Re: command line and pword

2025-05-17 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Since the command is being initially processed by your shell, just try escaping ‘\” the characters which might be pre-processed by the shell e.g. ‘(‘ or ‘)’ Sent from my iPhone > On 17 May 2025, at 18:03, Ranjan Maitra via users > wrote: > >  >> >> How can I pass a command line with a passw

Re: Reboot timeout

2024-08-25 Thread Andy Paterson via users
And most importantly sending all running processes a hangup signal to allow them to save things that were volatile (like open files) then (if they were still alive) after the “timeout” had expired sending them a -9 signal to kill them, that was in the days of the “init” daemon, i assume systemd doe

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andy Paterson via users
This is why my /home has its own dedicated 2 disk md mirror The disks are physically powered off before i do a dnf upgrade of my system disk I then fix fstab to mount my /home as the very last stage!!! > On 18 Nov 2021, at 04:39, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 11/17/21 9:20 PM, linux guy wrote: >> Sor

Re: Does the program llvm break all the hardware or only some of it ?

2021-10-19 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Hi Dorian, You should send to http://www.fedora-fr.org/ Where you will get more French Help > On 19 Oct 2021, at 19:20, Dorian ROSSE wrote: > >  > Patrick : Roger has the good answer i think > > Have a nice evening from the France it is twenty past twenty here, > > Regards. > > > Dorian R

Re: Gedit and no geometry?

2020-11-13 Thread Andy Paterson via users
I recall —geometry is handled by an X-windows library function & is common to most X based apps So when this (or any other app) used Xlib there are various command line arguments (argv[]) that are handled by the X regardless of the app > On 13 Nov 2020, at 22:49, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote:

Re: nfs mount problem -

2020-06-24 Thread Andy Paterson via users
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:05:43 BST Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:52:55 -0400 > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > [root@localhost bobg]# systemctl restart nfs > > Failed to restart nfs.service: Unit nfs.service not found. > > > systemctl list-unit-files | fgrep nfs > > probably show

Re: netfsname: command not found

2020-04-19 Thread Andy Paterson via users
I would guess its trying to return the fikesystem mount point for the supplied pathname - try: Stat -c %m > On 19 Apr 2020, at 03:45, Hiisi wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:44 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >> > >> Are you sure that's a binary? That looks more like a script of some >> sort.

Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

2020-04-08 Thread Andy Paterson via users
I understood crontab used UTC time - daylight saving shouldn't apply > On 8 Apr 2020, at 10:07, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 2020-04-08 16:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 07:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 2020-04-08 07:27, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 07Apr2020 07:07,

Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

2020-03-18 Thread Andy Paterson via users
I have a coolermaster cosmos case & diy system it has no reset button! It sounds like your setup is similar. Without a hardware reset, add-on cards like graphics or network cards are not actually reset to initialise them. I have to physically switch off mains power/disconnect the psu & wait a min

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Except the system call version doesn't need you to include any header files! Which is NOT clear from the man page! > On 13 Feb 2020, at 13:53, George N. White III wrote: > >  >> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 06:40, Andy Paterson via users >> wrote: > >> [...]

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Paterson via users
On Thursday, 13 February 2020 01:09:20 GMT Roger Heflin wrote: > It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this: > > if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes > through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a > directory and repeats, until it

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-30 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Please forgive my intrusion on this ott thread, but as a now retired “unix guy” using unix since xenix blah! And having written network device drivers before tcp/ip became the norm In order to mmap a file it must be open, furthermore when a file is removed (ulink’ed) the kernel doesn't actually

Re: The (bad) state of Qt on GNOME / Wayland

2019-12-09 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Just to make a point, i have always disliked gnome & ever since it first appeared have used kde on fedora, if qt support in fedora becomes broken, i for one will ditch fedora > On 9 Dec 2019, at 13:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 12:40 +, mario futire wrote: > >

Re: I need help understanding /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

2019-08-11 Thread Andy Paterson via users
man 5 core > On 12 Aug 2019, at 04:48, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: > >> On 8/11/19 6:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> ToddAndMargo via users writes: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have no idea what this tells me >>> >>> $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern >>> |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump

Re: how aliases for man pages are supported? [OT?]

