Re: cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

2023-04-07 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 8 Apr 2023, at 03:20, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic > addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? > > The problem is: other buster machines on this local network can see and > use the two brother pri

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread davidson
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 07:06:28AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: On 08/04/2023 03:28, Emanuel Berg wrote: Andy Smith wrote: I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. But everythi

paragraph conversion (was Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?)

2023-04-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 davidson wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 Susmita/Rajib wrote: On 04/04/2023, davidson wrote: [trim] Attached (unless the listserv software has nuked it) is a sed script "flow" (with verbose comments) which might serve your needs. (Since you have not exhibited here any of the tex

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 11:38:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 07 Apr 2023 at 21:09:59 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > You folks keeping up with desktop environments are > > real heroes:-) > > It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it :). I gave up and ended at Fvwm in a big round ci

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 07:06:28AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > On 08/04/2023 03:28, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! > > > > Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. > > But everything else isn't as good

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 08:09:12PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:28:59PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! > > > > Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. > > But every

Re: what's $_ in bash

2023-04-07 Thread davidson
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 t...@myposts.ovh wrote: Hello in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? I'd be interested to learn as well. where defines it? In the meantime you can read in $ man bash under section "PARAMETERS", subheading "Shell Variables": Shell Variables The following variables are

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-07 Thread davidson
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 Michel Verdier wrote: Le 3 avril 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : Here's a bash version. It's not fast, but at least it doesn't invoke perl repeatedly. (If you're going to invoke perl *at all* you should simply rewrite the whole thing in perl, IMHO, or at worst have a short sh

what's $_ in bash

2023-04-07 Thread tom
Hello in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? where defines it? Thanks.

cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

2023-04-07 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? The problem is: other buster machines on this local network can see and use the two brother printers just as if the printer was local to that buster machin

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Alex King
See man crontab. There are 2 ways of maintaining your crontab: crontab [ -u user ] file ... The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some named file I.e. you can keep a file in your home directory (or anywhere,) update it and install it when changed using "

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread coreyh
On 08/04/2023 03:28, Emanuel Berg wrote: Andy Smith wrote: I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. But everything else isn't as good. The Language Wars Are Over: ChatGPT Won https://bourgoin.dev/posts/programming-langu

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Apr 2023 at 21:09:59 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:22:48PM +0200, B.M. wrote: > > [...] > > > PolicyKit got replaced by polkit (at least in current Debian Testing), > > and the "old" solution with setting AdminIdentities doesn't work > > anymore. Instead o

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/23, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >>> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. >> >> Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:28:59PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > > I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! > > Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. > But everything else isn't as good. > Every categorical generalisation is wrong. (Even th

Re: my immature thoughts on perl

2023-04-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
Andy Smith wrote: > I think you should use Ruby if you like Ruby better! Perl is the best language, maybe Lisp is the best language. But everything else isn't as good. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:22:48PM +0200, B.M. wrote: [...] > PolicyKit got replaced by polkit (at least in current Debian Testing), > and the "old" solution with setting AdminIdentities doesn't work > anymore. Instead one has to add a file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50- > default.rules as follows: >

Re: bounncy keyboard

2023-04-07 Thread zithro
On 07 Apr 2023 04:41, jeremy ardley wrote: My keybboard is getting bouncy agaain. I can swap it out under warranty but I wondered if there were some setting in Debian 11 to ignore the same character arriving too soon after the previous one? It should also not worry if two different character

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-07 Thread B.M.
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 11:04 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 8:36 AM B.M. wrote: > > > > I configured my system such that some users are in group sudo, but > > they are > > asked for the root password instead of just their user password by > > creating a > > file within /etc/

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 7/04/23 10:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private copy of their cronta

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. > > Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private > copy of their crontab in t

Re: bounncy keyboard

2023-04-07 Thread songbird
jeremy ardley wrote: > My keybboard is getting bouncy agaain. > > I can swap it out under warranty but I wondered if there were some > setting in Debian 11 to ignore the same character arriving too soon > after the previous one? > > It should also not worry if two different characters arrive clos

Re: bounncy keyboard

2023-04-07 Thread David Christensen
On 4/6/23 19:41, jeremy ardley wrote: My keybboard is getting bouncy agaain. I can swap it out under warranty but I wondered if there were some setting in Debian 11 to ignore the same character arriving too soon after the previous one? It should also not worry if two different characters arr