Re: auditd log processing tools?

2021-01-28 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 16:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You completely removed any context and your message is unclear... Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. Or, put

Re: auditd log processing tools?

2021-01-29 Thread Tim via users
sixpack13 wrote: >> to me it seems completely unnecessary. >> My comment is right under the comment I replied to. Ed Greshko: > You may think it is unnecessary. However, some people have their > email clients configured to display "unread" messages. When a reply > is sent sometime after the

Re: test message

2021-06-14 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If you use an external one (e.g. gmail, yahoo, or many others), >> you're not subject your provider's whims... George N. White III: > Or the whims of people who spend their time reporting content they > don't like to blocklists. The downside of the external email > providers is that

Re: 'managed-keys' is deprecated ??

2021-06-15 Thread Tim via users
Tom Horsley wrote: >> Bind has 47,589,322 pages of documentation you can't search >> unless you already know all the proper jargon. The actual docs >> are the last place I ever want to look for anything :-). Todd Zullinger: > Heh. If you're not sure of the terminology, bind is the > last thing

Re: first axfr challenges

2021-06-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-06-06 at 11:54 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > something i dont get, if my registrar provides glue references for > primary & secondary domain dns servers, what purpose is served by > anything in my host's named.conf (et al) having any reference to my > domain if it's not

Re: network manager spamming logs with repetitive messages

2021-06-07 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Just out of curiosity, is it only applying localhost.localdomain to >> your 127.0.0.1 loopback interface (like it should), or is it trying >> to apply it to an ethernet or wifi interface (which it shouldn't)? You didn't answer the above query. Frank: > Here's the situation this

Re: Millions of temp files in .gnome2/keyrings

2021-06-09 Thread Tim via users
Ed Greshko: >> Your user name on the Fedora system is sysadmin and primary group is >> also sysadmin? Meikel: > Nope. > > Fedora /home/meikel user=meikel group=meikel > Centos /home/sysadmin/disk1/home_meikel user=sysadmin group=sysadmin > > I could create

Re: Cross domain trust RH IdM to AD RHEL OK, other linux distro problems

2021-06-09 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan >> You thought you did what? If you reply on HyperKitty there's no >> context unless you explicitly quote it. Ed Greshko: > Lucky for me T-Bird sorts threads based on subject as well as header > information. Doesn't Evolution? > It does. I'm using it. Though he's right

Re: Cross domain trust RH IdM to AD RHEL OK, other linux distro problems

2021-06-10 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> On Evolution, I have it only showing the last 5 day's worth. If it >> were easily customisable, I might narrow it down to 3 day's worth. Ed Greshko: > T-Bird has a nice "Retention Policy" on a per folder basis. Evolution does have retention options, where old messages can be deleted or

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 11:59 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > It's High Dynamic Range, its a methodology for improving the colour > range, brightness range and detail. I think it is the video > equivalent of HDR for photography. With photography, it's generally the combination of two photos one

Re: FC34 broke my bind

2021-06-13 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 22:50 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > So why am I getting "file not found" in the following? If your files are at the expected paths, check SELinux. It's a common cause of unexpected and unexplained "file not found" errors. -- uname -rsvp Linux

Re: Long wait for start job

2021-06-18 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan: >> Interesting idea. Mine is this model: >> >> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XYJGDTH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8=1 >> >> The power block says its output is 3A at 12V. >> >> The drives are both WD model WD10EZEX, (though the label on one >> says it has a

Re: My FC33->FC34 bind-chroot upgrade notes

2021-06-17 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I think if you want to modify *anything* in the zone files, you'll >> first need to stop the service then delete their journal files, >> before editing them. Chris Adams: > Or just freeze/thaw them - no need to stop the server, and you should > never delete the journal files. I can't

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 13:29 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Many of the younger linux users I encounter came to linux from > Windows because a mission critical application requires linux. Some > have only used the command line after Google told them to run "sudo > " resulting in a badly

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 12:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > I don't know a lot about Packagekit, or anything else really. > But I will take this chance to complain again. When rebooting or > shutting down my laptop, many times the process is delayed (up to 1.5 > minutes) and it displays its

