Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, King Beowulf wrote: From one of the many Libreofice help forums (edited for details and clarity): To save-as xlsx to ods, and the "retype" password box pops up with "Hash incompatible" message: Ed, I don't have python pandas installed on this host so I tried the method

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You don't even have to do that - just to illustrate the stupidity of the Microsoft Excel password protection on a spreadsheet, I loaded up the spreadsheet in Excel then opened another copy of Excel, created 11 blank pages in a new workbook, then did a

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Eldo Varghese wrote: I had to break out the hexeditor and remove the protections, not sure if it worked. Here is the ods file [0] Eldo, Thank you very much. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, King Beowulf wrote: From one of the many Libreofice help forums (edited for details and clarity): Ed, I hadn't yet gone to LO to see if there was a solution. To save-as xlsx to ods, and the "retype" password box pops up with "Hash incompatible" message: Open Excel

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: Opening it in LO Calc shows each sheet is protected. The author would need to change that. Or use this Python script. #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import pandas as pd sheet = sys.argv[2] df = pd.read_excel(sys.argv[1], sheet_name=sheet)

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hmm looks like the list does not permit attachments? Ted, Correct. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Eldo Varghese wrote: The only xlsx file I see on there is the 303dlist [0] which does not seem to be password protected according to my LO sheets application. Anyway here it is converted to ODS [1] Eldo, Ted, etc: My mistake. Go to this page

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: I have come across this before but it was a DRM (or as M$ calls it IRM) problem. It basically makes the document read only, you cannot save it or even save as. You might try opening it directly with LO Calc, or write a Python script to open the file with

Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Open it in excel and do a file save as an OpenDoc spreadsheet. (*.ods) Ted, That's what I've tried to do. If this is a publicly accessible spreadsheet with no private data in it just email me the URL and I'll send it back. Okay.

[PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods

A state agency provides a Microsoft .xlsx spreadsheet on a web site page. It's available to the public. When I tried to save it as a LO Calc spreadsheet (.ods) it told me it was password protected; a dialog box asks me to re-enter my (non-existent) password. It also will not allow me to export it

Re: [PLUG] Radio silence since Apr 16

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Galen Seitz wrote: That, or Rich is on vacation. :-) Ha-ha-ha. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Want Low power long duration UPS

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Aaron Burt wrote: We bought a shoebox-sized "portable power station" a couple years ago that is stuffed with ~300Wh of Li-ion batteries and has a built-in inverter. I very highly recommend having one on hand. Thank you, Aaron. I just ordered the LiFePO4 version. It will

Re: [PLUG] Comcast to Ziply fiber migration, plus Ooma phone

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote: Fwiw, every time I've called Zipy support (for my mom's residential account), I've talked to someone with a southeastern USian accent. Me, too. I've had better service from the Ziply business account customer reps than I did with Frontier or Verizon.

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: asks for password when loading

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024, Ben Koenig wrote: I think this might be the gnome keyring manager. It does this for a lot of things, especially chrome based app. I can never remember how to make it stop but it's one of those things that can get really annoying since it will pop up even if you aren't in an

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: asks for password when loading

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: It is asking for the vault password, I think it uses GPG for that, it is generally asked for when you install Brave and when you start it after a reboot. There should be a setting for it somewhere, look for vault settings. Thanks, Michael. Looking at

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: asks for password when loading

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: A quick Google on "brave browser asks for password every time", returns a few recent results regarding Brave & whatever the resident password manager app is. Mike, The Brave version installed on the laptop has a setting for passwords, but that's storage

Re: [PLUG] scp between two local (LAN) hosts

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, wes wrote: from the context, it seems to me that you're taking a different meaning of the word "remote" than what is meant in the text. from the point of view of scp, any host that is not the machine it's running on is "remote". it seems to me that you're interpreting

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: asks for password when loading

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: A quick Google on "brave browser asks for password every time", returns a few recent results regarding Brave & whatever the resident password manager app is. This might be the most relevant result from the Brave Community Forum,

