Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 08:21:12PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > I honestly don't know the subject very well myself, but I'd definitely > like to know it better than I do. > > One aspect of Windows printer sharing is that it makes it possible to > connect a printer not directly to the netwo

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:59:07PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Oh well. It clearly isn't bothering me (I'm usually in bed before > midnight, though not always), so I never had to look into it. I'm sure > someone felt it was a "good idea" to move things from perfectly normal > and well-u

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

On 04/09/2022 01:17 PM, davidson wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/08/2022 01:18 AM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.d

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

* 2022-04-10 03:59:25+0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-04-10 01:21, The Wanderer wrote: >>> avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp >> >> Does that get the information from CUPS? > > With printer connected via other PC (CUPS print server) there is no > output from "avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp" Should be, if

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:26:58PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Two of my machines have their database files dated at midnight or one > minute after. > > Possibly because updatedb is run by a systemd timer, not cron. ?? unicorn:~$ ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db -rw-r- 1 root mlocate 289

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:59:04 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's > going off at about midnight? Two of my machines have their database files dated at midnight or one minute after. Possibly because updatedb is run by a systemd timer, not

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2022-04-10 01:21, The Wanderer wrote: avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp Does that get the information from CUPS? With printer connected via other PC (CUPS print server) there is no output from "avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp" mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On 2022-04-09 at 07:56, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 19:45:41 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> (This is probably both overly long and overly repetitive, among >> possibly other undesirable things, but I'm running short on time.) > > So I hope you do not mind if I do not reply to every poi

Re: rdnssd not updating /etc/resolv.conf

On 10/4/22 7:04 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I've installed rdnssd The host has ipv6 enabled in /etc/network/interfaces and it's acquiring an IPv6 address via RA in addition to having a static IPv6 Address rdnssd is running but nothing is changing in /etc/resolv.conf or /var/run/rdnssd/resolv.

rdnssd not updating /etc/resolv.conf

I've installed rdnssd The host has ipv6 enabled in /etc/network/interfaces and it's acquiring an IPv6 address via RA in addition to having a static IPv6 Address rdnssd is running but nothing is changing in /etc/resolv.conf or /var/run/rdnssd/resolv.conf Any suggestions? root@orangepi-r1:~# c

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:42:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez composed on 2022-04-09 17:16 (UTC-0400): > > > Have you tried the option to manually enter the mirror information? In > > the past I have successfully used this point at archive.debian.org for > > an installation of

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

Roberto C. Sánchez composed on 2022-04-09 17:16 (UTC-0400): > Have you tried the option to manually enter the mirror information? Gripped by blindness the first several tries, I eventually noticed that manual entry topped the list, and installation has been proceeding. :p -- Evolution as taught

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

On 4/9/22 14:08, Felix Miata wrote: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html doesn't seem to show the possibility exists. Is it not possible? What doc explains? The problem: I want to install on a K6/2. The newest installation kernel that doesn't require cmov that K6/2 doesn't

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:36:25PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2022-04-09 21:15 (UTC): > > > YOu could try expert mode and select your own mirror. > > Only way I can find in expert mode to select a mirror is from the lists from > the > various countries presented, a

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

Roberto C. Sánchez composed on 2022-04-09 17:16 (UTC-0400): > Have you tried the option to manually enter the mirror information? In > the past I have successfully used this point at archive.debian.org for > an installation of an older version of Debian. You should be able to > use the URL http:

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2022-04-09 21:15 (UTC): > YOu could try expert mode and select your own mirror. Only way I can find in expert mode to select a mirror is from the lists from the various countries presented, among which archive.debian.org is not listed in USA, UK or Germany. Is it sq

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:08:50PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html doesn't seem to > show > the possibility exists. Is it not possible? What doc explains? > > The problem: I want to install on a K6/2. The newest installation kernel that > do

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:08:50PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html doesn't seem to > show > the possibility exists. Is it not possible? What doc explains? > > The problem: I want to install on a K6/2. The newest installation kernel that > do

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 04:59:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote: > > grep daily /etc/crontab > > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going > off at about midnight? We'd have to see what his /etc/crontab con

configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html doesn't seem to show the possibility exists. Is it not possible? What doc explains? The problem: I want to install on a K6/2. The newest installation kernel that doesn't require cmov that K6/2 doesn't have is Wheezy. When I boot the Wheez

