Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-20 Thread Robin Laing
As are many things... Time is the only truly non-renewable resource. --Russell Which we seem never to have enough of. :) Cheers. Happy chocolate day. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 13:49, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the prompt would produce this message: digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit which IIUC means

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:11:24 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. good point, thanks. This, in fact, is a side question that I forgot to ask in my original email: what are the criteria or rule of thumb to calculate which

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 14:09, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:11:24 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. good point, thanks. This, in fact, is a side question that I forgot to ask in my original email: what are the criteria or

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:40:07 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: One silly question. What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the mailing lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated this is happening on an F17 box. It **is** scheduled to be moved

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-20 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/18/2014 12:56 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tucker wrote: That's helpful, thanks. There appear to be a number of services that depend on the tmpfiles.d conf files. I don't want to break things like kmod, I just want this thing that's doing Bad Things to

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:40:07 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: One silly question. What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the mailing lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated this is happening on an F17

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:24:08 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: FWIW, everything I've seen indicates this value is not calculated but configured when the kernel is compiled. I just happen to have an old F17 disk and created a VM. As expected, it is set to

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 16:28, M. Fioretti wrote: ok that's why then. So the only thing I need, if anything, is further confirmation that increasing it on F17 would not cause problems. I'll wait until tomorrow for further comments and then risk the increase :-) FWIW, I just made the change in

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 20 April 2014 10:28, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:24:08 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: FWIW, everything I've seen indicates this value is not calculated but configured when the kernel is compiled. I just happen to

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is installed by nepomuk-core, so ideally you'd get that

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 21:38, Ahmad Samir wrote: /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf is included in the initramfs by dracut when a kernel is installed/updated. Check `lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep sysctl`. So in effect you'd have to re-create the initramfs after

grub2-install ??

2014-04-20 Thread Jim
fedora 20 I installed Fedora 20 on /dev/sdb1 and after installation was completed it didn't select /dev/sdb1 and bootup . I have Windows on sda1 so i put a sdb in computer for Linux. Is the command, grub2-install /dev/sdb1 the correct command for booting Fedora 20 on sdb1 ? -- users

[OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Dan Thurman
for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS and are bypassing/ignoring access database? I poured over the Internet but have yet to figure it out... How can I prevent spammers from using my sendmail server as an open relay even though open-relay is closed? Note STARTTLS=client and

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dan Thurman writes: for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS and are bypassing/ignoring access database? I poured over the Internet but have yet to figure it out... The most common way is by hacking the client's PC, and authenticating to the mail server using the stolen loginid

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Dan Thurman
On 04/20/2014 01:38 PM, jdow wrote: Heartbleed... Anybody running an OpenSSL server has compromised passwords for anybody using the system at least from when the vulnerability was revealed until it was repaired should consider every password on the system is compromised. They should ALL be

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/21/14 00:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I booted into runlevel 3 and saw system being flooded with nouveau errors. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/qET8Zxrl.jpg nouveau W[ PFIFO][1000 and more numbers. I can boot fine with any kernel with nomodeset. I can boot fine with any kernel

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/21/14 06:24, Ed Greshko wrote: Of course you always have the option of switching to the nVidia drivers from rpmfusion. I'm sure that you've thought of that already To continue the thought before my cat hit send. alreadyI was forced to move to nVidia when noveau produced nothing

Re: [OT] Sendmail: Open relay was tested as closed but...

2014-04-20 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 20.04.2014 21:23, schrieb Dan Thurman: for some reason, spammers are getting through TLS and are bypassing/ignoring access database? I poured over the Internet but have yet to figure it out... TLS is no protection against a misused of your MTA. How can I prevent spammers from using my

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-20 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Apr 21, 2014 3:54 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 04/21/14 00:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I booted into runlevel 3 and saw system being flooded with nouveau errors. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/qET8Zxrl.jpg nouveau W[ PFIFO][1000 and more numbers. I can

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Apr 20, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/18/2014 12:56 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tucker wrote: That's helpful, thanks. There appear to be a number of services that depend on the tmpfiles.d conf files. I don't want to break

Re: how to report a nouveau bug?

2014-04-20 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov akost...@redhat.com wrote: Hello, I want to report a freeze with latest fedora 3.13 kernel just on login screen. The issue is not present on the initial kernel coming with fedora 20 life CD. The problem is that when I boot I can't