@scottalanmiller Yep, I just wanted to share the configuration I use as my daily driver because it makes working in the terminal that much more efficient. The OP mentioned wanting something that was a bit slicker and more powerful, and I think in addition to your choice of terminal, your choice of shell and other tools contributes to having a better experience. I prefer FISH for my shell, and tmux is my terminal multiplexor of choice. ZSH is another great alternative shell as well.

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @IRJ said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": @wrx7m said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": A simple restart command doesn't perform the update step, just the restart, so the update doesn't get applied. This has been an issue for a very long time with windows. I am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. It's really annoying Well, at least with Win 7, a standard reboot applies updates. At least, I think it does. The main difference between Win 7 and 10, is that they have switched to the osoclient.exe to manage the updates. I'm pretty sure server 2008 and onward had the issue. I don't remember dealing with it on workstations I still have a 2008 R2 box and can test it on the next go 'round. I won't have it much longer, as I am dumping it prior to EOS. LOL - Didn't make this cutoff. Next week, hopefully.

I've added this to a larger script that I use, but if you only wanted to automate the naming process the above would work for you. Else just remove the header #!/bin/sh and add the reset to any setup scripts that you have to automate this portion of the setup.

@DustinB3403 said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces: @JaredBusch said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces: I typically use / instead of ~ for the delimiter, looks right. Have to use ~ because I'm adding a URL in the part that's being replaced. Also that did work, not sure why it wasn't showing the change first time. Thanks for the sanity check. wait...... I skimmed. I admit.. You have to escape spaces or wrap it in quotes. Oh it worked.. then all good. Ignore me.. I'm busy unpurging email.

@JaredBusch fair enough, I haven't used the product itself as of yet and wasn't aware it had whitelisting inside the product, if this was specific to just fail2ban then that method would be suitable, but in this case I agree with you, my mistake.

You almost had it. It should be... find /Volumes -not -name something

@scottalanmiller said in Linux CP command - Estimate MBs: You can use cp and see progress using a separate tool, like progress. But cp itself can't do it. Gotcha.

@mary said in Network Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Is it ok to have any packet loss when pinging another computer? It's not a crime or anything There is always "some" packet loss, but in a healthy network it is super low, like one out of one hundred thousands packets. If you are doing a ping and seeing packets missed regularly, something is wrong. On a wired network, this implies bad equipment, cabling, or EM interference. On wireless it means your signal isn't clean. Obviously wifi is going to lose packets way more than a cabled connection, and copper way more than optical. But it should still be essentially zero on a healthy network.

@black3dynamite said in CUPS Administration Job Info 1 Destination Mailbox: @DustinB3403 said in CUPS Administration Job Info 1 Destination Mailbox: While I found where OSX stores the user printer preferences, but copying a "working version of preferences" to the user workstation and directory doesn't set the preferences. Still investigating. May require a restart when doing this remotely. . . Full system restart or just the cups service? Just did a full system restart and no change. While the plist file is there, and the user has owner access to it, the changes don't appear to take effect. Not sure why.

@mary said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Can you remote in to restart a PC if it is frozen or are you stuck looking at what the user is? Depends on the tools at your disposal and where "you" are. You can remote in using tools like RDP, but if the user is frozen, likely that won't help. You can remote in using PsExec, PowerShell Remoting or SSH and those will often work if the OS isn't completely frozen. You can use tools like ScreenConnect or MeshCentral, they will allow for remote command execution through local agents. And DevOps tools like SaltStack will issue remote commands similarly. But it all depends on your level of remote access, what has been set up ahead of time, and how frozen things are.

It is likely obvious, but as I know that some people are searching for this information, creating administrative users in this way can be done very easily from remote command lines such as ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, MeshCentral, and so forth.

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2019 Need to Download and Run without AV Deleting Files: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/07/how-to-disable-and-configure-windows-defender-on-windows-server-2016-using-powershell/ For now, just temporary disable Real-Time Protection via PowerShell Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true Download the executable and scan it manually before you install Start-MpScan -ScanPath C:\datastore\file.exe -ScanType QuickScan Enable Real-Time Protection after the install Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $false Excellent, now THAT did it.

Worth noting that using rsync worked very well, but there were issues with the Outlook profile on the existing user workstation and the end result. Not a huge issue for us as everything is stored in O365, but worth being mindful of if your email was hosted locally. Also because of username convention changes, I had to set the ownership of the user profile to match the new shortened name.

@pmoncho said in Get Windows Version from Command Line: No doubt. Currently working on getting Server 2019 DC, DHCP, and RDS working in a lab. A few challenges so far. Was going to try using PS to do many tasks I normally do in GUI (force myself to learn as I go) but decided to put it on the back burner due to frustration. I will get there with PS but it has to wait. Unfortunately, no matter how much we want to complain about PS and how Windows has no production-level roadmap at this point and is getting worse by the day, if you are going to run Windows today, PS is how it is done. Issues with PS have only one valid purpose to discuss - to use to explain to management why Windows shouldn't be getting deployed in production workloads, or why risks with it need to be accepted. It's like the licensing issues with Windows, these things all add up to cost and risk and risk is really just cost. It's part of the "decision numbers." Beyond that, it is what it is. If the business actually knows how costly it is and still chooses it, then PS is how you manage it. If you deploy and start without using PS, it'll be that much harder to switch later. I know the learning curve is absurd and the whole thing is so much harder than it has any purpose being, but I would bite the bullet if at all possible and learn it now. It'll just be harder later.

Topic has been forked, please keep discussions of OS comparisons to a different thread.

I can't think of a way aside from cron every X seconds. I'd dump it into a csv file with just the timestamp and the number of calls. E.g. #!/bin/sh if [ ! -f /var/log/activecalls.csv ]; then echo "Timestamp,Calls" > /var/log/activecalls.csv fi DateTime=`date "+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"` echo -ne "\n$DateTime," >> /var/log/activecalls.csv asterisk -x 'core show channels' | grep 'active calls' | cut -d " " -f1 Which SHOULD create a nice csv for you...

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Power Saving Settings: @black3dynamite said in OSX Power Saving Settings: Does that also prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed? The lid closed is powernap

So with further testing, a restart is required if the user is using their system, otherwise they'll continue to get the notifications.

@bnrstnr said in Upgrading Nextcloud via CLI: @JaredBusch said in Upgrading Nextcloud via CLI: If you change the entire folder to HTTPD_RW it will work without disabling things. Ah yeah, probably this. SELinux is a complete mystery to me ls -lashZ /var/www/html Will show you the context on your Nextcloud folder. Technically, just the Z is for the context

You might look at the tools that Apple is pushing (and thus supporting). I don't know if Munki will fit your requirements, but it may. Here is a list of several projects for managing macOS: https://simplemdm.com/2018/07/19/popular-open-source-tools-for-mac-admins/. NoMAD is pretty cool if you're in a Windows-centric environment.

Via the ActiveDir list: https://github.com/CarlWebster There are some amazing scripts in there for ADDS but also for XenApp, NetScaler, Citrix, and others. Site: https://carlwebster.com/downloads/download-info/active-directory-2/

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@ramblingbiped said in Check battery status in Linux: I recommend this: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery Will have to give it a look. Thanks

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Find command: @dustinb3403 said in Linux Find command: Hrm. . . One more thing, would it be possible to print the last access date to this some how? Possible, yes. Easy. No since the find command never shows that. Would there be a better approach? I'm trying to create a list of things to make people clean up their crap, and I can show them "hey this hasn't been access in X years. . . delete it or I will"

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