Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-30 Thread David Fleck
pool/cron; empty on both systems. And > it's not in /etc/cron.d or any of the /etc/cron. folders, because > all they have is the standard default folders and files, all with old > timestamps. Can you describe what you did to create the jobs in the first place? -- David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu messed up LO!

2023-06-27 Thread David Bridges
I've always found the following helps with broken packages on a Debian based system. apt-get -f install You can do man apt-get for more info. -- David -Original Message- From: Michael Ewan Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Cc: PLUG Subject: Re

Re: [PLUG] Remind or Tkremind

2022-12-21 Thread David Fleck
appear, and replace * * 21 * * with 0 {hour} 21 * * and you'll get the message once, at the top of the hour, on the 21st of each month. -- - David Fleck --- Original Message --- On Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 at 4:12 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Oops. Something is wrong with

Re: [PLUG] Remind or Tkremind

2022-12-20 Thread David Fleck
My wife has had pretty good luck with KAlarm, which seems to behave just as you specify. Not sure if KAlarm will work outside of KDE, though. -- - David Fleck --- Original Message --- On Monday, December 19th, 2022 at 10:21 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I need an lit

[PLUG] Linux laptop recommendations?

2022-12-18 Thread David Fleck
. Thanks in advance for all responses-- -- - David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] Small script to run tftp

2022-10-15 Thread david
On 10/15/22 13:20, Chuck Hast wrote: Folks, I have some WiFi devices that I am loading code into to convert them to something called AREDN, Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network. Most of them use tftp to upload the new image into the device. After doing several of them I tried to figure out how

Re: [PLUG] Music Composing Software

2022-09-22 Thread David Bridges
MiniLab MkII Mini Hybrid Keyboard Controller. -- David -Original Message- From: Michael Barnes Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: [PLUG] Music Composing Software Date: 09/22/2022 07:30:39 AM I may have asked this before, but forgot. Any

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread David Bridges
onment, manually assemble the array (with --force), and add the new drive. it synced, then I had to re- apply the correct name and uuid to the array. then it was detected and started by the system on md0. but still could not mount the lvm volumes. <--snip--> -- David

Re: [PLUG] Laptop battery health check: strange result

2022-03-14 Thread David Bridges
Perhaps your device is not correct. Try upower --dump to see everything. -- David -Original Message- From: Rich Shepard Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Laptop battery health check: strange result Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:44:31 -0700 (PDT

Re: [PLUG] Replacement laptop

2022-02-25 Thread David Bridges
or HP stuff it might be worth it for you to check them out. They are based in Austin and get new stuff almost daily. Almost all systems come with a 1 year warranty. -- David -Original Message- From: Russell Senior Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: Rich Shepard , Portland Linux

Re: [PLUG] Counting Files

2021-08-17 Thread David Fleck
Ugh. Sorry, too little coffee. Didn't notice this had already been covered. --- David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 17th, 2021 at 7:39 AM, David Fleck wrote: > 'cut' might work well also. > > > ls | cut -f1 -d@ | sort | uniq -c > > to get a

Re: [PLUG] Counting Files

2021-08-17 Thread David Fleck
'cut' might work well also. > ls | cut -f1 -d@ | sort | uniq -c to get a list in sort order, or > ls | cut -f1 -d@ |sort | uniq -c | sort -n to get a list ordered by frequency. --- David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 17th, 2021 at 1:46 AM, Russell Senior

Re: [PLUG] Counting Files

2021-08-16 Thread David Fleck
As Wes said, an example or two would help greatly. --- David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 16th, 2021 at 7:17 PM, wes wrote: > are firstnames and lastnames always separated by the same character in each > > filename? > > are the names separate

Re: [PLUG] running (ancient) .BAS file with linux

2021-07-13 Thread David Bridges
Debian also has a package named basic256 which might work. It is available in stable, testing, and unstable repos. -- David > > > > > > I see a Debian package that might work > > > python3-pcbasic - cross-platform emulator for the GW-BASIC family > >

Re: [PLUG] Website of linux command examples

2021-06-20 Thread David Barr
x%20in%20a%20Nutshell,%206th%20Ed.pdf> > > because it has the context. /The Linux Command Line/ is also available online in its entirety. http://linuxclass.heinz.cmu.edu/doc/tlcl.pdf David -- David/dafydd PGP Public Key <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/042BC7A61817FD7

