Kevin Kofler wrote:
Are you sure you didn't just start yumex or some other program using
consolehelper before? Consolehelper will remember root authorization for a
while (as long as you don't log out, and I think there's also a time limit)
so you don't have to reenter the root password all
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
It does not fail - it asks you if you want to continue. It does tell
you that you need a wired network connection. It will then download
the install image when the upgrade boots. You can also use a CD or
DVD with the install image. I just did
Ed Greshko wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Howdy!
When I insert a USB thumb drive formatted with vfat, it gets
automagically mounted under /media with appropriate permissions so the
logged in user can write to the device. But if the thumb drive is
formatted ext2, only root can write to it.
$
Mark Haney wrote:
I am hoping I've not missed the bus on this particular problem, but I've
been too busy to upgrade my systems to F10 until the last week or so.
One, being my daughter's new laptop.
Now, I'm having one devil of a problem. None of my F10 systems (2
upgrades from F9 and one
John Aldrich wrote:
Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I still
think there's something hinky about my config since I installed F10.
It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled F10. Now, I can SSH
in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't SSH in
John Aldrich wrote:
Hmm.. possibly. I compared it with the saved SSHD_CONFIG from my FC6 box
(I copied it to my home directory before wiping and reinstalling) and it
*appeared* to be identical. Also, I'm running SELINUX in Permissive
mode (have I mentioned I *hate* SELINUX?!?!? G) since there
Kevin Martin wrote:
FWIW, after upgrading to F10 I have mount problems of an external USB
drive as well. My fstab entry was:
UUID=fa70e3b0-e364-4e9e-a5fc-c37e2b2e30c9 /media/disk
ext3defaults1 2
Every time I would reboot after the upgrade I would get a message
Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, not many people know that the From header in the message body
may be totally different from the From in the SMTP envelope and that
the From header isn't used for message transport or delivery.
I would have thought that anyone that got SPAM with their own
address as
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Under Windows XP Run=cmd I get
ping www.google.com -f -l 1490
...
Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set
repeated several times
ping www.google.com -f -l 1460
...
Reply from ...bytes = 56 (sent 1460) time = 81ms ...
repeated several times
Is there a
Mike Cloaked wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
Are you suggesting that decrypting the ssh keys are a feasable activity?
I doubt it.
I doubt it too - but having the keys means you can use them to login in as
if the original owner!
Only if you can crack the pass phrase or the user was dumb
John Aldrich wrote:
Quoting Stuart stu...@sjsears.com:
[snip]
okay, how many are there? And which one do you want to boot from?
According to the installer, it's going to write the boot info to
/dev/sda. Boot is /dev/sdb1.
What Grub is doing is writing the boot loader for Grub to /dev/sda.
Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:24 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I can remember dropping a SCSI drive or two 4 to 6 onto the desk
to free it up so it would spin up again. (Drop so it lands flat on
its bottom, not sides or ends.) This was often necessary on drives
that had run non-stop
Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
Hi,
I installed fedora 10 on a new box, but every time mouse and keyboard
are freezing an short while after logging in. Considering the messages
in /var/log/messages I have come to the conclusion that it must have
something to do with the SATA-controller. I have very
Charles Crayne wrote:
In my case, there were two places where the NETMASK statement was
corrupted:
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
If you have checked both of these files, then, regrettably, I have no
other ideas.
Add
Craig White wrote:
In the US, the warranty on WD drives is 3 times longer than Maxtor and
my statistically insignificant experience tells me that the Maxtor
drives are more prone to failure.
I think WD is a first rate hard drive manufacturer even though they
don't do SCSI drives any more.
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
FWIW, I just discovered how useful can be a manually modified
70-persistent-net.rules file.
You can map MAC addresses to interface names and completely remove
the HWADDR from ifcfg-eth? files.
In my case this is perfect because I want to have *two* different
NICs
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
I have a small home LAN that I am starting to upgrade from FC9 to FC10.
As the network is still hardwired with ethernet cable and the boxes
all have static IP addresses I would like to continue using the old
network service rather than NetworkManager.
After installing
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I have had good luck getting Western Digital drives replaced. If you
run their diagnostic code, or have a drive that will not test
because it will not spin up, you can go for an advance exchange -
you have to have a credit card, so they can
Bill Davidsen wrote:
jdow wrote:
It sounds like the drive cannot get its head mounted and simply hangs
somehow. It's not useful for backups. If I had data on it there are some
hacks I might try, sharply twisting the drive on the axis of rotation
as power is applied, for example. Sometimes
Jorge Luis wrote:
I have a 200 MiB Maxtor HD that isn't being seen by the OS. I have it plugged
into the system through an EIDE/USB converter hub. It appears that the drive
isn't recognized, but the hub device is.
