Re: procmail question

On 1/26/24 14:39, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/26/24 09:07, Jon Ingason via users wrote: Did following: $ dnf search procmail Fedora 39 - x86_64  9.3 MB/s |  89 MB = Namn Exakt matchad: procmail procmail.x86_64 : Mail processing program

Re: Strange daily reboot

On 11/15/23 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/15/23 15:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 14:20 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/14/23 05:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My system (both F38 and now F39) reboots itself every morning at 8am, yet nothing in the cron configuration

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

On 11/1/23 06:14, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 3:31 PM Robert Nichols wrote: How is that supposed to work for printers that have no network capability? IPP over USB https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems#Driverless_printing_(USB) https

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

On 10/31/23 11:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The theory is that you shouldn't have to do anything except configure the printer (in CUPS) to use DNSSD. That in turn depends on Avahi working correctly. Try 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' to make sure the printer is visible. How is that supposed to

Re: LUKS - lost token?

On 10/28/23 21:20, Robert Nichols wrote: Yes, as long as the device is currently unlocked Oops. I just realized that recovering the master key from the kernel works only for LUKS1. Your device is using LUKS2, and and accessing the key from userspace is not possible with LUKS2. Sorry. -- Bob

Re: LUKS - lost token?

On 10/28/23 08:49, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. I know this is most likely not best suited question for this list, but I'm hoping some experts might be able to help. I have a LUKS device which had keyslot with pass-phrase removed and token for TPM keyslot removed too - I think this is

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

On 8/28/23 19:16, Roger Heflin wrote:> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 7:06 PM Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/28/23 18:54, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wr

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

On 8/28/23 18:54, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, most are not Fedora 38: Sorry for the

Mount command for ext4 not accepting "--nouser_xattr" option

I find that the mount command for an ext4 filesystem is not accepting the "--nouser_xattr" option, despite that being listed as a valid option in the ext4(5) manpage. This appears to be true in both Fedora 37 and 38. Note that the "--user_xattr" option _is_ accepted. When did this change? I

Re: question: does "diff" use short cuts?

On 7/8/23 22:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/8/23 13:47, Barry wrote: On 7 Jul 2023, at 18:43, home user wrote: When I try to verify a back-up, I use "diff -r".  The directory trees being compared contain about 870 files (mostly binary, like PNG, JPG, and so on), and take up about 707

Re: question: does "diff" use short cuts?

On 7/8/23 03:31, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2023-07-07 at 19:11 -0600, home user wrote: What I back up is a mix of binary and text files.  I understand that "diff" is not the best for binary files, but "cmp" does not have a recursive option.  "rsync" does copying.  I don't see how that

Re: find command problems

On 5/28/23 09:12, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Sun, 28 May 2023 08:49:22 -0400 Max Pyziur wrote: When I issue a command such as: tar zcvf /var/tmp/SomeArchive.tgz `find . -iname '*pdf' -type f` and it encounters a filename such as ./My Documents/SomeFile.pdf The results are:

Re: Strange error running scripts. without #!/usr/bin/bash

On 5/21/23 08:47, Jonathan Billings wrote: On May 20, 2023, at 22:18, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:  Recently was getting a strange error when running a script that didn't have #!/usr/bin/bash at top? free(): invalid next size (fast) Aborted (core dumped) Just adding the line fixes the issue,

Shutdown command muted -- How to send alerts to GUI session?

