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F15: encrypted USB stick has wrong mount permissions
by Patrick Lists 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hi, I've created an encrypted USB stick as follows: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb1 # cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1 # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 luks-usb # mkfs -t ext4 -L Kingston8GB /dev/mapper/luks-usb # cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/luks-usb Now I remove the USB stick, wait a bit and put it back into my laptop with F15. I am asked for the passphrase and the USB stick opens in Nautilus. The only problem is that the owner of /media/Kingston8GB is root.root and the permissions on the mounted USB stick are 755 (or drwxr-xr-x.) I don't see this problem when using a regular unencrypted USB stick. Anyone know how I can solve the permission problem? Thanks! Regards, Patrick

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disabling automount of diskonkey on Fedora 15
by Kevin Wilson 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Hi, Is there a way to disable automount of diskonkey on Fedora 15? Whenever I insert diskOnKey, it is automounted. I want to avoid it. How ? rgs, Kevin

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Sound alert in Gmail Manager firefox plugin
by Sam Varshavchik 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

The "built-in" alert sound in the Gmail Manager plugin I have installed on a 32-bit laptop produces a nice, pleasant chime anytime new mail arrives in my mailbox. However on a 64 bit Firefox, on another machine, the alert sound does not play. Neither does any custom WAV option. I do not get any error messages of any kind, just deafening silence. The only option that works, in the plugin configuration, is the default system alert. I have no idea if this is something that's broken in the 64 bit version of this plugin -- seems unlikely, this plugin appears to be platform independent; or something is borked in my 64 bit Firefox install. But I have no idea what it could possibly be. Everything else works, and has no issues making noise.

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DISPLAY is not exported, sometimes
by David A. De Graaf 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found that the DISPLAY environment variable is not exported in some cases, despite being declared "exported". This seems to be a clear violation of the EXPORT rules in /bin/bash. It is a severe handicap in a root window, since most of the GUI commands in the system-config-* group will not run. The problem initially arose with the command /usr/bin/xterm -e /bin/su - which opens a new root window, prompting for the passwd. I found that system-config-network failed to open the customary GUI panel, but reverted to a semi-useless curses-based substitute. This was quickly traced to a missing DISPLAY definition in the root xterm. However, this error occurs on only one of two laptops. Although the hardware is different - an IBM T30 vs an ASUS N10 - the packages installed differ only in that nvidia drives are installed on the ASUS. Both laptops usually run XFCE4; the DISPLAY error occurs only on the IBM T30. To simplify the issue, and remove any potential security issues about switching to root, I used su only to switch user, and only to myself, ie: /bin/su - dad Passwd: No new xterm window was opened; I only changed user (to myself). Before and after, I listed the exported variables: export -p > /tmp/exp.before and compared the lists. To my surprise, there is a great number of variables that should have been exported, but were not. Here's the list of variable names that are NOT exported: IBM T30 ASUS N10 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= DESKTOP_SESSION= DESKTOP_SESSION= DISPLAY= GLADE_CATALOG_PATH= GLADE_CATALOG_PATH= GLADE_MODULE_PATH= GLADE_MODULE_PATH= GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH= GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH= GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL= GNOME_KEYRING_PID= GPG_AGENT_INFO= GPG_AGENT_INFO= LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH= LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH= OLDPWD= ORBIT_SOCKETDIR= SESSION_MANAGER= SESSION_MANAGER= SHLVL= SHLVL= SSH_AGENT_PID= SSH_AGENT_PID= SSH_AUTH_SOCK= SSH_AUTH_SOCK= WINDOWID= WINDOWID= WINDOWPATH= WINDOWPATH= XDG_CONFIG_DIRS= XDG_CONFIG_DIRS= XDG_DATA_DIRS= XDG_DATA_DIRS= XDG_MENU_PREFIX= XDG_MENU_PREFIX= XDG_SESSION_COOKIE= XDG_SESSION_COOKIE= XTERM_LOCALE= XTERM_LOCALE= XTERM_SHELL= XTERM_SHELL= XTERM_VERSION= XTERM_VERSION= What's going on here? I would expect the exported environment variables to be identical in this experiment, but they are vastly different. Is someone playing fast and loose with the rules? In particular, why is DISPLAY not exported on the IBM T30, but is exported on the ASUS N10? As a further experiment, I fired up gnome 3 on each machine and reran the comparison. To be brief, DISPLAY is exported properly on BOTH machines. There are many different exported variables between xfce4 and gnome, which is not surprising, but why should DISPLAY be treated differently? I also tried different terminal emulators, Terminal, lxterminal, xfterm4, etc. I created a new user with a brand new $HOME. None of these had any effect. Who can duplicate this failure to export? Why are variables, marked for export, not exported? Who can explain it? How can it be fixed? I've filed BZ 722703 against xfce4, but a) I doubt that xfce4 is culpable, and b) The only responder seems to have run out of ideas. Can anyone help? -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us Computers are like airconditioners: They stop working properly if you open windows.

