Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 00:33, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/03/2021 09:15, George N. White III wrote: > > > > > > The Changelog at britty.com for the 6.3 release says > > the systemd component was changed to create the brlapi group if it > > doesn't exist, so the same

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

for Fedora usersSubject: Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 18:25, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:On 04/03/2021 04:12, George N. White III wrote:> Yes -- that is what how I understood the situation.   The brltty devs  mainta

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 04/03/2021 09:15, George N. White III wrote: The Changelog at britty.com for the 6.3 release says the systemd component was changed to create the brlapi group if it doesn't exist, so the same functionality as the script.  Maybe the change was a response to systems that

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 18:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/03/2021 04:12, George N. White III wrote: > > Yes -- that is what how I understood the situation. The brltty devs > maintain Debian and > > RedHat packages with different post-install while creating groups with > systemd should > > work

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 04/03/2021 04:12, George N. White III wrote: Yes -- that is what how I understood the situation.   The brltty devs  maintain Debian and RedHat packages with different post-install while creating groups with systemd should work across distros (but the step to move the creation so systemd is

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 15:49, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/03/2021 02:07, George N. White III wrote: > > I'm not sure how dnf would be able to add a user to those groups or flag > the need to do that. > > In the event that what I wrote was ambiguous I just want to clarify what I > was attempting to

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 04/03/2021 02:07, George N. White III wrote: I'm not sure how dnf would be able to add a user to those groups or flag the need to do that. In the event that what I wrote was ambiguous I just want to clarify what I was attempting to say. Installs of brlapi and brltty packaged by fedora (as

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 13:19, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Dear Ed, > > > I found another way, really randomly: I just needed to add myself to the > groups brlapi and brltty, which i did already, but didn't work, but now it > does, maybe because i added myself to brltty as well, thanks for

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Dear Ed, I found another way, really randomly: I just needed to add myself to the groups brlapi and brltty, which i did already, but didn't work, but now it does, maybe because i added myself to brltty as well, thanks for everything. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/3/21 2:57 PM, Ed Greshko

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 03/03/2021 21:47, Francisco Tissera wrote: I actually need to install this specific package from brltty.com because I know for a fact that the upgraded version, 6.3, works pretty well. Then you should remove the brlapi-0.8.0-11.fc33 package and any other associated fedora supplied

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions On 03/03/2021 21:04, Francisco Tissera wrote:I kind of think I do need brlapi, but when i try to install it with the rpm -i command as sudoer, this happens.     file /usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybba.so from install of brltty-braille-br lapi-6.3-1

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 03/03/2021 21:04, Francisco Tissera wrote: I kind of think I do need brlapi, but when i try to install it with the rpm -i  command as sudoer, this happens.     file /usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybba.so from install of brltty-braille-br lapi-6.3-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Dear George and Edd, Thanks for all the suggestions, I've been reading them, but only now I got around to installing version 6.3 of BRLTTY. I installed every rpm eccept the source, cause, and brlapi. I kind of think I do need brlapi, but when i try to install it with the rpm -i command as

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 03/03/2021 20:20, George N. White III wrote: Apparently the Fedora package doesn't create a group needed by brltty (a capability added in 6.3). The online docs mention a group with user-defined name (for access to a "key") as well as setgid. I'm not sure if there is more than one group

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 16:05, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera > wrote: > > > > Dear George, > > > > Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then. > > >

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 02/03/2021 17:54, Francisco Tissera wrote: Did i do something wrong? Also, there is a mailing list devoted to brltty here https://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty They may have greater knowledge in this area. -- People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one.

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera mailto:audiogamer2...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear George, Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then. Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Dear George, > > > > Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then. > > Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to download > the source rpm as well? Brltty.com lists both, and so I don’t know how to >

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

well. > > Thanks again. > > Best regards. > > Francisco. > > **From:**[George N. White III][] > **Sent:**Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:45 PM > **To:**[Community support for Fedora users][] > **Subject:**Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions > &

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

introduction, and some curiosities/questions On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 05:30, Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2...@gmail.com> wrote:Dear ed, How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs.The Changelog for version 6.3 -- Fedora 33 provides 6.1 (January 28

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 05:30, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Dear ed, > > > How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i > don't understand the sintacs. > The Changelog for version 6.3 -- Fedora 33 provides 6.1 (January 28, 2021) -- has: Systemd changes: The brlapi

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 02/03/2021 17:54, Francisco Tissera wrote: I inserted the line brlapi:x:1010:francisco to the end of the file /etc/group with Nano as sudoer, and when i type groups, I apparently am in the brlapi group, but i still get this error for some odd reason. Did i do something wrong? By this

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Dear Ed, I inserted the line brlapi:x:1010:francisco to the end of the file /etc/group with Nano as sudoer, and when i type groups, I apparently am in the brlapi group, but i still get this error for some odd reason. Did i do something wrong? Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 10:40

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 02/03/2021 17:29, Francisco Tissera wrote: How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Well You can add the line brlapi:x:975: to the file. But, just make sure that 975 is unique. Or, you can use the "groupadd" command.

