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TheWanderer

02:38

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Q: Create tar file that extracts only the files and doesn't create folder during extract

I have a folder with files which I want to zip into a tar.gz file. I am using the following command: tar -czvf filename.tar.gz foldername Sure enough this creates the file filename.tar.gz. However, when I unzip the tar file, by default it creates a folder filename and places all the files i...

Kaz Wolfe

08:53

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu vs Debian - freeze on 100% memory usage

While using Ubuntu alike systems (Ubuntu, Xubuntu) and Debian I found strange thing (at least on two machines that I use on the work). For example when you use Chrome and free memory ends up Ubuntu/Xubuntu start to freeze (even mouse cursor) and you should reboot or if you lucky you can close s...

debian ubuntu memory chrome

Chai T. Rex

10:17

So 17.04 is now EOL.

Rinzwind

not a day too soon

Takkat

EOL before I even had installed it sigh

Rinzwind

takky!

Takkat

rinzy !!

Rinzwind

oooh I got 1 ! more. Profit

Takkat

10:21

Here, get another one !

Rinzwind

Takkat

Driving fast is dangerous.

Rinzwind

only ONE slightly injured

Takkat

Was that the lady looking out of the window?

Rinzwind

car got launched of a speed bump :D

Takkat

10:23

So the purpose of the bump was reverted. Great!

Byte Commander

o_O

"I believe I can flyyyyyy...."

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:40

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Q: apt-get install for an Ubuntu-Nginx server environment

Consider this software set used to establish an LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, Mysql, PHP-FPM) on Ubuntu 16.04 and some future releases? sudo apt-get install zip unzip tree unattended-upgrades sshguard postfix \ nginx python-certbot-nginx mysql-server php-fpm php-mysql php-mbstring php-mcrypt -y M...

ubuntu security email nginx application

IanC

10:55

good morning

Aryo Adhi

11:29

morning there, though today is evening here.....

I thought about something like return to program developing and coding, which reminds me of Netbeans. though, Netbeans is going to be released under Apache... should I wait for it?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to know the system architecture of Ubuntu 17.10

I am using Ubuntu 17.10, 64-bit. For installing a crack I want to know my full system architecture. How do I find it?

linux ubuntu

Kaz Wolfe

@AryoAdhi I'd recommend IntelliJ personally

They have a free "community" edition that will usually meet the needs of most.

Aryo Adhi

I'll put it into my consideration

cl-netbox

13:01

Hello :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Order of DNS servers on client given by DHCP

I'm running DNS and DHCP server on debian 8 server within local network. Issue is that clients get nameservers by DHCP server in wrong/not desired order. DHCP server config: subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 192.168.10.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option ...

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Q: network UNCLAIMED Ubuntu 16.04

I was facing some issues with wifi disconnection. So I followed some askubuntu forum answers and solved the problem by manually installing the wifi device. But still I had to follow the first answer of this question to make it work on every start up. I had to run these two command on every start ...

ubuntu wifi network-interface

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Q: how overlapping subnet in 2 SA in strongswan determine which tunnel to go?

i have 2 tunnels of ikev1, with overlapping in leftsubnet and rightsubnet ,how the packet that send know to which tunnel it forward to tunnel first_4a010003 whay is that and how i decide i nwhch tunnel the packet will forward? my configuration is : cat /etc/ipsec.conf conn %default ke...

ubuntu networking vpn ipsec strongswan

Ravan

16:30

@cl-netbox \o/

cl-netbox

@Ravan Hey, who is that ? :D Nice to see you after quite a long time. :) How are you doing ?

fixit7

I do my best in posting messages in Ask Ubuntu, but I am not perfect.

Some people are editing my messages resulting in getting messages that I am about to be banned.

Ravan

@cl-netbox :) Nice to see you to...Yeah, I am good. :D . What about you?...btw got the job and settled

fixit7

How do I know when someone is chatting with me?

Have to go.

cl-netbox

@Ravan Congrats ! :) That's good news ! :) I am fine too - thank you ! :)

@fixit7 When someone replies to what you say for example ... :D

Ravan

16:36

@cl-netbox :D

cl-netbox

@Ravan Still running EOS ? :D

Ravan

@cl-netbox nah...U16.04 in PC and win10 in lapy

fixit7

Thanks.

cl-netbox

@Ravan okay :) good choice :)

@fixit7 Maybe you should contact a moderator here ... the only one checked in at the moment is @terdon. :)

Ravan

@cl-netbox thanks :) lot changed in one and half year... your dp per se

terdon

16:42

Hi @fixit7 (thanks @cl-netbox) what's the problem?

cl-netbox

Hi terdon :) Good evening :)

terdon

hello

cl-netbox

@Ravan what do you mean with "dp per se" ? :)

Ravan

@cl-netbox your profile pic

@terdon @Seth Hello

cl-netbox

@fixit7 When you don't response to what terdon asked you, how can we help you then ?

terdon

16:45

Anyway, @fixit, people editing your posts won't get you banned. If anything, it will make it less likely that you will be banned since the edits are usually improvements.

