Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Let me test that as well > [...] > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file > > "okular" is important here. Only limited set of file na

Re: How to insert symbols into emails (was: Re: Monospace fonts, Re: Changing The PSI Definition)

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:54:44PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > > Those symbols are very nice, which tool have you used to insert them? > > Easy. I configured my CAPSLOCK key (which is useless IMO) to be > my X compose key. So

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:32:18AM +0100, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > I would like to run okular opening the pdf file > ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/dir2/file.pdf > via command line. In konsole I type > okular ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/ > and hit the tab key twice for autocomplete. But I won't get

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:31:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > There is probably some other package that's *using* packagekit to do > > the thing you don't want done. Is "unattended-upgrades" installed by > > any chance? > > Hmm yep, it is! > So that's it? > I self-inflicted this by inst

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 03:57:30PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> How can I stop those downloads? > >> > >> Currently, I did > >> > >> systemctl mask packagekit I don't think you're looking at the right thing. "packagekit" seems to be an interface to dbus. By itself, it doesn't do what

Re: AW: AW: su su- sudo dont work

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 04:23:07PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > su - > su > or sudo. > > Is su - > the best for install? Whatever works best for *you* is best. "su -" is quite popular. If it does what you need, and is convenient for you, then there's your answer.

Re: Changing The PSI Definition

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 07:25:13AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Might be time for a new font. I like Inconsolata, but l1I! > should never look similar, nor O0@ or S$. Indeed. Also, ({[ and )}] are character groups that must be visibly different, or else any terminal or programming work you do is g

Re: Changing The PSI Definition

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. > > Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc but no changes to > the PSI definition had any effect You appear to be asking about the shell pro

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:43:51PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I do not have root account. Sure you do. You might not have a root *password* set. > (I use sudo from my user account.) I think I > already tried rescue mode in the past but was not prompted for root > password. You can set a ro

Re: Is 12.4 safe, or should I wait for 12.5?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:52:04AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I updated my main machine to Bookworm (12.2, kernel 6.1.0.13-amd64) > some time ago and it's running well. > I read the fuss about EXT4 file system corruption. At first > I got the impression that this happened in 12.4, but further

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: > $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run". run Run the given snap command The run command ex

Re: Return to previous presentation edit Grub

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:50:25AM +, Simeone Dominique wrote: > Good morning, > > I had Debian 10 with two other linŭes that I could access at startup. > > I installed Debian 11 and the new grub only offers me Debian. > > How can I return to the presentation of my three operating systems fr

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:45:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:42:43PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You'll have to unmount it, which generally means you will have to reboot > > in single-user mode, or from rescue media, whichever is easier. &

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:29:18AM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Total PE 76249 > Alloc PE / Size 75146 / <293.54 GiB > Free PE / Size 1103 / <4.31 GiB > VG UUID fbCaw1-u3SN-2HCy-w6y8-v0nK-QsFE-FETNZM > > ... seems that I still have some 4 GB of un

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:51:30PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > which is why with my fading short term memory I generally copy/paste, > including the bash prompts so you know its copy/paste but even then you > question me. As for the file:// and :80, I'm not that forgetfull, I > copy/pasted the res

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:41:57PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > As I need to extend & resize more than one LV in the file system (/, /usr, > and /var), should they all need to be unmounted before the operation? As I > remember, it is ext3 system on that comp. What?? I don't think these wor

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 07:01:13PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 01:06:16PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: > I use to use LVM and RAID but I quit using that after finding out that > partition the drive and using gparted was way more easier If you allocate all the space during installation and don't leave any to make adjustments, or to make snapsh

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, then > resize the file system, then resize the logical volume. Before doing any of that, one should check the volume group and see if there are unallocated h

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 03:20:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > hosts: files mymachines dns myhostname > That's as installed, but hosts: line looks skunky to me. > what do mymachines and myhostname actually translate to? They are the names of software packages (libraries) that are instal

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 02:50:59PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > It was also true here using the file:// prefix, trying look at the html > versions of the man pages in /usr/share/local/docs. Firefox-esr can use > that syntax just fine. > > Where the difference be? https://wooledge

