Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gregory Maxwell said: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore (probably > > for a release or so, but I didn't notice it until now).  Why is that? > > It is the only tool tha

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
is: * Mon Aug 03 2009 Bill Nottingham - 8.96-1 - only use ethtool for link checking; no more mii-tool mii-tool gets pulled in by default because initscripts depends on net-tools. However, the mii-tool declares itself obsolete and recommends ethtool. Maybe ethtool should be added to @Base? -- Chris

Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth said: > Chris Adams wrote: > > Maybe ethtool should be added to @Base? > > Or patch initscripts to use ethtool instead of deprecated cruft. You cut out the part of my email where I quoted the changelog showing that had already been done.

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
user, the Fedora Development Team should be very proud of what they've achieved with the Fedora and Anaconda Installer. Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: A comps group for the Design Suite

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
of the "Graphics" group and creating a new > "Design Suite" group? > > Is there a procedure for this? I mean like filing a ticket some place? > -- I'm confused about the whole conversation. What exactly are you talking about Bill when you refer to creat

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
r the server to handle this better as well, but I think the problem starts with curl. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Lumens
> having /usr on a different partition such as > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/#626007, which is what led to this? If you read the entire commit message, you'll see: commit 1ae53648c9e3460eb63837b4c20bc860018979f0 Author: Chris Lumens Date: Mon Oct 18 11:09:36 2010 -0400 Don'

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
s and libraries (which of course could also be done with noatime). I've seen some boot-from-flash setups with /usr on a hard drive. Basically, if Fedora is going to follow the FHS at all, bugs like 626007 should be fixed, not ignored because somebody doesn't like a separate /usr. -- Ch

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
oot filesystems are mounted. I expect other bugs attributed to separate /usr are really problems handling non-default partitioning schemes of many kinds. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough tr

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Peter Jones said: > On 10/19/2010 11:28 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > > And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem > > vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning > > problems? > > If I understand your

Does anybody know how to contact Mohamed El Morabity

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Spike
Hi, Mohamed unfortunately doesn't answer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578957 or private mail, so does anybody know how to get in touch with him? Regards, Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Does anybody know how to contact Mohamed El Morabity

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Spike
On 10/19/2010 09:10 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 20:50 +0200, Chris Spike wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Mohamed unfortunately doesn't answer >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578957 or private mail, so >> does anybody know how to get in

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
irectly user-writable files (assuming separate /tmp and /var). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rawhide report: 20101019 changes

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
he root file domain is special (with extra restrictions due to the bootloader and other things), so you really don't want anything else in there. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enou

Re: Anaconda suggestion...

2010-10-21 Thread Chris Lumens
to know what is going > on... Yeah, that whole area is not at all ideal. I'm aware of it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493249 Perhaps I'll spend some time around F15 figuring out what we can do. - Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: who broke fedoraproject.org usability?

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Adams
making a site that looks broken with NoScript is a bad idea, especially for a user base that probably has a higher-than-average number of Firefox users (and probably mode advanced users that are likely to use things like NoScript). Requiring JavaScript just to get the correct layout is IMHO broken. -

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Tyler
projects and getting their feet wet; if there was a test day on August 11 you could have a small pool of enthusiastic labor with some on-the-ground guidance. We might be able to do testing that would require some set-up, e.g., we could bring in a switch and create a test LAN. Let me know if t

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Adams
get a little more discussion than a single BZ request (and probably shouldn't be changed mid-release without notice). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Adams
"hide" it (of course, I alias ls to "ls -FCA", so ~/.bin wouldn't be hidden, just one extra character to type when I need to access it). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - t

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Adams
ounted in that type of setup (users don't get space on the local drive except /tmp), so ~/.local would be meaningless. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel

Would like to claim deprecated package "brandy"

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Tyler
build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS). However, it was built successfully for F15, and currently builds fine on both primary archs without change. Deprecated-package-revival review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726910 -Chris -- devel mai

Re: Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 18:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 10:23 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > Hi Adam, > > > > On the week of Aug 7 David Shein and I will be at POSSE-RIT teaching > > professors how open source communities work. On

Re: Co-maintainers wanted

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Jones
This looks like a very interesting project mate. I'm very interested in becoming a co-maintainer. ;-) *Cheers, Chris Jones** * * * “Oh, so they have internet on computers now?” — Homer Simpson * * Signature powered by <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=4&des

