@gotwf Nope, been using Debian since the mid 90's, only really appreciating it in the last 10 years. rarely
have I been disappointed. Usually my error, or hubris. I use it for small smb's and served me very well. as the saying
goes "Debian, been very good to me" ( said with an accent for affect)

Greetings, Is there a simple way to write a batch file that is elevated, so that a service can be shutdown ?
What I am is doing is using robocopy to copy a database to a linux box. To shutdown the database , I need the elevated level to shutdown the database service. I can do it manually, however, the objective is to have it done daily in task scheduler.

To confirm the change to "run as system" , it worked well. Had to utilize the 'net use' for user /permissions. I see there is a thread about automating that. Will investigate.
thanks everybody

What are folks using to recover a deleted/corrupted partition these days.
I haven't had to do this in a number of years, at that time 'test disk' was my go to utility.

Running a Zimbra server, and came across this today. 2 fqdn and 1 ip (ptr lookup).

Is there a simple way of avoiding the rejection of the email ?

ip in questions is 198.160.191.6 ( sending server)

and the pandemonium..is the sending server.

@DustinB3403 some folks claim jdupes is faster, I have used both, and did not much of a difference.
Both work well.

Does anybody know of a simple utility to convert .cgm files into something more common, less proprietary ?

I have been coerced into the 'seo' arena. I have read Scott's post and associated threads. Very informative. The 'net has
so much on the subject, and a lot of 'snake oil', I am wondering if anybody knows of a good primer I could utilize/follow to get started. Also, google analytics, necessary, optional, ....... thanks kindly

struggling with renaming 35k files. they all have a '~' at the end of the name, ie. blahblah.xls~, blahblah.docx~, etc.

I thought rename would do the job, but I have something incorrect with the syntax, or I don't know what I am doing.
The files are in many sub directories, all differing in depth. I tried the following, any suggestions ?

find . -iname ".~" | rename -n 's/.~$//' . mmm

weird, the window wasn't showing the last part of the command, so I added the 'm', so the '.' would show up ignore the m's

but no action. sigh

Where does one get raid controller batteries , at a modest price. I see that I can get a new one for ~150.00

I am thinking $10 -15 is more reasonable. It is for an older controller, LSI 9750, however, it is doing its job and I expect
it to work another year or two or three.

I did notice that in the article on slashdot, so I suspect it is ready for "prime time"

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/04/03/0450256/almalinux-released-as-a-stable-rhel-clone-for-those-who-liked-centos?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

claims it is ready for production use.

@gotwf Nope, been using Debian since the mid 90's, only really appreciating it in the last 10 years. rarely
have I been disappointed. Usually my error, or hubris. I use it for small smb's and served me very well. as the saying
goes "Debian, been very good to me" ( said with an accent for affect)

Is everyone seeing shortages of the ryzen 5 3400G cpu's ? Up here ( north of the 49th), there hasn't been any stock
in months. Curious if anyone has any insight on the supply chain.

I have forgotten what terminal emulation to use for this situation. I am trying to run lsblk on a proxmox host,
I can make out what the results are, however in a remote ssh session some of the characters are ???????

I don't remember, but there is one emulation that will display properly.

lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part
└─sda3 8:3 0 1.8T 0 part
├─pve-swap 253:5 0 7G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-root 253:6 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-data_tmeta 253:7 0 15.8G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 253:9 0 1.7T 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data 253:10 0 1.7T 0 lvm
└─pve-data_tdata 253:8 0 1.7T 0 lvm
└─pve-data-tpool 253:9 0 1.7T 0 lvm
└─pve-data 253:10 0 1.7T 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 0 5.5T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 5.5T 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 3.7T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 3.7T 0 part
└─data2-vm--101--disk--0 253:0 0 210G 0 lvm
sdd 8:48 0 3.7T 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 3.7T 0 part

I use cifs, as I have a samba server with loads of space, just another option.

@scottalanmiller no, the end of the open source, specifically the GUI (web mail) for users.

thanks for your comments, now I have to go and re-arrange my prejudices ;)

@scottalanmiller so basically, it has turned into a trust issue, based upon their previous behaviour. I am trying to
decide which distribution to use, as I need to build a new zimbra server( yes, I am aware of Zimbra's announcement going forward), I have almost 2 years to come up with a solution, but in the meantime..... I have an aversion to Ubuntu, but that is
based upon an experience I had a few years ago. I do like Debian, as for most of my deployments, I don't need 'bleeding edge". Any Suggestions ?

@scottalanmiller Does Red Hat's announcement of Feb. 1/2021 change anybodies opinion ?

the next thought is a faulty miniSAS SFF-8087 to 4x SATA cable but why would the WD gold drive work ?