Steve McIntyre writes:
> In article
> you write:
>>I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment
>>they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user
>>and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them
>>(other than during a short wind
"Paul M. Foster" writes:
> Folks:
>
> This is probably a stupid question for many of you, but I've been
> struggling with it since I started using Linux in 1996.
>
> Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A
> number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the fil
Chuck Zmudzinski writes:
> I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the
> Debian bug tracking system which is hosted
> on a public, Debian website in response to a
> bug report I made.
Bug number?
The Wanderer writes:
> On 2021-09-24 at 14:00, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Chuck Zmudzinski writes:
>>
>>> I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the Debian bug tracking
>>> system which is hosted on a public, Debian website in response to
>>> a bu
Tim Woodall writes:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Reiner Buehl wrote:
>
>> On 01.10.2021 16:11, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> Mine (old) is like so:
>>> # head -n3 /etc/mdadm.conf
>>> HOMEHOST
>>> DEVICE containers partitions
>>> ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.0 name=msi85:0tmp UUID=...
>> I tried changing the HOME
Reiner Buehl writes:
> On 02.10.2021 01:32, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Is it possible you need to update your init ramdisk? Maybe your changes
>> to your mdadm.conf aren't being seen?
>
> I do run update-initramfs -u after each change. Shouldn't that be
> enough
David Wright writes:
> On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers
>> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 having
>> any name you choose and contents like:
>> user ALL=(ALL)
Paul Johnson writes:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> David Wright writes:
>
> > On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers
&
I've been using eternal-september.org for well over a decade.
songbird writes:
> pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to
>> sci.electronics.repair. I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for
>> access without tedious complications.
>
> i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them fo
Dan Ritter writes:
> Laura Smith wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter
>> wrote:
>>
>> > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a
>> > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...]
>>
>> Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you would
Kenneth Parker writes:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:16 PM Celejar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:57:01 +0100
> piorunz wrote:
>
> > On 14/04/2021 17:19, Celejar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently switched to Firefox's native HTTPS-Only mode from the
> > > HTTPS Everywhere extensi
"Martin McCormick" writes:
> I have a Windows box that has software on it which programs
> two-way radios and it would be nice to know what the radio and
> computer are saying to each other.
>
> After trying a Windows application that reportedly can
> capture serial port traffic, I find tha
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine:
>
> $ ls -ld /etc/systemd
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd
> $ ls /etc/systemd
> ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory
>
> Any explanation???
snowball:776$ ls -ld /etc/sy
I'm interested in trying out z-wave, and I'd like to start with a simple
command line utility so I can experiment with a switch, and control it
through cron.
I'm aware of Home Assistant, which is likely to be the direction I go in
the long term. I'd prefer not to try to set it up just to try out
After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within
emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail. I've added some
switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing;
currently I've got
'(vm-movemail-program-switches '("-vvv" "--debug-level=99" "--debug-line-info")
Dan Ritter writes:
>
> You should confirm that /home/joseph/INBOX.crash exists and has
> the right ownership and permissions. After that, make sure that
> it's not mounted via NFS or some other odd filesystem that has
> locking issues.
It creates the destination file if it doesn't exist. But yes
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
> After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within
> emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail. I've added some
> switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing;
> currently I've got
> '(v
This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to
ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of
attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings
as usernames -- it looks like this:
Apr 4 03:04:30 snowball saslauthd[1179]: pam_unix(:aut
Nicholas Geovanis writes:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to
> ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of
> attempts to access my mail host
Nicholas Geovanis writes:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> It's software written by folks who sometimes know what they're doing.
> There are only so many Kevin Mitnick's and Phyber Optik's in the world at
> time
> :-)
For whi
I just noticed I have over a million files lurking in
$HOME/.gnome2/keyrings/ with names of the form
login.keyring.temp-n
where n is a nine digit number.
Literally over a million:
ls ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ | wc
1695549 1695549 50118672
>From the names, I assume these are temporary fi
Charles Curley writes:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:50:42 -0600
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I just noticed I have over a million files lurking in
>> $HOME/.gnome2/keyrings/ with names of the form
>> login.keyring.temp-n
>
>> Is there an accepted way to
Roger Price writes:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote:
>> I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I
>> signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out
>> of interest and then in the weeks afterwards I was bombarded with
>> marketing emails.
>
> My ap
rhkra...@gmail.com writes:
> On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote:
>> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have
>> cited.
>
> That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page.
