Re: Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

2014-02-06 Thread poma
On 07.02.2014 02:30, CS DBA wrote: … > Any Ideas if Fedora will run/is compatible with the above? > > Thanks in advance... http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread poma
On 07.02.2014 02:04, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:14:05 +0100 > poma wrote: >> >> Secure File Transfer Protocol >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config >> Subsystemsftp/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server >> >> man 5 sshd_config >> man 8 sftp-server >> man 1 sftp >> >> 5+8+1=13! > > Sorry,

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Feb2014 00:55, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure connection protocols > > should be prohibited. Otherwise, a user's password may be protected > > using SSH for one session, only to be ca

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure connection protocols > should be prohibited. Otherwise, a user's password may be protected > using SSH for one session, only to be captured later while logging in > using Telnet. Some

Re: How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

2014-02-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
> How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking input > from files? Data in one file represents X-axis and other file data represents > Y-axis. Can anyone help me out? This is off topic for this list but: it is not possible. You have first to merge file1 and file2 like thi

Re: F20: some characters are missing in the icon titles

2014-02-06 Thread antonio
Kalpa Welivitigoda ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/02/2014 01:55: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:09 AM, antonio montagnani mailto:antonio.montagn...@alice.it>> wrote: After latest updates I note that some characters are missing from icon titles. Am I alone??? Could you

Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues? [CLOSED]

2014-02-06 Thread William
> Good evening, > > I don't know if these are properly rkhunter questions, yum questions, or F-20 questions, > so I'm posting to both lists. > > Last Monday, I updated my 64-bit system from Fedora-19 to Fedora-20. Several minutes ago, > I updated Fedora-20 by doing "yum update". I then did "r

Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

2014-02-06 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I'm thinking about buying this beast: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/#techspecs With these specific options: Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB Internal drive: 128 GB Solid State Drive, Serial ATA3 Secondary Drive: 2nd 500GB HDD, 7200rpm with Bay Adapter

Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

2014-02-06 Thread William
It's been one of those weeks; my apologies for the long delay in answering. > > Michael asks: > > > > > Could you give an example showing the queries you've performed? > > > > > > "whereis" looks for files available on the file-system in various paths. > > > "rpm" only covers files included

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:14:05 +0100 poma wrote: > > Secure File Transfer Protocol > /etc/ssh/sshd_config > Subsystem sftp/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server > > man 5 sshd_config > man 8 sftp-server > man 1 sftp > > 5+8+1=13! Sorry, I failed to understand what you meant with this last bit

Re: F20: some characters are missing in the icon titles

2014-02-06 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:09 AM, antonio montagnani < antonio.montagn...@alice.it> wrote: > After latest updates I note that some characters are missing from icon > titles. Am I alone??? > Could you please describe more? As far as I get it, some characters are missing in the title bar, in what app

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread poma
On 06.02.2014 23:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html > > one reads: > > "For SSH to be truly effective, using

libreoffice 4.2 for F20?

2014-02-06 Thread Steven Stern
Are there plans to build libreoffice 4.2 for F20? I just checked koji and it looks like the 4.2 builds are all marked as F21. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fed

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 6, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Wade Hampton wrote: > - partition on a 1M boundary Has been this way by default for some time. > - use native partitions, not LVM (for TRIM) Well this wouldn't be a reason to not use LVM, I'd come up with something else, like it's a PITA to do what it suggests is

Re: Tons of DBUS error and apps unavailability

2014-02-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:01 +0100 Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > I cant understan why you think my problem is related to this bug. Because creating the nologin file was the original symptom people noticed first, but in reality what has happened is that systemd has gotten itself blowed up and all s

Re: Tons of DBUS error and apps unavailability

2014-02-06 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi Tom > Could be yet another variation on this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043212 > > If a reboot fixes everything, then it comes back later after cron > runs or a yum update then it probably is this bug. I cant understan why you think my problem is related to this bu

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html > > one reads: > > "For SSH to be t

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Tim Evans
On 02/06/2014 05:38 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html one reads: "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure

why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html one reads: "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure connection protocols should be prohibited. Otherwis

Re: Most recent iso file for installing F20

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Martin Airs wrote: >> I would like to install F20. Is there some iso file more recent than >> the one made available at the release date of F20? If so, where can >> one download it? > > the best way to get the most recent packages when installing I think is to get >

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 09:43 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: > - change I/O scheduler by adding "elevator=noop" to boot parms > No longer needed it seems. > - reduce swappiness: /etc/sysctl.conf > vm.swappiness=1 > vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 > Yes, I do this for my SSD. I put them into a fi

F20: some characters are missing in the icon titles

2014-02-06 Thread antonio montagnani
After latest updates I note that some characters are missing from icon titles. Am I alone??? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F20 (Heisenbug) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmonterosa.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: F20 cursor invisible

2014-02-06 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:40:01 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 30 January 2014 22:59, Beartooth wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:08:15 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> > This dconf key worked for me: >> > >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969649#c30 >> >> OK, I tried that, m

Re: How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

2014-02-06 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:23:32 + Norah Jones wrote: > lotting graphs by taking input from files? Maybe use Google? http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~vrable/gnuplot/using-gnuplot.html

Re: does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:48:32 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Use this command instead: > rpm -q --whatrequires libcrypto.so.10\(\)\(64bit\) rpm --test --erase openssl-libs 2>&1|grep openssh -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: Tons of DBUS error and apps unavailability

2014-02-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:01:30 +0100 Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > Hi all, > I see a lot of DBUS error in the messages: > > dbus[11185]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': > timed out > dbus-daemon: dbus[11185]: [system] Failed to activate service > 'org.freedesktop.

Re: How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

2014-02-06 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:23:32 + > Norah Jones wrote: > > > lotting graphs by taking input from files? > > Maybe use Google? > http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~vrable/gnuplot/using-gnuplot.html > http://lowrank.net/gnuplot/index-e.html is also a good

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 February 2014 02:13, Roger wrote: > > > Totem in F19+ use gstreamer 1.0 as opposed to gstreamer 0.10. Be sure you > have "gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld" installed. > > > When naming such things, has anyone considered how it looks to a novice to > be installing a plugin or app that conta

Tons of DBUS error and apps unavailability

2014-02-06 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all, I see a lot of DBUS error in the messages: dbus[11185]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out dbus-daemon: dbus[11185]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out dbus[11185]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: s

Re: does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

2014-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >um ... they do? i just checked and none of the following commands > > show openssl as a dependency: > > > > $ rpm -qR openssh-server > > $ rpm -qR openssh-clients > > $ rpm -qR openssh > > You should have output here u

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:43:40AM -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: > Some of the recommendations I have found: I know about some of these and not others without research, so I'll just answer those parts. > - use native partitions, not LVM (for TRIM) TRIM should work on LVM now. > - mount using relat

Re: does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Robert P. J. Day wrote: um ... they do? i just checked and none of the following commands show openssl as a dependency: $ rpm -qR openssh-server $ rpm -qR openssh-clients $ rpm -qR openssh You should have output here unless you snipped it. You will see something like: $ rpm -qR openssh /bi

Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread Wade Hampton
Is there a current best practices for use of solid state disks with Fedora 20? I found an older doc for Fedora 14 and also the Red Hat 6 deployment guide, but both don't have a lot of details. I have a laptop and am installing a 120G SSD. Also I plan on updating an old CentOS server with a singl

Re: does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert P. J. Day said: > "Note, the OpenSSH packages require the OpenSSL package (openssl) ..." Yes. OpenSSH does not implement the crypto itself, it uses OpenSSL to do it. OpenSSH does _not_ use the SSL functions of OpenSSL, just the math. > um ... they do? i just checked

does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

2014-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently reading the RHEL 7-Beta docs (which should be fairly relevant WRT fedora, yes? as RHEL 7 will be based on f19 last i read), and on this opening page: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-OpenSSH.html on

Re: How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

2014-02-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:23:32 + Norah Jones wrote: > lotting graphs by taking input from files? Maybe use Google? http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~vrable/gnuplot/using-gnuplot.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

2014-02-06 Thread Norah Jones
Hi, How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking input from files? Data in one file represents X-axis and other file data represents Y-axis. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, Norah Jones -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Fedora 20 and VmWare

2014-02-06 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 13:57 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 05/02/14 05:57, John Austin wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > > wrote: > >> On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote: > For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch neede

Re: Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-06 Thread L.G.
I attach the text which has appeared on the screen of my PC. [ 9.332989] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 9.332990] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 9.334026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 9.334028] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: wri

Re: Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:27:20AM +, L.G. wrote: > [ 196.644920] dracut-initqueue[590]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist >     Starting Dracut Emergency Shell... > Warning: /dev/root does not exist [...] > > First of all I have loaded a .ISO image on my USB pen drive, using very > > useful Ul

Kontact, howto disable automatic replies on invitation?

2014-02-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, for a long time I was using the Thunderbird/Lightning combination for planning my appointments. Lately I tried Kontact instead and I think I like it. Except for one problem, which is a bit disturbing. When I get an invitation, and I choose to add it to my Korganizer calendar, KMail automat

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:19:38 -0800 Edward M wrote: > For the eternal law is that there is no good without bad, no > beauty without ugliness, no white without black, > for the absolute can only exist as two; bad being necessary > for good to serve as its foil as the pedestal >