General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[Fuxed]

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43513118]Because Arch has been the butt of many broken system jokes because some users here just has piss-poor luck with it.[/QUOTE]

Weird, guessing I've had stellar luck with it then. It's the only distro I've found with out of the box support for my NIC (Atheros e091) and WiFi and so long as you don't blindly let Pacman replace system components, it's all good. Biggest problem I've found is the lack of official support for Intel's Parallel Studio XE.

Speaking of, has anyone used the package for it on the AUR? I'm a bit wary of redownloading 3.2 gigs only to find out it's a dodgy hackjob.

[TheCreeper]

The past month I've being experiencing a huge amount of traffic on my VPS that has being eating up my bandwidth. I have no idea where it has come from and it just appeared out of nowhere. Some days I would find 50GB consumed and on other days I would see over a hundred gigabytes consumed. A few days ago my entire bandwidth allocation of 800GB was consumed in just 1.5 days.

There is only incoming traffic and barely any outgoing traffic. I found that if I change the DNS entries for the domains that are pointing to the server to point away from it that the traffic would disappear.

The server has being running perfectly fine for a year with very little change and nothing had changed before the mysterious traffic appeared. I dont know what is going on.

Help me.

[Anderen2]

[QUOTE=TheCreeper;43523834]The past month I've being experiencing a huge amount of traffic on my VPS that has being eating up my bandwidth. I have no idea where it has come from and it just appeared out of nowhere. Some days I would find 50GB consumed and on other days I would see over a hundred gigabytes consumed. A few days ago my entire bandwidth allocation of 800GB was consumed in just 1.5 days.

There is only incoming traffic and barely any outgoing traffic. I found that if I change the DNS entries for the domains that are pointing to the server to point away from it that the traffic would disappear.

The server has being running perfectly fine for a year with very little change and nothing had changed before the mysterious traffic appeared. I dont know what is going on.

Help me.[/QUOTE]

Try checking "iptraf" and "nethogs" to find out where the traffic is coming from, and which process that is generating it.

[shodan]

Once you've generated a list of ip's that are generating that traffic give them to me.
I'll check and see if I can figure out who/what is behind it.

Also did you piss anyone off? and what services are you hosting?

[josm]

Finally got Linux working, guys. I had to fuck around with the BIOS a little bit.

I guess it was because I had something turned off I shouldn't have? I don't know.

[lavacano]

I got tired of Steam trying to run apt-get despite detecting that I'm on Gentoo.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

print("This isn't *really* apt-get.\n\nIt's just that many programs (e.g. Steam) insist on doing things the Debian/Ubuntu way despite detecting that it's on a different distro.")

from sys import argv
from os import remove, rename

# open the status file and read into memory
dpkgstatusfile = open("/var/lib/dpkg/status", "r")
dpkgstatus = dpkgstatusfile.read(None)
dpkgstatusfile.close()

# and the same with available
dpkgavailfile = open("/var/lib/dpkg/available", "r")
dpkgavail = dpkgavailfile.read(None)
dpkgavailfile.close()

for item in argv: # This is gonna look funny
    if not item == "install" and not item == argv[0]:
        strbuffer = """Package: {package}
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 56
Maintainer: Dummy Information <root@localhost>
Architecture: i386
Source: {package}
Version: 9999
Size: 56
Description: {package} installation provided by a dummy apt-get
 This is not really a Debian system. It's just that some programs (e.g. Steam)
 insist on using Debian/Ubuntu methods for detecting installed packages, even
 though they detect that they are not on their "home turf", so to speak.
Homepage: http://www.google.com
\n""".format(package=item) # PHEW
    
        dpkgavail += strbuffer

        # And again, with status.
        strbuffer = """Package: {package}
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 56
Maintainer: Dummy Information <root@localhost>
Architecture: i386
Version: 9999
Description: {package} installation provided by a dummy apt-get
 This is not really a Debian system. It's just that some programs (e.g. Steam)
 insist on using Debian/Ubuntu methods for detecting installed packages, even
 though they detect that they are not on their "home turf", so to speak.
Homepage: http://www.google.com
\n""".format(package=item)
        
