Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
from the line that starts with > > ALIASES > > Yes, but my original objection to the utility of 'apt --list upgradable' > in comparison to 'apt upgrade', which provides the same information and > doesn't update without user approval (Y/N), is not taken a

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 22:44, Lee wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". [...] > > But why take the chance? > You're right - I should be working on the habit of putting quote

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Lee
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". > > > > > > [ -s "$tempf" ] && notify-send ... > > > > is there any way that > > $(mktemp -q --tmpdir=/tmp -t updX) > > would return a 0 status a

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". > > > > [ -s "$tempf" ] && notify-send ... > > is there any way that > $(mktemp -q --tmpdir=/tmp -t updX) > would return a 0 status and a filename with embedded spaces .. or with > anything that would req

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Lee
s an /etc/sudoers.d/adm-apt-privs that has > > # Cmnd_AliasADM_COMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt update > > # %adm ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: ADM_COMMANDS > > > > # get a temporary file > > tempf=$(mktemp -q --tmpdir=/tmp -t updX) > > stat=$? > > if [ ${

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Greg
the utility of 'apt --list upgradable' in comparison to 'apt upgrade', which provides the same information and doesn't update without user approval (Y/N), is not taken account by your comment.

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
Just a few notes: On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:39:58 -0400, Lee wrote: > #!/bin/bash > # see if there are any Debian updates and pop-up a notice if there are > > # needs an /etc/sudoers.d/adm-apt-privs that has > # Cmnd_AliasADM_COMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt update > # %adm

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 14:23:52 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-25, Lee wrote: > >> > >> I never run 'apt list --upgradable' because 'apt upgrade' shows the same > >> info, while offering the chance to say no. > > > > ^shrug^ > > it's harder to fuck up 'apt list --upgradable' if all you want is a

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Lee
t having to remember, much less to type so I've been working on a script: $ cat check-for-updates.sh #!/bin/bash # see if there are any Debian updates and pop-up a notice if there are # needs an /etc/sudoers.d/adm-apt-privs that has # Cmnd_AliasADM_COMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt update # %a

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-25, Lee wrote: >> >> I never run 'apt list --upgradable' because 'apt upgrade' shows the same >> info, while offering the chance to say no. > > ^shrug^ > it's harder to fuck up 'apt list --upgradable' if all you want is a > list of what updates are available, but whatever works for you.

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Lee
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM Greg wrote: > > On 2025-04-24, Lee wrote: > > > > "apt update" just gets the latest package info > > "apt list --upgradable" shows you what packages have updates > > I never run 'apt list --upgradable'

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-24, Lee wrote: > > "apt update" just gets the latest package info > "apt list --upgradable" shows you what packages have updates I never run 'apt list --upgradable' because 'apt upgrade' shows the same info, while offering the chance to say no.

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-24 Thread Lee
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. > > I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." "apt update" just gets the latest package info "apt l

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/04/2025 03:54, Van Snyder wrote: I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the little red dot and Discover said there were 250 updates occupying 454 MB. What does apt list --upgradable s

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread David
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 20:54, Van Snyder wrote: > > KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. > > I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." > > So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the li

apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the little red dot and Discover said there were 250 updates occupying 454 MB.

Mariadb syntax error in existing triggers after 12.10 point release update

2025-04-23 Thread Virgo Pärna
After installing 12.10 point release existing databases started to give syntax errors on existing triggers, when using FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1..NEW.FIELD2 DO loop. It works, when there are spaces around ".." - like: FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1 .. NEW.FIELD2 DO It also still works without spaces,

Mariadb syntax error in existing triggers after 12.10 point release update

2025-03-24 Thread Virgo Pärna
After installing 12.10 point release existing databases started to give syntax errors on existing triggers, when using FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1..NEW.FIELD2 DO loop. It works, when there are spaces around ".." - like: FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1 .. NEW.FIELD2 DO It also still works without spaces, w

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100655 for anyone interested.

