Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 00:40:27 -0700, "John M. Harris Jr" wrote: Yes, the other option would be to move to Debian or find another rpm-based distro that still supports 32 bit. All of this because Fedora decided to do what seems to be so common recently, dropping what still works well. This

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 23:24:58 +, Suvayu Ali wrote: Could you please share your workflow? I have been looking for some guidance so that I can test upstream kernels when I encounter these hardware issues. I don't need step by step instructions, I'm very comfortable compiling software,

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 14:32:10 +, Suvayu Ali wrote: What baffles me most, is the nature of the bug. It is the text book case of a high priority bug, new (budget) hardware, which is becoming common place very fast, where Fedora isn't bootable, add to that it is a regression bug. How

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:44:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: One other thing. On connecting the dock, I get this from dmesg: [259115.502000] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk [259115.505730] sd 7:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [259115.820568] md127: Warning: Device sdf1 is

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:32:03 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: That's not a good sign, but sometimes you can still get a lot of use out of such a drive. If you don't want to spend effort figuring out where the bad sectors are, you

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the docking station's

Re: Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?

2020-04-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:44:31 -0400, Earl Terwilliger via users wrote: I am inserting the data when the iso is created. I want a self contained bootable USB stick that I can hand to someone. They boot it up, enter a password, load firefox and go to localhost. The localhost web site has a

Re: Key-Based Authentication -

2020-02-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 07:00:51 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I've been reading the thread about detecting hack attempts and I am interested in in setting up "key based authentication" as described [perhaps] in

Re: Old Wine RPMs

2020-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 18:54:34 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Now that Wine Staging has be gobbled up by Wine and Wine bugs are no longer being fixed unless you put Code Weavers on your payroll, I have had to downgrade my copy of Wine, due to regression errors Wine has

Re: What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?

2020-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 17:05:41 -0700, "John M. Harris Jr." wrote: If that's the case for LVM, then it seems that mdadm would be the easier and safer option. You simply create an array with a missing disk, copy the data over, then add the existing disk to the array. If you copy block by

Re: anyone using openvpn?

2019-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 02:31:38 +, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Also it lacks encapsulation; essential for punching restrictive firewalls. That doesn't need to be built in to the encrytion tunnel and is probably best to use a seperate tunnel to make your traffic look like https, http,

Re: anyone using openvpn?

2019-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 17:48:09 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: is there a sdk contact for stuff like this? fyi, fedora 28 CC /home/jackc/src/WireGuard/src/tools/terminal.o CC /home/jackc/src/WireGuard/src/tools/ipc.o *ipc.c:7:10: fatal error: libmnl/libmnl.h: No such file or

Re: anyone using openvpn?

2019-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 11:10:36 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: given the problems i surmounted getting this far makes me wonder it openvpn is really up to the task. Have you looked at wireguard? It's not upstream yet, but the primary author updates it for development kernels, so it's usually

Re: Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?

2019-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 16:32:22 -0400, Garry Williams wrote: On most occasions I have to clean files before I am allowed to update a Fedora 30 system: garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade [sudo] password for garry: Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 63 kB/s | 18 kB Fedora

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 13:40:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: True, but old DNS uses UDP and thus the responses aren't "related" to a given query (a stateful firewall couldn't necessarily determine that an incoming DNS UDP reply was solicited or not). I think related is

Re: Problem browsing at some hotspots

2018-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:09:08 -0700, JD wrote: So, I would like to know if there are members on this list who know how to get around such blocking by these hotspots? Are there FF add-ons that can do it? I use wireguard to tunnel back to my home network and all traffic

Re: LUKS question

2017-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 14:28:11 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/18/2017 06:14 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Everything possible even on the / filesystem while the system runs normally. All of what you describe is possible without LVM, too. Including moving

Re: Getting luks dependency problems on boot

2016-09-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 10:36:29 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: Hi all, Dependency failed for Cryptography Setup for luks-. Dependency failed for Encrypted Volumes Those sound like systemd messages. You probably need to find out which dependency failed and that

Re: encrypted partitions

2016-08-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 13:03:55 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: On a laptop, I would like to setup 2 encrypted partitions with the same passphrase (this is easy). Now, when I boot the laptop, I would like to have to provide the passphrase only one time. Is it possible? That is

Re: Hardware Suggestions for Desktop Fedora

2016-08-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 16:17:08 -0600, Drew Samson wrote: What disadvantages were you referring to with hardware raid? In some cases you need to replace failed hardware with the same model, which might be difficult to do. MD raid is very hardware agnostic. Unless you buy

Re: OS upgrade via SSH

2016-07-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party

Re: [OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 08:16:10 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: The correct solution is for the mailing list software to be changed to rewrite From: addresses. Newer versions of Mailman support this. The address rewriting is annoying, but is the only true solution to being in

Re: [F24] - sshd.service disabled

2016-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 23:33:39 +0200, Antonio M wrote: Bruno, at least on my laptop I cannot find the preset folder, /etc/systemd/system-preset/ .Is it correct?? The installed ones are at: /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/ /etc would be for local overrides. --

Re: [F24] - sshd.service disabled

2016-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 22:35:10 +0200, Antonio M wrote: Tnx Ed... I don't undesrtand why sshd was disabled on a system, and was not disabled on the laptop. Kind of magic?? You probably want to check the systemd presets. These can vary depending on which flavor

Re: no freetype-freeworld f24?

2016-06-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 14:30:08 -0500, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 14:41:34 -0400, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: Looks like rpmfusion doesn't have an f24 update? They just had a big update within the last few hours. I suspect th

Re: no freetype-freeworld f24?

2016-06-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 14:41:34 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: Looks like rpmfusion doesn't have an f24 update? They just had a big update within the last few hours. I suspect there is more to come though. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: SELINUX Problem (Firefox Create access on rawip_socket)

2016-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:30:48 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: Excellent advice. Linux never tells you if the username you're trying to log in with is right, just that the combination of username and password was wrong. The only username that a potential cracker knows exists is

Re: firefox javascript

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 20:59:30 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: If I want to access to gmx.com, I did not find any other option than to have javascript enabled. Some web sites are broken. They may be too lazy to make sure their interface is usable to work without javascipt.

Re: firefox javascript

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Is there a way to activate the javascripts only for specific website ? There is an add on that sort of does that. But it turns out, that it needs javascript to do this and there was at least one compromize that worked if javascript was enabled, but blocked by the add on. -- users mailing

Re: firefox javascript

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
javascript.enabled is in about:config . I set it to false most of the time. Why ? Because javascript is way too powerful to leave on when visiting random web sites or sites with third party ads. It greatly increases the attack surface of a web browser both for compromizes and for privacy

Re: firefox javascript

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:43:22 -0600, jd1008 wrote: I do not see in my FF any settings for enabling or disabling java, nor javascript. So, where are these 2 settings? JavaScript True JavaScriptEnabled True javascript.enabled is in about:config . I set it to false most

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:01:45 -0700, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: On 04/29/2016 11:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: How does it know what the factory settings were? I get the impression it just creates a vfat file system on the device using all of the available space. Isn't tha

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:20:13 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: Yes, it was rewritten. Now it uses only dd to write to a flash drive and it indeed is capable of restoring a flash drive containing Fedora to its factory settings. How does it know what the factory settings

Re: An interesting sort problem

2015-11-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 13:54:50 -0700, jd1008 wrote: The sort command does not provide for a way to say that the key is the last word in a line, where the file contains lines of varying number of words, and where words are groups of characters without spaces or tabs. Thus

Re: How do I start GPM?

2015-10-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 15:17:45 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: Dear List, How can I start 'gpm' on a F22 laptop? I've installed the GPM package, but it doesn't seem to want to start ... Normally you set it to run at boot by running the following as root:

Re: fedora 22 live

2015-07-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 21:36:57 +0200, Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, In Fedora 22 live, which version is almost a gnome 3 version? Mate, LXDE, or ? I would expect you are looking for workstation. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

2015-07-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:22:13 -0400, Radek Holy rh...@redhat.com wrote: The most precise description is that it sets the SOLVER_FLAG_ALLOW_UNINSTALL flag which is described here: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/blob/master/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt#L2024 I looked through that and it

Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

2015-07-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:32:58 -0400, Radek Holy rh...@redhat.com wrote: Right, it still does not allow the depsolver to remove a capability at all. It allows it only to replace a package which provides a required capability with another package which provides it as well. Can you

Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

2015-07-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 17:35:18 +0200, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: That's basically what --allowerasing is about. The idea is that when you run upgrade, you most likely don't want this upgrade to remove any of the packages that are currently installed on your system. As the name

Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

2015-07-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 16:02:11 +0200, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 20. 7. 2015 at 08:57:41, kevin martin wrote: I'm with Jan...Thank God for yum-deprecated. Been trying to get systemd updated with DNF forever and it's been throwing an error about fedora-release..yum-deprecated

