Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:46:05PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 07/03/18 13:56, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > >On terminal A, > >chown root:root /opt/experiment/ > >chmod 700 /opt/experiment > >On terminal B, > >whoami #aristo > >touch bbb

Re: cant configure drawing tablet in debian stretch cinnamon

2018-03-07 Thread Tomaž Šolc
Hi On 06. 03. 2018 18:36, Thomas Waldl wrote: I just installed the latest debian stretch net installer with cinnamon, and I happen to not be able to configure my wacom tablet throught the menu options. Configuring it manually via console and xsetwacom commands works perfectly. You really sho

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Joel Roth writes: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:39:19AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> After learning, some months ago, thanks to listers' help, how to live record >> into a multi channel audio file, I was wondering about the reverse problem: >> now I have my multi channel audio file, e.g. compos

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread epsilon491
7. Mar 2018 11:27 by to...@tuxteam.de: > I can't reproduce, either. Once the chown to root happens, non-root > user can't touch files in directory. Ext4. I double checked. Sorry the previous example was not good. To reproduce the issue, you have to create another directory inside the top one.

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:54:43AM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > 7. Mar 2018 11:27 by to...@tuxteam.de: > > > I can't reproduce, either. Once the chown to root happens, non-root > > user can't touch files in directory. Ext4. > > I double ch

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread epsilon491
Sorry, it is very counter intuitive to me. So what you say is this: if there is an open terminal before chmod 700, then I can use that terminal to access "apple", but after I close terminal B, there is no way to access that apple directory? Neither with a shall window, nor with another software?

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread epsilon491
Addition to previous email: Example: In terminal B I can still modify a files as follows: touch aaa echo "123" > aaa But when I do, vi aaa even in the same terminal, vi can't access the file aaa. 7. Mar 2018 14:14 by epsilon...@tutanota.com: > Sorry, it is very counter intuitive to me. > So

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:14:10PM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > Sorry, it is very counter intuitive to me. > So what you say is this: if there is an open terminal before chmod 700, > then I can use that terminal to access "apple", but after

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:19:06PM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > Addition to previous email: > Example: > In terminal B I can still modify a files as follows: > touch aaa > echo "123" > aaa > But when I do, > vi aaa > even in the same termina

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread epsilon491
OK thanks for the explanations. To make sure: 1.) To prevent this scenario, I have to do recursive chown and chmod. 2.) If I chmod only /opt/experiment, there is absolutely no other way to access apple, other than an already open terminal. Correct? 7. Mar 2018 14:34 by to...@tuxteam.de: > -

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
wrote: > Sorry, it is very counter intuitive to me. > So what you say is this: if there is an open terminal before chmod > 700, then I can use that terminal to access "apple", but after I close > terminal B, there is no way to access that apple directory? Neither > with a shall window, nor with an

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:42:19PM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > OK thanks for the explanations. > To make sure: > 1.) To prevent this scenario, I have to do recursive chown and chmod. I don't quite understand what you mean by "scenario": th

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:54:06AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] > Think of it as being somewhat like a parking lot / garage with a gate at the > entrance. Uh-oh. A car analogy :) > You enter the lot / garage, get your ticket, and are admitted in

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
Kamil Jońca wrote: > > I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with > searching over numerous web pages :( I'd go for something from Brother. Ideally, networkable (rather than needing to share via CUPS, etc.) > > I need to buy device to scan and print which: > - can sc

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread epsilon491
Tomas and Dan, thanks for the explanations. So if the process have already a handle (file descriptor) to apple, it can continue using it, even when I chmod 700 one of its parents. On the other hand, any new process trying to get a handle to apple MUST traverse the directory tree. This is what I

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > So what you say is this: if there is an open terminal before chmod 700, then > I can use that terminal to access "apple", but after I close terminal B, > there is no way to access that apple directory? Neither with a shall window, > nor with another software?

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:11:52PM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > Tomas and Dan, thanks for the explanations. So if the process have already a > handle (file descriptor) to apple, it can continue using it, even when I > chmod 700 one of its

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt > > to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view. Debian, like all ordinary software, is

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47 > > seems to suggest a way forward. > > > > Perhaps someone

Re: Origin of /var/run contents

2018-03-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:26:19PM +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Greg Wooledge: > > > Wheezy used sysvinit and related pacakges, not systemd. Jessie does have > > the file-hierarchy(7) man page that Jonathan mentioned. > > > Debian 7 had systemd, and the sharp-eyed who read the URL wi

