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Anwar Shah

18:03

As in the current state of the question, I think OP is trying to change his device's MAC address (In less words, a hardware related job) rather than setting MAC address of the device in configuring a network, which is completely another topic. So, In my opinion this question isn't a duplicate of the link given above. — Anwar 13 secs ago

I tried my best...idk how well i did it?

But I still believe that qn can be closed for not being a question ;P

Eliah Kagan

@AnwarShah Well, you can change your MAC address in software too. You don't have to physically modify your NIC to do it.

Anwar Shah

Yes. I was saying it is more like changing a hardware parameter.. I didn't mean it should be done in hardware level.

penreturn

ahahaa, just install ubuntu beta 12.10 - n i think got ghost in my machine too ^..^

Eliah Kagan

@AnwarShah Isn't this question about changing ("cloning") the MAC address too, though?

That's why I'm unsure if they're duplicates.

Anwar Shah

Though, idk too much about these ... but i think that question is about filling a field in configuring a system with MAC address

I think, clone MAC address is another thing...

I may be wrong

whatismyip.com/faq/what-is-mac-cloning.asp

i'm reading this ^

@penreturn tell those ghosts that, they will be removed, purged just before the last hour of release

penreturn

18:19

@AnwarShah ahahahaa seriously my mouse going everywhere hahhahahaaa 1st time happen

Mac Changer

Anwar Shah

@penreturn It won't work if your authentication is done based on a MAC, right?

o/ fossfreedom

penreturn

read this ubuntugeek.com/…

jrg

i have a set of 5 MACs I swap around with. my real one, and 4 others.

Anwar Shah

how do your internet provider recognize those?

Bruno Pereira

evening peeps

jrg

18:31

my ISP doesn't. they recognize the Black Box they gave us, and then we do NATing and all sorts of crazy stuff.

traffic goes like this: My laptop > switch > linksys > dmz > black box > internet

Anwar Shah

they recognize the Black Box using what? MAC or something other?

Joshua

Yeah, watching security footage, my favorite thing to do!

jrg

i think its MAC, but i'm not sure.

Anwar Shah

Oh. thanks.

jrg

@AnwarShah i don't worry myself with the Black Box, since for the most part it "Just Works".

The Interrupter

18:35

How do I install Inventory Management Software? http://askubuntu.com/q/195244?atw=1 #installfromsource

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 1, 2012 at 6:01 PM

Joshua

what is this "black box"?

jrg

i'd love to get rid of it, since it's the most insecure piece of equipment on the network, but we don't have that option. :(

@Joshua ATT uverse black box.

Anwar Shah

I was thinking, how they still recognize you/your device (for billing) after changing the mac?

Joshua

@jrg what does it do?

jrg

i only change my laptops MAC for those public hotspots that do MAC-based traffic limitations.

Anwar Shah

18:36

@TheInterrupter Why asking us? If you know the answer, write that

@jrg Oh. i see

jrg

i don't change the black boxes MAC, no clue how to do it.

Anwar Shah

I thought, you change device MAC

@penreturn gave me some links.. haven't read them yet

Joshua

Nothing... cool...

Anwar Shah

ubuntugeek.com/…

Mac changer for NIC ^

(courtesy of penreturn)

penreturn

@AnwarShah im using mac changer when doing some dirty jobs... oh btw is this consider dupe? askubuntu.com/questions/195256/…

jrg

18:41

ahem folks

penreturn

ahahhah see ^..^ askubuntu.com/questions/195258/…

jrg

oh no, i didn't mean delete it, i was just saying we should try and remain upstanding citizens for as long as possible. ;p

oh nice

thats why i stay away from aircrack. it's so dicy.

Anwar Shah

@penreturn never heard of aircrack

sounds crazy

penreturn

hehehe

i dont think this happen bcoz of aircrack...

Anwar Shah

what does it do?

A question:

what is meant by Low answer quality score [100], /questions/how-to-answer shown and skipped?

in score [100]

jrg

18:46

AH-HA! you've discovered the 10K flags.

so that means that the system thinks the user has a low quality answer. you can edit, or decline the flag.

Anwar Shah

@jrg I'm just behind aking and you i guess :)

what is the number 100 doing there?

I saw other posts with low-quality-flag but they don't have this number

jrg

no clue.

Anwar Shah

thanks

karthick87

@jrg could you post here the contents of template? "ubuntu-servers" ??

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penreturn

18:57

@AskUbuntuMeta +1 for the 2nd Q

karthick87

@aking1012 the script which we were discussing last time is not working.. Getting the below error,

./tmebackup.sh: line 15: mount.smbfs: command not found

aking1012

@karthick87 wait what script?