It would be handy to see the messages in /var/log/messages when you
plug the
Jorge Luis wrote:
Barring a very lucky attempt to fdisk the drive, I'm afraid I'm pretty much
screwed. I believe the drive failed when I bailed out of a GRUB configuration
in the middle of the operation. I hope I didn't damage any of the drive's
native electronics or the resident software
Jorge Luis wrote:
Here's another tip for you all:
r...@satyr:~# demsg | tail -12
[73223.969759] usb 4-6: USB disconnect, address 11
[73234.083956] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
13
[73234.603566] usb 4-6: device not accepting address 13, error -71
Nat Gross wrote:
Thanks for this post, it helped me a bit, but I still have nameserver problem.
Yesterday my [only]nic in a 32 bit fc8 box blew. When I replaced it,
it insisted to be eth1 and gave me eth0 errors when booting. I did an
ifconfig 192.168 and had eth1 up and running.
No
Jorge Luis wrote:
See my previous message regarding kernel messages.
I replied to that one as well.
The converter has a brick power supply that provides power to IDE drives.
Separately, the converter hub is a USB 2.0 interface with two USB connectors.
One of them provides bus power to
Jorge Luis wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson:
Jorge Luis wrote:
Barring a very lucky attempt to fdisk the drive, I'm afraid I'm pretty much
screwed. I believe the drive failed when I bailed out of a GRUB
configuration
in the middle of the operation. I hope I didn't damage any of the drive's
Nat Gross wrote:
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
If you are looking in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for ifcfg-eth0,
and not finding it, they you are probably using NetworkManager to
manage the interface. You may have to configure it again. (If you
looked in the wrong
Jorge Luis wrote:
No matter how the drive is jumpered--cable-select, primary, or slave (in the
last instance, with the drive taking the secondary place on the primary EIDE
ribbon)--the introduction of the drive locks up the computer. The machine
halts just after the memory POST; from there,
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
If you are using the network service and DHCP, ifcfg-eth0 should
look something like this:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=MAC address
DHCP_HOSTNAME=something
TYPE=Ethernet
IPV6INIT=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no
USERCTL=no
You
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
With /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, you are probably not
going to run into it if you do not use HWADDR in ifcfg-eth? On the
other hand, I do tend to use something like the first example I gave
- you don't need to, but it can prevent
Robert L Cochran wrote:
A warranty claim seems so easy, doesn't it? Getting that claim honored
is an expensive process. I did this for a Western Digital hard drive,
but I had to pay for the packaging and mailing cost to send the hard
drive I was making warranty claim for to their testing
Jim wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:
Jim wrote:
Does Linux have any Appa for converting music files to MP3 to play on
Ipods.
What kind of music files? CDRipper will do CD's to MP3 (as long as
lame is installed). I'm sure there are others for that.
I don't want to burn them to CD's.
I want to
RGH wrote:
I've been having some strange, but fairly predictable, problems with the
disks in my system. If disk activity is very heavy for a long
time---say, I'm downloading a lot of stuff---then, at some point, I
start to get disk errors and the system will all but freeze up. The
first
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's
what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing
code is now working right. Also the help function looks weird since it
doesn't give any program to start, and it doesn't
Adil Drissi wrote:
Hi,
Do you know a way to migrate to fedora 9 from fedora 8. I tried this:
# yum install preupgrade
# preupgrade
but this gave me fedora 10 by default in the in,stallation gui.
So please if you know how to upgrade from fedora 8 to 9 please let me know.
Thank you
I
Frank Millman wrote:
BRILLIANT!
Thank you, Mikkel. I followed your instructions, and it worked exactly as
you predicted.
No brilliant - I should have caught it the first time you posted the
old and new fstab!
Mikkel
--
Unfortunately for us, common sense is not very common.
Roger Heflin wrote:
Don't some programs interpret -- as stdin?
No.
But some programs do interpret -- as no more options after this.
so:
touch -- -foo will work as the -- tells touch that there are no
options after this.
I think it works for almost all command line
Frank Millman wrote:
I tried the suggestion of running 'yum update kernel' while in rescue mode
on the second machine. It seemed to work, but it still would not boot.
This will only work if you booted in the rescue mode on the new
machine, and ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. (Mount /boot after
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 01:26 -0800, NiftyFedora Mitch wrote:
There are two places to pay critical attention to first:
A. hardware initialization.
For a system to boot all hardware has to be known in advance.
NO probes that time out for this and that... SCSI timers are LONG...
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is
recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.
