Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 09:26 AM, jd1008 wrote: One of the difficulties of using either a script or a C/++ prog to sort the messages is the following: ... That shouldn't be a problem at all. A new message is marked by a line that starts with "From ", and everything after the '-' can be parsed with th

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 09:46 AM, jd1008 wrote: Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still using 32 bit file size limits! Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). Yes, and Maildir is the intended solution to that limit, because

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 02:11 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm still amazed that TB doesn't let you use Maildirs; they're hardly difficult. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 03:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Oh. When did that happen? (I see it is not exposed by default.) As far as I know, it's been there a while. That page says it wasn't ready for testing prior to release 38, though I don't recall having seen such "not ready for testing" statements

Re: telnet session closing with ^]

2015-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/09/2015 10:27 AM, Martin Cigorraga wrote: Sometimes you simply can't ssh - like when you need to test a connection to a web server or a DDBB. As I see it, telnet is far from dying. Use "nc" (provided by nmap-ncat). When you're connecting to a non-telnet service, you just need a TCP con

Re: A Fedora history question.

2015-07-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/10/2015 07:52 PM, jd1008 wrote: I mean first release according a wicki, was dubbed by RH as 0.8 not 8.0 back in 1993??? As far as I know, there's no remaining archive of the original beta releases of Red Hat Linux. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/12/2015 03:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. this seems to happen everytime now when I get a new kernel in F22 Next time you update, save a copy of /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, then run "grub2-mkconfig". You can compare them to se

binary executes in an SELinux type other than its label

2015-07-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
"courierlogger" is labeled "courier_exec_t" in the filesystem, but appears to execute under "system_mail_t". I think the former type is being treated as an alias for the latter, but I don't remember where I'd look for information on that. The problem is that when upgrading the courier-authlib

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: [root@pauls-server grub2]# diff grub.8-300 grub.cfg diff grub.8-300 grub.cfg Please use "diff -u". Standard diff format is mostly unreadable. Unified diff is much more comprehensible. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 12:37 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Please use "diff -u". Standard diff format is mostly unreadable. Unified diff is much more comprehensible. ... and maybe output to a file and attach that file. Your client is wrapping lines, making it hard to read the output. -- use

Re: Disk partition

2015-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 11:36 AM, g wrote: Logical partitions within the extended partition will always be >numbered consecutively starting with 5. If you delete or merge >some logical partitions, all of the higher partition numbers will >shift down. if you can post a mutual site that i can upload a jpg,

Re: SE alert

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 09:44 AM, jd1008 wrote: Source RPM Packages python-2.7.5-16.fc20.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-197.fc20.noarch Fedora 20 is EOL. There will be no further updates. Troubleshooting policy errors in outdated packages is largely a waste of tim

Re: iptables and ruleset

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 09:59 AM, jd1008 wrote: So, where should I place the ruleset file /etc/sysconfig/iptables so that when iptables.service is started, the ruleset I want is what is used? That's the place for it. Run "/usr/libexec/iptables/iptables.init start" in a terminal and see if there is any

Re: GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 10:22 AM, jd1008 wrote: How in tarnation are newbs going to deal with this? :) By leaving the defaults alone? Seriously, there is no significant OS that doesn't have advanced options that would confuse "newbs". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, I got a new kernel today, 8-300 . so I copied the grub.cfg to grub.8-300 and did another grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the new grub.cfg is different that what the system made after it installed the new kernel.. I am not sure what the

Re: SE alert

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 10:47 AM, jd1008 wrote: So, how did it become permissive?? We have no way to answer that. Your audit log would record the time at which the system entered permissive mode. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: iptables and ruleset

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 10:55 AM, jd1008 wrote: These are NOT what I have in /etc/sysconfig/iptables at all!!! Is there more than one service setting firewall rules on your system? Because iptables.service is deprecated, you probably also need to disable firewalld. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: iptables and ruleset

2015-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/20/2015 11:57 AM, jd1008 wrote: Is firewalld similar to fbsd's firewall app as far as rulesets are concerned? I don't know enough about fbsd to answer that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Creating kvm instance remotely

