Re: Program won't start

On 04/13/2018 10:09 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A very good question. This drive, a Seagate USB Backup Plus Portable Drive, doesn't seem to support SMART: Here's a try: That's probably your problem. There's a USB to SATA converter inside that is not passing the SMART commands to the drive.

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

On 04/12/2018 04:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: And again, if you don't allow your browser or mail client to install software (which is a spectacularly bad idea in the first place) and you're careful about which links you click and which packages you download and install, it's sort of a moot point.

Re: Program won't start

On 04/14/18 13:09, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 05:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 04/12/18 21:05, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >>> Seagate's SeaTools for Linux won't start on my system. The file is rather >>> old and >>> in a funky format, but it looks like it ought to run.

Re: foxit reader

Hi, Foxit Reader doesn't provide rpm package since 2.x. There are rpm packages for 1.x version. And, Foxit Reader is proprietary software, so it cannot be included at fedora repo, and rpmfusion free repo. So, I think best choice is to use tgz package. btw, I have sent a email to ask permission

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

Hi. On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:03:34 - Grant Edwards wrote: > First create a file named /etc/dracut.conf.d/foo containing the line > omit_drivers+="foo". Then either Beware, this file should have .conf as suffix. > 1. Rebuild the initramfs with the 'dracut' command. I haven't tested >

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

On 2018-04-14, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:03:34 - Grant Edwards wrote: > >> First create a file named /etc/dracut.conf.d/foo containing the line >> omit_drivers+="foo". Then either > > Bexware, this file should have .conf as suffix.

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:07:28 - Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-14, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >> Thus, for the running kernel: >> /bin/kernel-install add $(uname -r) /lib/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz > Thanks! That looks like a good option. I may prompt the

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:20:28 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/12/2018 04:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > And again, if you don't allow your browser or mail client to install > > software (which is a spectacularly bad idea in the first place) and > > you're careful about which

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

You can also use lsinitrd to show the current files in any initramfs and/or cat out the contents of single files you see in the initramfs. On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 10:43 AM, wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:07:28 - Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-04-14,

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/2018 01:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: By default F27 uses NFSv4. The access is far more restrictive. I tend to think it is less so, since it uses fewer ports, which are predictable.  That wasn't the case with v3 and older, which tended to require much more permissive firewall policies.

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/18 15:34, Bob Goodwin wrote: I am attempting to set up an NFS server on a new Fedora 27 computer I have assembled using instructions I found, "Fedora Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS" and I am having a problem accessing it. $ cat /etc/exports /var/ftp/pub  192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro)

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/2018 12:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I am attempting to set up an NFS server on a new Fedora 27 computer I have assembled using instructions I found, "Fedora Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS" and I am having a problem accessing it. Sadly, that document is both incomplete and badly out of

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/2018 04:38 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: Have you tried showmounts -e 192.168.1.x to see if the nfs server is exporting the directories. Note that showmounts uses the portmapper.  It may only work if your system supports the use of NFSv3.  If you're using only NFSv4, and don't have the

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/2018 07:26 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: Don't forget to restart the nfs server whenever you do changes on the /etc/exports. You don't need to restart anything, just run "exportfs -r" to rebuild the binary export file. ___ users mailing list --

Re: NFS server setup -

On 04/13/2018 04:38 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: This was probably already suggested, but: -- on the server side, run "sudo netstat -antp | grep 111" to see if the nfs server is there & listening. -- on the client side, try the classic "telnet 111" to see if you can at least connect. Port 111

Re: foxit reader

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 9:58 AM, ToddAndMargo > wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of an RPM out there for Foxit Reader? https://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ -T On 04/14/2018