Re: [PLUG] wikis breaking on updates (was: Re: Upgrage Breaks MediaWiki - why?)

pain, fragility, and (probably) unpatched security vulnerabilities while people scramble to find and implement a solution (that may no longer exist within even a reasonable set of parameters). I feel vaguely guilty every time I say it, but if computers were easy I wouldn't have a job.

Re: [PLUG] A hardware issue [UPDATE]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: I usually rely on a live CD (or a modern equivalent on a USB stick) to fsck the /boot partition. Paul, I have a Slackware64-15.0 installation on a USB drive. But the desktop's running -14.2. For a

Re: [PLUG] A hardware issue [UPDATE]

this is the underlying problem, and may be a symptom of the deeper issue, but in general ... I usually rely on a live CD (or a modern equivalent on a USB stick) to fsck the /boot partition. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Is this something to worry about?

o cause to worry. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Transferring public key shows error

If you don't have local access to an SSH key already in your .ssh/authorized_keys file on salmo, well, you've locked yourself out. If you do have access to an SSH recognized by salmo, you'll need to load it locally before attempted the scp operation. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] a question for Google Bard

export $vpnName /path/to/vpn.conf -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Migrating content - MediaWiki or WordPress?

-- and several other content generators can use it as well. This assumes that you don't have dynamic content of a sort that requires an database that can be queried. If that's the case, I have no answer for you. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Paul Goins wrote: Seems like this was intentional due to a Debian bug at the time. Note this from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/amd64/bacula: Removed from disk on 2022-07-23. Removal requested on 2021-12-08. Deleted

Re: [PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

resql database Bacula uses to manage its metadata. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Galen Seitz wrote: On 1/19/23 14:47, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Jason Barnett wrote: Page 3 of their setup guide documents how to install it.  A quick perusal suggests that you need a licence key to use even the community version. I could be wrong as

Re: [PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

Debian testing, blocks libssl transition; Debian bug #997139 Thank you for the lead on that. I will wander down the path when my schedule allows. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

"real use"), plus a bunch more to disk, all without a licence. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

[PLUG] Bacula in Ubuntu

more likely to be used by enterprises and are more likely to run backups, but bacula is a no-show in 22.04 LTS. So if you want to run Bacula on Jammy, you need grab 9.4 from Focal or 9.6 from Kinetic and hope one runs. Otherwise, no current LTS for you! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22&

Re: [PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

nably good at what it does, but the Go templating language is ... quirky. I like it because it allows me to manage a fully templated site but using all static content and not a live system like PHP. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Off topic but not sure who to ask

o a recorded version of the call -- something like, "It's clear to me that you are not able to solve my problem. Please escalate my call to someone who can." The tech (in sane firms) will get a pass because the escalation occurs specifically at the customer's request. -- Pa

Re: [PLUG] Whitespace in Ubuntu 22.04 rsyslog.conf

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 13:34 Paul Heinlein wrote: Just an FYI: At work, we use a puppet template to generate /etc/rsyslog.conf on all our *nix machines. That template was failing on the first Ubuntu 22.04 host we tried to integrate with our puppet

[PLUG] Whitespace in Ubuntu 22.04 rsyslog.conf

setting would fail, e.g., $FileOwner syslog $FileGroup adm Replacing the two spaces with a single space fixed the problem. I scoured the changelogs but couldn't find evidence that this is an intentional change. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] IPv6 TCP connect timeout puzzler

that's hosting a Linux VM using the UTM hypervisor. ssh -6 fails but ping6 succeeds. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

he combined "heat/cool" mode. I know Nest is a commerical product and that there are privacy concerns. I'm just reporting my experience. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS upgrade timing

and, away from X11. You may need to research how or if that will impact you. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] switch with Fast Boot PoE

7;s managed and definitely SOHO. I have no distinct memory of time-to-power, but I don't recall long waits. I cannot find any specs in a quick Google search, but that line might be worth investigating. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

ource software by filing tickets, submitting patches, and writing documentation -- increasingly answer to their legal departments. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

olved along the whole of the aging process that leave much of "acting your age" up to the individual. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

e to fully understand. But it ran, and I got X11 configured. So chuffed was I! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Switch ISP to CenturyLink

://www.madboa.com/blog/2020/08/29/freebsd-ipv6/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] ABC Plus?

