Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-30 Thread agraham
As you will all remember, a few years ago we kernel.org was hacked, I cannot remember if that was ever resolved, but then we did not know about the NSA Spying programs. We must assume as a matter of defence in depth that the kernel has been compromised and has being for quite some time now.

Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-30 Thread agraham
On 08/30/2013 10:53 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:35 PM, agrahamagra...@g-b.net wrote: I KNOW we can overcome this adversary and regain the freedom that the internet once offered. What? You must have been living under a rock. The Echelon spy network was exposed back in

Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-30 Thread agraham
Where would you suggest the best place? All of this is off-topic on this list. This has nothing to do with Fedora specific help, or usage. Please take the discussion elsewhere. Thank you, Open source is the future. It sets us free - or locks us up. -- users mailing list

Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

2013-08-30 Thread agraham
On 08/31/2013 01:36 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 08/30/2013 12:35 PM, agraham wrote: As you will all remember, a few years ago we kernel.org was hacked, I cannot remember if that was ever resolved http://www.pcworld.com/article/239400/hack_or_no_hack_the_linux_kernel_is_well_protected.html

Re: Expectation of privacy

2013-05-02 Thread agraham
On 05/02/2013 07:48 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: In another thread, respondents debated the expectation of privacy regarding email. I think this is a reasonable topic for an email mailing list, since there are many differing perceptions. Of course, laws and customs vary across the world. In the

Re: Has my fedora 18 installation been hacked?

2013-03-15 Thread agraham
First, whois 216.82.176.7 216.82.176.7 belongs to a bank in the US https://www.53.com/ I don't know if it's a real bank or what? $ whois 216.82.176.7 The last part of your ISPs message is interesting because it says: packet length 1400 bytes exceeds configured limit of 512 bytes So something

Re: NFS Server share /var/cache/yum?

2013-03-15 Thread agraham
On 03/15/2013 10:36 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: Trying to replace an NAS with a PC. Figured I'd check before creating Having looked at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS?rd=Docs/Drafts/AGBeta/NFS How can I share on the NFS server /var/cache/yum. so it will be available

Re: Has my fedora 18 installation been hacked?

2013-03-15 Thread agraham
On 03/15/2013 11:16 AM, Georgios Petasis wrote: I suspect that it is a joomla 1.5.26 exploit. I have found two php files in the tmp folder of one web site, and POSTs to them in the apache access log file. (I know this is an old version of joomla, and I have made the mistake to make the folders

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread agraham
Assuming you have source file(s) that are not already PDF, use Open Office and export it as PDF at which point you have all the scaling/compression options available. On 12/27/2012 03:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra

Re: Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

2012-12-23 Thread agraham
Sounds like storage/disk problems, rather than specific to F17. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a

Re: Fedora 17 lost+found in / directory after install

2012-10-04 Thread agraham
On 10/04/2012 03:21 PM, George wrote: Hi all. I am a new user of Fedora 17. I am studying for the Linux certification. I installed Fedora 17 using Vmware Workstation 8. After I completed the installation I checked the directories to insure that everything was installed correctly. When looking at

Re: Creating an /etc/systemd entry

2012-07-14 Thread agraham
On 07/14/2012 04:36 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I need to create an /etc/systemd/ file(s) for a little daemon (ddclient). Before I attempt to create one by hacking up another, is there any documentation on what's required? Thanks See the last entry here:

Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD

2012-07-10 Thread agraham
On 07/10/2012 01:39 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Suvayu, Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:25:46 +0200 From: suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD ? Message-ID:

Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
Hello, I've installed F17 (in a VM) and on first boot, it is not possible to modify any kernel parameters. There appears to be 2 problems: Note: 1. I've never actually logged in to the VM. 2. no updates have been done 3. I've connecting to the VM via tigervnc client Problem

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
On 07/01/2012 11:48 PM, agraham wrote: Hello, I've installed F17 (in a VM) and on first boot, it is not possible to modify any kernel parameters. There appears to be 2 problems: Note: 1. I've never actually logged in to the VM. 2. no updates have been done 3. I've connecting to the VM via

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
On 07/01/2012 11:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:48:32 +0100 agraham wrote: I've installed F17 (in a VM) and on first boot, it is not possible to modify any kernel parameters. There appears to be 2 problems: Right you are. There was a bug in grub2: https

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
On 07/02/2012 01:58 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:42:04 +0100 agraham wrote: root@localhost ~]# grub2-install /dev/vda1 What? You mean it isn't obvious you need to use the --force option? :-). Actually, I did try the force option but you cannot force an update

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
On 07/02/2012 02:01 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: On 07/01/2012 08:42 PM, agraham wrote: F17 must be the only linux distribution in history in which you cannot edit kernel parameters from the boot menu. I've actually run into this bug, but I found with a little exploration that it's just

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread agraham
The following is a workaround that allows editing of the kernel parameters, but you have to be careful. At the Grub2 menu, press the 'e' to edit, 1. Move the cursor down to the linux line 2. Move the cursor across the linux line to any space and hit \ then return (i.e create a multi-line \)

Re: Debugging a system freeze?

2012-06-18 Thread agraham
On 06/17/2012 12:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Reindl Haraldh.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Am 17.06.2012 13:08, schrieb Christopher Svanefalk: Heinz and Steve - thank you for taking time to reply. The reason I added stable is because the CPU is stable

Upstream Mirror problem - Metadata file does not match checksum

2012-06-13 Thread agraham
Hi, I did a fresh install of F14 and x86_64 and i386 then immediately did a yum update on first boot. x86_64 works but i368/i686 does not. The errors from all mirrors is the same Metadata file does not match checksum indicating it's not a local problem for them. The problem is not limited

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread agraham
On 06/12/2012 06:52 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which makes a lot of noise (fan speed is at the same

YUM - Metadata file does not match checksum

2012-06-12 Thread agraham
Hi I'm suddenly getting Metadata file does not match checksum from a all my mirror sites for various version of Fedora 12 thru 16 I need access to the older versions (mainly for Q/A testing). Is there a way I can get YUM to exclude certain mirror sites? I need redundancy so don't want to

Re: Making sound from Perl - How?

2012-05-30 Thread agraham
On 05/30/2012 09:58 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:12:45 +0100, agraham wrote: Hi Guys, Are there any perl bindings in Fedora to play sound samples from perl? e.g. The ability to use PortAudio or Libao or something else from perl? A bit of background could have been

Making sound from Perl - How?

2012-05-29 Thread agraham
Hi Guys, Are there any perl bindings in Fedora to play sound samples from perl? e.g. The ability to use PortAudio or Libao or something else from perl? Thanks in advance. Albert -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: help me

2011-10-24 Thread agraham
On 10/24/2011 05:10 PM, shailesh wrote: mmx 352 modem (micromax) not connecting You could be waiting a long time while we all absorb this data -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-16 Thread agraham
The real problem here is the designers of the concept lost sight of the actual benefit to the user, the problem as I would state is: Provide a means that allows consistent naming of network devices. That should have translated into eth0 is ALWAYS the first device, eth1 is ALWAYS the second

Re: getting packet dropperd on interface

2011-10-16 Thread agraham
Benjamin, Can you also include the network statistics, it may helpful to know exactly what type of errors these are: ethtool -S em1 Are you in a position to change the cable? I see this is a Supermicro, does the machine have a IPMI card using the same IP address by any chance ? Albert. On

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-16 Thread agraham
On 10/16/2011 09:34 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 10/16/2011 01:56 PM, agraham wrote: The real problem here is the designers of the concept lost sight of the actual benefit to the user, the problem as I would state is: Provide a means that allows consistent naming of network devices

Re: Booting a live ISO without mounting the hard drive ?

2011-10-14 Thread agraham
If it mounts the drive (and I'm not sure that it does), just umount it. On 10/14/2011 05:12 PM, linux guy wrote: I'm on the road, in the middle of nowhere. I've got a hard drive issue. I'd like to run the f15 Live ISO from a USB drive. No problem there. I DO NOT want it to mount the hard

Re: TCP Reno Recovery meaning

2011-07-20 Thread agraham
On 07/20/2011 10:38 PM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I've got the following fields in netstat -a: TCPRenoRecovery: 28 TCPForwardRetrans: 378 TCPRenoRecoveryFail: 45 I'm ondering what the numbers mean, what does a count mean for each. I understand what each item represents but struggling to

Re: how to identify sound card

2011-07-07 Thread agraham
It should be detected automatically, if enabled in the BIOS, Try: # alsamixer if not installed, do yum -y install alsa-utils Albert. On 07/07/2011 01:33 PM, Howard wrote: Hi, I am running Fedora 13. I was given a computer and do not know what sound card is installed. What is the best

