RE: youtube-dl

2012-11-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Mike - what version of youtube-dl are you using? Lisa - same question. That's my guess as to why it works for her and not for you. I'm assuming neither of you have anything 'weird' in your network setup... From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

RE: youtube-dl

2012-11-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
in a Debian system, please see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Mike - what version of youtube-dl are you using? Lisa - same question. That's my guess as to why it works for her

Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Some time back I thought the best solution would be to form a co-op. Members of the co-op would run some sort of program to detect spammers, and then join together in a DOS attack on the spammer's MTA. Detection should be pretty easy, I'd think, with minimal false positives. When I thought

RE: Spam control? (was RE: virus)

2012-11-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
... Rusty -Original Message- Rusty, how did tarpit and that delay time effect non spam users? On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: I've tried running that thing that keeps spammers busy trying to deliver the email (tarpit

RE: Crossover Linux free on Wednesday

2012-10-29 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Whoa, only $60 normally anyway. I may download the free version then donate something to them later... Or point my company at them to buy some copies, or something. Rusty --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

RE: Bash script with env variables

2012-10-24 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Try: Foo=`eval echo $file` echo $Foo Or something along those lines. From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric Cope Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:41 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Bash

RE: Driver Install Conundrum

2012-10-15 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Brscan? In mint (which is sort of ubuntu) I cannot find 'brscan' when using quick filter on Synaptic. In google I see that it's possibly a brother scanner driver? I'd download from brother the dpkg file first, then use either dpkg or apt-get to install (or maybe apt, I forget) From:

RE: Driver Install Conundrum

2012-10-15 Thread Carruth, Rusty
there is a problem. n 10/15/2012 08:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: Brscan? In mint (which is sort of ubuntu) I cannot find 'brscan' when using quick filter on Synaptic. In google I see that it's possibly a brother scanner driver? I'd download from brother the dpkg file first, then use

RE: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
I will guess that this is just as you were shutting down, so the avahi daemon shutdown is 'normal'. So, it looks to me like something is funny with acpi. Have you google'd for all or part of the error message? Did you add or remove some hardware between the time it always worked fine and

RE: perlmagick

2012-09-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
First, if you cannot download stuff using apt-get, you first need to find out why, or you need to use your web browser to manually download all the files it wants... Lets diagnose your network connection and other random things first: Are you connected to the internet? Why do you give the

RE: perlmagick

2012-09-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imagemagick/perlmagick_6.6 .9.7-5ubuntu3.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80] :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: First, if you cannot download stuff using

RE: perlmagick

2012-09-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Apparently the Ubuntu apt database changed such that the reference was no longer valid. Maybe they moved where it lived, or something like that (since I think the package name stayed the same, I'm guessing it moved paths) Subject: Re: perlmagick my BIG (rhetorical) question is: why did it

RE: System crash - now shows no space on device

2012-09-04 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Unfortunately, once you've deleted /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog (and /var/log/kern*) any chance of knowing what happened is probably lost, because those logs contained the spewing that was either the cause of the failure, or the information about the failure. Next time I would advise

RE: System crash - now shows no space on device

2012-09-04 Thread Carruth, Rusty
I don't know if this will fix your running out of space issue (mine is usually a disk drive spewing error messages at a VERY high rate of speed - like gigabytes of messages per hour), but: Your SNMP (simple network management protocol) daemon is complaining about something - a lot (Google is your

RE: text file needs a carriage return

2012-08-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
If you want a script to enter data from inside the script as if you had typed it, you use the '' input redirect like so: #!/bin/bash echo Put stuff into a_file: cat EOFEOF a_file This line goes in to the file So does this This does too, but the next line tells the shell to stop reading

RE: dhcp question.

2012-08-25 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Looks like the DHCP server doesn't do staically-assigned dynamic addresses (it only SOUNDS like an oxymoron!). So, you need to tell your printer to have a static ip address. Go to the printer and set it up with an ip address not inside the DHCP range your DHCP server gives out. I've not

RE: how to transfer files

2012-08-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
First, you need a way to know your dynamic ip. DYNDNS is probably what you want there. Or scripts on your home machine to email you whenever the ip address changes, or something. (google for dynamic dns: http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=dynamic%20dnssource=webcd=1ved

RE: Question about rwxrwxrwx files and/or dirs

2012-08-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
find / -perm -777 -print I think that should do it. For more details than any sane person could want, do 'man find' ;-) Rusty   -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug- discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of

RE: ot Online school

2012-08-08 Thread Carruth, Rusty
I think Adam meant 'due to the Licensing/piracy excuse' ;-) From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Adam McCullough Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that

RE: print from computer attached to another computer

2012-08-06 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Tell the computer with the printer to share the printer to other computers (system/administration/printing then right-click on the printer and make sure 'shared' is selected) Then tell the computer without the printer to find a network printer, or maybe you'll have to give the IP address of the

RE: speakeasy/megapath (was RE: CenturyLink/DirectTV)

2012-07-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Yep. Rarely use it - oh, yes, forgot to mention - I have some amount of storage there and can set up my own web stuff there on their server as well. That's part of the reason for having the telnet/ssh access. The public/www (or whatever it was) directory that is your own web page if you know

RE: speakeasy/megapath (was RE: CenturyLink/DirectTV)

2012-07-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Boy, the memory is bad today: I just remembered I also get like 10 email addresses at speakeasy as well. Don't need them since I run my own mail server... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

RE: speakeasy/megapath (was RE: CenturyLink/DirectTV)

2012-07-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Whichever you want to use. I use ssh, of course :-) (And I admit to being lazy and saying telnet when I am actually using ssh.) -Original Message- SSH is OK. Telnet is a self-destructing proposition. SSH or telnet? Hopefully SSH... ET

RE: Laptop Battery Life

2012-07-23 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Warning - what you are about to read is from the king of rechargeable battery killers, so take it with a few metric tons of salt! I have recently been told that, for newer-technology batteries: 1 - you do not want to overcharge them - a sure killer 2 - charging to 100% all the time risks

RE: Laptop Battery Life

2012-07-23 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Thank you! I've sent that home for further perusal! Rusty   -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug- discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joseph Sinclair Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:47 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list

RE: OT: Software Licensing Fees

2012-07-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Yeah, I feel your pain, but more than you know - I did a fixed bid deal many years ago and quit keeping track of my hours when I reached the wonderful rate of $1/hour. Yep. $1/hour. Yes, that was 20 years ago, but I had much more work to do on a fixed bid job, so it went below that

RE: g++

2012-07-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Call me a whatever, but I like the kitchen sink editor. Which is to say 'emacs'. You can even use it as something of an IDE, if you wish. (And it has syntax highlighting, all that sort of stuff). To compile, just 'Macro-x compile' (IIRC, and I think I do), then you can visit each error/warning,

RE: g++

2012-07-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
No need to throw out any editor, use whatever one you like! Oh, wait, “throw out” as in “throw out to the wolves”. “Never mind” ;-) And, I certainly see no reason to flame about editors (I am something of an ‘olde pharte’, so I’ve seen some pretty stupid editor flamewars ‘back in the

RE: g++

2012-07-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Agree completely. If you don’t know VI, you’re going to wish you did sooner or later. (And remember, I’m the one who brought up emacs! J Yes, I can use VI – I’m no VI expert, but I can hkjl my way around, and even know what :.,$d means ;-) (assuming I correctly remember needing the colon…)

RE: networking problem

2012-07-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Probably in ~/.ssh/ somewhere (I think known_hosts) From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Michael Havens Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 2:12 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: networking problem I think

RE: hp C-7250

2012-07-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Can you give us more info? Like, can the print server print to the printer? Can you get the client to see the server and add the printer? When you say 'print test page' what sort of errors does the server give? (check cups logs etc) Without that there's not much I can think of to say to

RE: Looking for Router Suggestions

2012-07-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Actually, Mike brings up a good point - unless your interenet provider is faster than 100Mb/s then the best you can do from the 'net to the entire rest of your inside network is 100Mb/s or less. so a gig switch connected to your firewall/internet router, which has a 100Mb/s link, is probably

RE: OT: Is it possible to make a printer wireless?

2012-07-05 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Yeah, I've got one of those netgear routers - too bad I don't need to run a printer from it J But that doesn't really solve Joe's problem. He needs to hook the printer to his current wireless network. Adding another wireless network probably won't help you, though. I'd say you've got 2

RE: OT: Is it possible to make a printer wireless?

2012-07-05 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Oh, yeah, there's a 4th option: get a printer that has wireless already. I have an Epson workforce 610 that works fine with linux and has wireless (but I'm not using the wireless part). Rusty I'd say you've got 2 options, or maybe 3:

RE: OT: Is it possible to make a printer wireless?

2012-07-05 Thread Carruth, Rusty
WHOA! I bought mine a few years back for under $100, AFAIR! Wow! On the inkjet vs laser - I was a died-in-the-wool Laser fan for years (still have a soft spot in my heart for a good old laser printer - and indeed I even have a color laser printer at home that someone threw away some years back.

RE: Opinions on Zorin OS (and a side order of Mint)

2012-07-05 Thread Carruth, Rusty
CAN you get Ubuntu to NOT use that stupid unity interface? (Goodness, people, this is a desktop computer, NOT a phone!) I stopped using anything Ubuntu newer than 10.10 as soon as I saw the disaster that was ALL the window managers that I could find in the time I had to spend looking (not much).

RE: Networking Question Regarding Gigbit Ethernet

2012-07-02 Thread Carruth, Rusty
What does traceroute say? Do all computers on the network show the same ping stats to that box? (All this is assuming you didn't return it to Costco yet) Very interesting to me that it didn't fail during the firmware update process! I'll bet you didn't check all the networking

RE: Can't save... insufficient user rights

2012-07-02 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Mr kitepilot didn't finish the story, which is: By convention, files name '.something' are not shown in an 'ls' listing, nor do they match file globbing on the command line unless you explicitly include the leading period. (And I may have forgotten other places that leading periods have an

RE: Can't save... insufficient user rights (or, globbing, globbing, who's got the glob?)

2012-07-02 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Oops, typed one glob wrong. Change '.*k' to '.*k*' below. And of course, those globs MIGHT match more than you wanted, so be careful with your 'rm' command J From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Carruth

RE: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-27 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Personal guesses, YMMV, YKWYPFI (you know what you paid for it), etc: If you don't need NFS, leave it off. When I saw it in there I thought - oh, my. For NFS clients, I know you can freeze a system when the server goes unresponsive. Or I think I know that J Of all those things, are

RE: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-27 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Well, NFS server is less likely (I think!) to cause momentary freezes than the client, but samba MIGHT be an idea. Hopefully someone else here has more experience with the server side of things, or maybe google would help. On the upload video thing - if you wanted to go to a lot of work, you

RE: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-27 Thread Carruth, Rusty
have not seen anything strange in the logs. Rsync is a good idea, but I agree - fragile, lots to set up, but maybe worth a thought if nfs tends to be the problem. Maybe a script to check if a local folder has changed, and then rsync it Mark On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Carruth, Rusty

RE: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-26 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Curious how your test turned out. You may also want to run an iostat to a file and see if that correlates to the slow responses. However, that 'bulging capacitor' thing others have mentioned sounds like a pretty convincing coincidence, as it were (I will say that USUALLY I'd agree

RE: Need Help setting up a VPN Connection to my LAN

2012-06-25 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Actually, using VNC you can even get GUI access with a 'local' ssh forward of the VNC port. Been there, done that, it works. Check out these 2 ssh command lines: ssh -L 5902:there:5902 me@overthere This will ssh into 'overthere' as 'me', and once you are logged in 'overthere' it will forward

raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)

2012-06-21 Thread Carruth, Rusty
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote: So yeah, no raid is perfect... ... -mb I use software raid strictly on servers, which are headless (of course). ... I don't know

RE: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Disclaimer time: I work for an SSD manufacturer. We sell high-end 'enterprise' SSDs. However, while some of what I say is based upon my experience there, NONE of it is official, and all of it is my personal opinion. Just remember what you paid for it! ;-) There are at least 2 levels of

RE: An introduction and RFC on education path.

2012-06-18 Thread Carruth, Rusty
There is a windows app for reading kindle docs on windows. I don't know if there is a linux app, but I'd hope so. Oh, wait! Google is your friend:it looks like you are stuck with reading it in your browser (Amazon Cloud Reader, see http://techlaze.com/2011/08/linux-users-kindle-cloud/) or

RE: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Well, if you're going to trash it, at least give it to that recyle place - azstrut I think - or some place like that. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

RE: Which linux distro

2012-05-18 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Yeah, I'm still at ubuntu 10.04 *entirely* due to Unity. Gag me - I have a COMPUTER, people, this is NOT a phone! Oh, sorry, I'm back on that soapbox! :-) But, anyway, yes, I *can* use just about any distro, but I use Ubuntu because I want it to work and I don't need to prove I can do hard

RE: How to gzip multiple image files into one .gz?

