Re: Copy broken in recent Firefox?

2024-02-23 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 14:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 08:38 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Is it just me, or is everyone else no longer able to highlight any
> > multi-line chunk of code in Firefox, copy, then paste it somewhere else?
> >
> > I did some experiments. I can highlight a portion of a line, and that
> > can be pasted in another window. Highlight anything more than a line,
> > nothing gets pasted. I tested this on multiple sites, so it's not a single
> > site playing games with me. Copy/paste does not work either via the mouse
> > middle button click, nor right click's copy popup menu, nor the main menu's
> > Edit/Copy/
> >
> > So, what's broken:
> >
> > 1. Something here.
> > 2. Firefox.
>
> Works for me. Firefox on KDE (X11), F39.
>
+1

Works for me. Firefox on KDE (Wayland), F39.

Firefox: firefox-123.0-1.fc39.x86_64

> 1. Something here.
>
Seems like it.



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Re: how to remove rhgb quiet from grub & make it permanent

2023-10-12 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 18:14 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote:
> On 12/10/2023 16:08, olivares33561 via users wrote:
> > Dear kind fedora users,
> >
> > I will like to remove rhgb quiet from grub.  I have checked out some
> > literature[1] and want to make sure not to mess up my system.  I have a
> > little problem, when loading system sometimes I don't get a desktop and
> > have "No display" on screen.  I have to manually poweroff system and
> > restart it.
> > When I restart I edit the grub loading and remove the "rhgb quiet" part so
> > I can see what is going on.  At the end a prompt says something in journal
> > was bad and was deleted and I can login safely.  This has happened several
> > times on kernels 6.5.* series.
> >
> > I hope I can get a permanent removal of these so I do not have to edit the
> > line and press F10 to boot it.  I want to see what is happening and
> > preventing X/Wayland to load up correctly.  Running F38 if it is relevant.
> >
>
> The easiest way is using "grubby", the command:
> # grubby --remove-args="rhgb quiet" --update-kernel=DEFAULT
> will remove "rhgb quiet" from the default kernel. You can use:
> # grubby --info=DEFAULT
> before and after to see the effect.
> It should be permanent but it isn't: the next kernel update will revert to
> "rhgb quiet" and you have to rerun grubby, it is a bug that, I hope, will be
> fixed.
>
Use the '--update-kernel=ALL' option will change the cmdline options on all the
installed kernels and any subsequently installed ones.


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Re: Firewalld - "forward:" in output?

2023-08-07 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 10:50 -0400, David King wrote:
> On 8/7/23 10:29, John Horne wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would someone tell me to what the 'forward:' line in the 'firewall-cmd --
> > list-all' output refers:
> It indicates whether or not intra zone forwarding is enabled ->
> https://firewalld.org/2020/04/intra-zone-forwarding
>
Okay, thanks for that. A slightly more descriptive name than just 'forward:'
might have helped :-)



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Firewalld - "forward:" in output?

2023-08-07 Thread John Horne
Hello,

Would someone tell me to what the 'forward:' line in the 'firewall-cmd --list-
all' output refers:

services: dhcpv6-client mdns ssh
  ports:
  protocols:
  forward: no
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:


I have a server with this set to 'yes', so would like to know what it means.



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Re: can dnf exclude all kernel related packages when upgrading or installing packages

2022-09-30 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 13:41 +, old sixpack13 wrote:
> > Dear advanced users and developers,
> ...
> > Or unfortunately, Dnf and also Yum do not allow users to skip or exclude
> > kernel related
> > packages?
> ...
>
> sudo dnf upgrade --exclude=kernel-core
>
> will exclude:
> - kernel and
> - kernel-core and
> - kernel-modules
>
> I'm unsure about kernel-headers, kernel-modules-extra (?), kernel-srpm-
> macros.
> but should be done with additional "--exclude="
> ___
>
Or use '--exclude=kernel*'


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Re: Just noticed strange thing in rkhunter report.

2022-09-30 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 14:05 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
>
> [04:18:49]   /usr/libexec/gawk   [ Warning ]
> [04:18:49] Warning: Package manager verification has failed:
> [04:18:49]  File: /usr/libexec/gawk
> [04:18:49]  The symbolic link target has changed
>
Okay, so it is saying that the RPM package manager cannot verify the package
(gawk) that contains the /usr/libexec/gawk file. The reason being because the
link target is not what the package expects.

If you run something like 'rpm -V gawk' you'll probably see an 'L' in there for
the /usr/libexec/gawk file.

What is should point to I could not say. You may be able to find out by looking
in the '/var/lib/rkhunter/db/rkhunter.dat' file and the '.old' file, but that
will only work if you haven't run RKH with '--propupd' since the warning.
(On F36, it points to /usr/libexec/awk rather than just 'awk')


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Re: Just noticed strange thing in rkhunter report.

2022-09-29 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 04:34 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> Gives a warning about gawk in /usr/libexec??
>
What warning?


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Re: F35 - audio a bit mixed up

2021-11-11 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 18:33 +, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I carried out an online upgrade of my laptop a couple of days ago from F34 to
> F35. No problems with that, and all seemed to be okay. However, today I
> noticed that audio was not working, or partially working for some things
> (Zoom audio in particular seemed to fail completely).
>
> I noticed the previous list messages about swapping pulseaudio for pipewire,
> but this seemed to make no difference. I have tried changing settings, but no
> joy. So could someone who has audio working okay under F35 run some command-
> line checks for me please:
>
Hello,

Well I finally got audio working fine under pipewire. I'm just not sure what
the problem was! I tried several things, changed settings, checked logs and
started trawling through bug reports. It seems a few people gave up with
pipewire, and reverted back to pulseaudio.

So, feeling the same way, I decided to go back to pulseaudio. Bad move! My
laptop then said it had no audio devices! So, I removed the 'pulseaudio'
package, and reinstalled the pipewire packages that had been removed. I also
reinstalled 'pipewire-alsa'. Surprise! Audio now worked :-) With the laptop I
also have a docking station, external monitor with builtin speakers, an
external webcam with mic, USB headphones with mic and some Hyper-X headphones
(excellent by the way) with mic which can be plugged in via USB or the audio
jack. I tested using the system settings, Amarok and (for work) MS Teams and
Zoom. Using all sorts of combinations it all worked fine.

Thanks for your help,

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Re: F35 - audio a bit mixed up

2021-11-08 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 15:45 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>
> On 2021-11-08 13:33, John Horne wrote:
> >
> >
> > I carried out an online upgrade of my laptop a couple of days ago from F34
> > to F35. No problems with that, and all seemed to be okay. However, today I
> > noticed that audio was not working, or partially working for some things
> > (Zoom audio in particular seemed to fail completely).
> >
> > I noticed the previous list messages about swapping pulseaudio for
> > pipewire, but this seemed to make no difference. I have tried changing
> > settings, but no joy. So could someone who has audio working okay under F35
> > run some command-line checks for me please:
> >
> > 1) run: rpm -qa | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
> > (so I can see that I have the right packages installed)
> >
> > 2) (as the logged in user) run: ps auxww | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
> > (so I can see that I have the right processes running)
> >
> > 3) run: systemctl list-units --type=service --user | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
> > (so I can see that the correct services are running)
> >
> >
>
> [frank@fedora ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
> libpipeline-1.5.3-3.fc35.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-15.0-2.fc35.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-15.0-2.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-libs-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-alsa-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
> pipewire-utils-0.3.39-1.fc35.x86_64
>
> [frank@fedora ~]$
> [frank@fedora ~]$ ps auxww | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
> frank961  0.0  0.2 264836 10904 ?S /usr/bin/pipewire
> frank   1160  0.0  0.1 236948  6828 ?S /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
> frank   1599  0.0  0.0 221792  2308 pts/0S+   15:44   0:00 grep
> --color=auto -iE pulse|pipe
>
> [frank@fedora ~]$
> [frank@fedora ~]$ systemctl list-units --type=service --user | grep -iE
> 'pulse|pipe'
>pipewire-pulse.service loaded
> active running PipeWire PulseAudio
>pipewire.service   loaded
> active running PipeWire Multimedia Service
> [frank@fedora ~]$
> ___
>
Thanks for that. Your output is the same as mine, except that I had the 'kde-
settings-pulseaudio', 'pipewire0.2-libs' and 'pulseaudio-utils' packages
installed as well. I have now removed them, but that made no difference.

I'll check further in logs to see if there are any errors/warnings, otherwise I
may see if I can revert back to just pulseaudio.



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F35 - audio a bit mixed up

2021-11-08 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I carried out an online upgrade of my laptop a couple of days ago from F34 to
F35. No problems with that, and all seemed to be okay. However, today I noticed
that audio was not working, or partially working for some things (Zoom audio in
particular seemed to fail completely).

I noticed the previous list messages about swapping pulseaudio for pipewire,
but this seemed to make no difference. I have tried changing settings, but no
joy. So could someone who has audio working okay under F35 run some command-
line checks for me please:

1) run: rpm -qa | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
(so I can see that I have the right packages installed)

2) (as the logged in user) run: ps auxww | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
(so I can see that I have the right processes running)

3) run: systemctl list-units --type=service --user | grep -iE 'pulse|pipe'
(so I can see that the correct services are running)



Thanks,

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Re: GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work

2020-03-31 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 08:55 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> On 2020-03-14 05:12, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:10:04 +1100
> > Philip Rhoades wrote:
> >
> > > In the olden days I used to just edit the grub conf file and delete
> > > these args manually - now I am supposed to use grubby but doing this:
> >
> > You're on olden days 2. Now you need to use grub2-editenv to
> > edit the kernelopts variable that appears in grubenv:
> >
> > [root@tomh boot]# grub2-editenv list
> > saved_entry=978f7d029ece40bdb521840cbd5473a1-5.5.8-200.fc31.x86_64
> > menu_auto_hide=1
> > boot_success=1
> > kernelopts=root=UUID=cd806f62-fc1c-4d65-8a9e-ea638915001b ro selinux=0
> > audit=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
> > nvidia-drm.modeset=1
> > boot_indeterminate=0
>
> I get:
>
> # grub2-editenv list
> saved_entry=975d47e2dde64d12aefee7b93f8cdc77-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
> kernelopts=root=UUID=e83e6521-3be4-4c4a-a012-89805709db3f ro
> resume=UUID=d98a1bbc-fdaf-484c-9dc9-2f5fd062077d
> boot_success=0
> boot_indeterminate=0
>
> - so the args are already removed but I still don't get the verbose boot
> . .
>
I'm just wondering why your output says 'boot_success=0', surely that should be
a '1'.

You could also run 'cat /proc/cmdline' to see what has actually been passed to
the running kernel.

Final point is that your kernel version (5.3.7) seems to be somewhat older than
the other one mentioned above (5.5.8 - although I'm on 5.5.11 at this very
moment). Perhaps doing an update and then a reboot may help.



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Re: F27 - fail2ban not adding iptables chains

2018-01-09 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:30 +, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded my PC from F26 to F27, and noticed that fail2ban was not
> adding the configured chains to iptables. This worked fine at F26.
>
Hi,

Problem solved. F26 ran fail2ban version 0.9 (I think), and F27 runs version
0.10.0. At version 0.10 by default the chains are added only when something
needs to be blocked. To get the old behaviour of adding the chains when
fail2ban starts requires setting the 'actionstart_on_demand' action to false.
Details about this can be found at https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/
1755



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F27 - fail2ban not adding iptables chains

2017-11-30 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I recently upgraded my PC from F26 to F27, and noticed that fail2ban was not
adding the configured chains to iptables. This worked fine at F26.

There are no error messages in the log files (dmesg, /var/log/messages,
/var/log/fail2ban.log). I have tried disabling SELinux, then restarting
fail2ban but the chains still do not appear. I do not use firewalld so removed
the fail2ban-firewalld package. I set the fail2ban log level to debug, and that
showed the relevant iptables commands that would add the chains, but otherwise
gave no indication of any error. (I used the logged iptables commands to
manually add the chains, and all the commands worked fine.)

If I log (using logger) appropriate log messages - such as an SSH failed
authentication attempt - then that particular chain does appear in iptables. If
I unban the logged IP address, then the chain remains in iptables. If I restart
fail2ban, then the chain is no longer in iptables.

I'm now a bit stumped as to what might be the problem. Anyone any ideas?


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Re: F26+Plasma: windows go to background when resized!

2017-08-31 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:59 +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> > When I resize a window by clicking in a corner, the windows goes in
> > the background during dragging and remains there after dragging, this
> > is very strange!
> >
> > This does not depend on the "windows behaviour" settings although I
> > normally use "focus follow mouse" (I get the same behaviour with
> > "click to get focus").
>
I have no such problem. The window resizes as expected.

> Oh, it is not only when resizing: whenever I click on the title bar of
> a window, it goes to the background!
>
Nope. Clicking on the title bar does nothing. However, in the 'System settings-
> Window behaviour->Titlebar Actions' the titlebar double-click option is set
to 'Nothing' :-)



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Re: F26: in konsole vim shows $q q at startup!

2017-08-31 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 16:43 +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I open vim in konsole, it shows $q q at startup. If I insert
> text, $q q is replaced by the text I typed.
> gvim has no issue.
> vim in terminator is fine.
>
This has already been reported at https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2008
I leave you to go through all the comments about it!
I use KDE, so added 'set term=konsole-256color' to my .vimrc file.



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Re: Fortinet VPN and NetworkManager

2016-10-19 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 07:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:

>
> I think I may see the "issue".
>
> For all the other VPNs there are packages such as...
>
> plasma-nm-openconnect-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
> plasma-nm-openvpn-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
> plasma-nm-mobile-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
> plasma-nm-vpnc-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
> plasma-nm-pptp-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
> plasma-nm-strongswan-5.8.1-0.1.fc24.x86_64
>
> There isn't a
>
> plasma-nm-fortisslvpn
>
> package.
>
Hello,

Thanks for the reply, and for investigating this.
As far as I can tell this has already been reported to KDE:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355079

Unfortunately using openfortivpn from the command line failed (it seems
the routing was messed up a bit). Using the Fortinet vendor Linux
client worked. If I get time I'll look into this later on.


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Fortinet VPN and NetworkManager

2016-10-18 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I am trying to connect my Fedora 24 laptop to a Fortinet SSL VPN
service using NetworkManager. I have
installed openfortivpn, NetworkManager-fortisslvpn and NetworkManager-
fortisslvpn-gnome. However, using KDE, clicking on the networks icon on
the toolbar, and then the 'Configure network connections...' icon shows
my devices and connections. If I click on 'Add', under 'VPN' it shows
VPN types openconnect, vpnc and openswan, but nothing about Fortinet.

As anyone got this working and created a connection to a Fortinet
device using NetworkManager?



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KDE mailing list?

2016-01-23 Thread John Horne
Hello,

Does anyone know what is happening with the Fedora KDE mailing list? I
joined the list a few weeks ago now, and sent a message to it. I have
not received any messages from the list, and according to the archives
it seems to have just stopped last November. I tried emailing the list
maintainer, but again got no response at all.



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Re: KDE mailing list?

2016-01-23 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 12:41 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:05:42 +

> 
> You may have somehow managed to find the old mailman2 instance. 
> We have redirects to the current mailman3 instance, but there's some
> ways to get the old setup (mostly so old links to archives still
> work). 
> 
> You want to go to: 
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde.lists.fedoraproject.o
> rg/
> 
> and login and subscribe to the list.
> 
Well I susbscribed, but when I tried to add an email address all I get
is a 'Server Error (500)' when I try and confirm it.


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Re: Favorite newsreader for fedora22?

2015-09-24 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 20:38 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to check out comp.mail and a number of messaging based
> newsgroups, and can't really figure out Google's usenet web interface
> to be able to just pick a newsgroup.
> 
> Do you have a favorite GNOME newsreader for fedora22? Any searches
> come up with newsreaders from years ago...
> 
I haven't used usenet for several years, but I used to use 'pan'. It
worked fine, quite configurable. It is still there in F22.


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Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-03 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 14:06 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> not.
> 
> After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma 
> as environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a
> pointer to move. Looks like it doesn't even load a window manager.
> 
Very odd. I had the same problem on my home laptop last night. I run
KDE by default, and after performing a 'dnf update', which brought in a
lot of updates (I hadn't updated for a while), when I restarted the
laptop all I got was the mouse cursor on a black screen.

The ~/.xsession-errors file indicated that kwin_x11 was crashing. I
tried downgrading kwin but that caused other problems. I could not get
focus on apps (such as a browser accessing google), but could with a
konsole. The maximise/minimise icons (at top right) were missing from
the browser and konsole too.

I tried updating to updates-testing repo versions, and then rebooting,
but that didn't help and in fact I lost the network connection as well.

This morning I have just booted up the laptop, and all seems to be
working well. I can log in, the desktop looks fine, the apps and
network are working fine.

As said, very odd.



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Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-03 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 08:38 +0100, John Horne wrote:
>
> This morning I have just booted up the laptop, and all seems to be
> working well. I can log in, the desktop looks fine, the apps and
> network are working fine.
> 
Spoke too soon. Got back home, booted up the laptop and got the black
screen with cursor again. I'm now using cinnamon instead of plasma.


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Re: F22: dnf - seems to do nothing?

2015-06-17 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 06:24 -0400, Radek Holy wrote:
 

  
  I have just installed F22 (KDE spin) onto my laptop at home. After
  installation I ran 'dnf update' and it installed a load of patches.
  However, now whenever I invoke dnf it seems to do nothing (no output on
  terminal). My first thought was to perhaps try using 'strace' to see
  what it was doing, but of course I can't install it. A reboot made no
  difference.
  

 
 can you run it with the --verbose switch and the environment variable
 LIBREPO_DEBUG=1? Can you share your dnf.log? File a bug with all these
 information, please.
 
 dnf clean all may work around it.

Hello,

Thanks for this. I have now solved the problem.

