Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:29 PM linux guy wrote: > I would like to change the grub boot parameters for the kernels installed on > my F32 workstation. > > Specifically, I would like to add the following to the kernel boot > parameters: "rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau > nv

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-08 Thread linux guy
Thank you. On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:07 PM Mike Wright wrote: > On 6/8/20 6:28 PM, linux guy wrote: > > I would like to change the grub boot parameters for the kernels installed > > on my F32 workstation. > > > > Specifically, I would like to add the following to the kernel boot > > parameters:

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:02:02 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" wrote On Monday, June 8, 2020 12:41:03 PM EDT R. G. Newbury wrote: On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable selinux as

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-08 2:42 p.m.>Samuel Sieb wrote> On 6/8/20 9:41 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:>> On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote:>>> On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: Oddly 1) I was running as root... so*who/what*  was the 'unauthorized sender'? and>>> That sounds like a l

Re: How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-08 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/8/20 6:28 PM, linux guy wrote: I would like to change the grub boot parameters for the kernels installed on my F32 workstation. Specifically, I would like to add the following to the kernel boot parameters: "rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1" How d

e: Hourly Error ,> Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-08 2:42 p.m.,Jonathan Billings wrote On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:41:03PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: Wow! So running as root causes error messages? Pull the other leg, it has bells on it! And why? Because this was immediately after a clean install to a brand new drive, while I was st

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/8/20 4:14 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote: if it would work in a modern environment.) OpenSUSE's KDE provides Dolphin PLUS a separate app that looks and works like Dolphin, but has root access after you supply a password. I expect it's just a different desktop file that launches Dolphin using k

Re: Mount options for mostly-offline drives

2020-06-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 10:57:10AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a powered USB dock with a couple of SATA drives configured as > RAID1, and used only for nightly backups. The (minimal) manual for the > dock tells me it will power down after 30 minutes idle time, however I > don't see t

How do I change the grub kernel boot parameters in F32 ?

2020-06-08 Thread linux guy
I would like to change the grub boot parameters for the kernels installed on my F32 workstation. Specifically, I would like to add the following to the kernel boot parameters: "rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1" How do I do this ? Thanks

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 11:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Many years ago I used to always login as root because it was > "easier". But then I realized it was unnecessary, somewhat > hazardous, and tended to cause weird issues if I wasn't careful or > even if I was. When I first explored Linux, I di

Re: lightnight not set properly

2020-06-08 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 00:13 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > My light night is not set properly. > i.e., the sunset/sunrise is wrong while the machine has the correct > time. > > I guess that there is a geolocalisation missing. Did you set your timezone? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 16:13 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > How is it that "a picture is worth a thousand words" yet current > GUI's hide important details. For years we had folders that all > looked the same even when they reside on very different > filesystems. Why do icons for disks oft

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 19:14:52 -0400 Doug McGarrett wrote: > Now to the question for you: CERT seems to mean Community Emergency > Response Team. Is this what you mean, or am I (probably) > missing something? https://www.us-cert.gov/ ___ users mailing l

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
ks and works like Dolphin, but has root access after you supply a password. Now to the question for you: CERT seems to mean Community Emergency Response Team. Is this what you mean, or am I (probably) missing something? --doug, WA2SAY {^_^} On 20200608 10:54:21, Tom Horsley wrote: I

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread jdow
malware that exists is the interface between the screen and the keyboard making a typo or a thinko. {^_^} On 20200608 10:54:21, Tom Horsley wrote: I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list of exploits that certainly must exist given all the horrors expressed about running as root

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 15:00, Doug H. wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list > > of exploits that certainly must exist given all the > > horrors expressed about running as root. > > No one has ever been able to tell m

lightnight not set properly

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am missing something. My light night is not set properly. i.e., the sunset/sunrise is wrong while the machine has the correct time. I guess that there is a geolocalisation missing. Thanks === Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Monday, June 8, 2020 12:41:03 PM EDT R. G. Newbury wrote: > On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: > >On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >> It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable > >> selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I >

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 01:54:21PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list > of exploits that certainly must exist given all the > horrors expressed about running as root. > > No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it. Running a graphical se

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Devin Prater via users
You know, the fact about needing to remember how you get somewhere is interesting to me. I could “see” that as a mouse user, having to remember visual interfaces and where to click when could get confusing. Perhaps we blind people have our own little command line, even in visual interfaces. We u

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/08/2020 12:51 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I often have a window open using "su" is that less desirable than using sudo?   Bob Same here. I never put myself in wheel because I always know the root password and don't need sudo. I can't say that I always have a terminal open as root, but I do

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 13:59, Beartooth wrote: > In another thread, Bob Marcan wrote: > > > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > > GUI for everything. > > I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. > > Well, what follows seems typical enough to be of possibl

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/8/20 11:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-06-08 14:40, Samuel Sieb wrote: But then I realized it was unnecessary, somewhat hazardous, and tended to cause weird issues if I wasn't careful or even if I was.  "sudo -i" is easy and convenient.  I always have several terminal windows open wi

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-08 14:40, Samuel Sieb wrote: But then I realized it was unnecessary, somewhat hazardous, and tended to cause weird issues if I wasn't careful or even if I was.  "sudo -i" is easy and convenient.  I always have several terminal windows open with that running for the various root tas

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/8/20 9:41 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: Oddly 1) I was running as root... so*who/what*  was the 'unauthorized sender'? and That sounds like a likely cause right there.  Why are you doing that? Wow! So

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/8/20 9:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: It's not a file. It appears to be an lvm volume, kind of like a partition. It's mounted at /.snapshot, so what does "ls -a /.snapshot" show you? Now it gets weird. I tried that command both as

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/08/2020 11:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list of exploits that certainly must exist given all the horrors expressed about running as root. No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it. This is because the problem with running as root

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list > of exploits that certainly must exist given all the > horrors expressed about running as root. > > No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it. Don't know about expolits, but

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Tom Horsley
I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list of exploits that certainly must exist given all the horrors expressed about running as root. No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:41:03PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Wow! So running as root causes error messages? Pull the other leg, it has > bells on it! > > And why? Because this was immediately after a clean install to a brand new > drive, while I was still running upgrades and transferring file

Re: package perl-mod_perl

2020-06-08 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:34 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Sorry again, > > But mod_perl does not deliver > perl-ModPerl::MN MN? Or MM? The latter is in mod_perl-devel. Here is the way to search for perl modules in Fedora: $ dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'perl()' So for example: $ dnf repoquery

Re: package perl-mod_perl

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Sorry again, But mod_perl does not deliver perl-ModPerl::MN === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 2

Re: package perl-mod_perl

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks very much I looked for it, but did not find it, I tried: perl-ModPerl ModPerl Sorry. Thanks again. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot d

Re: package perl-mod_perl

2020-06-08 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > mod_perl-2.0.11.tar.gz (rpmbuild -bb perl-mod_perl.spec) > I get [snip] > Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 38. This means that you are missing some package that is required to build this module; i.e., you need more BuildRe

package perl-mod_perl

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I tried to build the package mod_perl-2.0.11.tar.gz (rpmbuild -bb perl-mod_perl.spec) I get Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.yb4y2z + umask 022 + cd /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd mod_perl-2.0.11 + /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL --installdirs=vendor '--optimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wal

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Devin Prater via users
Many blind people use the command line on Linux, mainly because the GUI isn’t all that great with a screen reader. Although web services can be hard to use, especially when TUI’s with “fancy” use of Unicode box drawing characters make things overly verbose and complex. But there is this thing wh

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:39:28 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > GUI for everything. > I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. :-) I gave that a fresh thread, called Interfaces. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Powe

Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
In another thread, Bob Marcan wrote: > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > GUI for everything. > I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. Well, what follows seems typical enough to be of possible interest. I've been around long enough to know o

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 17:13 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > > > But to list it, the command is "dir". > > > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > > I cut my teeth with 'ls' and never use 'dir', but that's by the way. > > poc > > > I was talking about Windows, not Unix. :-) Ah, that wasn'

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I forgot to do that. That should never be necessary. Well obviously, it WAS

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 10:42 AM, I Beartooth wrote: >> Going into the GUI, right clicking and choosing priorities, I see: > > What gui? Right-clicking on what? Sorry. Mate. I clicked on the desktop icon for Computer, then Filesystem, de

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Bob Marcan
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:37:38 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 09:39 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:51:54 -0400 > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wro

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 04:40, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:51:54 -0400 > Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > > Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 09:39 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:51:54 -0400 > Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > On Sun,

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 16:45 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a > > > file. You could think of it simply as a directory entry,

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:51:54 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > >>> An inode is

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 12:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > That sounds like a likely cause right there. Why are you doing that? Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this. Then stop doing that. But I want to. Then you'll have to learn put up with the pain. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7