Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

* Semih Ozlem [24-10/29=Tue 10:05 +0300]: > I switched to Debian 12 bookworm recently, and I am no longer able > to save or download files to usb drives from chrome or browsers, I > get the message Need permission to download. This did not use to be > the case when I was using Debian 11. What ca

Re: beeps and other sounds

* e...@gmx.us [24-10/22=Tue 11:06 -0400]: > On 10/18/24 21:14, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Another issue is that some newer motherboards might not even have the >> beeper physically installed. > > There is that. Fortunately you can buy them > cheaply. Well, tiny piezo things that do the job. Th

Re: popcon use?

* Lee [24-10/12=Sat 17:07 -0400]: > The bit with zless was worth the post. I'd been doing zcat foo.gz | more See `man lesspipe` for an even easier approach, allowing 'less foo.gz' to Just Work.

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Henrik Ahlgren [24-10/06=Sun 11:20 +0300]: > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: >> However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't >> usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of >> course SSDs are utterly silent. > > I wonder

Re: Reading an old HDD

>> https://storedbits.com says a 7200 RPM hard drive would normally consume >> 20-25W for 5-10 seconds during startup. It will then idle at around >> 6-8 watts. The average power consumption during read/write tasks >> will be around 8-12 watts, and the maximum can go

MAYBE SOLVED [WAS Reading an old HDD]

* Will Mengarini [24-10/03=Thu 19:57 -0700]: > I have a freshly installed Debian stable and I'm trying to read an > HDD from a previous machine. I put it into a disk enclosure that > connects to the new machine by USB and powered everything up, but the > stable Debian doesn&#

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Max Nikulin [24-10/05=Sat 12:51 +0700]: > On 05/10/2024 11:15, Will Mengarini wrote: >> * Max Nikulin [24-10/05=Sat 10:48 +0700]: >> >>> Try to connect the enclosure without the disk. It may appear >>> in lsusb output and may generate some journalctl logs. &

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Will Mengarini [24-10/04=Fri 20:10 -0700]: > * Ash Joubert [24-10/05=Sat 15:56 +1300]: >> On 2024-10-04 20:19, Will Mengarini wrote: >>>> - Do you see anything in "blkid" when the USB enclosure is attached? >>> Nothing changes. >>>> - Do

Re: Reading an old HDD

* basti [24-10/04=Fri 13:54 +0200]: > Am 04.10.24 um 04:57 schrieb Will Mengarini: >> I have a freshly installed Debian stable and I'm trying to read an >> HDD from a previous machine. I put it into a disk enclosure that >> connects to the new machine by USB and powe

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Hans [24-10/04=Fri 10:24 +0200]: > Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 04:57:19 CEST schrieb Will Mengarini: >> I have a freshly installed Debian stable and I'm trying to read an >> HDD from a previous machine. I put it into a disk enclosure that >> connects to the new

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Max Nikulin [24-10/05=Sat 10:48 +0700]: > On 04/10/2024 14:19, Will Mengarini wrote: >> * Ash Joubert [24-10/04=Fri 16:38 +1300]: >>> - Do you see anything in "journalctl -f" when you plug in the USB enclosure? >> >> No output when I unplug it and replug

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Ash Joubert [24-10/05=Sat 16:02 +1300]: > On 2024-10-04 20:43, Will Mengarini wrote: >> Now I realize that there may be an error LED blinking on the HDD. That may not have been an error LED; it's an LED on the PCB of the enclosure, and it may be intended to blink red whenever the

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Ash Joubert [24-10/05=Sat 15:56 +1300]: > On 2024-10-04 20:19, Will Mengarini wrote: >>> - Do you see anything in "blkid" when the USB enclosure is attached? >> Nothing changes. >>> - Do you see anything in "journalctl -f" when you plug in the U

Re: Reading an old HDD

* David Wright [24-10/03=Thu 22:44 -0500]: > On Thu 03 Oct 2024 at 20:26:55 (-0700), Will Mengarini wrote: >> The old HDD is mostly ext3; there was also an >> ext2 boot partition, and a swap partition. [...] > > Take a look at /dev/disk/... where the names of the next level

Re: Reading an old HDD

* Ash Joubert [24-10/04=Fri 16:38 +1300]: > On 2024-10-04 16:26, Will Mengarini wrote: >> The old HDD is mostly ext3; there was also an >> ext2 boot partition, and a swap partition. But >> the new Debian shows nothing new in `df`. Is >> there some other comman

Re: Reading an old HDD

-0500]: > which file system is the old hdd formated in ntfs? > > if so run in terminal > > sudo apt install ntfs-3g > > or use gparted to see the file system of the hdd > sudo apt install gparted > > On Thu, 2024-10-03 at 19:57 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: >

Reading an old HDD

I have a freshly installed Debian stable and I'm trying to read an HDD from a previous machine. I put it into a disk enclosure that connects to the new machine by USB and powered everything up, but the stable Debian doesn't see the new disk that is connected by USB. Is there some driver or packag

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* Felix Miata [24-09/15=Sun 22:01 -0400]: > Will Mengarini composed on 2024-09-15 16:12 (UTC-0700): > > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later > > figures it out, but by that time it's

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* Charles Curley [24-09/15=Sun 18:15 -0600]: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:12:45 -0700 > Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. > > Slow down. When you boot what? A Debian instal

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* David Christensen [24-09/15=Sun 17:13 -0700]: > On 9/15/24 16:12, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later > > figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell

BIOS unreadable at boot

I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst. The mobo is a Gigabyte B450M DS3H WIFI (rev 1.5), manual at <

Re: unwanted crontab message

Or ... disambiguate which Vim crontab -e is using, so it's not vim.tiny. * Will Mengarini [24-09/13=Fri 15:47 -0700]: > You are getting Vim error messages from a version of Vim that does > not support scripting (probably vim.tiny). That version is probably > installed on your sys

Re: unwanted crontab message

You are getting Vim error messages from a version of Vim that does not support scripting (probably vim.tiny). That version is probably installed on your system ALONG WITH a version that does support scripting, but cron does not have the scripting version of Vim on PATH. (Typically, your $HOME & ro

Printer recommendation (was: Just a simple question.)

* Ash Joubert [24-09/11=Wed 17:19 +1200]: > On 2024-09-11 12:18, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > My old HP is not working right and it is very old. I am looking at > > laser printers and have always favored HP. But, in saying that I am > > open to any brand. I always get an all in one model since i

Debian hardware: coping with Windows

netinst to a flash drive or CD-ROM are suddenly nontrivial: I need to get Debian's netinst using Windows, with whatever browser is there, then write it with Windows tools. So: (1) Will an HTTPS download in Windows suffice to get me an uncorrupted netinst? (Anything I need to know about &quo

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

* Greg Wooledge [24-06/29=Sa 22:48 -0400]: > Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears > *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts. "Upstream" was a misleading misnomer intended to refer to anything ... well, "upstream" of the OP's system

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

* Richard [24-06/30=Su 00:57 +0200]: > That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. Don't get yourself banned, Richard. Anybody else remember Erik Naggum?

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

Nobody has yet applauded this glorious implementation of the 1960s GOTO statement in *Bash*?! * Mario Marietto [24-05/13=Mo 13:37 +0200]: > function jumpto > { > label=$1 > cmd=$(sed -n "/$label:/{:a;n;p;ba};" $0 | grep -v ':$') > eval "$cmd" > exit > } Anyway, Ma

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

ppy "they did something". It would >>> *literally* break every single script that [...] * Alain D D Williams [24-02/23=Fr 10:07 +]: >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should >> we scour our systems looking for simil

Re: Useful Unix compatible commands

* Jonathan Matthew Gresham [24-02/25=Su 16:01 -0500]: > [...] I have been reading a Unix system administrators textbook. > ps -e > [...] > kill process > [...] > ls -R > [...] > If you know any more that can work on GNU compatible software or > Unix compatible software please indicate the commands

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:47:38PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: >> ~# LC_ALL=C apt install >> [... works on ...] all shells other than bash? csh, korn, dash, zsh ... * Greg Wooledge [24-02/13=Tu 15:59 -0500]: > [...] all the Bourne family shells [...] > > In csh, you need to use env. Like thi

Re: script/history

27;re back in the bash instance you ran 'script' from. When you ended the script & therefore the bash being run in that script, that bash wrote its commands to ~/.bash_history; but the bash you're running, which is the one you ran script from, hasn't read that ~/.bash_history.

reportbug - don't know what package to cite

re, I was able to reach the BIOS setup and on the advice from an expert on Debian User Forums ("lewulff"), installed Debian 11, D-11 is working great. lewulff said that he has noticed a difference in how Debian 12 vs. 11 works with UEFI. I believe that the developers will want to f

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

* Schwibinger Michael [23-05/14=Sun 09:32 +]: > This is not working: > https://tutorialforlinux.com/2021/03/06/step-by-step-driver-epson-et-m1100-et-m1120-ubuntu-20-04-installation/2/ We need to know what fails. Exactly what do you do, and what results does it produce? On Sun, May 07, 2023

Re: shell script run in backend

x27; tells the shell to run it in the background) if there is no terminal output from the running script (terminal output will pause it); if there is, enclose the content of the script in redirection of standard output and standard error to a log file, or code a system service as Jeremy Ardley suggests in a different reply.

