Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/18 10:42 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I DO have multiple entries when I boot up my ThinkPad T420 laptop. In the listing are three entries total (plus the rescue option) The topmost entry if for FC-27 the entry under that one is for FC-29 and the entry under that is also FC-29 an

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/27/18 5:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: There is some disagreement on what you are actually asking here so you are getting different answers.  I assumed that you didn't have entries for the F29 kernels, in which case you need to recreate the grub.cfg as I described.  Others have understood you

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/18 9:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/28/18 9:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 11/28/18 9:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> But that wastes time re-downloading all the repos >> So?   Make an for dnf that does the --refresh and also disables the repos >> you don't care >> to about? >> > Make an

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/18 9:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/28/18 9:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> But that wastes time re-downloading all the repos > So?   Make an for dnf that does the --refresh and also disables the repos you > don't care > to about? > Make an "alias". -- Right: I dislike the default color

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/18 9:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > But that wastes time re-downloading all the repos So?   Make an for dnf that does the --refresh and also disables the repos you don't care to about? -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/18 9:21 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:05:53 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo dnf --refresh upgrade > But that wastes time re-downloading all the repos, not just > the update repos (which are presumably the only ones that > might have changed). > >

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:05:53 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo dnf --refresh upgrade But that wastes time re-downloading all the repos, not just the update repos (which are presumably the only ones that might have changed). I'd hope makecache pays attention to the metadata_expi

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/18 8:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > As near as I can tell, dnf won't ever download > data from repos merely because of an update command > (no matter how far out of date the metadata is). > This seems like an "improvement" they must have > made recently. > > Looking at the makecache timer ser

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
As near as I can tell, dnf won't ever download data from repos merely because of an update command (no matter how far out of date the metadata is). This seems like an "improvement" they must have made recently. Looking at the makecache timer service, it seems like you now need to use two commands

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 06:11:44PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Something's definitely not quite right with DNF's caching in F29. > > I have a local LAN repository whose metadata_expire is intentionally > set to one minute, because as soon as I have a new package to > install I push it into the

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/18 3:17 PM, linux guy wrote: Interesting.  /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg didn't exist on my workstation.  But /etc/grub2-efi.cfg points to it !   /boot/efi existed, but it was empty. How are you booting into it right now to do this? Btw, both grub.cfg symlinks are always created whet

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread linux guy
Interesting. /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg didn't exist on my workstation. But /etc/grub2-efi.cfg points to it ! /boot/efi existed, but it was empty. I created /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/. I ran grub2-mkconfig -o/boot/grub2/grub.cfg It ran without error. I rebooted using shutdown -r now It rebooted

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: I ran "dnf -y update" this morning. It said the last metadata update was 8 days ago and there was nothing to do. I then ran "dnf clean all" and "dnf -y update" again and it is loading 414 new updates. What really bad setting is it consulting to think that 8 day old metadata

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/27/18 2:22 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > if you have sar installed (package is sysstat) then sar -n DEV will > give you 10 minute network counters, it will give you 1 minute data if > you turn sar's sample timer down to 1 minute. > > snmp if you router supports it, and I have also ssh'ed into my

Re: F29 fails on new ThinkPad P72

2018-11-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:40:38 -0600 dsavage--- via users wrote: > So I'm open to suggestions to solve these on-path problems. First and > foremost, it seems to me, I need to identify a cross-platform solution > equivalent to Clonezilla that can see the Intel RST RAID1 structure. This is a tool th

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/18 11:03 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Running F-29 on  Lenovo ThinkPad T420 I've updated and everything is running smoothly But When its first starting up?...and it shows the kernels that are available (along with the rescue option) they're showing as "Fedora 4.14.xx _27_ Fedor

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Roger Heflin
if you have sar installed (package is sysstat) then sar -n DEV will give you 10 minute network counters, it will give you 1 minute data if you turn sar's sample timer down to 1 minute. snmp if you router supports it, and I have also ssh'ed into my router ever X minutes and collected its network st

Re: VPN Interface not Remaining Active With Firewall?

2018-11-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/27/18 12:48 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 27/11/18 10:53 am, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 11/26/18 1:46 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 21/11/18 10:02 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/20/18 2:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/21/18 5:07 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> A second, smaller tim

Re: VPN Interface not Remaining Active With Firewall?

2018-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/18 10:53 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/26/18 1:46 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/11/18 10:02 am, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/20/18 2:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/21/18 5:07 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that the front screen of the bios is displaying the time as local time, presum

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/27/18 12:27 PM, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: >>> If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting >>> through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by >>> default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? > > Ed Greshko: >> Are you saying you h

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting >> through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by >> default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? Ed Greshko: > Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to > the

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/18 1:01 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: kernel-4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.19.2-301.fc29.x86_64 kernel-4.19.3-300.fc29.x86_64 Somehow the grub config file isn't getting updated with new kernels. If you have an EFI system, then run: sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg Other

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/18 3:03 AM, dsavage--- via users wrote: If you use yum/dnf to remove the 4.14 kernel, when you install the next kernel update the /boot directory will again have three kernels plus the rescue. yum remove kernel-4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 If you run: rpm -qa | grep kernel | sor

Re: F29 fails on new ThinkPad P72

2018-11-27 Thread dsavage--- via users
> My take is this ... RST / RAID is where windows is installed, if you > change it before you snapshot or dd the image youll loose the install > by breaking the raid > you have to make a snap before you can change to AHCI and break up the > raid , and i do believe there is a driver in linux for RST

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 05:03 -0600, dsavage--- via users wrote: > If you run: > > rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort > > you'll get a list of all installed kernel, kernel-core, kernel-devel, and > other related packages all with their version numbers. If there are any of > those with the 4.14 kerne

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/27/18 11:28 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:52:38 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Have you disabled the dnf-makecache.timer unit? > Yes. I want to run updates when I want them, not when > some random timer wants them (especially since the > background stuff always manages to ha

Re: Fedora Server 29 do not store last history when reboot without logout

2018-11-27 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 20/11/2018 alle 18.37 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto: > Yes, thanks, also this can be a workaround. > > But i can think also for other people, if in case this annoying > problem also affects other people. > > Then, if this is the only solution, it's bette I fill a bug in order > to

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread linux guy
Thank you. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/26/18 7:56 PM, linux guy wrote: > > It still boots to the grub prompt, even when I use -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > That is still the wrong file. You need either > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg > or > /etc/grub2-efi.cfg whi

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:52:38 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Have you disabled the dnf-makecache.timer unit? Yes. I want to run updates when I want them, not when some random timer wants them (especially since the background stuff always manages to have dnf locked when I want to do foreground activity

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/27/18 9:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I ran "dnf -y update" this morning. It said the last > metadata update was 8 days ago and there was nothing > to do. > > I then ran "dnf clean all" and "dnf -y update" again > and it is loading 414 new updates. > > What really bad setting is it consulting t

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/27/18 9:50 PM, Tim via users wrote: > If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through > my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that > I can look at, or do need to install something extra? Are you saying you have a single system with only tra

auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Hi, If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC

Re: what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Alex Gurenko via users
Not sure, where the TTL for meta data is set, but you can always use --refresh parameter to force-refresh meta-data without running dnf clean all. --- Best regards,  Alex ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 3:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I ran "dnf -y update" this m

what is wrong with dnf?

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
I ran "dnf -y update" this morning. It said the last metadata update was 8 days ago and there was nothing to do. I then ran "dnf clean all" and "dnf -y update" again and it is loading 414 new updates. What really bad setting is it consulting to think that 8 day old metadata is up to date, and whe

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread dsavage--- via users
Eddie, Actually you should never simply "rm" any file(s) originally installed by rpm/yum/dnf. You're sure to have configuration and other support files left behind as orphans. If you use yum/dnf to remove the 4.14 kernel, when you install the next kernel update the /boot directory will again have

Re: VPN Interface not Remaining Active With Firewall?

2018-11-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > At the moment my main OS is Windows as I spend a fair amount of time > playing online games that can't be played under Linux, so I mainly only > boot to Linux for email processing, until such time as I decide to forgo > the gaming enviro

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/27/18 3:17 AM, dsavage--- via users wrote: Eddie, Easy. At a CLI prompt type: ls -l /boot | grep vmlinuz You should see a "vmlinuz-0" rescue kernel followed by the three latest installed kernels. For the most recently updated F29 these will be 4.19.2-300, 4.19.2-301, and 4.19.3-30

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/27/18 3:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: kernel 4.14 is quite old now and probably is from F27.  What does "rpm -q kernel" show? Hey Samuel!...thanks for the reply!typing "rpm -q kernel" gives me: kernel-4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.19.2-301.fc29.x86_64 kernel-4.19.3-300.fc29.x86_64

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/18 11:03 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Running F-29 on  Lenovo ThinkPad T420 I've updated and everything is running smoothly But When its first starting up?...and it shows the kernels that are available (along with the rescue option) they're showing as "Fedora 4.14.xx _27_ Fedor

Re: Old Info?.....

2018-11-27 Thread dsavage--- via users
Eddie, Easy. At a CLI prompt type: ls -l /boot | grep vmlinuz You should see a "vmlinuz-0" rescue kernel followed by the three latest installed kernels. For the most recently updated F29 these will be 4.19.2-300, 4.19.2-301, and 4.19.3-300. If you have any numbered below 4.19.2-300, you can