Subj : Slimmed down Debian
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Sep 15 2019 10:56:00


Hi Ky!


-=> KY MOFFET wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 > mirrordir has a verbose option that shows you exactly what it is doing.  I
 > agree that some utilities do not have a verbose option (or a good one) and
 > you may find yourself wondering if it is working at all.  One of the utils
 > I have used to do backups, besides mirrordir, is like that.
 KM> Yeah, but I'm still uncomfortable with CLI on linux -- doesn't
 KM> give me enough feel for where I am and what I'm doing.

Practice makes - oops! <g>


 > I have never looked, but there may be one with a graphical interface out
 > there somewhere which would show you its progress as it goes.
 KM> Don't care about the progress bars, but I want to be able to
 KM> point at stuff in a file manager type interface, and select by
 KM> function name not by weird commandline switch.

FWIW I've found one can drag the file in GUI to the Terminal and it will
insert the file path.  I've then copied this to a scratchpad-type of 
utility (gedit) to put things together before pasting back to Terminal.

If I want to 
   sudo ./writeimage.sh -d  /dev/sdd -i "/media/barry/USB
   Thumbdr/MotionEye/motioneyeos-raspberrypi-20161212.img" -s
   "192.168.0.150/24:192.168.1.1:8.8.8.8" -n
   'myqwest4737:FF5CCD19FFAE78CAD74EA27BDC'

I'll open a gedit file and 'pull in' the image file 
("/media/barry/.../*.img") from the easy-to-read Files GUI to Terminal 
and then to the gedit file where I can see and edit without worrying 
about it going 'live'.

....It still seems overly confusing and complicated!




 >> Only time I installed Samba, I wound up less networked than before. :/
 > Me also.  It turned out that samba had been updated to fix some security
 > holes and the OS/2 Warp 4 version of Windows networking was no longer
 > compatible with it.  :(
 KM> I had so little luck with Warp that I never got far enough to do
 KM> any such thing!

LIS to Mike in yesterday's REP some older connections needed
",vers=1.0 " added.


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