Cloning FS

2011-01-01 Thread jbk
I've been given a thinkpad x40 laptop with the original OS and HD intact. I am in the process of converting it to a CF card drive and would like to clone the installed xp OS and the Fedora 14 OS I have also installed after shrinking and rearranging partitions. Everything is working fine at the

Running Upstream Kernels on Fedora

2011-01-15 Thread jbk
I am using Fedora 14 on two of my laptops, one an i686 and the other x86_64. They are thinkpads that I was having trouble with suspends and resumes. I took the chance and installed the latest kernel from the upstream kernel build source for Fedora, kernel 2.6.37fc15, and both laptops are

Re: Running Upstream Kernels on Fedora

2011-01-15 Thread jbk
On 01/15/2011 01:28 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 12:46 PM, jbk wrote: I am using Fedora 14 on two of my laptops, one an i686 and the other x86_64. They are thinkpads that I was having trouble with suspends and resumes. I took the chance and installed the latest kernel from

Re: Resizing VirtualBox disk

2011-02-05 Thread jbk
On 02/05/2011 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote: The problem I'm having is when I run that command, I get the following confusing error message (indented for clarity): david@lexa:~/.VirtualBox/VDI$ VBoxManage createhd --filename WinXPBIG.vdi --size 20480

Re: Fedora14 on HP Pavilion DV2000 -- No Sound

2011-03-21 Thread jbk
On 03/20/2011 11:41 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: Hi there! I recently installed Fedora 14 to a new hard drive for my HP Pavilion laptop. Fedora is working fine for most of the hardware, except that sound is not working. Has anyone experienced similar problems? I have googled around, but

Re: Linux-ish Laptop Question

2011-04-07 Thread jbk
On 04/06/2011 10:41 PM, Dan O'Donovan wrote: So - ramble over, what are your laptop recommendations? Thanks, Dan Lenovo, I use a T400 and a X40. The keyboard is what I like about them. The other thing is the thinkwiki community which has helped make linux work well with most hardware. I

Re: [Discuss] kernel.org

2011-10-01 Thread jbk
On 10/01/2011 09:14 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Anybody have any more information, speculation, rumors, or just random comments to say? Here is what I googled: http://lwn.net/Articles/460376/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

[Discuss] Converting Users on Server to NOLOGIN

2011-11-11 Thread jbk
Our home file server has provided a dual purpose role as a second desktop, but as all the children are now grown and have their own devices I would like to convert their accounts to nologin on it. The home directories are essentially empty of user files. What if any consequence should I

[Discuss] Time Daemons

2014-01-12 Thread jbk
So I've noticed on my latest install of Fedora 20 that it uses 'chrony' for time synchronization. Is there any need to use NTP? -- Jim KR j...@kjkelra.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CIFS Usage

2014-02-16 Thread jbk
On 02/16/2014 05:58 PM, jbk wrote: I am in the process of updating my client machines to Fedora20. I set up a samba server back in the early 2000's version 2.6. I am now running SL linux 6.1 with samba version 3.6. The client is running Fc20 with CIFS version 2.2. selinux=0. I implemented

Re: [Discuss] CIFS Usage

2014-02-17 Thread jbk
On 02/17/2014 09:28 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: You could remove the version you don't like and install the version you want from sources. It's a solution, a particularly bad one in the long run in my opinion. You won't get any security updates that way other than those you patch in and compile

Re: [Discuss] kinda shot myself in the foot with UHD monitors

2014-09-06 Thread jbk
On 09/06/2014 11:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler So I've run into a rather unexpected problem, I have a monitor with too much resolution. In the past I

[Discuss] Monitor Modem Log On Server

2016-03-18 Thread jbk
I have a netgear modem with log export capability that I would like to monitor on my server. The server is running SL6.7. I presume that I need to open ports on the firewall and associated protocol. The modem has simple choices that allow me to point the output to a specific ip address but not

