http/apache/Let's Encrypt and Android

2024-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
Not sure if what I want to do is possible but currently I am redirecting all HTTP/80 traffic to HTTPS/443 with the statement in the virtual host section     Redirect / https://server.domain.com/ This works very nicely and redirects the traffic from HTTP to HTTPS However I have run into a

Re: ch341-uart - ttyUSBx disconnecting???

2023-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
field is different. That sounds like a big difference in revision numbers. Maybe we have different devices from the CH341 family. Maybe there is some compatibility issue there. Maybe you just have a dirty USB connector, or some other bad connection problem. Steve On 29/11/2023 02:55, Jeffrey

ch341-uart - ttyUSBx disconnecting???

2023-11-28 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
I'm trying to connect an Arduino to my system (Fedora 38 - 6.5.12-200.fc38.x86_64) that uses a ch341 serial uart. I've been searching around and found issues on other distributions and the "brltty" application, since I don't need braille I removed the application but the problem remains.  I

SSH, PuTTy and no authentication methods available

2022-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
I keep running into an issue with PuTTy users logging into the system (Fedora 35), I found that if I edit: /usr/share/crypto-policies/DEFAULT/opensshserver.txt and add ^ssh-rsa at the beginning of the PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms list will allow users to login again, however anytime there is an

Re: Fedora performance and Intel i915?

2022-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
Thanks, read through CVE-2019-14615 on Red Hat's site, not sure I'm overly concerned with the vulnerability in my environment. Thanks for the additional options, I'll try it out. Jeff On 3/10/22 8:08 PM, Frog Inmon via users wrote: i915.mitigations=off [1] Buyer beware. The improvement in

Fedora performance and Intel i915?

2022-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
I've been chasing some performance issues on a recently reinstalled Fedora system and I think I've identified the problem along with what maybe an incomplete or not fully optimized solution. The problem started when I had upgraded to Fedora 35 the upgrade went south with the booting of the

Re: Firefox laggy?

2021-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
in /etc/sysconfig/selinux I have "SELINUX=disabled" looking in about:performance isn't showing me too much.  I did create a new profile today and I'll see how that one is. On 11/21/21 6:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/21/21 3:58 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: maybe selinux ? sudo touch

Firefox laggy?

2021-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
I recently did a reinstall of Fedora as the upgrade from 34 to 35 failed for me.  I ended up doing a new install of Fedora 35 while retaining my /home partition, all other partitions were reformatted during the install. After the install I found that Firefox seems to be laggy when opening

update-crypto-policies & Apache

2021-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
System is Fedora 33 I'm attempting to enable Perfect Forwarding Secrecy (PFS) in Apache. I started by setting the options I wanted in Apache only to find that the SSL options for Ciphers are ignored in the Apache configuration and instead are pulled from /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends

Firefox settings

2020-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Ross via users
With the spell check on Firefox I keep setting Firefox to "English (United States)" and whenever Firefox restarts to goes back to "English (Malawi)". How do I make my language change permanent? Is there a configuration file that Firefox is trying to use and is unable to write to? Thanks,

Re: port based routing

2020-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I think I found a usable solution utilizing iproute2 I can simply define two separate routing tables, one table for eth0 and one for vpn0 each table has its own default gateway and the table used is based upon the interface traffic is sourced from. Now the only issue is I need to force all

port based routing

2020-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
(System Fedora 31) I'm looking to make routing decisions based upon either the source or destination TCP port and interface/destination IP, in the Cisco world I'd do this via policy based routing. I found an example using iptables

exim-clamav

2020-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Ross
The upgrade for Clamav that just came out seems to have broken exim-clamav, more precisely removed exim-clamav. If I attempt to upgrade clamav and clamd I am told that there are conflicts: Problem 1: package exim-clamav-4.92.3-1.fc31.x86_64 requires clamav-server, but none of the providers

Re: Firefox issues with Fedora 31?

2019-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 2019-12-01 15:32, Jeffrey Ross wrote: After upgrading to Fedora 31 I've run into an issue with Firefox, I can no longer detach a tab from the browser to put it into its own window.  I can drag a tab to another open browser window or to another position within the same browser window but I

Re: Firefox issues with Fedora 31?

2019-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 12/1/19 7:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: MOZ_DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox This test allowed Firefox to work properly, I have detachable tabs and the dropdowns working again.  So now we think we know what is causing the problem, the question now is how to fix it? In my case I've simply chosen the

Re: Firefox issues with Fedora 31?

