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

2025-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/11/25 5:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/11/25 1:59 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: rsync -tvz rsync.ietf.org::id-archive/*.txt /home/common/ietf/drafts So you are rsyncing off the internet?  In that case I think your main option is

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

2025-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
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 rsync accordingly? filtering/investigating the output of rsync's "--dry-run&quo

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

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/10/25 11:29 PM, Barry wrote: On 10 Jul 2025, at 11:32, Will McDonald wrote: The only time I see this with Gnome Terminal. If you... 1. CTRL-SHIFT-C 2. then CTRL-V 3. then remember it's CTRL-SHIFT-V The preceding CTRL-V does something to the terminal input, I think it's just a litera

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

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I use rsync a lot in crontab to back up directories. with the -ah options I have never had a problem, but recently added -R. Anyway rsync is very good at figuring out if any files on the source has changed only copying those to the destination. But now I am doing source directories with thous

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

2025-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 7/10/25 6:32 AM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 at 11:00, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: I haven't been able to figure out what causes this or a solution to fix it other than manually deleting the text. I assume you mean ^[[[200~ copied text ~ appears in you

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-07-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Here I am away for the weekend and I again lost access to USB drives. I tried this and it did not fix things. Oh, well.  But rebooting until I get back tomorrow night. On 6/23/25 8:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025

F41 rsync --include-from=FILE usage

2025-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have a number of directories that I want to rsync to my backup NAS. I tried: /usr/bin/rsync -ahR --password-file=/home/me/rsync.pswd --stats --include-from=/home/me/backup.lst rsync://me@homestor/me/backups/ where /home/me/backup.lst contained /home/me/data/htt/./httnet/ /home/me/data/./exc

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/27/25 10:35 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: Thing is that google AI did not show the preferred way to edit main.cf which is to use "postconf -e 'line'". Eh, that's A way, not THE ONLY way. I've never used it; it's

Re: F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
EOF newaliases And then restart postfix It is this mailing to root that was not working.  add to aliases and cron is happy. other changes are nice, not needed. Then use mutt or similar to process your local mail. On 6/27/25 10:53 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I

F41 /etc/postfix/main.cf file, please

2025-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I want to create a simple howto for local mail delivery with postfix. I did a LOT with postfix ~7 years ago, and found many of my notes this morning. Thing is that google AI did not show the preferred way to edit main.cf which is to use "postconf -e 'line'". Surprised?  ;) Wietse Venema did a

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
official backup scheduled for 2:02 tonight. On 6/26/25 9:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 8:34 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. The default is mbox. :) But not in ~/Mailbox

Re: logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
0     Was caused by:     Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.     You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this access. On 6/26/25 9:53 PM, Brian Truter wrote: This looks like SELinux is blocking some things on your system. audit2allow -w -a On Thu, Jun 26, 20

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 8:34 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. The default is mbox. :) But not in ~/Mailbox default is /var/mail/user You mentioned having to change some postfix settings, perhaps sharing

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Just run mutt, then press 'c' and give either Maildir or Mailbox. google has gotten better answering questions, once I figure out what to ask! On 6/26/25 8:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. On 6/26/25 8:02

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Or set up postfix local delivery to just use mailbox. More googling. On 6/26/25 8:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: ARGH!!! :) now to config mutt to read them... On 6/26/25 7:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I have been working on

Re: postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
ARGH!!!  :) now to config mutt to read them... On 6/26/25 7:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I have been working on configuring postfix for local delivery. I tired both: mailx -s "Subject" rgm < testit.txt mailx -s "Subj

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 7:51 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Try mailx for starters? Or does it need more... To get the terms right, you need an MDA or LDA, not an MTA. :-) Something that can do local mail delivery and it seems that there are no

postfix setup challenges

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have been working on configuring postfix for local delivery. I tired both: mailx -s "Subject" rgm < testit.txt mailx -s "Subject" rgm@localhost < testit.txt /var/log/maillog shows Jun 26 19:36:52 LX140e-3 postfix/pickup[365674]: 73AF7383FD8: uid=1000 from= Jun 26 19:36:52 LX140e-3 postfix/c