2015-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2015 07:39 AM, Alex wrote: I'm aware of kickstart, but have never used it. Is that the best option, or is something like chef or puppet easier? ... I've experimented with virt-install, but that apparently doesn't provide the ability to select all of the install config options It might

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2015 11:20 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: What's going on? Use "dnf repolist -v" to find out, in the future. It will print the date from the metadata you have, and the URL of the mirror from which it was retrieved. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2015 04:07 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I think this is where things go wrong. OnBootSec handles powerdowns, what about intermittent connections? In principle, it is quite possible everytime the timer triggers the makecache service, the connection is absent. Which shouldn't matter. If no c

Re: Creating kvm instance remotely

2015-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2015 04:12 PM, Alex wrote: # virt-install --name demo --hvm --memory 1024 --virt-type kvm \ -x "ks=/var/lib/libvirt/images/anaconda-ks.cfg" \ https://rhinstaller.github.io/anaconda/boot-options.html#inst-repo The kickstart location is read by the operating system inside the V

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/22/2015 04:57 PM, Pete Travis wrote: Do you have references for the on-battery behavior? That's news to me. /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-makecache.service: ExecStart=/usr/bin/dnf -v makecache timer man dnf: dnf [options] makecache timer Like plain makecache but in

Re: Help Compiling Static Binary

2015-07-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/23/2015 10:38 AM, Richard Heck wrote: The libraries are all there, though, where one would expect to find them. And non-static compilation works fine (with the right version of ffmpeg). Static linking requires ".a" files, which probably aren't there. Some libraries, such as glibc have

Re: /boot and encrypted partitions?

2015-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/31/2015 08:28 AM, Dave Johansen wrote: I was luck enough to be bitten by this issue ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212907 ) when attempting to do a clean install of F22. That bug looks like it's triggered only when the LVs are encrypted, which is non-standard and not at

Re: /boot and encrypted partitions?

2015-07-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/31/2015 12:02 PM, inode0 wrote: /boot can be on an encrypted partition. I've been looking at this lately and decided to try to do it after seeing this thread today. Anaconda won't help you do it though, so you need to install initially with it unencrypted but you can encrypt it post-install

Re: fedup - luks encrypted system

2014-12-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/2014 03:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So… Has anyone been able to update a LUKS-encrypted system, without getting stuck at the end? I couldn't find anything in Bugzilla. Yes. I've updated two F20 systems with LUKS-encrypted LVM backed filesystems using fedup. Felix already reporte

Re: OT - Probably the most important shortcut to disable - Firefox quit

2014-12-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/2014 05:53 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Preferences->General->Startup->When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time Thanks. Horse is out of the barn from the last time. But one more protection. Also History menu -> Restore Previous Session. -- users mailing list u

Re: what is the process number of a "running application" ?

2015-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/12/2015 09:25 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: - In the window of gnome-system-monitor the name "netbeans" isn't. The name is probably "java" then. Right-click on any java processes and select "Properties." The resulting window will contain the "Command Line" that invoked the process, and

Re: nscd and DNS cache

2012-05-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/15/2012 07:11 PM, JD wrote: I have nscd running. /etc/resolv.conf starts out with nameserver 127.0.0.1 If you're actually running a local caching name server (bind or dnsmasq), you don't need nscd. Running both is overkill. You're going to waste memory by having everything cached in

Re: nscd and DNS cache

2012-05-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/17/2012 09:19 PM, JD wrote: That's excellent info. contradicts what other people have replied. I also meant to point out that if you select nscd rather than a local caching server, you don't need 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf. glibc connects to nscd via a Unix socket rather than via IP. Th

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

2012-05-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/19/2012 09:50 AM, Greg Woods wrote: So it will not be too long before LibreOffice leaves OpenOffice behind IMHO. It probably already has: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-04-26-ooo-comparison.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/19/2012 08:08 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: The iptables on the converted machine is the factory default. The problem is almost certainly not iptables. Unless you've intentionally added some kind of egress filtering, none will be present. I looked in /var/log/messages and didn't see an

