highlight the files then press the Delete key or highlight the files and Right-click then select Delete? 73, Rod -- On December 18, 2015 18:14:03 John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have a 128GB USB stick that I sometimes use to transfer files. Today > I discovered that it was full, even th

Re: [PLUG] Sort numbers in 'natural' order

2015-05-31 Thread Roderick A Anderson
Well I didn't think it up my self so I had to look it up again. http://larsmichelsen.com/open-source/quickie-sort-ip-addresses-on-linux-command-line-bash/ Rod -- On May 31, 2015 10:55:44 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2015, Roderick Anderson wrote: > > > I think this is the solution

Re: [PLUG] reflashable Linksys WRT54G's up for adoption

2015-01-02 Thread Roderick A Anderson
I'd interested in some also. 2 or so for a Broadband-HAMNET demo and Field Day. Only problem is I may not be in the Portland area for a couple of months. If you want to get rid of them sooner and can figure the postage I'll send money to cover it. \\||/ Rod -- On January 2, 2015 7:55:15 AM

Re: [PLUG] Using less on a growing file

2014-09-25 Thread Roderick A Anderson
In less press a capital F (shift-f). To stop the scrolling press ctrl-c. Never took the time to figure out how to launch less from the command line like this. \\||/ Rod -- On September 25, 2014 2:17:59 PM Tim Wescott wrote: > Is there a way to use less, or a less-like viewer, to view a grow

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

2014-09-16 Thread Roderick A Anderson
Rich, Since others including myself can get to the site try running traceroute grass.osgeo.org and see if it makes it through. I have had similar problems caused by a miss configured router out there in Internet land that didn't packets back through. Rod -- On September 16, 2014 2:25:20 PM R

[PLUG] move/translate iptables CentOS to Debian

2014-01-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
move/translate??? Well that was the best I could come up with for the subject. I'm moving to Debian from CentOS 5. I have a pile of standard iptables rules that need to be move over. There are also scripts that modify the iptables rules during run time -- sort of a dynamic IDS/firewall -- ve

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 01/09/2014 02:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Pete Lancashire wrote: > >> What's the chances of two SSD's ? > > Pete, > > Small. With a 60G SSD and a 750G mechanical drive I don't need more space. > >> Today I pretty much do a RAID mirror by default. > > I backup daily w

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

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich, On 01/09/2014 08:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > lpr: Bad Request I haven't been following this closely so you might have already looked into or tried this. I found it on the Ubuntu forums. > Using a CUPS 1.6.x client with a <= 1.5.x server > > As of CUPS version 1.6, the client defaults to

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

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 01/09/2014 05:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > >> The cupsd.conf you pasted to the list did not include that line "with the >> asterisk/wildcard". > > Daniel, > > I missed that. Just added it to cupsd.conf then stopped and started cups. > There must be

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I think you're suffering from the gvfsd-fuse. Check out that line and see if your CDROM is there. \\||/ Rod -- On 12/26/2013 11:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800 > Bill Barry dijo: > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan >> wrote: > >>> There

Re: [PLUG] Post to FTP server from soft real-time C program

2013-07-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/17/2013 10:08 AM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > A customer wants some data out of one of my optimization / control > systems. They would like me to post it to a FTP server that will be > added to the LAN. I use curlftpfs (a spin of fuse) where I have to backup some files to a Windows share

Re: [PLUG] Hardware compatibility help - USB long range Wifi adapter

2013-02-02 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 02/02/2013 10:51 AM, Diane Petersen wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire netbook running Ubuntu 12.04-32 bit, and the > internal wireless network adapter has gone intermittent. I will be > traveling soon and decided to go ahead and get a USB adapter with long > range capabilities instead of replacing

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox, Android

2013-01-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 01/23/2013 08:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > MK802 II Anyone know-about or have-experience with using this (type of) device for Android App development? Seem like an nice and inexpensive way to experiment without buying a tablet or installing the extra stuff needed for the Android SDK on a

Re: [PLUG] ssh pass-phrase to log on to a system???

2012-10-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
0/04/2012 12:38 PM, Scott Bigelow wrote: > I wonder if perhaps Mint doesn't have a graphical ssh-agent manager > installed? If you: > > ssh-add .ssh/${your_key_file} > > does that work for you? > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote:

[PLUG] ssh pass-phrase to log on to a system???

2012-10-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Poor subject so I have to explain. I've moved to Linux Mint 13 on my netbook from Fedora 12 and would like to replicate some of the functionality I had before. My searches are taking me in circles so I'm hoping someone on the list will have the solution or a good pointer and/or correct terms t

Re: [PLUG] Distributions for an ASUS eeePC 1000

2012-08-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 08/15/2012 08:49 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote: >> I'm ready to move on from the customized Fedora 12 install I've been >> using on my eeePC (with SSD drives and upgraded to 2Gbyte RAM). >> >

[PLUG] Distributions for an ASUS eeePC 1000

2012-08-14 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm ready to move on from the customized Fedora 12 install I've been using on my eeePC (with SSD drives and upgraded to 2Gbyte RAM). I've been fiddling with a F17-spins - LXDE, and XFCE - but feel my years of working with Redhat based distributions starting with Redhat (3.0.3), Fedora (Core 1),

Re: [PLUG] Wireless connection information location?

2012-07-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Thanks Dale. On 07/23/2012 03:39 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:08:47 -0700 > "Roderick A. Anderson" wrote: > >> So on I go. I've exhausted by search foo and found nothing on where >> -- specifically Fedora (12) stores the wireless co

[PLUG] Wireless connection information location?

2012-07-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I see the list must have been kicked by someone. I just finished pestering Dave and Wil but think it might have been Michael Dexter's post. So on I go. I've exhausted by search foo and found nothing on where -- specifically Fedora (12) stores the wireless connection information. SSID, names,

Re: [PLUG] a LEAN linux using apt-get or yum

2012-07-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
You might look at CentOS 6. There is a minimal DVD install. So minimal I decided to go with the two DVD install because I didn't have the time to figure out all I wanted to add to the minimal to get it working the way I needed it to. If you're mostly looking for a lighter weight GUI there are

Re: [PLUG] HD recovery services

2012-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/09/2012 08:25 PM, wes wrote: >> >> >> We had a client who recently ran into a similar issue: RAID array died >> and they didn't have the backups they thought they had. Rough pricing >> for 320 GB RAID5 HW array: >> $15,000 for 6-10 business days turn around >> $20,000 for 1-5 business days t

[PLUG] HD recovery services

2012-07-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've taken on a client (as per my previous message about Mac OS X Servers) and part of the job is trying to recover some data on a drive that was connected to a MB when it blew. Story has it all the caps on the board went. I've tested the drive and get the same clicking the previous tech ment

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/05/2012 03:44 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Thanks Ron. Man ... was there a exodus of Microsoft programmers to >> Apple? That set up makes about as much sense as the Windows Registry. >> Caveat: I'm no Windo

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/05/2012 10:58 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>> The biggest issue right now is the init system. How does Mac OS do it. >>> The Redhat based systems use SysV,

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/05/2012 09:44 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> My Google search foo is lacking today. >> >> I'm taking on the admin of a server running Mac OS X (10.5.8) so need a >> good reference for a fairly well experi

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/05/2012 06:10 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> I thought the BSD derivatives used an init.d or rc.d Couldn't figure out >> how to start/stop/reload a service. Thanks Rich. I went looking but but found almost nothing tha

[PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
My Google search foo is lacking today. I'm taking on the admin of a server running Mac OS X (10.5.8) so need a good reference for a fairly well experienced Linux systems admin. My Linux distributions of choice are CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora (Redhat-ian stuff) with a little Ubuntu/Debian. T

Re: [PLUG] why not Ubuntu 12 ?

