Re: "plumbing" problem during weekly update. [SOLVED]

2018-06-07 Thread Rick Stevens
Russell notes that the "plumbing" problem still occurs. > This bug is "CLOSED RAWHIDE", but another bug was needed (1535458), and > it's still in state "NEW". > > Thank-you everyone for the help. -

Re: "plumbing" problem during weekly update. [SOLVED]

2018-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
000 ships, then 2) 1 "millihelen" can launch 1 ship Ok, obscure history (or myth) lesson coupled with math. Weird combo. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital

Re: Troubles with rsync

2018-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
;d help if you'd post the rsync error messages you're getting. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype:

Re: rpmbuild --define - some rpm sorcerer around?

2018-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
name and its definition must be separated by a space. Because they must be separated by a space, the whole bit after the "=" must be quoted somehow so the shell doesn't consume them as two separate items. -- - Ri

Re: Did cron files move?

2018-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
/etc/crontab file, in the /etc/cron.d directory or in /var/spool/cron and named after the user who owns them. Remember that the format of the commands in /etc/crontab or in the /etc/cron.d directory are different than those in /var/spool/cron. ---

Re: Did cron files move?

2018-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/11/2018 11:53 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 06/11/2018 11:38 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 06/11/2018 11:17 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Since upgrading a server to 28 from 27, I can not find >>> my root's cron file.  Mind yo

Re: Getting rpm update history with wildcarding

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
64 > pulseaudio-module-x11-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64 > pulseaudio-libs-glib2-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64 > pulseaudio-utils-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64 > xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.1-1.fc28.x86_64 > pulseaudio-libs-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64 > pulseaudio-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64 > alsa-p

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
/proc/* /sys/* /dev/* /media/** /mnt/** /var/log/journal/* So I don't back up things that are transient or things already backed up. Just a suggestion. --

Re: cups-service able / enable

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
$ sudo systemctl enable cups.service ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/14/2018 01:37 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 06/14/18 12:45, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Mount the second drive somewhere on the server and you can do an >> rsync locally to back up files. It appears your /dev/sda thing is >> an LVM drive with one volume group ("fedora&

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-15 Thread Rick Stevens
/test/backups The first one utilizes rsync's include pattern matching rules. The argument to "--include=" is in quotes so the shell doesn't expand the "*"s in it. Also note that the trailing "/" on the destination as you had it

Re: Package Manager Messages Centos 6.9

2018-06-18 Thread Rick Stevens
at section and repeating the yum operation, or by doing the yum operation and including the --disablerepo=beid-release flag. However, it'd be better if you aimed this sort of question at the CentOS mailing lists. -----

Re: should I reboot after mesa upgrade?

2018-06-20 Thread Rick Stevens
sent the greeter. I could be wrong there. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo:

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-21 Thread Rick Stevens
;s hard to predict what it'd be. Stuff like Java and memcached are candidates, as would a big tempfs RAMdisk (e.g. /tmp). By default, Fedora uses 50% of your RAM for /tmp (an absolutely idiotic idea, IMHO, which is why I turn that off and use a normal filesystem directory for /tmp).

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-21 Thread Rick Stevens
; Swap:  62499836   0    62499836 > > For some reason the kernel marks it as reserved. > > On 06/21/2018 07:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Try installing htop ("$ sudo dnf install htop"), run it, press F6 and >> select which memory item you want to sort

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/21/2018 03:24 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote: > On 06/22/2018 12:00 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 06/21/2018 11:13 AM, Susi Lehtola wrote: >>> Update: I upgraded from Fedora 27 to Fedora 28, and the same issue >>> persists. Of course, the kernel is almost the same. >&g

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-06-22 Thread Rick Stevens
pam_kwallet*.so. Since you're using lxdm you should be fine, but I just wanted to put that warning out there. The bugzilla I opened on it hasn't been resolved yet to my knowledge. ---

Re: video display problem -

2018-06-25 Thread Rick Stevens
don't have F27 here, but VLC 3.0.3 on F28 seems to work a treat. > I suspect Apple has changed something. Am I the only one seeing this > problem? Is there a fix for it? Have you tried clips you've viewed before to isolate it? -----

Re: Live ISO image creation

2018-06-26 Thread Rick Stevens
Creating and using live CD' And specifically the section on "persistent overlays". -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Rick Stevens
t stage boot block. Check BIOS settings. >>> >>> I get a single bit of disk activity when I try to boot off the >>> external drive, so it is at least *trying* to find the 1st stage boot >>> block. While I am obviously not 100% certain, my thinking is

Re: Feature request: line break eliminater

2018-06-27 Thread Rick Stevens
icates things. I'm not saying it's impossible, but pretty danged complex to try to sort out what the _expected_ behavior is supposed to be. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer,

Re: centos7 -- webapp setup

2018-06-27 Thread Rick Stevens
ls, libraries, Python version and the like, but still I'll bet most of them are addressed. If you use Fedora, I can guarantee you WILL get bitten by bugs, lose blood and suffer data corruptions at some point. Having been a developer under Fedora since it's FC8 days (Fedora Core 8), I ha

Re: centos7 -- webapp setup

2018-06-27 Thread Rick Stevens
;t try to use privileged operations they shouldn't (e.g. executing code off the stack, etc.), you shouldn't have any issues. This includes all the underlying bits (PHP shouldn't write to the wrong directories, etc.). --

Re: VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
ing other than an F26 kernel. That's the first thing to sort out. > Some will say I oughtn't to run Fedora at all, but at this point > my accumulated ignorance has reached a level where any other distro would > tie me up in even more knots. Let's get this sorted out.

Re: VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2018 10:01 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/28/2018 09:34 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference >> between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? > > It is confusing. The ea

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
t corner of the right monitor. Both > xeyes follow the cursor no matter which monitor it's on. You can launch as > few or many xeyes as you want, and put them where ever you want. Type the > command "xeyes ?" for more information on command line parameters and opt

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
nf reinstall mate-applets" to see if that changes things. Ah, yes, you're quite correct. Xeyes are generic and end up on the root window. Both Xfce and MATE have their own plugins that dock to the menu bars. Xfce's is in the xfce4-eyes-plugin RPM.

Re: Can't perform update when double nat'ing

2018-07-03 Thread Rick Stevens
work, but it apparently does not. A) Are you using a proxy? If so, have you added the appropriate config lines to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf (proxy IP, username, password)? B) Have you tried "dnf clean all" before trying the upgrade? You may have some bad cached data. -

Re: Can't perform update when double nat'ing [SOLVED}

2018-07-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/03/2018 07:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:07 PM Richard Shaw <mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:58 PM Rick Stevens <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: > > On 07/03/2018 11:44 AM,

Re: Can't perform update when double nat'ing [SOLVED}

2018-07-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/05/2018 10:59 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:35 AM Rick Stevens <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: > > On 07/03/2018 07:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Just to confirm, I did have the laptop setup to use the squid proxy on >

Re: Can't perform update when double nat'ing [SOLVED}

2018-07-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/05/2018 12:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/05/2018 11:46 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> that doesn't have the proxy lines and use: >> >> dnf -c /etc/dnf/dnf-noproxy.conf [options] >> >> to use it outside your network. > > If you're going t

Re: Quick (I hope!) dnf question.