Re: rpm question

2012-06-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/09/2012 08:57 AM, JD wrote: Is rpm broken? # rpm -qv --whatrequires libmapi libzeitgeist No. From 'man rpm': --whatrequires CAPABILITY Query all packages that require CAPABILITY for proper functioning. The arguments to whatrequires aren't package names, they're capabilities (whi

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2012 03:22 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: I really dislike this behaviour, as its slow and sometimes doesn't result in the results I intended - so is there a way to revert back to the "old" behaviour, where bash would simply look for matching files in the current directory? yum install ./

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2012 02:27 PM, Ken Smith wrote: Oddly, on my remote X server when I run "X -query machinename :1" the desktop of the remote X server freezes when connecting to this rogue F17 install. I noticed the same thing when I tried to use F17 as the XDMCP server for a CentOS 6 X11 display. I d

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/29/2012 05:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I still don't understand why deprecating XDMCP furthers the Open Source cause. Guys, slow down. There's no reason to believe that XCMCP has been deprecated. It can be enabled exactly as it was in the previous release. It looks like there's a bug th

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-07-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/02/2012 07:08 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I would suggest deprecated as the settings for the function have been buried. It suppose it depends on how you define deprecated. No, they haven't. They're still in custom.conf, where they've been for some time. The buried settings discussed earlier

Re: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

2012-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/03/2012 04:10 PM, Robert Myers wrote: The precipitating event is actually caused by Windows, which will not accommodate all 24Gb of RAM I have on one machine without my paying blackmail (which I would have to pay over and over again), and Fedora doesn't even aim at being a replacement for W

Re: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

2012-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/03/2012 07:35 PM, Robert Myers wrote: There is also just the outside chance that someone, rather than trying to make me into a Better Person [tm], might have a useful suggestion to make, which clearly you do not. You hope that someone might have a useful suggestion, but rather than ask

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/11/2012 12:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box. The software quality on current-generation Gigabyte and MSI motherboards is much better than ASUS motherboard software.

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-08-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/29/2012 10:31 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: GNU is a software collection project founded by Richard Stallman that provides open source versions of a who lot of programs that work with the Linux (and other) kernel environment. The GNU folks, not having a successfully popular kernel component,

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-08-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/03/2012 06:09 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: While it's technically true to call such distros "GNU/Linux", such a label ignores a large portion of the origin and richness of those distros. I don't think that's true. Linux is the kernel. GNU/Linux is the (POSIX) operating system. Fedora is the

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/08/2012 05:19 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if I'm going to use "Free Open Source Software" then it should be "free"...no?) No. "Free" describes your liberty to

Re: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

2013-03-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/08/2013 07:59 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: It seems that the version of qtiplot hasd not been compiled properly! You might be able to try these packages: http://nucleo.fedorapeople.org/rpms/qtiplot/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: UPS

2013-03-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/13/2013 05:12 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I have a new UPS EATON unit, What is/are the packages to manage it? What model? You probably want "nut": http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: F18 on Dell xps13

2013-03-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/14/2013 10:58 PM, dave peters wrote: Could anyone advise me if there are any serious problems with this hardware and F18 ? I received an XPS 13 yesterday! So far, I haven't seen any problems from it. Intel's video is quite standard, and works as expected. WiFi is working. I've set up

Re: F18 on Dell xps13

2013-03-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/15/2013 09:08 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: I haven't tried to use the DisplayPort output or BlueTooth, but the latter is at least correctly detected on boot. I've learned that btusb needs to be removed on suspend. The following script will accomplish that. /usr/lib/systemd/sy

Multi-battery issue

2013-03-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
I have a Thinkpad T430S with two batteries: primary + ultra-bay. The laptop will run on one battery only until it is depleted, at which point the other battery would normally be used, as I understand it. However, when the battery in use nears 0%, the Fedora system will warn the user that the b

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15 years, let it be someone else's

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/16/2013 12:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Actually I'm spoiled using RPMcreator years ago, it just asked questions and did the rest. You would need to fill in the same text-box fields in a a GUI app that you would fill in a template spec file. In both cases, you'll need to supply the buil

