Re: repos not reachable

On 7/1/25 3:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote: This started happening last night. I worked around it then with 42, and started doing it again now in 41, by changing from e.g. #baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/ metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject

Re: How to setup certs for https access for Fedora 42?

On 5/26/25 6:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 00:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you want a recognized certificate, you either have to buy one or you can use certbot to get a free one from https://letsencrypt.org/.  You need to remember to renew it regularly.  I think they

Re: Postfix

On 4/29/25 12:54 PM, jarmo wrote: But... As said, it was running ok, so far, when came new kernel, updated, rebooted computer, postfix sevice didn't start. In F41 it worked ok, when after kernel update rebooted.. This F42 have something, what makes postix sevice disabled after reboot, again af

Re: Logwatch

On 4/21/25 2:12 AM, jarmo wrote: Stopped working after upgrade fm f41 to f42?? As well postfix service didn't start after upgrade??? Had to enable postfix service first and start it.. Missing "Mail/Mailx" in f42??? These are my first impressions after upgrade. Where to start look, how to get Lo

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On 4/18/25 9:36 AM, Charles Dennett wrote: Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me.  Also logwatch had failed to run. I

Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to me. Also logwatch had failed to run. I quickly checked logwatch first by manually running

Re: Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups?

On 4/18/25 3:07 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Anything in this guys Post Upgrade Upgrade Cleanups recommendations you would NOT do? I noticed he wisely left of the accursed `dnf autoremove`. Never never never ever do that again! https://ostechnix.com/upgrade-to-fedora-linux-42-from

Re: add a group to a group?

On 4/6/25 9:03 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, What is the syntax to ad a group to a group I think it is @, but I am not sure Here I am trying to add all members of "users" to libvert /etc/group: libvirt:x:973:@users What am I doing wrong? Many thanks, -T I've worked with UNIX

Re: apache log monitoring?

On 4/5/25 7:37 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a log monitoring tool that can alert on errors in the access log and error log. Something like what nagios can do to alert on serivce issues except for errors like 500 or 503. Something like fail2ban pattern checking that can take an action i

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

On 2/25/25 5:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be bothered seeing. I am trying to figure out how to use the exclude type option, but I have not figured it out, nor is google giving me guidance Wow, hadn't used the df c

Re: Recent cups update not working

On 12/15/24 8:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2024-12-15 at 07:24 -0500, Charles Dennett wrote: Mine is a DCP-L2630DW, so should be essentially the same. From the CUPS web interface (localhost:631): Driver: DCP-L2640DW - IPP Everywhere (grayscale, 2-sided printing) Conne

Re: Recent cups update not working

On 12/15/24 5:26 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2024-12-14 at 19:29 -0500, Charles Dennett wrote: Cups on my Fedora 41 desktop system was recently upgraded to 1:2.4.11-8. When trying to print, printer pauses. Try to resume printer, but it pauses again without printing. Reb

Recent cups update not working

Cups on my Fedora 41 desktop system was recently upgraded to 1:2.4.11-8. When trying to print, printer pauses. Try to resume printer, but it pauses again without printing. Rebooted system. Did not fix problem. Updated all packages in Fedora updates as of 12/14/21 and rebooted. Did not fix

Re: teal(?) messages during boot.

On 7/25/24 10:21 AM, John Horne via users wrote: On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 08:43 -0400, Go Canes wrote: [Trimmed a lot of text - this is all regarding teal messages showing up when booting.] As an old retired *nix sys admin I like to keep track of the logs. ON my fedora 40 system (running KDE

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

On 5/2/24 1:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Charles Dennett composed on 2024-05-02 13:08 (UTC-0400): ...To find the biggest offenders, cd to one of those directories (/var/cache for example) and then use the command "sudo du -sh *" to get a listing of each file/directory in the current

Re: System upgrades. Where is the / filesystem?

On 5/2/24 11:46 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I suppose a "sudo dnf clean all" had helped too: 88 files removed. After the download KDiskFree reported 3.9 GB free in /, and dnf said that was the total package size.  "df / " said 4093160 blocks.  After the reboot I removed the excludes, ran dnf

Re: fail2ban on F40 is quiet

On 4/28/24 10:31 AM, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, My machine is exposed to the wild and I was seeing hundreds of connection attempts per day in my logs and in fail2ban.log. All these nefarious activities ceased after upgrade to F40. Question: Is there something fundamentally different in F40 con

Re: Which scanner/copier do you use with Fedora?

he driver. I believe it's rather new, being released last summer so I imagine it should work as both a printer with cups and scanner with xsane. Does anyone have any experience with this printer/scanner/copier? Thanks Charles Dennett -- ___ user

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

On 3/10/24 12:40, Thomas Cameron wrote: Am I the only one who feels this way? Has the day finally come where I'm just old and set in my ways? Are there others who prefer mailing lists to fora? I agree with all you said. I've been on the Internet a long time. Heck, anyone remember bang

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

On 11/21/22 14:19, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone looking at this, or is it too trivial to bother? I see that too, and since at least f36. Haven't investigate at all :-( Yeah, I see that too. I think I've seen it for q

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

On 10/17/22 15:14, Richard Shaw wrote: If you can, please file an issue upstream and let me know what the URL is. Include as much info as you're able, especially any relevant log file entries. https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues Tha

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

I've been testing f2b over the past few days and I can now make it fail on demand. By that I mean the fail2ban-server process uses 100% of a cpu and becomes unresponsive and will not respond to fail2ban-client or process any other log entries (apache, sshd, etc.) whenever it attempts to proc

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

Version 1.0.1 now seems to be running. As I noted before, my problem had something to do with the dovecot jail. I did notice a few config files had .rpmnew versions after upgrading. I went through just to make sure there were no local mods. I do have .local files so I should not have made

Re: Request for testing: fail2ban 1.0.1 update

On 10/14/22 13:07, Richard Shaw wrote: Interestingly, I did not have any issues, but I'm only running a sshd jail, which is one of the reasons I wanted wider testing. I verified that fail2ban was restarted (systemctl status fail2ban) and then checked the status (fail2ban-client status sshd)

Re: updatedb

On 8/9/22 09:56, Patrick Dupre wrote: Every thing seems OK -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Aug 9 13:01 /var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-plocate-upd atedb.timer systemctl list-unit-files | grep updatedb plocate-updatedb.service static