On 3/5/19 3:01 pm, Joe Zeff wrote:
There was a time when Shift-Reload would force it to get a new copy of
everything, but that doesn't seem to make a difference anymore.
I can't recall which browsers that worked with.
And, to be honest, I've no idea if that made the browser do new DNS
lookups
On 3/5/19 10:00 pm, Tom H wrote:
If we could accept that some people ask for help about a test release here
without pointing them to the etst list,
I really do not see why people are so against that.?? I think it's common
sense to let someone know they're asking the wrong people to for help
Allegedly, on or about 4 May 2019, Tom Horsley sent:
> Though a sane person might ask, "Why is it the right thing to wait
> for a service gathering information which will be utterly discarded
> on the reboot anyway?"
Well, much as I hate to defend systemd, *it* doesn't know that *that*
service is
Allegedly, on or about 5 May 2019, Sam Varshavchik sent:
> Are there any Wacom tablet models that do not require
> configuring under Gnome, and will work on a stock XFCE desktop.
Quite some time ago I'd played with a couple of old Wacom USB drawing
tablets. They all worked without any drivers,
Stan:
> $ dig example.com @1.1.1.1
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.11.8-RedHat-9.11.8-1.fc31 <<>> example.com @1.1.1.1
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Tim:
>> If that kind of thing fails, then you won't be able to run your own
>> DNS server, there's something
Tim:
>> It wouldn't be impossible for a modem/router to intercept DNS
>> queries and put them through their own server.
Stan:
> I suspect that is what the router is doing. Or the ISP upstream is
> monitoring traffic, and blocking inbound port 53.
An option is for you to find an alternative
On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 12:00 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> Why doesn't the bind/named server forward the name for resolution to
> the router that is its forwarder?
From your recent command line tests, you appear to have missed a step
to prove that (you queried the router, and tried to query DNS
Hi,
For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local:
su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"
And likewise, for several other users, but with different time periods
to minimise overlaps.
But that won't work, anymore. The log returns:
rc.local: fetchmail: open:
Tim wrote:
>> For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local:
>>
>> su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"
>>
>> But that won't work, anymore...
Ed Greshko:
> Along with a systemd option there is cron and the crontab
> specification @reboot.
Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so
Hi Ben,
> You might try created a systemd service for it instead.
I think more about this tomorrow, when my brain has rebooted, but I
think if I did it that way, all the different users would be using the
same polling period coded into the common service file.
My original re.local file had a
Tim wrote:
>> But that won't work, anymore. The log returns:
>>
>> rc.local: fetchmail: open: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied
Samuel Sieb:
> What is the output of the following command:
> ls -lZ /home/tim/.fetchmailrc
>
> If it doesn't include "fetchmail_home_t", then do:
>
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I just installed F30 Workstation from the LiveISO image. The install
> process didn't ask to create a root or user account. This is the new
> expected behavior.
Mine did. I used the MATE spin, booted off a flash drive. You get the
usual
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 17:20 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, html never belongs in emails, only on web
> pages. Plain text is the only format I consider acceptable for
> email.
I tend to agree, but would swing the other way if it was done right.
But it never will be, because
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
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
Joe Zeff:
>> Is there a way to undo this noxious action? Because if not, I'll be
>> migrating both of my computers to CentOs.
Tom H:
> What makes you think that CentOS would be different? It uses the same
> installer.
It's been pointed out to me that it depends on what spin you install
from. I
On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 19:30 +0200, Fran??ois Patte wrote:
> I am curious to know what is the utility of gnome-keyring: I stored a
> password for msmtp using secret-tool, and going to
> .local/share/keyrings/ I can read this password clearly stored in a
> file in this directory.
>
> So, there
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax
> description for the two directories under this policy.
>
> /home/[^]+/\.cache/thumbnail(/.*)?
>
> /home/[^]+/\.thumbnail(/.*)?
>
> So, does the [^] mean the "user" home
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> I want to modify a policy to allow a more localized directory for
> creating thumbnails for videos and such. Presently the policy
> "thumb_exec_t" is set for "thumb_home_t"
>
> I cannot find out in anything I have searched what the syntax
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 19:47 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> during the installation of the Live image of Fedora Workstation 30 to
> my hard drive, I was never prompted to set up a user account for
> myself, or given the opportunity to set a password for root.
I've recently installed the Mate
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 09:54 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I've hand probelms with dodgy SATA enclosures and old/frail SATA
> cables too.
