Re: [Buster]: KDE wierdness: missing window titlebars + more

2018-08-27 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/27/2018 04:55 PM, local10 wrote: Hi, Am experiencing a wierd issue with KDE after installing kde-standard package. KDE starts fine but shows an almost completely empty desktop: no taskbar, no launcher, no clock... just in the upper right conner there's a small rectangle  that opens a

Re: Lightening Hit screwed boot sequence on Stretch

2018-08-21 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/21/2018 02:26 PM, J.W. Foster wrote: I have a stock Stretch system actually with  a multiple boot to different hard drives via grub2. It has been running well for over a year even longer since I rebuilt with new Motherboard and upgraded from Debian 8.I am currently able to boot a Windows

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-17 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/17/2018 04:58 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: [Snipped some useful info] I *never ever* use port 22 for ssh. I pick some random port that I know isn't going to be used for anything else on the server and set ssh to use that port instead. How do I set ufw to use the ssh port of my choosing? In

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-17 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/17/2018 01:59 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 13:56:03 -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: So do I have to sudo apt-get iptables or is that already installed? dpkg -l iptables Looks like it's in there: $ dpkg -l iptables Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-17 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/17/2018 01:16 PM, john doe wrote: On 8/17/2018 6:50 PM, cyaiplexys wrote: On 08/17/2018 10:55 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:07:02PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: See, that all is way over my head. I don't understand this stuff as I'm pretty much a total b

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-17 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/17/2018 10:55 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:07:02PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: See, that all is way over my head. I don't understand this stuff as I'm pretty much a total beginner in this. OK, fair enough. Let's see what help I can offer. Grea

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 01:00 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 09:29:58PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: Is there a better way to do this? I have a cron job that gathers IP addresses that get more than 1,000 hits from the apache log file and that gets put in the ip.blacklist.perm file. If

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a script. I would like to do it from one

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a script. I would like to do it from one

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 10:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:40:14AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/. --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetuptemp --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.myotherdotfile --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.anotherdotfile I

How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
I'm trying to make a gzipped tarball. I want to exclude only a certain list of dot files but NOT ALL dot files (in other words tar the other dot files not on the list). I have (this is just an example): tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/. --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetuptemp

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 09:52 AM, john doe wrote: On 8/16/2018 1:45 PM, cyaiplexys wrote: On 08/16/2018 02:36 AM, john doe wrote: On 8/16/2018 3:29 AM, cyaiplexys wrote: I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in /etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so: cat /etc

Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 02:36 AM, john doe wrote: On 8/16/2018 3:29 AM, cyaiplexys wrote: I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in /etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so: cat /etc/fail2ban/ip.blacklist.perm | while read IP; do iptables -I fail2ban- 1 -s $IP -j DROP

Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

2018-08-15 Thread cyaiplexys
I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in /etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so: cat /etc/fail2ban/ip.blacklist.perm | while read IP; do iptables -I fail2ban- 1 -s $IP -j DROP; done (that was supposed to be all on one line, of course) So, I have read that w

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-10 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/10/2018 08:58 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-08-10 at 08:29, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: Not familiar with procmail. A quick perusal of the manpage seems to indicate this is a local mail "processor" for sorting things, as opposed t

Re: Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

2018-07-30 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote: I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something I could compile for Arduino (here we go again) and ARM and other CPUs as well. $ apt-cache search avr | more arduino

Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

2018-07-26 Thread cyaiplexys
Thanks to a very nostalgic thread, now I'm curious about something else. Back in the day I used to do assembly language programming on a Tandy Color Computer 3 with Disk-based EDASM+. I'm wondering what is the best assembler/compiler for the x86 (64-bit) system? I'd like to try a native comp

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-26 Thread cyaiplexys
This is taking me down a memory lane I don't necessarily have but have heard about! Ah, the early days of computers! On 07/23/2018 05:14 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 23.07.18 10:28, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Sunday, 22 Jul 2018 at 05:39, Tom Browder wrote: Sounds like there are a lot of fello

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-26 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 03:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/22/2018 10:04 AM, cyaiplexys wrote: On 07/21/2018 09:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Best wishes to you as well. I hope that I'm still playing around with this stuff at that age. I remember taking an online C++ course years ago and ther

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 02:20 PM, Joe wrote: ...snip... At the level of the Arduino, and what it is used for, the C required isn't going to differ too much from Python. You're mostly going to be bit-banging. If you know one modern procedural language, you can at least potter around in others quite easily

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 11:13 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 22.07.18 10:29, cyaiplexys wrote: I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the WowWee RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully programmable computer and robot all in one. Then the full arduino

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 09:06 AM, songbird wrote: cyaiplexys wrote: ... That's the one cool thing about this group and groups like it is the conversations where you learn a little bit about those folks in the group in between learning other useful things. Reminds me of the old FidoNet days (and

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 09:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/22/2018 07:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote: Try CherryTree. I use that program for everything. It's cross-platform. I download it from the web site instead of using the version in the Debian Re

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 08:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote: Try CherryTree. I use that program for everything. It's cross-platform. I download it from the web site instead of using the version in the Debian Repo as the latest version fixes some annoying bug

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 04:07 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote: On 07/21/2018 11:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced. I

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/21/2018 09:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 18:01:07 cyaiplexys wrote: On 07/21/2018 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote: When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". My

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 06:20 AM, deloptes wrote: cyaiplexys wrote: Well, since I use Debian I assumed this would be a place to ask what to get from the Debian repo that would help in achieving my goal. But you do make a good point. I'll have to find some Arduino forums to ask some questions in be

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-22 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/22/2018 03:26 AM, Joe wrote: Joe, please forgive me that I forgot to click "Reply to list". I have NO valid excuse why I keep doing stupid things like that. :( On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:15:12 -0400 cyaiplexys wrote: I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3)

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-21 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/21/2018 09:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 07/21/18 15:15, cyaiplexys wrote: I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post). I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-21 Thread cyaiplexys
ew answers inline cyaiplexys wrote: I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post). I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find much (at least not of interest to me). What did y

Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

2018-07-21 Thread cyaiplexys
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post). I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find much (at least not of interest to me). I did download the IDE from Elegoo and their tutorials and libra

Re: Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-21 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/21/2018 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote: When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced. I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CP

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-21 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/21/2018 11:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced. I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CPU's?]. As a BSEE student 50+ years ago I took an introd

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-11 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/11/2018 01:10 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote: Separate partitions Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it You are conflating dri

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-07 Thread cyaiplexys
On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a separate /home directory. Short answer -- no. I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable. The installer defaults {I assume for ca