2012-05-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Or simply tar -czvf output.gz *.jpg, to replace the gzip example below. Why not use tar. tar -czvf images.tar.gz image1 image2 image3 On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, joe wrote: Is there a way to gzip multiple image files into a single .gz file? I found this example online, but it

RE: What's the best high speed internet option?

2012-05-11 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Huh? Unlimited is 2.5GB??? What happens when you try to use 2.5GB + 1K? If it fails then that's not unlimited, IMHO!   -Original Message- I have Virgin mobile no contract, I signed up and still have the $25 rate which has now been changed to $35 You get 300 minutes a

syslog stuff (was RE: wireless stoped working)

2012-05-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
that sound right? Which is the most recent? On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Carruth, Rusty Rusty mailto:rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc. (possibly with .z on the end). Those are your older logs. rusty

RE: What's the best high speed internet option?

2012-05-10 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Tmobile has a sort-of unlimited option. You decide how much 'high speed capable' internet you want per month 500M, 1G, 2G, IIRC). When you exceed that, you 'automatically' fall back to slow (I'm guessing 56K). Beware that even if you force your phone (or whatever) to slow speed TMobile still

RE: wireless stoped working

2012-05-08 Thread Carruth, Rusty
You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc. (possibly with .z on the end). Those are your older logs. rusty --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

RE: merge documents with scp

2012-05-07 Thread Carruth, Rusty
The thing that MH said, without explicitly saying it, was that having the / at the end of the source 'file' tells rsync to sync the directory's CONTENTS, not the directory. That is to say that this: rsync -av ~ someone@somewhere:/home/someone And this:

RE: hacking an android tablet to single function device

2012-05-04 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Yes, but does it recognize the keyboard as a keyboard? My LG G2x will pair with a wireless keyboard, but won't take keystrokes from it.   -Original Message- Subject: Re: hacking an android tablet to single function device I know usb and bluetooth device support was added as of

RE: Ubuntu Desktop vrs Server versions

2012-05-02 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Cannot answer the question, but I can tell you where to look to see why the system is no longer on the network. On the box which is no longer seen by the rest of your network: First, check to see that the Ethernet device you are connecting to the network is up and configured. Use ifconfig

RE: hard drive won't shut off

2012-04-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
One quick way to tell if any partition is currently 'dead' is to do an ls of each mounted directory (e.g. if /dev/sdb2 is mounte on /mnt/foo, then ls /mnt/foo) Let us assume you have 10 partitions mounted, spread all over the various disks, but they are not all someplace handy like /mnt.

RE: hard drive won't shut off

2012-04-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Bummer. You need to install smartmontools. Sourceforge is your friend there, if your package manager doesn't have it... (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Download) Rusty From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

RE: x forwarding ssh

2012-04-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
First, edit your .ssh config file to allow x11 forwarding. Then, 'ssh -X me@overthere' Done. Just do NOT change 'DISPLAY' on the remote machine (which will look something like localhost:10.0 IIRC). From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

RE: x forwarding ssh

2012-04-30 Thread Carruth, Rusty
: Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com First, edit your .ssh config file to allow x11 forwarding. The remote machine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config file must have X11Forwarding yes in it, I thought. sshd's default is to set that to no, isn't it? Then, 'ssh -X me@overthere

RE: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Fast answer: ssh me@foosystem 'cat the_Remote_file' localfile Explanation: On system 'foosystem' (as me), cat the file. On this system, append that stream of bytes to 'localfile'. Should you want to 'tail -f' the file on 'foosystem', change 'cat' to 'tail -f'.

RE: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Carruth, Rusty
with scp thanks for the quick responses what I meant is like to have duplicate files on two systems and then make the files the same. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Fast answer: ssh me@foosystem 'cat the_Remote_file' localfile

Anybody have experience with any 'turnkey' Linux companies?

2012-04-23 Thread Carruth, Rusty
I know someone who needs a company to spec, design, configure, and install a Linux server (19 rack mount). They need a 'real company' to do it, not us non-company folks who could do it better for less (oops, bias showing!). So, I figured I'd ask the collective wisdom of the PLUG. Email me