2018-07-09 Thread Rick Stevens
ing in quotes so the shell doesn't expand the wildcards first (this is something many people using ANY command forget--if you want to pass the wildcards to the command itself, quote them to keep the shell from expanding them!) You should also note that wildcard searches (as the third one

Re: How to read pdf's with animations

2018-07-10 Thread Rick Stevens
nduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HUNDZSCDS3L7DEPRTEDJBVXQ22DFCU36/ > -- -- -

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-11 Thread Rick Stevens
arg.h Checking an old F26 VM I have, the equivalent file is: /usr/include/c++/7/tr1/stdarg.h I believe the C compiler will find it if it's installed. Even if it does appear to be installed, a &quo

Re: F27 to F28 Upgrade Fails at Offline Install Time

2018-07-12 Thread Rick Stevens
ot welds to it. Steve, have you found out whether that RPM had been installed or not, and if so, reinstalled it? For reference, it's "libstdc++-devel". -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437

Re: Quick (I hope!) dnf question. [CLOSED]

2018-07-13 Thread Rick Stevens
. The result is > sorted from >   the most relevant results to the least. > > It, as you've already pointed out, doesn't look for filenames contained > within the rpm. Correct. That's what "provides" is for...searching the list of files provided

Re: https traffic monitoring from client

2018-07-13 Thread Rick Stevens
ow on the browser machine as root: tcpdump -i any -vvv -w host Once you've captured all the traffic, copy to a machine with a GUI and use wireshark-gtk to analyze the file: wireshark-gtk -r Pretty standard fare. ------

Re: file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Rick Stevens
hould learn to make use of it. Most of the policies that come with the system are pretty good, but there are restrictions on things such as document roots for web servers (they have to be in the "appropriate" spots according to the policy). SELinux has caused us some grief with leg

Re: Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread Rick Stevens
t daunting to me, but it's not something I'd necessarily relish revisiting. YMMV. Offer void where prohibited. Batteries not included. All of the standard disclaimers. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engine

Re: dnf wierdness

2018-07-18 Thread Rick Stevens
PM). Thus it can't update as it's already there. Had you used "reinstall", that might work. If you're trying to get the 4.17.7-200 kernel, that's in koji, not updates-testing. -- - Rick Stevens

Re: EFI

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Stevens
al purposes. I wish to keep this stuff separate as much as possible. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226

Re: EFI

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Stevens
really well in the motherboard's GUI, but it MUST be there somewhere. > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:35 AM Rick Stevens <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: > > On 07/18/2018 05:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 07/18/2018 02:53 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >

Re: suspends shutdowns system instead of suspending

2018-07-20 Thread Rick Stevens
yet. Most people with this issue continue to run 4.17.3-200 or take the plunge and grab the .7-200 from koji. I'm still running 4.17.3-200 myself. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital

Re: suspends shutdowns system instead of suspending

2018-07-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/20/2018 10:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:34 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Theoretically 4.17.7-200 fixes them, but it's still in koji and hasn't >> been pushed to updates yet. > > I got it from updates-testing this mo

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-20 Thread Rick Stevens
kernel-modules and whatnot. I've never relied on this bit of dnf magic, but it's supposed to work. I just tested it on a VM by "protecting" an old kernel and it seemed to work (that kernel w

Re: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

2018-07-23 Thread Rick Stevens
fs. Question, do you have the VirtualBox-kmodsrc RPM installed? I believe that's necessary so kmod can rebuild the modules when the kernel is updated. I don't use VirtualBox myself, so I can't speak to it. ------ - Rick Steve

Re: Can't change sddm login screen

2018-07-25 Thread Rick Stevens
reappeared. > > What's (not) happening? Maybe a missing configuration directory? > No easy to find error messages. My guess is that you need to restart sddm. I believe it only looks at that stuff on startup. Most DMs don't restart upon login or logout, they keep running. -----

Re: Not - Re: Fixed? - Re: F28 suspend to RAM seems to be broken

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Stevens
etion. You need to specify all of those as the kernel RPM itself is a meta RPM that pulls in the -core, -modules and -modules-extra RPMs. Actually, it'd be a good thing to do an # rpm -qa | grep 4\.

Re: Not - Re: Fixed? - Re: F28 suspend to RAM seems to be broken

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/26/2018 10:41 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/26/2018 05:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> >> On 07/26/2018 06:54 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote: >>> On 07/25/2018 09:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/25/2018 07:59 PM, Tony Nels

Re: System hung over night

2018-07-26 Thread Rick Stevens
hat seems definitive is that it behaves "differenly" than 4.17.3-200 and earlier kernels, whatever "differently" means. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com

Re: Anyone have a favorite archive manager?

2018-07-30 Thread Rick Stevens
(via cron or "at") makes it fairly painless. This is just my preference. Do what you will. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-30 Thread Rick Stevens
Check journalctl for entries that read something like: NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE The "status=1/FAILURE" indicates that NM was running, but the network wasn't actually up yet so it couldn't do the mount. Using a fixed IP/netmask/gateway on t

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-30 Thread Rick Stevens
e old method of automounting, but it's different than how it used to work and the way systemd and NetworkManager are structured, it's hard to get the behavior I (for one) expect and it's harder to troubleshoot (a lot more moving parts working behind the scenes). -

Re: F27->F28 no new kernel

2018-07-31 Thread Rick Stevens
el. You could force an F27 PAE kernel on the machine that didn't upgrade, but from now on you won't see PAE kernels in the repos. You'll need to build them yourself from the source RPMs. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-31 Thread Rick Stevens
a fixed IP/netmask/gateway combination. While I haven't done any exhaustive testing (I do have a real job), I believe this issue is caused by using DHCP to get an IP for the client and the DHCP server doesn't respond quickly enough to give that out before the test in NetworkManager-w

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-31 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/31/2018 10:23 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > Hi > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:35:27 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > >> If you don't have the automount stuff, I think the most reliable thing >> is to give your client a fixed IP/netmask/gateway combi

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-31 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/31/2018 10:06 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 07/31/18 12:35, Rick Stevens wrote: >> If it's an automount with a "comment=systemd.automount" or >> "x-systemd.automount" in the options of the fstab entry: >> >> server:/export    /mnt/nf

Re: NFS not mounted at boot -

2018-07-31 Thread Rick Stevens
/home/exports 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) Which would be the export line on the NFS server. --

Re: F27->F28 no new kernel

2018-08-01 Thread Rick Stevens
es end-of-life when F29 is released) or download the F28 kernel source RPMs and build your own PAE kernel. It's not hard to do if you've every built a kernel before (it's just one flag in the configuration). Perhaps you can convince the RPM Fusion people to build PAE kernels and place

Re: F27->F28 no new kernel

2018-08-01 Thread Rick Stevens
know why he keeps skipping over that little nugget. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -- -Pol

Re: Building the kernel

2018-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
em, you can recover in case you get it wrong. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: strange icon in menu

2018-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
the Fedora theme. I think that's how I fixed it. However, I suffered a major power glitch around when I was doing that and ended up having to blow my .config directory away and restoring it from a backup. That may have been the fix. Not sure. ----

Re: NFS mount from VM -

2018-08-13 Thread Rick Stevens
robably on the 192.168.122.0/24 network (that's the default virbr0 network set up by libvirt--check via "ip addr show" on the VM) and your export is only to the 192.168.1.0/24 network so NFS mount requests from 192.168.122.0/24 are rejected by the server. -------

Re: NFS mount from VM -

2018-08-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/13/2018 11:26 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 08/13/18 13:53, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 08/13/2018 10:08 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> I have an Fedora 28 computer with Fedora 27 running in virtual manager. >>> My NFS server refuses its connection although the Fedora28 c

Re: NFS mount from VM -

2018-08-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/13/2018 04:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/13/2018 02:54 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 08/13/18 14:00, Tom Horsley wrote: >>>> Can anyone suggest what I might have wrong? >>> Is the VM using NAT networking or a bridge? If it is NAT, the VM probably >>

Re: NFS mount from VM -

2018-08-13 Thread Rick Stevens
n and check the IP address via "ip addr show" and verify it's on 192.168.1.0/24 with an IP handed out by your router. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo

Re: Device defaults -

2018-08-21 Thread Rick Stevens
or ALL of the IPs on the machine. You can see which IPs the server is listening on by using: netstat -lpnt OR ss -lpnt and looking at the local address parts of the display. If the local address is "0.0.0.0:", then it's listening on all IPs on

Re: Device defaults -

2018-08-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/21/2018 04:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 08/21/2018 04:02 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Can you ping anything on the 192.168.11/0 network? I don't think you >> have a route for the 192.168.11.0/24 network. While you added an alias >> to your NIC (enp2s0:0) and an

Re: Device defaults -

2018-08-22 Thread Rick Stevens
http://192.168.11.1:80 (the ":80" is assumed if not included for "http://"; URLs). Web sites use port 80 by default. For sites that use SSL (as in "https://192.168.11.1";) the default port is 443 and these two URLs are equivalent: https://192.168.11.1 h

Re: I need iptables ftp nat help

2018-08-22 Thread Rick Stevens
e included in the kernel RPM. If you must know, they're located in: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/netfilter -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllD

Re: Device defaults -

2018-08-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/22/2018 04:06 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 08/22/18 18:35, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Of course it is. Port 0 is restricted. What you should FIRST do is: >> >> ping 192.168.11.1 >> >> to see if you can hit the Buffalo device. If you can, then try to bro

Re: I need iptables ftp nat help

2018-08-23 Thread Rick Stevens
erade_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_nat,nf_nat_ftp,ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_nat_ipv4,xt_helper,nf_conntrack_ftp > > > > But it is not following the high ports that ftp uses: > > Aug 22 16:12:09 rn6 kernel: dsl-out Everything Else IN= OUT=eno2 > SRC=192.168.xxx.yyy DST=208.106.xxx.yyy

Re: I need iptables ftp nat help

2018-08-24 Thread Rick Stevens
irewalld As I mentioned before, the firewall on F28 is more restrictive _of_incoming_connections_ than RHEL 5/6 was. This should only affect you if you are trying to run an FTP _server_ on your machine. FTP client connections (those initiated on your machine) should not be restricted (that's t

Re: convert to EUFI boot?

2018-09-04 Thread Rick Stevens
  is set up to boot off the old BIOS into a dual >>>> BIOS and EUFI boot drive? >>>> >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> -T >>> >>> I am wondering now if I set the drive up as EUFI, >>> if I could modify it t

Re: GUI setup for quasi real time process ?

2018-09-04 Thread Rick Stevens
a tricky thing-- especially real time stuff. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -- - Con

Re: vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-05 Thread Rick Stevens
if you want. The free version of TeamViewer works fairly well, although mouse-based cut and paste from local windows into the TeamViewer client are problematic. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2I

Re: Setting up an HTTP server on a KVM/QEMU guest

2018-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
> A gentle hint would be welcome. Uhm, HTTP is port 80, not port 8080. You'd need to permit TCP/8080 in firewall-cmd: firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8080/tcp -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDi

Re: Setting up an HTTP server on a KVM/QEMU guest

2018-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
available from the outside world, then yeah, you need a full-up bridge and not a NAT. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype:

Re: vncserver with Xfce?

2018-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/05/2018 04:58 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/05/2018 01:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> On 09/05/2018 01:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> Anyone have vncserver working on Fedora with Xfce? >>> >>> Granted I am trying it on F29-arm-beta, but I followed

Re: Setting up an HTTP server on a KVM/QEMU guest

2018-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/06/2018 03:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 09/06/2018 10:22 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:17:21 +0100 >>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> >>>> A gen

Re: Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
rites due to cache flushes, filesystem updates and the like. I'd also try to put the target drive on a USB 2 or USB 3 port if possible as their write speeds would be higher than if they're on a USB 1.1 port.

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
ply the USB ports not keeping up. It'd be interesting for him to install gkrellm and monitor both of the drives involved to see which one is stalling. I'm willing to bet it's the target (write) drive (the source drive will stop doing I/O while the target drive has I/O out the yingyang). But I've been wrong bef

Re: apropos?