[PLUG] scp between two local (LAN) hosts

It's been a very long time since I last used scp to copy files between desktops and laptops on the local LAN. Searching the web for scp examples I find only pages with commands for transferring a file from local to remote host, from remote to local hosts. between two remote hosts, and

[PLUG] Brave browser: asks for password when loading

Haven't see this before. When I open the Brave browser on the laptop it asks for a password. Clicking the "Cancel" button 3 times opens the browser. Has anyone using Brave seen this before? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, wes wrote: the macs listed in ssh -Q mac are the macs the software is capable of using. the macs listed in sshd_config are the macs _enabled_ for use. macs are disabled by default when they are deemed to be below a desirable security threshold. sometimes this happens

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote: All Slackware why they aren't compatible and the best way to deal with it. Russell, It occurred to me that while the name might be the same the specifices might change between releases. Although, why there are more macs reported with `ssh -Q mac' on

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote: Both sides. The server's an earlier release and up-to-date for that one. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote: You should update openssh, I think. Ask someone who knows about slacker for suitable advice. Russell, I updated Slackware64-15.0 last Friday. If openssh was patched it would have been installed. I can update again and see if that makes a difference.

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: The mac issue remains: I need to specify one (and I used hmac-sha2-512), entered my password (not the passphrase) and was in. I can live with this if I must, but it was not an issue before now. Interesting. From the desktop (salmo) I can now ssh

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: and the same macs are on the client. But, if I don't specify, e.g., hmac-sha2-512 I get the missing mac error. The perms on both the server and client .ssh/* match and those in <https://linuxhandbook.com/fix-permission-denied-publickey/>. Had not

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: It looks like the MAC (message authentication code) algorithm list does not match between the two hosts. The destination host is offering one that does not exist on the client. Michael, That's what I found when I searched for the error message.

[PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop

I thought I had /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config properly set up on the T430 laptop, as well as ~/.ssh/*. But, when I tried to ssh from the laptop (caddis) to the server (salmo) it failed because ssh could not find the proper MAC. As attachments are stripped from this mail list the screen

Re: [PLUG] Death Notice / Unsubscribe

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Russell Johnson wrote: "If you can get physical access to a computer, it's not secure. It's only a matter of time." That goes with the joke, "The only secure computer is one that is in a bunker with no windows or door, no power, and no connection to the outside world. And

Re: [PLUG] Why multiple ssh ports?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2024, wes wrote: they can, but all of those hosts share the same IP address to the outside world. so if you're connecting from outside to inside, you have to use a different port for each host you want to connect in to. Wes, Okay, now I understand and that makes complete

Re: [PLUG] Why multiple ssh ports?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2024, wes wrote: it's to enable you to have 3 machines inside your network you can reach via ssh. wes, Interesting. I thought all hosts on the LAN can use the same ssh port. Thank you, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Why multiple ssh ports?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2024, Robert Citek wrote: Have you tried running the script to verify that the comments align with what the script does? Robert, No. I want to learn why I should have three port numbers rather than only the one I use. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Why multiple ssh ports?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: I'll attempt to demystify and sum up the techno-jargon. This is common firewall/network security practice. This is an iptables, Linux Firewall script. The idea is not only accept packets inbound to your network on a non-default port such as the 3

[PLUG] Why multiple ssh ports?

Setting up the ThinkPad T430 brings me to reviewing my network's ssh configuration. I found a Slackware script that hides the accepted ssh port number while rejecting all others, including 22. The example script includes: # First, set SSHD back to the default port 22. # Next, figure out what

Re: [PLUG] Deleting directory in $HOME

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, David Bridges wrote: I do not use xfce but more than likely it is using xdg-user* stuff Take a look in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs I modified the values to be what I wanted a long time ago on my system because I the directories listed in that file were recreated after I

Re: [PLUG] Deleting directory in $HOME

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, King Beowulf wrote: Anything Xfce and X.org creates in $HOME as a default will just get recreated if you remove/delete.  Just because YOU don't sue a config does not mean the DE (Xfce or X) does not use it. Ed, The Desktop directory is not a configuration file; it's a