Now that terminal emulator sessions are no longer treated as separate logins, commands like "shutdown" and Network UPS Tools that try to use "wall" to alert users to impending doom are effectively muted. This should probably be reported as a bug in the "shutdown" command, but what is the

Fedora 37 mount command rejects ext4 option "nouser_xattr"

In Fedora 37, attempting to mount an ext4 filesystem with the "nouser_xattr" results in the generic failure message, "mount: ...: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock ... or other error." According to the manpage for ext4, this is a valid option. Note that the reverse "user_xattr" option

Re: F38 and NUT

On 4/26/23 18:30, Greg Woods wrote: Since upgrading to F37, I am having problems getting Nut to work properly. The errors I get from the journal are: Apr 26 17:01:42 seveneves.gregandeva.net nut-server[326151]: Can't connect to UPS [seveneves-ups]

Re: Encryption for internet storage

On 4/21/23 13:35, Bill C wrote: I thought about putting everything on an encrypted ext4 filesystem. Maybe compressing it and uploading. Kind of a complicated way to do it, but might work. The problem is that you can't do incremental updates or keep incremental history. You really don't want

Re: Encryption for internet storage

On 4/20/23 14:08, Andras Simon wrote: 2023-04-20 19:41 UTC+02:00, Bill C : Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the key. Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue. If you store these files unencrypted on your computer (besides having their encrypted

Re: Sending messages to all users

On 4/3/23 05:24, José María Terry Jiménez via users wrote: El 2/4/23 a las 23:37, Robert Nichols escribió: Now that gnome-terminal (also mate-terminal, etc) no longer registers as a login session, what is the mechanism for sending messages to logged-in users? This is fairly important

Sending messages to all users

Now that gnome-terminal (also mate-terminal, etc) no longer registers as a login session, what is the mechanism for sending messages to logged-in users? This is fairly important for shutdown, "UPS on bettery", etc. messages. The "wall" command does send a message to plain console sessions

Re: Speech to text software in a Fedora Linux environment

On 2/23/23 08:20, Max Pyziur wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 6:16 PM Max Pyziur wrote: Is there any speech-to-text software usable in a Fedora Linux environment? I've used CMU's Sphinx suite on Ubuntu and Fedora. I've used PocketSphinx on

Re: systemd tmp.mount vs. just /etc/fstab

On 2/23/23 09:19, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 23, 2023, at 08:45, Robert Nichols wrote: If I want to use a tmpfs for /tmp, I can just enable the systemd tmp.mount unit and get the default size limit of 1/2 of memory. If I want to reduce that limit, I either have to fiddle

systemd tmp.mount vs. just /etc/fstab

If I want to use a tmpfs for /tmp, I can just enable the systemd tmp.mount unit and get the default size limit of 1/2 of memory. If I want to reduce that limit, I either have to fiddle with a systemd override or else put a line in /etc/fstab just as in the days before systemd, and the systemd

Re: F37 broke netupstools

Do NOT delete it. On 2/19/23 15:59, Robert Nichols wrote: You're not alone. Have you found an answer? Bug https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/1851 appears to be the same problem. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: F37 broke netupstools

You're not alone. Have you found an answer? Bug https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/1851 appears to be the same problem. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: tar

On 2/1/23 4:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01Feb2023 13:07, Jerry James wrote: If you can make your list with find, you can also do something like this: find [top directory] [find criteria here] -exec tar -cvzf arch.tgz {} + This recreates the tar file once per file, ending up with a tar

Re: dump/restore?

On 12/13/22 6:10 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/13/22 15:28, Todd Zullinger wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However qcow also allows compression, sparse files, encryption and copy-on-write snapshots (COW, hence the name) [...] This is not meant to detract from your well-made point

Re: encryption and flash based media question

On 9/24/22 9:31 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 11:14 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: If you follow the recommendation to fill the device with random data first When was that ever recommended, and where? While a logical thing to do, I've never seen anything or anyone ever say

Re: encryption and flash based media question

On 9/24/22 9:47 AM, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: Dear specialists,     I would like to know, if enabling encryption of Fedora installation in Anaconda installer will dramatically short The life cycle of SSD disk or USB flash drives or SSD memory cart? By other words. Does enabling encryption

Re: Question on bad links?

On 9/19/22 3:53 PM, Barry wrote: On 19 Sep 2022, at 06:30, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short eno

Re: Question on bad links?

On 9/19/22 12:29 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short enough to fit within the inode structure, no

Re: Question on bad links?

On 9/18/22 9:23 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 18:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: As Jonathan mentioned in a previous reply, systemd is using symlinks for temporary data storage, like a dictionary or map depending on which programming language you're using. Kinda wierd. I wonder

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

On 9/3/22 10:21 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 6:23 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs   /mnt/imgs   ext4  noauto,noexec,nodev  0 0 I have run

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

On 8/20/22 6:23 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs   /mnt/imgs   ext4  noauto,noexec,nodev  0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" Afte

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs

fstab: systemd still uses the old version

I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs" still returns the message: Mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/30/22 11:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 31/01/2022 00:13, Robert Nichols wrote: FINALLY!! I can get it all to work by putting "fedora.local" in /etc/hostname _and_ editing  /etc/hosts to have "fedora.local" as the _first_ name for 127.0.0.1 . I installed a Cento

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/30/22 1:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 30/01/2022 12:36, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/29/22 8:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/29/22 17:20, Ed Greshko wrote: In the initial posting by Robert he wrote: "I have no nfs-idmapd service running" Right, but on recent kernels, the clie

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/29/22 8:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/29/22 17:20, Ed Greshko wrote: In the initial posting by Robert he wrote: "I have no nfs-idmapd service running" Right, but on recent kernels, the client doesn't use rpc.idmapd, it uses "nfsidmap".  The fact that rpc.idmapd isn't running

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/27/22 9:13 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:53 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/26/22 7:15 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: What does the entry for that filesystem in /proc/mounts look like?  It should have negotiated mount options that shed some light

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/28/22 8:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 28/01/2022 22:08, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/28/22 1:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 26/01/2022 00:35, Robert Nichols wrote: In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and n

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/28/22 1:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 26/01/2022 00:35, Robert Nichols wrote: In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are o

Re: NFS client names not mapping

On 1/26/22 7:15 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/25/22 08:35, Robert Nichols wrote: In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are o

NFS client names not mapping

In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are of the form: "name '@local' does not map into domain 'localdomain'" I have no nfs-idmapd

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/23/20 2:08 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:37 PM Samuel Sieb mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: No.  Unless you are trying to recover a failing drive, you would not want either of those. So do I use partclone or dd ? partclone understands filesystems and

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/22/20 9:31 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:38:34AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Hi, I use LVM on top of LUKS. My entire root file system is on a logical volume. I have no seperate home or swap partitions. I would like to know how can I clone this logical volume to

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

On 11/9/20 4:56 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW for doing a cksum of your burned optical disk, the device is probably /dev/sr0 (maybe /dev/sr1 if you have a pair of optical drives). Whereever you downloaded the .iso from should provide a "shaXXXsum" value. You can run "sha???sum " and "sha???sum

Re: Questions for the hard disk recovery gurus

On 8/30/20 3:01 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Samuel, On 2020-08-30 17:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/30/20 12:07 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: that it would take weeks!  So unless someone can suggest a faster method of fixing the partition (mainly just as an exercise now) or at least just working

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

On 8/3/20 6:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for.

Re: Why can I view my encrypted lvm logical volumes without opening them with my passphrase?

On 4/4/20 10:41 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I know how to do that. The question is why I can view them when I shouldn't be able to. On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 7:06 PM Robert Nichols mailto:rnicholsnos...@comcast.net>> wrote: On 4/3/20 4:48 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: &g

Re: Why can I view my encrypted lvm logical volumes without opening them with my passphrase?

On 4/3/20 4:48 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I just installed Fedora 31 on my laptop. I had created a volume group and logical volumes from the Anaconda installer itself. I had marked the checkbox for encrypting my fedora partition , and when booting I am asked my passphrase, so I thought

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

On 7/7/19 1:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax description for the two directories under this policy. /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)? /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)? So, does the  [^] mean the "user" home directory? Does the + mean this

Re: Fedora 30 chuckle for the day

On 5/2/19 5:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 15:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 02 May 2019 20:39:34 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: TCP erropt = ABE and/or no SYNAD exit specified. Nope, several minutes of staring and I don't get it. I've never been an IBMer

Re: How to disable CapsLock.

On 2/7/19 8:57 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Is there a way to make CapsLock a dead key? I never use this key on purpose and it's irritating when I sometimes hit it without knowing, so I would rather have it doing nothing. The way I handle that on my desktop machines is by putting an extra spring

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

On 1/28/19 8:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I wouldn't recommend just doing /dev/zero if the CIA, or even a moderately funded newspaper might specifically be after your data, I would be interested to know if you can name any data recovery service that has ever demonstrated the ability to recover

Re: Ryzen APU best mainboard?

On 10/25/2018 01:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/25/2018 11:47 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Or the jumper headers. Even the famous "0-ohm" resistors (a wire with a fake resistor body with a single black band on it). Remember the "/phantom" line (pin 67) to tri-state memory boards so the PROM would

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

On 04/13/2018 03:17 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: And be careful with THAT operating system, shutdown and reboot are suspend and not shutdown.  You have to turn "Fast Boot" off and do a real shutdown to get it to take. Actually, "restart" _always_ does a full shutdown and restart regardless of the

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

On 03/13/2018 03:54 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 13/3/18 9:33 am, Robert Nichols wrote: Whenever you have questions like this, you should run "set -x" in the shell to see exactly how commands are being invoked. (Run "set +x" to turn that off again.) I'm not

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

On 03/12/2018 03:26 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Thanks Patrick, taking this a step further, it seems to me that the only parameter for du that, to me, provides the correct file size is -b as shown below. I am listing my Desktop directory via ll, du -hs and du -bhs. Just further to this is it a

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

On 03/11/2018 07:19 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/3/18 10:48 am, Philip Rhoades wrote: JD, Gordon, Robert, On 2018-03-12 06:13, Robert Nichols wrote: On 03/11/2018 01:48 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I started deleting GBs of stuff from: /dev/sdb1 /backup but df did not reduce from

Re: du Weirdness - how is this possible

On 03/11/2018 01:48 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I started deleting GBs of stuff from: /dev/sdb1 /backup but df did not reduce from 95% so I looked more closely and found this weirdness: # du -s -BG 20180216 43G 20180216 # du -s -BG 20180216/* 1G  20180216/naf_dirs 43G

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

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: rsync question

On 02/10/2018 12:31 PM, bruce wrote: Hey... Got it.. or think I do.. It appears the -I --ignore-times attribute will essentially force a redo of any/all files in the rsync... Actually it will do the opposite. With the "-I" flag, rsync will ignore differences in modification times as a

Re: NetworkManager-wait-online is still utterly, and completely, broken

On 01/03/2018 04:53 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: As a network admin, I can see no reason to remove a fixed IP address from a NIC based on whether or not there's a carrier present. Even in the case of DHCP, unless the address lease expires between a disconnect and reconnect or there's pressure on the

Re: Windows 10 update ate Fedora 25 boot info: EFI. LVM, LUKS, oh, my!

On 12/12/2017 05:23 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: There's almost no reason to run Windows on bare metal There is if you use Windows to play 3-D games. Or if you want to view

Re: LUKS question

On 12/12/2017 08:40 AM, Wells, Roger K. wrote: I have existing systems with un-encrypted disks. I have tried unsuccessfully to encrypt them using LUKS. Has anyone out there been able to encrypt an existing system (after the fact, so to speak)? You can do that with cryptsetup-reencrypt, but it

Re: Trying to solve the click of death issue

On 12/09/2017 09:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer > wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:28:37 -0500 Fulko Hew > wrote: > I had to get a new laptop, and it came

Re: ip forwarding/masquerading and dhcpd

On 09/06/2017 02:46 PM, JD wrote: Hi, My em1 is config'ed as: ifconfig em1 inet 10.10.10.1 up netmask 0xff00 The wifi is connected to and internet and working OK. em1 is the lan. I have the following /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf  file DHCPDARGS=em1; ddns-update-style interim; subnet 10.10.10.0

Re: F25: How to force fsck at boot?

