Re: grub.conf options [redux]

2009-10-26 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:28:00PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:09 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Where are they documented? In particular: * What does the quiet option do? * How can I get the system to display messages during shutdown?

Re: kickstart with iscsi

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 08:24:20PM -0800, Jon wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 17:55 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 02:55:11PM -0800, j...@destar.net wrote: Hello List, I have been trying to find an example of a working kickstart using iscsi disks

Re: kickstart with iscsi

2009-10-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 02:55:11PM -0800, j...@destar.net wrote: Hello List, I have been trying to find an example of a working kickstart using iscsi disks as the install disks but cannot find one. Every iteration of using iscsi in my ks file has failed miserably this far. Can someone

Re: Converting GPT to MBR

2009-10-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:20:07AM -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: Subject: Converting GPT to MBR Second try to find an answer... Hi all, I purchased a 1.5 TB HD, and I used gparted to create 4 partitions (GPT), without knowing that winx XP (32) cannot access GPT. Among the is a vfat

Re: intel integrated graphics

2009-10-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:30:21PM +0100, jenny chapman wrote: Hi I have an intel chipset G31/946Z with graphics (GMA 3100). I have just installed fedora 11 but am not able to change the screen resolution so assume I may need additional drivers. New to linux. Advice much appreciated.

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-10 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:48:44PM +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: On 10/08/2009 01:27 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: Most people trust their ISP, and rightly so, I suppose. But what if an ISP was a vilain? :) What kind of access would it have to its users' computers? Isn't it the same as a

Re: Running a Script- and debugging.

2009-09-24 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:19:26AM -0400, Jim wrote: Also 'odd' things can happen if '.' and strange places are in your PATH. Are you running it as root via su, as root via su -, as root via sudo or as yourself. Mitch you DID IT !! su - instead of su Glad to hear it.. OK

Re: Disk/Partition encryption

2009-09-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19:46PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Weiner, Michael on 09/18/2009 12:03 PM wrote: Has anyone here done this? You can only use a FUSE-like encryption method on a live system. If you want to use dm-crypt/LUKS you have to reformat. eCryptFS is one such

Re: Running a Script- and debugging.

2009-09-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:17:34PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 15:46 -0400, Jim wrote: Could someone give me a Ideal as to this part of a script would hangup script. In FC11. The hangup stops at; cd 'dirname $0' $0 is usually the name of the

Re: Alt + f4 switches to virtual terminal

2009-09-20 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:50:48PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: Philip Munksgaard wrote: I installed Fedora 11 today on my laptop, and i'm quite liking it so far. I have one small problem though: When i try to close windows by pressing alt + f4, i Fedora switches to a virtual terminal,

Re: Ati Drivers ??

2009-09-20 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:15:02PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 09/18/2009 12:38 PM, Jim wrote: I have a Dell laptop that came with a ATI video, I found myself a mini-card that had Nvidia on it and made the change. Some preliminary googling has shown me that while nVidia lists laptop

Re: java development questions

2009-09-19 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:23PM -0700, jack craig wrote: I am using a FC11 os and want to learn Java. I am faced with choices that i don't have good answers for and wonder what wisdom this group may have to offer? first, IDE's; there are eclipse and IcedTea6 (which doenst have much

Re: Recovering lost+found

2009-09-16 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:57:58AM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Major crash. 4000+ files in /lost+found. (/vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE) The obvious strategy to re-install and re-update. Does anyone have a better idea? Depends on what is in the 4000 files. You might be able

Re: How to sort a file -

2009-08-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Bob

Re: How to sort a file -

2009-08-12 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a file of Netgear router data that I would like to sort on date and time. Just curious -- how do you collect the data? -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new

Re: How to sort a file -

2009-08-12 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a file of Netgear router data that I would like to sort on date and time. Just curious

Re: gzip

2009-08-10 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:44:05PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: What is the difference in gzipping on a i386 and a x86_64 machine ? Both machine use the same version of gzip 1.3.12 but the gz file have a slightly different length (5 more bytes for the 64 bit machine). In theory, I would not

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-10 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:45:22PM -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: Markus Kesaromous wrote: Is there a low-level HD formatter for linux? Why I need to do low level formatting? Disk monitor is reporting 93 uncorrectable sector errors.

Re: echo question

2009-06-28 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:23:24AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: chloe K wrote: how can I use echo quote? I try it and it doesn't work eg: echo   $q a.txt it can't have in the a.txt http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/quoting.html Kevin Kofler Good link worth a

Re: Managing .rpmnew files?

2009-06-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:28:40AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/05/2009 11:26 AM, Michael Rohan wrote: Hi Folks, Is there a standard way to manage the .rpmnew files created on yum update? It would seem the updates should be merged into the locally modified files when

Re: RedHat PDC Setup Instructions...

2009-06-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:34:42AM -0400, Lupo, Kelly wrote: I was wondering if there were any RedHat (preferably RHEL or CentOS) docs regarding the setup of a Linux PDC. I know there's a lot of here's how to configure Samba / LDAP / etc, but I was really looking for a step by

Re: Thuderbird focus stealing

2009-06-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:16:26AM -0400, William Murray wrote: Hello all, I have a UI issue with thunderbird. When I reply to an email the next thing I do is drag it into the corresponding 'dealt with email on that subject' folder Maybe this is an unusual behaviour. The

Re: Which directory contents I can remove??

2009-06-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:19:29PM +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 21:03 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Normally you don't have to. There is supposed to be cron job that deletes files /tmp and /var/tmp that haven't been read or written in a while. Doesn't work here (several

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-06-02 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:58:27AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On 05/30/2009 04:49 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: How do you access the security erase facility? All kidding aside, there's a web site from which you can download a little DOS utility to invoke security erase on a drive. The

Re: smartd self test never completes (Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS CC34)

2009-06-02 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:08:44AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I just got a Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS with CC34 firmware and I noticed that the smart self-tests never complete. 24 hours after . The aborted by host was me stopping the tests after the one or two

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-30 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:03:17AM +0930, Tim wrote: Subject: Re: Editor to program in C From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au To: hlhow...@pacbell.net, Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Cc: Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:17

Re: Difference between NAT and NAPT?

2009-04-30 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:49:13PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 07:51, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: In short, what is the difference? Are there any (dis)advantages of using one over the other? Put

Re: Difference between NAT and NAPT?

2009-04-27 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: In short, what is the difference? Are there any (dis)advantages of using one over the other? Put your subject line in a search engine like Google. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lewis/networkpages/m05s09NAT.htm For most mortals

Re: Question about mkfs.ext3

2009-04-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:11:59PM -0700, john wendel wrote: Subject: Question about mkfs.ext3 From: john wendel jwende...@comcast.net To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:11:59 -0700 Reply-To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for

Re: mii-tool ??

2009-04-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:54:53AM -0400, Jim wrote: FC10- X86_64 # mii-tool SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported eth1: no link eth0 is my lan . Why ?? The reason mii-tool is deprecated has to do with driver support for the mii hooks. If eth0 is the interesting

Re: Mouse goes to sleep?

2009-04-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 08:53:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: System is Fedora 10 x86_64, the mouse is a Micro$oft wireless Laser Mouse 5000. The mouse occasionally stops responding for one or two seconds and then continues like nothing happened. There are no messages in the logfiles

Re: Bouts of Extreme System Slug

2009-04-17 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:11:24AM +0930, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 09:56 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Apparently, my problem was heating related. My laptop is sitting on a table with an uneven plastic table cloth, and since I raised it slightly up from the table by putting

Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

2009-04-14 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:15:26PM -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:39 -0700 Hugh Caley wrote: Problem: After running Firefox for a time (a few minutes to 30 minutes) it will start taking 80%+ of CPU (as shown in top) and will keep taking it until I

Re: emacs question: removing self keyword in python-mode

2009-04-09 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:09:09PM -0700, Evan Klitzke wrote: I know, this is an emacs question and not a fedora question per se. But I've asked my question on the emacs help news group without a response, and I know there are some emacs users lurking around these parts, so I thought I'd try

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-09 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:51:08AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: No one mentioned 'ed' the original line editor. LOL hahaha ROTFL!!! It's no longer April 1! Kevin Kofler I know of one very senior Unix/Linux programmer that uses 'ed' as his editor of

Re: Another basic networking question.

2009-04-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:56:16AM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: Sender: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com G'day everyone, I've been working through a networking cookbook that obviously assumes some basic knowledge on networking ... that I don't have. So to humbly ask of the

Re: Another basic networking question.

