Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Dick Steffens
On 7/31/19 10:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: The latest SBo offering for 64-bit Google Earth is installed on the new 64-bit desktop and works fine. Except, when I log out a dialog box opens asking for which keypass password I want to use. I don't remember setting it up, but just using my login

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, David Bridges wrote: In an earlier reply I mentioned using a file to exclude things that is referenced on the rsync command line. I know that things can be excluded as an argument on the command line but I've been tripped up doing it like that in the past. I would suggest

Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I don't remember setting it up, but just using my login password worked for me. Dick, Why enter anything? Is it locally stored or does Google take it somewhere? A local application should not need a password. Guess I'll keep pressing the 'Cancel'

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Smith, Cathy wrote: I've always found it useful to test my rsync syntax with a subset of the data or the --dry-run option first. Various OS implement rsync a tiny bit differently. There are a lot of good rsync tutorials online which have working examples. Cathy, Good

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Well, I'm the only human element involved and I have no problems. > > When > > synchronizing an entire directory there's never been an issue. What I > > want > > to learn is how to exclude a specific subdirectory on the source > > host. > > In an earlier reply I mentioned using a file to

Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Ben Koenig
Yep. That's gnome-keyring. Googs is playing favorites and forcing dependencies on gnome libraries. There's a way to make it stop. I bet you asked about this years ago and implemented the workaround on your other systems. My solution is to not run apps that do stupid gnome things. Life is simpler

[PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
The latest SBo offering for 64-bit Google Earth is installed on the new 64-bit desktop and works fine. Except, when I log out a dialog box opens asking for which keypass password I want to use. As I've never before seen this behavior on the 32-bit desktop or the 64-bit laptops I've no idea why

Re: [PLUG] Ping works but rsync and ssh don't

2019-07-31 Thread alan
Check the permissions on your ~/.ssh directory. Should be 700. > Your actual command line would be a good place to start. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:25 AM Rich Shepard > wrote: > >> A strange behavior just appeared on the LAN. After setting ssh-add to >> both >> desktops after logging in I

Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Is it a gnome keyring prompt? That's usually what people see for googs earths. Ben, No clue. The text in the dialog box reads, "Choose password for new keyring. An application wants to create a newkeyring called 'Default' enter the password you want to

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Ben Koenig
rsync -av user@srchost:~/ /path/to/destination/ Stop using wildcards and the . when using rsync. It causes problems for the human element. Specify the folders using ABSOLUTE pathnames and always include the trailing / On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 11:01 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019,

Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: There's a way to make it stop. I bet you asked about this years ago and implemented the workaround on your other systems. Not too likely as I've not before encountered it, unless it was about 20 years ago and I've forgotten it since then. My solution

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You need to quote the remote host:'*' like this to prevent your local shell expanding it locally instead of remotely. Hope this helps, Tomas On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 14:01 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > you can use --exclude dirOrFileName

[PLUG] Ping works but rsync and ssh don't

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
A strange behavior just appeared on the LAN. After setting ssh-add to both desktops after logging in I was able to scp a file from salmo (32-bit) to baetis (64-bit). A while later trying to rsync baetis' /data directory with salmo's data/ directory failed because of a broken pipe/host not found

Re: [PLUG] Ping works but rsync and ssh don't [FIXED]

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Your actual command line would be a good place to start. Russell, I was just about to post the attempt and that's when I saw the syntax error. Mea culpa! Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multiple times - it will form a list From the target machine I tried to rsync all of my home directory from salmo, except for the data/ subdirectory but my syntax is wrong. On the source host data/

[PLUG] TOMORROW: Portland Linux/Unix Group: Introduction to Ansible

2019-07-31 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Larry Brigman What: Introduction to Ansible or why you too should be doing infrastructure as code Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, August 1st, 2019 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: You need to quote the remote host:'*' like this to prevent your local shell expanding it locally instead of remotely. Tomas, Okay. That makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread David Bridges
> Well, I'm the only human element involved and I have no problems. > When > synchronizing an entire directory there's never been an issue. What I > want > to learn is how to exclude a specific subdirectory on the source > host. In an earlier reply I mentioned using a file to exclude things that

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Smith, Cathy
I've always found it useful to test my rsync syntax with a subset of the data or the --dry-run option first. Various OS implement rsync a tiny bit differently. There are a lot of good rsync tutorials online which have working examples. Cathy --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest

Re: [PLUG] Strange Google Earth exit behavior

2019-07-31 Thread Ben Koenig
Is it a gnome keyring prompt? That's usually what people see for googs earths. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 10:18 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > The latest SBo offering for 64-bit Google Earth is installed on the new > 64-bit desktop and works fine. Except, when I log out a dialog box opens > asking for

Re: [PLUG] Ping works but rsync and ssh don't

2019-07-31 Thread Russell Senior
Your actual command line would be a good place to start. On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:25 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > A strange behavior just appeared on the LAN. After setting ssh-add to both > desktops after logging in I was able to scp a file from salmo (32-bit) to > baetis (64-bit). A while later

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Stop using wildcards and the . when using rsync. It causes problems for the human element. Specify the folders using ABSOLUTE pathnames and always include the trailing / Well, I'm the only human element involved and I have no problems. When synchronizing

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TOMORROW: Portland Linux/Unix Group: Introduction to Ansible

2019-07-31 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Larry Brigman What: Introduction to Ansible or why you too should be doing infrastructure as code Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, August 1st, 2019 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology