Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.
On 2020.10.30 18:36, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:56, Dale wrote: > wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl This should work just fine, you just need to specify the path when you want to use it. Not sure how wise the following is, but you could also just put it directly in /usr/bin/ as well, and then it would continue to work as normal, and portage would update it when/if a new version is released. Regards, Arve I put such things (or links to them) in /usr/local/bin. That way I can easily see what stuff I've installed that way.
Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:56, Dale wrote: > wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl This should work just fine, you just need to specify the path when you want to use it. Not sure how wise the following is, but you could also just put it directly in /usr/bin/ as well, and then it would continue to work as normal, and portage would update it when/if a new version is released. Regards, Arve
Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.
Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> Commented lines are not taken into account. >> >> The format you specify above is correct. >> >> The problem seems to be with the youtube-dl version you are using. I get no >> such problems with youtube-dl version 2020.09.20. > > I'm on this: > > > root@fireball / # youtube-dl --version > 2020.06.16.1 > root@fireball / # > > > How does one update? Should I use the youtube-dl update tool or is > there a way to do it with emerge but point it somewhere beside git or > whatever that RIAA took down? > > Gonna google in the meantime. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > OK. Did some googling, startpaging actually, and found some commands. Obviously this is outside of emerge and I wish I didn't have to update it this way. Also, I haven't done this yet. The commands I found are this: wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl Since I can't recall the last time I installed something without emerge doing it, I got questions. Should that work? I have wget installed of course. Will this be easy to undo when a replacement comes along? Delete a directory or something and it's gone?? Can I leave the current version installed since I can't upgrade and the current working one may no longer be available to re-emerge? I'd assume I'd need to include the path to it as well to make sure it runs the correct one?? I've seen forks already popping up. Is there any hope that one of those will be added to the tree until this sorts out? I read somewhere that it is being fought. I think EFF is involved along with others. Plus, with the forks already taking off, the RIAA didn't accomplish anything with this stupid action. It just created more options for people to install and use. Instead of playing whack-a-mole with one hole, they now have several holes to whack at. Sort of stupid to attempt this really. I suspect the RIAA is about to learn a huge lesson in how free software works. ;-) May do this later depending on responses. I don't use youtube-dl often but right now, I found a gold mine of videos I want to save. My DSL is to slow to stream them anyway so downloading them is best, plus I don't have to worry about them being censored for some stupid reason and then gone. I get them while I can. Thanks for any info. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory
On Friday, 30 October 2020 18:29:18 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 10/30/2020 11:55 AM, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27:05 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I have a bigger problem. > >> The apache 2.4 doesn't read configuration files. > >> In apache2.conf I have: > >> > >> # Include the virtual host configurations: > >> IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf > >> > >> So it should read read every *config file in sites-enabled/ > >> In that directory I have: > >> > >> ll sites-enabled/ > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 27 21:15 000-default.conf -> > >> ../sites-available/000-default.conf > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3420 Oct 29 18:03 vhosts.conf > > > > I have different configuration files, one for each website. This makes it > > easier to know where to look and what to edit when I want to make changes. > > > >> vhosts.conf - define my web-site, but I commented everything out in that > >> file (it is empty) and restarted apache: > >> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > >> > >> And I can still display my web page. > >> How is it possible??? > > > > I would assume it is possible to still display your website because the > > main apache2.conf and/or ./sites-available/000-default.conf contain some > > default settings which specify the DocumentRoot where your website > > filesystem resides. > > > > Your approach to start from first principles by commenting out individual > > configurations is sound, because you can check in this way what works and > > what does not. > > I check all configuration files for "DocumentRoot" and all the files > have DocumentRoot commented out (so nothing is active) > grep -Rnw '/etc/apache2/' -e 'DocumentRoot' > > Restarted apache 2.4 and the web-page is still loading :-/ ServerRoot specified somewhere? Increase log verbosity and see what it reports, otherwise I'm out of ideas! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory
On 10/30/2020 11:55 AM, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27:05 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I have a bigger problem. >> The apache 2.4 doesn't read configuration files. >> In apache2.conf I have: >> >> # Include the virtual host configurations: >> IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf >> >> So it should read read every *config file in sites-enabled/ >> In that directory I have: >> >> ll sites-enabled/ >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 27 21:15 000-default.conf -> >> ../sites-available/000-default.conf >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3420 Oct 29 18:03 vhosts.conf > > I have different configuration files, one for each website. This makes it > easier to know where to look and what to edit when I want to make changes. > > >> vhosts.conf - define my web-site, but I commented everything out in that >> file (it is empty) and restarted apache: >> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart >> >> And I can still display my web page. >> How is it possible??? > > I would assume it is possible to still display your website because the main > apache2.conf and/or ./sites-available/000-default.conf contain some default > settings which specify the DocumentRoot where your website filesystem resides. > > Your approach to start from first principles by commenting out individual > configurations is sound, because you can check in this way what works and > what > does not. I check all configuration files for "DocumentRoot" and all the files have DocumentRoot commented out (so nothing is active) grep -Rnw '/etc/apache2/' -e 'DocumentRoot' Restarted apache 2.4 and the web-page is still loading :-/
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found
On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:49:31 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:51:32 GMT Michael wrote: > > You need to add your user to the lpadmin group. > > All right. I've never had to do so before, but I have now. I've also set > USE=zeroconf on /net-print/cups and remerged it. Both cupsd and cups-browsed > are in the default run level. I've even tried connecting via USB-2; when I > plug it in I get this in syslog: > > Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usb 3-7: new high-speed USB device number 9 > using xhci_hcd > Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usblp 3-7:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional > printer dev 9 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0300 > Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp > > That all looks okay to me, no? But still cups can't see the printer. We're confusing means of communication with the printer, or I am. The in- kernel USB Printer support is deprecated and most printer software no longer support it. Instead just the USE="usb" flag when compiling cups should allow you to communicate with USB ports on printers and the cupsd GUI should show the printer when plugged in to a USB port on the PC. If you have compiled the USB Printer support as a module you'll need to blacklist it so it doesn't load. > I found a way, eventually. I had to declare the printer manually, under Add > Printer. I chose ipp and gave it the URL ipp:///ipp/print. URLs imply a network connection using an ethernet cable, which is what I assume you were trying to set up in the first instance. Avahi/zeroconf/upnp will announce the printer on the network and as long as cups is compiled with USE="zeroconf" it should show up when you go to Administration > Add Printer. > It was > found instantly and I could set the paper size. But when I print an Amazon > return label with Firefox, I get just the text with a blank, framed box > where the QR and bar codes should be. > > Google-chrome printed it though. This is a browser + printing CSS if one is made available by the website. Browsers have different default printing settings, including or excluding background images, background colours, etc. Google-chrome happens to work on this occasion, but the web developer ought to have done a better job by also providing their preferred CSS for print jobs. > Emerge -pv firefox returned this: > www-client/firefox-82.0.2:0/82::gentoo USE="clang dbus gmp-autoupdate > hwaccel openh264 pulseaudio system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu > system-jpeg system- libevent system-libvpx system-webp -debug -eme-free > -geckodriver -hardened - jack -lto -pgo -screencast (-selinux) -wayland > -wifi" L10N="en-GB ..." > > Am I missing something important from that? Nothing obvious jumps out, but half of these USE flags do not mean much to me. :-/ More knowledgeable contributors on FF compile options should be able to chime in. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory
On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27:05 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I have a bigger problem. > The apache 2.4 doesn't read configuration files. > In apache2.conf I have: > > # Include the virtual host configurations: > IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf > > So it should read read every *config file in sites-enabled/ > In that directory I have: > > ll sites-enabled/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 27 21:15 000-default.conf -> > ../sites-available/000-default.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3420 Oct 29 18:03 vhosts.conf I have different configuration files, one for each website. This makes it easier to know where to look and what to edit when I want to make changes. > vhosts.conf - define my web-site, but I commented everything out in that > file (it is empty) and restarted apache: > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > And I can still display my web page. > How is it possible??? I would assume it is possible to still display your website because the main apache2.conf and/or ./sites-available/000-default.conf contain some default settings which specify the DocumentRoot where your website filesystem resides. Your approach to start from first principles by commenting out individual configurations is sound, because you can check in this way what works and what does not. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: console size/display anomaly
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:03 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-30, John Blinka wrote: > > Some TVs don't provide a remedy. Others do, but it may be something > pretty obscure. One of my LG TVs allows you to assign a "label" to > each input. The labels are selected from a pre-defined list. If you > select the "PC" label, it disables overscan. IIRC, this wasn't > documented anywhere (I stumbled across the info in a home-theater > forum). On my other LG, that doesn't work (there appears to be no way > to eliminate overscan). This beast is an LG 42 LS 5700. Some documentation hints that PC connections may not use overscan. I’m using HDMI. Haven’t seen any input labeling facility, but then haven’t been on the lookout for it, either. Potentially useful. Thanks! John >
Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7
On 27/10/2020 20:09, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:05:28AM -0400, Jack wrote From one of your earlier posts, it looks like tty0-tty9 all exist. My guess is that getty was launched on all of them. Since that is owned by root (until someone logs in) you certainly don't have permission to use it for X. I'm not sure where the list of vts on which to spawn getty is controlled, but that's what I'd look for. On my non-systemd machine, it's /etc/inittab, with the lines below the comment line... # TERMINALS I've got memories that you should launch getty on 1 to 6, and I don't know whether you declare how many exist, but you tell X to grab the next available. I'm pretty certain if I do a and I haven't launched a second user, it just comes up with a blank screen, not a login prompt. Cheers, Wol
[gentoo-user] Re: console size/display anomaly
On 2020-10-30, John Blinka wrote: > Thanks so much! That explanation would account for what I’m seeing. A > quick tour of the tv’s setup menu and a glance at the documentation didn’t > offer an obvious remedy, but your suggestions and knowing now to Google for > “overscan” will help immensely. Some TVs don't provide a remedy. Others do, but it may be something pretty obscure. One of my LG TVs allows you to assign a "label" to each input. The labels are selected from a pre-defined list. If you select the "PC" label, it disables overscan. IIRC, this wasn't documented anywhere (I stumbled across the info in a home-theater forum). On my other LG, that doesn't work (there appears to be no way to eliminate overscan). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it clean in other at dimensions? gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found
On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:51:32 GMT Michael wrote: > You need to add your user to the lpadmin group. All right. I've never had to do so before, but I have now. I've also set USE=zeroconf on /net-print/cups and remerged it. Both cupsd and cups-browsed are in the default run level. I've even tried connecting via USB-2; when I plug it in I get this in syslog: Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usb 3-7: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usblp 3-7:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 9 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0300 Oct 30 15:51:37 peak kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp That all looks okay to me, no? But still cups can't see the printer. I found a way, eventually. I had to declare the printer manually, under Add Printer. I chose ipp and gave it the URL ipp:///ipp/print. It was found instantly and I could set the paper size. But when I print an Amazon return label with Firefox, I get just the text with a blank, framed box where the QR and bar codes should be. Google-chrome printed it though. Emerge -pv firefox returned this: www-client/firefox-82.0.2:0/82::gentoo USE="clang dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel openh264 pulseaudio