2009-04-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:04:37PM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:37 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: One question per post please. Sorry, I didn't want to start different threads that come back to the one issue, which would be how different physical pieces

Re: How to build a linux based cheap (handheld ) computer

2009-03-13 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32:42PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: Can someone provide some links to build cheap / inexpensive computer (even with limited memory and no storage) which can run linux off a usb stick and can be used for basic operations. Isn't that basically what

Re: KDE desktop effects + GPU temp

2009-03-13 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Endy wrote: I'm running up to date F10 with KDE on a dell vostro 1400 with an nVidia 8400gs. I'd really like to be able to use transparency (one of the desktop effects), but as soon as I enable desktop effects the GPU temp starts rising,

Re: blinking is evil

2009-03-08 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:17:55PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. Most of the header lines were blinking at me. What's

Re: blinking is evil

2009-03-06 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. Most of the header lines were blinking at me. What's going on? How do I make it stop? If I find the inventor of blinking text, how slowly should I kill him? You have

Re: file locking...

2009-03-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:54:59AM -0800, bruce wrote: hi bruno. for my situation. i have a bunch of files being created by an upfront process, and on the backend, i have a number of client/child processes that get created, which have to operate/process the files. no file is processed by

Re: Partition XP disk to add F-10 -

2009-02-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:27:34PM -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:48 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:10 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I've acquired a computer with a 40 gig hard drive with one NTFS partition and XP installed.

Re: Domino on Fedora

2009-02-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:57:43PM +, James Wilkinson wrote: Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: Local delivery can be done with procmail. Yes, but if the command expects to use /usr/sbin/sendmail to send the mail, and that command isn’t there… Nothing has to listen on 25. It might help

Re: Domino on Fedora

2009-02-20 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:35:26PM +, James Wilkinson wrote: Sender: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi We are installing Domino on Fedora (9). The (IBM and Redhat) manuals tell you to disable sendmail and remove it from the runlevels. Great! But, ... that

Re: DHCP assistance required.

2009-02-19 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:50:30PM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:32 +, Steve Searle wrote: Around 05:56am on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Simon Slater scrawled: You owe me one :-) default-lease-time 600; max−lease−time 7200; should

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:21:05PM -0800, bruce wrote: hey sam since you've been here before.. any chance that you could post/provide your scripts that you used to help solve the issue... this would be a seriously great help to anyone who runs into this issue and would be searching

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

2009-01-31 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:14:08AM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: Hi all! Especially Hi to Tom! Thanks for your help. I tried using the --limit-rate switch on wget and it still wasnt using the while speed. Then I found my old USB Stick (Netgear WG111), put some effort in getting the right

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

2009-01-28 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:10:20PM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 16:34, Phil Bieber lt;philbie...@gmail.comgt; wrote: lt;--snip--gt; gt; I checked the  MTU and it says 1500, I changed it and now the speed gt; test is better than the last time (~700kbit/s up, 700kbit/s

Re: Why is uid/gid 350 bad? [WAS: Re: f10 gdm user hide]

2009-01-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:29:39PM +1300, Morgan Read wrote: Hi Folks I've just set up a user account for our scanner - no the scanner will never login at GDM (will ftp in). So, after much gnashing of teeth, I've given it a uid/gid of 350 so that it doesn't show up in the GDM login (it

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

2009-01-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: Hi everybody! I've recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora 10 to escape a nasty problem I'm having but without luck. I have a DELL Inspiron 640m / e1405 notebook based on a Centrino chipset with an Intel 3945abg WiFi card and my

Re: service

2009-01-24 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:33:54AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:30AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? Thank You should see the process id

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-24 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:03:28AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:42 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: This is explained in nearly all textbooks on Computer Architecture. So the question remains, where is the address space in Linux. Patrick

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:54:24PM +, Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan . I'm really curious. SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. If performance is a

Re: service

2009-01-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:30AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? Thank You should see the process id of the locker. Do a ps -efl | grep PID to be sure. I suspect you will find that gnome starts gpk-update-icon

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

2009-01-06 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Under Windows XP Run=cmd I get ping www.google.com -f -l 1490 . On my system (standard Fedora-10) ping -s n www.google.com Caution. a massive net resource like all of google.com will be

Re: will it break the system files?

2009-01-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:24:00PM -0500, Chris Snook wrote: cjzjm100 wrote: Hi,all,i seted the encoding of vim in order to display chinese well.Because when i opened source files programed by myslfe,the chinese can't display well.My locale is zh_CN.UTF-8,here is the contents of .vimrc:

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

2009-01-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:20:21AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm presently away from home, in Italy, using an alice.it (Telecom Italia's broadband service) ADSL modem. This works fine, except when googling, or using wget. When I start a search, I only get half a page of links, even

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

2009-01-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:57:05PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:47:11 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: Is there a similar option for ping under Fedora? ping -s sizeyouwant www.google.com you must also set a do not fragment flag. -- T o m M i t c h e l l

