Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Adams
). Not all OSes use the same epoch either, so this is mostly a Unix problem, and most current Unix systems already handle a larger time_t (if somebody is still trying to make SunOS 4 or SCO run in 2038, time_t will be the least of their problems). -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2013-12-30 Thread Chris Adams
and SMTP to a remote server, like mutt or Thunderbird), install an MTA. IIRC, at least Postfix and Sendmail will work for local mail handling (and not listening on the network) in a default install, so yum install your preferred MTA and you should be set. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users

Re: Trying to install to new drive, but drive caddy torked

2013-12-24 Thread Chris Adams
it should still crack the glue with less than Herculean effort. My Thinkpads have thread-lock on all screws, so that may explain why it is so difficult to break the screw free. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: ssl/certificate issue for website

2013-11-01 Thread Chris Adams
with the --insecure option to curl or the --no-check-certificate option to wget. It isn't recommended because it defeats the purpose of SSL. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-03 Thread Chris Adams
With The Wind. The colors in ls come from settings in /etc/DIR_COLORS, which has (and has had for a long time) many comments describing the colors and which are assigned to what. If you don't like, don't want, etc. the colors, that's fine, but to say they are not documented is wrong. -- Chris

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it said: Will it cause any problems if I change the permissions on these files? Nope, been doing it for years. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com said: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:29:04AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it said: Will it cause any problems if I change the permissions on these files? Nope, been doing it for years. I

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Adams
intact and you can probably investigate what went wrong since you still trust the logs. Of course this reasoning becomes moot the moment your root account is compromised. The OP asked about making the logs readable by group wheel, not writable. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Adams
permissions and ownership, and they are mostly logs you aren't liable to be changing. The normal syslog-written files, such as /var/log/messages, don't have overrides and won't be a problem. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-12 Thread Chris Adams
of security, before anybody even worries about flaws in IPv6, itself. I don't see anything here much other than it is different and different is bad; certinaly not any of the supposed security flaws. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-12 Thread Chris Adams
see my message providing links about IPv6 security threats, including recent slides (this year!) from IETF members. I do my homework before making statements on the net. I took a look at a couple, but just saw more FUD and stopped. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
users may connect to IPv6 networks and need it to just work, just like IPv4. They aren't power users that know how to tweak hidden options, they just want to use the network. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
are still finding IPv4 bugs as well. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question

Re: OpenJDK packaging bug in Fedora 19

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
that would make things even easier to figure out; rpm -qf /usr/bin/java would list all the packages that can claim java. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: OpenJDK packaging bug in Fedora 19

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us said: On 07/11/2013 11:41 AM, Chris Adams wrote: IMHO that would make things even easier to figure out; rpm -qf /usr/bin/java would list all the packages that can claim java. Would it, or would it just find the first one and stop? I'm asking because

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us said: On 07/11/2013 11:12 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Use the firewall, ditch the NAT. NAT does not increase security over a firewall. In some cases, NAT prevents a user from accessing the Internet, rather than the other way around. Can you give

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
applications that don't override the precedence); this is spelled out in several RFCs (can't recall the numbers). I think there is a global way to override this (maybe /etc/gai.conf can do it?). -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: OpenJDK packaging bug in Fedora 19

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
of directories just went un-owned, but that caused other problems, so there was a push to get them all owned. Some multilib packages took the separate-RPM approach. I'd hardly call 24 *-filesystem-*.rpm packages a gazillion though. :) -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users

Re: Scanner recommendations needed

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
be fine. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
Internet, it is not optimal (as you tunnel all your IPv6 traffic over IPv4 to a third party, so you can get sub-optimal routing). -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: jar command missing in Fedora 19?

2013-07-05 Thread Chris Adams
the ZIP format, so unzip will handle them fine. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

2013-06-21 Thread Chris Adams
done a full backup. Should I wait for some days to check out whether the alarm is true or not? Given there were a bunch of reallocated sectors, I'd replace it as soon as possible and then destroy it. -- Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Adams
to a regional mirror to start with, so you should probably check that (there could be a bad mirror listed or something like that). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Adams
a separate home filesystem image and even swap if needed. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: presto

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Adams
server about 6 rack units away, connected to the same gigabit switch. Why futz around with trying to rebuild RPMs and apply changes when the full RPM can be downloaded much faster? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Chris Adams
use exFAT). You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: Anyone that can Recommend a Laser Printer

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Adams
-of-the-box, pull up the add new printer dialog and look at the list. IIRC you can tell it you are installing a printer on a parallel port or something like that to get it to let you to the select a make/model phase. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: disable IPv6?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Adams
and adding it to /etc/resolv.conf. IIRC that used to work with ifup (but maybe I'm remembering wrong). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: disable IPv6?

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Adams
, which should probably not be set by default, especially since so few environments (even IPv6 environments) will have a IPv6 DHCP server. Comment out that line or set it to no and it should fix the slowdown. I've filed this in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903907 -- Chris Adams

Re: a list of Fedora 18 package names?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Adams
servers represent a very small percentage of deployed webservers, nobody has done this. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Adams
. So why won't it work when in this recipe: LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail Try using a log file in the user's home directory, rather than /var/log. I suspect that SELinux doesn't allow procmail to write to files all over the filesystem. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: background task to wget Fedora 18

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Adams
and start the wget. At any time I can reopen a VNC connection and see how the download(s) is doing. Check out screen. It is a terminal multiplexer that supports detach and re-attach (control-A d detaches and screen -r re-attaches). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
, in an earlier message. Those tools are really for debugging of DNS itself, and they do not use the normal resolver library (or at least not in the normal way). I believe the host command does use the normal resolver (like any other program). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Fedora 17 - Postfix

2012-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
-features MTA such as sendmail, postfix, exim, etc. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Perl programming related question.

2012-08-16 Thread Chris Adams
/some/file.zip) the above would result in $file = some/file.zip. If you always only want the last part (following any slashes): my ($file) = $url =~ m!([^/]+)$!; This would take http://host/some/file.zip and give $file = file.zip. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Adams
) over the last 20 years has come from the Linux community. Without Linux, gcc and glibc would be very different than they are today. Does that mean they should be renamed to Linux/GNU CC and Linux/GNU libc? Nope, not at all. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Adams
deliverer? sendmail will use the ESMTP protocol any time it connects to a server that says it supports ESMTP (when to telnet to the server on port 25 or 587, the banner line starts with 220 if it supports ESMTP or just 200 if it only supports the original SMTP with no extensions). -- Chris Adams

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Chris Adams
(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587') define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS’, `TCP $h 587′) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-08 Thread Chris Adams
the result, but it is hard to blame Microsoft for aping what the rest of the market is already doing (and apparently most consumers accept as the norm). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Would-be local mirror in Argentina...

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
space to mirror the archive). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
won't try IPv6, so it won't cause any delay. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
is the full name of the sender and %a is the email address. I got bored with the normal attribution line one time and changed to that. Looking back, I started using that in early 1996; maybe it is time for something new! -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: 64bit repo serveer wseems dead in the water.

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Adams
is not particularly busy right now. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0 spontaneously changes to /dev/ttyUSB1

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Adams
node, so it can't be reused. Your service should notice that the serial device went away and exit. I'm not sure if there's a way to have udev run a script or send a signal when a device goes away. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
.. Since the Microsoft Windows 8 certification requires that the UEFI firmware (not BIOS) support disabling Secure Boot by the user on x86 systems, I don't think you'll find many (if any) systems that don't support disabling Secure Boot. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
. You can create and enroll custom keys (or at least that's what I read in the UEFI spec). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Adams
boot loader getting signed just makes it easier for users to install/run Fedora; it does not prevent you from running whatever you want. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble

Re: What happened to /media ??

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Adams
Removable media mounted in the user's session, such as hot-plugged USB drives, will be mounted in a user-specific directory. Mount points are provisioned in /run/media/$USER/ with permissions allowing $USER exclusive access. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

2012-05-28 Thread Chris Adams
0.0.0.0 - get just the device name: ip route list match 0.0.0.0 | sed 's/.* dev \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' - list the address(es) on the default device: ip addr list $(ip route list match 0.0.0.0 | sed 's/.* dev \([^ ]*\).*/\1/') -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Adams
it took you to type syncRETURN twice more was just how long you should wait after the first one for it to really complete. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
), and more. Suspend is hardly only for laptops. The desktops that I suspend are supposed to wake up and hibernate on power failure (before the UPS dies), but I haven't tested that in a while. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Adams
it back open. My Thinkpad with Fedora just works for suspend. Hibernate works correctly as well; I only use it sometimes, but I've occasionally been suprised by a hibernate resume instead of suspend resume (when the battery gets low in suspend, the system wakes up and hibernates). -- Chris Adams

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Adams
there. Of course, we'd have to call F19 Banach-Tarski! -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Memory loss after long uptime

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Adams
the dentry and inode caches. These will show up as just more kernel RAM in use, but really they are caches that should be discarded as needed (just like the old buffers/cache lines in free). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: yum borked, cant find mirrors

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, gary artim gar...@gmail.com said: Anyone know how to fix this problem. seem to happen on every fc16 system that I do yum clean all on. much thanks! There's a problem with the mirrormanager system right now; the admins are working on it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: yum borked, cant find mirrors

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, gary artim gar...@gmail.com said: thanks! can you email when fixed...g. Looks like mirrormanager is back now (at least for me). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: OT: red hat?

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
they ever gave them away at trade shows (at least not that I saw). They did sell them on redhat.com for a long time, but that stopped when they moved the swag type stuff (hats, notepads, etc.) to an outsourced site. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet

Re: OT: red hat?

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
currently out of them. No, they haven't sold them for a while now (I even asked my RH sales rep). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: OT: red hat?

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, inode0 ino...@gmail.com said: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, inode0 ino...@gmail.com said: For years they have been sold through brandfuel. I can see on the Internet Archive that happened through at least August

Re: red hat?

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us said: tying back to RH: I was specifically thinking of the red fedora when I suggested dry cleaning. My local dry cleaners that I trust wouldn't take my red fedora - they said they weren't set up to handle it. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: OT: red hat?

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Adams
Hat) about the red fedoras, and they said that they only do them on special order for Red Hat. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Adams
, and the space on disk for the directory is 8MB. When system RAM is measure in MB, you're using a large portion of it just to sort a list that size (possibly swapping or tossing cached buffers). When you have GB of RAM, what's 8MB? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator

Re: switching on wireless after minimal install: f16

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Adams
for your setup). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Adams
with a failed /dev/sda? You need to install to both MBRs of RAID1 drives manually (anaconda doesn't handle that). It looks like switching back to motherboard fake RAID is going to be the more reliable solution to configure (but not to operate; no update bitmaps, no periodic verification, etc.). -- Chris

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Adams
of OS installs (e.g. Fedora 15, Fedora Rawhide, Windoze). I couldn't get GRUB2 for F16 installed to my F16 /boot partition; it would only install to the MBR. I guess that's progress. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: glxgear and glxinfo confusion

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Adams
at higher-than-refresh rates is to be able to do motion blur. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: systemd broken for key servcies in F16

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Adams
is installed by default, ntpd is not. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Yum is updating /etc/shadow?

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Adams
write it to /etc/shadow.rpmnew (and print a notification that it did that). This is no different than any other file marked as a configuration file in the RPM. Since /etc/shadow.rpmnew is meaningless, the setup RPM has a post-install script to remove it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems

Re: Disabling link local IPv6 addresses

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
LAN segment to communicate, even if you assign them to different IP blocks. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: system console redirection - all but boot messages redirected ttyS0?

2011-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
console=tty0). I think it is fixed in newer plymouth, but I'm not sure. I see the bug on RHEL 6 systems, and the fix has not been released there yet. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
think you have any need to determine your own layout. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Adams
on the subject, or to the dev list if there is no wiki article? Go read a book on Unix. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Adams
don't work that way. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
the Linux kernel has a short max length for a network device name. The base pattern needs to be short because there are things that make the name longer (IIRC a NIC with a PCI bridge for example), and then there are various things that add on to the device name (such as VLANs). -- Chris Adams

Re: Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Adams
confusing) interfaces the same thing. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au said: On 16Oct2011 20:15, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: | See /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}. And does this work _before_ boot, in the root= kernel command line, via grub.conf? I'm not sure about the /dev/..., but the UUID does directly

Re: Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Adams
been st4; the SCSI tape devices have always been numbered starting with 0 in my experience (I think I first used a SCSI tape device on Linux in 1996). An alternate way to always access a specific tape drive by a fixed path is via /dev/tape/by-id. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Adams
(as the OP said). I'm pretty sure the only way Fedora would have had st4 without st[0-3] would have been if there was a udev rule to rename it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: [OT] SAS disks

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
or SCSI drives, but their cost is usually prohibitive. SCSI is dead; SAS is the next-generation SCSI interface (SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
is fully documented and open (and IIRC even includes a waiver of any applicable Adobe patents); the problem is that the full spec includes a JavaScript interpreter (which is the source of many Adobe Reader security bugs), and the Open Source PDF readers don't implement that. -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Adams
, there are still things that acroread does (that are required) that AFAIK the Open Source PDF readers don't do (such as fill out tax forms with scripted calculations). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
any more? Yeah, I was trying to figure out what kind of storage _doesn't_ rely on physics. Of course, if you consider any data permanently stored, you aren't using physics. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as simple as that. Is there a simple way to do that on Linux? -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't

Re: what triggers wakeup from suspend?

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Adams
/proc/acpi/wakeup | cut -d' ' -f1); do echo $pdev /proc/acpi/wakeup done done -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Adams
else wrong. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Adams
of customers (still today) use it. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
no longer safe? Programs don't have to change for the sake of change. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
to OpenSSL command line utilities. IIRC it uses a private tmp directory to avoid any potential issues with tmp files; that's about the only potential security issue I can think of. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com said: On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com said: I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. It last saw a release on July 25

Re: Primary and secondary sendmail servers

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Adams
to write a few custom rulesets (not really very much). The bigger issue is that you need some way for the secondary to know the valid addresses on the primary; the usual way is to have all users, aliases, etc. in LDAP (and replicate the LDAP to the secondary). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net

Re: binding socket fails when run under ptrace?

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Adams
. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Adams
in an LDAP directory. Since I haven't really tested and pushed sieve use yet, the only server-side filtering is via procmail. Of course, I've been writing sendmail rulesets for about 15 years now, so it's second nature to me. sendmail.cf really isn't just line noise! :-) -- Chris Adams cmad

Re: dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Adams
$* $+ $: $2 This would affect other mailers that use this ruleset of course (prog is the only other by default). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Adams
tried it myself). I think there's also a Thunderbird add-on for managesieve. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

2011-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
is failure. It is inverted from common usage, but allows for multiple failure exit codes. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Adams
). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: SSL connections to fedoraproject.org sites failing over IPv6

2011-06-08 Thread Chris Adams
would fail with an SSL error, and non-SSL connections just got nothing (an empty directory root). -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users

Re: SSL connections to fedoraproject.org sites failing over IPv6

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net said: $ wget 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-15arch=x86_64' --2011-06-07 20:53:34-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-15arch=x86_64 Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 2610:28:3090:3001

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