Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

2009-12-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 12/19/09 18:28, quoth Tony Nelson: On 09-12-19 15:27:48, Globe Trotter wrote: --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: ... So... the tcsh rpm is installed? $ rpm -qa tcsh tcsh-6.15-8.fc12 Yes, it is! Possibly some of the shell scripts used by GDM (or whatever)

Re: Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

2009-11-28 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/28/09 03:53, quoth Michael Schwendt: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:20:23 -0500, Matthew wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: I can't believe this is a real bug. I'm submit it to bugzilla. It's in F10, 11 and 12. I'd be curious to know just how old this bug

Re: Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

2009-11-28 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/28/09 15:05, quoth Matthew Miller: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:51:58PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Yes, I agree that if I see that script hanging on a regular basis then I will provide trace data to Bugzilla for further analysis. But this begs two questions: It's pretty important

Re: expect command spawns incorrectly

2009-11-28 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/28/09 02:43, quoth Donald Russell: I am trying to use the expect program to automate an sftp process The expect file begins with spawn sftp -oProxyCommand='' u...@host expect password: send sesame\n expect sftp Try this: send sesame\r -- Time flies like the wind.

Re: expect command spawns incorrectly

2009-11-28 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/28/09 19:13, quoth Donald Russell: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 15:47, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net mailto:ste...@syslang.net wrote: On 11/28/09 02:43, quoth Donald Russell: I am trying to use the expect program to automate an sftp process The expect file

Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

2009-11-27 Thread Steven W. Orr
I can't believe this is a real bug. I'm submit it to bugzilla. It's in F10, 11 and 12. I'd be curious to know just how old this bug is. Contents of mlocate.cron is: #!/bin/sh nodevs=$( /proc/filesystems awk '$1 == nodev { print $2 }') renice +19 -p $$ /dev/null 21 ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$ /dev/null

Re: Fedora 12

2009-11-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/16/09 23:07, quoth Carroll Grigsby: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:48:22 -0600, Chris wrote: Greetings, I see the ISO is on the NZ mirror! Chris: If you're talking about the site ftp.wicks.co.nz (the only NZ repo I could find from the Get Fedora pages), be cautions. The file dates there

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/16/09 13:54, quoth Rick Stevens: On 11/14/2009 01:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:50:57 -0500 Steven W. Orr wrote: There's nothing wrong with perl having all kinds of perldoc pages. But perl comes from one place. C, OTOH could come from lots of places besides FSF

Has anyone used bash4 under Fedora 10, 11 or 12?

2009-11-15 Thread Steven W. Orr
Does it cause problems? Does it work ok? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/14/09 13:16, quoth Frank Cox: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:43:53 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: Would you expect to see individual man pages for if, ?:, void, etc.? Actually yes, I would. Those are fundamental parts of the C language and should have the same man documentation as the library

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/14/09 13:54, quoth Frank Cox: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:15:22 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Moreover, IMHO documenting language keywords via man pages as they are traditionally understood would be next to useless. *blink* man switch tells me all about the TCL Built-In Command

Re: KDE or Firefox desktop switching problem.problem?

2009-11-07 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/07/09 00:35, quoth Ed Greshko: Steven W. Orr wrote: I'm on F10 + Firefox 3.5.4 that I got from http://blog.famillecollet.com/ + Thunderbird-2.0.0.23 Also, I did an update so I'm running kde 4.3.2. Well. I am sorry I'm not running F10 and I don't normally do non-standard

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/02/09 04:28, quoth Suvayu Ali: Hi Steven, On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:32 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 10/31/09 03:39, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: IT IS WRONG to set environment variables in your .bashrc unless you really know what you're doing. Most people don't. IT IS WRONG to have

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 11/02/09 12:20, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:34 -0500, Mikkel wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example evolution knows when I modify

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-01 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/31/09 03:39, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE. But how? Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution --

Upgrade to2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE Can I get kmod-nvidia to go with it?

