Re: Video editing disaster

On Fri, 26 May 2017 20:53:36 -0400 Wade Hampton wrote: > Anyone have a good, stable video editor or have suggestions on how to run one > of these in a stable platform? In the past I was using Cinellerra (CV version), but it was not on Fedora. Now, when i run Fedora

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

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'; >

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

Re: sudo su

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

Re: sudo su

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

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

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

Re: sudo su

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

Re: sudo su

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

TLP vs Mate Power Manager

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

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

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';

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

sudo su

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?

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 >

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

Re: sudo su

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,

Re: sudo su

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

Re: Video editing disaster

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

Now what do I need to squash?

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: Now what do I need to squash?

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 --

Re: sudo su

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

Re: sudo su

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

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

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'; >

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

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

Re: Video editing disaster

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

Re: sudo su

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.