Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/28/2016 11:25 AM, Graham Allan wrote:

After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're
getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing.

I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash,
create a new firefox profile, reboot entire workstation) without any
obvious improvement.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen the same thing. Not seeing
anything reported in bugzilla, but it's only been ~1 day.

Graham


Hi Graham,

So far mine is well behaved.  But it is still early ...  :'(

Try this:

--> Edit
   --> Preferences
  --> Advanced
 --> General (tab)
--> disable "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Fixes all kinds of stuff in 38.x.  I just leave it that way now.

-T

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/25/2016 07:32 AM, Graham Allan wrote:

I have been waiting to see what will happen here. I thought I saw
something which implied RHEL would support ESR 45, but it was very
unclear (of course there were other changes like switch to GDK3 which
made it sound like it couldn't happen). However I think the two ESR
versions overlap for one or two releases, so it's possible that RHEL
will not switch until ESR 38 truly comes to an end.

This bugzilla here is what made me think an update may indeed be planned:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297948

Graham


I sighed up.  Thank you!

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/25/2016 06:44 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

Please have a look at the "What does the Mozilla Firefox ESR life cycle look
like?" section in the ESR faq.  38.7.0 is still a release being up-to-date on
the Firefox 38 base release.




Hi David,

   I am aware.

   For various business related reasons, I need to be on the
current (or close) of Mozilla products.  (Tech support folks
have started to wonder in amazement that I am so out-of-
date.)

   So, I was look for a repo that supported EL 7.

   I have used the binaries before and have actually written
an install script for them, but I prefer to stay with RPMs.

-T

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/25/2016 12:45 AM, Jarek Polok wrote:

On 04/25/2016 02:32 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird
updates anymore.  EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates
but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird
are typically left unpatched.


That is incorrect, see:

# rpm -q firefox --changelog

shows:

* Thu Mar 03 2016 Jan Horak  - 38.7.0-1
- Update to 38.7.0 ESR

* Thu Feb 11 2016 Martin Stransky  - 38.6.1-1
- Update to 38.6.1 ESR

* Thu Jan 21 2016 Jan Horak  - 38.6.0-1
- Update to 38.6.0 ESR

* Fri Dec 11 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.5.0-3
- Update to 38.5.0 ESR

* Thu Oct 29 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.4.0-1
- Update to 38.4.0 ESR

* Tue Sep 15 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.3.0-2
- Update to 38.3.0 ESR

* Wed Aug 26 2015 Martin Stransky  - 38.2.1-1
- Update to 38.2.1 ESR

* Fri Aug 07 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.2.0-4
- Update to 38.2.0 ESR

* Thu Aug 06 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.1.1-1
- Update to 38.1.1 ESR

* Thu Jun 25 2015 Jan Horak  - 38.1.0-1
- Update to 38.1.0 ESR

* Fri May 15 2015 Martin Stransky  - 38.0.1-1
- Update to 38.0.1 ESR

so yes, there are updates for current firefox 38 ESR version.
What has been fixed is outlined here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

and if you look here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

it shows that there will be still one more firefox 38 ESR release:

38.8.0

before support for it is dropped. (and upstream switches to ESR 45
releases which are now in 'qualify' phase)



Best Regards

Jarek



Hi Jarek,
Take a look over here at Mozilla's chart:

https://www.mozilla.org/media/img/firefox/organizations/release-overview.2ba45c58671a.png

We are way, way behind on ESR releases.  What to want to guess
that when 38.8.0 hits, that will be the end of it.

-T

-T

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/24/2016 08:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:51 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:


On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:

 Hi All,

 Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird
 updates anymore.  EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security
updates
 but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird
 are typically left unpatched.

 Is there some repo out there for Firefox and Thunderbird to
 fills the gap?  Or, should I go back to using the binaries
 from releases.mozilla.org <http://releases.mozilla.org>?

 Many thanks,
 -T



On 04/24/2016 07:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:


Why do you think they are unpatched? The Firefox and Thunderbird are
based off the upstream extended release cycle versions and not the
latest type. So the security fixes which are in ESR are there but new
features are not. If you need new features then you will need to work
from the upstream tar balls



Hi Steven,

That is just wishful thinking.  As vulnerabilities are discovered
they are not added to the ESR, or if the are, we don't see them.
Have you seen a single update come through to the current ESR?
It is set and forget.  EL picks and chooses what they will keep
up to date.  Firefox and Thunderbird ain't one of them.

Do you know of a repo that does keep Firefox and Thunderbird
up to date?  Or am I stuck with the binaries?

-T




We are currently 38.7.0 ESR.  As far as ESR goes, it is on
45.0

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0esr/

Pick and choose.


This is one of the reasons I tend not to use SL, or the upstream RHEL,
for GUI's. Fedora for bleeding edge features, SL or other RHEL
variants for stable servers.

Backporting stable versions of upstream releases is tricky, awkward
work, and often sensitive to new dependency requirements. I'm dealing
with this right now trying to bckport Samba 4.4.x to SL 7, and I used
to do this for Subversion. It's not pretty with tools that introduce
new bleeding edge library requirements.




Here is a good chart on the ESR's (Extended Support Release):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird
updates anymore.  EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security
updates
but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird
are typically left unpatched.

Is there some repo out there for Firefox and Thunderbird to
fills the gap?  Or, should I go back to using the binaries
from releases.mozilla.org <http://releases.mozilla.org>?

Many thanks,
-T


On 04/24/2016 07:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Why do you think they are unpatched? The Firefox and Thunderbird are
based off the upstream extended release cycle versions and not the
latest type. So the security fixes which are in ESR are there but new
features are not. If you need new features then you will need to work
from the upstream tar balls


Hi Steven,

That is just wishful thinking.  As vulnerabilities are discovered
they are not added to the ESR, or if the are, we don't see them.
Have you seen a single update come through to the current ESR?
It is set and forget.  EL picks and chooses what they will keep
up to date.  Firefox and Thunderbird ain't one of them.

Do you know of a repo that does keep Firefox and Thunderbird
up to date?  Or am I stuck with the binaries?

-T




We are currently 38.7.0 ESR.  As far as ESR goes, it is on
45.0

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0esr/

Pick and choose.



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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird
updates anymore.  EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates
but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird
are typically left unpatched.

Is there some repo out there for Firefox and Thunderbird to
fills the gap?  Or, should I go back to using the binaries
from releases.mozilla.org <http://releases.mozilla.org>?

Many thanks,
-T


On 04/24/2016 07:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Why do you think they are unpatched? The Firefox and Thunderbird are
based off the upstream extended release cycle versions and not the
latest type. So the security fixes which are in ESR are there but new
features are not. If you need new features then you will need to work
from the upstream tar balls


Hi Steven,

That is just wishful thinking.  As vulnerabilities are discovered
they are not added to the ESR, or if the are, we don't see them.
Have you seen a single update come through to the current ESR?
It is set and forget.  EL picks and chooses what they will keep
up to date.  Firefox and Thunderbird ain't one of them.

Do you know of a repo that does keep Firefox and Thunderbird
up to date?  Or am I stuck with the binaries?

-T

Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird
updates anymore.  EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates
but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird
are typically left unpatched.

Is there some repo out there for Firefox and Thunderbird to
fills the gap?  Or, should I go back to using the binaries
from releases.mozilla.org?

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] MAC file sharing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/04/2016 01:14 AM, Jose Marques wrote:



On 3 Apr 2016, at 17:32, Nico Kadel-Garcia  wrote:

If you need better authentication, then look into CIFS (which Linux
and various network appliances use Samba to publish), or possibly
NFSv4 (which has much better user authentication than NFSv3, but is
more complex to set up).


I would not bother with NFSv4, my experience is that it's basically broken on 
OS X. Problems include very poor performance and name mapping not working. We 
used NFSv3 for our lab iMacs, that worked fine but we had to disable NFS 
locking to get decent performance (the Finder does a lot of locking). We no 
longer have lab iMacs so now we use Samba (4.2 on FreeBSD/ZFS).

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC013532.



Thank you!

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Re: MAC file sharing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/03/2016 02:30 PM, Tom H wrote:

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia  wrote:

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM,  wrote:


Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not
sure Mac OSX still uses AFP.


Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia
Appletalk Protocol server, and later netatalk to work for SunOS sytems
to allow Mac access.

These days, MacOS clients can use NFSv3 to access Linux hosts quite
handily. I'd use that, seriously. The tricky part is unmounting
gracefully: NFS is supposed to be "stateless", but never quite
achieves it.

If you need better authentication, then look into CIFS (which Linux
and various network appliances use Samba to publish), or possibly
NFSv4 (which has much better user authentication than NFSv3, but is
more complex to set up).


OS X 10.1 had nfs and smb as well as Apple's pre-OS X afp.

OS X defaulted to afp until smb replaced it in OS X 10.9.

If you set up samba on an SL box and have avahi installed, the SL
box'll show up in the OS X Finder.



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Re: gimp toolbox?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/06/2016 12:59 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:


On 06/04/16 04:52, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I accidentally closed my gimp tool box.  How do I get the
default box back?


A quick search on the interwebs gave me this one as a high ranking
result:
<https://superuser.com/questions/645532/i-accidentally-closed-my-gimp-toolbox-can-i-get-it-back>

(Search keywords: gimp toolbox missing)




Hi David,

Edit --> Preferences --> Window Management --> Reset Saved Window 
Positions to Default Values


Did the trick.

