TLP vs Mate Power Manager

2017-05-27 Thread Zenzizenzic
Hello, I just installed TLP on a thinkpad T450 for Fedora 25 - Mate following the instructions given by the tlp website. The tlp systemd service is running and tlp-stat reports that it is enabled. Is it necessary to disable mate-power-manager in anyway? Does tlp use the settings provided in the p

sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread bruce
Hi. I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; $bookVariable['uvu']['Fall-2016']='1'; $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer II 2017']='1'; $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer I 2017']='1'; $bookVari

Re: sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 May 2017 at 22:27, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: > > $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; > $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['uvu']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer II 2017']='1'; > $

Re: sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Not the most elegant: sed -e 's/^.*bookVariable\[.\([a-z][a-z]*\).*$/\1/' On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 3:27 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: > > $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; > $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $book

Re: sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Saturday, May 27, 2017 5:27:46 PM EDT bruce wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: > > $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; > $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['uvu']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer II

Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my screen first telling me a new version of fedora is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of net access later telling me updates were ready to install. What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic update junk turned off, who has re-activ

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/27/2017 04:21 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my screen first telling me a new version of fedora is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of net access later telling me updates were ready to install. What is doing this crap?! I have all the autom

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/17 07:21, Tom Horsley wrote: > Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my > screen first telling me a new version of fedora > is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of > net access later telling me updates were ready to > install. > > What is doing this crap?! I have all the

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/27/2017 04:21 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > What is doing this crap?!? > > The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. How did you mask it? It isn't there in systemctl -a -t service, even though there is a file in /usr/

sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did closing the tab do the same thing as a proper exit? ___ users

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Tom Horsley wrote: > Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my > screen first telling me a new version of fedora > is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of > net access later telling me updates were ready to > install. > > What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic > upda

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Could it be dnfdragora-updater? I've always hated those auto-updater apps, too, but dnfdragora is the first one I actually like (but I still run dnf upgrade on the command line 99% of the time). ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid starting all the annoying junk that a gnome se

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/27/2017 06:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid s

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 May 2017 19:09:59 -0600 Peter Gueckel wrote: > I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to > obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to > exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did > closing the tab do the same thing as a p

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/27/2017 06:09 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did closing the tab do the same thing as a proper exit? First, r

Re: Video editing disaster

2017-05-27 Thread Roger
Have you looked at Blender It has a pretty good video editing system Roger I am trying out multiple video editors on Fedora, with very poor results and a ton of crashes. Anyone have recommendations on how to stablize one of these or can you recommend a video editor that just works (like kdenl

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:48:06 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > First, running sudo su is redundant if you know the root password, as I > presume you do. (It's your system, you installed it and assigned the > root password.) In fact, the only reason to use sudo at all is if you > don't know the root pas

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/27/2017 07:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:48:06 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: First, running sudo su is redundant if you know the root password, as I presume you do. (It's your system, you installed it and assigned the root password.) In fact, the only reason to use sudo at al

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. Yes, I do have my system set up not to require the password for sudo. It is faster than constantly having to type it, time and again. System installation is hell without it ;-) Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the programs that

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread fred roller
you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. > > Yes, I do have my system set up not to require the password for > sudo. It is faster than constantly having to type it, time

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27May2017 21:36, Peter Gueckel wrote: OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious. Well, closing a terminal emulator should normally sent SIGHUP to processes still on the terminal. Which may or may not exit (most will). And then there's job control and "disown"ed jobs (things you've asked to con

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27May2017 21:23, Tom Horsley wrote: That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid starting all the annoying junk that a gnome session starts. In all the time I've been running f24 and fvwm, I've never s

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/27/2017 08:36 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the programs that root needs"? Here's root's path on my box: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin ___ users mailing list

Re: sudo su

2017-05-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged on as well. I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I ran who, it just showed me, logged in once and no root. Checking with uptime, it shows one user. __

Re: Video editing disaster

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/26/2017 05:53 PM, Wade Hampton wrote: KDENLIVE: A few months ago, my son had to edit a video for school. This was the only one that was stable enough to finish the project. My goto editor was Kdenlive, but it won't open files. I keep getting "clip is invalid". The terminal outputs: