[05:17] <Guest29286> hello
[05:17] <Guest29286> anyone here ?
[05:18] <Guest29286> i had a question about the root commands
[05:20] <holstein> !ask | Guest29286
[05:20] <holstein> !root
[05:22] <Guest29286> sorry...brb dog on me and got my glasses dirty
[05:22] <Guest29286> she got both lens
[05:23] <Asharas> Hi!
[05:23] <holstein> sure.. someone will be here, im sure
[05:23] <holstein> Asharas: o/
[05:24] <Guest29286> back...sorry about that
[05:25] <Guest29286> the provblem i am having is that when i try and go into root it says i dont have the perm but when i look up my account it does say i am the admin
[05:26] <holstein> !root | Guest29286
[05:26] <holstein> Guest29286: there is no traditional root account
[05:27] <bodhi_zazen> well, the root account exists, it is just locked
[05:27] <holstein> Guest29286: if you want a root terminal, you can use "sudo -i" or read up on sudo
[05:27] <Guest29286> i guess that ihave been away from linux
[05:27] <holstein> !sudo
[05:27] <holstein> you can undo the lock, but i would leave it as-is
[05:28] <Guest29286> okay
[05:28] <Guest29286> thats alot for the help ...yes red hat is what i used in the 90'S
[05:38] <Asharas> Hey, I have a little question
[05:39] <Asharas> I installed xfce and its dependencies on my server, just to give a try to X forwarding
[05:40] <Asharas> now I'm trying to uninstalling it but many packages remain with xorg or xfce in their name
[05:40] <Asharas> could someone help me?
[05:40] <Unit193> So remove them as well if you wish?
[05:41] <Asharas> one by one? is there any other way?
[05:41] <Asharas> !dpkg
[05:41] <Unit193> sudo apt-get purge xfce* xorg* may remove too much, though.
[05:41] <Asharas> I thought the help text was longer :p
[05:42] <Unit193> !apt
[05:42] <Asharas> yeah, would be dangerous
[05:42] <Unit193> It'd ask you first at least.
[05:43] <Asharas> I think I'll prefer the manual way, I still don't have any backup configured
[05:43] <Asharas> !rc
[05:43] <Asharas> ah, nothing
[05:45] <Asharas> hum
[05:45] <Asharas> I was reading my dpkg -l
[05:45] <Unit193> dpkg -l | grep -e xfce -e xorg
[05:45] <Asharas> many packages are noted rc
[05:46] <Asharas> I'm thinking about a command to purge all packages in this state
[05:47] <Asharas> where the fuck are my lessons? *opening all books on desk*
[05:47] <Unit193> sudo dpkg --purge $(COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l|grep ^rc|awk '{print $2}')
[05:47] <Unit193> Asharas: Please keep it family friendly.
[05:47] <Asharas> sry
[05:48] <Unit193> But, that'll do it.
[05:48] <Asharas> first I'm trying to decode it :p
[05:48] <Asharas> but thx!
[05:48] <Unit193> Sure.
[05:49] <Asharas> $ means it's an environment variable, isn't it?
[05:50] <Unit193> $(run this first) ${var}   excpet for the awk statement.
[05:50] <Asharas> oh ^
[05:50] <Unit193> Output of that is text, just like echo `whoami`
[05:50] <Unit193> (Which is pointless)
[05:50] <Asharas> hum, awk? let me RTFM (can I use RTFM here?)
[05:51] <Unit193> pattern scanning and processing language
[05:52] <Unit193> echo bob bobertson | awk '{print $2}'
[05:53] <Asharas> awk '{print $2}' prints second column, understood
[05:53] <Asharas> hum, and why the COLUMNS=200?
[05:54] <Unit193> As an example, look at COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l   vs   COLUMNS=600 dpkg -l
[05:54] <Unit193> (You want to override what the shell tells it, so it doesn't cut off a name.)
[05:55] <Asharas> doesn't change anything for me :-/
[05:55] <Asharas> I'm using putty btw
[05:55]  * Unit193 blames PuTTY, just because he can. :P
[05:55] <Asharas> :-D
[05:56] <Unit193> holstein: You still around?  I may croak here soon.
[05:56] <Asharas> too noob on linux to use only this OS
[05:56] <Asharas> and too much gamer
[05:56] <Unit193> Steam works on it now too.  But, got you all fixed up?
[05:57] <Asharas> brb, rebooting the server
[05:57] <Asharas> steam yeah, but not all my games
[05:57] <Asharas> I have 199 games on steam >_<
[05:58] <Unit193> Alrighty, I may not be here (even if my nick is.)
[05:58] <Asharas> rebooting the server, lauching your command and hoping you didn't made any mistake :-p
[05:58] <Asharas> okay, see ya
[05:58] <Asharas> and thx for the help
[05:58] <Unit193> Sure.
[06:14] <asharas> hi again
[16:25] <ScottyK> Greetings! My cat sat down on my laptop, and in the process somehow logged the computer out, and now it's at a command line prompt wanting to log in. How do I get the GUI back without rebooting? thanks!
[21:37] <iodaddio> can someone help me with setting up proxy...I don't think I am understanding the terminology.  I am using ubuntu desktop 12, squid 3 with http/https transparent, and dansguardian.  So my confusion is with who is the parent of who.  If squid is transparent, it doesn't seem to make sense to NAT to dansguardian especially since I want squid to mitm the http/https connections...  How does this relationship work...parents, et
[21:38] <iodaddio> I guess that is technically proxies.  I want to add havp and privoxy eventually too :/
[21:40] <iodaddio> I think I want client->transparent squid mitm http/s->dansguardian->privoxy->havp->internet
[21:42] <iodaddio> typo: make that ubuntu 13.04
[21:43] <iodaddio> is there a good reading resource?  Everything I find is from like 2008 and many of the directives no longer work :(
[21:44] <Unit193> Well, I've not done a ton of work with proxies, just some polipo, but you may want to look in #ubuntu-server or https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/
[21:50] <iodaddio> I feel fairly comfortable in Ubuntu Desktop, but server scares me.  Not having a gui for anything....no thanks.  I am just concerned dad who just went through first kid google image search of boobs.  Just trying to make things a little safer for the little ones.
[21:50] <iodaddio> found these projects could help...I have no idea how they work or how they work together....yet
[21:52] <Unit193> Oh sure, was just thinking the channel should know pretty well since what you want is server related, even if you install on a desktop.  Otherwise, I think the community  edition "Ubuntu Christian Edition" uses dansguardian, you could maybe look at that and see how they pull it together.
[21:56] <iodaddio> I am running this local...no server involved
[21:57] <iodaddio> LOL
[21:59] <iodaddio> guess I could run a server in a local VM that starts at boot....