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@RPiAwesomeness Seens @Serg 's ping only now... matching just [vbl] should work. [vbl] is the set of the first "not matching any string on the right" characters contained in the strings on the right (v matches the string #1, b matches the strings #2 and #3 and l matches the string #4; neither of those match any string on the right).

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Aiyoyo Please accept answer by clicking the ☑ below the poor old 0 right now! ;-)

kos

*is the set of the first "not matching any string on the right" characters contained in the strings on the left

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

shutdown -h now...

Zacharee1

12:55 AM

@Tim this question is a duplicate of the combination of both questions you cited, but is not a duplicate of either one by itself. The title is misleading, and could definitely be edited. The question itself is also somewhat strange. They ask how to install Chrome or Chromium, then show their process of trying to install Google Chrome, then ask how to install Chromium.

@Tim the question could be closed as unclear, but it is not a duplicate of either one

@Tim I'm honestly a little confused as to why you are suddenly looking into an almost 5-month-old question

@Tim If this sounds rude that is most likely because my roommate is noisy (constant scratching), I have misophonia (don't ask, look it up), and I have exams

kos

@Zacharee1 That one should be closed as "unclear what you're asking"

(meaning: yeah, not a duplicate)

Zacharee1

1:22 AM

And @Tim down voted me :(

Zacharee1

1:45 AM

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Q: Acer E5-574G Laptop touchpad not working in Ubunut 14.04

I installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64Bit) in my Laptop Acer Aspire E 15 E5-574G. Unfortunately, touchpad is not working. I searched for a good resource in the internet, but i couldn't find it. If some has any information please share with me.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:17 AM

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Q: System reboot randomly in all Unix-like OS

I'm new in Unix-like OS, I have tried to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Debian 8.3.0, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 in my Thinkpad W530 laptop (Processor Intel Core i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz x 8, 16GB Ram, 128GB SSD, Graphics Intel Ivybridge Mobile + NVIDIA Quadro K2000M), and the installation was succ...

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2:30 AM

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Q: Flawed fstab posts or kernel bug?

I recently setup a swap partition on this machine, had forgotten the exact syntax and looked it up here which indicated it should be swap sw which resulted in a swap partition that would not mount at boot nor would it mount via manually via swapon -a It would however mount if I specified if dire...

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Q: scp to a KVM guest behind NAT

I have a KVM guest running on a server accessing it via virt-manager. I'm running the guest from my_pc. server has a public IP address and both my_pc and guest can ssh it. guest has a 168.192.x.x IP behind server's NAT. server is running Ubuntu 14.04 Server and both my_pc and guest are running Ub...

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Seth

3:09 AM

@ElderGeek Your question isn't about Ask Ubuntu as a site, it is about what the proper fstab syntax is. Meta is for questions about how the site works, not how Ubuntu works.

Many questions about Ubuntu effect the site, but they are not about the site.

Mateo

4:05 AM

so, moving in to a new place - just internet on my ubuntu phone - good thing it has hotspot ;) but ill be not around as much in the evenings for a while

Seth

sounds cool @Mateo :)

Mateo

well, twice as much going out, but at least i have my own bathroom ;)

Seth

That is definitely a plus.

SmokeDetector

6:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Checkbox click issue (doesn't select) by Interesting Knox on askubuntu.com …

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Q: Unlock this question since its title has been improved?

Unable to find the .lit file reader app clit So after this question has a better name, and since it has stopped appearing in the Hot Questions board, should we unlock it? PS: I can't find the tag "lock".

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SmokeDetector

7:22 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Hunting Down The Very Best Skin by jimmyjacksion on askubuntu.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Appeared as mynext layer I get a kick out by Sayid Yemane on askubuntu.com …

Byte Commander

7:35 AM

:O Spam wave again!

Nathan Osman

I should probably clean this server more often.

blade19899

@NathanOsman lol. I autoremove.dist-upgrade my personal servers, a couple times a week

Nathan Osman

Over 4 GB worth of kernels :D

Byte Commander

Kernel 3.13? What is this? 12.04?

blade19899

@ByteCommander Still supported, so that doesn't really matter :/

On 14.04 myself

Byte Commander

7:47 AM

Sure it is. I still don't really understand why people stay with 4 years old systems if the upgrade is free...

blade19899

7:57 AM

@ByteCommander Because Servers. Try to upgrade a production server, and still have it run COMPLETELY problem free

Not gonna happen

Byte Commander

might be...

blade19899

You upgrade your Linux distro, with your server hardware!

