Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Stogie

Okay, I misunderstood how it works, then! I thought the "download latest" was only for the INITIAL install! I didn't realize there's still a "download latest" menu entry AFTER installation that works for updating! Cool! I just clicked it, and the update worked but it blew away my...

Stogie

I dislike the standard Linux thing where you install Firefox from the repos and it has updates disabled; I prefer to have Firefox able to update itself. Under Easy Buster (2.4) this was easy. Go to Firefox website, download Linux 64-bit .tar.bz2 file, extract to /root/spot/firefox, make tiny shell s...

Stogie

You mentioned Geany, but can I have these fancy arrows there? I mean the arrows (green ones on the image below) which show you that this like (after TAB or few TABs) is coming from that line, and another line (after another TAB) is coming from that line. You can try going to the "View" dr...

Stogie

. I want to use xfe too, but I can not install xfe on easyos. On the 2020 Debian Buster version of EasyOS, it's just a few mouseclicks in PETGET, just like a LOT of other software I need. This is why I love that Debian Buster version even though it's old. Huge software package library, and as I've s...

Stogie

.
I like "xfe" myself. It's right in PETGET on my older Debian Buster-based EasyOS, but was absent from PETGET (along with most other software I wanted) on the later OpenEmbedded-based EasyOS version I briefly tried.
.

Stogie

. I've been writing code for over 40 years and I've never used an IDE, just a good code editor (meaning a glorified text editor). Try Geany, for example, which is baked into the old version of EasyOS I'm using at the moment (it does have some IDE-like features but I never use them). Notepad++ is goo...

Stogie

That was fixed in January 2021! LOL, guess I need to upgrade! I love this Debian-based version though and its huge available list of software packages. Awhile back, I tried a newer Easy (OpenEmbedded-based, I think) and that was definitely not the case, a lot of software I use wasn't available. May...

Stogie

. I just figured it out and verified/replicated it with some test code, for conclusive proof! There's a subtle bug in /usr/bin/qsync and here it is: M1="$(gettext 'Syncing time, please wait...')" [ $NOX -eq 0 ] && popup "terminate=never level=top background=#ffff80|<big><big>$...

Stogie

. Interesting. I have two boxes running this same version of Easy Buster. On both, manually doing a time update via qsync, either on the command line (with the "--help" option which for some reason suppresses the GUI and just silently does the update) or via the GUI (ticking the box to tur...

Stogie

. Hi guys. I'm on Easy Buster, and I'm having a problem with qsync. When the qsync service is enabled, after bootup the system time is indeed correctly set after a few seconds of the internet connection going active, which is fine, but it looks like qsync keeps trying to sync again, about every 5-6 ...

Stogie

. Wow, "restartd" is ridiculously simple and effective! I'm impressed. All I did was create the file "/etc/restartd.conf" containing this single line: crond ".*busybox crond" "busybox crond -c /var/local/cron/crontabs" "" then I just typed this in th...

Stogie

. Thanks Barry! My older EasyOS version doesn't have "restarter" baked-in nor is it available from petget, but the petget search results did include "restartd" and from its documentation, It sounds like it does the same thing, so I successfully installed it. I'm going to experime...

Stogie

. A few of the tests I did involved using cron to run scripts via the "exec" command, and I also had it run scripts normally but with the script itself using "exec" commands to run other stuff. So I thought maybe one of these killed crond by taking over its process so it ended wh...

Stogie

I'm using Easy Buster64 and have been running some tests with cron, using a text editor on root's crontab file /var/local/cron/crontabs/root and making very simple crontab entries (like echoing a string to a file, or running a script file) just to see if they run correctly and on-time. So far so goo...

Stogie

.
Thanks Barry! For this, and all you do with EasyOS. It's made my computing life so much easier and better!
.

Stogie

. Ah, looks like "wmpoweroff" is indeed what the GUI "Power-off Computer" runs when you click it! I found the following in the /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc file: <Menu label="Shutdown" icon="shutdown24.png" height="24"> <!-- <Exit confirm="fa...

