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ssh tunel failure.
by Paweł Sikora 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hi all, i've recently reinstalled my previous distro with fc20-beta and observing strange ssh tunels disconnection. i'm establishing tunels in this way: ssh -2fCN -p ${non-default port} -L ${local_port}:${endpoint}:{$endpoint_port} ${login}@${gatE}. after some time (mostly few minutes) all unused ssh tunels die. any ideas? BR, Paweł. -- gpg key fingerprint = 60B4 9886 AD53 EB3E 88BB 1EB5 C52E D01B 683B 9411

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Re: Fedora's audience
by EGO-II.1 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Nonsense!....so far I'm the "youngest"...I've been using Linux since Fedora 9......& it has been a love-hate marriage.....but I'm not leaving.....EVER! This OS has got to be the BEST I've ever used!! To the developers....maintainers.....marketers....testers....and everyone involved with this distro?...."THANK YOU SO MUCH"! ....times Infinity!!!LoL Happy Holidays to one and all...! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Frank" <beacon(a)videotron.ca> To: <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Fedora's audience Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 4:16 pm On 04/12/13 03:47 PM, ergodic wrote: > OK I am 82. My first Fedora Core install was FC-3 and before that Red Hat 4 if > my memory does not trick me. > > Today running in different boxes, F-18, F-19, F-20beta. > Multibooting Debian Wheezy, F-19 and Windows 8.1. > > My most sincere thanks to all the developers and contributors. > Well done. > > M. A. MacLain > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't allow bottom posting. >> >> I'm 57 years old and I have been using linux, more on than off, since >> 1997, and exclusively since 2003 or so. >> I find it is more stable than either windows or macos and more usable >> than dos, even at the command prompt. >> >> Hth >> >> Dave >> >> >> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 >> To: <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users >> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Subject: Fedora's audience >> >> >> Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me >> strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty >> years >> ago. >> //snip// >> >> By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring >> in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more >> fellow >> retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here >> have >> such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them? >> >> -- >> -- Guess all the 'younger' members are afraid to reply :) I am 72 (73 next month ) and have been running Linux since 1997...Fedora since 2010. along with Debian Sid and Windows 7. Best of the season to all developers-contributors and users. -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

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local user get created magically ! system hacked ?
by jehan procaccia 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

hello I use about a hundred fedora19 stations in computer labs at our school users accounts comes from an ldap directory and the homedir is automounted via NFS. However, recently I noticed that on some stations, local user account had been created ! looking at the log file, I discovered in /var/log/secure something like this: /accounts-daemon: request by system-bus-name ::1.733 [/usr/libexec/gnome-initial-setup pid:15259 uid:991]: create user 'foobar'// //useradd[29724]: new group: name=foobar, GID=1001// //secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: new user: name=susana, UID=1001, GID=1001, home=/home/susana, shell=/bin/bash// //secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to group 'wheel'// //secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to shadow group 'wheel'/ Scary ! how comes gnome-initial-setup could create users, and morever add them to the wheel group ! could it be a bug in /gnome-initial-setup , /a feature side effect ? or our students found a "back door" ? any suggestion greatly appreciated . Thanks .

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Re: Fedora's audience
by DB 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

On 12/04/2013 11:14 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Fedora's audience > From: > Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> > Date: > Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 +0000 (UTC) > Hi all, Going on 72, worked with computors(!) before they became computers (started 1963) using Fedora since FC6, both on desktop & laptop. Always good to learn from (wish I still had Computer Literacy's Unix CLI card...). Many thanks to all involved!! Dave

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simple-mtpfs fills root filesystem
by Alex 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi, I have an fc18 box that I use to mount my Samsung Galaxy S4 SPH-L720 to manage files. It worked fine with my S3, but now with the S4, every time I connect it, it creates a directory similar to /tmp/simple-mtpfs-r1ZApu with the images from the Camera directory on my phone until the filesystem fills up completely (50G root). It looks like many files are duplicated, because I don't even have 10G worth of pictures on the phone. The files look like "010037f1903cd1a154f69bd11897ad5c656d854f" and contain actual JPEG pictures. After unmounting the filesystem, the contents of the directory is eventually removed. What is the cause of this? Thanks, Alex

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optimal(?) layout of fedora 19 with one SSD drive and one regular HD?
by Robert P. J. Day 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

i'm about to install f19 new on an ASUS G74S laptop with: * primary 240G SSD drive * secondary 750G regular HD as well as 16G RAM, so i'm open to suggestions as to the best way to do this for efficiency, protecting the SSD from constant activity, and wanting to be able to do all this at installation time if possible. finally, i'd like to have LVM in the mix somewhere, even if only for the ability to experiment with it and get some practice. as i see i, first, if i want LVM, i want to restrict it to the second drive. i don't see much value in LVM on the SSD, and i certainly don't want to have a single volume group spanning both drives as that just gives LVM the opportunity to create LVs mixing SSD and non-SSD PVs, and i'm pretty sure i want to avoid that. so, as a first impression, i'm tempted to partition the SSD drive using standard partitions: * small /dev/sda1 for /boot * another small regular partition for swap? * remainder for root partition, with the understanding that anything under root that represents constant activity will be partitioned off to the secondary drive. so what goes on the second drive? i'd turn it into one PV, and define a single VG based on that, then define a number of LVs, the biggest one being /home, perhaps 500G. but what else deserves to be an LV? i might create a /srv LV for serving content, but what about things like /tmp, /var, /run, etc. some are of type tmpfs, what should i do with those? if they run totally out of RAM, then i don't care. in short, / and /boot aside, what other top-level directories merit their own LV on the second drive? and, finally, can i do all of this at install time? i suspect so, just want to make sure. rday

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F18: XDMCP kinda works....
by Dan Thurman 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

but fails to show password-box after clicking the User name thus impossible to log on.

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Fedora OpenID not working
by Suvayu Ali 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi, I'm trying to login to Fedora copr, but I keep getting "502 Bad Gateway. The server returned an invalid or incomplete response." from id.fedoraproject.org. I can login to FAS though. Can anyone confirm? Where do I report problems like these? Thanks, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Default browser
by Beartooth 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

In the past, I have always set my default browser to Dillo, which is very fast and very safe; and it usually shows me at least enough to guess reasonably well whether I want to go on, switch to another browser, or skip the site. I've managed to make it a partial default (under xfce4 in F18). Pan, for instance, routinely opens links in Dillo. Alpine, however, does not. (I run Alpine on a remote host, over ssh; is that relevant? It does open Firefox.) Like so many other things of late, the software to set default choices seems to have been moved to some new place, without leaving a spoor behind to follow. So the place I found to set defaults is quite likely not the main one. What is?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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yum repository-packages fedora install
by George R Goffe 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi, I'm just learning about yum and so, I just ran the above command. This caused yum to try to install ALL the packages in the fedora repository. Yum proceeded to do Dependency Resolution which generated a ton of errors. Would it be useful for me to post this list of error messages? Thanks, George...

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