Selective VPN
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a subscription to a commercial VPN provider and would like to
configure certain applications to always use VPN connections as far as
the provider while everything else goes through as normal. Note that
this needs to work for arbitrary remote sites so the VPN is basically
acting as a proxy rather than me controlling both ends of the
connection, so e.g. an SSH tunnel won't do it.
I looked into this a while ago and there are several suggestions on the
Web as to how to do this on Linux, but those I tried didn't work for
me. At least one idea seemed to involve setting up an alternate network
name space with its own routing, but it's been a while and I'm afraid I
didn't take note of the details.
Has anyone done this? in Fedora
poc
7 years, 2 months
Problem with USB device
by Craig Lanning
I'm running Fedora 24 fully updated.
I have a USB device that I want to connect to my computer.
When I connect it,
lsusb does not show that it is connected,
but lshw does show it
and says that the rtsx_usb driver is attached to it.
The question is, Why did lsusb not show the device?
And, is there a way that I can specify that the usbhid driver should be
used instead of the rtsx_usb driver?
I looked around on the web and found a few articles that talked about
unbinding the driver and binding a different driver, but when I
followed the directions it didn't work.
Craig
7 years, 2 months
Kernel Managment
by Aaron Siegel
Hello
I am very hapy with Fedora. A couple years ago I evaluated mutiple
distribution with various types of support cycles and selected
Fedora. I like
to find a differnent way of managing my Kernel updates. My system uses
some
kernel modules not included in the Fedora distribution I like to be
more
selective on the kerenel upgrades. I will avoid using the L word,
because
that is not what I need. CentOS is a server focused system and Ubuntu
is ....
Ubuntu neither work for me. For example my system is on its second
kerenl
version in 5 days . In the last year my system has had 30 kernel
updates.
What would it take for me to maintain a second Kernel that updates
quarterly
or even mothly would be an improvement?
These year is my 20th year using linux, I understand Fedora is a
development
platform that changes. I do not want to change destributions, just add
some
stablity to my updates.
Thank you
Aaron
7 years, 2 months
IP Camera -
by Bob Goodwin
Does anyone have any experience with the
Foscam C1 IP camera. Like many things it
wants Outlook Explorer for set up and
operation, perhaps my iPhone would work?
But I really want to deal with it via my
Fedora 25 workstation.
New, out of the box my router assigns it
an address 192.168.1.15 and I can access
that from Firefox but it wants a .exe
plugin installed, I can download that
but I don't expect that to work on my
system.
I've tried VLC which works with some
much older cameras that use mjpg, but I
haven't been able to find a string that
doesn't produce an error and worse yet
locks up VLC for an annoying period of time.
Some googling suggeststhat rtsp is
required, dnf install rtsp results in
not available ...
What do I have to do to make this work?
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
7 years, 2 months
hosts file not being taking into consideration
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
Using F25 and as the title mention when I add an "IP domain" into my
hosts file it doesn't seem to work anymore. It has worked consistently
even under F25 until recently. Ping however works fine (in the sense it
is replying with the IP set up in the hosts file.
I did some googling but all the solutions I found didn't seem to work
neither (and not Fedora specific). Any idea what could be the problem?
Thank you.
Fred
7 years, 2 months
simple echo into multiple files...
by bruce
morn/quick question...
say you have
aa.aa
aaa.aa
is there a "simple" way to do
echo 'b' > *.aa
this doesn't work, gets a redirection error
I know one can write a quick bash/shell loop.. any other ways?
thanks
7 years, 2 months
Repair/upgrade damaged Fedora 23 system
by Michael Eager
The Fedora 23 installation on my laptop will not boot. grub.cfg
is missing, for some reason. I don't have a backup and trying to
rebuild grub.cfg seemed a bit problematic. (I'm able to awkwardly
boot into a Ubuntu install on the laptop and I have a bit of concern
that running grub-install will end up breaking that.)
I wanted to repair/upgrade the F23 install with F25. Booting the
Live DVD, there isn't an option to repair/upgrade an existing
install, and when I try to do a new install, the installer will
not let me install over the existing F23 root. (When I select the
old root partition as /, it will not add it to the new install
partitions.)
The Fedora documentation that I find says that the Live CD/DVD does
not support doing an upgrade, I need to use a bootable DVD. The
documentation says that an existing install will be automatically
recognized when it is booted. I'm not able to find a complete
bootable image for Fedora 25 Workstation. When I found the spins
of Fedora 25, each seems to be a Live image, not bootable.
Q: Is a complete bootable Fedora 25 Workstation image available?
Q: Is the Fedora 25 Server image a complete bootable DVD including
KDE?
Q: Is there a way to tell the Live installer to upgrade/replace
an existing installation?
Q: Is there another path to upgrading a damaged installation?
--
Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
7 years, 2 months
cifs mount not working with uid option?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
my system is an updated Fedora 25.
A previously working windows share mounted via cifs is not working now (I
have not the details of it but I know only that it is a DFS share, managed
by a cluster of two windows 2012 R2 servers)
After some attempts, I have verified that the critical point seems to be
the "uid=1000" option that I previously used to map permission of files and
to be able to change them.
entry in fstab working
\\my.windows.domain\home\path1\path2\path3 /myshare cifs
noauto,_netdev,credentials=/etc/smbcred_myshare 0 0
entry in fstab not working (verified the same from command line, doubling
the slashes in this case)
\\my.windows.domain\home\path1\path2\path3 /myshare cifs
noauto,_netdev,forceuid,uid=1000,credentials=/etc/smbcred_myshare 0 0
NOTE: I tried both with and without the forceuid option when using the uid=
one but no go in both.
Of course my linux username is not the same as the username used in
credential file.
If I mount without uid I get all files owned by root and not able to modify
anything in Linux.
Any hint on what to try?
Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
7 years, 2 months
RIP Fedora?
by Phil Neck
Okay ... now I have your attention ...
A funny thing happened to me the other day ...
I tried upgrading a Fedora 22 VM which was running on about 30 different
VMware architectures to Fedora 23. All but a couple worked perfectly but a
couple (Both Dell servers) didn't. On these I can only describe what I was
seeing as '64-bitty' problems ... checksums failing ... that kind of thing.
I then had the idea of trying to build the machine 'from scratch' using a
Fedora 25 CD image. Similar results ... the machines the original 22-23
convertion worked on went fine, but the other two ... no dice. They
wouldn't even load beyond initial kernel boot and into install screen.
I thought best to start at the bottom and work up, so spoke to Dell ...
they had no reports of problems with their machines and VMware (yeah ... I
know ... they never do ... but)
Then spoke to VMWare to be told:
=========================
"My name is gfdgfdgfdg and I will be working with you to resolve your issue
for Support Request 7657576576576.
I understand from your case description that Fedora 25 64 bit VM won't
boot.
Please find the list of the supported OS on the ESXi host. Fedora is not
supported on ESXi but rather on Workstation and Fusion.
https://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Gu...
If you are using Workstation or Fusion, please raise a case with the
concerned team to assist you however its not supported as a guest OS on
ESXi.
Let me know if you have any questions or if we are good to close the case
for now.
==========================
I appreciate that this note is low on technical facts (by design). because
I'm not really as as interested in the technical minucia of the problem, as
the more general situation. Can anyone explain what changed between FC22
and FC23? What caused VMware to drop support? Is there any practical way
around this?
I have hundreds of Fedora based VMs out there running versions from
'stoneage' to the latest, all working fine EXCEPT those on the two machines
mentioned.
I have a heck of a decision to make in the in the next few days, but it
sounds like its going to be RIP Fedora :(
Any insight most gratefully appreciated
Thanks
Phil.
7 years, 2 months
