While I haven't been using MythTV for a couple of years, I still follow
their mailing list. Others have commented on issues with Ubuntu 18.04,
though not MATE specifically. Here's one of the comments:
Ubuntu do not enable upgrades from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS until
18.04.1 is released. That all
On 05/17/2018 10:47 PM, Tomas K wrote:
I'd be rather careful with modifying users on existing system - unless
you know exactly what you are doing. It can have pretty nasty side
effects appearing/re-appearing and entertaining you for long time to
come, at the 'best' possible times.
I had a feeli
I'd be rather careful with modifying users on existing system - unless
you know exactly what you are doing. It can have pretty nasty side
effects appearing/re-appearing and entertaining you for long time to
come, at the 'best' possible times.
Local users and file ownership in Linux is established
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
Thanks. That's probably what I need.
Dick,
I learned only recently of usermod and groupmod. One of the applications I
use (don't recall which one) changed the default user and group IDs when I
installed the upgrade and I had to change them back to t
On 05/17/2018 04:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
That part I know. What I've never looked into is how to change the
name of user dick to user rsteff, not from a file ownership
perspective, but from who is logged in. I'm sure I could create
another user nam
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
That part I know. What I've never looked into is how to change the name of
user dick to user rsteff, not from a file ownership perspective, but from who
is logged in. I'm sure I could create another user named rsteff, but I don't
think that's what I me
On 05/17/2018 03:55 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
I'll probably go through the learning curve of changing the user name
one
of these days.)
Dick
'chown -R rsteff *' (or whatever files you want to change. Leave off
the
quotes, of course.
That part I
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
Perhaps this is a ubuntu family 'feature?'.
Apologies for the sarcasim.
When the drive with the dick-owned files is mounted run the above command
via sudo. It may be that the permissions are too restricted for rsteff to
change ownership of files own
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
I'll probably go through the learning curve of changing the user name one
of these days.)
Dick
'chown -R rsteff *' (or whatever files you want to change. Leave off the
quotes, of course.
I'm familiar with chown -R because usually, when I copy files
On 05/17/2018 11:31 AM, Tomas K wrote:
I suspect that your local disk access issue may be permissions if you
changed uid between the installations.
That should be easy to check for:
ls -l /media/dick/a857c2f6-6e1a-4afe-9d6e-8109105a740
Do you own any files there?
That drive used to be the only
I suspect that your local disk access issue may be permissions if you
changed uid between the installations.
That should be easy to check for:
ls -l /media/dick/a857c2f6-6e1a-4afe-9d6e-8109105a740
Do you own any files there?
If you do not own the files an directories and you think that you
should
On 05/16/2018 01:48 AM, Tomas K wrote:
Great to hear that the file copy problem is out of the way.If you keep
that rsync command in your toolbox, it works incrementally. The next
time you run it, it will only copy new files on the other way. If you
change the source and destination, it will copy
Great to hear that the file copy problem is out of the way.If you keep
that rsync command in your toolbox, it works incrementally. The next
time you run it, it will only copy new files on the other way. If you
change the source and destination, it will copy new files to the other
machine.
To see y
You said that:
a) you cannot copy files from internal disk. True?
b) you are unable to connect to different machine on local network. True?
a) how do you mount that internal disk?
Can you see it mouted by: mount?
b) do you know IP address of both machines?
Try: ip address
Can you conne
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