system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system- libevent system-libvpx system-webp -debug -eme-free -geckodriver -hardened - jack -lto -pgo -screencast (-selinux) -wayland -wifi" L10N="en-GB ..." Am I missing something important from that? -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:23 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:54:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote > > > Any ideas? > > The 1940's called... they want their overscan back. Walter, Thanks so much! That explanation would account for what I’m seeing. A quick tour of the tv’s setup menu and a glance at the documentation didn’t offer an obvious remedy, but your suggestions and knowing now to Google for “overscan” will help immensely. You have no idea (or maybe you do) how frustrating it was to set up Gentoo on that box using that tv for a monitor. Often couldn’t see critical parts of what I was typing, nor the shell’s response. And I’m not a good typist... Thanks again! John
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory
On 10/30/2020 04:31 AM, Michael wrote: [snip] >> >> This is from apache.conf >> >> >> Options FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride None >> Require all denied >> >> >> >> AllowOverride None >> Require all granted >> >> >> >> Options FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride All >> Require all granted >> >> >> I just search all server .htaccess files for "AllowOverride" but none is >> active in these files. >> grep -Rnw '/var/www/html/catalog/' -e 'AllowOverride' > > You wouldn't find "AllowOverride" within an .htaccess file. This is a > directive placed in the main /etc/apache2 configuration files to determine if > directives contained in local filesystem .htaccess files will be processed or > not. An 'AllowOverride None' will ignore .htaccess directives and make the > server speedier in responding to requests. TBH .htaccess are typically used > locally, when you are not allowed to make changes to the main apache > configuration files. Note, if you changed the name of ".htaccess" with the > 'AccessFileName' directive, you may end up missing it. > > Another thing to check is any changes to the default 'DirectoryIndex' types, > for the particular subdirectory. If you have removed index.html or > index.html.var in this directive then apache won't serve index files when a > directory like admin/ is requested. > > Finally, you could increase the log verbosity to debug level and see if more > information is revealed as to the cause of this problem. I have a bigger problem. The apache 2.4 doesn't read configuration files. In apache2.conf I have: # Include the virtual host configurations: IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf So it should read read every *config file in sites-enabled/ In that directory I have: ll sites-enabled/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 27 21:15 000-default.conf -> ../sites-available/000-default.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3420 Oct 29 18:03 vhosts.conf vhosts.conf - define my web-site, but I commented everything out in that file (it is empty) and restarted apache: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart And I can still display my web page. How is it possible???
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found
On Friday, 30 October 2020 11:20:05 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > [Some snipping] > > On Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:25:47 GMT Michael wrote: > > Have a look here in case there is some step you've missed out: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing > > Yes, I've done that. > > > Cups usually captures informative logs and you can set increased verbosity > > for more detail. What do these logs report? > > Ah! I think it's a pam problem: permission denied. I am in the lp group > though. Do I also need to be in the lpadmin group? I never have been before. Have another look at the above document and in particular pay attention to: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing#Configuration You need to add your user to the lpadmin group. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found
[Some snipping] On Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:25:47 GMT Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:16:17 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from > > the ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE > > system settings printer applet can't detect it, even though pinging it > > works. > Is the IP address of the printer the same? Yes. > When you 'nmap -A -T4 -Pn -v ' do you see open ports? It should > offer 80, 443, 515, 9100, 631 depending on the protocols it uses. It offers 21, 80, 443, 515, 631, 4000, 5001, 9100 and 9500. > > Then when I point firefox to localhost:631 cups's behaviour has changed. > > If > > I click Adding Printers and Classes, instead of a dialogue to let me add a > > printer I now get a help page telling me how to do it at the command line. > > Hmm ... something must be amiss in your setup. When I go to the > Administration tab and click to add another printer the familiar cupsd GUI > offers various protocols to choose from. Have you set USE="X"? That's