>
>> Please provide a URL that advocates "start
David Wright writes:
> On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 08:53:20 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> rhkra...@gmail.com writes:
>> > On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote:
>> >> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appe
Fred writes:
> On 11/25/20 12:30 PM, Reco wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:13:03PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>>> fred@ragnok:~$ ./ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage --help
>>> bash: ./ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage: cannot execute binary file: Exec
>>> format error
>>
>> uname -m
>>
>> R
Fred writes:
> On 11/26/20 9:04 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Fred writes:
>>
>>> On 11/25/20 12:30 PM, Reco wrote:
>>>>Hi.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:13:03PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>>>>> fred@ragnok:~$ ./ClipGra
Gary Dale writes:
> I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server.
> I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB
> cable. I can print a CUPS test
> page from the server but not from my workstation. When I try to print
> anything from m
Tom Browder writes:
> Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels
> from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box?
>
> I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love
> to be able to print single labels from my adress db w
Tom Browder writes:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450.
>
> USB connection?
Yes.
kage names are all lower case, and for better or worse the
package management software is case-sensitive.
snowball:532$ reportbug
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type
'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what packa
Curt writes:
> On 2019-05-28, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> experimental: 1.18.0-1
>> Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already
>> addressed by these releases. Do you still want to file a report
>> [y|N|q|?]?
>
> Think I might'
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes:
>> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use
>> an ALSA device at the same time on your computer.
>
> This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows.
>
> Olivier
What's more, the default device uses dmix. And I find it a
David Christensen writes:
> On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> hi,
>> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
>> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
>> Is there a way to get rid of them?
>>
>> best regards,
>
> I added the follo
deloptes writes:
> Martin McCormick wrote:
>
>> I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running
>> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention
>> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other
>> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for som
deloptes writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with
>> very good success. Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much
>
> what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time
>
Shahryar Afifi writes:
> With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users,
> who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible,
> here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious question.
>
> Are all binaries in the kernel code were writing from scratch? Are
> t
John Hasler writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>> The LICENCE.amd-ucode file
>> includes the paragraph:
>
>>You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this
>>Software or any portion thereof.
>
> Quite unenforceable, of course.
When discuss
loredana writes:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
>> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just
>> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients.
>
> I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a solution.
>
>> Is ch
Rogério Brito writes:
> Dear people,
>
> As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones that I
> use to develop my packages and contribute to Debian), I would like to
> get a "modern" desktop that is able to keep up with compiling stuff
> and doing basic web surfing/web and typing t
I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including
python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools
module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Meanwhile, the
version documented on pypi.org is at version 8.2.0, and has at least one
recipe whose arguments
Alex Mestiashvili writes:
> On 4/3/20 11:54 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including
>> python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools
>> module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old.
Richard Owlett writes:
> I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its
> original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned.
>
> I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread.
> Obvious stating point -- read the man page.
> As I never installed its package I wen
l0f...@tuta.io writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have frequent warning/4 entries in my journalctl like this one (dozens/day):
> kernel: mce: CPU[X]: Package temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled
Lucky you! My laptop just went ahead and went into thermal shutdown
before the system noticed it was get
I assume the list is using mailman? I haven't found a setting to tell a
subscriber their email is bouncing -- where is it?
Long Wind writes:
> i want a small app that show cpu temperature
> which package shall i install?
> Thanks!
I've been using gkrellm to show quite a bit of system information
(including temperatures) for years and years now.
kaye n writes:
> Hello Friends,
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os.
> What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator.
> Thank you!
M-x calc, from inside emacs.
Dennis Wicks writes:
> Greetings;
>
> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house
> that are all on a local network.
>
> And suggestions, hints, warnings?
Your question as stated doesn't really explain why you want a VPN, and
what you're planning to do with it. All you've mentioned
Doug writes:
> On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Dennis Wicks writes:
>>
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house
>>> that are all on a local network.
>>>
>>> And suggestion
Ken Heard writes:
> Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the
> tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation.
> I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list
> of numbers and need to check after the addition is done to ve
Martin writes:
> [...]
>>>
>>> is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach.
>>> Does one actually get pointed to this during install?
>>
>> ┌───┤ [?] Set up users and passwords
>> ├┐
>> │
Gene Heskett writes:
> On Thursday 16 August 2018 18:46:26 Brian wrote:
>
>> On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 18:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> [Almost everything snipped - for obvious reasons.]
>>
>> > Someone who is an actual member of the organization will probably
>> > clarify it further, but I
Long Wind writes:
> i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory
> i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC
>
> does that mean my memory is bad?