Re: Minimal Kernel Config for a F14 KVM guest

2011-07-01 Thread agraham
On 07/01/2011 04:12 AM, Dave Quigley wrote: Hello, I will be teaching a one day class in a few weeks and I am going to have the students do some kernel programming. Since it is only a one day course I need to pack as much info into it as possible so I would like to minimize the build

Re: Firefox 5.0

2011-06-21 Thread agraham
On 06/21/2011 07:52 PM, Steven Stern wrote: SATIRE Trying to get in the first What's wrong with Fedora? It's been 15 minutes since the Mozilla announcement and Firefox 5 isn't in the repos comment. /SATIRE It's there now, sorry for the delay. -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 14 cron sometimes executes multiple times

2011-06-01 Thread agraham
On 05/31/2011 07:41 PM, lhp1 wrote: http://old.nabble.com/file/p31742754/anomoly2011-05-30.rtf anomoly2011-05-30.rtf Every now and then cron runs multiple times on Fedora 14. This is a new server and very little is running on it, only my colleageue and myself have jobs running. This does

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread agraham
On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. (snip) A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions -- What kind of

Re: Wireless System Connection - How?

2010-11-29 Thread agraham
On 11/28/2010 07:34 PM, agraham wrote: Hi I want my laptop to connect to my Wifi as a System Connection by default (assuming now wired LAN is plugged in). I'm using KDE (F14), in Edit Network Connections - KDE Control Module there are two options: 1. Connect Automatically 2. System

Wireless System Connection - How?

2010-11-28 Thread agraham
Hi I want my laptop to connect to my Wifi as a System Connection by default (assuming now wired LAN is plugged in). I'm using KDE (F14), in Edit Network Connections - KDE Control Module there are two options: 1. Connect Automatically 2. System Connection The second option is always greyed

Is there Zebra, Gated or Routed for Fedora 13 ?

2010-09-21 Thread agraham
I'm looking to advertise routes using a RIP protocol and looking for Zebra, Gated or Routed for Fedora 13? Do these exist (cannot find the in Repo). Thanks. Albert. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Is there Zebra, Gated or Routed for Fedora 13 ?

2010-09-21 Thread agraham
On 09/21/2010 05:45 PM, agraham wrote: I'm looking to advertise routes using a RIP protocol and looking for Zebra, Gated or Routed for Fedora 13? Do these exist (cannot find the in Repo). Thanks. Albert. Ahh, think I've found it: quagga Available Packages Name: quagga Arch

Re: Heads up re: Users of RalinkTech Chipsets

2010-09-06 Thread agraham
JD, Does it work in Wireless N mode ? Thanks. On 08/25/2010 06:11 AM, JD wrote: Hi All, Kernel 2.6.35 now supports RT2860 RT2870 RT2872 RT2883 RT3070 RT3071 RT3090 RT3390 RT3572 The device will be wlan0 instead of ra0 I just downloaded

F13 and Sipwitch - Anyone got this working

2010-06-09 Thread agraham
Hi all, I thought I'd give Sip Witch a go but I'm have problems making any calls, my set up is as follows: Single segment LAN, with no firewalls, the main host runs sipw in the foreground so I can see the messages as follows:- # sipw -trace -x9 -foreground /etc/sipwitch.conf says: ?xml

Re: [mythtv-users] installing MythTV 0.23 as non-root - almost

2010-06-03 Thread agraham
On 04/06/10 04:38, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM, agrahamagra...@g-b.net wrote: On 04/06/10 03:21, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jean-Yves Avenardjyaven...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On 4 June 2010 11:29, agrahamagra...@g-b.netwrote: Hi, I like to

Re: Fwd: Fwd: Problem with boot loader

2010-05-05 Thread agraham
On 06/05/10 01:33, badmagic wrote: Over the years, I've installed Solaris/SolarisExpress, every kind of BSD as well as almost ever Linux distro that's out there and never have I had a problem like this. Is there some known bug about installing Fedora on a drive other than the Primary

Re: log in through root

2010-03-28 Thread agraham
On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote: Hi! I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and finally added a user name rajanish .I am log in through rajanishbut i have not accessing throgh root...I want to log in through root because i want to learn administrative

Re: Fedora12 Release Notes.

2010-01-30 Thread agraham
Maybe this will help: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes I was not aware of the new release notes format, which is a fantastic resource, all Fedora Docs can be found here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ On 01/30/2010 09:38 AM, r...@dwf.com wrote: What has