Re: [PLUG] Debian buster newbie: recompiling libgd for freetype support

2021-06-07 Thread David Bridges
-- David -Original Message- From: Keith Lofstrom Reply-To: kei...@keithl.com, Portland Linux/Unix Group To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: [PLUG] Debian buster newbie: recompiling libgd for freetype support Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:40:23 -0700 I'm attempting to add freetype support to libgd

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

2021-03-19 Thread David Fleck
/1988','500' '1988-031','Asbestos','Nwr','Labenske, Bill R. Jr.','','Notice of Civil Penalty Assessment','','6/12/1988','0' '1989-041','','Sw','Thomas, Donn, Aka/Donn Beam; Schultz, Richard;,Ann','','Notice of Civil Penalty Assessment','','2/23/1989','0' -- - David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-18 Thread David
On 2/17/21 4:40 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Yes, device names may change on booting or when plugged in, but don't device names stay put once you are booted or a drive is plugged in? This sounds like a cable or hardware issue to me. If a drive is mounted and something happens and the kernel

Re: [PLUG] Next topic: whiteboard software

2021-02-01 Thread David Bridges
a PC. -- David -Original Message- From: John Sechrest Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Next topic: whiteboard software Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:19:09 -0800 That makes sense. However, sometimes people use various markup tools

Re: [PLUG] Execute Script Via Email

2021-01-21 Thread David
On 1/21/21 8:11 AM, Michael Barnes wrote: Is there a way to execute a script via email? I have a machine that does several monitoring tasks of equipment. When certain conditions are detected and at scheduled times, the machine sends status emails to me. I would like to send an email back to

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread David Bridges
://kdb16@lfs17/home/kdb16 I use ssh key authentication between my computers and have quite a few bookmarks set up to automatically browse many computers both local and remote. I'm assuming that whatever file manager you use would have this functionality in 2021 but ymmv -- David -Original

Re: [PLUG] New Computer - No Ethernet

2020-12-15 Thread David Bridges
.com/heri16/r8125 Perhaps looking over the pages at https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=75891=319289 or more specifically  https://centos.pkgs.org/7/elrepo-x86_64/kmod-r8125-9.003.05-1.el7_8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm.html will help you get this going as long as you don't mind using a third pa

Re: [PLUG] ProxyJump Link

2020-12-04 Thread David Barr
n short versions > (dev) if you want to use the multiplex connection. You can still use short names via the HostName directive. Host dev   HostName dev.my.com   CheckHostIP no   ProxyCommand ssh mybastion -W %h:%p Cheers! David -- David/dafydd PGP Public Key <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-31 Thread David Bridges
The very first hit for me when searching for the terms below on duckduckgo more than likely has the information you need since it has information for Ubuntu and also information for systems using init or systemd. start htop on tty on boot As with most things there are more than one way to do

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-28 Thread David
On 8/28/20 12:00 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: Folks, I have a server that I would like to have HTOP startup in one of the TTY's so far all I find are how to do it from the GUI (no gui this is a server) I would like for HTOP to start in say terminal 3 for grins (I use 1 and 2 for doing changes or

Re: [PLUG] 9 Tb only allocated 200 Gb

2020-08-25 Thread David Bridges
I'm glad that it worked for you. Always happy to help. -- David On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 14:41 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > That did it, I now have all of my disk space I need for video > storage. > Again, thank you very much. > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM Chuck Hast wrot

Re: [PLUG] 9 Tb only allocated 200 Gb

2020-08-25 Thread David Bridges
o use the appropriate commands to resize it. man resize2fs is also your friend. -- David > -T > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 06:22 Chuck Hast wrote: > > > Folks, > > I just setup a Zoneminder server the machine has 9 Tb of > > drive but when I did the Ubuntu ser

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-30 Thread David Bridges
On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 05:57 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:37 AM, David Bridges wrote: > > There is a difference between the installer and installing packages > > on > > an installed system. > > That is the *CRUX* of the situation. I already have abso

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-29 Thread David Bridges
::Install-Recommends "1"; It looks like you can override that behavior but creating a new file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d with something like the following. APT::Install-Recommends "0"; Might help, might not. -- David On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 09:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-29 Thread David Bridges
more questions that you have to answer along the way. The trick is when you get to the package selection screen to uncheck everything except for Standard System which will give you only a basic system with no gui. -- David On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 08:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I like Deb

Re: [PLUG] Folding@home

2020-04-20 Thread David Fleck
the idea of an unattended machine running that hot all the time. -- - David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:54 PM, Mark Heimstaedt wrote: > Avast antivirus suggests installing Folding@home module to effect > distributed computing to analyze covid pr

Re: [PLUG] Buzzing speakers - SOLVED!