I don't have experience with USB headsets, but it should show up as
another sound card. Fire up PulseAudio Volume Control
g wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:47 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I doubt that you will see a practical five second boot on server or
workstation commercial hardware any time soon.
Five seconds is probably ambitious, but I still like how my old Amiga
would COLD BOOT in 13 seconds,
Anoop wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
How did you enable the services? I suspect that you only enabled
them for run level 3, and not run level 5.
Yes you are right. Anyway, I have solved the problem now.
Thanks,
Anoop
Konstantin Svist wrote:
IIRC, the idea was to initialize hardware in parallel. The only thing
(?) required for this to work is using kernel alone, without initrd.
So my question is, how plausible is running Fedora without initrd? Don't
the majority of users out there have similar hardware,
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:33:19 -0600
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I am glad to hear you have it working.
I'm very pleased about that, myself.
Maybe a HAL rule to eject the SCSI device the Novatel as soon as it
is detected? Or a udev rule that does the same thing? Just
g wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
If you build your own kernel, with everything you need to boot built
in, then you do not need an initrd. I guess I am not in the
majority because none of my machines has the same hardware. One
nice collection of 'toys'.
Thanks.
if you have built
Richard Shaw wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Sorry,
I guess it was ambiguous. That's what I have at which point it fails on
booting and when
I type 0x34B at the prompt, it then works.
Not to sound rude, but could
Frank Millman wrote:
Still no luck, I am afraid. This is what I have done.
#chroot /mnt/sysimage.
'uname -r' shows 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586
I ran 'mkinitrd -v /boot/test.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586'. I put the -v in
to see what was happening, but it just returns to the prompt silently.
Anoop wrote:
Hi List,
I disabled some services this morning on my Fedora 10
machine. But after a reboot my keyboard and mouse stopped working. I
entered into run level 3 and enabled almost all the services, but with
no luck.
But if I am starting x from the shell (run level 3),
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
I have an oscilloscope with a 19200 bps serial port on it. It works fine
with my old Windows 2000 computer.
But it will not work with the on-board serial port on my shiny new HP
DC7900 with Fedora 10! 19200 bps is too fast, and the data is always
(slightly)
Adel ESSAFI wrote:
Hi list
I have a probleme with ~ substitution:
when i write this, it ok;
[r...@grid009 ~]# echo ~root
/root
but, when I try to write this a a variable, it is not ok!!
[r...@grid009 ~]# user=root
[r...@grid009 ~]# echo ~$user
~root
Can tou help me to solve this
Don Raikes wrote:
I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I
wanted to use my plantronics headset with it.
I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is
recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I don't have
Frank Millman wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Mikkel.
I tried, but unfortunately I don't know enough to figure it out :-(
I ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. I read 'man mkinitrd', but I cannot work out
what parameters to use. I tried 'mkinitrd -vf', but it just returned to the
prompt silently. I
Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
Still trying to install F10 on a new box with vista pre-installed.
Initially installation stopped after the message that anaconda was
running. I found out that when I boot with the kernel option text I
can get further. I haven't figured out why the graphical mode doen't
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have a couple of decTOPs
(http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%2520info%25202.htm),
I have had problems with these systems with Centos 5, and had to perform
the install on some old Compaq SFF, move the drive over, boot in init 3,
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After a bit more review, I see that the install on the decTOP kernel's
ends in .i586, while the install on the Compaq SFF ends in .i686
why?
Different processors?
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with
Dave Feustel wrote:
Absolutely minimal to me means ability to run xterm.
That appears right now to be all that I need.
I've used fvwm before. Is it available on F9?
Thanks.
If all you need to run is xterm, you can have X launch that instead
of a windos manager. When you exit xterm, it
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Frank Millman wrote:
I am guessing that the new Intel video driver is flakey, so I tried swapping
hard drives with a similar machine running Windows Server 2000. Windows runs
perfectly in the old machine, FC10 will not boot in the new machine. I get
the
Kevin Kempter wrote:
I can neither 'copy' the tracks to my HD or play the music CD. However if I
log into gnome I can do both.
How are you logged in otherwise? Both KDE and Gnome work with HAL to
set permissions when a user logs in. I am not sure about other
desktops/window managers. From
Richard Shaw wrote:
Maybe it's just me but I have 3 installations of Firefox on F10 (was
F9) and I noticed that the spell checker kept wanting me to add e's to
the end of words so I go and check on the language packs and low and
behold there are a TON of languages installed but not US English.
Tim Largy wrote:
Because I have limited space in /var and a program that wants to put
gigabytes of data in /var/www, I want to move that directory
(/var/www) elsewhere and simlink to it. What's the proper way to do
this with SELinux enforcing?