> i read manual of memtest86+, can't find explaination
I see other people have mentioned possible temperature issues, so
What's tripping you up is that some processing is being done by the
shell before grep ever sees your pattern. Taking that into account,
what grep is seeing is:
songbird writes:
> me@ant(25)$ env | grep -F "-g"
grep -F -g
> grep: invalid option -- 'g'
> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
"Thomas Schmitt" writes:
>
> Something trampled the parent directory or its attached data structures.
It appears to be the two inodes, not the parent directory, that got
trampled.
Pétùr writes:
> Le 11/09/2018 à 19:34, Martin a écrit :
>>
>> don't get crazy about FS corruption. There is no sign this is the
>> case so far. Date and UID's are odd, but valid within ext4. Remove
>> the immutable flag (chattr -i), you will be able to alter the files
>> as you like.
>>
>> One hi
local10 writes:
> Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote:
>>
>> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should
>> be enp3s0 (zero); which did you put in interfaces? Also, there
>> should be either "auto enp3s0" o
David Wright writes:
> On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 20:03:05 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> local10 writes:
>> > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org:
>> >> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote:
>> >>
>> >> That means i
mick crane writes:
> On 2018-11-01 17:57, Michael Stone wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote:
>>> Under enp3so I see only BROADCAST and MULTICAST, no UP or DOWN. Thanks
>>
>> That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should be
>> enp3s0 (zero); which
Chuck Zmudzinski writes:
> On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>> > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote:
>> > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>> > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are igno
I'm trying to do an update to my Debian 11 system, and keep getting the
following failure:
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1.
Trying to get a little more information, I ran
update-initramfs -u -v -k all
and after many lines of output, got:
Adding binary /usr/lib/x86
didier gaumet writes:
> Le 27/10/2022 à 00:52, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit :
>> I'm trying to do an update to my Debian 11 system, and keep getting the
>> following failure:
>> E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1.
>> Trying to get a little m
Further follow-up: the problem appears to be that something else has
already put mount.fuse3 in the initramfs. Replacing the failing line
with
copy_exec /sbin/mount.fuse3 /sbin || true
allows me to create the initramfs, and the system boots, but I doubt
it's an optimal solution.
John Hasler writes:
> Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace?
Note freecad is 3D, and his needs are apparently 2D.
Though I will relate that my (brief) acquaintance with freecad led me to
decide to just write Python scripts using python-occ to generate my
models.
John Hasler writes:
> Gene writes:
>> Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look.
>
> No need to download. It's in Debian.
Note that he isn't likely to find anything remotely up to date in a
repository, as he's still on wheezy.
Gene Heskett writes:
> On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote:
>
>> Joe writes:
>> > ...he's still on wheezy.
>>
>> I wrote:
>> > That is easily fixed.
>>
>> Gene writes:
>> > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs.
>>
>> Why would you run your CAD softw
Dan Ritter writes:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote:
>> > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6
>> >
>> > $ dpkg -l
>> >
>> > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'.
>> >
>> > But if i run:
>> >
>> > $ dpkg -l w*
>>
Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge
numbers of messages of the form
Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm
--incremental --export /dev/sda3 --offroot
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000DM001-1ER166_Z501MTQ3-part3
/dev/disk/by-partuuid/ad6f3
Bob Weber writes:
> On 3/10/19 5:20 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> Since a recent update, my /var/log/syslog is getting spammed with huge
> numbers of messages of the form
>
> Mar 10 14:02:25 snowball systemd-udevd[18681]: Process '/sbin/mdadm
> --incremental --export /
Dan Purgert writes:
> Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:57 AM Michael Stone wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No, the ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 space--you can use it
>>> internally without central registration by choosing a subnet from
>>> fd00::/8. The space is so much larger th
The Wanderer writes:
> $ apt-file search libmypaint.pc
> libmypaint-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libmypaint.pc
>
> The .pc file for libmypaint is in libmypaint-dev, not in libmypaint-1.3-0.
>
> Try installing the -dev package.
To elaborate on this a little --
In general, a package li
Kenneth Parker writes:
> Here's an interesting one: A Windows friend handed me a USB Dongle, knowing
> that I'm a Linux user. He says he got it 3rd hand, with
> info that it might be "Very Dangerous". He would be interested, if I find
> out something about it. (And, indeed, Google has many
Tony van der Hoff writes:
> Hi,
> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with
> a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running
> fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this
> storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or ma
David Guntner writes:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> David Guntner wrote:
>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it,
>>> even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a
>>> utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a drive
David Guntner writes:
> Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> David Guntner writes:
>>
>>> Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>>> David Guntner wrote:
>>>>> Hmmm. I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on
"Thod Motte" writes:
> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as
> Windows 95 was in 1997 and less
> customizable.
