Re: why does "ls -l /usr/bin/ping" render in color normally used for setuid executables?

2020-01-04 Thread Andy Blanchard
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 14:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > yes, i twigged to that shortly after asking ... i was just thrown > that that seems to be the only /usr/bin executable with that property, > which confused me. I've got a different colour scheme that includes separate colour combinations fo

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 09:04, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Sigh... > > I am sorely disappointed. You shouldn't be. An enterpise level RAID-able 8TB HDD costs perhaps $200 with large volume discount, so allowing for some redundancy and hardware failures your chosen provider will need

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 08:49, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > How about a budget of USD$100 per year? I am increasing my budget from > USD$50 per year. I doubt you're going to find a reputable and reliable provider that will do 50TB for less than $150 per *month*. Might be worth checkout

Re: upgrade from F28 to F29

2018-12-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 18:22, Antonio M wrote: > > during an upgrade of one of my systems I get: > > Errore: > Problema 1: package AdobeReader_ita-8.1.7-1.i486 requires /bin/basename, but > none of the providers can be installed > - coreutils-8.29-7.fc28.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade r

Re: HTTPD shutting down every night

2018-11-12 Thread Andy Blanchard
Of that bunch, autodld (downloading RPMs) and rkhunter (scanning the filesystem, taking checksums, and looking for changes) are both passive, certwatch probably shouldn't be updating certificates every 24 hours (but could do, so worth checking!), and logwatch just parses the existing logfiles - it

Re: HTTPD shutting down every night

2018-11-11 Thread Andy Blanchard
Just upgraded a box to 29, and I've spotted the following in the httpd section of my Logwatch email: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.32), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\G%({ <-- HERE .*?})?./ at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/

Re: HTTPD shutting down every night

2018-11-07 Thread Andy Blanchard
On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 10:40, Scott van Looy via users wrote: > Since the upgrade to F29 my HTTPD has been shutting down around 3am every > night. I’d like to try and investigate why, but the only thing in the log is: > [mpm_event:notice] [pid 1096508:tid 140027704744192] AH00492: caught > SIGWIN

Re: And F28 - Re: Update problem: soundtouch (F27)

2018-07-24 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 24 July 2018 at 11:16, Frank Elsner wrote: > so I have both installed. Is it safe to remove the gstreamer-* packages and > only keep the gstreamer1-* packages? Assuming all dependencies are declared then dnf should prevent you from removing the gstreamer0 packages if anything needs them and te

Re: And F28 - Re: Update problem: soundtouch (F27)

2018-07-24 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 24 July 2018 at 10:28, Frank Elsner wrote: > Problem: problem with installed package > gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-41.fc27.i686 > - package gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-41.fc27.i686 requires > libSoundTouch.so.1, but none of the providers can be installed There's your proble

Re: And F28 - Re: Update problem: soundtouch (F27)

2018-07-24 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 24 July 2018 at 08:51, Frank Elsner wrote: > I'm waiting now for 5 days. Any idea how long it will take? > > --Frank All the necessary packages seem to have been pushed on the 20th, at least for me - I'm now on soundtouch v2.0.0-3.fc27. There do seem to be others with problems though, mostly

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 6 January 2018 at 21:39, Beartooth wrote: > Hmmm... I get > > [btth@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i iridium > iridium-browser-62.0-1.fc27.x86_64 > [btth@localhost ~]$ which iridium > /usr/bin/which: no iridium in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/ > sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/btth/.loca

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 6 January 2018 at 18:27, Beartooth wrote: > Here's the accursed address it foists on me: > > http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/?uc=20171228&ad=appfocus1&source=d- > lp0- > bb8&uid=911a5330-5a79-48c7-9194-5d37fac4d6cd&i_id=converter_100.3&page=newtab& That looks really sketchy. A qui

Re: F26 rsyslog does not start after update

2017-11-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 3 November 2017 at 11:43, Cristian Sava wrote: > Hi all, > > After updating F26: > rsyslog > systemd > systemd-libs > systemd-pam > systemd-udev > > syslog does not start! I spotted this problem too. Apparently the latest version of rsyslog (v8.30.0-3.fc26) is dependant on the latest ver

Re: Failed Delta RPMs increased 10.7 MB of updates to 15.9 MB -

2017-09-21 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 21 September 2017 at 08:47, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > This is the first time I've observed this happening, delta rpm did the > opposite of what I expected, dunno if I have a problem in this system or if > it is in the data received? I thought it interesting if nothing else ... Noticed that too.

Re: It takes ages to unmount an external disk on F26

2017-07-11 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 11 July 2017 at 21:08, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/11/2017 12:55 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> Thanks, Tom. The problem appears to be caused by the file manager, as >> unmounting via terminal is immediate. How can it be fixed? > > > Filing a bug against thunar might be your best bet. +1 on the bug r

Re: Modern webmail client

2017-06-06 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 6 June 2017 at 20:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Then that means they prefer squirrelmail, right? So you might >> as well keep using it or they'll hate the replacement just >> as irrationally :-). > > > I would second this. Someone that prefers webmail *on a phone* over a > native app is likely to

Re: sed/regex question.. missing something simple...

2017-05-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 May 2017 at 22:27, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a file.. with a bunch of lines looking like: > > $bookVariable['asu']['Fall-2016']='link'; > $bookVariable['lehmancuny']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['uvu']['Fall-2016']='1'; > $bookVariable['wmich']['Summer II 2017']='1'; > $

Re: Fedora command for motherboard clock condition (from: f24 boot fails; need help).

2017-05-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 18 May 2017 at 23:25, William wrote: > Fedora seems to have a huge number of commands. Does Fedora have a command > to report the condition of a full-sized tower motherboard battery? If yes, > what is that command? I don't think there's any way to check on the status of a motherboard battery

Re: [OT] bash help

2017-02-20 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 20 February 2017 at 09:18, T_POL wrote: > > not sure about that but I think the "cd" command executes indeed > but it's valid only for the scripts' environment and not for the > shell you started the script from. *ding* *ding* *ding* We have a winner! Shells execute in their own instance of

Re: Shell question

2016-12-28 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 December 2016 at 22:49, JD wrote: > Reading lines from 2 files in such a way that each iteration > lets me read the next line from each file so that the items > read from each file are in sync as far as line number is concerned. > Is this "doable"? Maybe a little out of the box, but far sim

Re: dnf going crazy?

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 7 December 2016 at 11:39, Andras Simon wrote: > Are you sure about this? It seems to work here with > bash-completion-2.1-8.20150513git1950590.fc23.noarch Working here with bash-completion-2.4-1.fc24.noarch too, with and without paths before the package. -- Andy The only person to have all

Re: dnf going crazy?

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 7 December 2016 at 10:18, Tom Horsley wrote: > When I remove it, dnf doesn't try to remove > any other packages, so apparently nothing > depends on it. > > Why on earth does it want to install it then? My guess is that dnf itself is wanting to install it: $ rpm -q --whatrecommends bash-comple

Re: anacron

2016-12-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 3 December 2016 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > using anacrontab weekly: > This is what I have in my anacrontab file: > 7 15 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > It seems that it run will be run 7 days after the date in > /var/spool/anacron/cron.wee

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 19 September 2016 at 22:38, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I did: > systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.service > (no error) > but it still does not seem to be enabled: > ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate >Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service; stat

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
It *should* be running every day, but just checked my system and it's not enabled either and hasn't run for a week as well - possible bug? Anyway, to fix it, run the following commands (as root or via sudo): systemctl list-timers --all That *should* list a UNIT called "mlocate-updatedb.timer", bu

Re: rsyslog "stop" syntax

2015-08-16 Thread Andy Blanchard
Depends on what you are trying to achieve: :msg, contains, "some string" stop (on one line) will discard any message containing "some string". :msg, contains, "some other string" /var/log/messages & stop (across two lines) will cause any message containing "some other string" to be logged in me

Re: USB to COM Port connections

2015-05-26 Thread Andy Blanchard
Are you connecting the serial device directly to a USB port on the motherboard, or going via a hub? I believe the connection needs to be direct (on any OS) for the driver to work, so if you are connecting to a USB port on your keyboard, monitor, or whatever it's probably not going to work. Andy

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
ble it, use the command: sudo setenforce 1 On 9 April 2015 at 20:54, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > Am 09.04.2015 um 20:52 schrieb Andy Blanchard: >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> 0.0.0.0 is a "wildcard"; Postfix is definitely running and listening >> for

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
Hi Peter, 0.0.0.0 is a "wildcard"; Postfix is definitely running and listening for incoming connections on port 25 on any IP address on your server. Do you have access to another PC or something on your internal network that you can try connecting from? At least that way you could determine whet

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
Hi Peter, At least there's some progress. I think the advice to check the Postfix config should be your next step - as mentioned earlier by Robert Nichols, Look for "inet_interfaces =" in /etc/postfix/main.cf. FirewallD and iptables are mutually exclusive in Fedora, with the default being Firewa

Re: Postfix-Server behind a DSL-Router

2015-04-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
SMTP from external IP addresses (e.g. anything other than 127.0.0.1) is blocked by default by the Fedora firewall and I've not seen any mention of checking that in the thread. I'm assuming you are using the default firewall, FirewallD, rather than iptables? If so: "sudo firewall-cmd --get-servic

Re: DRM MM Objects?

2015-01-31 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 31 January 2015 at 23:53, Tom Horsley wrote: > > No ideas, but I see bazillions of them as well, not > using KDE, but am running intel graphics. Thanks for the pointer, Tom. I was KDE with Nvidia graphics before, so was already looking suspiciously at the Intel driver (which is why I mentione

DRM MM Objects?

2015-01-31 Thread Andy Blanchard
Just upgraded a box at home to new hardware with embedded Intel graphics (i5 Haswell), did a clean install of Fedora 21, and while poking around trying to fix a few issues while rebuilding my config spotted something I've not noticed before. With KDE running "lsof" lists over a thousand entries li

Re: error after install any software

2015-01-18 Thread Andy Blanchard
Sounds like either a corrupted yum or rpm database. I'd start by flushing the former and rebuilding the latter: sudo yum clean all sudo rpm --rebuilddb On 18 January 2015 at 23:16, William Biggs wrote: > I running 21 with gnome install when I try to install any software from > the software ce

Re: Requesting no-more-sessi...@openssh.com???

2014-12-30 Thread Andy Blanchard
Search engines are your friend. From the release notes: Added a no-more-sessi...@openssh.com global request extension that is sent from ssh(1) to sshd(8) when the client knows that it will never request another session (i.e. when session multiplexing is disabled). This allows a server to disallow

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
The most effective thing I've found for preventing SSH attacks is simply to listen on a different port. Yes, it's security by obscurity so you should also deploy other counter measures, but if you choose your non-standard port wisely you can avoid most, if not all, casual attacks. Some tips: Avo

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-28 Thread Andy Blanchard
"dd" is a much better command that "cp" for this. See the following for more info and a good background as to what is going on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_Cloning The sections on "Cloning a partition" and "Cloning an entire hard disk" are the bits you want. Also take a look at th

Re: wireshark installed but not available

2014-04-07 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 7 April 2014 14:43, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > ARGH I hate logging out!!! I have too many apps running 'just right' > to logout more than say once a month. (really when I have to reboot when > things get doggy) > > sigh. What do you think this is, Windows? ;) Either open a new console

Re: wireshark installed but not available

2014-04-07 Thread Andy Blanchard
The wireshark package only provides the text mode interface, "tshark". If you are looking for the GUI application, "wireshark", you'll also need to install wireshark-gnome. Regards, Andy On 7 April 2014 14:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I installed wireshark on my F20/Gnome notebook, and yum h

Re: Rid Firefox of an extension??

2013-11-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
ls, but for all others the latter is probably a simpler choice. Andy On 3 November 2013 18:46, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:52:28 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote: > > > AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for > > every user and require roo

Re: Rid Firefox of an extension??

2013-11-02 Thread Andy Blanchard
AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for every user and require root to remove the package. You can check with the command: rpm -q mozilla-adblockplus If it's installed, then removing the RPM and restarting Firefox should remove the extension. On 2 November 2013 19

Re: I'm too stupid for firewalld

2013-02-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 19 February 2013 08:44, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > I feel really stupid because I don't seam to be able to operate new firewalld > on Fedora 18. I'm Fedora user since FC6 but this is beyond me... > First thing to check - do you have the FirewallD GUI configuration tool installed and

Re: firewalld howto?

2013-02-18 Thread Andy Blanchard
I'm in a similar boat to Neal. I want to look into migrating from IPTables to FirewallD before I'm forced too, but the documentation out there seems to be woefully inadequate so far. As far as I can tell the functionality isn't much better for my needs, but that might just be a symptom of the doc

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

2012-09-08 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 7 September 2012 23:28, JD wrote: > I wonder about /etc, because that's where so much conf is kept. > But it is small enough to simply back it up to an external partition. > The pain is in remembering all the apps for which conf files were > modified. To address that, inserting a comment like

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

2012-09-08 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. > Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of > time and hairpull. > Better yet, when you do the re-install set up some disk partitions so you can segregate the

Re: Export restrictions legalese in Fedora scare would-be local mirror

2012-07-23 Thread Andy Blanchard
> > Result: he apologized and told me there would be a local mirror during > the week. :) > I also suggested them they could mirror it from Chilean or Brazilian > existing mirrors so there would be no connection to US based > servers... > Bravo! Have a Fedora Community Gold Star award! OK, I ma

Re: Export restrictions legalese in Fedora scare would-be local mirror

2012-07-23 Thread Andy Blanchard
I also call that they are full of it on grounds that they continue to host Debian and CentOS. The question is whether "it" is just paranoia or something else... Argentina (presumably your local mirror is hosted in the same geographic locale as their ccTLD) is not currently listed in the Export Ad

Re: COMPROMISING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMANATIONS OF WIRED AND WIRELESS KEYBOARDS

2012-07-16 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 16 July 2012 17:28, Alchemist wrote: > COMPROMISING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMANATIONS OF WIRED AND WIRELESS KEYBOARDS > > OLD news... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST Also, what's the Fedora angle? -- Andy *The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe* -- users ma

Re: k3b and create image

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 1 July 2012 00:08, JD wrote: > On 06/30/2012 03:58 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: > Thanx Andy. > I do know what wav files are. > I was hoping to delete them and use just the one > file which krb says is the image. I was under the > impression it would produce a .img file. But I

Re: k3b and create image

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 30 June 2012 22:49, JD wrote: > I used k3b to copy the image of an audio cd. > It produced files like > Track01.wav > > Track16.wav > These are the audio tracks in .WAV format, which any media player should be able to play. Alternatively you could transcode them into FLAC (lossless comp

Re: Optical media drive emulation in linux kernel

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 30 June 2012 22:38, JD wrote: > Does it exist? > What about kernel add-on packages > that would insert the pseudo-driver shim > and the apps to use it? > > If you mean, for instance, can I put an ISO image on my HD and mount it, then it's built in to the Kernel: mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro

Re: Message when running yum update

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 30 June 2012 20:35, JD wrote: > But that is strange!! > As I reported, it is branded as fc16 from @updates. > > I had to delete these: > > # rpm -e subscription-manager-**firstboot-1.0.3-1.fc16.i686 > subscription-manager-gui-1.0.**3-1.fc16.i686 > subscription-manager-**migration-1.0.3-1.fc16

Re: What is APEI and what is GAR?

2012-06-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
Kernel bug it seems: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282 There's a couple of patches available from the link, but I'm guessing a "proper" fix in the form of an updated RPM will be along PDQ given the severity of the bug. -- Andy *The only person to have all his work done by Frida

Re: bash history

2012-04-28 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 29 April 2012 00:44, Peter Gueckel wrote: > It looked promising, but it doesn't work. I logged out and back in twice, > then even > completely turned off the computer and back on again, but when I examine > the > .bash_history file, it is riddled with duplicate commands. It works, but not re

Re: bash history

2012-04-28 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 28 April 2012 22:38, Peter Gueckel wrote: > I read about a shell variable called HISTIGNORE that is supposed to > prevent duplicate > commands from occurring in .bash_history. > > I put the following line into ~/.bash_profile: > > export HISTIGNORE="&" > > It's not working. I still have duplic

Re: "No driver found" when installing F14 to a 2TB drive using netinstall

2012-04-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 April 2012 22:18, jdow wrote: > Now that you've had your rant, he is talking an embedded system. Remember > that when you contemplate the following. Suppose for a moment that this > is a theatrical lighting console application. (I know of at least one that > runs Linux underneath.) It won'

