Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters
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.
3 weeks
HP laptop and wifi on Fedora 35 fix wifi adapter.
by Cătălin George Feștilă
After the upgrade with F35, I got some errors on wifi.
Now I saw the adapter is not shown but is listed on hardware.
If I press the wifi button then start the airplane mode and is set to on.
How can be fixed?
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ lshw -C network -short
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
H/W path Device Class Description
==============================================
/0/100/1c.1/0 network BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
/0/100/1c.2/0 ens1 network NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ lspci
...
10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
2 months, 1 week
F33 just pretends to print
by Michael Hennebry
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
2 months, 2 weeks
cisco ise
by david richyad
cisco ise helps safeguard your business. It lets you control access throughout your network, see the user and device details, and stop/contain any threats. You can also use it to enforce security policies throughout your network. As a result, it helps prevent any technical issues and strengthens your cybersecurity measures. In short, you can manage your network security with more ease. Everything can be handled in one place, as opposed to needing multiple different applications open at once.
https://www.fieldengineer.com/blogs/cisco-ise-deployment-guide
4 months, 2 weeks
NFS client names not mapping
by Robert Nichols
In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are of the form:
"name 'xxxx@local' does not map into domain 'localdomain'"
I have no nfs-idmapd service running. This same setup is running fine on a CentOS 8 VM. I didn't have to do anything special to make this work in CentOS 8. What am I missing here in a Fedora 35 installed with default configuration in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine?
Where does Fedora get its domain name? When I type "hostname --fqdn" I get "hostname: Name or service not known". The CentOS 8 VM apparently gets its domain name from the /etc/hostname file, which contains "cent9-vm.local". This does not appear to work in Fedora 35.
--
Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
4 months, 3 weeks
Does anybody still use `starship'?
by Igor Raits
Hello,
I saw some recent discussions (yet another time) how packaging Rust /
Go / Node.js is horrible, we should simply bundle everything and such.
Let's not discuss this here, though.
I'm interested to hear if there are any users of the `starship'
application here in Fedora that consume it from the repositories.
Please speak up if you do!
As pointed out in the other places, I don't think we are able to
update things like that as fast as releases popping out with just as
few people working on the packaging Rust stack these days (I'm pretty
much not contributing for last couple years due to the other work).
And the question, if we want to keep packaging it (with some slower
update cycle, as the time permits) or we want to retire it completely.
Personally, I'd love to have more people working on packaging (and
most importantly keeping up-to-date) Rust crates / apps but I think
this is not so realistic :)
--
— Igor Raits.
4 months, 3 weeks
LibreOffice Calc chart printout missing axes and gridlines.
by home user
Good morning,
I'm not sure if the problem is in LibreOffice or something else. Also,
I did try to post this in LibreOffice support, but my login does not
work, and trying to create a new account does not work.
(Fedora-34, Gnome, LibreOffice 7.1.8.1, HP LaserJet Pro MFP M180nw)
I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet. It has a chart. On my
workstation monitor, the chart looks as I desire: border, x and y axes,
legend, axis labels, data curves, tick marks along the axes, and a grid
in the plot area. When I print the chart to a PDF file and then display
the PDF file, it look the same as in LibreOffice Calc. But, when in
LibreOffice Calc, I print to the printer, there are no axes and no grid
lines. How do I get the axes and grid lines to show?
Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
4 months, 3 weeks
Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks
consecutively on a server ?
by linux guy
Hi people.
I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean
hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All
of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate
more simulation cases.
I'm looking for a method/system/app that I can give a list of tasks that
will run them on the server, automatically, one after another.
How could I do this ?
Thanks
4 months, 3 weeks
Picking a new laptop
by joe＠zeff.us
I'm still trying to get my current laptop running again, but I'm probably going to need to get a new one. If nothing else, this one doesn't really have enough memory and it's maxed out.
Right now, I'm also trying to get Xubuntu loaded onto my sister's Acer Aspire 1, and having considerable difficulty getting it to boot from the USB. I'm not comfortable with her new laptop and would rather not get myself an Acer. If any of you have had good experiences recently with getting Fedora installed on a laptop, suggestions would be very welcome.
4 months, 3 weeks
Dock & window switching issues in Fedora 35
by Matt Morgan
Hi. I recently upgraded to Fedora 35. I would like to change two behaviors
back to what I had before:
1) when I mouse up to the hot corner, the application dock is now at the
bottom of the screen. How can I get the dock to position itself vertically
along the left side of the screen? I've tried a few gnome extensions but
none I can find does that (except when floating the dock, which is not what
I want).
2) When I alt-tab I can get an application list, but not a window list
(e.g. if Thunderbird has two windows open, I see one entry for Thunderbird,
not two). I think I used to use an extension called "Alternate Alt-tab" to
change this, but that extension doesn't seem to be available for F35.
Bonus question: I can't find a weather extension for gnome anymore. The one
I used to use was called "OpenWeather," I think. Is there a substitute?
Thanks,
Matt
4 months, 4 weeks
