Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
tached in the original post) So 'clear' in Stretch doesn't do what it sets on to do. I tried gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal and terminator with the same observations as above. -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
dn't clear the scrollback buffer. This suggests that the version of 'clear' in Jessie used to clear the scrollback buffer. But that's untrue. I have always used 'clear' to clear the screen in Jessie. And it never cleared the scrollback buffer. (I'm not sure abo

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > I just want to add that every reasonable shell lets you clear the screen > while preserving the scrollback buffer, simply press Control-L. Thank you! I had completely forgotten the form feed! -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-20 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: > Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got exactly same behavior with `tput clear`. -- Avinash Sonawane

[Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-20 Thread Avinash Sonawane
llbacked to. Here are the screenshots https://imgur.com/a/aPD4F Please observe the scrollbar. xfce4 -terminal version 0.8.3 Any pointers? Ps - While replying please keep me in loop as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com

xscreensaver sonar : sonar must be setuid to ping

2017-03-11 Thread Avinash Sonawane
xscreensaver by locking the screen it still says "sonar must be setuid to ping" but interestingly when I execute it directly as $ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar it works as expected showing the machines in LAN. How can I make the sonar work when I lock the screen through xscreensaver? -

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
d entry 'firefox-aurora/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)" The relevant part from sources.list: #firefox developer edition deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aurora deb-src http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backpo

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
'firefox-aurora/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)" The relevant part from sources.list: #firefox developer edition deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aurora deb-src http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-aur

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas George wrote: >> Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >>> So will it work if I add `authrequiredpam_env.so` >>> to lightdm,

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> So will it work if I add `authrequiredpam_env.so` >> to lightdm, lightdm-greeter and lightdm-autologin files? > > Try. Awesome! It w

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> I think I am using lightdm as display manager/login manager. (Any way >> to find out which is?) > > You can probably see what display manager is running w

Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> I am using Jessie with XFCE. > > Look in /etc/pam.d/ if there is a file related to xfce and its display > manager. $ ls /etc/pam.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

/etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
/etc/environment -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 May 2 17:41 /etc/environment Please help! -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> No. Sorry for not being so clear. When I say `$ env` (i.e. as normal > > Do not worry, everyone forgets to check basic things from time to time. > >&g

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
user while root user seems to using it. Why? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://l

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> When I say `# env` I can see http_proxy=http://192.168.6.254:3128 but >> when I say `$ sudo env` there's no http_proxy variable printed. >> >&g

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Juha Heinanen wrote: > %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL What does this line do? NOPASSWD? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit : >> > 2) Move 'Defaults env_keep…' to line 12 in /etc/sudoers (i.e. *before* >> > "User privilege escalation section") >>

Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
should have not copy pasted the sudoers and thought that was the cause of the problem so I purged sudo and then again installed it. And then added normal user to sudo and added env_keep to sudoers. But no luck. Still the same error. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wo

sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers

2015-05-03 Thread Avinash Sonawane
ged my /etc/sudoers. Here is it http://paste.debian.net/170961/ But still `$ sudo apt-get update` produces above error. And it's really an inconvenience for me to become root user to do apt thing. So why `sudo` not respecting `/etc/sudoers` ? Am I missing something? Thank you. -- Avinas

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >>> Hello. I am using Jessie. >>> >>> Whenever I try to open some webpages I can

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >> Hello. I am using Jessie. >> >> Whenever I try to open some webpages I can not help but notice that >> Unicode characters are not getting display

Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Hello. I am using Jessie. > > Whenever I try to open some webpages I can not help but notice that > Unicode characters are not getting displayed correctly. > > I tried Iceweasel & Chromium. Both showing the same we

Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0

2015-05-02 Thread Avinash Sonawane
gle.co.in offered in : ...") The reason I think this is related to Debian 8.0 is because untill yesterday I was using Ubuntu and I could easily see all those Unicode characters properly on the same webpage using Chromium and Firefox. Do I need to install any Unicode font or something? Please help

$ sudo gnome-system-log does nothing

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! I am using Debian 8.0 Whenever I try to invoke System Log graphically, a password seeking box popes up and then nothing happens. So I tried $ sudo gnome-system-log but then again after entering the password the prompt quietly returns. What's wrong with gnome-system-log? -- Av

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not >> > work for you. Ho

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
m by choosing to install a different version of debian. The install will probably *fail* to work if you continue without kernel modules Continue the install without loading the kernel modules? 1) No 2) Yes" PS - see previous message in this very thread -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune

Jessie starts with minimum brightness

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
anges some configuration which causes the system to start with a minimum screen brightness. Please provide me some pointers regarding this. Thank you. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