The 'clean all' made no difference. However the 'dnf -v' showed that the
process was waiting on the mirror server for some reason. The dnf log
showed the URL it was trying to use, and when I tried this in a browser
it worked fine (the XML file was displayed). However, when I tried with
'curl -v' it hung up. The problem was with the EPSV command:


 250 Directory successfully changed.
 EPSV
* Connect data stream passively
421 Timeout.ng Extended Passive Mode (|||14410|)
* Connection time-out
* Failed EPSV attempt. Disabling EPSV
 PASV
* response reading failed
* Closing connection 0
curl: (56) response reading failed


Running curl with the '--disable-epsv' option, and the file downloaded
immediately.

I then found someone else had recently reported a similar problem:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=305034

By enabling the 'fastestmirror' option in dnf, downloads now work fine.

What is a bit annoying is that the original mirror being used was the
one at the University of Kent here in the UK. Fortunately the
'fastestmirror' has chosen a different mirror, but I guess at some
future time the problem could emerge again if that mirror gets selected.

I'll see about letting the mirror know of the problem.



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F22: dnf - seems to do nothing?

2015-06-16 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I have just installed F22 (KDE spin) onto my laptop at home. After
installation I ran 'dnf update' and it installed a load of patches.
However, now whenever I invoke dnf it seems to do nothing (no output on
terminal). My first thought was to perhaps try using 'strace' to see
what it was doing, but of course I can't install it. A reboot made no
difference.

A bit of searching seems to indicate that there was (?) a problem with
dnf 'install' (perhaps with metadata?), but I couldn't find out if this
was resolved (I assume not since the latest updates obviously didn't fix
it), or if there was some sort of workaround.

Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this problem?



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Re: Clamav tell's me rkhunter is a worm!

2014-04-10 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 09:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
 /usr/bin/rkhunter: Osx.Worm.Inqtana-3 FOUND
 /usr/bin/rkhunter: moved to '/var/cache/clam/rkhunter.001'
 
The ClamAV Inqtana-3 check looks for a couple of phrases (actually parts
of filenames) which also occur in rkhunter as part of its Inqtana
checks. I would say the ClamAV check is too simple, whereas rkhunter
actually tests that the filenames exist.

Example:
echo w0rms.l0ve.apples w0rm-support | clamdscan -
stream: Osx.Worm.Inqtana-3 FOUND

(I actually changed the above slightly - it should be 'love' - otherwise
this mail message may well be rejected by ClamAV running on mail
servers!)



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Re: rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 12:59 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

 -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan
 --
 Warning: The file '/usr/sbin/sshd' exists on the system, but it is
 not present in the 'rkhunter.dat' file.
 Warning: The file '/usr/bin/ssh' exists on the system, but it is
 not present in the 'rkhunter.dat' file.
 Warning: The file '/usr/bin/telnet' exists on the system, but it
 is not present in the 'rkhunter.dat' file.
  
You should have run 'rkhunter --propupd' after installing the new
release of RKH.

From the RKH CHANGELOG file for release 1.4.2:

 - The 'ssh', 'sshd' and 'telnet' commands are now checked as part of
   the file properties test.


So these commands are now being checked automatically.
Run 'rkhunter --propupd'.



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Re: Focus-follows-mouse in KDE under FC19?

2014-02-18 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 12:24 -0500, William W. Austin wrote:

 Is there anyway to turn this back on in FC 19 (or 20) for KDE?  
 Otherwise I'm going to have downgrade her machine back to FC 17 just to 
 keep peace at home.
 
Using F20, go to 'System settings' - 'Window Behaviour' - 'Window
Behaviour'
There is a 'Focus' slider. Click near to the 'Hover' end and you will
see the mouse focus capability change. Near the middle gives the focus
follows mouse behaviour.




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Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 09:43 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote:

 - change I/O scheduler by adding elevator=noop to boot parms

No longer needed it seems.

 - reduce swappiness:  /etc/sysctl.conf 
   vm.swappiness=1
   vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Yes, I do this for my SSD. I put them into a file in '/etc/sysctl.d'.

I use my SSD for root (/), but for things that change frequently
(e.g. /home, /var) I use an internal hard drive.

Take a look for some tips:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives





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Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

2014-02-02 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 22:11 -0500, William wrote:

 John asks:
   So what happened when you ran 'rpm -V ...'? It will probably show that
   the package has changed in some way.
 
 I checked several.  In every case, it says package [whatever] is not 
 installed!  (But I checked, and the packages are where rkhunter is 
 looking.)
...
 I consider parts 2 and 3 of my original post closed.  But I remain 
 puzzled that rpm doesn't find packages that whereis finds in the 
 places that rkhunter has rpm looking.
 
I don't follow that.

 In every case, it says package [whatever] is not installed
So RPM is saying the package is not installed.

With RKH it depends on whether you have modified the RKH configuration
file to use the RPM package manager (I can't remember if mentioned this
or not). If it isn't using the package manager, then RKH will simply
verify files using the 'prelink' command. If the package manager is
used, then the 'rpm' command  is used. Either command can give an error
relating to prelinking (and this is what RKH is showing you).

I can't really help any further with this without going into more detail
about what RKH is doing. If you want to pursue it then contact me off
list.




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Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

2014-01-31 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 17:11 -0800, William Mattison wrote:

 John says (regarding rpm -qf --queryformat... error codes)
  This means that when rkhunter (RKH) uses the 'rpm' command to check a
  package it is getting an error back. All it can do is log the problem.
  If you run something like 'rpm -V chkconfig' then you will probably get
  an error - that is what RKH is seeing.
 
 But why all the rpm errors?  Is yum not doing something that it should
 be doing during an update?  Am I not doing something I should be
 doing?  Is something wrong with RPM or my RPM database?  What and
 where is the real bug, and what's the permanent fix?
 
So what happened when you ran 'rpm -V ...'? It will probably show that
the package has changed in some way. That, in turn, may be normal if
(say) a configuration file has changed (in which case look at RKH
PKGMGR_NO_VRFY). It may be due to prelinking. Unfortunately prelinking
can change things such that dependency errors occur, and this will cause
RKH and (AFAIK) rpm and prelink itself to trip up.

 
 John says (regarding prelink issues):
  The problem here is prelinking. It will change file properties when it
  runs, but RKH tries to detect this and so obtain the true values for
  each file (either by using the rpm package manager or using the prelink
  command to verify the file). In some cases a dependency the file has,
  has changed. again, RKH cannot do anything about that, but suggests
  running the prelink command. If it is occurring a lot with different
  files, then you can try running 'prelink -qa', 'prelink -fa' or just
  wait for the regular prelink cron job to run when it should sort out
  prelinking problems. However, when I last looked the job ran about once
 every two weeks :-)
 
 prelink -qa fixes things only until the next yum update.  Should yum
 do a prelink -qa at the end of each update?

No, because not all packages require/use prelinking. A yum update
doesn't necessarily cause a problem with prelinking. There are only
problems if some dependency fails.



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Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

2014-01-30 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 20:17 -0500, William wrote:
 
 I don't know if these are properly rkhunter questions, yum questions, or 
 F-20 questions, so I'm posting to both lists.
 
 Last Monday, I updated my 64-bit system from Fedora-19 to Fedora-20.  
 Several minutes ago, I updated Fedora-20 by doing yum update.  I then 
 did rkhunter --update, and then rkhunter --check.  I'm getting a lot 
 of issues.
 
 1. I get these messages in the rkhunter log:
 
 [18:55:34] Info: The command 'rpm -qf --queryformat... 
 /usr/sbin/chkconfig' gave error code 1.

This means that when rkhunter (RKH) uses the 'rpm' command to check a
package it is getting an error back. All it can do is log the problem.
If you run something like 'rpm -V chkconfig' then you will probably get
an error - that is what RKH is seeing.

 2. I get this warning in the rkhunter log:
 
 [18:55:49]   /usr/bin/curl   [ Warning ]
 [18:55:49] Warning: Package manager verification has failed:
 [18:55:49]  File: /usr/bin/curl
 [18:55:49]  Try running the command 'prelink /usr/bin/curl' to 
 resolve dependency errors.
 [18:55:49]  The file hash value has changed
 [18:55:49]  The file size has changed
 
 The warning gives me the immediate fix, and it works.  But the problem 
 recurs after almost every yum update (both under F-19, and since 
 updating to F-20), though not on the same packages each time. What's the 
 real problem?  Is there something yum should be doing, but isn't?  Is 
 there something I should be doing, but I don't know it?
 
The problem here is prelinking. It will change file properties when it
runs, but RKH tries to detect this and so obtain the true values for
each file (either by using the rpm package manager or using the prelink
command to verify the file). In some cases a dependency the file has,
has changed. again, RKH cannot do anything about that, but suggests
running the prelink command. If it is occurring a lot with different
files, then you can try running 'prelink -qa', 'prelink -fa' or just
wait for the regular prelink cron job to run when it should sort out
prelinking problems. However, when I last looked the job ran about once
every two weeks :-)

 3. Since updating to F-20, I'm seeing this warning:
 
 [18:56:18]
 [18:56:18] Checking for GasKit Rootkit...
 [18:56:18]   Checking for file '/dev/dev/gaskit/sshd/sshdd'  [ Not found ]
 [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev'   [ Found ]
 [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev/gaskit'[ Not found ]
 [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev/gaskit/sshd'   [ Not found ]
 [18:56:18] Warning: GasKit Rootkit   [ Warning ]
 [18:56:18]  Directory '/dev/dev' found
 [18:56:18]
 
It's a bug in F20 with the 'dracut' package, the '/dev/dev' directory is
created by mistake(see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045116). I got the same
problem. There is a fix, or you could wait for an update to the package.
You can whitelist this in your RKH config file (see RTKT_DIR_WHITELIST).




