F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

[Dan Thurman]

 I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, but I am
unable to get livna repo to work manually or
downloaded.  I thought RMPFusion was supposed
to have livna's repository in its own repository
and this package does not exist?

Any suggestions?


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Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

[Dan Thurman]

 On 10/16/2010 07:10 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
> Michael Miles wrote:
>> Harish Pillay wrote:
   I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, but I am
 unable to get livna repo to work manually or
 downloaded.  I thought RMPFusion was supposed
 to have livna's repository in its own repository
 and this package does not exist?
>>> RPMFusion has everything *except* for libdvdcss.
>>>
 Any suggestions?
>>> Unfortunately, I have nothing to add here.
>>>
>>> Harish
>> I just looked and it is in rpm.Livna.org for f12 x86_64
>>
>> Enable the RPMFusion free and non free repos with Livna and your good 
>> to go with yum or type libdvdcss in the Add/Remove Software
>>
>>
>> I just did and it's there
>>
>> I have not looked for f13 repo
>>
>> Michael
I have both RPMFusion repositories installed. I cannot
installed the Livna repository, seems to be dead.

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Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

[Dan Thurman]

 On 10/16/2010 07:14 PM, JD wrote:
>   On 10/16/2010 06:48 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
>>   I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, but I am
>> unable to get livna repo to work manually or
>> downloaded.  I thought RMPFusion was supposed
>> to have livna's repository in its own repository
>> and this package does not exist?
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/f13/libdvdcss/
Yes, I found that site, installed the rpm manually
as I could not figure out how to get yum to install
it properly otherwise that dreaded warning yum
message appears.  Sigh.

Thanks for the tip though!


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F13: PackageKit now replaced with KPackageKit?

[Dan Thurman]

 Since last week, I was using PackageKit updates
until I noticed PackageKit became KPackageKit
by surprise.

What gives?


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Re: F13: PackageKit now replaced with KPackageKit?

[Dan Thurman]

Terry Polzin wrote:

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
  

Since last week, I was using PackageKit updates
until I noticed PackageKit became KPackageKit
by surprise.

What gives?


Are you running KDE. My xfce destktop shows

PackageKit-glib-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-yum-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
  

I am running Gnome and for this system, I never
started running KDE, although it is installed.  I am
running why the KPackagekit simply just took over.

I wonder how to get PackageKit back on Gnome.

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F13: Problem with Gparted?

[Dan Thurman]

I used gparted on F13 to create an extended partition with
various logical partitions installed and from the F13 gparted
gui, there was no gaps.

But when I rebooted and logged into my F9 system, I started
gparted and I am showing 1MB unallocated space for every
logical partition that I created.

Now I cannot tell which F9/F13 gparted app is telling the truth.

Any ideas?

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Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

[Dan Thurman]

 On 10/18/2010 01:58 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> I used gparted on F13 to create an extended partition with
> various logical partitions installed and from the F13 gparted
> gui, there was no gaps.
>
> But when I rebooted and logged into my F9 system, I started
> gparted and I am showing 1MB unallocated space for every
> logical partition that I created.
>
> Now I cannot tell which F9/F13 gparted app is telling the truth.
>
> Any ideas?
F13 Gparted apparently leaves a 1MB unallocated
space before the newly created logical partition.
It wasn't until I had gone back to check it afterwards.

You may notice that when using the move slider
completely to the left, 1MB unallocated space appears
in the 'Free Space Preceding' textbox.  Apparently, you
cannot set this value to 0 with the move slider or by
entering it manually, it does not work.

Is this an F13 gparted bug?

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Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

[Dan Thurman]

 On 10/18/2010 04:00 PM, Piscium wrote:
> On 18 October 2010 23:51, Dan Thurman  wrote:
>
>> You may notice that when using the move slider
>> completely to the left, 1MB unallocated space appears
>> in the 'Free Space Preceding' textbox.  Apparently, you
>> cannot set this value to 0 with the move slider or by
>> entering it manually, it does not work.
>>
>> Is this an F13 gparted bug?
> Possibly. GParted in F13 has version 0.6.2. These are the release
> notes for v. 0.6.3:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted/gparted-0.6.3/gparted-0.6.3-notes.txt/view
>
> (the link will likely be broken by the mailer)
The above link worked fine, thanks.

I completely re-did the extended partitions using F9
gparted, and I was able to verify that gparted worked
correctly - no unallocated space anywhere as seen by
F9 gparted or by fdisk.

I then booted F13, and there are no 1MB unallocated
space for every logical partition created, however, there
is an unallocated partition at the very end. Using fdisk -l,
in F13 shows no unallocated space.

Me thinks F13 gparted is hosed.

FWIW, I am using gparted-0.6.2-1.fc13.i686 which is the latest.

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Need the link to change subscriber account, please?

[Dan Thurman]

The old redhat subscriber's link page no longer works,
so may I please have the subscriber's account link
for fedoraproject.org, please?

Thanks!
Dan

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F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added to my
sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox), and in one of the
instructions on the website it said to install CPAN as follows:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

Well, I did go through this and it all seemed to work fine,
except in various places where there was NOT OK reported
during the building of certain modules.

I was told to do this as root user, and noticed that it built
/root/.cpan and /root/perl and it probably added stuff to the
/usr/lib/perl paths but I am not certain of that.

Since I was not able to complete this CPAN process, I blew
away the above two directories in /root, restarted the process
and then I got this:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 16.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

On reboot, I got reports in various services being started up and
it appears to display the same information as above.

What can I do to remove or clean up this mess?

It was not until later I discovered perhaps it was not
wise to mix the CPAN method with the CPAN rpms,
but I guess it is a bit too late now.

Kind regards,
Dan

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Re: Need the link to change subscriber account, please?

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/25/2010 08:13 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 09:51:18 am Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> The old redhat subscriber's link page no longer works,
>> so may I please have the subscriber's account link
>> for fedoraproject.org, please?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dan
>> 
> It is on the bottom of every email to the list.   It is 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users  which was answered in 
> your previous thread.
>
> Dennis
>   
OK!  Thanks - I got it all working now!

I was not able to get anything "in the previous threads" because
I was not getting the emails delivered to me.

Thanks again, much!
Dan

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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/25/2010 04:25 PM, Scott Beamer wrote:
> Dan Thurman spake thusly:
>   
>> To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added
>> to my sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox)
>> 
> IS that "F8" as in "Fedora 8"?
>
> Fedora 8 is no longer supported..
>   
Yes, I know, but it will apply to later versions.  I am trying to
clean out "activation" of the CPAN method stuff which broke.
Maybe there is no harm there, but I am not certain.

So, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas what I can
try, I am all ears! :D


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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/26/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Dan Thurman :
>   
>> On 01/25/2010 04:25 PM, Scott Beamer wrote:
>>     
>>> Dan Thurman spake thusly:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added
>>>> to my sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox)
>>>>
>>>> 
>>> IS that "F8" as in "Fedora 8"?
>>>
>>> Fedora 8 is no longer supported..
>>>
>>>   
>> Yes, I know, but it will apply to later versions.  I am trying to
>> clean out "activation" of the CPAN method stuff which broke.
>> Maybe there is no harm there, but I am not certain.
>>
>> So, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas what I can
>> try, I am all ears! :D
>> 
> Did you try finding ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm?
>
> On my (nicely up to date and fully supported ;o) F12, it is provided
> by this RPM:
>
> [...@samlap ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.36-87.fc12.x86_64
>
> Try (forcibly if necessary) reinstalling the following:
>
> http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/updates/8/i386.newkey/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30-41.fc8.i386.rpm
>
> Then retry CPAN and see what happens. It's usually just a case of
> tracking what's missing until you get the initial startup to
> succeed...
>
> Also, can I ask what howto you were following for Sendmail/Procmail -
> it may help to give context to the problem.
>
> --
> Sam
>   
Somehow, I am not seeing my original posting, so I am including the
following
where there seems to be a problem:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

The above problem appears for certain services that depend on perl are
trying to run but fails, one which is spamassassin, which throws up errors
similar to the one above.

I have re-installed perl & perl-* (which includes:
 perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker &
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-Coverage) and the problem does not seem to go away.

==

As per your request for the link to install procmail/sendmail in order
to get
the maildir format, I was following this one:

http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_spamassassin_clamav_procmail

Dan

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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/27/2010 03:03 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 2010/1/27 Dan Thurman :
>   
>> Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .).
>> 
> Is CPAN.pm actually in any of those paths?
>
> What perl version are you running (should be 5.8.8, but doesn't hurt to 
> check)?
>
> If you can find CPAN.pm and it's not in @INC, you can force it by:
>
> export PERL5LIB=/path1/to/libs:/path2/to/libs
>
> But to be honest, I don't know what's causing your error - the fact
> it's now complaining about CPAN when it was complaining about
> MakeMaker before is slightly screwy.
>
> --
> Sam
>   
I finally fixed my problems, but thanks to your previous post that
gave me the idea indirectly, by hinting at: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm!

What I found was to do:

yum remove perl-ExtUtils*

...and reinstall 182 packages that were removed as dependencies
instead of trying to remove perl itself for which there were 2700+
dependencies.

Also, if one did:

yum whatdepends CPAN.pm

...and CPAN.pm is found in package: perl-CPAN

Apparently, doing 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' barfed and destroyed
or messed up the files in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8, or so it seems.

Now I will avoid doing perl -MCPAN -e shell so that I do not run into
the same problems again for whatever reasons - it was noted on some
Fedora sites that it is not a good idea to mix "perl -MCPAN -e shell"
community packages against that of yum provided packages.

...  Now, I can proceed to figure out how to complete my original intent:
to add maildir support to sendmail (as opposed to just installing and
using Postfix) as I want the sub-directory feature from which dovecot
IMAP gladly supports instead of using the mbox format, which is directory
1-level limited.

Kind regards,
Dan

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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/28/2010 05:25 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 17:03 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> Now, I can proceed to figure out how to complete my original intent:
>> to add maildir support to sendmail (as opposed to just installing and
>> using Postfix) as I want the sub-directory feature from which dovecot
>> IMAP gladly supports instead of using the mbox format, which is
>> directory 1-level limited.
>> 
> Dovecot is separate from sendmail.  You don't need to do anything to
> sendmail to be able to store your mail using maildir with Dovecot.  Your
> inbox that you get mail from isn't the same location Dovecot leaves
> things.
>   

Yes, dovecot is just am IMAP server, but the problem is, that
sendmail by default uses the mbox format.  From what I read,
it says that you need procmail or other method to convert the
mbox format into maildir format - which is the part - that I have
yet to understand how this is actually done.

Do you have a no-nonsense link somewhere where I can get
the mbox format converted over into maildir format?

>From the configuration file of /etc/dovecot.conf, it says:
#==
##
## Mailbox locations and namespaces
##

# Location for users' mailboxes. This is the same as the old
default_mail_env
# setting. The default is empty, which means that Dovecot tries to find the
# mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user doesn't have any mail
# yet, so you should explicitly tell Dovecot the full location.
#
# If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u)
# isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other
mailboxes are
# kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first
# path given in the mail_location setting.
#
# There are a few special variables you can use, eg.:
#
#   %u - username
#   %n - user part in u...@domain, same as %u if there's no domain
#   %d - domain part in u...@domain, empty if there's no domain
#   %h - home directory
#
# See  for full list. Some examples:
#
#   mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
#   mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
#   mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
#
# 
#
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
#==

So, on Fedora, sendmail deposits "mbox" into: /var/mail/%u

I tried:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

and it does NOT work, perhaps because no mail as specified in the
user's home directory there... so I think there needs to be *something*
that converts the data into maildir format and the reason why I wanted
the maildir format, is it allows for sub-directory creation (instead of
a flat,
one-directory, structure) using an IMAP client, such as Thunderbird, which
I use.

At least, this is why from what I read, need procmail to do the conversion?

Am I missing something?


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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/29/2010 07:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:46 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> Yes, dovecot is just am IMAP server, but the problem is, that
>> sendmail by default uses the mbox format.  From what I read,
>> it says that you need procmail or other method to convert the
>> mbox format into maildir format - which is the part - that I have
>> yet to understand how this is actually done.
>> 
> Sendmail uses a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) to actually deliver mail.
> There are several of these out there, including procmail and maildrop.
> Since you can configure sendmail to pipe messages to the MDA, there's no
> question of file conversion. In your case an obvious candidate is
> Dovecot's own LDA (Local Delivery Agent). Whatever MDA you choose, you
> configure it to store messages in maildir format.
>
> You might find this helpful: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
>
> poc
>
>   
Can you or someone give me a link or reference how to get
sendmail/dovecot-LDA/MailDir to setup maildir format?  I read
the link you provided, but it is not clear exactly, what needs to be
changed in dovecot's configuration file.  The link on explains
how to get LDA working (the simplest being the user's .forward
file with: '| "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver"'), but does not say
anything about how to set up the 'mail location' as to where the
user's maildir might actually be converted/placed. I assume it is
the line:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

But I have not been able to get this to work at all.

Some say that one can change the /var/mail/%u directory to add:


   new
   mail
   cur

But I fail to see how it is that the maildir format is being
handled, by some converter program (LDA?) and if so, which
program is recommended, be it procmail/maildrop or is it
something else?  I am confused...

Dan

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Re: F8: CPAN problem

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/29/2010 02:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:37 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> On 01/29/2010 07:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:46 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
>>>   
>>>   
>>>> Yes, dovecot is just am IMAP server, but the problem is, that
>>>> sendmail by default uses the mbox format.  From what I read,
>>>> it says that you need procmail or other method to convert the
>>>> mbox format into maildir format - which is the part - that I have
>>>> yet to understand how this is actually done.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Sendmail uses a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) to actually deliver mail.
>>> There are several of these out there, including procmail and maildrop.
>>> Since you can configure sendmail to pipe messages to the MDA, there's no
>>> question of file conversion. In your case an obvious candidate is
>>> Dovecot's own LDA (Local Delivery Agent). Whatever MDA you choose, you
>>> configure it to store messages in maildir format.
>>>
>>> You might find this helpful: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>> Can you or someone give me a link or reference how to get
>> sendmail/dovecot-LDA/MailDir to setup maildir format?  I read
>> the link you provided, but it is not clear exactly, what needs to be
>> changed in dovecot's configuration file.  The link on explains
>> how to get LDA working (the simplest being the user's .forward
>> file with: '| "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver"'), but does not say
>> anything about how to set up the 'mail location' as to where the
>> user's maildir might actually be converted/placed. I assume it is
>> the line:
>>
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>>
>> But I have not been able to get this to work at all.
>>
>> Some say that one can change the /var/mail/%u directory to add:
>>
>> 
>>new
>>mail
>>cur
>>
>> But I fail to see how it is that the maildir format is being
>> handled, by some converter program (LDA?) and if so, which
>> program is recommended, be it procmail/maildrop or is it
>> something else?  I am confused...
>> 
> Once again, there's *no conversion*. The MDA will simply store the
> messages into a Maildir structure if you configure it to do so. In the
> case of procmail, you just create the Maildir structure for each user,
> as you mention above. Obviously you also have to get sendmail to use
> procmail as MDA. See the procmail(1) for more info on this. I don't use
> Dovecot so I don't know how it's LDA should be configured, but Google
> for Dovecot+maildir.
>
> See also: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-list/2009-06/msg00620.html
>
> poc
>   
Thanks for the tip but I have done it in a completely different
way that requires no changes to /var/mail directory as suggested.

If you are interested, see:
http://archives.devshed.com/forums/linux-97/sendmail-and-maildir-format-2357916.html

This works really well!

Dan

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Re: Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/20/2014 02:29 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

I always keep a copy of Windows XP on my computers.
I very rarely use them, but find that they are occasionally useful.
In any case, with the upcoming death of XP
I'm thinking of keeping a backup copy of my Windows partition
on a USB stick or external hard disk.

I looked briefly for a method for this under Windows,
but all the solutions I found seemed either absurdly complicated
or else were linked to expensive programs which I certainly don't want.

It struck me that there is probably a simpler way of doing this under Linux,
and I was wondering if someone not of a fanatical bent might help me.


I use Acronis True Image, it has a bootable CD created from an ISO file
and it can do full and/or selective file restores.
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Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

[Dan Thurman]

On 02/04/2014 01:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Jim  wrote:

Fedora 18.

Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare
Drive ST2000DM001

Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux.

YMMV of course, but I've had to replace 2 1TB Seagate Barracudas (I
know, not the unit you're asking about) on my NAS (Iomega ix2). One
failed after a couple of months, the other about two years later.
Luckily the disks were mirrored so I didn't lose anything. I replaced
them with WD drives.

Also, you might want to look at
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/putting-hard-drive-reliability-to-the-test-shows-not-all-disks-are-equal/

poc

Yup!  I was going to say that I had bad experiences
with Seagate drives and replacements costs money
so I dropped Seagate went with Hitachi some years
ago! poc has provided the link!

The warranty for Hitachi drives are 3 years
and gone are drives with 5-year warranties?

YMMV and I am (still) running 6x2TB 24/7 without a glitch!

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F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

[Dan Thurman]

It looks to me like a successful indirect connection?

The following is taken from /var/log/httpd/access_log

185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET 
http://24x7-allrequestsallowed.com/?PHPSESSID=1rmsxtj500143TRMUTP_ODZZWA 
HTTP/1.1" 200 5264 "-" "-"


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Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

[Dan Thurman]

On 03/03/2014 03:25 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

On 03/03/2014 02:06 PM, eoconno...@gmail.com issued this missive:

What's the best way to avoid/prevent this from happening?...


Since the IP is part of a Turkish /24 network, odds are it's a hack
attempt. If you don't care about servicing Turkey, you could block that
IP space in your firewall. Pertinent information:

inetnum:185.4.227.0 - 185.4.227.255
netname:SAYFANET
descr:  Istanbul DC Customer
country:TR
admin-c:KSM20-RIPE
tech-c: KSM20-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: ER101-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

("whois 185.4.227.194" will give you the gory details), so add that /24
to your filter list. In the old days:

iptables -I INPUT [some-rulenumber] -s 185.4.227.0/24 -j DROP

It's difficult to weed out traffic selectively unless you have the
ability to do a deep packet inspection and look at the actual request.
Generally that equipment costs a good deal of .


- Reply message -
From: "Mark Haney" 
To: 
Subject: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 11:59 am


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On 03/03/14 11:42, Dan Thurman wrote:
 >
 > It looks to me like a successful indirect connection?
 >
 > The following is taken from /var/log/httpd/access_log
 >
 > 185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET
 > 
http://24x7-allrequestsallowed.com/?PHPSESSID=1rmsxtj500143TRMUTP_ODZZWA

 >
 >
HTTP/1.1" 200 5264 "-" "-"
 >

It certainly looks that way.  I see several of those kinds of GETs a
day on our web servers.  Not from that particular domain, but similar
types of GETs.

A quick google points to similar GET requests to that domain as far
back as 2011, and the domain itself isn't live, just a placeholder for
parked domain.

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Alternatively, one could add the following IPs to /etc/hosts.deny:

ALL: 85.25.196.141
ALL: 85.25.226.154
ALL: 146.185.239.100
ALL: 185.4.227.194
ALL: 192.99.2.75
[...]

This works if the IPs are static but if IPs are from a pool, dynamic,
or spoofed, then one is out of luck chasing a tiger's tail?

FWIW

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Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

[Dan Thurman]

On 03/03/2014 05:11 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 03/03/2014 03:25 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

On 03/03/2014 02:06 PM, eoconno...@gmail.com issued this missive:

What's the best way to avoid/prevent this from happening?...


Since the IP is part of a Turkish /24 network, odds are it's a hack
attempt. If you don't care about servicing Turkey, you could block that
IP space in your firewall. Pertinent information:

inetnum:185.4.227.0 - 185.4.227.255
netname:SAYFANET
descr:  Istanbul DC Customer
country:TR
admin-c:KSM20-RIPE
tech-c: KSM20-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: ER101-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

("whois 185.4.227.194" will give you the gory details), so add that /24
to your filter list. In the old days:

iptables -I INPUT [some-rulenumber] -s 185.4.227.0/24 -j DROP

It's difficult to weed out traffic selectively unless you have the
ability to do a deep packet inspection and look at the actual request.
Generally that equipment costs a good deal of .


- Reply message -
From: "Mark Haney" 
To: 
Subject: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 11:59 am


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On 03/03/14 11:42, Dan Thurman wrote:
 >
 > It looks to me like a successful indirect connection?
 >
 > The following is taken from /var/log/httpd/access_log
 >
 > 185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET
 > 
http://24x7-allrequestsallowed.com/?PHPSESSID=1rmsxtj500143TRMUTP_ODZZWA 


 >
 >
HTTP/1.1" 200 5264 "-" "-"
 >

It certainly looks that way.  I see several of those kinds of GETs a
day on our web servers.  Not from that particular domain, but similar
types of GETs.

A quick google points to similar GET requests to that domain as far
back as 2011, and the domain itself isn't live, just a placeholder for
parked domain.

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Alternatively, one could add the following IPs to /etc/hosts.deny:

ALL: 85.25.196.141
ALL: 85.25.226.154
ALL: 146.185.239.100
ALL: 185.4.227.194
ALL: 192.99.2.75
[...]

This works if the IPs are static but if IPs are from a pool, dynamic,
or spoofed, then one is out of luck chasing a tiger's tail?

FWIW


Ugh, Apache by default does not use the tcpwrappers
unless recompiled.  Another alternative is to append
the following to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

# Blacklist


  order allow,deny
  allow from all
  deny from 85.25.196.141
  deny from 85.25.226.154
  deny from 146.185.239.100
  deny from 185.4.227.194
  deny from 192.99.2.75



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Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

[Dan Thurman]

On 03/03/2014 10:47 PM, Tim wrote:

Allegedly, on or about 03 March 2014, Dan Thurman sent:

It looks to me like a successful indirect connection?

The following is taken from /var/log/httpd/access_log

185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET 
http://24x7-allrequestsallowed.com/?PHPSESSID=1rmsxtj500143TRMUTP_ODZZWA HTTP/1.1" 200 5264 
"-" "-"

With a "GET" request that has a full URI rather than just a filepath to
something within your own website, that looks like they're trying to use
you as a proxy for whatever their nefarious aims are (which Apache *can*
do, but doesn't have to).  The "200" response means "okay," so it
apparently succeeded with 5264 bytes being sent.  Try the same sort of
hack, yourself, on your own server, to see what it does.  Though try
getting some other website, not the one that's playing games with you.

Since it's to a non-website, they may be pooling data of what fails and
succeeds, so they can make use of it later.  Which could be anything
from doing a hack on you, using you as a sacrificial proxy for illegal
activities, using you as a proxy to bypass state censorship, one of the
white hat hackers researching statistics on unsafe webservers, or
anything else that you can think of.

Because you don't know their motives, I'd consider them as being bad,
and worth doing something about.  Unless you are purposely using the
proxy features of Apache, disable them.  If you are making use of them,
then tighten up the configuration to only do what you want.


I found out that mod_proxy was installed on apache,
so I disabled mod_proxy and have yet to see any
proxy attempts
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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/08/2014 02:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

See also http://heartbleed.com/ and
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdropping/

This is potentially very serious and can cause leakage of private keys
and other information.

The current version of OpenSSL on Fedora (standard repos and Koji) is
1.0.1e, which has this vulnerability. An upgrade to 1.0.1g should be
provided urgently.

poc


I know that F18 is EOL & vulnerable, so
can I backport OpenSSL with a fix? I am'
not ready to upgrade at this time...

Dan
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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/09/2014 01:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:05:28PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

You could try rebuilding from a src rpm from the fixed version in
f19. I would expect that to have a very good chance of building
successfully on f18.

Failing that, modify the f18 RPM to build with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS


(Sorry Matthew - this is a resend to get the message on Fedora Forum!)

I need a little help  where in the spec file can
I add -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS ?
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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/09/2014 03:57 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 04/09/2014 01:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:05:28PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

You could try rebuilding from a src rpm from the fixed version in
f19. I would expect that to have a very good chance of building
successfully on f18.

Failing that, modify the f18 RPM to build with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS


(Sorry Matthew - this is a resend to get the message on Fedora Forum!)

I need a little help  where in the spec file can
I add -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS ?

I think I found it - Add in the spec file to: RPM_OPT_FLAGS
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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/09/2014 05:15 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 04/09/2014 03:57 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 04/09/2014 01:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:05:28PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

You could try rebuilding from a src rpm from the fixed version in
f19. I would expect that to have a very good chance of building
successfully on f18.

Failing that, modify the f18 RPM to build with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS


(Sorry Matthew - this is a resend to get the message on Fedora Forum!)

I need a little help  where in the spec file can
I add -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS ?

I think I found it - Add in the spec file to: RPM_OPT_FLAGS


Gah!  I tried everything I could and I am not able to get this to work!

1) I downloaded F19 SRPM file and rebuild but it fails to rebuild on F18,
so scratch that, I think.

2) I downloaded F18 SRPM file, changed the SPEC file by adding
-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS to RPM_OPT_FLAGS variable,
then rebuild which compiled with no errors, then removed the
old openssl files (rpm --nodeps -e openssl*), installed the new files
(rpm -ivh *.rpm in RPM directory) then proceeded to the heartbeat
site and it failed (red)

Any pointers?

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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/10/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Adams wrote:

Once upon a time, Dan Thurman  said:

2) I downloaded F18 SRPM file, changed the SPEC file by adding
 -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS to RPM_OPT_FLAGS variable,
 then rebuild which compiled with no errors, then removed the
 old openssl files (rpm --nodeps -e openssl*), installed the new files
 (rpm -ivh *.rpm in RPM directory)

Don't do it that way!  --nodeps is something you should never use.  You
could have "rpm -Uvh", or even "yum localinstall".


 then proceeded to the heartbeat
 site and it failed (red)

Did you restart services (or reboot)?  Under Unix, once a file is
opened, the reference remains even if it is removed/replaced.  If you
don't restart Apache, it will still be using the old OpenSSL libraries.

Ok about --nodeps.

So what I did was:
1) yum clean all
2) yum update  (nothing to update)
3) yum reinstall openssl*  (reinstalled and to mitigate any issues 
caused by --nodeps, no issues)

4) yum localinstall openssl*.rpm  (nothing to install) (same as rpm -Uvh)

So I was unable to rpm -Uvh *.rpm/yum localinstall *.rpm  because
yum/rpm detected no difference.  Perhaps I need to change the SPEC
file to a different version, say from 1:1.0.1e-37.fc18 to 1:1.0.1e-38.fc18?
If so, where do I change the version from 37 ->38?

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Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/10/2014 12:56 PM, Chris Adams wrote:

Once upon a time, Dan Thurman  said:

So I was unable to rpm -Uvh *.rpm/yum localinstall *.rpm  because
yum/rpm detected no difference.  Perhaps I need to change the SPEC
file to a different version, say from 1:1.0.1e-37.fc18 to 1:1.0.1e-38.fc18?
If so, where do I change the version from 37 ->38?

Yes, any new build should always have a new version.  There should be a
"Version:" line near the top, probably set to something like
"37%{?dist}".  I'd probably go with "37%{?dist}.0.1" myself (probably
not an issue in this case since there's unlikely to ever be another
update you'd load).

If you want to make it "nice" (in the small chance anybody else ever had
to touch the system), you could also look for the "%changelog" section
and add a note there about your change.

Sorry about the --nodeps mini-rant, that's just a thing I hate to see
anybody ever suggest on a mailing list.


Thanks Chris, for your help!
I got the problem solved!

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[OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS
and are bypassing/ignoring access database?  I poured
over the Internet but have yet to figure it out...

How can I prevent spammers from using my sendmail
server as an open relay even though open-relay is closed?

Note STARTTLS=client and deferred deliveries when
mail delivery fails and returns errors to my email server?

/var/log/maillog small sample reveals:

Apr 20 11:26:33  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:36  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:37  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:39  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:41  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:42  sendmail[1817]: s3K1ceVt003083: 
to=, 
delay=16:47:57, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=esmtp, pri=77257, 
relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [173.194.75.26], dsn=4.0.0, 
stat=Deferred: 421-4.7.0 [50.126.86.236  15] Our system has detected 
an unusual rate of
Apr 20 11:26:42  sendmail[1817]: s3K4nDlG014204: 
to= 
delay=13:37:14, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=67111, 
relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:43  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=aspmx.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:45  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt1.aspmx.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:46  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=alt2.aspmx.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:47  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=aspmx2.googlemail.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:48  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=aspmx3.googlemail.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:49  sendmail[1817]: s3K4nDlK014204: 
to=, delay=13:36:45, 
xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=64282, relay=aspmx3.googlemail.com. 
[74.125.196.26], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 421-4.7.0 [50.126.86.236  
15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of
Apr 20 11:26:49  sendmail[1817]: s3K4nDlK014204: 
to=, delay=13:36:45, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=esmtp, pri=64282, relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., 
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:52  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx3015146: 
to=,,, 
delay=13:25:18, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=66225, 
relay=aspmx2.googlemail.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:52  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx3015146: 
to=, delay=13:25:18, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=esmtp, pri=66225, relay=aspmx3.googlemail.com., dsn=4.0.0, 
stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:52  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx3015146: 
to=,, delay=13:25:18, 
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=66225, 
relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:55  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx5015146: 
to=,, delay=13:24:48, 
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=68195, relay=aspmx3.googlemail.com., 
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:26:56  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=aspmx5.googlemail.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:58  sendmail[1817]: STARTTLS=client, 
relay=aspmx4.googlemail.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, 
cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Apr 20 11:26:59  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx5015146: 
to=, delay=13:24:52, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=esmtp, 
pri=68195, relay=aspmx4.googlemail.com. [74.125.29.26], dsn=4.0.0, 
stat=Deferred: 421-4.7.0 [50.126.86.236  15] Our system has detected 
an unusual rate of
Apr 20 11:27:00  sendmail[1817]: s3K51Tx8015146: 
to=, delay=13:23:54, xdelay=00:00:01, 
mailer=esmtp, pri=60863, relay=relay05.reunion.com. [216.52.223.215], 
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by relay05.reunion.com.
Apr 20 11:27:00  sendmail[1817]: s3K7IrL5023404: 
to=, delay=11:07:25, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=esmtp, pri=60276, relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., 
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
Apr 20 11:28:02  dovecot: imap(dant): Disconnected: 
Logged out in=123 out=611
Apr 20 11:28:39  sendmail[2019]: starting daemon 
(8.14.7): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Apr 20 11:28:40  sm-msp-queue[2035]: starting daemon 
(8.14.7): queueing@01:00:00
Apr 20 11:42:46  sendmail[3038]: AUTH=server, 
relay=90.14

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/20/2014 01:38 PM, jdow wrote:

Heartbleed... Anybody running an OpenSSL server has compromised passwords
for anybody using the system at least from when the vulnerability was
revealed until it was repaired should consider every password on the
system is compromised. They should ALL be changed, pronto. And you should
make sure it is the right person changing the passwords.

{^_^}


I have F8 and F18. F8 is not affected by HB and F18 is HB
fixed (recompiled) and certificates regenerated. Both Fedora
versions have the same "open-relay" issues and both have
similar or nearly identical sendmail.mc configurations.

Here is my sendmail.mc file and
let me know if there is a problem?:

dnl #--
dnl # You MUST enable SASLAUTHD for this to work!
dnl #--

include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl

dnl ### do STARTTLS
define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/pki/tls/certs')dnl
define(`confCACERT_PATH',  `CERT_DIR')dnl
define(`confCACERT',   `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt')dnl
define(`confCRL',  `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt')dnl
define(`confSERVER_CERT',  `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_KEY',   `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_CERT',  `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_KEY',   `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl

dnl ###
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
define(`confALIAS_WAIT', `0')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 
PLAIN')dnl

define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `2')dnl Denial of Service Attacks
define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `true')dnl
define(`confDEF_CHAR_SET', `iso-8859-1')dnl
define(`confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl
define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `20s')dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl
define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `9')dnl
define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `30')dnlDenial of service Attacks
define(`confMAX_HOP', `35')dnl
define(`confMAXRCPTSPERMESSAGE', `50')dnl Denial of service Attacks
define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `1500')dnl Denial of service Attacks
define(`confMAXRCPTSPERMESSAGE', `50')dnl
define(`confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT',`t, b, j, _, {daemon_name}, 
{if_name}, {if_addr}')dnl
define(`confMILTER_MACROS_HELO',`s, {tls_version}, {cipher}, 
{cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, {cert_issuer}')dnl

define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-apparently-to')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', 
`authwarnings,goaway,restrictmailq,restrictqrun,needmailhelo')dnl

define(`confQUEUE_LA', `5')dnl
define(`confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER', `Time')dnl
define(`confREFUSE_LA', `12')dnl
define(`confSEPARATE_PROC', `False')dnl
define(`confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER', `True')dnl
define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `20s')dnl
define(`confTO_DATABLOCK', `35m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAFINAL', `35m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAINIT', `6m')dnl
define(`confTO_HELO', `5m')dnl
define(`confTO_HOSTSTATUS', `2m')dnl
define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
define(`confTO_INITIAL', `6m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', `True')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR', `1000')dnl
define(`confWORK_TIME_FACTOR', `3000')dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `200')dnl

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl
EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/authinfo.db')dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
FEATURE(`block_bad_helo')dnl
FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`b.barracudacentral.org', `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by barracudacentral.org"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`zen.spamhaus.org',   `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by spamhaus.org"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by dnsbl.sorbs.net"')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by spamcop.net"', `t')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.ordb.org' `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by relays.ordb.org"')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.osirusoft.com',   `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by relays.osirusoft.com"')dnl


FEATURE(`generics_entire_domain')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`greet_pause', `3000')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail, `', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
FEATURE(lookupdotdomain)dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa', `dnl')dnl
FEATURE(`nouucp',`reject')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
FEATURE(relay_hosts_only)dnl
FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')dnl
FEATURE(`require_rdns') dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh', `/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(`virtuser_entire_domain')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable', `h

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/20/2014 02:00 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 04/20/2014 01:38 PM, jdow wrote:
Heartbleed... Anybody running an OpenSSL server has compromised 
passwords

for anybody using the system at least from when the vulnerability was
revealed until it was repaired should consider every password on the
system is compromised. They should ALL be changed, pronto. And you 
should

make sure it is the right person changing the passwords.

{^_^}


I have F8 and F18. F8 is not affected by HB and F18 is HB
fixed (recompiled) and certificates regenerated. Both Fedora
versions have the same "open-relay" issues and both have
similar or nearly identical sendmail.mc configurations.

Here is my sendmail.mc file and
let me know if there is a problem?:



DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Drop 1 below:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

Add 2 below:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

So far, the spamming stopped...

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Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/21/2014 07:10 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am 21.04.2014 09:12, schrieb Dan Thurman:

On 04/20/2014 02:00 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:



I have F8 and F18. F8 is not affected by HB and F18 is HB
fixed (recompiled) and certificates regenerated. Both Fedora
versions have the same "open-relay" issues and both have
similar or nearly identical sendmail.mc configurations.


You are seriously running 2 obsolete Fedora releases as MTAs exposed 
to the public net? Setup security patched platforms for public hosts.

ok.



Here is my sendmail.mc file and
let me know if there is a problem?:



DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Drop 1 below:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

Add 2 below:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

So far, the spamming stopped...


You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to 
misuse your Sendmail.