SmokeDetector

8:10 AM

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Q: Incron IN_MODIFY and IN_WRITE_CLOSE strange behavior

If i set incron to listen folder for IN_MODIFY my script launch twice. If i set IN_WRITE_CLOSE script launch when file open and file close with write. Why? script: echo `date` >>/home/zsumo/serviceKPPO/test.txt incron1: /home/zsumo/serviceKPPO/logError/ IN_CLOSE_WRITE /home/zsumo/serviceKP...

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SmokeDetector

8:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: What are the advantages? by gailjiibond on askubuntu.com …

Byte Commander

That one was hammered quickly... :O

danidee

why does ubuntu not obey swappiness setting...i set mine to 1 (cuz even at 10 it was still swapping out data to the hard drive)

Byte Commander

@danidee If it needs to swap because you're running out of memory, it will swap. Where's the problem?

danidee

presently my ram usage is around 2.1gb/4gb but i can see 68kb in the swap already

@ByteCommander i kept a system monitor window open my ram has not even crossed 3gb

it's been floating around 2gb....are processes and data not supposed to be swapped when it reaches a particular percentage determined by the swappiness value

Byte Commander

Would you show me the output of "free -h" in a terminal please?

danidee

8:37 AM

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3.8G       3.6G       144M       556M       156M       1.1G
-/+ buffers/cache:       2.4G       1.4G
Swap:         3.9G        68K       3.9G

Byte Commander

              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3.8G       3.6G       144M       556M       156M       1.1G
-/+ buffers/cache:       2.4G       1.4G
Swap:         3.9G        68K       3.9G

(reposted to fix headline indentation)

danidee

thanks for doing that, didn't even notice

Byte Commander

So Ubuntu uses 3.6GB out of your 3.8GB. 2.4GB are really used by applications or the system and about 1.1GB are used as disk cache by Ubuntu.

That means your applications may get that memory used as cache if they need it, but as long as it's not requested by anything, Ubuntu uses it to speed up your HDD reads.

And if it thinks that some of your applications allocated memory pages that they don't use any more, it will decide to swap them out and have more memory available for disk caching.

Also, the swappiness number has no fixed meaning IIRC, it's just a hint to the kernel how aggressive to swap. I think there's no definitive meaning of the exact number other that 0 means no swapping and 100 is the maximal value or something like that...

That's all I can explain to you about this.

danidee

Ok thanks for your explanation....i got this confusion from a question about swappiness i saw on askubuntu

there was this particular screenshot

my swap would be way more than that before my RAM gets filled to that extent

but that's a vm

Byte Commander

That's actually less swap than you have with the same memory load.

You have 3.6G of 3.8G used, remember?

Most system monitors count cache as used memory.

It has nothing to do with VMs by the way. There's no difference.

SmokeDetector

8:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, blacklisted user: 8 Lessons to Learn After Being Fired by Ian Strom on askubuntu.com …

kos

What's the reason against showing answers while reviewing close votes? Or no one ever proposed something like that before? Many times looking at the accepted answer (or see the answers anyway) is useful. Currently we have to open the question in another tab.

Byte Commander

@kos I agree. But I think there were several similar meta proposals around already... Not sure though.

kos

@SmokeDetector Pretty sure the same guy posted a spammy question even yesterday.

@ByteCommander Yeah I imagined. Looking that up.

@ByteCommander Ah. meta.stackexchange.com/q/152990/302251

I'm sorry but I don't agree. Sometimes is just useful to look at the answers.

blade19899

9:17 AM

> "dovecot.index.log" may be a binary file. See it anyway?

That can't be right? Right?

Byte Commander

How do I filter output lines that contain a number in their second column (multiple-spaces separated) to only display lines where that number is greater than x?

@kos that could probably be done with awk, right? But I don't know awk... Could you help?

kos

@ByteCommander awk '$2>N {print}' file where N is the number should do

Byte Commander

I seem not to need the {print}, it also works without that.

Thank you!

kos

@ByteCommander Right, I always forget, it works also without.

Np

SmokeDetector

9:56 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Staying Motivated To Exercise For Weight Loss by Zeszsloi on askubuntu.com …

blade19899

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Q: How to get the Firefox search suggestions in the firefrox url bar?

I am looking to get the firefox search sugestion in the firefox url bar. Firefox | Search Or Enter Address This is the same fatures as in Firefox For Android, I can type something, get some suggestions, and choose which search engine I want to use to search that input with.