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 16 Mar 2025, at 16:06, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:38:45 + > "Gareth Evans" wrote >> >> So working again, but a messy/broken upgrade process for me. >> >> Is this worth reporting? > > Yes, I would think so, most Debian servers will be running mariadb on > bookworm, eithe

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:38:45 + "Gareth Evans" wrote: > On Sun 16/03/2025 at 11:01, Joe wrote: > > > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb > > installation before, and is it still working? > > Hi Joe, > > It was working before and after the failed upgrade, as neithe

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 16/03/2025 at 11:01, Joe wrote: > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb installation > before, and is it still working? Hi Joe, It was working before and after the failed upgrade, as neither it nor anything else had been upgraded. I copied mariadb.cnf from the ext

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:56:47 + "Gareth Evans" wrote: > Hello, > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 12.10 > > An automated apt update/upgrade failed last night. On trying again, > I get: > > $ sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade > > Preconfiguring pa

Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, $ cat /etc/debian_version 12.10 An automated apt update/upgrade failed last night. On trying again, I get: $ sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade Preconfiguring packages ... 48 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B

Re: [SOLVED] pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/03/2025 17:50, Gerard ROBIN wrote: settings -> settings manager -> default applications in xfce4 fixed the problem. (Editing the mimeapps.list file has no effect) But the XFCE settings tool writes selected option to mimeapps.list...

Re: Re: [SOLVED] pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
settings -> settings manager -> default applications in xfce4 fixed the problem. (Editing the mimeapps.list file has no effect) Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer me. -- Gerard Created with Mutt 2.2.1 under Debian Linux BO

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/03/2025 07:09, Gerard ROBIN wrote: xdg-mime query default image/png com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.desktop I am currently using Trixie and have uninstalled and reinstalled pdfarranger. So you have several applications installed that may handle PNG files. Which way should other app

Re: Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Thanks for your reply. xdg-mime query default image/png com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.desktop I am currently using Trixie and have uninstalled and reinstalled pdfarranger. -- Gerard __ ** Created with Mutt 2.2.13 under Debian Linux TRIXI

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
ger in the display group of update-alternatives with a low priority but it has no effect. If anyone has a solution I am interested. Thanks in advance right click on the pic, choose open with..., choose imagemagik AND tick the 'associate the filetrype with that software' for setting a defa

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Max Nikulin
d? xdg-mime query default image/png Perhaps your issue is unrelated to update-alternatives.

pdfarranger and update-alternatives

2025-03-05 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, I use Bookworm and Trixie. With Bookworm no problem when I click on "file:///home/user/file.png" the file file.png opens with display (imagemagick) but with Trixie it is pdfarranger that opens the file. I put pdfarranger in the display group of update-alternatives with a low prior

Re: Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 20:41 +1300, Lee Hinkleman wrote: > Hi debian-user: > Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Lee > > > " > DDependency resolution failed: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: > Breaks: lib

Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Lee Hinkleman
Hi debian-user: Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. Thank you. Sincerely, Lee " DDependency resolution failed: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: Breaks: libkdecorations2-6 but 4:6.2.5-1 is to be installed "

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread w f
> > That is probably the same problem as described here (including a > > solution): > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059773 > > A work-around at any rate (pardon the pun). The solution/work-around (that worked for me) was in 1059773 ... using dconf to disable attempts to

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM w f wrote: > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, > gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few > seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:52:27 + (UTC) w f wrote: > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, > gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a > few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Fo

after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread w f
Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force Quit" or "Wait." When I launch it from

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2025 21 Feb 14:18 -0600, Jochen Spieker wrote: > w f: > > > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. > > What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information. Most likely the libgnutls security updates. > > Suddenly, gnome-calculat

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
w f: > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information. > Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. > After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not respo

Weird error when running "apt update"

2025-01-20 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi, Recently when running "apt update" in my VM (under virt-manager) running Debian testing I see this error in the middle: , | Error: No line left in add_len data to skip (1) | Error: Parsing patchfile /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_trixie_main_Contents-

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 04:13:14AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed? > > That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away > with a logout.