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 02:26:42PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Every time it was ran and asked for file:// or http:// localhost:80 you wind > up looking at google seatch failure screen saying there is no such thing as > localhost. $ host localhost $ grep localhost /etc/hosts $ grep hosts /etc/nss

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:30:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > chroming is dangerous. > > I haven't touched it since they hijacked port 80 so you cannot use it > locally. Gene, this is NOT true. Chrome does not "hijack port 80". You can go to http://localhost:80/ to talk to a local web s

Re: AW: su su- sudo dont work

uot; on this computer. This is precisely the scenario for which I requested that you run the "id" command and paste its output into your email. If you are in the "sudo" group, then you should be allowed to use sudo. Here, for example, is my output: unicorn:~$ id uid=1000(greg

Re: counting commas

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 05:09:58PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-19, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > >> Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > >> > I won, and you lost > >> > >>

Re: su su- sudo dont work

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 01:26:06PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good afternoon. > Root terminal is fine. > What do I do wrong? > What did I destroy? > > PC does have only one user=admin. > > Regards Sophie > Is it the rescue mode? Explain, please. Your Subject: header says "su su- sudo d

Re: counting commas

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 03:30:17PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> But at this point, we have to wonder what the *actual* goal is. > > to exclude phrases with commas for seperate examination Parsing natural language text is going to be tricky. I can only talk about English, and not ab

Re: counting commas

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:25:14AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > An answer to this question > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16679369/count-occurrences-of-a-char-in-a-string-using-bash > proposes > echo "referee" | tr -cd 'e' | wc -c > > $ echo ',,,' | tr -cd ',' | wc -c > 3 Th

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:59:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Host gives me the same result. However, apt says: > > 0% [Connecting to security-debian.org (57.128.81.193)] security-debian.org and security.debian.org are different names.

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:59:34AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > And that is not the address I get from here > ping -c1 security.debian.org > PING security.debian.org (151.101.2.132) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 151.101.2.132 (151.101.2.132): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=15.8 ms > > Your dns isn

Re: standardize uid:gid?

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 05:38:37AM -, David Chmelik wrote: > Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons? The thing is, Debian has tens of thousands of packages, and any one of these packages is capable of creating new UIDs and/or GIDs if it feels like doing so. There is no centra

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:28:58PM +0100, hw wrote: > Ok, and what's the problem? That the server wants to print to the > printer? That the application sends data to the "screen" (a terminal > emulator) instead of sending it to the printer? That it is necessary > to see the printer data displaye

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main > non-free non-free-firmware Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/01/msg00778.html Your source

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD > Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main non-free-firmware This one, before you commented it out, only contained non-free-firmware and *not* non-free

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:19:50AM +0100, hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:41 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:17:05PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024

Re: Debian 11 & Debian 12

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:25:40PM +, Jeff Jennings wrote: > Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice that > Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. Do you mean, the initial download of the installer image? Do you mean, the repository that's

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 16.01.2024 um 11:30:09 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: > > > The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, > > bookworm-secutity Relesse 404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.30.132 80] > ^ > > There seems to be a ty

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:30:09AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I commented out the dvd and added to sources.list lines for bookworm, > bookworm-updates and bookworm-security. What lines did you add? > Ran apt-get update > > The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, > book

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600): > > > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > >>> Thanks for that composition: but it will be w

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:17:05PM +0100, hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > > > pointing to files that d

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that? unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan 4 10:33 i

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:27:43AM +0100, hw wrote: > systemd[2241]: Started cgroupify@app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope.service. > systemd[2241]: Started app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope - Application launched > by gnome-shell. > > > in the journal. That service is a file that doesn't seem to exist

Re: Thunderbird filters

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 05:00:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 11:10, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Gene, > > > > Am 14.01.2024 um 16:56 schrieb gene heskett: > > > On 1/14/24 04:58, David Christensen wrote: > > > > find . -xdev -iname '*filter*' > > > gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo find . -xdev -in

Re: Fact finding / clarification [WAS Re: Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:58:42AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > You now have a slow access to one/more of your RAID devices. Does he, though? I thought we had established some time late last year that his *symptom* (delayed startup of some applications) had nothing at all to do with his stor

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 12:31:57AM +, phoebus phoebus wrote: > Yes, that's the basic concept, but it's even more intricate. The application > continuously monitors what it receives from the terminal with regular > interval checks (in milliseconds) and makes decisions based on rules. These >

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 06:19:06PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > My access to the Internet seems to be fine. I tested various urls: > > url="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-energy-heating-homes"; That doesn't prove anything. Just *look* at the URL that you got from the error: > >>

Re: find question

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 12:25:03AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Except that from the man page, -delete implies -depth. Maybe that's a > GNUism; I don't know. Oh, maybe that's new? I'm not sure. Anyway, yeah, -delete is a GNUism. POSIX find doesn't have it at all. > That leaves the question: W

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 08:36:57AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 01:20:46AM +, phoebus phoebus wrote: > > While 'ser2net' may be a valuable tool for certain purposes, it doesn't > > align with our specific requirements. Nevertheless, I'm grateful for the > > insight

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:10:43AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 11/01/2024 03:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:19:41PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > > What is the output of the "hostname&quo

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:19:41PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > What is the output of the "hostname" command? > > It's: `thinkpad'. > > > What is the output of "grep -F $(hostname) /etc/hosts"? > >

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 06:34:53PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > writes: > > Where/how does this error message "appear"? > > As an output of the `startx' command. It would be lovely to see the *entire* error message, in case some part of it identifies the program that produced the error. Many

Re: visudo, /etc/sudo.conf, probe_interfaces

On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 07:36:00PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > Yes I'm on Raspberry Debian now but my Devuan system still isn't > working well enough to post here and I ran into this first on my > daedalus system. So there are THREE NON-DEBIAN SYSTEMS in this story?! > visud0 complains that my h

Re: Problem opening VMWare Player

On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 08:33:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Bookworm. > > I have installed VMWare-Player-Full-Bundle v-17.5.0, after checking that > Debian still supports it. > > When I attempt running I get an error: > > Failed to execute command "@@BINARY@@" > failed to e

Re: OT: coloured text?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 07:28:12PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 7 Jan 2024 14:20 -0500, from g...@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge): > >> #!/bin/sed -e 1d > > > > This is not a valid shebang. You're only permitted ONE argument after > > the interpreter name

Re: OT: coloured text?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 07:12:38PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 7 Jan 2024 14:03 -0500, from g...@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge): > > The shebang tells the kernel which shell to execute to interpret your > > script. So, you match it up to whichever shell you're writing

Re: OT: coloured text?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 07:40:28PM +0100, Hans wrote: > How can I get coloured text output in a shell script? https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/037 > Debian is using "dash" and not "bash", if I am correct, Debian installs BOTH of them by default. Also by default, the /bin/sh symbolic link po

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdand timezone]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 03:49:05PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > For us Debian users a better choice would seem to be: > > https://manpages.debian.org/ > > The only thing is that I don't see a category for oldstable and > oldoldstable, etc. It's by release code name, e.g. "buster" instead of "ol

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 02:57:53AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I really don't get the fascination with some city hundreds of miles > distant defining the time zone. Why Chicago for US/Central? There are > any number of cities in US/Central that could be referenced, but no, > pick the most notor

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the > current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name. > All legacy timezone syml

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Valerio Vanni wrote: > This way works, I don't know if it has security flaws. > > systemd-run --unit=kaffeine-resumed setpriv --reuid "$kafuid" --regid > "$kafgid" --init-groups --reset-env \ > env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/"$kafuid" $ka

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 05:52:43PM +0100, Valerio Vanni wrote: > setpriv --reuid "$kafuid" --regid "$kafgid" --init-groups > --reset-env \ > env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/"$kafuid" $kafdis > XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE \ > /usr/bin/kaffeine --lastchannel >/dev/null 2>&1 > -

Re: NFS: IPV6

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:54:54AM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > plus FWIW... > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1453/ipv6-ref-71.html > > "NFS software and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) software support IPv6 in a > seamless manner. Existing commands that are related to

