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DanielSank

01:06

Hi, everybody.

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Q: Cant find from where fiail2ban getting ssh logins from

I have one prod server where fail2ban was installed before i joined company. Eveyday i get email like this Hi, The IP 158.140.XX.204 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 6 attempts against ssh. Here are more information about 158.140.XX.204: Lines containing IP:158.140.XX.204 in /var/log...

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06:32

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Q: Can anyone help with this error while running my tcl script in ns2?

hile running my tcl script for new protocol in ns2 it shows error as: num_nodes is set 108 invalid command name “Agent/HEBM” while executing “Agent/HEBM set radius_2” (file “balance.tcl” line31) please, reply as soon as possible, it will be very helpful to implement my project.

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Zanna

06:45

← 11 messages moved from Raiders of the Lost Downboat

Ask Ubuntu Meta

07:35

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Q: Badges getting cut in half

Seems like the badges are getting cut in half. Attaching the screenshot below

bug design badges

Fabby

08:18

@Videonauth Yeah, KazWolfe raised a FP.

How do I get an account though?

Rinzwind

08:53

@Fabby nice :D

co-workers once made a backup on a friday of software we adjusted the past week. 3 people where at it for 10 hours 4 days. he deleted the backup and the rest of the directory by adding a space to the rm.

he got seriously lucky... one of the employees had to go early that friday and he was reasponsible for the backups. The backup was done minutes, if not seconds, before he did the rm :D

so we wasted another 4 hours waiting for the restore :X HE paid for diner on the way home :+)

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Q: Laptop does not connect to wifi and ethernet with Ubuntu and Linux Mint

I switched from Windows to Linux on my HP laptop. I first installed Ubuntu 16.04, then Ubuntu 18 and then Linux Mint (my current OS), but with all three I have problems with my wifi and ethernet connection. With certain networks like the one at my home, I can connect, but the connection is very ...

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09:21

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Q: The StackExchange website keeps me logged in between sessions without asking me

The login screen for StackExchange/AskUbuntu has no option to select or deselect a "keep me logged in" function, but it retains the login by default. Retaining an everlasting login session without the user's permission has got to be some kind of bug or design flaw. The security implications are...

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Ask Ubuntu Meta

09:36

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Q: Unexpected behavior

I don't know what is special about this question : Use sleep with minutes and seconds This question is about the use of a basic shell function, can anyone explain me what is difficult about a command like that (which need just to read a little the manual, and like we say : RTFM!)? This question...

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Eugene

10:31

Good day

Is it possible to add new user with password in one line? I did hope, that `useradd hello -p world` would work, but then I found the note, that "*The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).*"
Asking because I want to add one more user within Dockerfile instead of default provided root user.

Eugene

10:44

Okay. Nvm. Found it. serverfault.com/questions/868092/… Very nifty solution.

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Q: notify-send with crontab in i3

So, I've read a lot of forum topics on this, but none of them seem to help and I just cannot get this working. I am trying to create a cron job that sends a notification via notify-send. I am currently trying this: */2 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bu...

ubuntu cron i3 notifications notify-send

Nicolas Raoul

11:38

On 18.04 in the normal repositories there is a package called python3-exif which is great because I want to parse EXIF with Python.
But how to find documentation for it? There are so many different EXIF parsing Python libraries, I can't figure out which one is in that package.
Thanks!

dessert

@NicolasRaoul the package contains a file called /usr/share/doc/python3-exif/examples/EXIF.py, maybe that’s helpful?

@NicolasRaoul also there’s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ExifRead-2.1.2.egg-info/PKG-INFO, which may contain package info ;P

Pandya

11:56

lubuntu.net or lubuntu.me ?

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12:50

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Q: Can I use SysV init scripts for systemd

In Ubuntu 14 I have a bunch of SysV init scripts (/etc/init.d/). After migration to Ubuntu 16 they do not really work, as I understand Ubuntu 16 generates systemd unit files on the fly. Some services can be started but some not. My idea is to: relocate SysV init scripts (/etc/init.d/ -> /var...

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Fabby

13:05

@Rinzwind Yeah! :)

@Rinzwind Really lucky!

I wasn't: we lost 1 or 2h of work but had to restore 1 full backup and 2 or 3 incrementals. (=1 entire day lost)

(we started doing differentials soon after)

Videonauth

13:20

@Fabby ping one of the admin in charcoal hq and you can make yourself an account on metasmoke

when you have this you can ask in charcoal for privileges

Rinzwind

14:04

@Fabby yeah well. it wasn't me ;-) as of today and I have been using computers 1993 I have only broke 1 thing and that was a 40Gb disk I tried formatting from BIOS where I mistyped the cylinders, Never did I mess up commands in linux >:)

my rm's are always 1st done with an "ls"

RobotHumans

14:22

@Fabby we've all had misclicks/bunged up commands. I keep 2 trees of all code for that reason. Meant to delete something - deleted something else critical. Copied it back from tree 2. You fat finger something from time to time. It happens. As long as you're prepared for it, it's no big deal.

Rinzwind

14:32

I got backups of backups of backups of backups. Heck we use google instances and every instance does a real time copy to another google instance as a fallback + an amazon real time copy as fallback 2 + our chinese also does this to alibaba. And each of those has a real time backup with incremental change log. Then we make manual copies each friday. Plus I have my own personal copies D:

screw that new privacy law >:)

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PerlDuck

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS keyboard is disabled tried standard solutions already

Okay, so this is what happened. I came home and noticed my kids had tried to log on my laptop when I was at work. A massive keystroke password was there. However, I found that I when I restarted the computer I couldn't use the keyboard at all. I was able to use Accessible onscreen keyboard ...

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I'd make the kids fix it and give them only water and bread until they do.

@RobotHumans I also backup my money. So if one bill is lost, I still have the other. ;-)

dessert

14:55

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cl-netbox

15:25

@Fabby so no day off for you ? :( ... anyway, the next weekend is nearing ! :)

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Q: How do I recover after failed instalation of grub-efi-amd64-signed?

I tried to install Ubuntu 18.04 along with my Windows 8.1. I used live usb for the installation. The installation went well until boot-loader installation and then the installer crashed. On rebooting the PC, it went into Grub rescue mode and says, error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not foun...

ubuntu grub2 grub system-recovery

Fabby

17:58

@cl-netbox I've told all customers and the boss already for months I did have a day off.

@Rinzwind To be completely honest: I was sitting next to the guy who typed it.

He asked me to verify his commands.

I still had to do the restore though.

(So that's why my spine turned cold)

Thomas Ward

@dessert lubuntu.net is also not the official Lubuntu site anymore.

Fabby

@Rinzwind Starred!

@RobotHumans I lost all my 80-90s source code when I migrated to precise.

No big deal: who's ever going to ask for the PASCAL source code of anything I ever developed?

Even customers: I had to help a customer back in the early 2000s to extend his license key.

(for an ex-employer)

I remembered the algorithm we came up with and where it was stored (Windows Registry in the help section and it was a julian date XOR A) so I extended their licence to 1/1/3000.

Their data was important and the ability to run their program...

Even had to once reverse-engineer a Windows accountancy program I knew nothing about to copy it from one machine to another: 4h of work manually copying registry keys and DLL files.

Long live Linux: You have access to all the source code forever

Isn't the star wall in this room nice?

We can call each other idiots and still not get the PC Nazis flagging us.

RobotHumans

Heh. That one question I opened in relation to the jobs pane not being on all SE sites got us the jobs right hand pane here, which is nice.

Fabby

Huh? Where? (I've got a ton of scripts/cookies blocked and AdBlockPlus running so I can't see anything)

RobotHumans

18:13

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Q: If there's a design pattern, shouldn't it be present throughout the sites?

So, Ask Ubuntu just got a facelift/new theme. It's the Stack Exchange site I frequent the most. Also, recently, I have been looking for some work. The top bar moving in to the left bar to maximize front and center real-estate on screen is good. I don't like it, but I can recognize what it's do...

discussion design

@Fabby ^^

Fabby

looking

@RobotHumans +1 (without even reading it all)

dessert

18:57

@ThomasWard what happened?

Thomas Ward

no idea. but lubuntu.me is the official Lubuntu homepage now

has been for over a year

dessert

@Pandya -^

Thomas Ward

In other news, I recently discovered how to write Python handlers for Postfix messages :|

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Q: Updating Linux system time programatically

I have a system of 3 or 4 different Linux Ubuntu machines that I would like to be time synced. My plan is to use one of them (let's call it master) as the NTP server that serves time to the 3 other machines (let's call them children). However, I'd like to get UTC time first from the master and ...

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Q: vncserver blank display -- debian 9 guest VM w/ubuntu 16 host

Overview My goal is to setup VNC access to a Debian 9.5 VM guest built with virt-manager on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with desktop environment). I have configured /etc/vnc/xstartup to use gnome-session (details below), and have setup a systemd service defined inside /lib/systemd/system/.service, where ...

debian ubuntu virtual-machine desktop-environment vnc

spillthrill

22:17

What is the recommended raster graphics editor for GNU/Linux, that is not as convoluted as GIMP and also has a nice UI?

RobotHumans

raster editing/unlimited resolution is inkskape, but not as convoluted has nothing to do with it.

spillthrill

22:54

I thought Inkscape was for vector, not raster. Something like MS Paint, Paint.NET, Paint 3D on Windows 10, etc. Maybe "convoluted" wasn't the right word; it's just that I don't need anything as involved as GIMP. I want something simpler like MS Paint.

RobotHumans

you're right inkscape is vector not raster. got my wires crossed

TheWanderer

@spillthrill first result on Google: askubuntu.com/questions/164473/simple-image-editor

spillthrill

23:39

I was hoping someone wouldn't mention Pinta :/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/164473/simple-image-editor#comment1611467_164563

^ Dead since 2016 and very buggy

RobotHumans

23:57

you're not wasting my time to create a 144 rep sock to complain about something/anything. just complain.

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