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Long ago I gave up helping such users by no- >> longer continually fixing their broken Windows... Joe Zeff: > "Sorry, I don't do Windows." Exactly! I still get asked if I can recommend anti-virus software, and I reply that I haven't touched Windows in years, I don't need it on my

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
George N. White III: > The forums for some of the mission critical applications have seen > cases where users were told to install an updated distro package. > User then reports that the update had no effect (because the old > library is still being used) and proceeds to run wild reinstalling >

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 09:54 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Also, without the automagic background pakagekit nonsense running, > you can run dnf exactly when you want to rather than discovering that > packagekit has the updates locked while it is downloading stuff. It > seems to have the uncanny

Re: bind-chroot not duplicating my forward and reverse tables

2021-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 21:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am trying to clean up my bind-chroot forward and reverse files. > > The goal is to have bind-chroot do its thing by duplicating > these two files over into > /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/ > with the identical inodes

Re: RedShift

2021-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 20:19 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 34 > Xfce 4.14 > redshift-1.12-11.fc34.x86_64 > redshift-gtk-1.12-11.fc34.x86_64 > > Hi All, > > Red Shift is all screwed up again: > > > Unable to connect to GeoClue. Unable to get location from provider:

Re: RedShift

2021-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 10:21 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I think there's been some cold water thrown recently on the idea that > this kind of tweak has any actual effect on insomnia, but I'm no > expert. I place no faith in that kind of thing helping insomnia, at all. But taking out the

Re: Live and PlayStation 4?

2021-06-15 Thread Tim via users
ToddAndMargo: >> Duck Duck Go. Google censors political speech not to >> its liking and it spies on you mercilessly. Joe Zeff: > This is why I use startpage.com. It keeps no record of your IP > address so that nobody can tie your searches to you. YMMV, but > that's my personal preference.

Re: test message

2021-06-13 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-06-13 at 15:11 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > My provider is refusing messages from this list. > I'm chccking to see if that's still true. > Well, it worked. But might I suggest not using your service provider's email. If you use an external one (e.g. gmail, yahoo, or many

Re: My FC33->FC34 bind-chroot upgrade notes

2021-06-16 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 12:15 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have been know to delete them at times, but > I don't remember why. Maybe because I wanted to > advance the serial manually. I think if you want to modify *anything* in the zone files, you'll first need to stop the service then

Re: first axfr challenges

2021-06-08 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> The internet, at large, will always use your primary server. If it >> can't, it'll try your secondary server. Ed Greshko: > I'm not certain what you mean by the use of "primary" in that > statement. But I don't think it is actually accurate in any event. It's probably an out-of-date

Re: first axfr challenges

2021-06-08 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Both of those servers are accessed by name, not numerical IP >> address, and those names have to be in some public DNS records, so >> people can find the IP addresses for them to connect to them. Joe Zeff: > No. DNS servers are always accessed by IP address, never by name. > Trying to

off-topic mouse question

2021-06-08 Thread Tim via users
Does anybody know of a mouse with a scroll wheel that's not rubber coated? I have a latex allergy, getting really sick of the skin irritation, and I'm not having a great deal of luck researching this. Most mice don't state what they're made of. Yes, I do want a scroll wheel mouse and not a

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-10 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 09:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I am using a 4K monitor that has HDR capabilities which, like > windows, I won't get that functionality in linux without a monitor > specific driver, which doesn't exist for linux. Is it really a case of needing a "driver," or is it just

Re: Xorg Scaling Issues (Solved)

2021-06-11 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 20:08 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I don't know whether its a design of the monitor, but under windows, > windows does not provide HDR capability natively, I have to install > a monitor specific driver supplied by the vendor, which unfortunately > they don't supply for

Re: puzzling SELinux alert. [SOLVED]

2021-05-13 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 12:55 -0600, home user wrote: > That's as much of an answer as I can give. > This all applies to both the SELinux problems and what was addressed > in my "System Failure?" thread. DNF has a history command, which shows what was installed at various stages. If you type "dnf

Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

2021-05-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 15:44 +0200, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Btw, is there any setting which resets ip address once in a few > hours. Does DHCP do this anyway, even though I think that the > interval is for over a day. DHCP leases you an IP for a certain time period (whatever the server is

Re: usbnet direct host-2-host with usb 3 passive cable - ?

