Wouldn't it be easier to put a transparent squid proxy upstream of the
connection, rather than mucking with ugly iptables rules per user, etc?
No, squid unfortunately doesn't always work. Try watching a movie on
Hulu through a squid proxy. Another thing, I'm not sure how to
configure squid to
Rich Shepard wrote:
Other than /etc/host* and /etc/cups/* are there other configuration files I
ought to transfer from the old laptop to the new one to ease the transition?
Thanks,
Rich
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive
everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April
2009. I'd save apt/*, fstab (for one-off and remote mount defines),
backup settings, fonts, sudoers, group,
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:29:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
Reply-To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic
plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
Now you know why I poo-poo Ubuntu. I hate the whole let's-hide-root
thing.
Carlos,
I'm not fond of it either. But, I can see the value for many (if not most)
users.
Try sudo bash to get a real root shell. If that works, do a passwd
to set
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
specific configuration you wish to preserve?
OK. I now have my root password on the new box.
Can I get a
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Robert Citek wrote:
Any reason not to tar up and copy all of them?
Yeah. Proceeding cautiously I copied the tarball to / and extraced only
/etc/hosts*, /etc/ssh/*, and /etc/resolv.conf. I certainly don't want to
change /etc/fstab to the old host's contents. I'm sure there
Try sudo bash to get a real root shell. If that works, do a passwd
to set root's password.
Hoo-ha! That worked. I was unaware of the 'sudo bash' trick. How useful!
Or just use a direct 'sudo passwd root'
NealS
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Neal wrote:
Or just use a direct 'sudo passwd root'
NealS,
That, too, is kool. Thank you.
Rich
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:02:02 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
specific configuration you
While back in the day I originally joined this list to pursue my Linux
pleasures, I've found other interest among the *BSD and
Solaris/Opensolaris.
Those communities have pretty active lists I generally participate in
a lot more than PLUG, however I see the random mentioning of other
variants of
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote:
While back in the day I originally joined this list to pursue my Linux
pleasures, I've found other interest among the *BSD and
Solaris/Opensolaris.
Those communities have pretty active lists I generally participate in
a
Thank you, Rich. I'll have to take a look at them when I'm in town.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Erik Lane wrote:
On that note, does anyone know where to get a drive for a decent (cheap)
price?
Erik,
I've had
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