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CACHEDIR.TAG
by Patrick Dupre 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

Hello, When I tar a folder, I wish to exclude the cache files Hence, I try to use tar --exclude-caches-all But it seems that the directory need to be tagged by a file CACHEDIR.TAG It looks like that any of my files are tagged. find . -name CACHEDIR.TAG | sed -e 's/[/]CACHEDIR.TAG$//g' >/tmp/excludes provides an empty file. How can I manage CACHEDIR.TAG ? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.
by nisus＠redchan.it 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

It has come to my attention that some entities are claiming that you, dear Linux Hackers, (1)need to go through some foundation or get some permission from upon high in-order to sue the progenitors of GRSecurity for their violation of section 6 of the terms underwhich the linux kernel is distributed (version 2 of the GPL). And, furthermore, that (2)this foundation has no intention of bringing such a suit. (1) is false. (2) may very well be true. You do have standing to sue GRSecurity for their blatant continuing copyright violation if GRSecurity has made a derivative work of your code contribution to the Linux Kernel as-long as (a)you have not assigned your copyrights, and (b)you are not a work-for-hire. How do you know if you are a work for hire or if you have signed away your copyrights? If you are working for a company and as your job duties you are programming the linux kernel, there is a good chance that you are a work for hire and thus the company owns said copyrights. How do you know if you signed away your copyrights? Well if you singed a document transferring ownership of your copyrights for the code you produced at some point. If you are not working for a company while hacking linux and you haven't assigned your copyrights away then YOU OWN YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. This means most of you hobby hackers, if GRSecurity has modified your code, YES YOU HAVE STANDING TO SUE. Yes your "betters" are lying to you. You have individual separate standing to sue. Yes you SHOULD consult a lawyer of your own. Yes you SHOULD consider a joint filing with other individual rights-holders willing to bring suit against GRSecurity for their blatant violation of your terms, and yes you should consider starting CLASS ACTION since the number of Linux Kernel Contributors seemingly numbers in the multitudes upon multitudes upon multitudes. And yes, I am an attorney. But no, I'm not looking for clients. Just correcting some false information that has been spreading. And yes, GRSecurity will try to claim that the linux-kernel is a work of Joint ownership (so as to shield themselves via procedural law) and yes they will try to claim fair use (probably de minimus), and yes your Lawyer will have to respond to these claims. The Joint ownership claim will go down quickly but it will have to be responded to. De minimus Fair Use depends on how much code is modified and how signifigant the modifications are. Don't let anyone but your own legal council dissuade you from bringing suit: Remember the statute of limitations is only a few years, so the clock is ticking on the CURRENT violation. Also make sure you register your copyright of the version of the linux-kernel that GRSecurity is using in its violation prior to bringing suit. The registration must be for the specific version. Yes you can register after the violation has occurred, however if you have registered before the violation then you can also pursue recovery of legal fees, pursue statutory damages, etc. ( NOTE: If you would like to read on how your copyright is being violated by GRSecurity, Bruce Perens posted a good write-up on his web-page ) ( perens.com/blog/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-contributory-infrin… ) ( There was also a discussion on the linux section of slashdot, and on the debian user mailing list, and on the dng devuan mailing list and on the openwall mailing list and the fedora legal mailing list )

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F24 problems with ttyUSB0
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Recently I have been having problems with ttyUSB0. I use a USB/tty adapter to connect to my cubieboard for my armvhl work. It worked fine for a long time with F24 using: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Now it works after F24 boot just fine. But if I unplug the dongle, suspend, then resume, when I plug the dongle in, no /dev/ttyUSB0. :( How can I go about trouble shooting this. I will get to F26 sometime soon; just not right now. (If that will make and difference, though wonder why) thanks

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My poor brain! New rsyslog.conf syntax
by Tom Horsley 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

I once had it all figured out, reducing journald to just a proxy that forwarded everything to syslog and kept no storage of its own. Now I see the new version of rsyslog in fedora26 comes with a new and improved config file syntax that is totally opaque. Before I spend the next week trying to learn how the devil to configure rsyslog these days, I thought I'd ask: Has anyone on fedora 26 figured out how to get journald to just forward everything to rsyslog which then writes the kind of plain text files God intended? (And leaves no binary journal files anywhere on my system).

