Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Paterson via users
On Thursday, 13 February 2020 01:09:20 GMT Roger Heflin wrote: > It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this: > > if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes > through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a > directory and repeats, until it

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 06:40, Andy Paterson via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > [...] > > I am a little confused by getcwd(), on linux it is supposed to be a system > call .. I expect to find a manual page for it in section 2 (man 2 getcwd) > > instead it gives me the library funct

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Paterson via users
Except the system call version doesn't need you to include any header files! Which is NOT clear from the man page! > On 13 Feb 2020, at 13:53, George N. White III wrote: > >  >> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 06:40, Andy Paterson via users >> wrote: > >> [...] >> I am a little confused by getcwd(),

Re: DVD Backup

2020-02-13 Thread Kevin Becker
It's a brand new drive, and it worked with the command line dvdbackup tool. But, that doesn't mean it doesn't have some sort of problem. I'll take a look at k3b as well, thanks. -- Original Message -- From: "stan via users" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: "stan" Sent: 2/12/20

Re: DVD Backup

2020-02-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/02/2020 16:00, Kevin Becker wrote: It's a brand new drive, and it worked with the command line dvdbackup tool.  But, that doesn't mean it doesn't have some sort of problem. I'll take a look at k3b as well, thanks. k3b > Tools > Copy medium > Only create image k3b > Tools > Burn image

How do I run telnet server nowadays?

2020-02-13 Thread Hiisi
Hello, list. I was trying to get telnet server up and running on my fedora 31. I have installed telnet-server package using dnf. systemctl list-unit-files outputs: telnet@.service static However, when I try to start or check status of it thi

Re: How do I run telnet server nowadays?

2020-02-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Hiisi, 13.02.20, 18:03 CET: > I was trying to get telnet server up and running on my fedora 31. I > have installed telnet-server package using dnf. > systemctl list-unit-files outputs: > telnet@.service > static > However, when I try to st

Re: How do I run telnet server nowadays?

2020-02-13 Thread Hiisi
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:27 PM Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > > I guess it's supposed to be socket-activated, i. e. do > systemctl start telnet.socket > > That said, are you really sure you want a telnet server? What is it that > cannot be handled much better / more secure by SSH? > > -- > Regards

Re: DVD Backup

2020-02-13 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 03:14, Kevin Becker wrote: > I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I > did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some > commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had > been made from a home vi

Can I freeze Java

2020-02-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Fedora 30, A customer with one of those custom programs is getting a pop up https://ibb.co/gZ6TZsb telling him he is going to have to start paying for Java. The software vendor have an update to switch from Java to Open Java, but the vendor's QC is horrendous and the customer

Re: Can I freeze Java

2020-02-13 Thread Deepak Bhole
On Thu., Feb. 13, 2020, 15:12 ToddAndMargo via users, < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 30, > > A customer with one of those custom programs is getting > a pop up > > https://ibb.co/gZ6TZsb > > telling him he is going to have to start paying for Java. > > The s

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Christopher Marlow
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 21:39 -0600, Christopher Marlow wrote: > Fedora 31 Workstation > XFCE desktop ( installed on top of gnome ) > > Hi, > > When wanting to switch users in XFCE I put my mouse in the right hand > corner of the screen. I click my name. Then I click switch user and > what I do t

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:27:20 -0600 Christopher Marlow wrote: > On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 21:39 -0600, Christopher Marlow wrote: > > Fedora 31 Workstation > > XFCE desktop ( installed on top of gnome ) > > > > Hi, > > > > When wanting to switch users in XFCE I put my mouse in the right > > hand cor

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/13/2020 01:27 PM, Christopher Marlow wrote: Can someone tell me if my message went though I never got a response to my orginal message? I saw your original message but didn't reply as I don't switch users, this being a home box. ___ users mail

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Christopher Marlow
On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 14:18 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/13/2020 01:27 PM, Christopher Marlow wrote: > > Can someone tell me if my message went though I never got a > > response to > > my orginal message? > > I saw your original message but didn't reply as I don't switch > users, > this being a

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 14:27 -0600, Christopher Marlow wrote: > Can someone tell me if my message went though I never got a response to > my orginal message? Didn't you get the message from the list? You can also check the archives to see if it went out. poc ___

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/13/2020 03:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 14:27 -0600, Christopher Marlow wrote: Can someone tell me if my message went though I never got a response to my orginal message? Didn't you get the message from the list? You can also check the archives to see if it wen

Re: I am having a problem switching users

2020-02-13 Thread Christopher Marlow
On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 22:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 14:27 -0600, Christopher Marlow wrote: > > Can someone tell me if my message went though I never got a > > response to > > my orginal message? > > Didn't you get the message from the list? You can also check the

Re: Unnecessary hard drive spin-ups

2020-02-13 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:35, Andy Paterson via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Except the system call version doesn't need you to include any header > files! > Which is NOT clear from the man page! > The man page says "On Linux, the kernel provides a getcwd() system call, which t

Re: rpm has selinux trouble

2020-02-13 Thread sean darcy
On 2/5/20 2:49 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-02-04 10:59, sean darcy wrote: syslog has this every 10 seconds: audit[1039229]: AVC avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1039229 comm="rpm" name="Providename" dev="dm-1" ino=2622531 scontext=system_u:system_r:setroubleshootd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:

fc31: howto play music on remote headless

2020-02-13 Thread sean darcy
I've got an old laptop on fc31. I'd like to ssh in and stream music that plays on the remote. I can ssh in to the remote and bring up firefox, but it tries to play music on the ssh client, not the remote. Any suggestions appreciated. sean ___ users m

Re: fc31: howto play music on remote headless

2020-02-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 2/13/20 6:54 PM, sean darcy wrote: I've got an old laptop on fc31. I'd like to ssh in and stream music that plays on the remote. I can ssh in to the remote and bring up firefox, but it tries to play music on the ssh client, not the remote. Any suggestions appreciated. Hi Sean, You can ne

Re: fc31: howto play music on remote headless

2020-02-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 2/13/20 6:54 PM, sean darcy wrote: I've got an old laptop on fc31. I'd like to ssh in and stream music that plays on the remote. I can ssh in to the remote and bring up firefox, but it tries to play music on the ssh client, not the remote. Any suggestions appreciated. I put these notes to