Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:31 AM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: >> >> As far as I know only root is locked by default (at least on >> Fedora Workstation). Aka you can't su to root. But you are able to >> use Switch to any other (not locked) User, as usual. > > Is there a w

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-12 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 08:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > In the event anyone is interested. The short answer is > > Unless a file or directory has a "FILE transition rule" defined in > the selinux policy it will inherit the context of the directory where > it resides. The file .fetchmailrc has

Re: Canon CanoScan LIDE 300 Problem of Detection

2019-07-12 Thread das
'sane-find-scanner' is getting it. << [dd@mamdo docs]$ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scann

Re: VLC midi support

2019-07-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-07-12 19:07:07, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I found an old 3.5' diskette with some midi files from back in '96. Does anyone know what I have to install in VLC to listen to them? VLC plays .mid files here, FC28, with vlc and vlc-core installed. --

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-07-12 15:47:58, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Hello all, There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have been removed / stopped / taken

Re: tracer told me to systemctl restart dbus-broker - bad move

2019-07-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-07-12 19:03:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Whenever I do an dnf update, I run tracer to see what action I need to take.  This morning it informed me to run: sudo systemctl restart dbus-broker I did and it seemed to crash everything.  Lost my gui, went back to the console log.  Had to power o

Re: tracer told me to systemctl restart dbus-broker - bad move

2019-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:03:15 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > sudo systemctl restart dbus-broker I suspect that's very similar to systemd itself crashing (which I have had happen once or twice). Once it can't talk everything goes to hell. I had to power off rather than a clean reboot when that hap

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-12 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-07-12 at 15:47 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo > nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so > that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have > been removed / stopped

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/11/19 4:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/11/19 3:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> I was of the understanding that creating a new file should get the >>> appropriate contexts, the same ones that using restorecon would set. >> I see the same thing.  And I had the same expectation. > Same here. > >

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/12/2019 03:47 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Hello all, There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have been removed / stopped / ta

VLC midi support

2019-07-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I found an old 3.5' diskette with some midi files from back in '96. Does anyone know what I have to install in VLC to listen to them? thanks ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedo

tracer told me to systemctl restart dbus-broker - bad move

2019-07-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Whenever I do an dnf update, I run tracer to see what action I need to take.  This morning it informed me to run: sudo systemctl restart dbus-broker I did and it seemed to crash everything.  Lost my gui, went back to the console log.  Had to power off and start anew.

Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Hello all, There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have been removed / stopped / taken away? So how do I gain the ability to work on fi