Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Notice that it makes a 'by-id' entry. It also makes a 'by-uuid', which may be more interesting for this use case. Johnathan, Yes, using the UUID would be better, but my understanding is that is unique to each device so it's not generic for any

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: No you don't. The /lib/udev/rules.d has a rule that fully populates the /dev/disk subdirectory with the same name and same information on each boot. This should be everything you need to use fstab directly. Johnathan, Then I'm not

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/25/24 12:53, Dick Steffens wrote: Turns out that's the same version I have on my machine that is working, so maybe something else is causing the problem. The next thing I'm thinking of doing is a total uninstall of brave on one of the non-working machines, and then a fresh install.

[PLUG] has anyone come across this problem? (and how to fix it?)

2024-03-25 Thread American Citizen
I have an HP Office Jet Pro 8600-N ink-jet printer, and used the HP Office Jet Device Management Program under linux. (HPLIP) to handle the print queue. Sometimes I sent a print job from a LibreOffice document to this printer, but forgot that my system is not currently connected to the LAN

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-25 Thread American Citizen
Paul: I tried to keep it simple on my end with just the ELF-64 file description. When I first saw all the scripts and other items pop-up under the category "executable" I was dismayed for awhile, but decided to keep it to that known file type which definitely IS an executable. This trimmed

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I found the rules I was after /lib/udev/rules.d These rules create a device for my USB drive here: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_B101484C-0:0 Johnathan, Yes, I can create a udev rule file that has the vendor and ID for each USB pen

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/25/24 11:03, Michael Ewan wrote: I followed these steps when Brave on Mint was telling me to update but Mint said that it was the latest version. sudo apt install curl sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Nothing useful there. I can plug in a drive and have fdisk -l identify the Actually, that's `tail -f /var/log/messages.' And rebooting the machine returned the USB port to /dev/sdg. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Johnathan Mantey
I found the rules I was after /lib/udev/rules.d These rules create a device for my USB drive here: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_B101484C-0:0 On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM MC_Sequoia wrote: > "Clarification: how to mount any inserted USB pen drive on /media/thumb." > > Sounds

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: Sounds like you want to create a custom mount point for your USB thumb drives? If so, This should walk you through the steps. https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux Mike, Nothing useful there. I can plug in a drive and have fdisk -l

Re: [PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?

2024-03-25 Thread MC_Sequoia
"I will leave aside the fact that no one submits an executable file to Linux; each distribution (Red Hat, Debian, etc) picks the executable files to include with the Linux kernel." Ah,so executable files are only developed and maintained by the Linux kernel team? If I were to write an app,

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread MC_Sequoia
"Clarification: how to mount any inserted USB pen drive on /media/thumb." Sounds like you want to create a custom mount point for your USB thumb drives? If so, This should walk you through the steps. https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux

Re: [PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: "I was surprised to find < 15% of the command executables were documented. Naturally I was hoping for something like 50% to 75%." I'm starting a new thread from Randall's thread about man pages, because I'm getting lost and confused with all the

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: Now the last step: How do I modify /etc/fstab so it lets me read and write to any pen drive inserted in a USB port? Clarification: how to mount any inserted USB pen drive on /media/thumb. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: But, inserting and removing a USB pen drive does not add new lines to /tmp/udev.log. Well! The web pages on udev rules were incomplete. The correct command is udevadm control --reload-rules This works. I wrote 41-usb-permissions.rules:

[PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?

2024-03-25 Thread MC_Sequoia
"I was surprised to find < 15% of the command executables were documented. Naturally I was hoping for something like 50% to 75%." I'm starting a new thread from Randall's thread about man pages, because I'm getting lost and confused with all the scripting and I'm kind of stuck on one very

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: But, inserting and removing a USB pen drive does not add new lines to /tmp/udev.log. Very interesting update. Advice on udev web sites I read say to reboot the host rather than running `udevadm control --reload'. So I rebooted. The two rules in

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Ewan
I followed these steps when Brave on Mint was telling me to update but Mint said that it was the latest version. sudo apt install curl sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg echo

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/25/24 05:30, David Fleck wrote: Try hamburger -> Help -> About Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't find anything there to help me force an update. I have four machines running either Xubuntu 20.04, or 22.04. Two of the machines, one of each version, have updated brave successfully. Two of

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: My initial reaction would be to look at creating UDEV rules for those devices. Reading several udev-related web pages I created two shell scripts installed in /usr/local/bin and rule 80-test.rules in /run/udev/rules.d - device_added.sh -

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I can't remember if the results are enumerated in the /lib directory. You may want to spend a few web searches seeing if you can find where they live. Johnathan, On my Slackware hosts they're in /run/udev, but the rules.d/ subdirectory is empty.

Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: My initial reaction would be to look at creating UDEV rules for those devices. Assuming they are well behaved and have unique USB serial numbers you should be able to craft rules that will create consistent /dev symbolic links to wherever the kernel

[PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives

2024-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
For permanently attached drives I've assigned their PARTUUID to mount them in /etc/fstab. With 6 continuosly attached drives (/dev/sda-/dev/sdf) portable USB drives were seen as either /dev/sdg or /dev/sdg1 and that's how they're mounted in /etc/fstab. Yesterday afternoon the kernel decided to

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024, American Citizen wrote: Paul: Thanks for your post. Exactly what would you consider a valid statement for locating the executables? Finding executable files is not, to my mind, the same as find executable files for which I'd expect a man page. I'd suppose expect a

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread David Fleck
Try hamburger -> Help -> About -- - David Fleck On Monday, March 25th, 2024 at 12:20 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/23/24 21:59, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > I've just run the latest updates from Ubuntu for my Xubuntu machines, > > which included Brave browser. In each case, video does no