Re: Permissions Denied error as root: SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would have. It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems. I have

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bob Goodwin wrote: I thought I was the only one running Windows on GMT? It doesn't matter since it really gets booted. Bob Nope - I still have a couple of things I need Windows for that will not work under Wine. (Mainly my eBook reader and Motorola Phone Tools.) Todd Denniston already

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I didn't run FC2, so I am not sure about this. Could it be that the DVD-ROM drive is reporting that there is a disk in the drive, but taking too long to report the rest of the information, so that the system is assuming that it is a blank disk

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
R. G. Newbury wrote: Thank you, that is the likely answer. 'Defaults' allows 'exec', but you have to read further down in the options to see that 'user' or 'users' implies 'noexec'. Thank you, thank you. Easy to test/check and I now think that could be the actual problem.And the fedora

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Funny, I just installed a UPS, a.k.a. uninterruptible power supply, a.k.a. battery backup, for one of my servers, and it apparently has exactly what you're looking for. This particular model, made by APC, has an optional master electrical outlet that controls three

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay so this is way off topic but I need some help. I tried doing a Google search but I don't know enough to get my query right. I have several external components that I would like to come on when my computer comes on. I would also like them to go off when my

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: And thats NOT what I had. I made the mistake of running the sound detector and it, or pulseaudio overwrote what I had. It should not touch things unless you specifically tell it to. Sound detector was a tool to configure your sound cards. It is going to change things

Re: Sensors monitor

2008-08-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Is there a monitoring tool for lm_sensors in the distro? I need something that periodically runs sensors and mails me, or shuts down, if something goes out of wack. This would be a trivial script to write, myself, but I'd thought someone might've invented this wheel

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: Some stuff is locally built, like I track the latest linus kernel 2.6.27-rc4, amanda snapshots, kino-1.3.2, and all gmerlin dependencies, needed to make openmovieeditor build and work, which when I do, I find it cannot import what I already have, and it has no idea

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I am not sure I am reading this correctly - are you building your own kernels, and not using the Fedora ones? Yes Mikkel, been doing that for years, probably from about 2 weeks after I installed RH5.1 all those

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Yes g it does, thanks. It tells me for the 2nd time now that I should have nothing to do with pulseaudio, the whole concept of its design is apparently broken. i got that impression also. there are some who have it working, but i believe it is because it

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: g wrote: snip i got that impression also. there are some who have it working, but i believe it is because it is same systems pulse was built with. I don't know about that - I have had it working on 3 different systems, with 3 different sound chips

Re: automatically mount removable devices

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlo Nyto wrote: I have a system with four removable drives (in USB enclosures). I want them to be mounted automatically in the same location every time. I want this to happen at bootup. I also want this to happen if the system is booted without the drives and they are plugged in later,

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: g wrote: snip i got that impression also. there are some who have it working, but i believe it is because it is same systems pulse was built with. I don't know about that - I have had it working on 3 different systems, with 3 different sound chips

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip Well, by that logic, you could say that everyone that can not get PA working are running the same systems... not according to pulseaudio site. log it and you will see what i mean. I know that the hardware it doesn't work on is not all the same

Re: F9 thermal issue

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
fnol wrote: - Original Message From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:29:58 PM Subject: Re: F9 thermal issue On Saturday 23 August 2008, fnol wrote: have you updated your bios? On my way, I found

Re: automatically mount removable devices

2008-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Victor wrote: If you label the partitions, they will be mounted on /media/name. If this is not what you want, you can write HAL rules to have them mounted elsewhere. If you don't want to add labels, you can use the UUID value in the HAL rules. Wouldn't udev rules be easier to build for

Re: Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200

2008-08-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote: Yep. Just wondering how the attacker retrieved the passphrase for Red Hat. I am not sure they did retrieve the passphrase. It is possible that the key was already unlocked by another process, and they managed to sign a couple of packages in that time. (gpg-agent) I

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: The CD drive works as expected. The DVD does not. When I put a written CD into the CD drive, it mounts, and shows the label. When I put the same disc into the DVD drive, it brings up the CD Creator box, like it was blank. Closing that, and doing a mount causes the disc

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wilkinson wrote: William Case wrote: Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing with several pieces of data? eg. rsync --files-from /where/ever. I just re-installed Fedora 9 and I probably will be installing