The connectors are not the most robust, nor particularly firm-fitting.
And if people bend the cables that affects data transmission.
Tim:
>> Okay, I've just tested it, and it still works like I expect: I can
>> add extra DNS servers, I can override DHCP and only use manually
>> enterred DNS servers.
Stan:
> Is there something else you are doing?
No, that was it.
You haven't firewalled things into non-functionality?
> I did
Tim:
>> This will query specific servers:
>> dig example.com @1.1.1.1
stan:
> When the first failed, skipped this.
In what way did it fail? Using the dig tool will directly query DNS
servers. So a test of "dig example.com @8.8.8.8", for example, will
see if you can access an external DNS
Tim:
>> There used to be, and may still be, a feature that beeped when the
>> caps lock was pressed. At least you got an early warning, that
>> way, if you accidentally pressed it.
Paul Allen Newell
> Would be nice to know what that "beep" function was/is rather than
> using xmodmap.
Just
On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 23:32 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Many thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the opSys I am on doesn't
> have the "audio feedback". And, yes, I am on MATE.
I have CentOS 7 on another PC, running MATE, and the option I
previously mentioned is available, in the same
On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 19:21 +0200, AV wrote:
> I also have an Epson inkjet connected by usb cable to Imac.
> I can print from Imac: usb + wireless(if I configure wireless)
Alternative approach, since you don't like wireless: A network print
adaptor, or perhaps simply a USB to ethernet adaptor
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 21:19 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have been looking at a couple mp4 videos transferred from my son's
> phone.
>
> I successfully opened 3 of them with vlc, closed vlc and renamed
> them.
>
> Then for the fourth, vlc stopped launching.
>
> Well I guess it is really
On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 18:58 -0600, home user via users wrote:
> Still, what is the "line and loop, otherwise stop, it's spam." that
> Tony mentioned?
'If that line says the "from" is reasonable, look at the lines up to
and inclucing the next Received: line and loop, otherwise stop, it's
spam.'
I
Tim:
>> If you could put the ISP supplied thingummy into bridge mode, it
>> would act simply as a modem, giving a bare ethernet output to your
>> own router.
See this diagram:
https://pasteboard.co/Ib7teuG.png
The upper three boxes show what we think your current situation is.
Internal to the
On Sun, 2019-04-21 at 11:10 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have cameras and another ASUS router set up in the barn and all
> that stuff will need to be reconfigured if I change the
> address range.
Third option, then: Put a switch after the ISP's modem/router, and
plug everything that you trust
On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 19:45 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I am trying to figure ouyt how to get cups-pdf to default
> to Landscape.
Wouldn't that depend on what you're trying to print?
Sure, if you're trying to print plain text, then I can see you'd need
to set your preference. But if
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 20:51 -0700, Todd Chester via users wrote:
> What I do is print to Cups-PDF, it comes out Portrait. Then I go
> into Approach's page set up and change it back to Landscape and print
> again. The setting does not hold in Approach. Changing printers
> picks up the defaults
Tim:
>> I'm wondering if you're missing a step. In most authoring software,
>> you have to set the page format to landscape or portrait. This
>> isn't a printer setting, it's data about the actual document.
Todd Chester:
> In Approach, when you set up your report, you choose a "paper" size.
>
On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 10:03 -0400, doug.lindqu...@atlanticbb.net wrote:
> I replaced a hd lately because I needed more space. It was encrypted
> with LUKS. I removed the line from crypttab for the old disk. now
> when I boot it tries to mount the old hd too. is there another file
> that needs
On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 10:44 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> I switched DNS from my ISP to free dns services on the web to avoid
> tracking and data being sold. I started seeing a lot of "looking up
> xyz.com" in the browser, so I decided to set up bind as a locally
> caching name server. However,
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 14:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> don't want to try in the middle of doing my mail, but it's always
> worked in the past. I could set up one profile to use my LAN DNS
> server, another to use my router's.
Okay, I've just tested it, and it still works like I expec
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 01:42 -0400, Steven Ulrick wrote:
> But for some reason, the password that I used to install and upgrade
> all that stuff stopped working. So, I booted the Live DVD again
> (which takes a long time on my system), did the chroot thing again,
> and changed the password. passwd
On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 18:41 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> I think the failure might have something to do with NetworkManager.
> It seems that it has no way to set it to use a local bind / named
> instance as its nameserver. It always uses DNS servers set by the
> router (etc/resolv.conf), or
On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 13:25 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I have been know to pry off the cap over the key. A bit drastic, but
> it works.
I know someone who inserted some dry spaghetti in the space under the
keycap, so it couldn't be pressed down.
Effective, and undoable.
On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 12:24 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> What can I use instead of "Shift_L" to make it simply do nothing?
Which desktop do you use?
On Gnome/Mate there's a keyboard preference GUI configurator, in the
Layouts tab, click on the Options button, then find the Caps Lock
behaviour
On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 16:46 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> I find myself missing the tab key and hitting the caps lock key
> pretty regularly
There used to be, and may still be, a feature that beeped when the caps
lock was pressed. At least you got an early warning, that way, if you
accidentally
Samuel Sieb:
>> There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone
>> has to do the work.
Robin Laing:
> So very true.
>
> One reason so many go to Ubuntu. Seems to have everything.
I've looked at Ubuntu, over many years. I've noticed it's full of
Windows breakaways, who
On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?
Probably by using mind-bending regular expression rules.
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On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 18:55 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am a bit concerned I am having problems with the list, or the list
> itself is having problems.
I'd noticed that list traffic had been very minimal the last few days.
I had a look at the list archive (see the address in all the list
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've
> copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as
> /var on reboot by creating
Tim:
>> If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the
>> name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well.
>> Maybe gpg, too.
Ed Greshko:
> Well, sadly
>
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all pgp | grep geany
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf
On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 16:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You could add it to your /etc/hosts file like:
> 127.0.0.2 the.bad.domain
This does seem like a roundabout solution to what has to be a common
problem (wanting to blackban specific repos). For whatever reason
people have wanted to do
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 19:03 +0200, ??ukasz Posadowski wrote:
> Recently I bought and AMD Radeon 570 card and was eager to test built
> in Linux drivers on Fedora 30. While they work, card is behaving
> really strange. As soon as it hits around 100% GPU usage, even for a
> brief moment (which is
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 15:17 +, Fast OS wrote:
> I think needs a clear step by step documentation to enable and
> install third party repo / apps. I didn???t figure out how to do it in
> GS.
You'll have to get it from Google:
https://www.google.com/chrome/
Click the download button, choose
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 11:28 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Yes, /etc/exports is what I have been using. You suggested it should
> be subordinate to something, /home or /home/bobg perhaps. I can't
> find that.
Your exports file is missing the filepath(s) you want to export. You
list the directories
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Hint: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Joe Zeff:
> I took a look using my main email address. I wasn't surprised at all
> to find that it's in several data breaches containing millions of
> email addresses. However, unless there's any evidence that anybody's
> using it, I
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 08:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Since I have >7 Fedora installations I setup a squid proxy server
> specifically for the purpose of reducing my download data since many
> of the same packages are going to get downloaded over and over again.
>
> I seem to be getting some
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 21:07 +, Fast OS wrote:
> I'm talking about gnome software + third party repositories.
It shouldn't really matter what front end you use. If it, gnome-
software, uses yum or dnf behind the scenes, or it uses something else
which uses yum or dnf, then having the
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 13:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> The bigger problem is that most mirrors default to using https which
> you can't cache with a proxy.
Pick a mirror that doesn't use HTTPS.
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Hi,
Ed Greshko:
>> Have you put an "exclude" in the dnf config?
the anonymous home user:
> "dnf config"?
> Where is that?
When unsure, you can use the locate command to find likely suspects
(e.g. "dnf" named things) in the usual places for configuration files
(i.e. inside /etc).
locate
On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 23:58 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> If Windows read Ext4, I'd convert all my flash drives over to it.
Apparently it can be done.
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Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my
Tim (from my tag line):
>> Next time your service provider asks you to reboot your equipment,
>> ask them to reboot theirs, first.
Bill:
> Do you really want the service provider to reboot their equipment?!
> :)
After dealing with some alleged "tech support," sometimes you want to
reboot the
On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 23:02 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> When you have a notebook install, you are locked into the drive you
> have and whatever you did on the partitioning, you are stuck with,
> for the most part. No adding a new drive with additional partitions.
>
> I originally deleted
On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 15:03 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I've installed these libraries but that is still not sufficient to
> get vlc to play the blurays, I get the same issue I did under windows
> where I had to manually install a config file that libaacs needs,
> which is not installed in
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 21:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> VCF files I hoped to be able to display in a more readable form
>
> Here is one f them: /home/bobg/Desktop/Dr. MAISENBACHER.vcf
>
> Fedora wants to display them with Evolution but that comes up in
> black text on white in a separate
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:57 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You
> should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap.