        dpkgstatus += strbuffer

dpkgstatusnewfile = open("/var/lib/dpkg/status.new", "w")
dpkgstatusnewfile.write(dpkgstatus)
dpkgstatusnewfile.close()

remove("/var/lib/dpkg/status")
rename("/var/lib/dpkg/status.new", "/var/lib/dpkg/status")

dpkgavailnewfile = open("/var/lib/dpkg/available.new", "w")
dpkgavailnewfile.write(dpkgavail)
dpkgavailnewfile.close()

remove("/var/lib/dpkg/available")
rename("/var/lib/dpkg/available.new", "/var/lib/dpkg/available")

That oughta fix its ass.

[editline]13th January 2014[/editline]

also lol cloudflare thought i was a bot because of that

[nikomo]

I'm testing Enlightenment right now.
I think I'm in love.

My laptop will eat shit, and hard, with GNOME3, as far as responsiveness goes, but Enlightenment is every bit as functional, but it somehow uses ten times less resources than GNOME3, Unity or KDE.

It's more of a compositing window manager, rather than a desktop environment, which is actually really awesome.

[Genericenemy]

Is it me or does Linux Mint have better colour and black levels? Things look really washed out on Windows in comparison.

[nikomo]

E17 is the shit, and you guys need to test it out.

[Darkwater]

xpost from programming waywo since it's bash

I made a quick and dirty irc bot in bash to see if that's viable

[IMG]http://novaember.com/s/071476261.png[/IMG]

..maybe if you're a good bash programmer and can make a proper system to handle commands and such

reason why I made a screenshot is because cloudflare is sending me to an empty page when posting large snippets of code, does it do that for anyone else?

[josm]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43534489]xpost from programming waywo since it's bash

I made a quick and dirty irc bot in bash to see if that's viable

[IMG]http://novaember.com/s/071476261.png[/IMG]

..maybe if you're a good bash programmer and can make a proper system to handle commands and such

reason why I made a screenshot is because cloudflare is sending me to an empty page when posting large snippets of code, does it do that for anyone else?[/QUOTE]

Bit off-topic, but, is that Liberations sans? or another font?

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43534489]xpost from programming waywo since it's bash

I made a quick and dirty irc bot in bash to see if that's viable

[IMG]http://novaember.com/s/071476261.png[/IMG]

..maybe if you're a good bash programmer and can make a proper system to handle commands and such

reason why I made a screenshot is because cloudflare is sending me to an empty page when posting large snippets of code, does it do that for anyone else?[/QUOTE]

Can I have your weechat config?

Or all of your awesome dotfiles

[editline]14th January 2014[/editline]

What IRC channels do you guys go to?
I tend to go to #/g/SICP and #/g/spam on rizon.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43534764]What IRC channels do you guys go to?
I tend to go to #/g/SICP and #/g/spam on rizon.[/QUOTE]

I'm in the CIPWTTKT IRC, also #dashnet, # and an old clan channel on Gamesurge (as lavacano201014), #bonghit, #omg and #startrek on EFnet (as Lavacano), and #gentoo and #gentoo-chat primarily on Freenode (as jerichowasahoax)

[larikang]

I like the idea of IRC but I can never remember the various commands and servers and such. Hell, I can't even remember what IRC client I have installed.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Larikang;43537889]I like the idea of IRC but I can never remember the various commands and servers and such. Hell, I can't even remember what IRC client I have installed.[/QUOTE]

That's why I use ChatZilla, a firefox addon. Keeps things simple and easy.

[Ixmucane]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43533900]E17 is the shit, and you guys need to test it out.[/QUOTE]

Just did. It froze on me and had to reboot. Plus I can't seem to enable only one monitor instead of using both.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43534489]xpost from programming waywo since it's bash

I made a quick and dirty irc bot in bash to see if that's viable

[IMG]http://novaember.com/s/071476261.png[/IMG]

..maybe if you're a good bash programmer and can make a proper system to handle commands and such

reason why I made a screenshot is because cloudflare is sending me to an empty page when posting large snippets of code, does it do that for anyone else?[/QUOTE]

What colour scheme is that?

