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Selective VPN
by Patrick O'Callaghan 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

I have a subscription to a commercial VPN provider and would like to configure certain applications to always use VPN connections as far as the provider while everything else goes through as normal. Note that this needs to work for arbitrary remote sites so the VPN is basically acting as a proxy rather than me controlling both ends of the connection, so e.g. an SSH tunnel won't do it. I looked into this a while ago and there are several suggestions on the Web as to how to do this on Linux, but those I tried didn't work for me. At least one idea seemed to involve setting up an alternate network name space with its own routing, but it's been a while and I'm afraid I didn't take note of the details. Has anyone done this? in Fedora poc

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Problem with USB device
by Craig Lanning 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

I'm running Fedora 24 fully updated. I have a USB device that I want to connect to my computer. When I connect it, lsusb does not show that it is connected, but lshw does show it and says that the rtsx_usb driver is attached to it. The question is, Why did lsusb not show the device? And, is there a way that I can specify that the usbhid driver should be used instead of the rtsx_usb driver? I looked around on the web and found a few articles that talked about unbinding the driver and binding a different driver, but when I followed the directions it didn't work. Craig

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Kernel Managment
by Aaron Siegel 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hello I am very hapy with Fedora. A couple years ago I evaluated mutiple distribution with various types of support cycles and selected Fedora. I like to find a differnent way of managing my Kernel updates. My system uses some kernel modules not included in the Fedora distribution I like to be more selective on the kerenel upgrades. I will avoid using the L word, because that is not what I need. CentOS is a server focused system and Ubuntu is .... Ubuntu neither work for me. For example my system is on its second kerenl version in 5 days . In the last year my system has had 30 kernel updates. What would it take for me to maintain a second Kernel that updates quarterly or even mothly would be an improvement? These year is my 20th year using linux, I understand Fedora is a development platform that changes. I do not want to change destributions, just add some stablity to my updates. Thank you Aaron

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IP Camera -
by Bob Goodwin 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Does anyone have any experience with the Foscam C1 IP camera. Like many things it wants Outlook Explorer for set up and operation, perhaps my iPhone would work? But I really want to deal with it via my Fedora 25 workstation. New, out of the box my router assigns it an address 192.168.1.15 and I can access that from Firefox but it wants a .exe plugin installed, I can download that but I don't expect that to work on my system. I've tried VLC which works with some much older cameras that use mjpg, but I haven't been able to find a string that doesn't produce an error and worse yet locks up VLC for an annoying period of time. Some googling suggeststhat rtsp is required, dnf install rtsp results in not available ... What do I have to do to make this work? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-25/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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hosts file not being taking into consideration
by Frederic Muller 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hi! Using F25 and as the title mention when I add an "IP domain" into my hosts file it doesn't seem to work anymore. It has worked consistently even under F25 until recently. Ping however works fine (in the sense it is replying with the IP set up in the hosts file. I did some googling but all the solutions I found didn't seem to work neither (and not Fedora specific). Any idea what could be the problem? Thank you. Fred

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simple echo into multiple files...
by bruce 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

morn/quick question... say you have aa.aa aaa.aa is there a "simple" way to do echo 'b' > *.aa this doesn't work, gets a redirection error I know one can write a quick bash/shell loop.. any other ways? thanks

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Repair/upgrade damaged Fedora 23 system
by Michael Eager 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

The Fedora 23 installation on my laptop will not boot. grub.cfg is missing, for some reason. I don't have a backup and trying to rebuild grub.cfg seemed a bit problematic. (I'm able to awkwardly boot into a Ubuntu install on the laptop and I have a bit of concern that running grub-install will end up breaking that.) I wanted to repair/upgrade the F23 install with F25. Booting the Live DVD, there isn't an option to repair/upgrade an existing install, and when I try to do a new install, the installer will not let me install over the existing F23 root. (When I select the old root partition as /, it will not add it to the new install partitions.) The Fedora documentation that I find says that the Live CD/DVD does not support doing an upgrade, I need to use a bootable DVD. The documentation says that an existing install will be automatically recognized when it is booted. I'm not able to find a complete bootable image for Fedora 25 Workstation. When I found the spins of Fedora 25, each seems to be a Live image, not bootable. Q: Is a complete bootable Fedora 25 Workstation image available? Q: Is the Fedora 25 Server image a complete bootable DVD including KDE? Q: Is there a way to tell the Live installer to upgrade/replace an existing installation? Q: Is there another path to upgrading a damaged installation? -- Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077

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cifs mount not working with uid option?
by Gianluca Cecchi 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Hello, my system is an updated Fedora 25. A previously working windows share mounted via cifs is not working now (I have not the details of it but I know only that it is a DFS share, managed by a cluster of two windows 2012 R2 servers) After some attempts, I have verified that the critical point seems to be the "uid=1000" option that I previously used to map permission of files and to be able to change them. entry in fstab working \\my.windows.domain\home\path1\path2\path3 /myshare cifs noauto,_netdev,credentials=/etc/smbcred_myshare 0 0 entry in fstab not working (verified the same from command line, doubling the slashes in this case) \\my.windows.domain\home\path1\path2\path3 /myshare cifs noauto,_netdev,forceuid,uid=1000,credentials=/etc/smbcred_myshare 0 0 NOTE: I tried both with and without the forceuid option when using the uid= one but no go in both. Of course my linux username is not the same as the username used in credential file. If I mount without uid I get all files owned by root and not able to modify anything in Linux. Any hint on what to try? Thanks in advance, Gianluca

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RIP Fedora?
by Phil Neck 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Okay ... now I have your attention ... A funny thing happened to me the other day ... I tried upgrading a Fedora 22 VM which was running on about 30 different VMware architectures to Fedora 23. All but a couple worked perfectly but a couple (Both Dell servers) didn't. On these I can only describe what I was seeing as '64-bitty' problems ... checksums failing ... that kind of thing. I then had the idea of trying to build the machine 'from scratch' using a Fedora 25 CD image. Similar results ... the machines the original 22-23 convertion worked on went fine, but the other two ... no dice. They wouldn't even load beyond initial kernel boot and into install screen. I thought best to start at the bottom and work up, so spoke to Dell ... they had no reports of problems with their machines and VMware (yeah ... I know ... they never do ... but) Then spoke to VMWare to be told: ========================= "My name is gfdgfdgfdg and I will be working with you to resolve your issue for Support Request 7657576576576. I understand from your case description that Fedora 25 64 bit VM won't boot. Please find the list of the supported OS on the ESXi host. Fedora is not supported on ESXi but rather on Workstation and Fusion. https://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Guid… If you are using Workstation or Fusion, please raise a case with the concerned team to assist you however its not supported as a guest OS on ESXi. Let me know if you have any questions or if we are good to close the case for now. ========================== I appreciate that this note is low on technical facts (by design). because I'm not really as as interested in the technical minucia of the problem, as the more general situation. Can anyone explain what changed between FC22 and FC23? What caused VMware to drop support? Is there any practical way around this? I have hundreds of Fedora based VMs out there running versions from 'stoneage' to the latest, all working fine EXCEPT those on the two machines mentioned. I have a heck of a decision to make in the in the next few days, but it sounds like its going to be RIP Fedora :( Any insight most gratefully appreciated Thanks Phil.

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Problem updating flatpak firefox
by Junayeed Ahnaf 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hello, There was a problem I was facing when installing flatpak fedora so I googled and found the issue here : https://github.com/xhorak/firefox-devedition-flatpak/issues/1 Now here : https://github.com/xhorak/firefox-devedition-flatpak/issues/1#issuecomment-… there is a solution to get the update working , can any of you explain to me what i need to do to make the updating work for me please? Thanks in advance. N Sent from Nylas N1<https://link.nylas.com/link/1i3a9gf82916fckcnwp3wzkfh/local-79694637-0766/0…>, the extensible, open source mail client.

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