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SekmQ! what happens if I've had my sudoers replaced with another one and now no account can access it?02:30
IdleOneSekm: see http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo02:36
SekmIdleOne: Thanks for that man, all sorted now03:23
IdleOnesure thing, glad it helped03:23
IdleOneNow stop messing with the sudoers03:23
IdleOne:)03:23
SekmDONE03:23
Sekmoh, and you wouldn't happen to know how i could optain a list of packages i can download with apt-get would you?03:24
IdleOneumm a full list? there are over 25000 of them03:24
Sekmmhm... i just want to grep the mysql ones03:24
IdleOneapt-cache search mysql*03:25
pedro3005apt-cache search <name>03:25
Sekmoh wow thanks03:25
IdleOnethat should give you a long list03:25
Sekmokay it did...03:25
Sekmbut it gave me what i needed, thanks!03:26
IdleOneyou should be able to redirect searches to a file if you really want to. apt-cache search <term> > ~/Desktop/searches.txt03:27
Sekmoh yea, cool cool03:28
Sekmdoes > put it to a file, and >> appended it if the file exists?03:28
IdleOnethat will put the results in a text file on your Desktop but not sure you really need to03:28
IdleOneyup03:29
Sekmnaw im just setting up automated configurations for servers, but learning linux simultaneously03:29
IdleOneexcatly03:29
IdleOneexactly*03:29
IdleOneactually, no it overwrites the file03:30
Sekmah yep, kay, good to know O_O03:30
IdleOnenot sure how you would append to it.03:31
* IdleOne is bad with bash :(03:31
Unit193>> does append (Let me try just to make sure)03:35
IdleOneit didn't for me03:36
Unit193It just did for me >_>03:36
IdleOnehmm03:37
IdleOnelet me try again03:37
IdleOnelol yes it does. I just remembered that I deleted the file it created the first time before trying ยป03:38
IdleOneerr > >03:38
IdleOnestupid auto replace03:38
IdleOne>> there we go03:39
philipballewis rsa keys necessary for ssh in your guys and girls opinion?04:47
bioterrorare you talking about creating ssh keys?04:51
akshatjno lesser than 4096 bits ;D04:53
bioterrorakshatj, did you hear about RSA SecurID's? :D04:53
bioterrorRSA is going to change couple of SecurID tokens :D04:53
philipballewyeah. i was comntemplating setting up ssh on my desktop with eather a password or keys04:53
sphikahello05:08
sphikaI recently had an issue with a video streaming software called veetle, so I decided to upgrade to the latest version to see if that would fix my problem. I ran "sudo sh" to install the program. Since then I have experienced a variety of issues, including, my ICEauthority can't be updated, the sound control can no longer communicate with the sound device, and I don't have the permissions to save files in gimp. Can anyone help me?05:11
holsteinsphika: what did you install and how?05:20
holsteinwhere did you get it05:20
sphikaveetle -- it is a video streaming software. basically like a youtube player but through a specific company. I got it directly from their website.05:21
akshatjGUI app?05:21
* holstein is on the site05:21
sphikaI used the command sudo sh to install the file05:21
holsteinsphika: what *exactly* did you get05:21
sphikano it isnt, it was through the console05:21
sphikayou mean the filename?05:21
holsteinhowever you would like to convey to me exactly what you got and where you got it from05:22
* holstein is looking at http://www.veetle.com/index.php/download05:22
holsteini see 2 linux options05:22
holstein4 actually05:22
holsteinyou got the client im assuming05:23
holsteinand im assuming you DL'd the 'linux self contained installer'05:23
sphikayeah the .sh file that pops up05:23
holsteinveetle-0.9.17-linux-install.sh ??05:24
sphikaexactly05:24
holsteinOK, so you ran sudo veetle-0.9.17-linux-install.sh in a terminal05:25
holsteinwhat output did you get?05:25
sphikawell, basically it came up like a text based installer05:25
holsteinright... any errors?05:25
sphikaand i was going through the user agreements quickly, and didn't realize until afterwards that it said they recommend against installing as root05:25
philipballew!ssh05:26
ubot2SSH is the Secure SHell protocol, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH for client usage. PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows; see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ for it's homepage. See also !scp (Secure CoPy) and !sshd (Secure SHell Daemon)05:26
sphikawhich I assume I did as I used sudo to install05:27
holsteinsphika: is there a support channel for it?05:27
sphikaon freenode? I didn't look I guess.05:27
holsteini mean, without just breaking something here the same way, im not sure how i can help05:28
holsteinit seems likely that this is the cause though05:28
sphikaokay, well, thank you05:28
holsteinsphika: i would say, try and look in the file05:29
holsteinsee what gets copied where05:29
