users February 2021

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Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming messages? If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just change it to the current date. If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just change it to the current date. I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how. I've done some searching, still have some to do. Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if necessary.

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F33 just pretends to print
by Michael Hennebry 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. None of the default options for Brother printers came close. The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the right things: Idle, accepting jobs, two completed jobs. Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page. The printer never comes out of deep sleep. How do I fix this? It worked with Centos 7, but I do not know what I did. In my experience, there is no such thing as a small problem when it comes to installing a printer on Linux: Either it just works or it requires a mighty effort. I am getting mighty tired of mighty efforts. BTW how do I change the default from single- to double-sided? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

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Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.
by murph nj 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

Hi all: I've got an odd problem that I was hoping for some help on. The laptop was previously working fine, I am running F30, updated regularly. I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I suspect a bad battery, working on that.) After a sudden shutdown last night, I now get a kernel panic on boot right after "Starting Switch Root..." I was able to boot from a USB stick, and was able to read the journal, but I didn't see anything obvious to help. I was able to get all of my data off of the (encrypted) disks, so that's not a problem, but I don't want to just give up, and wash and reload too quickly. Any suggestions? Thanks, --murph

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Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)
by linux guy 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

How is it working for you ? Thanks

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Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32
by Greg Woods 17 May '21

17 May '21

It has been a couple of years (which means 4 or 5 Fedora releases ago) since I did this, but I used to be able to play Xonotic using my Xbox 360 Wireless controller. Now I cannot get the controller to work properly in F32 (it works in Windows 10 so I know the hardware is OK). This most likely has something to do with the move from xboxdrv (which is no longer available in Fedora) to xpad kernel driver, and/or the move from the old js driver to evdev. The xpad driver comes with the current kernel, but what I cannot figure out is how to calibrate the controller. If I run Xontic with the controller connected, the game world just spins counterclockwise. This is a symptom of the controller needing to be calibrated, but I don't know how to do it. I tried using "jscal", but if I run "jscal -c" to calibrate it, it appears to work but doesn't. I can immediately run "jscal -t" and it will say it is not calibrated, and running "jstest" also shows it is not calibrated (several of the axes are not centered, i.e. show nonzero values in jstest). I attempted to download and compile xboxdrv, but it does not work due to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities, and it doesn't look like any work has been done on xboxdrv in quite some time. If I try to make it, I get this: root@snowcrash xboxdrv-linux-0.8.8]# make scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... File "/local/src/xboxdrv-linux-0.8.8/SConstruct", line 34 print target ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(target)? make: *** [Makefile:24: xboxdrv] Error 2 Certainly looks like Python version incompatibility. Can anybody point me to information on how to use an Xbox 360 controller on F32, or how to calibrate it when using the xpad driver? I have done a lot of Googling, but most of the articles I found mention things like "apt-get install xboxdrv", showing they were written for Ubuntu rather than Fedora and are wanting to use the xboxdrv driver. Thank you, --Greg

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Hooks for automount
by Patrick O'Callaghan 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Is there a way to invoke scripts before auto-mounting and after auto- unmounting? I want to be able to power an external drive up and down as needed. poc

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Ethernet port "bounce" command?
by Doug H. 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

I am having an odd problem with my ethernet port. I assume this came with a dnf update but that was some weeks ago so I can't help figure out what update might have done it. When first discovered I think I found that booting from an older kernel did not fix it. I assume that the physical interface is not the problem since a physical "bounce" always fixes it and it shows no other problems. To explain that... The trouble is that the ethernet port will not come out of the "no- carrier" state no matter how much I mess with the various commands that are supposed to effect it. The simple fix is to physically unplug and replug the cable. When it is not working (each reboot) there are not lights on. The physical "bounce" lights up the LEDs and it comes right up. So, I am asking for something to add to rc.local that does the same thing. I use a wifi adapter for my main/Internet connection. This port is just used for a wired link to my Raspberry Pi. The command that seems like it *should* work: sudo mii-tool --reset enp5s0 But that does not fix it. Info: The below is taken while it is working... sudo lspci -v 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M3A78 Series Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at faeff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at faee0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fbef0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01 Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=2 Masked- Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00- 00 Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 nmcli enp5s0: connected to Ether link to Pi "Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411" ethernet (r8169), 00:26:18:3A:2A:1B, hw, mtu 1500 inet4 192.168.11.4/24 route4 192.168.11.0/24 inet6 fe80::226:18ff:fe3a:2a1b/64 route6 fe80::/64 This does kill and then fix it when working, thus proving that this module is being used: sudo rmmod r8169 sudo modprobe r8169 ip link 4: enp5s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:26:18:3a:2a:1b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -- Doug H.

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Formatting second hard disk
by Paul Smith 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Dear All, I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you what format to adopt: the new Btrfs is advisable? Moreover, could you please direct me to some documentation on how to format the hard disk? Using GParted? Thanks in advance, Paul

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FAS login issue
by alan＠clueserver.org 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

I created a Fedora FAS account a long while back. I cannot find the account name I used and there seems to be no way to find it. The password reset assumes you know what account name you used. Who do I talk to to get this fixed? --- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.

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Fedora 33 vs Mageia 8
by David 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

I am curious what the similarities are between Fedora 33 and the newly released Mageia 8, and what the differences are. Today's release announcment of Mageia 8, alleges that it ships with three repositories, one of which is disabled. One of their repos contains non-free stuff, and can be disabled. The disabled one contains the controversial codecs which may be illegal in your country. I recall someone suggesting that Mageia can ship their iso that way because tjey are in France. I do believe that the developmemt team at Mageia is only about 30 volunteers. From my perspective, they do not use third-party repos. Right ? I assume Mageia's core repo is not as up-to-date as Fedoras. I assume Mageia 8 is way behind Fedora 34 Beta. It would seem to me, that if a user prefers LXDE, or LXQt, or Mate or Xfce or a window-manager, that it would not matter what distro you choose. I do not think Mageia has Budgie DE. Mageia only offers one iso, where as Fedora has custom isos. Right ? Meaning, in order to get Mageia 8 LXQt, you must first install Mageia 8. I think a newbie could learn on Mageia 8 and then later on learn to prefer Fedora. Right ? I assume they do not use anaconda as their instllaler, but have something that the old Mandriva had. Feel free to enlightmemt me. Cheers, David Locklear

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