Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 17:12 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > The problem is feeding their router data through my DD-WRT router. > An ethernet port is provided which they claim work but provide no > information for doing so. They sent a "technician" a few days ago and > he knew nothing more about it tha

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If you did things like SSH in from the outside world, or accept >> other incoming connections, then you will strike problems. Their >> equipment would act as a firewall. That's why people say put it >> into bridge mode, then it's virtually transparent. Joe Zeff: > You should be able to t

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> If you can't disable the wifi on the modem, then you can just >> ignore it. Connect the WAN port on your router to the ethernet >> port on the modem. You end up with double NAT, but it should still >> work. Bob Goodwin: > Yeah, I think it's a poor design for the application, I

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 04:08 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Initially the ISP feed was into the WAN port on my dd-wrt router a > [a system I have been using for 13 years] and nothing was reaching > the LAN, wired or wifi. Normally the router feeds a 16 port switch > that connects the equipment on my wi

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual packages), and I'd get compatibility problems (changes betw

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Tim via users
(Re: *my* installing rather than upgrading) On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've > had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and > that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote: > Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from > Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username. Yes, and no... (Anaconda picking the same UID.) It's the *numerical* user identification. Likewise, GID is the

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-20 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 09:40 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Ok, I can accept that based on you greater knowledge, but what's in > a name? I want to connect a wide area network to a local area network > but a network bridge wont work? The procedure for doing it was well > written and quite clear so I th

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-20 Thread Tim via users
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 IS

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-21 Thread Tim via users
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 n

Re: fedora 29 trying to mount missing disk

2019-04-23 Thread Tim via users
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 c

Re: Does cups-pdf have its own mailing list?

2019-04-24 Thread Tim via users
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 y

Re: Does cups-pdf have its own mailing list?

2019-04-24 Thread Tim via users
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 fro

Re: Does cups-pdf have its own mailing list?

2019-04-25 Thread Tim via users
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. >

Re: FC31 (rawhide) networking problems.

2019-04-29 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 02:25 +, George R Goffe via users wrote: > Does anyone know what has changed and possibly how to recover? Wrong list... The people testing unreleased versions of the OS are on the test list. They often are not on this list. They're the ones with the answers to the vers

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Ed Greshko sent: > When is jury selection? > > I imagine there must be an upcoming trial to address this travesty. >:-) My vote is: Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. Even though we could all be expecting it on a prearranged dat

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Tom H sent: > We should unify the two lists so as not to have these delirious > threads on an almost twice-yearly basis. There would be too much noise. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 B

Re: new Ask Fedora site

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Joe Zeff sent: > Even after clearing my cache, I get that from Firefox, but Seamonkey > picks it up OK. Did you fully quit and restart Firefox? If not, it could be operating from something still in memory. When a browser gets stuck in the past, there's two usu

Re: new Ask Fedora site

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
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 a

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> My vote is:?? Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. >> Even though we could all be expecting it on a prearranged date, it could >> be deliberately delayed by circumstances. Ralf Corsepius: > That's what I call superflous bureaucracy beyond reason. No, i

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
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 i

Re: A stop job is running for Entropy Gatherer Daemon? Really?

2019-05-05 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: Wacom tablets on the XFCE desktop

2019-05-05 Thread Tim via users
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,

Re: Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2019-05-06 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 17:31 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > I do not use anymore nautilus, IMHO it's a bad file manager. I agree. It's merely a file browser, it's missing the features you need to *manage* files. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: what happens to firefox?

2019-05-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 11:38 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Today all my add-ons to firefox do not work! Rather ironically, Firefox told me that add-ons were being disabled, despite the fact that I don't have any. Obviously some programmer doesn't understand doing simple if/then clauses.

