Re: [PLUG] From Windows to Linux

2014-07-19 Thread John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com
I would suggest the Lubuntu 14.04 distro with the Linux XP theme. Nicely lightweight for older hardware and familiar looking, yet easy support from multiple online sources. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] From Windows to Linux

2014-07-19 Thread John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com
Since there seems to be more support for Ubuntu flavors around these parts, I would suggest the Lubuntu 14.04 distro with the XP theme described herein: http://m.softpedia.com/turn-lubuntu-in-windows-xp-with-a-theme-and-no-one-will-notice-436255.html The *buntu repositories are easily accessed,

[PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
Ever since last weekend's aborted attempts to modify log rotation intervals (which were completely rolled back), one of the scripts in cron.daily (0logwatch; a soft link to /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl) stopped running. At least, I'm not getting the reports mailed to me each morning

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 06:04:47AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Ever since last weekend's aborted attempts to modify log rotation cron.daily (0logwatch; a soft link to /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl) stopped running. At least, I'm not getting the reports mailed to me each morning at

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Start by manually launching it to see what happens. Michael, I should have mentioned that I've done that and it runs with output to the virtual console. Just did so now; ran fine. Thanks, Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 06:30:24AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Start by manually launching it to see what happens. Michael, I should have mentioned that I've done that and it runs with output to the virtual console. Just did so now; ran

Re: [PLUG] From Windows to Linux

2014-07-19 Thread Richard Owlett
John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com wrote: Since there seems to be more support for Ubuntu flavors around these parts, I would suggest the Lubuntu 14.04 distro with the XP theme described herein:

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Are we to assume you've checked syslog, run something to verify your crontab syntax is correct ... ? Michael, Thank you. I just found the typo in crontab. Sigh. Much appreciated, Rich ___ PLUG

[PLUG] EFF Tor Challenge

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
You are encouraged to help keep the internet a private place. https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Welcome to another helping of Kenny Zuke's delicious spam. We make it ourselves. You ordered it, so take a

Re: [PLUG] Debian firewall for newbies?

2014-07-19 Thread elcaseti .
Leopard flower looks like exactly what I want. Too bad it is an abandoned project. Does anybody know of a similar firewall that is still developed? Mange Takk On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I know I'm linking to an old thread

Re: [PLUG] Debian firewall for newbies? (elcaseti .)

2014-07-19 Thread Mike C.
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