Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Ron Yorston
Matthew Miller wrote: >While I can't disagree with the general sentiment, I certainly hope Fedora >isn't being pigeonholed into "bleeding edge". Fedora also certainly "just >works". Except when it doesn't. In the week since F29 was released I've been bitten by cron not working (1639381) and web

Re: Xfce 4.13 took it on the chin in FC29

2018-11-06 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:13 AM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 11/3/18 11:33 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Four machines upgraded to Fedora 29, two to go. The > > last two are servers, so they are going to wait a bit. > > > > :-) > > >

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread luca paganotti
Hi, that's what I did, I tried centos, but more: during a consultancy assignment I got few years ago I had to work with an IT service provider that supported (and supports nowadays) only centos and opensuse within its cloud and virtualization services. I must say that I had no problem at all when

Re: Security issue

2018-11-06 Thread Doug
On 11/06/2018 08:49 PM, finn via users wrote: Why wouldn't you regular review your task manager, system settings etc. to confirm your machine has been not comprised ? (Here, few things which you can do to confirm there isn't a breach in your system). 1. Failed logins: /var/log/messages 2.

Security issue

2018-11-06 Thread finn via users
Why wouldn't you regular review your task manager, system settings etc. to confirm your machine has been not comprised ? (Here, few things which you can do to confirm there isn't a breach in your system). 1. Failed logins: /var/log/messages 2. last, w, uptime 3. /etc/passwd changed? 4. fuser for

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:32:19PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > And, for that matter, each distro attracts a different type of user > because of that different character. Fedora attracts users who like > being on the bleeding edge, others pick Ubuntu because It Just Works > and so on. And, that's

Re: DNF Doesn't Complete

2018-11-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:05:00PM +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > > terminate called after throwing an instance of > 'libdnf::File::CloseException' > what(): Cannot close file: >

Re: VPN Interface not Remaining Active With Firewall?

2018-11-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/7/18 5:43 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >     When I start one of the two vpn definitions, that have been in > networkmanager for > years and used to work fine (I haven't used them in quite a while), it starts > and I get > a pop-up message saying that interface tun0 has been activated in the

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/6/18 2:02 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > On 11/06/2018 01:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 11/6/18 12:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >>> >>> On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Not certain

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 01:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/6/18 12:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Not certain why these options are more readily visible. I probably should have dug deeper

[389-users] Re: Unable to enable SSL using ldapmodify on 389-Directory/1.3.7.5

2018-11-06 Thread Mark Reynolds
On 11/6/18 4:43 PM, Jason Jenkins wrote: Hi I’m in the process of migrating from 389-Directory/1.2.11.15 -> 389-Directory/1.3.7.5. I’m trying to automate the setup. I’m finding that I can no longer enable SSL via the command line using ldapmodify. For V1.3.7.5 setup I followed

[389-users] Unable to enable SSL using ldapmodify on 389-Directory/1.3.7.5

2018-11-06 Thread Jason Jenkins
Hi I’m in the process of migrating from 389-Directory/1.2.11.15 -> 389-Directory/1.3.7.5. I’m trying to automate the setup. I’m finding that I can no longer enable SSL via the command line using ldapmodify. For V1.3.7.5 setup I followed

VPN Interface not Remaining Active With Firewall?

2018-11-06 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     When I start one of the two vpn definitions, that have been in networkmanager for years and used to work fine (I haven't used them in quite a while), it starts and I get a pop-up message saying that interface tun0 has been activated in the firewall default zone (being

Re: Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

2018-11-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/10/18 7:35 am, Stephen Morris wrote: On 29/9/18 1:25 am, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/28/18 11:49 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: I switched my wife definition in networkmanager back to "Store password for this user only (encrypted)" and that put a uuid entry into the maps area, while I was

Re: httpd 2.4.35 update

2018-11-06 Thread YOUNG, MICHAEL A.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > Is httpd in Fedora 28 going to be upgraded to 2.4.35 any time soon? > > Have the in-house security compliance team pushing for it. The only security issue fixed in 2.4.35 seems to be CVE-2018-11763 in HTTP/2 which Fedora provides in the separate

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/6/18 12:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell >> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Not certain why these options are more readily visible. I probably >>> should have dug deeper but after a bunch of

