CACHEDIR.TAG
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
When I tar a folder, I wish to exclude the cache files
Hence, I try to use
tar --exclude-caches-all
But it seems that the directory need to be tagged by a file
CACHEDIR.TAG
It looks like that any of my files are tagged.
find . -name CACHEDIR.TAG | sed -e 's/[/]CACHEDIR.TAG$//g' >/tmp/excludes
provides an empty file.
How can I manage CACHEDIR.TAG ?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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6 years, 9 months
Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.
by nisus＠redchan.it
It has come to my attention that some entities are claiming that you,
dear Linux Hackers, (1)need to go through some foundation or get some
permission from upon high in-order to sue the progenitors of GRSecurity
for their violation of section 6 of the terms underwhich the linux
kernel is distributed (version 2 of the GPL). And, furthermore, that
(2)this foundation has no intention of bringing such a suit.
(1) is false.
(2) may very well be true.
You do have standing to sue GRSecurity for their blatant continuing
copyright violation if GRSecurity has made a derivative work of your
code contribution to the Linux Kernel as-long as (a)you have not
assigned your copyrights, and (b)you are not a work-for-hire.
How do you know if you are a work for hire or if you have signed away
your copyrights?
If you are working for a company and as your job duties you are
programming the linux kernel, there is a good chance that you are a work
for hire and thus the company owns said copyrights.
How do you know if you signed away your copyrights? Well if you singed a
document transferring ownership of your copyrights for the code you
produced at some point.
If you are not working for a company while hacking linux and you haven't
assigned your copyrights away then YOU OWN YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.
This means most of you hobby hackers, if GRSecurity has modified your
code, YES YOU HAVE STANDING TO SUE.
Yes your "betters" are lying to you.
You have individual separate standing to sue.
Yes you SHOULD consult a lawyer of your own.
Yes you SHOULD consider a joint filing with other individual
rights-holders willing to bring suit against GRSecurity for their
blatant violation of your terms, and yes you should consider starting
CLASS ACTION since the number of Linux Kernel Contributors seemingly
numbers in the multitudes upon multitudes upon multitudes.
And yes, I am an attorney.
But no, I'm not looking for clients. Just correcting some false
information that has been spreading.
And yes, GRSecurity will try to claim that the linux-kernel is a work of
Joint ownership (so as to shield themselves via procedural law) and yes
they will try to claim fair use (probably de minimus), and yes your
Lawyer will have to respond to these claims. The Joint ownership claim
will go down quickly but it will have to be responded to. De minimus
Fair Use depends on how much code is modified and how signifigant the
modifications are. Don't let anyone but your own legal council dissuade
you from bringing suit: Remember the statute of limitations is only a
few years, so the clock is ticking on the CURRENT violation.
Also make sure you register your copyright of the version of the
linux-kernel that GRSecurity is using in its violation prior to bringing
suit. The registration must be for the specific version. Yes you can
register after the violation has occurred, however if you have
registered before the violation then you can also pursue recovery of
legal fees, pursue statutory damages, etc.
( NOTE: If you would like to read on how your copyright is being
violated by GRSecurity, Bruce Perens posted a good write-up on his
web-page )
(
perens.com/blog/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-contributory-infr...
)
( There was also a discussion on the linux section of slashdot, and on
the debian user mailing list, and on the dng devuan mailing list and on
the openwall mailing list and the fedora legal mailing list )
6 years, 9 months
F24 problems with ttyUSB0
by Robert Moskowitz
Recently I have been having problems with ttyUSB0.
I use a USB/tty adapter to connect to my cubieboard for my armvhl work.
It worked fine for a long time with F24 using:
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
Now it works after F24 boot just fine. But if I unplug the dongle,
suspend, then resume, when I plug the dongle in, no /dev/ttyUSB0. :(
How can I go about trouble shooting this. I will get to F26 sometime
soon; just not right now. (If that will make and difference, though
wonder why)
thanks
6 years, 9 months
My poor brain! New rsyslog.conf syntax
by Tom Horsley
I once had it all figured out, reducing journald to just
a proxy that forwarded everything to syslog and kept no
storage of its own.
Now I see the new version of rsyslog in fedora26 comes
with a new and improved config file syntax that is
totally opaque.
Before I spend the next week trying to learn how the
devil to configure rsyslog these days, I thought I'd
ask:
Has anyone on fedora 26 figured out how to get journald
to just forward everything to rsyslog which then writes
the kind of plain text files God intended? (And leaves
no binary journal files anywhere on my system).
6 years, 9 months
regionset for DVD playback and ripping
by Temlakos
Everyone:
Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to change
the region code on a DVD player?
Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region code
0)? And if so, with what result?
The problem: I have a boxed set of DVD's, 12 in all, from Region 2. I
live in Region 1. A few versions of Fedora back (probably F21 or F22), I
found I could play back those Region 2 disks without a problem. But now
with F26, playback even on the "vlc" program gives me sound, but no
picture--a black screen. Dragon refuses to play them at all. The makemkv
program takes about ten minutes trying to do a workaround with the
region codes not matching. Then it seems to work, but the output files
all have sound (including all sound tracks if it has more than one), but
no picture.
The way I see it, I can do one of two things, if I want to rip those disks:
1. Use regionset to change my DVD and BD drive temporarily to Region 2,
rip the disks, then go back to Region 1.
2. Purchase and install a second optical-disk drive and use regionset to
set /that/ to Region 2 and /leave it there/. The second option would
cost me about $50 US.
The larger problem is this: I don't necessarily want to limit myself to
any one region. If I had to pick one "secondary region," it would be 2
because that includes Europe, the Middle East (including Israel), South
Africa, and Japan. But if I want to play or rip a DVD from Australia,
then I'm out of luck.
The /really/ big hack would be to set my present optical drive to Region
0, and hope that would play any disk, from any region. But before I do
something that could fry the drive forever, I would like someone to tell
me whether he's ever done that before.
The only alternative is to shell out $600 US for a multi-region Blu-ray
and DVD player. I would like to avoid that--mainly because I would like
to avoid shelling out a lot of payola for a device having an esoteric
feature I might use only once in a blue moon! Especially since I fully
expect optical media to become obsolete in another ten years.
Any suggestions? Anecdotes? Horror stories?
Temlakos
6 years, 9 months
Fedora 26 (Live) on Dell XPS 15 9560
by wwp
Hello there,
I'm trying to boot from a F26 Live CD (on a flash drive) on a brand new
Dell XS 15 9560, but it sticks after "Started Virtualization daemon",
then no move. The media is verified OK.
I tried w/ "quiet" boot option, it gets more verbose, with "norhgb" but
no luck.
How could I get more info about what prevent from booting? Any hint?
Regards,
--
wwp
6 years, 9 months
Fedora 26 small issues with Asus Zenbook UX306U
by Jeandet Alexis
Hi,
I run Fedora 26 maybe since Alpha release on my Zenbook and in between
Alpha and Beta I lost backlight control from gnome shell and
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness.
Then after 4.11.3 kernel I wasn't able to boot anymore, I discovered
that switching to CSM mode solved the problem it also restored the
backlight control from /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
but still not from gnome shell.
Updating BIOS didn't help.
Does anyone got similar troubles?
Did you solve them?
Best regards,
Alexis.
6 years, 9 months
Ksnapshot?
by Erik P. Olsen
What's the successor to ksnapshot? Or is there a similar program I can
use in lieu of ksnapshot which apparently is ditched?
--
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
6 years, 9 months
Upgrade to Fedora-26 vs gpg download verification
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Upgrading from f25 to f26, I have just downloaded Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-26-
1.5.iso and am attempting to verify it according to the instructions on the
download website, which advise me to run:
$ curl https://getfedora.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import
$ gpg --verify-files *-CHECKSUM
I find the output, which follows, somewhat suspicious; but I don't know what to make of it. Please excuse my extreme ignorance.
$ curl https://getfedora.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0gpg: key 81B46521: "Fedora (24) < fedora-24-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
100 18521 100 18521 0 0 13126 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 13135
gpg: key 030D5AED: "Fedora Secondary (24) < fedora-24-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key FDB19C98: "Fedora 25 Primary (25) < fedora-25-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key E372E838: "Fedora 25 Secondary (25) < fedora-25-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key 64DAB85D: "Fedora 26 Primary (26) < fedora-26-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key 3B921D09: "Fedora 26 Secondary (26) < fedora-26-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key F5282EE4: "Fedora 27 (27) < fedora-27(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key 0608B895: "EPEL (6) < epel(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: key 352C64E5: "Fedora EPEL (7) < epel(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 9
gpg: unchanged: 9
$ gpg --verify-files *-CHECKSUM
gpg: Signature made Fri Jul 7 08:13:35 2017 PDT using RSA key ID 64DAB85D
gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: eof
gpg: Good signature from "Fedora 26 Primary (26) < fedora-26-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >"
gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: eof
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: E641 850B 77DF 4353 78D1 D7E2 812A 6B4B 64DA B85D
Thanks - jon
6 years, 9 months
livecd-iso-to-disk issue
by Matthew Saltzman
I have an 8GB USB 3.0 key drive on which I want to install F26 Live
with room for an overlay and a home directory. I used
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2048
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso /dev/sda
and that does nothing and returns no error or status message, just a
prompt. I have discovered that it is the --overlay-size-mb option that
causes the no-op return. Without that, the command behaves as expected,
prompting me to confirm that all data on the drive will be destroyed.
Anyone else experienced this? Am I doing something wrong, or is this a
bug? Is there a workaround?
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
6 years, 9 months