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=nehkz;43534638]Bit off-topic, but, is that Liberations sans? or another font?[/QUOTE]

Droid Sans Mono

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43534764]Can I have your weechat config?

Or all of your awesome dotfiles
[/QUOTE]

It's actually irssi, and my dotfiles are [url=http://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles]here[/url].

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43534764]What IRC channels do you guys go to?
I tend to go to #/g/SICP and #/g/spam on rizon.[/QUOTE]

#novaember on Freenode (my own channel) and #love and #starbound on OFTC, so nothing Facepunch-related.

[QUOTE=Jookia;43538279]What colour scheme is that?[/QUOTE]

Tomorrow Night

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43533900]E17 is the shit, and you guys need to test it out.[/QUOTE]

E18's out, go use that. And E19 has been being worked on since E17's release. :v:
They've redone the entire compositor recently, in fact.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43548631]E18's out, go use that. And E19 has been being worked on since E17's release. :v:
They've redone the entire compositor recently, in fact.[/QUOTE]

... I need to check package version, I'm just running whatever is available in Fedora's repos.
I switched away from Debian since they were taking too long to admit they're stupid and go with systemd already.

I'm considering checking out OpenSUSE though.

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43549357]... I need to check package version, I'm just running whatever is available in Fedora's repos.
I switched away from Debian since they were taking too long to admit they're stupid and go with systemd already.

I'm considering checking out OpenSUSE though.[/QUOTE]
I'd also recommend checking out Terminology, which is a terminal emulator using the same technology that powers E. It's awesome.

[nikomo]

I just watched [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjenQ31b70"]this[/url] video about SELinux, and now I have the hardest boner ever.

Also, I just realized how fucking funny it would be to fuck up the SELinux context for /etc/shadow on someone's system, and then reboot it, so the system can't actually read the password file, so you can't log in.

[Dilbert]

Decided to dabble with Linux again. As usual I chose Mint as it suits my needs perfectly. I like some of the features Linux provides but I'm not picky about what's installed and what isn't.

I find that with each installation I appreciate Linux a bit more.

[diwako]

Currently still running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (cannot wait for semester break for a newer install) and have AMD drivers v13.10.10 running. The latest once are currently 13.12. Should I update them with the update manage once that gets pushed or should i just download it and install it.
This pc here is just a laptop and not really a gaming rig, but if there is an update it is always itching me to upgrade as fast as possible.

[nikomo]

If you're not playing games on the laptop, you'd be better off upgrading the kernel and using the open-source drivers.

[Dilbert]

[QUOTE=diwako;43560470]Currently still running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (cannot wait for semester break for a newer install) and have AMD drivers v13.10.10 running. The latest once are currently 13.12. Should I update them with the update manage once that gets pushed or should i just download it and install it.
This pc here is just a laptop and not really a gaming rig, but if there is an update it is always itching me to upgrade as fast as possible.[/QUOTE]

I actually had problems using the 13.12 drivers on Linux Mint due to some problem with "DKMS". 13.11 beta runs quite fine though.

[ipha]

I tried out the new memory reclocking in nouveau.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/9N05Hyf.jpg[/img]

And no, my desktop is not normally Starry Night.

[stringy]

[QUOTE=IpHa;43564572]I tried out the new memory reclocking in nouveau.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/9N05Hyf.jpg[/img]

And no, my desktop is not normally Starry Night.[/QUOTE]

"It's a feature!"

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=IpHa;43564572]I tried out the new memory reclocking in nouveau.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/9N05Hyf.jpg[/img]

And no, my desktop is not normally Starry Night.[/QUOTE]

For a moment, I thought this was one of those whacky xscreensaver screensavers.

[vlad]

[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/PYA5jg.png[/IMG]

never seen this before. tried to format the USB pen 3 times, same settings, no dice. tried downloading a new .iso, still not working.

the settings I've used

[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/DJTxz1.png[/IMG]