[PLUG] THURSDAY PLUG Meeting: A Philosophy for Reliability: Lessons learned from 40 years of System Administration

2017-09-05 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Brian P. Martin What: A Philosophy for Reliability: Lessons learned from 40 years of System Administration Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] THURSDAY PLUG Meeting: A Philosophy for Reliability: Lessons learned from 40 years of System Administration

2017-09-05 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Brian P. Martin What: A Philosophy for Reliability: Lessons learned from 40 years of System Administration Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of

Re: [PLUG] Wireless ISP

2017-09-05 Thread Chuck Hast
While I lived in Kelso, I tried to get Cascade to put a radio up on a tower above the place I lived, down in the valley where the house was there was no coverage, but up on the top of the ridge at the SW end of the property, there was signal above the trees, I was going to put up a tower, but they

[PLUG] Wireless ISP

2017-09-05 Thread Michael Barnes
Not exactly Linux related, but I need local advice. I have a location down river, up in the hills behind the Deer Island/Goble area that needs decent Internet access. We have gone round and round with the DSL provider up there with terrible results. We have also tried a couple satellite providers

[PLUG] Meeting on Thursday?

2017-09-05 Thread Alan
Are there actual plans for the PLUG meeting Thursday? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Chuck Hast
That was his address in a series of emails I googled up, it has been a while but perhaps the email is still good. On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > You might give this addy a try: > > Mariano Casanova (mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org) > > > On Tue, Sep 5,

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Chuck Hast
You might give this addy a try: Mariano Casanova (mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org) On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > Thanks. I think I danced all around this page. Even tried a search but with > no luck. > > To those that suggested Calibre, I

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Roderick Anderson
Thanks. I think I danced all around this page. Even tried a search but with no luck. To those that suggested Calibre, I tried but had limited success. The info was there but formatting problems would require a lot of editing. Of course it may still come down to that. I was kind of hoping to

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Here's the issue. I suspect that your authorized_keys file looks like this: > ssh-rsa B3NzaC1... blah > But the SSH public key you're using in the .ssh directory listed above is an > ed25519 key, not an rsa key. > > Try this: > > cat

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Galen Seitz
On 09/05/17 11:47, Roderick Anderson wrote: > I am trying to contact the author of a 'LibreOffice Base' tutorial. > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/02/Base_tutorial.pdf > > I just ventured into designing an application for a local non-profit > organization. To make it portable

Re: [PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Ken Stephens
Roderick Anderson wrote: > I am trying to contact the author of a 'LibreOffice Base' tutorial. > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/02/Base_tutorial.pdf > > I just ventured into designing an application for a local non-profit > organization. To make it portable across Windows, MACs, &

[PLUG] Locating an ODF author

2017-09-05 Thread Roderick Anderson
I am trying to contact the author of a 'LibreOffice Base' tutorial. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/02/Base_tutorial.pdf I just ventured into designing an application for a local non-profit organization. To make it portable across Windows, MACs, & Linux systems I figured

Re: [PLUG] Building document to show installed fonts

2017-09-05 Thread Roderick Anderson
Taken awhile to get back to this but it is with success! While searching for another application in the menus I discovered 'Font Sampler'. I does exactly what I wanted. I just ran it against a directory of 780 or .ttf files and got a .pdf document. It appears to be part of the font-manager

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: ping salmo Paul, I should have mentioned in my original post that ping returns the expected packages. I just rebooted the portable; ping works. Second, check that you can reach 22/tcp (or whatever port

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, wes wrote: > what do "ping salmo" and "ping 192.168.55.1" return? wes, The expected response: pinging the host name works. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Trying to get ssh working between a laptop (typha) and the server (salmo). SSH port numbers match. 'netstat -part' on the server shows ssh listening on the correct port number. Target host (server) is in client (typha) /etc/hosts: 192.168.55.1

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread wes
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, wes wrote: > > > I think your hosts file entry is backwards > > wes, > >That's the format it's had since 1997. > > hrm. you're right. what do "ping salmo" and "ping 192.168.55.1" return?

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I am wanting to copy my home folder from my old machine to my new one. I was planning on putting either the old or the new drive in a usb dock and copying everything over using cp -pr. But web comments mention rsync. What are the risks/rewards of the

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, wes wrote: > I think your hosts file entry is backwards wes, That's the format it's had since 1997. man hosts(5): "This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts file. This file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with hostnames,

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread wes
I think your hosts file entry is backwards -wes On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > ssh: count not connect to host salmo:: Name or service not known' > > Change 'count' to 'could'. > > Rich >

[PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Rich Shepard
Trying to get ssh working between a laptop (typha) and the server (salmo). SSH port numbers match. 'netstat -part' on the server shows ssh listening on the correct port number. Target host (server) is in client (typha) /etc/hosts: 192.168.55.1salmo ... 'ssh -vv salmo' shows 'resolving