There is an advantage to having more swap than RAM: If you use a
hibernate feature that works by dumping RAM to swap,
Hi Bill,
On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 14:16 -0600, home user via users wrote:
> (Tim: dnf history)
> I put the relevant part of the dnf log here:
> "https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/IUlWCabjTPra7laQna9xHg;.
> Firefox was upgraded. I did not see "gnome" anywhere in the log.
> If something
Tim:
>> After dealing with some alleged "tech support,"
>> sometimes you want to reboot the person.
Bill:
> H
> I could read that in more than one way!
> :}
Exactly!
> Modem reboots/resets are a pain. Gotta hold a teeny, recessed button
> in for 30+ seconds; or unplug the modem,
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 20:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I really wasn't going to read RFC's tonight But what the heck.
Well, that's one way of getting to sleep.
I used to read NASA articles to do that (my electronics magazine used
to have one each month). They're full of unfamiliar jargon,
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 08:26 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I am _constantly_ annoyed by _every_ web site with a "contact
> us" page which doesn't have a tiny download-address-as-vcard link.
> Which seems to be every web site. Such a basic convenience.
I'd never really thought of that. My
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 19:28 +0200, Frédéric wrote:
> it seems simpler than that. We tested another mouse and it worked
> much better. So it's probably the wire that has false contact.
Mice do wear out. The cable, the connections, are subject to metal
fatigue. Fluff getting into optical sensors
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap.
>
> I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with
> poor performance.
I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a bare minimum, these days. As
memory size
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs
> out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not
> paying attention to my power situation.
I would have thought the ideal way for it to operate
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 07:18 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I would guess that this was attached with a Content-Type header of
> "text/plain", which says that the attachment is plain text. It
> _should_ have been attached as text/vcard, which says that it is a
> contact. I'm surprised that this
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 10:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> FWIW, I took the entire message and saved it to the file bob.eml and
> then did "Open-->Saved Message". It displays some information inline
> but not all.
>
> The only choice T-Bird gives you is to import the card into the
> address book.
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 09:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Ah, I was looking for a plugin that had pgp in its name.
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name.
But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg,
too.
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On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 01:09 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to remove the blur from this picture?
>
> https://ibb.co/cTPNHLf
I'd say re-photograph it properly. There are filters like "unsharp
mask" that can crispen up a photo, but that one looks too far out of
focus
Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Instead of checking that box you may want to consider going to the
>> tab "Plain Text Domains" and putting in "fedoraproject.org".
Stephen Morris:
> Thanks Ed, I have set Thunderbird up this way. Just one question on
> that, is what is specified in the entry a domain that
On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 21:54 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Is it posssible to play Blueray discs I have bought within Linux?
> I've been unable to get VLC to play the disc in both F30 and Windows
> 10.
I simple google search found this:
https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
NB:
On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 12:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I note that you're using Evolution. When posting content that's
> sensitive to wrapping (e.g. a long URL) it's better to use
> Preformatted mode (see the drop-down menu just above the edit pane),
> even if just for that section, like
Bill:
> That's an obvious case of something bad. But that's not the scary
> part. A few years ago, I got phone calls in which the caller-id
> showed the caller was me. I did not answer.
I once answered the phone to hear a recording of myself saying hello
and saying my name. Then it hung up.
Tim:
>> I think he means:
>> 1. Look at the lines up to and including the next received line.
>> 2. Repeat the process, upwards.
>> 3. Otherwise, stop looking any further, it's spam.
Bill:
> Parse Error! My mind incorrectly parsed what Tony said.
I didn't find the language too clear, either.
On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 09:35 +0200, Robin Lee wrote:
> I wonder if just for me that Evolution crashes most of the time I try
> to close it?
I use it with Mate on Fedora 28, 30, & CentOS 7. I think I may have
had one, maybe 2 crashes, over the last few months.
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On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 20:24 -0600, home user via users wrote:
> How do I determine what the problem is?
> This problem did not occur before today's "dnf upgrade". The last
> patching before today was last Thursday.
You can try "dnf history" to see what had changed recently, and see if
anything
On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 03:01 +, None via users wrote:
> We can see
>
> %%Creator: MetaPost
> %%CreationDate: 2019.09.07:0852
> But can we see it the document itself when viewed by gv? Or by
> okular/evince?