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:42:19PM +0100, epsilon...@tutanota.com wrote: > OK thanks for the explanations. > To make sure: > 1.) To prevent this scenario, I have to do recursive chown and chmod. No, to prevent this scenario, use the correct owner and permissions in the first place instead of setti

Stretch and Gnome 3 : defining a new keyboard shortcut

2018-03-07 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my new Debian Stretch with Gnome 3.22, I wanted to define a keyboard shortcut to launch an Xterm. If I go to 'Settings' ==> 'Parameters' ==> 'Keyboard', and '+' at the bottom of the list so as to add a new personnalized shortcut, a new box get displayed, in which I am suppos

Re: adsl bridge mode

2018-03-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:17:01AM +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I got ADSL bridge mode. I can get ip address from DHCP from the > service provider. > How do I configure it ? Let's assume that the Debian machine is connected to the ADSL modem on eth0 The basic configuration in /etc/net

A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?}

2018-03-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/05/2018 04:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/04/2018 11:27 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-04, Richard Owlett wrote: My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ. To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have "Re:" in the Subject into a single file {used standard Se

Re-mapping AltGr and PrtSc keys globally

2018-03-07 Thread coco...@t-online.de
Hi. Debian MATE 9.2.1. My laptop's keyboard has Alt Gr followed by PrtSc to the immediate right of the Space bar. I'd like to globally remap those keys to Super and Right Alt respectively. I've tried various things with my laptop's BIOS, xmodmap and the MATE settings without success. Does any

Debian/testing does not resume from hibernate

2018-03-07 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am still working on a bug. As I wrote some time ago, my EEEPC is working fine, when suspend-to-ram (hibernate and restore is working like a charm), but when I suspend-to-disk then hibnernation works, but resume is crashing (loads the content from swap, then shuts off and booting

Re: Stretch and Gnome 3 : defining a new keyboard shortcut

2018-03-07 Thread Rol Ham
Hi Bernard, On 07.03.2018 15:32, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my new Debian Stretch with Gnome 3.22, I wanted to define a keyboard > shortcut to launch an Xterm. If I go to 'Settings' ==> 'Parameters' ==> > 'Keyboard', and '+' at the bottom of the list so as to add a new > personnalize

Multiple monitors...

2018-03-07 Thread Nimrod
Hi, I need to show some movies on different monitors using a video card with 8 HDMI ports on a workstation, and I need to have all done automatically everytime the workstation starts, without use intervention. I had no time yet to practice with this card, but I also have a card with two HDMI and a

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 06/03/18 09:00 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with searching over numerous web pages :( I need to buy device to scan and print which: - can scan with sane - can print from my debian box (strongly prefer without binary/closed drivers[

Re: File and directory permissions

2018-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:54:06AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > > [...] > >> Think of it as being somewhat like a parking lot / garage with a gate at the >> entrance. > > Uh-oh. A car analogy :) > >> You enter the lot / garage, get your ticket, and are admitted in. Now >> you're free to

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Doug
On 03/07/2018 01:06 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 06/03/18 09:00 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with searching over numerous web pages :( I need to buy device to scan and print which: - can scan with sane - can print from my debian box

[SOLVED] Re: Stretch and Gnome 3 : defining a new keyboard shortcut

2018-03-07 Thread Bernard
On 07/03/2018 17:17, Rol Ham wrote: Hi Bernard, On 07.03.2018 15:32, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, On my new Debian Stretch with Gnome 3.22, I wanted to define a keyboard shortcut to launch an Xterm. If I go to 'Settings' ==> 'Parameters' ==> 'Keyboard', and '+' at the bottom of the list so

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 12:07:20 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > > I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with > > searching over numerous web pages :( I understand, but do see this thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg00121.ht

Re: gnats user

2018-03-07 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 01:16:06 AM Reco wrote: > Along with other uid<100 users, 'gnats' is there for a long time, > nobody's sure what will break if it's removed from passwd(5), Wow! (I am not the OP, but that is disappointing (but not surprising, I suspect the same or similar about othe

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 04:06:12 AM Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:39:19AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> After learning, some months ago, thanks to listers' help, how to live > >> record into a multi channel audio file, I was wondering about the >

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 07:07:20 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > Kamil Jońca wrote: > Good luck there. Brother, HP, everyone that makes quality hardware has > a binary driver. > > > - no bigger than ~ (H x D x W) 308 mm x 363 mm x 437 mm [3] > > That's a bit on the small side, but you could probabl

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, at 09:06, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Fantastic... thanks, Joel. I want to buy one of those multichannel > soundcards... Do you think this one could be all right...? > https://www.strumentimusicali.net/product_info.php/products_id/51790/behringer-umc404hd.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP7

