Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I have found this regular rsync aproach inadequate with constant babysitting sideffects. These are desktops, so network filesystem would resolve this and more. On laptops, I would recommend to use something like NextCloud synchronizing to a master location. Those two options do work better for

Re: [PLUG] stopping facebook

2018-11-15 Thread m
I deleted my Facebook account several months ago (should have done it years before), and so far, no "please come back messages". On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:59 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > After an irksome hour of frobbing, I finally managed to > delete a 12 year old facebook account. Password

Re: [PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On 11/15/18 2:03 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: One of my favorite things about Slackware is that it ships with both XFCE and KDE. ... and blackbox, and fvwm2, and WindowMaker, and fluxbox, and ... :-) Chacun a son gout, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

2018-11-15 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/15/18 2:03 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I feel like I've seen something like that before. That said GUI bugs are notoriously difficult to identify via email. The G stands for Graphical, so the only way to see and understand it is to look at the problem with your own eyes. I would not be

Re: [PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

2018-11-15 Thread Ben Koenig
I feel like I've seen something like that before. That said GUI bugs are notoriously difficult to identify via email. The G stands for Graphical, so the only way to see and understand it is to look at the problem with your own eyes. I would not be surprised if your GUI is doing something funky,

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Address Verification...

2018-11-15 Thread Roderick Anderson
I should suggest looking at postgrey. Back many years ago (in a previous life/job) I sent up 6 or so MX servers (forwarders) for a small ISP. Once I got postgrey installed and running I saw 90%+ drop in SPAM to just my email address. YMMV, Rod -- On 11/15/18 10:47 AM, Michael Christopher

[PLUG] stopping facebook

2018-11-15 Thread Keith Lofstrom
After an irksome hour of frobbing, I finally managed to delete a 12 year old facebook account. Password long lost, so I had to jump through MANY hoops. If your setup is like mine, copy /etc/postfix/main.cf to a backup file FIRST. Facebook's email address for me is my personal server, which has

[PLUG] Postfix, dynamically block when user invalid...

2018-11-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
> Nov 15 12:33:58 goose postfix/smtpd[7613]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[60.178.154.107]: 450 4.1.1 < > 1068617380.19938.18.ca...@goose.robinson-west.com>: Recipient address > rejected: unverified address: unknown user: > "1068617380.19938.18.camel"; from=<1362248...@qq.com> to=< >

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Address Verification now DMARC...

2018-11-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
Sounds like address verification is safe to use. Here's the link: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html#how For this DMARC thing, the following seems to be the main site for it:

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Address Verification now DMARC...

2018-11-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
How does DMARC work and is it something that a personal email server should use? -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Address Verification...

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: I'm wondering if Address Verification is safe to deploy in production and if not what to do instead? If you're running postfix you can set up /etc/postfix/badaddr and ../badip. The first has domain names, the second has IP addresses.

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote: Just as a suggestion, get your backup running manually first before running from cron. That reduces the time for troubleshooting. Understand what your rsync is doing. Validate that your backup on the destination is good. If you are going to use ssh keys,

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Larry Brigman
The Display for the Noodle Pi has been discontinued without a compatible replacement for the project. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:57 AM Nat Taylor wrote: > I may have to check out the Noodle pi too! > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:35 AM Richard Owlett > wrote: > > > On 11/15/2018 09:29 AM, Nat

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Nat Taylor
I may have to check out the Noodle pi too! On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:35 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/15/2018 09:29 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > > The Dual Boot Gemini is in production, and is available in wifi-only. > > You can buy it here: > > >

[PLUG] Postfix Address Verification...

2018-11-15 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
Looking at the spam I get, it doesn't take long to notice that the from address is probably forged. I've studied Address Verification by looking at the howto on how to set it up. I'm concerned that postfix has to make assumptions for address verification to even work and that these assumptions

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Larry Brigman
Even the shell in cron could be different from your login shell. Only the location running cron should be affected. The ~/ is a shell alias pointing to the $HOME variable. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Larry Brigman wrote: > > > Note that none of

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Smith, Cathy
Just as a suggestion, get your backup running manually first before running from cron. That reduces the time for troubleshooting. Understand what your rsync is doing. Validate that your backup on the destination is good. If you are going to use ssh keys, get that tested. Then put

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote: There are a lot of examples available if you google for rsync tutorial or rsync examples. Search for examples of using rsync for backups. Thank you, Cathy. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Smith, Cathy
Take a look at the man page from cron. When a job executes from cron, you don't even get your default path. You have to set the variables, including your path in your script. Or you have to specify the full path in the command syntax that is executed. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Smith, Cathy
There are a lot of examples available if you google for rsync tutorial or rsync examples. Search for examples of using rsync for backups. You may need to specify the source path, /, and the destination path, /. If you are rsync'ing everything, then /data should be included by default. That

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Larry Brigman wrote: Note that none of your shell variables from your login will be set when you run from cron. Larry, Would this affect synchronizing files in ~/ on both hosts? Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Louis Kowolowski wrote: You might be interested in looking at syncthing. Its designed to replicate things from 1 place to another. You can even set it up such that one is the "master" and it doesn't accept changes from other nodes. Louis, I will look at synthing.

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Larry Brigman
Note that none of your shell variables from your login will be set when you run from cron. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 7:53 AM Rich Shepard I want to update ~/ on the new desktop with changes made in ~/ on the > old > desktop using rsync in a daily cron job. The old desktop has a directory > ~/data

Re: [PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

2018-11-15 Thread Dick Steffens
More details. The problem appears when I copy two files at once, and then try to rename them. (One at a time, of course.) If I copy one file and rename it, and then copy the other file and rename it, it works okay. But if I copy the two files in one move, and then try to rename them, one at a

Re: [PLUG] Restoring ssh-agent with passphrase [FIXED]

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Regenerating the public/private key pairs on the new desktop allowed rsync, ssh, and scp to work once more. And they sill do today. Whew! I found the problem: for some reason that I had a line in ~/.bash_logout that told ssh-agent to dump the key.

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/15/2018 09:29 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: The Dual Boot Gemini is in production, and is available in wifi-only. You can buy it here: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda/products/gemini-pda-wifi-only?variant=6314880499739 Was referring to it when I said "I'm tracking it." I

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/15/2018 09:10 AM, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Richard, I viewed one of the links I provided in the "old devices" thread, related to this one. It seems based on what I just read that the *Noodle Pi* may be very close to your list of requirements. Mea Culpa. I investigated Raspberry Pi about

[PLUG] rsync in a cron job

2018-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to update ~/ on the new desktop with changes made in ~/ on the old desktop using rsync in a daily cron job. The old desktop has a directory ~/data while the newdesktop has a /data partition separate from /home. There is an --exclude option to rsync and I'm not sure where it should go

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Johnathan Mantey
Richard, I viewed one of the links I provided in the "old devices" thread, related to this one. It seems based on what I just read that the *Noodle Pi* may be very close to your list of requirements. I also sent another link, which I have not viewed, comparing 5 different handheld devices

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/13/2018 07:46 PM, Russell Senior wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:26 PM Richard Owlett wrote: I know I have *WEIRD* preferences. How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? You should pose it knowing that you may get answers that