11 mins ago, by fixit7

Have to go.

There's no hurry. He can answer whenever he gets back.

cl-netbox

okay :)

@Ravan ah yes - okay :)

Adam The Chespin

I’m having Ethernet trouble suddenly on 16.04 kernel 4.13.0-26-generic. I tried updating networkmanager.conf to managed=true but that didn’t help. Older kernels like 4.10.0-42 work fine. Can you guys help?

Seth

17:01

@Ravan hi!

Adam The Chespin

also I tried reinstalling the newest kernel.

Rinzwind

18:23

we lost a cranberry :( it is a sad day

Videonauth

18:34

'The red Solstice' Steam keys for FREE on https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-red-solstice

Tweeted by videonauth on January 15, 2018 at 6:30 PM

^^ cc @Seth @NathanOsman

Seth

Ooh.

But no Linux support :(

Videonauth

18:50

yes sadly not but always a chance it will play fine with wine :)

Seth

fair

Videonauth

with this it makes 261 titles i have on steam overall :) (of which are 93 native on linux)

Seth

lol. Pluralsight's tech "IQ" test rated me as an expert in python. hahahahaha. It obviously doesn't work.

Videonauth

lol can you link that hahahah

Seth

my results or the test?

Videonauth

19:04

the test lol

Adam The Chespin

Hope someone can help: askubuntu.com/questions/996284/…

Seth

@Videonauth pluralsight.com/product/pluralsight-iq

Videonauth

thank you :) now lets see hehehe

Seth

I think I'm just a good test taker. I guess on a lot of the questions.

Got a 194 out of 300 in HTML5 when most of the questions were about backend details I have no idea about lol

Aryo Adhi

I can't sleep-

AdamTheChespin

19:14

@AryoAdhi is 5 minutes the default for suspend after inactivity in the power settings in ubuntu?

Aryo Adhi

it should be

AdamTheChespin

@AryoAdhi ok

Aryo Adhi

but I set up my laptop config to not sleep at all unless I manually suspend it

which actually abit dangerous if I forget...

AdamTheChespin

oh

Aryo Adhi

intentionally disable suspend to make sure updates are downloaded and installed properly

Videonauth

19:23

@Seth hehehe well i at leats made it proficient in python :D

got many of those weird math questions

Seth

@Videonauth nice!

AdamTheChespin

I've posted a question by the way.

Seth

Like I said, I think I'm just good at taking tests. I can guess the right answer a lot more than I really know it

Videonauth

@AdamTheChespin and we all did see it, that someone is not answering onto it means probably that actually no one has a clue how to answer it (at least thats the case for me) and chooses not to speak up because of that

AdamTheChespin

:(

Videonauth

19:25

@Seth messed up those math questions and one i think was outright wrong but im actually right now testing my thesis in python

AdamTheChespin

I don't want to reinstall though. Got a lot of stuff on here.

Videonauth

if you have still an older kernel installed use this as long and file a bug report, this securty update fix was a hell of rushed and brought alot of bugs with it, they are currently really working hard on fixing things on that

AdamTheChespin

@Videonauth how do i do that?

Videonauth

as long your not browsing every day on weird unknown sites the actual danger is pretty low

@AdamTheChespin a bug report? or how to start with a lower numbered kernel?

AdamTheChespin

@Videonauth bug report.

Videonauth

19:29

in terminal: ubuntu-bug linux-image-4.13.0-26-generic

Seth

@Videonauth oh that's cool!

haha, I manged to test expert in MySQL too. Never even used it xD

Although I did take one class.

Videonauth

@Seth it was asking a = [1, 2, 3]; b = a ; a[0]= 73 ; b[0] = 42; x = a[0] which value has x

well i was wrong

Seth

@Videonauth not 73?

Videonauth

well its actually 42

which really surprised me

Seth

lets test it

Videonauth

19:36

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]; b = a; a[0]= 73; b[0] = 42; x = a[0]
>>> print(x)
42

Seth

indeed. Interesting.

Oh duh.

I bet it's a pass by reference thing.