Re: Adwaita GTK3 on F18 no longer honors bgcolor

2013-03-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2013 08:03 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Under Fedora 17, I was able to select an alternate background color for GTK2 and GTK3. Under F18, only the GTK2 applications honor the setting. Before I file a a bug, does anyone know if this behavior was an expected change? $ dconf dump /org

Re: Auth failure with uid >= 1000 on fc18

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/18/2013 07:02 PM, Alex wrote: I am trying to ssh into my fc18 server as root and have the following message in syslog: Mar 18 18:29:20 bwipropnew sshd[12473]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "uid >= 1000" not met by user "root" You'll see that after an auth failure for any account

Help me make backups better on GNU/Linux

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots. I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of the work, and then a few hours of testing and fixing to get things working r

Re: Help me make backups better on GNU/Linux

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/19/2013 04:22 AM, Neal Becker wrote: check out obnam. I'm very pleased with it. That's not at all the same thing. You cannot back up files in active use safely. If you have a SQL server, for instance, you need to either shut it down or quiesce the data files for the entire duration o

Re: Auth failure with uid >= 1000 on fc18

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/19/2013 08:55 AM, Alex wrote: It appears that you're saying ssh as root would fail because of the UID >=1000 and pam_deny PAM is complex. If the password is successful against pam_unix, processing stops. For any user that successfully authenticates with pam_unix, none of the remaining

Re: Auth failure with uid >= 1000 on fc18

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/19/2013 01:46 PM, Alex wrote: It sure is. How did you become so proficient with it? I've been using LDAP and to some lesser extend KRB5 for a long-ish time. I've done my share of troubleshooting authentication issues during that time. It's been around forever, but has never been ver

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/19/2013 12:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: this direction is completly wrong a smartphone is not the same as a desktop-computer I disagree. A smartphone IS a computer. It uses a CPU, RAM, and persistent storage. I actually really liked the concept of the Atrix, though not its execution.

Re: Help me make backups better on GNU/Linux

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/19/2013 05:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: The thing is to separate the snapshotting & the quiescing activities so that the quiescing works regardless of the snapshot technology being used. Is this more or less what you're doing? Yes! It might be as simple as: for x in /usr/lib/snapshot

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 10:32 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: Just because tablets and smartphones are en vogue at the moment doesn't mean that there isn't a place for more traditional form factors in the future. That's probably true to some extent. However, have you ever actually seen an Atrix workstation

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 11:23 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: what about redundancy aka RAID? Personal computing rarely involves RAID. Not never, but rarely. And that's my point. There will continue to be high-end workstations with whatever features you want that aren't in mobile devices, but as time goe

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 12:28 PM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: I guess the focus should be on a DE that can adapt to the different form factors on the fly. No matter what I don't see using the same interface on a 4" screen and multiple large displays being practical. I don't either, and maybe that's not how t

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 01:20 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: if you would know about you are speaking you would know that you NEVER can virtualize a x86 CPU on ARM architecture I do, but you're still missing several key points. First, Intel is working quite hard to get x86 CPUs into these mobile devices. T

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 12:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Like keyboards big enough for touch typing? Yes, but probably not limited to that. As I pointed out earlier, we've already seen mobile devices that dock into workstation or laptop form-factor docs, and I expect we'll see more of those in the future. I

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 01:50 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Over a dozen years ago, I had a PDA with a keyboard attachment. It worked fine, but it wasn't exactly convenient to carry. The whole point of a smartphone or tablet is convenience, and adding accessories that are larger than the original device seems a bi

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 01:52 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: But how mobile will those docks be? From what I can see, you can either be mobile or you can use your device for serious work. Do you use your laptop for serious work? I do. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/smartphones-like-motorola-atrix-c

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2013 01:53 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: what you guys not realize is the simple fact that currently Seriously, Reindl. Slow down. We realize. We totally do. What you don't realize is that we're not telling you what you should use. You can use whatever you want. If you don't want to

Re: F17: How to set up VPN for Android?