Re: httpd 2.4.35 update

2018-11-06 Thread Terry Polzin
Fedora 29 was GOLD last week. On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:52 PM Chris Kottaridis wrote: > Is httpd in Fedora 28 going to be upgraded to 2.4.35 any time soon? > > Have the in-house security compliance team pushing for it. > > Thanks > Chris K > ___ >

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Not certain why these options are more readily visible. I probably should have dug deeper but after a bunch of online docs showing no options I just figured there weren't any. Paul

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/6/18 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell > wrote: > >> Rick: >> >> Thanks for reply. I went through a bunch on man pages that do not list >> the -f option. After getting your email, I went looking for a bunch more >> and finally found

httpd 2.4.35 update

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Kottaridis
Is httpd in Fedora 28 going to be upgraded to 2.4.35 any time soon? Have the in-house security compliance team pushing for it. Thanks Chris K ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread George Avrunin
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Rick: > > Thanks for reply. I went through a bunch on man pages that do not list > the -f option. After getting your email, I went looking for a bunch more > and finally found one that had the -f and -d option. > > I note that

Re: NFS acting weird?

2018-11-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Nov2018 09:57, Tom Horsley wrote: >I've got filesystems hosted on centos 7. They are mounted >(nfs4) on my newly configured fedora 29 desktop. > >I'm debugging an executable that lives on the NFS filesystem. >I make changes and recompile over on the centos system. > >I try testing the newly

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 09:56 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/5/18 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: ToddAndMargo: I am struggling with this one as well. To the best of my googling, it seems that the "sync" command needs to be done before clicking "safely remove" (or whatever). Documentation also says

Re: NFS acting weird?

2018-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 17:46:58 + Rick Stevens wrote: > > I try testing the newly compiled executable on fedora 29 > > and it acts totally strange in ways that make no sense. > > That's singularly useless in letting us help you. Be specific as to > what didn't work. The behavior is singularly

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/5/18 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > ToddAndMargo: > > I am struggling with this one as well. To the best of my googling, it > seems that the "sync" command needs to be done before clicking "safely > remove" (or whatever). Documentation also says that "sudo umount > " should do it, but

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/5/18 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > ToddAndMargo: > > I am struggling with this one as well. To the best of my googling, it > seems that the "sync" command needs to be done before clicking "safely > remove" (or whatever). Documentation also says that "sudo umount > " should do it, but

Re: NFS acting weird?

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/6/18 6:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've got filesystems hosted on centos 7. They are mounted > (nfs4) on my newly configured fedora 29 desktop. > > I'm debugging an executable that lives on the NFS filesystem. > I make changes and recompile over on the centos system. > > I try testing the

Re: Serious F29 Problem - For me!

2018-11-06 Thread ja
On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 12:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:34:09 + > ja wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen this problem or has some suggestion for > > better ways of trouble shooting? > > I've been having serious issues debugging programs built > on NFS filesystems. I

[389-users] Re: Allow filters through PTA Plugin

2018-11-06 Thread Mark Reynolds
On 11/6/18 4:04 AM, LHEUREUX Bernard wrote: Hi all, I'm pretty new in the usage of 389-DS and I would like to know if some of you could help me achieve a feature that would: Have a 389-Directory server in front of AD Domain Controllers acting as "ldap proxy" to protect access to the DC but

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread William Oliver
I jump around a lot. I usually reinstall my OS every five or six months. I do it primarily as a security issue -- if my machine has been compromised and I don't know it, at least every few months I *know* I'm clean. What I've found is that the "pain" of installation varies from release to

Re: Serious F29 Problem - For me!

2018-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:34:09 + ja wrote: > Has anyone else seen this problem or has some suggestion for > better ways of trouble shooting? I've been having serious issues debugging programs built on NFS filesystems. I can't point to a specific thing yet, but I'm really suspicious of NFS at

Re: Testing gnuplot with libcerf

2018-11-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/06/2018 12:17 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Most languages have a math library containing a pi constant that is as precise as the computer can store.  How is using a trig function going to be more accurate? This was from back in the early 1980s, when languages didn't have those constants

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread wwp
Hello luca, On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 08:43:35 +0100 luca paganotti wrote: > Hi, I switched from fedora to debian few years ago after about ten years of > fedora distros usage and now happy with my linux boxes. The main reason was > the pain I had at each new fedora release, the upgrade process to

Serious F29 Problem - For me!

2018-11-06 Thread ja
I have a fully working (Clean Installed) F29 test machine which seems OK for some users (fred) who has a very small home directory. User home directories are NFS mounted from a Centos 7.5.1804 server I am using lightdm & XFCE on both F28 & F29 I login to F29 as me (ja) and the display locks up

NFS acting weird?

2018-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
I've got filesystems hosted on centos 7. They are mounted (nfs4) on my newly configured fedora 29 desktop. I'm debugging an executable that lives on the NFS filesystem. I make changes and recompile over on the centos system. I try testing the newly compiled executable on fedora 29 and it acts

Re: F28 help with firfox-tls-proxy

2018-11-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/6/18 10:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > and then i 1st went to spectrum.ieee.org then back to mmn.com and it worked. > > i am going to have to set up to one of the free vpns > > what client should i install NetworkManager should have all you need.  Depends on the VPN.  My VPN is openVPN

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 06/11/2018 alle 12.18 +0100, luca paganotti ha scritto: > happy to know you hadn't any problem, Emm... hadn't any problem it's too much ... sometime i had problems and sometimes I had to use "esoteric solution" to get around them ... but The experience gained in these years

Re: F28 help with firfox-tls-proxy

2018-11-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/6/18 7:23 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 11/5/18 8:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/5/18 11:23 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 11/5/18 12:29 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: What is the message from Firefox for that one?  It doesn't redirect to https, so there shouldn't be any ssl messages.

(F28) Lost touchpad scrolling Synaptics

2018-11-06 Thread tonynelson
Touchpad edge scrolling had been working with libinput. I installed xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy-1.9.0-7.fc28.x86_64 to get back having typing disable the touchpad momentarily (y'all know why). For a little while, touchpad scrolling worked properly, and then it got erratic so that I thought it

Re: F28 help with firfox-tls-proxy

2018-11-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/5/18 8:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/5/18 11:23 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 11/5/18 12:29 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: What is the message from Firefox for that one?  It doesn't redirect to https, so there shouldn't be any ssl messages. it went very quickly to https. just now, i

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 15:09, vipul kumar via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm a Debian user(from almost 3 years). And I've question Why should I > choose Fedora over Debian as a my operating system? > > Well, Fedora users have concerns over the long-term

devel changes :: recommendation for changes

2018-11-06 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Starting with f28 there were some changes in glibc components (and i think not only that) .. so, regarding tirpc contents now should be enough to add -I/usr/include/tirpc ? what is the difference between tirpc and ntirpc ? can ntirpc replace tirpc ? also i have some autoconf problems : link

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 16:11 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 10:59 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > > > Fedora also ships or gives you access to a number of packages that are > > > not > > > "ideologically pure". (NVIDIA drivers and the like.) It depends on > > >

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread luca paganotti
Dear Dario, happy to know you hadn't any problem, unfortunately that was not my case and often for this reason: even if I was keeping only the two last kernel versions, my boot partition always suffered, in case of updating the whole system, of disk space lacking for the new release. I've tried to

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Germano Massullo
Il giorno mar 6 nov 2018 alle ore 11:55 Dario Lesca ha scritto: > > Il giorno mar, 06/11/2018 alle 08.43 +0100, luca paganotti ha scritto: > > he main reason was the pain I had at each new fedora release, the upgrade > process to new versions often failed and I had to "rebuild" the offended >

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:23 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 10:59 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> >> Debian tends to distribute older versions of packages, where Fedora >> ships "bleeding edge" versions. It depends what your needs are. Do >> you need a known quantity

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 11/6/18 2:18 AM, vipul kumar via users wrote: > Greetings, > I'm a Debian user(from almost 3 years). And I've question Why should I choose > Fedora over Debian as a my operating system? It sound like starting a flame war between 2 distro :) The Fedora distribution is made for enthusiastic

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 06/11/2018 alle 08.43 +0100, luca paganotti ha scritto: > he main reason was the pain I had at each new fedora release, the > upgrade process to new versions often failed and I had to "rebuild" > the offended machine(s). I use fedora from FC1, reinstalled on my old notebook from

[389-users] Allow filters through PTA Plugin

2018-11-06 Thread LHEUREUX Bernard
Hi all, I'm pretty new in the usage of 389-DS and I would like to know if some of you could help me achieve a feature that would: Have a 389-Directory server in front of AD Domain Controllers acting as "ldap proxy" to protect access to the DC but allowing to authenticate users with their LDAP