Re: [PLUG] Loading ~/.Xmodmap on laptop [FIXED]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, King Beowulf wrote: That doesn't look right for Slackware.  Use the default one for 15.0. 1. exit Xfce 2. make sure logged as your normal user, no GUI or X running, and not as root 3. run "xwmconfig" 4. choose any OTHER desktop, hit OK 5. run "xwmconfig" again, choose

[PLUG] Deleting directory in $HOME

Xfce4 adds a few Capitalized directories in a user's ~/ when it's installed. I've never used them and had no problems deleting them until now: the Desktop directory (755 perms) will not be removed either by me or by root. It has 2 hardlinks: the current and parent directories. The xfce mail list

[PLUG] Loading ~/.Xmodmap on laptop

This has been an issue with me on all laptops I've owned: despite ~/.xinitrc containing: #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap userresources=$HOME/.Xresources sysmodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap #if [ -f

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Ben Koenig wrote: We also have a standard udev.d setup in lib/udev/rules.d/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/. The only difference is that we use eudev rather than the systemd nonsense. Ben, Thank you. I thought I had looked in /lib, but obviously I didn't. Mea culpa! Rich, the

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Russell Senior wrote: I don't know anything about Slackware, but ... https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest if you run: $ mount | grep '/run ' you are going to see /run is a tmpfs. Then I'll find where to

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Do you have a /lib/udev/rules.d subdir? Nope. On Slackware rules are in /run/udev/rules.d. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: People who are very skilled at making udev rules have done so in my Fedora, and I assume *other* Linux distros, in the */lib/udev/rules.d* subdirectory. I expect the */run/udev* subdirectory to be empty because it is not a persistent file-system. I

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Notice that it makes a 'by-id' entry. It also makes a 'by-uuid', which may be more interesting for this use case. Johnathan, Yes, using the UUID would be better, but my understanding is that is unique to each device so it's not generic for any

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: No you don't. The /lib/udev/rules.d has a rule that fully populates the /dev/disk subdirectory with the same name and same information on each boot. This should be everything you need to use fstab directly. Johnathan, Then I'm not

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I found the rules I was after /lib/udev/rules.d These rules create a device for my USB drive here: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_B101484C-0:0 Johnathan, Yes, I can create a udev rule file that has the vendor and ID for each USB pen

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Nothing useful there. I can plug in a drive and have fdisk -l identify the Actually, that's `tail -f /var/log/messages.' And rebooting the machine returned the USB port to /dev/sdg. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Sounds like you want to create a custom mount point for your USB thumb drives? If so, This should walk you through the steps. https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux Mike, Nothing useful there. I can plug in a drive and have fdisk -l

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Now the last step: How do I modify /etc/fstab so it lets me read and write to any pen drive inserted in a USB port? Clarification: how to mount any inserted USB pen drive on /media/thumb. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: But, inserting and removing a USB pen drive does not add new lines to /tmp/udev.log. Well! The web pages on udev rules were incomplete. The correct command is udevadm control --reload-rules This works. I wrote 41-usb-permissions.rules

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: But, inserting and removing a USB pen drive does not add new lines to /tmp/udev.log. Very interesting update. Advice on udev web sites I read say to reboot the host rather than running `udevadm control --reload'. So I rebooted. The two rules in /run

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: My initial reaction would be to look at creating UDEV rules for those devices. Reading several udev-related web pages I created two shell scripts installed in /usr/local/bin and rule 80-test.rules in /run/udev/rules.d - device_added.sh -

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I can't remember if the results are enumerated in the /lib directory. You may want to spend a few web searches seeing if you can find where they live. Johnathan, On my Slackware hosts they're in /run/udev, but the rules.d/ subdirectory is empty.

