Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
do what it sets on to do. I tried gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal and terminator with the same observations as above. -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
much) Regards, Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > I just want to add that every reasonable shell lets you clear the screen > while preserving the scrollback buffer, simply press Control-L. Thank you! I had completely forgotten the form feed! -- Avinash Sonaw

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-20 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera <ldigh...@att.net> wrote: > Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got exactly same behavior with `tput clear`. --

[Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-20 Thread Avinash Sonawane
d to. Here are the screenshots https://imgur.com/a/aPD4F Please observe the scrollbar. xfce4 -terminal version 0.8.3 Any pointers? Ps - While replying please keep me in loop as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com

xscreensaver sonar : sonar must be setuid to ping

2017-03-11 Thread Avinash Sonawane
xscreensaver by locking the screen it still says "sonar must be setuid to ping" but interestingly when I execute it directly as $ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar it works as expected showing the machines in LAN. How can I make the sonar work when I lock the screen through xscreensaver? -

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
ry 'firefox-aurora/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)" The relevant part from sources.list: #firefox developer edition deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aurora deb-src http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aur

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
fox-aurora/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)" The relevant part from sources.list: #firefox developer edition deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aurora deb-src http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aurora Regards, A

sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
/ But still `$ sudo apt-get update` produces above error. And it's really an inconvenience for me to become root user to do apt thing. So why `sudo` not respecting `/etc/sudoers` ? Am I missing something? Thank you. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : No. Sorry for not being so clear. When I say `$ env` (i.e. as normal Do not worry, everyone forgets to check basic things from time to time. user) it doesn't

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Juha Heinanen j...@tutpro.com wrote: %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL What does this line do? NOPASSWD? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

/etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
/environment -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 May 2 17:41 /etc/environment Please help! -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : I am using Jessie with XFCE. Look in /etc/pam.d/ if there is a file related to xfce and its display manager. $ ls /etc/pam.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Sep

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
while root user seems to using it. Why? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : So will it work if I add `authrequiredpam_env.so` to lightdm, lightdm-greeter and lightdm-autologin files? Try. Awesome! It worked! I added

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
not copy pasted the sudoers and thought that was the cause of the problem so I purged sudo and then again installed it. And then added normal user to sudo and added env_keep to sudoers. But no luck. Still the same error. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : 2) Move 'Defaults env_keep…' to line 12 in /etc/sudoers (i.e. *before* User privilege escalation section) Same error. Here's my updated /etc/sudoers http

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : When I say `# env` I can see http_proxy=http://192.168.6.254:3128 but when I say `$ sudo env` there's no http_proxy variable printed. What's going on? I

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : I think I am using lightdm as display manager/login manager. (Any way to find out which is?) You can probably see what display manager is running with ps. Yes

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : So will it work if I add `authrequiredpam_env.so` to lightdm

Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
in : ...) The reason I think this is related to Debian 8.0 is because untill yesterday I was using Ubuntu and I could easily see all those Unicode characters properly on the same webpage using Chromium and Firefox. Do I need to install any Unicode font or something? Please help. -- Avinash

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am using Jessie. Whenever I try to open some webpages I can not help but notice that Unicode characters are not getting displayed

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am using Jessie. Whenever I try to open some webpages I can

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am using Jessie. Whenever I try to open some webpages I can not help but notice that Unicode characters are not getting displayed correctly. I tried Iceweasel Chromium. Both showing the same weird characters

$ sudo gnome-system-log does nothing

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! I am using Debian 8.0 Whenever I try to invoke System Log graphically, a password seeking box popes up and then nothing happens. So I tried $ sudo gnome-system-log but then again after entering the password the prompt quietly returns. What's wrong with gnome-system-log? -- Avinash

System wide proxy in Debian Jessie

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Which is the standard/recommended way to set system wide proxy in Debian instead of editing utility specific rc files (wgetrc, apt.conf etc)? I am aware of /etc/environment, setting http_proxy environ variable and then export it, editing bashrc. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http

Jessie starts with minimum brightness

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
some configuration which causes the system to start with a minimum screen brightness. Please provide me some pointers regarding this. Thank you. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
without kernel modules Continue the install without loading the kernel modules? 1) No 2) Yes PS - see previous message in this very thread -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not work for you. However, all

Re: [Debain 8.0 Installation] Linux Kernel choice menu

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! When I was trying to install Debian Jessie, at one of the steps the installer asked me to choose a kernel: 1) linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 2) linux-image-amd64 3) No kernel 3) is obvious but what's

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
the system. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAJ9BSW-WQ46wJD-2DVdfBG2Cg3-f5pGB

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
firmware is missing too (with wireless) then first install the Debian and then download the firmware files using another machine and then manually copy/configure the files in installed Debian system. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[Debain 8.0 Installation] Linux Kernel choice menu

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! When I was trying to install Debian Jessie, at one of the steps the installer asked me to choose a kernel: 1) linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 2) linux-image-amd64 3) No kernel 3) is obvious but what's the difference between 1) and 2)? Which one to choose and why? Thank you. -- Avinash

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
there as expected or do I need to mount/unmout it manually? After saying No in continue install without loading kernel modules step, the firmware got loaded correctly or not? (Though this time it didn't ask for brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) Please help. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
smoothly but it says no firmware was found though I can see the damn firmware directory in newly created FAT partition. Any pointers? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
to make the touchpad work after installing Debian? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
all the packages from internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing amd64 dvd1 iso then? (instead of downloading packages extract from the dvd1 iso) But then just to have a single 10MB firmware file is it really cool to download the whole netinst image? -- Avinash Sonawane

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane root...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ take a look further down the page where

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
) installation was going smooth. Please direct me to any pointers on to how to have firmware files on USB stick alongside Debian installable image. Thank you. Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Do we assume the firmware files on the FAT partition are .deb packages? Do you have an existing linux installation? Yes. all firmware files are .deb packages and yes currently I am using Ubuntu. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it reported some firmware being missing (more specifically brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded