Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: > One external, all others on motherboard. Well! It appears to be the Belkin hub itself that's gone bad. I moved it to a port on the front panel and tried to sync my Treo 700p to jpilot. Nothing happened. But, the Treo sync'd from that same case port w

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > The motherboard has several hubs (and what ever other hubs you plugged > in externally), with several ports per hub. One external, all others on motherboard. > Based on above you have a bad port on hub 1 (with 3 ports, all "might" be > bad"). My bad

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread King Beowulf
On 06/20/2015 12:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > >> $ su -c "dmesg |grep hub" > >Intersting: > > [0.403093] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub > [7.667926] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > [7.667934] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected > [

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > $ su -c "dmesg |grep hub" Intersting: [0.403093] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [7.667926] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [7.667934] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [7.722944] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [7.722951] hub 2-0:

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread King Beowulf
On 06/20/2015 10:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > >> check "lsusb" to make sure scanner shows up, try abother usb port. > > Ed, > >Will check 'lsusb' Real Soon Now; only recently thought of the port being > an issue. > >Ever seen a small USB 4-port

Re: [PLUG] Download All PDF Files From Website

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Charles Sliger wrote: > This works better since a lot of files get specified with additional info > appended to the name. Otherwise wget will download the file and then > proceed to delete it. > > wget --convert-links -r -A "*.pdf*" -erobots=off http://www Charles, Do

Re: [PLUG] Download All PDF Files From Website

2015-06-20 Thread Charles Sliger
This works better since a lot of files get specified with additional info appended to the name. Otherwise wget will download the file and then proceed to delete it. wget --convert-links -r -A "*.pdf*" -erobots=off http://www On Sat, 2015-06-20 at 09:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >Perhap

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > check "lsusb" to make sure scanner shows up, try abother usb port. Ed, Will check 'lsusb' Real Soon Now; only recently thought of the port being an issue. Ever seen a small USB 4-port hub go bad? I suspect that I might have such an animal here. T

[PLUG] PLUG Clinic

2015-06-20 Thread dfhubbard
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Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread King Beowulf
On Saturday, June 20, 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: >Web searches and the Xsane documentation pages do not have the answer to > a new issue here. > >Using a laptop (Slackware-14.1_x64 fully up-to-date) with a built-in > camera in the lid and the external flatbed scanner turned on and connecte

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > What model scanner? Alan, Epson G860B. > Xsane looks for available scanners on load. The same version of Xsane on the server/workstation (also running Slackware-14.1) sees it immediately. That's why I was surprized that it did not see it

Re: [PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread alan
>Web searches and the Xsane documentation pages do not have the answer > to > a new issue here. > >Using a laptop (Slackware-14.1_x64 fully up-to-date) with a built-in > camera in the lid and the external flatbed scanner turned on and connected > via a USB port, Xsane sees only the camera a

[PLUG] Download All PDF Files From Website

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
Perhaps I'm the only one who did not know how to use wget to download multiple .pdf files from a website rather than the site itself. If others also have tried and failed this information may be useful. After reading the curl and wget man pages I tried various options to download ~50 .pdf fi

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Dale Snell wrote: > Argh... I meant the _source_ directory. (*sigh* not enough coffee.) The > remote host's path has to be absolute, or rsync won't know where subdir > and its files are. Dale, And that's what I provided (c.f. original post): 'rsync -avz srchost:/directo

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

2015-06-20 Thread Dale Snell
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:11:48 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506200708210.8143@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Dale Snell wrote: > > > If memory and my interpretation of the man page are correct (and > > neither may be, I've not had my morning caffeine yet), rsync >

[PLUG] Xsane Does Not Find Scanner

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
Web searches and the Xsane documentation pages do not have the answer to a new issue here. Using a laptop (Slackware-14.1_x64 fully up-to-date) with a built-in camera in the lid and the external flatbed scanner turned on and connected via a USB port, Xsane sees only the camera and not the sc

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Dale Snell wrote: > If memory and my interpretation of the man page are correct (and neither > may be, I've not had my morning caffeine yet), rsync requires you to > specify an absolute path for the destination. Hence > > rsync -avz host:/path/to/dir/subdir/ . > > should work

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

2015-06-20 Thread Dale Snell
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 05:44:24 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506200539350.8143@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >A question for you professional admins: what situation might > result in the command, 'rsync -avz host:directory/subdirctory/ .' > reporting that the directory/subdirectory d

[PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

2015-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
A question for you professional admins: what situation might result in the command, 'rsync -avz host:directory/subdirctory/ .' reporting that the directory/subdirectory does not exist on that host while the command, 'scp host:directory/subdirctory/* .' work like a charm? If I neglected to sp