Message: 13
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:35:11 -0700
From: Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Seems I have some real problems
To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com
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Ugh. I just removed all the
Weird problem.
I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to
run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error.
I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing,
even trying 0777.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The
From: R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?
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Weird problem.
I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder
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R. G. Newbury wrote:
Weird problem.
I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to
run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error.
I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes
From: Stuart Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ edited for relevance ]
Thanks to both of you. Good pointers.
The drive is a partition on the same spindle, mounted '-t ext3
/dev/sda5
/keep', BUT /etc/fstab has the partition as 'users,defaults'...so it IS
possible that 'defaults' =
From: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check the permissions of all the directories in the path leading to the
executable generating the 'permission denied' message.
Been there, done that. Thought of that very early on. The /bin directory
is 755 as usual, as is the executable. Everything in
R. G. Newbury wrote:
To recap, attempting to run a script, as root, with permissions 755
produced a 'Permissions denied' error.
The problem was that the partition was mounted with 'users,defaults'
options, and 'users' implies 'noexec' and overrides 'defaults' (which
implies 'exec
Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to Fedora 2.0.17
. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box with the
error message:
Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action
command associated with this location.
Can anyone tell me
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:25 PM, R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to Fedora
2.0.17. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box
with the error message:
Error showing url: There was an error launching
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400
From: Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
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I tried to play something with Kaffeine, then used File-Quit to dismiss
it. IT KEEPS COMING BACK! When I boot the machine (Thinkpad T40 Fedora
8) I get an instance of Kaffeine. (I have on occasion also gotten an
instance of Firefox). This is with clean shutdowns, not forced power-down.
Where
R. G. Newbury wrote:
I tried to play something with Kaffeine, then used File-Quit to
dismiss
it. IT KEEPS COMING BACK! When I boot the machine (Thinkpad T40 Fedora
8) I get an instance of Kaffeine. (I have on occasion also gotten an
instance of Firefox). This is with clean shutdowns
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 15:28 -0200, Newton wrote:
Dear Friends :
I'll present an Automatic Scanning Management Document Project, and I
would like to know if yours, with Automatic Feed Scanner experience,
could be point a really good functional model ! I tried SANE, but I want
experience ! For
I have a mysql database (in MythTV) that has been running
several months uninterrupted.
I had to take this machine down, and now on the reboot the
database wont restart.
Is there any program out there to try to clean up whatever the
problems with the database are, and get this thing restarted
From: Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Already done that. Just chirping in again about why someone relatively
sane would want to log in as root...
Because he's actually, you know, SANE and does not get an attack of the
vapours and go all weak-kneed at the thought of actually doing something
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
After all, we do not want to see Linux systems that are as insecure
as Windows systems are by default. Running as root all the tine
defeats most of the security of a Linux system.
Mikkel
Well how *exactly* does running *as root* defeat *most* of the security
of a
No - GUIs run as root are not as secure. A bug that would be caught
when running as a user may not be caught when running as root.
A bug or a permissions error. Please explain how a BUG could or would
be treated differently depending on the user?
The more code you have running as root, the
Mikkel Ellertson
But it is time to stop playing parent to everyone.
Geoff
Nope - we are not trying to play 'nanny'. If you do not see what
this has to do with security, then I feel sorry for you, and hope
that it is just your home system that you are putting at risk. The
defaults are to
Tim:
Yes, there is such a thing as a computer rat - it's a larger computer
mouse.
Todd Denniston:
You would not happen to have the maker and some model names handy
would you?
Sorry, no. I haven't seen one directly, they were used with disabled
kids to make it easier to use a computer.
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 00:56 +, g wrote:
keep in mind, both of these test could fail, but they did work years
ago when i did radio and tv services.
You must have had a big fridge... ;-)
I've got a thermal repair to take care of sometime soon, if I can
I was installing F10 to one of my boxes, and needed to install some
-devel files. I found those on a mirror, in .../Everything/...
Clicking on the link gave the usual 'what do you want to do' message.
Clicking install raised a warning about installing as root. I clicked
continueand got a
From: Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com
I don't think you need to patch gnome-packagekit, just fixing PolicyKit
would do it. You'll still get the nag-dialog, but that's still part of
the design.
I wish this kind of stupid arbitrary restrictions just got removed.
It's up to David upstream to
From: Kam Leo kam@gmail.com
Dickhead wrote
Logging in as root is like walking around with a loaded shotgun in
your
belt with no safety latch. You can't install packages as the root user
as it's simply not secure. Just use a normal user login.
WTF??? Does anyone know where this
From: Michael Comperchio mcmp...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: updateing ARGHH.
Ok so here's what 'yum' thinks...
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.i386 : Libraries for ffmpeg
Repo: installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: libavcodec.so.51
I'm just not the sharpest
Subject: Re: updateing ARGHH.
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:55 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Ok so here's what 'yum' thinks...
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.fc10.i386 : Libraries for ffmpeg
Repo: installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: libavcodec.so.51
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
Subject: Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install
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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:10 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Jeff
No nuanced and masterfully persuasive oratory can disguise the fact that
someone has made *and enforced* a decision that *they know better
than the user* how THINGS MUST BE DONE purely because the doing, is
considered to be 'not best practice'.
In this particular case, the 'best
Bill Edwards wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com
mailto:david...@tmr.com wrote:
I would like to convert some old paper documentation to PDF in
case I ever need it. I have the scan software, I can easily create
an image of each page, or save the
Simon Tierney wrote:
When I try to edit httpd.conf I get the message could not save file...
it doesn't even prompt me for the root password.
My httpd service is dead and I can't resurrect it, what should I do?
Open a terminal
run su - (Give root password.)
edit the file with your editor of
I've done this on a F10 system. The .dmrc files does not exist for root
even
I chose the session at the login window. So I created
/root/.dmrc. I log
out
and back in and my root session is saved.
The syntax of the .dmrc doesn't use PREFERRED in it. That's for the
prefdm file, which
On 11Feb2009 08:23, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote:
| On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:41 -0700, Kirk wrote:
| I installed a tarball and then discovered I didn't need it. I tried to
| delete the director files but permission gets denied. I tried to
| chmod but it wouldn't work on
does somebody know how to process MS-Works files (...wps) by OpenOffice
or some other tool in F10?
I had a client send me a file in this format. I eventually googled
something like '.wps to .odt' and found a website which will do a
translation. You send the file, they email back in the new
Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
[]
It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual
support
right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An
installed
system only needs the
Since I changed the hard drive for a larger one, I did a complete
install of Fedora 10, but saved (and moved) /home.
Now I cannot log in using kde, as in the error above.
I google'd and one reason could be permissions, but
chown -R whoever:whoever /home/whoever doesn't work, since there is no
I have F10 running network manager
Both wireless and wireless work fine independently, however when
network cable is plugged in wireless says it is connected (as per
applet) but cannot access any sites .
Any idea what is going on here?
You have two network connections activated, quite
I've got a little netbook and I've put a copy of Fedora 10 on a USB
stick. If I boot up using runlevel 5, I can use the wireless via
NetworkManager. These netbooks don't have the speediest processors so
I'd like to use runlevel 3 most of the time. I haven't been able to get
the wireless to work
Kevin J. Cummings wrote
R. G. Newbury wrote:
OK, Now I'm really frustrated.
What IS the password for the 'liveuser' user?
Password? When the GDM screen comes up, it auto-logins after a short
wait (less than a minute ISTR). When inside the environment, I can
type su - and I'm not asked
David wrote:
On 6/19/2009 4:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote
R. G. Newbury wrote:
OK, Now I'm really frustrated.
What IS the password for the 'liveuser' user?
Password? When the GDM screen comes up, it auto-logins after a
short wait (less than a minute ISTR
Dave wrote:
*You are right!!* We should rant! And rave! And get *really, really
angry!* Quick! Give me the microphone! So that I can yell the *loud,
funny words!*
No one else has downloaded this and booted this? No one else has
complained? In this much time? Really?
The Live-CD
Thanks for your reply.
For me, it is easier said than done. If I move to Quicken it is just
moving from one closed-source solution to another. And I have not
found a way to migrate the Ms-Money data to other OSS apps. I am
thinking of writing my own and migrate the data (Ms-Money can
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 23:57 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Has anyone figured out how to create a printer instance to print from a
VirtualBox WinXP guest (on F10) to a network attached printer?
The docs did not help, nor did google. One 'answer' stated to enter
//servername/printers/myprinter
Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 01:44 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Perhaps everyone would be helped if there was a signal flow
diagram showing how pulseaudio, alsa, and the computer audio card
fit together? It would help me ... If such information exists please
point me to it.