Re: [Discuss] Monitor Modem Log On Server

2016-03-19 Thread jbk
On 03/19/2016 01:48 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 3/18/2016 9:52 PM, jbk wrote: I have a netgear modem with log export capability that I would like to monitor on my server. The server is running SL6.7. I presume that I need to open ports on the firewall and associated protocol. The modem has

Re: [Discuss] Monitor Modem Log On Server

2016-03-26 Thread jbk
"/var/log/remote/msg/%HOSTNAME%/%PROGRAMNAME:::secpath-replace%.log" ### end of user added lines # Provides UDP syslog reception $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514 # Provides TCP syslog reception #$ModLoad imtcp #$InputTCPServerRun 514 ### jbk added lines per SysAdminGuideF23 201

Re: [Discuss] Monitor Modem Log On Server

2016-03-24 Thread jbk
On 03/19/2016 10:42 AM, jbk wrote: On 03/19/2016 01:48 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 3/18/2016 9:52 PM, jbk wrote: I have a netgear modem with log export capability that I would like to monitor on my server. The server is running SL6.7. I presume that I need to open ports on the firewall

Re: [Discuss] Surge Protection

2018-06-03 Thread jbk
On 06/03/2018 07:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote: jbk said "die". If he meant permanently destroyed, I think a better surge protector *would* have helped, as perhaps there was a spike that rode along with the outage. If he meant the computers turned off, then yes, nothing short of a UPS

[Discuss] Surge Protection

2018-06-02 Thread jbk
Mid morning last Thursday there was a brief (fraction of second) power outage in my part of JP. It caused the power supply in both running computers to die. Obviously my surge protectors are outdated and need replacement. Any recommendations? -- Jim Kelly-Rand j...@kjkelra.com

Re: [Discuss] Fedora and Recoll

2018-07-21 Thread jbk
On 07/21/2018 09:20 PM, Nancy Allison wrote: Hi, all. I have just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora. In Ubuntu, I used Recoll. The Recoll web page says it is standard in Fedora, but when I search for it I can't find it. Is the Recoll page incorrect? Or is some other tool bundled with Fedora and I

Re: [Discuss] Fedora and Recoll

2018-07-22 Thread jbk
On 07/22/2018 04:08 PM, Nancy Allison wrote: I'm continuing my question about installing (or finding) Recoll on my Fedora installation. I mistakenly responded individually to Jim. He asked me what version of Fedora I'm using. Does this indicate that I am using version 28: uname -or

Re: [Discuss] systemd reboot

2018-03-03 Thread jbk
On 03/03/2018 08:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 3/2/2018 9:09 PM, Mike Small wrote: I see behaviour where if I change something under /etc/grub.d/, run update-grub and then immediately run /sbin/reboot, upon start up grub sees the old grub.cfg not the new one. This is a Ubuntu Xenial based I

Re: [Discuss] rsync password -- revisit

2018-12-31 Thread Jbk
Dan, You may have to use another key format. DSA or other. I know ssh obsoleted a format a few years ago and I had to issue new key pairs for my devices. Jim KR nt from​ On Dec 31, 2018, 10:41 AM, at 10:41 AM, dan moylan wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:55:04, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On

Re: [Discuss] Changing Comcast Modem to Bridged

2018-12-30 Thread jbk
On 12/30/18 11:55 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 11:39:24 -0500, jbk wrote: On 12/30/18 11:01 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:39:06 -0500, jbk wrote: A couple years ago we changed to comcast as our ISP and incorporated their modem into our network topology

Re: [Discuss] Changing Comcast Modem to Bridged

2018-12-30 Thread jbk
On 12/30/18 11:01 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:39:06 -0500, jbk wrote: A couple years ago we changed to comcast as our ISP and incorporated their modem into our network topology providing the dhcp, NAT and wireless functions. Prior to this we had a DSL modem and WRT54G

