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Kaz Wolfe

4:01 PM

UTT is probably easier than GSettings

Anwar

probably part was interesting ^

Kaz Wolfe

well i've used it twice in my life,

Zanna

@Arronical I'll have to upvote his answer later... I still think your question is good :) upvoted it before I ran out

jokerdino

Sorry about that.

Anwar

!! about what?

jokerdino

4:09 PM

Emptying all your votes.

Anwar

I have still 2-3 CV and 1 up/down vote

Zanna

Yes well, I will forgive you this time, since it's you

jokerdino

I think I might run into a case of deficit soon enough.

Zanna

Deficit of what?

jokerdino

I am using up all the goodwill I earned from you. :P

Zanna

4:13 PM

Haha I believe it's an infinite resource actually

jokerdino

That's encouraging to here :P

Severus Tux

I am learning ssh (just started), and I am seeing this :
[severus@Tux ~]$ sudo systemctl start sshd.service
[severus@Tux ~]$ sudo systemctl status sshd.service
● sshd.service - OpenSSH Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2016-09-14 21:44:13 IST; 27s ago
Main PID: 4276 (sshd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/sshd.service
└─4276 /usr/bin/sshd -D

Sep 14 21:44:13 Tux systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH Daemon.

Is this normal ?

RPi Awesomeness

@SeverusTux Do you have port 22 port-forwarded to your machine through your router? That's probably the issue.

Byte Commander

@SeverusTux Maybe a firewall issue?

Zanna

@SeverusTux I have no idea but as a side note systemctl always assumes .service in the absence of a suffix so you may save your keystrokes...

Severus Tux

4:23 PM

No, could you please tell me how to do that ? any link

No port forwarding

Zanna

@jokerdino feel free to test :P

jokerdino

That's a little ominous.

Zanna

Oops

Arronical

@SeverusTux Are you accessing it on a local network?

Severus Tux

Holy Crap! Am I being Cheated ?

I stay in hostel, We got 7 different connections for our hostel (all different data plans and speeds) . But Now When I check "My Ip" on different machines, all show the same.

terdon

4:27 PM

@SeverusTux That's probably normal. They all go through the same actual modem and that has a single IP. What you're seeing are different internal networks, probably.

You'll have different internal IPs but the same external one.

Arronical

I must bid you all adieu

Severus Tux

Each connection should have been provided with unique IP right ?

Now, If my friend ssh into this IP,and port 22, where will it go ?

jokerdino

@Arronical ?! O_o

Arronical

@jokerdino It's a fancy way of saying goodbye

terdon

@SeverusTux Nowhere. Not unless you've told the router to redirect port 22 to you.

@Arronical I think he meant it sounded kinda like "Adieu cruel world".

Severus Tux

4:30 PM

I haven't done anything like that @terdon , Which router ? my personal router ?

terdon

Whatever router your machine is using, yes. If you're in a hostel and don't control the router, forget it.

Arronical

@terdon Aah! I can see that being worrying, I'm not that beaten down by AU questions yet!

Severus Tux

@terdon no, Its private . We bought it

Byte Commander

@SeverusTux You should try IPv6, that one should be unique.

I think.

Or I am mixing up DSLite with what you have there.

Anwar

hmm.. got a Sportsmanship badge!

Severus Tux

4:33 PM

This is the set up : there are 7 diff routers (one is mine) and all connected to one Switch,which is connected to one modem (optical) and a wire from that modem is going somewhere.. idk.

Kaz Wolfe

wow. responsible admins.

Severus Tux

So, my question is , If all are having same IP (outward) , when some ssh into that IP:22 (my user name) , why will it come to me ? I mean there are 6 more routers .. they might use same usernames.. same ports .. use ssh..

Kaz Wolfe

about six to seven months ago, i found a security issue in the learning system that my college uses. It allows me to impersonate any user. And... still not fixed. In fact, it's worse now lol

Zanna

@Anwar excellent work :) I have about 45 to go...

Kaz Wolfe

Congratulations @Jorgen for rep-capping on his first day!

5

If he stays around, we're gonna have a great user.

terdon

4:47 PM

@Anwar Yay! That's probably the most important badge you can earn IMO

Serg

Probably I'd use my time stopping superpower ( if i had one ) to take naps. I think I'm officially lazy

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg so... how can i do this with telekinesis.

probably just bend the fabric of space-time.