Re: Unrecognized Hard Drive

2009-01-04 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:14:16PM +1030, Tim wrote: Tim: /me wonders whether warming them up, first, would have helped? Mikkel L. Ellertson: It might have - stick it in an oven or something. On the other hand, it might have cause other problems. What I think was happening is that

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
See reply below... this is a bottom post list. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:19:35PM +1930, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Beartooth bearto...@swva.net wrote: Would you believe that's news to me? I've been at this twelve or fifteen years, with all the

Re: ssh clarification needed

2009-01-04 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:32:24AM -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Anne Wilson-4 wrote: Is a ssh key specific to a computer, or to a user? That is, does my key pertain to any box on the lan, as long as I'm the user? Or is it machine ssh keys are specific to the user - they are

Re: fedora 10: best video card

2008-12-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:46:41PM +, Don Raikes wrote: The video card on my gateway desktop has failed, so as I shop for a new one, I am wondering what cards are best with fedora 10. I work mostly at run leve l 3 (console), with occassions when I go into the gnome desktop. I ddo

Re: What servers ~/Public

2008-12-09 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:27:21AM -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: Is there any light file transfer daemon servicing ~/Public (which gets autocreated) Not in any way that matches the windows share model. It is possible (but not recommended for all systems) to have Apache serve

Re: Fedora Architecture Questions

2008-12-09 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:41:19AM -0800, Michael Peterson wrote: Hello All, This is my first post so please ignore the formatting. I have server questions about the Fedora 10 architecture that I will list below this message. I am need to present a brief presentation to my Operating

Re: root login

2008-12-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote: appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you from logging in as the root user. Not that I have noticed. I installed F10 on my home PC at the weekend.

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:35:15PM -0500, RGH wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just echo *log instead of ls. Neither of

Re: gvim syntax highlighting on FC9

2008-11-28 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:13:45PM +, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks. In my php files I have either at the top or the bottom of the file the following: ? // vim: ft=php nowrap ai et which has always forced php syntax highlighting instead of html when editing the files. I

Re: Joiner for Linux

2008-11-24 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:26:46PM +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote: I am searching a joiner for Linux. I need to join an document with another archive, and i want can open the document without problems. I am not creating a trojan or something, its for add size to specific documents (security- If

Re: Sudo from scripts

2008-11-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:42:45PM +, g wrote: Hash: SHA1 Jerry Feldman wrote: Giving root ownership to a script IMHO is a security issue. this is true. i have always wondered why nothing has ever been coded to check 'chown' to insure that such is only done by those who have proper

Re: Confused by xconfig behaviour.

2008-11-12 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:30:48PM -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: Im confused by xconfig behaviour. I am on a 64bit Pentium. If I am running a 32 bit kernel, and I go to build a kernel, I dont see any 32/64 bit options, it just assumes 32bit. If I am running a 64 bit kernel, and I go to

Re: don't print last field

2008-11-10 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:44:16AM +0800, adrian kok wrote: Hi how can I only get the previous field but not last field from awk? but I can't use print $1$2 as there are different fields in different line thank you Does knowing the number if fields in a line help? `NF' is

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

2008-10-31 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:49:46PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 10/28/2008 08:19 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: In summery, it appears at this time that the repeated DNS problem (if it is really that) is isolated to Firefox. A couple of things first. There is a daemon, nscd that

Re: Problem with .Xresources

2008-10-31 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:58:27PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: When I log in, I want to get my .Xresources file loaded. That is not happening. Then I found a file called /etc/X11/Xresources I added the content of my .Xresources file to it *customization: -color

Re: Newbie with Login Issues

2008-10-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:03:49PM -0700, Billy Gedney wrote: Hey, I'm a bit of a newb, so please forgive me in advance. I'm running Fedora 8 on a home-brew P4 2.8 with 1 gig of ram. I am trying to run Adobe's Flash Media Server, and I was in the middle of streaming, we

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

2008-10-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
In -Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:00:15PM +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: In my FC7, using Firefox, if for example, I access www.google.com, I get an essentially instantaneous response. If I then close the browser, reopen it, and again try to access google,

Re: Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?

2008-10-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 03:28:30PM -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote: I apologize if this question has been asked before. I have a new Thinkpad T61 in scheduled to arrive sometime next week. I want to install Fedora 9 on it. Being as it has a Core 2 Duo processor, I assume I can install the

Re: VDQ : rhgb, plymouth -- and mkinitrd

2008-10-25 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 05:18:02PM +, Beartooth wrote: It seems rhgb (which I have always detested, and routinely removed from all machines) is to be replaced by plymouth . So in F10B, yum remove rhgb turns into a command that removes plymouth -- and takes

Re: CUPS Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)!

2008-10-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:54:47PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-21 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe. Thanks for the tip. One minor problem with

Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery

2008-10-20 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:45:26PM +, g wrote: bob smith wrote: contact the system administrator, or company CISSO thanks for your suggestions. this was my first suggestion, but they were told 'security policy prohibits'. they are going to follow my second suggestion, after we

Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery

2008-10-20 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:25:24PM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: 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

Re: hwclock can cause system lockup

2008-10-17 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:42:49PM -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: Ian Burrell wrote, On 10/17/2008 02:40 PM: Todd Denniston Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil writes: 1) you don't need to call hwclock while NTP is running to keep the hardware clock synced to system time, the kernel hackers

Re: Wireless, Broadcom

2008-10-14 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jeroen de Haas wrote: There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora: http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain the

Re: charting libraries

2008-10-14 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05:26AM -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: I've got some commodities data stored in a local mysql database. I've been using command line perl scripts to access the data. I'd like to throw some typical charting of high/open/low/close charts. So, I am trying to find

Re: mtrr funnies

2008-10-07 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:59:02AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I've got a motherboard with a fairly new chipset (Asus M3A78T w. AMD/ATI 790GX) and I'm seeing a funny MTRR setting. I have 8GB memory and am running a 64-bit kernel, but I'm only seeing ~4GB mentioned in the MTRR's. Is

Login sound -- library mode

2008-10-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
Does anyone know how to silence F8 login sounds short of turning down login sounds and other audio Tossing /usr/share/sounds/login.wav to the side seems to be sloppy. It is the classic boot in a library or lecture hall problem but I do not see any easy 'designed' way to get there from

Re: Git vs. Subversion. Which one?

2008-09-30 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:32:28AM -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: 2008/9/30 Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:30:39PM -0300, Armin Moradi wrote: So I wanted to know about the public opinions on which one is better, Read about Mecurial and RCS

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

2008-09-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:31:46AM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: 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,

Re: Eliminating duplicate photos

2008-09-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:09:05PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:00 -0400, Trapper wrote: Itamar - IspBrasil wrote: create a list of md5 of all files, with md5 you will find duplicated files. On 9/29/2008 9:04 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: What is the

Re: Evolution and Gmail

2008-09-29 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:14 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +, Paul W. Frields wrote: PS Works is a relative term

Re: Evolution and Gmail

2008-09-27 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +, Paul W. Frields wrote: PS Works is a relative term here. Mostly works is closer to the truth because Evo occasionally loses contact with Gmail and has to be restarted to get it back.

Re: trying to install Scalapack on Fedora 9

2008-09-27 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:24:11PM -0700, Agile Aspect wrote: Gary Chen wrote: Hello, I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get SCALAPACK to install properly on my Linux 64 bit installation. Running 'yum install scalapack.x86_64', the following dependencies get installed:

Re: Script help

2008-09-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:36:13AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 19Sep2008 15:51, NiftyFedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 19Sep2008 14:08, Dennis Kaptain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Can anyone rattle

Re: How to conceal userid/passwords in php classes

2008-09-18 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:06:10PM -0700, Don Russell wrote: I have some php classes I use for accessing mySQL databases on localhost. Somewhere in there, I have the mySQL userid/password so the php script can access the data. What is the normal practice for concealing that

Re: ssh2

2008-09-17 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:49:43AM +0200, roland wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:19:51 +0200, Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30:14AM +0200, roland wrote: I am using a terminalemulator Anita to login to a server, who validates the ssh connection

Re: FC5 = F8 upgrade : advice?

2008-09-16 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:25:55PM +, Beartooth wrote: I've come into possession of an otherwise nice machine (so I'm told; I don't speak hardware) that still has Fedora Core 5 installed. I want to upgrade it to F8 now, and F10 once that's released. Is there a best way to

Re: ssh2

2008-09-16 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30:14AM +0200, roland wrote: I am using a terminalemulator Anita to login to a server, who validates the ssh connection with 3DES Cipher. Now this server is hacked, somebody entered with the root user. Suddenly I have ssh2 So root has been compromized? How do

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:07:16PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: Which begs the question as to why the 64-bit one is what gets installed by default on 64-bit Fedora systems. Actually, it raises the question. And the answer is probably because it's easily possible to set up a 64-bit only

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:13:30PM -0500, John Thompson wrote: Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: The Firefox issue is interesting... since we depend on external plugins that are not open source and not 64 bit... Isn't that what nspluginwrapper is for? Yes... when I tried 64bit brand new

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