This is what I am trying to understand.  I was adding spammers to the access
database, only to discover that the access database was either ignored or
the access database record added was bogus to begin with.


DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

and

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

are equal. There is no functional difference. And offering the 
additional daemon on the submission port and enforcing authentication 
for that service just adds a function and does not fix anything 
previously configured.


In fact using submission on port 587 with STARTTLS is the right thing

How can I do this?


instead of the obsoleted SMTPS on port 465.

Alexander


Ok, so what DAEMONs do I need? So far you said:

? DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl
above identical with below
Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
No value: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl

Thanks!
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Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/21/2014 10:11 AM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 04/21/2014 07:10 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am 21.04.2014 09:12, schrieb Dan Thurman:

On 04/20/2014 02:00 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:



I have F8 and F18. F8 is not affected by HB and F18 is HB
fixed (recompiled) and certificates regenerated. Both Fedora
versions have the same "open-relay" issues and both have
similar or nearly identical sendmail.mc configurations.


You are seriously running 2 obsolete Fedora releases as MTAs exposed 
to the public net? Setup security patched platforms for public hosts.

ok.



Here is my sendmail.mc file and
let me know if there is a problem?:



DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Drop 1 below:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

Add 2 below:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

So far, the spamming stopped...


You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able 
to misuse your Sendmail.
This is what I am trying to understand.  I was adding spammers to the 
access

database, only to discover that the access database was either ignored or
the access database record added was bogus to begin with.


DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

and

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

are equal. There is no functional difference. And offering the 
additional daemon on the submission port and enforcing authentication 
for that service just adds a function and does not fix anything 
previously configured.


In fact using submission on port 587 with STARTTLS is the right thing

How can I do this?


instead of the obsoleted SMTPS on port 465.

Alexander


Ok, so what DAEMONs do I need? So far you said:

? DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl
above identical with below
Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
No value: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl

Thanks!


I found an old posting you made here:
http://compgroups.net/comp.mail.sendmail/problem-using-port-587/1312021

Knute Johnson wrote:
[...]
:: I want to be able to have the outside world connect to my sendmail on
:: port 25 and port 587.  Is that possible?  What do I need to change?

Alexander Dalloz replied:
: Do you have more than the 1 IP (208.1.40.42)? If not it is sufficient to
: configure in sendmail.mc:
:
: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
[...]

So, I tried only the two DAEMONs and 'telnet localhost 587' worked!
So far,  I see no spamming as of yet...

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Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/21/2014 03:15 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
That's good. It would even be better to know what action has made it 
stopping. Do you still see spammers trying to misused your Sendmail as 
a relay? That would be something to be expected once the system got 
identified as a misusable relay.

Actions I took:

1) http://barracudacentral.org has me blacklisted.  Impossible for me
to remove my domain name from their blacklist because their BL
removal request website form simply hangs and timeout.  I am
still using them and they are blocking spammers in the meantime.

2) I plugged the heartbleed issue by rebuilding OpenSSL RPM Source
file and it passed the check tool.

3) Cleaned up sendmail.mc and for all appearances *seems* to be
working both with dnsbl + access database.  MC list is appended
below.

4) I am adding spammers to the access database and so far I received
one spammer so it appears that access database is working.  I have
over 50k records built from various access list from the Internet and
my tedious manual entries from 10+ years ago to present.

5) Knocking on wood, crossing my fingers that I won't get blown out of
water.

my sendmail.mc: (If you don't mind, please feel free to comment!)

divert(-1)dnl

include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`setup for linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl

dnl #
dnl # Please remember that saslauthd needs to be running for AUTH.
dnl #
dnl # Rudimentary information on creating certificates for sendmail TLS:
dnl # cd /etc/pki/tls/certs; make sendmail.pem
dnl # Complete usage:
dnl # make -C /etc/pki/tls/certs usage
dnl #
define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/pki/tls/certs')dnl
define(`confCACERT_PATH',  `CERT_DIR')dnl
define(`confCACERT',   `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt')dnl
define(`confCRL',  `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt')dnl
define(`confSERVER_CERT',  `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_KEY',   `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_CERT',  `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_KEY',   `CERT_DIR/sendmail.pem')dnl

dnl ###
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
define(`confALIAS_WAIT', `0')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 
PLAIN')dnl

define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p y')dnl
define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `2')dnl
define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `true')dnl
define(`confDEF_CHAR_SET', `iso-8859-1')dnl
define(`confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl
define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `20s')dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl
define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `9')dnl
define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `30')dnl
define(`confMAX_HOP', `35')dnl
define(`confMAXRCPTSPERMESSAGE', `50')dnl
define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `1500')dnl
define(`confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT',`t, b, j, _, {daemon_name}, 
{if_name}, {if_addr}')dnl
define(`confMILTER_MACROS_HELO',`s, {tls_version}, {cipher}, 
{cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, {cert_issuer}')dnl

define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-apparently-to')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', 
`authwarnings,goaway,restrictmailq,restrictqrun,needmailhelo')dnl

define(`confQUEUE_LA', `5')dnl
define(`confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER', `Time')dnl
define(`confREFUSE_LA', `12')dnl
define(`confSEPARATE_PROC', `False')dnl
define(`confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER', `True')dnl
define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j')dnl
define(`confTLS_SRV_OPTIONS', `V')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `20s')dnl
define(`confTO_DATABLOCK', `35m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAFINAL', `35m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAINIT', `6m')dnl
define(`confTO_HELO', `5m')dnl
define(`confTO_HOSTSTATUS', `2m')dnl
define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
define(`confTO_INITIAL', `6m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', `True')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR', `1000')dnl
define(`confWORK_TIME_FACTOR', `3000')dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `200')dnl

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl

EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/authinfo.db')dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
FEATURE(`block_bad_helo')dnl
FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`b.barracudacentral.org', `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by barracudacentral.org"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`zen.spamhaus.org',   `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by spamhaus.org"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by dnsbl.sorbs.net"')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by spamcop.net"', `t')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.ordb.org' `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by relays.ordb.org"')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.osirusoft.com',   `"Rejected 
["$&{client_addr}"] by relays.osirusoft.com"'

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/21/2014 03:06 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am 21.04.2014 19:11, schrieb Dan Thurman:


DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

Drop 1 below:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

Add 2 below:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

So far, the spamming stopped...


You changes are random an do not explain why spammers were/are able to
misuse your Sendmail.

This is what I am trying to understand.  I was adding spammers to the
access
database, only to discover that the access database was either 
ignored or

the access database record added was bogus to begin with.


In one of your postings you have shown your sendmail.mc. From that we see

FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl

The "-o" parameter isn't really recommended as Sendmail will not 
complain if the access_db file is missing or problematic.


Details about the proper use of the access_db can be read within 
cf/README


http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/anti_spam.html

Sendmail offers methods to debug the use of map files like the 
access_db in "sendmail -bt" mode and even by using various debug 
parameters. See i.e.


http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-dbg.html


DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl

and

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl

are equal. There is no functional difference. And offering the
additional daemon on the submission port and enforcing authentication
for that service just adds a function and does not fix anything
previously configured.

In fact using submission on port 587 with STARTTLS is the right thing

How can I do this?


By dropping the use of SMTPS. All modern MUAs support STARTTLS these 
days and STARTTLS has obsoleted SMTP over SSL (SMTPS).



instead of the obsoleted SMTPS on port 465.

Alexander


Ok, so what DAEMONs do I need? So far you said:

? DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl


If you want to receive mail from other MTAs, then you need at least a 
listening daemon on port 25. The shortest syntax for that is the line 
above, making Sendmail listening on all available interfaces.



Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL M=s')dnl
 above identical with below
Obsolete: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl


Yes, drop daemons listening on port 465 / smtps and use a submission 
service on port 587 instead.



No value: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl


That defines a Sendmail daemon on port 587 (`getent services 
submission'), gives it the internal name MSA and by the mailer 
modifier "a" it dictates that submitting clients must authenticate 
before being able to relay. That's important and a mandatory setting 
for a public bound submission service.



Thanks!


Alexander


AWESOME and USEFUL comments!
Much appreciated and Thank you!

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Re: relabel

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/29/2014 11:46 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I guess that I can force the relabel of a disk or partition at boot
by using grub2, but I cannnot rememeber how to do it!!

Thank for your help.

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touch /.autorelabel
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Re: relabel

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/29/2014 11:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Thank,

I know, but I guess that there is an option from grub2
by setting something!!



On 04/29/2014 11:46 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Hello,

I guess that I can force the relabel of a disk or partition at boot
by using grub2, but I cannnot rememeber how to do it!!

Thank for your help.

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Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
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You are top-posting!

From Richard Shaw's reply & link:

Grub2: autorelabel=1 in kernel line

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Re: replacement for seamonkey?

[Dan Thurman]

On 05/16/2014 12:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

On 05/16/2014 02:43 PM, Doug wrote:


You haven't read the right pages, I guess. It runs on Windows and 
Linux, and I thik even on Mac.
I have a copy running right here on PCLinuxOS-32 KDE.  I have another 
copy running on Windows 8.1. (64-bit.)
This afternoon I will install it on PCLOS-64, as it's supposed to do 
that also.
The installation is a breeze. It does all the work, as soon as you 
extract the file. Just like Windows!

I am looking here, on the download page:
http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml

Minimum system Requirements:

  * Windows Vista x64/Windows 7x64/Windows 8 x64/Server 2008 x64 or later
  * 256 MB of free RAM
  * At least 100 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space



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See: http://www.palemoon.org/contributed-builds.shtml

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Re: replacement for seamonkey?

[Dan Thurman]

On 05/16/2014 12:56 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

On 05/16/2014 03:52 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

See: http://www.palemoon.org/contributed-builds.shtml

thanks, got it, installed it! when I finished it opened up a web page &
said:

You have successfully installed the Pale Moon web browser for Windows.

Amusing... Palemoon installed on Linux... or is it Windows? :P

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Help! I can no longer boot F12

[Dan Thurman]

Apparently, my disk started failing and dropped
some critical files.

I tried to use LiveCD but I cannot do a linux rescue

What I planned to do was to yum reinstall and try to
recover what is missing.

Does this make any sense?

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Re: Help! I can no longer boot F12

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/02/2012 07:24 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Apparently, my disk started failing and dropped
> some critical files.
>
> I tried to use LiveCD but I cannot do a linux rescue
>
> What I planned to do was to yum reinstall and try to
> recover what is missing.
>
> Does this make any sense?
Never mind, II decided to drop F12 and install the latest.
Sorry for the noise!

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Re: A Look at Fedora 18

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/15/2013 06:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Looking at the Fedora 18 from a Live Cd I found that Gnome is following
> the tradition of not following its tradition.
> Clicking on Activities no longer gives you Applications item at the top.
> Together with the standard applications on the left side of the screen
> you get a icon that looks like a rectangle of rectangles. Clicking on
> the at gives you the previous Application display.
>
> Is that progress?
Hmm...  CD version is 889MB?  It's too big
and I cannot create a CD (not DVD) of the
image file.

What's up with that?


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Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Dan Thurman]

On 01/31/2013 07:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Way way OT:
>
> Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i",
> not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their
> Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e.
> cummings? I've seen a number of people do this (admittedly a tiny
> minority) and never understood it. Do they think it's cool? Are they
> expressing their inner rebel? Were they punished by their English
> teacher at school? Is hitting Shift too much effort? Enquiring minds
> want to know.
>
> Sorry, this has been bugging me for ages and I had just had to get this
> off my chest. Feel free to ignore.
>
> poc
Maybe Apple started it? ;)
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F18: Seems Amarok if hosed?

[Dan Thurman]

Anyone get this one to work?

I tried unchecking the scripts and plugins
and within a few seconds, it hung.  I had
to force kill it.


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Re: F18: Seems Amarok if hosed?

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/10/2013 02:54 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

On 09/10/2013 02:42 PM, Dan Thurman issued this missive:

Anyone get this one to work?

I tried unchecking the scripts and plugins
and within a few seconds, it hung.  I had
to force kill it.