System wide proxy in Debian Jessie

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Which is the standard/recommended way to set system wide proxy in Debian instead of editing utility specific rc files (wgetrc, apt.conf etc)? I am aware of /etc/environment, setting http_proxy environ variable and then export it, editing bashrc. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http

Re: [Debain 8.0 Installation] Linux Kernel choice menu

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Hello! > > When I was trying to install Debian Jessie, at one of the steps the > installer asked me to choose a kernel: > 1) linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 > 2) linux-image-amd64 > 3) No kernel > > 3) is obviou

[Debain 8.0 Installation] Linux Kernel choice menu

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! When I was trying to install Debian Jessie, at one of the steps the installer asked me to choose a kernel: 1) linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 2) linux-image-amd64 3) No kernel 3) is obvious but what's the difference between 1) and 2)? Which one to choose and why? Thank you. -- Av

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
ebooting the system. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- 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/CAJ9BSW-WQ46wJD-2DV

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
hank you for your help. PS- If your Ethernet firmware is missing too (with wireless) then first install the Debian and then download the firmware files using another machine and then manually copy/configure the files in installed Debian system. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
d finding firmware files there as expected or do I need to mount/unmout it manually? After saying No in "continue install without loading kernel modules" step, the firmware got loaded correctly or not? (Though this time it didn't ask for brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) Please help. -

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Brian wrote: > Do we assume the firmware files on the FAT partition are .deb packages? > Do you have an existing linux installation? Yes. all firmware files are .deb packages and yes currently I am using Ubuntu. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pun

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
ng all the packages from internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing amd64 dvd1 iso then? (instead of downloading packages extract from the dvd1 iso) But then just to have a single 10MB firmware file is it really cool to download the whole netinst image? -- Avinash Sonawane (

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Synaptics touchpad not working in Graphical Install

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
able to make the touchpad work after installing Debian? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
egins smoothly but it says no firmware was found though I can see the damn firmware directory in newly created FAT partition. Any pointers? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ >>> take a look furthe

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically >> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded th

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
initially without firmware files (and the new FAT partition) installation was going smooth. Please direct me to any pointers on to how to have firmware files on USB stick alongside Debian installable image. Thank you. Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-23 Thread Avinash
Chris Bannister earthlight.co.nz> writes: > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:40:53PM +0530, Avinash H.M. wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. > > I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of th

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-23 Thread Avinash H.M.
Sat, May 22, 2010 at 23:07, Aioanei Rares > wrote: >> >> On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. >>> I am trying to use GCC, GDB.  Able t

No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Avinash H.M.
uot; [ PID of the ./a.out ] After kill, i get Segmentation fault. But Core is not dumped. [ I expect a print ( Core dumped ) ] Anyone faced this ??? Please help. Thanks - Avinash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
d and interpreted > as a new line. Is it possible to disable such behaviour? I couldn't find > anything relevant in the settings of Gnome Terminal. You can press Alt+Enter which does the same thing. Avinash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-08 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
gt; permanently in the startup scripts. Is there a recommended Debian Way > to do this? > I do this in initrd, /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/suspend2, the same script which resumes. -Avinash -- Avinash Sultanpur http://sultanpur.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-06 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
our laptop to hibernate with the non-free nvidia drivers (if you are using the suspend2 patch) by running this command before starting X. echo 0 > /proc/suspend2/extra_pages_allowance More at http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/appendix-q.html -Avinash. -- Avinash

request

2004-12-14 Thread Avinash Parhi
Sir, i, avinash parhi,am a student of National Institute Of Rourkela(NIT)am very much interested in Debian linux .Can i Get it For free as i will use it for learning purposes only as i m a student (My Roll no at NIT Rourkela-10405007).If yes i will be grateful to u for the favour. i will be

request

2004-12-13 Thread Avinash Parhi
Sir, i, avinash parhi,am a student of National Institute Of Rourkela(NIT)am very much interested in Gentoo Linux .Can i Get it For free as i will use it for learning purposes only as i m a student (My Roll no at NIT Rourkela-10405007).If yes i will be grateful to u for the favour. i will be

Firebird2: Unable to connect over TCP

2004-09-03 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
12:55:53 2004 INET/inet_error: receive in try_connect errno = 104 --- My /etc/hosts.equiv --- 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain server --- Can someone tell me what is wrong? Thanks Avinash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

bashrc

2000-05-14 Thread Avinash m Gowda
hi I wanted to knw how to print a file which is in text on screen whenever i log in that is printing a quote everytime i login or printing a quote in my mail everytime i send a mail. pl. lemme knw the syntax for this thanx avinash[A Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your