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed? That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away with a logout. I also now seem to be able to see all the emojis that my daughter sends me. Thanks

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 02:28, Alain D D Williams wrote: I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean). [...] They fail to display in either Mate terminal 1.26 or in Firefox 128.5 so I suspect it is a system

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:28:47 + Alain D D Williams wrote: > I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display > properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy > Christmas in Korean). Well, I don't have that font installed, so I see little boxes with the Unicode values

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Nicolas George
Alain D D Williams (12024-12-28): > I suspect that I could see them if I used the testing version of some package. > Which one(s) and how do I do this ? I strongly doubt a common font will be “upgraded” with Korean characters. More likely, the package is just not installed. So: find out which fon

How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Alain D D Williams
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm. I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean). These do however display properly on my laptop which runs Mint 21.3. I suspect that I could see them if I used the te

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 17:08:31 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > A helpful tool here might be "cronic" (in the "cronic" package). "cronic" > will swallow the output of the command it runs UNLESS that command exits > with an error code. > > So one would write: > > 3 8 * * * cronic /usr/local/bin/hear

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 09/12/2024 15:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: I added lines to /etc/crontab such as # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day 38* * * nut/usr/loc

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 09/12/2024 15:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: I added lines to /etc/crontab such as # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day 38* * * nut/usr/loc

User "nut" (Was Re: Restarting cron after crontab update)

2024-12-09 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: .. let it email the output to you (or whoever "nut" is). nut is the user created by the NUT (Network UPS Tools) package which manages my UPS units. Anyone who installs nut to manage UPS's will have this user. Roger

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:31:38 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate > > user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I > > conjecture he is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and > > probably should be. > > The redirec

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I added a username, but crontab -e didn't complain. I still fear your crontab won't do what you expect it to do. Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user name as part

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: What line did you add to /etc/crontab? Please paste it here. Note that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab files (there's an extra username field). I added lines to /etc/crontab such as # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 h

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 08:30:16 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100 > wrote: > > > Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user > > name as part of the command: > > > > rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > will run the

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 15:59:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > I added lines to /etc/crontab such as > > > > # Watch over the NUT heartbeat at 0803 hr every day > > 38* * * nut/usr/local/bin/heartbeat-watcher.sh > /

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100 wrote: > Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user > name as part of the command: > > rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1 > > will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of > the time this will be a "no s

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-09 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: > On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > What line did you add to /etc/crontab? Please paste it here. Note > > that /etc/crontab uses a different format than personal crontab > > files (there's an extra username field). > > I

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:19:52 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation. I > have done this before successfully. After the change I ran > > systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron > > But now the change doesn't take effect. >

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Roger Price wrote: With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? emacs /etc/crontab What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread debian-user
Roger Price wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 > workstation. I have done this before successfully. When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the editor of your choice. You

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Dec 2024 11:19 +0100, from deb...@rogerprice.org (Roger Price): > What is the correct way to get cron to read the new crontab ? Saving the crontab file. It should be re-read automatically, with no need to restart a system-level service. Either you also did something else which you do not me

Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Roger Price
With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation. I have done this before successfully. After the change I ran systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron But now the change doesn't take effect. I tried systemctl reload cron, but got the reply "Failed to reload cron

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 20:00, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: So, it looks like what you want is noninteractive, with preseeding. You should probably read the entire man page, as there are lots of ways to tweak the behavior of debconf. Regards, -Roberto Thanks Roberto and Andy. I'll look at debconf and se

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? > As Andy explained, no the "-y" option will not prevent the prompt. The "-y" as you have used it is passed to apt-get and defaults the answers to prompts presente

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 17:48, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and thi

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and this is an upgrade to testing, so…) so I r

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > apt-get -y --show-progress dist-upgrade > > During the dist-upgrade I am presented with the following prompt: > > > Setting up fwupd (1.9.26-2) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf' > ==> File on system crea

Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
I am upgrading a bookworm vm (vmware workstation pro guest, bookworm host) to "testing" (aka trixie/sid) to try it out. Both the guest and host have all of the latest updates. I am using the following commands to perform the upgrade, having already updated sources.list: apt-get -y --