2012-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've been a Redhat, Fedora, CentOS users since Redhat Linux 3.0.3 (the first distribution CD I purchased) so I understand your question. I just installed 12.04 on a friends computer. The biggest issue "I" ran into was the "new" interface. The local user group North Idaho Linux User Group is mo

Re: [PLUG] USB Keyboard and mouse to single USB port adapter

2012-04-21 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> >>> Anyone have a source for these gizmos. I can find four port HUBs but I >>> really need a two port dongle. >> >> Probably because 2 port or 7, it's sti

Re: [PLUG] USB Keyboard and mouse to single USB port adapter

2012-04-21 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Thanks Russell. I did see this on one of my searches. I was hoping for a dongle but the customer will have to decide if this is OK. Again thanks, Rod -- On 04/19/2012 05:36 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Anyone ha

[PLUG] USB Keyboard and mouse to single USB port adapter

2012-04-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've run my search foo into the ground with no joy. Anyone have a source for these gizmos. I can find four port HUBs but I really need a two port dongle. I seem to remember seeing these years ago but can't find them now. TIA, Rod -- ___ PLUG mai

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Michael Rasmussen wrote: >> It seems very odd to me to have a UNIX(like) system without a functioning >> MTA installed... how do system messages, cron status mails, and the like, >> get sent? Or do they simply not get sent at all? It's been a l

Re: [PLUG] Cron script help wanted

2012-03-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Probably the quickest way would be to enclose $NEWIP and $OLDIP in double quotes. if [ "$NEWIP" != "$OLDIP" ]; then OF course this will not fix the actual problem of why either of them are empty. As far as the URL. I get an error when I use the "http" version but get through when I use

Re: [PLUG] Break in attempt?

2012-02-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > >> I found that on Friday the auth.log shows many (over 300) messages such >> as: >> >> 23.19.81.173.rdns.ubiquity.io [23.19.81.173] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN >> ATTEMPT! >> Feb 17 16:56:10 R2D4 sshd[2649]: Invalid user rookie f

Re: [PLUG] Bad coding samples/examples

2012-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Martin A. Brown wrote: > Hello and good afternoon, > > : I'm looking for some examples of bad coding. > > You may have come to the right store. Well, anyway, I'm happy to > place my own bad coding examples on display here. This is better than I hoped for. Just what I needed ... and in Perl.

[PLUG] Bad coding samples/examples

2012-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm looking for some examples of bad coding. Specifically programs that ignore their children (creating zombie processes) and that do not exit cleanly (creating orphans) for init to adopt. Though that may sound like I know what I'm talking about I don't completely. I was asked during an int

Re: [PLUG] env COLORTERM

2011-12-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Probably some large or growing files pointed to by links from /etc/* >> Try without the -r. > > Rod, > >Command line returns immediately. > >What's interesting (t

Re: [PLUG] env COLORTERM

2011-12-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Ken Stephens wrote: > >> grep -r COLORTERM /etc might enlighten you. > > Ken, > >It seems to be stuck in an infinte loop; didn't end after 15+ minutes. > Strange. Probably some large or growing files pointed to by links from /etc/* Try without the

Re: [PLUG] Ghostery: A Question

2011-11-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >I installed ghostery in firefox here based on positive comments on the > list. It does not seem correct that I need to explicitly tell the add-on to > block bugs and cookies each time I log in to the machine and start firefox. > >Is this normal or have I mis-configured

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Setting IP address of WRT54G

2011-11-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Richard C. Steffens wrote: > On 11/19/2011 09:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> >>> I don't know which network tool is now the "correct" one for playing with >>> network connections. >> Dick, >> >> I don't know for sure what the ubuntus call it, bu

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Cookie Management

2011-11-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Richard C. Steffens wrote: > An article in yesterday's USA Today (USA Yesterday?) described tracking > done by various web sites using cookies. It focused on Facebook in > particular and talked about the various ways Facebook tracks visitors to > a Facebook site. My understanding is that this is

Re: [PLUG] Adobe-flash-plugin crashing after update to CentOS 5.7

2011-10-20 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Found the issue. The version (11.0.1.152-0.1.el5.rf) from rpmforge doesn't work. \\||/ Rod -- Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > I updated my workstation to CentOS 5.7 yesterday with a few issues. None > of them Firefox related but today when I went work an online class with > vide

