Re: SATA errors (only) when on battery

2018-02-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/08/2018 03:53 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Is there a way to disable SATA link power management at the kernel command line? Start by checking the value of /sys/class/scsi_host/*/link_power_management_policy See: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/

Re: Please help me with samba or my brain will explode.

2018-02-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Илья Коскин wrote: > Hello everybody. Here is my problem. I have two computers, both with fedora > workstation 27, both with selinux disabled, both fully updated. Both have the > same configuration of samba: > [global] > usershare max shares = 5 >

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/24/2018 02:24 AM, François Patte wrote: I read a lot of smb.conf that are supposed to configure samba to share a folder without authentication (ie. everybody connected to the LAN can access this folder) but all these config files are wrong... ie. when I try to connect to the samba server (f

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/24/2018 11:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: (which they either made impossible or made so obscure it might as well be impossible). # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] ...    map to guest = Bad User [music]     path = /home/samba/Music     guest ok = Yes $ smbclient //storage/music/ -U '' Enter

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/24/2018 05:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: But can a windows 10 box automatically mount it with no user interaction like it once could do with public shares before they got rid of the public share mode? Yes. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: cups sucks!!!

2018-02-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/25/2018 10:42 AM, François Patte wrote: I opened firefox on one computer and miracle: the printer attached to the other computer is discovered and cups admin interface asks me if I want to add this printer. Nice: the job is easy!!*But* this does not work at all!! If I recall correctly,

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/26/2018 12:16 AM, François Patte wrote: Ok! But this is not enough, you have to create a kind of dummy user on your system and make this user a samba user. See: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Standalone_Server Everything on that page related to the creation or us

Re: cups sucks!!!

2018-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.  Change "Listen localhost:631" to "Listen *:631" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > No, what I was mentioning here is what I have read as standard linux > functionality with copying, when a file is copied, and it doesn't matter > where to, rather than create a 2nd copy of the file, the "copy" is created > as a hard link to t

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/10/2018 05:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I can't find the documentation any more, but I have found documentation on how to use copy the create the target as a hard link or as a soft link. It is possible I have incorrectly remembered what I had read, or it is possible over time that the sta

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/11/2018 11:48 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Where has ~37GB disappeared to? "ls -la 20180216/phil" Are there dot-files in there that aren't being matched by the shell glob?  If so: shopt -s dotglob du -s -BG 20180216/phil/* ___ users mailing li

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

2018-03-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/13/2018 01:19 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: It just seems counter intuitive to me to have to issue another command (even if one knows of its existence) to get a command to function "properly". Having read this thread, I think you may still not grasp what the shell does and what command (d

Re: Wow, KVM is great :-)

2018-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/14/2018 03:20 PM, Raman Gupta wrote: 1) It seems the networking is not quite as straightforward as VMWare for a single-VM use case. It can be.  If you want to used bridged networking, you have to create a bridge in Linux.  KVM doesn't handle that internally (which is to say, it doesn'

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/02/2018 11:30 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: The user though, with a real 256G disk doesn't seem to get any compression of the disk or partitions. Them resulting images are close to the same size as the disks or partitions?? Does the user have LUKS encrypted partitions?  Encrypting the

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/10/2018 06:46 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Yes, I probably didn't say it well. I was inferring that if an outgoing UDP destination port 53 request was sent, then I think the iptables conntrack plugin opens incoming UDP traffic with a source port of 53 for some period of time, since this was (the

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/13/2018 12:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I am attempting to set up an NFS server on a new Fedora 27 computer I have assembled using instructions I found, "Fedora Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS" and I am having a problem accessing it. Sadly, that document is both incomplete and badly out of d

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/13/2018 01:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: By default F27 uses NFSv4. The access is far more restrictive. I tend to think it is less so, since it uses fewer ports, which are predictable.  That wasn't the case with v3 and older, which tended to require much more permissive firewall policies.

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/13/2018 04:38 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: Have you tried showmounts -e 192.168.1.x to see if the nfs server is exporting the directories. Note that showmounts uses the portmapper.  It may only work if your system supports the use of NFSv3.  If you're using only NFSv4, and don't have the portm

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/13/2018 04:38 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: This was probably already suggested, but: -- on the server side, run "sudo netstat -antp | grep 111" to see if the nfs server is there & listening. -- on the client side, try the classic "telnet 111" to see if you can at least connect. Port 111 is

Re: NFS server setup -

2018-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/13/2018 07:26 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: Don't forget to restart the nfs server whenever you do changes on the /etc/exports. You don't need to restart anything, just run "exportfs -r" to rebuild the binary export file. ___ users mailing list -- us

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/17/2018 02:42 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: /dev/mapper/fedora-home 2.7T  4.8G  2.5T   1% /home As you can see it is putting the stored data in "/" [19G in a 49G space]. Those partitions were setup selecting "custom/standard partitions] in the installer. It looks to me like I should've used the

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/18/2018 08:43 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# mount 192.168.1.86:/home/exports/home  /mnt/test mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.86:/home/exports/home What am I missing and/or doing wrong? If you are using NFSv4, remember that the first export is the *root*.

Re: Any trick to booting off a eufi USB flash drive?

2018-05-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/05/2018 08:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 05:16 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: Well, it looks like Virt-manager won't let me configure it after the VM is created. You can edit the XML file (after shutting down the VM of course) using 'virsh edit . IIRC I've done this

Re: Dell laptop for Fedora (XPS 13 or Latitude 7490) or worthier alternatives?

2018-05-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/09/2018 07:49 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: The XPS13 has a slightly lower spec for the processor (maybe, because it appears to be of slightly earlier stock - 8550U versus 8650U) but the specs are fairly comparable. The resolution is no doubt better for the XPS13. This configuration will cost

Re: Dell laptop for Fedora (XPS 13 or Latitude 7490) or worthier alternatives?

2018-05-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/09/2018 10:06 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I agree with the XPS trackpad issue. There is no noticeable difference between the two otherwise? I think that the XPS is about one pound lighter. And also the screen resolution is HD as opposed to QHD for the XPS. I am told that the XPS has more bez

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/21/2018 06:37 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: I was in Mate up to some days ago and the ssh passphrase was in need to be inserted only once in mater-terminal, because I had this in my .bashrc (I think) export SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ksshaskpass" Not exactly.  The "askpass" setting only contro

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/21/2018 09:06 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I'd try retraining the battery for longer run-time until empty: Depleting the battery fully does not extend the run-time of the battery.  It will sometimes re-calibrate the battery controller and improve its estimates, but it does reduce the b

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/22/2018 06:41 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Do you have number of bugzilla? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795699 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568895 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Docker warning - Your kernel does not support cgroup rt runtime

2018-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/28/2018 09:58 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote: I am curious what is cgroup rt runtime? Can anyone explain what it about? https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#configure-the-realtime-scheduler If your kernel has a realtime scheduler, you can use it for your containers. 

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/24/2018 01:24 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Actually latest updates brought in better (if you mind usability) or worse (if you mind security) behavior, not covered in the two bugs... In fact now if I connect to a system with the key that has a passphrase from gnome-terminal, I can log in wi

Re: Gnome keyring and ssh passphrase

2018-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/30/2018 01:20 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Thanks, indeed I find it in the section "OpenSSH Keys" of the Gnome Tool you referred. There is an ssh keys section, but I'm actually not sure that's used any more.  As far as I know, the newest release of GNOME has actually done away with inter

Re: libesmtp-devel

2018-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/09/2018 12:37 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Is there anyway to re-install the libesmtp-devel and net-snmp-devel packages? yum install mock cp /etc/mock/epel-7-x86_64.cfg /etc/mock/build-bro.cfg # Fix the first line (the "root") in /etc/mock/build-bro.cfg mock -r build-bro --install compat-o

Re: Display cmd within shell

2018-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2018 05:40 AM, bruce wrote: #-- this doesn't quite work.. as it generates the complete "ls... output" but it does display the cmd and the resulting num of the ls files.. (set -x; ls -al /cloud_nfs_parse/austincc*__parse.dat | wc -l ) Bash doesn't have a mode in which it echos a command

Re: Display cmd within shell

2018-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2018 02:31 PM, Bev in TX wrote: It’s an option of the builtin set command. set … … When options are specified, they set or unset shell attributes. …. -v Print shell input lines as they are read. Yeah, that also *kinda* works.  That'll print lines as they're read, not as the

Re: Looking for dell dock compatible with fedora 28 on SPX 13 (9360)

2018-06-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/12/2018 09:50 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: I am using Dell SPX 13 (9360) with Fedora 28. I have removed Windows. XPS.  :) I highly appreciate if you can recommend suitable dock which perfectly working with fedora on 9360.  I need to plug dual monitors using HDMI and ethernet is a must.

Re: Looking for dell dock compatible with fedora 28 on SPX 13 (9360)

2018-06-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/13/2018 06:24 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 14/06/18 00:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: These wont' work at all.  Their video is driven by a display adapter called DisplayLink that has no X11 or Wayland drivers that I'm aware of. Actually, Display Link did release a drive

Re: F27 to F28 - Postgresql upgrade fails

2018-06-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/14/2018 09:43 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: I just upgraded from Fedora 27 to 28. Everything working except the upgrade from Postgresql 9.6 to 10 Searching for help led me to manually add postgis-2.3.so and rtpostgis-2.3.so to /usr/lib64/pgsq

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/22/2018 04:37 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Fast forward to today, the system had been reinstalled (new hardware, new disks, etc) and I no longer have that ability.  I'm currently runn Fedora 28 and the desktop is "Gnome", I'm sure it is just a matter of installing/configuring/running the corre

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/22/2018 01:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:45:08 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: There is an open bug concerning the fact that if there is an invalid .pub file in .ssh, GNOME keyring won't automatically unlock *any* keys, so remove any old key files. Yep, some forms of

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/23/2018 01:35 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: my .ssh directory has my private key in a file called "id_rsa" nothing with .pub on the end and if I understand correctly running ssh will look for the private key in a few different file names, none of which end with .pub. Yes, that's how ssh beh

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/23/2018 01:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: ok, I used the two commands - eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa and this works for the one terminal shell I entered the commands in, any other terminal I either need to re-run the commands in that shell or unlock my private key when I typ

Re: Cannot establish a L2TP/IPSec VPN connection

2018-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/03/2018 11:39 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 07/03/2018 10:55 AM, Paul Smith wrote: "915d709a-49b3-4928-8d5e-0f7e7a4de99a" #1: ignoring informational payload NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN, msgid=, length=12 Jul 03 18:50:10 xhost NetworkManager[900]: 003 "915d709a-49b3-4928-8d5e-0f7e7a4de99a" #1: r

Re: Cannot establish a L2TP/IPSec VPN connection

2018-07-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/04/2018 03:18 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Jul 04 11:12:48 xhost NetworkManager[911]: 104 "915d709a-49b3-4928-8d5e-0f7e7a4de99a" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate Jul 04 11:12:48 xhost NetworkManager[911]: 002 "915d709a-49b3-4928-8d5e-0f7e7a4de99a" #1: WARNING: connection 915d709a-49b3-4928-8d5e-0f7e7a4

Re: Cannot establish a L2TP/IPSec VPN connection

2018-07-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2018 03:09 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks again, Gordon. Yes, I do have the pre-shared key specified. So, the question is: Why is not the pre-shared key being read by the remote server? Is that the case that the pre-shared key is not being transmitted by my computer to the remote server?

Re: https traffic monitoring from client

2018-07-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/13/2018 07:08 AM, bruce wrote: I see different sites/articles on the need to setup a proxy server/certs and to then install/insert the cert in the "browser" location. In my case I'm using a test headless browser, so I'm trying to get a basic model of how this can work. Encryption algorith

Re: https traffic monitoring from client

2018-07-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/13/2018 11:12 AM, Ulf Volmer wrote: The OP want to look into TLS encrypted traffic. tcpdump will not help in this case. There is no way around to use a special proxy in between and place a custom CA into the client. It's complex, but not impossible.  Firefox, for example, can log the se

Re: https traffic monitoring from client

2018-07-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/14/2018 03:34 PM, Dirk Gottschalk via users wrote: To answer your question. Squid can do this for you. You can make it decrypt the data end encrypt it with a certificate issued by yourself. AFAIK you should even be able to let squid log what happens on the https connection. It should also

Re: gnome @wayland would not login...