>
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.
Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have
been h
David Guntner writes:
> Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>>> Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
This morning I have been puzzled by bash.
After typing the following command:
Stephen Powell writes:
>
> Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get
> an error message something like:
>
>bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop
>
> You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks it is in context.
> Yet it did not exit
phillip johnson writes:
When your subject line is three lines long (on my display, anyway) maybe
you should move it to the body of your post.
When the body of your post is empty, you should *definitely* move
something in there.
Does your table run Debian Linux? If not, why are you asking here?
William Hopkins writes:
> On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Stephen Powell writes:
>> >
>> > Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get
>> > an error message something like:
>> >
>> >b
Doug writes:
> On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote:
>>> I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the
>>> cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over
>>> again every year.
>>
>> HP cartridges are also v
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>> Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage:
>>
>> void myfunction( ... )
>> {
>> #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN
>> move_bytes_in_a_specific_order
>> #else
>> move_bytes_in_the_other_specif
Reco writes:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Reco wrote:
>> >>> Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled
>> >>> privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not
>> >>> updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OS
Reco writes:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:28:51PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Reco writes:
>> > True, you need to add to the picture that curious user who just read on
>> > Bugtraq or Full Disclosure about fresh vulnerability in sudo. Or that
>> > di
Reco writes:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Reco writes:
>> >> You also have to add to the picture such a vulnerability, and I haven't
>> >> noticed any.
>> >
>> > If we're speaking of public vul
Curt writes:
> On 2013-11-02, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Again -- isn't "basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0." Permits
>>>> someone who *has* sudo access to avoid retyping a password.
>>>
>>> Not only that.
Reco writes:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:48 -0500
> "Cybe R. Wizard" wrote:
>> > How about this bug:
>> >
>> > http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html
>> >
>> > Impact: Successful exploitation of the bug will allow a user to run
>> > arbitrary commands as root.
>> >
>> > Exp
Robert Baron writes:
> Aren't many of the constructs used as examples in the paper are commonly used
> in c programming. For example it is very common to see a function that has a
> pointer as a parameter defined as:
>
> int func(void *ptr)
> {
> if(!ptr) return SOME_ERROR;
> /* res
Robert Baron writes:
> Second question:
>
> Doesn't memcpy allow for overlapping memory, but strcpy does not? Isn't this
> why memcpy is preferred over strcpy?
According to the man page for memcpy, "The memory areas must not
overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory areas do overlap."
strcpy wi
Carl Fink writes:
> When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got the man
> page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C programmer, but it seemed
> to be for C header files and came from section 2.)
>
> This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been around long enough
Jerry Stuckle writes:
>
> The tone is subtle, and not necessarily something a native English
> speaker would see. But I see it there.
Are you seriously claiming that a non-native speaker would be likelier
to pick up on subtle, and quite possibly subconcious, cues than a native
speaker?
--
To
Carl writes:
> Really? I may have unthinkingly assumed everyone reading was a native
> speaker is American English. In my dialect, "out" means "openly
> homosexual" far more often than "quitting". The joke had nothing to do
> with Mr. Hess and everything to do with mocking my own first reading
>
shawn wilson writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can
>>> only access 4G of "real" (extended) memory, right? So why are there
>>> motherboards available for 32-bit processo
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
> shawn wilson writes:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>> By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can
>>>> only access 4
Stan Hoeppner writes:
> On 9/20/2012 4:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>>> You are either:
>>>
>>> 1. Horribly lazy
>>> 2. Incompetent
>>>
>>
>> Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or
>> any one of a number of things
T Elcor writes:
> - Original Message -
>
> From: Stan Hoeppner
>
>> This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a
>> primary technical support resource. People should be making at least a
>> cursory effort to search for information before asking here.
>
> Please see the Code of
lina writes:
> $ ls -lrt
> total 8
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET
> drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list
>
> $ ls -lrt RET
> ls: cannot access RET: No such file or directory
>
> $ cat RET
> cat: RET: No such file or directory
>
> $ rm RET
> rm: cannot remove `R
The issue is as above: new machine running xfce4 desktop, with two
printers attached. One of them is an Epson Workforce 645, the other is
a Dymo 450 label printer. The Epson is, of course, the default printer
on the system.
When I log in to the desktop, the Dymo ejects one blank label.
Any tho
Darac Marjal writes:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:47:07PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> The issue is as above: new machine running xfce4 desktop, with two
>> printers attached. One of them is an Epson Workforce 645, the other is
>> a Dymo 450 label printer. The Eps
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