Re: Managing guest VMs on Fedora KVM host

2024-08-24 Thread C. Linus Hicks
> Hi, > > I have some Linux VMs that are running out of space. Is there a tool I can > > use to manage their .IMG or .QCOW files? > > In particular, I have a build farm with some Linux machines using LVM > > filesystems, and I need to resize their PV’s and LV’s, grow the > ext4 or xfs > filesyst

Re: OT: sed or awk command to add a file extension

2023-07-28 Thread C. Linus Hicks
Assuming there are no extraneous characters on each line following the filename, and assuming every line in the file has a filename: sed -i 's/$/.jpg/' -Original Message- From: Community support for Fedora users Sent: Jul 28, 2023 8:32 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Cc:

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread C. Linus Hicks
Subject: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed to resto

Re: SSH hangs when including command to execute

2022-05-07 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Sat, 2022-05-07 at 18:48 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 5/7/22 12:45, C Linus Hicks wrote: > > the remote machines are derivitives of RHEL 6,7,8 > > > You may be running in to a known issue (BZ#1972266), if ForwardX11 is > set in ssh_config on the client and X11For

SSH hangs when including command to execute

2022-05-07 Thread C Linus Hicks
Fedora 35 with openssh-8.7p1-3.fc35.x86_64 When I run ssh like so connecting to a range of other Linux machines: ssh -l root "set -x; pwd; exit" /root + pwd + exit or ssh -t -l root "set -x; pwd; exit" + pwd /root + exit or ssh -tt -l root "set -x; pwd; exit" + pwd /root + exit It will ne

Re: display problem (probably OT?)

2022-04-03 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 14:35 -0600, home user wrote: > On 4/3/22 2:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/3/22 13:09, home user wrote: > > > On 4/3/22 1:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > On 4/3/22 13:13, home user wrote: > > > > > Assuming it's the monitor, is it realistically possible to replace > > > >

Boot hang after grub menu

2022-02-26 Thread C Linus Hicks
I hit an issue that seems very strange, hoping for some help. I upgraded one of my displays a couple of weeks ago and decided I needed to upgrade the video card too. Just came in yesterday, an ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650. This isn't a gaming rig, just text windows, browsers, and VirtualBox mach

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread C Linus Hicks
Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su - or sudo to get an interactive session for a

Re: installing Fedora: says empty disk is almost full

2021-09-01 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 21:34 +0100, Douglas McGarrett wrote: > On 9/1/2021 11:39 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > If you create a partition and format it (whatever filesystem you format > > it with), the Linux installer sees that space as used and unavailable > > (whether, or not, there is any data in t

Re: New selinux problem [weird!]

2021-08-16 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 08:50 -0700, Doug H. wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, at 7:53 AM, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > For some reason (I explain later) I disabled selinux in > > /etc/selinux/config file. > > > > When I re-enabled selinux (SELINUX=enforcing in the config file) I could

Re: Creating a user-level systemd unit

2021-06-29 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Tue, 2021-06-29 at 22:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-29 at 13:00 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 6/29/21 12:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > This is the entire script: > > > > > > $ ls -l bin/start-insync > > > -rwxrwxr-x. 1 poc poc 33 Jun 13 23:00 bin/start-insync

Re: problem with NVMe disk at install

2020-12-23 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 02:55 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 11:10 AM François Patte > wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > I want to install fedora 33 on NVMe SSD disks and I have 2 such devices > > but anaconda sees only one of them... > > > > I can see both in the bios. > >

Re: What is the system call for time?

2020-12-20 Thread C Linus Hicks
you want to use something like /usr/lib64/lib.so.x would suggest you have some idea about using a library that isn't a standard part of the base distribution, in which case you need to install that specific software on your system and know how to make the appropriate call. C. Linus Hicks

Re: tar and cores?

2020-10-10 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 15:08 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-10-07 14:17, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 06Oct2020 16:32, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > > I am noticing that > > > > > >tar czvf x > > > > > > is only using one of my cores (and pretty much all of > > > the core). > >

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here??

2020-04-17 Thread C. Linus Hicks
rwxrwxrwx  33 test       test         4096 Apr 17 11:23 test > > /home/test > drwxrwxrwx   7 test test     4096 Apr 17 11:00 cat > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:41 AM C. Linus Hicks <lin...@mindspring.com> wrote: >> >> Generally speaking, when yo

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here??

2020-04-17 Thread C. Linus Hicks
Please try re-reading my post with a little more care. Out.-Original Message- From: bruce Sent: Apr 17, 2020 11:54 AM To: "C. Linus Hicks" , Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here?? rsync -avz  /home/test/cat  test@192.168.125

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here??

2020-04-17 Thread C. Linus Hicks
I forgot to mention, unless your network is only 100Mb or less, using compression will make the transfer slower.-Original Message- From: "C. Linus Hicks" Sent: Apr 17, 2020 11:40 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here??

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here??

2020-04-17 Thread C. Linus Hicks
Generally speaking, when your destination directory is within the home directory of the destination user, you would not specify full path, as in:rsync -avz  /home/test/cat  test@192.168.125.133:catAlso, you probably don't want to copy the directory into a directory of the same name, so your command