holsteinsphika: how do they say to uninstall?, and have you tried that?05:30
sphikaholstein, yes, I tried to uninstall. it didn't seem to work.05:33
sphikathe message it gives is "You are running this script as root. Veetle recommends against installing05:33
sphikaon the superuser account. We suggest you press <Control-C> now and reinstall05:33
sphikaon the user account you typically use to run Firefox or Mozilla.05:33
sphika"05:33
holsteinsphika: another thing i would do before freaking out and reinstalling is to add a new user, and see how that user account seems05:33
holsteinsphika: but you already installed sudo correct?05:34
holsteinas sudo* as root ??05:34
holsteinif you sudo installed, i would try sudo uninstalling05:34
sphikaholstein, correct. you have to press enter to get through the EULA (repeatedly) and I skipped past that warning as a result05:35
holstein:/05:35
sphikayeah, pretty stupid of me.05:35
holsteinhttp://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24634386-Heads-up-with-Veetle-and-Ubuntu-10.0405:36
holsteinsphika: hey, it happens... now you know :)05:36
holsteinI sudo chown'd the dir back to me, did a reboot, and PRESTO, no ICEauthority error, the volume buttons on my keyboard worked as well as the icon05:36
holstein^^05:36
holsteinthat post is relevant for sure05:36
sphikayeah05:37
sphikanow uh..05:37
sphikathat whole chown thing, hows that work?05:37
holstein!chown05:37
ubot2An explanation of what file permissions are and how they can be manipulated can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions05:37
holsteincool... basically, permissions are messed up05:38
holsteinthings that your user used to have permission to access, now it cannot05:38
holsteinand thats actually not a big deal to fix05:38
sphikaah i see05:39
holsteinsphika: you can totally get back from this without reinstalling05:39
sphikawell, so I basically run: chown root:root blahblah/.veetle ?05:41
holsteinsphika: well, thats the idea05:41
holsteinbut i think you'll need to reclaim your own home directory05:41
sphikaah05:41
holstein*from that post "I checked the ownership of my home directory, and yep, it belonged to some other owner, with no name, just an id.05:42
sphikaso chown root:root /home/ ?05:42
holsteini think its more like sudo chown sphika:sphika /home/spika05:43
holsteinsphika: but feel free to wait on a 2nd opinion05:43
sphikagotcha05:43
* holstein looking05:43
holsteinyeah, you might need the -R flag... lemme look some more05:44
sphikatrying that + restart05:44
sphikaoh oka05:44
holsteinyeah, -R is recursive05:45
holsteinthats what you want SO...05:45
holsteinsudo chown -R sphika:sphika /home/sphika05:45
holsteinthen, in theory, you reboot, and Robert is your mother's brother05:46
sphikachown: cannot access `/home/sphika/.gvfs': Permission denied05:46
sphika"I found the solution. Actually I ran the script as root. As per the forums of veetle if we run as root the permission of home directory changes to user id 1016 as I mentioned above. Running the script as normal user solves the problem"05:47
holsteinsphika: OH... cool... so you are good now?05:48
sphikanope. just showing you something I found.05:49
holsteinyeah, that installer is jive05:49
sphikait gave that output05:49
holsteinsphika: so, make sure the .sh is executable05:50
holsteinand run that as normal user05:50
holsteinand maybe that fixes everything it broke :)05:50
sphikaokey dokey. trying that.05:51
holsteinwell, video playback is smooth for me at least.. in chromium05:52
sphikaholstein, it is fixed. you are god-tier. thank you.05:55
holsteinsphika: COOL :)05:55
sphikayou got about 50 karma points my friend.05:56
philipballewif i have dynamic ip's and i want ssh. i installed and configured my ssh server but how do i connect now?06:38
bioterrorssh user@computer06:39
bioterrorssh user@hostname06:39
bioterrorssh user@ip.addrress06:40
bioterrorif you have same username in both places06:40
bioterrorthen you can just ssh host06:40
philipballewwell like i have ddns from no-ip.com and i configured that with ddwrt on my router and it is monitering my external ip address. but how is it gonna know what computer on my network to connect to06:41
bioterrormake port forward06:44
bioterrordaaaa :D06:44
bioterrorbasic natting things06:44
stlsaintphilipballew: why cant you jsut ssh@ipaddress?06:46
philipballewstlsaint, my ip address change pretty often06:46
philipballewdynamic06:47
stlsaintphilipballew: so make it static06:47
stlsaintphilipballew: the router can handle that06:47
philipballewthat cost money from my isp?06:47
stlsaintphilipballew: ??06:47
stlsainto_O06:47
philipballewif i want to assign a static ip address to my house its a few bucks06:48
stlsaintphilipballew: your router, which you say you have ddwrt on (which would suggest you knew abit more about routing), can assign your local area ip to the ssh protocol (IE: port forwarding)06:48
