Re: using rsync for backups - want to run only if changes from last backup

On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 16:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: > > On 7/11/25 11:00 AM, Joe Average wrote: > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > ... > > > But is there some way to evaluate the source and see if any changes have > > > occurred since the last rsync (or some time) and only trigger rs

Re: USB drives

On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 14:47 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > So why do some drives work and others don't?  On the F41 system the > drives that do mount automatically when I login are the NTFS drives and > the btrfs drive the ext4 drives don't.  The fact that the ext4 drives > don't mount automatic

Re: Random Copy Paste issue ^[[[200~ copied text ~

On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 20:41 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > The preceding CTRL-V does something to the terminal input, I think it's > > just a literal ^V in the buffer. > > Thanks might well be. Sometimes make the mistake. In terminal it > is Ctrl-Shift, but then in apps like fi

Re: recent kernel update failed

On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 08:49 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 6 Jul 2025, at 02:07, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > > > > However, after the upgrades were done, the last console message was > >>>> Running post-transaction scriptlet: > > kernel-core-0:6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 > > after which the syst

Re: sleep/suspend

On Sat, 2025-07-05 at 12:55 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 11:31 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > Jul 4 11:01:41 Sappho systemd-logind[1868]: Error during inhibitor- > > > delayed operation (already returned success to client): Unit > > > sleep.targ

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate

On Fri, 2025-07-04 at 11:38 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > So, does this mean I have to create a /var/swap file using mkdir? Because > > right now, I do not have any a /var/swap. > > Or, just to add, should I ignore all three of these lines at: > > https://fedoramagazine.org/update-

Re: Sharing Collected Flatpaks

On Wed, 2025-07-02 at 10:36 +0530, Lee Thomas Stephen wrote: > Dear Fedora Team, > > I want to share my collection of Flatpaks, as they could be valuable > to the Fedora/RHEL community. > > - > > 1. `flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub > https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo` >

Re: Post upgrade

On Sun, 2025-06-29 at 13:48 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 28 Jun 2025, at 14:44, Patrick Dupre via users > > wrote: > > > > How can I recover the list of packages which have been removed? > > Use this to find all upgrade logs > > sudo dnf system-upgrade log > > Then use > > sudo dnf system-

Re: vlc

On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 23:43 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install vlc, but I get > Running transaction > Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. > - file /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libfaad_plugin.so conflicts between > attempted installs of vlc-plugins-free

Re: dnf conflict with vlc-plusings-freeworld today

On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 11:25 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Running transaction > Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. > - file /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libfaad_plugin.so from install of > vlc-plugins-base-1:3.0.21-24.fc42.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > vlc-plugins-freeworld-3.0

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate

On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 09:35 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > On Thu Jun12'25 04:05:09PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:05:09 +0100 > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Reply-To: Commu

Re: invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 15:53 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > > Is this in reply to something? I don't see the original post. > > > > poc > > -- > > Reply to > > Same environment, upgrade from 41 to 42. No idea what that means or what the original post says. I don't see it in the list archi

Re: Bash: how do I read a file into a variable and keep the line feeds?

On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 23:22 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > $ rpm -qa bash > bash-5.2.26-3.fc40.x86_64 > > I only update him every two years Really? So he is not receiving updates, including security updates, while his system is EOLed? poc -- _

Re: invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 15:29 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > [~]$ printenv | grep ^LC_ > LC_ADDRESS=C.UTF-8 > LC_NAME=C.UTF-8 > LC_MONETARY=sl_SI.utf-8 > LC_PAPER=sl_SI.utf8 > LC_IDENTIFICATION=C.UTF-8 > LC_TELEPHONE=C.UTF-8 > LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8 > LC_MEASUREMENT=sl_SI.utf8 > LC_TIME=POSIX > LC

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 08:32 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Reading between the lines, I suspect that this won't be that useful in > > the OP's case. The apps will be restarted, but if any of them are doing > > long-running computations that won't in itself be enough unless the > > apps in quest

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 00:24 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: > > On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: > > > > > Why don't you give reboot a try? > > > > I have s much running that rebooting is a last effort.  It is not >

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 09:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 6/16/25 3:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > A widespread convention is to add "- SOLVED" to the subject > > line when the solution has been found. > > What format do you prfefer?

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Sun, 2025-06-15 at 19:22 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > This is a mailing list that is archived. It would be helpful to future > readers stumped at a similar issue later on, to be specific in what the > problem was, and what worked. Just summarize what helped, or be specific in > you

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 23:40 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > Now what am I doing wrong? > > > > -T > > > Explicitly use dnf4. I disagree. At some point dnf4 will disappear, so it's better to learn how to do it properly. If you use Fedora to get the latest and greatest, you can't simult

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 22:41 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 14:19 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 6/13/25 2:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 13:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > >

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 14:19 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 6/13/25 2:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 13:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > It is time for me to upgrade my waterfox and w

Re: waterfox rpms?

On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 13:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > It is time for me to upgrade my waterfox and waterfox classic. > > Problem: I installed them so long ago I forgot where > I got their rpm's from? Really? rpm -qi or of course an Internet search for 'waterfox RPM'

Re: F42: instructions on setting up hibernate

On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 09:32 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > I have a new install of F42 on a Dell Latitude 7430 and was wondering what is > the latest way to get hibernate going? > > Is this recommended way? > > https://fedoramagazine.org/update-on-hibernation-in-fedora-workstation/ > >

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 10:15 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > If anything, maybe the documentation for the list command > > > can be improved to make it clearer how things behave. > > > > That's probably the most sensible course. > > The "funny" part would be if you tried to do that and then > f

Re: After moving to F41, I still cannot use Wayland

On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 21:35 +0200, Frédéric wrote: > Hi, > > I moved to F41 and I still cannot use Plasma with wayland because Gimp > and VirtualBox are unusable, in particular because of the mouse. > > To solve half of my issues, I was thinking of moving my VM from > VirtualBox to KVM. Maybe som

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 19:48 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 23:27 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > My conceptual problem is that this makes no logical sense. If I don't > > > > include

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 23:27 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > My conceptual problem is that this makes no logical sense. If I don't > > include '--available' than I get a long list of packages which are > > *not* from the repo I explicitly asked for. Thi

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 12:03 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 18:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > I think that's because you need to add --available to the > > list subcommand to not include all the installed packages. > > Per dnf5-l

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 18:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > I think that's because you need to add --available to the > list subcommand to not include all the installed packages. > Per dnf5-list(8): > >    --installed >   List only installed packages. > >    --available >   List only a

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 14:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Whenever I do a "dnf list", I always add >   ... | grep -i  fragment_of_what_I_am_looking_for > > Makes me a happy camper. Yes I know. I'm still trying to get my head around the actual logic of the dnf command options. I'm sure it

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 13:18 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 11:25 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > The man page (dnf5-list) says in the synopsis: > > > > > >     dnf5 list [options] [...]

Re: List available packages in a repo

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 11:25 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > The man page (dnf5-list) says in the synopsis: > >     dnf5 list [options] [...] > > and in the examples it shows: > >     dnf5 list kernel* > > (which it presumes users will know to properly escape in > their choice of shell, e.g. dnf

List available packages in a repo

The man page for dnf5 says: list List installed or available packages. However it doesn't appear to give any more detail, and if I try it: $ dnf list --available fedora.repo Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. No matching packages to list which is clearl

Re: ssh forward agent

On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 13:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use > > > > sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing.  If I have to do a series of > > > > things, I will &qu

Re: ssh forward agent

On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 10:45 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > > > Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use > > > sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing.  If I have to do a series of > > > things, I will "su -" and do them all as root.  It's just too tedious BTW, i

Re: ssh forward agent

On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 15:07 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 11:50 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > passwordless sudo seems quite risky to me (and seems to defeat the > > purpose of sudo). > > [...] > Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only

Re: f42 default background not working

On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 15:28 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 02/06/2025 à 15:20, George N. White III a écrit : > > journalctl --no-hostaname -b > > journalctl : option non reconnue (not known) '--no-hostaname' It's a typo. man journalctl: ... --no-hostname Do not show the host

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

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 17:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/30/25 3:19 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 20:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Also see > > > > > > and the section, "Configure a Vi

Re: systemd-automount

On Fri, 2025-05-30 at 16:20 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 30 May 2025, at 14:05, François Patte wrote: > > > > Why it is not automaticlly mounted when I loggin? > > The options include noauto I was about to say that, but 'noauto' (according to the fstab man page) means "don't include in 'mount

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

On Wed, 2025-05-28 at 11:40 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > Aren’t longer keys more effective than changing them often? > Especially as a Chinese team of researchers stated that they have broken a > RSA-2048 private key? [Please don't top-post] Certificates expire to reduce the risk from

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

On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 10:28 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Not the same thing at all. Asking people to make up new passwords > > according to arcane rules is an open invitation to having weak > > passwords. Renewing certs periodically is a compromise between "never" > > and "constantly". > > Key

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

On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 20:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 15:19 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > To reduce the size of Certificate Revocation List (CRL), and recover > > quickly from a compromised host. Conventional wisdom is, browsers > > don't download CRLs or OCSP, so a sho

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

On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 19:59 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > If you have it all fully automated, it shouldn't hurt to use > > the shorter lifetime, but for the purposes being discussed > > here, it _seems_ like a moot point. > > I'm not sure I believe in their automation ideas, at all (having read

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

On Mon, 2025-05-26 at 09:30 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > IIRC it's now down to 14 days, but certbot takes care of it > > automatically. > > I don't believe that is the case, but would be interested in > reading any documentation which states it that. I was sure I'd seen that but can't point t

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

ularly. I think they're valid for 3 > > > months at a time. That's what I use. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > IIRC it's now down to 14 days, but certbot takes care of it > > automatically. > > Why so short? I can't recall where I rea

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

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 valid for 3 > months at a time.  That

Re: dev null placement?

On Sat, 2025-05-24 at 05:10 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/24/25 4:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2025-05-24 at 04:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I still get all the trash with this: > &g

Re: dev null placement?

On Sat, 2025-05-24 at 04:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I still get all the trash with this: > > echo $msg | /usr/bin/mailx $smtp -s $IAm" Disk Status" -r $From $To > 2>&1 > /dev/nul > > I think I am putting the `2>&1 > /dev/nul` in the wrong place. > > What am I doing

Re: Question on change from dnf to dnf5

On Thu, 2025-05-22 at 19:06 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2025 18:55:34 +0100 > "Barry" wrote: > > > > On 22 May 2025, at 13:24, Michael D. Setzer II via users > > > wrote: > > > > > > Was just looking at /var/cache/dnf and /var/cache/libdnf5 > > > > /var/cache/dnf is

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 14:30 +0200, François Patte wrote: > > I don't use Thunderbird, but Firefox has no problem with systemd- > > resolved.service. > > What is your config? Do you use DNSOverTLS? I use whatever is the default in Fedora 42. I haven´t changed anything DNS-related aside from using

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 10:14 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 02/05/2025 à 22:26, François Patte a écrit : > > Bonjour, > > > > Since last update, my firefox and thunderbird are going more and more > > slowly: they take 3 mn to start, when I click on a link in a mail it > > takes about 2 mn to g

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 18:16 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I don't do upgrades, either (referring to a latter post by you), it > becomes a major pain having to solve *lots* of problems.  And is far > more time-consuming, even if it goes right.  A fresh install may take > only 15 minutes, versus hour

Re: Audio not working after updates F42

On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 21:46 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > I downgrade the system firmware to its previous version > and I still do not have any sound. Do you have any more tips or other > things I should check? You don't say what your audio output is, so maybe this is going to sound ridiculous

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 23:20 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/9/25 9:06 PM, Dave Close wrote: > > francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > > > > No: du rounds up: > > > > > > echo > one > > > du -m one > > > 1 one > > > > That is correct, not rounded. 'echo' creates a fi

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 10:13 +0200, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > On Fri, 09 May 2025 00:50:32 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 5/9/25 12:47 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > > I don't think so. I made a successful test with a 100M sparseFile like > > > yours, but you have

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 00:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > I will be backing up entire partitions.  Not all will be sparse. > > Will the tag work only the sparse files it finds? > > dump/restore does this automatically.  I wonder what possessed > borg to not do it?  You want back exactly

Re: du sparse vs sha256sum confusion

On Thu, 2025-05-08 at 22:22 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/8/25 5:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/8/25 5:22 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 5/8/25 4:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > On 5/8/25 4:54 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > > Fedora 41 > > > > > borgbackup

Re: du sparse vs sha256sum confusion

On Thu, 2025-05-08 at 16:57 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/8/25 4:54 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 41 > > borgbackup-1.4.1-1.fc41.x86_64 > > > > In my testing an hot to write up I made myself of borg > > backup, I found something confusing. > > > > I backed up three file and rest

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 16:00 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > (I am allergic to incremental backups -- they make me swear when it comes > time to recover things.) That's why I use mirrored drives. Belt and braces. Plus I can store a *lot* of history because of dedupes and compression: # bor

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 16:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > My concern with Borg is that by telling it to backup > > "/", it will also catch everything in /lin-bak, which > > is considerable and not exclusive to only my dump archives. > > > > How do you handle the issue? > > > > -T > >

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 20:51 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > This caught my attention: the ability to mount > > the archive in your file system > > > > https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/mount.html# > > > > Anyone have any experience with it? > > > It is "incremental"  I n

Re: [SOLVED] suppose I remove nvidia card?

On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > An AMD user does "dnf update".  I do "dnf update".  Neither of us need > to do anything further.  At least, not being an AMD user, I assume they > need not do anything more.  I certainly don't. Correct. I used to have an Nvidia card but inher

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 08:07 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 17:23 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 May 2025, at 10:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > &g

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 20:29 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/4/25 3:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have two servers affected by: > > > > restore: : ftruncate: Invalid argument > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359295 > > > > This is pretty cr

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 19:58 -0700, toddandmargo via users wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 May 2025 14:19:05 -0700 Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote --- > > > Dump/restore is an ancient set of commands from the days of reel-to- > > reel tape drives, and is desig

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 10:54 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/5/25 3:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 15:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have two servers affected by: > >

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 17:23 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 5 May 2025, at 10:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > Just tried that and system came back immediately. > > See the man page. Without a path to check the command does nothing. > I am not sure what is an appropriate command line to use. >

Re: sub for dump/restore?

On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 15:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I have two servers affected by: > > restore: : ftruncate: Invalid argument > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359295 > > This is pretty critical to me. And pretty much anyone > using dump/restore. The m

Re: F42 - KDE - change logout screen icons?

On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 01:38 +0100, John Horne wrote: > Hi, > > I am using F42 with the KDE desktop, and the 'Bluecurve' icon theme. If I > right-click on the desktop it comes up with 'Show Logout Screen' in the menu. > If I select that, then it shows several options - 'Sleep', 'Restart', 'Shut > D

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Sat, 2025-05-03 at 22:50 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Running firefox --safe-mode (as you suggested, but nothing has changed) > I got this message: > > [GFX1-]: RenderCompositorSWGL failed mapping default framebuffer, no dt > [Parent 193916, Main Thread] WARNING: failed to duplicate file >

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Sat, 2025-05-03 at 10:53 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I'm in Nova Scotia.  Normally, many apps use European mirrors via > cross-Atlantic cables.  I've > seen issues recently thatI suspect are due to the Iberian Peninsula power > problems. You can run traceroute to see if that's happening

Re: Firefox/thunderbird problem

On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 22:26 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > Since last update, my firefox and thunderbird are going more and more > slowly: they take 3 mn to start, when I click on a link in a mail it > takes about 2 mn to get it in firefox (which is already started). > > firefox 13

Re: securing this workstation.

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 22:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 11:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You seem to be blaming the list for the user's alleged mistakes. I > > don't see the logic. > > I do suppose that more than one of us s

Re: securing this workstation.

On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 20:26 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > You’ve posted both your user’s and root’s hashed passwords to a public list, > AND mentioned that you’ve got ssh open to the world. I imagine your email > headers probably also have your IP. > Well… > > Good luck. I can’t take it any

Re: script(1) missing from fedora42

On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 21:33 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 28 Apr 2025, at 20:42, Alex wrote: > > > > Of course, a few minutes after I posted this, I figured it out. > > > > /usr/bin/script is now in util-linux-script. > > A nice trick is that dnf can install given the path to a program. > > d

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 20:37 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > There's no need to remove any of them. You can only use one at a time > > so the presence of others is irrelevant. > > > > poc > > Every time I have had two going, it has been an > unpredictable mess.  This not suppose to be the

Re: Curse the login screen!

On Sun, 2025-04-27 at 11:21 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/27/25 10:48 AM, Beartooth via users wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:26:33 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > > Hi Beartooth, > > > > > > from the command line, run: > > > $ rpm -qa \*dm > > > > > > and report bac

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025, 13:04 bruce, wrote: > hi Johnathan. > > did a quick test. gmail from android phone. saw the 3 dots at the end.. > when selecting, the thread is displayed. but appears to be in > You mean like this? a block that can't be manipulated. has solid left side lines that show >

Re: list/email -- toppost -- off topic..

