Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated

On 4/24/24 01:28 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 24 Apr 2024 16:42 -0300, from luizroma...@tecgraf.puc-rio.br (Luiz Romário Santana Rios): Earlier this month, I noticed I was no longer able to login to Zoom meetings using the client installed from the Debian repos. In order to join meetings, I

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

On 8/10/23 03:03 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Default User (12023-08-10): And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why not? Unfortunately, I regret to say that I did not find that the answer to the

Re: mounting media in plasma5

On 7/3/23 07:36 AM, Hans wrote: An ext4 file system has its own internal Unix ownerships and permissions. When mounted, those ownerships and permissions are what determine who can read or write to each file/directory within the file system. Yes, I know. The ACL that's being added at the root

Re: Help with Optimus and external monitor use

Additional info: $ nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1) Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1) Your card is supported by the

Help with Optimus and external monitor use

Hi, I have an Asus Tuf Gaming laptop which has an Optimus configuration, with an AMD GPU rather than Intel. I'm running Debian 11.7 I do not have any of the "other" auxiliary software tools installed, such as Primus (primusrun...). When I run glxgears -info, I see it using the AMD GPU as

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2/16/23 12:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:27:25 -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [1]to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: to...@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or *gasp* PDF) file down that alley (e.g. with

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

On 12/4/22 03:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

On 11/9/22 04:09 PM, Amn wrote: Trying to install Gtkmm 4 in a Debian 11 box I do this : sudo apt install libgtkmm-4.0-dev But then I get this error : Unable to locate package libgtkmm-4.0-dev What

Re: question about sound

The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob On 8/17/22 10:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists.

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On 4/2/22 14:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the middle of the new set of options you will see 'Document Status

Re: Authentication failed after su-

On 2/28/22 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" Some comments on this, without knowing just how it failed: 1.  There is no reason I can see to using both 'sudo' and 'su' together.  By default, they both let you run a command as the root user. 2.  Using both '-' and

Re: Recs for new Linux laptop? (to replace Zareason)

On 11/9/21 7:17 AM, Tom Browder wrote: My Zareason laptop (13-in screen, very lightweight and thin) is running Debian 10 natively and wonderfully (with Win10 as a dual boot option), but the company has gone out of business and I want to start preparing a standby replacement. I would

Touch screen monitor recommendations?

Hi, I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard desktop running Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? Thanks, Bob

Re: QEMU-KVM VMs sometime freeze when I run them for a couple of days

On 1/6/21 5:33 AM, buz.hr...@seznam.cz wrote: From: Nicholas Geovanis George Shuklin's comment may have intended this question too: Are backups running somewhere when the VMs "randomly" hang? Not necessarily on the VM that hangs, but somewhere touching a related filesystem, disk or network

Re: Help with install on old Mac

On 12/5/20 1:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you

Help with install on old Mac

It is a Power PC G3 running Mac OS 9. I've gotten CDs for Jessie 8.11, the last Debian release to support Power PC architecture. I set up a second SCSI hard disk with an Adaptec controller and installed to it successfully.  However, upon reboot the system does not start immediately.  When

Re: Zoom.

On 10/17/20 1:23 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10? Here it produces empty windows. Visible toward the right in this screenshot. http://easthope.ca/Zoom.png This is the entire output after starting in a terminal and then exiting. peter@joule:~$ zoom

Re: Journal

On 9/3/20 11:20 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 11:11:56 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Pelican is a static site generator. You write your content in MarkDown or RST, and then Pelican compiles it into a website by applying a theme and CSS styles. Performance is high, because your webserver is

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

E) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 826.650] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 826.650] (EE) [ 826.653] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. ===end

Re: Problems with Asus tuf gaming A15

On 8/16/2020 8:20 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: No, that's OK. Grab a netinst or the DVD image: you can use mirrors - the critical thing is that you don't install any graphics drivers over and above the text mode drivers, you don't try to use the graphical install - nothing graphical. Once you've

Re: Installation Problem

On 7/14/20 1:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-07-14 13:33, Vlad Dragomir wrote: I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, It asks for additional non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it needs in order to configure the

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

On 6/29/2020 11:37 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:10:44PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: But I cannot figure out where this might be, or even if this is the correct interpretation. Check out the contents of /etc/systemd/system first. Rebuild initramfs second. Reco Hi

Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

Please see thread with subject "Be careful when editing /etc/fstab" for a bit of background. My computer had two swap partitions, on two different disks, when one of them started to generate CRC errors, seek errors, etc. Once I determined which of the two it was, I commented out the