Re: Default services enabled

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Adams
on to be functional and is not > network enabled, it may be enabled by default" Is CUPS functional without any configuration? How do you print without configuring a printer? -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but my

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
tion)? Note: I am NOT saying any of that should be removed. I'm just saying that "space savings" as justification of removing ddate is stupid. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that'

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
nges over time, I don't know how to get the device nodes with the correct access for the desktop user anymore, and I figure if somebody went to the trouble of removing the udev rules, there's not much point in asking to have them added back. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator -

Re: floppy support

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 08/29/2011 10:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to, > > Is this due to the need to boot into DOS to run a firmware utility or > something similar? If

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth said: > On 08/29/2011 10:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to, > > Is this due to the need to boot into DOS to run a firmware utility or > something similar? If so, you can

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
or embedded systems that use a standard PC-style floppy controller. Replace the floppy drive with something else that still looks to the system like a regular floppy drive. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
quot;hang forever" when the floppy module is loaded? I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of them (99.9% in an earlier message). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Servic

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
In any case, instead of arguing semantics, can you answer my actual question? How many systems hang when floppy.ko is loaded? If it is a large number, it should be easy to point to lots of data. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anyb

Re: floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
icant hang. Leaving known-working hardware unusable at install is just rude and irritating when it is needed. There should be good justification, not just "a bunch of developers don't use it anymore, so we don't think anybody else needs it". -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Ad

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
ind it, for $10 I can easily get another 8GB anyway. Regards Chris Jones [image: linux.png] <>-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Jones said: > I see it all the time. "Some older hardware still requires floppies..." It > just seems like a generic defense statement for the fans of floppies and for > those who insist on using them for god knows what reason. Again, please stop try

Re: floppy support

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Adams
quot; was to just ignore it and stop loading the module. ... -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: floppy support

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Adams
far as user access is concerned. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora kernel bug day.

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Adams
to start from) I know suspend is another "fun" area, but are there any good tools to figure out what is wrong when suspend/resume doesn't work right? I've got a problem system (RH BZ 548593) that I don't know what else I can do to try to fix. -- Chris Adams Systems and Net

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
of the time); can't we at least try to correct for that case first, and _then_ try to deal with multi-monitor setups? -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- dev

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham said: > Obviously you embed radar in every projector. Projectors with auto-focus already detect the distance to the screen (I think they use IR). I don't expect that they change the EDID screen size reporting though. -- Chris Adams Systems and

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Adams
literal "no maximum length" is a denial of service waiting to happen. I'm sure the passwords are hashed, so it isn't a matter of storage, but the input buffer is not unlimited, and neither are the hash iterations to process the input. What is the actual limit? 256 charact

Re: BEWARE: a problematic glibc made it to stable (F16)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
x27;re assuming that no Fedora users use their system to compile things. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
oducing /etc/init.d as a symlink. How will upgrades be handled if this feature goes through? -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
there are several things in /bin that are established standards (such as /bin/sh for shell scripts). /lib{,64} is part of the ABI because of /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and /lib64/ld-linux-x86_64.so.2. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anyb

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
bt there has been a significanly used Unix-like system since 7th Edition that didn't have a Bourne-like shell at /bin/sh. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list d

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
"#!/usr/bin/env foo" suggested replacement has always been a hack to work around broken systems, not something suggested for all scripts. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough t

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski said: > 2011/10/25 Chris Adams : > > Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski said: > >> I created feature page > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F18MorePortableInterpreters > > > > I strongly object to this "f

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Adams
her than somebody's idea of neatness. I have no problem removing compat symlinks when they are no longer needed; I just don't believe that will ever be the case for /bin, /lib{,64}, and /sbin. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
es were in odd places like /etc and /usr/lib. The idea of /sbin and /usr/sbin was to get compiled executables out of those places (and to not clutter up the "normal" bin directories with stuff users didn't need). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Intern

Re: UsrMove feature

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Harald Hoyer said: > For daemons, which should not be called directly on the command line, I > would suggest to move them to /usr/lib// anyway. That's what /usr/libexec is for. /usr/lib{,64} is for libraries and such, not executables. -- Chris Adams Systems

