Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF (addendum)

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
I got this information from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line[1] where are shown other ways, too. Best Hans [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line

[SOLVED] [ADDENDUM] image from VGA output on JVC camera; was: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2022-05-26 Thread peter
Currently camera output is displayed by qv4l2 and transferred to GIMP using File > Create > Screenshot. GIMP allows annotation of the image and export as JPG or PNG. Probably there's a more direct way to acquire the image from the Inogeni adapter into GIMP; ie. skip display with qv4l2. If GIMP

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:36:10 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > That makes me curious about what has been done to your system, which > is clearly behaving differently from mine. "su" with no arguments > preserves the environment, but "su -" establishes a new environment > and launches a login shell.

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-11 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 06:37:04PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > root@joule:~# su peter > > peter@joule:~$ firefox-esr --display=:0 > > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: > > Connection refused > > Error: cannot open display: :0 > >

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-11 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 07:36:10AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: [...] > > So I expect that something has already done the export for me, and it > > is unnecessary. > > unicorn:~$ echo "$XAUTHORITY" > /home/greg/.Xauthority > unicor

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Interesting. I routinely log in as my non-root user, charles, and then > 'su -', which gets me a root shell. I can then run X programs just > fine. So your comment above got me curious. > > charles@jhegaala:~/Desktop$ su - > Passwor

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:27:22 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > In the more usual scenario, you have started X as peter, and then used > su to become root. It is precisely at this point where the X auth > token has become lost, as it's in the home directory of peter, not > the home directory of root.

Re: addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 06:37:04PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > root@joule:~# su peter > peter@joule:~$ firefox-esr --display=:0 > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: > Connection refused > Error: cannot open display: :0 > > peter, logged in directly, can

addendum, Re: One-user system.

2022-02-10 Thread peter
From: David Wright Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:08:28 -0600 Message-Id: > You may hit snags. Some programs might refuse to run, or do > strange things because they're written to distinguish between > root and an ordinary user. After 5+ days, hit one snag. root@joule:~# su peter peter@jou

[ADDENDUM] Re: Howto disable automounting of all removeable media

2021-05-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/16/2021 06:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/15/2021 11:52 AM, davidson wrote: [snip] For me, the first hit on duckduckgo.com with search terms   automount "Richard Owlett" site:lists.debian.org was your reply to that message. I've never thought to use *my name* as a keyword when lo

CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl, addendum

2020-01-18 Thread jeremy bentham
The drive also does not respond to the physical control on the case. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com

Re: [ADDENDUM] File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

2018-01-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Jan 2018 at 05:37:15 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/01/2018 05:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > As user "richard" I created 3 files. > > I later wanted to protect them totally from accidental change. > > For each file, I went to Properties->Permissions and changed Access for > > Ow

Re: [ADDENDUM] File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

2018-01-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Jan 2018 at 05:37:15 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/01/2018 05:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > As user "richard" I created 3 files. > > I later wanted to protect them totally from accidental change. > > For each file, I went to Properties->Permissions and changed Access for > > Ow

[ADDENDUM] File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

2018-01-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/01/2018 05:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: As user "richard" I created 3 files. I later wanted to protect them totally from accidental change. For each file, I went to Properties->Permissions and changed Access for Owner, Group, and Others to "Read Only". As user "richard" I was able to delete

Addendum Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

2017-05-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/03/2017 12:34 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/03/2017 10:13 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:57:09 AM Richard Owlett wrote: The man page for find confuses me. Looking for explanatory material I found and tried to follow examples in http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Usi

Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax - ADDENDUM

2014-06-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 June 2014 11:13:21 ken wrote: > On 06/07/2014 04:11 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with > >> two immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the > >>

Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax - ADDENDUM

2014-06-07 Thread ken
On 06/07/2014 04:11 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with two immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the device and network in question. I am trying to do my "homework

Re: Networking an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax - ADDENDUM

2014-06-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:35:14 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Two questions. And yes, I am googling and RTFMing, but I am left with two > immediate questions. And as of now I have not got access to the device and > network in question. I am trying to do my "homework" in advance. > > The AIO in question

