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Joseph R.

00:19

@slm I remember in one of your answers you recommended that I use LDAP instead of NIS. Now I'm doing an infrastructure overhaul so I'm naturally considering this shift (I'm thinking of setting up LDAP+Kerberos actually). The thing is, the documentation is sort of overwhelming. Do you know of any good tutorials/HOWTOs?

slm

00:36

@JosephR. - are you migrating from NIS or is it a from scratch setup?

slm

01:10

@JosephR. - here's a rough list of resources

slm

01:22

- http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/quickstart.html
- http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/ldap-schema-design-feb-2005/index.html
- https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/serverguide/openldap-server.html
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-configure-a-basic-ldap-server-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps

2 hours later…

Avinash Raj

03:39

May i ask questions about awk, in this room?

3 hours later…

Anthon

07:01

@AvinashRaj In principle no, you should ask questions on the Q&A site unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

Avinash Raj

07:25

@Anthon it's a small doubt. It can be clarified in chat.

slm

@AvinashRaj post it if anyone can help they will

if it's a actual Q though Anthon is right, it should be on the main site

Avinash Raj

@slm may i post a question like this one UL?
Input: some text output :some text command to get the desired output : awk command.
I want the explanation.

slm

absolutely

asking how some bit of awk code works is on topic

Avinash Raj

asking for explanation of a command is allowed?

oh, thanks

slm

sure, if you have an example and don't understand how it works that's a fine Q

There are many awk experts here.

Avinash Raj

07:39

@slm unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127664/…

Avinash Raj

08:19

@slm no it got downvotes.

Anthon

09:08

@AvinashRaj I voted to leave it open, although as it is, it is just a statement. What is the exact question should be in the question text, not in some comments. You should write a question so it is meaningful without people having to go through the whole comment section to see what you are after. Don't write "Update" or anything like that in the question, but do comment to people who complained that you did an update in the question.

Avinash Raj

still 2 close votes. I donno Why it is unclear.

2 hours later…

AsheeshR

11:00

Any Debian users here?

AsheeshR

11:54

I recently installed Debian 7 with GNOME and XFCE. I am getting a 6-7 second faster boot with XFCE than with GNOME. 49 sec vs 42-43 seconds. Is this normal/expected?

slm

@AvinashRaj Yeah I see that. I UV'd and also voted to leave open.

Braiam

@AsheeshR XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment, so, yeah, kinda expected

slm

@AvinashRaj I added an explanation at the top and also rephrased the title.

Braiam

12:10

@slm how about "what getline do inside awk?" or something similar in the title

slm

@Braiam - much better, changed it

Braiam

12:35

@slm you forgot the links ;)

slm

@Braiam - thanks...whooops

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AsheeshR

14:15

@Braiam Yeah, I just felt 6-7 seconds is quite a lot.

2 hours later…

Braiam

16:14

@AsheeshR O_O

3 hours later…

Joseph R.

19:18

@slm Thanks a lot for the helpful links. I could migrate the NIS setup but I'm inclined to just populate the user database from scratch in order to enforce better password complexity, "sane" user names, etc...

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Patrick

22:44

So I just flagged a LibreOffice question for closing as it's not related to linux or unix, and subsequently noticed a bunch of questions had been raised by peterph due to editing. Other thoughts? Should they all be closed, or dig up a mod to move them over to superuser?

...or left alone

Braiam

@Patrick ?

flag to close?

Patrick

we don't have "move to superuser" as an option :-(

Braiam

was a windows question?

Patrick

was os agnostic

slm

23:12

@Patrick I believe we agreed that these types of Q's are on-topic so long as the app in Q is available on Linux/unix

Patrick

do we have a reference to that? I'm just curious. I've seen numerous cases in the past where libreoffice is closed as off-topic

not finding anything about OS agnostic software on meta. I'd be happy to raise the question, just don't want to dup

slm

@Patrick - yeah let me take a look, I believe it might have been hashed out in chat w/ Gilles + others.

Here I've found several of the Q's on meta

- http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform-applications
- http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1266/are-skype-questions-off-topic/1275#1275
- http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/question-closed-for-offtopic-even-though-some-answers-here-suggest-it-is-not

Gilles A to this one

A: Are Skype questions off topic?

This question is on-topic. As you mention, the FAQ explicitly allows questions about cross-platform applications. There are several reasons for that: A user shouldn't need to find out whether the application exists under other operating systems. If I'm a unix user and I don't care about other O...

Patrick

That clears it up pretty well. Thanks :-)

slm

23:39

You're welcome.

@Patrick - if you're interested you've been here a long time, if you're interested in indulging all of us in your story it would be appreciated on this meta BTW

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