tde-users December 2020

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Migration of services - 10. primary archive
by Slávek Banko 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Hi all, the tenth service on the migration list is the primary archive. -- Migration status -- The change of the primary archive was made before the release of R14.0.7 (in October 2019). This removed the dependency of the primary archive on QuickBuild, which made it possible to make a change in the archive layout and cleanup. The reprepro tool is now used to manage repositories of deb packages, which allows us to publish new releases very smoothly. Thanks to the use of reprepro, Contents files for apt-file are also available. Because the primary archive is too large to be placed on a tde-box or tde-vps, it is located on my home server. In order to reduce the size for the mirror system, packages of older versions are excluded. I would like to thank those who provides mirrors for our repositories, and especially Mike Bird for his efforts and attention in managing the primary mirror and overseeing the status of other mirrors. -- What needs to be done -- We may consider placing the primary archive in a hosting center - for example, by purchasing larger disks for tde-box or by increasing the space provided for tde-vps. However, it will probably be a good idea to consider such changes only after we are able to manage the project funds and accept donations. -- More ideas and suggestions? Do you have any other ideas and suggestions? Cheers -- Slávek

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Trinity Desktop Install on Fedora 33 instructions needed.
by Brian Durant 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

I would like to install Trinity Desktop on Fedora 33, but have so far been unsuccessful. Please provide the correct command for adding the repository properly for Fedora 33. Thanks.

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Weird toolbar issues in kMail and Kate
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

A while ago I wanted to try placing my kMail toolbar on the right side of the main window (I normally keep it on the left). When I decided that wasn't helpful I tried to move it back, but it didn't want to; stayed on the right side. I eventually got it to go back again (somehow), but now whenever I open kMail it's collapsed (just showing the handle at top left below the menu) and I have to expand it each time kMail starts. Any suggestions for fixing that? Also, in Kate, which has multiple, somehow nested, toolbars, I'm having trouble getting it to put the various buttons where I want them. In my 'gaming' account they're set the way I find most convenient, with the Save, Close and Quit buttons together, but in my 'working' account they stubbornly refuse to associate. (See attached screenshots.) What controls where these buttons appear in the toolbar? Leslie

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Trinity Help Center printing question
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

I want to print the manual for an application from the Trinity Help Center. If I click on the printer icon in the toolbar the dialog window says "all pages". Is that all pages for the application being viewed, or all pages for the Help Center? I looked at the handbook for the Help Center itself, but for printing it says "Print the contents of the currently visible page." Confusion reigns. Leslie

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Eliminating Caption Bars
by Forrest Leeson 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Selecting Advanced|No Border from the window operations menu will remove the caption bar from a window. In theory you can set a preference through Special Window Settings / Special Application Settings to do this automatically, but it doesn't always work: e.g., LibreOffice windows respond to the window operations menu, but setting SWS and SAS preferences does nothing. I wonder why? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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Re: Amrecover hangs after restore
by Gene Heskett 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

On Saturday 19 December 2020 03:32:07 Gene Heskett wrote: Now I need some cross permissions help. I have added two dcop commands to my backup.sh that are: /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface pauseBackgroundJobs and: /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs Specified as Cmdholdit and Cmdresume and called as $Comdholdit and $Cmdresume But this script run as amanada, who is part of the backup group and this error or generated: ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! when backup.sh is launched by amanda. I interpret this error to mean that amanda does not have rights to use dcop. I, as user 1000 do, that command works without any reported error for me. So, how do I add the backup group (or the user amanda) to the list of users who can access dcop and send kmail a msg? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: Trinity mirror
by Mike Bird 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

On Sun December 20 2020 20:01:01 Michael wrote: > I usually just use bash/rsync/tarballs for rotating backups, so if you have > a favorite guide on how you guys setup your mirrors, please send me it's > link. I just run rsync and then sleep 10800. If things are real busy before a release I sleep 1800 instead. Our servers all have a line for perpetual jobs in /etc/inittab so we don't worry about the job dying and not respawning: yp:12345:respawn:/root/perpetual My bash script looks like this. You may prefer something a bit different. Check with Slávek whether he prefers secondaries to pull from tde-mirror.yosemite.net or whether he has an alias in his DNS that he would prefer you to use. MAILTO=someaddress(a)yosemite.net PATH=/bin:/usr/bin AUX='--temp-dir=/ARCHIVE/TDE/trinity.temp/' BWLIMIT=0 DST='/ARCHIVE/TDE/trinity/' EXCLUSIONS='' SRC='archive.trinitydesktop.net::trinity/' su --shell=/bin/bash --command='(date; time rsync --bwlimit='"${BWLIMIT}"' -aHv --delay-updates --delete --delete-after --max-delete=5000 '"${AUX}"' '"${EXCLUSIONS}"' '"${SRC}"' '"${DST}"'; df -h /ARCHIVE/TDE; date) 2>&1 | mail someaddress(a)yosemite.net -s "TDE Sync"' -- www-data; sleep 10800 Mirrors are not expected to be perfect or secure. Missing files are handled by a redirector and corrupted files are handled by signatures. Then you'd need to configure your server to provide the files via at least http and maybe also rsync. When ready tell Slávek and he'll add you to the mirror list. I also monitor my mirror with Nagios and a cronjob sends me a simple daily status report with output from df and some checks on the secondary mirrors. --Mike

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Migration of services - 4. wiki
by Slávek Banko 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Hi all, the fifth service on the migration list is wiki. -- Migration status -- A new wiki has been created, data from the existing one has been migrated. User accounts have not been migrated, so users must create new ones. -- What needs to be done -- A new TDE skin remains to be created. Some wiki pages deserve to be updated - for example, Project RoadMap, Nightly Builds,... I have an idea that pages with information about individual applications could be created in the wiki, so that an overview of these pages can replace the list of applications, which is statically on the main web. -- More ideas and suggestions? Does everything work fine with the new mailing lists? Do you have any other ideas and suggestions? Cheers -- Slávek

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Re: Pixelated Icons - Trinity/PCLinuxOS
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

> On 12/19/20 9:15 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > > https://iconarchive.com/tag/firefox > > https://www.iconarchive.com/search?q=thunderbird > > Thanks for the links. unfortunately, neither page had the most current > icons for the apps. > > I suspect that there is an issue with the panel in PCLOS, since the same > displays perfectly with Debian and Ubuntu. Perhaps Alie can look at it. > > > > > ____________________________________________________ I don't have that problem and I'm using Alie's roll. Hunt for "firefox icons" on the net. good luck Kate

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kmail vs amanda problem
by Gene Heskett 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Greetings all; From time to time, kmail does some expiry housekeeping duringthe nightly amanda run, and the disappearing files make amanda spam the logs as follows: STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- coyote /home/gene/Mail lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: info BACKUP=APPLICATION sendbackup: info APPLICATION=amgtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/local/libexec/amanda/application/amgtar restore [./file-to-restore]+ sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? /bin/tar: ./amanda-stf/cur/1608262193.22812.fKbeO: File removed before we read it ? /bin/tar: ./amanda-stf/cur/1608264371.22812.1lf78: File removed before we read it ? /bin/tar: ./amanda-stf/cur/1608264614.22812.zFEou: File removed before we read it | Total bytes written: 6440765440 (6.0GiB, 17MiB/s) sendbackup: size 6289810 sendbackup: native-CRC 9c31bc0e:6440765440 sendbackup: client-CRC 812cf14e:3061318853 sendbackup: end \-------- Is there a dbus command my amanda script can send to tell amanda to hold off expiry till amanda is done? Might be over an hour of expiry holdoff needed at times. Thanks all; Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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