At this point I'm trying to get it to work with just the expect script, because having the two scripts is hurting my brain
so my expect script does the initial spawn ssh, sends the password, then spawn scp upload the file, then spawn ssh root@192.168.1.1 "/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart" which doesn't seem to work
Also tried send /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart which doesn't work either
GNOME Screensaver is dead, all the actual screensaver code was ripped it out, so it was just a black screen for a while. I believe there is now no gnome-screensaver module at all, the relevant code for the lock screen has been folded into either gdm or gnome-shell; I forget which
@strugee - figured it out, they switched the setting under Power -> Blank Screen to never. Changing this got my locking working again.. This shows the actual value too: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
I added the info we discussed about locking the screen and such to the Q&A you edited earlier too, in case the links go away, now we have it in a single spot here
@strugee there seems to be no debate there at the moment. 2013 saw a grand total of 2 comments and one answer and there's been nothing in the last 6 months. Why bother protecting it? There's no undue activity.
@derobert I actually edited it from the reopen queue
I don't know why this question was closed, it can be answered for a default setup
answered as in, where do you set the default gateway
of course there may be a myriad reasons why something isn't working that are peculiar to the OP's setup, but if he doesn't provide feedback, too bad for him
You may also need to set a default route (often known as your default gateway) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 as follows:
default via 1.2.3.4
Just make sure you substitute the correct Default Gateway for 1.2.3.4 otherwise Bad Things Will Happen... ;)
@derobert That was why I voted to close that Q. The OP didn't put enough info in for starters and so that Q would just become us debugging his particular setup and having to prod him a lot to get particulars about it, wasting our time for something that if you went through the official docs is already well covered.
I have a small server running Debian and I want to add an account with SSH access for backups. The user of this account should have no console access. He can only transfer (backup) data via SCP to/from one directory on the server, nothing more. How can I do this?
Try this as the login shell for the user:
#!/bin/sh
basedir=/local/remote_only_scripts
while read -p '$ ' prog args; do
if [ ! -x "$basedir/$prog" ]; then
echo "Invalid program: $prog"
else
case "$prog $args" in
*\**|*\?*|*\^*|*\&*|*\<*|*\>*|*\|*|*\;*|*\`*|*\[...
Method #1 - VNC from ComputerA -> B
where a user is already logged in on B
You don't specify what VNC client you're using but one of the more popular ones is Vinagre. It's typically included with GNOME desktop based distros, which should cover most of the larger distros.
Installation
First yo...
I provided directions for Ubuntu but assuming Debian doesn't use lightdm.
@Gilles - after the entire day I found out Debian is the server, and Ubuntu is the client
to confirm things are working I told him to run x11vnc via command line and then connect to make sure it works first, if it does we can worry about making it a startup service afterwards.
@Gilles from time to time we get ppl answering these Q's which already have acceptable answers, should we protect these?
I mean, if you can name actual technical problems with Wayland then I'll buy it but no one really has any arguments that hold water. WRT to the remote access thing, that was a problem but they have a solution for that now
@strugee I really haven't been following this, I know it is set to replace X eventually but as far as I know, it hasn't done so yet. Are you using it? Will I be able to ssh -Y and export DISPLAY to my local machine?
> Canonical has recently announced that they were abandoning their earlier plans to use Wayland, and instead are developing their own display server called Mir now.
but.... why??!?
@terdon I'm not saying they are bad, just that when they screw up, they screw it up
there's nothing in the Wayland protocol that doesn't work with Nvidia. or the BSDs. or display over the network. that's just Weston that doesn't implement support for those things
@strugee canonical has been going down that road for years. They lost me the second they came out with unity and I had moved away from my brief stint with Ubuntu before that.
I have a laptop I bring to work and back home. At work, I often set up a lot of shells and open ssh connections. When I go back home, I have to restart all these connections, after logging into my home network, and then the VPN. It's a bit of a hassle to set up everything if I have a lot of shell...
@terdon generally Upstart is OK but its event system is really weird
for example the sytemd way of doing things is to say: "oh, you want to start apache? in order to that, I need to bring up the network, so I'll do that for you." the Upstart way is: "I've just brought up the network. I might as well bring up Apache now that that's done."
Ummm, I'd rather bring the network up myself. If I start apache locally, it is to access things on my machine. If I want to bring up the network, I'll do so.
@strugee both systems you described seem to be bringing up everything that can be brought up.
@terdon the point is that systemd will normally bring up the network, as it is a dependency of the default target (which is the equivalent of the default runlevel). but it will not bring up apache unless apache is explicitly enabled
and besides, I find systemd unit files to be way easier to understand than Upstart's sh scripts
@terdon yeah, I can understand that. personally I'm not comfortable writing really complex scripts yet (e.g. I don't quite know how to parse arguments yet)
@terdon for systemd, check for the existence of /usr/bin/systemctl. for Upstart I believe you can check for the existence of /etc/init.d but don't quote me on that
@Braiam That's the thing. I know I played with both systemd and sysvinit on my system but I really am not sure which one I am using right now... /me blushes
initctl
zsh: command not found: initctl
The program 'initctl' is currently not installed. To run 'initctl' please ask your administrator to install the package 'upstart'
initctl: command not found
You may also need to set a default route (often known as your default gateway) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 as follows:
default via 1.2.3.4
Just make sure you substitute the correct Default Gateway for 1.2.3.4 otherwise Bad Things Will Happen... ;)
I have a small server running Debian and I want to add an account with SSH access for backups. The user of this account should have no console access. He can only transfer (backup) data via SCP to/from one directory on the server, nothing more. How can I do this?
Try this as the login shell for the user:
#!/bin/sh
basedir=/local/remote_only_scripts
while read -p '$ ' prog args; do
if [ ! -x "$basedir/$prog" ]; then
echo "Invalid program: $prog"
else
case "$prog $args" in
*\**|*\?*|*\^*|*\&*|*\<*|*\>*|*\|*|*\;*|*\`*|*\[...
Method #1 - VNC from ComputerA -> B
where a user is already logged in on B
You don't specify what VNC client you're using but one of the more popular ones is Vinagre. It's typically included with GNOME desktop based distros, which should cover most of the larger distros.
Installation
First yo...
egrep support "regular expression".but fgrep does not support it.
