Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2009-02-02 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Robin Laing robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote: ..snip... My daughter prefers Gnome over KDE because KDE makes here think of Macs and she has had her fair share of nightmares with Mac's. Funny thing. While using KDE 4.1 in F10, I was tweaking settings and the very

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: How about finding a python tarball and installing it. Just to get things started. We have no idea what else failed to install properly. There

Re: Question for our users

2009-01-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Hello Fedora Users! I was wondering if everyone wouldn't mind answering the following questions for me to the list. What is Fedora (the operating system)? There is no Fedora operating system.

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: If you think it's worth it let's give it a shot and tell me what to do. looks like firstboot is failing to run. Hence why its still enabled to run again

Re: f10: fs errors; journal write error in flush_commit_list

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: greetings, from start of installation of f10, 4 months ago, to present, f10 has been having a problem of staying operational, in that after being up for a short time, it would bomb and have just now found problem. last update

Re: Puzzling over NFS4

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Petrus de Calguarium kwhisk...@gmail.com wrote: I use NFS4 to make desktop computer directories available to the laptop to either sync manually or with rsync. This works excellently, except for some NFS problems. I start the NFS daemons in this order:

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: ..snip I did a fresh install choosing KDE only --this deselect the gdm package from the X Windows System group. The problem persisted even though

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Had I seen this earlier I would have told you just to go to a non-X console and login as root there... The whole thing about not logging as root is security by obscurity as far as I'm concerned, and is more effective as a

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: # rpm -V python package python is not installed You are saying that the affected system after fresh install appears to not have the python package

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: before. I'm making a list. Maybe the download of the bad dvd was incomplete or there was data corruption in the process. Did this DVD pass a media check? I didn't do a media check. I always skip

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Sachin Murudkar sac...@duxsoft.com wrote: OK Assuming you have a root login. create a user from the backend and try... I did that, but only after I went into rescue mode to unlock the root GUI access. So creating and using a regular user account is fine after

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:29 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: But now

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Just to be clear. After the installation is complete you reboot. During that reboot you are asked to setup a user account. Did that not happen to you. Nope. It never did, hence the puzzle. I'm burning a new DVD

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: One has to wonder, what are the odds that two different people had some weird dvd. As a side note: I had created the problem dvd I used previously on 12

F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Aldo Foot
I ran into a problem today for which I already found the answer, but I wanted to ask what in the world is going on with F10 and gnome's initial install?? Today I decided to install F10 for the first time and decided to try out the Gnome desktop. The install was clean. Somewhere during the install

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not offered the chance to create a regular user account during

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into a problem today for which I already found the answer, but I wanted to ask what in the world is going on with F10 and gnome's initial install?? Today I decided to install F10 for the first time and decided to try out

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: My understanding is that in /media the OS expects to find removable media such as usb drives. The /mnt mount point is for nfs and local filesystems. Those mount points are sort of designated

Re: Update Broke NFS Exports

2009-01-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Jameson imntr...@gmail.com wrote: All of my NFS exports suddenly stopped working last night after updating my F10 server. The only thing I can think of that has changed has been the updates. In messages, I'm getting: mountd Warning: Client IP address

Re: Update Broke NFS Exports

2009-01-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jameson imntr...@gmail.com wrote: Add to the nfs server's /etc/hosts.allow mountd:192.168.1.55 I tried that, but it didn't work. As I said, that file has always been empty, and it has worked before. Thanks, =-Jameson Is the rpcbind service is running?

Re: mount question

2009-01-15 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Not true. The ntfs module could be compiled with write abilities in RH9. It wasn't _reliable_ but it was there, and it didn't use udev. udev really doesn't have anything to do with filesystems other than potentially

Re: shrinking NTFS partitions on Windows laptop

2009-01-15 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: Does Windows include a tool that lets you shrink the system partition on an installed box? I know you can't do it while running off that system, but what about something on their installation disc? Windows has no

Re: netbook jonesing

2009-01-13 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 19:12 +, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:47 -0700, Craig White wrote: All this talk about Acer Aspire and EEPro makes me want one. Is one better than another? Is the only

Re: df hangs -- nfs related problem

2009-01-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: Try lsof | grep nfs to see if anything has the mountpoint open. If not, try umount -f /mnt/nfs as the root user to try a forced umount. Also

Re: df hangs -- nfs related problem

2009-01-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:45:25 -0800 Aldo Foot wrote: Is there a way to terminate the nfs mount on the client? There are no messages in the log files pointing to this. The only reliable way I have found to get rid

Re: rpmbuild not working on FC 10

2009-01-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Linux student mysubli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I am trying to build rpm using same spec files i've used on FC8 but after upgrading my system to FC10 rpmbuild not working for me : rpmbuild -bb .spec Processing files: -1.0-1 error: File