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: On 12/12/21 1:55 PM, Robert Citek wrote: Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time, a long time. "My uncle told me he's dead." "Oh, he's not dead, not yet." After ABC 2 comes "ABC: Revenge of the Clef&quo

Re: [PLUG] ABC Plus?

ally answer the question, isn't it?) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Why does my computer seem to be running slow?

r. Perhaps it's fine, but it's just high enough to warrant a notice. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Early Overview CentOS 9 Stream

On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:29 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: I installed CentOS 9 Stream yesterday as a VM. (VMware note: to install from the DVD ISO, you must use UEFI boot and the "Secure" option must be deselected.) Thanks, Paul, for going thr

Re: [PLUG] Early Overview CentOS 9 Stream

This is a fairly early release, so I'm only mildly surprised by this. As the repository matures, I suspect that will change. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

[PLUG] Early Overview CentOS 9 Stream

so a stream. I'm not sure how that will work. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] DNS Provider

an unnecessary expense for someone else, but Digital Ocean created the reverse pointers for my VM when I spun it up. I didn't need to change my DNS zone provider at all. I've used Zoneedit's free DNS service for years now; it's always been solid for me: https://www.zoneedit.co

Re: [PLUG] Dovecot Problem

t, but that's a convention not a necessity). So you'll need to parse from dovecot.conf downward through that file progression. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Constituent Poll 2021

ws side chats or walking away from an uninteresting conversation. Virtual meetings, as far as I know, don't have the technology to support conversations between subsets of the larger group. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

I had never seen before. He was definitely a Debian guy and full-throated advocate of fully free, GPL-licensed software. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Refresh keyboard

ps auxwww | egrep -i 'firefox|chrom' That will usually show any hung browser processes. It's been a long time since I've worked in a Linux GUI, but on my Macs Chrome runs a bunch of helper processes that occasionally run amok. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Reading a file with a dash

interpreting options when they encounter a bare ' -- ' string. So this should work mv -- -u newfilename Or, just use the . directory in the filename: less ./-u -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

elf some typing. [heinlein@omega ~]$ echo $PWD /home/heinlein [heinlein@omega ~]$ pwd /home/heinlein pwd is part of the GNU coreutils application suite, so it's probably installed just about everywhere outside of appliance-y machines. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Canonical Mailman page not reachable

>. Has anyone else had difficulties signing up for a canonical mail list? Rich, It looks like you need an Ubuntu Single Sign-On (aka Ubuntu One) account to join a Canonical mailing list. Did you sign up for such an account? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

ur system during the Zoom call, but beware that they will impact your numbers. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Fire the umn.edu IRB?

On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Russell Senior wrote: https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-april-21-2021 One thing is certain: the web designers at The U* are certainly committed to the school colors. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W * My mom was an alum

Re: [PLUG] Fire the umn.edu IRB?

the subject of Patterns of Abuse and Criminality. This looks like a version of gaslighting, but in a tech-community context. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] adding network name alias

er dived too deeply into udev, but that looks like the place to go. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Minimal GUI Bible study(reading) software

age on the home page. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Recommend a cheap-when-stopped VM provider?

tallation. That would be my goal: script from scratch, rather than rely on full-system backups. On to your question: My understanding is that Google Cloud does not charge computing expenses for a stopped instance, though you're still charged for resources (disk, etc) attached to the instance

Re: [PLUG] Midnight Commander display borked

es simpler glyphs. Finally, mc may be trying to use a typeface that doesn't exist on your system. I don't know Midnight Commander well enough to suggest a fix. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https:/

Re: [PLUG] ProxyJump Link

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: Someone asked about the link to SSH ProxyJump documentation. There's more to be said than this, but here's the link: https://www.madboa.com/blog/2017/11/02/ssh-proxyjump/ I'll post a follow

Re: [PLUG] ProxyJump Link

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: My work network is hundreds of hosts, so I don't try to list all the unqualified names ... I'd be exhausted! :-) Paul, Isn't that job security? Ha! Computers being hard is job security.

Re: [PLUG] ProxyJump Link

True! That might be handy if you have a small number of hosts with little turnover. My work network is hundreds of hosts, so I don't try to list all the unqualified names ... I'd be exhausted! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W__

Re: [PLUG] ProxyJump Link

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: Someone asked about the link to SSH ProxyJump documentation. There's more to be said than this, but here's the link: https://www.madboa.com/blog/2017/11/02/ssh-proxyjump/ I'll post a follow-up with a real configuration that uses that so

[PLUG] ProxyJump Link

;dr: search the Internet for "ssh controlmaster" -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] PC Engines group order

just runs, completely silently, performing some backup functions and occasionally serving as my network-test host. No one will confuse it with a high-powered workstation, but it's a great little "set it and forget it" device. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@m