2020-03-26 Thread David
On 3/25/20 8:43 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: -- clip -- Source of problem discovered. Still working on why. My APRS base station beacons every 30 minutes. For some reason, I recently started getting some RFI into things, this speaker being one of them. Just happened to be looking at the APRS

Re: [PLUG] How to use linux for those who need to learn

2019-12-17 Thread David Bridges
e things that aren't really a problem. -- David ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Stupid network question

2019-12-08 Thread David Fleck
running MPD >installation, I don't think Cantata is going to do you any good. -- - David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Search entire filesystem except two mounted partitions

2019-11-30 Thread David Fleck
options} ? You could stick it into a tiny script or shell alias. -- - David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] When is a VPN advantageous?

2019-11-21 Thread David Bridges
which should never be down. -- David On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 11:50 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm not traveling out-of-state as much as I used to and I'm curious > when a > VPN would be advantageous for a sole practitioner professional > services > provider who would access the offi

Re: [PLUG] Procmail issues

2019-10-31 Thread David
On 10/31/19 5:15 PM, David wrote: On 10/31/19 5:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, David wrote: This is precisely what I was trying to say here: http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2019-October/093324.html David, I don't think I received that one. I personally don't

Re: [PLUG] Procmail issues

2019-10-31 Thread David
On 10/31/19 5:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, David wrote: This is precisely what I was trying to say here: http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2019-October/093324.html David, I don't think I received that one. I personally don't believe that permissions

Re: [PLUG] Procmail issues

2019-10-31 Thread David
il/plug/2019-October/093324.html I personally don't believe that permissions are the issue here. Perhaps if a sanitized version of your .procmail file could be pasted so we may be able to help you better? david ___ PLUG mailing list PL

Re: [PLUG] procmail issue

2019-10-28 Thread David
a huge security risk, but only you can answer that. david ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus can't see freenas...

2019-08-19 Thread David
ly to mount on boot and leave it attached all the time. david ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread David Bridges
xcludes.txt' /home/rshepard/ rshepard@salmo:/home/rshepard/ I have files with commands resembling the one above on several computers which have worked for me for years. Hope this helps -- David ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pd

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-18 Thread David Bridges
Exclusions can also be added to a file one per line, When using a file listing excluded files/directories you would add something like the following to your command line. --exclude-from='/some/directory/excludes.txt' -- David On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 23:20 -0400, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com

Re: [PLUG] Brother 9840CDW Fedora 30...

2019-07-09 Thread David Bridges
Running Debian sid here and there are several entries in the cups configuration utility (localhost:631) for Brotner 9840CDW. -- David On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 00:45 -0400, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Did you try to install the driver from Brother? > https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.asp

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

2019-07-03 Thread David Bridges
We have quite a few customers who use osticket https://osticket.com which is open source and can be downloaded and installed on your server. It seems to work quite well and is fairly simple to set up. They also have hosted versions but that doesn't sound like what you are looking for. -- David

Re: [PLUG] Distro suggestions

2019-06-30 Thread David Fleck
On Saturday, June 29, 2019 10:42 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > My 2¢: Most of these have live-boot options, right? Honestly, I'd download > and boot a few and see what you like. I should have thought of that! Thanks for all the replies. I now have some homework to do... -- -David

[PLUG] Distro suggestions

2019-06-29 Thread David Fleck
at all. I seem to remember Ubuntu being described as more Windows-y than most distros, which I don't care for. But I'd like suggestions as to the pros/cons of the four listed above as laptop OS'es specifically. (*ThinkPad Edge E531) Thanks in advance-- -- - David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] EE help sought

2019-05-05 Thread David Barr
end-to-end. Good luck! David On 5/4/19 5:31 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > An out-of-town contact is looking for help. I quote: > > "Specifically, we need someone who can design, source, assemble and program > a battery management system for our battery pack. Many BMS’s designs >