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: My initial reaction would be to look at creating UDEV rules for those devices. Assuming they are well behaved and have unique USB serial numbers you should be able to craft rules that will create consistent /dev symbolic links to wherever the kernel

[PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

For permanently attached drives I've assigned their PARTUUID to mount them in /etc/fstab. With 6 continuosly attached drives (/dev/sda-/dev/sdf) portable USB drives were seen as either /dev/sdg or /dev/sdg1 and that's how they're mounted in /etc/fstab. Yesterday afternoon the kernel decided to

Re: [PLUG] SWAP size based on host's installed memory

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Did I miss the definition of SAR? System Activity Report. On my Slackware desktop it's in /user/bin/sar. man page available, too. HTH, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Making a bootable thumb drive [FIXED]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Why sdg has two partitions I don't know. My question is to which device name I point dd's of=? /dev/sdg or /dev/sdg1. Or should I use cfdisk to re-partition the drive? Never mind. I ran `dd if=usbboot.img of=/dev/sdg and I now again have a bootable

[PLUG] Making a bootable thumb drive

For some reason the bootable thumb drive I made (for Slackware64-15.0) now asks to load PXE to install over the network rather than from the flash drive itself. I have the usbboot.img file and the flash drive is seen by the kernel: Mar 23 11:04:35 salmo kernel: [246888.820945] sdg: sdg1 sdg2

Re: [PLUG] SWAP size based on host's installed memory

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: Some swap is necessary but not the RAM+2GB or other calculations, those kinds of recommendations are based on very old memory management routines. You can start with a swap file for safety and then measure actual memory use under actual work loads over

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Russell Senior wrote: To me, the only open question is whether humans get stupider faster than the machines. Isn't that why the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for so many decades? Rich

Re: [PLUG] rsync: not all files copied

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Errors with rsync usually mean that the file system changed - such as logs, proc, sys, var, etc. Tomas, I thought this might be the cause. While I did nothing in the partitions being sync'd the kernel or some other application might have made a

Re: [PLUG] comment on rsync

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, American Citizen wrote: I run rsync and occasionally get files not copied error, but the output stream usually lets me know what did NOT get copied. I think if you look back on your log files, you might find them. Randall, I didn't see an rsync logfile. Next run I'll

Re: [PLUG] SWAP size based on host's installed memory

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Jeffrey Borcean wrote: Are you wishing to use suspend to disk hibernation? If so, the RAM + 2 GB as Mike suggested is great. Jeffrey, I only rarely hibernate the laptop and never the desktops. Otherwise consider no disk based swap, and instead use zram as swap. This

Re: [PLUG] SWAP size based on host's installed memory

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: That recommendation is for RAM < 2 GB for ram > 2 GB, the recommendation is RAM + 2 GB. Thanks, MC. I could not find this information in the SA book or online. Regards, Rich

[PLUG] SWAP size based on host's installed memory

I'm waiting for delivery of a 2T SSD to replace the 500G HDD on the ThinkPad T430. The advice to create a SWAP partition sized at RAM x 2 comes from the past when computers had very little memory. When a host has 16G, 32G, or 64G RAM what size SWAP partition would be appropriate? TIA, Rich

Re: [PLUG] rsync: not all files copied

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: As others have said, capture the output, but instead of a pipe use '--log-file=rsync.log' option. Also, when you run rsync the second time it should only log the errors since all the files have been copied already. Michael, Good point. Will do so.

Re: [PLUG] Partitioning new HDD; installing file system

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: I can highly recommend that book. I used it as a textbook when teaching college courses in Linux Administration. I also knew Evi personally, a truly wonderful person and a great loss to our corner of the universe. Michael, I have a copy and

Re: [PLUG] rsync: not all files copied

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, King Beowulf wrote: you can tee stdout to a file Ed, True that. Didn't occur to me as I was focused on getting that replacement drive set up. $ rsync blah-blah 2>&1| | tee rsync.log I'll do this the next new disk update. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] rsync: not all files copied

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, wes wrote: why wait a few days? you could run rsync again immediately and you can look for errors. wes, Two reasons: 1) I'm waiting for the weekend to replace the desktop's internal hard drive. I'll run rsync then to update what changed from today. 2) The list

Re: [PLUG] Partitioning new HDD; installing file system

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: At this point, you might consider compiling some good crib notes or what we used to call "Method of Procedure" or MOP in military parlance for all these sys-admin type tasks that you inquire to the list about. I save the threads to a linux file. Most of