2018-09-14 Thread Rick Stevens
iodically update the database via crony. Or continue to do it manually. Your choice. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: apropos?

2018-09-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/14/18 2:30 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: >> There is a one-shot systemd service that updates the man page database >> on boot (man-db-cache-update.service) which should already be installed. >> >> You can "dnf install man-db-cron"

Re: Changing the LABEL of an iso9660 file system

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
is born out by you creating a filesystem partition via fdisk and being able to label that partition. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -

Re: Changing the LABEL of an iso9660 file system

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/19/18 9:27 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 9/19/18 5:31 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> Hello, >> I have a USB stick on which I had in the past an Ubunutu installatilon. >> When I run "e2label /dev/sdb" I get: >> >> e2label /dev/sdb >> e2label: Bad

Re: Forcing updates install on shutdown

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
do NOT get upgraded. You might disagree with much he did, but as Reagan said, "Trust, but verify!" ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - -

Re: Changing the LABEL of an iso9660 file system

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
;BackUps", showing that they are, indeed, separate entities. Please excuse my being so bombastic here. Just trying to be thorough. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: orig

Re: Forcing updates install on shutdown

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
since. It has been awhile > since I messed with this but I think you need to research > manipulation of the rc.local directory files.  Hope it helps, just a > pointer for you to look into. > > regards, > -- Fred > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:

Re: Forcing updates install on shutdown

2018-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
in the least. Do what you wish, just be bloody careful about it. That's all I'm saying. ------ - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
B Receiver id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ TigerVNC keyboard id=16 [slave keyboard (3)] Under the "Virtual core pointer" section, I see the USB receiver for the mouse as device 11. Once you find the device, try "xinput

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 1:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 9/20/18 1:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 9/20/18 9:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> On 9/20/18 12:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>>> On 9/20/18 8:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>>

Re: Problems with Xfce over vnc

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
ntain "pam_kwallet.so" or "pam_kwallet5.so" by prefixing them with a "#" (there should be four of them, two for auth and two for session). If you're using SDDM as your session manager, this doesn't apply. ---

Re: simple grep issue

2018-09-24 Thread Rick Stevens
, but none that are followed by spaces and a zero. So, no, grep isn't going to find anything that matches. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 -

Re: fedora cloud AWS randomly shutdown

2018-09-25 Thread Rick Stevens
ensive depending on how big it is, but it may be necessary to sort this out. Once figured out, you can get rid of the EBS storage to minimize costs. This may be a Fedora Cloud issue. It may be something you're doing in an application. It may be AWS protecting itself. Hard to tell.

Re: fedora cloud AWS randomly shutdown

2018-09-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/26/18 5:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 9/25/18 12:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>> I'm using f28 cloud on AWS as a compute farm. It seems that instances >>> randomly shutdown within hours of starting. An example log: >&

Re: test package

2018-09-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/24/18 11:49 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > How to install a testing update package? Enable the testing repo and install the package: # dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing Pretty simple. -- - Ric

Re: Can't get to https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/managerforlustre/manager-for-lustre/epel-7-x86_64/

2018-09-27 Thread Rick Stevens
fedoraproject.org to bypass your faulty DNS entry. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - -- -

Re: Can't get to https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/managerforlustre/manager-for-lustre/epel-7-x86_64/

2018-09-27 Thread Rick Stevens
have expected them to use wildcard SSL certs for "*.fedoraproject.org" to handle this. For my part, I've always tried to use SSL certs generated for actual the TLD of actual machine names--not aliases. I think some servers and client libraries don't handle that well, but I

Re: USB/Flash Drive backup strategies

2018-09-27 Thread Rick Stevens
k up the drives without mounting them, then you're going to have to do something bizarre like a "dd" of the raw device, piped through something like netcat to get to the dedicated backup machine. ---------- - Rick Stevens, Sy

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