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

* Brian [23-05/08=Mo 00:27 +0100]: > https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/14/48/15/1d37501ad39bd2b5753 \ > cce3b2715b3e2fef557/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.7.26-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb That includes a literal space in the middle of that hash (because the space before the backslash is taken lit

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

* cor...@free.fr [23-04/04=Tu 10:35 +0800]: > For instance, in ruby (irb) this is quite smooth: > irb(main):001:0> [1,2,3,4].map{|x|x+1}.reduce{|x,y|x+y} > => 14 > > And in scala (shell): > scala> List(1,2,3,4).map{ _+1 }.reduce{_+_} > res1: Int = 14 > In perl there is no interactive shell [...]

Re: Cannot rum multiple command on remote machine via SSH

* Greg Wooledge [23-02/04=Sa 10:15 -0500]: > Is LAP2 a Debian system, or something else? OP said LAP2 is Debian stable.

Re: Touchpad synaptics changes name after resume

* Ottavio Caruso [22-12/03=Sa 10:37 +]: > $ uname -a > Linux t440 6.0.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian > 6.0.3-1~bpo11+1 (2022-10-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I have two scripts that enable/disable touchpad > [running the commands] > xinput enable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" > xinp

Re: MUD

* Greg Wooledge [22-10/13=Th 08:03 -0400]: >> Originally, Multi-User Dungeon. >> >> http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/M/MUD.html >> >> The one that I saw was set up as a sort of user-extensible text >> adventure setting. I don't know how they've evolved since then. * mick.crane [22-10/13=Th 14:

Re: sigc++ library missing object.h file

* Greg Wooledge [22-10/08=Sa 12:45 -0400]: > > I did a google search and came up with > > which says: > > [...] Remove the sigc++/object.h header [...] Because it now contains no API > See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7

Re: question re tar

* jr [22-09/18=Su 12:59 +0100]: > When I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files > specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for > each and every file. Why? eg: > -rw--- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie > hrw--- jr/jr

Re: determining hotkeys for a program, without a manual?

* Karen Lewellen [22-08/21=Sun 13:30 -0400]: > I have a DOS utility [...]. Is there any simple way > to review the program code and discover 2 hot keys? Try running the binary through the 'strings' command to see whether there's any in-program documentation that helps: strings $pathToBinary|less

Re: Mail Transfer Agent

gt; > I don't want to pay a huge fee as I don't send much email. Maybe 10-20 > per day at most. > > I was looking on Postmark because it seems to have a good delivery ranking. > > I'd like a good email provider, as I ain't sure this (Postmark) will fix &g

Re: nft newbie

* gene heskett [22-07/06=We 18:50 -0400]: > [...] iptables is out of support, replaced I > guess with nft. [...] whats the command to [...] > > The man page while quite voluminus is as > usual mostly bereft of useful examples.

Perl CPAN Catch-22 + ADHD (was: How's ...)

* Weaver [22-07/04=Mo 00:43 -0700]: >>> ... your day going? * Will Mengarini [22-07/04=Mo 07:50 -0700]: >> Hairier than Gene Heskett's nostrils, because "up"grading Perl >> from 5.8.8 to 5.34.1 [caused a kind of failure normally fixed >> using the P

Re: How's ...

of bed and go to work. Because this is probably the best solution I will actually probably end up doing it myself unless somebody who has already done it can point me to a published script. It's so obvious that it's probably been done this way a dozen times over the decades, but the rea

Re: Problem with csh

On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: comp@AbNormal:~$ csh Bad : modifier in $ '/'. On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 03:31:12PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> Quick Google search shows it is an issue with the syntax of defining >> environment variables: >> https://s

Re: stopping job before shutdown.