Re: [PLUG] Grub 0.97: convert VM with two disk to VM with single bootable disk

2019-04-26 Thread David Bridges
for any distribution as long as you know what crucial files that need to be restored. Good luck -- David On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 15:05 -0700, Robert Citek wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I turn a VM with two virtual disks into a VM with a single > virtual > disk that boots? > >

Re: [PLUG] Using xrandr to address overscan on TV

2019-03-29 Thread David Fleck
This may be an utterly naive question, but -- does the TV have multiple display modes? Our very old and very cheap Toshiba has about 5, one of which works perfectly with OpenSUSE + HDMI. -- - David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

2019-03-27 Thread David Bridges
I think that searching for tmux examples will provide you with the answers you are looking for. The first hit (link below) seemed to explain it to me. https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/ -- David On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 06:22 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 27

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

2019-03-02 Thread David Fleck
he GLU package go. E.g., > rpm -ql libGLU1-9.0.0-18.4.x86_64 /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1 /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1.3.1 I can't remember if Slackware uses rpms. If so, are the files there? -- - David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

2019-02-26 Thread David
On 2/26/19 3:29 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Since nmap sees the WAP (line 5 of the results) and it's up what might be preventing me (and root) from pinging it or accessing its admin page using the browser? More information: # nmap -sS 192.168.55.200

Re: [PLUG] CCC

2019-02-24 Thread David Bridges
itional work, in my case custom boot images we boot via PXE that contains a preconfigured bacula-fd client. I use it for a handful of Windows servers and a little over 100 linux servers at work and have it running at home for all of my personal stuff (linux onl

Re: [PLUG] Needed: RS-232 male plug to USB male plug

2019-02-22 Thread David Barr
Nah, that's just what it's advertised for. I use it on my OSX laptop. You might need to dig to find a *nix driver for it, but I'm reasonably sure one exists. David On 2/22/19 9:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, David Barr wrote: > >> It even comes with idiot, er, act

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: simple Linux spreadsheet

2019-02-22 Thread David Bridges
ame, select My Templates as the category Click the Set as default template Click the Save button Next time you open libreoffice calc it will use your settings. Not sure about the help on my system (Debian Sid) the help is displayed in my default web browser so you can just use ctrl + to increase the font s

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: simple Linux spreadsheet

2019-02-21 Thread David Bridges
tween column A and Row 1. Choose the font you want and it will be applied to all cells. Right click on a column and then select Column Width then set the width you want and make sure that a check is in the checkbox beside Default Value. -- David __

Re: [PLUG] question on linux tool to clean URLs

2019-02-05 Thread David Barr
end of the line ($) with nothing." I haven't tested this on a file, so I deserve whatever mockery I get if I missed something. Cheers! David On 2/5/19 2:48 PM, logical american wrote: > Hi: > > Is there a linux tool which cleans up the URLs in a text file (I > believe Western unicode encodin

Re: [PLUG] What should prompt look like?

2019-01-09 Thread David
On 1/9/19 8:21 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On my "new" Slackware machine, booting in run level 3, after startx, and opening a terminal, the prompt looks like: bash-4.3$ When I log in via ssh the prompt looks like: rsteff@ENU-2:~$ When I open a terminal on Ubuntu, the prompt looks like:

Re: [PLUG] Disabling automatic mounting of USB connected mass storage

2019-01-07 Thread David
On 1/7/19 7:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm using Debian Stretch with MATE desktop. I have a collection of USB drives (from 32GB -> 1TB) each with multiple partitions. When I plug them in I don't  want anything automatically mounted. I want to have them appear in MATE's "Devices" menu for

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

2019-01-02 Thread David
On 1/2/19 11:07 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/2/19 10:51 AM, David wrote: On 1/2/19 10:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/2/19 10:26 AM, David wrote: <...> In my config file: $ sudo grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes If you have a "no" (which I thin

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

2019-01-02 Thread David
On 1/2/19 10:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/2/19 10:26 AM, David wrote: <...> Sounds like I need to figure out how to set DISPLAY. Your sshd configuration may explicitly deny the variable from being set. In my config file: $ sudo grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forw

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

2019-01-02 Thread David
On 1/2/19 10:17 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/2/19 10:04 AM, David wrote: On 1/2/19 10:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: I can run ssh -X on my Slackware machine and connect to my Ubuntu 18 machine. But I can't run caja on that connection. I get this error message: dick@ENU-1$ caja Could

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

2019-01-02 Thread David
On 1/2/19 10:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: I can run ssh -X on my Slackware machine and connect to my Ubuntu 18 machine. But I can't run caja on that connection. I get this error message: dick@ENU-1$ caja Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display: dick@ENU-1$ Try looking at the -Y flag

Re: [PLUG] A survey of backup philosophies/methods?

