Re: gpg decrypt from a script

2024-02-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
xpect"? It sounds reminiscent of that from the 90s. Ugh. Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorap

Re: running auto apps on tgt srvr via ssh access

2024-02-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
ot; fi It just sshes to the firewall and runs the required command. Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://do

Re: rsync fails when transferring multiple files

2023-12-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
of rsync? Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List

Re: ssh forced command in syslog?

2023-12-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
at rsync is invoking for the server end in order to fill out the "command=" stuff, the --rsync-path option is in fact a shell command too, so you can go: rsync --rsync-path='set -x; rsync' . to see it when invoking rsync. Cheers, Cameron Simpson --

Re: might be off topic -- using digitalocean to test

2023-12-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Dec2023 18:56, bruce wrote: Does anyone have digitalocean (DO) experience creating droplets/snapshots/cloning etc. I've only made a droplet, not cloned one. Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: ssh connection and selinux

2023-08-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
orithms are disabled for a reason; after diagnosing this issue, you should probably make yourself an additional keypair of an accepted type and add its public half where wanted. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: ssh connection and selinux

2023-08-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
figuration has changed with the upgrade, possibly in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Certainly some key types (or smaller sizes) fall out of favour as they become inadequately secure. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: 'mutt' issues

2023-03-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
will reach out to them. Definitely join us at mutt-users. http://mutt.org/ http://mutt.org/mail-lists.html Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: tar

2023-02-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
quot;c" (create) and the rest with "r" (replace), which does an append. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: tar

2023-02-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
... again a tar file containing only the last group. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: OT: xplanet cloudmaps

2023-01-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
never found a replacement. I used to do that, long ago. Have a run through these maybe? https://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/ I don't know of anything offhand. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Weird multiple display issue

2023-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
tom of the image shows up on my small monitor down to the right. What you need to do is construct a callage of suitably scaled images. Use a shell script and ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. I used to do this for my old multimonitor setup. Here we go: https://github.com/cameron-simpson/css/blob/main/bin/m

Re: production env linux??

2023-01-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
; versions of anything. Security patches backported by RH is a huge service for such a platform. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: SSH problem

2023-01-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
cing because of this. I'm not in a position to try to reproduce things though. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: production env linux??

2023-01-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
running almost arbitrary Linux software on an old-but-stable release almost trivial. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: ls --color

2022-12-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
e r o n 8 1 040 9 2 D e c 6 0 7 : 4 2 060 033 [ 0 m 033 [ 0 1 ; 3 4 m . 033 [ 0 100 m \n 102 See the "033 [ 0 m" sequence? That is the one which restore's the term

Re: Can't unsubscribe from a list

2022-10-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
the Recived: headers closely on an example message - it is likely to show how it reached you. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
regular inline-and-trim reply as in this message. You can see one of my posts with here, composed from email: https://discuss.python.org/t/requesting-a-code-review/20107/4 Each email copy of a post has a link to the web version of the post at the bottom; I sometimes use that to visit the forum for cont

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
, it is remarkably unhelpful. To the point of wanting to throw the keyboard across the room. If you need help with systemd, feel free to reach out. I been building solutions on systemd for a long time and happy to help. Thanks, I may. Cheers, Cameron Simpson

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23Oct2022 22:25, Slade Watkins wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 4:55 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: These days I'm a big +1 for Discourse. From being a big -1. I'm not that huge of a fan, haha. I think it bring more inclusion for the web first crowd, while still being effective from

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
idea's ok (parallel boot with dependencies and associated service up/down though a single daemon). We've all written them. But when it's going sour, it is remarkably unhelpful. To the point of wanting to throw the keyboard across the room. Grum

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
, which is as easy to type as plain text anyway) These days I'm a big +1 for Discourse. From being a big -1. It does have some issues, and I hope to discuss some of them with the devs. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

2022-09-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
handler in NS Messenger 4.5 Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
hey can be directly browsed. Because its NFS, the UIDs etc are identical and therefore people can't brwose stuff they can't browse in the live filesystems anyway. These days I use this script: https://github.com/cameron-simpson/css/blob/main/bin-cs/run-backups for my personal backups. I'm usually

Re: Firefox - how to lose top bar / title bar - ?

2022-08-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
e. >I tried to search through & compare about:config but I failed to find >relevant setting. I do not know the setting, but find the prefs.js file in each of their profiles. Diff them. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
alled "await" which waits for a condition to become true (by polling). If you can write a command which tests the virtual interface (maybe "ping -c 3 -q virt-addr" or checking for a route?) you could go: ( await virt-network-check-command-here start programs ..

Re: custom '.local' folder - ?

2022-07-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
local. A bit inverted, and some things will doubtless not play nicely. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://doc

Re: custom '.local' folder - ?

2022-07-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
fish lrwxrwxr-x 1 cameron cameron 12 14 Aug 2020 vt -> ../../var/vt I keep a lot of things in ~/var, a lot of configs in ~/rc, yea, even to the point of: [~]fleet2*> ls -ld .config lrwxrwxr-x 1 cameron staff 2 11 May 2017 .config -> rc and machine specific configs

Re: ffmpeg

2022-06-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
mean something else. For example ISO 14496, which defines their base media format. But MP4 conforms to that! So, when you say "iso" what do you mean in fuller terms? Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: pympress

2022-06-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Jun2022 05:57, stan wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:11:13 +1000 >Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 13Jun2022 15:07, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >On 6/13/22 13:51, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >>Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not >> >&

Re: pympress

2022-06-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
leges. Gadzooks! This should do a persoanl install of pympress for comparison and testing. Patrick: does the local pympress run? Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fe

Re: pympress

2022-06-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
notice that you've got pympress==1.7.0b1, whereas if I do a "pip install pympress" I get pympress 1.7.2. Have you tried installing pympress without dnf? Try: python3 -m pip install pygobject pycairo pympress That should install a personal copy. Cheers, Cameron

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-03-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 28Mar2022 08:42, Cameron Simpson wrote: >I'm wondering if you're worrying about routing when you should be >worrying about the port forward. Just to follow up to my own post, here's a description of my home LAN: public-ip-addr NBN-modem 192.168.

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-03-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
saying: traceroute does not tell you everything: various nodes may not respond as needed, and it certainly will not be passed through to your WS server inless the inbound rule is wide open (all traffic types), which would be a bad thing. Cheers, Cameron Simpson

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-03-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
10 syd-sot-ken-wgw1-be-30.tpgi.com.au (203.219.107.193) 29.719 ms 28.821 ms 28.611 ms 11 203-221-3-109.tpgi.com.au (203.221.3.109) 33.221 ms 31.921 ms 203-221-3-45.tpgi.com.au (203.221.3.45) 40.022 ms 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * Cheers, Cameron

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
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Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
Mail "folders" are also its labels. Can you write a filter rule in GMail which labels messages in a category with a label made for that category? Then they should all land in a matching "folder" as well. Cheers, Cameron Simpson _

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-03-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
r "not me." So, "you" configured for the whole computer then :-) I suspect part of the OP's intent with the reset is in case he, or some earlier install process, had differing defaults in the global area. Aplenty of things install a global config, if onl

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
stable versions) when you upgrade releases. Stability is the release objective for these distros. Fedora, OTOH, is fast moving. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
3/ https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/lib/python/cs/pop3.py?rev=tip The script is just a stub to call the module c0ommand line mode. >For the record, I use fetchmail on multiple accounts and then procmail. >Three cheers for local email! Aye. It is the correct pat

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
ilbox for my phone to access if I want an "in the cloud" copy. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https:

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Feb2022 13:02, c. marlow wrote: >On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:11:15 +1100 >I've tried ALPINE before and I found it hard to use. >But I kinda liked it though. A friend of mine uses Alpine IIRC. Seems to like it. Cheers, Cameron Simpson

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Feb2022 13:02, c. marlow wrote: >On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:11:15 +1100 >Cameron Simpson wrote: >> I read my email with mutt (a terminal based mail reader). It can talk >> directly to POP3 or IMAP if you want to leave your email upstream, >> but I use it locally on my

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
ut I use it locally on my laptop. I'm on MacOS right now, but did the same on Linux when that was my desktop. And on Solaris etc etc before that. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Does it is better to '''python3 -m install the_program''' instead '''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader primary ?

2022-02-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
not associated with the same Python as `python3` in complicated setups. You will of course want to adjust `python3` to be whatever Python executable you're working with, but in the basic case that is just `python3` as you have in your example. Cheers, C

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
$spec" should invoke a shell script to run exactly one task collecting the output, logging the times etc. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.f

Re: bash line feeds in a variable problem

2022-01-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
r to parse the JSON if you're picking things out of it. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorapro

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Jan2022 18:35, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Running a new shell under the old one is always safe (since the old >shell is still there when you exit this one), and if you need "login" >behavior, "bash -l" gives you that. +100 for this. Ashamed that I forgot to suggest it. Thanks, Cameron

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
t; >> . ~/.bash_profile >> > >Right. This doesn't seem to be working for me. Odd. Try this: set -x; . ~/.bash_profile; set +x should show what's happening, or not happening. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list --

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
tilde on set horizontal-scroll-mode off set mark-directories on set mark-symlinked-directories on set match-hidden-files off set page-completions on set print-completions-horizontally off set show-all-if-ambiguous on set visible-stats on Control-w:backward-kill-word Ch

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
er formats, which can hold video and audio in a variety of encodings. So saying "it supports mp4" is a vague statement, alas. Disclaimer: I've never used dvdstyler. But I convert video a fair bit in simple ways using ffmpeg. Cheers, Cameron Simpson

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

2021-12-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
ogical drive and it gets mirrored by the hardware RAID. >(Note that this step is not required and should not be performed on >UEFI systems, only BIOS.) This also I'd like explained. Is this because the UEFI stuff _will_ be in the area mirrored by the RAID? Cheers, Cameron Simpson _

Re: Easy way to keep my F35 laptop and desktop computers perfectly sync'd. Rsync ?

