Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-23 Thread Samuele Storari
Hi all, I think about creating a graphic's theme on the release number just to have something different from the Acient Greek theme. Maybe I've got to write on the wiki something, but right now, my proposal still only on my mind and I'ven't got nothing to share... :( I don't understand what we

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-23 Thread Máirín Duffy
Samuele Storari wrote: Hi all, I think about creating a graphic's theme on the release number just to have something different from the Acient Greek theme. We avoid using release numbers in the artwork so people who like the artwork for a particular release can keep using it in later

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-23 Thread Máirín Duffy
Samuele Storari wrote: Maybe I've got to write on the wiki something, but right now, my proposal still only on my mind and I'ven't got nothing to share... :( I don't understand what we have to do for this first round and what's the final round 1 date? Oh I forgot to answer this, I

Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey folks, In case you didn't catch it on planet Fedora, I have been running an informal survey of the desktop backgrounds folks are using (getting responses from both Fedora and GNOME community members.) I've gotten a LOT of replies, check them out: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/68292.html So

Re: Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:26:17AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hey folks, In case you didn't catch it on planet Fedora, I have been running an informal survey of the desktop backgrounds folks are using (getting responses from both Fedora and GNOME community members.) I've gotten a LOT of

DesingService: Join Fedora QA Logo

2009-01-23 Thread María Leandro
Hello everyone! Reading (again) the DesignService web I saw a request for a Join FedoraQA Logo; I made a small[0] one keeping the style of the logos that already are there on the join-fedora url [1]. What do you think? works? :S [0] http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/varios/QA.png [1]

Re: Updated EDU SIG Artwork Request

2009-01-23 Thread María Leandro
Updated. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3a.png http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3b.png http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3c.png 2009/1/23 Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro Máirí­n Duffy wrote: María Leandro wrote:

Re: Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ian Weller wrote: However with the Grecian columns and stuff we need to be careful of not looking ancient, as some might say, but instead looking functional, practical, etc. Yes definitely. Like if the columns are ruins, we don't want to give off the message that Fedora is in ruins or

Re: Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Ian Weller wrote: However with the Grecian columns and stuff we need to be careful of not looking ancient, as some might say, but instead looking functional, practical, etc. Yes definitely. Like if the columns are ruins, we

Re: Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Charlie Brej
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hey folks, In case you didn't catch it on planet Fedora, I have been running an informal survey of the desktop backgrounds folks are using (getting responses from both Fedora and GNOME community members.) Adminning around my group I found two interesting themes that people

Re: Wallpaper survey

2009-01-23 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:44 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Ian Weller wrote: However with the Grecian columns and stuff we need to be careful of not looking ancient, as some might say, but instead looking functional,

Re: Koji: ServerOffline

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Falk
Jitesh Shah wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:17 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote: Mike McLean wrote: I wonder if it would log this error in a way you know what's going on :-) Jitesh, can you check the logs as suggested by Mike, although it's fixed now, I'd like to know if you see the error

Re: Koji: ServerOffline

2009-01-23 Thread Mike McLean
Jitesh Shah wrote: I checked the logs. There is just a python traceback and the actual error ServerOffline: Database Outage' (This is with KojiDebug off) 'just' a python traceback? Often these are the key to the mystery. -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list Fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com

Re: Issues with Kontact/Kmail distribution list

2009-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 23 January 2009 00:00:54 Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; I'm running Fedora 10 KDE I go into the address book and create a distribution list, save it as say 'test_dist' This works fine, I can go back and look at it and I see the email addresses I've added to it. While I have the

Re: skype and sms

2009-01-23 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hi list, I have found the answer here http://linux-iamfree.blogspot.com/ Regards Adel 2009/1/16 Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org Adel ESSAFI wrote: Hi list I want to send SMS with skype. I found this extra http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skysentials/ The developper just says

Re: How to adapt F9 initrd to new motherboard/chipset, was: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

2009-01-23 Thread g
M. Fioretti wrote: I had fedora 9 x86_64 merrily running on an AMD /ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard with nVidia chipset (GE6150). The board died without warning, check these pages before you give up on mainboard;

A bug in syslogd?

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Teoh
I did a simple thing - modified my syslog.conf: cat /etc/syslog.conf mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages So virtually, there is nothing to go to /var/log/messages, although my dmesg's output did output a lot of other stuffas I instrumented the kernel to do

Re: A bug in syslogd?

2009-01-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23Jan2009 17:34, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote: | I did a simple thing - modified my syslog.conf: | | cat /etc/syslog.conf | mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages | | So virtually, there is nothing to go to /var/log/messages, although my | dmesg's output

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 01:00 +, Patrick Dupre wrote:

Re: service

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Steven R. Ringwald wrote: On 1/22/2009 6:47 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? yum-update ? It is not running ! Another thing, are the lock managed ? Many times if I make a rpm -qa and I interrupt it,

Re: updateing ARGHH.

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Comperchio
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Michael Comperchio wrote: When I run the 'Update System' 'cuz it's telling me I have updates... I get the following errors: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.5-1.fc10.i386 libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (real-time) network traffic on a Linux (Fedora) router. Perhaps MRTG? I'm not sure if it can do individual protocol graphing, though. I've never tried that. I just use it to keep

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Larsen
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (real-time) network traffic on a Linux (Fedora) router. I currently use iptraf to catch bandwidth usage and type of usage, but I'd love a more accessible interface. For a single

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:04 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White

Re: Fedora 10 winbindd core dump

2009-01-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS Here's the result of 'testparm -s'... PS PS Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf PS Processing section [IsrAlgorithmData] PS Loaded services file OK. PS WARNING: You have some share names that are longer than 12 characters. PS These may not be accessible to some older clients. PS

Autostarting Order ??

2009-01-23 Thread William Case
Hi; Sessions Manager in Gnome used to have a tab that allowed the user to pick the 'nice' order in which programs were automatically started at login. This feature has been removed. So ... How can I set up my startup in a way that allows me to adjust what order various programs are started?

FC7: Kernel panic on boot

2009-01-23 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
Lately, when booting FC7, I often get some hex numbers followed by something like:: Kernel Panic - not syncing. Attempted to kill the idle task. A reboot usually succeeds. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
Hi I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about creating a 9TB partition under rhel 5.2? What block size do I need to achieve this and how will it affect performance? All the disks are SCSI disk and the array

Re: Issues with Kontact/Kmail distribution list

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes, I had that problem - filed a bug report too. However, my F10 is updating from updates-testing and from kde-redhat, and somewhere in the last week or so an update has fixed this. If you can, just hang on and the relevant update will hit the main repos. Most likely the

Re: Kernel doesn't see battery on Dell Inspiron 6400

2009-01-23 Thread Culapov Andrei
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I revived this laptop by giving it a hard drive transplant, then loading F10 on it. Everything works, except for the battery meter. The kernel does not see the laptop's battery, and complains thusly: ACPI: AC

Re: no sound via headphone jack with the latest kernel - anyone solved this ?

2009-01-23 Thread Culapov Andrei
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Kevin Kempter ke...@kevinkempterllc.com wrote: Hi all; Just wondering if anyone has managed to find a fix for the no sound through the headphone jack issue in the latest kernel ? Thanks in advance same problem for me to in F10 -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:12 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 01/22/2009 05:20 PM: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:57 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:49:34 -0800 (PST) Leslie Satenstein

Checking Fedora setup

2009-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is there any simple way of checking that a Fedora system is properly set up? I am thinking of something like rpm -V but on a system-wide basis? I have a very old computer - which I very rarely access directly, I use it essentially as a file server, and nomally access it remotely - which looked

Re: service

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:06 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Steven R. Ringwald wrote: On 1/22/2009 6:47 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? yum-update ? It is not running ! Another thing, are

RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from swap? If this is the

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Haney
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from

Re: FC7: Kernel panic on boot

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:16 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: Lately, when booting FC7, I often get some hex numbers followed by something like:: Kernel Panic - not syncing. Attempted to kill the idle task. A reboot usually succeeds. Any suggestions? Could be your disk hardware I

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is the address space of the process? It can't be the computer's real memory because that would be the

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Haney
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow

Re: F10+ Burn multiple discs concurrent from iso?

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Frank Murphy wrote: Can any of the fedora supplied, GUI Burners, burn multiple copies concurrent. Looking at setting up a PC based Duplicator. Any controller card better than another Fedora POV? May 6 devices Internal. Frank I think you would be better off using a script and a CLI tool. It

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 01/23/2009 06:17 AM On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:43 +, Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Peter Larsen plar...@famlarsen.homelinux.com To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 01/23/2009 06:44 AM For a single box, ntop is what you're looking for.

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration

RE: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- One question that needs to be answered is whether or not the operating system in question is 32-bit or 64-bit architecture. The 32-bit architecture has a 'glass ceiling' limit of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM that it can access. The same is not true for 64-bit architecture. Once you

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! From: Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM This question, along with other recent discussion about

Backup Restore questions/concerns

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; I've got a new dell laptop I'm trying to setup. Most everything is working well but I cannot get dual monitor support working. There's a local Linux install-fest this weekend near me and I plan to attend seeking some help. However, I use this laptop as my main work computer and I

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! From: Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 01/23/2009 10:19

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:26 +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of

Boot Loader and reinstalling windows...

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Comperchio
Looks like, for now, I'm going to have to have a bootable windows. So... How can I restore (easily) the boot loader if/when the windows installation munges it? Hopefully this is something I can do without reinstalling F10? of course I may not need to... but just 'cuz I'm paranoid doesn't mean

SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Linville
Not sure if this is the right list, but maybe someone will see this. I started out my computer experience as a DOS users a long time ago. Then on to windows and about 8 years ago I started using Linux to get ahead and to see what it could do. Over the years it has grown on me. I have used

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Gilboa Davara wrote: Yeah, but this problem can more-or-less be avoided by lowering /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Sure, that will make the VM more likely to evict pagecache data than anonymous pages when it's trying to free pages. I haven't tested this to any real degree on my desktop boxes (as

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! From: Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com To: Community assistance,

Re: Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about creating a 9TB partition under rhel 5.2? What block size do I need to achieve this and

Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: But PolicyKit does not work in a root session: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 Hmm...this is probably worthy of some nuanced and masterfully persuasive oratory as to where to strike the

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
Chris Linville wrote: Not sure if this is the right list, but maybe someone will see this. I started out my computer experience as a DOS users a long time ago. Then on to windows and about 8 years ago I started using Linux to get ahead and to see what it could do. Over the years it has

Re: Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:55 +, Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about creating a 9TB partition

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 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 key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. Of course I'm perfectly aware that RAM

how to add a Netgear Wireless PCI Adapter 54Mbps WG311 v3 to fedorah 10

2009-01-23 Thread David Tolo
Can any one tell me how to add a: how to add a Netgear Wireless PCI Adapter 54Mbps WG311 v3 NIC to fedorah 10 64 bit? Thank you, David ps. step by step please.. I am still a little wet behind the ears. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Michael Cronenworth wrote: 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 key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. No, you don't want to /have/ to use swap in

Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- One question that needs to be answered is whether or not the operating system in question is 32-bit or 64-bit architecture. The 32-bit architecture has a 'glass ceiling' limit of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM that it can access. It's more of a ice

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (real-time) network traffic on a Linux (Fedora) router. I currently use iptraf to catch bandwidth usage and type of usage, but I'd love a more accessible interface. What you are looking for has existed a few times

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:04 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +, Patrick Dupre wrote:

FC9 Linux gateways, VPN working, IP forwarding isn't

2009-01-23 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I've given up on openswan because it won't work though my ADSL router. I've now got a very simple ppp-over-ssh VPN working using the following script /usr/sbin/pppd updetach noauth passive \ pty ssh $HOST -P -o Batchmode=yes /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach notty noauth \ $LocIP:$RemIP

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give me the performance I want? That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play move the bottleneck. It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 23 January 2009 09:39:44 am arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:39 -0500, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: 1) I want to get some redundancy in case of a drive failure. 2) I want to increase my performance. I have benchmarked my read and write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able to get about 50Mb/sec

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
broken. The fix is for me to stop using Sata RAID0. This is not a good fix, my disk IO doubles by having this. I have seen posts all over the boards and bugzilla relating to various problems in DMRaid. Yet for 2 releases, it has stayed broken. To me this is a show stopper when you can't

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora ! Regards indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb Rpm in F10 no longer uses an internal copy of

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 01:00 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora ! Regards indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb Rpm in F10

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 5 is memory bandwidth, and in RAID5 doubly so for

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially. The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them. How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ? Find the

Install Fedora 10 for the 1st time

2009-01-23 Thread Harvey Folse
I am having a problem installing Fedora on a Dell Poweredge box. Keep getting the following error Volume group VolGroup00 not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolGroup00/LogVol101) I have formatted created a hardware RAID one for the install. What am I doing

Re: Install Fedora 10 for the 1st time

2009-01-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:28:33PM -0600, Harvey Folse wrote: I am having a problem installing Fedora on a Dell Poweredge box. Keep getting the following error Volume group VolGroup00 not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolGroup00/LogVol101) I have formatted

Re: F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

2009-01-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:32:08 -0500 McGuffey, David C. wrote: Update: Intermittent dns is still present. I'd strongly suspect this is NM getting the resolv.conf file correct on initial connect, then screwing it up on subsequent DHCP lease renewal. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

2009-01-23 Thread McGuffey, David C.
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:41:39, McGuffey, David C. wrote: A couple of weeks back I did a fresh install of F10, blowing away F7. Got F10 up and running, did an update and then converted to static IP addressing. Everything went downhill from there. Could only get on the network about 1 out of

Fedora GUI is not loading on Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907

2009-01-23 Thread sivakumar purushothaman
Hi Toshiba,   I have Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop with Microsoft Vista.I tried installing Fedora 9 on my laptop but GUI is not loading on it,system will try to load GUI and showing different colors of lines and screen blinks continously , but desktop is not loading .Laptop Monitor

Re: Fedora GUI is not loading on Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907

2009-01-23 Thread Rick Stevens
sivakumar purushothaman wrote: Hi Toshiba, I have Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop with Microsoft Vista.I tried installing Fedora 9 on my laptop but GUI is not loading on it,system will try to load GUI and showing different colors of lines and screen blinks continously , but desktop is not

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Les
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:07 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Les wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:07 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I guess I do not comprehend the issue of more memory stressing low memory? I know that a 32 bit system is constrained in addressing to something like 4G, due to the intel addressing architecture, and 32 bit constraint, so

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Peter Larsen plar...@famlarsen.homelinux.com To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 01/23/2009 06:44 AM nagious is way too

printer fails with kernel error

2009-01-23 Thread rfjones
I have fc10 with a HP lj2100 connected to the box yesterday I began having kernel failures related to printing I can print a text file from the console using lpr I can print a test page from the system/printer/properties dialog I can print this message from the mail client There is another box

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Alan Cox wrote: So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 5 is memory bandwidth, and in RAID5

Re: Boot Loader and reinstalling windows...

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:40 -0500, Michael Comperchio wrote: Looks like, for now, I'm going to have to have a bootable windows. So... How can I restore (easily) the boot loader if/when the windows installation munges it? Hopefully this is something I can do without reinstalling F10? of

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Snook
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is the address space of the process?

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
Robin Laing wrote: Alan Cox wrote: So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 5 is memory

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size-part 2

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is the address space of the process?

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:16 +, Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give me the performance I want? That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play move the bottleneck. It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:41:11 -0700, Chris Linville cuc...@hotmail.com wrote: I got to say that I have been greatly disappointed by Fedora for the last 2 releases. I have a rockin system. I can play any game out there, I love. I just can't install Fedora with out sacrificing my

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