[PLUG] notice for friends of Steve

2024-03-05 Thread Steve Dum
Hello all, This is Steve's son Octavian writing from Dad's email to let you all know he passed away last week.  Some of you might remember me from being around during OScon in year's past.  I cc'd my email in case anyone would like information for when we do the funeral and such. Octavian

Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

2017-10-27 Thread Steve Dum
I have to chime in with my tip, although john has solved the issue. First, the biggest issue with / as john saw was that there are lots of mount points created in the root partition. If somehow one doesn't get made and then later is made, you can't find the problem easily as some space use is

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Licenses

2017-07-24 Thread Steve Dum
Brian P. Martin wrote: > > My suggestion: GPL v.3 or later. > > What about the so-called "viral" component of GPL? If someone take a > script of mine and grows it into something bigger and better and > amazing, I don't think I'm concerned about how they license it. As long > as they don't

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

2017-03-30 Thread Steve Dum
If you are using GNOME or KDE they both have mechanisms to add a ssh agent when you log in. They maintain a locked cache of your ssh keys. The first time you open a ssh session, a popup will ask for your passwd to the cache, and then for the duration of your login session the agent has your

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: change \n\n to \n

2016-11-11 Thread Steve Dum
The second pattern looks more like a perl pattern but not quite the right one. multiline searches in perl require a /m option on the search to more than one ^ and $. Also on the replace side ^ and $ are just literally the ^ and $ char's. Switching to answer the question - 'how can I do this

Re: [PLUG] Invoking ssh-agent in Slackware

2016-10-31 Thread Steve Dum
Rich, If you are using gnome, part of it's startup includes creating a ssh-agent for you, and the first time you try to ssh elsewhere it prompts you to unlock the agent. There is a program out there called keychain (search for 'linux keychain ssh-agent') which wouks well in non gnome

Re: [PLUG] Shell script error explanation needed

2016-08-11 Thread Steve Dum
Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I suspect the required facts to explain the failure are >> 1. what directory is the real mail.list file in? >> 2. what directory are you in when you submit the at job? > While this does not make sense to me since I provided the full path > relative to ~/ (including

Re: [PLUG] Shell script error explanation needed

2016-08-11 Thread Steve Dum
To answer your question about how the error can be at line 67 when the script only has 5 lines, realize that at adds a bunch of stuff at the top of the script - from the man page of the at on my machine: The working directory, the environment (except for the variables BASH_VERSINFO,

Re: [PLUG] lm_sensors and sensors3.conf

2016-01-30 Thread Steve Dum
How nice! The good news is nothing is lost, as the iwayback machine mirrored it. I suspect there are other mirrors as well. Looks like the last update of lm_sensors was in Sept. so the wayback machine will be uptodate. I suspect the issue right now is which site they are switching to, not that

Re: [PLUG] Question on mktime() results

2016-01-26 Thread Steve Dum
It appears to be garbage in - garbage out, via a very obscure route. If you start off with TZ=PST8PDT export TZ call your program then you get consistent results, with the tm_zone portion of the struct set to PDT in both cases. the man page for mktime doesn't indicate that the tm_gmtoff and

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2016-01-02 Thread Steve Dum
John, Rebooting showed that it wasn't a hardware problem. It could be a kernel bug, or other software problem. Next time it occurs,... things that might help... I suspect the need is to find what app still has an open file on that filesystem. Id use lsof, to weed the noise try the following --

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

2015-12-11 Thread Steve Dum
John, Here is something that might get you what you want Say you want to list all directories under directory foo find foo -type d this just print the names of the directories If you want something similar to what 'ls -l' would say, find foo -type d -ls The out of this is like the following

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-05 Thread Steve Dum
At one of the places I tend to stay while on vacation, I always look forward to the initial wifi setup (with dread). As you point out the issue is ssl connections. All my typical urls are https: now a days - and they produce a phony certificate that they want me to accept to log into their

[PLUG] For those of you thinking your computer activity is secure...

2015-02-09 Thread Steve Dum
the right things to keep communications secure. steve dum ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Line lengths for emails

2015-01-07 Thread Steve Dum
I have to admit giving in, regarding mail reading. I let seamonkey handle it. (same more or less as thunderbird) so I've become one of those who's email that is made up of single line paragraphs - with very long lines. And likewise, it wraps all my messages in my mailbox reasonably. and even does

Re: [PLUG] Run graphics apps from the command line, but suppress graphics.

2014-12-13 Thread Steve Dum
In a previous job we wanted to run regression tests without a zillion windows popping up, so we ended up running each command in a separate x server. -- I know -- that sounds excessive, but a X Server is really relatively light duty and this avoids dealing with issues of the server hanging or

Re: [PLUG] How to stop X

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Dum
Ubuntu decided that ctrl-alt-delete should be used to kill the x-server. which should also occur if you log out. If logging out or ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work to clean up the problem, probably it means its a kernel issue, some corruption in the display driver If you want ctrl-alt-bksp back

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi to buy/borrow?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Dum
Check out Oregon-electronics 503-644-1025 the norvac reincarnation Their website http://www.oregon-electronics.com/x/home.php?cat=250 seems to indicate they have the b+ and camera modules. steve ** Russell Senior wrote: Dan == Dan Pape dp...@dpape.com writes: Dan Hi List, I'm participating in

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

2014-07-30 Thread Steve Dum
My cryptic notes from when 12.04 was released said desktop eol was Apr 2015 and server was Apr 2017. Google brought me to the following page http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life which seems to say that they rescinded that distinction. However they do make a distinction between hardware

Re: [PLUG] Rdiff-backup script questions

2014-07-07 Thread Steve Dum
lots more filename too long errors. more important, in your original mail you had --include-globbing-filelist /home/jjj/rdiff_excludes.txt That is a list of files to include. Did you mean --exclude-globbing-filelist? steve John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:31:51 -0700 Steve

Re: [PLUG] Something noticed on upgrading to GNU gcc v4.9.0

2014-07-05 Thread Steve Dum
Gnu c++ is that way. Almost every release they make requires a different version of the std library. This is mostly because they have to make, ehh perhaps that's desire to make lib changes to support new features of the language. Usually, you can delete the compiler, but not the libraries which

Re: [PLUG] Rdiff-backup script questions

2014-07-05 Thread Steve Dum
data files while it's running. Rdiff-backup is going to change it. you just have to beware of this. steve John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:31:51 -0700 Steve Dum dr.d...@frontier.com dijo: back to all those error messages - lots of stuff in / you might want to skip /proc, /dev

Re: [PLUG] Rdiff-backup script questions

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Dum
The ** seems to be a rdiff-backup 'feature' matching strings including /'s. so **.iso would find anything ending in .iso in any directory being backed up. You do need to decide if your backing up your personal files or everything. As keith points out using a tool that backs up everything,

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Dum
most recent distributions of ssh just use 'authorized_keys'. It wouldn't hurt having both, but then you won't know which is required :-). I guess, 'man ssh' will tell you there right answer. But who reads docs. (Ubuntu 14.4 no longer mentions authorized_keys2) Dont forget permissions for the

Re: [PLUG] Confused about PAM configuration

2014-06-18 Thread Steve Dum
the 'required' is to make the authentication always behave the same, i.e. if you are attempting to login as joe, but there is no user joe, if login quits as soon as it sees joe, you are telling the potential crackers that joe isn't a valid user name, don't bother with it. whereas if it

Re: [PLUG] oscon expo hall discount code?

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Dum
Thanks, it works. steve Michael Dexter wrote: On 6/12/14 11:24 AM, Galen Seitz wrote: What is this year's code to get a free expo hall pass? PLUGEXPO :) Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org