Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

I started giving my wife, who knows zilch about computers, a series of Linux-runnning laptops almost ten years ago. She does whatever the hell she wants with it. Flash, browse whatever sites she wants (that reminds me, what I said re Firefox, above, applies equally well to Flash running insid

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

Am 22.03.2013 02:23, schrieb poma: > On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: > ... >> btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. > > Actually, dracut --hostonly generated initramfs broke the hibernate. > dracut 1 - 0 systemd :) > Hi Ho Silver! > > poma > > Does it work, if yo

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 07:31 -0700, William Mattison wrote: > I have a single desktop connected only to the internet. It's > dual-boot: Fedora 18 and windows 7 home. In Fedora, it has more than > one user id. > > I skimmed/read through the Fedora 18 security guide, and much of the > Fedora 18 inst

Upgrading Fedora 16 to 17 or 18 Problems.

I've got a lab of about 8 year old AMD FX-55 64 bit machines with 2G of Ram and Nvidia 5200 cards. I've had previous versions of Fedora up to the current Fedora 16. The other day, was going to do a test of upgrading machine and doing a clean install to see the differences. Ran into some problem

Re: Apache configuration (httpd.conf) on localhost question

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 17:39 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > The link that should work goes something like this: > http://localhost/cgi-bin/CGIScript?Variable=/path/to/RelevantFile > > However, the /path/to/RelevantFile fails to be seen. > > The link that works needs to have the complete path specifi

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

Roger writes: « HTML content follows » On 03/22/2013 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.03.2013 00:56, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: Even let's hypothetically say there's an exploit in Firefox that can be us ed to inject executable code, through a malicious web page, once running the code wi

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

Reindl Harald writes: Am 22.03.2013 00:56, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Even let's hypothetically say there's an exploit in Firefox that can be used to inject executable code, through a > malicious web page, once running the code will have no way to overwrite Firefox's binary executable, and i

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

On 03/22/2013 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.03.2013 00:56, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: Even let's hypothetically say there's an exploit in Firefox that can be used to inject executable code, through a malicious web page, once running the code will have no way to overwrite Firefox's binary

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

Thanks very much! You really made my day -- I have been trying all sorts of things to do this over the past two years or so hibernate does not work for me -- does not really wake up to anything meaningfull on a Dell Latitude E540 (? ) for any of the 3.8 kernels: does work for me all right on m

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

On 22.03.2013 01:32, poma wrote: ... > btw on 3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 the hibernate is broken on some mobos. Actually, dracut --hostonly generated initramfs broke the hibernate. dracut 1 - 0 systemd :) Hi Ho Silver! poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

Am 22.03.2013 00:56, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > Even let's hypothetically say there's an exploit in Firefox that can be used > to inject executable code, through a > malicious web page, once running the code will have no way to overwrite > Firefox's binary executable, and implant > itself in Fire

Re: hibernate with keystroke?

On 21.03.2013 03:22, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to get to hibernate using a single keystroke. So, > here is what i tried: > > put pm-hibernate in my sudo. Checked this by using: > > sudo pm-hibernate > > This works without a hitch. > > Then I keyed in ctrl-f12 to be equi

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

William Mattison writes: malware. What does Linux have corresponding to that? I'm just about certain that my old Linux system is infected with working spyware. I have never heard of spyware on Linux. I'd like to have somet

Re: systemd -- mysqld.service (solved)

adding this to /etc/systemd/system/ fixed the issue with waiting for NFS directory: [root]# cat /etc/systemd/system/mysqld.service # "/etc/systemd/system/mysqld.service" containing: .include /lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service [Unit] Description=MySQL database server After=syslog.t

Re: Fedora & No-ip: What am I doing Wrong?

2013/3/21 Steven Stern > On 03/21/2013 06:01 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to setup a small Home Server using Fedora 17 (32 Bit) and No-ip > > because I have a Dynamic IP adress, > > > > This is what am I doing: > > > > > http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/24216/how-to-setu

Re: Fedora & No-ip: What am I doing Wrong?

On 03/21/2013 06:01 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > Hi, > > I want to setup a small Home Server using Fedora 17 (32 Bit) and No-ip > because I have a Dynamic IP adress, > > This is what am I doing: > > http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/24216/how-to-setup-no-ip-on-fedora/ >

Fedora & No-ip: What am I doing Wrong?