[PLUG] Adobe-flash-plugin crashing after update to CentOS 5.7

2011-10-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I updated my workstation to CentOS 5.7 yesterday with a few issues. None of them Firefox related but today when I went work an online class with video lectures the adobe-flash-plugin crashes. Anyone else run into this? Searches via Google only address installing flash and the version that is a

Re: [PLUG] Temp directory weirdness

2011-10-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Russell Johnson wrote: > I have a perl script that I wrote that is supposed to query a service, then > write the results to a file in the temp directory. It exits, then another > script comes along and parses that file at intervals. For weird reasons, I > need to do it this way rather than have

Re: [PLUG] Adding an icon to the Gnome launcher panel - Ubuntu 10.04

2011-09-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > >> I tried right-clicking on the launcher panel and clicking on "Add to >> panel...". But when I type in footpedal the list of available programs >> goes blank. >> >> Any hints on where to look to solve this? > > Dick, > >

Re: [PLUG] Open Source project suing a stranger...

2011-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Fred James wrote: > JM wrote: >> I'm debating the computational expense of adjusting my SPAM filter to >> search the email body of every PLUG email message for "reactos" vs. simply >> rejecting all email from Michael C. Robinson. I done this already. In fact its been in place for quite awhile b

Re: [PLUG] CUPS and the Internet

2011-09-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
- > > This is probably why your searching isn't turning anything up... you're > being too specific. > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/VALinux-kb/service-hangs-startup.html > > -wes > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Roderick A. Anderson < > raand...@cyber-o

[PLUG] CUPS and the Internet

2011-09-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Anyone know why CUPS hangs during startup if there is a problem with the internet connection? I've been having some Internet connection issues (long and erratic ping times, lost packets, etc.) and while trying to chase them down I restarted my workstation. Every time it hangs while starting CU

Re: [PLUG] Removing Duplicate Rows from SQL Dump

2011-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> This will work for all completely duplicated lines. I'll need to see how >> many remain that vary in one or more columns ('fields') such as the >> parameter, lab_id number, or qa_qc. > >I had manually cleaned up a bunch of

Re: [PLUG] Preferred rackmount server brands?

2011-08-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
plug...@martinconsulting.com wrote: > I need to buy a new rackmount server to run Linux. I want to stay away from > vendors who use proprietary hardware with difficult-to-find Linux drivers > (e.g. Dell, at least in the past). What brands do the fine folks at PLUG > think I should consider? pogo

Re: [PLUG] rsync help

2011-08-02 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Russell Johnson wrote: > On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >>rsync -azrR --include-from=/var/backup.d/svr1.lst /mnt/backup/svr1/ > > My standard rsync incantation is: > > rsync -rvca --delete-after --progress /source/dir/path /destination/dir/

[PLUG] rsync help

2011-08-02 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to come up with the correct command line parameters to do what should be (I think) a pretty simple rsync backup/copy to another directory. The tricky parts seem to be how to preserve the "sub-"directory structure for each sub-directory. Clear as mud ... right? What I'm confined by

Re: [PLUG] OS Bug Tracking systems

2011-06-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Jackman wrote: > >> I know this is an old thread, but I'm finding myself in need of some >> bug tracking software, too. I was hoping to find one feature in >> particular: openid support. Has anyone seen bug tracking with >> openid? > > In theory, a

Re: [PLUG] OO.o vs. LO

2011-06-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >Has anyone here switched from OO.o to LibreOffice? Is there a downside to > doing so? I did about two months ago based on a recommendation of a friend from the user group in North Idaho. He had switched when the first non-beta/non-RC version came out. Late 2010. >

Re: [PLUG] What is a KVM was Is my monitor dying?

2011-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Richard C. Steffens wrote: > On 05/23/2011 06:58 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I don't know what a KVM is, so probably it is not connected to one. > > A KVM switch is one that allows connection of one Keyboard, Video > Monitor, and Mouse to more than one computer -- typically two, but I've > r

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Mike Connors wrote: > I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav > Linux Netbook specific OS and why? > > I plan to check out Jolicloud, gOS, OpenGeeeU, CrunchEee, and maybe > Meego. I currently rung Debian Squeeze (KDE4) on my Lenovo T60 so I'm > kind of keen on the full-fl

Re: [PLUG] Request for Suggestions: Configuration file templating?