Re: [PLUG] RAID0 via GParted

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:39:39 -0800 (PST) Paul Heinlein dijo: Have you considered using ZFS rather than mdadm+xfs/ext? Ubuntu 20.04 has native packages. I find it easier to maintain than a mdadm device, plus you get compression (if you'd like

Re: [PLUG] RAID0 via GParted

o compression=on \ -o mountpoint=/data \ myarchive/data Anyway, that's my troublemaking for the day... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Website decommissioning advice

age to the now-hijacked address. At that point, the attacker owns the account. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Whether to host one's own email these days?

or it, but it's still a monthly bill. On the other hand, I get to stay somewhat current with FOSS mail tools, even though I no longer maintain mail services at work. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https:

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 20.04 ZFS swap

Tom's experience, I'll only note that we have not seen such lockups. Our systems with swap on ZFS run smoothly. I will, however, keep an eye out for these symptoms. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG maili

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 20.04 ZFS swap

it into swap fs mkswap -f /dev/zvol/rpool/swap # turn it on swapon /dev/zvol/rpool/swap -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Would you suspect time as being off?

27;t working? Some services are very sensitive to network outages, however brief. That's one of the first things I check. Time is really important to file services, but I'm not sure that's what you're including in "other things." --

Re: [PLUG] A simplistic text editor to emulate wide-carriage typewriter

! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] A simplistic text editor to emulate wide-carriage typewriter

ebate between emacs and vi entirely irrelevant. I've heard the same on pronunciation. It's the same with vee-eye, which has never stopped me from making "aunt vi" jokes in that context. :-) Also, I refrained from making Wilbur jokes too, which must count for something.

Re: [PLUG] A simplistic text editor to emulate wide-carriage typewriter

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Russell Senior wrote: ed That's "mister ed" to you, buddy. :-) Ha! It's time for you to bet out of the house, Paul. No horsing around any more. I'm a maver

Re: [PLUG] A simplistic text editor to emulate wide-carriage typewriter

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Russell Senior wrote: ed That's "mister ed" to you, buddy. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Where to search for an open-source msg-passing server?

on what I know now, but am not married to the details yet.) Several projects use rabbitmq to broker messages: https://www.rabbitmq.com -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Security headaches

o lose possession of your password, but it's far less likely you'd lose both. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Online reading ... Re: Ripping audio cds

ations. I don't know if there are similar services elsewhere, but I remember feeling like I was taking part in an essential service. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] sort option for 'natural' sequence

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone has different toolbox and regexp logic wired in their brains. I prefer to break things down somewhat step by step - and think ahead - mostly it is worth it. I'm just the opp

Re: [PLUG] sort option for 'natural' sequence

sort. [bash]$ cat < 10 18 800 7 8 1 1000 XXX 1 7 8 10 18 800 1000 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] certificates, URLs, IP addresses

age summary of how to set up and maintain SSL certificates in the simplest way? By "set up" do you mean "roll your own" or "apply for a recognized one"? For the former: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa For the latter: https://letsencrypt.org -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@m

Re: [PLUG] HELP, service provider may be VICTIM?

disk the entirety of an e-mail message, headers and body both included. I suggest you save it to disk, then gzip or xz it, and send it as an attachment to your provider. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLU

Re: [PLUG] Domain registration transfers to name.com - WTF?

On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 8:02 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Sigh. Shoulda left after the Oracle takeover. Oracle, like the House of the Rising Sun, has been the ruin of many a poor, er, software. Back in the day

Re: [PLUG] Domain registration transfers to name.com - WTF?

-ins with the Oracle RDBMS system, ... What a waste of money. Yep. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Rsync advice needed

n to it. rsnapshot does something similar: https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Best place to shop for serious travel keyboard?

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Michael Rasmussen wrote: I bought, use, and like the Journo folding keyboard. https://jornostore.com/ Sadly, the Journo Store reports "Sold out" status on the keyboards. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38

Re: [PLUG] ProtonMail was: Surveillance Capitalism

th strict legal requirements (HIPAA, FERPA, DoD), but it'd be fine for ordinary interactions I'd want to keep secret: discussing financial issues with an advisor, helping a friend with a marriage issue, getting Rich S's procmail recipes in order (ha!), etc. -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [PLUG] ProtonMail was: Surveillance Capitalism

any others. Still, I thought it was on the right track toward just building point-to-point crypto into the scheme of things. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] ProtonMail was: Surveillance Capitalism

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote: The ideal toolchain would I think be something like this. 1. End users generate a keypair (ala PGP) and publish public keys. 2. Bob uses MUA-level hooks to encrypt body of message using Carol's publi