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Linking shared lib.
by Mickey 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

FC15 I'm trying to install from the fedora repos honeyd package and it requires a dependency package libevent-1.4.so.2 which does not exist. I did a ln -s libevent-2.0.so.5 libevent-1.4.so.2 in /usr/lib . So i now have in /usr/lib libevent-1.4.so.2 > libevent-2.0.so.5 > libevent-2.0.so.5.0.1 . But when i try to install honeyd I still get the error it needs libevent-1.4.so.2 . What do I do ?

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How do I "unforward" mail, was RE: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?
by Michael Hennebry 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Damian Kohlfeld wrote: > Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all > USERNAME with your unix user account name, all PASSWORD with the password > for that IMAP account, all IMAPUSER with the IMAP username, all MAILHOST > with the IMAP serverhostname and finally all MBOXPATH your mbox (absolute) > filenames. Thanks, but see below. > --- BEGIN CONFIG --- > > set postmaster "USERNAME" > set bouncemail > set no spambounce > set softbounce > set properties "" > set no showdots > > poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP > user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here > options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox" > folder INBOX > > poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP > user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here > options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/sent" > folder INBOX.Sent > > --- END CONFIG --- I couldn't get it to work with exchange. I'm told Microsoft is holding up IMAP requests. I did get it to work with cableone. The relevant account is a thin wrapper on gmail. I have the mail I want, sort of. I had to hit forward rather a lot. So all my messages are wrapped in forwarding boilerplate. Is there a convenient way I can unwrap them? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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Fedora 15 Advansys SCSI kernel bug fixed?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Does anyone know if the latest kernel for Fedora 15 has fixed the problem with Advansys SCSI cards? cpp4ever

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Flash Video clips -
by Bob Goodwin 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed. Bob --

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dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive
by Chris Kottaridis 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

I am using Fedora 14. I setup my mail server with dovecot so I am now able to access my host for email from other hosts within my local net. It's been very helpful to have that. While I was able to add a dovecot mailer to the sendmail.cf file I was never able to make it the local mailer. In the end I had to create a .forward file and pipe the message through dovecot-lda. However, with this limitation it only works for real user's with home directories that would have a .forward file. Are there any good pointers that could give me the necessary details to run dovecot-lda as the local mailer from sendmail which should be able to allow me to support virtual mail users that don't have a home directory with a .forward file ? A few weeks ago I played with this quite a bit, but never got the sendmail.cf file quite right to use dovcot-lda as the local mailer. Also, I have sieve enabled in dovecot. Right now I have evolution up and running on one machine all the time that does the filtering of incoming messages into their folders. The rest of the machines don't apply any filters. I'd like to generate a sieve file so that dovecot-lda does the filtering when the email initially comes in. But, I don't want to have to login to one specific machine and edit the sieve instructions every time I want to make a change. So, I have manage sieve enabled, but as far as I can tell evolution doesn't have a manage sieve client. I played with thunderbird a bit and it seems it has a sieve extension that will access the manage sieve tool to imap. But, I'd like to stick with evolution. Is there an evolution plugin that will allow client access to manage sieve from evolution ? Thanks Chris Kottaridis

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open-MPI installation
by Nermin Celik 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Dear Members, To run a parallelized version of a program, installed open-MPI via Add/Remove Software option on F12. Installation is complete. Was just wondering are there any other steps required for installing/setting up MPI? Regards, Nermin

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