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 02:37:46 PM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, at 09:06, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Fantastic... thanks, Joel. I want to buy one of those multichannel > > soundcards... Do you think this one could be all right...? > You also of course require the thing to do

Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails [solved]

2018-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 03/05/2018 01:34 AM, Felix Miata wrote: what Debian release are you actually running and what yaboot version (shown above yaboot boot prompt) have you installed? I'm running Sid (just upgraded all packages minutes ago) and yaboot 1.3.17. 1.3.16 on Jessie. I've never discovered any indication

Scary things about Linux (was: Re: gnats user)

2018-03-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:13:07PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 01:16:06 AM Reco wrote: > > Along with other uid<100 users, 'gnats' is there for a long time, > > nobody's sure what will break if it's removed from passwd(5), > > Wow! (I am not the O

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Doug
On 03/07/2018 02:37 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 07:07:20 AM Dan Purgert wrote: Kamil Jońca wrote: Good luck there. Brother, HP, everyone that makes quality hardware has a binary driver. - no bigger than ~ (H x D x W) 308 mm x 363 mm x 437 mm [3] That's a bit o

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Erwan David
Le 03/07/18 à 06:00, Kamil Jońca a écrit : > I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with > searching over numerous web pages :( > > I need to buy device to scan and print which: > - can scan with sane > - can print from my debian box (strongly prefer without binary/close

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Erwan David
Le 03/07/18 à 21:19, Erwan David a écrit : > Le 03/07/18 à 06:00, Kamil Jońca a écrit : >> I am not sure if it is best group for this question but I am tired with >> searching over numerous web pages :( >> >> I need to buy device to scan and print which: >> - can scan with sane >> - can print from

Re: Multiple monitors...

2018-03-07 Thread deloptes
Nimrod wrote: > I need to show some movies on different monitors using a video card > with 8 HDMI ports on a workstation, and I need to have all done perhaps reveal the make and model of this "misterious" card first. second you may need appropriate xorg configuration (either xorg.conf) or via xr

Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails

2018-03-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Rick, On 03/05/2018 04:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: For what it’s worth, here is the /etc/yaboot.conf on my PowerMac G5 that has both OSX and Debian Sid Thanks for the info. I now tried several variations on my Mac mini G4 and it looks like `ybin` only complains if it cannot translate the va

Re: jessie powermac yboot: ybin fails [solved]

2018-03-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/07/2018 08:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> 1.3.16 on Jessie. I've never discovered any indication anything newer than >> Jessie was available for a G4. If I s/jessie/stretch/g sources.list, I get 5 >> errors from apt-get update for failing to find index files. > > IIC, powerpc is only existi

Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?}

2018-03-07 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-07, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/05/2018 04:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 03/04/2018 11:27 AM, Curt wrote: >>> On 2018-03-04, Richard Owlett wrote: My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ. To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Joel Roth
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I want to buy one of those multichannel > soundcards... Do you think this one could be all right...? > > > https://www.strumentimusicali.net/product_info.php/products_id/51790/behringer-umc404hd.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP7UBRDiARIsAFpxiRKgsptPW1qxkEw793ahs684ltlhyh5dcIgzL

Open socket not connected to any real process

2018-03-07 Thread David Parker
Hello, I have an SMTP server running Debian Wheezy (64-bit). A few weeks ago, I stopped nscd on it, because it was holding a connection open to our LDAP server and sending a ton of unnecessary queries to it. Even though nscd is not running, I am once again seeing nscd-type queries on the LDAP se

Re: Re: Re: dnsmasq and SOA

2018-03-07 Thread RODARY Jacques
Sorry for my last post: I sent a draft mail instead of the corrected one. Let's go back to my own concern: dnsmasq and soa,  if you don't mind. Here is my dnsmasq.conf file: resolv-file=/etc/dnsmasqresolv.conf interface=eno1 interface=wlp3s0 no-dhcp-interface=enp2s0 auth-zone=rodary.ne

Re: Multifunction (printer + scanner) recommendation?