2019-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
no longer work. I guess the next question is, could there be some sort of browser interaction with Gnome that isn't working right? Jeff On 12/1/19 6:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-02 07:17, sixpack13 wrote: On 02.12.19 00:09, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-02 06:36, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I n

Re: Firefox issues with Fedora 31?

2019-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
. Is there any other configuration file (system config?) that is pulled in at startup also? Thanks, Jeff On 12/1/19 4:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-02 04:32, Jeffrey Ross wrote: After upgrading to Fedora 31 I've run into an issue with Firefox, I can no longer detach a tab from the browser

Firefox issues with Fedora 31?

2019-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
After upgrading to Fedora 31 I've run into an issue with Firefox, I can no longer detach a tab from the browser to put it into its own window.  I can drag a tab to another open browser window or to another position within the same browser window but I can not drag it to a new window by itself.

F29 and desktop image

2018-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
When I was running F28 (and earlier versions) I was able to right click on an image in the browser (Firefox) and choose to make the image my background/wallpaper.  This option no longer shows up, in addition right clicking on the desktop itself I do not have the option to set the background, I

Re: F29 - Gnome - Alt-tab

2018-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 11/1/18 4:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/1/18 1:47 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Just installed F29 last night on one of my machines and found that the "alt-tab" switching within gnome is no longer working. The way I had it working in F28 was it cycled between every program open (n

F29 - Gnome - Alt-tab

2018-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Just installed F29 last night on one of my machines and found that the "alt-tab" switching within gnome is no longer working. The way I had it working in F28 was it cycled between every program open (not program groups) and I would like the same behavior again. It is possible I had a plugin

Gnome boxes and USB redirection

2018-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
System is Fedora 28 I have Gnome boxes running with a Windows 10 "guest".  I have a USB device that I need to be automatically passed to the Windows 10 OS in boxes.  Because of how this device works it connects and then disconnects a few times when it is first connected while going into a

Re: Odd ARP entry

2018-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 07/20/2018 10:51 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/20/18 21:19, Jeffrey Ross wrote: looking at the arp table on my system I see that I have one entry that shouldn't be there - proxy10.fedoraproject.org (209.132.181.15) at 50:3d:e5:f5:b6:c0 [ether] on enp0s25 First, the subnet this machine

Odd ARP entry

2018-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Ross
looking at the arp table on my system I see that I have one entry that shouldn't be there - proxy10.fedoraproject.org (209.132.181.15) at 50:3d:e5:f5:b6:c0 [ether] on enp0s25 First, the subnet this machine lives on is 172.18.19.0/24 and all of the other arp entries are correct as they are

Re: Strange message on ssh login

2018-07-18 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 2018-07-03 22:06, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:20 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> Richard Shaw wrote: >>> I've never seen additional output before but when I remoted in to my F28 >>> desktop I got the following: >>> >>> Using username "". >>> @'s password: >>> Activate the

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 06/23/2018 08:07 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Wright wrote: On 06/23/2018 01:35 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: my .ssh directory has my private key in a file called "id_rsa" nothing with .pub on the end and if I understand correctly running ssh will look for the private key in a few

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 06/22/2018 07:54 AM, Berend De Schouwer wrote: On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 07:37 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: At one point Fedora had something (keyring?) that would allow me to unlock my SSH private keys and it would keep the unlocked key available so I could ssh without having to unlock my key

Re: SSH private keys?

2018-06-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 06/22/2018 03:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/22/2018 04:37 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Fast forward to today, the system had been reinstalled (new hardware, new disks, etc) and I no longer have that ability.  I'm currently runn Fedora 28 and the desktop is "Gnome", I'm sure

SSH private keys?

2018-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Ross
At one point Fedora had something (keyring?) that would allow me to unlock my SSH private keys and it would keep the unlocked key available so I could ssh without having to unlock my key every time.  I typically run a simple "terminal" window and then "ssh " since my key is not retained

Re: Clamav broke

2018-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I downgraded to clamd 0.99.4-3 and it works. so something broke in 0.100.0-2 Suggestions on how to track down the failure cause to see if it is a configuration error on my part or a broken package/dependency? Jeff On 2018-06-12 13:46, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > this morning I did a dnf upgr

Clamav broke

2018-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Ross
this morning I did a dnf upgrade and clamav was upgraded, since then clamav will not stay running, the output from "journalctl -xef |grep clamd". Notice clamav finishes starting up but upon receiving a file to process it simply closes. System is Fedora 28 and clamd --version -c

desktop background image

2018-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I upgraded my system to Fedora 28 (from 26 -> 27 -> 28) and when I upgraded to 28 I no longer had a desktop background image, the desktop was simply "black".  I dismissed it as a minor issue and loaded a background image, I did this from Firefox, I had an image up and selected "set as desktop

Re: F28 update fails

2018-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 2018-05-01 15:02, john q wrote: > Read this Antonio: https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-27-fedora-28/ > > "If you have issues when upgrading because of packages without updates, > broken dependencies, or retired packages, add the _‐‐allowerasing_ flag when > typing the above

Re: perl updates

2018-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 02/28/2018 04:19 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:31:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I got a bunch of perl updates that came down today and they seem to have caused some problems with exim's script exiqsumm Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in string eq at /usr/sbin

perl updates

2018-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I got a bunch of perl updates that came down today and they seem to have caused some problems with exim's script exiqsumm Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in string eq at /usr/sbin/exiqsumm line 48. I'm using the following command which kicks the error out "/usr/bin/mailq |

Fail2ban

2018-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Fedora 27 system Trying to get Fail2ban to work properly on the system and I'm looking for a good example to follow for the firewall portion. Some of the challenges I've had is when shutting down the system it can take a very very long time to "unban" all the banned addresses and it can

boot device options

2017-10-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Looking for some feedback and some direction on not only the feasibility but does it makes sense to do. The scenario is this, this is Fedora 26 system, running RAID1 on all disk partitions, there are only 2 disks in the system with 4 raid partitions each: /dev/md125/ - md125 :

Re: fail2ban

2017-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 09/25/2017 09:09 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: So your ipset is not getting created or has been deleted by another jail if it shares the same name. With fail2ban-client -d, look at your sshd jail, specifically the ['set', 'sshd', 'action', 'my_ipset_ip', 'name', 'IPv4-ip'] make sure the name is

fail2ban

2017-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm trying to configure fail2ban and it appears as if it is correctly identifying addresses to ban however it doesn't appear to be successful in banning hosts: 2017-09-24 16:01:46,073 fail2ban.actions    [3591]: NOTICE [sshd] Ban 91.210.178.96 2017-09-24 16:01:46,494 fail2ban.action  

DNF packages?

2017-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Ross
How can I obtain a list of all packages currently installed on the system? Thanks, Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Spamassassin and sa-update/sa-compile

2017-09-11 Thread Jeffrey Ross
System is Fedora 26 and I'm using the spamassassin (and any support applications) supplied with the distribution/repositories. I have sa-update running from /etc/cron.daily using the supplied script "/etc/cron.daily/sa-update.cron" which appears to be working as expected. In an attempt to

Re: mdadm confusion

2017-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 2017-08-25 16:10, Jeffrey Ross wrote: On 08/24/2017 07:58 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 18:06 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: system is Fedora 26, all current updates I'm running raid1, two identical 500GB disks partitioned as follows: /dev/sda12048 789501951 789499904

Re: mdadm confusion

2017-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 08/24/2017 07:58 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 18:06 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: system is Fedora 26, all current updates I'm running raid1, two identical 500GB disks partitioned as follows: /dev/sda12048 789501951 789499904 376.5G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2

mdadm confusion

2017-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Ross
system is Fedora 26, all current updates I'm running raid1, two identical 500GB disks partitioned as follows: /dev/sda12048 789501951 789499904 376.5G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 789501952 948973567 15947161676G fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 948973568

Re: Multi-monitor configuration oddness

2017-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 04/23/2017 06:36 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 23 April 2017, Jeffrey Ross sent: The problem is when the system boots up the system identifies the screen on the closed lid as a valid and active monitor and puts the login screen on that monitor while displays 2 and 3

Multi-monitor configuration oddness

2017-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have a laptop (Lenovo T440P) with the Ultra dock docking station. I have 2 monitors connected to the docking station both via a the display port interfaces, and the monitors work fine, the system recognizes them as screen numbers 2 and 3. The problem is when the system boots up the system

system suspend

2017-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I've loaded or configured "something" within Gnome so when I log into the system from the GUI the system will immediately go into a suspend state, I bring the system back out of suspend by pressing the power button and the system works fine from there, if I log in via ssh the system is fine.

/var/log/messages

2017-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Ross
My /var/log/messages log is full of this error Jan 7 10:59:49 laptop kernel: hub 4-5:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -32) Jan 7 10:59:49 laptop kernel: hub 4-5:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -32) Jan 7 10:59:49 laptop kernel: hub 4-5:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err =

Re: GUI won't start - vdsmd.service ???

2016-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
] Expansion ROM at [disabled] Capabilities: Kernel modules: nouveau after the machine is up and can put the machine in the docking station and both screens come on normally. Suggestions as to what to look for? Thanks, Jeff On 12/30/2016 02:48 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I'm running

GUI won't start - vdsmd.service ???

2016-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm running Fedora 24 kernel 4.7.9-200 (x86_64). the system is on a Lenovo T440P. the machine boots and is accessable from the network but the system itself never presents a login prompt after starting a blank gray screen. Below are some the information that I think is useful, I'm not sure

Re: New kernels won't boot

2016-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On 11/20/2016 03:43 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> >> >> >> Suggestions? > > Obvious question, but have you bugzilla'd this? It sure looks like an > issue with the ACPI system considering the power manager is what's > shutting it down. You could try bootin

Re: New kernels won't boot

2016-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 11/10/2016 04:24 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: My trusty old IBM T30 laptop will no longer boot with the latest kernel-4.7.9-200.fc24.i686 kernel-4.8.4-200.fc24.i686 kernel-PAE-4.8.4-200.fc24.i686 It will still boot kernel-4.7.7-200.fc24.i686 I too am unable to boot the

data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Looking for some suggestions and thoughts. I am upgrading the OS on a system with older hardware that I have, it is currently running Fedora 16 and I'm looking to upgrade it to Fedora 23. The system has 4 SATA 1.0 interfaces, two are are in use for the two removable disks in the front of the

Re: filesystem error

2016-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> I have the following error reported in my logs, I've had it for quite > some time and through several reboots > > EXT4-fs (md2): error count: 1 > EXT4-fs (md2): initial error at 1452554514: ext4_lookup:1343: inode > 1308162 > EXT4-fs (md2): last error at 1452554514: ext4_lookup:1343: inode

filesystem error

2016-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have the following error reported in my logs, I've had it for quite some time and through several reboots EXT4-fs (md2): error count: 1 EXT4-fs (md2): initial error at 1452554514: ext4_lookup:1343: inode 1308162 EXT4-fs (md2): last error at 1452554514: ext4_lookup:1343: inode 1308162 md2

converting to btrfs

2016-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I had an raid1 partition with ext4 on it which was empty. it was /dev/md124 which was made up of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, I decided to change this to be a btrfs partition. Initially I figured I'd simply unmount /dev/md124 and simply do a "mkfs.btrfs -f -L home2 /dev/md124" and remount the

ssh jail?

2016-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm in the process of setting up an SSH jail, for the most part its working as expected with one exception, I want to provide access to /dev/ttyUSB0 through /dev/ttyUSB4 (not 2) via cu. When I attempt to use "cu -lttyUSB0 -s9600" I always get "line in use" even through it is not in use and from

Re: ssh jail?

2016-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On 01/25/2016 06:55 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> I'm in the process of setting up an SSH jail, for the most part its >> working as expected with one exception, I want to provide access to >> /dev/ttyUSB0 through /dev/ttyUSB4 (not 2) via cu. >> >> When I attem

Re: disk encryption

2016-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On 01/14/2016 06:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk >> encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a >> hindrance and would like to remove it. >> >> Am I correct that it m

Re: basic graphics mode/text?

2016-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:11:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> My problem is I want to disable or force a basic graphics mode upon >> boot-up, currently when the system boots is reaches a specific point >> and the display changes from 80x24 to some higher resolut

disk encryption

2016-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a hindrance and would like to remove it. Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install the system rather than try to remove the encryption or

Re: basic graphics mode/text?

2016-01-13 Thread Jeffrey Ross
>> >> >> You can add nomodeset to the kernel argument and that will give you what > you are looking for, let me know if that works > > Looks like it does exactly what I wanted, I added it to /etc/default/grub file in the line "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" and removed rhgb and quiet while I was at it

basic graphics mode/text?