2021-05-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 19:26 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > Would anybody know of perhaps has tried, to hook up two > boxes directly via a passive usb 3.x type A cable and have > it as "regular" ethernet connection? I would think a passive USB cable between PCs would be liable to break

Re: dns glue or duct tape??

2021-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 13:14 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > With help from this list I recently updated my DNS configuration to > provide for a primary and secondary DNS server where the primary DNS > server is my host inside my domain and the secondary server is > provided by AT > > I discovered that

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 11:24 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > They didn't drop releases entirely, just minor releases. And that's > good, because minor releases in CentOS were a bug. They did not > improve reliability the way that minor releases improve RHEL > reliability. > >

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 18:38 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > So it's not stability in the sense of stuff being broken; it's > stability in the sense of stuff being disruptive. I can see three major aspects to that: 1. Me, who has a webserver, mailserver, whatever, and wants it to keep on running

Re: Font Issue.....

2021-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 08:25 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Is there a way to use font color to represent bolding? It used to be (not sure if this was on Linux) that you had a choice of using bold or bright to emphasise some text. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr

Re: pulseaudio -> pipewire

2021-05-27 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 10:08 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I don't do any exotic audio usage, but the only difference > I've seen is that it no longer takes audio a second or two > to start working again if I pause a youtube video for a while > then come back later and start it up again. I used to

Re: Modifying DNF's output

2021-06-02 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-06-02 at 08:17 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > One keystroke saving measure in UNIX is the use of the "PATH" to list > directories that are searched for a command. Always remember that paths are a common cause for scripting to fail. Someone does some experimenting with a command

Re: Troubles with the claws-mail

2021-06-06 Thread Tim via users
Angelo >> may be you've unintentionally assigned "k" to some menu item. >> (It's just a matter of pressing a "key" while focusing the item >> with the mouse pointer). Bob Marcan > Shouldn't the same behavior will be in all the other applications? If you've accident set a hotkey in claws-mail,

Re: network manager spamming logs with repetitive messages

2021-06-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-06-06 at 12:19 -0400, Frank wrote: > I noticed this morning that network manager is spamming my log with > messages repeated every 3 or 4 seconds. > > > Jun 06 11:58:22 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[787]: > [1622995102.8297] policy: set-hostname: current hostname was

Re: Any low level key stroke filter out there

2021-05-26 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 13:06 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I only have one web page I type in that is doing that and it started > doing that on an update of said website.And yes, it is annoying. > There was an option in the web page settings to stop it from doing > that. Is it a copyright

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > What I would like to see is (a) an initramfs that can boot a > graphical stack (b) contains the Live OS dracut modules (c) and > overlayfs, and wire it up so that the rescue boot entry does a read- > only sysroot boot + writable overlay like

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 16:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Further to the above, if you don´t actually require colour printing > (and almost no-one really does) there is no upside to getting an ink- > jet printer. Monochrome lasers are more reliable and cheaper in the > long run. I tend to

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 11:51 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > now I'm thinking I need to print a test page from time to > time to make sure it will be available when needed. CRON job of things to do; print this test page -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 10

Re: Windows 11 VMs

2021-07-05 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-07-05 at 10:29 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Security is hard, the weakest link is often your personnel, you > shouldn't say you care about security unless you have a specialist > auditing your systems, and any other generic statements about > security are marketing drivel. ;-)

Re: Windows 11 VMs

2021-07-06 Thread Tim via users
Tim, with mangled quoting by crapmail programs, come on you've had decades to get this shit right: > > I reckon the default thought of most people who're suddenly faced > with > > a computer failing a security test is not going to be that > something > > has changed on them without authority,

Re: System always "Resumes from hibernation" on startup

2021-07-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-07-01 at 12:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > If you are never going to want to hibernate, do what I do > and remove the resume= from the kernel boot line in grub. Then > it won't even look for a device to resume from. It was my understanding that there didn't need to be a resume

Re: System always "Resumes from hibernation" on startup

2021-07-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-07-01 at 07:13 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The system always tries to restore from hibernation on startup; this > causes about a 1-1/2 minute delay. I see no reason for this, since > the system is halted by "(Start)->Shut Do..." I was of the understanding that when a system

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-08 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 17:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > The scanner also works better now since I found a maintenance manual > online and figured out how to get the top of the scanner off so > I could clean years worth of out-gassing fog off the inside of the > glass :-). I had to periodically

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:38 -0700, Richard England wrote: > Gave up on inkjets due to clogging issues with low usage. Went with > HP M283cdw. Color, scanner, copier, fax, and prints from a USB > thumbdrive. Have you ever tried printing from a file on a USB drive? My HP P3015 printer also

Re: Qemu-kvm KDE VM steels my mouse

2021-07-12 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-07-12 at 03:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I also am curious as to how gnome and kde work. > Kde seems very polished. gnome is just to > weird to use. I have to have my task bar. > Task bars have shed tears after meeting me! Have you tried MATE? -- uname -rsvp Linux

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-06 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use > the printer all that much, and every single one of them eventually > (after I've had it for a few months)

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 12:32 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > If you go with a color laser, be aware that the toner > cartridges they send (starter toner) is only 10% > filled and you will run out very quickly. Bloody hell! How do these companies get away with such crapola? I only use an

Re: OT: ink jet printers

2021-07-07 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in- > one Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux driver, but it never > worked. I do all my scanning on a windows (the Epson is a network > device) virtual machine, and save

Re: ctl C/ctl X

2021-06-30 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 12:06 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Looks like something "more" is doing. Plenty of other things will ignore CTRL C, such as reading man pages. The CTRL C abort sequence is more to do with aborting the running of scripts, and the like. I'm not sure that more, less, vi, and

sieve scripts

2021-04-26 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I've just gotten around to using sieve with Dovecot, and trying to work out how scripts should be written has been a bit of a headache. There doesn't seem to be coherent documentation, just various people's cobbled together notes. So I'm wondering if anybody can see anything glaringly

Re: sieve scripts

2021-04-26 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 13:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > It looks fine. Did you have any specific concern? One thing I couldn't find was how you supposed to write up a long list of different rules, like how I've got a rule for this list, another rule for that. If I simply list one clause after

Re: sieve scripts

2021-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 15:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > From the Help: > >You can download images from emails sent by your contacts. To do >this, go to Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Mail Preferences ▸ HTML Messages > ▸ >Loading Images. Enable the Load images only in messages from >

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-05-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 12:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > You are missing the fact that you attempting to run a *public* DNS > server. > > That means that your DNS server must accept queries from *any* source > address. > > allow-query { any; }; > > is what you'll need. Supplemental info:

Re: btrfs

2021-05-01 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 21:58 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > With fedora32, I created a btrfs partition with gparted > > fdisk see it as of type 83, ie. like a ext4 partition. Partition types can preselect a preferred filing system format, but you can override that and format them with a different

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-05-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 17:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > If you're not going to serve email and your not going to use email > addresses in the linuxlighthouse.com domain then you don't want to > define MX records. Or, you have an MX record that points to where your email is being hosted by

Re: Question about broken link files?

2021-05-02 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 18:05 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Ran the following command in / to see what it finds. > find . -xtype l >/badlinks > > Summary of results of broken links by top directory > /etc 15 > /home 17 > /proc 170 > /root 2 > /run 145 > /usr 325 > 674 > > Not an

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-04-21 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > perhaps in the meantime you could outline how to configure my setup > for your simler, /etc/hosts approach? I suppose that before going into masses of technicalities, what does your system actually *need* to do? a) We know you're intending

Re: wayward wayland.

2021-04-23 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 07:08 -0600, home user wrote: > My gut tells me the SELinux re-label either never finished or never > started. The 4 lines that I put into my most recent post came up in > under 2 minutes after the grub menu disappeared, and I never saw any > hint of output from a SELinux

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-04-22 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 14:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I should have mentioned, not talking about other places, but here in > Taiwan it seems the TTL on dynamic IP's is rather long. My nephew, > while he doesn't run a web server, has told me he gets the same IP > address even if his notebook has

Re: wayward wayland.

2021-04-24 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 20:24 -0600, home user wrote: > Since my initial install was 8 years ago, I don't remember for > certain how I did it: CD or USB stick. For later on, once you're back working again: Next time you do an install, leave some notes in the /root homespace about what you've done.

Re: wayward wayland.

2021-04-25 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-04-25 at 06:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Read Tim's comment again. "He" wrote the notes in a file. Not dnf > or another process. Not quite. I've written my post-installation-log, but the system has written anaconda-ks.cfg files on two installations, and left me a

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-05-04 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 11:30 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > i've been challenged finding these rules... > Thx! is this record format spelled out somewhere, RFC??? perhaps There probably is, but I would have learnt this from the BIND documentation years ago, and just kept pace with how BIND rewrites

Re: dns wrap up

2021-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 13:42 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > $TTL 3D; default ttl for records without a specified lifetime > $ORIGIN linuxlighthouse.com. > linuxlighthouse.com. CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org" > @ IN SOA ws.linuxlighthouse.com. root.linuxlighthouse.com. ( >

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 11:56 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > i think you are right, i've been wondering about the ns3's behaviour > as the dnscheck page keeps telling me i have only one responding dns. > as it is part of the at dns, i have been ignoring this; now is the > time to deal with it > > i

Re: sieve scripts

2021-04-27 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 12:19 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Maybe ask on the Evolution list? That will get you the real answer > (the devs are very responsive). Well, so far it seems to be working. I was mostly trying to avoid it unexpectedly blowing up in the future. Being able to

Re: drive layout

2021-04-28 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 07:40 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > I like having /var as a separate volume because when it was EXT4 I > could do a reinstall and format / without losing data in /var. I > setup using subvolumes this time before I realized that was no longer > possible. I guess it could make

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 19:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Even faster is to plug it into a USB port and directly transfer the > files. I had to get into the secret developer mode to make that work on my Samsung phone. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.16-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 13:43:38 UTC

Re: F34 - what happened to Switch User?

2021-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 07:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go? If you lock the screen, is there a switch user option in there? -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.16-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 13:43:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > with a background image

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > screen”, which I do not have. Are you sure it's required? My quick look at the zoom help page

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-09 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 22:44 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just one question, what do you mean by green screen? I use zoom on > my work laptop in Windows 10 showing static and animated backgrounds > behind the camera image so that people can't see anything in the room > behind me, and I didn't

Re: Fedora 33 Update: harvey-1.0.0-12.fc33

2021-03-28 Thread Tim via users
This sort of thing really annoys me: > Name: harvey > Product : Fedora 33 > Version : 1.0.0 > Release : 12.fc33 > URL : https://github.com/danrabbit/harvey > Summary : The hero that Gotham needs right now > Description : Calculate and visualize color contrast.

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 19:30 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > There have also been efforts to predict eminent drive failure (e.g., > using S.M.A.R.T) but without much success. It took me a moment to wonder what would be famous/respected about drive failures. ;-) But I've often wondered if

Re: Inhibit sleep from systemd service

2021-03-24 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 14:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > my new workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me > feel good about leaving on all the time. It might be worth measuring what it actually uses. A system may have a 500 watt power supply, but that's the amount its able to

speed of dd

2021-03-14 Thread Tim via users
When I do something like: dd if='fedora.iso' of=/dev/sdb status=progress I only get around 6 megabytes per second on a USB 2 Sandisk Cruzer Blade flashdrive (store bought, not fleabay) plugged directly into a motherboard's USB 3 port - one that's not sharing its host with any other ports in

Re: safe to make evolution extinct? [SOLVED]

2021-03-21 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 16:00 -0600, home user wrote: > I was recalling my Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 thread > "mysterious/suspicious internet activity." (see here: > "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DI4NUTIRORZBG3DWGS2PXF5YDY2USCYY/;). > On Dec. 01,

Re: apache requireany and htaccess

2021-03-19 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 21:34 -0400, Alex wrote: > I have a fedora33 system with apache 2.4.46 and trying to set up a > web page that is only accessible to a select group of IPs defined in > an .htaccess file in the directory where the web page resides. How > can I do this? > > I've read the apache

Re: Hooks for automount

2021-03-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 11:18 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I do. The @reboot suggestion is only a partial solution. Given that > the drive is automatically powered up on reboot (there seems to be no > way to prevent this as it's triggered by the system scanning the USB > bus) I need to be

Re: [SOLVED] NFS authentication(?) error

2021-02-26 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-02-26 at 13:53 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > At some point, RFC's need to address error reporting and diagnostics. > There is also Java, which spews out 10^2 lines of tracing data with > nothing to highlight the line that has the key to the problem. > > I suspect the compiler

Re: Ethernet port "bounce" command?

