@stacksofplates said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@stacksofplates said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@aidan_walsh said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I had a microcode update applied by Korora 26 during the week, perhaps that?

Check dnf history?

Yeah dnf history shows my command/install history. But I don't know how to get it to show everything that was updated.

You can do

dnf history info <history number>

I've tried that but it doesn't show the whole line... it gets cut off so it doesn't help at all.

huh? There should be a lot more than one line.

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OH! I had it in the wrong order. I had the number and info switched around.

Double the RAM and that could be a great laptop!

Veeam also has a Linux based recovery environment that can provide full recovery of Linux VM's into the HC3 system.

Unlike windows, the virtio drivers are already built in to the Veeam Linux Recovery ISO so there is no additional step required for it to see the disk to recover to ... so in this example, I just want to restore all of disk vda from the backup repostory to the blank vda disk.

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Restore the entire disk.

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Works great on Fedora 27.

dir alias is easier to type btw.

@emad-r said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

@tim_g said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

Did I understand correctly that it's a Java application? If so, how are you launching/running it? What CLI command you using?

Oh i know they use a whole file for those arguments, ill see if i can check that and get back to you, what I can recall currently is- xms 512 and -xmx 2028

Is that enough memory to start the java application? That means you are starting it with 512MB of RAM and giving it a max of 2028 MB.

Thanks for reminding me to call Cigna and make sure they properly canceled our healthcare plan

@jaredbusch said in Securing Fedora with rkhunter.:

@tim_g said in Securing Fedora with rkhunter.:

@travisdh1 Does it self-update definitions and such?

His instructions say to run an update as part of dnf-automatic.

Though he specified the wrong location for the conf file.

Not sure if that is a full update or what.

Doh! Fixing.

@travisdh1 said in Securing NextCloud:

@zachary715 said in Securing NextCloud:

@travisdh1 said in Securing NextCloud:

I forgot before: You can also login to the admin interface and looking at the settings page. It'll give you a list of performance and security optimizations with links to instructions on how to make the changes.

Yeah that's where this all started. It only states that I need to...

Modify/enable the HSTS header to at least 15552000 seconds PHP OPcache not properly configured and to make changes to the php.ini.

From that though, I got to the hardening and security guide and started to go even deeper down the rabbit hole.

I know you're doing this to learn, so this probably isn't needed at the moment. @scottalanmiller's guide to installing NextCloud with Salt has all the settings correct already according to that settings page.

Nice. Good going @scottalanmiller.

@oksana said in How many IOPS your NVMe can do? All of them!:

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Check out this article to prove or knock down this belief!

Great, now I'm impatient to see the results!

@scottalanmiller said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@dashrender said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@scottalanmiller said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@dashrender said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@scottalanmiller said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@dashrender said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@jaredbusch said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

@scottalanmiller said in How Does dnf-automatic Send Emails:

Starting from another thread....

If you are used to dealing with commands like mail from the mailx package, you may be used to apps that require a local MTA in order to send emails. In the config files of dnf-automatic however, we can instantly see that there is configuration for entering a non-local server. This means that dnf-automatic is implementing the SMTP protocol (SMTP) itself and is not dropping files in a queue.

[email] # The address to send email messages from. email_from = [email protected] # List of addresses to send messages to. email_to = root # Name of the host to connect to to send email messages. email_host = localhost

Because of this, we know that dnf-automatic is acting as an SMTP server on its own and must be configured for how your network is going to handle email and is not just relying on the default configuration of the system MTA.

No, this is jsut droping a mail to root. not email.

Wouldn't be better to say it's an SMTP client? Akin to Thunderbird?

But in this case it's not doing that, so would be confusing. Thunderbird is an SMTP client, but doesn't do the local drop piece.

What's not doing what? dnf-automatic isn't doing a local drop piece either. It uses SMTP to drop to localhost, not whatever mailx is doing to function.
So in that regard, it should be exactly like what Thunderbird is doing, no?

I don't believe that that is true, but maybe it is.

Well we know dnf-automatic will deliver to postfix on another host assuming that host is configured to allow relay from the dnf host. Am I missing something?

Does dnf-automatic not do both, though?

I don't know if dnf-automatic is doing the local drop piece like mailx does.

@jaredbusch Lol. Spoken like a true IT generalist

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It would also be possible to break down the files with WinSCP and transfer them with FileZilla.

Get WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php - "WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows."

Add a Custom Command:
Code: rar a -r -m0 -v20m "!.rar" "!"
'Remote Command', 'Apply to Directories'... Add the Custom Commands toolbar.
This command will use Rar (install it on your server) to spit the file(s)/directory into 20mb numbered rar files using no compression, therefore very quickly. If you multi-select files, they'll each have their own multi-part rar file, nice.

We will still use Filezilla for transferring the files, using Simultaneous Transfers 😉 as it's by far the nicest/best working FTP client out there (even despite this missing, much needed functionality).

So now the every-day steps are:

Start WinSCP Log in to the server Browse to the file(s) Select them Click on the custom command's toolbar button ... it then gets to work processing (seconds or a minute perhaps)... Start Filesilla Log in to the server
8 ) Browse to the file(s) and the multi-part rars Select the rars Download them to the local machine ... watching the simultaneous transfers chomping thru the data! Unrar the local rar files when completed Delete the rar files from the remote server using WinSCP as it does it quicker.

Finished.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Find command:

@dustinb3403 said in Linux Find command:

Hrm. . .

One more thing, would it be possible to print the last access date to this some how?

Possible, yes. Easy. No since the find command never shows that.

Would there be a better approach? I'm trying to create a list of things to make people clean up their crap, and I can show them "hey this hasn't been access in X years. . . delete it or I will"

@mlnews Now we just need to make sure it is supposed to be MSI or CLick to run 🙂

@jaredbusch said in Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 27:

@coliver said in Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 27:

@jaredbusch said in Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 27:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 27:

Chrome is easy to install but isn't included in Fedora. Here is the quick and effective way to do it.

WTF?

sudo dnf install -y https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

That doesn't include the repo so it can easily update via dnf does it? Although chrome generally updated by itself so you may not need that functionality.

[jbusch@dt-jared ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ fedora-cisco-openh264.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo rpmfusion-free.repo slack.repo fedora.repo google-chrome.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo vscode.repo fedora-updates.repo rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo zerotier.repo [jbusch@dt-jared ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [jbusch@dt-jared ~]$

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Ah okay, looks like it does.

@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:

@JaredBusch said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:

@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:

@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:

How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?

You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.

Flatpak is not ready for prime time.

Why not?

And that's funny that you said prime time.

There's a post from Flatpak with prime time in the title.

Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time
https://www.flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/

And @scottalanmiller coukd say sodiumsuite is awesome and ready for the masses. Still doesn’t make it true.

That blog post is wrong, it says that DRBD must be active/passive. But it has offered active/active for some time.

https://docs.linbit.com/doc/users-guide-83/s-dual-primary-mode/