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@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller Link please?

https://xkcd.com/936/

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

it's barley 8:30 in the morning and I'm already fed up with today.

It's getting better every minute, because it's one minute closer to quitting time!

ha yeah, fair enough, but Im just ready to be home.

If you got the sick time -- burn it, that's what I do, lol... I just call it a mental health day.

Edit: Seriously get to feeling better / happier.

Oh i feel fine. Just dont want to be here today. I've already burned my sick time i think.

Maybe its time to look for other work.

If you don't wake up wanting to be there, then why are you there?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm working on writing some scripts to setup new printers on apple devices using ARD and Unix commands.

Not sure how this is going to work but I think it should, assuming I can use scp to copy the driver to the target, mount the installer and then install it all remotely.

Couldn't you use CUPS?

No, because these are managed printers and the drivers and very specific functionality is required for them.

Plus I don't want to go and play with CUPS when I could have 170 angry people yelling at me all at the same time.

FTFY

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm working on writing some scripts to setup new printers on apple devices using ARD and Unix commands.

Not sure how this is going to work but I think it should, assuming I can use scp to copy the driver to the target, mount the installer and then install it all remotely.

Couldn't you use CUPS?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking for a large, wall-mountable, lockable, metal box. Kind of like a parcel mail box, but not really a mail box.

Do you need racking capabilities in this box? Or literally a parcel box?

Racking isn't needed, just a metal box that locks.

But, incidentally, you did give me an idea of using a wall-mount network rack to solve the same problem. Does the same thing for a lot cheaper.

EDIT: Something like this should work just fine for the problem I'm trying to solve.

Looking for a large, wall-mountable, lockable, metal box. Kind of like a parcel mail box, but not really a mail box.

I say wait until MangoCon and just see what everybody is carrying.

On a more serious note, company bought some bags and branded them. Its a Leeds Elleven, similar to one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009AGGSFQ/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_gOWDCb5MRBSDM

Texas lawmakers have tried to end daylight saving time for years. Can they do it this session?

State lawmakers are again trying to abolish daylight saving time in Texas, arguing it's antiquated. But supporters of the practice argue it gives Texans a crucial extra hour of light in the evenings during the summer months.

“That messes up my whole Sunday,” he told the Morning News leading up to the House vote. “I don’t want to miss church, and I don’t want to miss the Cowboys. So what am I supposed to do?”

GET A FREAKIN DVR AND RECORD THE GAME LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!!

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@NerdyDad said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

You can use CUPS Command Line
https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd

Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread?

I did not see your other thread but let me check.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/18748/chromebox-for-clerks-and-data-entry/54

@NerdyDad said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

You can use CUPS Command Line
https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd

Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread?

Printer config files are stored in /etc/cups/printer.config

So...would it be possible to inject the config and then restart the cups daemon?

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

You can use CUPS Command Line
https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd

Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread?

Everybody probably knows how to install a printer on Windows. How does one install a printer on Fedora 29 Linux? What are the packages and dependencies required?

I would prefer to do this in one of 3 ways:

1. SaltStack deployment from Salt-Master to salt-minion.
2. In bash
3. Via GUI

in that order of preference.

I can't get away from printers, so I need to automate it for certain people to get certain printers. Shipping people gets shipping printers, HR people gets HR printers, Accounting people gets accounting printers...you get the drift. I want to automate it with Salt states, put the printer commands in the salt state and then apply the salt state to the minion. If I can't d it in salt, then script it and execute the script with salt and Salt SSH. Otherwise, I would need to do it by hand.

Example device would be a Xerox C60-70.

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

You can rename the files obviously, but you can't import them if you change the name it seems.

actually...maybe I cant import because it's already listed.

Copy it and change the name, then reload Remmina. You'll now see a copy of the same thing. Go back and delete the original in the file system and reload Remmina again. Original disappears.

Tells me that one should be able to simply dump the connection configs on the minions, tighten down the permission to read only for the user and let them operate.

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@NerdyDad said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

Was working on this and working in state files (SLS). I can remotely install Remmina on the minions, but is it possible to configure the RDP configurations within remmina? For example, some needs RDP to the ERP system, while others may need RDP to one-off servers once in a while. Is there a way for me to configure these RDP connections within the sls file?

You should be able to supply a config file into the reminna directory, yes.

@travisdh1 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@NerdyDad said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

Was working on this and working in state files (SLS). I can remotely install Remmina on the minions, but is it possible to configure the RDP configurations within remmina? For example, some needs RDP to the ERP system, while others may need RDP to one-off servers once in a while. Is there a way for me to configure these RDP connections within the sls file?

You can push files to minions, so save the config, and have that pushed out to the minions. Getting it in the right place is the hardest part.

According to Remmina's FAQ here, they store their configs in different places. Remmina's main configuration files are stored in $HOME/.config/remmina/ as remmina.pref. Connections are stored individually under $HOME/.local/share/remmina as XXXXXXXXXXXXX.remmina. If I can rename these files to be more SysAdmin friendly, then it would be easy to know who gets what connection.

After that, it is just a matter of setting up a local file server for IT to serve out config files and other stuff.

Was working on this and working in state files (SLS). I can remotely install Remmina on the minions, but is it possible to configure the RDP configurations within remmina? For example, some needs RDP to the ERP system, while others may need RDP to one-off servers once in a while. Is there a way for me to configure these RDP connections within the sls file?

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@NerdyDad

Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!

Not this one.

Samsung Galaxy S10 was released yesterday.

Youtube Video

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well that's not good....

Regarding the following subscriptions: 
xxxxxx.x.x.x.x.x.x  in New Jersey

Hello,

Our engineering team is continuing to investigate a node failure that is affecting the listed instance. We have attempted extensive recovery efforts to restore your cloud server to normal operations and have determined additional time and resources will be required with no certainty of a positive outcome. You may deploy a backup or snapshot on a new instance to restore service.

If you have any questions, please contact our support team at https://my.vultr.com/support/

Regards,

Vultr Support Team

In other words, its broke and we don't know how to fix it. Its best if you just restore from backups.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

while waiting for calls to come in i've been writing out my expenses/income for the last couple days trying my hand at budgeting.

Adulting sucks

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on Salt. Just installed vim on a minion from the master. Now have to learn how to uninstall vim.

The first rule of vim, never uninstall vim.

Only a true fan of vim would say something like that. Just trying to find something harmless that I can remotely install on minions for training. Probably should have done nano instead.