Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I assumed it was because was refreshing the updates repository and > the updates source repository and both of them had the same display > name. The source repo is usually not enabled. And therefore completely ignored during general updat

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:13 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I have the number of parallel downloads set to 8 is obvious when the > packages are being downloaded, hence if parallelism is at play here, > why consistently those two rather than others as well? Dunno. I could guess that those servers a

Re: IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display > is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them > have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many > threads? Very likely. Thund

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Will McDonald
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 17:38, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM home user via users > wrote: > > Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for ps command > > > > What's going on with that lkm warning? > > Do you really need us to google it for you? > And what Jeffer

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Barry
> On 28 Nov 2024, at 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: > > being /usr/bin/egrep and /usr/bin/fgrep because it has said they have been > replaced by a script, is that standard Fedora? Did you check what was in the files and where they were installed from? The scripts print a warning message then r

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Barry
> On 28 Nov 2024, at 21:41, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Just possibly off topic here, but quite some time ago I was playing around > with python and needed a package (I don't remember which one it was) that > wasn't installed, so I used pip3 to do the install and it installed a python > 2 vers

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I've run chkrootkit and it said there were no issues, but rkhunter has > reported two suspect files, being /usr/bin/egrep and /usr/bin/fgrep > because it has said they have been replaced by a script, is that > standard Fedora? fgrep and

Re: IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Will McDonald
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 22:50, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 29/11/24 09:45, Will McDonald wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 22:31, Stephen Morris > wrote: > >> HI, >> When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display >> is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where

Re: IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 09:45, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 22:31, Stephen Morris wrote: HI,     When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird

Re: IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Will McDonald
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 at 22:31, Stephen Morris wrote: > HI, > When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display > is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a > unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many threads? > https://serve

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 04:37, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM home user via users wrote: (f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome) A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from "chkrootkit": - - - - - - bash.1[~]: chkrootkit ROOTDIR is `/' Checking

IOTOP Display Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
HI,     When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many threads?     Also when I run IOTOP I get a display in the middle of the screen tha

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/24 15:21, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 09:19 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I forced a refresh and below is the info requested. I've also just noticed that the refresh and load is also being done twice for the Fedora 41 repository as well. I've also listed the contents of th

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 04:51, home user via users wrote: (on 2024-11-26, Stephen Morris said) When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/24 05:01, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all th

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW inst

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-28 Thread home user via users
(on 2024-11-26, Stephen Morris said) When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why is DNF doing that when there is only one reposi

Re: security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM home user via users wrote: > > (f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome) > > A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following > warning from "chkrootkit": > - - - - - - > bash.1[~]: chkrootkit > ROOTDIR is `/' > Checking `amd'... not found > [snip

security issue?

2024-11-28 Thread home user via users
(f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome) A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from "chkrootkit": - - - - - - bash.1[~]: chkrootkit ROOTDIR is `/' Checking `amd'... not found [snip] Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... You have 1 proce

Re: systemd configuration with service configuration check

2024-11-28 Thread Barry Scott
> On 28 Nov 2024, at 14:40, polak...@niif.hu wrote: > > This would make restarting less trouble because the system will *work* with > the old configuration. I do not think it will allow for this. Better that you get into the habit of checking the config after any change you make. Otherwise a

Re: systemd configuration with service configuration check

2024-11-28 Thread Barry Scott
> On 28 Nov 2024, at 14:40, polak...@niif.hu wrote: > > On the one hand, it is possible to check the configuration before starting, > e.g. "sshd -t". I am not sure what you expect this to help with. If the config is bad the service will not start. That is, I assume, exactly what having the s

systemd configuration with service configuration check

2024-11-28 Thread polakovi
Hi, Novice question: A service that can be run under systemd is given. On the one hand, it is possible to check the configuration before starting, e.g. "sshd -t". I would like a systemd configuration file that contains the configuration check. For this, the '[Service] ExecStartPre=' directive see

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-28 Thread Tim via users
Stephen Morris wrote: > > Just an off topic question, I've noticed recently that when I preview > > a mail from this list I no longer get any indication of who the email > > came from in the body of the mail, and if there is no signature, with > > the from being "Community support for Fedora users"

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-28 Thread Tim via users
Stephen Morris: > > Looking at /var/cache/dnf begs the question of where is it specified for > > each repository how many cached copies dnf is going to keep. For the > > Fedora, Updates, Fedora Cisco, Rpmfusion-Free and Rpmfusion-Nonfree it > > seems to be keeping 5 copies, but for non-Fedora re

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/24 1:29 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 27/11/24 13:08, Tim via users wrote: *Very* old info suggested: /var/cache/dnf is when dnf is used with superuser /var/tmp/dnf-- is when you run it as you Have a look, see if that's still the case. I did check this out and as you have su

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/24 1:57 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 27/11/24 12:48, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: This is true, and I know this can be done under DNF, but I'm using that to decide whether it is worth doing the upgrade in terms of the volume of updates t

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/24 1:35 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 27/11/24 14:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you run it under sudo, it has no knowledge of a user running it. You will have to do the clean as the user if you want to do that. Apparently I did test this at some point because there's a dnf-* directory own