2016-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I've just installed an Fedora 23 system which I purposely did not include X-windows as the machine will always be accessed remotely. My problem is I want to disable or force a basic graphics mode upon boot-up, currently when the system boots is reaches a specific point and the display changes

boot problem

2015-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm trying to get Fedora 23 to boot on a a system which will eventually have no monitor attached (will use a serial console). The system does have a graphics card in it (and was used for the initial install) the system now starts booting properly but fails almost immediately after re-sizing the

Firefox and Fedora 23

2015-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I think I'm running into this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439598 Whenever I restart firefox the language used for spelling reverts back to the previous value of English(Malawi) even though I change it to en-US. Also when restarting Firefox I get the message saying that I

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications > that are being used. > > Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two > things that are preventing me from successfully

Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications that are being used. Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <j...@bubble.org> wrote: > >> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora >> system >> and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications >> that are being

Gnome desktop issues

2013-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
How do I reset my desktop back to what was there on a fresh install, or am I better off creating a new home directory and simply moving my known files back? When I log in the screen flashes the icons (other accounts are fine) and the CPU goes to 100% with the tracker-extract process OS

performance issues - NFS (automount) and (almost) diskless client

2013-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Ross
This is my first stab at using the auto mount for NFS and its been a very long time since I've played with NFS. I have two systems running Fedora, the NFS server which is running Fedora 16, and the client which is running Fedora 19 (beta), both are X86_64 The server, it's running RAID-1 (for all

Fedora 16 to 17

2012-09-17 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm about to take the plunge and upgrade, I've upgraded systems in the past with varying degrees of initial success and eventually everything works out ok. My problem this time is I have 2 systems running F16 x86_64 the Systems are almost identical and I know they will cause me some grief so I'm

F16 - Install Wine - dependency problem?

2012-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I tried to install wine with a simple yum -y install wine and of course I got a whole list of dependencies that needed to be installed as well, however the installation failed with this dependency requirement: -- Processing Dependency: libsqlite3.so.0 for package:

Re: F16 - Install Wine - dependency problem?

2012-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 07/15/2012 11:37 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:13:37 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.7.7.1-1.fc16.i686 != sqlite-3.7.9-1.fc17.x86_64 Without knowing why you've got this fc17 package, try yum distro-sync before trying

F16 - Adding a second video card

2012-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have an older motherboard/processor (Intel DG965RY with a Pentium D) the system has an integrated video adapter (82G965) and I'd like to add a second video Card (PCI card ATI RAGE IIC) I'm not looking for fast video but would like to use 2 monitors. I put the ATI card in the machine and an

Re: F16 - Password requirements

2012-07-05 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 07/03/2012 01:36 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com mailto:ri...@alldigital.com wrote: On 07/03/2012 08:56 AM, Jeffrey Ross issued this missive:: How do I relax the password requirements in Fedora? I though

F16 - Password requirements

2012-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Ross
How do I relax the password requirements in Fedora? I though adjusting /etc/pam.d/system-auth was were the changed needed to be made, I made this change: #passwordrequisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 type= passwordsufficientpam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok

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

2012-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have a device, namely a Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station Console, attached to the second USB port on a laptop; the first port is used by a mouse. Occasionally the port on which the console is visible changes from /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB1. I haven't noticed any reason for this, in

Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I have a F16 system (which had been upgraded from F15) that is running RAID-1 for all volumes. I have notice that GRUB2 is only on /dev/sda but not on /dev/sdb [root@wisdom boot]# file - /dev/sda /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xfd, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 785137

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via /dev/sdb. yes, because /dev/sda does NOt have GRUB, /dev/sdb has Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda that doesn't have grub2 installed on it? you see GRand Unified Bootloader on

Re: degraded array at reboot

2012-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 02/23/2012 06:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Jeffrey Ross writes: system is running Fedora 16 with RAID 1 upon a reboot some but not all of the partitions come up as degraded and This appears to be a recurring bug, that's yet to be identified. This happens sometimes if you do not have

degraded array at reboot

2012-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
system is running Fedora 16 with RAID 1 upon a reboot some but not all of the partitions come up as degraded and its always the same partitions on the same disk (/dev/sda) /dev/md2, /dev/md6, and /dev/md7 (/usr, /boot, /home respectively, /, /var, and swap mount with no issue) config files are:

Grub? Grub2?

2012-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
This is a system that was upgraded from F15 to F16 via Yum, how can I do: 1) confirm which version of grub was used to boot the system 2) re-install the boot record (MBR?) for the version of grub I'm running onto a replacement drive? Thanks, Jeff -- users mailing list

Re: Grub? Grub2?