2011-04-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Russell Senior wrote: > I am looking for suggestions for a templating system. I need to > generate a tree of configuration files to "bake" into a firmware > image. My tree overlays (replaces) the standard configuration to > localized it for a particular situation. I have rolled my own in Perl >

Re: [PLUG] Host Unknown Problem After Name Change

2011-04-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 08:22:14PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote: >> I don't really want edit sendmail.cf, but from the Internet research I've >> been doing it looks some do exactly that. Beacuse I found three ways to >> solve this (supposedly) and all of them seem fairly compl

Re: [PLUG] Open S0urce accounting

2011-04-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 04/07/2011 07:58 PM, Matt McKenzie wrote: > Hello, > > I had some experience with SQL Ledger a few years ago. > It served the needs of the company I was working for, but we saw it had some > room to grow. I have not really followed it since then. > > > -- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > > > O

Re: [PLUG] Asterisk hardware

2011-03-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
plug...@martinconsulting.com wrote: > Fellow PLUGgers, > > I'm using Asterisk, essentially as an intelligent voicemail system > (time-based outgoing messages, blacklists, text message alerts, etc.). I > see that my TDM400 card is going to fail -- the electrolytic capacitors are > starting to bulg

Re: [PLUG] OO.o Calc Question

2011-03-21 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >Perhaps I'm not using the proper search string in the OO.o help and on > Google, but I cannot find how to replace a blank spreadsheet cell with "NA" > as the contents. Does anyone here know? I found here: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=94

Re: [PLUG] HomeRunHD / encrypted cable and media boxes

2011-01-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rogan Creswick wrote: > A friend (and former PLUGer) is looking into media PC solutions, and I > pointed out the HomeRunHD since it seemed to have good reviews when I > was looking my self. However, I think things have changed with > respect to cable transmission since I was interested -- do you n

Re: [PLUG] Geolocation in HTML

2011-01-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > Michael Rasmussen wrote: >> I'm reading Dive into HTML5 http://diveintohtml5.org/ >> >> There's a chapter on HTML5 features including Geolocation. >> Clicking through the test link Firefox pops up a warning "website wants

Re: [PLUG] Geolocation in HTML

2011-01-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Michael Rasmussen wrote: > I'm reading Dive into HTML5 http://diveintohtml5.org/ > > There's a chapter on HTML5 features including Geolocation. > Clicking through the test link Firefox pops up a warning "website wants > Geolocation. Tell them?" kinda thing. > > I click yes and a Google map sho

Re: [PLUG] How to make my laptop look like a USB charger?

2011-01-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Eric House wrote: > I have a Dell laptop running Ubuntu and a Virgin Mobile "MiFi" > cellular wifi hotspot. The MiFi is great but for one bug: when you > plug its USB cable into the laptop to charge it stops being a hotspot, > so you have to carry a separate USB wallwart to charge it. > > I'm pre

[PLUG] DVD RAM Drives (and Linux)

2011-01-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm looking at DVD RAM drives but have no experience with them other than my Panasonic DVR can use (recommends using) them. As some background I've been fighting the Panasonic for the last few months when recording to DVD RWs. Worked fine for the first few months but now I'm having varying lev

Re: [PLUG] When is /etc/logrotate.conf Read?

2010-12-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >When I change /etc/logrotate.conf do I need to restart a daemon to have > the changed configuration applied? If so, which daemon? Logrotate is run from a system crontab (CentOS, Redhat, Fedora, etc. at least) and reads the /etc/logrotate.conf file each time. Check for a

Re: [PLUG] Accessing Wireless Router/AP

2010-11-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Bill Barry wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> The replacement Asus WL 520 GC arrived and I'm trying to configure it but >> cannot access the admin page via firefox. It must be something I've done >> incorrectly and I'm not seeing what that is. >> >> The Asus is

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

2010-11-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Galen Seitz wrote: > chris (fool) mccraw wrote: >> like i said above--this is a kind of crippled image. if you know what >> you need to do you're fine, but it lacks even the 'copy con' ability >> to print a text file, much less run rename (ren). >> >> my bios update was a batch file that literally