Try opening it those program, and see what it shows you in their file
properties.
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On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 22:57 +, sixpack13 wrote:
> ..., but it was a F30 Question *too* !
>
> btw:
> I get somewhat "nervous" about your "don't do this and that on this
> and that list(s)"-shit !
Really, it was a F31 question (since it's about installing F31
packages, and specifically F31
On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 13:29 +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
wrote:
> Isn't mplayer just a video player for Linux only?
No. There are compilations for other OSs. I have used it on Windows.
And there is a related encoder (mencoder) included with some packages.
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On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 12:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> But it actually doesn't do anything. All the old files are still on
> the SD card.
Are you absolutely sure the SD card was /dev/sdb1?
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Below I've just pasted a bit of an email:
> On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote:
It's from my reply to a message. That mangled name is supposed to be
"Frederic" with acute accents above both letter "e"s. It was when I
wrote it, and my mail client *CORRECTLY* sent it as UTF-8,
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> And it did not.
I noticed the same. On the messages that get corrupted, I've received
them as base64 encoded (they weren't sent that way), though your
messages with Frederic correctly accented was also base64 encodede.
Most other messages
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-)
Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using
their SMTP servers), and receive from a Yahoo address, international
characters come through unmangled.
I've seen this kind of thing
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 9/22/19 10:00 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-)
> >
> > Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote:
> My SSD hard drive was corrupted. I bought a new one
> and reinstalled Fedora 30 on it.
Check that the drive actually is faulty before discarding it.
Filesystem corruptions can happen without it being the drive's fault.
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On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 08:56 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Returning to the "do not put the NAS on the firewall/VPN host", the
> NAS really ought to be a non-external service. So hosting on the
> firewall itself is a security risk because a small misconfiguration
> can expose it to the outside
Assuming that you find some way to do DNS queries without your router
blocking them:
Stan wrote:
> // named.conf
>
> options {
> listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
Above, you are *only* listening on the local loopback address.
> allow-query { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24; };
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 18:25 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> Device Boot StartEndSectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sdc1 * 2048 3907029166 3907027119 1.8T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Don't forget that when you use partitioning tools to look at a drive,
they look at the flags on the
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:47 +0530, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I have never quite understood how UEFI worked. Initially I stayed
> away from it because of secure boot issues. Do you think I should
> put in the effort to move to UEFI?
UEFI is the very basic operating system loaded into your motherboard,
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 12:38 -0400, Garry Williams wrote:
> The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
> Since when?
>
> I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do
>
> sudo passwd -e ppatel
>
> to force it to be changed. For the new user,
Samuel Sieb:
>> 3 retries is the usual thing.
Garry T. Williams:
> But for choosing a new password? Please. What on earth does that
> accomplish?
My guess is a simple failure count, with it not caring what kind of
failure there was. If you've failed to type it in three times in a
row,
On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 06:20 +, Not Random wrote:
> /etc/default/grub contains:
> GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
> which as you say is the default for Fedora.
>
> There's no benefit in changing /etc/default/grub as it is already set
> correctly.
I think the problem is that just tells Fedora to use the
Tim:
>> Doing a bit of googling, /boot/grub2/grubenv file cannot be manually
>> edited. Use the following command instead:
>>
>> [root@host ~]# grub2-set-default 0
>> [root@host ~]# grub2-editenv list
>> saved_entry=0
>>
>> That 0 should mean the most recently installed kernel.
(I should add
Tim:
>> For instance, your computer could set your clock for you properly,
>> fully automatically, if it knew where you were.
Ed Greshko:
> That, of course, would require a "public IP" address.
Potentially doable with IPv6, if it were fully supported. My ISP
doesn't support it, at all.
> And,
On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 09:37 -0600, home user wrote:
> By the way, what does "RFE" stand for?
Google: bugzill what does rfe stand for?
"Request for Enhancement" asking to add more features to something.
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On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 15:18 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have been trying to install Fedora 31XFCE Spin. I've spent more
> time at it than I care to admitbut can"t get the Anaconda installer
> to see a clear one terabyte drive. I re-partitioned it with Gparted
> and gave it an ext4 file system.
On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 18:17 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Doesn't really matter, just curious that Anaconda sets /dev/sdb4 to
> be first in the boot order.
Did you install from some kind of boot disc? That can shuffle the
order of things, so (temporarily) it's sda, making your drives sdb,
sdc,
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