Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup > > recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another > > gap separating man and info. > > Does it affect "ma

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Nov 2024 at 05:38:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to > look up fine details of a specific commands. > > I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having > spaces in it's name. Of course the system res

Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another gap separating man and info. Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually "less" is used as a pa

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread George at Clug
Stephen, Can you please provide a bit more detail and your setup. To me the issue maybe DNS record related, but I am not sure. I am guessing mail.stackmail.com certificate has expired or is self-signed? But I am not sure how to check this. Do you use any DNS caching on your computer? Can you t

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-27 Thread eben
On 11/26/24 01:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > But there are no icons left on the desktop - no more Portal, and none of > the utilities I downloaded were on my $PATH. > > How do the rest of you deal with all the user-added stuff that vanishes > when you do a fresh install? Are there some tricks I can

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24:25PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend fo

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. > [help and man] >> There's also 'info foo', which for some values

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a > > "knowledgeable user", is the entry: > > > > * has learned that learn doesn't help > > > > I have never

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. [help and man] > > There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more > helpful than either of the

Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

2024-11-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: My understanding is that a Linux file system is a hierachical structure starting with the root directory (/) which organises the directories and files. The files are stored on various devices which have identities such as /dev/sdxn,

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

2024-11-27 Thread Lee
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:27 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Curiosity got the better of me, so I installed "whois" and gave it a try. > > Below are the responses I get, for "$whois 191.96.36.56" and I tried a whois > on the ip in "%ERROR:201: access denied for 190.112.52.14" > > I wonder what this

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:50:33 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Where else might the errant string of DNA or RNA be hiding on my >computer? https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=31786 -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a > "knowledgeable user", is the entry: > > * has learned that learn doesn't help > > I have never managed to find out what 'learn' is supposed to have been. > No Linux or othe

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Chris Green
Eric S Fraga wrote: > And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about > commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any > interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to > present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manua

Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I think I might have contracted a virus, but I'm not sure. I am running Bookworm and have been using the Epyrus email client for some time now without any problems. Suddenly I am getting a popup that is quite insistent. I have run ClamTk on /home/comp and /opt/epyrus, both are clean. The so

help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about >> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any >> interaction with the Internet at all), the ma

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 11/27/24 à 15:18, Eric S Fraga a écrit : [...] the man command is available to present the manual pages There are also the fine info pages for most gnu software, notably the coreutils, and the /usr/share/doc directory for most other software. Best, -- yassine -- sysadm +213-779 06 06 23 h

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:55:10 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > First: cd is not a command, it is a shell builtin > (this is subtle, but important). It's both. You can even call it a "builtin command". > Second: even if cd were a "command", the splitting > of args at whitespace (among *a lot*

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/24 7:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for "Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org . Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *h

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Joe
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:36:44 +0100 wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark > > folder for "Debian Wikis". The first occupant > > is https://mywiki.wooledge.org . > > Greg's wiki i

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about > commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any > interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to > present the manual pages (dat

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manual in early unix days) for ind

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for > "Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org . Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *him* for it. > I've been a computer *user* fo

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/24 5:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look up fine details of a specific commands. I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having space

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look > up fine details of a specific commands. > > I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces in > it's name. Of course the system r

Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look up fine details of a specific commands. I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces in it's name. Of course the system responded > bash: cd: too many arguments DuckDuckGo led to [