Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) > Command substitution without '$'? I must be missing something and would > appreciate

Re: debian installation issue

On 22/06/21 12:54 am, Steve McIntyre wrote: [ Apologies, missed this last week... ] to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:20:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) reli

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) Command substitution without '$'? I must be mis

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:49:42AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >Perhaps more readable in the symmetrical variant > > > > diff -u <(ls dir1) <(ls dir2) > > > >Very handy. > > > does not the excellent guide also say not to try to do anything with

Re: Web log analysis

On 27/05/21 9:55 pm, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I need to get a handle on what my web servers are doing. Apologies for my lack of response. Thanks for all of the useful and interesting replies. I'll look into this further later; in the meantime I think I solved my immediate needs with to

Apparmor messages on LXC container, after host upgrade to buster

Hi all, This is a copy of a message I posted to lxc-users last week; maybe more people will see it here :-) I'm getting messages like this after an upgrade of the host from stretch to buster: Jun 18 12:09:08 postgres kernel: [131022.470073] audit: type=1400 audit(1623974948.239:107): appar

Re: Messed up Email

On Tuesday 22 June 2021 23:46:24 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Tue Jun 22 11:11:38 2021 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>> In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to > >>> make it

cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, I am trying to burn a bunch of WAV files onto an audio CD with cdrskin using a cue-file. The only reference about how to create these files I could find is at https://web.archive.org/web/20151223114027/http://digitalx.org/cue-sheet/ where under "Examples" example no. 3 shows how to create a cu

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi. On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:09:29AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > According to that digitalx.org page this looks "legal" to me, however > it does not work, instead I get the following eror: > > cdrskin: FAILURE : In cue sheet file: Multiple occurrences of FILE cdrskin(1) says: cuefil

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful.

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20151223114027/http://digitalx.org/cue-sheet/ > > cdrskin: FAILURE : In cue sheet file: Multiple occurrences of FILE Reco wrote: > cdrskin(1) says: > a *single file* which is given in the sheet by command FILE. Indeed. cdrskin expects a si

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

On 2021-06-23 at 06:26, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Lange wrote: >> > https://web.archive.org/web/20151223114027/http://digitalx.org/cue-sheet/ >> > cdrskin: FAILURE : In cue sheet file: Multiple occurrences of FILE > > Reco wrote: >> cdrskin(1) says: >> a *single file* which is give

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > I have always intuitively understood the term "cue sheet" to be derived > in some way from the context of stage and/or screen acting I think it stems from the name of the data structure by which the layout of a SAO-Session is described to the drive by the SCSI command SE

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

On 2021-06-23 at 07:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > The Wanderer wrote: > >> I have always intuitively understood the term "cue sheet" to be >> derived in some way from the context of stage and/or screen acting > > I think it stems from the name of the data structure by which the > layout o

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:16:19 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That's what I get for blindly copying and pasting the "directions" from > > Github. I should've have just told Monnier that the whole shebang > > can be installed locally, which renders inoperative his nitpick about > > not having the

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, i wrote: > > [SEND CUE SHEET] is supposed to be followed by a sequence of WRITE(10) > > commands which deliver the payload data as a single unstructured stream. The Wanderer wrote: > ...and that would, at least at a glance, seem to make it seem even > *more* like the term doesn't really fit t

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

Richard Owlett: > Siard: > > In the MATE Terminal settings (Edit > Profile Preferences), > > tab 'Colors', under 'Palette', set 'Built-in schemes' to 'Custom' > > and change every color in the color palette to black. > > > > Here is a screenshot: > > https://i.postimg.cc/2yv17y3Y/mateterminalcolor

Re: Messed up Email

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > > absolutely clear; > > > > gmail != email > > Nonsense. > > > or, in words; > > > > gmail IS NOT em

Re: how to let user access cell phone

Thank Celejar!i reply late because yahoo is partially blockedafter reading your mail, i have found solutioni can invoke jmtpfs as user, it's what i need

Re: Clipboard

My comment may be rudimentary. I copy onto the Windows clipboard all the time (by selecting text with the mouse and then pressing control/C). I am not then able to paste the selected text into a text document with one click: I must minimize the original document (or close it), and I then have two

Re: debian installation issue

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 19:43:14, Richard Hector wrote: > > Is that something that needs to be done by one company? Perhaps because of > how SecureBoot is implemented? For a logistic point of view, at least for x86, Microsoft appears to be the natural choice: many mainboard manufacturers, but most ha

At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal]

On 06/23/2021 04:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out col

What command to use to output to a text file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive mounted in a caddy. How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the drive, please? What command

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 09:22:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) > > > Command substitutio

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 16:49:28, David wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Mistery solved by looking at the html part (the '/' are meant to denote > > italic), the correct command is: > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanua

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

Hi, How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the syntax of it/them please? Not sure I understand perfectly, but for example with ls -l > my_text_file.txt you will get the output of 'ls -l' in the file

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? > > I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive > mounted in a caddy. > > How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the > drive, plea

apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells me that: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common libappindicator3-1 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk

"ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: $ ls -ld /etc/systemd drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd $ ls /etc/systemd ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory Any explanation??? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessibl

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 at 09:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > $ ls /etc/systemd > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > Any explanation??? On a

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > $ ls /etc/systemd > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > Any exp

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 10:02:01 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Is the result the same if you specify /bin/ls? Yes: $ /bin/ls /etc/systemd /bin/ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > I am wondering if 'ls' might be an alias in your shell with some > strange option(s) def

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:55:04PM +0200, Markus wrote: >Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells me >that: > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common > li