stlsaintphilipballew: and on the server set it to static06:49
philipballewhum. i have port 22 open right now. yeah. im pretty good at networking. but not great06:51
philipballewstlsaint,06:51
stlsaintphilipballew: yes its open cause you are using ssh (unles you change that conf, ssh uses 22 by default)06:52
stlsaintphilipballew: just because its open doesnt mean you are forwarding ssh protocol to your server ip06:52
philipballewyeah. but I still need to figure out how to connect to my computer from a different network. sorry06:52
* stlsaint facepalms!06:53
stlsaintphilipballew: alright here me out man06:53
philipballewokay :)06:53
stlsaintphilipballew: you need port forwarding06:53
stlsaintphilipballew: google it ;)06:53
stlsaintphilipballew: you will then be able to do ssh@ipaddress (from outside your network(06:54
stlsaint)06:54
philipballewwithour ddns?06:54
stlsaintphilipballew: you are going to forward ALL ssh request to your server ip06:54
philipballewno. i have 2 desktops i want to be able to ssh onto06:54
philipballewand ill do it from my laptop06:55
stlsaintphilipballew: so why did you say you had a ssh server? when really you have two desktops!06:55
stlsaintphilipballew: either way the end result is still the same06:56
philipballewbecause i installed openssh-server!06:56
philipballew:)06:56
stlsaintphilipballew: you can set one desktop to use port 22 and another to use port 222206:56
philipballewi change my ssh confile on one of them06:56
stlsaintphilipballew: question, are you using keys or password authentication?06:57
philipballewdo i just need to assign static local ip's still?06:57
stlsaintphilipballew: yes on the system and in the router06:57
philipballewso let me tell you what i think i need to do and you say if its right06:57
stlsaintalrighty.....06:57
philipballewassign static ip's to my local computers. cennect to my router and set up port forwording to my desktop dor the applaction ssh. and when im on a different network i ssh@myddnsdomain06:59
stlsaintbasically06:59
stlsaintfew minor suggestions07:00
philipballewgo for it07:00
stlsaint1. Set up local ips on the desktops07:00
stlsaint2. On each system configure ssh to use a different port (you really need to be using key authentication cause you WILL be attacked sooner or later!!)07:01
philipballewi have rsa keys on my laptop ready to transfer :)07:01
stlsaint3. In the router setup port forwarding to each different ip address using the ports you assigned (ok will explain the keys later)07:02
stlsaint4. Now your ddns points to your public address and it does not care that you have seperate ports unless you specify them07:02
philipballewthis is messin with my brain.  this is how im gonna change to a static ip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZsVSVf-4mc&playnext=1&list=PL5CA85340745475CA07:03
stlsaint5. So after setting up port forwarding and local ips you can do ssh -p 2222 philip@myddns or -p 22 for whichever system you want (i suggest just using the public ip address really though)07:03
stlsaintphilipballew: BOOOOOO!!! You said you were good at networking!!!07:04
philipballewhaha. what do you mean07:04
philipballewgoods a ppretty relatove term07:04
stlsaintphilipballew: dude static ip's and port forwarding are balls basic networking!!07:05
stlsaintphilipballew: your the one who said "good" earlier!07:05
stlsaintphilipballew: especially with having ddwrt on a router, its actually more complicated to install ddwrt on router than it is to use static and port forward07:05
philipballewi do physical networking myself mostly.I have had jobs installing say cat5 places/ so i know how networks work in that way07:06
philipballewddwt took 10 seconds07:06
* stlsaint <-----same with this guy!07:06
stlsaintEXACTLY!07:06
philipballewi decided to learn networking a few weeks ago. so im getting there07:06
stlsaintphilipballew: really man if this is your first time, just go thru everything manually cause it wont be your last07:06
philipballewwhat do you mean manually?07:07
philipballewin what way?07:07
philipballewthat can mean several things07:07
stlsaintphilipballew: read everything on port forwarding and setting static ips, wait are all three your systems running linux?07:07
philipballewall run linux07:08
stlsaintok whew07:08
philipballewwindows is pretty lame if you ask me07:08
philipballewbut thats just my opinion07:08
stlsaintphilipballew: i can give you two documents that will explain the entire process: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/PortForwarding07:09
philipballewalright07:10
philipballewive been followong https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html07:10
stlsaintphilipballew: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html07:10
