Author : Gary Stainburn

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all, This is crazy but I cant see the answer.  In my system crontab Ive added a job to stop the music system at 10:59 on the 11th November, and restart it at 11:02 on the 11th November # m    h    dom    mon  dow    user    command..

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everyone, Ive got fail2ban and firewalld set up on a C7 box, in theory protecting dovecot, exim and SSH but Im not convinced its doing anything. in /var/log/fail2ban.log Im getting loads of entries such as: 2020-12-22 19:08:08,100 fail2ban.actions     Â..

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Ive just upgraded from my old F9 box to C7, which of course means lots of changes.  However, the ones are are annoying me most are with VIM. No matter what I do I cant get  gvim to open in a reasonable size. I have a dual headed setup (laptop + extern..

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One of my boxes has stopped logging some of the things its supposed to.  I use rsyslog which used to send named and dhcpd entries to separate log files.  Both named and dhcpd are working. I have shut down the DHCPD server and run it in debug mode ..

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Last week my trusty Fedora 9 file and print server failed on me. Not bad for 12 years trusty service. I have now replaced it with a C7 server and found that lots have changed in those 12 years. Thankfully many things havent, named-chroot, dhcpd, ..

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