Hi, I want to setup a small Home Server using Fedora 17 (32 Bit) and No-ip because I have a Dynamic IP adress, This is what am I doing: http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/24216/how-to-setup-no-ip-on-fedora/ Can you p

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

You're welcome =) I felt that very same relief when I tried it out and realized GNOME 3.6 performance finally went back to GNOME 3.4 levels on the same machine. Just out of curiosity: what is your graphics card? Regards, Andre On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andre Co

Apache configuration (httpd.conf) on localhost question

Greetings, I'm trying to test some scripts on using Apache on the F18 computer at hand. DocumentRoot is set to /var/www/html ScriptAlias is set to /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin The link that should work goes something like this: http://localhost/cgi-bin/CGIScript?Variable=/path/to/RelevantFile

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On 03/21/2013 04:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: and this is the real problem: you lose the exclusive access to your data you have to believe they are secure, you have to believe they are backuped and if the hopefully existing backups are needed from your service provider you have to pray that thei

Re: Cups Error Log

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:46 -0400, Jim wrote: > Fedora 18, Cups error Log below. > Can someone please tell me why I can't Print. > I know rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11, BUT WHY ?? > > Where is this "Filter error_log file" ??? , none in /var/log/ > > E [21/Mar/2013:12:10:42 -0400] Retu

Re: Intel Atom detecting a second monitor that doesn't exist.

On 21.03.2013 19:45, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Kevin Daly wrote: >> When booting on an Intel Atom machine I have, xorg reports it detects 2 >> monitors, but I only have one monitor connected. >> >> The problem is that the login screen seems to be on the second "Non >> existent" >> monitor. So the mach

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Am 21.03.2013 21:43, schrieb Nathan McCrina: > On 03/21/2013 04:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> and how does SSL help you in the case of intrusion at the >> cloud-provider? hint: it does NOT >> >> SSL/TSL = TRANSPORT layer security >> >> as long you are only store ENCRYPTED data in the could wh

[389-users] centOS vs Redhat vs 389 and partial replication problems

Hello everyone, We've standardized on CentOS Directory our ~30,000 user directory environment. It's a 6 servers total: two multi-master, two read-only consumers with a full replication agreement and two read-only consumers with a partial replication. We have a specific problem that we were *su

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On 03/21/2013 04:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: and how does SSL help you in the case of intrusion at the cloud-provider? hint: it does NOT SSL/TSL = TRANSPORT layer security as long you are only store ENCRYPTED data in the could while only on your local machine is the private key you are safe b

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Am 21.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Nathan McCrina: > On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent, >> and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other >> "private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this wha

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Nathan McCrina wrote: > On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> >> >> >> Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent, >> and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other >> "private" information, doesn't s/

f18 keyboard problems

Hi all, I'm in runlevel 5 on f18 with xfce. Zoom key combos (<+>,<->) no longer work correctly. When freshly installed they did. Specifically: terminal: <+> prints a "+"; it should increase font-size <-> seems to edit the current line: sometimes it erases all of it, at others

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

On 03/21/2013 04:03 PM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Make sure your firewall is properly configured and blocks all ports excepting the ones you need. There are online port scanners that can help you verifying this. G nmap 127.0.0.1 works fine Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: [389-users] Possible to block large multivalued updates

On 03/21/2013 02:05 PM, Jeffrey Dunham wrote: I have run into a bug that is still open several times now causing large problems in our LDAP Service. https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/346 We have group updates that are very large in size (20k+ records) and while we're specifically targeting

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent, and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other "private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this what made us so good before Microsoft came into the picture

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 21.03.2013 20:23, schrieb Joe Zeff: > > On 03/21/2013 11:29 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> Sadly enough, most people use computers to consume and not produce, > >> and out of those who do produce, a large majority only needs a > >> bro

[389-users] Possible to block large multivalued updates

I have run into a bug that is still open several times now causing large problems in our LDAP Service. https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/346 We have group updates that are very large in size (20k+ records) and while we're specifically targeting the engineering group responsible, there is nothin

Re: centos binary on RHEL

On 03/21/2013 07:28 AM, Norah Jones wrote: Hi I have a binary of my software built on centos though its working on RHEL but not sure if will work in all cases. Is there any catch or should we do through testing on RHEL. Thanks If you're releasing on RHEL, test on RHEL. CentOS has a goal (n

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

Hello, 2013/3/21 Steven Stern : [...] > It's extremely unlikely you'll have malware that affects the Linux > stuff. To take care of that, install chkrootkit or rkhunter. > > If you share files with your Windows installation, the use clamav to > scan those files for malware. > Adding to what Steve

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

How about an intermediate solution: # yum install rpmdevtools $ rpmdev-newspec -t .spec That will take care of the heavy lifting... Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Am 21.03.2013 20:23, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/21/2013 11:29 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> Sadly enough, most people use computers to consume and not produce, >> and out of those who do produce, a large majority only needs a >> browser. > > How do you produce with a browser? oh naive people will