Re: logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
logwatch is installed, but not postfix.  How did that happen? What is the default activity for installing logwatch? On 6/26/25 6:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I was thinking of avoiding installing logwatch for this crontab reporting, but it seems I installed it. I see /etc

logwatch problems

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I was thinking of avoiding installing logwatch for this crontab reporting, but it seems I installed it. I see /etc/cron.dayly/0logwatch but in /var/logs/messages I am seeing: ''' Jun 26 03:07:19 LX140e-3 audit[295067]: AVC avc:  denied  { dac_read_search } for  pid=295067 comm="sendmail" capa

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote:     On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/25 3:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote:     On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert Moskowitz via users     wrote:     I want to get emails

Re: Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 6:09 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 23:05, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I want to get emails from my Fedora notebook for crontab activities. First figure out if your MTA is

Getting crontab to send an email

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have an Ubuntu server with logwatch installed, so it has all the 'right' postfix setups and I get daily logwatch reports. I also added a cron shutdown as follows: 10 4    * * *   root    /usr/sbin/shutdown And I get a daily email saying the system will shutdown in ~1min. Nice. I want to get

Re: rsync password-file format

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/26/25 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server. If I provide: rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/ I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file

rsync password-file format

2025-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server. If I provide: rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/ I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file, and it works. I now create a local file ~/rsync.pswd with chmod 440, and run: rsync -ah --password-file=/home

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 6:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 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

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:41:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: "all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. I that happens again, you may try to unload the related kernel modules (uas usb

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 12:24 AM, 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 trivial to get everything

Re: creating install media for Fedora server (42)

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
One should ALWAYS do a sync after a dd.  I learned this the hard way... On 6/22/25 10:34 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM Tim via users wrote: Is it no-longer possible to use dd to write an install ISO to a flashdrive, or is there something wrong with the ISO (which p

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: >>> On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: >>>> What does dmesg show? >>> >>>

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
"all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. Now I have to get my work back as it was. On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg show? Too much for me to figure out what to look for

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel? All I was doing was inserting a USB drive, mounting via Xfce desktop option, using Thunar to copy

F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have been moving files between systems via USB drives. It had been going along well, when my system stopped recognizing that I plugged a drive in. ls /dev is not showing anything other than my SSD drive of sda What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? thanks --

Re: on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/3/25 10:05 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: Today, on attempting resuming after suspending my system before boarding my plane.  My system hung. So I powered cycled, and since I have not done an update in over a

on dnf update, system hung in restorecon

2025-05-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Today, on attempting resuming after suspending my system before boarding my plane.  My system hung. So I powered cycled, and since I have not done an update in over a week, instead of logging into my graphical window, I switched to Term2, logged in as root and ran "dnf update". I have done t

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
And I am having no apparent issue operating on battery. I AM going to have to find a plug soon.  And will suspend, then resume while being plugged in. On 4/1/25 9:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery.  The system started up and pretty much shut right off

problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-04-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet.  What a job.  The tools expect dumb networks and it took me hours to figure out how to get things setup. But it is done now.  I got through their Android setup program and got the printer's ethernet working as I want. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the p

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/2/25 8:35 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM Dave Close wrote: "George N. White III" wrote: Try booting a Live USB -- if that gives graphics you know the hardware is working. Tried that. It doesn't boot. I think the BIOS on this machine requires some keyboard ent

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
crash/reset it will collect a crashdump, and if it does not collect a crashdump then that makes it a lot more likely you have a hardware problem of some sort. The crashdump will contain any dmesg entries that are in the dmesg buffer at the time the machine panics. On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:30

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 11:10 AM, Germano Massullo wrote: Il 01/04/25 16:22, Robert Moskowitz ha scritto: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x140e/downloads/ds038561-bios-update-utility-bootable-cd-for-windows-10-81-8-64-bit-7-32-bit-64-bit

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 11:03 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 4/1/25 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I find out my firmware ver without rebooting into setup? Is there some Linux tool to

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 4/1/25 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I find out my firmware ver without rebooting into setup? Is there some Linux tool to report this? dmidecode BIOS Information     Vendor: LENOVO     Version: GSET74WW (2.19

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
, 2025 at 9:05 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery. The system started up and pretty much shut right off. On reboot I saw a message which I found be grepping /var/log/message Apr 1 08:45:51 LX140e-3 kernel: ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC__.HKEY: BCTG evaluated but

Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have had this box for a lot of years (back to F32?).  I really should see what the firmware levels are now... On 4/1/25 9:53 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am at a meeting and resumed on battery. The system started up and pretty much

Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

2025-04-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am at a meeting and resumed on battery.  The system started up and pretty much shut right off. On reboot I saw a message which I found be grepping /var/log/message Apr  1 08:45:51 LX140e-3 kernel: ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC__.HKEY: BCTG evaluated  but flagged as error Apr  1 08:45:51 LX140e-3

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-03-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Succes, Ger van Dijck. On 31-3-2025 14:31, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 3/31/25 3:32 AM, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 03:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the printer showing in Printer Setup and can

Re: problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager

2025-03-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/31/25 3:32 AM, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 03:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the printer showing in Printer Setup and can print to it. But I cannot get HP Device Manager to find the

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-03-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
h. I have twice had a failure to resume after suspend, and attributed it to having done a dnf update and gotten a new kernel. If we have a firmware problem in F41 that is fixed in F42, how do we get it back-ported? On 3/16/25 9:26 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Since 42 Beta went Gold, I de

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 9:03 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 00:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Doesn't help being dyslexic and Mr. Malaprop. Malaprompt. :-| That too!! But it was no fun being up on the stage in front of some 500 attendees and my slides say one thing a

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 7:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: On 3/12/25 15:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: That doesn't apply in Konsole for one. Don't know if it applies in other terminal emulato

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 3:22 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft-ietf-drip-rid/dki-try2$ That is the

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well that is good to hear. I really like these Lenovos. But I wonder if they support Win11; going to have to check out my one 140e that is running Win10 and figure out what to do come 10's EOL.  Unfortunately I do need one Win box... On 3/12/25 1:32 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: I tried running

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 11:51 AM, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 11:17 Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 3/12/25 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:48 +0100, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current pa

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
ki-05). I do appreciate your guidance! On 3/12/25 12:03 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Am 12.03.2025 um 11:56:59 Uhr schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I have changed PS1: echo $PS1 [\u \W]$ So that PROMPT_DIRECTORY is not what is displayed: All the other stuff won't too. If that is what you want, you ca

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 11:16 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 10:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft

Re: Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 3/12/25 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 15:48 +0100, Marco wrote: On 12.03.2025 10:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? That is being controlled by $PS1 in bashrc (or the conf

Turning off current directory display in a terminal window

2025-03-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
How might I turn off (or change) the display of the current path in a terminal window? For example I have one terminal window with: rgm@LX140e-3:~/data/htt/Projects/Critical/drafts/draft-ietf-drip-rid/dki-try2$ That is the whole line is taken up with the current directory! I would be happy if

Solved - Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-03-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
System did not recover from suspend and had to cold start.  As expected, default editor is not as I want it: set|grep "/vi" EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim First reboot since the initial one after install! On 2/26/25 5:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I ran: dnf install vim-default-editor --al

Trusted CA list update fixed - Re: F41 Firefox migration

2025-03-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Firefox on restart.  Good to know that a new trust list was distributed with the update. On 2/26/25 11:36 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I followed the process of copying my whole .mozilla hidden folder (after first renaming the one created by firefox) from my old F38 system to my new F41 system

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-03-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have rarely made bootable thumb drives.  I always burn such ISO images to CD using K3B then use a USB CD/DVD player/burner (the one I used to make the CD). But the messages say booting from Hard Disk, not your USB disk. That is suspect. On 2/28/25 11:02 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: I burned

F41 - which image has the most programs?

2025-02-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am looking into how best to do a install without "trusting" the Internet. What installation image has the mostest? How much can I get on the system (need openssl, python stuff, QR code stuff) without connecting to the Internet?  After installing the OS, I would add other stuff from a repro o

Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-02-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
It SHOULD work.  It is just that for these bios updates Lenovo only lists WIn versions. Just make sure you have not locked the bios firmware before you boot up with the CD you made from the ISO image. I have been using Lenovo x1--e notebooks for 10 years, all used from ebay, and applying bio

Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/28/25 3:26 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/27/25 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just got a used Lenovo x131e supposedly just missing its HDD. Well I got plenty of HDD with old installs, not a problem. Boot up (an old F35 disk) and no WiFi. I check Bios and WiFi enabled.  I put in a

Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
look it up, but I'm curious, as I've never done a bios/update. Would be cool to have this data! thanks On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/27/25 6:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: >&

Solved - Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
are not available. But I installed the Broadcom-wl, rebooted and there is the wifi! So on my way. thanks for everyone's help! -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Databases Team Red Hat -- On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/27/25 6:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton

Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 6:12 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just got a used Lenovo x131e supposedly just missing its HDD. Well I got plenty of HDD with old installs, not a problem. Boot up (an old F35 disk) and no WiFi. I check Bios and WiFi enabled

Re: New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 4:45 PM, Ted Roche wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just got a used Lenovo x131e supposedly just missing its HDD. I boot off the F41 Xfce Live CD, no WiFi and NMCLI does not list WiFi. I don't have an x131e handy, but would check to see if the

New, used, Lenovo - WiFi not detected

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just got a used Lenovo x131e supposedly just missing its HDD. Well I got plenty of HDD with old installs, not a problem. Boot up (an old F35 disk) and no WiFi. I check Bios and WiFi enabled.  I put in a different WiFi card from another system. No Wifi. I boot off the F41 Xfce Live CD, no

Solved - Re: F41 Xfce Mousepad launcher problems

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Right there starring at me: Mousepad Preferences -> Window -> Open files: In new windows. ARGH :) On 2/27/25 10:43 AM, Doug Herr wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, at 7:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I go to launch a new Mousepad, it gets stuffed in a currently running Mousepad

Solved - Re: F41 Xfce panel tab labels

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
, but missed changing the default setting. On 2/26/25 3:26 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am seeing strange, to me, labels on my window tabs in the Xfce panel. Like Firefox is labeled: Org.mozilla.firefox Terminal:    Xfce4-terminal Thunderbird new message:    Net.thunderbird    - But this do

Re: F41 Xfce Mousepad launcher problems

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 10:43 AM, Doug Herr wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, at 7:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I go to launch a new Mousepad, it gets stuffed in a currently running Mousepad window rather than a new image. Moving said window into the current workspace from where I had it. grumble. Where

F41 Xfce Mousepad launcher problems

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I go to launch a new Mousepad, it gets stuffed in a currently running Mousepad window rather than a new image. Moving said window into the current workspace from where I had it. grumble. Where is the behavior controlled?  I tend to have a dozen Mousepads open with some work I am doing not

Re: F41 Firefox migration

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 8:17 AM, Barry wrote: On 27 Feb 2025, at 10:39, Robert Moskowitz wrote: But how to update the cert file? Which one is it or will the next firefox update replace it? I would have assumed that the cert is shipped with firefox itself. There is a signed trust list that every

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 7:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 21:00 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am making a note in my install steps file to remember NEXT time (Fedora 43?) to create a swap partition, but I will just make do with a swap file this time. IMO there's

Re: F41 Firefox migration

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 4:19 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 11:36 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On starting Firefox after installing the new .mozilla folder, I got a page opened: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/welcome/25/ Warning me that Firefox will BREAK on Mar 14, 2025 due to