Re: Network printer setup

2008-08-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Vincent Onelli wrote: 8. Re: Network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 153 (Mikkel L. Ellertson) -- Message: 8 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:35:19 -0500 From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 153 To: For users

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: After a manual mount, I have... /dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=jmccarty) My /etc/fstab entry looks like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 [spaces removed for clarity of reading] I wonder if this is

Re: network printer setup, Vol 54, Issue 130

2008-08-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:01 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: In my experience the queue name is the same as the name of the printer. Where did you get the queue name: PSE6D76B ? He is using a print server with a printer attached. Printer Server

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ric Moore wrote: It could also be said that it encourages the user to start at the top, to remove all the cruft, as you go downwards to where you compose your reply. Otherwise the lazy would start at the bottom and just add their two-cents without removing extraneous text. It's all in

Re: F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

2008-08-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joe Klemmer wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 19:49 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo http://lifehacker.com/391067/fedora-9-puts-your-desktop-on-a-usb-drive There is a livecd-iso-to-disk script script on the live CD - you will want that one

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: This means that if I updated my systems they could be compromised and I need to re-install? All because the announcement was made in other list! In any moment was clear to me, and probably others, that you have to another list to get such important announcements.

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi. I'm assuming that something similar to this might happened: Package Managers As Achilles Heel http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss It would help a lot if someone of the infrastructure team explains what is going on. What raised their

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm stumped. I've got a motherboard with the following dual-port NIC: 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Network Connection One port is connected to my DSL modem. It comes

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most users are not using the same mirror all the time, so there would only be a brief window that the system

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson writes: Try using ethtoolto lock the port to 100 Mbs Full Duplex. It is probably that the two do not handshake correctly to set the faster speed. If I remember correctly, that was one of the things that the exact protocol was not specified, so

Re: F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: It's supposed to be possible to make a live USB stick out of a live CD image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB stick such that the ISO image was a file in the

Re: F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: It's supposed to be possible to make a live USB stick out of a live CD image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB stick such that the ISO image was a file in the

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joel Rees wrote: Just being alarmist, here, On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most

Re: What is the point of the NM keyring?

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=45040 Posted on behalf of a User Sigh, getting rather tired of all these IT and Security GURUs telling us how we need to configure our systems all the time. Look, I have a machine that is UNATTENDED and uses a

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:40 -0400, William Case wrote: I will see if I can get help with NetworkManager on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but meanwhile, so as to avoid asking really stupid questions in more than one place. Is the 'network' service supposed to be running

Re: Network printer setup,

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Vincent Onelli wrote: Hi, Is there some body that can help me to setup a printer? I am new on Linux, and most of the entry required I do not know what to enter in. I had send similar message before but I did not get any answer. I understand your have a large number of messages to get to,

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: If I check, I get: ]# service network status Configured devices: lo eth0 Currently active devices: lo eth0 And it is back running. Even after hot or cold re-boot. The way service network status works is that it uses the ip command to get the list of interfaces

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: My system disk picked Friday to die so hard that the BIOS hangs during POST attempting to identify it as a disk. Naturally, the weekend I need to restore things on a new disk, is the weekend the fedora infrastructure is shot and livna doesn't have nvidia drivers built

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED] kinda

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: So why can't I get rid of 'network' entirely? I understand that 'network' is not an application to be removed, but something is sticking it in the list of services. With NetworkManager running, 'network' is not a service I need. So why confuse the issue? It is handy

Re: Network printer setup,

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:18 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The next step is to enter lpd://192.168.1.3/PSE6D76B at the Device URI: prompt. Why LPD:// if it's via an IP address? To tell it the protocol to use. That way it knows the port on the printserver, as well

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part II

2008-08-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
linuxguy wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:30 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: If the price of 10% adoption rate is exponential increase in the number of bitch-and-moan-while-doing-nothing-to-help like the OP, I'll take 1% market share any time, any date. (But that's me...) do nothing to help

Re: Limiting process memory usage

2008-08-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than some set amount of memory? Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in Linux. Thanks. Would ulimit -v do what you want? If not, you could try a combination of the -d and -s options. Mikkel --

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: Running paman from a shell gets a connection refused, and I don't see anything in /etc/rc.d/init.d to start a server which could then refuse the connection. And of course my system is now silent. Consulting First Steps, I tried pulseaudio -nC and got sort of a prompt,

Re: F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

2008-08-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I believe these 3 programs are all GUI programs, and even root will get a connection refused message if another user is logged in. Maybe I'm dense, but what the heck has x running as root, a visual interface, got

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip The advantages to this are that you do not touch the built in drive, and you can plug the USB drive into another computer and boot from it. That way, you can take your Linux drive with you and run it on most other computers. if hardware compatibility

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in my reply to Bill, fdisk

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Russell Miller wrote: You know, those on this list may beat me up for this, but if you're looking for stability and least fuss, I'd suggest CentOS instead. As someone else pointed out, Fedora is for people who want to get their hands dirty and try out the bleeding edge - and it doesn't

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Christopher Mocock wrote: Russell Miller wrote: It might be permissions problem... I found that by changing the ownership on the alsa device files to root:pulse-rt and adding your local user to pulse-rt, it started working. Someone is insisting that's not a bug, which does not make me

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Davidsen wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ravi wrote: Hi , I am planning to install fedora 9 on my external USB hard disk. right now my laptop is having windows vista. how do I manage vista when i unplug my USB hard disk because grub will be stored on external hard disk. I have a dvd with fedora

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:36:43 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot figure out why I cannot get the chain-loaders to work for w2kPro and XP, but it works for Vista now (go figure!). It is entirely possible that XP and W2K will only boot if they believe

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Hi; I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can also go weeks with no need of Windows. I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but ... I would like to create a script in

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table shows, for the Windows drive,

Re: Fedora Install Using DVD and HTTP

2008-08-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tod wrote: I have a web server with a DVD drive, and a server with only a CD ROM drive. How can I install fedora on the server over the network using HTTP? I've searched around but haven't found a method that matches my particular situation. Any ideas? Thanks. Do you have SE Linux

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: I want F9 on a USB stick. It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned with using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or not. Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn't boot off usb sticks. However, the EeePC should do - it does from a

Re: permissions

2008-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
roland wrote: Hello, I moved the homedirectories from one server to another. Somehow the permissons got mixed up. Is there anyway to check permissions? Sinds the transfer Firefox (3.0.1) does not anymore restore tabs and doesn't show activ arrows, to go back and forward. Thanks for any help

Re: permissions

2008-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:09 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: roland wrote: Hello, I moved the homedirectories from one server to another. Somehow the permissons got mixed up. Is there anyway to check permissions? Sinds the transfer Firefox (3.0.1) does not anymore

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: First problem; my 'hosts' file backup was recovered. So I think that was what I had. Every manual and the file itself said don't touch this file. I touched it. Did I get it back to its original shape? I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with 192.168.1.3 which 'ifconfig' and

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Hi Mikkel, Patrick and others ]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 192.168.1.1 Re-read man resolv.conf On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on the local

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Sorry Bruce; I don't mean to be obtuse, but ... On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 12:13 -0700, bruce wrote: the 192.168.1.1 in your resolv.conf file is the dns server that the server is using to resolve any domain names... comment out the dns1 entry in your eth conf file.. and restart

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: Hi; On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:42 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Mikkel, Patrick and others [snip] No Joy! You set it to 192.168.1.1 with the DNS1=192.168.1.1 line in ifcfg-eth0. This overrides what ever your router is sending out as part

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: This is a very improbable long shot, but worth checking any ways. In the system-config-network control preflet, see if you can find a checkbox that says something like Managed by NetworkManager and make sure it's checked. I was in the system-config-network panel one

Re: Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

2008-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
kwhiskerz wrote: I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, constantly flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum update. Cannot programs clean up after themselves, leaving

Re: F9 installation problems

2008-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Per Anton Ronning wrote: I bought the August '08 issue of Linux Format with an F 9 DVD. I have also bought a new machine (made to order by an internet based vendor, and no op.sys. installed) The installation procedure seemed to go OK, except for one thing: I was not asked to create a user

Re: livcecd-iso-to-disk: USB key do not boot (BIOS setup is fine)

2008-08-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Richard Shaw wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You may have to run syslinux -s /dev/sdd1. I forget where I found it, but with the version of syslinux included in F8, and probably F9, needs this before the USB key is recognized as a boot device. The latest

Re: livcecd-iso-to-disk: USB key do not boot (BIOS setup is fine)

2008-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build a USB bootable key with file 'Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso' Command is : sudo livecd-iso-to disk Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdd1 which runs fine, boot loader included, and reports that USB key is ready for use ... however the key is not

Re: automount and autorun

2008-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Maurizio Marini wrote: My target is to use an autorun bash script when an usb pen is automounted like http://linlog.skepticats.com/content/udevautorun/ describe. With recent kernels hotplug is vanished replaced by udev; there is no /etc/dev.d or /etc/hotplug, anymore. I am not able to find

Re: No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

2008-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Roger Heflin wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark. Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) sda5, and 6, are / ,

Re: telephone answering + voice mail + recording

2008-07-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:43:13 + g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would like to set up a system to answer telephone calls, voice mail, record phone conversations for home use. You could get a voice modem and use mgetty-voice. I answer four telephone lines and a fax line with

unable to enumerate USB device

2008-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
I am getting strange messages in the logs: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6 hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 Everything works fine, but I would like to know what causes them. According to what I

Re: a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

2008-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *And* BLAG can actually distribute a lot of the Free Software that Fedora prefers to steer clear from. *And* BLAG gives equal mention to Linux And GNU. So why don't you set up blag-list somewhere ? Because (i) I'm

Re: unable to enumerate USB device

2008-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tim wrote: If it's only as you boot up, you can probably ignore them. I get the same, and it's my computer not working out what to do with the mouse, keyboard, built-in trackpad, etc., as it boots. Yet they all work fine a bit later on. Fedora 9 seems a bit flighty with devices. They don't

Re: network configuration file

2008-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, when I want a debian based system to start up an ethernet device automagically on boot, I simply edit /etc/network/interfaces. Is there a similar way on fedora to have a single file where static informations go? regards christoph You can find the scripts in

Re: network configuration file

2008-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, Networkmanager (that I am very aware of ;)) is not an option. I should have mentioned that I need to assign static ip addresses to some virtual machines by editing something in their root-tree. If I look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that seems to be

Re: Do I need all of the 6 Fedora-Install-CD's?

2008-07-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
chris wrote: Hi, torrent is running in circles after fedora, and I wonder: do I really need to burn 6 CD's? I mean clearly Nr.1 is the bootable one, but how is the package organised? In alphabetical order like avlib is on disk#1 and zlib on disk#6? Or are the important packages on disk#1 and the

Re: Problem with Fedora on Live USB

2008-07-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ksh shrm wrote: I used that liveusb-creator-2.7 adios KSH SHRM Try running syslinux -s /dev/sdX1 replacing X with the proper drive letter for you pen drive. Mikkel -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?

Re: DNS Attacks

2008-07-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: You aren't paranoid enough. What if the spoofer is also a system administrator at the bank with access to a copy of the real certificate that he installs on the machine he's tricked your dns into reaching - with the expected name that you'll still see.

Re: F9 - cups - windows shared printer

2008-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tim wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:01 -0700, Craig White wrote: It's no different than adding myself to lp group. While that might allow me to print, it doesn't really solve the problem and I can get it to print anyway. It does raise the point that some definition of what some system groups

Re: DNS Attacks

2008-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ksh shrm wrote: Is there anything we all care about. We are normal users who don't have any server at home. Just a PC with internet connection to surf. adios KSH SHRM I guess there era a lot of abnormal users on this list them. And it is a concern even if you do not run a name server,

Re: Problem with Fedora on Live USB

2008-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ksh shrm wrote: I tried to install fedora 9 on my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 1 GB Pen but I got following errors in error file. [creator:547] Exception while fetching UUID: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable [creator:502] Problem determining free space: (21, 'GetDiskFreeSpace', 'The device is

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. So you are saying that commercial, closed source, software is immoral. So selling the software instead of giving it away is also immoral. For one I

Re: CDRom detected as media:/sr0

2008-07-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jim wrote: Installed FC8 on a Compaq Presario PC and cdrom is detected as media:/sr0 and can't read files on cd. There is no settings in /etc/fstab for cdrom. It should also be listed as /dev/scd0, and mounting that device should let you read CDs. The reason there is no entry in /etc/fstab