Videonauth

guess so, i assumed it made a copy of the list

TheWanderer

@Videonauth everything is 42

Seth

@Videonauth yeah but python is pass by reference, not pass by value.

Videonauth

@TheWanderer ah cool that youre here, do you know applications which allow me to use my phone as a webcam for my pc

TheWanderer

19:37

uhhhhhhhhhhhh

no?

I don't think that's possible really

AdamTheChespin

Ethernet issue with 4.13.0-26-generic

Ethernet no longer works on below linux kernel ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: linux-image-4.13.0-26-generic 4.13.0-26.29~16.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-42.46~16.04.1-generic 4.10.17 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-42-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Jan 15 13:30:07 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-09 (251 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20170215.2) SourcePackage: linux-hwe UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

linux-hwe (Ubuntu)

Undecided / New

Seth

I DuckDuckGo'd it and gone tons of hits so..

TheWanderer

well idk anything about it anyway

Seth

➜  ~ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>> b = a
>>> a[0] = 73
>>> b[0] = 42
>>> x = a[0]
>>> print(x)
42
>>> typeof(b)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'typeof' is not defined
>>> type(b)
<class 'list'>
>>> ptr(b)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'ptr' is not defined

@Videonauth --^ see the last two commands

Videonauth

really interesting tho

well learned something today then :)

Seth

19:41

That's one of the places it's easy to trip up on in python. b = a means b equals the memory address of a, not the value of a. But python handles all that behind the scenes so you don't notice.

Videonauth

@TheWanderer i have read back in time that it might be possible

Seth

One case of explicit python being implicit.

TheWanderer

I can see it being theoretically possible

Videonauth

very tricky one i did not know of before

TheWanderer

but with restrictions on Android, latency in networks, and general weirdness involved, if there is a solution, it's gonna be crappy

Seth

19:43

I imaged you'd use a cable.

Videonauth

well if i find a solution i let you know, otherwise i simply have to record with my phone onto an seperate SD card and then load the recorded stuff onto my machine

TheWanderer

that makes it even worse @Seth

Seth

why

TheWanderer

I'm almost certain you can't transfer anything you want over USB to and from an Android

Videonauth

well i only know my phone is able to USB2go

TheWanderer

19:44

but that's storage

Videonauth

means my phone being a host for USB devices

well i can record on the phone too, so it does not matter really would be simply more convenient to do the recording on the PC for what I'm trying to do

will then simply cut it together in post production

streaming it over the net back to my pc sounds not feasible to me

TheWanderer

I mean, you could always call yourself on Hangouts or Skype or something

Videonauth

true that might work tho, the problem will be the latency , my signal going from germany to where the heck those skype servers are located and back to me

TheWanderer

Skype servers are actually nearby to you

HQ is Lexumbourg

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Q: delete all files in hidden directory except for .conf and .dat ubuntu

I tried searching but only found a solutions for single directory. I am looking for the command to delete all files within all the $HOME/hidden directories with the exception of *.conf and *.dat files in those directories and keep the directory intact. i will copy all the directories first to ...

ubuntu file-management

Seth

@TheWanderer Root skype server is actually in Redmond. Or was, as of ~2-3 years ago.

TheWanderer

shrug

Seth

Tho I suppose if they have an HQ in Lexumbourg it doesn't matter where the root is :P

Videonauth

root is in Switzerland !

TheWanderer

so very close

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Crontab doesn't seem to be executing periodically

I have a crontab under the root user (sudo crontab -e): */20 * * * * python3 /opt/ninja/python/db_alter/db_alter.py As far as I can tell it should execute every 20 minutes, however when I am checking for a created log file, nothing exists. I can run this command from the directory (or any othe...

ubuntu cron

blade19899

Anyone here has knowledge of the autodiscover structure? Trying to get it to work on a Linux system. But having trouble with OUTLOOK.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: gnu screen quietly crashing

On my digital ocean droplet, my gnu screen occasionally quietly crashes with no message. No message from the program or from the system. No detaching message. No system limit message. Nothing. It leaves the child sessions available for reattachment. How do I debug this. I have root on this ins...

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eaglgenes101

23:07

Are there contexts where it makes sense to set a directory with execute but not read?

From what I know, execute means you can go into a directory, read means you can read information about the directory

So essentially --x means you're allowed to fumble around blind within a directory, right? Is there a case where this is the intended result?

TheWanderer

if you only want a program to know about its own executables, maybe

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: systemd resource management (specific case: mysql)

I have a problem tying to figure out, how the resource management in systemd works. To make clear where I am and how I got there, I should start with explaining my situation: After migrating a mysql-db from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 I have to deal with systemd. Not my first time and no problem till...

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