Toms Online Notebook Sharing my stuff.

Have you ever needed to find all the symbolic links you have created to a certain directory? I recently wanted to move some partitions around on my drives and needed to see where I had mounted and linked to them before I moved them.

Here is a quick way to search for all the links.

The default window titlebars in Gnome on Fedora 26 ar too fat (thick), so I wanted to reduce their size.

They are config'd in the Themes (/usr/share/Themes or ~/.themes) gtk.css
OR
in a CSS file in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

A quick one liner (using PulseAudio) to rip the audio being output to your linux desktop speakers and convert it to Vorbis Ogg file.

Using pacat...

The latest rpm for google-earth is failing to install because a conflict with /usr/bin.

an easy re-build of the RPM fixed it... instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1650497&postcount=27

then sudo yum localinstall /home/tgutwin/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/google-earth-stable-7.1.4.1529-0.x86_64.rpm

It is now installed in /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth

FIXED!

Successfully went through a workstation upgrade  Fedora 20 --> 21 using fedup instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp

The only issue I had (and expected ) was an nVidia driver problem that was easily fixed.
F21 installed version 346 but my GT9600 based card needs the 340.

<ctl>-<alt>-F2

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel kmod-nvidia

sudo yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-340xx kmod-nvidia-340xx

rebooted

Success!

How to setup stunnel to simply redirect a non-SSL email client to send mail through a Gmail or (Google Apps) account. Installed on Fedora 20 (or o other Fedora with systemd) as a systemd.service.

I have some devices in my network that are not capable of SSL email required by Gmail accounts. No problem stunnel can easily wrap the messages in SSL from GMail. Stunnel can do soooo much more, but for this simple usage, the setup is very easy.

1) yum install stunnel

2) edit the /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf to look like...

Make sure to change YOURSERVERIP to your own IP addr.

3) create a systemd.service file to start and autostart stunnel at startup:

4) Start stunnel with   systemctl start stunnel.service

5) enable it to autostart   systemctl enable stunnel.service

6) send a test email, but point your client at YOURSERVERIP with your Gmail user password.

Works for me!