Re: general problem -> Re: Fedora 16 and the 3.3.1-3 kernel

2012-04-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 April 2012 19:57, Bill Davidsen wrote: > If you say so... my kernel is 3.3.1-5 and doing a software update assures > me that "All software is up to date" so I have no idea where you get new > kernels, unless you are running from testing or rawhide. In any case, a > quick look at the subjec

Re: Can't kill hung remote CP copy

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 April 2012 20:37, jdow wrote: > I was about to comment a little more acerbicly that he's obviously a > youngster. > Killing power used to be the only way to shut down a locked up computer > with > ANY then available OS on it. I remember those bad old days too well. > > {^_-} Shudder. I

Re: Can't kill hung remote CP copy

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 April 2012 20:25, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process > be worse than a process that should have waited, > but terminated instead? > > Waiting for a timeout implies a reasonably sane state of affairs regarding any data in transit, and if the wo

Re: Can't kill hung remote CP copy

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 April 2012 20:06, Joe Zeff wrote: > I'd think that there'd have to be a special command, requiring root, to do > it for exactly that reason. There's no way you can safely automate that > decision, and it's probably best if the average user doesn't have direct > access to it; if nothing els

Re: Can't kill hung remote CP copy

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 April 2012 19:26, Reindl Harald wrote: > > on the other hand i am missing understanding that there > is no root-command to kill such processes without > "their help" > > the kernel should be able to kill anything > sounds like a missing interface for me > In theory, yes, but the problem wo

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 March 2012 19:54, Mark Haney wrote: > > I got it. For some insane reason PK runs in the background a lot (all the > time?) if you have it set to check for updates daily. Don't know about > y'all, but that seems a bit heavy handed. Sounds like you've hit the same bug myself and several o

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper. If you don't mind doing manual updates with yum, then uninstalling Apper might make your life a lot easier.

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 3 March 2012 16:55, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that > junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. > Another instance of a Linux regression, IMHO. Used to be anything in /tmp was supposedly safe to be erased on boot, and often was. Then a

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: rpm -q glibc report one or more packages? If the former, the you can probably fix the problem by a clean and reset of both the RPM and Yum pac

Re: Dovecot problem

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 21 December 2011 07:56, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Also check out /etc/dovecot/conf.d as there are bunches of scripts in > there that can be changed as well. You don't copy them or add their > contents to anything. Just edit the file, save it and restart dovecot. > This is most likely it. Th

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 December 2011 11:03, tom wrote: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? > thx > > Don't use LVM myself, but see the LVM HOWTO for some info: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ You'll want to review section 11.10 to shrink the systemro

Re: F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Andy Blanchard
$ rpm -q --whatrequires libass no package requires libass Hmm... Looks like an RPM dependency configuration issue there. Let's try the hammer: $ rpm --erase libass --test error: Failed dependencies: libass.so.4()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-2.fc16

Re: F16 - VSFTPd not allowing users to login

2011-11-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
Update: This is now fixed. The problem was that "/bin/bash" was not included in the file "/etc/shells". Bug 754056 has been opened against the setup RPM, which provides "/etc/shells", to correct this in the next release of the setup package. -- Andy The only person to have all his work done b

F16 - VSFTPd not allowing users to login

2011-11-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
Hi, Just upgraded a box from F15 to F16 and my previously working VSFTPd config appears to have broken. If I enable anonymous logins, they work, but when a user tries to login there is a pause after the password is entered, then: > 530 Login incorrect. > Login failed. I've tried playing around

Re: Who to ask about old Red Hat Linux ISOs I've uncovered

2011-10-28 Thread Andy Blanchard
IIRC, it wasn't uncommon for Red Hat to re-issue ISOs several months after the initial release to include all of the patches to date, so perhaps both sets of hashes are correct, but one is for the original and one is for the re-spin? This was when many Linux users were reliant on modems, LUGs and

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 18 April 2011 16:42, Dante Conti wrote: > It was Fedora v6. RHEL was not offered as an OS option. > In that case they *really* ought to be named and shamed. Fedora Core 6 was released at the tail end of 2006! That kind of OS age might be OK in Microsoft shops where you get major releases ev

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 18 April 2011 13:48, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:07:33 +0100 > Dave Cross wrote: > > > What kind of hosting company installs an operating system that has > > been unsupported for three years? > > One that has been in business for about 3 years and has just > been copying the or

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-13 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 13 February 2011 18:03, Bill Davidsen wrote: > This is Linux (from IBM) going into AIX, in an IBM shop. The chances of IBM > dropping AIX are remote (new major release out last year), and there are > apps in > AIX which are not in Linux. So I think the chances are that I will die > before > AI

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-12 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 12 February 2011 21:19, Bill Davidsen wrote: > While I appreciate people taking time to provide pointers to other tools, > that > really wasn't the question... I don't want to retrain a bunch of people in > a > mixed AIX/Linux environment, nor give them the impression that Linux tools > are >

Re: Is there an archive of previous RPM versions from the updates repo?

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Blanchard
You want Koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ And specifically: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=188999 or, for a direct download: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xscreensaver/5.11/9.fc12.respin1/i686/xscreensaver-5.11-9.fc12.respin1.i686.rpm -- Andy The

Re: selective command history

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Blanchard
Can you boil the commands that you don't want included in the history file to a series of regular expressions such as the following: ^cd ^ls ^rm If so, you can create a list of these regular expressions in a file, then use the ~/.bash_logout script to clean up the history: # clean up

Re: [RHEL question] why is beta 2 so much smaller?

2010-08-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 August 2010 11:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  based on the datestamps in the filenames, i would think that second > ISO is the latest x86_64 image, but it looks odd that it's > significantly smaller than the earlier one.  or am i misinterpreting > what i'm looking at?  thanks. Fedora is sw

Re: Fedora 14 and firefox

2010-07-16 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 16 July 2010 08:12, Eric Tanguy wrote: > I read somewhere that firefox 4 would be out in november. Fedora 14 will > be released at the end of october. So will fedora 14 include firefox 4 ? This came up when Firefox 3.6 came out the question got asked about it replacing Firefox 3.5.x in the the

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 July 2010 10:18, Frank Murphy wrote: > Quite a lot of kvm\qemu, being doing a lot of testing. OK. There are two options here depending on whether or not the KVM/Qemu stuff is useful to you in your testing. If it is, then the best option is probably going to be to try and pull the KVM/Qem

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy wrote: > My /var/log/messages > > seems to have started hording info. > It is now 112mb in size. > Covers 3-4 days of info. Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say the least - mine is currently 14kB, but I redirect quite a bit of s

Testing Sendmail again

2010-07-05 Thread Andy Blanchard
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Re: DNSSEC update broke named

2010-02-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 9 February 2010 23:30, Steven Stern wrote: > After updating DNSSEC a few minutes ago, named is broken Paul Frields just posted about this - it's a known problem and a fix is on the way. In the mean time, you can find workarounds and more information here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug

Re: F11 update issue

2010-02-09 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 9 February 2010 08:59, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > In today's updates there is a message during yum update for  dnssec-conf: >  Cleanup        : dnssec-conf-1.21-2.fc11.noarch > 11/15 > sed: can't read /etc/pki/dnssec-keys/named.dnssec.keys: No such file or > directory > > Then when restarting the

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-21 Thread Andy Blanchard
2010/1/22 Temlakos : > Warning! Firefox 3.6 has been reported to create insurmountable problems > for some publishers of Web content. > > The site involved is examiner.com. Independent contractors (of which I > am one) report losing key features of the back-end publication tool, to > the point at w

Re: 36 or 64 bit?

2010-01-17 Thread Andy Blanchard
2010/1/17 Jean Francois Martinez : > I fail to understand how manipulating 16 bit values can benefit of > 64 bits instead of 32.  I still think it is the 16 registers and thus > far less restrictive than "large chunks of data processed 64 bits at a > time" Depends on the operation at hand. If you

Re: 36 or 64 bit?

2010-01-16 Thread Andy Blanchard
2010/1/16 Jean Francois Martinez : > No it isn't. In 32 bits mode the processor only has a paltry eight > registers and in addition it is limited to a brain damaged stack model > for floating point. In 64 bits it has sixteen registers and possibly, > not sure about it, a healthier floating point

Re: Have to hit f1 to continue after reboot

2010-01-13 Thread Andy Blanchard
> I noticed that when I upgraded to FC 11, the screen lets me know that I have > to hit the F1 key to continue. How can I disable this so it automatically > continues? Is this prompt coming from the BIOS, or Fedora? It sounds more like it's a BIOS prompt than something coming from Fedora, but if