2021-12-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
of scripts for package comparison: https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/yum-missing https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/rpm-comparehost You moight need to replace the command "yum" with "dnf" these days, but they should help. In particular rp

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Nov2021 20:42, Ulf Volmer wrote: >gxmessage relays on an X11 display. You have none in a session started >via atd. You're confusing this with cron. At preserves your environment. If he's still logging into his X11 session this should work. Cheers, Cameron S

Re: SSH with ecdsa key pair asks for password since yesterday on fully updated F34 setup (both sides)

2021-09-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
r other than yourself. It will refuse to use key files in this circumstance. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: NFS mount

2021-08-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
nt our media server onto it (small machine, busybox, probably an old kernel). Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: scanner no longer detected?

2021-08-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Aug2021 08:50, Cameron Simpson wrote: >I know the firewall complains constantly about this: > >arp info overwritten for 172.16.3.17 by 00:f7:6f:d5:2d:d4 on vr2 >arp info overwritten for 172.16.3.17 by 68:d9:3c:8a:bd:dd on vr2 It's the Apple TV. It has both wifi

Re: scanner no longer detected?

2021-08-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Aug2021 09:04, John Mellor wrote: >On 2021-08-01 7:08 p.m., Cameron Simpson wrote: >>We've got a few unmanaged netgear switches here and have had some >>weirdness ourselves. I have lossely discovered that having my Mac on >>both ethernet and wifi at once caus

Re: scanner no longer detected?

2021-08-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
bles in the switches became insane. Now I run my Mac in wifi only or LAN only, and the problem has gone. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: unusual error from gzip recently

2021-08-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
being stored in the output file. That might mangle dates on restore, depending on how afio does that. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
powered USB 3.1 hub helps me out there. Doubtless it has its own limits. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs

Re: OT: diagnosing download problem

2021-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
failure and the browser should retry though. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/e

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
own. I've seen systems need to spin up drive to umount then - to sync the fs. Even for an idle fs the kernel seems to want something, maybe formally closing a journal or something? To test, do a sync, wait for the drive to spin down, then umount. See what happen

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
o add (or present) better metadata. Once there were plugins but these days they seem unsupported. I've got metadata, but the best I can do is plex friendly filenames. I'd love to hear about your setup. We still play media on our PVR, which has the server's media tree NFS mounted on it. Cheers

Re: Using a Windoze application

2021-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
e. Then the command >wine windowsapp.exe should install it and let it run >when you need it. And if Wine isn't sufficient, there's always making a VM. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Ethernet port "bounce" command?

2021-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
worked at made all our crossover cables yellow so that we knew what we were looking at. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Ethernet port "bounce" command?

2021-02-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
re are not lights on. The physical >"bounce" lights up the LEDs and it comes right up. > >So, I am asking for something to add to rc.local that does the same >thing. Have you tried something as simple as: ifconfig enp5s0 down sl

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
at I move and that my background is static. I'm surprised by how effective it is. - Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduc

Re: I need help writing to the gtk3 clipboard

2021-01-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
e the web page above for the stuff you're meant to use now. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedor

Re: automount requests

2020-12-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
orts) then you could make /pub itself be a small directory on some always spun up disc on the server eg / but put the _contents_ lower down mounted from other spun down discs. If you use bind mounts into /pub on the server you don't need to rearrange the source data.

Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?

2020-12-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
t is essentially a file based proxy to a remote mounted tree. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorap

Re: What is the system call for time?

2020-12-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
bc.so.6 (0x7f1976012000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f197622f000) So that's where the libc library .so lives. I was going to suggest the "nm" command, which should access the symbol tables of object files (including executables and library files). But it doesn't wo

Re: What is the system call for time?

2020-12-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
er of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 + (UTC). If tloc is non-NULL, the return value is also stored in the memory pointed to by tloc. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
mkv blah.mp4 >Another question: If I want to know what resolution was used to make >the original video and audio, and download with the result being that, >how do I do it? I don't know if the "original" format is a knowable thing, I just presume youtube itself doesn't upscale

Re: RSYNC copy -

2020-12-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
ge file, yes. Conveniently the -P option means "--partial --progress". Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: RSYNC copy -

2020-12-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
ten run `rsync -avn ...` to do a dry-run and check that >the files/directories I expect to be transferred/updated are >indeed included. I find -i (itemise) better than -v these days. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: Strange error with 'man'

2020-12-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
be looking at that upper level at all. Why the rpm is putting things there is unknown to me. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: locale LC_CTYPE wrong...?