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-09 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 9 May 2019, Bob Goodwin sent: > Everything I have read says Viasat's equipment must be used. ... It > also contains a voip adapter for the telephone, before this "system > upgrade" two months ago that was separate. If it's a standard VOIP thing, then you probably can continu

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-09 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 15:14 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > If I put the viasat unit into it's bridged mode I would expect output > as 182.168.1.1 but not sure of that. If you put it into bridge mode, it'll have the public IP that the ISP assigns to you (previously that IP would have just been interna

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-11 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Because most ISPs will only assign one IP to each customer. Ed Greshko: > My ISP gave me 4722366482869645213696 IP addresses. > > OK, they are IPv6 addresses. :-) :-) Aussie ISPs are still dragging their feet on supporting IPv6. They should have been getting it ready MANY years ago. _

Re: Default route not correctly added

2019-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 16:40 -0400, Alex wrote: > The problem is that, after bringing it back to his house and putting > it online, the default route was not added properly and the system > was unreachable until I stepped him through the process of adding it > manually. > > This is the command I ha

Re: Configuring apache and smokeping on dynamic IP

2019-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 16:58 -0400, Alex wrote: > I have a fedora30 desktop on a dynamic IP behind a cable modem that > I'd like to configure to support apache and specifically smokeping. > The problem I'm having I believe is with php-fpm. I've installed and > configured it, but trying to access it

Re: Default route not correctly added

2019-05-16 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Was his gateway up and running before the computer booted up? (I'm >> unsure if an unavailable gateway would have been removed from pre- >> configured settings, though.) Alex: > Before it booted up? I'm not sure I understand. I couldn't reach his > computer prior to him typing the route c

Re: TigerVNC fails to display new windows properly

2019-05-19 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote: > The reason the hostname is displayed as "localhost.localdomain" is > because it's on a private IP range (192.168.9.110) without DNS, and > I'm using port forwarding from the cable modem to this host for port > 5900 through 6000. I'm not sure if VNC

Re: Planned Outage - Fedora Core Services 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC

2019-05-19 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 19:16 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > There will be an outage starting at 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC , > which will last approximately 5 hours. Hmm, today there will be an outage last month? ;-) ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 13:11 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Is there a reliable usb or dvd distribution with tools to clean up > viruses, root kits, whatever from a Hard drive? > I got a quite slow windows 10 laptop from a nephew for clean up (I > do not know what kind of viruses/malware might be l

Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-05-25 at 17:55 +, sixpack13 wrote: > P.S: > if it's an ASUS: shortly I read about that the app installer > distributes malware, etc. !!! Many years ago my ASUS laptop came, as new, with a trojan. Their staff who'd created the laptop's factory installation had used a trojaned ke

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 May 2019, Beartooth sent: > I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to Brasero that I > could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE. I run Mate, have no KDE installation, I can burn discs. You need to say what it is that you need burning software to do. -- [ti

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 19:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > All these things can also be done with a USB thumbdrive, which is > generally easier to create and faster to use. Well, not all. I wouldn't use one for back-ups. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 17:18 -0400, Garry Williams wrote: > But, of course, the issue is why this happens in the first place. Does your ISP insert a transparent proxy between you and the internet? They're well known to cause caching problems. ___ users

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 16:56 +, Beartooth wrote: > All I know is that when I try either Brasero or K3B and get > some sort of failure, I just pull up the other, and it does the job. There's also XFburn, that doesn't require KDE. You could burn data discs straight from the Nautilus file

Re: google-chrome weirdness

2019-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web > font with all the characters in a string mostly on top > of one another, but only for my user. > > See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald > > If I create a completely new user, lo

Re: google-chrome weirdness

2019-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf > had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in > order to make fonts look better when fedora was going > through a long "spindly" phase for fonts): > > ...[snip]... > > R

Re: OT: missing hard drive (SSD) with Fedora 30

2019-06-04 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 20:40 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Yes, it is a hardware RAID. The BIOS is very confusing but it does > not say anything in there (anymore). Hardware RAID *relies* on the hardware. If you lose the hardware, you lose access to your files. So, a motherboard dying can make th

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Tim via users
Hi, > (f29) > I need something, preferably from one of the usual repos (so I can > easily install it with dnf), that I can use to fill in a pdf > form. I can view the form just fine, but nothing seems to have > functionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in > "dnfdragora". Havin

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms. [CLOSED}

2019-06-07 Thread Tim via users
Did you try "Atril"? It worked with the example form I found. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html

UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because something else had already grabbed it: $ cat /etc/group|grep 1000 hugetlbfs:x:1000:openvsw

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? No, I did a default install of the Mate spin. Then I've installed evolution, gvim, autofs, vlc, youtube-dl, smplayer. # dnf history ID | Command line | Date

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:24 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > It looks like this was filed as: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1646774 > > It's not clear whether the maintainer intends to push the > trivial fix to existing branches or not. I think that it > should be fixed in f29 and f30 as wel

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-19 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 11:22 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Maybe the bast solution: > - remove the packages > - change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000 > - changw you groupid to 1000 > - reinstall the packages What I've done, and so far so good: 1. Remove the only identifia

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-21 Thread Tim via users
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Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Tim via users
Ed Greshko: >>> I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? >>> >>> I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the >>> ID's. Jon LaBadie: >> What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might >> cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem likely.

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On 22/6/19 6:22 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: But, of course, I can't respond as the email is "ignored".?? So, I'm putting it out here in case Tim doesn't notice the mistake. Oops, sorry, didn't mean to send that privately.?? I'm used to mailing lists where hitting reply sends the reply back where i

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 11:53 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > I suspect ??? though I have no way of confirming ??? that the number of > people who would vote and only subscribe to the announce list is > relatively small. Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't > have the opportunity to vote. Simple t

Re: F30 LVM partition on a notebook

2019-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to > add another drive and extend /home onto it. I don't get it, either. I agree with the other problems, especially if you have to unplug and read it on another system. I'

Re: router usb port problem

2019-06-26 Thread Tim via users
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 tha

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-28 Thread Tim via users
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 sect

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-28 Thread Tim via users
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.

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-28 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-29 Thread Tim via users
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 pokin

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-30 Thread Tim via users
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 place,

Re: [OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

2019-06-30 Thread Tim via users
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 wor

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-01 Thread Tim via users
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, e

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-01 Thread Tim via users
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 syst

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-01 Thread Tim via users
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 stil

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-02 Thread Tim via users
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 d

Re: Migrating RAID1 to new system

2019-07-02 Thread Tim via users
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. ___

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-02 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-03 Thread Tim via users
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 server

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Tim via users
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 partitions

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-04 Thread Tim via users
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 blo

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-04 Thread Tim via users
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 publi

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-05 Thread Tim via users
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 se

Re: Using bind for a local caching name server, is this configuration correct?

2019-07-05 Thread Tim via users
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; }; >

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-06 Thread Tim via users
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,

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: selinux - help - directory policy syntax

2019-07-07 Thread Tim via users
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 direc

Re: VLC stopped launching

2019-07-08 Thread Tim via users
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 no

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-08 Thread Tim via users
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 spin

What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-10 Thread Tim via users
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: /home/tim/.fetchmailrc:

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

2019-07-10 Thread Tim via users
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 logged

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

2019-07-10 Thread Tim via users
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 str

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

2019-07-10 Thread Tim via users
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 se

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

2019-07-10 Thread Tim via users
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: > restorecon

Re: F30 Thunderbird format question

2019-07-11 Thread Tim via users
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 th

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

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

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

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

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

2019-07-13 Thread Tim via users
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 u

Re: utility of gnome-keyring and secret-tool

2019-07-14 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question. [SOLVED]

2019-07-14 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question. [SOLVED]

2019-07-15 Thread Tim via users
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. Bu

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question. [SOLVED]

2019-07-16 Thread Tim via users
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.

Re: F30 Thunderbird format question

2019-07-17 Thread Tim via users
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 exi

Re: Playing Blueray Movies in F30

2019-07-17 Thread Tim via users
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: Most

Re: How do I de-blur a picture?

2019-07-23 Thread Tim via users
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 (

Re: Why my message is blocked because contains a strange word

2019-07-24 Thread Tim via users
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 t

Re: Evolution crashing

2019-07-25 Thread Tim via users
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. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Li

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-25 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-27 Thread Tim via users
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 undernea

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-28 Thread Tim via users
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 pers

Re: Enlarging the swap partition

2019-07-28 Thread Tim via users
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 the

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-28 Thread Tim via users
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, remove

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