Re: Building/loading dahdi from asterisk

2015-07-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 21:21:42 -0400, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: I figured it out, but it's really weird. The file /etc/init.d/functions contains a bunch of shell script functions, of course. However, it runs one of those functions called strstr() and checks to see if /proc/cmdline

Re: Building/loading dahdi from asterisk

2015-07-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 19:21:37 -0400, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really stuck with getting asterisk started. I've built and install the dahdi asterisk modules, but they don't load automatically on boot. The asterisk-dahdi package includes /etc/rc.d/init.d/dahdi which runs

Re: dnf seems to be broken after the most recent updates, including updates-testing

2015-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 19:47:43 +0200, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: downgrading dnf-langpacks to version 0.10.0-1 (using yum-deprecated) helps. You can also use the --disbleplugin=langpacks option instead of using yum-deprecated. -- users mailing list

Re: Clone a system to an encrypted drive

2015-07-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 20:21:25 -0500, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: I have a running Fedora 21 system. I would like to make a backup of it to a USB drive, a clone that can be booted. I know how to do all the normal stuff (partition, LVM, mkfs, rsync, and GRUB), but I'd like the USB

Re: No IP 4 address setup no loopback interface

2015-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:42:31 -0600, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: I'm seeing this also with the similar rawhide version: NetworkManager-1.0.4-0.1.git20150618.8cffaf3bf5.fc23 I couldn't find an existing bug, so I filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234478 Thanks. I

No IP 4 address setup no loopback interface

2015-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am still investigating this, but I have an f22 laptop that is only getting an IP6 address set up on the loopback interface. I noticed this because I run a local resolver on 127.0.0.1 and connections to it stopped working over night (after a reboot). The was a NetworkManager update before the

Re: No IP 4 address setup no loopback interface

2015-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:50:54 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: FWIW, also have a laptop running F22 and fully updated. Currently at NetworkManager-1.0.2-1.fc22.x86_64 which I believe is the latest and I'm not having any difficulties with my lo interface. I'm running

Re: dnf headaches.

2015-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 21:44:37 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 dwal...@doomd.net wrote: I seem to have some issues with dnf, and Dr Google isn't helping ... So I installed the Games and Entertainment, which did exactly nothing, except mark it installed. So, I figured out, that if I really want

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 22:36:07 +0200, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Well, my first preupgrade experience was okayish, but I was also very new to linux then. However by the time preupgrade had resolved its issues, I had already moved on to yum. I just find it a bit

Re: Differences between standard and rescue kernels

2015-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 23:31:56 -0400, Alex Regan mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed fedora21 on an AMD x86_64 box then moved it to an Intel x86_64 box and it would no longer boot. It would get to the following: Switched to clocksource tsc then just sit there. Booting from the

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 01:48:57 +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this fortunately is not Linux case... However it is very unlikely

Re: Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

2015-04-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
as yet, i have never been unable to accept a site's unrecognized certificate. [firefox 24.8.0] There are some certs that are pinned (tor's site is one I remember) and you can't override those easily. If you have removed the default CAs and run into this you have to go somewhere esle

Re: Issue with GOG native games and opengl?

2015-03-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:44:17 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 03/17/15 08:38, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The game works in current f21, but not rawhide. I suspect this is due to mesa or nouveau versions rather than a bug. Are you saying you're trying to use the game under

Issue with GOG native games and opengl?

2015-03-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
When running Icewind Dale's start up script I get the following: Running Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error:

Re: Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

2015-02-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 09:35:54 -0700, Stuart McGraw smcg4...@frii.com wrote: I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo in order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql. But I need to run Postgresql-9.4 so I disabled the yum postgresql startup via systemd and

Re: Fedora 21 Workstation - Agere ET-131x network card not working

2015-02-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 17:26:57 +0100, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: ... # CONFIG_DVB_AS102 is not set # CONFIG_ET131X is not set # CONFIG_SLICOSS is not set ... So, you'd need to build a custom kernel or try to persuade the kernel maintainers to add it. They probably will add

Re: Disabling the UPS alarm using Linux

2015-02-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 18:30:57 -1000, Jim Lewis j...@jklewis.com wrote: I know this has always been hard/impossible to do but I thought I would ask in case this had finally been resolved. I tried using upscmd but it can't find the APC UPS (USB). The man page and other documentation is pretty

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:25:40 +0100, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote: On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, do you think e.g. AMD/Radeon cards are any better, and why? Is the