[Discuss] Changing Comcast Modem to Bridged

2018-12-30 Thread jbk
A couple years ago we changed to comcast as our ISP and incorporated their modem into our network topology providing the dhcp, NAT and wireless functions. Prior to this we had a DSL modem and WRT54G running tomato. The modem provided dhcp so it was the gateway address. I now want to put the

Re: [Discuss] Changing Comcast Modem to Bridged

2018-12-30 Thread jbk
On 12/30/18 10:49 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: jbk wrote: A couple years ago we changed to comcast as our ISP and incorporated their modem into our network topology providing the dhcp, NAT and wireless functions. Prior to this we had a DSL modem and WRT54G running tomato. The modem provided dhcp so

Re: [Discuss] Changing Comcast Modem to Bridged

2018-12-30 Thread jbk
On 12/30/18 2:29 PM, Gregory Galperin wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:39:24AM -0500, jbk wrote: The problem with doing that is there is no way to turn off the Comcast dhcp server w/o putting it into bridged mode, other than limiting the range to a single address and have that lease set

Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

2019-05-15 Thread jbk
On 5/15/19 6:45 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Update. I downgraded my wife's computer to fedora 29 that does run flash. Jerry, You may want to disable updates to firefox also. -- Jim Kelly-Rand j...@kjkelra.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-04 Thread jbk
On 12/4/19 5:15 AM, Steven Santos wrote: try a different dns. It was unreachable with the comcast dns. Works fine with 8.8.8.8 and opendns Changing dns server has not succeeded yet. How long should I expect to wait before new server provides results? On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:08 PM jbk

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-04 Thread jbk
On 12/4/19 7:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 5:15 AM, Steven Santos wrote: try a different dns. It was unreachable with the comcast dns. Works fine with 8.8.8.8 and opendns Changing dns server has not succeeded yet. How long should I expect to wait before

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-07 Thread jbk
Well, my network access to fedoraforum was restored this evening. How, I don't know. -- Jim Kelly-Rand j...@kjkelra.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-05 Thread jbk
On 12/4/19 8:47 PM, jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 7:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 5:15 AM, Steven Santos wrote: try a different dns. It was unreachable with the comcast dns. Works fine with 8.8.8.8 and opendns Changing dns server has not succeeded yet. How long

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-05 Thread jbk
On 12/5/19 8:00 AM, jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 8:47 PM, jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 7:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 5:15 AM, Steven Santos wrote: try a different dns. It was unreachable with the comcast dns. Works fine with 8.8.8.8 and opendns Changing dns server

Re: [Discuss] Not Able to Access Fedoraforum Within Home Comcast Network

2019-12-05 Thread jbk
On 12/5/19 12:31 PM, jbk wrote: On 12/5/19 8:00 AM, jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 8:47 PM, jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 7:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: jbk wrote: On 12/4/19 5:15 AM, Steven Santos wrote: try a different dns. It was unreachable with the comcast dns. Works fine with 8.8.8.8

Re: [Discuss] VT Acces VIA Ctrl+Alt+Fn

2019-12-06 Thread jbk
On 12/5/19 10:28 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: From: jbk To: Blu [...] Well I found it. It is a local setting found in the mate-keyboard-properties tool. I just didn't recognize the setting for what it was the first go-round. It might help to mention what the setting is called! Under Layouts

[Discuss] VT Acces VIA Ctrl+Alt+Fn

2019-11-30 Thread jbk
I have a laptop running F31-Mate that does not allow VT access during logged in session. I can use [ctrl+alt+f2] at the greeter before login. /setxkbmap -print/ /kb_keymap {// //    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"    };// //    xkb_types { include "complete"    };// //   

Re: [Discuss] VT Acces VIA Ctrl+Alt+Fn

2019-12-01 Thread jbk
On 11/30/19 7:29 PM, jbk wrote: I have a laptop running F31-Mate that does not allow VT access during logged in session. I can use [ctrl+alt+f2] at the greeter before login. /setxkbmap -print/ /kb_keymap {// //    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"    };// //