2019-03-26 Thread Andy Paterson via users
I always understood that “man” ran a script which basically ran “nroff -man” > On 26 Mar 2019, at 18:03, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Todd Zullinger wrote: >>> AFAIK, man finds 'storage.conf' because it is the title of >>> the man page. So it's not

Re: SElinux error

2018-11-11 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Dac is selinux discretionary access control > On 11 Nov 2018, at 20:04, stan wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:28:44 -0800 > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> Folks, >> I got the fllowing SElinux error today: >> >> SELinux is preventing 72733A6D61696E20513A526567 from using the >> dac_override c

Re: Cant boot latest kernel 4.13.5-100 - kernel panic - can't mount root

2017-10-23 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday, 23 October 2017 21:53:50 BST stan wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:57:44 +0100 > Andy Paterson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > after doinga a "dnf reinstall kernel" > > > > which reinstalled kernel for x86_64 4.13.5-100.fc25 from t

Re: Cant boot latest kernel 4.13.5-100 - kernel panic - can't mount root

2017-10-23 Thread Andy Paterson
On Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:51:38 BST Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/21/17 23:10, Andy Paterson wrote: > > FC25 kernel update that installed 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64 > > > > Cant mount /boot > > > > > > > > System:ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEM CO.,LTD.

Re: Cant boot latest kernel 4.13.5-100 - kernel panic - can't mount root

2017-10-23 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday, 23 October 2017 18:42:44 BST stan wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:11:39 +0100 > Andy Paterson wrote: > > > > My apologies, > > > > /boot:/dev/sda3 on /boot type ext4 > > > > (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) Not (I agree!) that that

Re: Cant boot latest kernel 4.13.5-100 - kernel panic - can't mount root

2017-10-23 Thread Andy Paterson
On Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:51:38 BST Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/21/17 23:10, Andy Paterson wrote: > > FC25 kernel update that installed 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64 > > > > Cant mount /boot > > > > > > > > System:ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEM CO.,LTD.

Cant boot latest kernel 4.13.5-100 - kernel panic - can't mount root

2017-10-21 Thread Andy Paterson
: 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64 Info: /dev/mapper/fedora00-root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) BOOT DEVICE: WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 FSTAB: dev/mapper/fedora00-root / ext4defaults 1 1 Many Thanks Andy Paterson

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday 05 Dec 2016 12:27:37 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/05/2016 12:14 PM, Andy Paterson wrote: > > Its tiresome reading this kind of "gui mindness" > > Who is talking about a gui? Everyone in this thread has been talking > about command line tools. There have be

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday 05 Dec 2016 20:09:58 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 19:20:28 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > > Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to > > > /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up > > > the device to burn discs "magic

Re: USB3 Type C -

2016-11-17 Thread Andy Paterson
I must be an old fart too My system has a pretty old ATX LGA 775 MB with intel Q6700 & USB2 in a nice big coolermaster case which is really easy to upgrade. To get USB3 I simply bought a new card which had 2 USB3 A connectors at the back and an internal connector to a card reader + USB3 A con

Re: install.img

2016-10-31 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday 31 Oct 2016 13:23:46 jd1008 wrote: > Good grief You wqant to be spoonfed??? > > see > http://mirrordenver.fdcservers.net/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os > / > On 10/31/2016 12:55 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > >>> I need a copy of the install.img file for Fedora 20. It doesn't see

kde plasmashell eating cpu - FC24 all updates on INTEL Q6700

2016-10-07 Thread Andy Paterson
I have just discovered (one of?) the reasons plasmashell was eating so much cpu and memory on my system. I have dual monitors and in circa FC20 I could get a panel on both screens then something happened (and I suspect I tried apparently unsuccessfully to restore a panel to one of the screens)