2018-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2018 12:10 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: Somewhere along the long line of updates gnome stopped logging in wayland session - I type password in and screen just blinks and split second later I'm presented with the same login prompt Run "journalctl -f" as root, using ssh or one of the

Re: file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2018 12:05 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: What's the final period indicate. The answer is in the "info" page for "ls": Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file.  When

Re: auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/25/2018 09:47 AM, Frédéric wrote: Thanks, it seems to work. I can put it in .bashrc. Note: System policies belong in /etc/security/limits.conf. Otherwise, they're optional.  (Users can remove them). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: automatically mount all luks partitions at startup, not only /home

2018-09-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/04/2018 11:05 PM, Frédéric wrote: I have multiple partitions encrypted with luks and only the main one with /home is decrypted at startup. How can I tell the system I want to open all of them at startup? The system will prompt you for the block devices listed in /etc/crypttab.  See "man

Re: efibootmgr?

2018-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/09/2018 05:32 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:43:46 -0600 Chris Murphy wrote: Nope. There's no firmware state information saved to disk. There must be something on disk, because I keep reading web pages that say things like: You can create a new image file The bootloader

Re: Slow performance when overwriting disk file (was Re: Slow performance when redirecting stdout to an existing disk file)

2018-09-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/28/18 2:28 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: Thanks, that makes sense. Any idea of why unlink()ing the file seems to be faster than truncating it? As best I understand it, one process is async and parallel: unlink, clear block list, sync to disk open, write, close, sync to disk Where the other pr

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

2024-04-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2024-04-30 10:58 AM, John Pilkington wrote: (fedoraforum) has a suggestion of trimming the journalctl log, but neither that nor any other space-clearing actions that I have tried has made any difference. Have you made snapshots of your system volume, or installed any applications that mig

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/15/2010 09:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root. Look in your >> user RPM sandbox: > > Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible. I think its > asinine that I am prevented f

Re: graphics card on fire

2010-05-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/27/2010 07:51 AM, Philip Heron wrote: > Of course this wouldn't have happened if the fan hadn't > failed, but still makes me wonder why there was such a different between > Windows and Fedora? I don't believe that the Free drivers feature any power management functions of NVidia hardware, c

RSS for F13 updates

2010-05-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
What's the appropriate contact to request new feeds at: http://planet.fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ Should I file an RFE in bugzilla? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: SSH / permissions problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/13/2010 08:56 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 16:51:57 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> Try: >> restorecon -r ~/.ssh > > The command ran without error but has made no difference. Try "restorecon -r ~". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: sshd Authentication refused

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/13/2010 11:16 AM, David Highley wrote: > New install of Fedora 13 we get the following /var/log/secure entry when > we ssh from a Fedora 12 system to the Fedora 13 system: > Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file > /home/dhighley/.ssh/authorized_keys Post the permissions fo

suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
I have a workstation that mounts /home from an NFS server. I'd like to be able to suspend it at night, but the system hangs before it suspends if I try. It only seems to hang if I'm logged in and have files open on the NFS file system. If I log in as root on a tty instead and run "pm-suspend"

Re: suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2010 01:59 AM, JB wrote: > perhaps you could do it yourself: >http://palebluedot.nl/jml/computer-stuff/26-umountnfs.html Can't very well unmount /home when I'm logged in, can I? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2010 03:10 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I have found that I have to use the network init script rather than > NetworkManager. NetworkManager tries to unmount all of the NFS file system > before sleeping and this hangs. > > So I did "chkconfig NetworkManager off" and "chkconfig network on".

Re: suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2010 10:29 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/16/2010 03:10 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> I have found that I have to use the network init script rather than >> NetworkManager. NetworkManager tries to unmount all of the NFS file system >> before sleeping and this

Re: suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/17/2010 01:06 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: > No problem, but note that I use DHCP ok ... > This is really a bug/feature in NetworkManager that I have already > reported. Got the bugzilla number? It'd be nice if we could get some other tests. My system will only suspend if the ethernet device

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/11/2010 08:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > All those marked settings look wrong to me. I guess HAL rules could > fix this. Surely I'm not the first to hit this problem. I think those are read-only values from the kernel. I don't think there's anything you can do to add the "eject" c

Re: how to uninstall preload?

2010-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 03:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I would imagine the "-y" would be rather dangerous, > as "yum remove" often tries to remove many packages > required by other applications. I don't think that's quite true. If you tell yum to remove a package, it'll remove that package and any pa

Re: [389-users] Preventing ssh keys from granting a user access when LDAP account is disabled.

2010-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 09:45 AM, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: > Hi There is a bugzilla raised concerns users still being able to > login if they have ssh keys even if there ldap account is disabled. Define "disabled". If your only flag is the userpassword field, you won't find a good solution to this proble

Re: Verizon and Comcast email challenges

2010-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 02:39 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Recently (over the last six months?), Verizon has blocked smtp requests on > port 25 to our mail server hosted on our machine (brama.com). It seems > that this isn't just our box, but a policy that Verizon has implemented > widely, forcing Verizon patro

Re: PostgreSql question

2010-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 05:23 PM, Nermin Celik wrote: > I've downloaded PostgreSql from http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.3/, however > when I try access it from the termnial line it doesn't work and gives > the following warning. Is there a reason you did that, when Fedora provides PostgreSQL packages? # yum ins

Re: PostgreSql question

2010-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 06:19 PM, Thierry Vanden Broucke wrote: > #selinuxenabled 0 That's really not necessary. Fedora's packages work just fine with SELinux enabled, and non-Fedora packages probably aren't even restricted by policy. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [389-users] Preventing ssh keys from granting a user access when LDAP account is disabled.

2010-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2010 11:32 AM, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: > Good point... I define disabled as setting the user as disabled in in > the console or the user having typed his password wrong to many times > and then getting locked out. I don't see "disable" in the console. I do see "inactivate". This adds

Re: [OT] Hardlinks and directories

2010-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/12/2010 09:00 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On some more experimentation I realised this is how `cat' behaves, it > doesn't show the lines written the first time, it only shows the stdin > which is perfectly reasonable. My apologies :-p Actually, cat doesn't show anything at all. Your terminal

Re: [OT] Hardlinks and directories

2010-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/12/2010 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > One of the comments to the LWN article also mentions the case of Apple > allowing these links for the sake of their Time Machine backup system (I > think it's restricted to that special case so it doesn't run the risk of > a general-purpose featu

Re: fedora power management not working in f13

2010-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/29/2010 01:17 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: > I think this was working for f13 too until the last time i applied > updates, though it may just be that i didn't test it. The first thing you should try is probably to boot the oldest F13 kernel that you've got and see if the system's behavior is any

Re: Loss of X

2010-08-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/29/2010 03:27 PM, binary...@comcast.net wrote: > (EE) AIGX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed > (/lib64/libexpat.so1: invalid ELF header) I'd suggest downloading the rpm for expat (x86_64), then 'rpm -e expat' and 'rpm -ivh expat-xxx.rpm'. Maybe save a copy of the /lib64

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/14/2010 07:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > Can someone please tell me where I can either configure sendmail to > save these somewhere for me, or how I can get SpamAssassin to not drop > these system "logwatch" emails (and *only* these logwatch emails) on the > floor. Check the man

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/15/2010 04:40 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > The "From" address is: r...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us > which makes sense since it is being run directly as a cron.hourly > script. I have added this whitelist_from_rcvd to > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. whitelist_from_rcvd also requires the

Re: iptables question

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
The file you'll want to modify is /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Others have already posted the appropriate rules. Make sure you have backups; if you ever run the system-config-security tool again, it'll over write your changes. You could go one level up that stack and modify /etc/sysconfig/system

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/15/2010 09:15 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > My 11:00 email got marked as [SPAM], here are the email headers: ... >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, >> FRT_ADOBE2,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR,SPF_PASS,URI_HEX >> autolearn=no >> version

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/16/2010 10:46 AM, JD wrote: > > Clearly, a full setup of DNS server for your domain > must be set up, per this wiki, along with mx records ...etc. > > Does this prevent one from settiing up and using sendmail > on a LAN to send and receive email to/from the outside world? Not by itself, but

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: > Re: a.b.c.d ==> valid.host.name > and valid.host.name ==> a.b.c.d > does not seem to apply to the google smtp server I use for Thunderbird. You did your test entirely backward. You did a forward lookup first, and then checked the PTR of the IP which was ret

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 11:26 AM, JD wrote: > Well, that would require that sendmail would have to listen > on that alternate port. How is that accomplished? That's probably a step you don't need to take. You just need your router to forward a port other than 25 to your sendmail server's port 25. The po

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 10:09 AM, JD wrote: > But I think at&t is blocking port 25. Normally they will, and that's good. It prevents infected Windows desktops from sending spam directly. You'll want to arrange a smart-host through which you can route all of your outbound mail. -- users mailing list use

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 02:28 PM, JD wrote: > So, why would any mail client/server send an email message > to my ip address on a port other than 25? They never would. > Seems that I would need to configure the dydns account to > forward the email to me on that alternate port, no? Yes. I merely meant that

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/18/2010 04:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate. Depends on the purpose of the machine. Desktops oft

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 09:50 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > I did that yesterday. No new SPAM markings on my hourly emails, though > some of my other admin emails are now getting marked as [SPAM], like a > couple of denyhosts reports. One of them had a -2.6 SPAM level I suppose you could post those

Re: Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?

