Re: Unable to locate printer

2016-01-15 Thread Stephen Davies
On 15/01/16 02:24, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Stephen Davies wrote: I have a Lexmark E120 network connected via ethernet. Occasionally, attempts to print to this printer result in the subject error message. So, the only resolution that I have found is to reboot the box. Th

digital ocean setup-droplet basic tutorial/questions

2016-01-15 Thread bruce
Hi list. Taking the plunge to setup some test digital ocean (DO) droplets. These aren't to be used for web servers, but to be used to run test apps, and to get a better understanding of actually setting up/plying with some of the different aspects of a small amount of sys admin. So, that I don't

f23 mate policykit libvirt problem

2016-01-15 Thread Nate Pearlstein
I’ve been trying to get policykit to automatically authorize virt-manager. This was working fine with fedora 21, but with fedora 23 it doesn’t seem to work. For both I’ve been using the mate desktop. With f21 I had the following in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/caprica.libvirt.pkla

Re: disk encryption

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

Re: disk encryption

2016-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On 01/14/2016 06:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk >> encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a >> hindrance and would like to remove it. >> >> Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the i

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:24:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > > dumpe2fs on the root filesystem also works, if the filesystem has > > been formatted at 1st install time. > > That's true if and only if you always do a clean install, never an upgrade. Well, upgrades don't reformat the root fs. If you w

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/15/2016 10:15 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: dumpe2fs on the root filesystem also works, if the filesystem has been formatted at 1st install time. That's true if and only if you always do a clean install, never an upgrade. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Frank Elsner wrote: > you should do an > echo 'UseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config Depending on the content of your ssh_config file, that might not be an effective fix. The recommended mitigation is: # echo -e 'Host *\nUseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config >

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:36:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > rpm -qa --last|tail -10 > > That's fine as long as Fedora was clean installed and not updated from > a previous version. The OP didn't say this explicitly. And it isn't fine either, if the installation is from a Live medium. Then

Re: disk encryption

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

Re: Missing Component in KDE System Settings

2016-01-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 09/01/16 09:58, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Stephen Morris wrote: >> >>> Can anyone tell me what has happened to the KDE System Settings addin >>> that allows customization of the Display Manager login interface in F23? >> Do you have sddm-kcm package installed? (if not, get i

Re: synergy not working, might be firewall related

2016-01-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/15/2016 05:47 AM, thibaut noah wrote: also to be noted i have a network bridge on my desktop (the fedora distrib running windows vm), it may change something about ip ? If you open up the firewalld GUI, the zone that's in boldface (and probably already selected) is the default zone (the

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 17:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:43:12 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set > > correctly > > on the

Re: OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/15/2016 03:51 AM, Tim wrote: This shows just one advantage of doing fresh installs, instead of updates. Those of use who do fresh installs, won't have old keys from prior releases still on our systems. "Your keys" means your private authentication keys. The ones in ~/.ssh. If you keep

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:43:12 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly > on the machine when it was installed)? rpm -qa --last|tail -10 That's the ten olde

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:48:58PM +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: > >> I need to unset one of my environment variable to successfully build > >> a > >> rpm package. > >> > >>

Can you suggest a way to get SELinux back in order?

2016-01-15 Thread Doug H.
After about a day of not having crontabs running I realized that SELinux was stopping both user and root crontab jobs.  I messed with it and then discovered: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298192 (Recent dnf updates caused crontabs to be restricted.  Reboot to last kernel fixes that.

Re: disk encryption

2016-01-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/14/2016 08:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a hindrance and would like to remove it. Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install the system rat

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > # rpm -qi fedora-release Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show you the installation date, you are better off looking for some f

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:48:58 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: > >> --- > >> if [ -n $R_PROFILE_USER ];then > >> unset R_PROFILE_USER > >> fi > >> > >> > >> What is the correct way to unset for buil

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:13 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 15 January 2016 at 14:01, arnaud gaboury wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:48 PM, arnaud gaboury >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >>> wrote: On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wr

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread James Hogarth
On 15 January 2016 at 14:01, arnaud gaboury wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:48 PM, arnaud gaboury > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: I need to unset one of my environment variable to su

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/2016 05:34 AM, Christopher Ross wrote: > > On 14/01/16 17:43, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was >> installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set >> correctly on the machine

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:48 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: >>> I need to unset one of my environment variable to successfully build >>> a >>> rpm package. >>> >>> I added this

Re: synergy not working, might be firewall related

2016-01-15 Thread thibaut noah
also to be noted i have a network bridge on my desktop (the fedora distrib running windows vm), it may change something about ip ? 2016-01-12 18:41 GMT+01:00 Rick Stevens : > On 01/12/2016 04:11 AM, thibaut noah wrote: > >> Hello, i'm trying to get synergy to work between fedora and my >> vm/macb

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 19:45 +0100, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:48 +0100, Tom H wrote: > > > > > Assuming that your local network is 192.168.1.0 and your local > > > domainname is "poc". > > > > > > 1) If you run dnsma

Re: synergy not working, might be firewall related

2016-01-15 Thread thibaut noah
There is so many "zone"s in the firewall graphic interface how do you know which one to use? Home is the equivalent of local? 2016-01-12 18:46 GMT+01:00 Rick Stevens : > On 01/12/2016 09:41 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 01/12/2016 04:11 AM, thibaut noah wrote: >> >>> Hello, i'm trying to get sy

Re: OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-15 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 14:05 -0600, Dan Mossor wrote: > Also, it would be prudent to rotate your keys, as this bug has been > present since 2009. "Rotating your keys," sounds kind of humourous. ;-) This shows just one advantage of doing fresh installs, instead of updates. Those of use who do fr

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: >> I need to unset one of my environment variable to successfully build >> a >> rpm package. >> >> I added this in my .spec file, but apparently it doesn't work: >> >> --

Re: Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:42 +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: > I need to unset one of my environment variable to successfully build > a > rpm package. > > I added this in my .spec file, but apparently it doesn't work: > > --- > if [ -n $R_PROFILE_US

Unset environment variable when building rpm

2016-01-15 Thread arnaud gaboury
I need to unset one of my environment variable to successfully build a rpm package. I added this in my .spec file, but apparently it doesn't work: --- if [ -n $R_PROFILE_USER ];then unset R_PROFILE_USER fi ---

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Christopher Ross
On 14/01/16 17:43, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly on the machine when it was installed)? # rpm -qi fedora-release Name: fedora-release Version : 22 Release

Re: disk encryption

2016-01-15 Thread Chris Murphy
Slightly off topic: Android and Cyanogenmod have an encryption option, it converts the user data volume in place, and its reversible. Does anyone know what they're leveraging to do this? If it were only in Google's Android I might guess it's one of those proprietary parts, but it's definitely in C