Re: Resolving names

Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that > would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: > > option domain-name "internal."; > > It's going by proper standar

Re: Resolving names

Tim: > > You could certainly whack ".internal" onto the end of your hostnames to > > make up a FQDN without issues. And even though it's a long thing to > > type, you can make use the search domain feature so it's configured > > into the networking pa

Re: Resolving names

Samuel Sieb: >> That shouldn't work. A name without a domain isn't valid. You >> need to set things up so there's a domain (and don't use >> local!). You can have a default domain, so that bare names will >> automatically be tried with the default domain. Javier Perez: > Sorry. It works. I do

Re: securing this workstation.

Tim: > > I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told > > the original poster about it. > > > > I skimmed over it and didn't really notice it. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Not really my point. AFAIK billi...@negate.org said he's un

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 14:50 +0300, jarmo wrote: > systemctl status postfix > ○ postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; disabled; > preset: disabled) > Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d > └─10-timeout-a

Re: Postfix

Tim: > > Bearing in mind that even *then* there have been cases of the network > > not actually being up and running before being declared it was. I'm > > beginning to think we need either a post-boot target, or at least an > > improvement on the network is up decisio

Re: Postfix

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 16:12 +0200, Benny Lyne Amorsen wrote: > The recommended solution is to trigger service start off incoming > connections, if possible. This is less ideal for things like Postfix > which might need to send traffic before they receive it. On this computer we don't break the law

Re: securing this workstation.

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 11:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You seem to be blaming the list for the user's alleged mistakes. I > don't see the logic. I do suppose that more than one of us should have noticed it and told the original poster about it. I skimmed over it and didn't really notice

Re: Postfix

Barry kirjoitti: > > Being enabled is not necessarily enough. > > It must be enabled for the default target. > > > > Is it wanted by the default target? > > jarmo: > Is this what you mean? > systemctl enable postfix > Created symlink > '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.servi

Re: Resolving names

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 03:10 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to > try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. > My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them with > static ip addresses set at my local router. > My si

Re: securing this workstation.

home user via users wrote: > > # firewall-cmd --list-all > > FedoraWorkstation (default, active) > > target: default > > ingress-priority: 0 > > egress-priority: 0 > > icmp-block-inversion: no > > interfaces: eno1 > > sources: > > services: dhcpv6-client samba-client ssh > > ports: 1025-65

Re: Post-F42-Upgrade Error Messages

Jeffrey Walton: > > Maybe related to > > ? Sam Varshavchik: > Yes, that's what that's all about. And by about F50, give or take a release, > I expect that we'll get rid of the rest of ALL thise yucky different > directories altogether

Re: securing this workstation.

Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I am so curious how you installed it to get that. I've never seen > > root have a name other than "root". Barry Scott: > It's the default on a new Fedora install. > > $ head -n 2 /etc/passwd > root:x:0:0:Super User:/root:/bin/bash > bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin

Re: about systemd-resolved

Tim: > > And there are (or were?) various apps that look to Network Manager > > to tell if you're off- or on- line. Felix Miata: > I don't know why apps would care. When I want to know, I look at the > LEDs on my router and/or modem and/or ethernet port Likewise... I

Post-F42-Upgrade Error Messages

Since doing F41->F42 upgrades on a couple of my systems, I'm getting error messages (on both) like these when doing dnf upgrades. They reference different specific reasons, however, for the failure to merge. >>> Running trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: filesystem-0:3.18-36.fc42.x86_64 /usr/

Re: [SOLVED] Re: suppose I remove nvidia card?

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 21:37 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Removing the card worked. That's evidence, an argument, not proof, > that the card was bad. Did you also try putting it back in again? Back in my early days of fixing up people's PCs, reseating cards was often needed. Few cases wer

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

Tim: >> Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. Mike Wright: > In early microsoft days (still?) reboot was a mantra. For linux users > uptime was a badge of honor and proudly displayed in mail footers. [tim@rocky ~]$ uptime 15:35:38 up 51 days

Re: about systemd-resolved

Tim via users: > > My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and > > it's set up to also resolve queries about internet addresses. It runs > > as a full server. No public server can answer queries about my LAN. Marco Moock: > Then only have the i

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 13:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Having no mobile computers, and none using wireless networking, I find myself > to > be the only network manager needed, and barely so, so have no network manager > installed It can still manage that *one* connection. And there are (or were

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 02:02 +, Jonathan via users wrote: > Have you tried googling your issue? It looks like there should be a > setting for it in Mate as discussed here. "here" *was* a link to a reddit page about Ubuntu, which shows one of the drawbacks with HTML mail (disappearing links), a

