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I wish to change the ownership and access permissions of files and directories contained on this device. The device is immediately recognized and mounted when plugged in and I can create and move files on it. However, I cannot change either the permissions or the owner of any file or directory on this device, nor of the device mount itself, whether logged in as the owner or as root. Why is this

CentOS-6.6 Can logwatch be configured to display the system uptime as part of the reporting prologue? If not then what would be the recommended way of including this information in a daily logwatch report? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne

I am trying to create a one line command that will: 1. Find all files ending in .conf 2. tar these over ssh to a remote server. I have reached this point in my trials. a. I can find the files. b. I can tar them locally. c. I can get a simple fileset tar'ed to a remote server over ssh using tar -zvcf - /some/fileset | ssh host.domain.tld "cat > /backup/tarfile.tar.gz d. I cannot

Recently we began seeing lots of these log entries on our off-site mx smtp host. I have googled this but I am not clear from what I have read if this is something we can stop altogether or should even worry about. Comments? Logwatch. . . --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------ SMTP SESSION, MESSAGE, OR RECIPIENT ERRORS ------------------------------------------

Does the Apache rpm shipped with CentOS 4.x have UTF-8 enabled as the default document encoding for all virtual servers? If so, then why? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario

> On Fri Aug 12 17:14:00 UTC 2005 Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com wrote: > > How about > > tar c $(find / -name \*.conf) | ssh host.com "gzip -c > file.tar.gz" Thank you very much, this worked. I have two supplementary questions. First, what is the significance of the $() construct in bash and how does it interact with tar? Does it take the place of

Apologies for this OT post. I need some help debugging a bash script. It just happens to be provided by Apple Inc. In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this: cd ~/'Library/Application Support' Which is a simple enough request. However, OSX returns: cd /users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory. The space evidently acts as a delimiter to cd even

I am setting up a small CentOS-5.3 host to act as a router. I have the device configured and working. What I am trying to accomplish now is configuring the firewall so as to protect both the router and the LAN. The host configuration has the WAN attached to eth0 (IP_ADDR = A) and the LAN attached to eth1 (IP_ADDR = B). The default gateway for B is A. The default gateway for B is B-1. There

We are presently looking into alternative backup strategies for our networked servers and are considering Bacula. Does anyone have any opinions on this application, good and bad, to share? Further, is there a CentOS4 specific rpm build available for this in a yum repository (I note that CentOS4 tags have been added to the Bacula source tree)? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a

On Wed, September 23, 2015 00:11, Always Learning wrote: > > > That is great. When I started on Linux that was one of the very > first things I did. Every machine, including servers, has port 22 > replaced by a unique alternative port. Port 22 is also blocked in > IPtables. > > There is an army of dangerous nutters attempting to break-in to > everything. They often mask

CentOS-5.4 i86_64 I have a calculator applet on my desktop (superbcalc.jar). When I double click on it I get no response. If I right click and select open with java I get no response. If I open a terminal window and cd to Desktop and type java -jar superbcalc.jar then the applet opens. Does anyone have any idea why I am seeing this behaviour? There are no messages in the syslog file relating

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> Date: Mon, October 6, 2008 12:26 To: cenos at centos.org Cc: "John Newbigin" <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au>

On Thu, July 28, 2011 14:30, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to check for a single period '.' in a shell variable. > > $ I=. > $ echo $I > . > $ if [[ "$I" -eq '.' ]]; then echo true; fi > -bash: [[: .: syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".") > . . . > > How does one check to see for this in a bash script? Found

On Tue, March 31, 2009 13:03, James B. Byrne wrote: > Found it. No etc/at.allow and no etc/at.deny means only root can > submit jobs. > Well, that was not it. I still get the same errors after adding my user id to /etc/at.allow. I tested whether job control was enabled by moving top into the background using ctrl-z and fg to return and that worked. Any suggestions as to what I am

[root at smb4-1 ~ (master)]# samba-tool dns query localhost brockley.harte-lyne.ca brockley.harte-lyne.ca ALL -U administrator Password for [BROCKLEY\administrator]: Name=, Records=4, Children=0 SOA: serial=3, refresh=900, retry=600, expire=86400, minttl=3600, ns=SMB4-1.brockley.harte-lyne.ca., email=hostmaster.brockley.harte-lyne.ca. (flags=600000f0, serial=110, ttl=3600) NS:

On Tue, June 2, 2020 11:13, Rowland penny wrote: > On 02/06/2020 16:03, James B. Byrne via samba wrote: >> Samba-4.11.8 on FreeBSd-12.1p5 >> >> How does one list all of the actual DNS records for Samba administered zones, >> forward and reverse? >> > Try: > > samba-tool dns query localhost brockley.harte-lyne.ca > brockley.harte-lyne.ca ALL -U

i86_64 CentOS-6.5 sernet-samba-4.1.7 MS Windows Advanced Server 2000 We have a very old MS-Windows Domain Controller running on equally old hardware that we wish to replace with a Samba4 installation running on a virtualised CentOS-6.5 . Other than most user desktops this is the last remaining MS based system here and we would really, really like to shut it down. Our plan is to join two Samba4

Samba-4.11.8 on FreeBSd-12.1p5 How does one list all of the actual DNS records for Samba administered zones, forward and reverse? When I use the dns query option of samba-tool I get a summary but no detail: samba-tool dns query localhost brockley.harte-lyne.ca @ ALL -U administrator Password for [BROCKLEY\administrator]: Name=, Records=3, Children=0 SOA: serial=1, refresh=900, retry=600,

I am running xen (2.6.16-xen3_86.1_rhel4.1) on top of a stock CentOS-4.4 installation. I have not added any additional virtual machines however. When trying to install (as root) acrobat reader 7 for Linux from the adobe rpm (AdobeReader_enu.i386 7.0.8-1) I get the following errors: error: %pre(AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet

On Wed, June 3, 2020 10:52, Rowland penny wrote: > On 03/06/2020 15:31, James B. Byrne wrote: >> >> samba-tool dns query localhost brockley.harte-lyne.ca brockley.harte-lyne.ca >> ALL -U administrator >> Password for [BROCKLEY\administrator]: >> Name=, Records=3, Children=0 >> SOA: serial=1, refresh=900, retry=600, expire=86400, minttl=3600, >>