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 09:58:38PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > I don't think I can state any more clearly what I'm trying to do than > 'to tie a call to openvt to Alt Up'. I'm assuming you don't know how > to do that either. And ... what does THAT do? NAME openvt - start a program on a ne

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 03:07:59PM +0100, Valerio Vanni wrote: > Il 03/01/2024 17:41, Greg Wooledge ha scritto: > > The su command is not an ideal choice for this, in fact. The setpriv(1) > > command is better suited for running programs as other user accounts, > > without

Re: Re: Rescue mode when root account locked

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:44:16PM -0600, Larry Tyree wrote: > What do I do with no access to another computer? The original Subject: line says "Rescue mode when root account locked". Putting the Subject: and the body together, I conclude that the question is "How do I enter rescue mode when there

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:35:41PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > > > The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does > > not exist on my Sid system. > > > > The man page: > > > > NAME > >ethers - Ethernet addres

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 02:07:06AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do > they do with the contents? unicorn:~$ ls -ld /etc/ethers ls: cannot access '/etc/ethers': No such file or directory > Is it only used to show names to a user or >

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wpasupplicant > > > The main heading of that web page is Package: wpasupplicant (2:2.10-12) > > Immediately below it is the sub-heading that states > > client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:18:19PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > /usr/bin/su YOURUSER -c 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > DISPLAY=:0 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE /usr/bin/kaffeine >/dev/null 2>&1 &' > In place of YOURUSER you've to put your username, if you doubt the command > "whoami" w

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 20240101)

On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 07:32:18PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > If one changes subject, would it not be better to simply start a new > thread? With most mail readers threading using the In-Reply-To header, > the new subject would get buried in the old thread. There's a difference between natural

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 10:36:41AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 23:09:42 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: [...] > Is the history of this issue relevant? > > https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=282768 Oh, it's the same *name*. Huh. So, Mike, whatever you figured ou

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 01:53:56PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > > Prior to the introduction of systemd /etc/inittab had this line in it: > > kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this > > work." > > and I found it useful to tie a call to

Re: URLs in Mutt

On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 11:42:59AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12023-12-31): > > Have your browser load THAT file. > > Or just have this: > > text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput > > in your .mailcap file. Possibly along with: >

Re: URLs in Mutt

t; is the "Alt" key to the left of the space bar), and a copy of the e-mail will open in Firefox. You can then click on any hyperlinks if you're sure they are safe. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: URLs in Mutt

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:51:25PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > Apparently, something was wrapping lines to > about 75 characters, and putting an equals sign at the end of every line > which had been wrapped. This is "quoted-printable" encoding. You need to use a properly decoded version of the

Re: Printer weirdness

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Sorry, did I impress myself so wrong? > > What I meant, were the packages for the driver, which Brother provide. > > If you want to know, take a look at support.brother.com, see which I mean. Someone else going to a web site today is NOT n

Re: is there an ntpsec wizard here?

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 12:19:12PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > synopsis phase one: > I have installed ntpsec on this, my main machine, What is its *name*? > Synopsis phase two: A QIDI X MAX-3 3d printer with a rockchip64 running > armbian 22.05 (buster) as the klipper, moonraker, and fluidd web

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > As it turns out every line in /mc/bin/xterm_bindings that > was not a comment was problematic.From man readline or info readline > I saw this: bind '"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file' and that is the syntax > I used in xterm_bindings,

Re: find question

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 10:56:52PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > find $dir -mtime +7 -delete "$dir" should be quoted. > Will that fail to delete higher directories, because the deletion of files > updated the mtime? > > Or does it get all the mtimes first, and use those? It doesn't delete dire

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 09:15:52AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/12/2023 23:57, Mike McClain wrote: > > Only when xterm_bindings has no executable lines in it does it not > > kill '"' in an X terminal window. > > The line that pulled it in was ; > > [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && [ -f /mc/bin/xterm_bindi

