users November 2014

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by Mike Wright

Hi all, I need help understanding sound cards and remote machines. If I use rdesktop to connect to a remote machine and I start a music or video player there, does the remote machine need to have a sound card in order form me to be able to play the sound locally (where there is a sound card)? I hope that makes sense. TIA, Mike Wright

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Cron emails

by Mike Chambers

Hi all, I have a couple of cron jobs setup in my /etc/cron.d/ dir and they seem to be checked and run as suppose to, according to /var/log/cron. Basically the 2 jobs point to a couple of dir's that run a few scripts every so few hours and mirror a few things from Fedora, rpmfusion, etc. But I would like to get the email results of those 2 jobs after they run, whether they download anything or not, but right now I don't get anything. Below is a copy of one of the cron jobs, but they are all the same. [root@scooby log]# more /etc/cron.d/0quarterly # Run the quarterly jobs SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root 5 */4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarterly As can see above, mailto=root is set, and I do get root emails (I tested) to the alias I have set it for, but not the cron jobs. So how else can I get it to email me no matter what the result is? -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best little town on Earth!"

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create local repo for yum or dnf

by Neal Becker

Can yum or dnf use the local filesystem for a repo? I can run createrepo on my local rpms under rpmbuild/RPMS. Can I tell yum or dnf to look there? I don't want to have to setup a web server to do this. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it

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OT: NFS and iOS -

by Bob Goodwin

I just changed my Freenas server to Linux NFS which works fine with my Fedora 20 and 21a boxes as well as the Apple Mac computers on my LAN. However Freenas also offered the ability to connect with smb and afs. I used smb to enable testing with an old iPod, a minor capability that I've lost with this change. Does anyone know of an iOS application that will enable NFS connection? It looks to me that there is nothing ... Is there a way to have both NFS and Samba in the same server? I suspect it's not practical but need to ask anyway. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE

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Dovecot

by Mike Chambers

Hi all, Just recently I reinstalled my server box, and having to set it up to receive email again. I got sendmail working OK I think, and have dovecot setup for imap and pop. But dovecot won't recognize my login info, so it's not recognizing my default logins, which I just use a normal /etc/passwd for users and passwords, nothing special. I also have ssl turned off since it's all local. So what am I missing in my /etc/dovecot/conf.d dir to configure? BTW, it is Fedora 21 that I am using, but it shouldn't matter as dovecot should be same on 20 as well, I would think/hope. Any help appreciated, thanks. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY

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Fedora 21 Errors on Bash

by Tim and Alison Bentley

Since upgrading to F21 Beta from a working F20 installation I have messages like basename: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. basename: Unexpected argument '/usr/include/python3.4m'. basename: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. basename: Unexpected argument '/usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz'. basename: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. complete: usage: complete [-abcdefgjksuv] [-pr] [-DE] [-o option] [-A action] [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-F function] [-C command] [-X filterpat] [-P prefix] [-S suffix] [name ...] On all bash prompts. The first two lines would be duplicated 13 times but with different version on python. Any clues or fixes as to what the problem may be. -- Tim Bentley

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Fedora 20 does not boot

by Angelo Moreschini

Hi, I did a mistake installing a program: in the graphic interface of YUM were listed about 200 programs. I selected one of then to install it; but when I started the installation (clicking the button “apply”) all the listed programs begun to be installed (???). After some time the screen went in command line (black) and it was shoved : Booting Fedora (3.17.2-200.fc20x86-64) 20 Heisenbug [ 2.150 420] noveau E[DISPLAY] 0000:01:00.0] 01:0130:func 08 lookup failed .. 2 Starting Bluetooth service [OK] Started Bluetooth service Starting Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles - - - - - - - - - - - After this has not been written nothing … I would ask if I can try to recover the old installation... Actually I can open this computer only in console mode Thank you Regards Angelo

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5tFTW: Vote now for Council, F21 final freeze, screenshots needed, Fedora Atomic, and Mozilla/Firefox ads (2014-11-19)

by Matthew Miller

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-11-19/>. Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for November 19th, 2014: Vote now in the first-ever Fedora Council elections! ---------------------------------------------------- The election for the two representative seats on the new Fedora Council is in progress! Fedora Magazine has email-based interviews with the five candidates to help you make an informed decision: - Rex Dieter - Haïkel Guémar - Michael Scherer - Pete Travis - Langdon White Voting is open to all Fedora Contributors, and closes promptly at 00:00 UTC on November 26th. That’s the afternoon or evening of the 25th in timezones to the west of the Prime Meridian, so don’t delay — read the interviews, and then vote now. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council * http://fedoramagazine.org/council-elections-interview-with-rex-dieter-rdi... * http://fedoramagazine.org/council-elections-interview-with-haikel-guemar-... * http://fedoramagazine.org/council-elections-interview-with-michael-schere... * http://fedoramagazine.org/council-elections-interview-with-pete-travis-ra... * http://fedoramagazine.org/council-elections-interview-with-langdon-white-... * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting We’re frozen for F21 final -------------------------- We are now in the “Final Freeze” for Fedora, the last polishing period before the release. This means that packages updates are only allowed via a special exception process, as we work to deliver a solid, stable release to our users on December 9th. If you’re curious, you can read more on the wiki, or even better, as *release candidates* come out, help the Fedora Quality Assurance team take them through the validation process. You could be one of Fedora 20’s Heroes of QA! Or if not, that’s cool — just a few more weeks and we’ll release what I’m confident will be the best Fedora yet. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_compose_request#Release_candidates * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Release_Validation_Test_Event * https://kparal.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/the-heroes-of-fedora-19-final-tes... Atomic Test Day --------------- Speaking of testing… Fedora 21 will feature an experimental new cloud image called Fedora Atomic, based on the Project Atomic patterns. Tomorrow (Thursday — possibly *today* by the time you’re reading this!), the Fedora Cloud SIG is running a test day for Fedora 21 Atomic, looking specifically to get this into best possible shape for the release. * http://www.projectatomic.io/ * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG * http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-21-atomic-test-day-this-thursday/ Screenshots needed! ------------------- Another easy way to help is to contribute to the Fedora 21 Screenshots Library. Everything is pretty well explained at the link — install the beta (or a release candidate), update it, and take some screenshots. > We’d particularly like screenshots that show new features in Fedora 21 > and that have an interesting composition. We need screenshots of > Fedora 21 Workstation as well as each spin (KDE, Xfce, LXDE, etc.). (And if you can figure out a good way to take a screenshot of Fedora Cloud… awesome.) * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_screenshots_library * http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Fedora and Mozilla advertising ------------------------------ In an effort to reduce funding reliance on search engine companies (check it out — after 10 years, they just switched their default search provider from Google to Yahoo), Mozilla just introduced a new thing into Firefox which they call “enhanced tiles“, and this includes paid advertisements by default. Compared to most web advertising, Mozilla is certainly making efforts to be minimal about data collection — read technical details, and Mozilla’s blog post about trust, transparency, and control in advertising. Nonetheless, many Fedora users and contributors have expressed concerns about this, to varying degrees, in a long thread on the devel list. (As always with monster threads, there’s really no need at this point to add more unless you’ve definitely got something new and unique to say, but new insights and constructive discussion are always welcome.) This resulted in a few media reports suggesting that we’re going to drop Firefox. The concerns are real — privacy, the implication of endorsement *by Fedora*, and a dislike and distrust of advertising in general. It seems likely that we’ll need to work on new policies, not least so upstream project know what we expect — as ads seem to rule the world today, this won’t be the last such situation. But we’re a long way off from making any drastic moves. Instead, we’ll work as a community, including with our friends over at Mozilla, to figure out an approach we can collectively accept. * https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-... * https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tiles/ * https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tiles/Data_Collection * https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/08/21/a-call-for-trust-tra... * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-November/204272.html -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/>

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dd question (from man page)

by JD

Man page says: ... fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata There is no explanation about this, as dd is supposed to be agnostic about the type of the data. If a disk is being dd'ed out to a file and the disk is mounted, (which is a BAAAAD thing to do), then even there, dd is agnostic about FS data and FS metadata. So, what data and metadata is the manpage talking about?

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Port knocking script/server for fedora?

by William Oliver

I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes pretty good sense for a private box, at least for stuff like ssh and ftp. Does anybody know of a good tutorial/example/script for fedora for this? Thanks! billo

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