Re: Signal, WhatsApp, Skype - Questions

[Harish Pillay]

> Signal comes with a dedicated desktop; however, it's Linux incarnation is
> only available for Debian-distributions, no rpm package as yet. Are there
> any plans for one?

If you run Chromium[0], you can then add a Signal as a Chromium App and
you can then have the Signal desktop on your system. That's how I have
on my F27 GNOME system.

Harish
[0] https://fedoramagazine.org/install-chromium-fedora/
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Re: Fedora on a NUC?

[Harish Pillay]

Temlakos -

> Does anyone have experience with installing Fedora on a NUC?

Yes, I've have Fedora running on a bunch of NUCs - 4 of them. I started
with F21 and they are all now running F26-beta.

[... deleted ...]

> Word is that it normally ships with Windows 10, but can support any number
> of distributions of Linux. I want to know whether Fedora is one of them.

It does not ship with storage which you have to get separately. So, you can
essentially install anything.

> It sounds like the ideal small office/media lab/home theater solution. Pair
> it with a good NAS and you have all the computing power you need, with a
> fraction of the physical--and carbon--footprint.
>
> Comments? Suggestions? Success stories? Horror stories?

Highly recommended. It is nice and quiet and does the job. I am using
one of them as a NAS with 6 USB3 drives plugged in via a USB3 hub.

Harish
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Re: Fedora and NFC ip

[Harish Pillay]

Robert -

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> I am at the IETF in the 6lo working group meeting listening to a
> presentation on the progress on IP over NFC.  The Intenet Draft is
> draft-ietf-6lo-nfc-02.txt
>
> The testbed for their plugfest tomorrow is an Intel Edison board (Yacto
> Linuc 3.10.17) to a Fedora laptop (Linux kernel 4.0.4).
>
> So anyone out there that wants to work with IP over NFC can get their
> driver(s) and have fun...

That's fascinating. URL to the live stream would be good to have.

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Re: Modem troubles

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Richard -

 I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the
 modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone
 have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect?

Are you referring to a traditional analog modem or a 3G USB dongle?
You can certainly use minicom to test both.

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Re: Modem troubles

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  I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get
  the
  modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone
  have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect?

 Are you referring to a traditional analog modem or a 3G USB dongle?
 You can certainly use minicom to test both.

 Traditional modem, I believe it was / is a cable modem.

Cable modems are accessed via the Etnernet port. Does the cable modem
connect to the cable company?

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Re: Modem troubles

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  Traditional modem, I believe it was / is a cable modem.

 Cable modems are accessed via the Etnernet port. Does the cable modem
 connect to the cable company?

  It was a friends computer, he was very ready to switch from MS Windows 8.1
 to Linux; I went over, we installed it, and couldn't get up on his Ethernet,
 given that the computer could see it.

if you could access the machine again, could you check if the ethernet
port is lighted up when it is plugged into the cable modem (also powered up)
and connected to the cable network provider.

 I wanted to sign him up in this forum after getting up; I went to
 fedoraproject.org just now - 9 hours later - and realise that I've forgotten
 how to sign up after so long.

https://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora should help.

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Re: fedup f18-f19 going OK?

[Harish Pillay]

 I'm about to try fedup f18-f19.  Any reports good/bad on this
 route?

worked for my systems. I did a fedup --network 19 -v and a few
hours later, all's good.  Dell laptops all of them.

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Re: Two HDs

[Harish Pillay]

Bill -

 Dear Harish:

 They are internal SATA drives.

I am assuming your system has something like what is shown in
this [0]. And that there is already a cable connecting the drive to
the board. Then there is nothing else to do except to check within
your BIOS to see if the drive is enabled as well.

[0] 
http://s32.photobucket.com/user/KKilme/media/Resources/sata-on-mb-empty.jpg.html
[0] http://wiki.pcworld.com/index.php/Installing_SATA_hard_drives

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Re: Two HDs

[Harish Pillay]

Bill -

 Dear Helpers:

 I have installed two 1 TB Hard Drives in my new system.  Only one of the
 two is recognized by Fedora.

Are these internal SATA or externally connected USB drives?

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Re: root password

[Harish Pillay]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com wrote:
 I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility
 of retrieving  it?

go into single user mode and when you are dropped into the
prompt, you can change the root password.

see: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

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Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

[Harish Pillay]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote:
 On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
 Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one?

 Yes it can import PDFs as long as you install the PDF Import Extension
 from Oracle.

 I've not tried to merge multiple PDFs.

Couple of tricks I've used using the command line tools:
a) 
https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8229-putting-together-pdf-files
b) 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8070731/combining-pdf-with-ghostscript-using-original-bookmarks-with-corrected-page-num

and extensive use of Xournal (yum install xournal) for editing PDFs.

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Re: sshfs

[Harish Pillay]

 In fedora 13 I used to use sshfs and it was working fine, but with
 fedora 14, it does not work any more?
 I do not get any complain, but the FS is just not mounted!

 Any idea?

I am running Fedora 16 and I use sshfs to connect to many systems
regularly.

I do not have a Fedora 14 machine to test though.

Perhaps a yum reinstall sshfs -y might help.

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Re: Unable to ssh nodes with global IP

[Harish Pillay]

 On 10/23/2011 05:09 PM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote:
 The customer service said that  ssh is not allowed. So, what to do
 then? I badly need a server with global IP for experimenting grid

You can do the following:
a) edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the default port 22 to a
higher port say 10022. Actually anything above 1024 would
be sufficient.
b) restart your sshd daemon
c) from your client, say if you are running on the command line,
you can do the following: ssh -p 10022 hostname
replacing the 10022 with whatever you've changed your sshd
to.
d) do ensure that on your server you open up the port you want
sshd to accept connections. you can do that from the
command line via system-config-firewall.

hth.

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Re: work with two monitors

[Harish Pillay]

 well can anyone help me?

 I have a laptop, Asus Z92U.

 I have it conected with an external monitor, now both have the same
 information, the LCD by laptop and the external LCD (clone).

 But in the past and with Ubuntu, i put it work, both, with diferente
 information, like a large desktop.

 well, how can i do the same, with the operating system Fedora 14.

Go to:

System - Preferences - Monitors. You will be presented with
the laptop LCD and the external monitor.  You would need to
uncheck the Same image in all monitors option.

HTH.

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Re: Problem with NetworkManager (self-inflicted)

[Harish Pillay]

 It all started with Puppy Linux 5.2.  I setup a LiveCD and jumped in to get
 familiar with it.  I had some trouble with connectivity.  I eventually got
 around to trying my linksys Wireless-G dongle.  This showed some promise
 although I was unable to find the correct Puppy driver for the dongle and
 eventually removed the Wireless-G and shelved that project.   Later on, I
 tried to log on with Fedora and found that NetworkManager was now unusable.
 Okay, after fiddling around with it for a while, I did a complete reinstall
 of Fedora (including reformatting the disk) and low-and-behold
 NetworkManager still doesn't work. I would have thought the Fedora reinstall
 would have installed the correct driver but apparently it didn't.  I am able
 to send this because I have plugged the Wireless-G back in. (aargh!)   Has
 anyone ever seen this sort of thing?

Actually, the easier way is to do the following:

yum reinstall NetworkManager*

and it will replace the existing NetworkManager.

I actually don't understand the issue you are facing.  Your machine has
some OS installed in the harddisk or are you working entirely off of a
liveCD?

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Re: F14: Dell laptop

[Harish Pillay]

        I wonder if anyone is using this laptop, and if they could tell
        me if everything works?

    Dell Adamo 13 Core 2 DUO SU9400 4G RAM 128GB SSD

I believe the Dell Vostro V13 [0] is of the same size and scale as the Adamo.
I have the Vostro and it runs Fedora 14 64-bit and all of the components are
fully functional - built-in webcamera, wifi, ethernet, SD-card reader
etc.  I got
the machine wit 4G of memory.  Do ask for the N-series otherwise they will
insist on having Windows with it.  The N-series ships with Ubuntu but you
can just replace it with Fedora.

Enjoy.

[0] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/vostro-v13/pd

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Re: How to disable camera on a notebook

[Harish Pillay]

 Look for the camera module with lsmod, and unload it for temporary if
 you have booted.

Just as we have a mute button for the speaker, perhaps we need a video
mute as well.  Need to file a RFE for this.

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Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

[Harish Pillay]

William -

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry whe...@redhat.com wrote:
 My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not
 crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the Christmas
 break.

I've had a similar issue. I've filed in BZ -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=03

The issue is, atleast in my case, a residual file in /tmp that has the following
initial letters: OSL_PIPE followed by a series of numbers.  Deleting that file
then allowed for oo.o to start properly.

hope this helps.
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Re: Remote X display access

[Harish Pillay]

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 10:32 -0500, Alex wrote:
 Hi,

 What is the best way to securely permit a remote X application to
 display on as local system?

 I'm trying to get system-config-services to run on a remote FC14
 x86_64 system to my local FC13 x86_64 system. It's on a local internal
 network. I've tried setting the display and allowing access using
 xhost, but it still appears to have an access control problem.

 Also, how can I do this across the Internet? Wrap it in ssh?

Here's what I do:
local machine: ssh -YC usern...@remotemachine.com

You might need to have the remotemachine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config
to have the entry in it:
   X11Forwarding yes
uncommented.

The -Y option given to ssh is for the following:

-Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding.  Trusted X11 forwardings are not
 subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.

and the -C is for compression.

Once you have logged in, you can then spawn GUI applications on
remotemachine and have the display show up on local machine.

There could be latency issues, and for that you might want to
investigate the SPICE protocol (available in F14) or freenx.

hth.
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Re: Remote X display access

[Harish Pillay]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 What is the best way to securely permit a remote X application to
 display on as local system?
 ...

 Here's what I do:
 local machine: ssh -YC usern...@remotemachine.com

 I tried ssh -X u...@host and that appeared to work fine. What is the
 difference between these two commands? Will I be able to perform all
 functions remotely using my method, or is the -Y preferred?

I could not recall the reason and after some googling, this is what I found:

http://support.suso.com/supki/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux#X11_Session_Forwarding

For some newer programs and newer versions of X windows, you may need
to use the -Y option instead for trusted X11 forwarding. Try using
this option if your X11 windows program fails to start running with a
message like this one that was for Gimp:

  The program 'gimp-2.2' received an X Window System error.
  This probably reflects a bug in the program.
  The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 154 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
  function.)

 Thanks for everyone's help. xhost with X11R5 is what I recalled using :-)

No problem.  X's network centric architecture is the winner here. I am
hoping that the new wayland [0] will also have the same transparency.

[0] http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
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Re: Fedora 10 DVD can't boot!

[Harish Pillay]

        I am new here! Hello everybody! Can any one say how to boot
 from Fedora 10 DVD ? Because it has no EFI folder in dvd. I have
 downloaded fedora 10 i386 dvd iso (32bit) several times from different
 locations but no iso has that EFI folder. Where to get that ? How can
 I boot from fedora 10 dvd ?

Did you burn the ISO as an image or as a file.  Chances are that you
might have burned it as a file:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_disc/

Having said that, why don't you look at Fedora 14 instead? F10 is
now no longer viable.

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Re: command wvdial not found

[Harish Pillay]

 I want to use my 3G modem in F12. the manufacturer gives automatic 
 intallation software for mac and win only.

 I checked on internet, I found there is a way to do that using wvdial. But 
 I cannot find it. Does this command have another name in fedora?

What model 3G modem are you using?  And, is there a reason you want to
use F12 (which reached EOL earlier this month)?.

IIRC, you do not need anything fancy for get the 3G USB to work on Fedora
since F11 I think (or it might have been F12).

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Re: command wvdial not found

[Harish Pillay]

Adil -

 I'll answer your questions:
 I want use F12 because i want to use a software (NCTUns) that was tested only 
 in F12.
 The model of modem is HDM EC122.

 The problem now is that even yum does not work properly. Does it nead an 
 internet connection to work properly?

 because once i'm in fedora i'm not connected to internet.

 I did :

 yum clean metadata
 yum install wvdial

 but did not change anything.

As others have pointed out, for yum to work, it needs an link to the Internet
unless you can point yum to a local repository.

But, having said that, would you be able to consider the following
setup:
a) Do you have the package that you must run, NCTUns, available
to be reinstalled?
b) Is your computer capable of running virtual machines?
c) If your answers to a) and b) above are yes, then you might
want to install F14 on your existing machine, create a virtual
machine and install Fedora 12 in the VM and install NCTUns
in it.

Can you also contact the NCTUns folks to get them to update their
stuff to F14?

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Re: command wvdial not found

[Harish Pillay]

 I'll answer your questions:
 I want use F12 because i want to use a software (NCTUns) that was tested 
 only in F12.
 The model of modem is HDM EC122.

 The problem now is that even yum does not work properly. Does it nead an 
 internet connection to work properly?

 because once i'm in fedora i'm not connected to internet.

 I did :

 yum clean metadata
 yum install wvdial

 but did not change anything.

 As others have pointed out, for yum to work, it needs an link to the Internet
 unless you can point yum to a local repository.

 But, having said that, would you be able to consider the following
 setup:
 a) Do you have the package that you must run, NCTUns, available
    to be reinstalled?
 b) Is your computer capable of running virtual machines?
 c) If your answers to a) and b) above are yes, then you might
    want to install F14 on your existing machine, create a virtual
    machine and install Fedora 12 in the VM and install NCTUns
    in it.

 Can you also contact the NCTUns folks to get them to update their
 stuff to F14?

Assuming the NCTuns is from http://nsl10.csie.nctu.edu.tw/, checking
their support page:
http://nsl10.csie.nctu.edu.tw/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=22t=1034sid=366fc024a6ec7a9c298103c5636dc58b
shows that their version for Fedora 12 was released earlier this year.
I think it will be updated and perhaps you should contact them.

I do wish also, that the tool was open sourced, but it does not seem
to be.

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Re: PDF Modifier?

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 Is there any PDF modifier for  linux?

You might want to explore Xournal as well.

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Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

[Harish Pillay]

  I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, but I am
 unable to get livna repo to work manually or
 downloaded.  I thought RMPFusion was supposed
 to have livna's repository in its own repository
 and this package does not exist?

RPMFusion has everything *except* for libdvdcss.

 Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, I have nothing to add here.

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Re: Dual-boot with separate HDDs.

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 My main Linux box has suffered a motherboard failure. I am contemplating
 just moving the HDD to the XP machine and setting up dual boot.  If this
 isn't satisfactory, then it's a new motherboard.  I could boot by selecting
 the desired disk using BIOS.  Is it possible have GRUB select the OS (disk)
 at boot-up and go from there?

Yes it is possible.  What you may want to do is to make the drive you
are putting into the machine the 1st drive that will boot from.  Then you
can edit the /etc/grub.conf file to add a few more entries to point to the
other drive with XP.

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Re: Server hangs

[Harish Pillay]

Srini -

 We have installed Fedora Linux 8.0 on our server and we have a web based
 application running on DB MySql. The server hangs very frequently(atleast
 once a day). All operations come to stand still including the keyboard and
 mouse etc.. We need to hard boot the system again to make the server up and
 running.

 Please help us to overcome this issue.

And the issue is? Details of the issue would be good.  But, as others have
pointed out, Fedora 8 EOLed early 2009. While you can certainly run Fedora
on servers (as I do myself), if you are looking for it to be run as a core
enterprise system, I would invest in a support subscription from a commercially
supported distribution like Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

While you are contemplating getting a Red Hat subscription, perhaps you
might want to do the following:
a) Check the machine's memory.  You might have RAM related issues.
b) Are you running out of disk space for the applications running?
c) What else other than MySql is the machine running?

Harish
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Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

[Harish Pillay]

Daniel -

 I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers
 of the offending email spammmers and add these respective
 IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file,
 but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be
 easily spoofed with bogus entries, right?

 I am really getting tired of adding in entries into the access
 file, and writing email filters (in thunderbird) for patterns
 dumping spammers into the trash - and yet - I am still forced
 to review the trash for entries that should not have been trashed.
 Seems like a real chore and a losing proposition...

 What do admins of sendmail use, besides spamassasin?

See http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/44948.html.  I have been using
milter-greylist since late 2006 early 2007 and all I can say is that
spam has been reduced to less than 1% of what it used to be.

I don't use spamassasin or any other filters for greylisting does
it very well for me.

I am running that on a machine that receives mail for a domain
that has about 10K users and ever since it was turned on over
3 years ago, the user base has been very happy.

BTW, the system is running on a Fedora 13 system right now
but started life on a Fedora 7.

Regards.
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Re: System (F12) is not booting after upgrade

[Harish Pillay]

 Today after auto upgrade my system asked for reboot and after pressing
 reboot button it never came up. Now how to restore the system? Please help
 me out.
 Thank you.

Do you have a live CD? Can you boot from the live cd?

Harish
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Re: DVD-RAM problem on Acer 3212 laptop

[Harish Pillay]

Dick -

 I have installed Fedora 11 on my Acer 3212 (3210) laptop.  I am having
 trouble fully accessing the DVD drive. (Matshita UJ-840). I can mount the
 DVD image but it is returned as blank. However, I am able to boot from the
 drive.  I was surprised that I could write to a blank CD but cannot read CDs
 or DVDs which were made with Win XP.  I have been looking for a Linux driver
 for the device but so far no luck.

 Can anyone point me in a better direction?

can you grep through dmesg and/or /var/log/messages for references
to the drive?  Perhaps there is a hint there somewhere.

Harish
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