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 12:39:26AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I am getting an "Operation not permitted" error while strace tries to > attach to that pid: > > "strace: attach: ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, 52527): Operation not permitted" > > > $ ping www.google.fr -c 4 & > pid=$! > stra

Re: Firefox Warning

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 12:38:44PM -0600, Alexander J Martinez wrote: > out of curiosity...did you upgrade using > > sudo apt upgrade firefox-esr > or apt-get or synaptic. That apt command isn't valid. "apt upgrade" does not take package names as additional arguments. It upgrades ALL the packag

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 06:31:19PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I think I am getting close to where I need to with this (am I?): > > $ bash -c 'ping www.google.fr -c 4 &'; echo "Caller PID: $$"; strace -p $$ I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Is this an oversimplified example

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 02:57:54PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > 1) how do you set up the process to be straced as a parameter? Something > like: > prx="echo hello" > logfile="file.txt" > # > strace "${prx}" 2>"${logfile}" > ls -l "${logfile}"; wc -l "${logfile}"; cat "${logfile}" Why? This

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 10:19:26PM +0900, 이강우(KangWoo Lee) wrote: > For example, I want to install the most recent packages when installing an > OS in a specific closed network environment. > > Of course, I could use a recently created DVD iso file, but I would need to > have an internet connectio

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 12:35:37PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > root@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd For the record, $SHELL does not tell you what shell you're currently in. It tells you which login shell your account uses, or which shell you'd *like* to use when you launch a new xterm

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 03:35:04PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 12/21/23, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > So... this is interesting. Apparently timedatectl doesn't simply look > > at the target of /etc/localtime. There's a DELAY before the value is > > correctl

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 11:31:09PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > I've examined /etc/inputrc, .inputrc, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bashrc, > /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, OK, you've examined them... and... what did you *see* in them? When did this problem start to happen, a

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 12:24:55AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I am trying to use it in an > obvious human readable way right in the file names. With that restriction, "always use UTC" is going to be your best path forward. It should be possible to convert a well-chosen human-readable time/

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: > > when I > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. > > May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type > characters with accents? I ha

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 06:32:35PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > I seldom use the command line while on the desk top since I keep 10 > VTs open for day to day tasks so only recently noticed that when I > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. If > I open a file for ed

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 06:36:55PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > In Debian releases between Etch and Jessie (inclusive), It's a wiki. I assumed it would be clear in context, due to the paragraphs before and after it, but if you want to change the wording, change it.

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144 > 2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342 Wow, OK. Fascinating historical context in there. I've updated . I believe it's correct now, for both current and histor

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 01:29:09PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > With the proviso that I don't know what "restorecon" does in > postinst scripts, this list of .debs has been prefixed by > c for copy and l for link: > > l-tzdata_2007b-1_all.deb > l-tzdata_2008e-1etch3_all.deb > c-tzdata_2011k-

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:56:56PM +0100, Arno Lehmann, ITS wrote: > I have Etch running here, and the /etc/localtime file is not a symlink, nor > a hardlink to a zone file: > > TomBombadil:~# ls -lhi /etc/timezone /etc/localtime > 159667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 2020-11-14 18:27 /etc/localtime

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges > > still says: > > "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the > original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the > name of the timezone. If th

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:17:47PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > whereas /etc/timezone [1] is just the > global default for the (libc) applications to fall back to whenever they > don't have specified one. > > [1] Or whatever that thing may be called in systemd-land. Unless I'm gravely mistake

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:31:31PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Bear in mind that I was explaining my use of "all-UTC machine". > Were you to construct such a beast, I think the first thing you > might set, actively, is the RTC. You wouldn't just assume that > it was already set to UTC. > > What w

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:33:13PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >From one PC here currently booted: > # grep vmlinuz /boot/grub2/custom.cfg | wc -l > 21 > # grep root= /boot/grub2/custom.cfg | wc -l > 21 > # grep root=LABEL /boot/grub2/custom.cfg | wc -l > 21 Just for the record, grep -c (count mat

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 03:34:49PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > unforch it does not create them and in my recent experience it may run but > does not work without being able to log. That would be a bug, given that this stats directory is apparently optional. (It logs through syslog just fine with

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