stlsaint^^ ip address explained well07:10
philipballewthis looks like a fun time07:10
philipballew:)07:10
stlsaintphilipballew: oh yea, but when you come out of it you will be a freaking rock star!!!07:11
stlsaintphilipballew: trust me i tried doing everything on my own before i found the ubuntu help docs!! Rough times man...rough times07:12
philipballewbut your a better man now that youve seen the "documentation light"07:12
stlsaintphilipballew: feel free to come back anytime, there are others here willing to help07:12
stlsaintACK bioterror07:12
philipballewme and him talk sometimes07:13
stlsaintphilipballew: i was a better man once i failed thousands of times!! lol07:13
philipballewi understand the feeling07:13
philipballewfailure brings knowledge07:13
stlsaintphilipballew: now i can setup ssh/port forwarding and keys in under 10 mins!07:13
philipballewhow long did iy take you the first time?07:14
stlsaintphilipballew: also if your interested in security might i invite you to try out denyhosts07:14
stlsaintphilipballew: careful though as my first time using it i locked myself out of my server :D07:14
philipballewwhat is that07:14
stlsaintphilipballew: well let me explain what might entice an attacker first,07:15
philipballewalright07:15
stlsaintphilipballew: you are opening up a port on your network to the outside world, so if an attacker gets ahold of your public ipaddress, they are gonna see this open port and attack it07:15
stlsaintphilipballew: i was getting attacked on my server from all over the world, china, bejing, san francisco, etc07:16
stlsaintphilipballew: now of course with keys (and a little router work to prevent a ddos) they were unable to get into machine07:17
stlsaintphilipballew: they all were using brute force dictionary attacks to guess my "root" password07:17
stlsaintphilipballew: well i got tired of seeing these logs so i went with denyhosts07:17
stlsaintphilipballew: denyhosts in a nutshell just blocks those ip's that attack me for a set period of time that i set07:17
stlsaintphilipballew: i went with 7000000 secs ;)07:18
philipballewthats a long time!07:18
philipballewmakes sence though07:18
stlsaintphilipballew: yep07:18
stlsaintphilipballew: you can tail the log and just watch the ip's get blocked left and right ;)07:18
philipballewi think tonight im gonna map out my network so i can see what my gateway is and what not so i can get everythong set up nicely07:19
stlsaintphilipballew: you can also set to only allow certain ipaddress even access the network07:19
philipballewwow07:19
stlsaintphilipballew: nmap/netcat is your best friend.....after google ;)07:19
stlsaintand netstat07:19
philipballewprobably good for business07:20
stlsaintphilipballew: yes but again be careful and read documentation, like i said i locked myself out the very first time but good thing the servers were right upstairs07:20
philipballewcant i just log into my router and see my gateway after i set it up07:20
stlsaintphilipballew: you can see your gateway from terminal07:20
stlsaintifconfig07:21
philipballewthis is true07:21
philipballewwhere i live now the gateway/modem is also a wifi router07:22
philipballewatt is kinda lime with their parts07:22
stlsaintphilipballew: ssh is extremely versatile and useful man, no limits to what you can do with it07:22
philipballewhaha. i need to figure out a way to have it go through 2 routers possibly07:23
philipballewssh will help me though07:23
stlsaintphilipballew: setup one router as router and another in "gateway" mode07:24
stlsaintwell depending on what you are trying to do07:24
philipballewwould that kill its wireless capability07:24
stlsaintone of them yea07:25
stlsaintwell it will just forward whatever the first router is pushing out07:25
stlsaintso yes and now07:25
philipballewhum. id have to convince everybody else then to use my router who lives here then07:25
stlsaintphilipballew: also for your preference you can probably just stick with setting the port in the ssh syntax: ssh -p 2222 philip@myddnsdomain and let the router do the rest07:26
stlsaintphilipballew: why do you need ssh to go thru two routers?07:26
stlsaintunless you have too many folks and only one incoming connection07:27
philipballewthe modem and router supplied vy my isp are in one physical unit at the house i live in07:27
stlsaintso you hook up routerA(isp) to routerB(personal)?07:28
philipballewphone line cat5out and router all in one07:28
philipballewyes i do07:28
philipballewyeah. its probably a bad isea07:28
philipballewidea07:28
geirhaI'd set up B to be an access point, then everyone will go through router A.07:28
stlsaintas long as you have those two routers talkign correctly they will handle the ssh protocol forwarding07:29
philipballewstlsaint, yeah. the first router is kinda a lame router. but it can port forword07:30
