Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread Paul Sutton
On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: >> Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without >> touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the >> pointer of >> mouse can move, but nothing else,  keyboard do

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Just another aside: One of my takes on lawyers is that they interpret laws >> and take legal positions for various reasons, often to further their own >> or their client's interests, and then are willing to fight the legal >> battle that may ensue.

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-28 Thread john
Apologies; if it helps Emacs barfs with the following Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) rmail-get-new-m

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?#

2019-01-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 07:24:17PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Resending to the list -- I didn't notice that Ivan had sent this to me only, and my reply, of course, then went to him only. How strange; both that Ivan would mail you privately, and also I wonder what the context was that prom

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 09:21, Curt wrote: these years), and, well, all hell has broken loose. I'm uncertain how this all articulates into a coherent whole. Apparently the worry (or threat?) is a disgruntled hacker (doubtless one of the old male dinosaurs), ejected for violating the new LGBT-friendly

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?#

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 07:24:17PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>Resending to the list -- I didn't notice that Ivan had sent this to me only, >>and my reply, of course, then went to him only. > > How strange; both that Ivan would mail you privately, an

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:39AM +, mick crane wrote: [...] > I did try to comprehend all of the GPL at one time and found it very > tricky to navigate. I've been following this thread, and I think the GPL is much simpler than that: (1) use: always (2) share (i.e. give to others, distri

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <201901271924.17175.rhkra...@gmail.com> you write: >Resending to the list -- I didn't notice that Ivan had sent this to me only, >and my reply, of course, then went to him only. > >On Sunday, January 27, 2019 10:06:46 AM Ivan Ivanov wrote: >> Yes: The linux devs can rescind their licens

Re: systemd-journald failed to open runtime journal

2019-01-28 Thread Charlie S
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:03:25 -0500 Liam Morland sent: > Hello, > > Recently, I have been getting floaded with console messages like this: > > systemd-journald failed to open runtime journal: cannot allocate > memory > > Rebooting puts a stop to it for a few hours. Even when the messages > are c

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-01-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 26 Jan 2019 at 15:10:55 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/26/2019 01:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-26 08:32 (UTC-0600): I am attempting to create a spreadsheet to document the content of multiple disks of mul

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 12:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:39AM +, mick crane wrote: [...] I did try to comprehend all of the GPL at one time and found it very tricky to navigate. I've been following this thread, and I think the GPL is much simpler than that: (1) use: a

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 20:49:36 +0100, toog...@mailbox.org wrote: > Hey! > > i have a laptop and one remote server/computer. The remote server is > bananian, i > hope that doesn't matter for this case. It shouldn't. > I have configured cups with hplip to print things on the remote server. Tha

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Joe
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:27:04 +0100 wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:39AM +, mick crane wrote: > > [...] > > > I did try to comprehend all of the GPL at one time and found it very > > tricky to navigate. > > I've been following this thread, and I think the GPL is much simpler > than

Re: "Got notification..." message

2019-01-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 03:32:24PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > This is coming from someone who was naive about this a half hour ago. > I knew UUID and UID were about identification so I searched "what is > pid identification linux". To clarify: "UID" is User IDentifier. It's a number that y

Email Marketing Just Got Fun

2019-01-28 Thread Jacob Bushkin
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Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread John Hasler
mick writes: > What I intended to mean was if somebody wants to try to alter > (rescind) the license they would have to get the agreement of all the > previous authors whose work, released under the GPL, they used in > their code. Which I can't see happening. "Rescind" implies that the copyright

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > The whole point of the GPL, of course, was that a Random Large > Software Company couldn't just buy up code and remove it from the > market. Even if all the copyright holders were paid enough to remove > their current code from an open source project, they could not remove > previous

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 04:21:11 AM Curt wrote: > On 2019-01-28, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Just another aside: One of my takes on lawyers is that they interpret > >> laws and take legal positions for various reasons, often to further > >> their own or their client's interests, and then ar

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 08:14:24 AM Brian wrote: > bananian Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling didn't help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and whether it is safe for children.

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:55:15PM +, mick crane wrote: [...] > What I intended to mean was if somebody wants to try to alter > (rescind) the license You'd have to explain what you mean by "rescind" here: the license to the current version or the one to the future versions. Details would dep

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:11:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 08:14:24 AM Brian wrote: > > bananian > > Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling didn't > help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and whether it is

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 08:14:24 AM Brian wrote: >> bananian > > Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling didn't > help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and whether it is > safe for children. > I

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-28, wrote: > > > I don't know, but my assoc memory suggests it might be a Raspbian > for a Banana Pi. > A bananian could also be someone who lives in a banana.

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 10:21:31 AM Curt wrote: > It helped me: > > https://www.bananian.org/details Thanks to you and Tomas -- you are a better googler than I am ;-)

Pulseaudio setup question

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Earl Milliman
I regularly use at least one loopback module in my pulseaudio setup, looping incoming USB audio stream back to the computer speakers and/or bluetooth headphones.  This means that I almost always run 'pactl load-module module-loopback' as one of the first things I do when booting up.  According to t

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-01-28 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 28-01-2019, at 06h 48'00", Richard Owlett wrote about "Re: Partition information as text file?" > On 01/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Sat 26 Jan 2019 at 15:10:55 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 01/26/2019 01:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > >>>Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-2

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare > license and is revocable by the grantor. Do you mean https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/24/209 ? The GPL does not say that it can be rescinded at the will of the grantor. In GPLv3 it is explicitely state

