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centos@centos.org/centos-request@centos.org
by Ger van Dijck 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi All, Got a little problem and think I have to post it to Centos(a)cCentos.org but I never get any reaction or answer . I understood Centos is part of Red Had : Therefore this request . The question is : When I post a problem and/or a question to Centos where can I look if anyone does react or gives an answer . I hope the question is not stupid . Regards , Ger van Dijck. -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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F29 MATE Live Image
by Frank Elsner 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hello, when I download https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Spins/x86_6… and write it to an USB-stick by livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr /home/frank/Download/Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso /dev/sdc I have a Fedora 28 system after booting this stick. BTW, size and checksum are different from Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso What goes wrong? Kind regards, Frank Elsner

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Terminal and NAS -
by Bob Goodwin 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

I have a router connected NAS, via a USB port. it is a samba server and works. There is a "send to" function that works for saving files and it works well enough from various Apple devices but I would prefer to be able to connect to it from a terminal and do thins like create directories and add and delete files etc. in a more convenient way. How can I do that, can it be done? There doesn't appear to be any LAN address as with a Linux samba server? Just the router itself at the usual 192.168.1.1. The computer runs Fedora 29 and the router a version of dd-wrt, nether of which probably matters. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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dnf covers fonts?
by home user 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Good morning, In my years of doing weekly patches by doing "dnf upgrade", I've never seen any fonts added, patched, or replaced. Does "dnf upgrade" check fonts? thanks, Bill.

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JS script from the command line?
by ToddAndMargo 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi All, Any of you guys know how to read a JS Script from a web site from the command line? Many thanks, -T

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New Install of F29 in a VM Doesn't Display the Grub Menu
by Stephen Morris 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi, I have installed Windows 10 on my raid system as that was the only OS the new motherboard provided raid drivers for at install time. The install of Windows 10 was done in UEFI mode (albeit there doesn't appear to be a UEFI partition on the ssd windows is installed to, there is only the drive C partition, a system partition and a recovery partition) and the bios is currently set to UEFI mode. Under windows I have installed vmware and used the USB live install of F29 that I have (which would not boot natively in UEFI mode) which successfully installed F29. Having done the install every time I boot it does not display a grub menu even though there are multiple kernels installed. In F28 there was a grub default file with supplied initial "default" grub configurations which other files in /etc/grub.d supplemented to build (in a bios installation) /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, but this default file doesn't appear to be present in F29. Looking in /etc there is a link named grub2-efi.cfg as well as grub2.cfg, the former of which is a link to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, but this .cfg file does not exist. Assuming there is a menu with a timeout of 0 so that it doesn't display, where do I find the grub files that will allow me to change that timeout and configure how the grub menus will display? regards, Steve

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How to disable CapsLock.
by Erik P. Olsen 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Is there a way to make CapsLock a dead key? I never use this key on purpose and it's irritating when I sometimes hit it without knowing, so I would rather have it doing nothing. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

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Home-directory, NFS and automount
by Paul-Erik Törrönen 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

I've had for a long time a setup for (Fedora-)laptops where the laptop has local home directories for users in /home/<username> and in fstab the directory is mounted (when available) to NFS share on home network. This worked nicely until recently (F28/F29) when it seems that automount was configured to attempt to mount /home as the user logs on (GDM). Since this automount fails, the login is terminated despite the fact that there is a valid /home/<username> on the fs. So the question is: Is there anything similar in simplicity to set up as a replacement to the current setup, or, alternatively, how does one disable the automount from attempting to mount non-reachable NFS mounts at login time? Poltsi

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UEFI Migrate to new hard drive
by Richard Shaw 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

I bought an SSD to replace my HDD and I used System Rescue CD to move my EFI and boot partitions over and then used lvm tools to add the new drive to the lvm and then remove the old one. So all of my data is over on the new driver... but I can't boot it... I've looked at efibootmgr and it still has an entry for Fedora, the partition looks correct and per efibootmgr the loader name looks good... But no matter what I do it won't boot. So I figured it out... Somehow the PARTUUID did change... And using system rescue CD the efivars was mounted read only so even though efibootmgr didn't complain, it wasn't actually changing anything. I had to: efibootmgr -B 0001 (which was the fedora entry) and then efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l "EFI/fedora/shim.efi" -L Fedora then it worked... NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS INTUITIVE! Thanks, Richard

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OSM & GPS??
by Beartooth 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

I have a pair of old Garmin RINO 120 GPSs and a gadget to connect either of them, one at a time, to my PC, currently running F 29. For several years I could run topo map software under WINE -- unfree software from any, or almost any, of half a dozen vendors -- but never get any of them to talk to either GPS. Now there is Open Street Map, a.k.a. OSM, which I THINK runs natively under Linux. I have studied forums and followed discussion lists (with Pan and Gmane, since most of the content is obviously unrelated to my questions). For years. It seems that everyone else is a mapMAKER, and takes mere USE for granted. I only want to use it, and only out in the woods or the desert or the tooley weeds -- all of which, it seems, OSM does map, despite its name. I want to get maps to scale that show things of interest to me only, or I hope only -- things like good lunch rocks, and nests, and particular trees, all or nearly all off any trail. Unlike the OSM regulars, I have no advanced skills in cartography, nor EE, nor CS. My skills and knowledge are in unrelated areas. All this boils down to two questions. If I install OSM under Fedora, will it accept, incorporate, and display off-road and off-trail data from an old GPS, either with OSM's own data, or with things like USGS topo maps? And if it will, can an ordinary mortal learn to use it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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