@black3dynamite was it stated that LDAP Bind for all users are required?

@Pete-S said in MariaDB Package Issues While Updating from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8:

But nobody in their right mind...

...uses LTS releases. So we have to accept we are working from a crippled situation anytime that this comes up. It means we are already dealing with politics over function. So knowing that, it should explain why we have to deal with what we have to deal with. Would have been super fast to do a fresh install.

But you'd not do a fresh install of CentOS 8 or Streams if it wasn't for politics. We'd be putting in Fedora, Ubuntu, or OpenSuse. So not getting to do a fresh install is just one artefact of many when doing what's best for the application platform isn't what drives decision making.

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

you're saying that they can't ever be wrong in their releases?

No, I'm saying that whether right or wrong is irrelevant. That it happened is what matters. Deciding if it happened accidentally or on purpose is a different discussion. Things that happen on accident doesn't make them not have happened.

Like teen pregnancy....

LOL, exactly.

Last commit on this package was from before the OP. Seems like this died on the vine, sadly.

I'm guessing the sort by date is an error that has crept in (like the overlapping printer issue they had for over 3 years).

I've noticed it shorts by date for the last several months or more... in my case it has worked out, but I can see where others wouldn't want it.

@siringo said in Sell the business??:

Thanks everyone for the input, it has helped with a few things.

There is documentation to hand over, it does need some updating which is what I'm doing.

Let's forget selling the business, I've thought more about this and realise it is something that won't happen.

Wondering what others think of this? How much responsibility should the client take / should have taken, for them not to have ended up in this situation?

it's completely on them. They choose their IT support.

@travisdh1 said in Run ls as another user?:

@Pete-S said in Run ls as another user?:

@travisdh1 said in Run ls as apache user?:

@Pete-S said in Run ls as another user?:

What's the easiest way to run ls as the apache user (which you can't login as)?

su -u apache ls

Did you mean sudo or su?

Because you can't do su apache . You get "This account is currently not available.".

I know the -u apache is needed to run a command as a user from su or sudo. I'm thinking the issue might be with the apache account being set to nologin in /etc/passwd. Just be sure to change the shell entry in passwd back when you finish up.

-u is the user for either, but sudo is a loginless command and su uses login. To use su like you are thinking, you also need -c to make it a single command. Both will work, but only sudo will work for a non-login user like this without the -c

@Pete-S thanks for pointing this out, it does look good, I'd like to test it out.
I'm suspecting that since it's a file copy operation from Windows, there'll be nothing like auto-reconnect, retry on reconnect etc etc?

@scottalanmiller said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@dbeato said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@scottalanmiller Yeah, Our team, when working from home, likes to RDP into their PCs at the office. They use either traditional VPN, or Zerotier. Some of them claim to have issues with Zerotier, claiming it is "slow" for them. I never use traditional VPN anymore and I only use Zerotier if I have to RDP to anything at the office. I never experience slowness of any kind with Zerotier.

Yeah, change is "hard" 🙂

🙂 Zerotier is was such a game changer for us. Remember the old MPLS / pay a fortune days? DO NOT miss those.

I've never had to deal with that. We had better options than MPLS before MPLS hit the market. Even by 2000 we had ways to handle that stuff well without MPLS.

Yeah I only dealt with MPLS in a larger global company I worked for previously. They spend SOOO much money on AT&T managed WAN connections. Like insane amounts of money.

I concur, Zabbix is great for this, then.

@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:

@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:

OK, I understand. Thanks.

Also, I wasn't trying to be abrasive. I kind of worded that strongly. I just don't like Bash much. I find it annoying, so I'd rather use something else unless it's a really simple thing.

No problem. Bash is primitive for sure. Pick the right tool for the job I guess.

@Dashrender said in Cannot install Windows updates Help Please!:

This has been the biggest hold for me getting anything newer than 1909 on many devices - that said, I just don't get the option to install anything newer through Windows Updates

I've seen that, too.

@scottalanmiller that is edgeos syntax.

I got it figured out... I fat finger the MAC - working great now 🙂

https://pisignage.com/homepage/index.html

Just found this too.

@Dashrender said in VPN hardware suggestions.:

I'm curious - how is that an HR problem?

Employee didn't complete assigned duties.

@bishnitro said in Defective Laptop - how to get browsers bookmarks:

How to get Edge, chrome and firefox bookmarks from defective laptop? Is it possible to extract it from the SSD w/out booting the Windows 10 since the laptop is defective?

Yes.
Like @DustinB3403 I'd pull the drive out, and put it in an adapter/caddy.
Then can copy the user profile/specific folders & files elsewhere.

Be sure to encourage the user to back up their stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in How can I check what Nextcloud user is active:

That's a lot of updates over the years!

And now upgrading to 20.0.7. Still the original installed CentOS 7 base system.
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