Serg

@KazWolfe too much energy would be consumed. Summon an entry level demon and outsource work to him/her

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Please consider leaving feedback on votes for new users

I came across this question where two new users had answered and both of them got downvoted. Now I get why not everyone comments on their votes but I really think if you are dealing with rep 1 users who are making an effort, it is counter productive and may lead to these users felling disgruntle...

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg But I have level 60 in conjuration. I can do mid-level demons without any severe mana penalties.

user136984

4:51 PM

Juncker proposes EU military headquarters

user136984

Great, and here comes the EU army...

Byte Commander

Make love, not war!

jokerdino

.....

Byte Commander

Oh, there were much more pictures in that search result...

;-)

Zanna

5:10 PM

Smh

Serg

@Zanna here's something you might find useful

bak()
{
    mv "$1" "$1".bak
}

unbak()
{
    orig=$(awk '{print substr($0,0,length($0)-4)}' <<< "$1")
    mv "$1" "$orig"
}

What do you think it's for ?

jokerdino

backing up files?

Serg

Bingo

Tons of times you need to disable some service by adding .bak extension to a file. So these two functions do exactly that, add bak, and remove bak

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander but... war is way more fun.

there's strategy and logic and espionage and so many other things.

Byte Commander

War games, yes. Real war, no.

Kaz Wolfe

5:15 PM

ugh, fine.

Byte Commander

I love playing stuff like World Of Tanks, Command & Conquer or Civilization, but I have no use for real fights...

Kaz Wolfe

but you are talking to someone who would be in cyber or comms, so I'd end up safe in a tent or some bunker in Nevada.

Serg

What Byte said ^

@jokerdino can you please ping me once a spam message appears ? I wanna test something, so please leave me one two play with before nuking it. 5 mins max

Anwar

@terdon @Zanna thanks for encouraging. I'm 35th with this badge. :)

jokerdino

Sure but I can't predict when the next one will come and if I would be around at that time.

Serg

5:20 PM

I'm just asking in case one shows up

jokerdino

yeah no problem

Anwar

@Serg but there are other mods!

Serg

@Anwar I see only jokerdino in char right now

Anwar

oh

Byte Commander

@Serg The best time to flag spam is in the early UTC morning hours, in around 10-12h.

Kaz Wolfe

5:25 PM

No thanks.

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe What's your problem?

Kaz Wolfe

On a tablet. Don't feel like handwriting that.

Or typing it

Byte Commander

It looks like a German street sign.

"Hallimasch" is a kind of mushroom IIRC. And "Weg" means "way".

Kaz Wolfe

Typing on a Windows tablet with a pen. This is why I don't like that captcha.

Byte Commander

I don't see the problem...

Kaz Wolfe

5:30 PM

I'm a fat lazy American.

I don't want to write that out!

karthick87

Has somebody here played with GPFS?

Byte Commander

Well, unlike some big US cities, in Germany we don't simply number our streets. We give each of them a separate name, made with creativity and love.

Kaz Wolfe

But aren't numbers more efficient?

Byte Commander

I'd say it's easier to distinguish and remember e.g. "Mozartstraße" and "Beethovenweg" than "45th street" and "54th street".

Zanna

@Serg normally I think I'd cp $1 $1.bak ?

Byte Commander

5:34 PM

Gah! I ran out of my 17 daily delete votes.

@Zanna don't forget quoting the variables and adding "--" after cp!

user136984

Yikes! That's some landlord:

user136984

78

Q: Landlord will be watching my data traffic, as mentioned in the lease agreement

I am moving to Germany, and in the contract I signed I had to accept that all my data traffic can/will be checked by the apartment owner. The contract states: Flatrate, aber hinter 30GB Tarif priorisiert, aslo etwas langsamer Ja ich weiss, daß meine Daten überprüft werden. Which trans...

network privacy

Byte Commander

cp -- "$1" "$1.bak"

Zanna

@ByteCommander I'm on mobile, I just couldn't be bothered to type four ", but thanks for the -- no options reminder

Byte Commander

:)

Anwar

5:38 PM

is this a dupe of askubuntu.com/q/20068/61218?

Kaz Wolfe

@ParanoidPanda Nothing special compared to US providers

Zanna

I have learned to "$always quote my variables" and 'always quote my regex'

Kaz Wolfe

He does not seem to be watching where things go, just how much is going

Byte Commander

@Anwar shouldn't it be added to /etc/rc.local to run as root on startup?

Zanna

@Anwar I think so.