2018-12-22 Thread David Fleck
rd drive. It works for me, but I doubt it's anything near a 'best practice'. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Local network routing mystery [SOLVED]

2018-12-11 Thread David Fleck
Rebooting the router fixed the problem. It's a Netgear genie 6200v2, with the original firmware, and getting a bit long in the tooth. This is the first time that I remember it behaving oddly. Thanks for the troubleshooting reminder. -- - David Fleck ‐‐‐ Original Message

[PLUG] Local network routing mystery

2018-12-11 Thread David Fleck
each other, even though they can see other machines on the network and there is no difference in network topology distinguishing connecting and non-connecting machines. Reboots (of desktops and the laptop) haven't helped. Last data point: this was all working correctly 24 hours ago. -- - D

Re: [PLUG] Problem with Google Earth Install

2018-12-09 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2018-12-08 at 21:59 -0600, Michael Barnes wrote: > On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:37 PM Tomas K > > wrote: > > > I was kind of curious what is Google Earth. So > > > > I tried GEarth on bunch of Ubuntu installs both 16.04 and 18.04 > > I experienced no problems with GoogleEarth after

Re: [PLUG] rsync: worked once now perms error [RESOLVED]

2018-11-13 Thread David
On 11/13/18 2:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new desktop (baetis) using this command from ~/ on the new desktop: rsync -av salmo: .   I gave up trying to find a reason for this behavior

Re: [PLUG] rsync: worked once now perms error

2018-11-11 Thread david
On 11/11/18 7:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:   Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new desktop (baetis) using this command from ~/ on the new desktop: rsync -av salmo: .   /opt on both hosts have perms 777.   However, when I try to copy the /opt partition from

Re: [PLUG] Specifying numeric order to sort

2018-10-29 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 15:51 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > The command 'sort -n -r -k 3 number-samples-per-site.txt -o sorted' is an > example. And, the reverse option is ignored when I specify a numeric format. > (Whether the -k option has a space before the 3 makes no difference here.) > >

Re: [PLUG] New desktop: issue with 'find'

2018-10-04 Thread David
On 10/04/2018 11:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, wes wrote: Hopefully someone recognizes this error and can help, it's not one I've seen before. Would you please provide a real-world example, and its complete output? And also the output of find --version? wes,   On the new

Re: [PLUG] Searching all filesystems except /proc

2018-09-30 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2018-09-30 at 14:46 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >I want to exclude /proc from being examined by 'find' when searching for > a file from /. I did not see an option in the man page to exclude specific > partitions. Is there a way to have find ignore /proc? Not exactly what you want, but

Re: [PLUG] Indecipherable rsync error message

2018-09-29 Thread David Fleck
On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 23:34 -0700, wes wrote: > "getcwd()" is a function that returns the current working > directory, so I'd start there. Are you in a valid directory location when running the command? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Distinguishing instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-27 Thread David Bridges
You might look into the Meld application. It is file/directory compare tool with multiple panes that works pretty well although it can be a bit slow when working with large remote directories. It's available via apt-get on Debian. -- David On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 05:11 -0500, Richard Owlett

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution for new user?

2018-09-12 Thread David
prefer the mate desktop. I generally lean towards recommending something based on ubuntu, so ubuntu mate or linux mint are my first recommendations for somebody new to linux. Purcell On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:07 PM Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, David wrote: I don't have a true

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution for new user?

2018-09-12 Thread David
On 09/12/2018 11:22 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:   I'm building a system for a user new to linux and know that Slackware is not the preferred distribution for such a user. The various Debian offspring seem to be very popular, but it seems to me to be a very large family. Would xubuntu be an easy

[PLUG] Semi-OT: Anybody here used Bazel?

2018-08-04 Thread David Fleck
tutorials rather opaque and unilluminating. Curious if anyone has had experience with it, especially for C++ builds. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] An awk question: multiple actions acting on each line.