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
you generally can't use anyway. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: > One big question though: can RPM handle such a change? IIRC, when the > switch from /etc/rc.d/init.d to /etc/init.d was made, initially > everything was going to be moved and the old paths symlinked for a few > releases. However, there was some

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
x27;ve never used libpng directly myself, so I'm not familiar with what is required). Since all the packages that depend on libpng would have to be rebuilt twice if you don't go to the latest version now, I'd say go ahead and get it over with once (i.e. go to 1.5). -- Chris Adams Sys

Re: xfce-weather-plugin stopped working

2011-11-04 Thread Chris Adams
it use The Weather Channel (weather.com) as its data source? They cut off the old free API and now charge for the new one. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing lis

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Lumens
something we've all long-since hated. - Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
(or wait until next release). There may be things that the systemd developers didn't think about (what about SELinux policy for example; I haven't seen that mentioned). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
if I were king, the proliferation of kernel filesystems (proc, sys, cgroup, selinux, etc.) would be under /kernel, so maybe that's just me. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough tro

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > /etc is static configuration data. There are a number of things under /etc that are not static configuration data. > /etc is read-only during boot. > > /run is writable all the way. /etc/run could be too. -- Chris Adams Systems

Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a > directory /run in the root directory. Most likely you'll sooner or later > stumble over it, so here's an explanation what this is and why this is. > Sou

RE: firefox/xulrunner-bin confusion

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Orion Poplawski Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:06 AM To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: firefox/xulrunner-bin confusion Fired up top on my F-15

Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
Is the final Gnome-Shell going to be made available for Fedora 14 or solely for Fedora 15? Is yes for F14, what sort of time frame would we be looking at for availability? CD99E035AC72E359508CD3A58A335BD6 -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell and F14 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Chris Jones wrote: Is the final Gnome-Shell going to be made available for Fedora 14 or solely for Fedora 15? The later

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell and F14 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
5 is really not that far off. Thanks to all for the information. ;-) Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Gilmore said: > Chris its the teminology we have always used. > each phase has a series of release candidates. I thought they were called "test composes" or TC, not RC. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jesse Keating said: > Would it make more sense to refer to these as "Alpha Candidate", "Beta > Candidate" and "Release Candidate" ? ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1 ? That sounds good to me; each is distinguished frmo the other and clearly de

RE: A "whatuses" command for yum?

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Jones
be able to find packages which are not installed on the current system. Thanks, Jeff Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't "yum info jansson" give you this? Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org h

Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Smart
Given that Mozilla is dramatically changing the development of Firefox and making releases much more frequent - i.e. Firefox 5 due in July, 6 later in the year, are Firefox updates going to change in Fedora? Are we still going to stick with the major version series at the time of Fedora release, or

Re: rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
should work on most any hardware. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
ws machines). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Given that Mozilla is dramatically changing the development of Firefox > and making releases much more frequent - i.e. Firefox 5 due in July, 6 Further: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-release

RE: Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Firefox releases, going forward On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Given that Mozilla is dramatically changing the development of Firefox > and making releases much more frequent - i.e. Fir

Re: Systemd unit file implementation questions (ypbind)

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Adams
s. Since they are config files (unlike the init scripts themselves), changing them doesn't leave you with RPM wanting to replace them on every package update either. > So yeah, I'd push for phasing /etc/sysconfig out for most services, not > standardize it. I'd be 180 degrees f

Re: wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Adams
, but until then, please stop saying NM replaces the network service. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Jones
Regarding whether G3 should even have a fallback mode; of course it should. At least until it becomes stable. That's a no-brainer. Regards -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com @: chrisjo...@com

Re: ipv6 tools + ipv4 tools fusion.

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Adams
ferent, you can get confusing results (for example, in the face of some broken IPv6 setups). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: use /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases?