2018-03-07 Thread Kamil Jońca
kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: [...] Thanks for everybodys' replies. Now I think about brother DCP-1510E. We'll see ... KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ When the government bureau's remedies don't match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > The Amazon page I looked at: > > https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=behringer+umc404hd&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=178390564539&hvpos=1t2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=939372652501756766&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9006968&hvtargid=kwd-1

Q: RAID1 and chunk size

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Keller
I have a RAID1 array with 2 disks (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) of 2 TB each. By running mdadm -X /dev/sda1 I see that the chunk size is 64 MB: # mdadm -X /dev/sda1 Filename : /dev/sda1 Magic : 6d746962 Version : 4 UUID : 300551ed:f6690dfb:1c939898:af5509c6 Events : 257

Q: Host protected area (HPA), hdparm, and 4 KB sectors

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Keller
I have a couple of questions concerning the host protected area (HPA) on SATA disks. All the following is no problem with my Linux system, I just want to understand things: 1. My two Seagate Barracuda 2 TB disks were not bought as part of a completely installed computer but separately as singl

Re: Open socket not connected to any real process

2018-03-07 Thread David Parker
Well, crap. It turns out this isn't a problem. PAM is configured for LDAP authentication and so it opens a connection each time I log in, owned by my sshd process, even though it's not using LDAP authentication for root. And the other LDAP queries I'm seeing are being sent when users authenticat

Re: Q: RAID1 and chunk size

2018-03-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On 07/03/18 21:13, Steve Keller wrote: > I have a RAID1 array with 2 disks (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) of 2 TB > each. By running mdadm -X /dev/sda1 I see that the chunk size is 64 MB: > > # mdadm -X /dev/sda1 > Filename : /dev/sda1 > Magic : 6d746962 > Version : 4 > UUID : 300

Re: Open socket not connected to any real process

2018-03-07 Thread Sven Hartge
David Parker wrote: > Well, crap. It turns out this isn't a problem. PAM is configured for > LDAP authentication and so it opens a connection each time I log in, > owned by my sshd process, even though it's not using LDAP > authentication for root. And the other LDAP queries I'm seeing are > b

Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

2018-03-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Let's say I have two kernels -- the default that's maintained by the distro, and one that I'm playing with that I compile from source to get dpkgs.  Call the distro one linux4.4 and "mine" -- linux4.16 (for reference, all this is playing out on an ubuntu system...not sure if that

Re: Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

2018-03-07 Thread Marc Auslander
Boyan Penkov writes: >Hello folks, > >Let's say I have two kernels -- the default that's maintained by the >distro, and one that I'm playing with that I compile from source to >get dpkgs. Call the distro one linux4.4 and "mine" -- linux4.16 (for >reference, all this is playing out on an ubuntu sy

Re: Open socket not connected to any real process

2018-03-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:08:05PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > This is why you use libpam-ldapd (instead of libpam-ldap) in combination > with libnss-ldapd (instead of libnss-ldap). > > Its design with a separate daemon (nslcd) doing the actual LDAP > connection is far superior compared to the

set default print options on printer

2018-03-07 Thread Gary Dale
I have a Samsung C410 printer attached to a Stretch server via USB and also available via wifi. There doesn't seem to be a default print setting for paper size but the cups listing for the printer shows:    Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided which is correc

Re: set default print options on printer

2018-03-07 Thread Doug
On 03/07/2018 09:35 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I have a Samsung C410 printer attached to a Stretch server via USB and also available via wifi. There doesn't seem to be a default print setting for paper size but the cups listing for the printer shows: Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=na_lette

update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread emetib
has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? i've looked at these pages -> https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 and have downloaded the packages that they say to get, and have also downloaded the new bios from lenovo's we

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? In the past, I've used Lenovo's CD image to update the bios; it's generally easier and better tested. For server hardware, HP's and Dells firmware update packages have worked well when I've

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread emetib
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:00:05 PM UTC-6, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? > > i've looked at these pages -> > https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS > https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 > > and have downloaded the packages

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread emetib
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:00:05 PM UTC-6, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? > > i've looked at these pages -> > https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS > https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 > > and have downloaded the packages

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Jape Person
On 03/07/2018 10:37 PM, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? > > i've looked at these pages -> > https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS > https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 > > and have downloaded the packages that they say to get, and

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018, emetib wrote: > found a cd image, yet don't have any cd's to burn one to. i only use > usb sticks now. doing more searching and it seems others have updated > their bios' from linux, so i'll keep reading. Just: sudo apt install grub-imageboot; sudo cp 7wuj43uc.iso /boot/image

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
On Mar 8, 2018 12:22 AM, "Don Armstrong" wrote: Just: sudo apt install grub-imageboot; sudo cp 7wuj43uc.iso /boot/images; sudo update-grub2; then reboot, and select the right cd image in your grub menu. Going OT a little but is that all you have to do to add ISOs to grub!? -- Don Armstron

Re: set default print options on printer

2018-03-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-03-08 02:35, Gary Dale wrote: I have a Samsung C410 printer attached to a Stretch server via USB and also available via wifi. There doesn't seem to be a default print setting for paper size but the cups listing for the printer shows:    Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x