Tim
If I have this correct, you would want to
g wrote:
i still have not found what i wanted to know about where boot info is
located on cd's and dvd's. there have been too many other more important
things in way.
when i found time, i will install source code and have a look in it.
later.
Try
David Hláèik wrote:
Hello guys,
I have Fedora 10 both with Windows Vista installed.
When computer starts, there is a grub counting dialog shown , text
only, but with ugly blue background under fonts only. I tough that
grub does not show itself any more until keyboard pressed within boot
clarice oshea wrote:
had to reinstall my microsoft OS on a dual boot system
MS OS on scsi drive 0
Fedora 9 on scsi drive 1
I did the usual procedure to reinstall grub
rescue disk
chroot /mnt/sysimage
. . . .
grub find /grub/grub.conf
(hd1,0)
clarice oshea wrote:
I just loaded fedora 9 last month and am learning pretty fast.
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point type options dump pass
tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0
devpts /dev/pts
Robert L Cochran wrote:
Wayne Feick wrote:
Your license key may or may not work in a VM. Last time I tried to
install Dell's OEM version of XP inside VMWare (admittedly a few years
ago), it refused to activate and gave a message that it was only
licensed to run on Dell hardware.
Kevin Kempter wrote:
Hi All;
I'm running Fedora 10 (64bit) on a Dell laptop. I cannot read music CD's the
system doesn't even recognize that I've inserted a CD, here's my dmesg output
(below).
Thanks in advance.
Are you trying to read a music CD like a data CD? If so, it is not
Frank Cox wrote:
Is there any way to remove a user's name from the list on the initial gdm
login
screen?
Related: Is there a way to reorganize the names? For example, if the list
has
Fred at the top and Sally under that, can the order be reversed so Sally is on
top?
I don't know how
Tom Horsley wrote:
Shouldn't proper security dictate that root's login PATH be just
as restricted as sudo's built-in PATH? :-).
Root's login path is not fixed, but it built when root logs in. When
actually running as root, you may want automatic access to
directories that you do not want on
g wrote:
greetings,
in another box, lost power supply due to 'bad caps syndrome'.
moved hard drives from old box to new box and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move
old systems files to backup drive.
reformatted partitions and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move old systems files
to new drive.
Anne Wilson wrote:
Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around
on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone
actually do this?
I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my
EeePC. Today I put
Mark wrote:
Hey,
In pre fedora 10 it was default that if a new service was installed it
would be on by default on the next reboot. I'm wondering why the
decision was made to not enable those newly installed services at the
next reboot.
I know it can be turn on and made permanently using
Neal Becker wrote:
Problem is, using fedora install disk in rescue mode mounts the
file system I want to check. I tried remounting them ro, but it
still would not allow
e2fsck -c -c
There are a number of fs mounted to my hard disk, such as /dev,
/dev/pts, /selinux, and more.
Try
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
I could have sworn that not turning on a service when it was
installed was the default. You are supposed to configure the new
service, and then turn it on.
these sort of actions
Steve wrote:
Hello Tom,
On Thu 11/12/08 6:16 PM , Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Is there some way to make sudo pay attention to my $PATH
(or even root's $PATH)?
I've not had to bother with doing something like this, but a
quick glance at the '/etc/sudoers' file shows a parameter
Linuxguy123 wrote:
First I set up my USB device. (Kingston Traveller 1 GB USB) I installed
an image on it yesterday and it crashed, wrecking the install in the
process, thus I am trying to start over fresh.
fdisk - delete the old partition, make a new partition, made it a linux
primary
Don Levey wrote:
On my F10 machine, my main X session is on Ctrl-Alt-F1, as expected.
However, Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or switch user) bring me to a console login.
Trying to startx tells me that Server is already active for display
0 and recommends deleting the /tmp/.X-lock file. I don't want to do
Bruce Thompson wrote:
Hi all,
I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving me
nuts.
I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal drives and
one external USB drive. Prior to Fedora 10, the volume group initializes
fine during boot and the
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Is it possible to tell preupgrade to use a local web server or .iso
image, instead of downloading from the net? I have the F-10 DVD
served out on one machine on my network, and it save a lot of
downloading if I could use it. (It works just fine
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 15:09:08 -0800,
Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This whole thing started because it is recommended that you have two dns
servers for fail-over/redundancy - of which I haven't been able to solve
(yet).
Do you have two separate
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I ran preupgrade-cli on my F-8 machine, choosing F-10 to upgrade to.
This worked fine, finding some 800 packages to update.
But when it ended and I re-booted,
the upgrade system failed at the graphics stage.