On 08/04/2017 12:05 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: I would like to force fsck at boot but I tried touch /forcefsck and it did not run or I did not see it (however the file /forcefsck disappeared). It probably ran and you didn't see it. For ext2/3/4, you can run tune2fs -l /dev/{whatever} | grep

Re: tar failure

On 07/17/2017 12:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Tar does an alphabetical sort of the top level of the directory you're tarring up. No, tar does not do any sorting. It just process the directory entries in the order that readdir(3) returns them. For some filesystems, that will be a sorted list.

Re: IP address or DNS name (bug or feature)

On 06/05/2017 11:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: As far as I know, there are no TLDs reserved for private networks. All users should use properly registered domains for all DNS zones, private and public. Swell. Happen to know of a registrar that will let me register a domain that has no

Re: BackupPC 4.1.0 testing needed - Any BackupPC users on the group?

On 03/30/2017 07:32 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I have taken over maintenance of the BackupPC package and have made the update to 4.1.0 available through COPR[1] for now for a couple of reasons: 1. It's a huge change, hardlinks are no longer used for deduplication, but v4 can read v3 backups. 2.

Re: Restoring a QEMU snapshot

On 03/29/2017 09:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 08:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: "Backing file" implies "qemu-img create -b ...". I agree that the manpage is horribly unclear. The snapshots from "qemu-img snapshot {-c|-a|-d

Re: Restoring a QEMU snapshot

On 03/29/2017 06:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 18:16 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: Did you really run the VM from the file in /home/poc/Win10/ ? It would be unusual to run a VM from a file in your home directory and not from one in the /var/lib/libvirt/images

Re: Restoring a QEMU snapshot

On 03/28/2017 01:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 12:38 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: What you have is not a snapshot. A snapshot is created with "qemu-img snapshot -c ", and that is _not_ a separate file. That "" is not a file name but just a

Re: Restoring a QEMU snapshot

On 03/28/2017 10:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 09:13 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: On 03/27/2017 12:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a QEMU image snapshot: $ sudo qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/Windows10.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/Windows10

Re: Restoring a QEMU snapshot

On 03/27/2017 12:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a QEMU image snapshot: $ sudo qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/Windows10.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/Windows10.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 20G (21474836480 bytes) disk size: 196K cluster_size: 65536 backing file:

Re: Interpreting smartctl data -

On 03/15/2017 08:09 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Once more, I can read this on my browser, probably should have tested it that way first time around. https://da.gd/UTWv -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/uz9uxrIQusCNoM9L95xrjl5M1UNdIGYhyRLivL9gydE=/ That looks fine. The drive has no

Re: Interpreting smartctl data -

On 03/15/2017 03:00 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 03/15/17 14:55, Robert Nichols wrote: On 03/15/2017 01:10 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 03/15/17 13:48, a...@clueserver.org wrote: Any thoughts on making sense of smrtctl are appreciated. Gnome-disks will give you clearer information. Run the tests

Re: Interpreting smartctl data -

On 03/15/2017 01:10 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 03/15/17 13:48, a...@clueserver.org wrote: Any thoughts on making sense of smrtctl are appreciated. Gnome-disks will give you clearer information. Run the tests using that instead. + Perhaps if I had the right command. The man page only shows

Re: [OT] bash help

On 02/19/2017 07:22 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, My brain cell ran away from home. I have an incredibly simple script that doesn't do what I expect. I use "mkdir DIR; cd DIR" a lot so I'm trying to put it in a script: "~/bin/mdcd". After checking that $1 exists: dir="$1" mkdir -p "$dir"

Re: Tripp Lite PowerAlert software

On 02/15/2017 02:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/14/2017 08:49 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/14/2017 05:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: I just bought a Cyberpower UPS myself (they're doing a lot of road work around me and the power's blipped several times) and I was just going to start setting

