Re: An Odd File Name

2017-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:49:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > You could try partial wildcarding, like: > > $ ls *tall*build* This is often very useful, even to make typing awkward characters easier. I often use ? rather than * to reduce the risk of accidentally matching other files. -- Jona

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/13/2017 05:40 PM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did have to tell in the apt sources list that i was

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be > updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. Some Linux Distributions have such a feature. Debian is not one of them. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: Daniel Bareiro wrote: Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. Some Linux Distributions have such a feature. Debian is not one of them. Actual

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Daniel Bareiro wrote: >>> Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be >>> updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. >> Some Linux Distributions have such a feature. De

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Darac. On 14/02/17 10:01, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be >>> updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. >> Some Linux Distributions have such a feature. Debian is not one of them. > Actually, yes it is, you just n

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Sven. On 14/02/17 10:19, Sven Hartge wrote: > He thinks of mechanisms like ksplice or kpatch where you can > alter/patch the running kernel without rebooting the system. Yes, I had read some about this and that, for example, Ubuntu has it available but as a paid service that one can hire. W

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 02/14/2017 12:58 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be > updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. They incorporated parts of that. There are still some unsolved issues. See for example this article from last Nove

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/13/2017 06:23 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes ("sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9"): If you are running testing (stretch) and using sysvinit, I'd appreciate it if you could install the new sysvinit packages from unstable (sid). Thanks to those who replies already. I

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, on a laptop with testing, updated init packages, and freshly rebooted, the priority of the packages is still "required": # cat /proc/1/comm init $ mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) $ dpkg -s sysvinit-utils | gre

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/12/2017 02:54 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Big-Snip < [ Ben Hutchings ] How can I test this? * Keep /usr mounted read-only on shutdown (Closes: #757083) Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.4 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/14/2017 11:29 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: /usr mounted read-only on shutdown (Closes: #757083) Only effects systems with separate partition for /usr ? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.4 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-14 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > Light begins to dawn. I just carefully read manpage for sources.list . > Seems that I "knew" things that just weren't so ;/ > I have the morning free and will do some experimenting. > Thank you for your patience. i'm glad for that, especially if it does save you tons

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Jimmy Johnson writes ("Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9"): > Hi Ian, I ran your test, just so you know I have /user on root. > # uname -a > Linux jimmy-1 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.6-3 (2017-01-28) x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > Before your patch: # cat /proc/1/comm > systemd > > Aft

Fwd: How set screen( not x 11 !) color in Debian to ANSI black or #000000 via command line ?

2017-02-14 Thread swjatoslaw gerus
Gentlemen How set screen( not x 11 !) color in Debian to ANSI black or #00via command line ? Relevant comment would appreciated -- http://www.fastmail.com - Same, same, but different...

Re: How set screen( not x 11 !) color in Debian to ANSI black or #000000 via command line ?

2017-02-14 Thread Felix Miata
swjatoslaw gerus composed on 2017-02-15 00:45 (UTC+0100): How set screen( not x 11 !) color in Debian to ANSI black or #00via command line ? Relevant comment would appreciated I have tty=$(tty); [ "$tty" != "${tty#/dev/tty[0-9]}" ] && setterm --background blue --foregr