philipballewgeirha, access point in what way. I believe it already irt07:31
philipballew*is07:31
geirhaphilipballew: You turn off the dhcp server on it, then you connect the other router to it in one of the ethernet ports, instead of the uplink port. When someone connects to router B, they'll get ip from router A.07:33
geirhaSo you'll only have one layer of nat.07:33
stlsaintgeirha: long time no speak, sup07:34
philipballewhum. looks do-able07:34
stlsaintvery07:35
philipballewi need to figure this all out. as im pretty confused still07:36
philipballewhaha07:36
philipballewheres port forwording on my first router http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/2wire/2701HG-B/07:36
stlsaintcoalwater: sup07:39
s0f7_mach1no/ hi07:44
coalwaterhi stlsaint , s0f7_mach1n and every body07:45
philipballewhello s0f7_mach1n07:45
s0f7_mach1no/07:45
coalwaterjust woke up, need to take a shower and go to work, yay.. not lol07:45
s0f7_mach1nany one know how to change the time format in irssi?07:46
coalwaterwhats irssi07:46
coalwatero ok, irc client07:46
s0f7_mach1ncoalwater: terminal based irc client07:46
philipballewcoalwater, terminal irc07:47
philipballewbeat me to it...07:47
s0f7_mach1nid like it to dow Y-M-D--h:m07:47
coalwateri dont know, maybe ull find something that lets u set the format, like %H:%M etc07:47
coalwateri never used it before07:47
s0f7_mach1nbeen lookin but no joy07:47
s0f7_mach1ncoalwater: wat client u use07:48
coalwaterit says 'timestamp_format = %H:%M '07:49
coalwaterxchat07:49
coalwaters0f7_mach1n, dont know how much help this should be, http://www.irssi.org/documentation/settings#timestamp_format_07:51
coalwaterbrb, need to shower before i fall asleep again lol07:52
stlsaints0f7_mach1n: sup07:53
s0f7_mach1nnvm facepalm07:54
s0f7_mach1nbrb07:54
coalwaterhm he didnt sound happy lol08:20
coalwatermorning krusi08:20
krusimorning08:20
Duck_So... I'm going to be traveling with my new ubuntu netbook. Is there anything you would recommend to do for protection on open wireless networks?08:40
Duck_Should I set up a firewall or something08:40
coalwaterubuntu already has a firewall, 'ufw'08:48
coalwater!ufw08:48
ubot2Ubuntu, like any other Linux distribution, has firewall capabilities built-in. The firewall is managed using the 'ufw' command - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW | An alternative to ufw is the 'iptables' command - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo | GUI frontends such as Gufw (GNOME)  and Guarddog (KDE Lucid and Maverick) also exist.08:48
coalwateranyway, need to run to work, be back in about an hour08:48
krusidon08:51
krusidon't enter passwords on unsecure pages/services etc.08:51
coalwatersomeone was asking about firewalls a bit ago, dont remember who, is he/she still here?09:54
krusijust left09:55
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coalwaterhi kine_da10:42
Udonnomecan i use apt-get to install a driver?11:08
bioterrorif its in a repository11:09
Udonnomeah,cant find it,maybe its not11:11
stlsaintbioterror: i can use yum to install a driver ;)11:13
stlsaint+1 yum11:14
Udonnome!yum11:26
ubot2Uh, don't you mean !apt ?11:26
Udonnomeguys,if i use another linux distro,can i also install thet ubuntu software menager,it just seem very usefull to me :)11:38
bioterrorwhat distro?11:40
bioterrorwhich11:40
bioterrorbut USC is opensource, you can grab sources and compile it yourself if it doesnt exist already :D11:41
E3D3Hi, how can I disable the Shift+NumLock-shortcut ?11:47
E3D3I didn't see it in prefs > keyboards11:47
s0f7_mach1nestlsaint12:32
stlsaints0f7_mach1ne: yes14:14
s0f7_mach1nehow to display the user list on the right side of screen14:16
stlsaintscript14:20
stlsaints0f7_mach1ne: have at it: http://scripts.irssi.org/14:21
s0f7_mach1ntest15:28
Lemuel+115:28
nlsthznfail15:28
s0f7_mach1nexit15:29
stlsaintnew irssi users, gotta love'em :D15:30
* nlsthzn strokes his x-chat and it purrrrrrrs back....15:30
stlsaintnlsthzn: boooooooo15:31
nlsthznstlsaint: :p15:32
akshatj"No, I am not going to assist you in Fartville, stop the sockpuppeting already."15:33
kristian-aalborghow resource-intensive is LibreOffice?15:53
kristian-aalborgthinking of putting it on a P4 with 1.5 gigs of memory15:53
bioterrorshould work15:54
holsteinlibreoffice seems lighter weight than openoffice did to me16:07
holsteinits no abiword...16:07
KimorHello - 2 newbie questions - 1) I have Jaunty installed, and I'd like to upgrade, but apparently I need to get an interim update for Karmic.  How can I upgrade to Karmic without reinstalling Linux?  2) When I print documents, black blocks replace characters randomly.  This is consistent with different fonts and file types.16:49
KimorAny ideas?16:49
holsteinKimor: i would try the other ubuntu versions live, with that printer16:50
KimorWell, I'd be happy to just update permanently - any suggestions on doing that?16:50