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 20:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Every time I have had two going, it has been an > unpredictable mess. This not suppose to be the > case? Installed doesn't mean active... Oddly enough I have two installed, but only one is set to go. Looking on an old installati

Re: securing this workstation.

home user via users wrote: > > I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or > > firewalld-config. I have both. But Fedora docs does not give me > > enough detail. I am not an IT professional. What specifically > > should I do to keep unwanted people and things out? Barry Scott

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 12:17 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Then you have a general problem. DNS is intended to give back the same > results for the same query - regardless which server you ask. Yes, and no. My internal DNS can obviously answer my LAN addressing queries, and it's set up to also resol

Re: securing this workstation.

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 16:45 -0600, home user via users wrote: > # netstat -ltuvpe > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State User Inode PID/Program name > tcp0 0 _localdnsproxy:domain 0.0.0.0:*

Re: about systemd-resolved

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 23:05 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Current DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 > DNS Servers: 80.67.169.12 80.67.169.40 192.168.1.1 Having multiple DNS servers, like that, *can* be a problem. It depends on your use case. The system will usually have a default server it querie

Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading?

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 17:33 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > An upgrade needs a reboot anyway. This!! Yes, I know we're reticent to go rebooting if we really do not need to. But a system upgrade is a complete interruption to whatever you were doing beforehand. You may as well reboot before starting,

Re: securing this workstation.

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 16:08 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Most of those devices have an IPv6 SPI firewall that provides the same > security as NAT. I shall be pedantic here. NAT does not provide security, it is not a firewall. A "didn't know what to do with an incoming connection" (now) is not the

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 06:31 -0400, bruce wrote: > I'm using gmail, so recently, I had a few spare mins, and decided to > check out.. can gmail permit the insertion of "content/comments" > within a email thread.. > > as opposed to hitting "reply" and letting the app place the comment > wherever it

Re: securing this workstation.

On Fri, 2025-04-25 at 18:38 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with > the "outside world" appropriately. I do occasionally need to be able to > download or upload things. > Beyond those (and maybe other appropriate things that d

Re: dns question

Tim: >> Or is it region-fenced? Allowing local (to it) usage, not world- wide. Mike Wright: > Could be. But François is in France as is fdn.fr. https://www.fdn.fr/renforcement-serveurs-dns-2025/ Auto-translation of that page comes up with this: - be

Re: dns question

On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:45 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > That shows that there is some kind of server there and that it answers > on the standard dns ports. It just don't reply to any requests. Or is it region-fenced? Allowing local (to it) usage, not world-wide. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0

Re: grub2

Tim: > > I know some recommend that you should do over-the-top updates, but any > > new release ought to be able stand on its own, and not rely on you > > having pre-installed something. Barry Scott: > Why put yourself to the work of applying the config changes on a new ins

Re: grub2

On Mon, 2025-04-21 at 09:34 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Forgive my ignorance... Why are you putzing around with Fedora 40 > kernels when the latest releases are F41 and F42? Is it one of those "update your current OS to the lastest bits" before upgrading to the next release issues? I gave-up u

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 20:51 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I rooted through all of the gory details, icccm, ewmh, and X11 primitives, > some time ago. It's all there. The fly in the ointment is that the nuts and > the bolts of it are difficult use, cumbersome, and lack some convenient > feat

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 22:16 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > Wayland is still broken as far as I am concerned when it comes to > session restore stuff and new window placement. But I notice that I > can ssh to that system and run x11 apps (over the local network) no > problem. Wayland supplies a

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 11:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Personally, I've always considered Ubuntu to be designed for Windows > refugees. They want to get away from the built in problems of Windows > but don't want to learn how to do things properly. I'd come to a similar conclusion. Windows refug

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Tim: > > But I'd argue that the hierarchies were there for a good reason. > > *Simple* no-access to some things for some people/software. *Simple* > > more privileged access to things in /sbin to those who had it in their > > path, and lesser privileged versions of

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 18:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I forgot what were the actual, technical reasons for collapsing bin > and sbin, except for "other distributions did it too". But the deed > is done, and one just has to deal with the aftermath: The artificial idiot listed these summaries:

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 13:47 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Ignore a thread - the whole thread vanishes from sight, and stays > there. Speaking of that... While Evolution has an option to ignore threads, it doesn't seem to do anything other than italicise the ignored messages in the m

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

Tim: > > better filtering options [follow and ignore], Sam Varshavchik: > Mailing lists do a far better job of weeding out the crap simply by the > virtue of requiring a subscription to go through, first, then whitelisting > the subscriber addresses. While there's that,

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

lejeczek via users wrote: > > the only solution - in my mind - must be > > practical-programmatic one... > > to sync messaging content between the two (or more), > > pulling/pushing those two between each other so there is no > > difference, the messaging-content is the same everywhere. Patrick

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

Ranjan Maitra: >> It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI systems. Marco Moock: > In most cases it is, as it also provides an EFI bootloader that can > boot Linux. Even if there are ways to boot the Linux kernel directly > from the UEFI, most operating systems ship a boot loader

Re: sub for google-authenticator?

Tim: > > That does seem a bit of a misuse of the field. Clearly Apache is not a > > Fedora project, for instance. RPM.org's own site says this about an > > example it provides: > > > > "The Vendor tag is used to define the name of the organization >

Re: sub for google-authenticator?

ToddAndMargo: >>> Vendor : Fedora Project >> >> By chance, does this mean it is not a Google product? Sam Varshavchik: > Nope. Every package you get from Fedora's repos will have this. Including > stuff like Apache, Postgres, etc… That does seem a bit of a misuse of the field. Clearly

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

On Sat, 2025-04-12 at 15:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You mentioned that you installed the non-graphical system, then added > the desktop later. That's why I thought the server one didn't let you > add desktops during install. I mentioned that. I don't recall if it were a case of blind insta

Re: thunderbird/browser problem

Tim: > > Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links > > clicked on in one of its email? Samuel Sieb: > Thunderbird should be using the system settings. I don't have a current version of Thunderbird to try right now, but I seem recall it had

Re: thunderbird/browser problem

On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 15:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Check in the firefox General settings to see if it's the default browser. Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links clicked on in one of its email? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun

Re: BIOS update, grub boots, Fedora doesn't

On Thu, 2025-04-10 at 20:52 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > - booting a f40 netinstall ISO(via Ventoy) (the same one used to > instal Fedora 40 on this laptop initially) gets as far as the > "install/test/rescue" menu, but otherwise has the same boot failure When I installed Fedora 40 (I think, it's 40),

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

Tim: > > Your cause could be external. Someone bumping a cable, loose power > > socket to a network switch, failing network switch, network switch not > > liking glitches on the mains, cleaning unplugging something to plug > > their vacuum into. ToddAndMargo: > Hmm.

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

On Sat, 2025-04-05 at 17:03 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Problem: about once a week, its networking dies. I would be looking for a log entry for this. Seeing if you can correlate it to other activity on the machine, or external. Is a regular time? Is it during working hours? -- u

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

On Sat, 2025-04-05 at 17:03 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Problem: about once a week, its networking dies. All > network services are dead, xrdp, ssh, samba, etc.. > All of them. Console logins work fine. > > The solution is to call the customer and have him > log in at the console and

Re: I need to monitor a dead network

On Sat, 2025-04-05 at 20:45 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Question: Are network cards actually powered off? I am > thinking at least part of them has to be on for "Wake > on LAN" to operate. That depend on the motherboard (and power supply). When it shuts down it may supply stand-by pow

Re: Errors in DMESG After System Update

Tim: >> Supposedly, it could show an ordinary user something they shouldn't >> know, hence the increased security, now. Barry: > As I understand the risk it is the presences of addresses in dmesg > output of kernel internals that are required for attacking the > kerne

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > I suspect it's merely a label and application-specific. The moment you > > email someone without the requisite software it's going to get ignored. Stephen Morris: > Organisations, if they so desire, can put processes in place to > handle mails with he

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 09:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Does Evolution support the tagging of outgoing mails as > "organisation-sensitive" and hence generate the appropriate mail > headers, and conversely, when an email comes in with mail headers > specifying a sensitivity level does Evo

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:28 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On a whim, I picked "unclassified" for this reply, to see what it does, > and if it makes it through the list server. I see it does. It added a header "Security: Unclassified". But for you to know anything abo

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Replace the coin battery on the motherboard. Robert Moskowitz: > And replacing that battery normally means Bios setting back to > manufacture defaults, so make sure to go through ALL the setup options. > > Of course, you will have no record of what the settings were bef

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 07:17 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I have had my display disappear and not come back when turning on/off > a monitor/tv. Sometimes on/off again works, sometimes moving the > hdmi cable to another monitor port works, and sometimes I have to > reboot. And in these cases the m

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

home user: > > > "Pirates of the Caribbean - Davy Jones's theme cover church organ by > > > Grissini Project" > > > The organist was Romain Vaudé. > > > "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA"; > > > I don't know if

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 22:08 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Sounds like a Windows machine. Smelt like one, too. Though the point still stands. While Linux, itself, is much vaunted as being about as safe as you can get on the net, it will depend on how you configure it and the software you run on

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

Tim: > > For one like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob9LHPEaKY you can type > > ob9LHPEaKY into the YouTube search gadget and it will find that clip. > > And for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA typing just this > > _qS_3KXBA bit into the search gadget works.

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 08:32 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > do you have a firewall enabled? If you *temporarily* disable it, > does the situation change? That's something I'd *never* do outside of a LAN. A temporary firewall drop is all it takes to compromise you in whatever way the firewall was pr

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 15:07 -0600, home user via users wrote: > "Pirates of the Caribbean - Davy Jones's theme cover church organ by Grissini > Project" > The organist was Romain Vaudé. > "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_qS_3KXBA"; > I don't know if that music is considered classical or not. I

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote: > If anyone is curious, the search keys in my examples in this > thread are for pipe organ performances that I like. Classical or another? I've occasionally been able to play real pipe organs (theatre Wurlitzer, and a ~130 year old chu

Re: upstream for qemu-kvm?

On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 22:10 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > rpm -q -i qemu-kvm I always did "rpm -qi", since -i is short for install. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically

Re: Dongle USB

On Thu, 2025-03-27 at 12:15 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > The manufacturer says compatible Linux To be blunt, that may just mean it worked on one distro, perhaps one that doesn't care about what software it installs (not as in malware, but ones that include non-free things the other dist

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Thu, 2025-03-27 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm trying to find a mail package that supports sensitivity headers, > that will leave the mail on the remote server in a form that > thunderbird can still download so that I don't lose them (I might be > able to flag them as unread in gmai

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Thu, 2025-03-27 at 09:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > With sensitive mails in Outlook, if you forward the mail Outlook > retains the mail headers in the forwarded mail and honours the > headers. I'd expect that. Forward generally means pass it along as-it-is (that's if you pass it along as a

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thunderbird running locally on my machine will auto configure the > mail servers when I supply the email address for the account I want > to define in Thunderbird, so I was querying if Evolution can do the > same thing? regards, Steve Ther

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:24 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thunderbird is similar in that for mails I receive from this list the > "Reply All" button is replaced by "Reply List", and if by mistake I > press "Reply" it expectedly breaks the chain. regards, Steve Evolution has noticed a mailing-list

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:19 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > If a mail header specifies a sensitivity level, when the mail is read > in Outlook it adds a message above the subject to treat the mail as > whatever sensitivity is specified (except if there is no sensitivity, > in which case the sensitiv

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > It was a ridiculous palaver just to find a way to send a new email to a > > person without it being a reply, for instance. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Clicking on the address works. It hid them... I had a series of separate emails I've sent someone, who respo

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > I'm beginning to wonder how many people actually use a mail program > > instead of a webmail interface these days. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Outside of mailing lists such as this one, probably not that many, and > those are dominated by the corporate use of Outlo

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > I remember in my early days of the internet, Outlook Express was widely > > despised for breaking threading by not including the necessary headers > > in the replies to maintain the chain. It just, VERY DUMBLY, grouped > > messages with same subject, but didn

Re: php scripts in html files

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 10:05 -0400, bruce wrote: > Server Side Scripting.. on my todo to research further.. I seem to > recall the basic tech was to have "stuff" inserted in the html for > execution on/by the server process.. > Am I off base in recalling. > > At the same time, what does the implem

Re: php scripts in html files

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 17:06 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I'm not sure that's a wise idea. Now the server would have to parse > every .html file looking for PHP, rather than just the .php files. Supplemental info that may be related to why the original poster is thinking of doi

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:56 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > The actual headers you can insert into messags seems to be controlled > from: > > /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.evolution.plugin.email-custom-header.gschema.xml > > > >id="org.gnome.evoluti

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > However, if I reply to such a classified (of some kind) message, the > > reply will not have the security header unless I deliberately add one > > while replying. And you'd be unaware of this when replying. > > > > C minus, needs more thought. Jef

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:26 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On a whim, I picked "unclassified" for this reply, to see what it does, > and if it makes it through the list server. It came through the list with the header. However, if I reply to such a classified (of some kind) me

Re: php scripts in html files

On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 18:02 +0100, François Patte wrote: > I can't get working a php script in an html file: the same file: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > returns "toto" in toto.php and nothing in toto.html I'm not sure that's a wise idea. Now the server would have to parse ever

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > When sensitivity levels are set on a mail, the mail client adds > headers into the header list to specify the sensitivity level > specified (Private, confidential, organisation-confidential). The > setting of organisation-confidential is th

Re: Dongle USB

On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 23:24 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > There is only one PC with a dongle. > The question to get the contraol on the DNS server. > Why when I just start the PC, I have > > Link 9 (enp0s20f0u11) > Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR/IPv4 LLMNR/IPv6 > Protocols: +Defa

Re: Dongle USB

Tim: > > If the device is sitting on its original 192.168.1.1 IP and you need > > to get into it to change it to the IP you want (192.168.8.1), then > > change your PCs IP to one in the same range (e.g. 192.168.1.107), log > > into the device, reconfigure it, restart it,

Re: Evolution Functionality

Tim: > > I don't actually know what you mean by organisation-sensitive or > > sensitivity level, I can only guess. Jeffrey Walton: > <https://www.google.com/search?q=data+classification+and+sensitivity+levels>. Yes, I mentioned classifications further below in m

Re: Strange Systemd Messages

On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 07:57 +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > > The message is a bit arbitrary, but checking a network file system from > > the remote is not intended IIRC, so disable the file system check > > option in fstab. Do the checks on the remote system. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Although the messa

Re: Dongle USB

On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 21:01 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I need to login on 192.168.8.1 > (the manual says 192.168.1.1 !!) > > But, it seems that the DNS does not work > ping 192.168.8.1 does not answer > while I can connect through the interface http If the device has changed IPs t

Re: Dongle USB

On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 22:37 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 > localhost6.localdomain6 Teucidide teucidide Adding your own hostname to the loopback address *can* be a problem. You may not

Re: Errors in DMESG After System Update

Tim: > > Supposedly, it could show an ordinary user something they shouldn't > > know, hence the increased security, now. Stephen Morris: > It depends on what environment you are in, if you are in an > organisational environment then it is possible that it may show > s

Re: Errors in DMESG After System Update

On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Todd, it's been quite a while since I've used DMESG, but I don't > remember ever having to use sudo with it, nor do I remember ever seeing > the message about kernel buffer access being denied, but it just means I > will now have

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 16:47 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > Later, after mounting the ext4 partition on the card under Fedora and > doing two or three minutes of exploration, I encounter a bad block. > So I unmount the partition and use e2fsck to locate any bad blocks > and mark them: > > e2fsck -y -

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 22:14 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > I received a new SanDisk "Extreme" 128 GB SD card today and used rpi- > imager to put a new OS onto it. After completing successfully, I was > able to mount the linux partition and make a backup copy onto a hard > disk. But then... > > # umo

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 22:05 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > "e2fsck -c" said it didn't find any bad blocks. If it didn't find any, > why would it modify the card at all? "e2fsck -y" (by itself) did not > report any problem. Perhaps it didn't. If the card was failing, a read operation could be enough t

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 16:47 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > I have been trying to create an SDcard to use with an Raspberry > Pi. The card is created using the rpi-imager program on Fedora (41) > and that program reports the creation as successful. Later, after > mounting the ext4 partition on the card

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

Tim: > > Depending on your terminal, you *may* be able to have the full path > > showing in the title bar, and just the current directory name at the > > command prompt. > > > > Changing the \w to \W in your PS1= .bashrc string does it for some of > > them (

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 10:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a > terminal window? > > For example I have one terminal window with: > > rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft-ietf-drip-rid/dki-try2$ > > That is t

Re: internal network

On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 16:51 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > The Spectrum modem only has oneport. It would only connect to their > proprietary router with an extra monthly charge not my Reyee. If a PC can connect to it, so can a router. They may require you to connect something to it so

Re: what kind of raid is this?

On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 14:08 +, Barry wrote: > Whst is fake raid? I had assume that term just means software raid in > the bios. RAID done by the motherboard, either completely on its own, or requiring specialist drivers. And is depending heavily on the motherboard for its existence, and quite

Re: MATE desktop not offered by Fedora 42 greeter

On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote: > In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME" > and "GNOME Classic" even though dnf reports: > Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed. Which greeter and desktop manager are i

Re: internal network

On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 19:42 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > What is daisy-chaining? Named after making a necklace from intertwining daisies together, it's one thing connected to another, to another through another, to another through another, etc. Internet <--> PC <--> PC <--> PC -- uname -r

Re: Fresh install Fedora 41 on Dell Inspiron 3721.

Ger van Dijck wrote: > > When I try to install with the Mediawriter the proces is aborted , when > > doing with the Netinstall .ISO on DVD Fedora 41 can be installed but > > there is no bootloader , but in the BIOS there are two bootfiles. > > > > So I can go in the BIOS and change the boot

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