[PLUG] rsync: not all files copied

After running for about an hour rsync ended this way: - sent 181,880,754,804 bytes received 1,336,778 bytes 43,642,973.39 bytes/sec total size is 181,831,399,934 speedup is 1.00 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1327)

Re: [PLUG] rsync between 2 hdds on the same host

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: That should work. Thanks, Michael. Another linux lesson learned. Regards, Rich

[PLUG] rsync between 2 hdds on the same host

My experience with rsync has been between hosts on the LAN and backups from a desktop to the MediaSonic Probox external drive. My web searches for the appropriate syntax between two drives on the same host finds nothing suitable. If I mount the new drive on /media/hd0 I wonder if this syntax

Re: [PLUG] Partitioning new HDD; installing file system

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Russell Senior wrote: You missed that you didn't format a partition, but instead formated the whole drive. Create your partitions again, and format just the partition. Russell, Thanks. I do this so infrequently I need to remember, or relearn, the sequence. And, a bit

[PLUG] Partitioning new HDD; installing file system

I've a new Seagate FireCuda 4T HDD connected to the desktop via a SATA/USB adapter. Tailing /var/log/messages the kernel sees this disk as /dev/sdg. I ran `cgdisk /dev/sdg' and it told me it did not have GPT as the partition type, but would try to fix that. Assuming that to be the case, I

Re: [PLUG] UEFI and hardware replacement

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Vince Winter wrote: UEFI is different firmware system on the motherboard. Some of the firmware is backwards compatible with legacy boot loaders. Thanks for confirming, Vince. All my hosts use UEFI. Regards, Rich

[PLUG] UEFI and hardware replacement

Just to confirm: UEFI, like the old BIOS, is in a chip on the motherboard and not affected by hard drive replacement. Yes? TIA, Rich

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPad T430 RAM replacement [RESOLVED]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: This video shows the clips being pressed outward. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/videos/pd027009-memory-modules-removal-movie-thinkpad-t430 Michael, Didn't watch the video. Instead, I used two fingers on one hand to hold both clips out from the

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPad T430 RAM replacement

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: I do not have direct experience with the T430, but the clips should move out away from the DIMM (not up or down), and then the DIMM should pop up a bit. Michael, On other laptops I've owned I've been able to rotate the clips away from the module (same

[PLUG] ThinkPad T430 RAM replacement

I'm upgrading the memory on my ThinkPad T430; the new modules should be here tomorrow morning. Each module is held in place by a small clip on each end. I've tried gently moving them out, but that doesn't work. There are excellent instructions on this page

Re: [PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think this needs to be on the docket as a speakers topic once the bill is signed. Do we know anyone in the Right to Repair movement? Ted, There's a company called ubreakifix . I used the one on Jansen

Re: [PLUG] Linux Software for Data Center Monitoring

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024, Ben Koenig wrote: Does anyone here who works with SMB scale datacenter environments have any tips or industry standard strategies for wrangling this type of setup? Are there any good FOSS software tools to help organize and monitor a mess like this? We have a software team

Re: [PLUG] Replace ZiplyFiber VoIP router

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Color me confused. Firstly, you said you didn't need WiFi support and secondly the TP-Link isn't a "fiber optic gateway." That's what I learned after more research. The terminology is brand new to me. I found a completely different set of less expensive

Re: [PLUG] Replace ZiplyFiber VoIP router

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024, Russell Senior wrote: I went through this with my mother over the last year. At the beginning of 2024, we moved her voice service to Ooma. You need to buy an Ooma Telo. You can find Telo's on ebay for about $50. Ooma also charges just south of $50 to port your number to

Re: [PLUG] Replace ZiplyFiber VoIP router

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: I don't have Ziply service and I don't know much about it, so I did some quick Internet sleuthing and combined with my many years of telcom networking experience, here's some maybe useful guidance I can offer. I, too, looked on the 'Net, but I lack the