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 10:11:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-06-23 at 09:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > > $ ls /etc/systemd > > ls: cannot open directory '/etc

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd The "0" here is suspicious, and would be an indicator of wrongness if this is ext4. What type of fil

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 at 10:26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2021-06-23 10:11:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-06-23 at 09:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >>> On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: >>> >>> $ ls -ld /etc/systemd >>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd >>>

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

ls could be used with the following suffix: ls | tee -f listing.txt On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? > > > > I have transferred some files in their directories to an

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 16:26:10 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2021-06-23 10:11:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > It could be useful to check on this with other tools. For a start, what > > does > > > > $ stat /etc/systemd/ > > > > report? > > File: /etc/systemd/ > Size: 0 Blocks: 8

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

Vincent Lefevre (12021-06-23): > And while I'm at it, "strace" gives: > > [...] > stat("/etc/systemd", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/systemd", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = > -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > [...] > > So, on the same d

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? >> >> I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive >> mounted in a caddy. >> >

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 10:27:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > > The "0" here is suspicious, and woul

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

Please post as text, not *just* html. On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 15:55:04 (+0200), Markus wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells > me that: > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no > longer req

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 08:49:42 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz |

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

No, not that I am aware of. But here is the ouput of markus@bmtMB1:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep grub ii  grub-common 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4    amd64    GRand Unified Bootloader (common files) rc  grub-efi-amd64 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3    amd64    GRand Unifi

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 17:01:07 (+0200), Markus wrote: > Am 23.06.21 um 16:43 schrieb David Wright: > > Has grub-efi-amd64 been accidentally removed? AIUI that's the package > > which depends on having the packages to boot your machine. > No, not that I am aware of. But here is the ouput of > > ma

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:26:46 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Lange wrote: > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20151223114027/http://digitalx.org/cue-sheet/ > > > cdrskin: FAILURE : In cue sheet file: Multiple occurrences of FILE > > Reco wrote: > > cdrskin(1) says: > > a *sin

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin -v -dummy -eject dev=/dev/sr0 -sao speed=10 track1.wav \ > sao_pregap=75 track2wav sao_pregap=225 track3.wav track4.wav > > Is my assumption correct that this will add a 1-second pregap before > track2 and a 3-second pregap before track3 and no pregap bef

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

Vincent Lefevre writes: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > $ ls /etc/systemd > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > Any explanation??? snowball:776$ ls -ld /etc/sy

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

Hi, On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:05:45 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Lange wrote: > > cdrskin -v -dummy -eject dev=/dev/sr0 -sao speed=10 track1.wav \ > > sao_pregap=75 track2wav sao_pregap=225 track3.wav track4.wav > > > > Is my assumption correct that this will add a 1-sec

Fatal error while burning CD

Hi, I have recently been encountering errors while trying to burn CDDA discs; I had previously used cdrdao for ages for this task, which (at least it looks like that to me) hasn't really been maintained for well over 10 years, so I thought it *might* be a software bug with cdrdao. Too bad, now I

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 16:43:51, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2021-06-23 10:27:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > $ ls /etc/systemd > > > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > > > > > Any explanat

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(442,13): See MMC specs: Sense Key > 5 "Illegal request", ASC A8 ASCQ 04 The hex number triple (5, A8, 04) is the reply of the drive to command WRITE(10) after 34 such commands succeeded. (34 = 442 / 13. 13 is the smallest multiple of

Re: Messed up Email

On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > > > absolutely clear; > > > > > > gm

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote: curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh chmod +x ~/bin/cht.

Re: Clipboard

On 6/23/21 08:08, William Lee Valentine wrote: My comment may be rudimentary. I copy onto the Windows clipboard all the time (by selecting text with the mouse and then pressing control/C). I am not then able to paste the selected text into a text document with one click: I must minimize the orig

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On 2021-06-23 21:24:43 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Is this a new issue? I don't know. The machine had been reinstalled in January. But since this reinstallation, I haven't tried to log in until today (I was using it only via job submissions). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: Messed up Email

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 07:52:02, Michael Grant wrote: > > It's quite shocking to me to have conversations with young people, > even into their early 20s who do not understand this distinction. And > there are many people who do not understand the distinction between a > standards based system such as

Re: Messed up Email

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:22:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > gmail is a mail reader (like as Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or Outlook (the > > program) + a mail server + domain n

Re: Messed up Email

> Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > list. Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as WhatsApp. Maybe more private, but unless you know something I don't, Signal doesn't talk to anything other than other Signal. Puppeted bridges are no

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

Hi, thanks for the quick responese! On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:58:17 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Lange wrote: > > cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(442,13): See MMC specs: Sense Key > > 5 "Illegal request", ASC A8 ASCQ 04 > > The hex number triple (5, A8, 04) is the reply o

Re: Messed up Email

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > > list. > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as > WhatsApp. Maybe more private, but unless you know something I don't, > Signal doesn't talk

Re: debian installation issue

David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): > On Fri 11 Jun 2021 at 16:57:35 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> OTOH, putting a bootloader on the MBR of a disk on a PC designed for Windows >> is a >> relative newcomer to the world of booting such a PC. I've been installing >> operating sys

Re: Problem with Grub

David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 11:00 (UTC-0500): > On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 14:51:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> As already mentioned, you needn't have paid. Two unrelated things were >> likely to >> have caused this to happen. Vista and or Win10 could have been installed in >> MBR >> mode

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

Ok so...hmmm...I did not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now. Interestingly when booting my computer this morning grub was there and booted into Buster. Shouldn't it be gone if it got removed (even though it not got purged)? Hmmm...!?!? How t