Re: change user id

On 18-03-05 21:30:17, Bill Shirley wrote: ... 5) run:   sudo find / -xdev -uid 1000 -exec chown bob {} \; ... I've done (something like) as root: chown --recursive --no-dereference --from=1000 bob /home/bob/ chown --recursive --no-dereference --from=:1000 :bob /home/bob/ --

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 03/06/2018 06:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > > and others with hardlinks. > > > >trivial example in

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

On 03/06/2018 06:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks and others with hardlinks. trivial example in /usr/bin on my fedora 27 system: -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root

IPv6 assistance

I am looking for some help getting IPv6 configured properly on a Fedora 27 system. I have one system which was installed fresh with Fedora 27, that system is working properly, it receives both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned by my router (running latest LEDE release). I have a second system which

Re: IPv6 assistance

Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has dhclient provided by dhclient-4.2.5-58.el7.centos.1 and Fedora 27 is using rhclient from

Re: IPv6 assistance

On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: > Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. > I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both > IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has dhclient > provided by

Re: IPv6 assistance

On 03/07/18 03:50, Chris Caudle wrote: > I am looking for some help getting IPv6 configured properly on a Fedora 27 > system. > I have one system which was installed fresh with Fedora 27, that system is > working properly, it receives both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned by my > router (running

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

On 6/3/18 11:24 am, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 07:44 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Have you considered implementing the other Microsoft way, which I'm not sure how to do as I'm not a network technician but which a number of organizations tend to do, and that is when the client does a

Re: video card questions

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:18:32 +0100 François Patte wrote: > The video card is a Radeon HD 8790M. s that a new or an old card? Wikipedia says the card is from 2013. And AMD: The card doesn't have switchable graphics:

Re: IPv6 assistance

On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: > Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. > I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both > IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has dhclient > provided by

Re: IPv6 assistance

On 03/07/18 11:16, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/07/18 07:04, Chris Caudle wrote: >> Could be the case that AUTOCONF and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive now. >> I have a CentOS 7.4 machine which seems to be running correctly with both >> IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes and DHCPV6C=yes, but that distribution has

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > and others with hardlinks. > > trivial example in /usr/bin on my fedora 27 system: > > -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root52984 Aug 2

Re: No internet on resume

Hi Ben did you check to see whether there is a network restarter shell script in /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/? something like: /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suomi On 03/05/2018 05:16 PM, Ben Flood wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with Fedora 27 KDE, when I suspend and

Re: IPv6 assistance

On 03/07/18 11:23, Ed Greshko wrote: > And this is running > > /sbin/dhclient -d -q -6 Ah, Hah! After a time that process exited.  And this did show up in the journal. Mar 07 11:20:37 f27gq.greshko.com NetworkManager[740]:   [1520392837.1581] dhcp6 (enp0s3): state changed unknown ->

Thunderbird issue (OT).

Good morning, When I try to sign in to a (verizon) yahoo e-mail account via Thunderbird, it takes several seconds to get a response, then I often get this error message: -- Thunderbird The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account [my e-mail account]

Re: change user id

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:42:33AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/05/2018 08:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Actually, it may well be a security feature. Note that all systems used to be expected to have a root, an account name that is easy to guess with 100% accuracy. Not having root removes the

Re: change user id

On 03/05/2018 06:30 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: > I've done this many times but always from root. I've not tried it for this sort of thing, but "sudo bash -l" SHOULD make a non-root user behave as root (including root's environment). > With no root account, I would: > 1) create a 2nd user 'test',

Re: is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: > > > > PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." > > > > not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's safe to > > say, it's not there now and probably

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 20:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > > and others with hardlinks. > > I may be out of line here.  It is just

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

On 03/06/18 22:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so there's probably more admittedly trivial questions coming, but > only because i'm being forced to look more closely at things than i > have in a long time. OK.  Then I feel compelled to ask the following in the spirit of full-disclosure. In

should /etc/issue.net be installed without telnet-server?

(another of those "dang, i never noticed that before" questions inspired by teaching last week.) currently, my fedora 27 system has the file /etc/issue.net, which i casually explained last week was what was printed when you tried to connect to the system over the network (as opposed to

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

On 03/06/18 20:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > and others with hardlinks. I may be out of line here.  It is just that I too am curious. A short while back you asked

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 02:30 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > But perhaps it is a good idea to put all user-relevant information in > that very first welcome message from this list after subscribing to it: Naturally that info should be there, but don't count on people actually reading it. I

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

On 03/05/2018 08:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/06/18 07:12, Temlakos wrote: On 03/05/2018 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/05/18 23:24, Temlakos wrote: [Temlakos@temlakos Other]$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/mqbcEw7AkU8 [youtube] mqbcEw7AkU8: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 01:45 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:05:05 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 21:39 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500 > > > Matthew Miller

Re: video card questions

Le 05/03/2018 à 21:19, John O'Dwyer a écrit : > Hi François > > Please see the following links that might be useful: > https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Prime > https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_installation_des_pilotes_libres > > In relation to a proprietary

Re: change user id

On 03/05/2018 08:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Actually, it may well be a security feature. Note that all systems used to be expected to have a root, an account name that is easy to guess with 100% accuracy. Not having root removes the surest account on any system. There's nothing stopping you

Re: video card questions

Le 06/03/2018 à 01:54, Doug a écrit : > > On 03/05/2018 03:17 AM, François Patte wrote: >> Bonjour, >> >> 1- When there are two video cards on a computer, an integrated one and >> another one, how can we know which video card is used by the system? > I don't know of a laptop on which you could

Re: change user id

On 03/05/2018 08:05 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: You can always give root a password if this disturbs you, but it immediately closes off the whole "I log in as root all the time" issue that plagues naive users on home systems, and also closes off the whole "ssh in as root on a shiny new system

RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks and others with hardlinks. trivial example in /usr/bin on my fedora 27 system: -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root52984 Aug 2 2017 at lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root

Re: is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

On 03/06/18 18:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/06/18 04:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: >>> >>> PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." >>> >>> not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's

[389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server 1.3.6.14

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