Seems to work for me most of the time. It does seem to hang every once
in a while when listening to Internet sources, but I bounce between
VPNs quite a bit. A double click on the internet station in the playlist
and it generally starts right back up.

This is 64-bit F19 and XFCE4/XFWM4. I did have it running on F17 and
F18 with similar results.
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Well, it hangs a few seconds after starting up.  I have removed
and reinstalled to no avail. Perhaps it is because I am running
Amarok under MATE?  I guess I will have to try XFCE4 and see
if Amarok works.  I cannot see any errors in the message logs.

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F18: Message Log: mdmonitor-takeover.service

[Dan Thurman]

Sep  9 14:28:17  systemd[1]: \
Cannot add dependency job for unit mdmonitor-takeover.service, \
ignoring: Unit mdmonitor-takeover.service failed to load: No   \
such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status  \
mdmonitor-takeover.service' for details.

I looked on the Internet but could no find a clue what it means
and its cause.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Re: F18: Seems Amarok if hosed?

[Dan Thurman]

Correcting sentence:
[...]
enough time to clear Amarok settings when *starting*.  So it was easier
[...]
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Re: F18: Seems Amarok if hosed?

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/10/2013 05:52 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 09/10/2013 03:19 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

Well, it hangs a few seconds after starting up.  I have removed
and reinstalled to no avail. Perhaps it is because I am running
Amarok under MATE?  I guess I will have to try XFCE4 and see
if Amarok works.  I cannot see any errors in the message logs.


I don't see why the DE should make a difference.  Have you tried 
running amarok from a terminal to see what error messages it gives?


From the very beginning, the default Amarok settings has
a number of problems with "plugins" and "scripts" and will
sometimes misbehave. It has to do with remote connections.

It seems for a small list of mp3 files, Anarok works fine on
ext3,4 and ntfs filesystems, but fails on very large list of mp3
files. Quite simply, Amarok coughs, wheezes, and then hangs
itself after a few seconds or short minutes.

1) Copy a small list of mp3 folder from Artist#1 to ~/Music   PASSED
2) Copy more Artists into 
~/Music   PASSED

3) Clear ~/Music;
Configure Amarok to include very large directories:
  /md/Share/AV/Audio   FAILED

Because Amarok was configured by the user to include one or
more folders/directory as part of the file scanning, there was not
enough time to clear Amarok settings when sharing.  So it was easier
for me to simply delete Amarok settings found in ~/.kde

I recorded the Amarok output on the command line but copied
only relevant snippets out of 55,000 lines as many are repeats:

# amarok > Amarok-Log 2>&1:
loaded the Generic plugin
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
Could not parse stylesheet of widget 0x98c6b10
** 

** AMAROK WAS STARTED IN NORMAL MODE. IF YOU WANT TO SEE DEBUGGING 
INFORMATION, PLEASE USE: **

** amarok --debug **
** 


Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
"


No user with that name was found


"
QTimeLine::setPaused: Not running
QTimeLine::setPaused: Not running
QTimeLine::setPaused: Not running
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.

{Following is pervasive and repeats often with occasional
unique lines. Note changing byte requests}

void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::writeFull() QSharedMemory is too 
small to hold the data.

It is of size 1048576 bytes but we need more than 1185178 bytes.
void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::writeFull() QSharedMemory is too 
small to hold the data.

It is of size 1048576 bytes but we need more than 1185412 bytes.
[...]
void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::setLastFile(const QString&) 
QSharedMemory is too small to hold the data.

It is of size 1048576 bytes but we need more than 1185710 bytes.
void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::setLastFile(const QString&) 
QSharedMemory is too small to hold the data.

It is of size 1048576 bytes but we need more than 1185692 bytes.
void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::setLastFile(const QString&) 
QSharedMemory is too small to hold the data.

It is of size 1048576 bytes but we need more than 1185704 bytes.
void CollectionScanner::ScanningState::setLastFile(const QString&) 
QSharedMemory is too small to hold the data.

[...]

{Following are examples of Amarok incompatible file-types}

FileTypeResolver: file 
/md/Ap1WD1/Shared/AV/Audio/Genre/Classical/Artists/Rossini, Gioachino 
Antonio/Albums/Rossini, Gioachino-Opera-Semiramide-Studer Larmore 
Lopardo Ramey-Marin/CD02/Semiramide - CD2 - WAV - Edited.CUE (mimetype 
application/x-cue) not recognized as Amarok-compatible

[...]
FileTypeResolver: file 
/md/Ap1WD1/Shared/AV/Audio/Genre/Classical/Artists/Rossini, Gioachino 
Antonio/Albums/Rossini, Gioachino-Opera-Semiramide-Studer Larmore 
Lopardo Ramey-Marin/CD02/Semiramide.pdf (mimetype application/pdf) not 
recognized as Amarok-compatible


{Once in awhile, the following pops up}

TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.

Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter


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Re: GNOME Classic & Extensions

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/16/2013 05:41 AM, Tim wrote:

On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 10:32 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

Hey Tim, since you've been here on the list for years, I'm wondering:
What DE are you running? Did you move to  GNOME Shell?

I do not like the 3.0 desktop, I find the way it expects us to use it
annoying, tedious, and unergonomic.  None of my computers are iPads.
So, on Fedora and Ubuntu, I have played around with two or three methods
of making it behave like 2.0 (and I do not recall which method I used
with each).  I tried to install Mate on Fedora, but Fedora 17 only had
it in a testing repo, if I recall correctly, and I didn't want to open
that can of worms.  So, it's probably simply just the fallback option.

I want the traditional, organised, menus.  Not screens of icons.  I want
the traditional windows and workspace switchers.  I want the taskbar,
and I want applications to use their own taskbar at the top of their own
window, and not behave like a Mac with top taskbar that keeps changing
between desktop taskbar and different application taskbars.

However, making 3.0 look like 2.0 doesn't get around a nasty problem or
two.  3.0 is much more CPU intensive, and I seriously doubt that I could
even get it to run on some of my older PCs.  I also get that annoying "a
problem has occurred" pop-up error message each time I log on, with no
clue about *what* damn error it is, and things seem to work fine,
anyway, whatever that error was.

I avoid KDE, because I don't like it.  Old Gnome's defaults were
reasonably good, I have to configure the wazoo out KDE to make it
tolerable.  I don't want to do that umpteen times across several
computers, and I still don't like it's Fisherprice/WindowsXP look, it's
messy menus, and the plethora of hideously K-named applications.

I have tried, at various times, other desktops, but keep coming back to
Gnome 2.0 as the way that I wanted it to be like, and an imitation was
always half-arsed compared to using the actual thing.  Several of the
lighter desktops were seriously lacking in things that I found really
annoying.  Such as how removable media mounting/demounting was
cumbersome, and less automated.  And things like pulseaudio being a
pain, rather than something that just worked.  Plus various applications
that I wanted to use were Gnome, so using another desktop wouldn't get
around the heavy Gnome baggage.

I have to seriously wonder what goes through the minds of designers.  If
you asked them to come up with a modern teacup, the handle would be on
the inside, it wouldn't stand upright, you'd need to buy new teaspoons,
and replace your dining table.

As you can see, I am slightly against it.


I do not like the Gnome-3 desktop metaphor.  I still have F13, waiting
for a Gnome-2 desktop for the latest Fedora release and so far, I am
checking out F18 with MATE. It seems to work for the most part, but
there are some issues/apps that I hope will be mitigated, given time.

In my case, I started with F17 because it was the only version that could
do a fresh install (with anaconda, not with F18) on an existing partition
(having all partitions filled on four 2TB drives), then to upgrade to F18
with fedup, and it was successful. I did not want to do another fedup to
F19 because there was too many problems reported at the time.

I am still doing post installations and there are some interesting pitfalls
missing apps or ugly replacements (Caja vs Nautilus) but it seems doable
so far - it just takes time to get used to and to closely match what I had
on F13.

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Re: [SOLVED] F18: Message Log: mdmonitor-takeover.service

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/10/2013 03:39 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:


Sep  9 14:28:17  systemd[1]: \
Cannot add dependency job for unit mdmonitor-takeover.service, \
ignoring: Unit mdmonitor-takeover.service failed to load: No   \
such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status  \
mdmonitor-takeover.service' for details.

I looked on the Internet but could no find a clue what it means
and its cause.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!


I disabled the service and many other unused services.
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Re: F18: Seems Amarok if hosed? [SOLVED]

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/10/2013 02:42 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

Anyone get this one to work?

I tried unchecking the scripts and plugins
and within a few seconds, it hung.  I had
to force kill it.


As part of debugging, I disabled: settings plugins, scripts
and "Watch for folder changes", and selected each folder
one-by-one, while switching the main panel left column list
between "Album Artists" and "Track Artists and whatever
appears, can now be edited as needed.

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Looking for RPM Gnome/Mate package reorganizing Application menus

[Dan Thurman]

I cannot seem to to recall the package name,
but basically it reorganizes the Applications
drop-down menus in such a thoughtful and
space saving way.  For examples in the Games
menu, applications related to "Cards" would be
placed in this category, "Board Games" into
this category, "Action Games" into this category
and so on.

Does anyone remember what the name of the
RPM package that did menu the reorganizing?

Kind regards!
Dan
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Re: Ananconda on 19

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/21/2013 07:42 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

On 09/21/2013 03:35 PM, poma wrote:

On 21.09.2013 15:57, Phil Dobbin wrote:

Hi, all.

I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e.
erasing Centos) & I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option 
for

erase & install as with other distros.

Could anybody point me in the right direction?

Cheers, Phil...



Can you point us in the right direction? :)
It's not so clear what and with what you want to do install.


I insert the disc & when it comes to the disk partition section it 
tells me there is not enough room to install Fedora because CentOS is 
present.


However there is no option to install over CentOS to utilise the whole 
disk that I could see anyway no matter what I try. I want to erase 
CentOS completely & just have Fedora on the disk.


Hope this makes sense,

Cheers,

  Phil...


It makes perfect sense to me, what you are saying.

I was able to use F17 to "overwrite an existing linux
partition" but was not able to do fresh-install with
this "feature" after F17. I think this "feature" is
not available after F17 as I think Anaconda was
replaced with something else, can't remember what
it is called. I posted the details of this problem some
time ago and at the time thought that this feature
would be eventually folded back, in but I guess this
is not the case so far.

So, I had to fresh-install F17 first, fedup (upgrade)
to F18, then fedup to F19.

This new anaconda, at least to me, is awful but then
that is just my opinion, which doesn't mean much. ;)

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Re: Update Dependancies broken for the past few days.

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/22/2013 12:18 PM, poma wrote:

On 22.09.2013 20:53, Scott Beamer wrote:

Greetings all,

I'm running KDE  on Fedora 19 X64

For the past 2-3 days I've had problems updating a number of packages
because of failed dependencies.

For a while I figured it was a problem that would resolve itself once
the mirrors were updated, but so far, the problem persists.

II've done 'yum clean all' numerous times to no avail.

Is this a problem on my end or Fedora's end?

Here is the the output of 'yum update':


$ sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kcm_colors.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kcm_colors.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kde-workspace.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kde-workspace.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.1()(64bit) for package:
kde-workspace-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxcb-image.so.0()(64bit) for package:
kde-workspace-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64
---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit) for package:
contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit) for
package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kdm.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kdm.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
---> Package kgreeter-plugins.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package kgreeter-plugins.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
---> Package konsole.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
---> Package konsole.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
---> Package konsole-part.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
---> Package konsole-part.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
---> Package libkworkspace.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package libkworkspace.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
---> Package mesa-libwayland-egl.x86_64 0:9.2-1.20130902.fc19 will be updated
---> Package mesa-libwayland-egl.x86_64 0:9.2-1.20130919.fc19 will be an update
---> Package plasma-scriptengine-python.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
---> Package plasma-scriptengine-python.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit) for package:
contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit) for
package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
---> Package xcb-util-image.x86_64 0:0.3.9-2.fc19 will be installed
---> Package xcb-util-keysyms.x86_64 0:0.3.9-2.fc19 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64 (@fedora)
Requires: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
Removing: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.5-3.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
Updated By: kde-workspace-libs-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64 (updates)
Not found
Available: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.4-1.fc19.x86_64 (fedora)
libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
Error: Package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64 (@fedora)
Requires: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
Removing: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.5-3.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
Updated By: kde-workspace-libs-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64 (updates)
Not found
Available: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.4-1.fc19.x86_64 (fedora)
libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest


Thanks.

