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how to check for disk fragmentation?
by home user 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Good evening, I recall that a few years ago, I somehow checked my Fedora system for disk fragmentation. I also think the tool came with Fedora; i did not have to install it separately. Now, I don't recall the name of the tool that did that. Nor can I find any tool to do that. How do I check my F-28 system for disk fragmentation? thanks, Bill.

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F30 and php 7.3
by sixpack13 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hallo upgrade and running F30 without any trouble. ***a big thanks folks !!!*** one inconvenience: I'm runnning baikal to sync calendars, etc. between thunderbird and my android smartphone. => http://sabre.io/baikal/ baikal currently doesn't support php 7.3.x (only 7.2.x) ! there are some info's in the wild that workaround's being in worked on (not tested so far: a VM with F29 serves my F30 Thunderbird since yesterday) Questions, esp. to the php experts: ========================= 1. Is it feasibility to temporally "downgrade" ( e.g. F29 packages) to php 7.2 *without* breaking my really smooth running F30 ??? my box is a workstation running httpd only to sync between box/smartphone, so I guess nothing really special 2. any hints ?

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Building custom installation media
by Suvayu Ali 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hi Everyone, I want to build my own installation media (on USB). I would like to include additional packages for an offline installation. However all I could find is this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testi…, which is horribly out of date. Does anyone know a more current set of steps? I have tried asking on #fedora-devel, but didn't receive any response yet. Thanks for any pointers. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Tip: Android tablet
by ToddAndMargo 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hi All, Kernel 5 fixed the issue with MTP and my wife's Android tablet. If your's did not work, try again under kernel 5. :-) -T

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Apache 2.4 and CustomLog with pipe returns "error writing"
by Alex 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hi, I have a fedora28 system with apache-2.4.34 and would like to try to do some more advanced logging to report on bandwidth, users, and other stats. I've identified this script as part of munin called apache_logger that requires a change to how apache logs by default. I've added the following to my virtual domain: <IfModule mod_log_config.c> CustomLog "|/usr/share/munin/apache_pipelogger" "%v %p %m %B %D %s" </IfModule> When reloading apache, it reports the following in the error_log: [Wed Apr 03 14:35:50.129503 2019] [log_config:warn] [pid 18084:tid 140401642026752] (32)Broken pipe: [client 66.249.70.4:59383] AH00646: Error writing to |/usr/share/munin/plugins/apache_pipelogger %v %p %m %B %D %s Is that the correct format? Perhaps this is the format for an apache-2.2 script and the one for apache-2.4 is different? I've tried several variations of this, including setting the LogFormat and providing a name for it, but it always results in the same "error writing" error. The script I am using is here: https://github.com/munin-monitoring/contrib/blob/master/plugins/apache/apac… Would someone take a look for me and see what I'm doing wrong? Also, does spawning a new shell for every hit cause a significant amount of overhead? Should I consider doing this another way? What's the best way to get stats from apache like bandwidth, users, page views, error codes, etc in the form of a graph similar to what munin produces?

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Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. <https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_367&item_id=…> When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep mode. Unfortunately, once in a while, it does not. And then my battery runs down. The notebook has a light that indicates sleep by blinking slowly. Unfortunately, it is not visible while the lid is closed. Bad design. I could put the notebook to sleep and then close the lid, but this is quite a bit more fiddly. Why would Fedora fail to sleep once in a while? Does anyone else experience this? How would you go about diagnosing this problem? (My fear is that this is a firmware bug. I'm pretty sure that there will never be firmware updates.)

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Alternative grub entries
by Patrick O'Callaghan 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

I'm interested in configuring grub to allow selecting different sets of kernel parameters at boot time. I know I can edit the boot command line by hand, but this is tedious and error-prone. (An example might be to choose between the Nouveau and Nvidia drivers by selecting the appropriate menu entry). And of course I'd want this updated automatically with each new kernel version (i.e. each kernel would then have two alternative entries). How feasible is this? poc

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Resilient network configuration
by CLOSE Dave 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

On every version of Fedora in the last ten years or so, the basic network configuration is stored in files under /etc/sysconfig. When the machine boots or I run "systemctl restart network" (or "service network restart"), those files determine how the network gets set-up. After that, I can change the configuration with several tools. For example, I can run something like, # ip address add 192.168.0.37/24 dev eth0 label eth0:xx and a new interface alias will be created. But how do I make this alias resilient so that it will appear automatically after a boot or a network restart? For a primary interface with a static address, I may be able to add the information as IPADDR2 (etc) in ifcfg-eth0. But how do I do this if the primary interface gets its address via DHCP? -- Dave Close

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