2021-03-01 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 08:33 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Aye. FWIW, in a former life the place I worked at made all our > crossover cables yellow so that we knew what we were looking at. I'd always understood that gigabit didn't need crossover cables, though just read that it's in the spec

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Someone said that Microsoft will fix it "soon". It's 2021, they still never got Win98 working properly... -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 3 15:06:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to

Re: terminal display issue, was Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-02-24 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-02-24 at 08:17 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > In other people's posts, I've occasionally seen what I think was > supposed to be whitespace as question marks in black diamonds.. > This time my own blanks came back to me that way. > They stay that way in alpines default editor. >

Re: Best video card with native drivers?

2021-03-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 20:57 -0500, Alex wrote: > but only 2GB RAM? Won't that affect the maximum resolution? Yes, but... It's going to depend on how the card works. 4k resolution is 3840 × 2160 pixels = 8,294,400 addressable pixels. 8,294,400 addresses × 3 (red, green, & blue colours) =

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-02-23 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 21:12 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Back at last. > I've logged into the router, > but I'm not at all sure how to do what I want. > For now, I'd settle for bypassing midco's router. *Often* you *can* ignore an ISP's router, remove it and substitute your own. > Would

Re: capture system audio?

2021-02-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 13:09 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm playing a video in firefox and want to capture the audio. There's the brute force and ignorance method: Connect a 3.5 mm patch lead between line out to line in, and record the line in signal. Obviously there can be some quality losses

Re: invisible application after upgrade.

2021-04-11 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 05:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > It is most likely they want it this way. I have to wonder how they expected you to browse the file system if they hide the file browser. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 18:28:22 UTC 2021 x86_64

Re: invisible application after upgrade.

2021-04-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 20:46 +, home user wrote: > Do you mean that all the other software is the same as the newest? > If I do a weekly patch (dnf upgrade), and that patch includes patches > to vim or firefox, and then the next day I boot into one of the older > entries in the grub menu, I

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 11:00 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > so my bind config has apparently not worked despite my dig'ing. > > an external config checker says it finds no valid IP' for > linuxlighthouse.com, i am failing http challenge. The DNS records need to be fixed before all else. They need to

Re: systemd-resolved, split dns, & vpn setup

2021-04-10 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 13:37 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > I have tried at length to get bind 9 to support proper a split > horizon configuration without success. I remember going through that with you last year. It definitely works, as I did it on my system as I went through it with you. Do you

Re: systemd-resolved, split dns, & vpn setup

2021-04-13 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 12:06 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > Oh so now I have learned something new. > > I thought that because I was a Domain owner, I had to do the > translation from my public IP to my local DNS name Just to be clear: By "your public IP" do mean the IP for your server that the

Re: invisible application after upgrade.

2021-04-13 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 14:37 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > What doesn't change, though, are user settings. Any program that > stores its settings in your homespace is unaffected by RPM updates. > Your configurations carry over. However, some applications change > their configuration

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-04-20 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-04-20 at 03:09 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > attached named.conf It has the following lines in it: listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 10.0.0.1; 108.220.213.121; }; allow-query { localhost; 10.0.0.1; 108.220.213.121; }; Does your computer actually recognise one of its WAN

Re: on to letsencrypt

2021-04-21 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Does your computer actually recognise one of its WAN ports as being >> that IP?(108.220.213.121) Jack Craig: > Apparently not > > I can do a telnet connect to IP for port 53 from 10.0.0.1 & localhost > > 10.0.0.101 and the external IP do not connect > > As my external IP is being

Re: puzzling SELinux alert.

2021-04-16 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 11:27 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > given a video file and an png file to output it fails on my system > also (and that is with selinux as permissive and as root, so it seems > to have many issues and is simply broken in most if not all use > cases), and I don't know that I

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