Thank you!

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gimp toolbox?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I accidentally closed my gimp tool box.  How do I get the
default box back?

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: Linux GUI use of a touchpad laptop without physical buttons

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/03/2016 11:07 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:

The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the
center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by
simultaneously
depressing both buttons.  (Some track balls only have two buttons plus a
scroll wheel -- depressing the wheel is the center "button".)

What happens with a laptop that has only a touchpad but no buttons?
"Tapping" on the touchpad performs the MS Win 10 "button" functions, but
what about
Linux use?  Can one configure the touchpad so that a specific set of
regions work only for "tapping" and thus emulate a button, and the rest
works as a regular
"glide" pointing device?

If not, is the only mechanism to use such a machine, without pointing
device physical buttons, is to have an external (e.g., USB attached)
mouse or trackball with buttons?

Also, are there packages to enable in Linux GUIs, and compatible with
EL7,  touchscreen devices?  If so, does anyone have direct experience
with the actual functionality
provided by such Linux packages -- are these end-user usable?

Yasha Karant



Hi Yasha,

I have been looking for a Linux based tablet for a while.
Were yo ever able to get this to work?  If so, what
was the make and model number?

-T

Re: MAC file sharing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/02/2016 12:51 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 04/02/2016 09:22 AM, Kevin K wrote:

Are you trying to share FROM Linux to Mac, or from Mac to Linux?

A few weeks back, I wanted to share from my Mac to Linux, and had all
sorts of difficulty.  This is from El Capitan to the latest SL7 version.

I could browse the Mac from the browser on the desktop, but I could
not mount it from the command line or fstab.

I ended up figuring out how to share NFS from my Mac, and it was
available on Linux.

I suspect that, for sharing from Linux, Samba would probably be your
best choice.




mac would be the server




Poop.  I said the backwards.  Linux would be the server


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Re: MAC file sharing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/02/2016 09:22 AM, Kevin K wrote:

Are you trying to share FROM Linux to Mac, or from Mac to Linux?

A few weeks back, I wanted to share from my Mac to Linux, and had all sorts of 
difficulty.  This is from El Capitan to the latest SL7 version.

I could browse the Mac from the browser on the desktop, but I could not mount 
it from the command line or fstab.

I ended up figuring out how to share NFS from my Mac, and it was available on 
Linux.

I suspect that, for sharing from Linux, Samba would probably be your best 
choice.




mac would be the server

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MAC file sharing

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

What is you all's favorite way to share files with a MAC network?
NFS?  Samba?

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: Any favorite FTP server

[ToddAndMargo]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:09 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

On 03/21/2016 03:32 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:


vsftp is pretty much the standard these days



Is this the guy?


$ yum whatprovides vsftpd
vsftpd-3.0.2-10.el7.x86_64 : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
Repo: sl



vsftpd-3.0.2-10.el7.x86_64 : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
Repo: sl-rolling


On 03/23/2016 07:45 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

yes



Thank you!

Re: Any favorite FTP server

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/21/2016 03:32 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

vsftp is pretty much the standard these days


Is this the guy?


$ yum whatprovides vsftpd
vsftpd-3.0.2-10.el7.x86_64 : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
Repo: sl



vsftpd-3.0.2-10.el7.x86_64 : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
Repo: sl-rolling


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Re: Any favorite FTP server

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/21/2016 03:32 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

vsftp is pretty much the standard these days

there is a standard package, its fairly simple to setup as a basic ftp
server but it has a lot of options, including the ability to configure
TLS encryption.




On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:04 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Hi All,

I am working on a design for a customer for an in house backup
repository.  I could use Samba, but Ransom Ware takes after anything
with a drive letter.  So I was look at Cobian Backup which allows Windows
machines to backup to an FTP server, thus defeating Ransom
Ware's ability to infect backups with drive letters.

Cobian Backup also do not use proprietary formats.  And their
files would be accessible by using "ftp://local.ftp.server";
from Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer).

So, I was wondering if any of you had a favorite easy to administer FTP
server that was SL 7.2 friendly?

Many thanks,
-T

rsync would work too, but it is not accessible through Windows
Explorer.  (Any time you assign a drive letter, Ransom Ware will
tag all your files.)





Hi Paul,

Thank you!

Can I set up the ftp server such that one user only has
write only access and another users has only has read
only access?  That would mess with a crypto virus something
awful!

-T

Any favorite FTP server

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I am working on a design for a customer for an in house backup
repository.  I could use Samba, but Ransom Ware takes after anything
with a drive letter.  So I was look at Cobian Backup which allows 
Windows machines to backup to an FTP server, thus defeating Ransom

Ware's ability to infect backups with drive letters.

Cobian Backup also do not use proprietary formats.  And their
files would be accessible by using "ftp://local.ftp.server";
from Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer).

So, I was wondering if any of you had a favorite easy to administer FTP
server that was SL 7.2 friendly?

Many thanks,
-T

rsync would work too, but it is not accessible through Windows
Explorer.  (Any time you assign a drive letter, Ransom Ware will
tag all your files.)



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Need NAS recommendations

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite small (2 to 4 TB) Network Attached Storage
(NAS) that is Linux friendly.  No weird drivers, etc..

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: livecd-tools

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/18/2016 04:37 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi Nux,

Any change you can upgrade livecd-tools-20.1-3.el7.nux.x86_64
so I can please this guy?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317241

FC23 is on this one: livecd-tools-23.2-3.fc23.x86_64.rpm

Many thanks,
-T




Ooops, wrong address.

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livecd-tools

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi Nux,

Any change you can upgrade livecd-tools-20.1-3.el7.nux.x86_64
so I can please this guy?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317241

FC23 is on this one: livecd-tools-23.2-3.fc23.x86_64.rpm

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/05/2016 02:09 AM, Karel Lang AFD wrote:

Hi Todd and all,
you wouldn't belive, how glad i would be to get rid off all windows PCs.

And if it was just because of regular office users, it would be
happening. But, alas, in my LAN is sitting roughly like 350 Dell and HP
workstations that run 'Catia', which is a CAD application for automotive
industry - and there is no way this will run under wine or on KVM
virtualized windows guests (sigh)...

With what jdow wrote - about the windows update server (that sits
insided your LAN) acting like relay point, it is really hard/bad.

Really, only thing i can think of is as i said in my 1st post the so
called 'DPI' - deep packet inspection, which is a method of packet
filtering that functions at the Application layer and inspects packet
payloads searching for defined pattern(s).

Thing is i need to know which pattern or string to search for (which i
dunno).
I found on internet many posts trying to block the telemetry windows
servers, but this is really not much elegant way and also not much
effective, as these things can change very dynamically.

As i said, i'm not giving up yet and i'm gonna consult some network IP
specialists.

with br,
Karel






Hi Karel,

I feel your pain.

I had a situation that might help you.  I had a customer
that had a computer run during the night shift.  The
night shift kept infesting it with porn and viruses.
But they had to get to the internet.

So, I blocked everything except the three sites that
they needed for their jobs.  Then I set Firefox to
open all three in tabs when Firefox opened.

Did the trick.  (Pissed off the night shift, but
the were all facing being fired, so ...)

Maybe you should consider blocking everything except
where they need to go.

-T


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what does this xfsdump error mean?

[ToddAndMargo]

/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: could not open regular file
ino 1179764354 mode 0x81e4: Stale file handle:
not dumped



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Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 08:16 PM, Karel Lang AFD wrote:

firstly, sorry Todd, i don't know how it happened i got attached to your
thread.


No problem.  I was only concerned that it would get lost / buried.


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Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 2016-03-04 16:24, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/04/2016 03:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote:

Uninstall. :)



Or just block all access from Windows machines to the Internet.
And   turn off Windows Update Service.

And test out your critical Windows software with
Wine Staging

And if need be, run XP inside a KVM virtual machine







On 03/04/2016 05:48 PM, jdow wrote:
> Can't be done economically. ANY machine that can reach Windows Update
> will also feed the snooping reports.
>
> The blocking is probably not needed as it consists of error reports
> after you've turned off everything in the various settings dialogs. Of
> course, one must never run Cortana if one is concerned about privacy.
>
> Note that you MAY have better overall security for personal information
> if you figure out what the reporting addresses are and explicitly block
> all other addresses as a means of mitigating potential third party
> attacks through these semi-open doors. How open they really are depends
> on the degree of encryption MS has used in these reports and interfaces.
>
> {^_^}
>


Set up a KVM server and have them log in with Spice.  Explicitly
block all Internet access from these VM's.  Consider XP
for these VM.  It is faster and less buggy.  And no idiot
M$ updates to crash your next boot up.



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Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 08:16 PM, Karel Lang AFD wrote:

Also the PCs must have internet access to email, http, https, ftp, sftp
- simply the 'usual' stuff.


Hi Karl,

All work marvelously user Fedora/RHEL.  It may be time for
your to consider migrating off of Windows.

I support Windows, Linux, Apple.

Apple is like an excruciatingly weird straight jacket.

The quality and security issues involved with Windows takes
my breath away, especially with all the Crypto Locker style
viruses out there.  Yo are one eMail away from an absolute
disaster.  And these viruses go after your backup too!

With Linux, you will noticed that you are only assisting with
programs and setting up features.  You will no longer be
chasing your tail over quality issues, bad updates, spying,
"Where's Waldo?", etc..

You can make Xfce look like XP and KDE look like W7.  Nothing
can make anything look as bad as Frankenstein and Sons
(W8 and W-Nein).  I love Xfce just as it is.

With Fedora/RHEL, there is none of this "w7 installer
can't read USB 3 ports, so no keyboard or mouse" baloney
to deal with.

Where you get into trouble are Windows only business
apps, such as Quick Bucks, oops, Quick Books.  Set up
a KVM server and have them log into with Spice from
their workstations.  (I prefer XP for such, it is
more powerful and less buggy.  Plus no more idiot
M$ updates to crash your next boot up.)

And this profession starts to become fun again. And dead,
dragging computer come back to life!

-T

Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 03:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote:

Uninstall. :)



Or just block all access from Windows machines to the Internet.
And   turn off Windows Update Service.

And test out your critical Windows software with
Wine Staging

And if need be, run XP inside a KVM virtual machine


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Re: samba and ntfs flash drives ???

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 03:39 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/04/2016 02:59 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

On 04/03/16 11:05, ToddAndMargo wrote:
[...snip...]

# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log
type=AVC msg=audit(1457071461.014:2015): avc:  denied  { write } for
pid=26451
comm="smbd" name="test" dev="dm-1" ino=593703
scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
tclass=dir

These stem from when I was trying to get SeLinux to work
on the share.  "Test" was a shared directory.  "Test"
has since been removed.

I can browse/use the mount point without issue as
long as I do not have an NTFS Flash Drive mounted to it.

No mention of /mnt/iso in the above
# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep iso
# 


You skipped the 'audit2allow' tip I gave you.

-

cat | audit2allow

type=AVC msg=audit(1457071461.014:2015): avc:  denied  { write } for
pid=26451
comm="smbd" name="test" dev="dm-1" ino=593703
scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
tclass=dir



#= smbd_t ==

# This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'samba_export_all_rw'
allow smbd_t mnt_t:dir write;
-

See the line " This avc can" ... So just do:

   # setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth







# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep iso | audit2allow
Nothing to do


#  grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow

#= logrotate_t ==
allow logrotate_t home_root_t:dir read;
allow logrotate_t init_t:service reload;

#= smbd_t ==

# This avc is allowed in the current policy
allow smbd_t mnt_t:dir write;

# This avc is allowed in the current policy
allow smbd_t mnt_t:file getattr;


Couldn't figure out what the above meant.


As you recommended, I ran
# setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1

Now W7 says the directory is empty






Wait.  Hold everything.  I was in the wrong iso share.

And "# setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1" fixed it.
And I have full read/wrie too.


Yippee!

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou



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Re: samba and ntfs flash drives ???

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 02:59 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

On 04/03/16 11:05, ToddAndMargo wrote:
[...snip...]

# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log
type=AVC msg=audit(1457071461.014:2015): avc:  denied  { write } for pid=26451
comm="smbd" name="test" dev="dm-1" ino=593703
scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
tclass=dir

These stem from when I was trying to get SeLinux to work
on the share.  "Test" was a shared directory.  "Test"
has since been removed.

I can browse/use the mount point without issue as
long as I do not have an NTFS Flash Drive mounted to it.

No mention of /mnt/iso in the above
# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep iso
# 


You skipped the 'audit2allow' tip I gave you.

-

cat | audit2allow

type=AVC msg=audit(1457071461.014:2015): avc:  denied  { write } for pid=26451
comm="smbd" name="test" dev="dm-1" ino=593703
scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
tclass=dir



#= smbd_t ==

# This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'samba_export_all_rw'
allow smbd_t mnt_t:dir write;
-

See the line " This avc can" ... So just do:

   # setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth







# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep iso | audit2allow
Nothing to do


#  grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow

#= logrotate_t ==
allow logrotate_t home_root_t:dir read;
allow logrotate_t init_t:service reload;

#= smbd_t ==

# This avc is allowed in the current policy
allow smbd_t mnt_t:dir write;

# This avc is allowed in the current policy
allow smbd_t mnt_t:file getattr;


Couldn't figure out what the above meant.


As you recommended, I ran
   # setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1

Now W7 says the directory is empty



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Re: samba and ntfs flash drives ???

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2016 01:48 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

On 4 March 2016 09:45:38 CET, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Hi All,

Google is killing me here!

Scientific Linux 7.2, 64 bit

$ rpm -qa samba
samba-4.2.3-11.el7_2.x86_64

Is there some trick to mounting an NTFS USB flash drive and
sharing it with Samba?

I am trying to share an NTFS flash drive with samba.
If the drive is not mounted, I can do what I want
from Windows 7 and XP on the mount point.  I have
full access.

But, when I mount the stick to the mount point and
try to browse the mount with W7 or XP, I get "permission
denied".  Specifically, from the W7 machines samba log:

   ../source3/smbd/uid.c:384(change_to_user)
   Skipping user change - already user

   ../source3/smbd/open.c:881(open_file)
   Error opening file . (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)
   (local_flags=0) (flags=0)

I mount suchlike:

# mount -t ntfs -rw -o
users,exec,sync,uid=todd,gid=users,fmask=000,dmask=000 /dev/sdc1
/mnt/iso

(I know I don't need the masks, but I left them there in case
they were needed)

After mounting:
# ls -al /mnt/iso

total 1193
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users   4096 Mar  3 23:30 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 todd users   4096 Mar  3 21:47 ..
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users122 Apr 12  2011 autorun.inf
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users   4096 Apr 12  2011 boot
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 383786 Apr 12  2011 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 669568 Apr 12  2011 bootmgr.efi
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 efi
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 106768 Apr 12  2011 setup.exe
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  40960 Apr 12  2011 sources
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 support
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 upgrade

My smb.conf:

[iso]
comment = mnt on rn1 -- Mount as M:
path = /mnt/iso
valid users = @users
write list = @users
force group = users
force user = todd
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
strict locking = no
blocking locks = no
force create mode = 
create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 
directory mode = 0777
map system = yes
map hidden = yes
writable = yes

Trying simpler:
[iso]
comment = mnt on rn1 -- Mount as M:
path = /mnt/iso
force group = users
force user = todd
Doesn't work either

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,
-T



# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log

If you see something which looks related, pipe them to audit2allow and see what 
it suggests. Ofen you may get som hints that you need to flip a selinux boolean.


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth



# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log
type=AVC msg=audit(1457071461.014:2015): avc:  denied  { write } for 
pid=26451 comm="smbd" name="test" dev="dm-1" ino=593703 
scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 tclass=dir


These stem from when I was trying to get SeLinux to work
on the share.  "Test" was a shared directory.  "Test"
has since been removed.

I can browse/use the mount point without issue as
long as I do not have an NTFS Flash Drive mounted to it.

No mention of /mnt/iso in the above
# grep denied /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep iso
# 

:'(

samba and ntfs flash drives ???

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Google is killing me here!

Scientific Linux 7.2, 64 bit

$ rpm -qa samba
samba-4.2.3-11.el7_2.x86_64

Is there some trick to mounting an NTFS USB flash drive and
sharing it with Samba?

I am trying to share an NTFS flash drive with samba.
If the drive is not mounted, I can do what I want
from Windows 7 and XP on the mount point.  I have
full access.

But, when I mount the stick to the mount point and
try to browse the mount with W7 or XP, I get "permission
denied".  Specifically, from the W7 machines samba log:

  ../source3/smbd/uid.c:384(change_to_user)
  Skipping user change - already user

  ../source3/smbd/open.c:881(open_file)
  Error opening file . (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)
  (local_flags=0) (flags=0)

I mount suchlike:

# mount -t ntfs -rw -o 
users,exec,sync,uid=todd,gid=users,fmask=000,dmask=000 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/iso


(I know I don't need the masks, but I left them there in case
they were needed)

After mounting:
# ls -al /mnt/iso

total 1193
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users   4096 Mar  3 23:30 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 todd users   4096 Mar  3 21:47 ..
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users122 Apr 12  2011 autorun.inf
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users   4096 Apr 12  2011 boot
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 383786 Apr 12  2011 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 669568 Apr 12  2011 bootmgr.efi
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 efi
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users 106768 Apr 12  2011 setup.exe
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  40960 Apr 12  2011 sources
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 support
drwxrwxrwx.  1 todd users  0 Apr 12  2011 upgrade

My smb.conf:

[iso]
comment = mnt on rn1 -- Mount as M:
path = /mnt/iso
valid users = @users
write list = @users
force group = users
force user = todd
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
strict locking = no
blocking locks = no
force create mode = 
create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 
directory mode = 0777
map system = yes
map hidden = yes
writable = yes

Trying simpler:
[iso]
comment = mnt on rn1 -- Mount as M:
path = /mnt/iso
force group = users
force user = todd
Doesn't work either

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,
-T


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Re: CVE 2015-7547

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/19/2016 05:49 PM, Kenny Noe wrote:

Yes.   Follow these instructions.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2016/02/glibc-patch-cve-2015-7547/

--Kenny

Thanks

--Kenny

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 8:33 PM, ToddAndMargo mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

Are we affected by this?


http://www.infoworld.com/article/3033862/security/patch-now-unix-bug-puts-linux-android-and-ios-systems-at-risk.html

-T


Cool. Already done by my normal updates. Thank you!

# rpm -qa | grep -i glibc
glibc-2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686
glibc-common-2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64
glibc-2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686
glibc-headers-2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64

CVE 2015-7547

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Are we affected by this?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3033862/security/patch-now-unix-bug-puts-linux-android-and-ios-systems-at-risk.html

-T


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Re: vlc no audio

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/19/2016 03:11 AM, John Pilkington wrote:

On 19/02/16 10:50, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

SL 7.2

Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet.

No sound at all.  Everything else has sound but not VLC.

I tried both nux's 2.2 and 2.1.  VLC is set to "defaults" and
is not muted.  I have uninstalled and reinstall several times.
No joy.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Many thanks,
-T


It's working for me with UK and US recorded TV samples - but I just
remembered that playback of DVD .iso  with menus stopped working some
time ago.  Has another program grabbed your hardware?

vlc-2.2.2-0.1.el7.nux.x86_64
uname -r
3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64

John



Hi John,

I figured it out.  VLC was using my HDMI audio where EVERYTHING
else was using my audio card.  I fixed it with pavucontrol.

Apparently EACH program decides which audio playback it will
prefers.  Bummer.  At least now I know how to fix it.

-T

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Re: vlc no audio

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/19/2016 02:50 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

SL 7.2

Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet.

No sound at all.  Everything else has sound but not VLC.

I tried both nux's 2.2 and 2.1.  VLC is set to "defaults" and
is not muted.  I have uninstalled and reinstall several times.
No joy.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Many thanks,
-T



Figured it out.

I had to install pavucontrol-3.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm

Then go to "playback", start VLC playing (which shows in
panel), then change VLC's playback device to "Built-in
Analog Analog Stereo" from "HDMI".  Did the trick.

Now I have a cool pavucontrol for pulse audio.

-T


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vlc no audio

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

SL 7.2

Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet.

No sound at all.  Everything else has sound but not VLC.

I tried both nux's 2.2 and 2.1.  VLC is set to "defaults" and
is not muted.  I have uninstalled and reinstall several times.
No joy.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: RHEL 5/6/7 "rosetta stone"

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/01/2016 10:51 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

"W.L." provided this URL, for a poster that shows
commonly used commands for RHEL 5, 6, and 7:

https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/attachments/rhel_5_6_7_cheatsheet_27x36_1014_jcs_web.pdf


I love it!



It is a large poster (approaching the Rosetta Stone in size),
but it is very useful for understanding what's what in RHEL7.
This, plus the man pages for the tools, is a good approximation
of what I was asking for.


Reducing it to manageable size might involve:

1) Using Imagemagick "convert" with increased density
to convert the image into a huge png.

2) Using "gimp" to move chunks of the image around,
then crop them into 4 page size png images.

3) Using "convert" again to make a 4 page pdf out of
those images.

This may be a violation of copyright, so I would never
ever EVER do this.  If copies of a 4 page rhel pdf ever
show up in your mailbox, do the right thing with them.

Keith




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Re: verifying clean unmount

[toddandmargo]

 On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:15:19 -0800 Robert Arkiletian 
 wrote  



> How can I verify that an ext4 data partition is being unmounted properly 
at (reboot/shutdown) on a sysV init system. I've looked at S01reboot and 
S01halt scripts in etc but what I'm concerned about is that I mounted my 
partition on a tmpfs dir mount point. So if those S01 scripts try to umount the 
tmpfs dir first they may get a "target busy" and then they will try a force 
umount. (I think that's not good)


>Basically I'm trying to verify that the partition (on reboot/shutdown) is 
being unmounted before its tmpfs mount point. Is there an easy way to verify 


Hi Robert,

I do something similar.  I look in /etc/mtab to see if they are mounted.
I do something like this:

$ grep TripStick /etc/mtab 
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/TripStick ext4 
rw,sync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
then use if "-z" or "-n" to test.

I can throw something up a more complicated example for your in 
bash or perl, so you can use it as a starting point.

-T

Re: /run/media/todd

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/24/2016 10:08 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:

Hi ToddAndMargo!

  On 2016.01.24 at 02:06:38 -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote next:


Hi All,

I am noticing that Sl 7.2 is mounting flash drives in
/run/media/todd


There are many reasons for this - new directory "todd" is created in
tmpfs, not on real filesystem (in /media), this supports multiple users
using their own devices (one user locks the screen and goes away,
another one logs in on the same PC, inserts flash drive - he gets his
own "/run/media/newuser" hierarchy for his devices, not being able to
see what's on yours) and so on.



Any reason why I can't turn /media into a link
to /run/media/todd
?


Well technically you can do whatever you want, as long as you are sure
that no other users will be logging in on this PC so it'll always be
"/run/media/todd". Note that since the later directory is created when
first device is inserted, the link will be broken till that time (not a
big deal).

But, if you replace proper directory "/media" with a link, it will cause
errors when upgrading filesystem package. You aren't mean to replace
system directories.

However, you can do something like
ln -sf /run/media/todd /media/todd
or
ln -sf /run/media/todd /Media

(as a root). If that's convenient to you, why not?

--

Vladimir



Hi Vladimir,

   Oh well.  I will leave it as is.  Thank you for the advice!

-T

/run/media/todd

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I am noticing that Sl 7.2 is mounting flash drives in
/run/media/todd

Any reason why I can't turn /media into a link
to /run/media/todd
?

Many thanks,
-T


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Re: Since 7.2, Thunderbird won't open links in Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/22/2016 04:39 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

Anyone else notice since SL 7.2, Thunderbird won't open
links properly in Firefox?  I just new a new Firefox windows
with my home page.

If you have noticed it, how did you fix yours?

Many thanks,
-T




Follow up:

Fixed it.

I used these directions:
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/20/fix-for-thunderbird-not-opening-links/

I set

network.protocol-handler.external-default = true

then started a link. Got the pop up asking me what to
do with it. So, I said use "firefox". No symptom change.

Then I did it again, but this time I chose what application
and hand wrote /usr/bin/firefox into the dialog. Then
said "remember" and this time is worked perfectly.


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Since 7.2, Thunderbird won't open links in Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Anyone else notice since SL 7.2, Thunderbird won't open
links properly in Firefox?  I just new a new Firefox windows
with my home page.

If you have noticed it, how did you fix yours?

Many thanks,
-T


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Re: forced fsck

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/20/2016 05:18 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:

On 1/19/16 5:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

This is what I used on SL6.  I was never able to figure out
whether is "all" the partitions or just "/" partition.



It is all that are mounted by the /etc/fstab entries.



Thank you!  I have wondered about that for several years.

Any idea if the touch thing applies to SL 7 as well?

Re: forced fsck

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/16/2016 07:10 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote:

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:06 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Would this be a one time fsck or every boot?


As long as the kernel parameter(s) is passed during boot (manually
entered or set as the default in GRUB) a fsck should run every time.

Brandon Vincent



Any way to do it once?


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Re: forced fsck

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/16/2016 06:11 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote:

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:38 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all
three of the following partitions:

  /
  /boot
  /home


First check if all of the systemd-fsck services are enabled. Running
blkid(8) should provide you with the UUID for all of your partitions.

systemctl is-enabled systemd-fsck-root.service and systemctl
is-enabled systemd-fsck@ (use tab competition to check all the
partitions) should output "static". If they don't, enable the
service(s) using systemctl enable.

At this point, all you have to do is append the kernel parameters with
fsck.mode=force and fsck.repair=preen or fsck.repair=yes. preen is the
default and will only fix safe issues that don't require user
interaction, while yes will repair more serious problems and may not
be a great idea unattended.

Brandon Vincent




Would this be a one time fsck or every boot?

forced fsck

[ToddAndMargo]

sl 7.2 (Yipee!)

How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all
three of the following partitions:

 /
 /boot
 /home

Many thanks,
-T

Re: Perl 6?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 01/10/2016 09:12 AM, James Rogers wrote:

The usual question: is anyone actually using P6 for anything productive?

--W


Isn't it a little early for that question considering it
was just released?

Re: Will this evolution fix be in our 7 updates?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 11/19/2015 09:30 AM, Connie Sieh wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, ToddAndMargo wrote:


https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2226.html



According to the above link this is part of 7.2 .  So we will release it
as part of 7.2 .

-Connie Sieh




I missed that.  Thank you!

Re: Evince doesn't open some pdf files

[ToddAndMargo]

On 09/04/2015 12:21 PM, N, Nerka wrote:

I think, that Evince 2.28.2 doesn't want to work with libjpeg-turbo libraries, 
i tried to install buildrequires too. But it doesn't work still.



Hi Nerka,

Try downloading and installing PDF Studio's unlimited trial.  The
only thing I have not got it to open are dynamic Xfa file.

http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

The trial is forever.  I just writes "trial" across every other
page.

I bought PDF Studio Pro and love the thing.  Qoppa's tech support
is unbelievably good.  (You'd think it was an open source project!)

I use it for tax documents and for researching technical documents.

-T

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] bogus date in cups src rpm

[ToddAndMargo]

On 08/24/2015 01:37 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi Tim,

   What does this error mean?  Any way to work around it?

Many thanks,
-T


# rpmbuild --rebuild  cups-1.4.2-67.el6.src.rpm
...
   bogus date in %changelog: Mon Aug 28 2011 Tim Waugh
 1:1.4.2-42
bogus date in %changelog: Thu Apr  1 2008 Tim Waugh
 1:1.3.6-9
bogus date in %changelog: Thu Apr  1 2008 Tim Waugh
 1:1.3.6-8
bogus date in %changelog: Tue Oct 26 2006 Tim Waugh

bogus date in %changelog: Wed May 16 2006 Tim Waugh

Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v63d72 (%build)





On 08/24/2015 11:40 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:> The attached script here works
> well:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=119
>

I am doing something wrong.  Poop!


# BogusDateBot.bash cups-1.4.2-67.el6.src.rpm
‘cups-1.4.2-67.el6.src.rpm’ -> 
‘cups-1.4.2-67.el6.src.rpm-2015-08-24-19-04-46-617758269Z’



# rpmbuild --rebuild 
cups-1.4.2-67.el6.src.rpm-2015-08-24-17-42-34-681028055Z


bogus date in %changelog: Mon Aug 28 2011 Tim Waugh 
 1:1.4.2-42
bogus date in %changelog: Thu Apr  1 2008 Tim Waugh 
 1:1.3.6-9
bogus date in %changelog: Thu Apr  1 2008 Tim Waugh 
 1:1.3.6-8

bogus date in %changelog: Tue Oct 26 2006 Tim Waugh 
bogus date in %changelog: Wed May 16 2006 Tim Waugh 
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.i5ZXvo (%build)



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Live DVD Bug: messed up grub.cfg

[ToddAndMargo]

Dear Live DVD developers:

I installed SL7.1 as a VM from SL6.6 KVM using
SL-71-x86_64-2015-03-27-LiveDVDgnome.iso

The Nitrogen menuentry in grub.cfg causes a kernel
panic (the rescue modes do work after fixing a typo).

kernel panic:

  Failed to access perfctr msr (MSR c1 is 0)
  kernel panic -- not syncing:L VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)


This issue its corrected by the following change and addition
in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg "Nitrogen menuentry".

Old:
linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 ro rhgb 
quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8



New:
linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

initrd16 /initramfs-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64.img


To summarize:
   on the "linux16" line, I dropped "rhgb"
   and I added an "initrd16" line under the "linux16" line

Many thanks,
-T



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Re: do we have a bugzilla?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 05/27/2015 02:05 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:

Just post here with your issue.


I will do it again.  I don't think they realized what I was doing

gnomad2 for sl6?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Is there some substitute package for gnomad2 that runs
on SL6?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomad2/

I am trying to read picture off my new Samsung B311 Gusto 3
cell phone.

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: SL 7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs for testing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/30/2015 12:41 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:

On 03/29/2015 10:58 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/29/2015 01:55 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/29/2015 12:33 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/27/2015 01:23 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

On 27 March 2015 at 17:18, Urs Beyerle 
wrote:

Hi,

A first version of SL7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs is now available for
testing:

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/71/x86_64

An easy way to test them is using a Live USB stick. Just "dd" the
iso-file
to your usb stick:

dd if=SL-71-x86_64-2015-03-27-LiveCD.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdXis your USB device. Caution: ALL DATA on the stick
will be
DELETED !!!


Cheers,

 Urs


I have performed some basic tests with the LiveCD ISO image and found
that it operates as expected.

Alan.




Is the "extra" and the "gnome" edition the same thing?

Any sign of an Xfce version?





Not to ask too stupid a question, but where is the shutdown?

The gnome version



upper right corner, click on "Live System User" -> Power off





Right under my nose.  Thank you!

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Re: SL 7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs for testing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/29/2015 01:55 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/29/2015 12:33 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/27/2015 01:23 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

On 27 March 2015 at 17:18, Urs Beyerle  wrote:

Hi,

A first version of SL7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs is now available for
testing:

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/71/x86_64

An easy way to test them is using a Live USB stick. Just "dd" the
iso-file
to your usb stick:

dd if=SL-71-x86_64-2015-03-27-LiveCD.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdXis your USB device. Caution: ALL DATA on the stick
will be
DELETED !!!


Cheers,

 Urs


I have performed some basic tests with the LiveCD ISO image and found
that it operates as expected.

Alan.




Is the "extra" and the "gnome" edition the same thing?

Any sign of an Xfce version?





Not to ask too stupid a question, but where is the shutdown?

The gnome version


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Re: SL 7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs for testing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/29/2015 12:33 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 03/27/2015 01:23 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

On 27 March 2015 at 17:18, Urs Beyerle  wrote:

Hi,

A first version of SL7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs is now available for
testing:

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/71/x86_64

An easy way to test them is using a Live USB stick. Just "dd" the
iso-file
to your usb stick:

dd if=SL-71-x86_64-2015-03-27-LiveCD.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdXis your USB device. Caution: ALL DATA on the stick will be
DELETED !!!


Cheers,

 Urs


I have performed some basic tests with the LiveCD ISO image and found
that it operates as expected.

Alan.




Is the "extra" and the "gnome" edition the same thing?

Any sign of an Xfce version?





Not to ask too stupid a question, but where is the shutdown?

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Re: SL 7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs for testing

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/27/2015 01:23 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

On 27 March 2015 at 17:18, Urs Beyerle  wrote:

Hi,

A first version of SL7.1 LiveCD and LiveDVDs is now available for testing:

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/71/x86_64

An easy way to test them is using a Live USB stick. Just "dd" the iso-file
to your usb stick:

dd if=SL-71-x86_64-2015-03-27-LiveCD.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdXis your USB device. Caution: ALL DATA on the stick will be
DELETED !!!


Cheers,

 Urs


I have performed some basic tests with the LiveCD ISO image and found
that it operates as expected.

Alan.




Is the "extra" and the "gnome" edition the same thing?

Any sign of an Xfce version?


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Re: Wine 32 on 7 yet?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/19/2015 12:52 PM, Earl A Ramirez wrote:

Hi All,


Anyone know of a repo or similar way to install Wine32
on SL7?  Any simple or semi-simple work arounds?

-T



Hi Earl,

Just posted

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=51667

So now we wait.

There is this:
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=49542

But OH BOY!

-T

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Wine 32 on 7 yet?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Anyone know of a repo or similar way to install Wine32
on SL7?  Any simple or semi-simple work arounds?

-T

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Re: need rsync exclude help

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/07/2015 09:05 PM, James Rogers wrote:

Dig?  You should use SSH as your shell for rsync so that your
connections are encrypted. This is only for a local, trusted network, as
all transfers will be in compressed cleartext. Right?



This is a backup between a local hard drive and a local
USB stick.  Nothing copied to the stick is private.
It is driver files and the like.  (I have other LUKS
sticks for private stuff.)


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Re: need rsync exclude help

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/07/2015 03:32 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:



From: "ToddAndMargo" 
To: "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS" 
Sent: 7. March 2015 05:40:43
Subject: Re: need rsync exclude help


 --exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/.



I am not real certain that the {} thingy works correctly.
Anyway, I only needed 'wine-*'


That seems redundant in this case.  You can always test such expansions using 
'echo'

   $ echo {wine-*,wine-1.7.24}
   wine-* wine-1.7.24
   $ echo wine-{1.7.24,package-1.2.3}
   wine-1.7.24 wine-package-1.2.3

Here I also added a little demonstration of how the {} expansion can work.


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David SOmmerseth



Hi David,

Yes, it was redundant.  I wanted to see if the syntax crashed.
I also set up a bunch of wine-1.7.xx directories to see if
they too would be left alone.

When I tried the expansion in the rsync string, it did not
work, so I went back to just

 --exclude='wine-*'

-T

Sweet examples.  Thank you!

I don't know if it is just me but I can have thins
explained to me for hours and not get it, but show
me an example and I am off to the races.  I guess
it is just different ways different folks learn.

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Re: need rsync exclude help

[ToddAndMargo]

--exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/.



I am not real certain that the {} thingy works correctly.
Anyway, I only needed 'wine-*'


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Re: need rsync exclude help

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2015 10:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to do an rsync and exclude a directory called

/home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-1.7.37

Problem: rsync sync's it anyway, including when I remove
the * and spell it all out.

What am I doing wrong?

rsync -rv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=1 \
 --times --inplace --copy-links  \
 --exclude '/home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-*' \
 /home/CDs/Linux/Wine /mnt/MyCDs/Linux/.


Many thanks,
-T




Hi All,

   'wine-*' was it.  Exclude is looking for a "pattern".
I had imprinted "path" on my brain.

  Thank you all for the help me with this!

-T

test run string:

rsync -rv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=1 \
   --times --inplace --copy-links  \
   --exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/.

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need rsync exclude help

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I am trying to do an rsync and exclude a directory called

   /home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-1.7.37

Problem: rsync sync's it anyway, including when I remove
the * and spell it all out.

What am I doing wrong?

rsync -rv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=1 \
--times --inplace --copy-links  \
--exclude '/home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-*' \
/home/CDs/Linux/Wine /mnt/MyCDs/Linux/.


Many thanks,
-T

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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/04/2015 12:27 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/27/2015 04:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T




Word from PDF Studio tech support is that v10, due out
next month, will allow for multiple files on the run line.

:-)






If I haven't said so, I have had PDF Studio v9 for months
now.  It is sweet.  And I mean really sweet.