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Re: rkhunter - output

2013-12-21 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 16:03 -0500, bruce wrote:
 Hi.
 
 Ran rkhunter on a system a few days ago, and got no warnings on the
 files/rootkits.
 
 Just ran rkhunter again on the same box, and I get a bunch of warnings
 on the files, but again, no warning/alerts regarding the potential
 rootkits.

What warnings? What was the output from rkhunter - warnings only not the
whole thing.



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Re: Can Fedora count it rpms?

2013-10-19 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 20:28 +, Beartooth wrote:
   I'm sitting here watching F19 try to downgrade itself to F18, 
 with screenful after screenful flashing by. I know that, if/when it 
 completes, it will tell me how many rpms it means to change; what I want, 
 though (out of admittedly idle curiosity), is the number of all the rpms 
 on the whole machine. Is there a command for that??

perhaps: rpm -qa | wc -l





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Re: Evolution - keeps losing mail filters

2013-10-18 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 16:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
 On 10/17/2013 03:58 PM, John Horne wrote:
  I can, of course, add the filters back in, but I have 20 or so filters
  so it takes a bit of time.
 
 I don't use evolution myself, but it seems reasonable that all of your 
 filters are kept in one, profile-specific directory.  You may want to 
 try backing that directory up so that next time this happens, you can 
 close evolution, restore from backup and try again.

Well there is the ~/.config/evolution/mail/filters.xml file which seems
to hold the mail filters. I have taken a copy of it just in case :-)


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Re: Evolution - keeps losing mail filters

2013-10-18 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 16:23 +1030, Tim wrote:
 On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 23:58 +0100, John Horne wrote:
  suddenly 'lost' all my incoming mail filters. I have no
  idea why it happens, all I see is a yellow banner saying:
   
 Mail filters automatically updated.
 The filter rule Xymon has been modified to account for the
 deleted folder Xymon.
   
  The folder name (here 'Xymon') changes for each of the filters I have.
  The filters actually still exist, but they now do nothing.
 
 Not that I have the answer, but to help you (and others) narrow it down:
 Are these local folders, or remote folders (e.g. on an IMAP server, or
 over NFS)?
 
 If they're remote, perhaps it doesn't wait long enough to find them,
 before declaring them deleted.

Sorry, yes I should have said that these are remote (dovecot) IMAP
folders. Although the remote server is fine, my ISP connection can be
attrocious at times! For that reason I too wondered if it was something
to do with talking to the server.

I had a look at the 'updates-testing' repo but there were no releases of
evolution waiting. However, I did find in the gnome (evolution) bugzilla
reports[1] about folders being lost (etc) when laptop users suspend
their device and are using a remote IMAP server. Although not exactly
the same, the circumstances - loss of network - are similar. There was
no mention of mail filters, but the bug was that the loss of network was
not being reported correctly. In my case it could be that evolution
thinks the network is there but the folders aren't - hence the filters
get changed to remove the folder names. Unfortunately this doesn't seem
to have been fixed until the evolution 3.9 branch, and I see that F20/21
will be using branches 3.9 and 3.10. I may take a stab at rebuilding the
F20 source RPMS of evolution and evolution-data-server on my F19 system,
but it may be too dependent on other things for it to work.




Thanks,

John.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693101

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Evolution - keeps losing mail filters

2013-10-17 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I'm using evolution 3.8.5 on F19, and for the third time now, in as many
days, it has suddenly 'lost' all my incoming mail filters. I have no
idea why it happens, all I see is a yellow banner saying:

   Mail filters automatically updated.
   The filter rule Xymon has been modified to account for the deleted
   folder Xymon.

The folder name (here 'Xymon') changes for each of the filters I have.
The filters actually still exist, but they now do nothing. They
previously all moved mail into various folders, and it is the location
of those folders that has been removed from the filters.

My mail is still all present, and the folders exist. I can read new mail
in the folders so I do not know why it thinks they are deleted.

I can, of course, add the filters back in, but I have 20 or so filters
so it takes a bit of time.

I have been using evolution with no problems since upgrading to F19 a
couple of months ago. As said, this has only just started happening.

Has anyone else seen this recently?



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-28 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 19:39 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Updated from F17 to F19 with a fresh install, and have hit a few
 problems. The main one is that my wireless interface does not come up
 (it is an Atheros AR9170 device).
 
Seems the problem is that the SYSV 'network' must be started. I have to
admit that I had assumed this had gone by now. There were very few SYSV
services in F17, and I just didn't check in F19. Once I had set that to
start, then the network comes up after every reboot.




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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 02:18 -0500, g wrote:
 
 On 08/26/2013 05:14 PM, John Horne wrote:
  On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 15:46 -0500, g wrote:
  hello john,
 
  On 08/26/2013 01:39 PM, John Horne wrote:
  Hello,
 
  Updated from F17 to F19 with a fresh install, and have hit a few
  problems. The main one is that my wireless interface does not come up
  (it is an Atheros AR9170 device).
 
  i do not recall exactly when something similar was 'threaded', but it
  was a problem of timing as to just what starts when.
 
  awairc, solution was to start wlan last to give time for networking
  time to finish configuring.
 
  sound reasonable?
 
  Other way round I would say :-)
 
  wpa_supplicant must finish before the network starts, if it doesn't then
  the wireless interface won't come up. This was a problem years ago
  (Fedora 7 or so?) when the SYSV scripts started networking first, and
  then wireless. The fix was, as said, to start wpa_supplicant first.
 
 so you are saying that one has to have wireless networking before any
 networking can be?
 
The association of the wifi network card with the router, yes. After
that networking can then set the interface as up or down. It cannot do
that before the association though (hence wpa_supplicant must run before
the network is started).

Obviously for wired networks, wpa_supplicant isn't going to do anything,
so networking will start up as usual (bringing interfaces up or leaving
them down).



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 15:03 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
 Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the user
 configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware.
 
NetworkManager is not being used.



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:18 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu mtl...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the
 user
 configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware.
 
 
 I too would suggest that you double-check that the MAC address -- just
 last week I got the same symptoms from a system where the config files
 thought that the MAC should be one thing, and the actual MAC address
 was different.

The wireless adapter hasn't changed, and the same config files
(wpa_supplicant.conf, ifcfg-wlan0) are being used that worked with F17.

As said, if I run 'ifdown wlan0  ifup wlan0' then the interface comes
up. That wouldn't happen if the MAC address was wrong.



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 18:16 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:57:04PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
 
  On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:18 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
   On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mihai T. Lazarescu mtl...@gmail.com
   wrote:
   Check also if the MAC and name of the WiFi interface in the
   user
   configuration of NetworkManager matches that of the hardware.
   
   
   I too would suggest that you double-check that the MAC address -- just
   last week I got the same symptoms from a system where the config files
   thought that the MAC should be one thing, and the actual MAC address
   was different.
  
  The wireless adapter hasn't changed, and the same config files
  (wpa_supplicant.conf, ifcfg-wlan0) are being used that worked with F17.
  
  As said, if I run 'ifdown wlan0  ifup wlan0' then the interface comes
  up. That wouldn't happen if the MAC address was wrong.
 
 MAC is stored in system filed (/etc/...) and user files
 ($HOME/...).  Check the latter.
 
Why?



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 12:36 -0500, g wrote:
 On 08/27/2013 10:57 AM, John Horne wrote:
 
 
  The wireless adapter hasn't changed, and the same config files
  (wpa_supplicant.conf, ifcfg-wlan0) are being used that worked with F17.
 
  As said, if I run 'ifdown wlan0  ifup wlan0' then the interface comes
  up. That wouldn't happen if the MAC address was wrong.
 
 obviously, wpa_supplicant is not getting started during startup.
 
Yes it is. The log file, /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log, shows this. If it
wasn't started then 'ifup wlan0' wouldn't work. What isn't happening
during startup - it seems - is dhclient running. And I can find no
mention of that in the log files. It does run though when I use 'ifup'
after startup. Hence running 'ifdown wlan0  ifup wlan0' works. I'll
need to see where dhclient gets started and see if I can crank up the
logging/debugging.




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F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-26 Thread John Horne
Hello,

Updated from F17 to F19 with a fresh install, and have hit a few
problems. The main one is that my wireless interface does not come up
(it is an Atheros AR9170 device).

I configured it in F17 without NetworkManager by modifying
the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (with NM_CONTROLLED=no)
and /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant files. This worked fine, no problems
at all.

With F19, after making the same changes, the wlan0 interface appears but
is not assigned an IP address. It seems that wpa_supplicant works okay,
as does the general startup of the network (the loopback interface
appears okay), but running dhclient to get an IP address either does not
happen or fails. 'ps auxww' does not show dhclient as running. I can
find no errors in the log files.
If I run 'ifdown wlan0  ifup wlan0' then the interface comes up with
an IP address (and this is recorded in the log file and ps shows
dhclient as now running).

Anyone any ideas why dhclient might not be running? I'll keep working on
this (obviously), but have already spent most of the day on it and got
nowhere.



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Re: F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

2013-08-26 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 15:46 -0500, g wrote:
 hello john,
 
 On 08/26/2013 01:39 PM, John Horne wrote:
  Hello,
 
  Updated from F17 to F19 with a fresh install, and have hit a few
  problems. The main one is that my wireless interface does not come up
  (it is an Atheros AR9170 device).
 
 i do not recall exactly when something similar was 'threaded', but it
 was a problem of timing as to just what starts when.
 
 awairc, solution was to start wlan last to give time for networking
 time to finish configuring.
 
 sound reasonable?
 
Other way round I would say :-)

wpa_supplicant must finish before the network starts, if it doesn't then
the wireless interface won't come up. This was a problem years ago
(Fedora 7 or so?) when the SYSV scripts started networking first, and
then wireless. The fix was, as said, to start wpa_supplicant first.

However, this all worked fine with F17 (and systemd) and the starting
order was sorted out a long time ago.




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Firewalld - list tables?

2013-05-17 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I have been looking at the new Fedora firewall 'firewalld' and the
'firewall-cmd' command. I'm currently running F17 on a PC with an F18
virtual machine, and have been trying to understand firewalld prior to
upgrading to Fedora 19.

The PC has a modified iptables. So I have been trying to see how to
incorporate the changes into the new firewalld. I suspect I will need to
use the 'firewall-cmd --direct' option to add the iptables rules (as I
see no other way of specifying on the rules source/destination addresses
using 'firewall-cmd').

However, 'firewall-cmd' offers both the '--get-chains' and '--get-rules'
options, but these both require specifying which table is to be used.
How do I know what the tables are? There is no '--get-tables' option.
I can run 'cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names' and this lists the standard
iptables tables (nat ,mangle, filter). But if I use these names with
'firweall-cmd' all I get is a blank line displayed. E.g.

  firewall-cmd --direct --get-chains ipv4 nat

The same occurs with all the table names.

So, my question is this, is 'firewall-cmd' working correctly and simply
stating that none of the tables have any chains (and so no rules)?
Secondly, how do I find out what tables are defined for firewalld?




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Re: Firewalld - list tables?

2013-05-17 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 17:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
 On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:46 +0100
 John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote:
 
 yum info firewall-config
 
Yeah... I already have that installed so where does it tell me what
tables are being used?



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Re: Firewalld - list tables?

2013-05-17 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 15:31 -0400, staticsafe wrote:

 
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD
 
Yeah... I have a copy of that so where does it tell me what tables are
being used?



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Re: potential sshd gotcha

2013-01-24 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 17:11 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
 I spent hours at work today getting sshd to function on
 my desktop which I just switched to booting from the
 fedora 18 partition. I finally discovered this:
 
 [root@zooty ~]# ls -l /etc/ssh
 total 276
 -rw---  1 root root 245058 Dec  3 11:43 moduli
 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   2104 Dec  3 11:43 ssh_config
 -r. 1 root ssh_keys668 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key
 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root590 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
 -r. 1 root ssh_keys963 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_key
 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root627 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_key.pub
 -r. 1 root ssh_keys   1675 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key
 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root382 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
 -rw---  1 root root   4615 Dec 26 14:47 sshd_config
 
 The private key files now want to be group ssh_keys.
 
The same was true with Fedora 17.




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Re: Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

2012-12-02 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 23:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
 On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 21:37 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
  On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 23:33 +, John Horne wrote:
  
    (the '=' are not part of the variable)
   abc def
   
   hijk
   xyz
   
   
   So in this case what is wanted is:
   
   
   hijk
   xyz
   
   
   to be shown.
  
  echo $XX | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
 
 This will delete lines up to and including the first blank line. The
 OP's problem statement isn't very clear, but I think he wants to delete
 everything up to and including the last blank line, if any.
 
Correct.



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Re: Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

2012-11-30 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 18:56 -0600, inode0 wrote:

 
 Oh, for a simple variable this should work
 
 echo ${XX/*
 
 }
 
Hello,

Yes, that does seem to work :-)

Although I have to admit I'm not sure why! I'll investigate further :-)



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Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

2012-11-29 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I have a bash script in which a variable is set to one or more lines of
text. What I want is to remove any lines up to and including a blank
line (or alternatively to echo all the lines after the last blank line).
There may be zero or more blank lines, and the blank lines need not be
consecutive. If there is no blank line, then all the lines should be
shown. If the last line is blank, then nothing should be shown. So for
example the variable may contain:

 (the '=' are not part of the variable)
abc def

hijk
xyz


So in this case what is wanted is:


hijk
xyz


to be shown.

I tried something like:

   echo $XX | sed -e '/./,/^$/d'

but this didn't display anything. (Where XX is the variable.)
I also tried using a 'for' loop but again this displayed nothing:

   opt=
   IFS=$'\n'
   for n in $XX; do test -z $n  opt= || opt=$opt $n; done

(Echoing $opt after this shows that it contains nothing.) I'm not sure
why but even using a for loop just to show it had seen a blank line
didn't work either (using something like 'test -z $n  echo found').
My understanding was that by setting IFS to a newline, then the 'for'
loop should see the blank line and just set '$n' to the null string. We
should then be able to test on that.

Ideally what I am looking for is a snappy one line 'sed' or 'awk'
command to handle this :-) Unfortunately at the moment I seem to be
getting nowhere though, even with the 'for' loop.



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F17 - evolution stops accepting input

2012-07-12 Thread John Horne
Hello,

Since updating my PC to F17 every so often the 'evolution' mail client
stops accepting input to various windows. For example, if I am sending a
new message, then I can enter the recipient, the subject line and start
to type the message. If, as has just happened, I change the layout from
'preformatted' to 'normal' then I can no longer enter any more of the
message. Nothing is accepted. Generally I discard the message, and start
again. (I don't think going from preformatted to normal is the cause,
that was just an example of when this has happened.)

I have had the same problem when entering mail filtering rules. I can
enter the rule name, but cannot, for example, enter the rule itself
based (say) on the subject. Again, no input is accepted. In this
instance I had to enter the rule first, then the rule name.


Anyone any ideas about this?

Thanks.



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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-24 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 18:58 -0700, JD wrote:
 On 05/23/2012 06:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
  On 05/24/2012 09:52 AM, JD wrote:
  Sorry Ed - I sent my reply too soon wihtout answering the 2nd question.
  Yes, the question was asked and I replied moving the laptop right
  next to the router has no effect on the bit rate.
  Sorry if my question wasn't clear.
 
  I'm not asking about moving it closer to *your* AP.  I am asking about 
  taking the
  laptop out of your home to another location and a *different* AP.   A 
  friends home, a
  Starbucks?
 
 I have in  the past, but not recently, as this
 problem is rather recent (past 10 or 15 days ).
 I will give it a shot and get back to you.

Eh? But you have already said that it worked fine at Starbucks, with a
speed of 54Mb/s or more.




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-23 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 19:04 -0700, JD wrote:
 On 05/22/2012 03:12 PM, John Horne wrote:
  On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, JD wrote:
  Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this:
 
  iwconfig wlan0
  wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:Private
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point:
  00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
  Bit Rate=18 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
  Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2346 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
 
  Hi,
 
  Did you set the RTS and frag values shown above? I'm not sure but think
  that iwconfig will default these to 'off'. You may want to try setting
  them to off to see if it improves things.
 
 
 
  John.
 
 That seems to be done by the wpa_supplicant application???
 I do not use iwconfig to perform association with the AP.
 
Hi,

But you can change them on the fly :-)
Just run (as root) 'iwconfig wlan0 rts off frag off' from the command
line. If things don't improve then you can set them back ('iwconfig
wlan0 rts 2346 frag 2346').




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-23 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 10:27 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
 On 05/23/2012 10:02 AM, JD wrote:
  On 05/22/2012 02:56 PM, John Horne wrote:
  On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, JD wrote:
  When I take my laptop to starbucks or McDonalds hot spot, even when
  sitting outside, bitrate never is below 54mbps, sometime is as high as
  72mb/s
  
  Hi,
  
  Reading through your messages, you have now said two things:
  
  1) You used an RTL card and got the same problem; 2) Using the laptop
  elsewhere (starbucks) and it works fine.
  
  To me both of those tend to indicate that the WLAN card is okay, but 
  perhaps your router (or at least something else) is causing a problem. 
  The RTL card would have used a different driver than the Atheros.
  Of course. The external rtl usb wifi adapter uses the rtl8187 driver. So, I
  really doubt the linux driver is behind this fixation of bit rate. All I am
  saying is that I did not have this problem when I was on F14. Perhaps
  something above the low lever driver is at work here, either wext driver or
  wpa_supplicant application. I found no settings on the router which would
  set the bitrate per wifi client. The other 3 clients are all at 54 Mb/s.
  
  
  You also said that the card worked fine with F14. Although the ath9k 
  driver will most likely have changed between F14 and F16, that wouldn't 
  explain why it works fine at starbucks or why the RTL had the same 
  problem.
  Right.
  
  I would say take a look at the router to see if anything unusual is 
  happening there.
  
  I have heard before that sometimes dropping the router/card to 802.11b or
  g can resolve odd problems with 802.11n cards. (Something like 'iwconfig
  wlan0 rate 54M') Obviously the speed will not be the best, but possibly
  better than 18Mb/s :-)
  
  Finally, if the driver really looks like a possibility, then you could 
  run 'modinfo ath9k' to see what options the driver takes. It may have a 
  debug option to cause further messages to be written to dmesg. Actually, 
  checking dmesg may be a good step anyway (something like 'dmesg | grep 
  ath').
  
  (FYI, I have an Atheros USB card which uses the carl9170 driver. The card
  is 802.11bgn, but my router is only 'b' or 'g'. I get a fairly consistent
  maximum 54Mb/s :-) )
  I will look to see if the ath9k and the rtl8187 drivers have debug options
  that can be turned on. If they do, then I will have to recompile my
  kernel.
 
 if they do, then there is NO need to recompile the kernel.
 
   modinfo ath9k
 
 shows ...
 
   parm:   debug:Debugging mask (uint)
 
 looking at the source would show you the value of the bits (and how many) in
 the bit mask. Turning all the bits on might be done like this:
 
 put the line:
 
   options ath9k debug=0x
 
 into
 
   /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf
 
 and reload the module.
 
Hi,

No need to use modprobe.d. Just run from the command line:

modprobe -r ath9k
modprobe ath9k debug=0x




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-23 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 19:02 -0700, JD wrote:
 I found no settings on the router which
 would set the bitrate per wifi client. The other 3
 clients are all at 54 Mb/s.
 
Hi,

Ah. I don't think you mentioned that other clients were working fine.
Are these 802.11b/g cards or are they 802.11n but for some reason
running at 54Mb/s?

As said, you can change these on the fly for the card: 'iwconfig wlan0
rate 54M'




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-23 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 02:43 -0700, JD wrote:

 # iwconfig wlan1 rate 54G
^^^
'54M' not 'G'.




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-22 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, JD wrote:

 When I take my laptop to starbucks or McDonalds hot spot,
 even when sitting outside, bitrate never is below 54mbps,
 sometime is as high as 72mb/s
 
Hi,

Reading through your messages, you have now said two things:

1) You used an RTL card and got the same problem;
2) Using the laptop elsewhere (starbucks) and it works fine.

To me both of those tend to indicate that the WLAN card is okay, but
perhaps your router (or at least something else) is causing a problem.
The RTL card would have used a different driver than the Atheros.

You also said that the card worked fine with F14. Although the ath9k
driver will most likely have changed between F14 and F16, that wouldn't
explain why it works fine at starbucks or why the RTL had the same
problem.

I would say take a look at the router to see if anything unusual is
happening there.

I have heard before that sometimes dropping the router/card to 802.11b
or g can resolve odd problems with 802.11n cards. (Something like
'iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M') Obviously the speed will not be the best, but
possibly better than 18Mb/s :-)

Finally, if the driver really looks like a possibility, then you could
run 'modinfo ath9k' to see what options the driver takes. It may have a
debug option to cause further messages to be written to dmesg. Actually,
checking dmesg may be a good step anyway (something like 'dmesg | grep
ath').

(FYI, I have an Atheros USB card which uses the carl9170 driver. The
card is 802.11bgn, but my router is only 'b' or 'g'. I get a fairly
consistent maximum 54Mb/s :-) )




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Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-22 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, JD wrote:
 Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this:
 
 iwconfig wlan0
 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:Private
Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: 
 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2346 B   Fragment thr=2346 B

Hi,

Did you set the RTS and frag values shown above? I'm not sure but think
that iwconfig will default these to 'off'. You may want to try setting
them to off to see if it improves things.



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KVM - how to re-install images

2012-05-18 Thread John Horne
Hello,

Next week (hopefully) F17 comes out, and I will be rebuilding my PC from
F15 to a fresh F17 install. This will be a completely new installation,
with the disks being reformatted. I currently have some virtual machines
on the F15 PC created with KVM, and stored on an external disk. Only the
'.img' files are stored on the external disk.

What I have been trying to find out, and seem to be failing, is how do I
re-install those virtual machines when I have rebuilt the PC?

As said, the images already exist and will be available to the F17 PC,
so things like using virsh 'dumpxml' then 'create' don't seem to work
since they are trying to create an image that already exists.



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Re: KVM - how to re-install images

2012-05-18 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 08:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
 On Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:43 +0100
 John Horne wrote:
 
  As said, the images already exist and will be available to the F17 PC,
  so things like using virsh 'dumpxml' then 'create' don't seem to work
  since they are trying to create an image that already exists.
 
 Actually dumpxml and create are exactly what you want. You do the
 dumpxml on your current machine and the create (using that xml file)
 on the new machine (modifying the location of the image file in the
 xml if it doesn't appear to be in the same place on the new machine).
 
 The same xml files dumpxml print are stashed in /etc/libvirt/qemu,
 so you can copy them over from there.

Thanks for this (and Frank's reply). It was the XML file bit of info
that I was missing.

A quick bit of testing and it seems if I do 'virsh define ...' then the
VM XML file is recreated in /etc/libvirt/qemu. I can then start up the
VM with no problems.

If I do 'virsh create ...' instead, then it seems to start the VM, but
does not create a new XML file in /etc/libvirt/qemu. So once I shutdown
the VM, I cannot restart it again unless I do a 'virsh create...' again.
Using the 'virsh define' command solves this (as mentioned above).

Anyway, thanks. I'll make sure I have /etc/libvirt/qemu backed up, and
will use the 'virsh define' command to restore the definitions of the
VMs.



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Re: (SOLVED [maybe]) Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-04 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 12:01 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:

 I just remotely logged onto my F15 system at work and found
 
  /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
 
 which contains this line:
 
   d /tmp 1777 root root 10d
 
Thanks for this. I admit I wasn't aware of this mechanism so have
learned something :-)

Interestingly though, the man page says that files and directories will
be removed. That doesn't seem to happen. I have directories in /tmp (on
F15) which are well over 10 days old. They have no files in them, some
have subdirectories, but no files at all. So it seems to more purge /tmp
of files, but leave the directory structures in place.



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Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-03 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 19:47 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
 I'm running F15.  Files are mysteriously being removed from /tmp after a
 number of days of not being touched.  I am familiar with
 /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch and, in fact, modify it to inhibit removal of
 files from /tmp.  In the past this has worked. Under F15 it has not.
 
 Two or three weeks ago I deleted it from /etc/cron.daily but older files
 _still_ get removed from /tmp. I've rebooted at least once.  I'm not
 sure if it happens at bootup or while the system is running, but
 something is still removing files from /tmp.
 
 Does anyone know of another mechanism for this?
 
Take a look in /var/spool/cron to see if some user crontab (like root)
is running tmpwatch or deleting the files. Also perhaps a check
of /etc/rc.local to see if something is causing this.

 I'm not sure if it happens at bootup or while the system is running

I would say add a file to /tmp, leave it a while, check it is still
present then reboot. After bootup see if it is still there.

If the problem isn't rebooting, then perhaps setup a cron job to monitor
the files' existence (say check every few minutes) and email you when it
has gone. It may give you more of an idea of when things are being
deleted. You can also check /var/log/cron to see if some cron job is
running causing the deletion at the time.




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Re: Can't install nvidia drivers at runlevel3

2012-03-23 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 08:47 -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote:
 
 
 On 03/23/2012 08:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: 
  
  Am 23.03.2012 15:40, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
   I don't know what happened but I am now unable to install nvidia drivers 
   downloaded from nvidia.com. Had no problem
   until the latest kernel was introduced. Please advise or help.
  in other words this happens since update to kernel 3.3
  well, i guess the bvidia drivers are not ready for it
  
  get rid of nvidia graphics
  
  the current intel sandy brdige are working fine out
  of the box with 3D effects - do not buy hardware
  which depends on third-party drivers or do not use
  a bleeding-edge distro if you like BLOB drivers
  
  
  
 I agree, I believe it is time for me to scrap my Dell 9400 Inspiron
 with its FX2500m graphic video card and invest in a newer model. I am
 going to miss her. She has been very dependable.
  
Likewise (time to scrap...). I can't run the latest F15 kernel because
I'm still waiting on the nvidia drivers, and the 100% CPU problem I have
is happening pretty much whenever I go near a web site (see previous
post about this). At work my F15 PC with Intel graphics has no such
problems.

(Generally my home PC is okay, so I should only need to replace the
graphics card :-) )



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Re: F15 - X at 100% with nVidia

2012-03-20 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 20:35 +1030, Tim wrote:
 On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 22:55 +, John Horne wrote:
  I have noticed that usually once I start to browse the web (no
  particular sites), the cpu usage for the X process goes up to around
  100%.
 
