Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I know I could add a PATH statement to the init script, but this problem > > > is my own doing and I'd like to fix it righ

Re: LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-21 Thread tom arnall
Nate, Thanks for your response. I ended up dealing with the problem by switching to wicd, but the incident has helped me learn some things about keyrings. I think my real problem was the one where you flounder around to the point of desperation looking for a quick fix, instead of taking the troubl

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 23:25:38 +, Brian wrote: > This may or may not be significant for the printing process. It would be useful to see the server log. If you do post it please do not truncate or edit the beginning of it before sending. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 20:46:55 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: > > >On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >> I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same > >> facility. > > > >It does. > >the experience proves that

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it > > can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is > > this: > > > > SELF=$(cd $(dirname $

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 21:59:10 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2014 19:46:55 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > >>   I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same > > >>   facility. > > > > > > It does. > > >

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 19:46:55 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >>   I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same > >>   facility. > > > > It does. > >     the experience proves that it does not: otherwise, why nobody co

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it > can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is > this: > > SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) > > Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, n

init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is this: SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, not /bin. I know I could add a PATH statement to the init

Re: Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/14 01:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/12/14 10:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi LibreOffice has its own e-mail discussion list. I've never needed to do it because I've used a simp

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/21/2014 04:31 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to pick the wrong device and destroy your data. Andrei, the issue of IF the pen-drive was automounted on ins

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: Go into CUPS web interface. Go to Administration -> printers -> click on the printer that you want -> click on the administration drop down menu and alter the server settings to give you what you want. hi Lisi, what I want is to get, when I print 1 p

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same facility. It does. the experience proves that it does not: otherwise, why nobody could explain the problem I described and s

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + Brian wrote: > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > > been opened read-only. > Hve you not yet come to terms with the fact that your USB stick has > c

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 11:34:38 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > been opened read-only. Hve you not yet come to terms with the fact that your USB stick has co

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 11:31:19 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 20 dec 14, 19:50:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > Good question. It feels like we have come full circle. That was the > > way it was before the introduction of devfs and udev. It appears that > > things now have returned to the

Re: Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/14 10:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi LibreOffice has its own e-mail discussion list. I've never needed to do it because I've used a simple work-around bash script. I use LibreO

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: > > >. . . > >This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing. > > not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching the > application and wait for 10 seconds

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Not you Patrick, someone else. I am sort of quoting "I still do not know what you have against suggesting> it is far superior to wordperfect. Odd idea about a virtual machine too. The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially when so m

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-21 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-21, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Why do we all have to like the same word processor? > > Indeed. And some of us actually like *document* processors (best example in > Debian: lyx) for extremely consistent output (and IMHO, much higher > productivity). (I knew I was right to

Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2014

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:00:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> # ls -l /dev/sdi > >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi > > Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by > > the leading b in the permissions above, > That's not a permis

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 12/21/2014 11:49 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:25 -0300 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >> # ls -l /dev/sdi >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi > Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by the > leading b in the

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:49:43 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Hello Renaud, >> # ls -l /dev/sdi >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi >Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted >by the leading b in the permissions above, and same for the trailing

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:25 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > # ls -l /dev/sdi > brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by the leading b in the permissions above, and same for the trailing T ? Cheers,

Lid state incorrectly reported

2014-12-21 Thread Jean Commère
Hi, I am using debian Jessie and systemd (215-7) is not handling the lid state correctly after I reopen it. (the lid state stay to close) So, because of the following commit, my system constantly suspend until I reboot it. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=ed4ba7e4f652150310

Re: LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 21 Dec 01:40 -0600, tom arnall wrote: > I installed wheezy a week ago (with the installer which includes > xfce), and nm-applet was working fine. But today it won't start and > gives the message: > > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: > /home/tom/.cache/keyring-4LJPFc/pkcs11:

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 dec 14, 19:50:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good question. It feels like we have come full circle. That was the > way it was before the introduction of devfs and udev. It appears that > things now have returned to the way it was before udev. Which won't > bother the old-school Unix folks