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

On 4/28/20 8:46 AM, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm

Re: using Webex from Stretch

Hi, I recently had a sound problem with a web page and was instructed to do the following to enable it for a specific web site. Note, this is not exactly intuitive. 1. Go to the web site in your browser; 2. In my Firefox, just to the left of the address bar are some icons, click the

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 1/7/20 1:19 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: It looks like the majority of the pure Bluetooth devices are only 4.0. There is one combination WIFI/Bluetooth I saw that is 5.0. The version here does not mean anything relevant to the support by the OS. BT4.0 in terms of hardware

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 1/5/20 3:24 AM, deloptes wrote: André Rodier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a USB / Bluetooth 5 adapter, natively compatible with Debian. Thanks, André most of them are I use ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Double check if adapter (newer once) are

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

On 1/8/19 10:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jude DaShiell composed on 2019-01-09 00:04 (UTC-0500): lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script I tried exactly that on Buster multiple times, and always get the following: root@gb250:~# NAME LABEL bash: NAME: command not found root@gb250:~# sda bash:

Re: perl; Trying to get File::stat to work

It looks like this has to do with mixing the usage of the "native" stat of Perl with the "object" version from File::stat. The 'stat' from File::stat returns a reference to an object, which has the stuff you're wanting, tucked away internally as object variables.  You need to do:     use

Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

Thank you both for pointing to the correct library.  I will be trying it out soon, as time permits. One question does remain, why didn't apt-get refuse to install the application, or pull in the correct library? On 10/2/18 11:29 PM, deloptes wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, I have a high

Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

Hi, I have a high def (4K) mp4 video I would like to put on a Blu-Ray disk, to play in a standard Blu-Ray player. So I did the Google search and found several posts, all of which mentioned an application tsMuxeR, which is available for Linux and is in the Debian repos. However, it is a 32

Re: List words separated by comma and without duplicates

On 04/29/2018 03:45 PM, David Margerison wrote: On 30 April 2018 at 04:12, Antonio A. Rendina wrote: If you want to improve your bash skills you can read: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ I suggest that to avoid poor and ancient, it would be better to

Re: [OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

See as reference, what, John Hasler wrote on 02/10/2018 02:09 PM and 02/10/2018 05:21 PM. Which raises the question, what is wrong with "Termux" (I'm assuming you meant this when you listed "Terminux", as I can't find anything by that name, but could be wrong in my assumption). Termux

Re: Segmentation fault in top -b1 -hc

On 05/08/2017 03:28 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:46:13AM +0200, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > > On 05/08/2017 11:19 AM, Valentin Bajrami wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There is a segmentation fault when top is used as follow > >> > >> top -b1 -hc > >> > >> I think the args are

Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

On 05/03/2017 07:44 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hmm, maybe I don't need a response to this--I think if I read Greg Wooledge's > post (next in the thread) and experiment (tomorrow or later ;-) with his > script, I'll get the idea... > > On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:29:08 PM

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

On 01/17/2017 02:39 AM, Hans wrote: > I remember this discussion from sime time ago. Debian has changed a real > poweroff from "halt" to "halt -p". The second one is according to the manual. > > As far as I remeber, "shutdown" is just a wrapper fpr the halt command, but I > am not quite sure.

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as > the subject, and found several references to emails with similar > problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. > > And this actually only happens on

shutdown fails to power off host

I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as the subject, and found several references to emails with similar problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. And this actually only happens on one of the two systems I have Debian installed on. I'm using testing

Re: Purpose of fsck at boot (was: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

On 12/10/14, 3:41 AM, Frédéric Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com wrote: Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 11:10:52, Frédéric Marchal a écrit : Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 09:49:51, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit : You run fsck on power up because the 'system does not remember' if it was

Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not

On 11/14/14, 12:00 PM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound comes out of the speakers.

Re: Two Z Shells

On 10/3/14, 6:31 PM, John Aten welcome.to.eye.o.r...@gmail.com wrote: * PGP Signed by an unknown key Hi all, I just installed z shell through: #apt-get install zsh zsh-doc Before installing, I looked for it with which and whereis. I got nothing from which, (it now lists /usr/bin/zsh) and when

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

On 9/25/14, 7:12 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) ffmpeg_cap_new on and # Gap is

Re: security camera software

On 9/24/14, 6:43 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I need to set up a couple usb cameras to record video based on motion detection. I prefer ease of setup to a large feature set, since this is expected to be only temporary. I want to only record when there is motion, so I don't have hours of

Re: mount inconsistencies

On 5/12/14 8:52 AM, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Hi folks, this looks very weird to me. My wheezy system claims that a filesystem is mounted, but the mount directory appears to be empty and umount fails because the filesystems is not mounted, after all: | # grep backup /etc/fstab