Re: F41 Firefox migration

2025-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/27/25 3:19 AM, Barry wrote: On 26 Feb 2025, at 16:37, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On starting Firefox after installing the new .mozilla folder, I got a page opened: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/welcome/25/ Warning me that Firefox will BREAK on Mar 14, 2025 due to expiring

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/26/25 8:43 PM, Dave Close wrote: Try "dnf remove nano-default-editor". I think that is what allowerasing did... dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing Updating and loading repositories:  Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Updates    100% |  10.9 KiB/s |  15.5 KiB |  00m01s

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/26/25 8:34 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 2/26/25 17:30, Mike Wright wrote: On 2/26/25 13:17, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Arg.  the Install did not default a swap partition so I forgot to work it in when I divided the drive as I wanted... Since /dev/sdb4, /home is the last 800Gb with 500Gb

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/26/25 6:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 17:41 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I ran: dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing But I am still getting nano when I try to "crontab -e" Do I have to logout and back in for this change to take? 

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
$ set|grep nano EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi $ set|grep /vi EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi _=EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi And "crontab -e" is using vi! This only fixes the terminal session I am in, but that is OK for right now. On 2/26/25 6:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/26/

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
then vi will be called, rather than nano? Well I tried the above and crontab -e still dropped into nano. Grumble.  I HATE logging out.  :) -- On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I ran: dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing But I am still getting nano when

Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I ran: dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing But I am still getting nano when I try to "crontab -e" Do I have to logout and back in for this change to take?  Or is there an easier way? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/26/25 5:21 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 16:17 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Arg.  the Install did not default a swap partition so I forgot to work it in when I divided the drive as I wanted... I am using EXT4 for my / /boot /home partitions.  Just

F41 - I forgot to make a swap partition

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Arg.  the Install did not default a swap partition so I forgot to work it in when I divided the drive as I wanted... I am using EXT4 for my / /boot /home partitions.  Just plain partitioning.  Been doing it this way for lots of builds. But this time, I missed setting aside 16Gb as a physical

F41 Xfce panel tab labels

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am seeing strange, to me, labels on my window tabs in the Xfce panel. Like Firefox is labeled: Org.mozilla.firefox Terminal:    Xfce4-terminal Thunderbird new message:    Net.thunderbird    - But this does get replaced with the subject line like this missive having Wrtie:F41 Xfc... I have lo

F41 Firefox migration

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I followed the process of copying my whole .mozilla hidden folder (after first renaming the one created by firefox) from my old F38 system to my new F41 system. Seems to work.  Probably brought along all sorts of old cruft that might have been better lost. One problem though. On starting Fi

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 18:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 18:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/25/25 2:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:52, Charles Dennett wrote: 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 g

Re: installing F41 - qemu?

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/25/25 2:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/25/25 17:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/25/25 2:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am finally upgrading from my F38 system.  I do a clean install on another system, then migrate my user account. So I am

F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be bothered seeing. I am trying to figure out how t

Re: installing F41 - qemu?

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:15, Barry Scott wrote: On 25 Feb 2025, at 22:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Just install these packages?  Or what else is needed?  On past updates, I just copy my old images to the new system and get them running.. You need the images and the XML describing the config of

Re: installing F41 - qemu?

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/25/25 2:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am finally upgrading from my F38 system.  I do a clean install on another system, then migrate my user account. So I am moving along OK with the install and am now up to my use of qemu and virt-manager

installing F41 - qemu?

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am finally upgrading from my F38 system.  I do a clean install on another system, then migrate my user account. So I am moving along OK with the install and am now up to my use of qemu and virt-manager: dnf groupinstall "virtualization" dnf install qemu virt-manager libvirt Well first it i

Re: Reading a QR code via notebook camera

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 11:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/25/25 10:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 2/25/25 10:41, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 09:08 -0500, Robert Moskowitz

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