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Adams
to continue to use /etc/aliases. I believe postfix also uses /etc/aliases (don't know if that is also a RHEL/Fedora change from upstream default); I don't know about other MTAs. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybo

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Adams
dates supposed to be approved post-beta (or am I misremembering the process)? -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedo

Re: BTRFS concerns (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-06-01))

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
t one goal for btrfs is to take LVM out of the picture for the common case; i.e. btrfs can do its own logical volume management. If that's the case, there needs to be something comparable to the VM-on-VG setup (in terms of ease-of-management and performance). -- Chris Adams Systems and Net

Re: BTRFS concerns (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-06-01))

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
That would work, but that loses a lot of functionality such as resizing guests without rebooting (either the host or the guest), snapshots, etc. I usually set up the host OS in the same VG as the guests, so I can add space to the host storage as well as guests, all from the same pool. -- Chris

Re: BTRFS concerns (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-06-01))

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
ate clearly I guess); btrfs performance with VM disk images should be compared against LVM VGs as well against ext4. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.

Bringing down Java packages in size

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
mage editing package) in under 10MB. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this and perhaps more effort put into bringing down the size of java packages, if possible? Regards Chris Jones This message was sent using IMP, th

Re: [Fwd: [fedora-arm] Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

2011-06-04 Thread Chris Tyler
ignificant incompatibility is hardfp vs. softfp ABI (moreso than v7 vs. v5). -- Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
lization technology becomes more and more involved and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users, I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie. Virtualbox. Perhaps a dedicated tea

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
tp://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.i686.rpm yum install VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.i686.rpm Or for 64bit: ~$ su wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.x86_64.rpm yum install VirtualBox-

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
bout 5-10sec > pass. > > Tom I'd suggest you purchase a new card reader. You do realize you can pick them up for around $10? If I had a card reader with that much drama just to get it to operate, it'd be out the door in no time! Cheers Chris Jones --

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
ch a dick for not even thinking of that! The problem is, I use Ubuntu/APT also, so sometimes I can confuse myself as to which system (yum/apt) does what. Nice work. Cheers Chris Jones This message was sent using IMP, the Inter

Re: Heads up: impending IPv6 Test Day

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Adams
which lighttpd (at least) answers with "400 Bad Request". Firefox works (it strips the %br0 from the address before putting it in the Host: header). It would appear that the CLI/terminal web client support for IPv6 link-local addresses is lacking. -- Chris Adams Systems and Net

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Adams
ora. The feature request is simply to modify grubby/anaconda to set up the boot entries to include the support by default (or when the hardware is found). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough troub

Re: 32bit vs 64bit - 32bit can't handle 2100 in strtotime?

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Adams
ate routines can handle dates outside 1970-2038; you shouldn't depend on 64 bit systems having larger time_t (I don't think they all do). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that&#x

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - FRIDAY

2011-06-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 02:17 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Join us on Friday to celebrate July with another in our series of VFADs! Hi Jon, Just a heads up that you won't have many Canadians joining you -- July 1 is Canada Day, a *big* party date on our calendar. -Ch

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
se. The environment-variable type files in /etc/sysconfig also tend to be much easier to modify from a script than having to parse and edit random types of configuration files (since everybody seems to know how to do config files better than anybody else and their way is just a little bit differe

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
x27;t need a configuration file parser. This is a valid way that Unix daemons have run for decades, and you are saying that should be removed. I guess every small daemon now needs to include its own config file parser, replacing the already-existing getopt() call? How is this "better"? -- C

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
up with legitimate technical arguments. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
configuration, which is clearly > undesirable. And an admin can break a config file. What is the difference? Please enumerate some of the "huge number of ways that this can go wrong" in real world examples (not made-up things like overriding IFS). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Adams
philosophy. When such "solutions" impact ease of config, scriptability, customizability (script bits are customizable to handle configs that the init-script writer didn't consider), etc., they are not better than before. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAA

Re: systemd: Is it wrong?

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
ps are generally designed to be started with a click, not a command line. System daemons are generally designed to be started from a script (since that's the way they've been started since day 1). -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I do

Re: Lack of space on /

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
Some of us do watch movies also, which of course requires an X session. Cheers Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Lack of space on /

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:08 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > Some of us do watch movies also, which of course requires an X > > session. > > Not really. mplayer has several outputs which function without an X > sessio

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Adams
out having to download and burn lots of CDs, boot, and then transfer to the hard drive. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:/

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Lumens
ots of > CDs, boot, and then transfer to the hard drive. We talked about something along these lines at the last FUDCon, but other pressures have ensured I've had no time to spend working on it. I'd still like to, or at least sit down and type up what we hashed out so other people can ta

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