holsteinif you are assuming upgrading will fix that issue... this should help you confirm that16:50
Kimor*nods*16:50
KimorI'm guessing, but I'm not 100% sure.16:51
holsteinpersonally, i would just backup my data, because you should do that anyways before upgrading, and just reinstall16:51
holsteinyou're talking about doing 2 distro upgrades at least16:51
holsteinthat could very well take 14 hours16:51
Kimor*nods*  I suppose that I could - I was just a little bit nervous about doing that because I had some issues installing it originally on this computer - I don't remember exactly what it is that I did in order to get the internet and sound working on here16:51
holsteinAND, the repos are not active any longer for karmic, so, you'll have to be creative about it16:52
KimorFair enough, I suppose.   Do you think upgrading will help with the printer issue?16:52
holsteinKimor: again, reference the live CD's, and you should be able to determine how to get sound working, assuming it doesnt work out of the box16:52
holsteinKimor: i have no idea about the printer16:52
KimorIt doesn't - this is a rather odd laptop16:52
KimorAlright16:52
holsteindepends on who is making the driver16:52
holsteinit very well could be the exact same driver you will be using16:53
holsteinKimor: is there a way to confirm its not a hardware problem with the printer?16:53
holsteindoes any other machine/OS use it successfully?16:53
KimorWindows computers print to it fine16:53
holsteinOK16:53
KimorIt's networked, if that changes matters16:53
holsteinKimor: i have forced other drivers in the past with decent success16:54
holsteini asssume you have googled?16:54
KimorYeah16:54
KimorNothing relevant came up16:54
holsteinany active bugs?16:54
KimorI didn't see any....16:54
holsteinwhat is the printer?16:54
KimorLanier MP5000/LD20516:54
holsteinand, if the printer was working, would you still want to upgrade?16:54
KimorProbably, I guess16:55
KimorI need to anyway16:55
KimorFor a variety of reasons16:55
holsteinif so, then i say, go ahead and get the 10.04 live CD16:55
holsteinand maybe the 11.04 live CD16:55
holsteintry both of those and see16:55
Kimor*nods*  Alright.  Thanks!16:55
holsteinif someone happens to notice Kimor come back16:57
holsteinhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db-engine/+bug/36177216:57
ubot2Ubuntu bug 361772 in gs-gpl "black squares appearing instead of some letters when printing" [Critical,Fix released]16:57
DiegoTchi guys17:49
DiegoTc someone has experienced with git?17:49
DiegoTc someone knows where I can find the ~/.gitconfig file?17:49
billinvegasgood morning18:53
billinvegas(or afternoon - depending where you're located)18:53
E3D3Hi. Ubuntu keeps me stupid because its always works 99,99 % perfect. Miss my excuses to crack, program, R.E., Learn etc. Thanks.18:54
billinvegasis it appropriate to ask a question or two about DNS in this channel?18:54
holsteinbillinvegas: i say ask... and you might at least get reffered somewhere helpful18:55
billinvegasok - thanks.18:56
billinvegasI'm trying to install Zimbra on Ubuntu server 10.04 - install part is fine, BIND is refusing to start18:56
billinvegasI'm using Zimbra to replace an existing mail server - DNS records in place - current mail server is visible to the 'net18:57
billinvegasmy question is: does the new machine need the same FQDN as the old one to function?18:58
billinvegasi.e. as long as the MX records point to an IP (WAN side of my firewall) the firewall does NAT and forwards SMTP to an internal IP address18:58
billinvegasif the original mail server is say "mail.mydomain.com" - can the Zimbra install be "zimbra.mydomain.com"?18:59
billinvegasDNS Records should still point the traffic to my WAN IP, and if I forward the packets to the new machine (with either the same internal IP, or different) it should, or should not have the same FQDN as the A record?19:00
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charlie-tcaAnyone know how to make the Evoluent Vertical Mouse work with a ps/2 adapter?21:13
E3D3Hi, I installed & run a FTP file server as gEdit-plugin but don't no how to stop/exit it ?21:54
holsteinE3D3: what is it?22:03
holsteinE3D3: "pgrep _process_" then "kill -s 9 _pid from previous command_"22:04
E3D3I installed a plugin for gEdit to edit my site & dont no how to stop it22:04
E3D3Looks a little technical but assume I can make it easier to try that in my process explorer?22:05
E3D3holstein: Thanks, but also think I'm missing a more easy way. Ubuntu works to easy to learn much about the commands but I'll google it.22:08
holsteinE3D3: i think kill is the command you are looking for22:14
E3D3holstein : Googling, read mannual & think I forget it afterward but I try to remember. Like to kill only the FTP server so needs its exact name. Bussy. Thanks22:18