The only thing it won't do that I would like it dynamic XFA
forms.  (My publisher of my one form is trying to migrate
away from it, so ...)


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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 04:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T




Word from PDF Studio tech support is that v10, due out
next month, will allow for multiple files on the run line.

:-)




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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 03/02/2015 01:00 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:

On 02/27/2015 08:04 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/27/2015 04:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T




This works, but Gee Wiz!

#!/bin/bash

# Open all (lower case) pdf documents in this directory
# /usr/bin/acroread *.pdf
#/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 *.pdf

Tmp="Open.All.PDFs.tmp.sh"

if [ -f "${Tmp}" ]; then rm "${Tmp}"; fi
echo "#!/bin/bash" > "${Tmp}"
echo "" >> "${Tmp}"

find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec echo "/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} &" \; >> 
"${Tmp}"
chmod 755 "${Tmp}"
eval "${Tmp}"
rm "${Tmp}"




you don't need any of those braces (to separate from other surrounding text) or 
quotes (you know it doesn't have spaces) when YOU define the variable.

also, what if Tmp is something other than a plain file to something else?  you 
get hosed.  Use -e rather than -f.  Use mktemp!


Tmp=Open.All.PDFs.tmp.sh
[ -e $Tmp ] && rm ${Tmp}
echo "#!/bin/bash" > $Tmp
echo  >> $Tmp

find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec echo "/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} &" \; 
>> $Tmp
# notneeded chmod 755 $Tmp
bash $Tmp
rm $Tmp


Perhaps this would work as well, not suggested yet...

find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec bash -c "/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} &" 
\;

I tested the above  by making 'myls' script, which contained:

echo myls[$$]: "$@"
ls -l "$@"
sleep 5
echo done[$$]

Note how it shows the pid ($$), shows the args to ensure only one arg was 
received, runs a real 'ls', then sleeps, then echos done with the pid again...

find * -exec bash -c "./myls {} &" \;

Seems to work as expected.


Hi Chris,

I use the braces on purpose, even thought the are not needed, to
disciple my self to use them when required.  For instance:

NewFileName2="$(echo ${NewFileName} | sed -e 
"s/\_..*${BaseTag}/_${LastestRevDashes}_${BaseTag}/")"


The braces habit keeps me out of trouble.

I am going to have to look closely at mktemp, as I have always
just created my own in the past.

"Tmp" is a text file I use to create a dynamic bash script.  You
note that I clean up after myself when I finish.

find * -exec bash -c "./myls {} &" \;
Works because "ls" releases after each call to it.  PDF Studio
waits for you to manually exit.

I also could not get the syntax right for using "&", but
I never tried putting quotes around the entire --exec
command.

Thank you!

-T

Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/28/2015 05:04 AM, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

Xargs is designed for this sort of thing.

find / -type f -iname \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 -n1
/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9


For programs that accept more than one file on the command line, you can
drop the -n1.

Boris


Thank you!

Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 05:11 PM, John Lauro wrote:

Minor nit...  I think your script will have a problem if there is a space in 
the filename...  the find -print0 | while read example should handle spaces...


Not so minor.  I am trying to always remember to surround my stuff in
quotes.  Just like you see me using ${xx} instead of $xx and $()
instead of ``
Revised line:

find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec echo 
"\"/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9\" \"{}\" &" \; >> "${Tmp}"

Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 05:07 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

If each individual call to pdfstudio opens a new tab/window/whatever in
pdfstudio (which it sounds like it does based on the crazy script
ToddAndMargo says works), this should definitely work.

-Brad



It does.  Much more elegant than what I came up with



On 02/27/2015 07:05 PM, John Lauro wrote:

Oops, I meant...
find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do
  /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done

but you probably caught that

- Original Message -

From: "John Lauro" 
To: "ToddAndMargo" 
Cc: "Brad Cable" , "Scientific Linux Users"

Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 8:03:50 PM
Subject: Re: need release command for find -exec

find / -type f -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do
/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done

should work...

- Original Message -

From: "ToddAndMargo" 
To: "Brad Cable" , "Scientific Linux Users"

Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:52:03 PM
Subject: Re: need release command for find -exec


find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9
{} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T





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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 05:05 PM, John Lauro wrote:

Oops, I meant...
find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do
  /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done


That does indeed work!  Thank you!

I saw you wrote me twice, so I read the second one first.



but you probably caught that

- Original Message -

From: "John Lauro" 
To: "ToddAndMargo" 
Cc: "Brad Cable" , "Scientific Linux Users" 

Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 8:03:50 PM
Subject: Re: need release command for find -exec

find / -type f -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do
/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done

should work...

- Original Message -

From: "ToddAndMargo" 
To: "Brad Cable" , "Scientific Linux Users"

Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:52:03 PM
Subject: Re: need release command for find -exec



find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9
{} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T







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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 04:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T




This works, but Gee Wiz!

#!/bin/bash

# Open all (lower case) pdf documents in this directory
# /usr/bin/acroread *.pdf
#/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 *.pdf

Tmp="Open.All.PDFs.tmp.sh"

if [ -f "${Tmp}" ]; then rm "${Tmp}"; fi
echo "#!/bin/bash" > "${Tmp}"
echo "" >> "${Tmp}"

find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec echo "/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} 
&" \; >> "${Tmp}"

chmod 755 "${Tmp}"
eval "${Tmp}"
rm "${Tmp}"



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Re: need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/27/2015 04:45 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

"-exec" will always wait for the command to end, and that's entirely up
to pdfstudio to do.  There could be an option to pdfstudio to release
and fork off, but probably not.

A better solution is to just generate the large list of files and pass
them on the command line to pdfstudio all in one pdfstudio process:

/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 $(find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf)


That is sweet!  But ... (read below)



This may or may not work depending on if pdfstudio knows to read
multiple files on the command line.  This method is the same as executing:

/opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf


It only reads one file.  I just asked them to fix this.



Assuming it supports the above, it should work.  You might have to look
at pdfstudio's command line arguments, though.

-Brad


On 02/27/2015 06:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T







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need release command for find -exec

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I am trying to get PDF Studio to open multiple pdf's
from a script.  But PDF Studio will only accept one file
name on its command line.  But you can have multiple
PDF Studios open, so I tried

find  -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -exec /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 {} \;

But you have to close the first instance to get the second
to open, etc..

I have tried adding "&" to the end, but no syntax joy.

How to I get "-exec" to run and release, so "find" can go
on to the next instance?

Many thanks,
-T

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Re: cups without a password?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/21/2015 04:14 AM, Bluejay Adametz wrote:

Is there a way around this besides assigning a password (which will
not endear me to the customer[s])?


Can you create another account that's used for CUPS administration?
I've done that on one SL6 machine so the application admins can deal
with their printers. IIRC, I created a group and added it to the
SystemGroup line in /etc/cupsd.conf. Assign the user account(s)
membership to that group.



I had not thought of that.  Thank you!


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Re: cups without a password?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/21/2015 08:32 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:17 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Before you shake the finger at me, all of the below were "no security"
installations,


The finger will be shook regardless. Eventually a "no security"
installation will be connected to a different network than originally
intended.


Twice on FC21 machines and once on a OSx machine I have been caught not
being able to use CUPS (http://127.0.0.1:631) because the "administration"
function required the root's (OSx was the user's) password. And, they had it
and all others set to blank password. Cups must have a password, so I
couldn't use the administration functions.

Is there a way around this besides assigning a password (which will
not endear me to the customer[s])?


I commented out the lines starting with "Require" in cupsd.conf and
was able to achieve what I believe you wanted.

Brandon Vincent


Thank you!

Re: flip cell phone

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/21/2015 10:21 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:04 AM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
camera will allow SL to plug into its USB port
and read it pictures?

Many thanks,
-T


Which SL release? USB and peripheral integration has been a kernel
level issue for years, and as much as I dislike many aspects of SL 7,
I'd urge using it for maximum chance of the drivers being up-to-date
with the latest consumer devices.



Hi Niko,

LG tells me their's work.  My old Motorola Razor
doesn't -- need proprietary Windows drivers

-T

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~~
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~~

Re: cups without a password?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/20/2015 04:17 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

Before you shake the finger at me, all of the below were "no security"
installations,

Twice on FC21 machines and once on a OSx machine I have been caught not
being able to use CUPS (http://127.0.0.1:631) because the
"administration" function required the root's (OSx was the user's)
password. And, they had it and all others set to blank password. Cups
must have a password, so I couldn't use the administration functions.

Is there a way around this besides assigning a password (which will
not endear me to the customer[s])?

Many thanks,
-T




From CUPS FAQ:

A: If you have setup your computer to not require a password or have a 
blank or empty password, then the CUPS web interface will not work for 
you. CUPS requires a login username and password to allow you to make 
changes through the web interface.


Bummer.



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~~

flip cell phone

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose
camera will allow SL to plug into its USB port
and read it pictures?

Many thanks,
-T

--
~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

cups without a password?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Before you shake the finger at me, all of the below were "no security" 
installations,


Twice on FC21 machines and once on a OSx machine I have been caught not 
being able to use CUPS (http://127.0.0.1:631) because the 
"administration" function required the root's (OSx was the user's) 
password. And, they had it and all others set to blank password. Cups 
must have a password, so I couldn't use the administration functions.


Is there a way around this besides assigning a password (which will
not endear me to the customer[s])?

Many thanks,
-T

--
~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Need help downloading from FossHub

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/17/2015 08:25 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

The /genLink URL will generate the expiretime for you, which requires
the Referer header being set.  No User-Agent detection is used from what
I can tell.  This is then dumped directly to stdout and wrapped by
another wget.  Works for me on multiple OSes at different physical
locations.

wget "`wget --header="Referer: http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html";
"http://www.fosshub.com/genLink/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe";
-O /dev/stdout`"

Fun fact:

badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481


Is just a base64 encoded string of
"http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html";.  XSS exploit here, they
should fix that (could use a fosshub.com link to direct someone to a bad
URL, then the system redirects them to the attacker's phishing site).

For instance, this link redirects to Google:

http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=9424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL2dvb2dsZS5jb20=/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe


-Brad



On 02/17/2015 09:53 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/17/2015 07:51 PM, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 03:47 +, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 18:52 -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/17/2015 02:10 PM, Brad Cable wrote:


On 02/17/2015 04:08 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

Looks like the path alone is fine to pass to wget, the server
doesn't
seem to check all the cookies.

wget
"http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe";



-Brad


On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to write a script to download the latest
version of Free File Sync.

http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html

Problem, it redirects and downloads from FossHub.
Firefox's CliGet plugin tells me this is the wget
command to download:

wget --header='Host: files.fosshub.com' --header='User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/35.0'
--header='Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Referer:
http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html' --header='Cookie:
__cfduid=df5c4cffdb92958c5fec1d6820562977a1420013499;
__utma=109354002.1937444008.1422666016.1422666016.1423372212.2;
__utmz=109354002.1423372212.2.2.utmcsr=thisisudax.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/'

--header='Connection: keep-alive'
'http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe'

-O 'FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' -c

How in the dickens do I duplicate that from a script? Cookies and
bad url and all!

Many thanks,
-T



Problem is the stinkin' "badurl" changes with every click
on the download link.  I can't figure out how Firefox gets
that data so I can use it in my script




Hi all,

wget --referer=http://www.fosshub.com/
http://www.fosshub.com/download/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe

Just change the file for whatever your after and happy days. ;-)

Regards

Phil



Hmm... Firget that. Worked once and now having an issue. Will look into
it some more.

Regards

Phil



Thank you.  I am stumped.





Hi Brad,

I thought you would like to see what kind of monster
you helps me create:

-T


GetFreeFileSync () {
   # Status: 0 = unknown (default)
   # 1 = no update found
   # 2 = update found
   # 3 = error

   RtnState=0
   OldFileName=""

   NotifySound
   WorkingDir="/home/CDs/Windows/FileSystem/FreeFileSync"
   if [ ! -d $WorkingDir ]; then  mkdir $WorkingDir; fi
   cd $WorkingDir
   BaseName="FreeFileSync"
   Extension="exe"
   RevAddr="http://www.freefilesync.org/download.php";
   DownloadAddr="$RevAddr"

   # Turn off any read only tags
   chmod -R 766 ${BaseName}*.${Extension}; chown -R tony.users 
${BaseName}*.${Extension}


   OldRev="$(ls $WorkingDir/ | \
grep -v -i "WebSite.txt" | \
grep -v -i "currentversion"  | \
grep $BaseName   | \
awk -F "_" '{print $2}'  | \
sort -r  | \
sed -n 1,1p)"

  OldFileName="${WorkingDir}/${BaseName}_${OldRev}_Win_Setup.$Extension"

   LatestRev="$(wget --quiet "$RevAddr" -O - | \
grep -i "Get FreeFileSync"  

Re: Need help downloading from FossHub

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/17/2015 09:53 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/17/2015 07:51 PM, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 03:47 +, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 18:52 -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/17/2015 02:10 PM, Brad Cable wrote:


On 02/17/2015 04:08 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

Looks like the path alone is fine to pass to wget, the server
doesn't
seem to check all the cookies.

wget
"http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe";



-Brad


On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to write a script to download the latest
version of Free File Sync.

http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html

Problem, it redirects and downloads from FossHub.
Firefox's CliGet plugin tells me this is the wget
command to download:

wget --header='Host: files.fosshub.com' --header='User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/35.0'
--header='Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Referer:
http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html' --header='Cookie:
__cfduid=df5c4cffdb92958c5fec1d6820562977a1420013499;
__utma=109354002.1937444008.1422666016.1422666016.1423372212.2;
__utmz=109354002.1423372212.2.2.utmcsr=thisisudax.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/'

--header='Connection: keep-alive'
'http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe'

-O 'FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' -c

How in the dickens do I duplicate that from a script? Cookies and
bad url and all!

Many thanks,
-T



Problem is the stinkin' "badurl" changes with every click
on the download link.  I can't figure out how Firefox gets
that data so I can use it in my script




Hi all,

wget --referer=http://www.fosshub.com/
http://www.fosshub.com/download/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe

Just change the file for whatever your after and happy days. ;-)

Regards

Phil



Hmm... Firget that. Worked once and now having an issue. Will look into
it some more.

Regards

Phil



Thank you.  I am stumped.





Awesome!  Thank you for helping me with this!


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They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Need help downloading from FossHub

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/17/2015 07:51 PM, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 03:47 +, Phil Wyett wrote:

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 18:52 -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 02/17/2015 02:10 PM, Brad Cable wrote:


On 02/17/2015 04:08 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

Looks like the path alone is fine to pass to wget, the server doesn't
seem to check all the cookies.

wget
"http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe";


-Brad


On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to write a script to download the latest
version of Free File Sync.

http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html

Problem, it redirects and downloads from FossHub.
Firefox's CliGet plugin tells me this is the wget
command to download:

wget --header='Host: files.fosshub.com' --header='User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0'
--header='Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Referer:
http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html' --header='Cookie:
__cfduid=df5c4cffdb92958c5fec1d6820562977a1420013499;
__utma=109354002.1937444008.1422666016.1422666016.1423372212.2;
__utmz=109354002.1423372212.2.2.utmcsr=thisisudax.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/'
--header='Connection: keep-alive'
'http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe'
-O 'FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' -c

How in the dickens do I duplicate that from a script?  Cookies and
bad url and all!

Many thanks,
-T



Problem is the stinkin' "badurl" changes with every click
on the download link.  I can't figure out how Firefox gets
that data so I can use it in my script




Hi all,

wget --referer=http://www.fosshub.com/
http://www.fosshub.com/download/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe

Just change the file for whatever your after and happy days. ;-)

Regards

Phil



Hmm... Firget that. Worked once and now having an issue. Will look into
it some more.

Regards

Phil



Thank you.  I am stumped.

Re: Need help downloading from FossHub

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/17/2015 02:10 PM, Brad Cable wrote:


On 02/17/2015 04:08 PM, Brad Cable wrote:

Looks like the path alone is fine to pass to wget, the server doesn't
seem to check all the cookies.

wget
"http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe";


-Brad


On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to write a script to download the latest
version of Free File Sync.

http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html

Problem, it redirects and downloads from FossHub.
Firefox's CliGet plugin tells me this is the wget
command to download:

wget --header='Host: files.fosshub.com' --header='User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0'
--header='Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
--header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Referer:
http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html' --header='Cookie:
__cfduid=df5c4cffdb92958c5fec1d6820562977a1420013499;
__utma=109354002.1937444008.1422666016.1422666016.1423372212.2;
__utmz=109354002.1423372212.2.2.utmcsr=thisisudax.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/'
--header='Connection: keep-alive'
'http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe'
-O 'FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' -c

How in the dickens do I duplicate that from a script?  Cookies and
bad url and all!

Many thanks,
-T



Problem is the stinkin' "badurl" changes with every click
on the download link.  I can't figure out how Firefox gets
that data so I can use it in my script


--
~~
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They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Need help downloading from FossHub

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I am trying to write a script to download the latest
version of Free File Sync.

http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html

Problem, it redirects and downloads from FossHub.
Firefox's CliGet plugin tells me this is the wget
command to download:

wget --header='Host: files.fosshub.com' --header='User-Agent: 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0' 
--header='Accept: 
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' 
--header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Referer: 
http://www.fosshub.com/FreeFileSync.html' --header='Cookie: 
__cfduid=df5c4cffdb92958c5fec1d6820562977a1420013499; 
__utma=109354002.1937444008.1422666016.1422666016.1423372212.2; 
__utmz=109354002.1423372212.2.2.utmcsr=thisisudax.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/' 
--header='Connection: keep-alive' 
'http://files.fosshub.com/Protected/expiretime=1424210916;badurl=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mb3NzaHViLmNvbS9GcmVlRmlsZVN5bmMuaHRtbA==/41affbb904a577f14aeace96bc39786f8840601489dcb8f9e12de18037e1c481/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' 
-O 'FreeFileSync_6.14_Windows_Setup.exe' -c


How in the dickens do I duplicate that from a script?  Cookies and
bad url and all!

Many thanks,
-T




--
~~
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They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: where does Contacts keep its database?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/09/2015 07:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

Google is failing me here.  Too many things are called "Contacts".

Does anyone know where the abandoned contact manager called
"Contacts" stores its database?

Many thanks,
-T




Found it:  ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/addressbook.db

made a change int he database, then used

find . -cmin -2 -type f

to find it.  That was obscure!


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where does Contacts keep its database?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Google is failing me here.  Too many things are called "Contacts".