2009-10-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
I upgraded the kernel. What's the process to get the corresponding matching nvidia driver? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided

Re: bash help setting variables

2009-10-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/17/09 14:58, quoth Donald Russell: I'm trying to write a bash script which makes an inquiry to an http service that replies with a series of keyword=value plain text data, one pair per line. I want to extract only a few of the lines, and make variables of them available to rest of my

sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-12 Thread Steven W. Orr
I'm running sendmail 8.14.3 on fedora 10 and I need help understanding how to work with listening ports. I have two machines which I will call A and B. A has two NICs: eth0 is connected to the outside, and B is connected to eth1 on A. A is the sendmail server for the domain and is the SMART_HOST

Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
I never really checked before, but I have a lot of evil spiders crawling around my server. Some of them respect my robots.txt file and others do not. Some of the ones that do are still *very* pushy. So I decided to shut that bastards off. Here's what I added to my httpd.conf: RewriteLog

Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/10/09 14:37, quoth Steven W. Orr: I never really checked before, but I have a lot of evil spiders crawling around my server. Some of them respect my robots.txt file and others do not. Some of the ones that do are still *very* pushy. So I decided to shut that bastards off. Here's what I

Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

2009-09-30 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/30/09 01:27, quoth Linuxguy123: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 00:43 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/30/09 00:21, quoth Linuxguy123: What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ? Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am running out of memory or anything

Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

2009-09-29 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/30/09 00:21, quoth Linuxguy123: What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ? Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am running out of memory or anything. I generally have ~1600 MB free now. I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free.

Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
I tried to figure this out but it's a bit complicated and I hope it's not too long. Here's my setup: Everything is Fedora 10. I have a home server (saturn) off the cablemodem. I get my address from my ISP's dhcp server. I had made the following change to my box (saturn) so it would use

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/24/09 16:49, quoth Bruno Wolff III: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 16:04:03 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: What I want to do is to set up the DNS Caching Nameserver. The goal is: * for saturn to use OpenDNS.org * For client machines in my network to use saturn via the caching

Re: Running a Script- and debugging.

2009-09-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/22/09 10:52, quoth Jim: FC11/KDE I have a script to run for setting up a Samsung CLX3175FN, when I start it it hangs. and doesn't say why , how can I find why it hangs ? I'm running it from the terminal as root. Something I've used for years that has served me well: export

Re: lm_sensors is too old to work with a 2 year old asus motherboard, why?

2009-09-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/21/09 14:56, quoth Anne Wilson: On Monday 21 September 2009 16:17:25 Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I am trying to get usable data from an ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe motherboard. The existing lm_sensors install can't be removed due to dependency hell, but the tar.bz2 package looks as if it

How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just upgraded my MB from 1 to 4Gig of ram. The relevant part of lshw is below. So I saw that and then I though I was ok. Then I went and did a cat of /proc/meminfo It says: [r...@saturn proc]# cat meminfo MemTotal: 3114472 kB MemFree:565796 kB Buffers:238980 kB Cached:

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams: From what i remember on a 32Bit the maximum ammount of memory your pc will see/make use of is 3Gb to make use of anything more than 3GB you need to use a 64Bit OS. Regards, Fred On 09/21/2009 08:01 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote: I just upgraded my MB

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
a PAE kernel. Ok, How do I tell if my cpu supports PAE? Was that visible in the output I sent or is there something I can run to see it? Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams: From what i remember on a 32Bit the maximum ammount of memory your pc will see/make use

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 09/21/09 00:36, quoth Clint Dilks: Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/21/09 00:23, quoth Clint Dilks: Hi 4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing. Try going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options there. On some Desktop Systems in order

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 08/26/09 13:03, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: stan wrote: If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own version of pulse started when you log in. I notice that it also can be started by programs that need its services, and

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 08/26/09 15:21, quoth Rick Stevens: Steven W. Orr wrote: On 08/26/09 13:03, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: stan wrote: If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own version of pulse started when you log in. I notice

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 08/26/09 20:45, quoth Marko Vojinovic: Ok Steven, let me do a google search on pulseaudio home page, follow the first link which reads www.pulseaudio.org, click on the documentation link, scroll down to KDE and read http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#KDE for you here. It says:

Venting about alsa

2009-08-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
This system is totally nuts. I'm sorry but this is just not acceptable. My syslog is racking up 26/second of Aug 25 14:10:13 saturn pulseaudio[12422]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 08/22/09 16:46, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: Marko Vojinovic wrote: There is just one thing that baffles me here --- isn't a directory also a file? Given that, what you ask for is not an option to list only files, it is an option to list everything except directories. In other words, you

wordpress rpm update -- 2.8.4

2009-08-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
If anyone cares, I am starting to learn how to use wordpress and a new rev just got released. Since I installed using rpm and there is no 2.8.4 rpm that I can find, I just built one. I put copies at http://steveo.syslang.net/wordpress-2.8.4-1.fc10.noarch.rpm

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 08/21/09 10:35, quoth William Case: Hi; Seems like a very reasonable request and its a shame that ls does not provide such an option (which I guess would be an extension to the -A option) I remember asking about this four or five years ago when I first started using Linux

Re: Interrpreting modifier codes in /etc/inputrc ?? -- [SOLVED]

2009-08-07 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/09 09:30, quoth William Case: Hi; I solved all my readline problems in .bashrc with export INPUTRC='/etc/inputrc'. Before I feel too sheepish ... Let me stimulate your need for feeling sheepish. * Never set an environment variable in

yum or yumex problem.

2009-08-04 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I ran yumex to see if there were updates that needed to happen. I selected all that was there (134) and it died with this stuff on the console: 12:07:31 : --- Package openal.i386 0:0.0.9-0.15.20060204cvs.fc9 set to be updated 12:07:31 : --- Package

Re: update for thunderbird on f11 ?

2009-07-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/09 01:06, quoth Mail Lists: On 07/25/2009 10:16 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: I would love to upgrade but I have not yet had a chance to go to F11. I tried to build an RPM from the F11 src.rpm but it died in the middle of a compile

Re: update for thunderbird on f11 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/09 13:35, quoth Mail Lists: On 07/24/2009 12:24 AM, g wrote: Mail Llists wrote: i follow support-thunderbird list and i do hate to say it, but there are a lot of bugs that need to be fix. I follow tb devel too - and b3 is way

Re: Adding groups to a user

2009-07-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/09 15:41, quoth Aaron Gray: 209/7/22 Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com mailto:t...@pobox.com Aaron Gray wrote: I am trying to add group permissions to a user. [root]# usermod ang -a -G git 'groups ang' is

Re: Adding groups to a user

2009-07-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/09 23:20, quoth Tony Nelson: On 09-07-22 22:51:23, Steven W. Orr wrote: Right. There's a standard for how command options should work. verb options arguments That's why we have getopt and that's why I shudder when I see people

Re: Linux NULL pointer dereferece in the News...

2009-07-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/09 22:19, quoth Joel Rees: Woops. Didn't intend to mess threading up that much. (Apologies for messing up the threading yet one more time, and for cluttering up the fedora thread with more stuff that is only semi-relevant here.)

Re: man 5 proc?

2009-07-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/09 12:01, quoth Jake Peavy: man 5 proc doesn't return on my system. Do I need to install a package? Are you saying that the command hangs? Or are you saying that the command says no entry for proc in section 5 of the manual? If the

Re: lightweight spam filter

2009-07-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/09 15:33, quoth Christoph Höger: Hi, is there a lightweight spam filter out there that works well with postfix? Especially important would be to whitelist some servers I forward mail from that already run a spamfilter. regards

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/09 11:17, quoth David: On 7/14/2009 8:24 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 14:04:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But what G did was much worse. He insisted on putting a little bomb in his mail

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
then they'll be righteously suspicious as to whether this really is Steven W. Orr, even if they don't have the software to vcrify. So now you know why I sign. A better question is not why you don't sign here, but why you don't sign at all. [Just so I can claim to be staying on topic WRT Fedora

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 19:05, quoth Rick Sewill: My thought is to pgp sign my mail. Those who know me, who have spoken to me over the phone and have received mail from me, can save my signature from my mail and know the mail, and any future mail with that

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 12:47, quoth Les: Hi, Steven, The point about the envelope is a good one. It is a point I never considered. But g's attitude doesn't make me fond of signing, in fact it does more to discourage users of messaging services to

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 13:03, quoth Rick Sewill: Steve, when I click on your signature, I can extract your public DSA public key, F0BE3724, see that it is verified, because you registered it with the pgp servers (Thank you for registering!), but untrusted by

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 13:43, quoth Fennix: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution to a problem at hand. For some to try and to tar him with the

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 14:21, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: You know, there is a simple fix to this - someone that has G's public key could upload it to a keyserver. evilNow, if someone wanted to be nasty, they could upload a fake public key with his email

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/09 23:34, quoth Steven W. Orr: On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file From:gel...@bellsouth.net

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for *each*

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 21:14, quoth David: I already have your public key sir! :-) And if we ever meet then we could sign each others keys. I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail lists. Nor do I add long 'signatures' to anything. Consistency has

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 21:14, quoth David: I already have your public key sir! :-) And if we ever meet then we could sign each others keys. I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail lists. Nor do I add long 'signatures' to anything. Consistency has

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file From:gel...@bellsouth.net REJECT 553 PGP signing with no public

Are there Fedora people using Thunderbird 3Beta2?

2009-06-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to get a sense of how stable (or unstable) it is. Has it crashed? Have you lost data? Any problems? Is it wonderful? I moved from alpine to TB a few weeks ago and so far it has done quite well. It does not do *everything* that I could do

Re: ease of alpine - thunderbird migration?

2009-06-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/09 17:35, quoth Steven W. Orr: But you are right, I should give back and doc what I did. I'll look at it in the next few days on my own wiki. Ok. This is a first cut. I'll try to refine it, especially if people ask me questions that I

Re: ease of alpine - thunderbird migration?

2009-06-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/09 14:30, quoth Robert P. J. Day: i've used pine/alpine email for years, but i figure it's time for a change. should i be worried about just switching to thunderbird? obviously, i want to retain my current inbox, mail folders,

Re: emacs c++ code completion help

2009-05-27 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Wednesday, May 27th 2009 at 11:27 -, quoth Gordon Messmer: I'd have thought that after the Rails Perform like a porn star debacle, more people would realize that this kind of thing isn't really appropriate in general, and serves to keep women from joining the community. How dare you

Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server processes

Re: emacs c++ code completion help

2009-05-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, May 24th 2009 at 16:52 -, quoth GMS S: = =Hello, =Someone please tell how to get the c++ auto code completion in emacs. =I am very new in emacs. ^H-i^SCC Mode BTW, How do you make a hormone? Two ways: 1. Pay her. 2. Don't pay her. If you just want code completion, just pay a

Re: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

2009-05-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Saturday, May 16th 2009 at 15:00 -, quoth g: =Valent Turkovic wrote: = = If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this article, it = expains all complexities of Intel drivers and for me it shows hope = that Intel drivers are becoming better. = =intel sucks on anything but ms, because

Fedora sendmail auth

2009-05-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have some crappy laptop running windoze and I want to connect to my home server to send and receive my mail. I got the dovecot/imap side working but I need to know what to do to be allowed to use my server at home which runs sendmail as my SMTP server. Is there a gentle howto that's uptodate

Re: Fedora sendmail auth

2009-05-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Friday, May 8th 2009 at 15:39 -, quoth Steven W. Orr: =I have some crappy laptop running windoze and I want to connect to my =home server to send and receive my mail. I got the dovecot/imap side =working but I need to know what to do to be allowed to use my server at =home which runs

How to use gpg-agent

2009-05-06 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started using gpg2 and saw that the gpg-agent needed to be run. I added use-agent to my gpg.conf and also added #! /bin/bash eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) to ~/.kde/AutoStart and it seems to work fine. What I don't understand is the whole

Re: [OT] SSH login script - Help

2009-04-29 Thread Steven W. Orr
. Besides the fact that logging in via a passwordless system is more convenient, it's also more secure; you're username and password is never in the clear. -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr -- fedora-list mailing

Re: shared libraries (not working ld.so.conf.d)

2009-04-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
libraries and ld.so.conf is for nothing?? = =Thanks in advance! =David Read the man page for ldconfig. You have to rerun it if you make changes. -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr-- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: how to add stuff to crontab without using crontab -e

2009-04-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Apr 12th 2009 at 23:23 -, quoth Antonio Olivares: = =Dear fellow Fedora users, = =I want to know if it is possible to edit/append to crontab without using crontab -e. I have about 10 machines running Fedora and at the end of the day I have to manually power them off (shutdown).