* mick crane [22-06/29=We 13:31 +0100]: >>> [...] when turning off PC with power button >>> there is the message, "stopping job" [...] * gene heskett [22-06/29=We 09:08 -0400]: >> That method of stopping the pc is quite dangerous [...] * to...@tuxteam.de [22-06/29=We 16:46 +0200]: > [...] the

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and I cannot get firefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

le_folder_-_Firefox Let us know if the instructions you Google up are insufficient. > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." There are FIVE boxes to be used in defense of liberty: search, soap, ballot, j

Re: Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

* David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 19:18 -0700]: > [...] > Now I can almost match your prompt -- there is a dash before 'bash': > > 2022-06-02 19:05:10 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > $ PS1="\\h/${TTY#/dev/} \\s$SHLVL \\w \\A \$?\\\$" > laalaa/pts/8 -bash1 ~ 19:08 0$ > > The dash seems to be coming from the '\s

Re: Bash and the PS1 environment variable [was: grep: show matching line from pattern file]

* David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 18:01 -0700]: >On 6/2/22 17:12, Will Mengarini wrote: >> * David Christensen [22-06/02=Th 15:50 -0700]: >>> On 6/2/22 15:13, Will Mengarini wrote: > >>>> In this transcript, the numbe

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

* David Christensen [22-06/02=Thu 15:50 -0700]: > On 6/2/22 15:13, Will Mengarini wrote: >> * Greg Wooledge [22-05/28=Sa 17:11 -0400]: >>> [...] >>> #!/usr/bin/perl >>> use strict; use warnings; >>> [...] >>> open PATS, ">> [...] &

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

* Greg Wooledge [22-05/28=Sa 17:11 -0400]: > [...] > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; use warnings; > [...] > open PATS, " [...] You need "or die", not "|| die", because of precedence: what you coded checks whether " perl -le"print unpack '%C*',MENGARINI"

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

ou all buy parts? Alternatives to Newegg? -- Will Mengarini Free software: the Source will be with you, always.

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

* Samuel Wales [22-03/20=Su 23:03 -0700]: > [...] i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. Nobody has yet mentioned the festival package, which is a full text-to-speech system. Once you have that installed, you can use cron or at jobs to speak whatever you want at specific times.

Re: bashrc problem

* Yamada??? [22-01/12=We 20:10 +0800]: > Do you mean if .bash_profile exists, .bashrc will be ignored? Sometimes. From `man bash`: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the f

Re: bashrc problem

urrent/bin/scala > > How can I make it take effect automatically after I login the system? Check whether you have either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile. If ~/.bash_profile, the line . ~/.bashrc will suffice. If ~/.profile, use # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

Gnome default application reset after apt-get upgrade

Greetings, This has been an annoyance/issue for a while - at least for me - and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this? The problem: after an apt-get update/upgrade, the Default Applications for "Web" in Gnome will somehow switch to Thunderbird from Firefox through no dire

Re: A .profile puzzle

* Gene Heskett [21-10/17=Su 12:18 -0400]: > [...] opening a terminal hasn't called > a ". .profile" since about jessie [...] Check whether you *also* have either .bash_profile or .bash_login, because either of those supersedes .profile: ls -lA ~/.bash_{profile,login}

Re: Debian unstable - tracking the latest Firefox release?

Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19 2021 at 03:51:17 PM, Will wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm on Debian unstable. Firefox is currently stuck on 88.x. Was there a > > reason unstable wasn't tracking against later releases? The latest > release > >

Debian unstable - tracking the latest Firefox release?

Greetings, I'm on Debian unstable. Firefox is currently stuck on 88.x. Was there a reason unstable wasn't tracking against later releases? The latest release for Firefox is - AFAICT - version 92. Not in a rush to get to version 92, but I've noticed it's lagged behind recently. :) Thanks, -W

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

* Albretch Mueller [21-07/01=Th 01:59 -0400]: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number > <-> glyph for each language. From where can I get them? Does have what you want? If not, try `locate kmap`.

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

d, and colorful life! -- Will Mengarini Free software: the Source will be with you, always. perl -le"print unpack '%C*',MENGARINI"

Print drivers for Canon Imageprograf Pro-300?

generic Postcript Level 3, CUPS, or similar driver for it I may end up contacting the Turbo Print folks to see if they're working on a pro-300 driver, but I figured it couldn't hurt to hit up this list as well. :) Thanks in advance, Will

Re: How to view a troff formatted file?

Your groff command references $o but your script sets no value for it, so $o is either empty or inherited from your environment. * Alain D D Williams [21-02/22=Mo 12:58 +]: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 06:04:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I have downloaded a program with a man-page in trof

Re: iptables -Z option

echo flush > # Flush all rules in all chains and then delete all chains > chains=`cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names 2>/dev/null` > for i in $chains; do $IPTABLES -t $i -F; done > for i in $chains; do $IPTABLES -t $i -X; done > echo counters > # Reset all counters for default chains &g

Re: po...@lists.debian.org

a Usenet server] -- that is, 1 MIPS > and and a megabit/second of bandwidth will do pretty well. > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill. -- Will Mengarini @nypost: New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth. @ChuckWendig: Honestly, do you blame it? -- teh Internet

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

based on Googling escape sequences for mintty, but is untested since I don't run mintty. The second is most likely to work if you run the 'screen' application inside mintty, then control the cursor from inside screen. It's possible that the first solution, for raw mintty, wil

Re: rsync --delete

* Mike McClain [20-10/16=Fr 17:09 -0500]: > [...] A section of the backup script is so: > Params=(-a --inplace --delete); > [...] > echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude . > $Flash/mike Try this to be sure your shell is doing what you think: debian/pts/14 bash ~ 2

Real bounces from debian-user

f that could magically translate into some URL, it doesn't help ipso facto, because it comes from mail I *did* get; I need the URLs for mail I *didn't* get. SUMMARY: How can I either: - Retrieve all my recent debian-user bounces, or a list thereof; or: - Minimizing web traffic, retrieve a

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

re is no alternative if truly >> open and accepting collaboration is to flourish in Freedomland. >> >> [...] And you will have to send me some links to videos of >> this Community band, because I have never ever heard of them >> but I'm really into all kinds of zomb

Re: waaay offtopic

* Gene Heskett [20-05/27=We 14:48 -0400]: > I need [...] to make a video call before the doc will renew the > prescription for pro-air thats keeping her alive. COPD, end stage. FYI, Medicare and Medicaid now (as of April 30) reimburse audio-only visits at the same rate as video visi

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

ly create a gig or so of space by a shrink/resize > of /home, but how do I add that space to /dev/sda2? > > I can't just move up the end of /dev/sda2 = start of > /dev/sda3 without backing up and restoring, can I? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Consider the time you

Re: scp overwriting precaution?

* Greg Marks [20-02/26=We 21:48 -0600]: > [...] if I accidentally copy an older version of > a file on my laptop to a newer version of the > file on my server, the newer version is lost. > > Is it possible to configure my server so that [it creates a > backup on the server of any existing file tha

Re: Jittery desktop mode.

* Peter Easthope [20-01/19=Su 17:36 -0600]: > [...] components in the desktop begin flashing [...] > indicator in the center of the screen rapidly cycles > [...] seems to be triggered by a mouse click [...]. At > present I wouldn't know what to file a bug report against. This seems more like an

Re: automounting sshfs

* Rainer Dorsch [20-01/18=Sa 23:38 +0100]: > ls: cannot access '/home/spatzen/Ablage/': Too many levels of symbolic links Whenever I've seen this, it's been because some symlink is referring (possibly indirectly) to itself. So find ~/Ablage -type l could be used to find all symlinks, and fin

Re: I need to be root to run this script

* l0f...@tuta.io [20-01/15=We 01:19 +0100]: >> ls -R /etc/sudoers.dcat /etc/sudoers >> ls -l /usr/local/bin/backlight-brightness * kaye n [20-01/15=Wed 10:57 +0800]: > [...] > kaye@laptop:~$ ls -R /etc/sudoers.dcat /etc/sudoers > [...] l0f4r0's commands were missing a newline. These were the

Re: I need to be root to run this script

* l0f...@tuta.io [20-01/15=We 01:19 +0100]: >>> ls -R /etc/sudoers.dcat /etc/sudoers >>> ls -l /usr/local/bin/backlight-brightness * kaye n [20-01/15=We 10:57 +0800]: >> [...] >> kaye@laptop:~$ ls -R /etc/sudoers.dcat /etc/sudoers >> [...] * Will Mengarini

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

uld like stand-alone programs. This would absolutely > minimize any typing, and if the programs had a set of good conventions, > then they would provide a model for writing others if the functions i want > are not already available in perl (or other interpreter). > > Thanks again f

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

A general solution to problems like this is to run the alternate instance as a different user. Example: adduser doppel # also creates /home/doppel sudo -u doppel konqueror # may use /home/doppel for new config files * D. R. Evans [19-09/05=Thu 10:08 -0600]: > Dan Ritter wrote on 9/5/19 9:36

Re: Shell Script Help

* Patrick Bartek [19-05/04=Sa 08:08 -0700]: > [...] Perform an operation on files in unique, sequential > directories [...] never more than 99 -- usually a lot > less. The actual number will vary job to job. [...] If the sequentially-numbered directories already exist: `man find` El

Re: Paypal and Linux in a low graphics environment.

<http://edbrowse.org/static/>; instead of asking your administrator to set it up, you can just download the 32-bit or 64-bit binary into your <~/bin> (which is presumably in your $PATH) and run it. I have done this and it works, but I have not tried PayPal. That installation will n

Re: Help me Linux

> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. > I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and > experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me! Studying <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

Utilites for probing blu-ray/dvd drive?

re as well? Any pointers are appreciated. :) Thanks, Will

Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]

* Ionel Mugurel Ciobica [18-02/18=Su 16:55 +0100]: > [... How can something like > "III\nII\nI\nV\nIV\nVII\nVI\nVIII\nX\nIX" > [be sorted? ...] See `aptitude show msort`; it probably does what you need.

Re: sudo

* Josh W. [17-11/08=We 14:56 -0600]: > I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo. Not sure of the > process. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! sudo adduser beeblebrox sudo # man adduser

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

put more meaningful. > Compiling the src reminded me of years ago when I used to compile the > Linux kernel - an agonizingly long procedure, but it finally finished. I find it helps to keep reminding myself that computers save time. -- Will Mengarini Free software:

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

beyond being deterministic or even vaguely testable. When the heavy hand of government is starting to look preferable to market forces, we're in truly-late-stage capitalism. (1) I am not a crook. (2) America does not torture. (3) Don't be evil. -- Will Mengarini Free software: the Source will be with you, always. js<<<'n=0;for(i=0;i<9;++i){n+="MENGARINI".charCodeAt(i)};print(n)'

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

* Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...] >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...] * deloptes [17-11/01=We 09:23 +0100]: > [...] OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs root access. It seems more likely that he was talking about

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

fy as needed if you're using some other vi than Vim, or some other shell than Bash. -- Will Mengarini Free software: the Source will be with you, always.

No live CD ISOs without GUI desktops?

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ lists many ISOs, but all have graphic desktops, so none would fit on a 650 MB CD-ROM, of which I have lots; I don't have larger media. The situation for the amd64 architecture is identical. https://www.debian.org/distrib/ points to

ioctl does not respect I2C_RDWR_IOCTL_MAX_MSGS (42)

According to http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/uapi/linux/i2c-dev.h#L69 the I2C_RDWR_IOCTL_MAX_MSGS is set to 42 yet calling ioctl with more than 2 messages returns without error, but only the first 2 messages are processed.

Re: Update to Sid, and cannot compile Nvidia module; PIC mode?

Hey Dirk. Thank you! That worked, it compiles! And I don't have to get my hands dirty with a patch. :) On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Dirk Laebisch wrote: > > Anyone else run into this on Sid very recently? Any hints or pointers? > > Yup. > Providing some compile flags in: > /usr/src/linux

Update to Sid, and cannot compile Nvidia module; PIC mode?

r version 367.44. -> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 367.44). As part of installing this driver (version: 367.44), the existing driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation) -> Would you like

Re: Have I been hacked?

Hello!! While I am not an expert on the other issues on your machine, I would recomend a wipe and a clean reinstall. Those root files with the random characters are what an asian language font typing system rendered into the standard qwerty would look like (lots of experience). My quick gut instin

Re: Multiarch apt-get install removes packages?

On 2014-09-05 13:36, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Will Payne wrote: Hiya, Can anyone throw any light on why installing ia32-libs has removed important packages from my server? During a puppet run, puppet ran the command.. /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg

Multiarch apt-get install removes packages?

Hiya, Can anyone throw any light on why installing ia32-libs has removed important packages from my server? During a puppet run, puppet ran the command.. /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install ia32-libs .. and apt removed things like postgres and puppet from the

Re: Here's how to make yourself happier

can precede the alternatives: :0: * !^From:Will Mengarini * 2147483646^0 * 1^0 ^From:.*naturalli...@dcemail.com * 1^0 ^From:.*arnoldb...@cosmicemail.com * 1^0 ^From:.*usspookslovesys...@muchomail.com * 1^0 ^From:.*fredw...@mail.ru * -2147483646^0 $JUNK -- Will Mengarini Free

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

to Wheezy. > We have also delayed upgrading the rest of our servers until this gets > fixed. > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Scott Ferguson < > scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 04/07/13 00:30, Will Platnick wrote: >> > More trouble

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