Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 mai 20, 22:32:58, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I had an accidential / in a > > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / > > command. Changing the ownership / recursively is certainly not a good idea. Ugh. For such situations one should either have good backups or a reasonably fast a

Re: Trouble installing wine on system with foreign arch

2020-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 mai 20, 14:05:42, Dale Harris wrote: > > It was pretty much a fresh install from DVD. I did have some issues > remounting the install DVD from the ILO, but otherwise it pretty normal > install. Was the system fully up-to-date before attempting to install wine32? > It's working now. T

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2020-05-01 Thread Smith and Associates
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[solved] su does not work anymore

2020-05-01 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Freitag, 1. Mai 2020, 22:32:58 CEST schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Hello, > > I had an accidential / in a > > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / > > command. Changing the ownership / recursively is certainly not a good idea. > > I did revert this by > > #chown -R root /etc /bin /usr ... > > (al

su does not work anymore

2020-05-01 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I had an accidential / in a # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / command. Changing the ownership / recursively is certainly not a good idea. I did revert this by #chown -R root /etc /bin /usr ... (all directories why were owned by install-user). That was certainly overdone, so I used

Re: python virualenv

2020-05-01 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2020, 02:54:04 CEST schrieb Tom Low-Shang: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:20:04PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Here is the full sequence I executed: > > > > rd@h370:~/virtualenv$ virtualenv covidify > > Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2 > > Virtualenv us

Re: Trouble installing wine on system with foreign arch

2020-05-01 Thread Dale Harris
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Apparently your system has received the security update for amd64, but > not for i386. > > My guess is this the reason for the divergence between the amd64 and > i386 on your system and you should look into it. > It was pretty much a fre

cryptsetup gui

2020-05-01 Thread grumpy
i don't know what i have screwed up i am running buster on three machines only one behaves this way i have an encrypted root fs while the system is still running the initial ramdisk it launches a cryptsetup gui it ask for the password and then presents 3 square dots this obscures the rest of the

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-05-01 Thread James Cloos
The easiest fix is to: export LC_TIME=C just like one must export LC_COLLATE=C to avoid glibc's brkoen collation for en_US. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Greg Marks
To convert an RTF file to a printable PDF file, the command libreoffice --convert-to pdf file.rtf should work. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:27:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but all > the docs are in rtf format. > > What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's? > Also: pandoc It pretty much converts fro

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2020-05-01 Thread Mick Ab
Hello. I am seeking to have a desktop PC built with the standard Buster kernel (4.19) as the operating system. The CPU proposed for the build is a third generation AMD Ryzen 5. However it has come to my attention that there is a problem in running the standard Buster kernel with third generation

Re: Backup ideas

2020-05-01 Thread Alessandro Baggi
3 - Now on to the subject of backing up a system. I am using rsync as my primary backup tool. Celejar, thank you for suggesting borg. I did install it and look at it briefly. But for several reasons, I'm not sure I want to use that right now. It is of course one more thing to learn, use, an

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2020 05:46:43 Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Friday, 1 May 2020 at 04:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but > > all the docs are in rtf format. > > > > What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's? > > On Debian,

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2020 05:16:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:27:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but > > all the docs are in rtf format. > > Oh, /that/ dinosaur. Had Microsoft to pay for

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 1 May 2020 at 04:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but all > the docs are in rtf format. > > What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's? On Debian, maybe check out the unrtf package. But I have used libreoffice

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:27:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but all > the docs are in rtf format. Oh, /that/ dinosaur. Had Microsoft to pay for the collateral it has left in its wake, they'd be beggars. > What

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2020 04:36:30 Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020, 4:28 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but > > all the docs are in rtf format. > > > > What to we have that will convert those into printable

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Fri, May 1, 2020, 4:28 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but all > the docs are in rtf format. > > What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's? > Since rtf is a precursor to Microsoft Word format, I woul

do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have downloaded a new version of an os for a 35 yo computer, but all the docs are in rtf format. What to we have that will convert those into printable pdf's? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please