Re: Nouveau driver is slow in Fedora 21

2015-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:24:04 +0100, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: On 06.01.2015 07:24, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The 3.19 kernel has some Nouveau fixes and is probably worth a quick try. What particular changes are those? There are lots of changes in 3.19 (and 3.18

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 20:03:56 +1100, Stephen Morris samor...@netspace.net.au wrote: I am using the RPMFusion repositories to get the nvidia driver but I shouldn't have to use a third party repository the get the drivers, they should be in standard repositories, and for what its worth, so

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 20:46:09 +1100, Stephen Morris samor...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 01/06/2015 08:32 PM, poma wrote: It has always been my understanding that the proprietary drivers make extensive use of the video cards hardware acceleration features where available, whereas the nouveau

Re: Nouveau driver is slow in Fedora 21

2015-01-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 19:16:14 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Scrolling is painfully slow in Firefox using the nouveau driver under Fedora 21. In fact the whole system seems slow, but that's another issue. Has anyone tried out the proprietary driver for my system, which

Re: Rpmfusion

2014-12-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:33:41 +0100, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:01:37 +0200, jarmo wrote: Seems, that RPMFUSION is not yet up to date with Fedora 21.. Due to their different development model, their Rawhide repo is the one that targets Fedora 21.

Re: torrent.fedoraproject.org RSS feed?

2014-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 13:00:44 -0600, Ben Blankley ben.blank...@gmail.com wrote: With the impending release of F21, I was planning on setting up my RSS-enabled Bittorrent client to get the F21 final ISO downloading as soon as possible. Is there an RSS feed for torrent.fedoraproject.org? If

Re: OT: bridging firewall for Comcast static IPv4 addresses

2014-12-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 19:40:01 -0500, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I don't want to rely on their box for firewall rules, so I want to put my own box behind theirs. But can't very well route to an internal firewall a /28 v4 block. I would have to run a briding firewall.

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 17:39:34 +, Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com wrote: For the HP issue, the fix is easy -- you just delete the command to check during boot up. But, I was thinking about this as an encryption option -- where one could encrypt files in a way that automatically

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 20:47:25 +, Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: Actually, let me be more specific. Let's say I have data on a flash drive that is encrypted using gpg. We can even say the flash drive itself is encrypted. Now let's say

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 20:33:51 -0500, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 11/26/2014 07:10 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 20:47:25 +, Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: Actually, let me be more specific

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The logs make fascinating (and scary) reading. openssh stopped

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:36:46 +, Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com wrote: I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes pretty good sense for a private box, at least for stuff like ssh and ftp. Does anybody know of a good tutorial/example/script for fedora

Re: Clearing the unallocated disk space

2014-11-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com mailto:jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to clean the unallocated blocks? If this is really important to you, just eat the cost of the drive and destroy it instead of sending it

Re: Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:51:43 -0600, Bill Kuns am...@cybermesa.com wrote: I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, it asks for a password. I don't have that password. What can I do to use the machine? A BIOS/EFI password or a Windows password? If there is a

Re: How to prevent a program from accessing to the Internet?

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 14:09:41 +0100, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I would like to prevent a program from accessing to the Internet. Any ideas? Besides the suggestion Rahul pointed to you can also use the sandbox command which will lock down other things as well. It is in

Re: How to prevent a program from accessing to the Internet?

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:33:29 -0400, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Filed a RFE a few hours before https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154302 According to the man page for sandbox, processes don't get network access. I didn't see a way to turn it on in the man page.

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 19:17:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I need to swap monitors as the backlight in my old Dell monitor grows dim. I have a Viewsonic vx2035WM that Fedora can never get the resolution right for. I've gone through the following

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:46:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 10/02/14 11:13, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I have a monitor that doesn't properly do EDID and I use the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # Xorg configuration created by system-config

Re: Display resolution -

2014-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:30:28 -0600, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno, Your conf file comment line says Xorg configuration created by system-config-display But I cannot find it in my fc20 installation. You must be running an older fedora?? The file was created a long time ago. The

Re: SpoofMAC

2014-09-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 18:11:03 +0300, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC Has anyone used this? I will be using it to test the impact of using randomized local MAC addresses. I would like to have a Gnome widget that I can just click on and run

Re: Fedora 20 with AMD catalyst video driver

2014-09-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 16:16:48 -0700, Steven Rosenberg stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com wrote: While I could say, just don't use Fedora, instead I'm going to say, Linux users should think twice before buying AMD hardware, which I wish I did this last time. That applies to all hardware.