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote: > grep daily /etc/crontab Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going off at about midnight? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. P

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 03:40:41PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. > > Looking at the process

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. > Looking at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. > I didn't want this,

Re: Apparmor problem.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 5:46 AM George wrote: > Hi! > Im trying to make a profile for firefox-esr. > > I used aa-genprof to create it and then aa-logprof to update it. > I also use apparmor-notify to get error messages. > > The problem is that I get constant apparmor messages like the > following:

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/08/2022 01:18 AM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] l

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 13:59:44 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >This is not the case in Debian 11 (stable). You're right. I misread the page and muddled the stable and backports lines. My apologies for the confusion. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is never imm

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 06:18:31PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > mlocate is a transitional package in Debian. It installs plocate. Which > means Roy is likely running plocate anyway. Therefore mlocate can be > removed. This is not the case in Debian 11 (stable). It appears to be true in testing

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat 09 Apr 2022 at 18:18:31 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:50:03 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >Or replace mlocate with plocate, which is reckoned to be better than > > mlocate is a transitional package in Debian. It installs plocate. Which > means Roy is li

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:50:03 +0100 Brian wrote: < plocate is a locate(1) based on posting lists, giving much faster searches on a much smaller index. It is a drop-in replacement for mlocate in nearly all aspects, and is fast on SSDs and non-SSDs alike. > Besides this it also handles sshfs mounts

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:50:03 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >Or replace mlocate with plocate, which is reckoned to be better than mlocate is a transitional package in Debian. It installs plocate. Which means Roy is likely running plocate anyway. Therefore mlocate can be removed. From info o

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process that updates the database for the locate utility, which is very useful. I was about to add, think instead abo

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat 09 Apr 2022 at 12:39:45 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at > > the

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at > the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't want >

updatedb.mlocate

So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't want this, and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it. How do I find out wh

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 13:22:26 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 06:03:47PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 17:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:56:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: > It woould have been far, far more useful to have had the queue name on > the card. Perhaps it can be added? Printing then becomes a two minute, > no-fuss job: > > lp -d DESTINATION FILE I'm not on site now, so I can't recall all of the in

Re: On IP addresses and bus tripe [was: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:47:09PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 09 Apr 2022 at 08:33:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > You didn't like my bus analogy, did you? > > > > I did like it. Nevertheless, I thought som

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 19:57:53 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 23:44:29 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 16:20:54 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > What I understood Greg as asking about is how to get CUPS to *tell* you > > > what the IP address it knows about f

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 19:45:41 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > (This is probably both overly long and overly repetitive, among possibly > other undesirable things, but I'm running short on time.) So I hope you do not mind if I do not reply to every point you make. > On 2022-04-08 at 18:44, Brian wr

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 06:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've never used wget. I just did an initial reading of its quite > detailed man page. Is there a recommended introduction to wget. I'm not > thinking of a tutorial so much as a "What wget can do for you" intro. I don't know about any int

Re: On IP addresses and bus tripe [was: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones]

On Sat 09 Apr 2022 at 08:33:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > You didn't like my bus analogy, did you? > > I did like it. Nevertheless, I thought something's missing: In general, analogies don't really work, do they? >

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

On 04/08/2022 01:18 AM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] lead *ONLY* to Page 1. You can download a

Apparmor problem.

Hi! Im trying to make a profile for firefox-esr. I used aa-genprof to create it and then aa-logprof to update it. I also use apparmor-notify to get error messages. The problem is that I get constant apparmor messages like the following: Apparmor Message Profile /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

Re: Weird printing issue...

On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details, File

Re: Weird printing issue...

On 2022-04-09 03:52, nimrod wrote: Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers. The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details, File

Re: Weird printing issue...

On gio, 2022-04-07 at 20:09 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On 2022-04-07 18:20, nimrod wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting very strange, and ugly, prints with LibreOffice, Evince > > and > > Atril. You can see what I mean in the linked screenshot below. > > > > The "screen

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 00:05 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 21:07:18 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:18 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 17:59:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Unfortu