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Dear ed, How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Thanks again. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 10:20 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: I'll paste below the output that the command you

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 02/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: I'll paste below the output that the command you suggested gave me, there's something disturbing indeed in that command, that I didn't try till you  suggested it. systemctl status brltty ● brltty.service - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix   

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Dear Ed, I'll paste below the output that the command you suggested gave me, there's something disturbing indeed in that command, that I didn't try till you suggested it. systemctl status brltty ● brltty.service - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix Loaded: loaded

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 02/03/2021 15:09, Francisco Tissera wrote: Thanks for the link to the Redhat docs regarding accessibility, it worked. I just needed to authorize my local user and root user so BRLTTY could be enabled under them and used. Now though another problem arises. There’s this problem with this

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

answers.Best regards.FranciscoFrom: Ed GreshkoSent: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:09 AMTo: users@lists.fedoraproject.orgSubject: Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions On 01/03/2021 15:49, Francisco Tissera wrote:> > I don’t know what though, and I can say that with the other distores i

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 03:49, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Good day everybody, > > > > I’m Francisco, and I’m a blind high school kid who just recently started > using Fedora 33 Workstation, both for fun, and hopefully, with guidance > from you guys, for actual day to day school work. > > I have a

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

On 01/03/2021 15:49, Francisco Tissera wrote: I don’t know what though, and I can say that with the other distores it just worked out of the box. So my question is, has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know a solution to this, for me, huge deal? Using brltty 6.1, the one that

A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

Good day everybody, I’m Francisco, and I’m a blind high school kid who just recently started using Fedora 33 Workstation, both for fun, and hopefully, with guidance from you guys, for actual day to day school work.I have a little bit of experience using Linux. I started with Ubuntu 3 or so months

[389-users] Re: Introduction & few notes

Le 20/08/2019 à 02:22, William Brown a écrit : > > Hello fellow Australian! Austria, not Australia. No kangaroos here. :o) > > As for the setup - you may notice the Centos7 doesn't match the port389 > quickstart as those tools are part of 1.4.x. Today you can get those through: > > * Fedora

[389-users] Re: Introduction & few notes

Le 19/08/2019 à 11:24, Marc Muehlfeld a écrit : > If you are interested in single sign-on, automount, etc., FreeIPA (aka > "Identity Management" in Red Hat) might be interesting for you. FreeIPA is a bit dependency-heavy. I gave it a spin a few years back, and it draws in a whole kitchen sink of

[389-users] Re: Introduction & few notes

full-blown online course in food biochemistry. > > The QuickStart page sports a link "If you want to learn more about what > ldap is, you should read our “ldap concepts” guide." So I clicked on > that but unfortunately the link is dead. I admit I have yet to find a > compre

[389-users] Re: Introduction & few notes

what we > can improve, please let me know (or open a ticket: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Directory%20Server > ) > > > > > > The QuickStart page sports a link "If you want to learn more about what > > ldap is, you should read o

[389-users] Re: Introduction & few notes

want to learn more about what ldap is, you should read our “ldap concepts” guide." So I clicked on that but unfortunately the link is dead. I admit I have yet to find a comprehensive introduction to LDAP that is suitable for folks like me with an IQ below 200. It's not a short introduction,

[389-users] Introduction & few notes

for a receipt for pasta bolognese and getting a full-blown online course in food biochemistry. The QuickStart page sports a link "If you want to learn more about what ldap is, you should read our “ldap concepts” guide." So I clicked on that but unfortunately the link is dead. I admit I h

Re: Introduction

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Cheers, Cheers. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Introduction

Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat, a small village in South France. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since Slackware 7.1 (around 2001). I've been using Slackware and Debian mostly for a few years, then I started working for the local town hall and a dozen public libraries around here, to

Re: Introduction

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I'm an Austrian ...[snip] Great to know about you. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Introduction

Niki Kovacs writes: Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat, a small village in South France. Hi Niki, Welcome aboard! PS: you should try the Gnome version as well. It's how Centos 6 will probably look like ;-) -- Nux! www.nux.ro -- users mailing list

Re: Introduction

On 17 August 2010 13:25, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Niki Kovacs writes: Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat, a small village in South France. Hi Niki, Welcome aboard! PS: you should try the Gnome version as well. It's how Centos 6 will probably look like ;-) If you like

Re: Introduction

Le mercredi 18 août 2010 01:56:17, suvayu ali a écrit : If you like lightweight desktops, I would recommend XFCE or LXDE. I use XFCE myself, it has all the conveniences of a modern desktop with none of the intensive stuff. It comes with a very decent collection of default apps too. :)