Byte Commander

5:42 PM

@Serg in case spam on a different site than Ask Ubuntu is also ok: hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/25159/16729

Serg

@Zanna if it's something like a script in /etc/rc4.d/ or a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ , cp won't disable them. The whole point here is to temporarily backup a file into something else, while at the same time fooling whatever process is looking for that file

Zanna

But @ByteCommander is more surely right

Serg

@ByteCommander I need AU spam specifically

Sandro

I completely have no idea what to do with my ubuntu

Anwar

@ByteCommander may be. that could be an answer I think

@Sandro sounds great!

Sandro

5:44 PM

user136984

Is that a Hamster? :D

user136984

Rabadash8820

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Byte Commander

@Serg Does your window moving magic also work on KDE? askubuntu.com/q/824935/367990

Sandro

Zanna

@Serg oh! I see, sorry I'm with student, only 25% my brain in the room. Thanks a lot! ^_^ <3

Sandro

5:46 PM

I get this screen

Kaz Wolfe

it's telling you what to do

hit ENTER for diag, and see why systemctl is complaining

so... because i'm annoying and have rep to waste.

Sandro

IWhen I hit the enter I get root@computer-inspiron-N5010:~#

Kaz Wolfe

I will give out one +50 bounty to any on-site question that is unanswered and is of good quality.

user136984

@Sandro: That's what you're meant to get.

user136984

So you should then do what it says.

Kaz Wolfe

5:49 PM

If you'd like to nominate your question... post a link please!

Anwar

@KazWolfe wait a sec.

Sandro

@ParanoidPanda I'm completely new to ubuntu

terdon

@Serg You really have fallen in love with awk haven't you :) All you need is orig=${f%%.bak}.

Sandro

And this is my first expirence

user136984

@Sandro: And that is not my problem, please ask on the main site.

Sandro

5:51 PM

Tell me what to google

Anwar

@Sandro press ctrl-D as suggested

and after maintenance is completed, reboot

user136984

If that doesn't work then you should enter the commands it recommends in ""s to see what is wrong.

user136984

But please do ask this on the main site: askubuntu.com/questions/ask

Sandro

What happened I get my login screen

user136984

Ok, well then you should just log in.

Sandro

5:53 PM

I get this problem 2 Hours ago

I know

user136984

Ok, well I would advise running the commands which it suggested on that screen anyway as you may still have some sort of system problem.

cl-netbox

Hi everybody ! :)

Rinzwind

Hi 1

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind Hi you ! :)

user136984

@Sandro: If you login, press CTRL + ALT + T, and then press enter after typing: systemctl -xb. What is the output you get?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:57 PM

0

Q: I can move back or forth in line only 1 character a time. How I can fix it?

I have a new Dell laptop Precision something, and worked with a mouse. But my touch-pad made a lot of trouble with cursor jumping all over screen, and I managed to switch it off. Now I am back to stable typing, but have a new trouble: when I type, I can go only one character a time either back o...

ubuntu touchpad typing-break

Rinzwind

fire in the flat \o/ lots of firemen running around

Anwar

what?...

Sandro

@ParanoidPanda i get this systemctl: invalid option -- 'x'

Rinzwind

reason? a dried out plant on a balcony was smoking.

Anwar

oh...

user136984

5:58 PM

@Sandro: Oh, sorry, I meant: journalctl -xb

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda As I can see on the screenshots this machine does not boot to the login screen ... right @Sandro ? Good evening ! :)

Rinzwind

damn this is bad on the eyes: askubuntu.com/questions/824917/extracting-circles-from-an-image

user136984

@cl-netbox: He says it does now.

Sandro

@cl-netbox now i loged in

Logs begin at چهارشنبه 2016-09-14 22:17:37 IRDT, end at چهارشنبه 2016-09-14 2
سپتامبر 14 22:17:37 computer-Inspiron-N5010 systemd-journald[892]: Runtime journ
-- Subject: Disk space used by the journal
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Runtime journal (/run/log/journal/) is currently using 7.2M.
-- Maximum allowed usage is set to 58.3M.
-- Leaving at least 87.4M free (of currently available 575.5M of disk space).
-- Enforced usage limit is thus 58.3M, of which 51.0M are still available.

i got above

edwinksl

askubuntu.com/questions/824940/… is a dupe of askubuntu.com/questions/824631/…

i like how our elementary OS friends migrated a crosspost to us

cl-netbox

6:00 PM

@Sandro Is this a clean new installation of 16.04 ?

Sandro

yes i downloaded from main site nearly two month ago

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