Re: background process

2018-12-21 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:36:08 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > I would like to run a process on a remote machine (login through ssh > and then su) which will remian running even when I close the connection. You can use systemd-run: your process will be run as a systemd service. In addition to

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-21 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 21 December 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Note that "sizes" in most word processors or printing-related things > are given in points True. And when done correctly, it's an absolute size. i.e. 12 point text is always the same size, no matter what it's printed on or displayed o

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread ja
On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 11:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, X refused to > > > > start and I was left with a blank screen. > > You can put fragments of an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xo

Re: Using rsync to get the Fedora repositories

2018-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/21/18 12:05 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Yesterday, I wrote: > >> I have a script that uses rsync to pull the Fedora repositories >> nightly. If I run it manually, it works flawlessly. But if it runs >> via cron, I get an error on all the Fedora 28 repositories. I do not >> get the error on Fedor

Re: Using rsync to get the Fedora repositories

2018-12-21 Thread CLOSE Dave
Yesterday, I wrote: > I have a script that uses rsync to pull the Fedora repositories > nightly. If I run it manually, it works flawlessly. But if it runs > via cron, I get an error on all the Fedora 28 repositories. I do not > get the error on Fedora 27 or RPMFusion 27 or 28 repositories. The > s

Re: Using rsync to get the Fedora repositories

2018-12-21 Thread CLOSE Dave
Rick Stevens wrote: > Running interactively but not under cron usually indicates that you've > forgotten that running under cron, you don't have the same environment > as you do in an interactive session. So, make sure your environment is > set correctly in the script (such as the PATH and such).

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/20/18 5:39 PM, home user via users wrote: > (Rick said) >> The font(s) used by grub2 shouldbe located in /boot/grub2/fonts >> ... >> FONT_FILES in the man page just represents where the source font >> file is located. For example, to convert the FreeSans.ttf font >> (which is located in /usr/

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11,  X refused to > > start and I was left with a blank screen. You can put fragments of an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, to just override a few defaults, but I have no idea what t

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-21 9:49 a.m., Tom Horsley wrote: Is there a work around. I see this bug claims it is related to the PageFlip option which is enabled by default. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/68 Presumably if you disable PageFlip, the spamming would stop (and it is probably OK

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
> Is there a work around. I see this bug claims it is related to the PageFlip option which is enabled by default. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/68 Presumably if you disable PageFlip, the spamming would stop (and it is probably OK to disable since it isn't working anyway :-).

xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed last night that my xorg log is growing wildly. Its fillling up with these lines: 814.151] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front. [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.178] (EE) modeset(0): Failed

Re: background process

2018-12-21 Thread Neal Becker
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to run a process on a remote machine (login through ssh > and then su) which will remian running even when I close the connection. > > I am not sure that a standard background process (using &) is not going to > kill the process when I logout. > >

Re: I am revolted against the injustice of Ubuntu Forums administrators and moderators

2018-12-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 02:13 -0300, Command FreeBSD wrote: > The article that have spoken about Linux malicious commands that was posted > in Ubuntu Forums was restored, but who accessed this link yesterday and > this morning saw that this article has been deleted. This is a Fedora list. Complaints

Just ran dnf update and notice an error during run

2018-12-21 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
(Fri Dec 21 19:57:38:298999 2018) [sss_cache] [confdb_get_domains] (0x0010): No domains configured, fatal error! Could not open available domains usermod: sss_cache exited Not sure if that should have popped up?? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.

Re: background process

2018-12-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Dec2018 15:16, Dave Stevens wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:10:47 + Rick Stevens wrote: I am not sure that a standard background process (using &) is not going to > kill the process when I logout. Make sure you have the screen RPM installed on the remote machine, then you can run the c