Re: Network Manager, Firefox and more on FC10

2009-01-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: This pretty much tracks with the way things have been headed with Windows and Macintosh systems too...where the wireless (and wired for that matter) connections are made by users that might not have access to superuser

Re: weird graphics characters when logged into runlevel 3

2008-12-31 Thread Aldo Foot
Don Raikes wrote: When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I see a lot of random graphics characters on my display. not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer. Any suggestions would be appreciated. what happens if you enter 'clear'? When I

Re: Linux apps to convert music files to MP3

2008-12-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote SoundConverter seems to converts a wav file to a ogg file. I want to convert to a MP3 file. I just did this: /usr/bin/lame my song.wav my song.mp3 I'm listening to the mp3 song at this moment. Consider installing and using

Re: Linux apps to convert music files to MP3

2008-12-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:35 PM, john wendel jwende...@comcast.net wrote: Jim wrote: I picked this up off the internet about Lame; /Lame/ In the great history of GNU naming, LAME stands for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is not an mp3 encoder. It is a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO

Re: Linux apps to convert music files to MP3

2008-12-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hark_NatCole.wav (Properties say that this .wav file is a Mpeg Layer 3 Audio Hmm!? Mpeg Layer 3 Audio *is* and mp3 file type. The file command shows this for me: $ file my song.mp3 my song.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1,

Re: ssh-agent startup

2008-12-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Guillaume guillaume.char...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For now, when I want to use ssh-agent, i have to open a shell, and then use this command 'ssh-agent /bin/bash' to be able to use the ssh-agent fonctionnality. I would like to know if there is a tip to start

Re: Modify rules for Firewall

2008-12-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: FC8 I had to change the SSHD Port from 22 to 2995 and since the Firewall is looking at 22 where do I make changes to 2995. Is it in /etc/sysconfig/iptables You must consider what's in /etc/services. # grep ssh /etc/services

Re: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet

2008-11-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, the problem lies somewhere in the interaction of the Acer Aspire One and the Belkin Wireless G router. I vaguely remember reading something that suggested that the problem lied with the Belkin router itself. ~af

Re: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-13 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 AM, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: patrick... like clock work.. it seems email lists get into a top/bottom/side/horizontal/diagonal posting conversation... good luck!!! oh.. was this top? i'm close to san fran!! Is not very wise to piss people off on the

Re: F9 installation

2008-11-06 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Germán Racca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to do a lot of thing but no success. How could I get a space of approximately 30 GB to install another Linux, in my case Fedora 9? Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English. German. You have a volume in

Re: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet

2008-11-05 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:13:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question - does the router get hot during the transfer? This sure sounds like a router problem. The transfer lasts less than 5 seconds

Re: PLEASE HELP - Video Resolution keeps changing

2008-11-05 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FC 8 KDE Using the nv or nividia driver,the Video resolution keeps changing after I set it in system-config-display to 1024x768. It always changes to higher resolution after rebooting box. I have four other new Linux users that are

Re: PLEASE HELP - Video Resolution keeps changing

2008-11-05 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Using the nv or nividia driver,the Video resolution keeps changing after I set it in system-config-display to 1024x768. It always changes to higher resolution after rebooting box. What happens if you go into their

Re: kernel: martian messages

2008-10-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Seann Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . I see this a lot on my firewall, but that is because both my ISP and myself use a 10.x.x.x private IP range that overlaps. They use it for the management of the cable modems, and I use it for more traditional uses

Re: installating from iso

2008-10-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote: Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred to me in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think that's what they

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Are you working simply to improve your computer? I thought the machines were supposed to work for us. Some people like to explore the way

Re: no text appearing

2008-10-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Jerry Ro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I finally got the fedora installation to load from a FAT + USB stick (no CD, no network.) However, the same thing I was afraid of that happened with the Live CD happens with this ISO as well. There is a message, when

Re: no text appearing

2008-10-31 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:27 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: snip When you boot try typing linux xdriver=vesa maybe that will give you a basic gui install method. If that fails, try a text install, see this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-Core-6-Text-Mode

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall the big win with ubuntu is that they've managed to get most of the packages you are likely to ever want into a set of pre-configured repositories that are generally consistent with each other. With RPM based

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall the big win with ubuntu is that they've managed to get most

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also has nothing to do with RPM itself. Ultimately not. RPM is just a tool that goes out to get packages from a predefined location. Whether it finds or not what is looking for... that's another store. Let's

kernel: martian messages

2008-10-30 Thread Aldo Foot
I have an old server running on redhat 8.0 (I know... don't ask why). Recently I've seen lines like the following in /var/log/kernel : Oct 28 08:53:28 myhost kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0 Oct 28 08:53:28 myhost kernel: ll header:

Re: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

2008-10-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Ubique Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System Hello, I have the following request: Background - I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used as a stand

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Which one do you think is better and for what reasons. Ubuntu or Fedora 9. Personally I like Fedora 9. None is better than the other. The notion is that *buntu is easier to setup and maintain.. The question has

Re: password question.

