Re: [PLUG] Cannot open config file

Where is the default.conf file located? Is dirvish running as something other than root? Unless the directory has execute permissions on it, only root can read anything in the directory there by making the config file unreadable. I've had upgraded packages change how things run like changing the

Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ...

Take light rail to downtown Hillsboro (3rd street station?) to find a few places for after-hours. Sports Look is right at the stop. Other places are only a couple of blocks away. On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:21 PM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > There's lots of places afterwards near Hawthorne Farms.

Re: [PLUG] trying to lock down DNS addresses problem

You can install your own wifi router behind the cable modem. At that point you could change the settings that the router hands out for DNS. The pi-hole project shows how to change the settings where they point to your local pi-hole server and it forwards anything unknown to a location of your

Re: [PLUG] trying to lock down DNS addresses problem

You can load up the bind-utils package. That gives you the command dig which allows you to explore the DNS information more than you can with just ping and a browser. You can use dig on the address but be aware that not all IP addresses have a reverse lookup. On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Re: [PLUG] ubuntu or debian

Ubuntu server? On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:33 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > --- Original Message --- > On Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 8:54 PM, Keith Lofstrom < > kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 06:34:42PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > > > > > ubuntu has drivers for

Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:53 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I have seeded house + exterior with bunch of 433MHz wireless temperature + > humidity sensors - which I read with cheap SDR. > I control this with simple raspberry PI + relay board + simple program. Which sensors did you used?

Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

There are plenty of projects out there for thermostats. Here is one that I found using "DIY Nest thermostat" https://www.stuff.tv/features/how-build-homemade-nest-thermostat/ On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:22 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Frank Filz wrote: > > > Program a single

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations: KVM switch

I had issues with kvm too. I finally gave up. I did find an alternative that seems to work at least for me. A program called "Synergy" from symless.com There is(was) an open source version for a while and it worked for me. YMMV https://symless.com/synergy On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 5:40 AM Rich

Re: [PLUG] Where can one buy a DB25 connector locally?

I know that it may be a distance to drive but I found Norvac Electronics still in business in Salem. http://norvacsalem.com/ On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:34 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Vince Winter wrote: > > > @Rich Shepard Free Geek is only online right > now > > via eBay. :(

Re: [PLUG] Android question

This site might help. https://fsfe.org/activities/android/liberate.en.html#OS If the device is in their list, the wiki for that device should give you the details of how to replace the shipping ROM. On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:20 PM VY wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. > > As Jonathan pointed

Re: [PLUG] bash environment when ssh'ing?

I had something similar on a Centos 7 system and found that my login shell was /bin/sh. Even though /bin/sh was linked to bash, it acted more like a Bourne shell and wasn't acting on my .bashrc or .bash_profile. On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:09 PM Reid wrote: > Does your ~/.bash_profile not source

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

Zoom uses an adaptive bitrate codec. The bandwidth you use will be dependent upon latency to and from the server. A test on your broadband connection will be different than a wireless connection. On Tue, May 11, 2021, 4:03 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] Internet providers

My experience with Ziply has been pretty good. I ordered an upgrade to 1Gig. They waved the installation fee. The installer had to do a rewire of my twisted pair from the Fiber termination to my router. My setup was just two pairs (I started on DSL at this location). Gigabit Ethernet requires all

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

You can use mdadm to examine the superblock on each drive and it will give you the details of the array that the drive thinks it is in. Without a mdadm.conf, the kernel will attempt to assemble the array based on what it finds in the drive superblocks and will default to md127 and count up from

Re: [PLUG] Creating array with mdadm

There are tons of options for mdadm. No, you should not put a format on the devices prior to adding them to the array. It is recommended that you partition the drives prior to adding them to the array but you don't need to do that. You can just use the raw drive. On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:04 PM

Re: [PLUG] CMR/PMR hard drive manufacturers and vendors

There are only three disk drive manufacturers left. Western Digital Seagate Toshiba On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 1:38 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I want to purchase more backup hard drives: > 3.5 inch SATA, 6 to 10 TB ( best price per terabyte ), > 5400 RPM ok, reliability important. > > Who makes,

Re: [PLUG] Awk script syntax help

Note your sample data has issues with embedded field separator data. On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:04 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Robert Citek wrote: > > > Couldn't help to golf that. :) > > awk -v FS=, '$7 !~ /Gen12[cu]/' > > Robert, > > That's another alternative I didn't see

Re: [PLUG] Stress-testing a hard disk

In my former life as a test engineer for a disk company, we used custom testers to stress-test. That eventually moved to custom code loaded directly on the device to do the work. When I moved to Linux we used direct-io libraries to write and read/verify random or patterned data to the drive; in

Re: [PLUG] Search entire filesystem except two mounted partitions

If you were looking for mounts why not use this? cat /proc/mounts you would probably need to filter it some to get what you want as it contains every mount. On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:47 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:08:16 + > David Fleck dijo: > > >On Thursday,

Re: [PLUG] Your first PLUG talk!