my fault. I didn't read the display properly. Now, seeing straight(er) Find New Printers doesn't find any, and Add Printer just gives me the usual manual methods of declaring the printer. Emerge -pv gives me this: net-print/cups-2.3.3-r1::gentoo USE="X acl dbus pam ssl threads usb -debug - kerberos -lprng-compat (-selinux) -static-libs -systemd -xinetd -zeroconf" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" > > Even if I do manage to add the printer, cups reports that it isn't > > responding. I take this to mean I'm not using the right protocol. I've > > tried IPP, IPPS, HTTP and HTTPS, following that help page. > > You haven't locked down the printer itself to limit which IP addresses it > will allow connections from? Not knowingly. I haven't seen anything on the printer to suggest I can do that. > Have a look here in case there is some step you've missed out: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing Yes, I've done that. > Cups usually captures informative logs and you can set increased verbosity > for more detail. What do these logs report? Ah! I think it's a pam problem: permission denied. I am in the lp group though. Do I also need to be in the lpadmin group? I never have been before. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory
On Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:59:45 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 10/29/2020 10:53 AM, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:10:07 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> Here are the permissions: > >> > >> index on server/ > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root19078 Jan 14 2011 index.php > > > > The above is a .php file. > > Yes, it is and I can read that file. The files that I can not access > are in: > server/admin/index.html > > Is 'server/' a subdirectory of '/var/www/'? > > Yes I assume you have a directive for DocumentRoot? e.g. I think the default is: DocumentRoot "/var/www/localhost/htdocs" and probably in your use case it would be: DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/catalog" ? Then if you point your browser to: http:// it should display any index.html, or index.php, under catalog/, i.e.: /var/www/html/catalog/index.html it should *also* be able to display any other index.html under any subdirectory, unless this has been explicitly blocked in some other specific Directory, or Location directives, e.g.: http:///admin should display this index.html: /var/www/html/catalog/admin/index.html > > .htaccess won't work if you have disabled it with 'AllowOverride None'. > > Thank you for the pointer. I just change this directive in apache.conf > for /var/www/ and restarted apache but there is no difference. I still > can not access /server/admin/ directory from apache. server = > /var/www/html/catalog/ > > This is from apache.conf > > > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Require all denied > > > > AllowOverride None > Require all granted > > > > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride All > Require all granted > > > I just search all server .htaccess files for "AllowOverride" but none is > active in these files. > grep -Rnw '/var/www/html/catalog/' -e 'AllowOverride' You wouldn't find "AllowOverride" within an .htaccess file. This is a directive placed in the main /etc/apache2 configuration files to determine if directives contained in local filesystem .htaccess files will be processed or not. An 'AllowOverride None' will ignore .htaccess directives and make the server speedier in responding to requests. TBH .htaccess are typically used locally, when you are not allowed to make changes to the main apache configuration files. Note, if you changed the name of ".htaccess" with the 'AccessFileName' directive, you may end up missing it. Another thing to check is any changes to the default 'DirectoryIndex' types, for the particular subdirectory. If you have removed index.html or index.html.var in this directive then apache won't serve index files when a directory like admin/ is requested. Finally, you could increase the log verbosity to debug level and see if more information is revealed as to the cause of this problem. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New thunderbird filter messages
Tkx ... its back! BillK On 30/10/20 2:47 pm, Remy Blank wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote on 30/10/2020 03:52: >> the old thunderbird mail reader had a handy "filter messages" field >> that made filtering mails in the header panel easy - this has >> disappeared leaving only global search or a very clumsy filter dialog. >> Have they removed it, or is it hidden somehow? > Try Ctrl+Shift+K, or "View -> Toolbars -> Quick Filter Bar". > > It disappears when you press ESC. > > -- Remy > >
[gentoo-user] Re: New thunderbird filter messages
William Kenworthy wrote on 30/10/2020 03:52: > the old thunderbird mail reader had a handy "filter messages" field > that made filtering mails in the header panel easy - this has > disappeared leaving only global search or a very clumsy filter dialog. > Have they removed it, or is it hidden somehow? Try Ctrl+Shift+K, or "View -> Toolbars -> Quick Filter Bar". It disappears when you press ESC. -- Remy