After various failed attempts, I
Michael Hannon wrote:
Greetings. We've got a machine at work that's running Fedora 8, i386.
The machine has two external drives, both mounted to an eSATA controller
(Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller).
The disks are 750GB and 500GB, respectively, in size.
Everything seems
R. G. Newbury wrote:
Of course you are playing nanny! You admit it in your response right
after you deny it. The defaults are to protect people that are learning.
That's my point. You are adding the job of nanny under the guise of
security. That is NOT security.
Geoff
I would be
Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
I have 2 card on my PC,
this is the modprobe.cong:
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-trident
options snd-trident index=1
alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I ran preupgrade-cli on my F-8 machine, choosing F-10 to upgrade to.
This worked fine, finding some 800 packages to update.
But when it ended and I re-booted,
the upgrade system failed at the graphics stage.
After various failed attempts, I got the new system to
Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:03 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Linuxguy123 wrote:
Yeah, but Fedora is responsible for shipping PRODUCTION READY stuff.
And if folderview doesn't work with nvidia hardware, I'd hardly call
that PRODUCTION READY.
Where does it say that Fedora
Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:01 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Well. You'll have to point me to where it says that on the Fedora website
See my post entitled: Some people mis interpret Fedora's Mission
Statement.
Where in your post do you reference the Fedora web site? All
Is it possible to tell preupgrade to use a local web server or .iso
image, instead of downloading from the net? I have the F-10 DVD
served out on one machine on my network, and it save a lot of
downloading if I could use it. (It works just fine for installs...)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the
Gene Heskett wrote:
So do I Kevin, and a readily available method of shutting the touchpad off,
preferably forever, should be part of all installs.
Isn't there an option in the BIOS to turn it off? I have options to
have it on all the time, auto off if another mouse is detected, and
always
Jim wrote:
stan wrote:
I don't run KDE and SELinux is Greek to me, but what is the error
message, and does SETroubleshooter (the yellow star) recommend a fix?
That will probably help others respond.
It was the /user/.macromedia directory that was causing Selinux to send
errors, I ran the
Fred Silsbee wrote:
You don't see it do you! What you are proposing would take a
massive intricate system to protect people from themselves. SELINUX
is already a super mess duplicating controls already in place and
adding to the CPU burden.
One thing you seem to be missing - this is not
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:10:36 +1030
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Compared to logging in graphically as root leaves you
much more open to security flaws in the graphical systems doing much
more than you were doing.
Ah yes, here it is again - GUIS are horribly flawed and
Tim wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan:
Turntables are also available. Ironically, a lot of these actually
come with Audacity even though they're marketed for Windows.
Mikkel L. Ellertson:
For example:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TTUSB-PB-Rcpc=SCH
I'd be very surprised if any
Fred Silsbee wrote:
EEEWWW! save me from making a mistake..PLEASE!
Pontius Pilate in the movie Ben Hur:
we mature through fault, we progress through error
If a newbie screws up his computer, he will learn a lot from
having to start over!
What would be better: send you to his
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I'm please Fedora 10 ships with graphical root logins disabled by
default.
I must say I haven't noticed that, as I haven't logged in as root for years.
But I do recall one time when it was useful,
when my home directory was damaged in some
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Is it possible to have a single DNS server support
two different domain names, with each domain
name having it's own forward and reverse lookups?
Forward lookups are easy - just have a different zone file for each
domain. Reverse are easy if the domains have
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Forward lookups are easy - just have a different zone file for each
domain. Reverse are easy if the domains have different IP addresses,
but a problem if they do not. WEB hosting services do this all the
time. Each hosted domain returns
R. G. Newbury wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
After all, we do not want to see Linux systems that are as insecure
as Windows systems are by default. Running as root all the tine
defeats most of the security of a Linux system.
Mikkel
Well how *exactly* does running *as root* defeat *most
R. G. Newbury wrote:
No - GUIs run as root are not as secure. A bug that would be caught
when running as a user may not be caught when running as root.
A bug or a permissions error. Please explain how a BUG could or would
be treated differently depending on the user?
Trying to read or
Fred Silsbee wrote:
well said!
Talking to yourself now?
Mikkel
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Nick Price wrote:
Hi
I had the same problem
do this... got this from this group earlier and it worked for me
su - root
password: whatever it is
edit /etc/pam.d
vi /etc/pam.d (or use your favorite editor)
look for a line that has:
user != root (or something like that)
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I've done this with a cassette deck. I had a friend make me a cable
that joins both tape stereo output channels into a single soundcard
input plug (this is a standard connector but I'm
electronics-illiterate so don't ask me for details :-). I used
Audacity for the
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