Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

> 1. Open /etc/sysctl.conf, append a command > "/net.ipv4/tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9". I'm very skeptical. The default on my stock machine is 100. You can check your own with: sysctl -A | grep tcp | grep limit In the absence of better documentation, I'm guessing that opening

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

On 08/09/2016 09:15 PM, Dave Close wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: "journalctl -t cupsd" gives me a reasonable amount of details. I assume setting LogLevel to debug in cupsd.conf would give you more. Well, it turns out I can get some data from the journal. I find it misleading that the cupsd.conf

Re: Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

Yetjust another reason why I love Linux?!the patching system. Its on POINT! when it comes to catching and preventing these kinds of things?.this community handles its BUSINESS!...LOL!On Aug 10, 2016 12:17 AM, stan wrote: > > Hi, > > There is a

Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

Hi, There is a severe security hole in TCP on the linux system. Here are some extracts from an abstract of the paper about the weakness. "Instead, they identified a subtle flaw (in the form of 'side channels') in the Linux software that enables attackers to infer the TCP sequence numbers

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

Samuel Sieb wrote: >"journalctl -t cupsd" gives me a reasonable amount of details. I assume >setting LogLevel to debug in cupsd.conf would give you more. Well, it turns out I can get some data from the journal. I find it misleading that the cupsd.conf file says the error log goes to "syslog"

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

On 08/07/2016 05:38 PM, Dave Close wrote: But without more details, I'm stuck trying to fix this problem. None of the files in /var/log/cups have been updated in a year or more. So just where is this "error_log file"? "journalctl -t cupsd" gives me a reasonable amount of details. I assume

Re: setting a parameter for a driver that's built-in

On 08/09/2016 05:35 PM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: [chris@f24m ~]$ sudo modprobe -r hid-magicmouse emulate_3button=false modprobe: FATAL: Module hid_magicmouse is builtin. OK... so I did it by inserting

Re: setting a parameter for a driver that's built-in

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > [chris@f24m ~]$ sudo modprobe -r hid-magicmouse emulate_3button=false > modprobe: FATAL: Module hid_magicmouse is builtin. > > OK... so I did it by inserting "hid-magicmouse.emulate_3button=0" to > /etc/default/grub

Re: setting a parameter for a driver that's built-in

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > So I've got a driver that's built-into the kernel: > > $ grep -i magic /boot/config-4.6.4-301.fc24.x86_64 > CONFIG_HID_MAGICMOUSE=y > > But by default it emulates a 3 button mouse. For whatever reason, > xinput is of

Re: setting a parameter for a driver that's built-in

[chris@f24m ~]$ sudo modprobe -r hid-magicmouse emulate_3button=false modprobe: FATAL: Module hid_magicmouse is builtin. OK... so I did it by inserting "hid-magicmouse.emulate_3button=0" to /etc/default/grub within GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= and then created a new grub.cfg and rebooted. And now I can

setting a parameter for a driver that's built-in

So I've got a driver that's built-into the kernel: $ grep -i magic /boot/config-4.6.4-301.fc24.x86_64 CONFIG_HID_MAGICMOUSE=y But by default it emulates a 3 button mouse. For whatever reason, xinput is of no help on Wayland, no matter what I do with set-button-map, the middle button always

Re: missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:15:25 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 08/09/2016 11:02 AM, stan wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:09:54 -0500 > > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> So, it appears to be looking for libpcre.so.3. However, this is not > >> available

Re: missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

On 08/09/2016 11:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks, very much! I will try renaming and seeing what happens! I hope you don't mean renaming the existing libpcre library on your computer. That will break a lot of things. Just add a soft link for the name you want. -- users mailing list

Re: missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

On 08/09/2016 11:02 AM, stan wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:09:54 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: So, it appears to be looking for libpcre.so.3. However, this is not available anywhere in Fedora. I don't think it is available *anywhere*. If you look here,

Re: missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:02:07 -0700 stan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:09:54 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to get Ricin from https://ricin.im/ going, but I > > get the following when I try to run

Re: missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:09:54 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to get Ricin from https://ricin.im/ going, but I > get the following when I try to run the binary: > > > ./ricin-0.2.1.app > /tmp/.mount_Lz83Ps >

Re: bluetooth pairs, but won't connect

On 08/09/2016 04:19 AM, Martin Bříza wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:32:34 +0200, sean darcy wrote: On F23 I can pair with a bluetooth speaker, but can't connect. [bluetooth]# info 70:B3:D5:4B:98:64 Device 70:B3:D5:4B:98:64 Name: MP Tube Alias: MP Tube Class:

missing libpcre.so.3 (for Ricin)

Hi, I have been trying to get Ricin from https://ricin.im/ going, but I get the following when I try to run the binary: ./ricin-0.2.1.app /tmp/.mount_Lz83Ps /tmp/.mount_Lz83Ps/usr/bin/ricin.wrapper /tmp/.mount_Lz83Ps/ricin.desktop zenity, kdialog, Xdialog missing. Skipping

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

On Sunday, August 7, 2016 5:38:44 PM EDT Dave Close wrote: > I just want to find the error log. It looks like all the logging now goes to the journal. It also looks like the verbosity of logging is affected by the LogLevel setting in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. So I'd say your answers, if

Re: F24 gnome login failure

On 8 August 2016 at 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On my F24 laptop I typically run in a Mate environment. > Yesterday I tried to login to a gnome environment. > After entering my password there is a little pause, > screen blanks, and a fresh login screen comes back. > > Looking at

Re: bluetooth pairs, but won't connect

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:32:34 +0200, sean darcy wrote: On F23 I can pair with a bluetooth speaker, but can't connect. [bluetooth]# info 70:B3:D5:4B:98:64 Device 70:B3:D5:4B:98:64 Name: MP Tube Alias: MP Tube Class: 0x240404 Icon:

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

On 08/08/2016 10:24 PM, Dave Close wrote: > I wrote: > >> I'm getting an error trying to print with Fedora 24 x86_64. The syslog >> message says, "Job stopped due to filter errors; please consult the >> error_log file for details." The CUPS interface on port 631 says, >> "Filter failed". The

Re: F24 gnome login failure

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:01:35AM +0200, fedora wrote: > Have you also checked in the /etc/pam.d/* ? Your mate desktop will probably > use a different pam-auth into the system from the one gnome will use. > I remember that way back in the past I always had to change at least one > pam.d file