2020-12-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
cale: No such file or directory >LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8,LANG=en_US.UTF-8 This line looks very wrong. Normally $LANG is a separate environment variable. I'd say someone/thing has misedited wherever these values are coming from and folded the $LANG setting only the $LC_CTYPE line s

Re: Application-specific networking

2020-11-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
t. The rule generation is done by my proxy-peerage script, which emits acl definitions and cache_peer directives. I patch the squid.conf from that. My proxy-peerage script is here: https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/proxy-peerage?rev

Re: Need help with rsync

2020-11-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
ut and see if it is the source of the problem. >Does "IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion" just >skip the file or does it terminate the command completely? It omited the --delete phase because there was other trouble. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___

Re: rsync and weird characters, Invalid argument (22)

2020-11-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
valid >argument (22) >rsync: [receiver] open >"/mnt/MyCDs/Keepers/Linux/Perl/Perl5/perl.HTTP::Response.html" failed: >Invalid argument (22) [...] I don't think this is anything to do with characters. Looks like your rsyncing to a

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Nov2020 22:47, Tom H wrote: >On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:22 PM Cameron Simpson >wrote: >> Dunno, but maybe you can disable what it measures. Do your xterms >> make entries in wtmp (listed by "w" and "who")? Is so, ISTR that >> xterm has an option t

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
I think of itself it seems half legit, but it increases the attack surface. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https:/

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Nov2020 17:28, jdow wrote: >On 20201107 16:47:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>On 11/7/20 3:16 PM, jdow wrote: >>>On 20201107 13:21:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>>>On 06Nov2020 21:50, Tom Horsley  wrote: >>>>>For as long as I can remember I've run

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
ah! Who cares if root is logged in? > >Can I disable this helpful feature any way? Dunno, but maybe you can disable what it measures. Do your xterms make entries in wtmp (listed by "w" and "who")? Is so, ISTR that xterm has an option to not do that (look for "wtmp"

Re: tool to backup/restore just ACLs, xattrs, selinux context, etc?

2020-11-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
a backup system for bulk archives which doesn't honour all the fiddly weird stuff and wants a way to apply that after a restore (or to quickly reapply after some process which is known to damage it). Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
s, you're right. But at a particular level the names won't necessarily come out in lexical order (the come out in directory entry order), so a sort is often useful anyway. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
the folder you're looking at right now. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/p

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
me component is useful for when mulitple hosts might be writing into the Maildir (eg over NFS to a shared spool). For a single host Maildir it isn't necessary. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Oct2020 08:29, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 20:23:37 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: >> I think I'd still be using FVWM - I had a nice setup with no window titles or >> borders and keyboard driven layout/positioning, many desktops indexed by name >> with suppo

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
vwm.sourceforge.net/screenshots/desktops/index.php?num=50=plain Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedo

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
H folder to $mhdir-mh and makes an empty $mhdir to be the new Maildir. It looks like it expected procmail to make the tmp/new/cur subdirs. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-l

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Oct2020 11:37, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>Yes, I can switch to getmail but I honestly don't know how much a learning >>curve that would be. Or are you recommending that I use getmail and then mutt >>on that (instead of procmail)? Oh, and getmail doesn't replace pro

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
ke to try to >keep that if possible. Perhaps I will stick to procmail. But does procmail >handle Maildir according to any recipe that has to be set: for instance, I >clearly do not want the hostname in the filenames. Stick with procmail until unhappy with it. It will deliver to Maildirs, you

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
t a side note: in a former life my boss suggested to me strongly that I should separate my work and personal email. That has proven to be good advice, and I recommend it to you. Keep two accounts. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
else worry about it. In fact I'd >do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People >say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some >people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them. Local email lets me read and res

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
, seem too unnecessary for me. >> >(I was expecting to the old MH folder names inside my Maildir.) Also, the >> >mails get stored as something like: 1602799622.116065_21187.hostname:2, not >> >sure if this is the recommended way that files are stored in the Maildir >> >f

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
rs. And that is also the standard filename format. This isn't strictly true. Some IMAP _servers_ require you to use such a scheme, but if you're not presenting the folders via IMAP there's no need for such a system. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users ma

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2020 00:15, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:14:48 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: >> Mostly the races. >> >> To add, remove or flag in MH probably requires a locking mechanism while >> updating the message number lists (and correspondingly, alloca

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
hey can share mail folders. Also, config files can source other config files, so you might have: .muttrc-common-config .muttrc .muttrc-neomutt with the last 2 both sourcing .muttrc-common-config and then adding a few specific tweaks. Cheers, Cameron Simpson __

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