 Pages with Flash on them?  The Flash player's one for chewing up CPU
 usage.
 
Nope. I can go to a web page which has simple HTML providing a link to
another site, and that will cause the problem. (Just tried it - 100% cpu
usage.)



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F15 - X at 100% with nVidia

2012-03-19 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I have an onboard nVidia graphics chip, and so am using the nVidia
drivers from rpmfusion.

I have noticed that usually once I start to browse the web (no
particular sites), the cpu usage for the X process goes up to around
100%. I have an AMD dual-core processor, so I can still do things, but
obviously something is wrong.

Has anyone else noticed this? I'm wondering if there is some (xorg.conf)
option that would help here. I've had a look at the nVidia forums, and
although there seem to be several scenarios where 100% cpu usage occurs,
and some suggested solutions, the ones I have tried made no difference.

I intend to upgrade to F17 when it is released, but I'm wondering if the
version of X or nVidia driver at F17 are going to be any better. (I
tried the F17 alpha, but there were no rpmfusion drivers for F17, so I
had to use nouveau.)



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Re: BOINC x86_64 - anyone had this working recently?

2012-02-16 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 23:40 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
 People,
 
 Some years ago this used to work for me but for the last few versions 
 of Fedora that I have used (12, 14 and now 16) I haven't had any luck - 
 the client keeps stopping.
 
 Has anyone got the latest version going on F16 x86_64?
 
I have it running on two PCs running F15 (x86_64) with no problems.



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Re: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-16 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:19 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I recently installed Fedora 15 after a long respite from Fedora 14, for 
 the first time in x86_64, and I was excited to see that I could finally 
 use the wheel button on my MX Logitech Revolution mouse as the middle 
 button for opening new tabs in Firefox and for instant select-copy-paste 
 (I'm not sure what the official name is for that feature, but I used to 
 love it). I don't think that the other more accessory buttons on the MX 
 Revolution used to work either, but now most of them do (namely Search, 
 Forward, and Back).
 
 **However, after my first session in Fedora 15, the wheel button stopped 
 working as the middle button.** 

Hello,

I have one of these mice and am using F15. I simply added the following
commands to my .bash_profile file:

  if [ -n `echo $DISPLAY | egrep '^(localhost)?:0'` ]; then
xmodmap -e pointer = 1 17 3 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2
18 19 20
  fi

The middle button is then used (typically) for moving forward/backwards
in web pages, while the left top button is used for 'copy', and the
thumb button  (on the side) is used for paste. Needless to say, you can
change this to your own requirements :-)

To find out which buttons were producing an event I think I used
something like 'xev'.



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Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 17:20 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
 rkhunter is run with cronjob daily.
 
 Have checked:
 /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter
 
 but it's run with a script
 not the usual crontab * ** .setup.
 
 Looked at
 http://rkhunter.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkhunter/rkhunter/files/FAQ
 
 Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times?
 as per some of the examples.

Hi,

If you installed the rkhunter RPM package (either via yum or by
downloading it) then I would just use what is supplied with the package.
The supplied cronjob is fine, why change it? The fact that it is a
script in cron.daily is no problem.




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Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 22:07 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
 On 09/10/11 21:11, John Horne wrote:
 snipped
 
  Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times?
  as per some of the examples.
 
  Hi,
 
  If you installed the rkhunter RPM package (either via yum or by
  downloading it) then I would just use what is supplied with the package.
  The supplied cronjob is fine, why change it? The fact that it is a
  script in cron.daily is no problem.
 
 
 If I knew what time in x.00 ir ran,
 I would leave it alone.
 But I havn't figured what time cron.daily runs.

Take a look at /etc/anacrontab and the man pages for crond, anacron and
anacrontab. Basically, at least as far as I am aware, anacron does not
necessarily start jobs at a particular time like cron, but will start
them within a specified time period.



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Re: vi ? howto show cursor position

2011-10-08 Thread John Horne
On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as row
 number character position in the bottom right of the display.  In
 f14's release of vi this is no longer true.

 I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
 restore that behavior.

 Is this something lost from the compiled distribution or is there some
 *:set* method that will turn it back on and, if so, would somebody share
 the magic formula?

You need the 'vim-enhanced' package installed, ':set ruler' will then
work. Your PATH should then find '/usr/bin/vim' in preference to
'/bin/vi'.



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Re: vi ? howto show cursor position

2011-10-08 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 19:32 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 On 7 October 2011 18:01, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  In previous fedora releases vi would display the cursor position as row
  number character position in the bottom right of the display.  In
  f14's release of vi this is no longer true.
 
  I've looked through the command reference and don't see any way to
  restore that behavior.
 
  Is this something lost from the compiled distribution or is there some
  *:set* method that will turn it back on and, if so, would somebody share
  the magic formula?
 
 You need the 'vim-enhanced' package installed, ':set ruler' will then
 work. Your PATH should then find '/usr/bin/vim' in preference to
 '/bin/vi'.
 
I should have clarified that by saying that vim-enhanced also
installs /etc/profile.d/vim.sh which sets up the alias for 'vi=vim'.



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Re: F15: firefox reload button - grey or green?

2011-07-29 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:10 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I recently upgraded (via fresh installs) both my home PC and work PC to
 Fedora 15. No problems generally, but one odd thing I noticed.
 
 In firefox the reload button is a green colour at work, but grey at
 home. Not 'greyed-out' as the 'stop' button is, but just a grey in
 colour. I assumed this was just some sort of theme difference, but
 looking through a sorted list of the installed rpms from the work and
 home PCs I really cannot see what might be causing this. Customizing the
 firefox toolbar makes no difference (I can add/remove things but not
 change their colour). If I click on the button the current web page
 reloads, but the button itself does not change at all on either PC.
 (Unlike the 'stop' button which turns red whilst the page reloads, and
 then becomes greyed-out when it has finished.)
 
 Anyone any ideas? As said, it's not a hindrance or am that bothered by
 it, I'm more just curious as to why it has happened at all.
 
Okay, I have this sorted out now.

The green reload button is an icon in the oxygen-icon-theme package.
Konqueror uses the same icons it seems.

Both PCs have the package installed. However on the work PC I must have
told the desktop to use the Oxygen theme (probably when I did it it set
something in my home directory and that was copied across when I
upgraded to F15). On my home PC I went into the KDE menu System settings
- Application appearance - Icons - Oxygen icon theme.

Once I had done that firefox showed the green reload button.



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F15: firefox reload button - grey or green?

2011-07-28 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I recently upgraded (via fresh installs) both my home PC and work PC to
Fedora 15. No problems generally, but one odd thing I noticed.

In firefox the reload button is a green colour at work, but grey at
home. Not 'greyed-out' as the 'stop' button is, but just a grey in
colour. I assumed this was just some sort of theme difference, but
looking through a sorted list of the installed rpms from the work and
home PCs I really cannot see what might be causing this. Customizing the
firefox toolbar makes no difference (I can add/remove things but not
change their colour). If I click on the button the current web page
reloads, but the button itself does not change at all on either PC.
(Unlike the 'stop' button which turns red whilst the page reloads, and
then becomes greyed-out when it has finished.)

Anyone any ideas? As said, it's not a hindrance or am that bothered by
it, I'm more just curious as to why it has happened at all.



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Re: F15: firefox reload button - grey or green?

2011-07-28 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 21:20 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
 Around 11:10am on Thursday, July 28, 2011 (UK time), John Horne scrawled:
 
  In firefox the reload button is a green colour at work, but grey at
  home. Not 'greyed-out' as the 'stop' button is, but just a grey in
  colour. I assumed this was just some sort of theme difference, but
  looking through a sorted list of the installed rpms from the work and
  home PCs I really cannot see what might be causing this. Customizing the
  firefox toolbar makes no difference (I can add/remove things but not
  change their colour). If I click on the button the current web page
  reloads, but the button itself does not change at all on either PC.
  (Unlike the 'stop' button which turns red whilst the page reloads, and
  then becomes greyed-out when it has finished.)
 
 Mine is grey also, although when I click on it it changes (briefly) into
 a red cross while the page is refreshed.
 
Yes with the default toolbar, if I remember correctly, the reload button
turns into a 'stop' button temporarily while the page is reloading. In
my case I have customised the toolbar simply to separate the buttons out
a bit. I also use 'icons and text'. However I did this with both PCs,
so, again, the reload button should be the same for both.




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Re: ext4 with fc11

2010-11-02 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 14:09 +, Patrick Dupre wrote:
 
 Could you confirm that fedora 11 cannot boot on an ext4 partition ?
 (/ has to be ext3 ?).
 what about fedora 12 ?
 
I think the restriction was that /boot could not be ext4. So if you
created /boot as ext3, but / as ext4 then that was fine. I currently
have /boot as ext3 on F13, so F12 and F11 would no doubt have the same
restriction.



