Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:03:29AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > ls should be considered a user interface, not an API. One should strive to minimize these differences, though. This is, of course, just my opinion, but you can pry... (you know t

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:53:28AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 07:55:56 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc > > > 7 56

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/09/18 1:14 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:55:56AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> But also note the difference when using the letter "l" vs the numeral "1": >> >> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc >> 7 56 321 >> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc >> 6 6

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/09/18 8:00 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> In the case of the BurnCd page, I actually *do* think that it would be >> of general interest to readers to have a paragraph explaining the limits >> of wodim, and when not to use it. > > Let me try ... hrr-umm ... > >

Re: Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 09/27/2018 06:40 PM: > I notice that there is available two different kernels; > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae > > and > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae > > I am running on a Pentium 4. > > Which one of these should I be using? And just for > curiosities sake

Re: Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 September 2018 19:40:59 Dennis Wicks wrote: > I notice that there is available two different kernels; > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae > > and > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae > > I am running on a Pentium 4. > > Which one of these should I be using? And just for > curi

Re: Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 06:40:59PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I notice that there is available two different kernels; > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae > > and > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae > > I am running on a Pentium 4. > > Which one of these should I be using? And just for

Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
I notice that there is available two different kernels; linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae and linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae I am running on a Pentium 4. Which one of these should I be using? And just for curiosities sake, why? TIA! Dennis

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files

2018-09-27 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped > accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a > preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but > some older frames w

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-27 Thread Brian
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 12:07:02 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:59:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Alternatively: > > - Does the wiki have means to discuss facts or to leave messages > > to other editors why a particular change was undone ? > > The "Comment" box on

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > In the case of the BurnCd page, I actually *do* think that it would be > of general interest to readers to have a paragraph explaining the limits > of wodim, and when not to use it. Let me try ... hrr-umm ... wodim was cloned from cdrecord in 2006. At that time, cdrec

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:59:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Alternatively: > - Does the wiki have means to discuss facts or to leave messages > to other editors why a particular change was undone ? The "Comment" box on the edit page is the obvious place to state your reason for reverting s

How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, is perhaps the Debian wiki user StephenKeeling subscribed here ? We need to discuss the recent wiki change https://wiki.debian.org/BurnCd?action=diff&rev1=30&rev2=31 Alternatively: - Does the wiki have means to contact a particular Debian wiki user ? - Does the wiki have means to discuss fa

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-27 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The biggest weakness with the Dropbear setup is that the initramfs is > stored on an unencrypted partition (no matter which file system is > used).  That means that someone with physical access can rebuild the > initramfs and include their own key as well as other stuff t

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2018 08:31:27 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:27:03PM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks! > > > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/004 > > An

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: All of the above give the wrong answers when filenames contain newlines. Any solution that involves printing the filenames to a stream and then trying to parse that stream to guess how many filenames are in the stream is a non-starter

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 September 2018 08:31:27 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:27:03PM +, Long Wind wrote: > > can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks! > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/004 And finally, an "ls -l|wc -l" from the cli gives the answer to the question ask

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 09:59:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:53:28AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 07:55:56 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc > > > 7 56 321 > > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc > > >

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:53:28AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 07:55:56 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc > > 7 56 321 > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc > > 6 6 54 > > But do use 1A, not 1a, if you want to know ho

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 07:55:56 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:14 PM Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 26/09/2018 10:55, Long Wind wrote: > > > sorry! you're right. > > > after checking ls manual, i find ls has option -1 > > > > Note also that ls will behave like it has the

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:55:56AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > But also note the difference when using the letter "l" vs the numeral "1": > > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc > 7 56 321 > westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc > 6 6 54 But also note that using ls -l gives a

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/09/2018 à 18:18, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in either UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between UEFI and BIOS, it will boot every time? I recommend you le

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:14 PM Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 26/09/2018 10:55, Long Wind wrote: > > sorry! you're right. > > after checking ls manual, i find ls has option -1 > > Note also that ls will behave like it has the "-1" option if its output > is piped to another command, even without

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > Hi there, > > I compiled following test program: > == > #include > #include [snip] > It's supposed to show current window dimension when resizing terminal > window. Unfortunately, dimension

Re: question about ls

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:27:03PM +, Long Wind wrote: > can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks! https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/004

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/09/2018 à 10:41, Joe a écrit : On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:07:59 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: PPTP does require specific NAT support for the GRE protocol. Use case : two clients of the same PPTP server share the same public IP address. It doesn't work, see below. It can work if and only i

UPDATE - was [Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color]

2018-09-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 04:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager ope

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/09/18 03:17, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:14:42PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> so how can we do it with initram and without some external key >> server? Imagine I have only boot not encrypted on the server. I >> want to b