holsteinyeah.. the process id22:18
E3D3Its worked with kate, so I try again with the FTP-server (startup)22:19
holsteinthats what pgrep "process" is for22:19
holsteinsure.. go for it.. let me know when you are ready to kill that process :)22:19
E3D3We're heavy man ;-)22:20
E3D3Its hard to shift all that info before I can use it.22:25
E3D3Sorry man, don't see how pgrep can give me the id of its FTP-server plugin ?22:29
E3D3I dont need pgrep to kill gEdit22:29
holsteinE3D3: what plugin are you using??22:31
E3D3FTP Browser22:31
E3D3pgrep doesn't recognize that name22:31
E3D3How can I see the id's of its children-processes22:32
holsteinkilling gedit does *not* kill the server?22:32
E3D3Don't know, but it the only thing I know to do . How to check ?22:32
holsteinE3D3: well, i say run the command, and see if the server is still running22:34
E3D3I cant get the FTP dissappear22:34
E3D3If I open connection it always shows left it filemanager. No button to stop. Do you like to see the site from were i have the plugin.22:35
holsteindissappear?22:35
holsteinfromthe window?22:35
holsteinits a plugin right?22:36
E3D3Yes22:36
holsteinyou probably just hide or show it from within gedit22:36
E3D3It implied in a tab on the left. I can hide it but know nothing about the FTP status. Also I need that sidebar for other functions. Hiding does nothing.22:37
holsteinwhere did you get the pluging?22:38
E3D3I search for the homepage because I'm bad in explain.22:38
holsteinplugin*22:38
E3D3Here is the homepage of the plugin : http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/gedit-ftp-plugin-edit-documents.html22:40
holsteini believe this would be the 'home page'22:41
holsteinhttp://code.google.com/p/gedit-ftp-browser/22:41
E3D3Yes but screenshot is little different22:41
E3D3less buttons22:41
holsteinwell, i assure you webupd8 is not maintaining that package22:42
holsteini would email over at that google code link and ask :)22:42
E3D3I have 5 instead of 2 ontop of file-manager window but no exit or stop.22:42
E3D3Thanks for your kind help. I like keep trying on #Ubuntu but afraid to annoy. Also read its not secure so beter not tell to often22:44
AlphaPsiWhat are the differences for wubi and the full install with the partioning?22:44
holsteinE3D3: you're not annoying anyone, you're just asking for help on ubuntu channels for non-ubuntu software22:44
holsteinwhich is fine, but if you get tired of waiting, as the maintainers22:45
holsteinAlphaPsi: you can uninstall ubuntu in the 'add remove programs' area of windows when you do a wubi22:45
geirhaAlphaPsi: wubi is nice for trying it out, but the install is reliant on that windows is in working condition.22:45
holsteinmaybe a little speed is gained from a native install22:45
AlphaPsiWhat else can be gained from a native install?22:46
holsteinAlphaPsi: you'll look cooler ;)22:47
holsteinnah... i would think maybe stability, and speed22:47
holsteinbut i cant confirm that22:47
AlphaPsiHmm22:48
holsteinand like geirha says, if something happens to windows, it will likely break both22:48
E3D3holstein: I didn't know that. Sorry. Do you know a channel voor developing in Ubuntu were I can try to find people who use this plugin ?22:48
holsteinE3D3: actually, that was the first i had heard about the FTP plugin... looks handy... maybe someone in your loco?22:49
holsteinhttp://loco.ubuntu.com/22:49
geirhaAlphaPsi: If you want to go "all in", do a native install. If you just want to try it and see if it might be a usable OS for you, go with wubi.22:50
E3D3holstein: loco ? The gEdit-plugins are maybe to good, to much bling-bling, I'm in love for the second time with old gedit22:50
geirhaa wubi install can be converted to a native install, though the procedure isn't the easiest in the world.22:51
werevealgreetings, working on a new install of lucid (installed by others) trying to run apt-get update or aptitude update (only have cli) and keep getting errors regarding GPG and so far have not found a definitive answer via Google how to proceed. Without the update, I can't seem to install anything. It also mentions "not a bzip2 file" - long time Gentoo user so this is rather new to me.22:51
E3D3holstein: okay. Thanks Bye & Good Luck22:51
holsteinE3D3: o/ :)22:51
holsteinwereveal: what is the exact error message?22:52
geirhaholstein: btw, regarding your initial answer to E3D3's answer. kill -9 is never good advice.22:52
werevealThe repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error: http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2 (Justin?)22:52
werevealthat is one of them22:52
seidosgeirha: is there a preferred method to killing a process that refuses to stop?22:53
geirhaholstein: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/690415/in-what-order-should-i-send-signals-to-gracefully-shutdown-processes/690631#69063122:53
