UPS recommendations

2013-05-10 Thread Nicholas Leippe
I've used APC for years--since I obtained several off lease years ago for almost nothing. However, they've all slowly bit the dust--their charging circuits giving out. Some research reveals that APC has always had a poor design--the electronics are not insulated from the heat making component failu

Re: Debian Repo Warning

2013-05-10 Thread Jared Smith
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:20 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > I feel your pain. I made the mistake of following instructions for > installing Asterisk on CentOS and trying them on an RHEL box awhile back. > The version numbers were the same so I figured it would be safe. The > directions had me add

Re: Debian Repo Warning

2013-05-10 Thread S. Dale Morrey
I feel your pain. I made the mistake of following instructions for installing Asterisk on CentOS and trying them on an RHEL box awhile back. The version numbers were the same so I figured it would be safe. The directions had me add a repo that "upgraded" some vital packages and completely horked

Debian Repo Warning

2013-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
I just got hit with my own sloppiness. I have some Debian boxes where all the repos call out for "stable", and others where all the repos call out for the release, "squeeze" or now "wheezy". Those are fine. This morning I found one box had almost all repos calling for "squeeze", but one called fo

Re: smbpasswd from stdin?

2013-05-10 Thread Jeff Jibson
-s When run by root: smbpasswd [options] [username] otherwise: smbpasswd [options] options: -L local mode (must be first option) -h print this usage message -s use stdin for password prompt -c smb.conf file Use the given pa

smbpasswd from stdin?

2013-05-10 Thread Dan Egli
*Hey pluggers,* * * *Does anyone know of a way to get smbpasswd to take the actual password of the user from stdin on the command line? I mean, for example, the unix passwd program has the --stdin parameter, which lets you echo the password and pipe it, i.e* * * *echo ThisIsMyPass | passwd dan