Re: upgrade? broke exim4 [SOLVED] Addendum

2014-06-05 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:13:59PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > Back in February I ran across a note on the Debian Wiki that turning > off ipv6 would speed up Iceweasel which is a real dog on dialup. With > that in mind I put this 'net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1' in > /etc/sysctl.conf. >

Re: custom HDD powermangement not working anymore - addendum

2013-08-20 Thread Dexter Filmore
Forgot: the pwrwatch script is called from cron every 15 minutes. Am Tuesday 20 August 2013 22:29:38 schrieb Dexter Filmore: > Hi, > > I wasn't too happy with the HDD power mangement so I wrote the script below > tailored to my needs. Basically, it looks for activity on the device and if > there

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive [addendum]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
little too old to handle a large drive. Sorry - addendum to my previous post... You'll need to run mkswap on the new drive while still mounted under the Live CD. Though it will still run anyway.. Cheers -- “We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase abou

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-02 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 21:06:26 +0100, AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: Hello

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 21:06:26 +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: >>> AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I am attempting to get Tor and P

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 15:33:12 -0700, wauhugo At yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: >>> >>> sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' >>> tcp

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread AG
wauh...@yahoo.com wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: [...] When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN19186/t

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread wauh...@yahoo.com
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: [...] When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 19186/tor tcp6 0 0 ::

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors.

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: > AG wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: >>> Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

2009-06-01 Thread AG
ork on my previous installation. The bad news is that it did so without me having to do a lot of fiddling around ... so I have no idea how to fix this issue. Thank you. AG Sorry - addendum. When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: sudo netstat -plant | grep -E

Re: Scim does not work with openoffice - addendum

2009-02-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 25 January 2009 20:30:24 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Please let me know if you catch some more information about how you > granddaughter does. It works in OpenOffice.org too. (I was so sure that it wouldn't that I hadn't remembered to check!!) :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Webalizer Seizes to work after a cronjob addendum

2008-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Marvin L. Magsino: > > it says /var/log/apache2/access.log.1 could not be read. > i checked the /var/log/apache2/ and found out that only access.log exists. i > guess it is not generating access.log.1 because of the crontab i made. Usually, the program logrotate moves access.log to access.log

Webalizer Seizes to work after a cronjob addendum

2008-04-21 Thread John Marvin L. Magsino
Good Day, I am kinda newbie to Linux and I was wondering if someone could help me. i have setup a Debian box running etch 4.0 r2 via netinstal. installed apache2 php5 mysql webalizer and munin. I did a cronjob that will shutdown the box @ 1 am. and booted the computer via BIOS config @ 6 am. i chec

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [addendum]

2007-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:24:00PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of > > events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I > > do, I forget to run ssh-

Re: Need help with re-install on a old SCSI Debian box (addendum to earlier reply)

2005-07-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:31:59AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have an old computer which I have been using as a print/file server. > > This afternoon there was an abrupt power outage. When the power returned > > this old computer would not boot up. Instead, the disk drive

Re: addendum (corrected)

2005-07-21 Thread Mike
Marco Weber wrote: yes you need umask as well... so the complete example would be: mkdir /home/agroup chgrp agroup /home/agroup chmod -R 6774 /home/agroup cd /home/agroup umask 002 marco weber Thanks, Maybe I am not understanding something here. If I do that or what the other person po

addendum (corrected)

2005-07-20 Thread Marco Weber
yes you need umask as well... so the complete example would be: mkdir /home/agroup chgrp agroup /home/agroup chmod -R 6774 /home/agroup cd /home/agroup umask 002 marco weber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

addendum

2005-07-19 Thread Marco Weber
just came to my mind... yes you need umask as well... so the complete example would be: mkdir /home/agroup chgrp agroup /home/agroup chmod -R 6774 /home/agroup cd /home/agroup chmod 002 of course, otherwise the group won't get write permission... marco weber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions (addendum)