I have a talk (or two) in mind but I will need some help getting it worked into shape. Maybe if I feel good about it, I might submit it to OSCON but I think that is a stretch. I have given one of the Advanced topics long ago on disk drives and S.M.A.R.T which is embedded in all drives these days.

Re: [PLUG] Problem building Supermicro 1U...

Also, SuperMicro has a quiet boot screen(Default) that gives little feedback in that mode. On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Louis Kowolowski wrote: > How long have you let it run? IPMI takes several minutes to boot from a > power-off state. It also has to complete booting before the rest of the

[PLUG] Linux supported laptop 5ghz wifi cards

I got to OSCON this morning and found that my laptop won't connect to the conference wifi. Turns out the I bought a laptop that only had 2.4ghz wifi. I'm looking for recommendations. Laptop - HP 15-BW0 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] How do I get ssh to not challenge for a password

The only time I had something like that happen was when the user's file system wasn't properly labeled for SElinux. sshd from the command line doesn't source or use /lib/systemd/system/sshd.service nor /etc/sysconfig/sshd You can also use -vvv from the client side to see what it doesn't like. On

Re: [PLUG] help with /proc/cpuinfo

Dmidecode will give you much about the hardware/firmware on the machine. On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 8:47 AM VY wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > The reason I highlighted this field is exactly what you brought up -- this > number is different in the other > machines I have in our data center. All

Re: [PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

I would suspect that there are conditionals in those jinja2 templates that is making things different. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 6:28 PM Bill Barry On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:02 AM Bill Barry wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:52 PM Tomas Kuchta < > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote:

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

Maybe I'm stating the obvious. Normally you would be running this command from a local X client where the shell would have the $DISPLAY value set. Like this: echo $DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0.0 Once I connect via ssh -X, the same command produces this output: echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 You have three

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

The Display for the Noodle Pi has been discontinued without a compatible replacement for the project. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:57 AM Nat Taylor wrote: > I may have to check out the Noodle pi too! > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:35 AM Richard Owlett > wrote: > > > On 11/15/2018 09:29 AM, Nat

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

Even the shell in cron could be different from your login shell. Only the location running cron should be affected. The ~/ is a shell alias pointing to the $HOME variable. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Larry Brigman wrote: > > > No

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

Note that none of your shell variables from your login will be set when you run from cron. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 7:53 AM Rich Shepard I want to update ~/ on the new desktop with changes made in ~/ on the > old > desktop using rsync in a daily cron job. The old desktop has a directory > ~/data

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

ces. > > How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken > _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? > > TIA > > On 11/13/2018 12:04 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/13/2018 11:25 AM, Larry Brigman wrote: > >> > >> The retail market is Android

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS

I think these requirements are about 20+ years too late. Even when there were PDA devices to they didn't have standard USB connections as the connector was too large. The retail market is Android or iPhone these days. To get something close you would probably need to start searching in the

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS

Did you happen to find the pocketChip in your search? https://makerprojectlab.com/pocket-chip-review/ https://shop.pocketchip.co/ There is probably plans on thingy for a 3d printed case. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 7:13 AM Rich Shepard On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I kick myself

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

'fsresize' is your friend after you change your partition sizes. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 5:12 PM Chuck Hast Select morsels of good data, thanks to you all. I went in and looked at the > 9.1G partition, > it has /tmp and /var in there so yes those have a bunch of log files and > whatnot in there. >

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

Use 'df' to see what partitions are in use and percentage. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 8:14 PM Bill Barry On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:40 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > > > I went in and was able to boot to the previous image. The recovery > offered > > to remove all > > unneeded files, then did the update. I was

Re: [PLUG] IBM acquires Redhat

Not 100% sure on that last comment as most of the people running the infrastructure/Build systems are Redhat Employees. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > FYI CentOS does not need the blessing of IBM any more than it already needs > the blessing of Red Hat. Here's some reading

Re: [PLUG] IBM acquires Redhat

Not yet. Still needs government approval. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 8:56 AM Apparently Redhat Software is now part of IBM. What does this mean for the > Linux community? > > -- Michael C. Robinson > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org >

Re: [PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Is it possible that there was a pending mount from the GUI that was waiting for the sudo permissions and it did the mount not your command? On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 5:11 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard dijo: > > > I meant to ask what mount

