Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/20/2018 01:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/2/18 7:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the /boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I formatted an entire hard disk as

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/20/2018 01:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/2/18 7:33 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: EFI systems have a special partition that contains as many bootloaders as you want.  It solves the problem of who gets to control the MBR bootloader location. Are they the .efi files that are in

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/20/2018 03:41 AM, Tom H wrote: Ubuntu's using an MS sig. The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu is that the latter doesn't require that kernel modules be signed. If that's true, then I think they're in violation of the secure boot rules. And even if not, it makes secure boot

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

Allegedly, on or about 21 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: > Those packages are installed on my system even though, as far as I'm > aware I have never had efi active, and I have never used a > motherboard that had SecureBoot enabled. I did not explicitly install > those packages and my

Re: [Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On 02/21/18 11:14, Max Pyziur wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > [...] >> >> # Non-R packages: >> fonts-KOI8-R.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch > > Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? > > That might be like

[Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: [...] # Non-R packages: fonts-KOI8-R.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? perl-Tree-R.noarch There's an R SIG for Fedora, which looks like it's been

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

I have used R since 1997 (version 0.4) and Fedora since Fedora 1 (2003). Ubuntu which my wife used for 10-12 years (before she saw the light, as it were) can not even begin to match Fedora's support and user community. With regard to R: I prefer installing the packages using install.packages()

unable to bring up mediatek usb wifi dongle

Tried to bring up a mediateck usb wifi stick with a built-in antenna. $ dmesg | grep 'usb 1-1' [ 3632.100121] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd [ 3633.314114] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd [ 3633.446949] usb 1-1: New USB device found,

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On 20 February 2018 at 19:28, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than > Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). > > Is there a rationale for this? >

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

Max Pyziur wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: >>> I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. >>> >>> I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater >>> support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R >>> rpm packages). >>> >>> Is

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

On 02/20/2018 12:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Looking at dmesg again this morning, and searching for the work 'taints' I get the 2nd message listed above but not the first message (why?), and this search displays a message in the same format as the first message for my wifi driver which is

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

On 02/21/18 08:23, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 21 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: >> I been in the situation of compiling kernel modules in other linux >> distributions where you could put statements in your source to stop >> these messages, but I have forgotten what they were. > A

Re: [EXT] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Max Pyziur wrote: I count about 435 on Ubuntu. fyi, MP -- Out of over 6000 packages available from CRAN alone, 435 is nothing. I dont believe the number of packages available from a distribution's repository is reflective of the level of support. R makes it extremely easy

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

Allegedly, on or about 21 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: > I been in the situation of compiling kernel modules in other linux > distributions where you could put statements in your source to stop > these messages, but I have forgotten what they were. A install is tainted by having certain

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than > Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). > Is there a rationale for this? I'm not sure about

[389-users] Re: Replication Delay

On 02/20/2018 06:53 PM, William Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 23:36 +, Fong, Trevor wrote: >> Hi William, >> >> Thanks a lot for your reply. >> >> That's correct - replication schedule is not enabled. >> No - there are definitely changes to replicate - I know, I made the >> change

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? I don't use R

[389-users] Re: LDAPS certificates multimaster with haproxy

On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 16:00 +0100, Francesco Marchesi wrote: > Hi. > We are in the process of renewing the certificates of our two 389DS > servers which sync through multimaster replication. > We are currently using a self-signed certificate shared between the > two > servers. > Our topology is

[389-users] Re: Replication Delay

On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 23:36 +, Fong, Trevor wrote: > Hi William, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. > > That's correct - replication schedule is not enabled. > No - there are definitely changes to replicate - I know, I made the > change myself ( > I changed the "description" attribute on an

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora > (more R > deb packages than R rpm packages). > > Is there a rationale for this? I don't use R or Ubuntu.  But I wonder if

[389-users] Re: Replication Delay

Hi William, Thanks a lot for your reply. That's correct - replication schedule is not enabled. No - there are definitely changes to replicate - I know, I made the change myself ( I changed the "description" attribute on an account, but it takes up to 15 mins for the change to appear in the 1.3

R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

On 20Feb2018 11:46, robert p. j. day wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, David King wrote: On 02/20/2018 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > "Each user can create several user profiles for business or personal > use." > > i'm still reading but i've seen nothing yet that

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

On 02/21/18 04:59, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 20/2/18 8:54 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/20/18 04:41, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>     I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source >>> module >>> registered with dkms and it seems to be being compiled when I get a new >>>

Re: Speech-dispatcher

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Speech-dispatcher

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Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 20/2/18 7:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the /boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I formatted an entire hard disk as GPT and tried to install an older Fedora system

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 20/2/18 7:33 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/14/2018 01:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: It could be. As I understand it the default functionality updates the mbr on the specified device, and from what I've read in other threads, I thought they said that to get the grub menu displayed at boot you