On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 07:30 -0400, bruce wrote: > thanks.   as far as I can tell.  and it could be user err!!  one can reply > at top  or end.   I haven't found a way within a msg to insert comments at > a given point of a thread?  let me know if there's a way! I use Gmail via IMAP for mailing lis

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 22:16 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Sunday, 20 April 2025 17:45:44 EDT Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I estimate that I'll be able to use my setup for no more than 2-3 > > years, max, before X11 is sacrificed on the altar of progress, and > > latest and greatest. > > I j

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 17:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > One of the big problems with containers (including Flatpaks) is that > > they don't integrate well with the desktop environment. Then the app > > relies on the DE to (say) print things, there's usually some jumping > > through hoops to b

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 08:14 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tim via users writes: > > > 3) Thanks to sandboxing, or just plain lack of functionality, > >we get apps that can't print, for instance. > > > > I've got ones that can't, I have to print to PDF, then find something > > else to print

Re: Fedora 42 upgrade issue with mail

On Sat, 2025-04-19 at 17:07 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:11:16 -0300 > "George N. White III" wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM Tim via users > > wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 18:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > This malarkey is up there wit

Re: [OT] bash help

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 00:17 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 4/17/25 23:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > declare -n arr=array${1} > > echo ${arr[$2]} > > My hat is off to you, good sir. > > I'd bumped into declare earlier today but couldn't grasp it in the > context where it was used. > > With your hel

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 00:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > While Evolution has an option to ignore threads, it doesn't seem to do > anything other than italicise the ignored messages in the message list. > I can't find any option that either hides them, or simply collapses > them (automatically) all

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

e two between each other so there is no > > > difference, the messaging-content is the same everywhere. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > That's a lot harder than it looks at first sight. I've never seen an > > attempt at doing this that works acceptably.

Re: The answer is here: Fedora Linux 42!

On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 10:15 +0200, lejeczek via users wrote: > the only solution - in my mind - must be > practical-programmatic one... > to sync messaging content between the two (or more), > pulling/pushing those two between each other so there is no > difference, the messaging-content is the

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:54 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > On Wed Apr16'25 12:38:41AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:38:41 +0100 > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Reply-To: Commu

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found. > > Is that not different from an update not found? > $ rpm -qi fwupd Name: fwupd Version : 1.9.29 Release : 1.fc41 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025 09

Re: thunderbird/browser problem

On Sun, 2025-04-13 at 05:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > Wouldn't this be a Thunderbird setting? For what to do with links > > > clicked on in one of its email? > > Samuel Sieb: > > Thunderbird should be using the system settings. > > I don't have a current version of Thunderbird to

Re: add a group to a group?

On Sun, 2025-04-06 at 06:03 -0700, 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? Not re

Re: command line smtp mailer?

On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 00:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone have a favorite command line outbound (smtp) > email program that is easy to use? > > I'd like to be able to put everything on the command > line and not have configuration files to deal with. > > I have looked

Re: upstream for qemu-kvm?

On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 15:00 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 22:10 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > rpm -q -i qemu-kvm > > I always did "rpm -qi", since -i is short for install. +1, though in this case it doesn't matter. poc -- ___

Re: SOLVED - Re: follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.

On Sat, 2025-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, home user via users wrote: > The use case (for the curious)... > I have "link pages" (.html) of links to frequently visited and > favorite web sites and pages.  I have text files of descriptions > and metadata for favorite web pages (example: youtube videos). > I

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 09:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, >     I have a query about the functionality of Evolution as a mail package. You might want to ask on the Evolution mailing list. See https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users There's also a Gnome Discourse forum at h

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 17:39 -0600, home user via users wrote: > On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > > A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line.  I'm curious

Re: searching a directory sub-tree.

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: > A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line.  I'm curious: did > "grep" have the -r option back then? Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember grep ever not having the '-r' option and I've been using it since the

Re: Evolution Functionality

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 12:01 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:24 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Thunderbird is similar in that for mails I receive from this list the > > "Reply All" button is replaced by "Reply List", and if by mistake I > > press "Reply" it expectedly breaks

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 15:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I would have had to click on the URL to know that it was spam. Unlike > > most spam we see here (and which I have reported a number of times > > using the approved procedure) the Subject line appeared to be list- > > related. > > That's how

Re: VM keeps steeling my USB backup drives

On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 13:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/25/25 4:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 08:10 +, Kim Ponting wrote: > > > [removed link] > > > > Don't ask people to click on an unknown URL without *at

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