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Q: Comments in the answer section form new users

Every day here I see new users commenting in the answer section and saying things like I don't have the rep to comment but.... It seems redundant that this should even have to be brought up but these user KNOW they should not do this, hence the disclaimers in there posts, but do it anyway a...

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10:42 AM

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Q: Exim system filter with split configuration

I would like to enable system-wide filtering so I can define some custom spam filtering. I am using the Ubuntu/Debian split configuration for Exim but cannot see where to define the system filter. In a normal configuration, I would just the following to the main configuration: system_filter = /...

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Byte Commander

I think askubuntu.com/users/513516/jamie-read and askubuntu.com/users/514174/jamie-read are the same person because of the name and this reviewed edit askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/533750

@moderator Please check my assumption and offer that guy an account merge.

user136984

@Serg And now I rise from the deepest pits of bamboo Hell and ask: What is thy bidding, my master? >:)

Tim

11:40 AM

@Zacharee1 Undone the votes

you are right

The reason I saw it was I fount it in google

I was installing it myself :)

Also I have misophobia too :)

Byte Commander

Really? At least it's no anatidaephobia... ;-)

Time for lunch.

Pandya

Suggest a good/reliable Free (as in freedom) IRC client

Tim

12:06 PM

apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/xchat

Pandya

@Tim Can I use Pidgin?

Oli

@Pandya I was getting on okay with Quassel but it logs everything to [what quickly turns into] a massive SQLite database. It's an interesting design decision but it makes it thoroughly harder than it needs to be to grep later on.

Pandya

by the way, I am new to IRC

as far as I know, first needed client and then we can connect to #channel right?

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Pandya

@SmokeDetector sd k

!!/amiprivileged

user136984

12:25 PM

VTC this question as off-topic.

Byte Commander

@jokerdino Are you available currently?

2 hours ago, by Byte Commander

I think http://askubuntu.com/users/513516/jamie-read and http://askubuntu.com/users/514174/jamie-read are the same person because of the name and this reviewed edit http://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/533750

jokerdino

sure

@ByteCommander they could be the same person but not much I could do

Byte Commander

Can't mods merge accounts? o.O

Or does the owner have to file a request to merge?

jokerdino

we cant merge accounts.

Request the owner to register accounts and ask for merge.

Journeyman Geek

@Pandya also need to set the server

also if hexchat is in the ubuntu repos, that's a decent client. Its an up to date fork of xchat

jokerdino

12:34 PM

@ByteCommander askubuntu.com/help/merging-accounts

Byte Commander

@jokerdino Ah, thank you! I will link that help site as comment below his question.

jokerdino

Thank you.

user136984

VTC this as unclear.

kos

@jokerdino I always thought moderator could merge accounts...(i.stack.imgur.com/sjJhb.png). I'll have to change a Meta answer of mine then.

jokerdino

Mods could merge accounts at some point of time. But not since I became one.

kos

12:41 PM

I see. I'll edit my answer.

Oli

@kos Yeah we used to be able to merge sockpuppets into their main accounts. The problem for SE was it was hard (ie SE admins picking through the database -hard) to un-merge things. I guess too many mods made mistakes because they took it away.

Merges can still be done, just not by mods. We are supposed to encourage people to use the contact form to talk to SE directly and get their accounts merged.

blade19899

1:03 PM

How do you add up sizes in Linux terminal: 445M, 331M, 16M, 2.3M, 3.0M, 2.9M = XXXMB?

kos

I see. This user probably owns another account which [used to] have the same name, however I can't find it anymore (meta.askubuntu.com/q/15039/380067). I guess they'll ask a merge themselves if they want then.

kos

1:21 PM

@blade19899 Not too fancy, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt this to work systematically: numfmt --from=si 445M 331M 16M 2,3M 3,0M 2,9M | (while read n; do i=$(($i+$n)); done; printf "$i\n"). What's your usage case exactly?

(ah but you want the suffix in the output: numfmt --from=si 445M 331M 16M 2,3M 3,0M 2,9M | (while read n; do i=$(($i+$n)); done; printf "$i\n") | numfmt --to=si)

blade19899

1:36 PM

@Kos You are amazing! Thank you!

I removed the ) though, then it worked perfectly!

> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

user136984

VTC this EOL question as off-topic.

kos

@blade19899 Np! The last one was the closing parentheses of the statement. ;)

Elder Geek

@Seth point taken - voted to delete.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:59 PM

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Q: A TUNE to add to the /etc/default/grub file

I want to hear sth. immediately before the grub screen appears. I changed this line "#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" to "GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" by just removing the "#" in the "/etc/default/grub" file. Then, I also executed "sudo update-grub" command from the terminal. When I reboot my computer,...

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2:35 PM

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Q: Get paths to all sd cards in a computer using GNU bash 4.3.11 running Ubuntu 14.04

how can I get the paths to all sd cards in a computer using GNU bash 4.3.11 running Ubuntu 14.04 and just those? Background: I have an .iso-file and want to create a bash script that asks the user to which sd card he wants that .iso-file to be written. The script should not offer him internal ...

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blade19899

2:47 PM

who.is is down. All the way down.

Any alternatives.

Oli

The whois command.

blade19899

@Oli doesn't display the DNS Record as in the who.is tab.

I am actually searching this for a co-worker. But, I need it myself also, because he is going on vacation soon.

So, I'm picking up his work load

Side question: Anybody has experience snmp, as in, what the hell does it do?

Oli

3:05 PM

@blade19899 Pretend I have absolutely no idea what who.is does or shows. What do you need?

user136984

3:37 PM

==========================================================================
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2919-1
March 03, 2016

jasper vulnerabilities
==========================================================================

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in JasPer.

Software Description:
- jasper: Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details:

Jacob Baines discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled ICC color profiles

Byte Commander

3:50 PM

@ParanoidPanda Do you serve as security news ticker now? :D

user136984

@ByteCommander: Something like that... :P

user136984

I just get these alerts as emails and when one is important enough I post it here.

blade19899

@Oli What my c-worker told me, translated to English: Q: What you you need: Q: As much data possible. to see if DNS is actually read: if we switch a site to another server, and remove it from our DNS, if that has actually been done.

Byte Commander

Nice. Just keep going with that and I can disable my update manager and only run it manually when you're alerting again.

blade19899

So, if we remove a site and everything revolving that site, my co-worker uses who.is to see if everything has been removed/configured properly...

@ByteCommander shutdown.sh- update/dist-upgrade/autoremove/clean/ shutdown.

Nothing more needed

Byte Commander

3:57 PM

Nah. When I want to shut down, it has to shut down. Quickly. If it starts to install updates then, I feel like I'm on Windows. :P

Nathan Osman

Bitcoin is really in trouble now.

user136984

Is anyone else getting a "500 Internal Server Error" when attempting to access wiki.ubuntu.com?

user136984

Or is that just me...?

fossfreedom

@ParanoidPanda yeah - its seems to come and go. Dunno what's going on.

user136984

@fossfreedom: That's really strange... Anyway, on the page it says to contact the site administrators, and I have done so... So I hope they get it fixed...

blade19899

4:06 PM

@NathanOsman Never used Bitcoins. Never will.

Elder Geek

@ParanoidPanda I get the same result

Nathan Osman

The Ubuntu wiki desperately needs replacing.

user136984

@Nathan: What do you mean?

Seth

@NathanOsman yes.

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda it is no longer current.

user136984

4:22 PM

@Rinzwind: In terms of information or design/workings?

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda the 1st though you can always argue about design :=)

user136984

@Rinzwind: Then it doesn't need replacing, it just needs to have more people working on it... Why would we replace it? And with what? Do you mean just redoing the who lot or...?

user139252

Good morning!

Seth

It's old and slow.

It needs replacing.

It literally takes a full time team just to keep it from dying on its own.

Elder Geek

@Seth It's up and running now, doesn't seem slow to me.

user136984

4:33 PM

@Seth: So are you proposing a website redesign to make it look nicer and faster? And what about all the information already on it? Do we just remove it all and start again? Or...? I just don't know what you are proposing we do with the outdated content issue...

user139252

Let's just start from scratch!

user139252

I'll host it!

Zacharee1

Lol

Mateo

@NathanOsman aw, and i almost got my 1 back from gox... going to be useless by the time i get it...

user139252

Kingroot works on the FireTV Stick now!

user136984

4:40 PM

VTC this question as off-topic.

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne Kingroot is the best

cl-netbox

Hello :)

user139252

Except now, it seems like the "Back" button is called at random times...

user139252

I'm not even near the remote, and my shows keep exiting back to the main menu

Elder Geek

4:55 PM

Hello :)

user139252

So, I decided to look into my BTMP file...

user136984

Flag/Delete this NaA.

user139252

I've got literally thousands of entries from the same IP in China, apparently trying to bruteforce my root SSH

user139252

Too bad that's literally impossible to do.

user136984

@TheBrownOne: Haven't you got something like fail2ban set up?

user139252

5:00 PM

I'm implementing it now

user139252

With 2FA, even if they bruteforce the password, there's no way for them to get in.