Stogie

@Stogie the poweroff command will bring the system down cleanly and is safe to use. Yes, that's right, it's not a "hard" shutdown as you may think. Oh, great then! I was concerned because I found this description of the "poweroff" command on a website: poweroff sends an ACPI sig...

Stogie

. Anybody know if it's safe to just issue the "poweroff" command with no precursor commands to safely shut down services, flush disk write caches, etc? It sounds like "poweroff" just tells the hardware to immediately power off. That sounds like a bad idea if everything is still r...

Stogie

. Thanks rockedge! I re-wrote my original post for more clarity as you were replying, sorry for any confusion! 8-) If cron works normally like on other Linuxes, then that fact combined with your script may be all I need! Only remaining question is, does your method safely shutdown all the stuff that...

Stogie

. Hi folks. I'm using Easy Buster64 2.4.1 and I have a physically-remote machine that is not immediately accessible and at a certain time each day, I need to be able to safely and reliably shutdown and poweroff the machine. Or, I can instead do a "shutdown after X minutes" arrangement inst...

Stogie

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux This installs into the home directory. To run it I use 'run-as-spot ~/firefox/firefox' It is a self-contained folder so it probably can be packaged using dir2sfs. This is what I did more than a year ago, although I made the firefox director...

Stogie

Basically, unprivileged users in Puppy, and probably EasyOS, are not as privileged as users are in other distros. In Puppy, spot is not set up to be able to use su or sudo. AFAIK, spot can not become root, or use sudo to execute commands with root privileges Good! I just want to use EasyOS as a sim...

Stogie

There is no problem with accessing the encrypted folders from another EasyOS. Bootup a working EasyOS, any version, with the same password as for the broken EasyOS, and then plugin the broken usb-stick, or mount the broken partition, and the encrypted folders will be accessible. I recommend booting...

Stogie

. williams2, thanks for the info and insights. Of course we know that EasyOS is very similar to, and was to a large extent built upon, Puppy and its way of doing things, so it's likely "spot" has the same restrictions in EasyOS. Not sure though. Maybe Barry, or someone with equivalently-de...

Stogie

sudo never asks for root's password, in any linux distro. sudo always asks for the user's password. Okay, well I'm not sure what the "spot" user's password is, but it's probably widely-known. So the same problem remains. Also, sudo runs an executable as if the owner of the executable is r...

Stogie

. Also, because I'm new on this forum, if Barry is reading this, you've done amazing things and I stand in awe. Puppy was/is great and EasyOS is just amazing, it has SO MANY THINGS I've always WANTED in an OS, but could never get. You've made it VERY EASY for me to walk away from Windows (and the fo...

Stogie

. Hey all. I recently read Barry saying that in EasyOS 3.0, entering a password at first boot not only encrypts the user filesystem, but that also becomes the root password instead of "woofwoof" that everyone knows. Well, I'm running Buster (I think 2.4) and I opted not to enter a password...

Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Search found 27 matches

Re: Kirkstone: Want self-updateable Firefox running as user "firefox" and inside sandbox

Kirkstone: Want self-updateable Firefox running as user "firefox" and inside sandbox

Re: Python in Easy

Re: Double Commander on easyos

Re: Double Commander on easyos

Re: Python in Easy

Re: Qsync problem - successful sync, but then retries forever

Re: Qsync problem - successful sync, but then retries forever

Re: Qsync problem - successful sync, but then retries forever

Qsync problem - successful sync, but then retries forever

Re: crond mysteriously disappeared / stopped running

Re: crond mysteriously disappeared / stopped running

Re: crond mysteriously disappeared / stopped running

crond mysteriously disappeared / stopped running

Re: How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

Re: How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

Re: How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

Re: How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

Re: How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

How to schedule (or run after X mins delay) a shell script that shuts down EasyOS and the machine?

Re: EasyOS version 3.0 released

Re: Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?

Re: Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?

Re: Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?

Re: Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?

Re: Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?

Any safe way to change "root" password in EasyOS Buster?