Re: Tripp Lite PowerAlert software

On 02/14/2017 05:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: I just bought a Cyberpower UPS myself (they're doing a lot of road work around me and the power's blipped several times) and I was just going to start setting up nut to talk to it. While mine is not a TrippLite, it does use a USB port for

Re: USB3 connectors -

On 02/06/2017 05:17 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 02/06/17 17:07, Rick Stevens wrote: Perhaps this will help: USB1.1 and USB2 type "A" connectors have four pins on the connector--all located on the little "shelf" inside the connector. USB3 has nine pins--four on the little shelf (for compatibility

Re: USB3 connectors -

On 02/06/2017 01:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 02/06/17 13:23, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You don't need any special cables or adaptors. May-be you're confused about the Mini-/Micro-/A-/B-form-factor variations? c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB Scroll down to "Host and device interface

Re: Shell question

On 12/28/2016 01:02 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/27/2016 11:49 PM, JD wrote: Reading lines from 2 files in such a way that each iteration lets me read the next line from each file so that the items read from each file are in sync as far as line number is concerned. Is this "doable"? For a

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

On 12/04/2016 08:20 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities in the 70's, and linux since 1988/1989. Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I

Re: Recover from unintended dd

On 11/20/2016 11:52 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi all, I wanted to create a live install media from by flash drive using dd. Following is the command I used, sudo dd bs=4M if=Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-1.iso of=/dev/sdc1 The sad part is /dev/sdc1 happened to be my external hard disk (I

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

On 11/18/2016 12:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: The main problem for using a RAMdisk-based /tmp is that a hell of a lot of utilities still write temp files to /tmp and with its limited size, you often get "filesystem full" errors. Before you start on me,... Oh, no disagreement there. I come from

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

On 11/18/2016 07:39 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: While tmpfs does utilize RAM it will actually move contents to swap in the event RAM is actually needed. So that's normal that my RAM looks full (in top) and the swap and /tmp are empty. This means that I still have about 8Gb free RAM available,

Re: recover username for fedora maillists

On 09/05/2016 11:16 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:03:29 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 17:06:36 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: What is all this going to do to Gmane? Nothing, since sadly, gmane is gone. :(

Re: basic sudo/sodoers question

On 07/11/2016 12:13 PM, bruce wrote: the change I made cat ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /cat/*.* That is granting cat the right to run commands as cat, i.e., it's pretty much a no-op. Try dog ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /cat/*.* -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.

Re: Claws mail -

On 04/29/2016 11:43 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/29/2016 06:57 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: The remaining problem is that the Thunderbird message text area seems to have grown smaller over the years. The window has the usual needed information at the top but in the center there is a large block of

Re: how to tell where it booted from

On 02/15/2016 05:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi everybody, I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools were used so I don't dare

Re: Block connection in firewall -

On 02/12/2016 03:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/12/2016 01:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/12/2016 12:47 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Ok, I'll try adding that. Joe brings up the need to keep a route open to NTP, that presents another concern. Either that, or set up a local NTP server on a box

Re: disk encryption

On 01/14/2016 08:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a hindrance and would like to remove it. Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install the system

Re: disk encryption

On 01/15/2016 11:52 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 01/15/2016 04:58 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: 3. Copy the decrypted data directly back to the partition at the correct offset (4096 sectors assumed here): dd if=/dev/mapper/mysource bs=$((4096*512)) of=/dev/sda1 seek=1 4. Adjust

Re: Problem with bash: alias command

On 12/20/2015 10:30 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 01:42:30PM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. My problem: suppose you define an alias: alias x='echo PAR=$1' Now call the alias by: x 1 Output: PAR= 1 My question: why do I get

Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

On 11/30/2015 03:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/30/2015 01:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: You can add a PV to encrypt the system without rebooting. ... should note that you'll have to shrink at least one of your volumes, though. The encrypted PV that you create will be slightly smaller

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