On 5/7/25 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM home user via users
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wrote:
[...]
It is a "MICRO CENTER" stick, probably bought in a Microcenter store in
Rockville, Maryland at least 10 years ago.
On 5/7/25 8:19 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 7 May 2025 at 9:35, George N. White III wrote:
Just to note there is a tool to check for fake USB and test USB
drives.
The latest version from Fedora Repo is
f3-8.0-8.fc41.x86_64
There is a newer version on https://github.com/Altr
On 5/6/25 6:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 6:31 PM, home user via users wrote:
More progress.
Doing that brings up some files and one directory.
There should be multiple directories.
If I try to look at the properties of that directory, it
On 5/6/25 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, home user via users wrote:
More progress.
Doing that brings up some files and one directory.
There should be multiple directories.
If I try to look at the properties of that directory, it says
"contents unreadable", and
On 5/6/25 6:31 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 6:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:13 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users
On 5/6/25 6:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:13 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote
On 5/6/25 6:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:07 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb".
If it doesn't show the partition table, then
On 5/6/25 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/6/25 3:57 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb".
If it doesn't show the partition table, then try "gpart /dev/sdb",
then try "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" again.
If it
On 5/5/25 10:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 8:18 PM, home user via users wrote:
# gpart /dev/sdb
Begin scan...
Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(14782mb), offset(3mb)
End scan.
Checking partitions...
Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): primary
Ok.
Guessed primary
On 5/5/25 9:29 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 5/5/25 20:18, home user via users wrote:
[... snip ...]
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors
Disk model:
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size
read all the way to the end; don't stop too soon!
On 5/5/25 8:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:57 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home use
On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote:
Here's a mount attempt:
- - - - -
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors
On 5/5/25 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:08 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote:
Here's a mount attempt:
- - - - -
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors
On 5/5/25 6:27 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
[...]
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
[...]
Unless you are already root that probably should be "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"
I'm already root.
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On 5/5/25 5:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/5/25 3:55 PM, home user via users wrote:
Here's a mount attempt:
- - - - -
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors
Disk model:
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512
On 5/5/25 3:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 3:58 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/2/2025 4:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
never been able to figure out how to manually (from the command
line) mount something. File browsers do that for me nicely.
"sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"
: Community support for Fedora users
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Tim:
There is a "ddrescue" tool with that kind of thing in mind.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
TestDisk is another program that can look for partitio
(sigh) time to try to catch up, at least a little.
On 4/28/2025 12:12 AM, Tim wrote:
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?
No
On 5/2/2025 4:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 3:34 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/2/25 4:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 9:44 AM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You can try running "gpart" on it. That will try to discover the
On 5/2/25 4:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 9:44 AM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You can try running "gpart" on it. That will try to discover the
partitions.
# gpart /dev/sdb
Begin scan...
Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(14782mb), offse
On 5/2/25 3:14 AM, Barry Scott wrote:
On 2 May 2025, at 04:12, home user via users
wrote:
How can I recover the back-up (without cost)?
Note that I'm needing to recover the back-up as a whole, not just a
file or 2 from a back-up.
If the files are in your /home you can do a fresh in
On 5/1/25 10:48 PM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:12 -0600, home user via users wrote:
Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a
USB 3 stick.
Too late now, but never consider a USB stick as a back-up. It's flakey
technology. I only use them as sneak
On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/1/25 8:12 PM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome)
Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a
USB 3 stick.
[snip]
But now when I insert the back-up stick into a port on either tower,
it&#
On 5/1/25 9:12 PM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome)
snip
But now when I insert the back-up stick into a port on either tower,
it's claimed the back-up stick is un-formatted and empty. Fedora's
"disks" and windows-10 (file browser and d
(F-42; stand-alone workstation; Gnome)
Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a
USB 3 stick.
The upgrade failed.
A local friend gave me a windows-10 box to use. Until I could get the
Fedora workstation adequately restored, I needed to get a few things off
the F-4
On 4/27/25 4:12 AM, Barry Scott wrote:
On 26 Apr 2025, at 01:38, 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
On 4/26/25 1:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/26/25 9:22 AM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome)
good morning,
My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late
yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It
was installed
On 4/26/25 5:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
home user composed on 2025-04-26 16:01 (UTC-0600):
The workstation rebooted fine without the card. No problems so far. So
the CPU does have integrated graphics, which answers Felix and Samuel.
There is one cost: this was a 2-monitor workstation; now
On 4/27/25 2:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:45:04 -0600, home user via users wrote:
The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super
User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as.