2012-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 02/23/2012 10:26 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: This is a system that was upgraded from F15 to F16 via Yum, how can I do: 1) confirm which version of grub was used to boot the system # file - /dev/sda The dash is important -- tells file(1) to read from stdin. Example: _[/root]_(root@atom

Re: Android-tools

2012-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:38:07 + Timothy Murphy wrote: I just want to transfer contacts from my PIM/AddressBook to my phone, and vice versa. But this appears to be impossible? If you can export contacts in VCARD format you can then import the VCARD file from the Contacts app on the

ifcfg-em1 ?

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I was in the process of working on a F16 system (upgraded from a F15 system) and had moved it to a new network temporarily and had adjusted the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 file from the console prior to shutting down the system so that it would be all set with the new address,

Re: ifcfg-em1 ?

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 01/08/2012 09:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/09/2012 10:41 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I was in the process of working on a F16 system (upgraded from a F15 system) and had moved it to a new network temporarily and had adjusted the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 file from the console

Boot disk?

2011-12-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Is there a way to identify which disk the BIOS is using to boot from (eg disk 0 or 1) when I don't have physical access to the system to view the BIOS settings? The situation is this, I have a machine at a remote location where the system runs RAID-1 and both disks (0 and 1) can boot the

RAID disk failure

2011-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ross
It finally happened I had a disk failure in my RAID-1 system, I got a message from SMART telling me that I had a drive failing and and checked the mdstat and sure enough /dev/sda was missing/failed. Ok, drive has been replaced and I did the following: 1) recreated the partition table with

Re: RAID disk failure

2011-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 12/18/2011 12:51 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Jeffrey Ross writes: It finally happened I had a disk failure in my RAID-1 system, I got a message from SMART telling me that I had a drive failing and and checked the mdstat and sure enough /dev/sda was missing/failed. Ok, drive has been

Re: saslauthd, - F16 - Broken?

2011-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 11/25/2011 01:59 PM, j...@bubble.org wrote: I just upgraded my system to F16 and SMTP authentication is no longer working. What I have been able to figure out so far is EXIM is passing the authentication request to saslauthd but saslauthd appears to simply sit on the request, running a

Re: How to choose network path with two internet connection

2011-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 06/02/2011 10:51 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote: Hello, Suppose I have a laptop that has both Wired and Wireless connection. The Wired connection would be connected to LAN only. The Wireless connection would have full internet access. Obviously the two connections will have two different

F15 Mediatomb

2011-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I had Mediatomb working under F13 14 with no issues, since upgrading to F15 I am unable to have Mediatomb be seen by the media players. My mediatomb.conf file is pretty simple - ## Network interface on which the server will run, you need to edit this! MT_INTERFACE=em1.2 ## User defined command

Download phonebook via Bluetooth?

2011-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm running Fedora 13 and I'm looking for a way to download my phone's phonebook over bluetooth. I know my car is capable of downloading the phonebook from the phone so I'm sure there's a way to do it. suggestions? Thanks,Jeff -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

exim and mailman (F14)

2010-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Ross
first I'm using the F14 pre-compiled packages of both Exim and mailman. according to what I can find mailman expects its scripts to be executed by the group mailman with the GID of 41. I have set the following in Exim which I thought would cover this requirement. /etc/group shows the GUI of

SElinux (again)

2010-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm running into a problem again with SElinux, I've put SElinux into permissive mode and its working again. Using exim for the mailer and pgsql for the domain/username etc I get a permission denied when exim attempts to access postgres, the actual error message is PGSQL connection failed:

Re: SElinux (again)

2010-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 12/04/2010 10:09 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I'm running into a problem again with SElinux, I've put SElinux into permissive mode and its working again. Using exim for the mailer and pgsql for the domain/username etc I get a permission denied when exim attempts to access postgres, the actual

Fedora 13 Exim MTA

2010-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Trying to get Exim running on an F13 system, everything is configured except I need to add one additional non standard port for EXIM to listen on (TCP port 554) due to some ISP filters in the way. Problem is when I add 554 to the list of ports for Exim it won't start up and I get the following in

Re: Fedora 13 Exim MTA

2010-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Trying to get Exim running on an F13 system, everything is configured except I need to add one additional non standard port for EXIM to listen on (TCP port 554) due to some ISP filters in the way. Problem is when I add 554 to the list of ports for Exim it won't start up and I get the