2018-07-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2018-07-22 at 15:24 -0500, David Fleck wrote: > Rich- > I got the attached script to do what you want (I think).   Looks like attachments aren't allowed (?). Anyway, here's attempt #2, inline: #!/usr/bin/awk BEGIN { FS="," } {print $1",00:00,"$2+"296

Re: [PLUG] An awk question: multiple actions acting on each line.

2018-07-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2018-07-22 at 12:26 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > 2006-10-01,10.72,10.70,10.72,10.69,10.66,10.65,10.66,10.66,10.66,10.64,10.64,10.63,10.63,10.64,10.64,10.65,10.68,10.68,10.67,10.68,10.69,10.69,10.69,10.67 >

Re: [PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?

2018-07-04 Thread David Bridges
The tutorial at https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN is fairly easy to follow and will produce a nice stable VPN although you will need to tweak it some for specific situations. -- David On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 08:52 +0200, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > OpenVPN does what you need. There are good clie

[PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?

2018-07-03 Thread David Barr
uiring 2FA on top of that, to reduce the risk of a lost/stolen device. I haven't looked in a while, but I recall OpenVPN was really oriented towards setting up permanent connections, and configuring for transient connections was really convoluted. Thanks! David -- David - Offbeat

Re: [PLUG] Correcting duplicate strings in files

2018-06-19 Thread david
On 06/19/2018 06:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, david wrote: While I believe the answer has already been found, would the 'uniq' command have been useful as an alternative? david,   Good question. Can it find a difference in a specific field and change only one of them

Re: [PLUG] Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-20 Thread David Fleck
On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 03:41 -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > I have no idea what a kde activities is, fwiw. Why don't you explain > in > English what it is your goal is, and then we won't have to guess? From Richard's link: Activities were introduced with the KDE 4 release series. For some reason,

Re: [PLUG] Need an OLD style BASIC

2017-12-15 Thread David Bridges
Perhaps basic256 is close to what you are looking for. It is packaged for Debian so it should be easy enough to check out. apt-cache show basic256 http://www.basic256.org/index_en -- David On Fri, 2017-12-15 at 16:47 +0200, John Sechrest wrote: > What is the goal of the basic? >

Re: [PLUG] Finding a contact at SpiritOne

2017-12-10 Thread David Fleck
up on trying to contact SO, called up the credit card co. and told them I disputed the Oct. monthly charge, and any charges from then on. That seems to have worked for us. I'm not sure how that will apply to your situation, though. Good luck- -- David Fleck <david.fl...@mchsi.com>

Re: [PLUG] Mount cifs share from fstab.

2017-12-04 Thread David
On 12/04/2017 03:36 PM, michael wrote: On 2017-12-04 17:00, David wrote: On 12/04/2017 02:33 PM, michael wrote: I have it working.  I don't want the password for the owner of the share in plain text in a file though.  Creating /home/pi/.smbpasswd with the contents: username=Test password

Re: [PLUG] Reality check

2017-11-21 Thread David
On 11/20/2017 07:58 PM, Mke C> wrote: On 11/20/2017 05:54 PM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: -clip - When the firewall receives an ICMP packet, ping and traceroute both will show failure and/or lack of "up: state. If the attacker knows the device is there by DNS resolution or IP

Re: [PLUG] Reality check

2017-11-19 Thread david
On 11/18/2017 03:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:   With the mail/phone issues I've had recently I want to check that I'm doing things correctly. Two instances of not reaching web pages.   I can load (and ping) www.opendkim.org, but cannot load (or ping) lists.opendkim.org. This means their mail

Re: [PLUG] Fun sed challenge!

2017-11-16 Thread David Fleck
Thu Nov 16 00:05:34 PST 2017 [2603:1c2:1800:a8c0::1] foo bar baz How about cat logfile | sed -e 's/:0/:/g' -e 's/:0/:/g' -e 's/:0/:/g' -e 's/:0/:/g' -e 's/:::*/::/g' ? -- David Fleck <david.fl...@mchsi.com> ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Backup MX server

2017-11-10 Thread David Barr
there about a mail server that just spools messages until the primary MX is back on line, though. David > On Nov 10, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > I would like to add a backup MX server for the rare times my primary MX > server here is of