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Installing variety wallpaper changer on Fedora 25

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The rpm-sphere rpm doesn’t work for me. First install some packages, you may need more, these worked for me: dnf install libindicator-gtk3 libdbusmenu-gtk3 libappindicator-gtk3 python-appindicator \ webkitgtk3 intltool Then create a python virtualenv & activate it. mkvirtualenv –system-site-packages -p $(which python2) utils Download the variety & python-distutils-extra tarballs & untar. Install both packages into your …

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nrpe systemd socket activation

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If you’re using nrpe socket activation and don’t have a template file, try this in /etc/systemd/system/nrpe@.service : [Unit] Description=nrpe socket service Requires=nrpe.socket [Service] User=nrpe ExecStart=-/usr/bin/nrpe -c /etc/nrpe/nrpe.cfg –inetd StandardInput=socket StandardOutput=inherit StandardError=journal [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target You’ll also need /etc/systemd/system/nrpe.socket : [Unit] Description=Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Documentation=http://www.nagios.org/documentation Before=nrpe.service Conflicts=nrpe.service [Socket] ListenStream=5666 Accept=yes [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target Then systemctl start nrpe.socket

emacs tip of the week #7: local chord shortcuts

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I like chord-mode to avoid emacs pinkie. If you want to bind say a quick double I to indent in python mode (and double U to unindent), do this: (add-hook ‘python-mode-hook ‘(lambda ()                    (key-chord-define-local “II” ‘python-indent-shift-right)                    (key-chord-define-local “UU” ‘python-indent-shift-left)))  

Getting a lot of spam from .tk domains – kill it with spamassassin

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Seems they are cheap to set up, spammers set up domainkeys / SPF too! Here’s a spamassassin rule (don’t use it if you get valid mail from .tk): header      NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  From   =~ /@[a-z0-9\-\.]+\.(tk)/i describe    NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  From address is from a naughty TLD (eg .tk) score       NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  2.8 UPDATE: Looks like the spammers get a free …

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