Re: [PLUG] Mount points drive me nuts

hotplug adding new lines? On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 9:22 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > Xubuntu 16.04. > > I have a large external USB drive that is normally mounted > at /media/jjj/Movies. Suddenly I find that it is also mounted > at /media/jjj/Movies1. I certainly didn't do this deliberately. I

Re: [PLUG] Rsync again

I would add checking of the return code (exit code) for the 'cd' commands. As it is now those could fail but something latter would have to detect the failure. On Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 5:28 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:08:21 -0700 > Tomas K dijo: > > >Simple if statement in

Re: [PLUG] A "Where am I" routine

is active. {i.e. independent of > hostname} > > On 07/06/2018 09:50 AM, Larry Brigman wrote: > > It's common to have a $HOME/bin directory to store scripts and add that > > directory to the PATH. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:24 AM Richard Owlett

Re: [PLUG] A "Where am I" routine

It's common to have a $HOME/bin directory to store scripts and add that directory to the PATH. On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:24 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several configurations &/or releases of Debian. > I will run identical test scripts on each. > I want to store the results in a

Re: [PLUG] Problems installing MariaDB

Just a btw. The command 'script' can record your commands and the output. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 2:56 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > Reading the man page for dpkg-reconfigure lead to reading debconf-show > which lead to further investigation. > > Which led to doubts about integrity/consistency of my

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

The local 169.254 address is part of zeroconf. If that package (avahi on some distros) isn't loaded or the service is disabled/not running then there won't be any autoconfiguration. I did see that one of the interfaces was up with link(UP,LOWER_UP) in the output. On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:48 PM

Re: [PLUG] Terminal shortcuts

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:47 PM wes wrote: > > > > > > OK, this is Linux, where someone a long time ago decided to name a root > > folder /usr to save typing just one tiny letter. I mean, seriously. > > There has to be a way to save constantly re-typing at the command line. > > Any suggestions?

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:13 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/19/2018 06:45 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > Here is someone 10 years ago, using debian: > > > > > > > https://jonmccune.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/prolific-pl-25a1-usb-to-usb-bridge-in-linux/ > > Now bookmarked. I read. It stated in

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

from a wine/dos prompt -> dir g:? On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:28 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > Yes that is what g: is aimed at. But for some reason the program does not > see > it. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Larry Brigman > wrote: > > > More likely to sdb. >

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

More likely to sdb. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:01 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > On closer inspection I see that both of these are removed when the device > is > disconnected: > Jun 9 23:18:50 kp4djt-t420 kernel: [ 1136.185219] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached > scsi generic sg2 type 0 > Jun 9 23:18:50

Re: [PLUG] How to confirm my router is safe

The second piece that I saw was to turn off upnp protocol. Akamai(sp?) has a white paper about it and a list affected routers. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:07 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > > https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-sounding-the-alarm- > > about-a-new-russian-cyber-threat/

Re: [PLUG] SAS HBA and miniSAS cabling

Do some searching. Most of the hba controllers can replace the firmware with a non-raid version. On Mar 8, 2018 4:50 PM, "Russell Senior" wrote: > Hi, > > Wearing my Personal Telco Project non-profit hat at the moment, we got > a new server by way of a generous grant

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 6 to 7 migration

The biggest learning curve is systemd. If you have service scripts for things, you will need to convert them. Also file system defaults to xfs. NFS also goes to the next version. On Feb 9, 2018 3:53 PM, "Galen Seitz" wrote: > Hi, > > My task for this weekend is to

Re: [PLUG] [OT?] Internet privacy? ?? ???

Clicking on a link in a YouTube video could get that type of information to a source that could/would use it, as the link could take you off the youtube site completely. Any site that he connects can collect any information that the browser has configured as to his identity. Also without any

Re: [PLUG] Am I asking the "right question"

'chroot' is an isolation/security mechanism. It doesn't allow programs running within it to access anything except the kernel and the programs/libraries within the chroot. For what you are doing, think of it as a file system tree that you can test most of your boot environment (short of booting)

Re: [PLUG] Figure out IP camera

to do anything, but opening a file with VLC in more > > instances than I can count. That app is a mystery to me no patience > > for GUI, I suppose... LOL > > > > -T > > > > On Dec 2, 2017 9:28 PM, "Larry Brigman" <larry.brig...@gmail.com&

Re: [PLUG] Figure out IP camera

Have you tried VLC against one of of the ports? Also port 53 is normally DNS. Maybe it will provide the necessary information. On Dec 2, 2017 9:02 PM, "Chuck Hast" wrote: Folks, I purchased a borescope, it has a wifi output on it to view the borescope video, but it works with