2008-10-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under F9, I want to create an account such that the user will be required to change the password on login, but I don't have control over how soon (or late) the user will get to that first login. Is there a way to do it?

Re: password question.

2008-10-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that works too. Rats! Why couldn't I remember that one! Yet another senior moment at work! That's not too bad... as when I have my car keys in my left hand and I keep wondering where I put them. :-) ~af --

Re: 54 GB in /var/log!!

2008-10-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. So I can't run Pan, and can't cp directly between anything in it (including this list!)

Re: resize LVM partition

2008-10-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:37 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on disk There is sda1 - now free space sda2 - /boot sda3 - LVM Now i want to

Re: VDQ : rhgb, plymouth -- and mkinitrd

2008-10-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having read the referenced page, it still leaves me cold. Years of experience of booting and wildly pressing a hot key trying to hit it at just the right moment makes me hate hidden menus. I thought they said one just holds down

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIOS Raid1 ? on ASUS motherboard? sounds like fake raid and wouldn't be supported...at least not without some tacky vendor supplied driver. Perhaps you need to give us info on this BIOS RAID (lspci -v) I have a SuperMicro

Re: MYSQL setup

2008-10-21 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:20 AM, woodson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I was able to fix the problem by removing the /var/lib/mysql directory. Apparently this keeps the settings from a previous install. Bingo. Now you have a great mysql doc resource to help you out. ~af -- fedora-list

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-21 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, mount -l gives me output but mount -l | grep dev | egrep -v 'tmpfs|pts' | awk '{print $1\t $3\t $5\t $6\t $7}' gives me nothing at all. The one-liner reads info from mounted partitions only. You may need to adjust the

Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-21 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: Kate's embedded terminal is helpful when writing programs. It works well as long as it's located at the Lower Sidebar. The terminal

Re: changing hdparm default values

2008-10-21 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Martín Marqués [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've changed some HD values on my laptop, due to the clicking issue of hard disks. The thing is that every time I reboot I have to pass againg the values I want with hdparm, and I can't find where to configure the

Re: MYSQL setup

2008-10-20 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:35 PM, woodson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B. mysqladmin -u root password 'newpassword' which yields the same error. I've searched tirlessly to resolve this on my own but everything I read says this only happens if you have set a password for root which I haven't done.

Re: MYSQL setup

2008-10-20 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Fred Zinsli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may also want to check out this article http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html In particular, don't forget to FLUSH PRIVILEGES; ~af . -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery

2008-10-20 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Implied in all of this is a lesson to us in large and small companies that access and pass words and keys need to be well managed. If you have not placed a sealed envelope with pass words and keys in your managers

Re: Performance issue with X11

2008-10-20 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently noted that window behaviour is sluggish, particularly noticeable in scrolling, drawing dialog alerts and switching desktops. I'm just going to throw out some ideas: Did the same problem occur with

Re: Performance issue with X11

2008-10-20 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Do you have another video card to test? No. I don't need fancy graphics and the high level of traffic about ATI and Nvidia on this list puts me off getting into that. The only graphic-intensive app I use is the

Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 as parting thoughts, go thru 'configure kate' to see just what is set. I'm not in front of my F8 system now, but I'm looking at a CentOS.52 build at this moment. Well, when you

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:01:30 -0700, gary artim wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere along the line I saw a small script that provides a display of

Re: How to install Fedora 9 without DVD drive (but I have usb)

2008-10-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Vijay Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been trying to find a way to install fedora 9 without a DVD drive but all of the existing solutions seem to be for upto Fedora 8 only. I am running my server on FC6 and would like to upgrade to Fedora 9 which

Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-17 Thread Aldo Foot
Kate's embedded terminal is helpful when writing programs. It works well as long as it's located at the Lower Sidebar. The terminal freezes up if it's moved to the left, right or upper sidebar. Is this a Kate bug? I'm running Fedora 8. Does this happen in the more recent Fedora releases? --

Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-17 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: Kate's embedded terminal is helpful when writing programs. It works well as long as it's located at the Lower Sidebar. The terminal freezes up if it's moved to the left, right or upper sidebar. Can you

Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-17 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: --Move the Terminal Right-click on the Terminal icon on the lower sidebar and select Left Sidebar to place the terminal on the left side. At this point

Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up

2008-10-17 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: snip I did tried that, but no dice; the cursor becomes completely inactive. what do you mean by 'completely inactive'? It means I cannot type anything at the prompt

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:31 +, Beartooth wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:23:32 -0400, Jim wrote: I installed FC-10 Beta i386 or i686 on my eeePC 702, and all hardware works great. Just to toot the horns of some

Re: Installing software on standalone server

2008-10-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Fred Zinsli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an FC4 server that is stand alone (lab environement) How can I configure yum to look at the CDROM drive when I want to install new applications? All I am seeking to do is to install other packages that are on the

Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.