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 20/2/18 7:43 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/19/2018 12:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I thought that with SB all your drivers etc had to be signed to be able to boot from a SecureBoot system, and as such Fedora were using Microsoft certificates, whereas Ubuntu was going down the path of self

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

On 20/2/18 8:54 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/20/18 04:41, Stephen Morris wrote:    I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source module registered with dkms and it seems to be being compiled when I get a new kernel, if that is the case what do I need to do to resolve

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

[snip] > "Each user can create several user profiles for business or personal > use." [snip] Seems to me that it simply means you can have more than one account on the system like multiple users. I, myself, have usually created an admin user and a day to day user for security reasons (two

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On 02/20/2018 12:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/20/18 15:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: In earlier email in this thread, you stated: Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a non-patched gcc. ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* cat

[389-users] Re: password administrator

On 02/20/2018 12:44 PM, Alberto Viana wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Can I set multiple groups in passwordAdminDN?  > > I know that I can set per policy (subtree or user), but  there is any > other way to specify more than one group globally? Not currently.  It is limited to a single static group. 

[389-users] password administrator

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Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > On 02/20/2018 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote: > > > >> You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also > >> you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that. > >> > >> I think

Upgrade from FC 24 to FC 27 broke support for DisplayPort 1.2 three port adapter

I had a working Fedora 24 box for almost 2 years that I decided to upgrade to FC 27. I have 3 monitors and used a 3 way adapter from StarTech to adapt the single display port from my Intel NUC to support my 3 displays. Again this worked fine for years. After the upgrade this setup stopped

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

On 02/20/2018 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote: > >> You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also >> you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that. >> >> I think a standard "profile" would be a great idea but it

[389-users] LDAPS certificates multimaster with haproxy

Hi. We are in the process of renewing the certificates of our two 389DS servers which sync through multimaster replication. We are currently using a self-signed certificate shared between the two servers. Our topology is like this: HAProxy : ldap.example.com for load balancing LDAP1 :

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote: > You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also > you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that. > > I think a standard "profile" would be a great idea but it would need > buy in from everyone. i would love to cut

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that. I think a standard "profile" would be a great idea but it would need buy in from everyone. Cheers! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: smartmontools still "monitoring" a replaced hard drive.

On 01/24/2018 10:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 01/24/2018 02:51 PM, William Mattison wrote: The "smartctl" command with a parameter of "sda3" gives me this: As has already been mentioned, smartctl works on the entire drive, not a partition.  I'm surprised it doesn't give an error in this

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: > > it all looks reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group > > administration chapter called "configure user profiles." > > Is it referring more to administrative controls placed on user

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: > it all looks reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group > administration chapter called "configure user profiles." Is it referring more to administrative controls placed on user accounts (quotas, permissions, etc)? It

is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

admittedly a weird question ... i have, on very short notice, been handed a linux course to teach for a new client, and it's typically taught in a centos 7 environment. perusing the manual, it all looks reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group administration chapter called

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I thought that with SB all your drivers etc had to be signed to be > able to boot from a SecureBoot system, and as such Fedora were using > Microsoft certificates, whereas Ubuntu was going down the path of self >

Re: Dual screen

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Re: Dual screen

Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > in my short lived experiment (my wife wanted the TV back) I found > that while my laptop and TV were both 1920x1080 the fonts on the > laptop were crisp and clear no matter how close I put my nose to the > screen. Not so the TV. Even

Re: Dual screen

> Subject: Re: Dual screen > > On 02/20/18 09:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > > If I can only find the mini-HDMI cable that would connect > > to my laptop.  I have never used a TV as a monitor so I don't know how well > > suited > > they are for this purpose. > > > I found my HDMI cable.  The TV is a

Re: Dual screen

On 02/20/18 16:26, Tim wrote: > I think the DPI issue is a bit of a red herring, in this instance. If > you take three different 1920 by 1080 sets, each with a different > screensize, they'll each have a different DPI. But they can each show > the display as good as each other, though you'd use

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/19/2018 12:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I thought that with SB all your drivers etc had to be signed to be able to boot from a SecureBoot system, and as such Fedora were using Microsoft certificates, whereas Ubuntu was going down the path of self signing. Given what you said around the

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

On 02/20/18 15:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > In earlier email in this thread, you stated: > > Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a > non-patched gcc. > > ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > > cat

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the /boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I formatted an entire hard disk as GPT and tried to install an older Fedora system on it and had the install fail with the

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

On 02/14/2018 01:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: It could be. As I understand it the default functionality updates the mbr on the specified device, and from what I've read in other threads, I thought they said that to get the grub menu displayed at boot you don't update the mbr on an efi system

Re: Dual screen

Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > I think you have HW which is never going to be satisfactory as a > monitor. Probably others with better understanding of display > technology have their opinion. You'd expect one 1920 by 1080 screen to show something just as well as