Best posts made by pattonb

@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.

@scottalanmiller I thought so, i thought I would add that bit about the controller. I couldn't find
any firmware available at all on the wd site. the new drive shows a date of 01 Nov. 2020
I have another lsi 9750 4i , so I may put that in another pc and see if I get the same result.

@Pete-S as mentioned earlier in this thread, attached to a windows pc, and performs as one would expect.
even ran some of Western Digital's tools (data life guard) on the drive, no issues.

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.

@JaredBusch , that is my suspicion, users these days click on "whatever" to get past screens they don't understand. although, in saying that, there is may on line reports of a bitlocker being deployed, but again, those are online accounts. so, somewhat suspect for accuracy.

@IRJ sadly, have my "attachments" and a couple of my old keyboards fall into that category, they have worked for "oh so many years" and just keep on working, thus
my attachments.

I am scratching my head on this one. I have added a dmarc record for a domain, but the query does not display the p value. I am at a loss for why.

the zone file

_dmarc.decca-design.com. IN TXT v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected];

and the query

dig _dmarc.decca-design.com TXT

; *<<>> DiG 9.16.44-Debian <<>> _dmarc.decca-design.com TXT
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 586
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_dmarc.decca-design.com. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_dmarc.decca-design.com. 600 IN TXT "v=DMARC1"

;; Query time: 55 msec
;; SERVER: 75.153.171.67#53(75.153.171.67)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 19 20:51:00 MST 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 73*

any idea why no "p" value ?

thank you

I have figured it out , need the double quotation marks around the values, sigh
ie. "v=DMARC1 p=none"

In cleaning up, I came across these stickers. They are from the mid 90's, when we were introducing
linux file servers to our smaller clients. A client ( a printer) made up a whack of these, I must have a hundred or more sheets. If anybody wants some, I would mail them to you. When I saw them again, I chortled. If this post is out of line, my apologies