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

2010-11-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:56, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote: >> i said: >>> his boot img (a bargain at 97k gzipped) has 36MByte of room for your >>> flash util+files (but beware, this image has 0 dos utils, including >>> echo/r

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

2010-11-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:25:22 -0800 > "Roderick A. Anderson" dijo: > >> Any suggestions or other "Rescue CD" that would run either a DOS or >> Windows flasher? > > I made a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS to flash a B

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

2010-11-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 21:25, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote: > >> Any suggestions or other "Rescue CD" that would run either a DOS or >> Windows flasher? > > weird question--i got paid to search for a solution for two hou

[PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

2010-11-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I need to upgrade a Silicon Images 3114 SATA RAID controller so I can boot from it. (Configured as JBOD, no RAID) Problem is the system doesn't have a floppy drive and Silicon Images only provides a DOS and Windows method to upgrade the controller BIOS. I think I have a floppy drive rat-hole

Re: [PLUG] Comparing files

2010-11-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
daniel.robe...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: > Hello All > I have copied thousands of files from one windows fileshare onto another > windows fileshare. > How can I easily verify that the file copy is correct? > I intentionally changed the directory structure between the source and > the destination. >

Re: [PLUG] SAMBA, WinXP SP3, and DOS programs -- SOLVED

2010-10-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 10/21/2010 03:57 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > Anyone run into issues with SAMBA 3.0.33 (CentOS 5.5) and WinXP SP3 > running DOS based programs? Well it is solved. Seems the full moon was the issue. Well actually bad hardware. A very old hub (so old it had a coax connector) was

[PLUG] SAMBA, WinXP SP3, and DOS programs

2010-10-21 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Anyone run into issues with SAMBA 3.0.33 (CentOS 5.5) and WinXP SP3 running DOS based programs? It is a long and tortuous tale to reach this point of woe so first I'll just give the symptoms. When running tcpdump on the Linux box I see a bunch of "Unknown packet type" messages when a couple of

Re: [PLUG] http://localhost still mis-configured

2010-09-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >I've not found the appropriate Google search term for this situation and I > hope one of you can point me to the appropriate doc so I can learn how to > fix the problem. > >When I point firefox to http://localhost/drupal-sqlite/install.php, > http://localhost/elxis/ins

Re: [PLUG] Inactivating majordomo

2010-08-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >From time to time over the past decade or so I've hosted some small mail > lists on majordomo. The last one has faded away and I'd like to inactivate > majordomo to stop the spam being sent to the lists. It has been a long times since I dealt majordomo but I think you can

Re: [PLUG] m4_pattern_allow() ... where should it go?

2010-06-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 06/21/2010 03:39 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > CentOS 5.5, cacti-spine package > > I'm trying to rebuild a RPM. I'm rebuilding it so use the > current/most-recent libraries to get the !...@#$% annoying error messages > from going into the logs. The package (a

[PLUG] m4_pattern_allow() ... where should it go?

2010-06-21 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
CentOS 5.5, cacti-spine package I'm trying to rebuild a RPM. I'm rebuilding it so use the current/most-recent libraries to get the !...@#$% annoying error messages from going into the logs. The package (and source RPM) comes from DAG's collection. I keep getting this message while using rpm

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-30 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: A quick follow up to my own post. Looks like gvfs and gnome-vfs are not what I need. Gnome-vfs on CentOS is *broken* in that it doesn't work with OOo when using a sftp connection. That works OK with Fedora 12. The biggest problem is gvfs doesn't present

Re: [PLUG] PermitRootLogin no

2010-04-20 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 14:01, glen e. p. ropella > wrote: >> I'm running sshd on a server and I've set: >> >> PermitRootLogin no >> >> But I _assumed_ it would stop attempts like the following: >> >> --- >> Apr 19 07:11:49 huntlab sshd[15840]: p

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Dan Young wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote: >> This is what I've used before. The problem is it is not very user >> friendly GUI-wise (Gnome.) I'd have thought the Connect to server would >> offer sshfs as an option. W

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
wes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> >>> Looking forward to your F12 experience. Note Paul's reference to >>> the OOo stuff being compressed and causing the problem.

