Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 03:30:53 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-06-14 15:43:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:56 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > No issues with iwlist and nmcli. > > > > /usr/sbin/wpa_gui and /sbin/wpa_cli should both give sensible outputs > > when

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 23:25:32 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages we

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 18:20:15 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/14/22 13:25, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > > > I appear

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-06-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-06-14 19:17:01 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: [MaxStartups limit] > In the case where I hit it it was a cron job starting an ssh connection > from multiple machines - 'out of hours' where 'convenience' was more > valuable than 'performance'. Note that I get the errors at random times of the day

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-06-14 15:43:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:56 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > No issues with iwlist and nmcli. > > /usr/sbin/wpa_gui and /sbin/wpa_cli should both give sensible outputs > when run as root. For security reasons, I don't want to run them as root. The

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread gene heskett
On 6/14/22 13:25, David Wright wrote: On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> permissions wall. > > SHOW.

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread IL Ka
Old printer connected via LPT port was accessed using /dev/lpt Because several processes shouldn't print at the same time, there was a spooler called lpd and the client tool called lpr. https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_system_administration/linux_printer_HOWTO/setup_002.html On Tue,

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/14/2022 4:59 PM, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? If you want to do this

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? Greg Wooledge wrote: > lprng was the most commo

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Klaus Singvogel
pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? LPRng was the most common printing spooler before

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:59:36PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? lprng w

Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread paulf
Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: ht

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 19:03:47 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > > Kmail5 is buggier than road kill in June, but t-bird is more like > August, so > > I'm looking for a mailer that actually works. tbirds sort filters > don't, and > > they think everybody uses only html, so word wrap doesn't work So I

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-06-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-06-07 17:19:12 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I eventually did a packet capture on the client side as I was able to reproduce the problem. When it occurs, I get the following sequence: Client ? Server: [

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 12:22:05 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort o

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:22:05PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sor

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> > permissions wall. > > SHOW. US. > > I got tired of fighti

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:56 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-06-11 19:10:09 +0800, lou wrote: > > On 6/11/22 7:00 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > > > You are associating with a wireless access point. You must be using > > > wpasupplicant. Have you tried installing wpagui? > > > > Thanks, wpag

Re: Needless DNS queries

2022-06-14 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Thanks to everybody, who replied. After some more reading and tinkering I've made the following observations: The response code NXDOMAIN means: domain name did not resolve. In this case the search option becomes important. Whenever a domain name does not resolve, the client's resolver (at least i

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-06-11 19:10:09 +0800, lou wrote: > On 6/11/22 7:00 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > You are associating with a wireless access point. You must be using > > wpasupplicant. Have you tried installing wpagui? > > Thanks, wpagui seems to work for me. wpagui doesn't work at all for me. It doesn't show

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-06-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-06-07 17:19:12 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I eventually did a packet capture on the client side as I was able to > > reproduce the problem. When it occurs, I get the following sequence: > > > > Client ? Server: [SYN] Seq=0 > > Server ? Client:

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:55:04 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: Hello Russell, >I've gotten lazy because I seldom have a problem with Synaptic. IKWYM. Despite Synaptic being looked down on in some quarters, I find it very capable. Especially when it comes to dependency issue resolution. >enoug

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:46:02 -0500 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >While I would generally concur, I would not advise, for example, >performing the monthly firefox upgrade while the browser is running. I've never had issues doing that (admittedly, not with ff, but other browsers); The browse