Aiyoyo

5:13 PM

Is @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW there?

user136984

@TheBrownOne: Couldn't they just brute force that? It's just like another password... Or does it only allow 3 tries or something?

user139252

Can somebody try to SSH into brownvpn.tk to make sure fail2ban works?

user139252

@ParanoidPanda 2FA on root account is a hardware token with Yubikey

user136984

Ah... Well, I guess they could just get very lucky with their guessing...

user139252

You wanna make sure my fail2ban works?

user136984

5:20 PM

@TheBrownOne: No, I've got a problem with my SSH, but I can port probe you if you like...? :P

user136984

Or I could also ping flood you... :P

kos

5:52 PM

What was that command that prevents the shell from caching files? Anybody remembers it? I'm unable to Google it back.

Or maybe it was to force it to cache some file, I don't remember. But I remember I used it to compare two commands to see which was faster taking out caching from the equation.

user136984

VTC this 16.04 question as an off-topic bug report.

Elder Geek

@ParanoidPanda how do you craft the links here in chat?

user136984

@ElderGeek: By putting them in this format: [Display text](URL)

Elder Geek

VTC [this] askubuntu.com/questions/741701/… too broad/duplicate question

oops

user136984

@ElderGeek: You're missing the brackets around the URL.

Elder Geek

6:03 PM

So I see.

VTC [this] (askubuntu.com/questions/741701/…) too broad/duplicate question.

user136984

@ElderGeek: There shouldn't be a space in the middle there.

Elder Geek

I'm out to lunch. L8R

user136984

@ElderGeek: At 6 O'clock?

user136984

You must be in a different timezone... :P

user136984

Well, either this guy is next in line to be fired because he just revealed information about the state military service he works for... Or he's a troll:

user136984

6:12 PM

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Q: Stop the Cloud!

I need a simple OS that does NOT require Cloud or Internet connections. My orgainization (State military/police) upgraded to Windows 10 and now cannot operate under emergency conditions or comppy with security. The state IT guy does not understand the question and thinks FB is great for filing m...

cloud

user136984

I really never know what to think, but I think that someone in that line of work would know that posting on the internet about internal stuff is a really bad unprofessional thing to do... So I'm inclined to think that the guy is a troll...

user136984

Thoughts?

user136984

We had one similar to this a while back... It got deleted as spam if I recall correctly...

terdon

@ParanoidPanda ?? He didn't give any details whatsoever, what are you on about?

What internal stuff?

I mean, the question is a mess, but calling troll seems unwarranted.

user136984

@terdon: Well, just saying what OS his organization uses and how it is failing them etc... I mean there's not that much information in there, but if I worked for the state military, I would not post about its problems online... Just generally bad practice in my opinion...

terdon

6:18 PM

@ParanoidPanda He doesn't say what his organization is. He's volunteering anyway, not part of any state thing anymore. In any case, what OS you use is hardly sensitive information.

Thanks for deleting the comment.

user136984

@terdon: Fine, but if I had anything to do with any state, I just wouldn't post about any problems related to it online...

user136984

Not even that I had anything to do with them...

terdon

I don't see why not. As long as you're not giving any information out. The fact that you work for the state and the OS your organization uses are both public knowledge.

Anyway, for all you know, he's posting from behind a nested network of 12 anonymized VPNs.

user136984

Also he says that their state IT guy is basically rubbish at what he does... If I was a state I wouldn't want the rest of the world to know that...

user136984

I don't know, this just feels fishy...

user136984

6:22 PM

And I remember about half a year ago we got a similar one about recommending an OS to use in desert military outposts or something of the sort... And the community decided that that was spam, so what's the difference here?

terdon

Oh, it may well be crap. Certainly sounds like it. Just not because they're sharing "sensitive information". And I feel that calling someone a troll should be avoided unless you're absolutely certain.

user136984

I don't know, it just seems to much of an 'exciting situation' question to be real... It's like someone saying "I work for MI5, what OS do you think we should use?"... It's rather unlikely, and unlikely that they would ask about it online in my opinion...