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > > > OOo files are compressed collections of several files, aren't they? I > wonder if the problem is that you're not working on that file > directly, but on its contents. Hum. Interesting t

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
drew wymore wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Roderick A. Anderson > wrote: > I realize is probably going overboard but it's my favored set up that > I've been using for about 6 years which is to use LDAP which resolves > the UID/GID problems. I haven't p

[PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to move a bunch of files off my desktop on to a server and still be able to access them from my rover (eeePC 100 running Fedora 12) and the workstation (CentOS 5). I have two issues with this setup. One _rather_ important (files open in OOo as read-only) and the other an irritation

Re: [PLUG] XXX?

2010-04-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
dfhubb...@freegeek.org wrote: > > Hi > > I'm on the Free Geek Grant group. One group wants to be able to stop the > access to porn on their grant computers. Any suggestions? I understood your request but it took several readings. It would have been clearer by substituting "from" for "on". No

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 Host Name

2010-03-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
drew wymore wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> HI All >> >> How do I change the host name on this box. >> >> Running Fedora 12. >> >> TIA >> >> Marvin >> ___ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.p

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12

2010-03-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Greetings from Fedora 12.. > > Anyone else run this?? I do on my ASUS eeePC 1000. Used the kernel and optimizations from fedora-netbook.com. \\||/ Rod -- > > > Marvin > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > htt

[PLUG] CentOS 5 and TARPIT module

2010-02-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to get the iptables TARPIT module working on some CentOS 5.x systems. The hitch seems to be the kernel module is not there. TARPIT is suppose to be available via. xtables-addons but when I try to build that package (./confiugre) I get the error: "No package 'xtables' found" The IN

Re: [PLUG] Linus Torvalds...

2009-11-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Bill Ensley wrote: > Isn't there some tenant of the mailing list rules that would allow for > withdrawing this user from > participating based on lack of topical discussion? if header :contains "From" "plu...@robinson-west.com" { discard; stop; } __

Re: [PLUG] To bash or not to bash?

2009-11-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:55:18AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote: >> Michael Rasmussen wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote: >>> $ ls -1 BLM/* | egrep ':$|\.shp' | grep -v \.xml (list everything under the BLM directory but include o

Re: [PLUG] shell scripting

2009-10-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Lemseffer. Tahar (MSA) wrote: > Example as follow: > > LIST = 'ypcat hosts|| sort | awk '{print $2}'' > for Devices in $LIST I suggest you modify the two lines above to this one so you're not running into the interesting side effects of bash variable assignments and confusion of apostrophes &

Re: [PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

2009-10-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Many years ago I was asked to add some minor functionality to a >> Fortran program written by a Civil Engineer. There was no >> documentation and the variables were exactly like this.

Re: [PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

2009-10-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick A Anderson writes: > > Roderick> my ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6, $f7, $f8, $f9, $f10, $f11) = > Roderick> split('\|', $_); > > "My eyes... the goggles do nothi

Re: [PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

2009-10-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Is this suppose to be two lines? > > Rod, > >Nope. Each row is exported as a single line. The MUAs reformat them to fit > the width. Initially it looked like two lines munged together then

Re: [PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

2009-10-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich Shepard wrote: >I downloaded a database from an agency's Web site, and the date formats > are not that used by SQL (-MM-DD). Instead, they are in the form of > D/M/ (or DD/MM/). Not only that, but the column they are in is the > second to last of 11 columns; a representative sa

Re: [PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

2009-10-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Michael Robinson wrote: > It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and > worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system > that has 512 megs of ram. I don't have that. I have my Linux system > with 512 megs of ram. X Lies Damn Lies And Statistics ht

[PLUG] Verizon Mobile Broadband, VZAccess Manager, & Linux

2009-09-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Anyone on the list a Verizon Mobile Broadband user? I'm looking at the MiFi device (verses the USB modem/dongle) but to configure it the site says I must use their VZAccess Manager -- a Windows program. Any ideas as to how to get around using a Windows system? I have some but I'd prefer to no

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