Scott


I've done this,

# yum install dnf
# dnf upgrade --exclude=kernel\*

dnf *upgrade* or dnf update?

poma


Beam me up, Scotty. :)




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Re: Update Dependancies broken for the past few days.

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/22/2013 03:55 PM, poma wrote:

On 22.09.2013 23:57, Dan Thurman wrote:


dnf *upgrade* or dnf update?

man 8 dnf ;)


poma


ok, so update is a depreciated alias, so upgrade it is!
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Re: Update Dependancies broken for the past few days.

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/22/2013 03:59 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 09/22/2013 03:55 PM, poma wrote:

On 22.09.2013 23:57, Dan Thurman wrote:


dnf *upgrade* or dnf update?

man 8 dnf ;)


poma


ok, so update is a depreciated alias, so upgrade it is!


Hmm...  I tried dnf with a list of non-existing and existing
packages and dnf reported some errors and quit, so I tried
yum and yum reported and skipped the non-existing files,
and found 9 packages to be installed.  It seems that dnf is
not ready to replace yum (yet), or so it seems.
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F18: Problem with Abort

[Dan Thurman]

I did a ps command and found the following:

root   622 1  0 10:52 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log 
-F BUG: WARNING: at INFO: possible recursive locking detected ernel BUG 
at list_del corruption list_add corruption do_IRQ: stack overflow: ear 
stack overflow (cur: eneral protection fault nable to handle kernel 
ouble fault: RTNL: assertion failed eek! page_mapcount(page) went 
negative! adness at NETDEV WATCHDOG ysctl table check failed : nobody 
cared IRQ handler type mismatch Machine Check Exception divide error: 
bounds: coprocessor segment overrun: invalid TSS: segment not present: 
invalid opcode: alignment check: stack segment: fpu exception: simd 
exception: iret exception: /var/log/messages -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-oops -xD


So what do I need to do?
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F18: Mate menu categorizer available?

[Dan Thurman]

Since I am using the MATE desktop, I have yet to find
the package that recategorized the desktop menus such
as Electronics, Games, and so on.

Can someone point me in the right direction, please?

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Re: F18: Mate menu categorizer available?

[Dan Thurman]

On 10/06/2013 01:07 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:

Dan Thurman wrote:


Since I am using the MATE desktop, I have yet to find
the package that recategorized the desktop menus such
as Electronics, Games, and so on.

pkg names include:

electronics-menu
games-menus

among others ('yum search menu' shows lots of candidates)

-- rex




Thanks for helping!

I tried those packages, removed and reinstalled and these
packages do not seem to work which led me to believe they
were not the packages I was looking for...  specifically, Games
as it is has only one sub-category - it is flat with a very long
list, but the menu package I am looking for has 2nd level
sub-categories with names such as Action, Logic... and likewise
with Electronics.  I compared F18 against F13 installs and I am
led to think that there might be a newer version of games menu
that came later and from what I remember it was not that easy
to find even with a search for "menu", and perhaps the newer
versions were not carried over into Gnome 3 as well as MATE or
MATE dropped this package I am looking for?

I wonder who I need to contact to resolve this question,
Fedora, Gnome, or MATE?

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F18: Bind-chroot & Dovecot mount errors, how to fix?

[Dan Thurman]

I at one time installed bind with chroot but decided
to remove the bind-chroot package but it did not
clean up and remove chroot mounts so I manually
removed the chroot mounts, reconfgured bind,
restarted named, with no apparent errors.

But now, dovecot complains in maillog, the following errors:

dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key is no 
longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones is 
no longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key is no 
longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/var/named is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints


I tried some of the examples pointed out in wiki2 but
I am unable to remove the warnings...

What do I need to do?



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Re: F18: Bind-chroot & Dovecot mount errors, how to fix? [SOLVED]

[Dan Thurman]

On 10/22/2013 11:00 AM, Dan Thurman wrote:


I at one time installed bind with chroot but decided
to remove the bind-chroot package but it did not
clean up and remove chroot mounts so I manually
removed the chroot mounts, reconfgured bind,
restarted named, with no apparent errors.

But now, dovecot complains in maillog, the following errors:

dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key is no 
longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf is no 
longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones is 
no longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key is no 
longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/var/named is no longer 
mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints


I tried some of the examples pointed out in wiki2 but
I am unable to remove the warnings...

What do I need to do?


I think I solved it...  was wiki2 says:

As root:
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key
# doveadm mount remove /var/named/chroot/var/named


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Re: F18: Bind-chroot & Dovecot mount errors, how to fix?

[Dan Thurman]

On 10/22/2013 11:00 PM, Tim wrote:

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:00 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:

dovecot complains in maillog, the following errors:
  
dovecot: master: Warning: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key is no

longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints

I notice you've resolved this, but I find the information Dovecot
provides on that link, "Dovecot wants to keep track of mountpoints that
might contain emails," to be quite disturbing.  I don't think a mail
program should be behaving like that, at all.  Imagine the mess we'd be
in all sorts of programs started ploughing through the directory tree,
without being told to, just because they thought it was a good idea.

Since Fedora likes to put removeable media into /var/run/username/media
you might encounter that problem again, unless you put /var/run into its
ignore database.


(and sub-thread replies to Tim)

After dovecot restarts and a reboot, (lazarus's) bind-chroot
mountpoints warnings has not risen from the grave. ;)

Do you think the dovecot programmers read "Fedora Community"
mailing list?  I don't think so, but I could be wrong...

Why not ask dovecot.org?

I read their site and it appears that dovecot supports clustered
filesytems, *dsync, and a myriad of different things. Then I found
this:

* http://blog.dovecot.org/2012/02/dovecot-clustering-with-dsync-based.html
(Could replication/clustering/dsync have something to do with
  detecting disk changes?)

Since I mentioned that I installed bind-chroot, installed dovecot,
then uninstalled bind-chroot, perhaps triggering dovecot to notice
a disk change (dsync) and thus generated bind-chroot mountpoint
warnings, repeatedly?  I do recall that when I installed bind-root,
dovecot did not complain and I had this running for a week or so.
The dovecot warning came after I removed bind-root.

Just something to consider...

Dan


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Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/07/2013 12:35 AM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:

I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new 
model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed 
to act as a cache.

I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks are 
visible to the installer. They can be found in dmesg, so Linux is detecting 
them, but they do not show in the installer window for hard disk selection. I 
tried both the live and the non-live installation media.

Any suggestions? I'm desperate :(.

Ciao,
seba

Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your
root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup
to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me.
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F18: Adobe Acrobat Reader fails hyperlinks?

[Dan Thurman]

It appears that on Fedora 18, Adobe Acrobat Reader
hyperlinks (control-left-click on link) fails to execute
properly and bring up the the web page.

I tried the same PDF file on F13 and it works.

Is it a bug or is there something I need to do
to make this work?

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Re: Writing English.

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/22/2013 12:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

Psigh!  What hope for humanity? :-)


Well... what is `Psigh' in English please? :P

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Re: F18: Adobe Acrobat Reader fails hyperlinks? [SOLVED]

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/23/2013 12:41 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:


It appears that on Fedora 18, Adobe Acrobat Reader
hyperlinks (control-left-click on link) fails to execute
properly and bring up the the web page.

I tried the same PDF file on F13 and it works.

Is it a bug or is there something I need to do
to make this work?


I changed the Firefox preference->Application: "Portable
Document Format (PDF)" from "Preview in Firefox" to
"Use Adobe Reader 9.5 (in Firefox)" and now PDF hyperlinks
works!
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Re: F18: Adobe Acrobat Reader fails hyperlinks? [SOLVED]

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/26/2013 07:13 PM, David wrote:

On 11/26/2013 9:36 PM, Doug wrote:

On 11/26/2013 07:59 PM, David wrote:

On 11/26/2013 6:57 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 11/23/2013 12:41 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

It appears that on Fedora 18, Adobe Acrobat Reader
hyperlinks (control-left-click on link) fails to execute
properly and bring up the the web page.

I tried the same PDF file on F13 and it works.

Is it a bug or is there something I need to do
to make this work?


I changed the Firefox preference->Application: "Portable
Document Format (PDF)" from "Preview in Firefox" to
"Use Adobe Reader 9.5 (in Firefox)" and now PDF hyperlinks
works!


Congratulations! You went from a reasonably safe Firefox feature to a
known buggy and security unsecured Adobe Reader.

Google search for "Adobe Reader Security Breach".


Probably the reason that Adobe won't make anything more for Linux is
that so many people like this bitch about it all the time.

--doug



Foxit Reader is better, IMO, and supported.


Why is the latest foxit release FC-9?

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F18: TigerVnc incomplete?

[Dan Thurman]

What's up with TigerVnc? It seems to be missing
the Ctrl-Alt-Del icon and other icons for Windoes?

If there is another VncClient that has it, what would
it be?


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F18: XDMCP kinda works....

[Dan Thurman]

but fails to show password-box after clicking the User name
thus impossible to log on.


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Re: F18: TigerVnc incomplete?

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/30/2013 12:50 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

What's up with TigerVnc? It seems to be missing
the Ctrl-Alt-Del icon and other icons for Windoes?

If there is another VncClient that has it, what would
it be?


Ahh... memory lapse!  I forgot about 'F8' key!
Sorry for the noise!


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Re: F18: XDMCP kinda works....

[Dan Thurman]

On 11/30/2013 12:52 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

but fails to show password-box after clicking the User name
thus impossible to log on.


Syslog data pertinent to XDMCP:

Dec  4 16:56:44 gold xinetd[1186]: START: vnc-1024x768x24 pid=4672 
from=:::10.1.0.5


Dec  4 16:56:45 gold dbus-daemon[781]: dbus[781]: [system] Rejected send 
message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0 
pid=798 comm="/usr/sbin/
gdm-binary ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" 
member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" 
destination=":1.1125" (uid=0 pid=4688 comm="/usr/

libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gn")

Dec  4 16:56:45 gold dbus[781]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=798 
comm="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary ") inte
rface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.1125" (uid=0 pid=4688 
comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple

-slave --display-id /org/gn")

Dec  4 16:56:46 gold gdm-launch-environment][4698]: 
pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session opened for user gdm by 
(uid=0)


Dec  4 16:56:46 gold systemd-logind[710]: New session 342 of user gdm.

Dec  4 16:57:06 gold polkitd[1010]: Registered Authentication Agent for 
unix-session:342 (system bus name :1.1133 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm], 
object path /org/freedes

ktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)

Dec  4 16:57:06 gold dbus-daemon[781]: dbus[781]: [system] Rejected send 
message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.1133" (uid=42 
pid=4756 comm="gnome
-shell --mode=gdm ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" 
member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" 
destination=":1.20" (uid=0 pid=1480 comm="

/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")

Dec  4 16:57:06 gold dbus[781]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.1133" (uid=42 pid=4756 
comm="gnome-shell --mode=gdm
") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.20" (uid=0 pid=1480 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-

kit-daemon --no-daemon ")

Dec  4 16:57:27 gold gdm[798]: gdm-binary[798]: GLib-WARNING: GError set 
over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.


Dec  4 16:57:27 gold gdm[798]: This indicates a bug in someone's code. 
You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.


Dec  4 16:57:27 gold gdm[798]: The overwriting error message was: Error 
getting session ids from systemd: No such file or directory


Dec  4 16:57:27 gold gdm-binary[798]: GLib-WARNING: GError set over the 
top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.