Re: What happened to rcp and ssh problem

2014-09-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:10:40 -0500, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: For medical reasons I have been away from Linux for a year or more. I am now running fc20 , but there is a problem. rcp dooes not appear in the distribution. Has it disappeared in earlier versions and I just

Re: ssh problems

2014-09-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:38:57 -0500, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have two machines on a Local LAN. Machine A can ssh and sftp to Machine B. But ssh on Machine B to Machine A results in port 22 connection refused. How can this be fixed and or port 22 be opened? Note that

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 15:02:03 -0700, Tod Merley todbo...@gmail.com wrote: Heinz thanks for reminding me about looking at certificates by clicking the padlock. I also note that they have the ability to export and so I suppose a comparison could be made through that as well. General question

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

2014-08-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved

Re: md5 encryption

2014-08-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 15:29:58 -0400, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Today you might STILL use sha1; it has had tremendous resiliency. NIST was expecting it to fall as badly as md5 by this point. Most use at least sha256, and sha3 is now out there. Choose your poison.

Re: System starts in emergency mode...how do I recover ?? (as a newbie)

2014-08-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 00:10:09 +0200, antonio montagnani antonio.montagn...@alice.it wrote: Suddenly my laptop when rebooted doesn't start in the usual way After six months of hard work) but it stops when bootib with this message drm:cpt-serr_int_handler ERROR PCH transcoder a FIFO underrun

Re: Mesa-10.2.5 was released - while Fedora still ships 10.1 :/

2014-08-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 13:40:35 +0200, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any unofficial reporsitories for Mesa-10.2 or 10.3 git? Reason is I've bought a few games on steam and would like to play them, but the Intel OpenGL driver in mesa 10.1 doesn't work well. Now with

Re: Mesa-10.2.5 was released - while Fedora still ships 10.1 :/

2014-08-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 13:56:30 +0200, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wolf, Rebuilding the source rpm usually isn't a problem. You could get a 10.2.5 srpm from f21 or a 10.3 srpm from rawhide. Mesa consists of about ~20 packages :/ Are you sure you're not counting rpms?

Re: Mesa-10.2.5 was released - while Fedora still ships 10.1 :/

2014-08-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 16:21:51 +0200, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote: On 15.08.2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Are you sure you're not counting rpms? It looks like there are 4 packages that have mesa as the start of their name. There will be some others that need to get rebuilt in order

Re: SSHD keys

2014-08-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:55:45 -0400, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: If I want to 'reset' SSHD to have all new keys do I stop it, delete the files: /etc/ssh/ssh_h* and restart it? This seems to be working... And does the server keep client sigs anywhere? I can't find any

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:41:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. Now on: We'll you could

Re: Problem with iptables

2014-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 17:21:21 -0700, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: ps. Could you not use html mail? I can barely read the pale gray text. Thx. Note that the original message was a multipart/alternative message with both text/html and text/plain versions of the same text.

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 64 bit version

2014-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 15:11:48 +0200, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: Good to know how grateful you are for someone else's hard work. Please be excellent to other people. This kind of comment doesn't further the discussion. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Why won't smbd and nmbd start automatically on system start?

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:20:45 -0400, Temlakos temla...@gmail.com wrote: Now when I try to start either one in runtime, I get an SELinux alert. But as long as I simply do a restart or a cold start, such alerts do not happen. (I always sudo such commands, BTW. I made myself a member of

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 14:45:17 +0200, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this accidentally. That being said, if users accidentally instruct yum to erase

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 13:08:42 +0100, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Why not Vote for yum vs dnf? What exactly is wrong with yum? For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 08:57:33 -0400, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:47:37 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for example) to the time it takes

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 14:12:19 -0700, CLOSE Dave dave.cl...@us.thalesgroup.com wrote: On 05/13/2014 06:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary variable. I can't find a way

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 15:35:37 -0700, CLOSE Dave dave.cl...@us.thalesgroup.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary variable. I can't find a way to do that with udev

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 17:59:54 -0700, CLOSE Dave dave.cl...@us.thalesgroup.com wrote: I've done that. The problem seems to be that what I want to do is to /exchange/ the names assigned. One of the renames works but the other fails, claiming the new name is already in use. In other

Re: What on earth just happened?

2014-05-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 15:54:54 +0100, John Austin j...@jaa.org.uk wrote: Glad I'm not the only one with a problem! kdm and xfce I saw this problem in rawhide for about a week, but it recently cleared up. Other than someone else chiming in that they saw it too, I didn't get any feedback

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