holsteingeirha: well, thats was actually following up an ear full i got recently22:54
holsteinpersonally, i run sudo killall whatever22:54
holsteinbut, im trying to get some work done22:58
holsteinit was suggested to me to suggest the kill -9 method22:58
holsteingeirha: i'll be glad to book mark that link though, and share it when the time comes :)22:58
seidoshow long should a process be allowed to run that doesn't stop from a sigterm?22:58
geirhaseidos: As long as it takes22:58
geirhaIf it doesn't die from a TERM signal, there's either a serious bug in the application, or in the kernel.22:58
escottseidos, just keep throwing signals at it. at some point it will be listed as zombie, at which point it is dead and won't use any additional resources22:58
seidos!sigkill22:59
ubot2Factoid 'sigkill' not found22:59
escottseidos, just look at man kill and try some other signals23:02
geirhaescott: the right approach is reporting a bug23:03
E3D3Sometimes my file-picker (nautilus) show all the (normally) hidden folders. How come & how to set it back ?23:07
geirhaE3D3: ctrl+h toggles it23:12
E3D3geirha: Thanks, I try it.23:13
E3D3geirha: Yes, You made me really happy. It was so annoying23:13
E3D3geirha: Its hard to remember milions of shortcuts (or where are my notes.) This one I write on the wall23:15
geirhaIt's also accessible from the View menu. View -> Show hidden files (or something like that)23:16
geirhaAt least on Ubuntu 10.0423:16
kristian-aalborghi all23:16
E3D3Didn't know were to look23:16
E3D3geirha: h = hidden files. Easier than Alt+. in Dolphin. Nive help & Good luck. Bye23:17
kristian-aalborgI'm going to make a custom OS for my sis, as I might have mentioned... I need the lowest maintenance distro possible, but I would like it to be reasonable up-to-date as well... which should I choose23:17
kristian-aalborgalso, resources *do* matter23:17
kristian-aalborgholstein, you play with this kind of stuff too... are you a strict Ubuntu man?23:23
geirhaThat's kindof what Ubuntu is aiming for...23:23
kristian-aalborggeirha, this will start as a netinstall, then add LXDE and this and that... I'm going to build the desktop myself23:23
neoncamouflageCan you modify the partition you're currently using? Like delete a 2nd and expand the one you're using over the whole disk.23:23
kristian-aalborgI'm running a (slightly) custom Ubuntu+fluxbox now, and it's cool - but I'm thinking Debian might be just a tiny bit better23:24
geirhaneoncamouflage: Some filesystems support that I think, but not ext[2-4] afaik.23:26
escottneoncamouflage, you can put an fs on top of lvm23:28
neoncamouflageUh huh.... I'm thinking I need to learn more about partitions before I try this...23:28
neoncamouflageAs I don't know what that means. XD23:28
escottneoncamouflage, you can also try and expand a partition with gparted (as long as it isn't mounted)23:29
escottneoncamouflage, lvm just takes the disk and breaks it into lots of smaller logic blocks23:29
neoncamouflageWell it would be mounted, as it's the partition I'm currently running my OS off of.23:29
escottthat way you can grow the partition without having to worry about it being adjacent to another23:29
escottneoncamouflage, if its mounted there is basically nothing you can do, very few filesystems support that in online mode23:30
neoncamouflageRight now I have four partitions, I want to remove all but the main one my OS is on.23:30
neoncamouflageAh, well that's a bummer23:30
escottneoncamouflage, but you can do all this from the livecd with gparted23:31
neoncamouflageYeah, I just won't have that for around a week or so when I get more CDs to burn with. Was just being impatient.23:31
neoncamouflageThanks for the help though23:31
geirhaUse the ubuntu livecd or liveusb.. oh he left23:44
werevealholstein: (and/or others) been doing more research. The errors regarding GPG signatures not being valid and not being able to get the bzip2 files are often attributed to a proxy server. I can download the bzip2 files directly using wget to the server but apt-get/aptitude won't. Does the proxy thing ring true?23:50
geirhaIf the proxy has a bug or is wrongly configured, that certainly sounds plausible.23:56
werevealgeirha: fun, I hate being asked to do something on a server I have limited access to and limited knowledge about regarding the network it is on. I don't even know if there is a proxy and the owner isn't giving me much info.23:58
holsteinwereveal: maybe check out http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/02/how-to-use-apt-get-behind-proxy-server-ubuntudebian.html ??23:58
holsteini remember someone the other day having that issue, and saying they were able to use synaptic i thought23:58
holsteinanyways.. im out for a bit .. BBL23:59
werevealthanks23:59

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