Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-30 Thread David Fleck
27;s not /var/spool/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] Remind or Tkremind

2022-12-21 Thread David Fleck
you want the message to 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:

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
orks well with Linux. Thanks in advance for all responses-- -- - David Fleck

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 > >

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, Russel

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 separated from

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

2021-03-19 Thread David Fleck
c. (Briggs/Industrial Oil/Fuel Proce)','','Notice of Civil Penalty Assessment',' Wq','5/28/1987','3500' '1988-017','Open Burning','Swr','Jones, Billy And Ladake, Robert','','Notice of Civil

Re: [PLUG] Folding@home

2020-04-20 Thread David Fleck
#x27;t like 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 analy

Re: [PLUG] Stupid network question

2019-12-08 Thread David Fleck
d and 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
other find 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] 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... -- -

[PLUG] Distro suggestions

2019-06-29 Thread David Fleck
rs 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

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] 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@pdx

Re: [PLUG] Wandering off topic: Linux From Scratch

2018-12-25 Thread David Fleck
On Tue, 2018-12-25 at 10:27 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/22/2018 06:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The deliverable, so to speak, is some understanding of the guts of Linux. Have you looked into the Linux From Scratch project? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ _

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

2018-12-22 Thread David Fleck
ard 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
ly don't 'see' 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 work

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 doi

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] 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 y

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 http://li

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

2018-08-04 Thread David Fleck
and I find its 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

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 > 2006-10-02,10.67,10.67,10.67,10.67,10.68,10.67,10.68,10.68,10.68,10.68,10.68,10.68,1

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] Finding a contact at SpiritOne

2017-12-10 Thread David Fleck
rly Oct. I gave 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

Re: [PLUG] Fun sed challenge!

2017-11-16 Thread David Fleck
On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 04:48 -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > Nice, that's a notch better than I came up with.  But, sadly, it > still > munges the timestamps with leading zeros in minutes and seconds. Oops, didn't notice the timestamp.  How about: cat testline | sed -e 's/ \(..\):\(..\):\(..\) /x\1x

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 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug