Re: I need grep . help

2024-09-09 Thread Bill Oliver
The escape works only if you include everything in quotes, in my experience, e.g. cat jnk: 9.1.2 9n4n4 9.4.4 9.3.3 grep 9\.4\.4 jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9.4.4" jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9\.4\.4" jnk: 9.4.4 billo On Sun, 2024-09-08 at 18:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/8/24 6:10 PM,

Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-13 Thread Bill Oliver
I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because some software I used was available in binary form only in that distro.  Recently, I've moved back to Fedora.   One thing i took advantage of when I was using Ubuntu was the free level one Ubuntu Pro program that provided some usefu

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 13:10 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > [snip] > For a lot of "public" wifi networks, it's not even a firewall, it's > that > the access points are set to client isolation mode (so the AP only > allows clients to talk to the gateway).  It's basically an extra > security layer

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 10:09 -0600, Sbob wrote: > All > > > I have 2 laptops I need to connect for testing / coding via ssh, if I > connect each to the hotel wifi I cannot connect across laptops with > ssh, > If I grab a wifi router and connect it to the hotel wifi and use the > router's wifi wi

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-31 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/31/2024 12:21 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 1/29/2024 9:22 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:23:26PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:   I installed from

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 9:15 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are pr

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 9:22 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 07:23:26PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:   I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-header

Re: stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/29/2024 7:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:11:26 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote:  I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C header

stdio.h

2024-01-29 Thread Bill Cunningham
 I installed from scratch fedora 39. Now I looked in /usr/include and the usual development headers aren't there. glibc-headers and glibc-devel are both installed. No standard C headers are present. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? -- __

Re: libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/14/2024 7:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:38:57 -0500 Bill Cunningham wrote: I tried looking for "css"  "libdvdcss" and "dvd" and got some responses but nothing that I recognize. I used "dnf search" btw. I have the rpmfusion repo

Re: libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 1/14/2024 5:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/14/24 14:48, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does fedora maintain a version of libdvdcss. I thought for sure I backed up my version online but can't seem to find it. I went to the main repo and downloaded the 4.x.x. version which is the latest

libdvdcss

2024-01-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    Does fedora maintain a version of libdvdcss. I thought for sure I backed up my version online but can't seem to find it. I went to the main repo and downloaded the 4.x.x. version which is the latest but cannot get it to compile. I have libdvdread-devel installed. Maybe I am missing somethin

Re: rsync very slow

2023-10-30 Thread Bill Oliver
Linux is notoriously slow for large copies over usb3. The reading I've done on it seems to suggest that it has to do with how buffering in RAM works. There doesn't seem to be an elegant solution. Some solutions posted are: 1) Make sure the external drive is ext4 or other linux-friendly format

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/25/2023 4:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: ... There's no magic reserved space outside partitions that is used for booting anymore. The firmware finds the device, reads the partition table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and read

EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
just looking at files in text in partitions like boot/efi ? Bill ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Re: Partition Type

2023-09-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/24/2023 1:24 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: ... It seems that sdc4 is bootable The sizes seem bizarre Partition types are rather meaningless. They are there and everyone seems to set it, but when wrong it does not seem to matter. At best it is information that is sometimes right. I have n

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/23/2023 2:42 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/23/23 01:41, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: His quoting is often broken for some reason.  That whole section was actually added by him. Probably needs to add one more blank line between quotes and repli

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 20:23 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: ... Since UEFI, most USB sticks for installation and/or rescue are configured to boot in either legacy or EFI mode. When the UEFI BIOS has CSM (legacy) booting enabled

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 19:52 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: # efibootmgr -o 0,4,1,2,3 BootCurrent: 0005 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: ,0004,0001,0002,0003,0005 Boot* fedoraHD(... Boot0001* UEFI OS HD(... Boot0002

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 7:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 18:43 (UTC-0400): its bootloader will be default. I will need to boot into the fedora rescue mode. This is where grub will need to be put. With mbr boot, I used this- grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig; Then

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/21/2023 04:24 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: What I would like to do for example, is if I removed a Windows OS, for example, the partition data (for fedora) would need to be reset. Say I reinstalled the system (windows). I believe that windows could

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/19/2023 9:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sep 19, 2023, at 20:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader

restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
27;t know about it. There's also a command called "efibootmgr" is this what I am looking for? AFAIK fedora doesn't install more partitions but just code in the /boot/efi partition. How can I reinstall or repair boot loader code without touching the system? Without having to rein

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
7;ve never used xfs. Bill ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guideli

GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
.     My question is, using manual or "custom" partitioning would I want a 250-500 MB partition with the ID 0xef00 and then an ext4 partition, for use with linux? I know M$ adds all kinds of additions to the UEFI spec. What is needed for linux in making a custom part

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:42, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 8/7/2023 4:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So

Re: no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/7/2023 4:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/7/23 13:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So I booted F38 server and this is the

no network access

2023-08-07 Thread Bill Cunningham
Sometime ago I wrote to this list about network connection problems. I reinstalled my fedora server and all was fine. Well I reinstall a windows system and had to fix grub2. So I booted F38 server and this is the error I got. Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'fedora':   - Curl

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-03 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry wrote: None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one could shrink the C: partition even while it was in use. They focused on getting around Windows shrink's liomitations.

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 16:05 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: but I warn you up to this point I always disable selinux. Not just because idk what it is exactly, but it always starts running and I have never really needed security. I guess that can change

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 11:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 16:05 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: but I warn you up to this point I always disable selinux. Not just because idk what it is exactly, but it always starts running and I have never really needed security. I guess that can change

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 1:47 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 20.07.2023 um 01:57 schrieb Bill Cunningham : On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/21/2023 1:47 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 20.07.2023 um 01:57 schrieb Bill Cunningham : On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/18/2023 7:16 PM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 16.07.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I definitely want to see your doc article. I first version is now available: Installing Wordpress (on Fedora Server Edition) https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/tutorials/wordpress

Re: Aw: wordpress problem

2023-07-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/16/2023 3:41 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 14.07.2023 um 21:59 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login.

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/15/2023 4:37 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 15, 2023, at 15:28, Bill Cunningham wrote:  On 7/15/2023 3:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/15/23 12:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/15/2023 3:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/15/23 12:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/14/2023 9:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/23 12:59, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login. What

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
You have something listening on port 9090. On 7/14/23 16:54, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/14/2023 4:09 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. Try https://loca

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/14/2023 4:09 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. Try https://localhost/wp-login.php or.. http://localhost/wp-login.php No that doesn't work either. __

wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. https://localhost:9090 works fine for the server edition login. What am I doing or not doing here? I installed one rpm called wordpress and its' dependencies. Ther

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 8:53 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 7/9/23 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: I pinged 8.8.8.8 and the gateway of my router. "Network Unreachable" is the response. I can't find traceroute on my system which is unusual. What is the exact output of the command "ip route

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2023 03:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: "local" is not really a network.  That's the loopback interface and it's always available.  The packets don't leave your machine.  If you pinged something like 8.8.8.8 that would be more useful.  But you didn't

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 17:58, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 13:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 4:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 13:09, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back but

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/9/23 14:49, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back but I am once again lost. This the error after a clean install and I try 'dnf in

Re: help downloading

2023-07-09 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/9/2023 5:48 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 7/9/2023 5:47 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had this figured out a while back but I am once again lost. This the error after a clean install and I try 'dnf install indent' to add to my system: Errors during downloading metadata for

comparing group lists

2023-07-08 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is there a way to use dnf or rpm to compare the listing of groups. For example, in my case I use "minimal install" or the "Fedora Server Edition" install. If I wanted to compare these two groups and the rpms that are in each, how would I do that? B

Re: xfce4 desktop problem

2023-07-05 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/5/2023 3:18 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 7/5/23 11:02, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Running xfce4 desktop on f38 terminal the desktop windows have lost the window bar at the top. Can't reposition open windows. They are fine if I switch to LXDE or kde. What part of xfce needs to be reins

Re: Server edition password

2023-07-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 7/5/2023 2:07 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 05.07.2023 um 04:24 schrieb Bill Cunningham : I installed the Server addition to get used to servers. I added firefox and Xfce and their dependencies along with httpd and tried to log into localhost:9090. I believe that is the right port. I am

Server edition password

2023-07-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I installed the Server addition to get used to servers. I added firefox and Xfce and their dependencies along with httpd and tried to log into localhost:9090. I believe that is the right port. I am prompted to enter fedora server edition password. I have read there is no default password, b

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 8:22 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 20, 2023, at 20:35, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. ID

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 8:22 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 20, 2023, at 20:35, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. ID

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:09 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: Yes I tried sudo and entered that and I was prompted for a password. I don't have one that I know. On 6/21/2023 5:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/23 14:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33,

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:33 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/21/23 17:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 6:33 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/21/23 17:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
Yes I tried sudo and entered that and I was prompted for a password. I don't have one that I know. On 6/21/2023 5:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/21/23 14:56, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploade

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/21/2023 4:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/23 17:33, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what the passwo

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
ue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I never set a personal password I just uploaded the tarball and converted it > to an image and ran it in a VM. It's the GCP tarball. You need to initialize the image with something like 'cloud-init'. You c

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
ue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I never set a personal password I just uploaded the tarball and converted it > to an image and ran it in a VM. It's the GCP tarball. You need to initialize the image with something like 'cloud-init'. You c

Re: logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/20/2023 8:46 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Wright said: You want to use "sudo su" and use your personal password. There's no reason to "sudo su" (don't know why this gets recommended). You can "sudo -s" (similar to plain "su", stays in current directory, doesn't act like

logging in as root

2023-06-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I have uploaded the tar.gz file to my cloud VM and try to use the system and it will not let me have root privledges. I use 'su' and the system wants me to enter a password. IDK what the password is. IS there a way around this? B ___ users maili

fedora tarballs

2023-06-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
    H as anyone ever used these tarballs that fedora releases in a cloud service? I would think these would have to be bootable is there a particular way to boot in GCP or another cloud? I will look into it but if anyone does it maybe they have a couple of hints. B ___

Re: servers

2023-06-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 6/17/2023 9:11 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 17, 2023, at 19:38, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI

servers

2023-06-17 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI. SO the desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition to remote storage? What is th

Re: find command problems

2023-05-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/28/2023 11:17 AM, ogio.spam wrote: Il giorno dom, 28/05/2023 alle 08.49 -0400, Max Pyziur ha scritto: Greetings, When I issue a command such as: tar zcvf /var/tmp/SomeArchive.tgz `find . -iname '*pdf' -type f` This can also introduce some errors cause the command line can be too long to

Re: randomization

2023-05-26 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/26/2023 4:38 AM, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Walton Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 4:20 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: randomization On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: How would you access

Re: randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill C
I believe entropy is somehow obtained from the hardware. On Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:18 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2023, Chris Adams wrote: > > > There's also /dev/urandom (which should never "run out" of randomness), > > but IIRC they're the basica

Re: randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/25/2023 10:19 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: ... You should use /dev/urandom nowadays, not /dev/random. According to Theodore Ts'o on the Linux Kernel Crypto mailing list, /dev/random has been deprecated for a decade. From Re: [RFC PATCH v12 3/4] Linux Random Number Generator:[1] Practically

Re: randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 5/25/2023 10:24 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Samuel Sieb said: On 5/25/23 18:18, Bill Cunningham wrote:     How would you access randomization at the system level? No via srand or rand, but the randomization the system offers through /dev/random. Would this be a fedora level

randomization

2023-05-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
    How would you access randomization at the system level? No via srand or rand, but the randomization the system offers through /dev/random. Would this be a fedora level system call ?     I intend to take a 512 or 1024, for example, size chunk and fill that with system randomization. Not wha

Re: problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-05-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
I will answer this thread to close it out so if anyone with this problem that might refer to this thread, can have an answer or at least, a direction in which to go. I reinstalled everything and choose the wifi option and entered my wifi password. Then went back to the main screen that gives the

Re: problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-04-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 4/30/2023 9:28 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 7:49 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Fedora 38 - x86_64 [=== ] ---  B/s |   0  B --:-- ETA Fedora 38 - x86_64 0.0  B/s |   0  B 00:00 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'fedora':

problem downloading rpms with wifi

2023-04-30 Thread Bill Cunningham
I just was able to install the fedora 38 build and I want to use dnf to install so more rpms. I get this error and I have no idea where to begin. It has to do with wifi networking I know that. using the gui I was able to install fine. I booted to cli and get this: Fedora 38 - x86_64 [=== ] --

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-22 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 4/22/2023 6:52 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 17:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:17 PM Robert Nichols wrote: And no, I don't have a clean solution for keeping encrypted backups in the cloud. I do believe that my current backup method (rdiff- backup

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-21 Thread Bill C
mon wrote: > >> 2023-04-20 19:41 UTC+02:00, Bill C : > >>> Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the > key. > >>> Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue. > >> > >> If you store these files unencrypted

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-20 Thread Bill C
Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the key. Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue. On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 1:15 PM Barry wrote: > > > > On 20 Apr 2023, at 18:06, Bill C wrote: > > > >  > > I do som uploadin

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-20 Thread Bill C
I use Google. I hate anything to do with Microsoft. It is, just someone else's computer. On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 1:12 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:06 PM Bill C wrote: > > > > I do som uploading to online storage providers but I concerned about > se

Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-20 Thread Bill C
I do som uploading to online storage providers but I concerned about security. Does anyone who does this use any particular type of security or encryption. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...

Re: /etc/hosts question

2023-03-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
I checked those DNS resolvers out of curiosity. Indeed porn is blocked. Cool. I don't have any kids or anyone I want to limit in mapping from getting to porn sites, so I trust myself. :) Nice though. B On 3/15/2023 9:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 37 bind-9.18.12-1.fc37

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/24/2023 3:28 PM, John Mellor wrote: On 2023-02-24 12:46 p.m., GianPiero Puccioni wrote: On 24/02/2023 15:31, John Mellor wrote: Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes anyway. We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora. However,

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill C
the EXT2 /boot partition? It is >> > no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for >> years now. >> > . . . (snipped) > > > On 2023-02-24 09:38, Bill C wrote: > > Ending of ext? Hopefully never. They are like the fats, old reliable, an

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-24 Thread Bill C
Ending of ext? Hopefully never. They are like the fats, old reliable, and over course featureless or simple imo. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 9:31 AM John Mellor wrote: > Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes > anyway. > > We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote: This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry wrote: On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham wrote

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-21 Thread Bill C
M George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:56 PM Bill C wrote: > >> This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port >> > > It also includes a radio. These units may need to load vendor firmware for > use, and do require a specific driver, which ma

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-21 Thread Bill C
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry wrote: > >> >> >> On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham wrote: >> >> On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N.

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/20/2023 5:08 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 19, 2023, at 20:58, Bill Cunningham wrote: Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command

Re: nmcli problems

2023-02-20 Thread Bill C
The kernel is 6.1 with the F37 version the driver should be a ralink. Rt28 or so.. On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 5:29 PM George N. White III wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham > wrote: > >> Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to >&

nmcli problems

2023-02-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this, STATE CONNECTIVITY  WIFI-HW  WIFI WWAN-HW  WWAN disconnected  none  miss

Re: connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill C
. I was able to get it working for download and install. Maybe there's a text file somewhere needing edited. On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 11:30 PM Robert McBroom via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 2/15/23 22:39, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > Does anyone have any

Re: connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 2/15/2023 6:09 PM, Reon Beon via users wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Networking/CLI I have tried everything here, and so more on the man page. Nothing seems to work. This is an error I get, I have no idea what it means; Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Device class

connecting using wireless usb

2023-02-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I h

Re: Why does Fedora 38 get updates so much faster than Fedora Rawhide?

2023-02-15 Thread Bill C
Interesting. I have had similar questions myself. On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2:32 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 06:47:49PM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 03:47 +, Reon Beon via users wrote: > > > Is it because of all the openqa testing on Rawhide? > > > >

Re: Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-14 Thread Bill C
2023, at 19:12, Bill C wrote: > > When I use these tools I get nothing. I ran insmod, that would not install > anything. I was thinking there are a bunch of dependencies needed. I must > need to install more packages or I will try the live workstation later. > > > I have alwa

Re: Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-13 Thread Bill C
.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham: > > IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or > > I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in > Fedora's kernel: > > # modinfo rt2800usb > filename: > > /lib/modul

Re: Kernel drivers RT2870

2023-02-13 Thread Bill C
Ok, I see. That looks like them. Do you just use insmod? On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius wrote: > > > Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham: > > IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or > > I am not familiar with these dri

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