Question about update of clamav

2009-04-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
When I tried to update clamav using yum, it told me that I'm up to date. I've got 0.94.2 and .95 is out. Should I expect this to be available soon or how would this work? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this.

Re: Classified Updates2

2009-04-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Apr 7th 2009 at 11:57 -, quoth Levesque, Michael: = =I just put a fresh install of Fedora 10 on a classified machine on a closed =network. Is there a way that I can bring updates into the area since I can?t =use yum? I'd recommend that you need to contact your FSO to let him know

I want to use sendmail + spamass-milter + clamav-milter

2009-03-29 Thread Steven W. Orr
Someone must have done this. Is there a particular order that's better? Also, is there anything that's supposed to change in the mc file if I use them together? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your

Re: rkhunter found this...

2009-03-27 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Mar 26th 2009 at 20:30 -, quoth Tom Horsley: =Doing whatever /dev/null wasn't too bad, but when =someone said whatever /dev/null amazingly random things =could happen. Years ago I had a client who ran out of disk. I eventually found out that he was backing up to /dev/hda3 but

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 at 08:14 -, quoth Alan Cox: = regardless the difference between X and no X in each version/hardware is = astounding! what are the reasons for this, your not telling me that X is = chewing up that much cpu cycles to turn a 1minute 40sec operation into a = 4minute

Re: Bash help requested: Capturing command errors within pipes

2009-03-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Saturday, Mar 21st 2009 at 22:41 -, quoth Cameron Simpson: =On 21Mar2009 16:47, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: = = out=$(grep $pat ${TRACKER} | \ = = eval $rex | sort -n | \ = = uniq ${TFILE}); ret=$?; =[...] = = if out=$(grep $pat $tracker | $rex | sort -un

Re: Bash help requested: Capturing command errors within pipes

2009-03-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list =Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines = -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Bash help requested: Capturing command errors within pipes

2009-03-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Friday, Mar 20th 2009 at 00:39 -, quoth Cameron Simpson: =Your quotes are unneeded here. Plenty of people find the marks and in =similar cases, to use ${foo} instead of $foo elsewhere, but I find the =syntactic noise annoying if there's no other necessity. = =Also, you should never use

Re: Problem with xdg-open

2009-03-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Bash help requested: Capturing command errors within pipes

2009-03-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Mar 19th 2009 at 14:11 -, quoth Daniel B. Thurman: =S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: = On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: = How could one go about capturing command errors within pipes? = = The variable $PIPESTATUS is just for that. = =I tried it, seems not to work. =

Problem with xdg-open

2009-03-18 Thread Steven W. Orr
My /etc/mailcap has this entry in it: text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput But when I go to a link because of it, it ends up starting Konqueror. How do I tell xdg-open that this is *not* my preferred app and that I'd like it to use firefox instead? TIA -- Time flies like the

Re: Problem with xdg-open

2009-03-18 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Wednesday, Mar 18th 2009 at 15:49 -, quoth Rex Dieter: =Steven W. Orr wrote: = = My /etc/mailcap has this entry in it: = = text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput = = But when I go to a link because of it, it ends up starting Konqueror. How = do I tell xdg-open

2nd try: Was Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

2009-02-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Feb 8th 2009 at 16:02 -, quoth Steven W. Orr: =I have a minor mystery and I don't know how to debug it. = =I have two computers in the house. Machine A has two NICS, one of which is =hooked to the cable modem and sees the outside world. Also, Machine A =implements the IPTABLES

Re: F-10 xmodmap/xkeycaps problem -

2009-02-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Feb 22nd 2009 at 11:52 -, quoth Kevin Kofler: =Bob Goodwin wrote: = Can anyone tell me why xmodmap and xkeycaps = do not work in F-10 as they do in F-9? = =Because Fedora 10 switched to evdev as the default keyboard driver. I'm not sure why you think it doesn't work. I'm one of

Re: Question about yumex problem.

2009-02-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Feb 17th 2009 at 09:28 -, quoth Mart?n Marqu?s: =2009/2/16 Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net: = My yumex run seems to now have a problem that it didn't have before: = = [r...@saturn ~]# 10:01:25 : Yum Config Setup = Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit = 10:01:28 : Setup

Question about yumex problem.

2009-02-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
My yumex run seems to now have a problem that it didn't have before: [r...@saturn ~]# 10:01:25 : Yum Config Setup Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit 10:01:28 : Setup signed metadata support 10:01:28 : Yum Version : 3.2.21 10:01:28 : GUI Setup Completed 10:01:28 : Setup Yum :

doc to html from a cmdline?

2009-02-09 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have about 75 doc files. If I bring one up in ooffice, I can save it as a .html file with no problem. Is there a way to do it from the command line? All this clickety is going to take me too long. Thanks -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0.

Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

2009-02-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have a minor mystery and I don't know how to debug it. I have two computers in the house. Machine A has two NICS, one of which is hooked to the cable modem and sees the outside world. Also, Machine A implements the IPTABLES firewall with NAT. Machine B and Machine A's 2nd NIC are hooked up

Re: Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

2009-02-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Feb 8th 2009 at 17:15 -, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: =Steven W. Orr wrote: = I have a minor mystery and I don't know how to debug it. = = I have two computers in the house. Machine A has two NICS, one of which = is hooked to the cable modem and sees the outside world. Also, Machine

Re: Sendmail

2009-02-05 Thread Steven W. Orr
,On Thursday, Feb 5th 2009 at 08:23 -, quoth Timothy Murphy: =Adil Drissi wrote: = = I have successfully installed Mysql and PHP but I am unable to send email = via php. Sendmail is already installed apparently. I want to know if there = is a way to test email by sendmail command lines.

Re: [OT] searching for a regular expression to match strings

2009-01-29 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Jan 29th 2009 at 13:10 -, quoth Konstantin Svist: =Christoph H?ger wrote: = Hi, = = anyone knows about a (high-performance) regular expression to match = java-like Strings? = (e.g. Hi, World \n this is a \-quoted string.\n) = = I have tested = = ((\\.)|[^\\])* = = which

Re: Linux Bowl - Any Ideas?

2009-01-29 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Jan 29th 2009 at 20:55 -, quoth Tim: =On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:50 -0500, Marc Ferguson wrote: = Some really good, bad, and funny ideas for the domain name. = =A bowl of Linux breakfast cereal... Mmm, crunchy... ;-) = Reminiscent of SNL's Quarry Cereal. Very high in minerals...

Is printing dvi files part of cups?

2009-01-27 Thread Steven W. Orr
I seem to be able to print lots of different types of files. Is there a list of what is supported? And also, can I print dvi files or do I have to always use dvips? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does

PLEASE, I need help with printing to HP1320 Laserjet

2009-01-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
Even after I upgraded to F10, I'm still having problems and I have no idea how to proceed. Most times when I print, I only get the top few inches of the sheet. Afterwards, the job is still sitting in the queue and the hp process is running off with half the cpu. Here's the process hierarchy:

syslog is filling up because of pulseaudio. HELP!

2009-01-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
I'm getting two of these per second. How can I stop it! Jan 26 11:21:00 saturn pulseaudio[4130]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio

Re: PLEASE, I need help with printing to HP1320 Laserjet

2009-01-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jan 26th 2009 at 12:29 -, quoth Tim Waugh: =-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- =Hash: SHA1 = =Steven W. Orr wrote: =| Even after I upgraded to F10, I'm still having problems and I have no =| idea how to proceed. Most times when I print, I only get the top few =| inches of the sheet

Re: Fedora 10, xmodmap and xinitrc

2009-01-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 11:47 -, quoth Craig White: =On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:20 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: = On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 08:21 -, quoth Craig White: = = =Again on Acer Aspire One = = = =Looking at this page from Arch Linux page on Acer Aspire One

Re: Fedora 10, xmodmap and xinitrc

2009-01-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
). = Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common All you need to do is to create a ~/.Xmodmap file and it should get pulled in. -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Firefox, dbus and NetworkManager OH MY (redux)

2009-01-18 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Jan 18th 2009 at 01:38 -, quoth Tim: =On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:25 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: = Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) = and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old = network. = =And have you stopped

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