vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt displaying. Whatev

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
stan writes: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700 > Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > >> How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? > > I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after > whatever the default is (10 minutes?).

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
stan writes: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700 > Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > >> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and >> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how >> that would work from rc.local. H

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tim writes: > And the million dollar question for all these people running anti-virus > software on their Linux box is: Have any of you ever had it catch a > Linux virus? >From reading the Sophos propaganda it sounds like it also helps discover intrusions, which might be useful for companies th

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ownloads etc. And you know what the biggest bit of irony is in this anti-virus thread? The AV vendors want you to run a blackbox mystery binary in order to "protect your system". Um, yea. That gives me a warm secure feeling. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsr

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
BadMagic writes: > On 05/17/2010 12:16 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:05 +1000, BadMagic wrote: >>> Basically, whichever entry goes first, doesn't get mounted. >> Are the clients connecting to the network using network manager? >> Perhaps the network isn't up at the time the first mou

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Karl-Olov Serrander writes: > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network > Is this documented somewhere ? > > It is not in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.02.1/sysconfig.txt for Fedora 12 > or /usr/sha

Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
arag...@dcsnow.com writes: > It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way > that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an > emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). There are smartphone clients for ssh. I've got one

mirror, mirror

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I just tried downloading the F13 iso. When I went through the "mirrors" redirector I got PNL, which came up with an HTTP error page. Going to kernel.org by hand, I got 300M of the f13 install iso and it hung. Has Fedora become wildly and unexpectedly popular and the mirrors are getting hammered

Re: Linux vs. Vision Tek Radeon HD3650

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
>> "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. >> Optimist: The glass is half full. >> Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." > > No no no!! > > Accountant: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be > > Either > > 1. Engineer: The glass is the right size > 2. Engineer: The glass i

F13 via preupdate: NeworkManager fail

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
F13 NetworkManager sets the hostname to localhost.localdomain instead of the correct hostname. May 25 22:47:05 poblano NetworkManager[1231]: (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 40) May 25 22:47:05 poblano NetworkManager[1231]: Setting system hostname to 'poblano.wsrcc.com' (from syste

f13: yum list extras

2010-05-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I noticed that a bunch of f12 rpm's seem to still be hanging around after a preuprade upgrade from f12 to f13. Is this a cause for concern? [r...@capsicum ~]# yum list extras Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: linux.mir

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
d...@chatham.org writes: > I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which > sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it > never gets past the error. > > Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD) motherboard. It hung unti

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Go into your BIOS setup. See if your BIOS believes that there's a > floppy drive hiding somewhere, and disable it. Ok, I just did that. I suppose it will take till f14 to see if that fixes things. It is curious that all other kernels (and we are talking at least f10 w

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, > "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: >> OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way >> to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. >> >> Doh! >> >> I might suggest that timing out the attempt to que

Re: Network Manager, WPA, "available to all users"

2010-06-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Steven Stern writes: > I have a desktop with wireless, due to some cabling difficulties. I'm > trying to switch from "Network" to "NetworkManager" because we're moving > our wireless from WEP to WPA-PSK. > > Using Network Manager, I can configure a connection with a static IP > address and things

Re: F13 new install: can't get ssh pubkey to work

2010-06-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Craig White writes: > sounds like you created the file elsewhere (or even on another computer) > and moved it into place thereby creating SELinux issue. That would be my guess too, seeing how it happens to me regularly when I do clean installs and then try to copy the customized files from an NF

Re: F13 new install: can't get ssh pubkey to work

2010-06-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
sean darcy writes: > On 06/12/2010 09:34 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> >> Craig White writes: >>> sounds like you created the file elsewhere (or even on another computer) >>> and moved it into place thereby creating SELinux issue. >> >> That wo

top posting flame war (was NFS)

2010-06-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I can't decide if top posting or folks that don't trim the quoted lines to two or three lines of context are more annoying. What is whith this? Have we had the invasion of the lazy people? -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" writes: > I can't imagine what has prompted Adobe to pack up their proverbial bat > & ball and go home, abandoning 64-bit Flash development for all > platforms. I hope there's another explanation, because this is just > beyond dumb. I was reading an article about llvm, t

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tim writes: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:31 -0700, JD wrote: >> Also, WPA encryotion can be broken by a notebook PC in under 1 minute. >> WPA (and WPA2) encryption that uses TKP can also be broken in under 1 >> minute. So far AES seems to be invulnerable (as far whatever has been >> printed publicl

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > That depends on your threat model. If you don't trust the wireless operator > the wireless encryption isn't that big of a deal since you need to use an > encrypted tunnel in any case. No kidding. You should use some form of end-to-end encryption any time you are on the

compiz click to focus

2010-02-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
to Focus"->unchecked seems to have no effect. Is it being overridden somewhere? Do I need to do something with "Focus Prevention Windows" on the same settings page? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overl

Re: F12 and SyncMaster 2443 and 1920x1200 resolution?

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Paul Erickson writes: > Has anyone been able to successfully configure F12 to support 1920x1200 > resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 2443? You might also want to check that your hardware can do 1920x1200. Some chips will stop at 1600x1200. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Re: compiz click to focus

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
is supposed to be. I'm tempted to mentally mark compiz as "not ready for prime time" and ignore it. Not having my windows receive focus when I move the cursor into them is unacceptable in the long run. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why

Re: [Fwd: Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12]

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
a situation. One can just comment out the offending line in /etc/named.conf and named will startup. The file /var/log/messages will have the pathname of the include that is no longer there and a quick scan of /etc/named.conf file show where it it included from. It is pain in the neck, but not

Re: Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

2010-03-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
d is that one should make sure the snapshot filesystem eventually gets deleted after a crash. It wasn't until I had a disk-hang and needed to reboot during a backup that I realized this minor bug in my backup scripts. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-10 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
27;s) and it didn't matter which order one installed things in, the UID's were always the same. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
rather have Novell or the NSA on your side. ;-) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: F12 crash

2010-03-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
-12 selinux setup now works well enough that I see now reason for me to turn it off any more. In previous installations I'd leave it on for as long as I could stand it, which on servers was only around 3 or 4 days. The list of denials was just too long to deal with and they just kept

Re: chromium install problem

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wish it had was a "create a temp snapshot of the open pages URL's and restart automatically on next chromium startup". -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@li

video problems on dual-link monitors upon reboot on F12

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nk monitor seeing this? Are there any kernel or xorg switches to clear more framebuffer state on startup? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: cleaning /tmp directory

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
es etc). Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755. #!/bin/sh ### ## ## ## File: halt.local ## ## Author: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ost servers under physical control of his trusted > employees.) Or run the computer inside a tamperproof box with only the power line and ethernet cat5 exiting. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channel

Re: power saving, monitor poweroff

2010-04-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y mouse is sometimes between two position reports and is essentially on hair trigger. Bumping the desk, or in some cases just walking into the room causes it to vibrate enough to unblank the monitor. I therefore try to turn off the monitor anytime I'm leaving for a while. -wolfgang -- Wol

Re: power saving, monitor poweroff

2010-04-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
. Sorry. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelin

Re: Breakin attempts

2010-04-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
augh. The universe isn't going to last long enough for them to guess even a small fraction of the keys. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Breakin attempts

2010-04-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
David Liguori writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> The core problem is to prevent someone from guessing users' passwords. >> You aren't going to achieve real security by hiding this or that >> attribute. If you don't want to worry about your users chosin

Re: Wireless camera under Fedora

2010-04-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nts (like electolytic capacitors) is a very strong function of temperature. You will probably find that the ones that are in the hottest areas don't last all that long. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI c

recent network breakage on f12?

2010-04-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
lks seeing the same breakage? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: Best Laptop Experience with Fedora

2010-04-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
he Intel SSD's. I'll get whatever AMD 15" laptop is current then. Usually it is cheaper to get the configure-yourself low-end with the upgraded CPU and then put more dram and a better disk in yourself. -wolfggang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why

Re: recent network breakage on f12?

2010-04-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ned to the package name. I just slapped in an extra * to cover all bases.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
er-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett writes: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett writes: >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >>> key

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
n the level 3 mode too. Rebooted, > looks good. Thanks Wolfgang. My pleasure! -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-06 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nt every header that was added by the spammer. Only the top ones added by your service provider (google) can be trusted. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list use

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
r ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-over

f15 power button stopped working

2011-06-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I have two older AMD athlon machines that I use as headless servers for backups etc. For years this wasn't a problem. Now, after the F15/64-bit (clean) install the power buttons stopped working. Surely I'm not expected to lug a monitor and keyboard over to the servers just so I can click the on

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
low-power 15mW systems, you can always get something beefier at both ends. You can get nice 300mW systems and cards from places like Ubiquiti for not much more than department store router prices. see http://www.ubnt.com/ I have one of their 300mw PCI cards and a now discontinued 300mW AP card. -wol

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
=or&keywords=ubiquiti&x=0&y=0 (I know nothing about this company other than google search ranked them highly.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ing to fire through my exterior chicken-wire and stucco walls. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
urbs around Silicon Valley. Luckily I only need to be compatible with Fedora 13, Android phones and occational visitors with Apple Mac's to worry about. They all do WPA2. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Fedora 13 networking performs extremely well

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
k them? Maybe the appropirate bits went from linked lists to hash tables? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
$(date)" username fi /bin/rm /tmp/log$$ -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: flash-plugin-10.1.82.76 not working within SELinux sandbox

2010-08-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
t would go in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ . -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: flash-plugin-10.1.82.76 not working within SELinux sandbox

2010-08-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Christoph A." writes: > It seams that this didn't fix it entirely - in some cases it doesn't > work again... > I'll have to dig deeper.. Try just copying it. If the mozilla does a chroot the symlink may be outside of what it can access. -wolfgang -

Re: security

2010-08-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
om enough. With a few minutes pondering this solution popped up. emacs doit . doit -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: Kernel-devel

2010-08-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
. > Nothing to do Fedora 11 is long dead. Support stopped one month after F13 came out and that was around 2010-05-26. You have to upgrade to F13 (or at least F12) if you want to install any new rpm's from the repositories. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bill Davidsen writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Bob Goodwin writes: >>> Yes I have been running WEP 'cause I have one old device that can >>> do no more than that, and I usually admit only certain [18 or 19] >>> MAC addresses that I

hdparm (was: understanding smart logs)

2010-08-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
exact same F13 64-bit fully up to date OS.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

Re: Slow network with F13

2010-08-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
s and test just the network speed. For all we know, you might be seeing a slower data path to the disks. The "ttcp" test program is in the f13 yum repository. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
files to the router and keep current version under CVS on your fedora box. In short, it is very fedora-friendly. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

faster /dev/random

2010-08-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
MD???) Is there a way to funnel this into the entropy pool? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
dom. I'm a bit wary of urandom since it will cut down on the search space for my key. If I need to wait a few days for my 28 keys to be crunched, I'd rather just wait. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
for the disk will probably also be quite biased. Interrupts that come at a one per sector rate will probably have strong spikes in their probability functions for "(rotation-time / number-of-sectors-per-track)". Even with disk zones, there probably won't be that many different sectors-p

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bill Davidsen writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool >> for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa >> keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit an

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
the ssh key attackers could log in here. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
s a very interesting idea! -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
at least two nameservers. > Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? yes. > My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the > world. Should I host the reverse zone there? yes. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Renich Bon Ciric writes: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht >>> Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? >> >> yes. >> >>> My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the >>> world.

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Renich Bon Ciric writes: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht > wrote: >> Obviously the 10.x.x.x is an example address.  I've learned the hard way >> never to give live examples.  Someone invariably cuts-and-pastes it into >> somewhere that even

Re: F13 kernel update mystery

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
r them. Yes, one can also NFS export the yum cache and symlink and share it across hosts, but that is a bit of work to set up and get going. Most people just aren't going to go through that, especially when the end result is a much more brittle yum installation. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e between the two links at the routing level and add a bit of routing cost to the wireless link. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-08-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
that needed to finish, I'd have to check for those too, but I don't. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-09-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Kevin J. Cummings" writes: > On 08/31/2010 09:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Why not just do reboots at 3 in the morning and it just won't matter all >> that much. I just have a cron script in /etc/cron.daily that checks to > No! I'm often doing s

Re: Kickstart installations and printer pre-configuration in Fedora 13

2010-09-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
mod-time after I installed the system). Hopefully someone will be disgusted enough with this answser to speak up and tell us the correct way. ;-) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: DNS problem

2010-09-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ier code than the current named/bind in the yum repositories. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Neal Becker writes: > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-o

adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Adobe Flash Player zero-day under attack http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/adobe-flash-player-zero-day-under-attack/7342 According to various news clips, Adobe won't have a fix for another 2 weeks days (till between Sept 27 and Oct 1). If flash is now very unsafe, is there a working a

Re: adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:25:25 -0700, > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: >> >> If flash is now very unsafe, is there a working alternative yet? Is > > Adobe's flash player has been unsafe for a very long time and I don'

Re: adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Andre Robatino writes: > Today Adobe released a newer Preview Version which is available for both 32- > and > 64-bit for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The 64-bit version is working fine for > me > so far. > > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > > There is also a 3rd-party yum repo

Re: Hole in 64-bit Linux kernel provides root rights

2010-09-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y systems with high uptimes act funny (perhaps due to things like fragmentation or memory leaks). Periodic reboots fix all those things. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F13 <-> Samsung Galaxy S via USB

2010-09-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gary Stainburn writes: > If you look at the following extract from /var/log/messages, you can see that > it gets as far as seeing the two devices (Phone memory and Micro SD card) but > doesn't make them available. The Toshiba shown below is the memory stick > that works. Did you use the Andr

Re: Unable to blank DVD+R R/W

2010-09-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e current gnome machinery will mount the disc for you, even if you intend to erase it. This will, of course, prevent you from being able to erase it. Do a "df" or "mount" to get the name of the dvd's mounted fs's and do an unmount on it. Then try the erase again.

Re: How to stop NetworkManager from frobbing my /etc/resolv.conf

2010-09-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
TWORKWAIT=yes -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
o much. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: cp210x.ko hangs on open attempt

2010-09-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
and then wonder why they can't open the port. Carrier detect is a very useful line for detecting if the rs-232 plug fell out of the computer. People should get in the habit of at least looping RTS->CTS, DTR->{DSR,DCD}. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wo

Fedora user base (was: Can I know which fedora is stable?)

2010-09-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gordon Messmer writes: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interview-with-greg-dekoenigsberg-red-hat-community-architect-725426/ > > Interview with Greg Dekoenigsberg - Red Hat Community Architect > > * What do you think is the biggest misconception about Fedora? * > > That

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y service. I'll probably start blocking all incomming SIP (both UDP and TCP) except from known peers and clients. Luckily I don't have any dynamic SIP clients that roam the net at large. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) --

Re: While waiting for Fedora 14, a question for the engineering types re: searching and finding

2010-10-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
to keep the cache filled for memory intensive operations like pattern search or block move. Special search hardware in the cpu would be fixing the part of the problem that is already faster than the supporting hardware. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (I

Re: emacs not working on GNOME in fedora 14

2010-11-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tom Horsley writes: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:07:02 +0100 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1409936 >> >> Cannot confirm that. Running Emacs as root after logging into GNOME as an >> ordinary user also works for me. > > Works for me as well, but if I

Re: Preupgrading headless remote systems

2010-11-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e network settings. I might addd that it had guessed the the settings correctly, it just wanted me to confirm them (eth0, dhcp for ipv4, and the standard RFC automatic config for ipv6). -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mai

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ry-syntax --close-stderr': ) connect : Connection refused -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Klaus-Peter Schrage writes: > You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: > http://www.correctpi.com/ Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB warning. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprech

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
mmend you install F14 as a clean (from scratch) install, accepting all default values. Ideally would be if you told the installer that it could use the whole disk so that it could redo the whole partition table from scratch. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: > >> >> Sam Varshavchik writes: >>> On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port >>> forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other >>> host

Finding programs (was: SELinux)

2011-01-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
of times because the name evince, just doesn't remind me of PDF. I can't expect a newbie to do that either. The unhelpful program names combined with 3 or more non-overlapping documentation systems (man, info, help), don't make things any easier. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rup

intrusion tracking

2011-01-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
hat I'm missing? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fe

Re: Finding programs

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Aaron Konstam writes: > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 01/26/2011 05:23 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> > I'm not sure how new users are supposed to find evince. >> >> Maybe it is the same method that many folks should use to

Re: intrusion tracking

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Joe Zeff writes: > On 01/25/2011 02:34 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>That lowered ssh security allowed a second intrusion at user >> level (probably by password guessing) > > No need. Once they had root they could add a user and use that for their > user-level

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