Re: bash quoting problems

in the corrct place. Does anyone know how to do this? You may want to consider putting the sed script in a file and using the -f script (or --file=script) option instead. No quoting needed. ;) -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Wicd Wireless Woes

different Ubuntu/Kubuntu releases. I don't know what the Ubuntu references are, that info's all on my home system. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

), repeat the ldd on that library to be sure its dependencies are resolved. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dc95d17.7090...@symantec.com

Re: Problem with chmod

are associated with mount points, and choose one that points to the pendrive itself. Or, if the pendrive is not mounted, you may be able to mount it manually and then do the mkdir/copy. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

, cropping top/bottom, not left right, doesn't it? -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dc1a87a.5070...@symantec.com

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

easily. Anything that doesn't work is deleted. There are simply too many interdependencies to trust a hybrid system. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Gdm login failing I could not start your session

-package(s) and then check for these packages and reinstall any that are missing. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dac8a07.1010

64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

system (fyi, it's 6.0.1, in case that's relevant). So, is there a way currently to get a 32 bit library installed in a 64 bit environment using apt-get or aptitude, outside of the basic 32 bit support package? Thanks, -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: 64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

On 04/07/2011 01:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-07 22:10 +0200, Bob McGowan wrote: I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries from the Oracle 11 instant client package. The DBD was compiled in a 32 bit environment. Now there's a user who wants to run

Re: 64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

On 04/07/2011 01:21 PM, George Standish wrote: On 11-04-07 04:10 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, all, I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries deleted details So, is there a way currently to get a 32 bit library installed in a 64 bit environment using apt-get

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

don't use a specific /dev/??? value, blkid will print all LABEL values. If you want the UUID, use that in place of the LABEL argument to the -s option. You may need to be root to run swapon. You will need to be root to run blkid as it needs to read disk devices. -- Bob McGowan

Re: boot loader

, then i'll just let it ride and not worry about anything? Check out Smart Boot Loader (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) or Master Boot Loader (http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/) instead. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: JACK configuration

variations. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d34bc11.8060...@symantec.com

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

the above as root. Since the original file is readable by all, what happens if you do the copy as a regular user? -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Web calendar sharing in Evolution

of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654 Many thanks, and Happy New Year. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Off topic question about grep

: ls files grep * files:00firefox-files_before -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd9926b.8080...@symantec.com

Re: what is the use of -c parameter of column(1), can you demonstrate with an example?

And so on. You could perhaps use awk: http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/12/awk-formatting-fields-into-columns.html (bit fugly) or, depending on exactly what you need, look at pr(1). -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: text-only login is root?

;) because if there are problems, the relevant error message will be there, too. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cc1c523.2040

Re: photo printing

4x6 in. to 13x19 in.), it can also handle non-standard sizes, up to 13x44 in. So, if you don't care about paper surface type or size, a laser printer may well be a very good choice. It will also be faster ;) -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: avogadro plugins

On 10/18/2010 10:03 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 19/10/10 03:50, Bob McGowan wrote: On 10/18/2010 05:55 AM, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: Hi, I have just install the avogadro package on my amd64 Squeeze desktop. Now I would like to play with some avogadro plugins. I have succeeded

Re: USB

standard stuff, you should be able to find details about each step in your documentation. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cbca3ca.3020

Re: avogadro plugins

is warmly welcome. Thanks, lina A web search for 'Avogadro software' found a wiki home page, with a link to a developer's page. That page have links to a number of other pages, one of which discusses plugins. Perhaps that will help. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Excellent bootable usb - How to Duplicate?

? To use dd and get the whole stick, including partition table setup, you need the whole disk device name, a single file name. But, you said ...it transferred all the files ..., which leaves me wondering how you did the input spec for dd. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

on. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c813f49.4030...@symantec.com

Re: Fascinating problem with bash

it (also possible). If there's a better explanation, I'd like to see it ;) Thanks, -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c7417cb.5090

Re: Why do i get this when trying to list files on usbkey?

. Does the USB device work in other systems? If it does, I'd look at the hardware on your system, first. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Enabling remote logon - any decent intro docs?

ideas? Thanks very much I think you want to enable remote graphical login via kdm/gdm. I'm not sure how to set this up, but the man pages for kdm and gdm both mention remote logins using the XDMCP protocol. Perhaps this will at least give you a starting place for searching. AG -- Bob

Re: Wifi GNOME network manager version into KUbuntu, Debian pinning method, etc. ; jor debian

it and everything continues to work well. The only thing that could be a problem would be a future upgrade, assuming the installer processing is not fixed. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Block size recommendations

for modern systems with gigabytes of RAM. But then, modern systems also have disks that generally use LBA, as Boyd mentioned, so the positioning argument isn't so meaningful. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: match across line using grep