On 07/24/2009 02:06 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
2009/7/24 William Casebillli...@rogers.com:
From reading the submitted bugs, google reports and postings here
PulseAudio often gets blamed for bugs that properly lie elsewhere. On
the other hand, the PulseAudio maintainers and
On 07/24/2009 05:22 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com
Subject: Re: F12 networkmanager, anyone else worried by this?
The only things I can reassure you of are that (a) NM will be better,
(b) it won't be as better as the developers think it is, and (c)
On 07/24/2009 06:29 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote
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I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a
pause for choosing the kernel. If they don't like this setting, they
wouldn't have to use vi, just the Administration menu. All it takes is a
few seconds and,
R. G. Newbury wrote:
It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and
Ubuntu) an OS for experts only.
You forgot Windows, OS x, and a few more.
Mikkel
You are right. I did!
Geoff
--
Please let me know if anything I say offends you.
I may wish
gil...@altern.org wrote:
R. G. Newbury wrote:
Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to
change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows
what causes this, or how to fix it.
It seems somebody at the Fedora Forum had the same problem
I have looked at a number of music playing programs (Amarok, Rhythmbox
etc) but none of them seems to have any capability to handle music
sorted by the composer's name. I only 'do' classical music so I sort by
Bach, Handel, Mozart etc. I do NOT care to sort by 'Amsterdam
Concertgebouw' and
Around 07:51pm on Monday, August 10, 2009 (UK time), R. G. Newbury scrawled:
Does anyone know of a program with the flexibility to set things up this
way?
Banshee can sort by composer, or any other tag. You will need to right
click on the headings, and add composer as a column. Its yum
Around 07:51pm on Monday, August 10, 2009 (UK time), R. G. Newbury
scrawled:
Does anyone know of a program with the flexibility to set
things up this
way?
Banshee can sort by composer, or any other tag. Â You will need
to right
click on the headings, and add composer
Ian Malone wrote
Anyone got any better ideas for a program which will deal with a tree of
 composers, with albums as leaves underneath?
Hasn't been written so far as I know. The artist - name model is so
pervasive in music tagging that everyone who listens to classical
music eventually
Kpackagekit persistently pops up notices, overlaying whatever is
on-screen. Clicking the 'do not notify me' link does not do anything.
How can I kill this?
It's another of the little things I classify as we're smarter than you
are, so we are going to force this on you for your own good...
G.
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On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 08:14 +1000, David Timms wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:33:00 -0700
Rick Stevens wrote:
There is. Read below.
As I point out in another reply, there really isn't any such
option. The bg option insists on waiting around to timeout
once before it is willing to background the operation.
There may be a way around this.
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows
machine, but now I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an
existing machine with a large enough partition which was used as work
area for a project since shipped. The problem is that while I've
Re: Looking for an Accounting package recommendation ?!?
Nolapro
Open source for linux, web-based interface.
Extremely flexible. Requires some expertise to install and get going
*securely* as it requires a running apache server on the main database
machine. Multi-seat by default.
G.
--
Gene Heskett wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
using livecd-iso-to-disk .
snip
I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an
8Gb stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 13:35 -0700, simon.schneeb...@okko.org wrote:
At my brothers place I managed to connect to the internet with no
problem. All programmes worked, so I could add all the additional
programs I needed and install the latest updates.
RPM: Couldn't resolve host
To mention
Simon wrote:
At my brothers place I managed to connect to the internet with no
problem. All programmes worked, so I could add all the
additional
programs I needed and install the latest updates.
Meanwhile, the wired connection works (was it because I manually added
the DNS???, anyway it
Simon wrote:
As for wicd: I used that when working with Ubuntu and was always
quite
happy. So let's give it a try:
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My, my. What a headache. These thing make me feel kind of lost...
Simon
Sounds like you are actually quite close. Once wired is working, the
universe of points
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:10:37 +1030, Tim wrote
It makes almost no sense to use it on laptops, where you can only have
single drive (adding an outboard drive is quite impractical, you'd end
up with a box of bits all cabled together). And you face the
difficulty of finding recovery tools for
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:08 +0100, Jan Litwi?ski wrote:
G'day steve,
* stevenetwor...@cox.net [100107 15:56] wrote:
I am building a new FC12 system intended for MythTV which needs the
acceleration provided by the drivers for my nvidia video card. After
following
the advice
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