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

Am 21.03.2013 19:55, schrieb Suvayu Ali: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:11:08AM -0700, Alan Evans wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >>> >>> Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen: Reindl Harald wrote: > well, and that is why i started with "unpack a exi

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On 03/21/2013 11:29 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Sadly enough, most people use computers to consume and not produce, and out of those who do produce, a large majority only needs a browser. How do you produce with a browser? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:38 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: >> I have been looking at smartphones and tablets (I presently own >> neither, due to outrageous monthly fees and lengthy contracts), as >> I am starting to feel that I no longer want to do without mobility. >> >> Howe

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:11:08AM -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > > Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > > Reindl Harald wrote: > > >> well, and that is why i started with "unpack a existing src.rpm" > > >> and look at the SPEC f

Re: Intel Atom detecting a second monitor that doesn't exist.

Kevin Daly wrote: When booting on an Intel Atom machine I have, xorg reports it detects 2 monitors, but I only have one monitor connected. The problem is that the login screen seems to be on the second "Non existent" monitor. So the machine is completely unusable. The motherboard only has one m

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: >> NEVER EVER will somebody store critical data in the cloud >> and if he does we will hear only a last *bang* from this >> guy after some bad news what went wrong > > First, *Never*

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Am 21.03.2013 19:29, schrieb Gilboa Davara: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: >> NEVER EVER will somebody store critical data in the cloud >> and if he does we will hear only a last *bang* from this >> guy after some bad news what went wrong > > First, *Never* say never

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

Andre Costa wrote: Some follow up on this: found on this thread that setting CLUTTER_VBLANK=none makes it a *whole* lot better. In fact, AFAICS the problem is gone -- even if NVidia driver is still set to sync to vb

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > NEVER EVER will somebody store critical data in the cloud > and if he does we will hear only a last *bang* from this > guy after some bad news what went wrong First, *Never* say never. Second, I'd suggest you open your eyes and look around

Re: SOLVED Re: Fedora 17 ipv4 inactive

On 03/20/2013 11:35 PM, Frank Murphy issued this missive: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:00:30 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: "ifconfig eth0 up" does NOT invoke the DHCP client software needed to get an IP from your DHCP server. The old "ifup eth0" should do it, or run the dhclient app yourself (as root).

Multiple windows with title "kblankscrn.kss" appear after login

I see this on my system: Fedora Kernel: vmlinuz-3.8.3-203.fc18.x86_64 KDE: 4.10.1 Hardware: 4 core Phenom x86_64 It's reported as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314859 and is described there as fixed. Does anyone know when the fix will be pushed into Fedora Updates?

Cups Error Log

Fedora 18, Cups error Log below. Can someone please tell me why I can't Print. I know rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11, BUT WHY ?? Where is this "Filter error_log file" ??? , none in /var/log/ E [21/Mar/2013:12:10:42 -0400] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Get-Job-Attributes

Issues in upgrade fc16->fc18

I initially hoped to upgrade to fc17 using preupgrade, then to fc18 using fedup, but preupgrade failed after spending hours downloading, the actual install run for about a hour and went out with an error. Since the package is obsolete, I decided not to chase the problem, but to just do a full in

F18: Controlling text when doing 'yum search x'

Greetings, What controls yum text color configurations. It seems that when I do 'yum search ' the search term blends in with the background screen color (this is in gnome-terminal; background is black, text color is cyan). This seems to have changed with the release of F18. Thanks. Max Pyz

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> well, and that is why i started with "unpack a existing src.rpm" > >> and look at the SPEC file which is cleraly doable for packages > >> which are only a few KB smal

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

Some follow up on this: found on this threadthat setting CLUTTER_VBLANK=none makes it a *whole* lot better. In fact, AFAICS the problem is gone -- even if NVidia driver is still set to sync to vblank. Other performance

Re: [389-users] How to Managed Entries Plugin for Linux Users?

So the user/group management I was able to achieve by appending ldapmodify commands. dn: uid=chandank,ou=People,dc=my,dc=net objectclass: person objectclass: inetorgperson objectclass: posixAccount cn: chandan sn: k givenName: Chandan uid:chandank uidNumber:9000 gidNumber:9000 objectclass: mepOrig

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

poma wrote: On 21.03.2013 01:20, Bill Davidsen wrote: poma wrote: On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-( http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;) Thanks, I'll take a look at that. wget -c http://asic-linux.co

Re: When did yum get all wordy?

On 03/21/2013 07:22 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: And if it is gonna spew out a big spiel like this, shouldn't it mention that actual cause of 99.99% of all multilib problems: The 32 and 64 bit versions are not in sync in the repos and if you wait a bit, they'll be back in sync again. Sure. File

Re: Fedora 18 security questions.

On 03/21/2013 09:31 AM, William Mattison wrote: > Windows has security essentials and malwarebytes scanning browser traffic to > detect and block malware, > and scanning the hard drive to find and remove malware. > What does Linux have corresponding to that? > I'm just about certain that my old

Re: latex

Quoting jeu, 21 mar 2013 François Patte : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/03/2013 15:03, Patrick Dupre a écrit : Quoting jeu, 21 mar 2013 Patrick Dupre : I fixed the issue at least temporarily by doing: BSTINPUTS=$BSTINPUTS:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/b

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Allegedly, on or about 20 March 2013, Olav Vitters sent: > Thanks for the hint. I make various helpful posts as well. So every so > often I'll just behave a bit worse so things even off. I used to tag some emails with this signature, "I reserve the right to be as hypocritical as the next person."

Re: latex

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/03/2013 15:03, Patrick Dupre a écrit : > > Quoting jeu, 21 mar 2013 Patrick Dupre > : > >> > I fixed the issue at least temporarily by doing: > BSTINPUTS=$BSTINPUTS:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/ > > But is it the right way

Fedora 18 security questions.

I have a single desktop connected only to the internet. It's dual-boot: Fedora 18 and windows 7 home. In Fedora, it has more than one user id. I skimmed/read through the Fedora 18 security guide, and much of the Fedora 18 installation guide and the Fedora 18 sys. admin. guide. As best as I ca

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

Allegedly, on or about 20 March 2013, Jonathan Ryshpan sent: > I'm a little perplexed. Linux doesn't mark files with their type, as > Mac systems do. The file has a .pdf extension, and the file command > shows it as PDF type. > $ file SwedishFlag.pdf > SwedishFlag.pdf: PDF docume

Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? [SOLVED]

The replies I received were correct. It was unnecessary to delete the previous install. I merely had to install over the old installation. Thank-you, both of you that replied. Bill. --- On Wed, 3/13/13, William Mattison wrote: > From: William Mattison > Subject: how to remove F18 from F18

Re: latex

Quoting jeu, 21 mar 2013 Patrick Dupre : Thank for the email. Le 21/03/2013 12:10, Patrick Dupre a écrit : Hello, lyx works fine but not latex, in fact bibtex! I get the following error: I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst as root kpsewhich unsrt.bst gives: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/

Re: [389-users] Windows Sync

On 03/21/2013 05:32 AM, s.oreilly wrote: Hi, Am I correct in my understanding that I cannot sync OU's from Active Directory to 389-DS? Correct. I am trying to sync users fro an AD server that I do not control and most of the users are separated in to different OU's Is there any way of making

Re: latex

Thank for the email. Le 21/03/2013 12:10, Patrick Dupre a écrit : Hello, lyx works fine but not latex, in fact bibtex! I get the following error: I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst as root kpsewhich unsrt.bst gives: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/unsrt.bst but as a user the

Re: latex

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/03/2013 12:10, Patrick Dupre a écrit : > Hello, > > lyx works fine but not latex, in fact bibtex! I get the following > error: I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst > > > as root kpsewhich unsrt.bst gives: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibte

Re: centos binary on RHEL

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:28:10PM +, Norah Jones wrote: > Hi > > I have a binary of my software built on centos though its working on RHEL but > not sure if will work in all cases. > Is there any catch or should we do through testing on RHEL. > > Thanks > wrong list, shouldn't you ask thi

centos binary on RHEL

Hi I have a binary of my software built on centos though its working on RHEL but not sure if will work in all cases. Is there any catch or should we do through testing on RHEL. Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

When did yum get all wordy?

I see this in my cron output from last night: Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is something else and multilib version checking is just pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.: 1. You have an upgrade for sip which is miss

latex

Hello, lyx works fine but not latex, in fact bibtex! I get the following error: I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst as root kpsewhich unsrt.bst gives: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/unsrt.bst but as a user there is not response! texhash can be run as a user, but: texhash: /usr

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> well, and that is why i started with "unpack a existing src.rpm" >> and look at the SPEC file which is cleraly doable for packages >> which are only a few KB small and have SPEC files with lower than >> 100 lines >> > As I said

Re: External monitor not working in newer Kernels

Hi Paolo, thanks for your reply and your pointer to the bugreport. I'll check it out. This is the bug report as direct link for reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922596 Thomas 2013/3/19 Paolo Galtieri : > On 03/19/13 01:39, Thomas Waldecker wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> my externa