Re: git setup

On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 22:24 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > #!/bin/bash > # post-commit > # 2023.08.24 2200gmt > > ssh backup "git pull" > exit 0 > You could omit the 'exit 0' so it returns the error code from the ssh command, that way you'll get some feedback from failures to backup which you

Re: LaTeX Unicode entry issues

On 2023-08-24, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm necessarily working with a pdfLaTeX document. You mean LaTeX document compiled with pdflatex ? > My TexLive runs in emacs and automatically changes " to ``. This makes > it annoying to enter Unicode, for I have to paste it from the > terminal. Is there

Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 06:23:00AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > Here [1] [...] Gah. The ref: [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/377613/solve-unicode-char-is-not-set-up-for-use-with-latex-without-special-handling-o -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 04:24:06PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm necessarily working with a pdfLaTeX document. > > I seem to recall from long ago that I could enter Unicode > in this way: > > 002B > > Now it returns the error: "not set up for use with LaTeX." What does > this error

Re: git setup

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:59:18AM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: me% cat try #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin ssh -q -c aes128-...@openssh.com -i $HOME/.ssh/bkup_ed25519 \ bkup "logger -t autopull git pull whatever" exit 0 I am grateful for the recommendations

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

On 2023-08-05 23:06, Geert Stappers wrote: > Or you could ask your VPS provider why they aren't providing > "important" packages in their default image. This is the first time it's happened. Of the Linux images I've used there, Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, and Debian bullseye all

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

On 8/24/23 07:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: So, given that I purged everything and re-installed and it still didn't work, is this indeed a packaging error? I've been running Debian for well over 25 years (I started with a pre-release before buzz was released) and I don't remember anything that didn

Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 16:24 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm necessarily  working with a pdfLaTeX document. > > I seem to recall from long ago that I could enter Unicode  > in this way: > >   002B > > Now it returns the error: "not set up for use with LaTeX." What does > this error imply?

LaTex Unicode entry issues

I'm necessarily working with a pdfLaTeX document. I seem to recall from long ago that I could enter Unicode in this way: 002B Now it returns the error: "not set up for use with LaTeX." What does this error imply? This code works to produce an astrisk: \char"002A but \char"2

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

Hi Marco, thanks for taking the time to reply. Am Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:24:39 +0200 schrieb Marco Möller : > Having had the same problem to solve for myself I ended up to use: > Noto sans for all my GUI > Liberation Mono for coding The "Noto Sans" has an almost identical

cups blowed up again, when do we get a print system that Just Works?

Greeting all; bookworm, upto date, cups 2.4.2 installed. I goto print a doc on a 3d printer control card, and can't print a pdf from firefox. So I goto localhost:631, no printers! I had 4 the day before yesterday, and used 2 of them. So I goto add printers, get asked for my passwd, and then

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

> So, given that I purged everything and re-installed and it still didn't > work, is this indeed a packaging error? I've been running Debian for well > over 25 years (I started with a pre-release before buzz was released) and > I don't remember anything that didn't work after installing. I don't k

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

> > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-08-24): > > > Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive > > > grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its usefulness. > > > > > > A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. > > > > > > find . -follow -lname "*" Wow... what a cryptic

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

Stanislav Vlasov (12023-08-24): > Sometimes it's unexpected :-) Then the shell prints an error and I try again. Still less time wasted than these two mails. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

чт, 24 авг. 2023 г. в 18:17, Nicolas George : > > With a really large amount of files there will be overflow of process > > environment (or too large cmdline). > If I expect a very large amount of files, I can use it another way. Sometimes it's unexpected :-) -- Stanislav

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-08-24): > > Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive > > grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its usefulness. > > > > A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. > > >

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

Stanislav Vlasov (12023-08-24): > With a really large amount of files there will be overflow of process > environment (or too large cmdline). If I expect a very large amount of files, I can use it another way. -- Nicolas George

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

чт, 24 авг. 2023 г. в 17:06, Nicolas George : > > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-08-24): > > Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive > > grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its usefulness. > > > > A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. > > > > find . -follow

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

to...@tuxteam.de (12023-08-24): > Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive > grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its usefulness. > > A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. > > find . -follow -lname "*" ls **/*(N@-@) Zsh rulz. Regards, -- Nicol

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 01:52:28PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: [...] > Have basically stopped using traditional 'find' outside of scripts, as > always thought I was about the last one [...] Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:56:11 +0200 wrote: >On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Hans wrote: >> >> > find .mozilla -name favicons.sqlite -ls >> >  1512492   2144 -rw-r--r--   1 myusername myusernama  2195456 Aug >> > 21 13:29 .mozilla/firefox/gs0gkg

Re: VM using Debian cloud image does not connect to virtual network.

Hello, I have found the solution to this and want to drop it here in case someone finds this and has the same problem. The solution is described in this section of the Debian docume

Re: kernel 6.4.0-3 (testing) cannot be installed with virtualbox-dkms

On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 10:06 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I had an upgrade failure today, when upgrading kernel to 6.4.0-3 : > virtualbox-dkms needs a function which disappeared from kernel headers. > > I opened the bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050406 > Which has been ma

kernel 6.4.0-3 (testing) cannot be installed with virtualbox-dkms

I had an upgrade failure today, when upgrading kernel to 6.4.0-3 : virtualbox-dkms needs a function which disappeared from kernel headers. I opened the bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050406 -- Erwan David