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 03:12:30PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > wrote: > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > > > > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > > > > /home/richard/.config/dconf/use

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > > > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > > > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user . [...] > Besides, it might be a bad idea to change the file while the de

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:06:42AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user . > > You can dump the setting

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Richard Owlett wrote: > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user . You can dump the settings that are in dconf with gsettings list-recursively and redirecting the

[update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/15/2024 05:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/14/2024 06:43 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Oct 13, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/13/2024 04:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It has been my habit since days of Squeeze to install

Windows Update and dual booting linux

2024-08-27 Thread George at Clug
Hi, I noticed the below issue today. I think it only affects certain configuration of dual booting so not too many people should be affected. Does anyone know of people who have been affected? https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Henning Follmann
ines... > > > > > do it manually, not with update-alternatives > > Why so? Could I not feed the script path to update-alternatives install? > > Well, if it works, then I guess it's OK. > Exactly. And if you want it less "hackish", build a deb where t

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 14:33:22 +0300, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > This has occurred to me, but seemed like a bit of a hack and less > convenient to transfer to other machines... > > > do it manually, not with update-alternatives > Why so? Could I

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Hi Greg, This has occurred to me, but seemed like a bit of a hack and less convenient to transfer to other machines... > do it manually, not with update-alternatives Why so? Could I not feed the script path to update-alternatives install? Thanks On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 14:02, Greg Woole

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
the file is saved (like `crontab -e` does, for > example) > > I cannot do `update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor > "$(which codium) --wait --reuse-window" 0` because the "alternative > path doesn't exist". > > Suggestions? Write a wr

update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Let's say I want to install VS Code / Codium as an alternative for `/usr/bin/editor`, but I want it to always run with `--wait --reuse-window` so that other software can rely on the editor returning after the file is saved (like `crontab -e` does, for example) I cannot do `update-alterna

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-06 Thread Brian
> > > > > > Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' > > > > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > > > > > > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > > problem in the p

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
x27; > > > > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > > > > > > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > > problem in the past. > > > > > > > > We have tried force transfers

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/08/2024 11:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That new upstream version (9.20.0) is in sid/trixie. Buster has this: You're right, I've been once more confused by the lack of any logical sequence between Debian release codenames. -- We are the people our parents warned us about. Eduardo M K

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
00 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > problem in the past. > > > > > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to > > > work. > > > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s, purging journal files and nothing seems to > > work. > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now > > everything is working. > > > > Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? > > I think this

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:55:55AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? > > > > > > See also > > > https:/

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
3: Transfer status: too many records > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a problem > in the past. > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to > work. > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? See also https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00145.html (even if it does not directly apply

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
urging journal files and nothing seems > > to work. > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now > > everything is working. > > > > Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? > > Maybe related to https:

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Brian
Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > problem in the past. > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems &

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a problem in the past. We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to work. We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now everything is working. Anybody have any idea what i

Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Brian
which has never posed a problem in the past. We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to work. We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now everything is working. Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? Thanks, Brian

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-30 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Another is to fetch the epoch time value (%s) and then use that value in all future calls. With GNU date: now=$(date +%s) julian=$(date -d "@$now" +%j) dom=$(date -d "@$now" +%d) Good evening All - especially Greg This process has work

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 21:08:29 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > So when I opened my xterm this morning, I saw: >  keith@lenv0 > >  Tue 23Jul2024@19:19:30 205.2024 AEST >  :~   $> > > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/keith > > > Pressed enter, and the day# updated: > >  keith@lenv0 > >  

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc then :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR So you're setting

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 15:00:12 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > The day# in my command prompt inc

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. > > > Maybe I need to press ent

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe > > I need to press enter. > > That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. var

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe I > need to press enter. That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. variables in the PROMPT_COMMAND variable. If that's the case, it's *less*

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc >> >> then >> :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR > >So you're setting those variables one time inside you

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc > > then > :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR So you're setting those variables one time inside your .bashrc file? This is quite bad. What happens when you have a

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