2010-08-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/19/2010 06:53 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Is it just me, or are the Fedora 13 repos experiencing real problems > lately? I have to run yum upgrade as many as 10 times in a row to pull > down all the updates as I keep getting what amounts to transient 404 > errors (may/may not work the second o

Re: Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?

2010-08-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/19/2010 07:58 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > To minimize my WAN traffic, I rsync the F13 release and update mirrors > from //download.fedora.redhat.com to local repos every day, then yum > update all my systems using those locals (rather like RHEL's Satellite). > I've not seen any diff

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/20/2010 09:39 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > It looks like sa-milt is getting a-hold of the message first, and > marking it as [SPAM] with a score of 6.2. Then it looks like its > getting run again Yeah, I'm not terribly sure. Honestly, I haven't run Sendmail on a mail server in close

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/22/2010 01:49 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > Hmmm, yes, /etc/procmailrc runs it through spamc If that's the case, then the milter only really needs to reject messages with a suitably high score. You should probably also configure it not to modify the body or headers. -- users mail

Re: SELinux

2010-08-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/29/2010 08:27 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message: > Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for > module Math::GSL::Errno: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so: cannot restore > segment prot after reloc:

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/01/2010 05:35 AM, JB wrote: > This idea is so sick - any real sys admin wants to know her machine inside > out, There are more than two thousand items in my $PATH. Yours is probably similar. Do you understand what every one of them do? Are you experienced with development in C and asse

Re: GNOME Terminal alternatives?

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/07/2010 08:15 AM, Alex wrote: > Some time ago I posted the message below, and still haven't been able > to find the answers to the Terminal configuration questions that I > have, and hoped someone might have some ideas. Is there an alternative > that might be better suited for what I want to

Re: How to pass two routers

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
There's no need to use NAT, proxy servers, or oddball iptables rules to accomplish what roland described. As Dario pointed out, you have two options: 1) Set up a static route on each server in LAN A so that they use 192.168.0.99 as their default gateway and 192.168.0.98 as the gateway for the

Re: GNOME Terminal alternatives?

2010-09-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/10/2010 12:37 AM, Alex wrote: >>> - How can I make the mouse scroll wheel be used for scrolling back >>> through the terminal buffer, rather than acting as an up arrow? >> >> That's what it does in the default configuration. > > Is there some kind of configuration file that I can reset, becau

Re: problems with gigabit speeds on dual network card

2010-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
A couple of users have reported problems with that specific model NIC which were caused by bad capacitors in the switch. You might look at replacing that or opening it up to see if you can spot any bad caps: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/309211 -- users mailing list users

Re: Are all cores unlocked?

2010-09-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/22/2010 09:54 AM, Michael Miles wrote: > As far as the speed being low the units have power saving features so > when your not at load the processors will clock down. > Disable all the power saving features in the Bios and you will see your > speed go up to normal. You'll also find that your

Re: Problem with chrt

2010-09-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/26/2010 12:22 PM, JD wrote: > > $ sudo chrt 0 "./freq -s120 -u0 -r" > chrt: failed to set pid 0's policy: Invalid argument > $ sudo chrt 0 './freq -s120 -u0 -r' > chrt: failed to set pid 0's policy: Invalid argument 0 isn't valid for the default policy (SCHED_RR). "chrt -m" displays the mi

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

2010-09-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/29/2010 08:03 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Isn't that an odd thing to do? I would have thought that the point of > having different pre-final release versions, including release > candidates, is to progressively improve the version ie reduce bugs - as > it gets closer to a final release? It'

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/28/2010 07:07 AM, Simon Andrews wrote: > Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of > it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? Mount the NFS filesystem with the "sync" option. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

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