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Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/08/2013 08:53 AM, Greg Woods wrote:

On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 23:50 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:


I almost never want a directory displayed as per "view items as a grid
of icons".  Is there a way that I can make my choice of view ("view
items as a list") the default?  I waste so much time and motion
selecting this.

And while we're at it: I have yet to find a way to disable the sidebar
by default. I don't see anything in the Preferences for that (did I miss
it?) I always have to hit F9 explicitly to turn it off.

--Greg



My Computer->Edit->Preferences? (F18 & MATE)
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Re: f20 - gedit

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/18/2013 01:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:42:35 +0100
bitlord wrote:


(just as example), but probably should have some fallback solution on
NONgnome-shell desktops

I'm pretty sure it does. When I run GTK apps under FVWM, they actually
get buttons in the app itself where they belong.*Yet another reason
to run as far away from Gnome as possible.*

1+
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Re: What to try instead of gnome - Re: f20 - gedit

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/18/2013 02:20 PM, Dennis Kaptain wrote:

Mate is a fork of Gnome2. I use it and like it a lot.


2013/12/18 Robert Moskowitz <mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>>



On 12/18/2013 04:21 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 12/18/2013 01:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:42:35 +0100
bitlord wrote:


(just as example), but probably should have some fallback solution on
NONgnome-shell desktops

I'm pretty sure it does. When I run GTK apps under FVWM, they actually
get buttons in the app itself where they belong.*Yet another reason
to run as far away from Gnome as possible.*

1+


I am getting so close to pulling the plug on gnome.  Just getting
too hard to use with a mouse and keyboard.

would like to get back to something close to gnome 2. Like I still
have on my Centos boxes.


I have MATE running on F18 - and it has a ways to go with
~/.gnome2 as opposed to ~/.gnome(3) user settings. MATE
fails to save workspace settings, fails menu "reorganizations",
uses caja/nautilus inconsistently, semi-fails XDMCP (Cannot
log in remotely-unable to enter password), 'motion' does
not work well on httpd+web browser and so on. There is more
HD bloat (gnome2+gnome3) and it is a performance hog so
a speedy MOBO/CPU/RAM is needed. The look and feel is pretty
good, but it can get ugly sometimes.

I hope MATE & applications catches up to what it was before gnome-3.

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Re: f20 - gedit

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/19/2013 05:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/19/2013 07:45 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:

On 12/19/2013 09:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/19/2013 07:16 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:

On 12/19/2013 07:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/19/2013 08:35 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


Confirm
used dconf-editor instead to set the overrides and now those 
entries

appear within gedit.
What did you change?  I just went through all of dconf-editor 
listed

items and did not recognize anything to change that would turn on
settings/preferences in gedit let alone directly turn off word 
wrap.
When you open gedit in Fed20 + Gnome-3.10 a gedit icon appears in 
the

top bar. If you click on this and choose 'preferences' you will see
under 'Text Wrapping' the entries: 'enable text wrapping' and 'do 
not

split words over two lines'. Is this what you are looking for.

I assume you are using standard Gnome-3.10 and not "classic mode".
I know nothing about "classic mode" (don't use it).

Is this icon not visible in your install?


Fresh install.  Have not applied the updates yet.


Please, do it right now.


I see that gedit icon
on the top bar once gedit is running.  It has a down arrow right 
next to
it.  I assume that lets me switch between copies of gedit if more 
than

one is open.


Why don't you try instead of assume? The down arrow is not for
switching between different copies of the same application, but for a
drop down menu. You should click on it to see its behavior by
yourself, it is cheap!!


I DID try clicking on the arrow and nothing happened.  Since I only had
one gedit opened, I tried to figure it out.  Now that you say this is
what it does, I realized where I MAY be having troubles.  I am in
terminal, sued, and running gedit to edit the yum.conf.d files! So I
opened terminal regular and ran gedit & and sure enough it works and I
can set preferences no problem for ME and turn off word wrap.

But I cannot do it for root's use of gedit to edit config files.  :(


You are right about this, because I opened /etc/yum.conf with gedit 
using sudo and I'm not able to open the drop down menu. Maybe this 
behavior is intentional, but I'm not sure.


So, I should give it a try and just put up with the wrapping. Afterall 
vi wraps, but actually does it smarter.


I can see why, as the top bar is running as ME and should NOT let ME 
set preferences for gedit as root.  But that begs the question on HOW 
to change the preferences for root.

Um, I may have missed the threads, but gedit works fine on F18/MATE.

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Re: f20 - acrobat reader where are thou?

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/27/2013 10:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:12 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 12:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:46:17 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:


I downloaded and installed: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

I don't know where you found that,


adobe.com download flash-plugin via yum path.


  but adobe doesn't seem
interested in supporting yum any longer. The best you can do
these days is go to the adobe.com site and follow the download
links for acrobat and you can get a rpm from the adobe site.


They do seem to support it for flash-plugin.  Maybe becuase they have 
to do security updates so frequently.


Meanwhile for acrobat I got:  AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin

but step 3 of 3 is coming up blank.  What do I do with this .bin file.


I don't believe this!  I turned AdBlock off for this page, and it is 
nothing but an AD  No instructions on what to do with a .bin 
file.  I ASSuME that I move it to /bin or /sbin or some such?  Where 
is it safe to put?




I think the steps are:

1) Download adobe YUM repo package
(which you did: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm)

Install YUM repo package:
  # yum localinstall ./adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This creates the YUM repo file for Adobe in:
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
   (Make sure repo is "enabled=1", use vi)

If the repo file is not there, then it is not installed.

2) List the adobe files available for installation:
   # yum list | grep adobe
   AdobeReader_XXX.YYY (select your language. (English, XXX=enu, 
YYY=i486))

   [...]

3) Yum install AdobeReader_XXX.YYY

4) Good luck finding the Adobe Reader menu icon, but command-line 
executable is:

 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread

Hope this helps!

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Re: f20 - acrobat reader where are thou?

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/27/2013 10:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:12:14 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:


but step 3 of 3 is coming up blank. What do I do with this .bin file?

I didn't download the .bin file. They had an rpm choice
available when I downloaded it.


can't find it.  I get to http://get.adobe.com/reader/ and the download 
button just does the .bin file.



With an rpm you can just say

yum install AdbeRdrwhatever.rpm

and it will automatically pick up all the 32 bit libs that
are dependencies.


Why I want the .rpm



http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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Re: f20 - acrobat reader where are thou?

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/27/2013 10:57 AM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 12/27/2013 10:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:12:14 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:


but step 3 of 3 is coming up blank. What do I do with this .bin file?

I didn't download the .bin file. They had an rpm choice
available when I downloaded it.


can't find it.  I get to http://get.adobe.com/reader/ and the 
download button just does the .bin file.



With an rpm you can just say

yum install AdbeRdrwhatever.rpm

and it will automatically pick up all the 32 bit libs that
are dependencies.


Why I want the .rpm



http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Oops!  I got the wrong one...  sorry!
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Step1: Linux
Step2: English (or your preferred language)
Step3: RPM (Redhat/Fedora)

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Re: f20 - acrobat reader where are thou?

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/27/2013 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:56 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 12/27/2013 10:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:12 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 12:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:46:17 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:


I downloaded and installed: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

I don't know where you found that,


adobe.com download flash-plugin via yum path.


  but adobe doesn't seem
interested in supporting yum any longer. The best you can do
these days is go to the adobe.com site and follow the download
links for acrobat and you can get a rpm from the adobe site.


They do seem to support it for flash-plugin.  Maybe becuase they 
have to do security updates so frequently.


Meanwhile for acrobat I got: AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin

but step 3 of 3 is coming up blank.  What do I do with this .bin file.


I don't believe this!  I turned AdBlock off for this page, and it is 
nothing but an AD  No instructions on what to do with a .bin 
file.  I ASSuME that I move it to /bin or /sbin or some such?  Where 
is it safe to put?




I think the steps are:

1) Download adobe YUM repo package
(which you did: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm)

Install YUM repo package:
  # yum localinstall ./adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This creates the YUM repo file for Adobe in:
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
   (Make sure repo is "enabled=1", use vi)

If the repo file is not there, then it is not installed.


# cat adobe-linux-i386.repo
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux




2) List the adobe files available for installation:
   # yum list | grep adobe
   AdobeReader_XXX.YYY (select your language. (English, XXX=enu, 
YYY=i486))

   [...]


# yum list | grep adobe
adobe-release-i386.noarch 1.0-1 @/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
flash-plugin.i386 11.2.202.332-release  @adobe-linux-i386
adobe-source-code-pro-fonts.noarch 1.017-3.fc20 updates
adobe-source-libraries.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20fedora
adobe-source-libraries-devel.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20 fedora
adobe-source-libraries-doc.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20 fedora
adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts.noarch 1.050-2.fc20 fedora
texlive-adobemapping.noarch 3:svn28079.0-3.fc20   fedora

No AdobeReader listed  :(


3) Yum install AdobeReader_XXX.YYY

4) Good luck finding the Adobe Reader menu icon, but command-line 
executable is:

 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread

Hope this helps!




Ok, I see what is going on...  the adobe repo package does
not list the reader from adobe's site, so you have to separately
download the reader from:
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Then install:
# yum localinstall 

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Re: f20 - acrobat reader where are thou?

[Dan Thurman]

On 12/27/2013 11:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 02:22 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 12/27/2013 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:56 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:

On 12/27/2013 10:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 01:12 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:


On 12/27/2013 12:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:46:17 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:


I downloaded and installed: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

I don't know where you found that,


adobe.com download flash-plugin via yum path.


  but adobe doesn't seem
interested in supporting yum any longer. The best you can do
these days is go to the adobe.com site and follow the download
links for acrobat and you can get a rpm from the adobe site.


They do seem to support it for flash-plugin.  Maybe becuase they 
have to do security updates so frequently.


Meanwhile for acrobat I got: AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin

but step 3 of 3 is coming up blank.  What do I do with this .bin 
file.


I don't believe this!  I turned AdBlock off for this page, and it 
is nothing but an AD  No instructions on what to do with a 
.bin file.  I ASSuME that I move it to /bin or /sbin or some 
such?  Where is it safe to put?




I think the steps are:

1) Download adobe YUM repo package
(which you did: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm)

Install YUM repo package:
  # yum localinstall ./adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This creates the YUM repo file for Adobe in:
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
   (Make sure repo is "enabled=1", use vi)

If the repo file is not there, then it is not installed.


# cat adobe-linux-i386.repo
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux




2) List the adobe files available for installation:
   # yum list | grep adobe
   AdobeReader_XXX.YYY (select your language. (English, 
XXX=enu, YYY=i486))

   [...]


# yum list | grep adobe
adobe-release-i386.noarch 1.0-1 @/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
flash-plugin.i386 11.2.202.332-release @adobe-linux-i386
adobe-source-code-pro-fonts.noarch 1.017-3.fc20 updates
adobe-source-libraries.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20 fedora
adobe-source-libraries-devel.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20 fedora
adobe-source-libraries-doc.i686 1.0.43-19.fc20 fedora
adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts.noarch 1.050-2.fc20 fedora
texlive-adobemapping.noarch 3:svn28079.0-3.fc20 fedora

No AdobeReader listed  :(


3) Yum install AdobeReader_XXX.YYY

4) Good luck finding the Adobe Reader menu icon, but command-line 
executable is:

 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread

Hope this helps!




Ok, I see what is going on...  the adobe repo package does
not list the reader from adobe's site, so you have to separately
download the reader from:
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Then install:
# yum localinstall 


And checking in regularly to see if there is an update. Fortunately my 
day job gives me heads up if there are any security patches coming out.



So... you are good to go? ;)

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Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

[Dan Thurman]

On 06/21/2014 03:49 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:

Il giorno ven, 20/06/2014 alle 13.52 +0200, poma ha scritto:

For those who do not wait:
https://jitsi.org/


I have install Jitsi on my Fedora 20 + Gnome 3 from repo, but when I run
it, if I click to [x] it's disappeared, and happened into windows list
(or in overview mode) a task with name [JavaEmbeddedFrame], but if I
click on it nothing happens.