Please don't turn this into a gues
On 4/25/25 11:22 PM, Tim wrote:
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 m
On 4/26/25 5:46 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Apr 26, 2025, at 00:24, David King wrote:
As to firewalls:
Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts your
computer directly on the internet, where everyone can hack away at it trying to
break in. I always put some sor
On 4/25/25 10:23 PM, David King wrote:
To find out what your ip address is do:
sudo ip addr
# ip addr
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft foreve
On 4/26/25 12:21 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 8:45 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote:
securing this workstation: part 2.
The login screen has 2 named users:
1. a user that Anaconda had me create.
2
On 4/25/25 11:00 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:23:50 -0400 David King wrote:
Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts
your computer directly on the internet, where everyone can hack away
at it trying to break in.
This only applies if there is any se
On 4/25/25 9:37 PM, Fred wrote:
curl ifconfig.me
# curl ifconfig.me
2001:558:6040:48:e03d:21b7:9d94:6649
#
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On 4/26/25 1:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/26/25 8:49 AM, home user via users wrote:
On 4/25/25 9:33 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 8:28 PM, home user via users wrote:
I moved the ethernet cable to my windows box. windows reports the
following;
IPv6 address: 2001:558:6040:48:787f
On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users
mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
wrote:
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation)
This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done
today. It is not
On 4/26/25 10:22 AM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome)
good morning,
My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday,
and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed
yesterday afternoon. It's practically unu
On 4/26/2025 12:40 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
home user composed on 2025-04-26 10:22 (UTC-0600):
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome)
My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday,
and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed
yesterday
On 4/26/2025 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM home user via users
wrote:
Before starting this experiment, the top 3 things that were crashing
were Thunderbird, Firefox, and gnome; there were other things. Some
crashes took me back to the graphical login
As I mentioned in a new thread ("suppose I remove nvidia card"), the
workstation is practically unusable. Once that's solved, I'll return to
this thread.
I thank all who have tried to help so far.
On 4/25/2025 6:38 PM, home user via users wrote:
(Fedora-42; stand-alone w
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome)
good morning,
My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late yesterday,
and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It was installed
yesterday afternoon. It's practically unusable. I'm now on a windows-10
box (separate hardware,
On 4/25/25 9:33 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 8:28 PM, home user via users wrote:
I moved the ethernet cable to my windows box. windows reports the
following;
IPv6 address: 2001:558:6040:48:787f:8998:f490:f5d3
Link-local IPv6 address: fe80::805:cbe5:bc94:2edd%2
IPv4 address
On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote:
securing this workstation: part 2.
The login screen has 2 named users:
1. a user that Anaconda had me create.
2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create.
Then there's something else bel
On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600
home user via users wrote:
The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The
modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common
co-ax(?) cable.
I lost ***all*** my notes. How do I
On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users
wrote:
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation)
This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation,
done
today. It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home
On 4/25/25 7:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote:
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation)
This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation,
done today. It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or
office network.
It is not dual
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation)
This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done
today. It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office
network.
It is not dual-boot.
I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with
the "outside
On 4/11/2025 4:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/11/25 12:19 PM, home user via users wrote:
error: Failed build dependencies:
kernel-devel-uname-r = 6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64 is needed by
nvidia-470xx-kmod-3:470.256.02-7.fc40.x86_64
Try doing the system upgrade again. You're still o
On 04/11/2025 12:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/11/25 11:14 AM, home user via users wrote:
On 04/10/2025 11:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Was it you or someone else that got into this same situation recently?
Not sure. In early or mid October, I upgraded from f39 to f40. There
were major
(replying to 2)
(Marco)
> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*
(see attached file "repos.txt")
> Then dnf update(I'll come back to this)
On 04/10/2025 11:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/10/25 6:58 PM, home user via users wrote:
So I tried "dnf upgrade kernel-devel"
On 04/10/2025 8:33 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
stem-upgrade reboot".
>
2025/04/10 18:33:42 akmodsbuild: error: Failed build dependencies:
2025/04/10 18:33:42 akmodsbuild: kernel-devel-uname-r =
6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64 is needed by
You need to run 'dnf install kernel-devel-6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_6
On 04/10/2025 7:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/10/25 5:59 PM, home user via users wrote:
... snip ...
Install "kernel-devel".
The tee's did not capture everything that showed up on the console.
"dnf install kernel-devel"...
-
Nothing to do.
-
The comm
On 04/10/2025 6:27 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/10/25 3:43 PM, home user via users wrote:
My final answer is that I don't know if the proper graphics driver is
properly installed or not. It was just before this morning's "dnf
system-upgrade reboot".
Try running "a
On 04/10/2025 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM home user via users
wrote:
On 04/10/2025 1:19 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
[...]
I assume an issue with the graphical interface. Change the systemd
target in grub
systemd.unit=multi-user.target
Which GPU do you have and
On 04/10/2025 1:19 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 10.04.2025 um 13:12:07 Uhr schrieb home user via users:
On 04/10/2025 12:36 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 10.04.2025 um 12:21:15 Uhr schrieb home user via users:
I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot
from it; I
On 04/10/2025 12:36 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 10.04.2025 um 12:21:15 Uhr schrieb home user via users:
I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot
from it; I don't know why.
I do not have a rescue.
Specify what you see, especially after you disabled the b
I tried to upgrade from Fedora-40 (patched this morning) to Fedora-41.
I followed the instructions in the Fedora web site
".../upgrading-fedora-offline" document. After the "dnf system-upgrade
reboot" step, the boot process never resulted in a login screen. I
tried several times, including r
On 3/29/25 10:35 PM, Tim wrote:
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 (th
On 4/5/25 6:41 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
Good morning,
I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40
to Fedora Workstation 41. The
On 4/5/25 1:22 AM, Barry wrote:
On 4 Apr 2025, at 23:12, home user via users
wrote:
I don't recall customizing dnf in the past several years. The workstation is
12 years old; I don't recall if I did any dnf or yum customization that far
back.
I was not thinking of customis
On 4/4/25 5:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM home user via users
wrote:
Good morning,
I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40
to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have
rea
On 4/4/25 10:53 AM, Barry wrote:
On 4 Apr 2025, at 17:29, home user via users
wrote:
configuration file changes?
If you drop-in config then nothing to do usually.
But if you have the full conf file then check for new options you may need to
tune.
I don't recall customizing dnf i
On 4/4/25 10:52 AM, Barry wrote:
On 4 Apr 2025, at 17:29, home user via users
wrote:
Good morning,
I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40
to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have
read the instructio
Good morning,
I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40
to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have
read the instructions in docs.fedoraproject.org/ I see that dnf is getting
a major upgrade from dnf4 to dnf5. I have
On 3/30/25 9:35 PM, Tim wrote:
Thank-you, Tim. (more below)
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/wat
On 3/31/25 7:51 PM, Tim via users wrote:
...
"-ob9LHPEaKY" worked (11 chars), but "D-_qS_3KXBA" (11 chars) didn't,
though "-_qS_3KXBA" (10 chars) does.
That was my experience also.
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On 3/29/25 11:25 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote:
...
You might want to look at 'fd', an alternative to 'find' which is very
fast and has some additional options. 'dnf info fd-find'.
Also fzf, an
On 3/27/25 10:29 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 03:00:21PM -0600, home user via users wrote:
Good afternoon,
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
(but without the bra
On 3/27/25 11:40 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
home user via users wrote:
On 3/26/25 8:02 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
home user via users writes:
...
I think the man page clearly indicates that the -e option
requires an argument:
Matching
On 3/27/25 5:03 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
home user via users writes:
On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
home user via users writes:
...
Now, try adding more not-letters-and-digits to the search string. It won't be
long before things stop working again.
$ echo 'j^k'
On 3/26/25 8:02 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
home user via users writes:
By the way, grep's behavior suggests that the order of the options matters. I
did not expect that. Does the order of the options really matter?
I was paying attenti
On 3/26/25 7:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
home user via users writes:
I am indeed wanting the searches to skip the binary files (such as ".png" and
".mkv" files).
I am indeed wanting the searches to take case into account.
Now, try adding more not-letters-and-digits
On 3/26/25 5:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/26/25 4:35 PM, home user via users wrote:
[snip]
The results are correct. But notice that the case sensitive search took over 7
1/4 MINUTES; the case INsensitive search took less than 1/20 second. That's a
nearly 4 orders of magnitude diffe
On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote:
A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line. I'm curious: did
"grep" have the -r option back then?
Maybe my memory is faulty but I
Good evening,
Well, I though it was solved. But something is still awry
-
bash.3[ShiPin]: time grope -ob9LHPEaKY
Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt
real0m0.043s
user0m0.010s
sys 0m0.016s
bash.4[ShiPin]: time Grope -ob9LHPEaKY
Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt
real7m15.297s
user
On 3/26/25 3:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users
wrote:
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -
On 3/26/25 3:17 PM, Jerry James wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users
wrote:
Good afternoon,
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
(but without the brackets). This
Good afternoon,
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
(but without the brackets). This often works. But it sometimes fails when the search
string contains "printable" characters other than letter
On 2/13/25 10:50 AM, home user via users wrote:
(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago)
When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding
"wted":
- - - - - -
[snip]
Checking `w55808'... not infected
Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) betw
On 2/14/25 9:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 02:19 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
Having said all that, most people don't serve websites from their own
PC any more, few ISPs allow it.
I do run a small family webserver on my desktop, but I also have
Fail2Ban installed. It r
s not worth worrying about.
home user:
Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I recall over a decade ago being
advised on this list to use 2 tools to watch for malware on this
workstation: chkrootkit and rkhunter.
As a general rule, old advice goes stale... ;-)
And out-of-date malware
On 2/13/25 11:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 13 Feb 2025 at 20:39, home user via users wrote:
[snip]
So looks like 0.58 has some added things.
rkhunter seems to have the same version as sourceforge site.
Thank-you Michael.
My information came from "dnf history" and
On 2/14/25 3:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 23:32 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Those tools are not going to provide any useful help.
I tend to agree. I've never used either of them and have had no
consequences as a result. Linux can have security issues of course, but
my
On 2/13/25 7:33 PM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 10:50 -0700, home user via users wrote:
When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of
context) regarding
Is there a reason you feel the need to check for rootkits?
I'm under the impression that if you don'
On 2/13/25 3:11 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 2/13/25 2:40 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:51, home user via users
wrote:
[snip]
What is "wted", and is there a security problem?
The “wted” function in the chkrootkit script runs “chwtmp -f /var/log/w
On 2/13/25 2:40 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:51, home user via users
wrote:
(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago)
When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding
"wted":
- - - - - -
[snip]
Checking `w55808'.
On 2/13/25 1:15 PM, Barry wrote:
On 13 Feb 2025, at 17:51, home user via users
wrote:
When I ran chkrootkit
I cannot find evidence of this tool being maintained.
But I did find people saying its reports contain false positives.
Barry
Thank-you, Barry. I "patch" weekly.
On 2/13/25 1:00 PM, Dave Close wrote:
home user via users wrote:
(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago)
When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context)
regarding "wted":
- - - - - -
[snip]
Checking `w55808'... not infected
Checking `wted'... 1
(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago)
When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding
"wted":
- - - - - -
[snip]
Checking `w55808'... not infected
Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Tue Jan 28 07:33:49 2025 and Tue Jan
28 07:36:08 2025
1 deletion(s
(responding to both Samuel and Jonathan)
(Samuel)
There's no lockin for the filesystem. Even Fedora server uses a different
default than Fedora workstation.
But either way, you can select whichever filesystem you want at installation.
But I must say that I am
loving the subvolume options of
(responding to Patrick, George, and Samuel)
Thank-you for your responses.
I'm almost certain that I'll want a dual-boot system on the new workstation:
Fedora + one other t.b.d. Linux distribution. In that situation, does it
matter which file system I'll use? Also, am I correct in assuming th
On 1/20/25 12:25 PM, Will McDonald wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 19:20, home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
For Red Hat Enterprise, all I've found on the internet is negative (it does
not use...), and nothing more recent that version 8. But it
On 1/20/25 11:09 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
On 1/20/25 1:04 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 1/20/25 12:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
...
I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and have
to regain my trust.
...
The Btrfs file system received num
On 1/20/25 12:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
...
I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and have
to regain my trust.
...
The Btrfs file system received numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux versions 6.0 through 6.6
and 7.0 through 7.4. It will r
On 11/28/24 10:24 AM, home user via users wrote:
(f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome)
A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from
"chkrootkit":
- - - - - -
bash.1[~]: chkrootkit
ROOTDIR is `/'
Checking `amd'... not found
[
(on 2024-11-26, Stephen Morris said)
When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs
to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just
issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository
twice. Why is DNF doing that when there is only one reposi
(f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome)
A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following
warning from "chkrootkit":
- - - - - -
bash.1[~]: chkrootkit
ROOTDIR is `/'
Checking `amd'... not found
[snip]
Checking `bindshell'... not infected
Checking `lkm'... You have 1 proce
(f-40, last patched Nov. 14; gnome; stand-alone workstation)
(nvidia geforce gtx 660; I use the rpmfusion driver)
Some of the GUI applications on my workstation are difficult to nearly
impossible to use. Parts of them are invisible or on-and-off invisible. This
started after I upgraded to f-4
On 11/9/24 3:59 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 11/8/24 10:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/8/24 8:46 PM, home user via users wrote:
I thought that in the case of a file that IS owned by a package, rpm -qf was
displaying the name of the owned file. So I was expecting a file name to
appear
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