monit rsyslog? Fedora 17

2012-12-29 Thread Frank Murphy
logwatch tells me rsyslog is stopped on a F17.i686 box, always manually restart. Anyone know how to use monit, to restart rsyslog. Their wiki is giving a 403 at the moment. -- Regards, Frank Life's importand Questions! Why Snowhite never advertised for 7up -- users mailing list

Re: monit rsyslog? Fedora 17

2012-12-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/29/2012 06:20 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: logwatch tells me rsyslog is stopped on a F17.i686 box, always manually restart. Anyone know how to use monit, to restart rsyslog. Their wiki is giving a 403 at the moment. http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/ ?? -- Programming today is a

Re: monit rsyslog? Fedora 17

2012-12-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:28:38 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 12/29/2012 06:20 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: logwatch tells me rsyslog is stopped on a F17.i686 box, always manually restart. Anyone know how to use monit, to restart rsyslog. Their wiki is giving a 403 at the

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2012-12-29 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 01:07, Joel Rees wrote: So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn . Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d/* , short of disabling the metalinks and grabbing the list of mirrors from the

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2012-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 01:07, Joel Rees wrote: So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn . Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d/* ,

Samba and Windows 8

2012-12-29 Thread Jon Ingason
I have a Windows 8 laptop running version Home of Windows 8. What I want to do is using Samba to share my files from my Fedora 17. I have Googled and what it seems that Home version does not alow connecting to domain. Is there some solution that help me to share files from my Fedora and

Re: Samba and Windows 8

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/29/2012 07:51 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: I have a Windows 8 laptop running version Home of Windows 8. What I want to do is using Samba to share my files from my Fedora 17. I have Googled and what it seems that Home version does not alow connecting to domain. Is there some solution that

Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
Fedora 17 / KDE How do I enable Wireless network, NetworkManager is disabled. Wired Network is functioning normal. I'm sure that all I have to do is enable the Wireless Network. Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of wireless card ifcfg-wlan below # Please read

USB Live Install problem -

2012-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On this computer I have a copy of Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso I would like to install on another computer. It has a GiGabyte GA-E350N motherboard which has a recognized problem booting from a thumb drive. I've used livecreator on

Re: USB Live Install problem -

2012-12-29 Thread g
On 12/29/2012 05:04 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Is there a scheme for installing over the LAN connection? from my bookmarks, this link may do it for you; [watch line wrap]

Re: USB Live Install problem -

2012-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a scheme for installing over the LAN connection? Yes, but first you need to make sure that your target

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-29 Thread Maciek Borzęcki
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 00:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: dd if=/dev/sdsource of=/dev/sdtarget bs=16M and wait. there is no progress visible! Well, not exactly. One can use kill -USR1 PID of dd to see the current progress report. dd if=/dev/sda | ssh root@192.168.196.129 dd

Re: USB Live Install problem -

2012-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 29/12/12 13:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a scheme for installing over the LAN connection? Yes, but first

Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Thomas Dineen
Gentle People: A heartfelt plea from a user: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. Please read the justification below: I just installed, last night, Fedora 17, on a

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/29/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: Gentle People: A heartfelt plea from a user: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. Please read the justification below:

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 20:57, Thomas Dineen wrote: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. I don't think that the fallback mode will be

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2012/12/29 Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com: I (or actually not me, but many people whom I know) have another problem with GNOME3, they don't know how to halt the computer properly, because the Shutdown button is hidden behind the menu in top-right and you must press alt to access the

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2012 21:05, schrieb Mika Suomalainen: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 20:57, Thomas Dineen wrote: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Alan Cox
2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the boundaries of menu entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that has lost horizontal sync. 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point of being unreadable!

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/29/2012 01:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so use KDE which is after the 4.0 disaster now really fine again sad that the ignorant GNOME developers did not learn from what happened with KDE 4.0 release for the userbase and made it even worser, the definition of stupidity is not to learn from

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jim wrote: Fedora 17 / KDE How do I enable Wireless network, NetworkManager is disabled. Wired Network is functioning normal. I'm sure that all I have to do is enable the Wireless Network. Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of wireless card ifcfg-wlan below #

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 22:37 +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2012/12/29 Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com: I (or actually not me, but many people whom I know) have another problem with GNOME3, they don't know how to halt the computer properly, because the Shutdown button is hidden behind

Fedora can't read a Flash Stick Drive 8gb

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
Fedora 15 Did a update and now fedora can't read a 8gb flash stick, previously there was files move to this stick, but not now. Plugged this stick into two different Fedora 15 computers and neither can mount or read it. #tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 29 16:34:27 localhost kernel:

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
On 12/29/2012 04:13 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Jim wrote: Fedora 17 / KDE How do I enable Wireless network, NetworkManager is disabled. Wired Network is functioning normal. I'm sure that all I have to do is enable the Wireless Network. Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of

Re: Fedora can't read a Flash Stick Drive 8gb

2012-12-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/29/2012 01:57 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 Did a update and now fedora can't read a 8gb flash stick, previously there was files move to this stick, but not now. Plugged this stick into two different Fedora 15 computers and neither can mount or read it. Have you tried it with a computer

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jim wrote: Alternatively, you could try using the network service instead: sudo systemctl start network.service I don't want to use NetworkManager, have deleted it. ( Please don't bring up NetworkManager any more, It is against my religion to even talk about it) My Religion is A PISS

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread g
On 12/29/2012 10:08 PM, Jim wrote: Now I want to get the Wireless card working on this laptop. But when I try to reboot to load Wireless , the Network won't start, it FAILs . i do not have any wireless working with my desk top box at this time, but i did some reading a while back and some

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
On 12/29/2012 05:50 PM, g wrote: On 12/29/2012 10:08 PM, Jim wrote: Now I want to get the Wireless card working on this laptop. But when I try to reboot to load Wireless , the Network won't start, it FAILs . i do not have any wireless working with my desk top box at this time, but i did

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
On 12/29/2012 05:50 PM, g wrote: On 12/29/2012 10:08 PM, Jim wrote: Now I want to get the Wireless card working on this laptop. But when I try to reboot to load Wireless , the Network won't start, it FAILs . i do not have any wireless working with my desk top box at this time, but i did

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Jim
On 12/29/2012 05:43 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Jim wrote: Alternatively, you could try using the network service instead: sudo systemctl start network.service I don't want to use NetworkManager, have deleted it. ( Please don't bring up NetworkManager any more, It is against my religion to

Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/29/2012 04:53 PM, Jim wrote: On 12/29/2012 05:50 PM, g wrote: On 12/29/2012 10:08 PM, Jim wrote: Now I want to get the Wireless card working on this laptop. But when I try to reboot to load Wireless , the Network won't start, it FAILs . i do not have any wireless working with my

Fedora 17 / Solaris NFS Bug

2012-12-29 Thread Thomas Dineen
Gentle People: My Solaris machines will not auto mount Fedora 17 exported file systems. On previous Fedora versions there were issues with nfs versions 3 versus 4. Fedora dose seem to run versions 2, 3 , and 4 simultaneously. Is it necessary to turn off version 4? If so how? nfs

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Bradbury
On 30 December 2012 04:27, Thomas Dineen tdin...@ix.netcom.com wrote: 1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very dark, to the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the monitor, an HP w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with