Anwar Shah

o/ aking

o/ karthick

karthick87

Hi @AnwarShah \o

aking1012

@AnwarShah pong

Anwar Shah

18:59

power down. need to go. cya

karthick87

#!/bin/bash

#username="karthick"
#password="shares"

savepath="/root/backups/"
mountpoint="/mnt/backmeup"

#connect to the share
for addr in {10..14}
do
echo 172.29.34.$addr
filename=TME$addr\_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).tar
sharename=//172.29.34.$addr/Desktop
mount.smbfs $sharename $mountpoint ##-o username=$username,password=$password
tar -cf $savepath$filename $mountpoint
umount /mnt/backmeup
done

@aking1012 ^ ^

aking1012

:~$ apt-file search mount.smbfs
samba-doc: /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/scripts/mount/mount.smbfs
smbfs: /sbin/mount.smbfs


so:
~:$sudo apt-get install smbfs

@karthick87 --^

karthick87

@aking1012 that is already installed

aking1012

you need to run it as a user that has access to /sbin/mount.smbfs ... or do some sudo credential stuff.

karthick87

@aking1012 am running it as root

aking1012

19:13

make sure the command exists and check to make sure you're not on Quantal and they didn't move/rename the binary...

that's all i've got. i have to work on something else

only other guess is that you're running it as a cron job and you don't have environment set up to have /sbin in your path

karthick87

oke @aking1012 i will get it checked and let u know..

@aking1012 one more than i am writing a script to automate few process.. Like we use an apt-cacher server for installing packages for all versions of ubuntu.. So the source file varies for all versions of ubuntu. We have kept all source files in the machine say ie. 172.29.32.100 and from ubuntu system we used to wget the file and replace it.. Here we use ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 12.04 so is it possible to automate this task using if else statement? Or which ever is applicable ???

aking1012

i like apt-mirror for stuff like that instead of apt-cacher

jrg

I used to use apt-cacher-ng

penreturn

@jrg really? :D

karthick87

Like if lsb_release -s -d = 10.04 then wget 172.29.32.100/cacher/1004/sources.list && scp sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list etc etc.. How to apply if condition here??

jrg

19:22

@karthick87 the template was in the gist - that was the whole thing

Roland Taylor

Hi

karthick87

@jrg sorry we are using apt-cacher-ng only

jrg

this is when a simple shell script thats to turn into a full-fledged program.

karthick87

@aking1012 can you help me with the above query pls..

penreturn

hi @RolandTaylor

aking1012

19:28

@karthick87 i've kind of taken a time-out from AU...you got more response than i've given anyone for about a week

Joshua

Google just eclipsed M$ as being the more valuable company...

Roland Taylor

I just asked 0 A.D. if they will be including non-european civs.

I got an interesting answer:

plus.google.com/u/0/108901876667002638432/posts/2rxujD2Amkr

karthick87

19:59

I hope this will do what i need, can anyone help me out pls..

if ( grep -q $CASE /etc/lsb-release ) ;then wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list 172.29.32.100/$

jrg

20:37

@rlemon: Interesting. I didn't know you could sing. Or rather, try to and fail miserably. ;P gist.github.com/3814072

@RolandTaylor interesting

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A: Grub menu not waiting despite of GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

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The Interrupter

21:29

Bounty offered: Getting function keys working on Samsung RV510 notebook http://askubuntu.com/q/28017?atw=1 #keyboard

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aking1012

@GeorgeEdison you want in increasing order of complexity: alsaloop, pulse monitor, or jack re-routing

Eliah Kagan

21:49

This question doesn't currently seem to provide enough information to answer it ...I think perhaps we should vote to close it as not a real question (I'm out of close votes for the day, so I cannot):

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karthick87

22:09

if 'lsb_release -rs' = $CASE; then wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list 172.29.32.9/ubuntu${CASE/./}/sources.list

@aking1012 is that correct ??

Eliah Kagan

22:31

@izx Why can't this comment of yours be made into an answer? (I noticed you did post an answer, but deleted it, so I'm assuming there's some reason...but it looked pretty good to me.)

ObsessiveFOSS

I, too, am out of closevotes.

ccrama

Hello. Is it easy to copy all my ubuntu server 12.o4 files to an ssd?

*the whole os

i want ubuntu server to boot off of my ssd and use my harddrive as a storage drive for files

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ObsessiveFOSS

23:08

@ccrama Copy? Or a new installation?

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Back.

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@jrg sorry for the long delay, had to leave home at short notice

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ObsessiveFOSS

@RolandTaylor NARQ/Not constructive: askubuntu.com/questions/195333/…

Out of closevotes for another 10 minutes

Roland Taylor

I am hungry.

ObsessiveFOSS

Do you have closevotes left today?

Roland Taylor

23:53

Yesh.

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