To resolve I must to "pkill -9 java" and re run jitsi.

How to recall jitsi when is reduced to icon on tray?

Thanks


Clicking on [x] does not terminate the program
but simply "hides" the GUI, by design.

To show the GUI window, look for the Jitsi icon in
the system tray, right click, and select 'Show'.

To terminate the program,  look for the Jitsi icon
in the system tray, right click, and select 'Quit'.

The behaviour is similar to Pidgin.
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Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

[Dan Thurman]

On 06/23/2014 12:59 AM, Dario Lesca wrote:

Il giorno sab, 21/06/2014 alle 17.44 -0700, Dan Thurman ha scritto:

Clicking on [x] does not terminate the program
but simply "hides" the GUI, by design.

I known


To show the GUI window, look for the Jitsi icon in
the system tray, right click, and select 'Show'.

Not work.
None happened
  

To terminate the program,  look for the Jitsi icon
in the system tray, right click, and select 'Quit'.

Not work.
None happened


The behaviour is similar to Pidgin.

I use Pidgin, an it work.

Thanks

Tested Jitsi on F18 & F19 and it works.
Did not test Jitsi on F20+
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Re: Heads up: possible BASH security vulnerability

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/24/2014 03:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it/
>
> From the article:
>
> The vulnerability affects versions 1.14 through 4.3 of GNU Bash. [...]
> To check your system, from a command line, type:
>
> env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
>
> If the system is vulnerable, the output will be:
>
> vulnerable
>  this is a test
> 
> An unaffected (or patched) system will output:
>
> $ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
>  bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
>  bash: error importing function definition for `x'
>  this is a test
>
> I tried it and got the positive (vulnerable) result.
>
> Can we assume a patched version of Bash will be released shortly?
> 
> poc
>

Where can I get the official patches for:

CVE-2014-6271
CVE-2014-7169

and once I get these patches, how can I add the details into the bash
spec file?

Once I get the information, I should be ready to go.

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Re: Shellshock: how does it actually work?

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/25/2014 08:50 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> http://fedoramagazine.org/shellshock-how-does-it-actually-work/
>
> My attempt to explain this in some satisfying detail, but also in an
> understandable way. Let me know how that went. :)
>
===
Snippet chats from Fedoramagazine.org:

pbrown 
Posted September 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM

I have FC16 and I don’t want to upgrade the entire system just to fix
this. Any pointers?

Matthew Miller 
Posted September 25, 2014 at 9:47 PM

Download our F19 update SRPM and see if it’ll rebuild cleanly for you.

==

Can you give some details how you would do this?
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Re: George Orwell got it right

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/25/2014 09:46 PM, Roger wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/australias-spy-agency-to-get-power-to-tap-unlimited-devices-734031/?s_cid=e551&ttag=e551&ftag=TRE7ed2633
>
>
> So it starts!
> Roger
Welcome to a brave new world!
Charrrge! *SPLAT*!
Oh, off topic! *SPLAT*!
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Re: Shellshock: how does it actually work?

[Dan Thurman]

On 09/26/2014 11:52 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 09/26/2014 12:13 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
>> Matthew Miller <https://mattdm.id.fedoraproject.org/>
>> Posted September 25, 2014 at 9:47 PM
>>
>> Download our F19 update SRPM and see if it’ll rebuild cleanly for you.
>>
>> ==
>>
>> Can you give some details how you would do this?
>>
>
> # yum install mock
> $ wget
> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/bash/4.2.48/2.fc19/src/bash-4.2.48-2.fc19.src.rpm
> $ mock -v -r fedora-16-$ARCH --rebuild bash-4.2.48-2.fc19.src.rpm
>
> Wait a few minutes while it compiles. The final binary RPMs will be
> placed in /var/lib/mock/fedora-16-$ARCH/result/.

Please bear with me as mock is new to me!

I had to set the $ARCH variable to i386 and
change 16 to 18, and I successfully completed
the tasks.

/var/lib/mock/fedora-18-i386/ contains 2 directories:

result
root

The results directory contained:

available_pkgs
build.log
bash-4.2.48-2.fc18.i686.rpm
bash-4.2.48-2.fc18.src.rpm
bash-debuginfo-4.2.48-2.fc18.i686.rpm
bash-doc-4.2.48-2.fc18.i686.rpm
installed_pkgs
root.log
state.log

The root directory appears to be a clone of root,
a chroot perhaps?

Steps/Questions:

1) I saved copies of the new bash RPM files for
safekeeping as well as the originals.  I did this
in case of failure after installation and/or reboot.

2) If installation works, what test can I use to ensure
the bugs are fixed. Can I begin testing right after
installation or do I need to reboot?

3) If a reboot fails, what steps can I take to recover
in case bash is not working?  Is it possible to use
yum in absence of bash?

4) If testing and bash passes, how can I safely remove
/var/lib/mock/fedora-18-i386 directory?

Thanks for the help!


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Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.

[Dan Thurman]

I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda
as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space.

I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which
allowed me to specify the /boot and / software
destination having two partitions wiped out by
newly reformatting them while installing.

In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or
Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition
scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to
manually modify and/or define the software
destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd
button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software
metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for
over 30 minutes of waiting.

I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because
this might mess up the partition table and screw
the entire disk.

I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set
the locale, but not allowed to change the date,
time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out,
even though I was able to do this on the time/date
menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda.

So, what can I do at this point?

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How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

[Dan Thurman]

Since I was unable to install F18, I would like
to revert back to F17 that I have restored from
backups, the following partitions:

/ (root)   /dev/sda10
/boot  /dev/sda9

What I have left to do is to restore the MBR
on /dev/sda9 /boot partition.

I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda
drive which is the master MBR for multiboot
OS, which is working fine.

What steps can I use to accomplish this?

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Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/08/2013 11:02 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>>
>> Since I was unable to install F18, I would like
>> to revert back to F17 that I have restored from
>> backups, the following partitions:
>>
>> / (root)   /dev/sda10
>> /boot  /dev/sda9
>>
> Did you make a physical backup of the partitions with dd or just back
> up the files on them? Yes it makes a difference in recovery...
I use rsync to save a backup of both partitions on another drive (both /
and /boot),
then I reformatted the sda9/10 in prep for F18.  Having failed to
install F18, I then
rsync from sdb9/10 back into sda9/10.  I just forgot how to use Grub2
exactly in order
to restore MBR on sda9.  I have done MBR installs many times before but
it has been
awhile for grub2!
>
>> What I have left to do is to restore the MBR
>> on /dev/sda9 /boot partition.
>>
> MBR isn't on a partition, that may be your issue.
That is exactly the issue.  I need the proper setup to mount,
chroot & grub2-install in order to install MBR onto sda9 to make
the partition(s) "seen" by grub.
>
>> I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda
>> drive which is the master MBR for multiboot
>> OS, which is working fine.
>>
> MBR means "Master Boot Record," so "master MBR" seems like something
> from the department of redundancy department. And if it's working fine
> I really don't understand your problem.
Right.  You can install MBR onto a partition as well as the whole drive.
>
>> What steps can I use to accomplish this?
>>
> Could you clarify "this" a bit, in terms of what you hope to
> accomplish, rather than how you are trying to do it? I'll try to help,
> and there are at least two people on this list who are better at boot
> issues than I am, so you can probably get a solution once we have an
> idea what you are trying to do.
>
As I barely recall, for OSes using grub2, for F17, I have to boot
LiveCD or DVD, mount the F17 (root & boot) partitions, chroot to
the mount point, and then run grub2-install with the correct
arguments. These are the details I am looking for.

For example, If one is using grub1 based partitions, it is a simple task:

# To find your GrubX boot partitions:
grub1

grub1> find /grub/stage1 ### to locate grub-1 boot partitions
  (hd0,4)### This partition is the "MBR" for the drive, sda (this is
my master grub list)
  (hd0,6)### This partition is the "MBR" for F13 (shows grub kernels)

grub1> find /grub/grub.cfg  ### to locate grub2 partitions
  [hd0,8]### This partition is the "MBR" for F17 (is missing cuz it
is not yet setup)
  (hd0,10)  ### This partition  is the "MBR" for Ubuntu-10

# To setup Grub-1 "MBR":
grub1> root (hd0)### sda (whole drive)
grub1> setup (hd0,4)
grub1> root (hd0,4)  ### sda5 partition
grub1> setup (hd0,4)
grub1> root (hd0,6)  ### sda7 partition
grub1> setup (hd0,6)

grub1> quit

But one cannot use grub1 to install grub2 based partitions
as explained above.

I hope this is clear (as mud?) ;)

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Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/08/2013 09:06 AM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Since I was unable to install F18, I would like
> to revert back to F17 that I have restored from
> backups, the following partitions:
>
> / (root)   /dev/sda10
> /boot  /dev/sda9
>
> What I have left to do is to restore the MBR
> on /dev/sda9 /boot partition.
>
> I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda
> drive which is the master MBR for multiboot
> OS, which is working fine.
>
> What steps can I use to accomplish this?
>
Are these the instructions I am looking for?

   1. Boot the system from an installation boot medium. (live CD/DVD/USB)
   2. Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to enter the
rescue environment.
   3. mkdir /mnt/sysimage
   4. mount /dev/sda10 /mnt/sysimage
   5. mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/sysimage/boot
   6. mount --bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
   7. mount --bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc
   8. mount --bind /sys /mnt/sysimage/sys
   9. chroot /mnt/sysimage  # root partition.
  10. grub2-install /dev/sda9   # boot partition.
  11. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
  12. Review the /etc/grub.d/10_linux
  13. Reboot the system.

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Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

[Dan Thurman]

On 04/08/2013 02:47 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 09:06 AM, Dan Thurman wrote:
>> Since I was unable to install F18, I would like
>> to revert back to F17 that I have restored from
>> backups, the following partitions:
>>
>> / (root)   /dev/sda10
>> /boot  /dev/sda9
>>
>> What I have left to do is to restore the MBR
>> on /dev/sda9 /boot partition.
>>
>> I have a separate MBR installed on /dev/sda
>> drive which is the master MBR for multiboot
>> OS, which is working fine.
>>
>> What steps can I use to accomplish this?
>>
> Are these the instructions I am looking for?
>
>1. Boot the system from an installation boot medium. (live CD/DVD/USB)
>2. Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to
>   enter the rescue environment.
>3. mkdir /mnt/sysimage
>4. mount /dev/sda10 /mnt/sysimage
>5. mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/sysimage/boot
>6. mount --bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
>7. mount --bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc
>8. mount --bind /sys /mnt/sysimage/sys
>9. chroot /mnt/sysimage  # root partition.
>   10. grub2-install /dev/sda9   # boot partition.
>   11. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>   12. Review the /etc/grub.d/10_linux
>   13. Reboot the system.
Addendum:
1. Step 10: Add --force argument
2. Step 11: Will update grub.cfg, so save the original for comparison,
if desired.

Since I used rsync to restore from backups, touch .autorelabel in /
and then reboot. Ignore the complaints due to SELinux permissions
SELinux will reset the permissions and will reboot.

Fedora 17 boots successfully for me.
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Re: anyone managed to install F18 or f19 beta under Virtualbox???

[Dan Thurman]

On 06/18/2013 04:15 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Fernando Cassia  > wrote:
>
>
> It seems I have hit the same scenario as this user
> http://oxyphosphate3.rssing.com/chan-3353872/all_p101.html
>
>
> Sorry, pasted the wrong URL
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1637597#post1637597
>
> FC
> -- 
> During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a
> revolutionary act
> Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un
> Acto Revolucionario
> - George Orwell

I gave up trying to install F18/9.  The installer is unable
to find and use an existing partition and thinks that
there is no storage space available.

I have yet to get a thumb drive to get around the
installer issue, and I am not sure it will work, considering
I maxed out all of the SATA ports.

Someone posted a step-by-step minimal install by using
a virtual partition and then transfer the contents to your
desired drive partition.

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