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regionset for DVD playback and ripping
by Temlakos 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Everyone: Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to change the region code on a DVD player? Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region code 0)? And if so, with what result? The problem: I have a boxed set of DVD's, 12 in all, from Region 2. I live in Region 1. A few versions of Fedora back (probably F21 or F22), I found I could play back those Region 2 disks without a problem. But now with F26, playback even on the "vlc" program gives me sound, but no picture--a black screen. Dragon refuses to play them at all. The makemkv program takes about ten minutes trying to do a workaround with the region codes not matching. Then it seems to work, but the output files all have sound (including all sound tracks if it has more than one), but no picture. The way I see it, I can do one of two things, if I want to rip those disks: 1. Use regionset to change my DVD and BD drive temporarily to Region 2, rip the disks, then go back to Region 1. 2. Purchase and install a second optical-disk drive and use regionset to set /that/ to Region 2 and /leave it there/. The second option would cost me about $50 US. The larger problem is this: I don't necessarily want to limit myself to any one region. If I had to pick one "secondary region," it would be 2 because that includes Europe, the Middle East (including Israel), South Africa, and Japan. But if I want to play or rip a DVD from Australia, then I'm out of luck. The /really/ big hack would be to set my present optical drive to Region 0, and hope that would play any disk, from any region. But before I do something that could fry the drive forever, I would like someone to tell me whether he's ever done that before. The only alternative is to shell out $600 US for a multi-region Blu-ray and DVD player. I would like to avoid that--mainly because I would like to avoid shelling out a lot of payola for a device having an esoteric feature I might use only once in a blue moon! Especially since I fully expect optical media to become obsolete in another ten years. Any suggestions? Anecdotes? Horror stories? Temlakos

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Fedora 26 (Live) on Dell XPS 15 9560
by wwp 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Hello there, I'm trying to boot from a F26 Live CD (on a flash drive) on a brand new Dell XS 15 9560, but it sticks after "Started Virtualization daemon", then no move. The media is verified OK. I tried w/ "quiet" boot option, it gets more verbose, with "norhgb" but no luck. How could I get more info about what prevent from booting? Any hint? Regards, -- wwp

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Fedora 26 small issues with Asus Zenbook UX306U
by Jeandet Alexis 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Hi, I run Fedora 26 maybe since Alpha release on my Zenbook and in between Alpha and Beta I lost backlight control from gnome shell and /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness. Then after 4.11.3 kernel I wasn't able to boot anymore, I discovered that switching to CSM mode solved the problem it also restored the backlight control from /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness but still not from gnome shell. Updating BIOS didn't help. Does anyone got similar troubles? Did you solve them? Best regards, Alexis.

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Ksnapshot?
by Erik P. Olsen 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

What's the successor to ksnapshot? Or is there a similar program I can use in lieu of ksnapshot which apparently is ditched? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

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Upgrade to Fedora-26 vs gpg download verification
by Jonathan Ryshpan 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Upgrading from f25 to f26, I have just downloaded Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-26- 1.5.iso and am attempting to verify it according to the instructions on the download website, which advise me to run: $ curl https://getfedora.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import $ gpg --verify-files *-CHECKSUM I find the output, which follows, somewhat suspicious; but I don't know what to make of it. Please excuse my extreme ignorance. $ curl https://getfedora.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0gpg: key 81B46521: "Fedora (24) < fedora-24-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed 100 18521 100 18521 0 0 13126 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 13135 gpg: key 030D5AED: "Fedora Secondary (24) < fedora-24-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key FDB19C98: "Fedora 25 Primary (25) < fedora-25-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key E372E838: "Fedora 25 Secondary (25) < fedora-25-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key 64DAB85D: "Fedora 26 Primary (26) < fedora-26-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key 3B921D09: "Fedora 26 Secondary (26) < fedora-26-secondary(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key F5282EE4: "Fedora 27 (27) < fedora-27(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key 0608B895: "EPEL (6) < epel(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: key 352C64E5: "Fedora EPEL (7) < epel(a)fedoraproject.org >" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 9 gpg: unchanged: 9 $ gpg --verify-files *-CHECKSUM gpg: Signature made Fri Jul 7 08:13:35 2017 PDT using RSA key ID 64DAB85D gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: eof gpg: Good signature from "Fedora 26 Primary (26) < fedora-26-primary(a)fedoraproject.org >" gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: eof gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: E641 850B 77DF 4353 78D1 D7E2 812A 6B4B 64DA B85D Thanks - jon

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livecd-iso-to-disk issue
by Matthew Saltzman 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

I have an 8GB USB 3.0 key drive on which I want to install F26 Live with room for an overlay and a home directory. I used livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2048 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso /dev/sda and that does nothing and returns no error or status message, just a prompt. I have discovered that it is the --overlay-size-mb option that causes the no-op return. Without that, the command behaves as expected, prompting me to confirm that all data on the drive will be destroyed. Anyone else experienced this? Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Is there a workaround? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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