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, at 15:11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling didn't > help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and whether it is > safe for children. The very first hit I get is for a linux distro. And I di

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread mick crane
On 2019-01-28 15:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:55:15PM +, mick crane wrote: [...] What I intended to mean was if somebody wants to try to alter (rescind) the license You'd have to explain what you mean by "rescind" here: the license to the current version or the

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 11:42:52 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, at 15:11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Maybe I am morphing into a cat, but what does bananian mean. Googling > > didn't help, showed me Banyan (a fruit) and talked about a website and > > whether it is safe for ch

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
john wrote: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) >string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) >rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) >rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" > "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) >rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/var/spool/mail/jpf

Re: "Got notification..." message

2019-01-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 1/26/19, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I just discovred today that I have every day, in syslog, more than 10 lines of message like: inetd.service: Got notification message from PID 31376, but reception only permitted for main PID 10222 (I

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 12:08:35 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ahh, ok, sorry, it looks like I lied I guess I should clarify, I should know better than to make statements like that on a mail list (but, it does say "it looks like I lied" ;-) I mean, if I want to run for president -- oh, wa

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread David Christensen
On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, bu

Re: systemd-journald failed to open runtime journal

2019-01-28 Thread deloptes
Charlie S wrote: > I think there is a bug in systemd that is shown at upgrade of buster, so > it should be held back before any upgrade is attempted. Sorry for irony but I just thought - I think it is bug by itself :D

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Darrah
On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is

Re: Pulseaudio setup question

2019-01-28 Thread deloptes
Michael Earl Milliman wrote: > I regularly use at least one loopback module in my pulseaudio setup, > looping incoming USB audio stream back to the computer speakers and/or > bluetooth headphones.  This means that I almost always run 'pactl > load-module module-loopback' as one of the first things

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
Hmm, it might be my day to be disagreeable, and I'm not the OP, nor (iirc) have I posted in this thread prior to this, but ... On Monday, January 28, 2019 01:41:41 PM John Darrah wrote: > On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > Where is that documented? > > > > > > David > > Right

Re: IPv6 static config in /etc/network/interfaces ignored

2019-01-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/01/2019 à 22:09, Claudio M a écrit : Jan 27 20:40:15 my-server systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces... Jan 27 20:40:20 my-server ifup[489]: Waiting for DAD... Done Jan 27 20:45:15 my-server systemd[1]: networking.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Is this what you

Re: Partition information as text file?

2019-01-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/01/2019 à 13:48, Richard Owlett a écrit : So it looks as if   df --output -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs   gives you all you want (and more) with the exception of LABELs. No. The man pages states it only looks at mounted partitions due to "...nonportable intimate knowledge of file system structur

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Darrah
On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it might be my day to be disagreeable, and I'm not the OP, nor (iirc) have I posted in this thread prior to this, but ... On Monday, January 28, 2019 01:41:41 PM John Darrah wrote: On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: Where is th

Re: cups "Filter failed" | filter rastertopdf stops with status 1 | local printing works; remote printing not

2019-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2019 13:19:50 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 12:08:35 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Ahh, ok, sorry, it looks like I lied > > I guess I should clarify, I should know better than to make statements > like that on a mail list (but, it does say "it loo

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, January 28, 2019 02:45:26 PM John Darrah wrote: > On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I don't consider that documentation. > Is this better?: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/admin-guide/sysrq.html Yes, thank you!

Re: Pulseaudio setup question

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Milliman
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 12:54 deloptes Michael Earl Milliman wrote: > > > I regularly use at least one loopback module in my pulseaudio setup, > > looping incoming USB audio stream back to the computer speakers and/or > > bluetooth headphones. This means that I almost always run 'pactl > > load-mod

Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, I am now writing my thesis, and have the genesis of some pretty significant EMACs pinky. (I use my left pinky for the left ctrl most of the time, which is setting me up for failure.). To this end, I’d like to disable the left ctrl key only, and force my brain to use the right one.

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > Hey folks, > > I am now writing my thesis, and have the genesis of some pretty significant > EMACs pinky. (I use my left pinky for the left ctrl most of the time, which > is > setting me up for failure.). > > To this end, I’d like

Re: Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 1/28/19, 3:16 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote: > To this end, I’d like to disable the left ctrl key only, and force my > brain to use the right one. Better yet, I’d like the screen to flash > or something then I inadvertently hit left-ctrl. Just two thoughts occur to me: 1) On a 5250 data stream term

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread David Christensen
On 1/28/19 10:41 AM, John Darrah wrote: On 1/28/2019 10:21 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/28/19 1:18 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 28/01/2019 00:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without tou

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread John Crawley
On 28/01/2019 18.18, Paul Sutton wrote: On 1/27/19 12:11 PM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote: Sometimes (maybe often) when I leave the system for a times without touching it, when I come back, the system is frozen , juste the pointer of mouse can move, but nothing else,  keyboard doesn't respond,  ev

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-01-28 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:33:33 -0600 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 25 Jan 2019 at 15:06:25 (-0500), Celejar wrote: > > > One major annoyance (and I don't know if this is a problem affecting > > all USB external drives, or is related to my cables, USB ports, drives, > > or something else) is that th

Re: system stops

2019-01-28 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 15:43 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2019 02:45:26 PM John Darrah wrote: > > On 1/28/2019 11:08 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I don't consider that documentation. > > > Is this better?: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/admin-guide/sys