Re: [DNG] [OT] bash / quote weirdness

2022-01-13 Thread william moss via Dng
On 1/13/22 09:43, Antony Stone wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2022 at 15:07:22, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 05:45:08PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [slitt@mydesk ~]$ cat -n /etc/fstab | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5 1 UUID=730eaf92 2 UUID=41abb5fd 3 UUID=96cfdfb3

Re: [DNG] [OT] bash / quote weirdness

2022-01-12 Thread william moss via Dng
On 1/12/22 04:39, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: On Wed 12/Jan/2022 01:27:45 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:52:10 -0500 william moss wrote: Bash is taking the string in the double quotes as a single command; this is well documented. If either the command or

Re: [DNG] Priter trouble again.

2022-01-03 Thread william moss via Dng
On 1/3/22 6:10 AM, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: Hallo Hendrick, just another possibility: If there's no intermediate print server, grepping your local '/etc/cups/printers.conf' for 'DeviceURI' will reveal the printer's IP address resp. its hostname as well. Libre Grüße, Florian _

Re: [DNG] Devuan with usr merge?

2021-11-05 Thread william moss via Dng
On 11/5/21 4:13 PM, Svante Signell via Dng wrote: > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 18:50 +, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: >>  Debian 11 Bullseye is the last Debian release that supports the non- >> merged-usr layout. It is therefore foreseeable that Devuan 4 Chimaera >> will also be. >> > > I'm not so sure

Re: [DNG] random sudden stops

2021-08-25 Thread william moss via Dng
On 8/25/21 8:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > For the past few months my home server (running an ascii installation > physically moved from another computer) has been suddenly stopping all > processing about once a month. apparently at random. It seems to stop > instantly, leaving power on and beco

[DNG] backup

2020-05-19 Thread william moss via Dng
If you set the partition label for the target of a file system archive, then the use of findmnt eliminates the need for a special location. For example: findmnt -P -t ext4,xfs -o source,target,label Note, the file systems in the example should be set to what you use for your archive media. Si

[DNG] Laptop installation

2020-04-11 Thread william moss via Dng
On 09/04/20 03:56, terryc wrote: This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? -- A Lenovo T400 and T420. For both, I removed the optical drive and replaced it with a 500 GiB fixed disk using the factory

[DNG] misc bugs

2018-09-05 Thread william moss
First, thank you for the fork and excellent product and support. Now retired, from past experience I am cognizant of the work involved in what you have done and most appreciate it. I have been running ASCII (clean install) for about 6 weeks on a core duo 4 primary cores (effectively 8 core) Intel.

[DNG] unsubscribe

2017-07-16 Thread william moss
unsubscribe Tired of the too many messages, especially those not directly related to the distribution. -- William (Bill) Moss billm...@acm.org NY (USA) Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. by Lord Byron Justice will not be

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/03/2015 10:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:52:46PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Adam Borowski [mailto:kilob...@angband.pl] >>> >>> Then why not set up a recursor by default?

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/07/2015 11:16 AM, Klaus Hartnegg wrote: > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Robert Storey : > >> Just want to say that I really like this idea of naming releases after minor >> planets, such as Ceres. It's a way cool idea. > > Cool yes, but use

Re: [Dng] Plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is

2015-03-04 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/04/2015 07:06 PM, Ed Ender wrote: > Personally, I would rather stay away from the world of Google. > Although I have no real say in the matter. That IMO would be a > security breach, considering their ties to government agencies. > > Just my 2

[Dng] NIC at boot, was Re: simple backgrounds

2015-02-28 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/27/2015 11:17 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 06:13:24PM +, KatolaZ wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:56:56PM +, Matthew Melton wrote: >> >> [cut] >> Just to support my point, Debian has a great logo, but

Re: [Dng] Kicking the tires on Valentine release

2015-02-25 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/25/2015 11:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:35:41PM -0600, John Morris wrote: >> >> Also just another problem, can't shutdown. Shutdown in a session just >> logs out and all of the shutdown, reboot, suspend, etc. options

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/20/2015 09:30 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2015 20 Feb 05:55 -0600, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: >> I would say +1 for everything that is written with this e-mail and above. >> However, there's one thing here, >> there are more people running serv

Re: [Dng] About Devuan's audience

2015-02-16 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/16/2015 11:23 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:44:04 +0100 Didier Kryn > wrote: > >> Hi folks. >> >> Considering Devuan is a major lifeboat of free Linux-based OS, >> I'm anxious about its destiny and therefore trying to figur

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-12 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/12/2015 01:42 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:25:46AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > ... >> >> I have been programming in C >> from the beginning of the 80's and loved it, but I think C++ is >> wrong by design (personal though

Re: [Dng] Please!! revive Bastille hardening tool for Devuan

2015-02-11 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If find conversations like this annoying and inappropriate for a BLOG that portends to be for building a new distribution of Linux. When working (I'm retired) I dealt with such intransigent attitudes across the spectrum. From my first work with comp

[Dng] LILO

2015-02-08 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 LILO will not boot an UEFI. ELILO will. The switch is automatic, based on the firmware. I boot wheezy on two HP laptops w/ Lilo. Grub-2 had an ulcer with the HP UEFI. Do not think it was a grub-2 problem since I have it working fine elsewhere but an

[Dng] X GUI

2015-02-04 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I am currently using XFCE on both Linux and FreeBSD. If it runs on BSD, then it cannot have systemd dependencies or the developers of FreeBSD have added library calls to compensate. I see no shame in checking out what BSD has done. Perhaps they can a

[Dng] systemd

2015-02-02 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The problem with the systemd environment is not amenable to patching. In fact, the psychology of patching, more code fixes anything, is one of the primary problems with systemd. - From a purely mathematical perspective, aside from the ingenuous atti