user136984

They have people to do it all for them... They wouldn't be asking about it online, and would probably have policies against it... I don't know, it just feels fishy, and I know that if I had anything to do with the state and it had a problem, my first idea would not be to ask about it here...

user136984

@terdon: Also, the question they are asking is not really answerable with anything but "Use Ubuntu", because we are "Ask Ubuntu", so then it could be closed as a duplicate of How do I install Ubuntu?...

terdon

Hell, I've worked for the state and have asked here quite often :)

Admittedly, "working for the state" meant being employed by a public research institute but hey.

user136984

6:31 PM

@terdon: But did you say "I work for the state and we want your help"?

terdon

Not really.

user136984

I'd probably believe the guy more if he didn't say he worked for the state... Ah, I don't, look, this really isn't going anywhere...

terdon

I quite agree that the question is crap. I'm just not sure if it's because the OP is, not to put too fine a point on it, an idiot, or a troll. And, when in doubt, I avoid the T word.

user136984

I cast a close and a downvote, and I'll let the system and the community do the rest...

terdon

It already went. You graciously removed the rude comment and all is well with the world. :)

user136984

6:34 PM

@terdon: Seems still open to me, unless that's not what you meant by "It already went"?

user136984

I didn't mean to be rude, I was just saying what I thought...

terdon

@ParanoidPanda Nah, that was in reference to the "this isn't going anywhere" and was my convoluted way of saying that as far as I was concerned, we had reached a conclusion, you and I.

And I know you didn't mean to be rude. You never do. It's just easier to spot rudeness from the outside.

user136984

@terdon Ah... :D

user136984

@terdon Well, thanks for letting me know! :)

terdon

Happy to oblige. :)

user136984

6:39 PM

VTC this as primarily opinion-based.

cl-netbox

Goodbye :)

user136984

@cl-netbox: Bye! :)

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda Have a nice evening ... See you tomorrow ... :)

user136984

@cl-netbox: Thanks! You too! :)

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda Thank you ! :)

user136984

6:49 PM

You know, tea is one of my favourite drinks now! :D

user136984

I'm drinking it all the time! :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:24 PM

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Q: Help with installing/configuring Samba 2.2.3a and ProFTPD 1.3.3a on Ubuntu 14.04

I am having trouble installing and configuring old versions of Samba and ProFTPD on Ubuntu 14.04. I am configuring these specific versions on purpose to be vulnerable for penetration testing. However, after following all the instructions in each installation file, Samba is not allowing users ...

ubuntu software-installation samba proftpd

user136984

VTC this EOL question.

kos

7:42 PM

-1

Q: Can Can anyone recreate a bash file of this Windows batch file?

http://reino.degeelebosch.nl/uitzendinggemist/batchgemist.htm Thank you very much! <><><><><><><><>

bash windows batch

Sure, it just takes converting a piece of script 676 lines long and commented in German.

user139252

8:30 PM

Alright, now can somebody test my fail2ban setup?

kos

@TheBrownOne What do you need me to do?

user139252

@kos Just try to SSH into brownvpn.tk

user139252

Try doing a ssh root@brownvpn.tk

user139252

I'll see if it bans you

user139252

It should only give three retries

kos

8:36 PM

@TheBrownOne It's giving more than three:

Warning: Permanently added 'brownvpn.tk,96.41.51.193' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
Password:
Password:
root@brownvpn.tk's password:

user139252

@Kos Yeah, I see the issue... You're not giving an IPv4 address in the auth log

user139252

So, somebody else needs to try :P

user139252

Well, somebody did try, and got banned.

user139252

So I know it's working

user139252

Thank you whoever that was :P

kos

8:37 PM

@TheBrownOne I think that was me. :D

Permission denied, please try again.
root@brownvpn.tk's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@brownvpn.tk's password:
Received disconnect from 96.41.51.193: 2: Too many authentication failures for root from 87.21.133.145 port 55086 ssh2
Disconnected from 96.41.51.193
255 user@user-X550CL ~ % ssh root@brownvpn.tk                               :(
ssh: connect to host brownvpn.tk port 22: Connection refused

user139252

Yep, you're banned now :P

user139252

Bantime? -1 seconds :D

user139252

(AKA forever and ever)

kos

I see. I'll have to login as a user and escalate.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: find source files opengl on host

I am a newbie to linux. I just installed openGL on ubuntu and would like to tweak some of its source files I use in order to print certain results of some calculations done. I found the header file I needed using: cd / sudo find . -name freeglut_std.h I would like to find the corresponding s...