Re: [PLUG] ProtonMail was: Surveillance Capitalism

s true, what do you do will all the messages that arrived encrypted with your old key? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

l my messages scanned, however benignly, by people I don't know) but I do use Google calendar (I can obfuscate or even omit events I wouldn't want others to know about). Other people's data and personal circumstances present different risks and they perhaps will reach di

Re: [PLUG] Communication error, HDHomeRun tuner

l with the desktop hardware. Can you reboot into an older kernel on the desktop? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Procmail help needed

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: Is ~/mail is a directory or a file? I assume the former. If so, do you have the MAILDIR variable defined? Paul, A directory. I understand that maildir keeps each message as a separate file while mbox keeps

Re: [PLUG] Procmail help needed

ail: Error while writing to "spatial-analyses" -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Procmail help needed

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: This would be interpreted as a case-insensitive regular expression: * [GRASS-user] Paul, I am suitably chastened to have forgotten that the search criteria are regex. Mea culpa! * \[GRASS-user\] All such

Re: [PLUG] Procmail help needed

is would be interpreted as a case-insensitive regular expression: * [GRASS-user] Any message with a header containing the letters a, e, g, r, s, or u (and perhaps t; I'm not exactly sure how the hyphen would be interpreted in that context) will match the rule. You'd need to escape the

Re: [PLUG] PLUG HAS A VENUE PROBLEM: TENTATIVELY SOLVED!

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Russell Senior wrote: This is the door you want: https://goo.gl/maps/FAQLnGvTVUb12Dfm7 The devil's advocate point of view: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61XOQpA3p-L._AC_SL1001_.jpg :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38'

Re: [PLUG] Procmail recipe not followed

pen one of the misfiled messages in alpine and press the 'H' key to view the message headers. See if you can match the procmail rule to the message. If the rule matches, you might want to check to see if prior rules in your .procmailrc also (and mistakenly) match the misfiled message

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv Thanks, Paul. I didn't know if tr would recognize ^M as \r so I used cat | tr "^M&qu

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv Thanks, Paul. I didn't know if tr would recognize ^M as \r so I used cat | tr "^M" "\n" and that changed it to the Mac forma

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

acter to a newline (\n) but I don't know how to write '^M' so sed recognizes it as a single character. In emacs it displays colored cyan rather than white. A web search told me that ^M is equivalent to the linux \r, but not how to specify it for sed or emacs. tr -d '\r'

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Redux

ng or Raspberry Pi and Arduino kits. The interest is programming and code, not operating systems. This is arguably a good thing -- OSs should IMHO exist to accomplish work not to get attention for themselves -- but it does mean that OS-specific media are likely to fall on hard times. -- Paul Hei

Re: [PLUG] uname question

number? It does not seem to fit the options shown on the uname man page. You'll want to google for KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION (and perhaps also KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP) to see how those are generated. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___

Re: [PLUG] C program: configures & builds, segfaults on invocation

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: If you run "ldd /path/to/jpilot" on the machine where it segfaults and on a machine where it runs successfully, do you see any meaningful differences? Paul, Meaningful? But one difference. The la

Re: [PLUG] C program: configures & builds, segfaults on invocation

vious stick out (probably near the end of the trace file)? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: Your local ssh-agent should do the trick. Going out on a limb, I'm going to suggest that the fix should be easy. Paul, I thoght ssh-agent was the tool. It is. On a Linux machine ssh-agent is usuall

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

ally, but not always, located in ~/ssh/id_rsa.pub) should be present in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the destination host. I suggest running "chmod -R go-rwx ~/.ssh" on both hosts to ensure the strict file permissions SSH demands. -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Cron ~/spam_check.bash

quot;credits" or "license" for more information. import email from email.header import decode_header decode_header(u'=?UTF-8?B?U3RpY2sgdGhpcyB0byB5b3VyIHNraW4gYW5kIG1lbHQgMWxiL2RheS4uLg==?=') [('Stick this to your skin and melt 1lb/day...', '

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

pending on how tightly you lock things down. On the upside, it can interface with Subversion and/or Git repositories in some helpful ways. For instance, you can keep configuration files or documents in your repo and access them via Trac. The search facility is basic but useful. -- Paul Heinl

Re: [PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

all those boxes (as well as others I didn't list). None is perfect; each pursues certain priorities at the expense of others. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxli

[PLUG] OHSU Linux/Unix Sysadmin Posting

-resources/ohsu-careers 2. Click the "Find a Job" link in the left nav menu 3. In the "Keywords or IRC # Search" box, enter IRC83705 4. Press the Search button 5. Follow the result link to the full job description Free free to contact me off-list if you have questions. -- Paul

Re: [PLUG] Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

einlein" -- heh. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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