On 08/05/2010 06:49 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On 2010年08月04日 04:55, Bob McGowan wrote: In fact, the LC_ names all seem to be specific to things that would not necessarily impact the regex operation. It is not totally true. The encoding part might. If it is UTF-8, in theory, [:digit:] should

Re: repair partition: wrong size

that? Hugo Have you tried the '-b' option, to use an alternate superblock? If the primary has been corrupted, using an alternate would/should fix the issue, assuming the alternate is OK. See the man page for e2fsck for a way to figure out where the alternates were created. -- Bob McGowan

Re: match across line using grep

the '.*' pattern, I embed a literal newline, it also works: $ perl -e 'print a\nb\0'| grep -z 'a b' a b$ And just to prove the point, it does work with multiple null terminated lines: perl -e 'print a\nb\0not here\0'| grep -z 'a b' a b$ I'm using GNU grep 2.5.3 -- Bob McGowan

Re: match across line using grep

On 08/03/2010 11:28 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-08-03 09:57 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: On 08/03/2010 05:39 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-08-03 19:37 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On 2010???08???03??? 17:53, Andre Majorel wrote: $ printf 'a\nb' | grep -zo a.*b --deleted-- Fun, eh

Re: Checking burned image is ok

the two images. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4f00a3.6080...@symantec.com

Re: wicd with WPA2 fails

: exec /tmp/xx.orig.$$.log 21 Or just put everything after the 'exec' above, after the xx.orig command line. The advantage of using the 'exec' form is that any output the script generates for any problem will also be written to the file (syntax errors, other commands failing, etc). -- Bob McGowan

Re: thinking of installing amd64 Debian: what is its current state?

you to run them directly. My system is not with me, so I can't give you the exact package name, but I think if you search for 32 bit support on 64 bit system, or something similar, you should find what is needed. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Photo time are wrong

need to verify your locale settings. If you find the date displayed by exiftool is OK, you can use exiftool to rename the files, based on the date and time of creation or even have it set the modification times (a la 'touch'). -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: su and environment.

luck. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c366356.6080...@symantec.com

Re: martian sources iptables

appropriate for your request, in any case. You should look up 'martian packet' on wikipedia for details. Basically, they are packets from illegal source addresses: private network values or unallocated address ranges are a couple of examples. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: remark from dd

. Thanks,... Peter E. You're welcome ;') -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c2d00bb.9030...@symantec.com

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

slow, you might add a local rc startup script in /etc/{init.d,rc2.d} to start the services at boot time. None of this is tested, just some thoughts on alternate ways to get things going. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

On 06/01/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. Maybe Gnome has something

Re: Still can't read DVDs/CDs

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Re: OO.writer can't its file.

it. In any case, OOwriter created a directory with several files in it, when I opened a document. If your temp directory has not been cleaned up and is a regular filesystem, OOwriter would be unable to create/open/write the temporary files it uses. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

, using the suffix as the extension appended to the file name. (find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e s/$regexp// {} \;) for all files in a directory. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

with extended regex in sed, you will have to experiment. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bed98da.8050...@symantec.com

Re: Automounting problems.

file, first do an 'ls' of /dev/disk/by-id before plugging the device, and one after. The new device name is what you use. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Questions about RAID 6

the disks on the other controllers. Rebuild is generally the period of most intense activity so figure on failures being much more likely during a rebuild. --Mike Bird -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

Paul Chany wrote: Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-04-14, Paul Chany csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't know where? ---SNIP--- Maybe /etc/environment? Here on my GNU/Linux Lenny

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

that you want ;( But perhaps useful info, in other contexts. It appears to be a DOS only tool. It (and other freeware tools for DOS/Windows) can be found here: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

users. So, Ubuntu seems to attract a less 'technical' group of users. And, since Ubuntu uses Debian as its starting point, less technical users could assume using Debian lists is OK. The above is guess work based on observation, not critical analysis. YMMV. ;) -- Bob McGowan

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-24 12:07, Bob McGowan wrote: [snip] And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type: That's the key difference, since vfat is fat32. Ah, yes. Too long since I've dealt much with FAT of any sort, details get forgotten ... Thanks for the reminder. $ mount|grep

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

for the filesystem type: $ mount|grep sde /dev/sde on /var/autofs/usb/centon type vfat ... I don't know if any of this is really helpful, though it may suggest an alternative or two to play around with. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unusable free space?

partitioning method. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ba008d7.3060...@symantec.com

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

or hibernate, due to issues with my hardware not working well, though things are getting much better with newer software and kernels. Which means I need to periodically run fsck manually, to be sure things are OK, but at least it's under my control. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

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