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Re: F13 network and wpa_supplicant startup sequence

2010-07-21 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:12 -0500, lxnf9...@comcast.net wrote:
 I added a wireless card to a machine that has no gui interface installed, so 
 no NM
 I configured wpa_supplicant and wlan startup script
 What I do not get is when the machine boots wpa_supplicant starts after the 
 network script
 If I run 'ifup wlan' after the boot sequence is complete the wireless 
 connection completes
 The script /etc/init.d/network has 'chkconfig: - 10 90' and 
 /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant has 'chkconfig: - 23 88'
 What am I missing
 It is probably right in front of me

I had the same problem. I modified the '/etc/init.d/network' startup
script by adding the line: '# Required-Start: wpa_supplicant' into the
'### BEGIN INIT INFO' section. It then starts wpa first.



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Re: Evolution oddities in F13

2010-06-07 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 22:03 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
 
* The first message selected in a window doesn't change status
  from unread to read until I change it by hand. 

 
 Above isn't a bug.  It actually was suppose to do this same thing in F12
 but there was a bug that prevented it.  But this is the way it's suppose
 to work.  It will change if you select on another one then come back to
 it.  And if there are other emails in the folder, i think it will change
 status but can't remember.

But if there are no other messages in the folder, it remains as unread.
That is the problem. I now have folders each with one message in them,
and they are all (still!) marked as unread despite having read them all
(and having set the 'mark as read after ...' option). To me that is a
bug.



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Re: F13: screensaver problem after upgrade from F12

2010-06-07 Thread John Horne
Kevin T. Likes wrote:

 I recently upgraded from F12 to F13 using preupgrade.  Everything
 seemed to go well, except for one problem I think I've traced to the
 screensaver.

 When I lock the screen now at the console, I get logged  out of my
 session after a short period of time (a few minutes) .  My first
 thought was that maybe one of the screensavers was bad, so I went to
 change that one I was using, but as soon as I selected another one
 (not even having to hit preview), I get logged out, although it does
 seem the selection is changed. I tried unlocking immediately, and it
 works.  If I unlock the screen after a couple of minutes, but before
 the unwanted logout, the screen just goes black, and I can't get in.
 The system is still running, though, since I can get in via SSH.

 I do see in /var/log/messages that is looks like Xorg is coredumping,
 but I don't see anything to indicate why.

 Has anyone else had this trouble?

Yes, maybe. It has happened twice now for me. The first time I assumed I
did something like tell the PC to logout rather than 'lock'. However, it
happened again a few minutes ago. I had a task running, and left my PC
to talk to someone else. I noticed when the screensaver kicked in, but
didn't look at my PC after that. A few mins later I came back and it had
logged out. I was left at the login screen.

I have been able to lock and unlock the screensaver without a problem.
No blank screen. I do not see anything in any of the log files.

I am using the KDE 4D Hypertorus screensaver.



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Re: F13: screensaver problem after upgrade from F12

2010-06-07 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:27 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 Kevin T. Likes wrote:
 
  I recently upgraded from F12 to F13 using preupgrade.  Everything
  seemed to go well, except for one problem I think I've traced to the
  screensaver.
 
  When I lock the screen now at the console, I get logged  out of my
  session after a short period of time (a few minutes) .  My first
  thought was that maybe one of the screensavers was bad, so I went to
  change that one I was using, but as soon as I selected another one
  (not even having to hit preview), I get logged out, although it does
  seem the selection is changed. I tried unlocking immediately, and it
  works.  If I unlock the screen after a couple of minutes, but before
  the unwanted logout, the screen just goes black, and I can't get in.
  The system is still running, though, since I can get in via SSH.
 
  I do see in /var/log/messages that is looks like Xorg is coredumping,
  but I don't see anything to indicate why.
 
  Has anyone else had this trouble?
 
 Yes, maybe. It has happened twice now for me. The first time I assumed I
 did something like tell the PC to logout rather than 'lock'. However, it
 happened again a few minutes ago. I had a task running, and left my PC
 to talk to someone else. I noticed when the screensaver kicked in, but
 didn't look at my PC after that. A few mins later I came back and it had
 logged out. I was left at the login screen.
 
 I have been able to lock and unlock the screensaver without a problem.
 No blank screen. I do not see anything in any of the log files.
 
Wow! Spoke too soon :-) It happened again as I was talking to someone.
Screensaver was running, I moved the mouse and got the 'unlock' box.
Entered my password, and it just crashed, and I ended up with the login
screen.

In my daemon log (I filter saemon stuff to a seperate log file) I can
see:

  Jun  7 16:46:59 jhorne abrt[11255]: saved core dump of pid 6605
(/usr/bin/Xorg) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1275925617-6605.new/coredump
(59949056 bytes)
  Jun  7 16:46:59 jhorne abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1275925617-6605'
creation detected
  Jun  7 16:46:59 jhorne abrtd: Crash is in database already (dup
of /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1275667541-2204)
  Jun  7 16:46:59 jhorne abrtd: Deleting crash ccpp-1275925617-6605 (dup
of ccpp-1275667541-2204), sending dbus signal
  Jun  7 16:46:59 jhorne kdm[2118]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly

So it does look like Xorg is crashing.



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Re: F13: screensaver problem after upgrade from F12

2010-06-07 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:55 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:27 +0100, John Horne wrote:
  Kevin T. Likes wrote:
  
   I recently upgraded from F12 to F13 using preupgrade.  Everything
   seemed to go well, except for one problem I think I've traced to the
   screensaver.
  
It seems this has been bugzilled:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601110



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Re: F13: Evolution icons - configurable?

2010-06-02 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:41 +0100, John Horne wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail
 client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this
 image on the 'net of basically what it use to look like:
 http://www.backuphowto.info/files/images/howto/2007/linux-screw-10-total-4-unread-evolution.png
 
 Personally I preferred the old icons, is there any way re-install them?
 
 If not, then:
 
 1) I used to have both icons and text on the taskbar (as in the
 picture). Now I only have the icons. Anyway I can get both back again?
 
 2) The icons are a bit small. Anyway to increase their size?
 
 3) The icons are quite close together, and over to the left of the
 application window. As seen in the picture, the icons used to be spread
 along the top. Anyway to spread out the icons a bit?
 
Okay, it seems all 3 above are related. My work PC is still running F11
(until Friday), and I had a look at its Evolution settings today.

Using 'gconf-editor' these 2 were set:

   /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_icons_size  large-toolbar
   /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style   both

Now, just by stopping/starting Evolution I could change these settings,
and see the effect. If I changed the toolbar style to 'icons' and used a
'small-toolbar', then I get pretty much exactly what I have under F13.
(In fact the only difference seems to be the icon for 'delete message'.)
If I changed it back to a style of 'both' - that is, icons and text, and
a large toolbar, then the icons are more spread out, presumably because
they have to cater for the text underneath as well now. It all appears
as I want it.

So, at home with F13, I set both of these using gconf-editor - to use a
large toolbar with both icons and text. I restarted Evolution, and
nothing changed. I logged out and in; no change. I rebooted the machine;
no change.

Gconf-editor (and gconftool-2) shows that these values have been set. I
can also seem them in my ~/.gconf/... xml file. But for some reason
Evolution (and others?) is ignoring them.

I'll play a bit more with this, but this seems like a bug to me.




John.

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Re: F13: Evolution icons - configurable?

2010-06-02 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:41 +0100, John Horne wrote:
  Hello,
  
  I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail
  client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this
  image on the 'net of basically what it use to look like:
  http://www.backuphowto.info/files/images/howto/2007/linux-screw-10-total-4-unread-evolution.png
  
  Personally I preferred the old icons, is there any way re-install them?
 
 My specific nit is that the icons for Delete and Junk look almost identical, 
 causing a lot of
 visual confusion.
 
I would agree. The F11 'delete' icon is a large red cross, completely
different from the 'junk' icon, whereas all the other icons are the same
as I see under F13. However, with text underneath the icons, they do get
spread out a bit more. (Although getting F13 to use icons with text is
proving difficult!)



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F13: Evolution icons - configurable?

2010-06-01 Thread John Horne
Hello,

I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail
client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this
image on the 'net of basically what it use to look like:
http://www.backuphowto.info/files/images/howto/2007/linux-screw-10-total-4-unread-evolution.png

Personally I preferred the old icons, is there any way re-install them?

If not, then:

1) I used to have both icons and text on the taskbar (as in the
picture). Now I only have the icons. Anyway I can get both back again?

2) The icons are a bit small. Anyway to increase their size?

3) The icons are quite close together, and over to the left of the
application window. As seen in the picture, the icons used to be spread
along the top. Anyway to spread out the icons a bit?



Thanks,

John.

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Re: mcelog update

2010-03-23 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 10:21 -0400, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
 Since my 8 fedora 11 hosts did their March 20 update of mcelog I have
 been getting hourly e-mails from cron on each host with the text :
 
 /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:
 
 mcelog: warning: 18446744073709551600 bytes ignored in each record
 mcelog: consider an update
 
 This bug contains the exact test of the warning :
 
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501512
 
That bug has been closed, but the current problem is discussed in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538550

Note the last comment (#13) about downgrading mcelog if the messages are
a problem.



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