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It turns out that the directions actually left out steps. For anyone reading this thread, the step is after removing the offending drive by failing it first with:

# mdadm /dev/md0 --fail...

Hello,

I have a failed raid array that is mismatched in size of the entire hard drives. The portions that are shared are, of course, the same. The smaller drive failed. Here is the working drive...

I running Linux Mint Debian Edition tracking testing and have started a cron job that will send something to the root mailbox. Mint has heirloom and exim4 installed. However, mail was getting...

Haven't had a chance to sit down with it yet, but I'm eager to do so, because I have it conceptually in my head, but am looking at it from every angle I can so I can really "get it."

Thanks,...

I do appreciate your following up on this.

I have learned a lot since the original post. There still are gaps, however.

#1 above prevents a person from just putting 127.0.0.1:8118 into their...

Hello,

I'm having problem with an iptables rule. It seems that on one of two systems on the nat table, the INPUT chain doesn't exist for some strange reason.

I get the error below:


#...

I had read the man pages. I always try to glean what I can out of them and other documentation and googling first. If you will notice my question, I was getting what seemed like odd behaviour. I also...

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I have implimented a dansguardian system using dansguardian and privoxy. I borrowed a script from Ubuntu CE that makes it where a firewall program like firehol is not needed and it doesn't...

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Is there some type of functional way to read things in the Python shell interpreter similar to less or more in the bash (and other) command line shells?

Example:
>>> import subprocess...

Thanks. I thought it likely had to do with the fact the int, str, etc are immutable, but lists, dictionaries are mutable. This clarifies that thinking.

As far as the last comment, HAHA!!! I'm just...

Hi,

I'm a great scripter, but just learning programming (using Python).

I'm very much a newbie at this, so please be patient as I'm sure these will seem so basic a questions and may seem stupid...

IC, didn't know that. Thanks. I've never seen something use that much CPU. Don't know what it was doing, but whatever it was, it was literally toasting my system.

Narnie

Thank you so much for this info.

I'll look into disabling lm_sensors (either uninstall or modprobe -r coretemp). Crossing my fingers.

Is there any way to monitor temps without taking control of...

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965. My hardware is as attached via the Hardinfo report in pdf format.

Here is the most recent kernel error. It never says it is shutting down. It just...

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I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Edition on my family's 4 netbooks. Sadly (and a big mistake in my opinion?), I can't add a temp monitoring applet to my panel, but that's not really the point. I...

Attached (at the bottom) is a script I wrote to install extensions for all users.

Save the script (or just untarball the attachment) to a file (I called it add_firefox_extensions).

Place it in...

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I am trying to make script to parse the install.rdf files found in firefox xpi extentions to isolate the extention ID so I can name a directory and automate installation of system-wide...

Thanks,

This looks like just what I'm looking for.

:)

Narnie

Hello,

I am wondering the "new way" to install firefox extensions for all users.

From https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Command_Line_Options we can see that the "old way" is no longer available....

OK, I'll give that a shot.

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I'm trying to put puppy linux 4.2.1 (I can't use the latest because it won't boot on my hardware) on a grub2'd usb drive.

It throws the error that it can't find pup_421.sfs

Here is my...

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I'm having a problem with xbindkeys giving the wrong mapping information, hence I can't get it work at all when trying new mappings from this machine.

From another computer, I have some...

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I'm trying to get a multi-boot setup going for a USB.

I have different vfat-32 partitions I have copied ISOs of several linux distros.

The first one I installed using unetbootin,...

Hello,

I have an 8gb usb flash drive that I had high aspirations of using for a recovery/install/messing around multipurpose drive.

fdisk shows:

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for...

Nice, never knew of that command.

Thanks.

Loving to learn,
Narnie

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Cool, so if I wanted to...