[PLUG] Replace ZiplyFiber VoIP router

When I spoke with the ZiplyFiber business tech support about migrating to VoIP they did not tell me that I had to 'rent' one of their modems @ $12/month just for the telephone. While I recognize that POTS on twisted pair copper wires are no long supported I have a perfectly good Ubiquity Edge

Re: [PLUG] Backup Solutions

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024, Charles Sliger wrote: Looking for recommendations for Linux backups. Anyone use theirs for actual restoring of files or disks? Charles, Dirvish . It's based on rsync. I've been using it for years and have restored individual files, directories,

Re: [PLUG] gawk: a pattern that separates two similar strings

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, wes wrote: you can exclude lines containing a given value with grep. grep -v Inactive input.txt this could cause problems if one of the other fields contained the word Inactive but it's a start. wes, That's a good idea. As I just responded to Reid, without printing the

Re: [PLUG] gawk: a pattern that separates two similar strings

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Reid wrote: Okay, that's not my experience. Using your script and adding a row-number field to the end of each line: $ cat /tmp/tmp.txt 410 Auto Wrecking,410 Auto Wrecking,So3011780,Inactive,Industrial SW GP,27865 Sr 410 E,Buckley,Pierce,98321,ROW_1 410 Auto

Re: [PLUG] gawk: a pattern that separates two similar strings

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Reid wrote: The `NR ~ /1/` line is causing the first line to be printed, regardless of its contents. Reid, With the full data set that's the column header row so I left it in the script because I'm working with the full set. However, commenting it out I still get the

Re: [PLUG] gawk: a pattern that separates two similar strings

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Would the substr() function do the job? E.g,, substr(Active,1,6) Apparently not: BEGIN { FS = OFS = "," } NR ~ /1/ { print $0 } $4 == substr(Active,1,6) { print $0 } still has Inactive in the output. Sigh, Rich

[PLUG] gawk: a pattern that separates two similar strings

I've downloaded a data file where the permit type can be Active, Inactive, or Draft. Removing all Draft records was easy. Removing all Inactive records has so far escaped my gawk (and LO Calc) efforts because Inactive contains the substring 'active'. My script: BEGIN { FS = OFS = "," } NR ~

Re: [PLUG] Testing mailx script [WORKING]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a list of four test addresses, all individuals @example.com. Is there a better domain I should use to test whether the script works as intended when sent from my local MTA? No need. I checked some temporary address mailers but they allow only

Re: [PLUG] Weather underground no longer reached by browser

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Rich -What happens if you search on weather underground and then click on the search result? MC, It loads just as it has for years. Sonofagun! I had tried entering wunderground.com in a new tab and that also failed. Strange. Thanks for the pointer.

Re: [PLUG] Testing mailx script

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Rich - If you do a web search on temporary email addresses, you can quickly and easily get an email address or addresses to use for testing purposes. That would not have occurred to me. So much to learn and so little time. Many thanks! Rich

Re: [PLUG] Weather underground no longer reached by browser

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: I tried refreshing https://www.wunderground.com and both brave and chromium tell me that URL cannot be reached: Atlanta (404) error code displayed. Yet I can ping the URL. What might explain this? Strange. I, too, can load it on the mobile phone

[PLUG] Testing mailx script

I have a list of four test addresses, all individuals @example.com. Is there a better domain I should use to test whether the script works as intended when sent from my local MTA? TIA, Rich

[PLUG] Weather underground no longer reached by browser

I tried refreshing https://www.wunderground.com and both brave and chromium tell me that URL cannot be reached: Atlanta (404) error code displayed. Yet I can ping the URL. What might explain this? TIA, Rich

Re: [PLUG] mailx: use of -S option

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Rich - See example 6: Ah! I missed that. Many thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] mailx: use of -S option

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Reid wrote: I don't know about `mailx -S`, but you could put a placeholder in your msg file like "Hi NAME_GOES_HERE". Then something like: #!/bin/sh while read addr <&3 && read name <&4; do sed "s/NAME_GOES_HERE/$name" msg | mailx -s "subject here" $addr done 3 Reid,

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