Does anyone know where the abandoned contact manager called
"Contacts" stores its database?

Many thanks,
-T


--
~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 05:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

On 12/22/2014 03:44 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 12/22/2014 03:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 12/22/2014 02:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

And I asked on the Firefox newsgroup.


A guy over on the Firefox newsgroup wrote me off list
with how to do it.  I am waiting for his permission
to paste it over here.




Got permission, just leave his name off:

  yes. i am using it myself.

  from main menu;

Edit > Preferences > Applications

  highlight "Content Type" you want to change, in "Action"
  column, press up/down pointers, select;

   Use VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.nn.n)
   (in Firefox)

  my system is CentOS 6.6, using firefox 24.8.0 and my 'vlc'
  plugin is 2.28.6.

  depending on your install of linux and 'vlc', the number will
  be different.

I removed flash and restart FF.  I tried loading a flv from disk and
it started VLC in a separate windows.

I also tried watching the Green Bay Packers highlights and got
mined in adds and spy utilities.  (The Packer won, by the way.)

-T




The details for Firefox 34.0.5, IA-32, are slightly different.   I use
current production Firefox, not the SL ESR version.
IA-32 SL 6x .

1.  Tools -> Add ons -> Plugins

Shockwave flash set to Never Activate in the menu choices

VLC multimedia set to Always Activate

2. Edit -> Preferences -> Applications

search for flash and use VLC (that may appear as "default" in some cases)

Before I did both of these steps, Firefox (after a quit and activate)
refused to use VLC, but does now
except for the situation as follows.

I tried the URL below:

http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/help/en/flash/index.html

The test  Adobe Flash Player Test did not work, with the diagnostic
message:  Flash not running.


I think it is because the site is specifically looking for
the flash plugin



The test Adobe Flash-Video Test forced a download of a FLV file that was
then opened and handled by VLC .

Does anyone know why the first test failed and how to get around the
issue with VLC ?

Yasha Karant



Hi Yasha,

I have flash player removed from my system (rpm -e).  After
disabling my Flash Block plugin, setting VLC to Always Activate,
and restarting Firefox, I could get this flash video to
play (had to restart Firefox first, or I only got audio).

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3952709774001/nasa-rover-finds-lifes-building-blocks-on-mars

Got this to play too, but I am not sure it is flash.
http://www.packers.com/media-center/videos/Wk-16-Report-Card-Green-Bay-Packers/f036fc70-9e1a-43ae-92c0-beaf4c5bba4a

I do believe it all depends on whether or not the site is
specifically checking for Flash.  I could be wrong.

-T

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~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 03:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 12/22/2014 02:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

And I asked on the Firefox newsgroup.


A guy over on the Firefox newsgroup wrote me off list
with how to do it.  I am waiting for his permission
to paste it over here.




Got permission, just leave his name off:

  yes. i am using it myself.

  from main menu;

Edit > Preferences > Applications

  highlight "Content Type" you want to change, in "Action"
  column, press up/down pointers, select;

   Use VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.nn.n)
   (in Firefox)

  my system is CentOS 6.6, using firefox 24.8.0 and my 'vlc'
  plugin is 2.28.6.

  depending on your install of linux and 'vlc', the number will
  be different.

I removed flash and restart FF.  I tried loading a flv from disk and
it started VLC in a separate windows.

I also tried watching the Green Bay Packers highlights and got
mined in adds and spy utilities.  (The Packer won, by the way.)

-T



--
~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 02:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

And I asked on the Firefox newsgroup.


A guy over on the Firefox newsgroup wrote me off list
with how to do it.  I am waiting for his permission
to paste it over here.


--
~~
Computers are like air conditioners.
They malfunction when you open windows
~~

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 01:31 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

Will VLC "play" Flash?


Hi Yasha,

Yes.  Beautifully.

I have three flash videos I take to customer sites and I
play them on VLC.  My favorite one is the I.T. Crowd
Vista "We're going to die!"  (I think they are making
fun of us, but I am not quite sure how yet.)  I also
have on of Leo Leport stomping on Norton Anti Virus.

Can you user test her video with VLC?


I just posted this over on Video Lan:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=123306

And I asked on the Firefox newsgroup.  If, I hear
back, I will repost here.

-T

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 12:50 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

Since my most recent posting on this matter, I have found:

http://www.ehow.com/how_8409438_use-instead-flash-player-firefox.html

How to Use VLC Instead of Flash Player in Firefox


Hi Yasha,

Sounds like you have your hands full!  I wish I had more
Linux customers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/

says "This add-on has been removed by its author"

Doesn't sound so good.

-T

p.s.  what do you use for remote assistance with your
users?

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/22/2014 10:35 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:

On 12/22/2014 12:51 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:

We have end users that we support on machines currently running IA-32
SL6x who need Adobe Flash capability in a Mozilla Firefox browser.

From Adobe (presumably under the influence/control of the Microsoft
monopoly):

*NOTE*: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target
Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Is there a replacement for the Adobe Flash Player?  Is there a
version/replacement that properly works with x86-64 SL7 using a 64 bit
Firefox?

Yasha Karant


What's the problem here?  Flash is available for 32 and 64-bit browsers,
use their yum repo.  Just because the version is older than others,
doesn't mean it is insecure or won't do the job.




Hi Chris,

Firefox flags the out-of-date Flash plugin as a security hazard.

-T


Hi Yasha,

I do not know if this will help at all, but I install
the "You Tube All HTLM5" extension on all my customer's machines to
get them off of Flash as much as possible:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5

   It is also faster at rendering than Flash is.  Well at least
it corrects a lot of lag problems on You Tube (problem
may be You Tube, not Flash).

   Also, because iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc.) does not support Flash,
it seriously behooves your clients to switch to HTML5 (I do recommend
this to my clients).

-T

Re: How to use sed with variables with slashes in them.

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/05/2014 07:24 PM, Prosun Prodhan wrote:

Thanks for the explanation with example.


I learn kind of strange.  You can give me the most
beautiful explanation and I draw a blank.  As
soon as you show me an example, bingo!

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Re: How to use sed with variables with slashes in them.

[ToddAndMargo]

On 12/05/2014 07:19 PM, Kevin K wrote:

On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:08 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

Hi All,

This took me an very frustrating hour to figure out.  Especially
since I was looking for something like awk's "-F" command.

I hope this save someone else from pulling their hair out!
(I was trying to do a substitution with a ton of forward slashes
in it from a variable.   H!)

-T



Example of substitute example:


$ echo "$(echo "TRUE" | sed -e 's/TRUE/FALSE/g')"
FALSE

"g" is for "global"



Example with variables (use full quotes):

$ X="abcd"
$ Y="xyz"
$ echo $X | sed -e "s/${X}/${Y}/"
xyz


If a variable uses a "/" inside it, use a different "delimiter" (the
first character after the "s" tells sed what the delimiter is):


$ X="./abcd"
$ Y="./xyz"
$ echo $X | sed -e "s|${X}|${Y}|"
./xyz


This works inside of vi too.

I recall years ago when using “vi’ clones.  Before VIM became popular and I 
would use other clones.  They generally only supported / as a delimiter, and 
using something different (I normally use -) was an example of where their 
compatibility broke down.



Hi Kevin,

This I did not know.  I still use vi a lot too.  Thank
you for sharing!

-T

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They malfunction when you open windows
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How to use sed with variables with slashes in them.

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

This took me an very frustrating hour to figure out.  Especially
since I was looking for something like awk's "-F" command.

I hope this save someone else from pulling their hair out!
(I was trying to do a substitution with a ton of forward slashes
in it from a variable.   H!)

-T



Example of substitute example:


$ echo "$(echo "TRUE" | sed -e 's/TRUE/FALSE/g')"
FALSE

"g" is for "global"



Example with variables (use full quotes):

$ X="abcd"
$ Y="xyz"
$ echo $X | sed -e "s/${X}/${Y}/"
xyz


If a variable uses a "/" inside it, use a different "delimiter" (the
first character after the "s" tells sed what the delimiter is):


$ X="./abcd"
$ Y="./xyz"
$ echo $X | sed -e "s|${X}|${Y}|"
./xyz

kernel patching on the fly

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

An interesting article.  Doesn't affect us, yet.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2851028/linux/four-ways-linux-is-headed-for-no-downtime-kernel-patching.html

-T

Re: allow cifs system users to attach to a linux box

[ToddAndMargo]

On 11/14/2014 01:10 AM, Ian A Taylor wrote:

Todd

Yes I have

samba-common-3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64
samba-winbind-3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64
samba-client-3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64
samba4-libs-4.0.0-64.el6.rc4.x86_64
samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64

installed

Regards

Ian Taylor

On 13/11/14 22:33, ToddAndMargo wrote:

On 11/13/2014 06:03 AM, Ian A Taylor wrote:

Sir/Madam

I am looking to configure my linux box, such that

  A user whose home space is on a Windows (cifs) system

Can gain access

I suspect I need to alter entry in auto.home

But I am not clear of the format of the line that goes in their.

In particular, I am not sure, how I tell the entry in auto.home
to resolve the uid/gid of each particular user

Any help would be sincerely appreciated


Thanking you.

Yours sincerely



Ian Taylor



Hi Ian,

Do you have Samba (Linux cifs server) installed on the Linux computer?

-T







Okay, I am confused as to what you are after.  Who is
server and who is client in your system?


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