Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-20 Thread Garry T. Williams
? Other settings were changed, too, like my konsole preferences. Jeesh. If you're using KDE, then add /etc/sddm.conf with these lines: [Autologin] User=FOO Session=plasma.desktop Change "FOO" to your login name. -- Garry T. Williams -- _

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

2025-04-20 Thread Garry T. Williams
r for compatibility. -- Garry T. Williams -- ___ 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-condu

Re: Tracer Output

2024-12-25 Thread Garry T. Williams
rid of sudo there. -- Garry T. Williams -- ___ 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/cod

Re: Formatted Final Output from dnf5 update

2024-12-15 Thread Garry T. Williams
t 92 characters. I doubt there's a way to get the old display. -- Garry T. Williams -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://d

Re: Strange laptop behavior #2

2024-08-25 Thread Garry T. Williams
failure and authentication failure. Try removing the /etc/nologin file (as root, of course). -- Garry T. Williams -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Cod

Re: Can't Boot 6.8.* Kernels

2024-05-26 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, May 26, 2024 1:57:04 PM EDT Barry Scott wrote: > > > On 26 May 2024, at 16:26, Garry T. Williams wrote: > > The last good > > kernel on the problem system is 6.7.10-200.fc39.x86_64. > > Does the 6.9 kernel work? No. (Koji only had f40 -- I did try i

Re: Can't Boot 6.8.* Kernels

2024-05-26 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, May 26, 2024 11:22:42 AM EDT Garry T. Williams wrote: [snip] > The last kernel that will boot on this system is > 6.8.10-300.fc40.x86_64. I have two other Fedora systems that do not Oops. That was copied/pasted from the wrong system. The last good kernel on the problem sys

Can't Boot 6.8.* Kernels

2024-05-26 Thread Garry T. Williams
Installable Languages: 2 en|US|iso8859-1 Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1 -- Garry T. Williams -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: F39 Update: Yawn

2023-11-07 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 4:53:00 PM EST George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 5:18 PM Garry T. Williams > wrote: > > I updated three systems this morning without a hitch: headless server, > > laptop, and workstation. All Dell hardware. > > It would b

F39 Update: Yawn

2023-11-07 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Tuesday, 7 November 2023 08:56:05 EST Matthew Miller wrote: > Fedora Linux 39 is now officially available. I updated three systems this morning without a hitch: headless server, laptop, and workstation. All Dell hardware. Thank you, Matthew and all of Fedora contributors! -- Garr

Re: ssh connection and selinux

2023-08-13 Thread Garry T. Williams
o, say, ECDSA keys, would be to re-enable RSA keys by adding this to your ~/.ssh/config file: PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to us

Re: kernel watchdog BUG

2023-05-28 Thread Garry T. Williams
nalctl -b -1 -r THEN type / where is "soft lockup" or anything else you want to search for. But there really is no reason to use the -r option -- just search the last boot logs in the normal order. A lot less confusing. -- Garry T. Williams

Re: gthumb crash on startup and bugzilla reporting

2023-03-12 Thread Garry T. Williams
ave half of the ultimate solution. Yes, you need to request a new API key. But the gnome-abrt program (Problem Reporting) must be reconfigured to use the new key. That is a real pain because there are maybe a dozen places that the various preferences contain that value and I see no way

Re: Missing Libraries

2022-08-28 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 1:21:53 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/28/22 07:30, Garry T. Williams wrote: > > On Saturday, August 27, 2022 6:32:10 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 8/27/22 15:14, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >> It can be difficult to go from a link er

Re: Missing Libraries

2022-08-28 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Saturday, August 27, 2022 6:32:10 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/27/22 15:14, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > It can be difficult to go from a link error to the required library. Try running ldd on compiled executable. -- Garry T. Williams ___

Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-18 Thread Garry T. Williams
ps://systemd.io/NETWORK_ONLINE/ and then create a .service file to run whatever program you want to start at boot-time. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@list

Re: A simple question

2022-07-18 Thread Garry T. Williams
nce I needed it that I can't remember its name. I'd > appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction. You might try sudo fpaste --sysinfo to see what it does. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, February 6, 2022 11:17:25 AM EST Paolo Galtieri wrote: > so why are / and /home the same device? In the past / and /home where > separate devices. You probably have / and /home on subvolumes of a btrfs file system. That is the current default configuration now. -- Garry T. Wi

Re: F35 digikam

2021-12-22 Thread Garry T. Williams
ed by libspatialite-5.0.1-8.fc35.x86_64, according to dnf. When I install that package, I can find the symbol GEOSFrechetDistanceDensify in the library with this command: $ nm -D /usr/lib64/libspatialite.so.7 Maybe you should install or upgrade package libspatialite? --

Re: Struggling with systemd-oomd.service

2021-12-14 Thread Garry T. Williams
> Any ideas what this means and what to do about/against it? That service has Restart=on-failure defined, so that explains the message "Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 383". The only clue to why it's failing is 'timeout'. Connecting to the bus

Re: /var/tmp/flatpak

2021-12-12 Thread Garry T. Williams
> systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service > Sun 2021-12-12 19:12:00 EET 51min leftn/an/a > dnf-makecache.timer dnf-makecache.service > > > Why n/a ? Because you just reboo

Re: Problem with script

2021-11-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
he quotes and all will be well. -- Garry T. Williams ___ 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-c

Re: Expired Fedora Webpage Cert?

2021-07-28 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 11:06:47 AM EDT John Mellor wrote: > Is it just me, No, it is not just you. > or is the web page cert expired this morning at > https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/ ? -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list

Re: Scheduling sequential systemd tasks

2021-07-21 Thread Garry T. Williams
nalogous to ... /usr/bin/taska && /usr/bin/taskb inside a crontab entry. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Con

Re: Easiest way to move from BTRFS to EXT4 without losing data

2021-06-14 Thread Garry T. Williams
eded changes in boot loader, fstab, etc. Restoring to an ext4 file system will not result in a bootable system. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedora

Re: F33->F34: paps output has changed

2021-04-30 Thread Garry T. Williams
very readable. Nicer than a2ps, if not as fancy. The font is denser or darker than a2ps (defaults). -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Re: auditd log processing tools?

2021-01-29 Thread Garry T. Williams
to manually trim it. Kmail has had this feature for many years. Indeed, that is how I obtained the above to reply to this message. :-) (Just say no to Web-based E-mail clients.) -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

Re: dnf error , rpm database damaged ???

2021-01-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
Something's wrong with the file system -- not the database file -- probably. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://

Re: What is the system call for time?

2020-12-20 Thread Garry T. Williams
time_t time(time_t *tloc); -- Garry T. Williams ___ 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

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

2020-12-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
on our production Debian systems. (They are systems not exposed to the Internet, but still...) -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation [solved]

2020-12-08 Thread Garry T. Williams
/db_data/ibdata1 garry@gtw$ -- Garry T. Williams ___ 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

Re: KDE System Monitor Widget Problem after upgrade to Fedora-33

2020-11-21 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Saturday, November 21, 2020 7:24:06 PM EST Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Th KDE System Monitor Widget does not display Network Speed. You might want to look at the Network Speed widget under Add Widgets. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing l

Re: Grub default kernel is oldest in Fedora 33

2020-10-30 Thread Garry T. Williams
0.fc33.x86_64 > kernel-5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64 -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraprojec

Re: Paste into GnuCash problem

2020-09-28 Thread Garry T. Williams
ng. The used buffers > are CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY instead of PRIMARY and SECONDARY as I stated. > No one uses SECONDARY. So still only two used, but there is a third > that no one uses. Perhaps he was making a reference to a Star Trek TNG episode?

Re: Reload kernel?

2020-09-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
ilities (December 20, 2018) -- Garry T. Williams ___ 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-condu

Re: ssh reverse tunnel as a service?

2020-08-26 Thread Garry T. Williams
ograms on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g. when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: nmcli and gateway question

2020-08-10 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Monday, August 10, 2020 5:46:54 PM EDT Mike Wright wrote: > alias gateways="ip route list | awk '/^default/ {print}'" That is the same as ip route list | grep ^default In general, ... | awk '/foo/ {print}' is equivalent to ...

Re: Abrt not working because retrace.fedoraproject.org is down for weeks?

2020-08-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:18:42 PM EDT Clemens Eisserer wrote: > for quite some time (weeks/months) ABRT does not seem to work anymore, > because fedora retrace servers are down: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1762719 -- Garry T. Wi

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, July 19, 2020 9:34:00 AM EDT stan via users wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:45:54 -0400 > "Garry T. Williams" wrote: > > > I knew how to disable the modular repository, although I didn't get > > around to doing it on this new install until now

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-18 Thread Garry T. Williams
tpak? (That seems to be the vector for this unwanted daemon.) -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorapr

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 1:22:59 PM EDT stan via users wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:53:41 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" > wrote: > > A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk > > drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was &

What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
ore_error()] error id:20 seq:74 res:-16 (Device or resource busy): can't create node: Device or resource busy Jul 16 00:21:29 vfr xdg-desktop-por[199455]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list -- Garry T. Williams __

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Garry T. Williams
nst the files and directories that were manipulated by root will probably reveal the exact error. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Cod

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here?? (not threading!)

2020-04-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Friday, April 17, 2020 4:59:51 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/17/20 1:42 PM, Garry T. Williams wrote: [snip] > > My mail client (kmail) shows his messages properly threaded. > > Are they properly threaded or just sorted by time? The email doesn't > have an "In-R

Re: rsync error... can i ask for help here?? (not threading!)

2020-04-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
ks wrote: My mail client (kmail) shows his messages properly threaded. But the (very) irritating thing about his messages is the HTML and top-posting. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: LVM, list home -

2020-03-26 Thread Garry T. Williams
t-live]# ls -al home -> ../dm-1 > ls: cannot access '-': No such file or directory That command just redirected ls's stdout to the /dm-1 file or directory. The file you want is ../dm-1 -- not "home -> ../dm-1". The shell parses that as 'home'

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-03 Thread Garry T. Williams
purpose could be served by limiting my tries to get one conforming to the silly rules serve? Brut-force what? I am not logging in. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-02 Thread Garry T. Williams
arm myself, so I am not allowed to set a (temporary) password to whatever I want. I probably shouldn't be allowed to type the rm command without some sort of "are you sure?" warning either. Sigh. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users maili

Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

2019-11-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
rcing password > > complexity is, I guess, OK. But for root? And why bail after > > three tries to get a compliant password? That seems capricious > > (not to mention irritating) to me. > > 3 retries is the usual thing. But for choosing a new password? Please. What on e

Re: ssh

2019-09-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
u have a route and that sshd is listening on port 22. Of course, you cannot establish a session from the command line, but it does show that you can reach the remote and that the remote will answer on that port. > ssh 192.168.1.12 22 > time out Ed has told you what

Re: ssh

2019-09-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
since the attempt to connect to 192.168.1.12 never got that far. You do not have a route to 192.168.1.12 from the host that you used to run the telnet command. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?

2019-06-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
;re well known to cause caching problems. Ah, ha! That is a difference between the problem system and the others I have that do not experience the problem. My employer does eavesdrop on everything. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Garry T. Williams ___

Re: GeoIP2 perl modules needed

2019-05-04 Thread Garry T. Williams
IP/host-name to country/location/organization : database. : : This package requires Maxmind's GeoIP libraries but : is often faster than other, similar modules. https://metacpan.org/pod/Ge

Re: glibc scriptlet error?

2018-09-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
hitecture. Why it's being executed during a glibc update is a mystery, though. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: ssh -- from local/userA --> remote/userB

2018-09-09 Thread Garry T. Williams
her the wheel or systemd-journal groups. Finding log messages of interest is easier using the journal. This is a fine article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs -- G

Re: ssh -- from local/userA --> remote/userB

2018-09-08 Thread Garry T. Williams
s the local "userA" /home/userA/.ssh/config need to be changed to > accomodate some items for the userB? Add your public key(s) to userB's .ssh/authorized_keys file. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: Startup messages shown twice on EFI boot

2018-08-31 Thread Garry T. Williams
FI. I don't think that EFI is the reason. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.o

Re: Okular defaults to A4 paper size

2018-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
-qtbase-print-dialog-advanced/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/ type=rpm-md skip_if_unavailable=True gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/kkofler/qt5-qtbase-print-dialog-advanced/pubkey.gpg repo_gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 enabl

Re: How to get a recent / maintained version of Mesa for F27?

2018-02-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Thursday, February 15, 2018 12:04:35 PM EST Garry Williams wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Gerhard Hueller > wrote: > > Are there prebuilt packages of Mesa-17.3.3/4 available somewhere? > > Try updates-testing for 17.3.3-1.fc27. 17.3.4-1 is now in -testing. --

Re: Writing a systemd service file

2017-06-30 Thread Garry T. Williams
permission). > > ModulesDir is /usr/local/savapi-sdk-linux_glibc24_x86_64/modules > > When I run the script manually as root or as the amavis user, it runs > successfully. Sounds like Selinux -- not systemd. -- Garry T. Williams

Re: sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
nt was \([^']*\) instead. That will match only the part up to the *first* closing single quote character. ________ [1] The matching will go all the way to the end of the line and then fail because there's no single quote there. The matching engine will start backtracking to the first point that it can get a match of "']". That will encompass what you are seeing instead of only the first thingy in the square brackets. Greedy matching. -- Garry T. Williams ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [RFC] delta-repository-metadata

2017-05-02 Thread Garry T. Williams
rade [sudo] password for garry: Error: Cache-only enabled but no cache for 'updates' garry@vfr$ So, whatever the problem, it's also present in f25. garry@vfr$ rpm -q dnf dnf-1.1.10-6.fc25.noarch garry@vfr$ -- Garry T. Williams _

Re: Firefox crashes on Facebook

2015-10-29 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 10-26-15 16:55:13 Antonio M wrote: > I ma experiencing some crashes when I go to Facebook on two diffrent > systems. Never had them before...any comment?? Feature? -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Garry T. Williams
st install script in every package > that installed modules into directories that could be in the case to > actually run ldconfig? You're misunderstanding things. Updates do not require a reboot and they do run ldconfig after installation to update the cache. -- Garry T. Williams

Re: Solved - Re: F21 Xfce on Asus ee900 not seeing wireless adapter

2014-12-25 Thread Garry T. Williams
Quality=32/70 Signal level=-78 dBm ESSID:"belkin.d46" $ It looks like substituting "Frequency" for "Channel" will eliminate a line of output without losing what you say you want on each AP. -- Garry T. Williams -- use

Re: Server mount problem -

2014-12-14 Thread Garry T. Williams
The mount is to an AD share. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/

Re: Yum Repairs?

2014-11-23 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 11-23-14 21:09:36 Heinz Diehl wrote: > AFAIK, CTRL+C is nothing > else than a SIGHUP, SIGINT > so yum should have terminated > correctly. Yes. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-19 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 11-19-14 13:11:27 Andy Blanchard wrote: > The most effective thing I've found for preventing SSH attacks is > simply to listen on a different port. +1 No log entries in over two years. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: System starts in emergency mode...how do I recover ?? (as a newbie)

2014-08-24 Thread Garry T. Williams
ng them. NAME dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer The dmesg command writes to stdout. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Cod

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
ly, I am done now. There are a slew of references on the 'Net if you do not want to read the manual pages or if you find them hard to understand. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 7-6-14 10:39:11 lee wrote: > "Garry T. Williams" writes: > > The analogy is placing a script in /etc/init.d and then linking > > its name in the /etc/rc5.d directory. > > > > I find this much simpler than the sysvinit schemes. > > You have taken well

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 7-5-14 22:07:17 Garry T. Williams wrote: > whenever systemd determines that the multi-user Target is its > objective. This corresponds to what we used to call system level 2. Heh. How quickly I forget. That should be *run* level *3*. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
example is drop-dead simple in either world, but systemd allows way more expressive power than this example. The nice thing is, you don't have to write code (shell scripts) to get what you need. You might want to examine sshd.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system to see a slightly more comple

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
etooth dongle becomes available and which simply pulls in bluetooth related services that otherwise would not need to be started: bluetoothd and obexd and suchlike. I fail to see where the complaints about the systemd documentation come from. Actually reading the documentation mak

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
systemd has. Your statement is, on its face, incorrect. Also (among many others): http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
ity of adding ".service" > shows that the developer just didn't think of the user's convenience. > I know there are rare cases where one has to say something else, > but why not make the default to add ".service" if nothing is given? > Or perhaps TAB

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
ing state to /run/systemd/dump-1-nP2xi3 Jun 26 08:07:16 vfr systemd[1]: Reexecuting. Jun 26 08:07:16 vfr systemd[1]: systemd 208 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ) No reboot, of course. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mail

Re: background - "stopped" how to kill!

2014-06-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
process a SIGCONT signal, then a SIGTERM signal: kill -CONT kill -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-14 Thread Garry T. Williams
; (Check the logind.conf manual page for more details). Although this may very well be the solution that Wolfgang is looking for, I suspect that there will be a more fine-grained option evolving sometime in the future. The problem is, how do you kill the programs you want killed off upon logout witho

Re: host command not seeming to use /etc/hosts file

2014-05-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
the base f20 install. But thanks getent ahosts www.google.com -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: su

2014-04-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-27-14 13:45:43 Patrick Dupre wrote: > After a fresh installation of fedora 20, I can only log 1 time as a > su. After, it is refused for authentification error! It might help to see actual error messages. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-26-14 09:43:41 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 26.04.2014, Garry T. Williams wrote: > > That's not true. Swap will come into play and unreferenced data > > in the /tmp files will be paged out in favor of claiming that > > memory for other uses. > > Did you actuall

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Garry T. Williams
ned or read again, it will be paged back in. That can be faster than normal file I/O. > IMHO using a tmpfs for /tmp is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. > How it got by the vetting process is beyond me. This was discussed in great detail before the change was made. -- G

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working [Solved]

2014-04-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
1.fc20 @System 0 Transaction Summary Remove 18 Packages -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: wireshark installed but not available

2014-04-07 Thread Garry T. Williams
hitespace. Also, you will need to log out and back in of your desktop session before your session "knows" you are in a new group. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' ?? why?

2014-04-06 Thread Garry T. Williams
at is this, and how do you stop it?? seems like a waste of > >> > processing power & time. > >> > > > yum remove PackageKit ? > > > what will I miss or not be able to do without packagekit? Try it to see. Just don't pass -y to yum so you can elect to canc

Re: Updated to F20, now perl can't find installed modules

2014-04-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
usr/local, that is. That directory is properly the property of the system administrator. The other stuff in /usr is the property of the system. And the rpm(8) program maintains files there; never sysadmins. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: Updated to F20, now perl can't find installed modules

2014-04-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-1-14 14:57:13 Sean Darcy wrote: > And the user can read strict.pm: > > $ cat /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm > package strict; > > $strict::VERSION = "1.07"; > ... > > > What's going wrong here? What does `which perl` say? -- Ga

Re: Updated to F20, now perl can't find installed modules

2014-04-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
ermissions set on its files. I would be wondering how I managed to do that to the file, though. The rpm -V command /might/ be of help to you. On 4-1-14 14:57:13 Sean Darcy wrote: > On 04/01/2014 02:34 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: > And the user can read strict.pm: > > $ cat /usr/share/perl5/st

Re: Backup question

2014-03-18 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 3-19-14 08:42:20 Cameron Simpson wrote: > mount | awk '$5 ~ /^(xfs|ext2|ext3)$/ { print $1 }' I think you meant `print $3'. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: dnf?

2014-02-17 Thread Garry T. Williams
): kcm_colors-4.11.5-1.fc20_4.11.6-2.fc20. 29 kB/s | 71 kB 00:02 [DRPM] gupnp-igd-0.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm: done (5/34): gambit-c-doc-4.6.6-2.fc18_4.7.2-1.fc20. 50 kB/s | 304 kB 00:06 [DRPM] kcm_colors-4.11.6-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm: done ... -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailin

Re: procmail testing

2014-01-21 Thread Garry T. Williams
e. As to why that occurred, I have no clue. But a valid mailbox *must* begin each message with "From \n" -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Ouch! X2Go needs a couch!

2014-01-18 Thread Garry T. Williams
ust set to permissive to get the corrected policy installed. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/

Re: perl-Graphics-Color

2014-01-12 Thread Garry T. Williams
quot; for everything. garry@vfr$ -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines

Re: OCR

2014-01-11 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 1-9-14 22:56:39 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.html Zero and add packed (ZAP) *is* an instruction on the IBM System 370, 390, etc. http://www.simotime.com/asmins01.htm#ZAP -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list us

Re: ONLY VPN traffic on F20 wireless interface?

2014-01-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
been activated. The environment contains the connection UUID in the variable CONNECTION_UUID. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Cond

Re: upgraded to F20, still have F18 packages

2013-12-22 Thread Garry T. Williams
ich could easily be scripted). -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: issues with upgrade from f19 -> f20

2013-12-21 Thread Garry T. Williams
a half-upgraded system when the yum command hung updating systemd. The fix is to manually erase the fc19 packages noted in this: package-cleanup --dupes And then do yum distro-sync On my desktop system I tried fedup for the first time and all went flawlessly. --

Re: evince

2013-12-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
imple. An E-mail message that includes the proper headers preserves the thread or conversation. One that does not doesn't. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: evince

2013-12-01 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 12-1-13 19:05:12 David wrote: > On 12/1/2013 5:48 PM, Garry T. Williams wrote: > > On 12-1-13 17:39:50 Garry T. Williams wrote: Also, by the way, > > Microsoft ignores this RFC in its clients. :-( > > My client comes from Mozilla. So they ignore this crap too? Good for &g

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