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5 Hours Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Firewall against outbound connection(s). Leopard Flower compatibility with 12.04? in Security Discussions

Quite a few recommendations popped up when this question was asked at at...

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5 Hours Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread block sites with iptables in Server Platforms

The restart flushes IPtables. It forgets all previous commands and starts clean. After restarting, the command must be input again. One easy way...

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14 Hours Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Used Boot-Repair, no help in Absolute Beginners Section

Which of those can you eliminate? Have your tried to fix the NTFS problem? fsck and ntfstools can do a lot...but only Windows chkdisk knows all the...

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15 Hours Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Feedindicator and crontab in General Help

That would be two critical problems, all right. You realize that those are problems with your script, not cron, right? Do you understand the error...

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15 Hours Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Got Busybox and cant get LiveDVD thing happening in Installation & Upgrades

Since Live media are read-only, it may not be worth your time to dig too deep. Try burning a different image - different version, different flavor,...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Initramfs problem in General Help

Here is what is happening: During boot, the bootloader mounts your disk read-only, loads the kernel, loads "init" (PID #1), and launches init....

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Got Busybox and cant get LiveDVD thing happening in Installation & Upgrades

Are you *sure* you are booting from the live media? The busybox prompt occurs during a strange and rare class of errors: During the initial...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread gnuplot uninstall problem in General Help

One of those is from Lucid, the other is too new for Saucy. You seem to have mixed releases, or added an incompatible PPA, in your...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Package manager/ update manager problems in General Help

I think we need *more* verbosity. Please look at /var/log/apt/term.log. Each session it timestamped. Copy-and-paste one entire representative...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Upstart with Bash Script in General Help

Split any appropriate elements into "pre-start script" and "pre-stop script" elements for Upstart. The actual /path/to/service should be on the...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Feedindicator and crontab in General Help

That's the same path as the executable you run in terminal? You can also use STDOUT and STDERR redirection on cron jobs to capture error messages....

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread USB keyboard goes dead at login in Hardware

How, exactly, did you try to install Gnome3? There might not be a cause-and-effect here. USB connectivity is generally handled at a much lower...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread A home server / router in Networking & Wireless

I have done something similar. There are a couple problems: 1) It eats a lot of power 24/7, even when doing essentially nothing. 2) It's a huge...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Feedindicator and crontab in General Help

Cron does not run in your terminal window - it runs in it's own environment. So feedindicator may be crashing immediately because it doesn't know...

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1 Day Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread wine uninstalled after update in Wine

Looks like you are trying to install debs from two different Wine PPAs. One is already installed. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list and remove (or...

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2 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread wine uninstalled after update in Wine

Your package manager sessions are saved to to logs: /var/log/apt/term.log and /var/log/apt/history.log Each session is timestamped, for your...

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2 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread How do you do automatic backups? in General Help

Well, I favor backup over redundancy. Once each day, triggered by cron or anacron, my laptop uses rdiff-backup to login to a server and push the...

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3 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread How do you do automatic backups? in General Help

Redundancy and backup are not the same. It's difficult to figure out from your description which is your goal.

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3 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread ethernet vanished - woe in Absolute Beginners Section

When wired mysteriously stops working, try to narrow down the problem. Your description did not say "after an upgrade..." so a hardware fault may be...

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3 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread how to ensure that nobody will connect on my comp via ssh? in Absolute Beginners Section

You can kill the ssh server upon login and restart it upon logout. You can restart the ssh server upon login and logout (to reload the conf file),...

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5 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Do I need linux command line knowledge before learning bash scripting in General Help

Yes, that describes shell scripting fairly accurately. There are caveats and exceptions, but that's a good 85% solution. No. While a prior...

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6 Days Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Resolve Host Names Versus IP address in Absolute Beginners Section

Yes, bind9 will do what you describe. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto can help you. There is indeed some setup work for bind9,...

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1 Week Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread A game I bought needs 12.10 but I have 12.04 in Gaming & Leisure

Most complete downloads run about 700-900MB. What do you have installed that adds 49GB of additional download? Have you identified what the...

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1 Week Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Wireless and wired both in Networking & Wireless

As long as both are connected to the same router/gateway, they will work in parallel. However, wired ethernet tends to have much greater capacity,...

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1 Week Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread Using Deborphan software removal tool? in Absolute Beginners Section

Deborphan can be a handy tool. However, if you are already using the command line for package management (apt-cache and apt-get), then deborphan may...

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1 Week Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread crontab only working intermittently for main account in General Help

One right way is to use ssh-agent. This will enable a cron-triggered script to access your ssh key. This exact problem was asked and answered at...

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1 Week Ago

Cheesehead replied to a thread crontab only working intermittently for main account in General Help

That's right. Cron uses a (very) limited environment and limited permissions to run the specific tasks assigned. Cron does not...

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