Re: CDRom detected as media:/sr0

2008-07-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jim wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Jim wrote: Installed FC8 on a Compaq Presario PC and cdrom is detected as media:/sr0 and can't read files on cd. There is no settings in /etc/fstab for cdrom. It should also be listed as /dev/scd0, and mounting that device should let you read CDs

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: For other discussions, being more specific will actually make the discussion harder. I don't see how using terms that are too generic would make discussing easier. If you mean using terms that are more specific than intended, then that's

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: You seem to not understand the difference between freedom and power, and insist in demanding power when what you deserve and have is freedom. No, I understand that restrictions are not freedom. Maybe that is because you are looking at it as a

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Fedora isn't Linux, it's a Linux distribution, but everyone calls all Linux distributions Linux, so Fedora should be called Linux even though it isn't Linux? Is that what you're saying? Unfortunately that doesn't help much with defining what Linux *is*. Or do you mean

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Björn Persson wrote: Fedora isn't Linux, it's a Linux distribution, but everyone calls all Linux distributions Linux, so Fedora should be called Linux even though it isn't Linux? Is that what you're saying? Unfortunately that doesn't help much

Re: I need help with Fedora

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
aakash sharma wrote: My system's configuration is Pentium 4 2.4GHz 256MB RAM 160GB HDD I know it's quite old but I wanna stick with it now I want to install fedora with Win xp. I already have xp installed on my system. I tried to install fedora 9 but it just crashed. All my data got

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You seem to not understand the difference between freedom and power, and insist in demanding power when what you deserve and have is freedom. No, I understand that restrictions are not freedom. Maybe that is because you are looking

Re: What is the point of the NM keyring?

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Timothy Murphy wrote: But what is the point of having large numbers of passwords, if one password will open all the locks? So if your password on one system gets compromised, it does not compromise your password on other systems. As lone as your keyring password does not get compromised, you

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 20, 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No - just that I think the argument is equivalent is like complaining about someone calling a Mustang a car, instead of calling it a Ford Mustang. We're not talking of a is-a relationship, but rather

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: What was actually sold is under dispute. SCO claims it owns the copyright and associated licensing. Novell claims it was just a licensing/resale arrangement - and this is still in appeals courts. The first decision went to Novell, but that's been thrown out. I'm not

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dan Thurman wrote: I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. You would be better off using gparted or clonzilla to do the copping.

Re: F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

2008-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ric Moore wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:22 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the OP has more than one kernel installed, maybe try using the older one? I have had a few kernel upgrades since and I think my config keeps only 3

Re: F9: Mounting of drives

2008-07-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dan Thurman wrote: Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the dd command. It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to faithfully create the / partition. So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the partition of /. How can I do

Re: Acknowledge consent before login

2008-07-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I'm searching for a method to display a consent to monitoring statement on either GDM or KDM in Fedora 9. I'm not tied into either display an interesting question, which you may not have found and answer. i do not know how this would work, and

Re: Time differential problem

2008-07-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Casartello, Thomas wrote: This is probably not the proper place to ask this. It’s more of just a curiosity question just if anyone has any thoughts. I have a piece of software (Cisco Wireless Control System) installed on a Fedora 9 box. The time on my box is correct (daylight savings time) but

Re: sshd fails to start

2008-07-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
roland wrote: Hello, When I try to start sshd I have the following message: Starting of sshd:sshd: WARNING: Default configuration file /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config does not exist : WARING: ssh_privkey_read from /etc/ssh2/hostkey failed : FATAL: Unable to load any hostkeys Before this message he

Re: can't connect to windows

2008-07-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
lee wrote: I first sent this e-mail over the weekend, I'm resending it today because I still need help. FC9 was a clean install and I'm using gnome windows. With fc8 I had no trouble connecting to my home and work windows pc's. Same laptop fc9 not working. I check samba and smb.conf and

Re: Serving data from a DVD via httpd

2008-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Uno Engborg wrote: I'm trying to mount a DVD inside /var/www/html and serve it using httpd. The problem is that the DVD have the wrong SELinux context I try to do somethng like this: mount -o context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t,ro /dev/cdrom /var/www/html/mymountpoint but that

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