2008-10-15 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Fedora 9 on an IA64 workstation. When I ssh -X to another host, the ssh authentication succeeds in under a second, but the X11 authentication takes about 20 seconds and issues the warning: Warning: No xauth

Re: SSH Access Issues

2008-10-08 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I have several F8 and F9 boxes in an internal network. I can ssh between them all happily as root, but not as individual other users. After prompting me for a password, it says: Permission denied. In

Re: Newbie problems, sorry to trouble you

2008-10-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Martin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear officers and Fedora users, I am a newbie to Fedora. I have just bought a HP Elitebook 6930p and I have just installed Fedora 9 on my new laptop. But Fedora cannot recognize both my network card and my wireless

Re: Newbie problems, sorry to trouble you

2008-10-07 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Martin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear officers and Fedora users, I am a newbie to Fedora. I have just bought a HP Elitebook 6930p and I have just installed Fedora 9 on my new laptop. But Fedora cannot recognize both my network card and my wireless

Re: fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number

2008-10-04 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I guess it would be more accurate to go by cylinders. But I'd have to convert the units to megabytes in order to get the partition size I want... ok. so just what it is that you are trying to do? get even

fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number

2008-10-03 Thread Aldo Foot
The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the Bocks number. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l /dev/sdb Device Boot Start End BlocksId System /dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux /dev/sdb2128 203915358140 83

Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]

2008-09-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just found a message for /var/log/messages : kernel : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 So, how to solve this problem ? In a previous reply you said: For 8139too driver, it is a network interface PCI card

Re: Creating a common folder for all users

2008-09-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the tips! How do I prevent someone from deleting /fileshare? Steve You could try using ACLs. Each user would have specific permissions. Each file and directory can have custom access. Do man setfacl. ~af --

Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]

2008-09-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just found a message for /var/log/messages : kernel : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 So, how to solve this problem

Re: kde or gnome

2008-09-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But being more serious. Fedora uses Gnome by default, the documentation shows you how to use it with Gnome, much of the configuration uses Gnome tools, etc. The other window managers are *alternatives*. If you're starting out as

Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]

2008-09-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just have the problem of Destination Host Unreachable from eth1 ( ping to other same network segment internal machine ) as the following setting : [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0

Re: Why is Firefox such a beast?? -- New trouble

2008-09-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:44 +, Beartooth wrote: I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines, and it's a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways; but the differences differ, too.

Re: Problem in the ssh access

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have a problem in the ssh access to fedorapeople.org, i've uploaded my pub key on FAS, but when i try the access show this message: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host follow the

Re: kde or gnome

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:16 AM, William Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know witch one is better kde or gnome ? The default is Gnome. You setup KDE by personal choice... nothing else. But you may not like the latest KDE release. Browse this archive and you'll read for yourself.

Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is FC8 System... So, if I want to modify the config of controller card, then I need to edit the following files ? /etc/sysconifg/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? /etc/modprobe.conf And what else other profile also need to be

Re: Problem in the ssh access

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
I noticed from your output that you did not enter a password... so you don't have to authenticate? Ooops! of course you never had a chance to enter a password since the connection was terminated. Actually a more accurate question is: how are you supposed to authenticate? If the idea is to not

Re: kde or gnome

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you install from the KDE LiveCD, then you have KDE by default. You're correct. But how many new user will first grab a KDE LiveCD? ;-) ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried to install the tarball packages as the following : [EMAIL PROTECTED] proftpd-1.3.0a]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd ./configure: line 88: conf4161.sh: Permission denied ./configure: line 89: conf4161.sh:

Re: kde or gnome

2008-09-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 10:20 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you install from the KDE LiveCD, then you have KDE by default. You're correct

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

2008-09-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How to config the sudo, then allow user A to install tarball packages with FC8 System ? You use the 'visudo' command to edit the /etc/sudoers files. Don't edit that file directly. see this /etc/sudoers sample

Re: Workspace Switcher problem in Fedora 9

2008-09-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Dan Track [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just noticed that I can't increase the default number of workspaces in fedora 9. The only way to increase them is by adding rows, so where has the option to add workspace to the current row gone, and how do I get it

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

2008-09-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 01:10 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How to config the sudo, then allow user A to install tarball packages

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

2008-09-26 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry, My means is how to running the command line of ./configure, make and make install ? How to config sudo or / and linux system for it ? Thanks ! Edward. Google this howto compile source...

Re: Command help?

2008-09-25 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input but, unfortunately, this doesn't give the results that I need. I gave up and configured one of the run levels for doing the needed tasks and have the system reboot into that run level where it does what I

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