2013-03-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/24/2013 12:00 PM, sean darcy wrote: The Fedora wizard on requires a "remote address". I've tried 0.0.0.0, which got an error of: I'm not aware of any VPN wizard in Fedora. Specifically what program are you running? racoon: INFO: unsupported PF_KEY message REGISTER As far as I know

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/12/2013 12:14 PM, Tethys wrote: The annoying thing is, I'd*gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd charge me a sensible amount. I'd install RHEL in a heartbeat to get support for it. But given the minimum Red Hat support charge is several thousand, it's simply out of my price range:-(

Re: Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

2013-06-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/22/2013 05:31 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote: Backlight control is not working, but I developed a very simple work-around that re-enables it under Fedora. Oddly, I do not see that bug under GNOME. Backlight controls work fine for me with an unmodified configuration. I installed the KDE

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/12/22 10:33, Sbob wrote: Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with Iris XE.  Initially, there were problems, mostly observed as the screen not updating some regions.  I worked around that by adding "i915.enable_psr=0" to the

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/22/22 12:13, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Is there a way to get one of those fancy tool in nmap to tell me the "level" (version) of SSL and/or TLS that a web site is using? You're on the right track, and if you'd done a web search for "nmap scan tls", you'd probably have found a useful

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/22/22 12:18, a...@clueserver.org wrote: The script for ssl in nmap does not deal with ssl v3. At this point, if you see anything less than TLS 1.2, you should treat it as a bug. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/12/22 12:04, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/12/22 10:33, Sbob wrote: Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with Iris XE.  Initially, there were problems, mostly observed as the screen not updating some regions.  I worked around

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/25/22 08:35, Robert Nichols wrote: In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are of the form: "name '@local' does not map into domain

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/28/22 06:08, Robert Nichols wrote: Where does Fedora get its domain name? When I type "hostname --fqdn" I get "hostname: Name or service not known". The CentOS 8 VM apparently gets its domain name from the /etc/hostname file, which contains "cent9-vm.local". This does not appear to work in

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/28/22 23:32, Ed Greshko wrote: But I do have nfs-idmapd.service with "Domain = localdomain" in its configuration file. If I change that to "Domain = local" and restart nfs-idmapd.service I do get [root@fedora ~]# nfsidmap -d local But everything works no matter what the setting https

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/29/22 17:20, Ed Greshko wrote: In the initial posting by Robert he wrote: "I have no nfs-idmapd service running" Right, but on recent kernels, the client doesn't use rpc.idmapd, it uses "nfsidmap".  The fact that rpc.idmapd isn't running doesn't really tell us anything. "all users a

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/29/22 20:36, Robert Nichols wrote: If I could find any way to set the client's domain name, I would. Nothing I try has any effect on the domain name. When I try to set a FQDN with hostnamectl, then "hostnamectl" (with no arguments) shows that FQDN as the static hostname, but "hostname --fq

Re: NFS client names not mapping

2022-01-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/31/22 06:27, Ed Greshko wrote: I needed no such change to my F35's host file for it to function properly.  Probably will never find out why yours did. Probably because the server configuration was modified.  Robert reported: > On the server: > [plugh-3g ~]# cat /sys/module/nfsd/paramete

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

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: so why are / and /home the same device? To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion held in the devel@ mailing list linked below. Generally, sharing the storage pool in order to avoid running out of space in one location when the

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

2022-02-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/7/22 14:12, jdow wrote: Ah, fix it so that when the system logs run away you can also destroy user data that has not been written yet. That's... not really how POSIX works.  And most logs on Fedora should be in the journal at this point, has a maximum size. Gd planning. Why bothe

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

2022-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/8/22 04:56, Peter Boy wrote: The quote describes a situation which has gone for more of a decade now. Since we have LVM (when got that part of the Linux kernel? kernel 2.6? 2004 or so? Don’t know exactly), no one would partition a hard disk along file system subdirectories. You create logi

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 12:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I have it running every Saturday ? Change the "last run date" in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly. (For reference: This is indicated by the "FILES" section of the anacron(8) man page.) ___ users mailing

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 08:11, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: TL;DR are there particular workloads that suffer from having to access a RAID0 array? If uptime is excluded as a factor, then I'm not aware of any. I've currently got my /home partition in a BTRFS RAID0 array with two 1 TB mechanical drives, and I'm

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 08:35, Thomas Cameron wrote: RAID0 is great for increasing throughput, but it is the most risky RAID configuration possible. I would never run /home on RAID0 unless I was doing something like two drives in RAID0 but doing nightly backups to a third drive in case my RAID0 volume broke

Re: Bad workloads for RAID0?

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 11:19, John Mellor wrote: SSDs have no appreciable seek time and have much faster read rates that spinning rust.  Depending upon how much onboard RAM cache they provide (some even provide no cache), you may also see considerably better burst write speed, although sustained write spee

Re: Kernel crash every day at 6:30am

2022-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/12/22 14:59, Alex wrote: Here's a bit of the kernel message from dmesg [ cut here ] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 633983 at kernel/exit.c:739 do_exit+0x37/0xa90 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xcc2a8cfcb62a56a1: [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 63398

Re: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv '''

2022-02-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/20/22 01:39, Dorian ROSSE wrote: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv ''', I think those two things are mostly unrelated.  The rpm created by bdist_rpm wil

Re: does i am able to build a python program for rpm using '''python setup.py bdist_rpm''' with dependency python in virtual using '''python3 -m pip install --user env venv '''

2022-02-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/22/22 03:01, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Can I create with this line of command : '''python3 -m pip install env venv ''' then the other line of command, The package generated by bdist_rpm should be the same regardless of whether or not you install the package in a venv. Consider using the "py

Re: If venv is a reality can I build a program python wit it for more security ?

2022-02-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/24/22 02:33, Dorian ROSSE wrote: If venv is a reality can I build a program python wit it for more security ? No, venv won't give you any additional security if a python module has malicious code. If you don't fully trust a python module but you want to run it anyway, consider buildin

Re: Fedora Laptop?

2022-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/14/22 14:47, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 05:21:36PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: I also have 2 firmware updates which don't seem to install. I’ve seen this happen if you have the AMT disabled in the BIOS. You can’t install the BIOS firmware updates without it. Also ne

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/4/22 00:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you connect the Nighthawk to the BGW210 using one of the LAN ports on the Nighthawk, everything would be on the 192.168.1.x subnet and you could use the same SSID on both devices.  You would need to disable the DHCP server on the Nighthawk and most likely

Re: network mystery!!??

2022-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
If I'm reading this thread correctly, your original setup was as follows: - - 108.90.204.76/24 -> gw: 108.90.204.1 / arris BGW210-700 \ - 192.168.1.254/24 (Blackhole-ATT WiFi network) - 108.220.213.126/29 - 108.220.213.121/29 -> gw: 108.220.213.126 / netgear nighthawk \ - 10.0.0.1/24 -

Re: WSL

2022-04-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/5/22 00:14, Patrick Dupre wrote:, Does somebody have experience with fedora and WSL? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install It's reasonably straightforward to install an unpackaged distribution, you just need a tarball of the distribution.  And lots of those are available

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
I would like to ask everyone involved in this thread to observe the mailing list guidelines and be courteous to each other: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Be_Courteous ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/9/22 14:41, Reon Beon via users wrote: This is petty much the only thing that keep people running Clear Linux over Fedora, no? It would promote more meaningful discussion if you provided more context for your question.  If you mean, is that the only reason that Clear Linux performs bet

Re: glibc hwcaps and clear linux vs fedora

2022-04-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/11/22 02:01, old sixpack13 wrote: how sick must one (=> @poc) be to repeatingly kick users asking for help against their head ? This is not being courteous. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: ssh infested by systemd.resolved

2022-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/17/22 12:26, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I don't see where it's picking this up. The only thing I can think of is nsswitch.conf, but the "hosts" entry there is identical to what's on another, un-upgraded system. Maybe remove the "resolve" entry from the hosts line: $ rpm -qf /lib64/libnss_r

Re: ssh resolving with systemd.resolved

2022-04-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/24/22 10:00, Michael Hennebry wrote: What would a systemd evangelist suggest as a minimal workaround? systemctl disable systemd-resolved && systemctl stop systemd-resolved rm /etc/resolv.conf systemctl restart NetworkManager As documented in the original change proposal: https://fedorapr

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