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:14:33PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | Here are some solutions to the exim/auth/pam problem. Here's some more info I should have included in the last message, if I had remembered before I hit "send" :-). 1) I haven't tested any of the authenticators with a re

Re: IPSEC question addendum

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all. > > I've been looking into ipsec for Linux, and have read the recent posts > by nate et al. vpnd and vtun look promising, but I have the unenviable > circumstance of needing to talk to a 'doze network whose servers talk > to remote hosts via

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Wright
Hello, I sent a reply to your message about your LILO problem, but my MTA was misconfigured at the time (I was playing around with sendmail... lesson learned) and I'm unsure if it was sent. So, here I'll sumarize: The LILO start message "LI" indicates that either the file /boot/boot.b is miss

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:27:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn. > > Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse. > > > You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you? > > Sure did. I am still getting the

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread burningclown
Hi, > Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn. Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse. > You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you? Sure did. I am still getting the continuously-output "LI" running down the screen. I'm tempted to go with grub, but would *like* to know wha

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:34:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I > > used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread burningclown
I should add that I changed the first line to boot=/dev/hda1 as soon as I posted this. But it seems to have changed nothing. Glenn IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I > used my rescue disk to get into

Formatting/Mounting ext2/vfat floppies addendum

2001-03-31 Thread Gavin Hamill
Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else, and thought this little section might be useful ? Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try vfa

addendum: Re: what is the num value of "s" in -rwsr-x--- (chmod)?

2000-04-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
oh - i forgot, that you also asked for the numeric value: 04000 for set-gid it is 02000 -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (esoR ocsirF) wrote: >On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:27:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> If groups isn't displaying the right output after a useradd, then my >> guess is that you haven't logged out and in again since the useradd ...? > >ACK! I have gotten so used to things working w

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:27:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > If groups isn't displaying the right output after a useradd, then my > guess is that you haven't logged out and in again since the useradd ...? > ACK! I have gotten so used to things working when I do them ( as opposed to Windoughs

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (esoR ocsirF) wrote: >On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:06:04PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: >> in that case it should work, does id or groups show that you are a >> member of the cdrom group? is your cdrom REALLY /dev/hdc? >> (secondary master) > >groups does not show me as a member of c

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:06:04PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > in that case it should work, does id or groups show that you are a > member of the cdrom group? is your cdrom REALLY /dev/hdc? (secondary master) groups does not show me as a member of cdrom. I did the following; janet:~# useradd

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:08:03PM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > > Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed > >

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed should refer

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples - addendum

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Thank you very much Mirek. Yes, I wanted to express, that the use of documentation is limited if there are no examples in it. In the case of `let` it was only my personal problem (which I would be able to solve by searching for my own old example at home ... or by asking you over the list :) ). I

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples - addendum

1999-08-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi again, I read your mail again. I answered in previous message about metods I use for finding information. Your question is about lacking examples either. You are right. Man- and info-pages assume some basic knowledge about computer, os (operating system), programming and technical documentatio

Re: rpc.mountd times out (hamm) (addendum)

1998-04-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, sorry, there aren't a "bunch" of other programs. Really just nfsd. But that one's real important! So see if that's running. Nathan E Norman wrote: > Having moved our RAID array from a BSD box to a Debian box, I'm trying > to set up NFS. I have an area I'd like all our clients to be able to >

addendum to "Upgrade Debian. Upgrade install diskettes ?"

1997-12-01 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, System: Debian1.3/Kernel2.0.30 (upgraded from Debian1.2/kernel2.0.27) It seems that every time i boot from an upgraded rescue floppy and run the network setup, my system doesn't initialize the network card anymore. It sais: "cardmgr: loading failed. The module symbols (from linux 2.0.30) d

Re: Making Kernel: Addendum

1997-07-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Michael Bucciarelli wrote: > The second time around I also did make clean after make deb. > Sorry I left this out. > -- Mike > > > Mike Bucciarelli, N7CK > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Making Kernel: Addendum

1997-07-09 Thread Michael Bucciarelli
The second time around I also did make clean after make deb. Sorry I left this out. -- Mike Mike Bucciarelli, N7CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .