Fedora Weekly News #151

2008-11-10 Thread Oisin Feeley
Fedora Weekly News Issue 151 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora 11 Feature Process 1.1.2 Fedora 10 Preview Release 1.1.3 Elections are coming 1.2 Developments 1.2.1 Security Exceptions to the Mass ACL Opening

Fedora Classroom

2008-11-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi There was a number of IRC sessions on various topics related to Free software and Fedora. The IRC logs have now been published. Feel free to use them if you did not find the time to participation in real time. This is planned to continue for the next month as well.

Re: Theme praised

2008-11-10 Thread Jayme Ayres
Cool interview! I really do not know JupiterBroadcasting they so funny, I had only seen the episode Beer is Tasty (oh yeah!). So, thanx to remember Nicu. ;-) Jayme Ayres 2008/11/10 Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jayme Ayres wrote: I was giving a look at the blog Rodrigo Menezes [1] and saw

Re: Theme praised

2008-11-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jayme Ayres wrote: I was giving a look at the blog Rodrigo Menezes [1] and saw on the analysis done by 10 Fedora dual blog JupiterBroadcastisng [2] (who particularly did not know), said some puerility on Fedora, but praised highly the work of Artwork and then I'd like to share with you. Ah,

Theme praised

2008-11-10 Thread Jayme Ayres
I was giving a look at the blog Rodrigo Menezes [1] and saw on the analysis done by 10 Fedora dual blog JupiterBroadcastisng [2] (who particularly did not know), said some puerility on Fedora, but praised highly the work of Artwork and then I'd like to share with you. Congratulations to all! [1]

Re: Trying to figure out some umask issues

2008-11-10 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
JK == Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JK I do believe that sets it to whatever owner permissions the file JK has on the filesystem, root owner, root group, whatever group JK permissions it has on the filesystem or something close to that JK effect. Well, yes, but obviously

Re: Trying to figure out some umask issues

2008-11-10 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 08:14 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: Well, yes, but obviously (755,root,root,755) doesn't work all that well, because then all files are executable. (-,root,root,755) would be OK, I guess, but of course that wouldn't have any bearing on the problem I'm seeing. IIRC

[Bug 468823] Review Request: hanazono-fonts - Japanese Mincho-typeface TrueType font

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468823 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368561 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 455647] [Indic] Firefox displays garbage Indic characters on parts of some English webpages

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla-daemon
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455647 --- Comment #22 from Martin Stránský [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-11-10 02:12:31 PST --- Yep, fix in 1.9.0.x would be great. -- Configure bugmail:

[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368561 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368561 --- Comment #21 from Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-11-10 06:52:41 EDT --- To me all this ligature stuff for Latin

[Bug 18470] New: conf.avail can be considered an FHS violation

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18470 Summary: conf.avail can be considered an FHS violation Product: fontconfig Version: 2.6 Platform: Other OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority:

[Bug 468823] Review Request: hanazono-fonts - Japanese Mincho-typeface TrueType font

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468823 Akira TAGOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 467982] anaconda doesn't render glyphs with the proper font

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467982 --- Comment #6 from Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-11-11 00:35:41 EDT --- This only seems to affect anaconda, so I

[Bug 467982] anaconda doesn't render glyphs with the proper font

2008-11-10 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467982 Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 09 novembre 2008 à 12:09 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : ▶▶▶ Proof of concept: Dejavu has been used to proof the concepts in rawhide (cf the wiki page) To proof it some more I've separated the common macro, spec templates and directory definitions in a separate package, then

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Qianqian Fang
Let me go ask him for more details and get back to this list. If anyone in the list happen to know more about this, I would also be happen to learn from you. Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 09:55 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit : this is what I got from android's mailing

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora users ... ▶ help spins and users Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans from tiresias, without dragging in all the other dejavu/liberation/tiresias fonts is a

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 12:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora users ... ▶ help spins and users Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans from

introduction - looking for contributing to Infra team

2008-11-10 Thread Rakesh Pandit
Hello list, I am Rakesh Pandit, fedora package maintainer and would like to join infrastructure team and contribute. Still looking at *GetStarted* pages. :) A bit about myself, I maintain some packages for fedora, and contribute to few GNU Projects and Openoffice. I can write python, perl, bash

Re: introduction - looking for contributing to Infra team

2008-11-10 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Rakesh Pandit wrote: Hello list, I am Rakesh Pandit, fedora package maintainer and would like to join infrastructure team and contribute. Still looking at *GetStarted* pages. :) A bit about myself, I maintain some packages for fedora, and contribute to few GNU Projects and Openoffice.

Re: chkfontpath ?

2008-11-10 Thread Simon Slater
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 12:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Where's the best place to start looking / learning about fonts in Fedora? I need to get more for use in OOo, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. IIRC, all these apps just use fontconfig. So the method is documented in the release notes.

F9: Firefox-3.0.2 browser check by bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck

2008-11-10 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, In F9, I made a firefox-3.0.2 browser check by using the site http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck and there was a report: Mozilla code execution via QuickTime Media-link files - failed Question: can somebody confirm this, and is this a known issue for firefox? The recommendations to

Re: Looking for a docbook example.

2008-11-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:17 +, Tim Waugh wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available

Re: Dependency Champion

2008-11-10 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:31:05 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: [...] If you instruct the tool to remove a package, it does not remove other packages randomly or haphazardly. You may not understand the package relationships, but that does not make them wrong. Nobody has suggested

Re: chkfontpath ?

2008-11-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Simon Slater wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 12:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Where's the best place to start looking / learning about fonts in Fedora? I need to get more for use in OOo, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. IIRC, all these apps just use fontconfig. So the method is documented in the

Re: Hang coming out of suspend

2008-11-10 Thread Steve
Hello again Geoffrey, Please ignore my last message - wrong computer. The correct info is below. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Geoffrey, Geoffrey Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/07/2008 02:00:41 PM, Steve wrote: Geoffrey Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Pulseaudio

2008-11-10 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello! Could you please help me with a Pulseaudio problem: My setup is a Fedora 9 system on a laptop IBM X61, installed from a livecd. My default init level is 3, and I use console most of the time. When I do # init 5; I get the following errors, and I have no sound under GNOME: Nov 10

can't run logrotate

2008-11-10 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I have a bunch of machines that are not happy about running logrotate daily. I get these error emails: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: cannot open current directory: Permission denied Does anyone know what would cause this? - Mike

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-11-10 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:07:19 +1030, Tim wrote: Tim: If desperate, one could go into /etc/cups/ and remove the entries for particular printers. I'm not sure how it handles missing files, but you could load the file and remove all the configuration data, leaving just the two comment lines at

Re: knotes on KDE not start automatically

2008-11-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: Hi all, I used knotes on fedora 8 (kde 3.x) and everytime I started the desktop, knotes started, with all my notes on the desk. Now I installed fedora 9 and KDE 4.1 I copied all my notes on the new system, and started knotes. Everything was ok, but knotes

Re: Looking for a docbook example.

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an

Re: can't run logrotate

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 08:07 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: I have a bunch of machines that are not happy about running logrotate daily. I get these error emails: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: cannot open current

Re: F9: Firefox-3.0.2 browser check by bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck

2008-11-10 Thread Ed Greshko
Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, In F9, I made a firefox-3.0.2 browser check by using the site http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck and there was a report: Mozilla code execution via QuickTime Media-link files - failed Question: can somebody confirm this, and is this a known issue for firefox?

Keeping Logical Volume during conversion from Fedora to RHEL 5.2

2008-11-10 Thread pat_allen
Good morning - I have a HP DL385 running Fedora 9. It has a 5TB Apple XServe RAID connected to it. The RAID device is actually 2 2.5TB devices (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) configured together in a logical volume group. I am planning on installing RHEL 5.2 on this system. Before doing so, I want

K3B ???

2008-11-10 Thread Jim
FC 8 i386 I want to upgrade my Laptop, and I want to burn /home/user folder on to a DVD to save. But using K3B if I do a burn of /home/user folder, it will burn contents of /home/user, but it won't burn files or sub directories in folders in /home/user WHY ?? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Dependency Champion

2008-11-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Beartooth wrote: On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:31:05 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: [...] If you instruct the tool to remove a package, it does not remove other packages randomly or haphazardly. You may not understand the package relationships, but that does not make them wrong. Nobody has

Re: fedora-fonts-list R.I.P?

2008-11-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Dave Feustel wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:30:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: This error message was generated by Konqueror 4.1.2. When I used firefox to access the same page, it worked. I then joined the list. A confirmation url was sent to me via email. When I

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-11-10 Thread Tim
Tim: If desperate, one could go into /etc/cups/ and remove the entries for particular printers. I'm not sure how it handles missing files, but you could load the file and remove all the configuration data, leaving just the two comment lines at the top of printers.conf. Beartooth: Would you

Re: Dependency Champion

2008-11-10 Thread Alan Evans
I think our problem here is that the human mind has in it the concept of soft dependencies. That is, This program can use that feature if it's installed, or else carry on just fine without it. So removing a feature shouldn't force removal of a program that could work without the feature. But that

Fedora 9 VPN Client

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I have several clients I work with all of 'em have some sort of VPN - some are java web based, some are PPTP, Cisco, etc Anyone have recommendations for a good VPN tool (tools) ? Thanks in advance -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Fedora 9 boot problem with HP NetRAID 1Si controller

2008-11-10 Thread Jack Lauman
I reinstalled Fedora 9 on a HP NetServer 2000 that had been previously running Fedora 4. Rebooting the machine following the install gives the following errors: Booting the kernel APCI: Resource is not an IRQ entry pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME__CRD failure for PNP0400 i2o: iop0 could not

fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Reg Clemens
In in the process of upgrading from fc6 to f9, and one of the biggest aggrivations is fonts. I wont say that they have screwed things up (tho thats the way I feel) but they have definately changed things... WHY When I try to run xconfig to build a new kernel, the font size is bigger, and

Re: where to get cisco vpn client for Fedora 9

2008-11-10 Thread Wayne Feick
I'd loosen that to just # yum search vpn which picks up the Network Manager packages as well (and also the openvpn stuff that you probably don't care about). Wayne. On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 09:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; anyone know where I can get a

Re: Fedora 9 boot problem with HP NetRAID 1Si controller

2008-11-10 Thread Alan Cox
i2o: iop0 could not activate controller (it stalls here...) As I recall when I originally installed FC4 it needed the megaraid_mbox driver. I sure it's not loading the right i2o driver either. Thats an ancient AMI Megaraid by the sound of it. Go into the megaraid bios settings and turn

Re: Looking for a docbook example.

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point. A good while ago I

Re: how to count nfs clients attached to my server?

2008-11-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
Patrick O'Callaghan-2 wrote: Not so. You can run it from anywhere, but you have to say which server you're interested in. From the man page: showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the state of the NFS server on that machine. Do you need to have

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Tom Horsley
In in the process of upgrading from fc6 to f9, and one of the biggest aggrivations is fonts. The old nasty server based fonts are almost all left out of the default install because, after all, gnome doesn't use them, so no one could possibly have any use for them at all :-). Check for

don't print last field

2008-11-10 Thread adrian kok
Hi how can I only get the previous field but not last field from awk? but I can't use print $1$2 as there are different fields in different line thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Create rofessional looking Invoices with Linux ?

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that will help me create professional looking invoices ? Thanks in advance -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: don't print last field

2008-11-10 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:44:16AM +0800, adrian kok wrote: Hi how can I only get the previous field but not last field from awk? but I can't use print $1$2 as there are different fields in different line thank you Does knowing the number if fields in a line help? `NF' is

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:05:09PM +, Tom Horsley wrote: In in the process of upgrading from fc6 to f9, and one of the biggest aggrivations is fonts. The old nasty server based fonts are almost all left out of the default install because, after all, gnome doesn't use them, so no one

Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that for me is critical.

Re: chkfontpath ?

2008-11-10 Thread Simon Slater
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: There are a number of them already packaged (yum search fonts). It is a long list and we are working through it but otherwise it is pretty scattered. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/12/13/open-source-fonts/

Re: Pulseaudio

2008-11-10 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello! I'm still working at the same problem. I've now uninstall pulseaudio, and sound works properly on console, but not in GNOME. I cannot see any log output about that in /var/log/messages. Could someone please explain to me how to get sound working in GNOME without pulseaudio? Lars [EMAIL

Re: don't print last field

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Meyer
adrian kok wrote: Hi how can I only get the previous field but not last field from awk? but I can't use print $1$2 as there are different fields in different line thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com As another posted, NF is what

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:53:03 -0500 Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a real F9/x11 newbie. Could you explain how to do this? I never use the default Add/Remove software tool, but in theory you should be able to run it and do a search for xorg-x11-font and select packages from the search

Re: Create rofessional looking Invoices with Linux ?

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:48:50 -0700 Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that will help me create professional looking invoices ? On the rare occasions that I need an invoice, I create them with OpenOffice Writer. I made a blank

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:26:34 -0700 Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply

Confused by xconfig behaviour.

2008-11-10 Thread Reg Clemens
Im confused by xconfig behaviour. I am on a 64bit Pentium. If I am running a 32 bit kernel, and I go to build a kernel, I dont see any 32/64 bit options, it just assumes 32bit. If I am running a 64 bit kernel, and I go to build a kernel, I dont see any 32/64 bit options, it just assumes 64bit.

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:26:34 -0700 Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a

kernel build error.

2008-11-10 Thread Reg Clemens
When building 2.6.27.5 on a 64bit machine running a 64bit kernel, there is an error in the build which reads trim CC kernel/sched.o CC arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.o VDSOarch/x86/vdso/vdso.so.dbg OBJCOPY arch/x86/vdso/vdso.so objcopy: arch/x86/vdso/vdso.so.dbg: File format not

KDE 4.2 - Set Konsole default window size ?

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I'm running Fedora9 KDE 4.2 Every time I start Konsole it comes up with the size that the window was the last time I used it. I would prefer to have a fixed starting size (say 80x25). Is this possible ? Thanks in advance... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:15:49PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:53:03 -0500 Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a real F9/x11 newbie. Could you explain how to do this? I never use the default Add/Remove software tool, but in theory you should be able to run it

Download size, Counter

2008-11-10 Thread Jim
Comcast.com and ATT is going to start charging extra for Downloading of files,packages, video. Is there a App for Linux that will keep count of Downloads(Gbytes), like on a monthly basis, so one can keep track of size of downloads for a given month ?? -- fedora-list mailing list

RE: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
hi les/guys... assume you had/have a usb/external drive that was connected to the laptop. assume that it was also the same size (2.5) as the laptop drive... couldn't you set up a process to do a complete rsync/backup every x hours of everything on the drive in use. this would give a

Re: Hang coming out of suspend

2008-11-10 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Hello again, Steve. See bottom-posting. On 11/10/2008 07:14:53 AM, Steve wrote: Hello again Geoffrey, Please ignore my last message - wrong computer. The correct info is below. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Geoffrey, Geoffrey Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Rick Stevens
Dave Feustel wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:15:49PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:53:03 -0500 Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a real F9/x11 newbie. Could you explain how to do this? I never use the default Add/Remove software tool, but in theory you should be

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800 Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I think they mean xorg-x11-fonts-*. There is no xorg-x11-conf stuff. Yea, I said font up at the top, but somehow my fingers typed conf down at the bottom :-). Sorry about the mixup. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Download size, Counter

2008-11-10 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 11/10/2008 02:56:10 PM, Jim wrote: Comcast.com and ATT is going to start charging extra for Downloading of files,packages, video. Is there a App for Linux that will keep count of Downloads(Gbytes), like on a monthly basis, so one can keep track of size of downloads for a given month

Re: how to count nfs clients attached to my server?

2008-11-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:42 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Do you need to have any holes in the firewalls for a remote query to work? At a guess port 111 (Sunrpc). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
bruce wrote: hi les/guys... assume you had/have a usb/external drive that was connected to the laptop. assume that it was also the same size (2.5) as the laptop drive... couldn't you set up a process to do a complete rsync/backup every x hours of everything on the drive in use. Well, yes,

Re: K3B ???

2008-11-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:51 -0500, Jim wrote: FC 8 i386 I want to upgrade my Laptop, and I want to burn /home/user folder on to a DVD to save. But using K3B if I do a burn of /home/user folder, it will burn contents of /home/user, but it won't burn files or sub directories in folders in

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800 Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I think they mean xorg-x11-fonts-*. There is no xorg-x11-conf stuff. Yea, I said font up at the top, but somehow my fingers typed conf down at the

RE: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
exactly my thought!!! and given that usb/laptop drives are cheap... i can always keep one by my side, and rotate it with the working drive in the box... should work ok... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, November

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bruce wrote: and given that usb/laptop drives are cheap... i can always keep one by my side, and rotate it with the working drive in the box... should work ok... unless you; bruce wrote: Well, yes, but one of the reasons you make backups is

gnome-settings-daemon crashes immediately upon starting up... but only in KDE

2008-11-10 Thread Kelly Miller
For some odd reason, gnome-settings-daemon keeps crashing immediately upon startup, returning the following error: The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800 Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I think they mean xorg-x11-fonts-*. There is no xorg-x11-conf stuff.

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Rick Stevens
Dave Feustel wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:14 -0800 Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I think they mean xorg-x11-fonts-*. There is no

Re: Fedora 9 VPN Client

2008-11-10 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:25 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I have several clients I work with all of 'em have some sort of VPN - some are java web based, some are PPTP, Cisco, etc PPTP pre Windows XP (NT and 2k) was supported under poptop but terribly insecure. XP PPTP is a

How to get sound working in F9

2008-11-10 Thread GN
Hi, Can someone please give me some clues on how to get sound working in F9. The System Preferences Hardware Sound doesn't look anything like that shown in the help file and I am stymied. My /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf file has me authed for everything. No errors show for pulseaudio

install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread sam Ruma
I have installed Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 by doing the below steps: 1.  Disabled built in LAN in the setup. 2.  Installed Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825. 3.  Went back and enable the built in LAN in the setup to get the ethernet card to works. The problem

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread sam Ruma
Hello,   Did you just take the default options throughout? Yes Do you only have fc9 on the drive? What do you mean? I have the DVD Did you format the drive, prior to installing? Yes --- On Mon, 11/10/08, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: install Fedora 9

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread sam Ruma
It is not just a black screen I will copy the screen and e-mail it to you The DVD is valid. When I disable the built in LAN, fedora works just fine but without network (internet). So the problem is with built in LAN --- On Mon, 11/10/08, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bruce [EMAIL

Problem with Intel Wireless (iwl4965) on HP 8510w laptop

2008-11-10 Thread Richard Shaw
Let me start off by saying, it doesn't appear that the problem is with the wireless directly, but rather the negotiation when trying to connect. Once I get connected everything works fine. I seemed to have the best success with the kernel that shipped with F9, however, it wasn't even 100%, but

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
ok... how much mem/size of the drive? and you say, when you turn the laptop on, all you get is a black screen? you never see any kind of fc9 screen/information at all?? and you're sure the dvd is valid? did it give you any errs when you were installing? did it require you to reboot towards the

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
hi sam exactly what did you do? when you installed fc9, did you just take the default options throughout? do you only have fc9 on the drive? did you format the drive, prior to installing? be patient, we'll get you up/running.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: K3B ???

2008-11-10 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: FC 8 i386 I want to upgrade my Laptop, and I want to burn /home/user folder on to a DVD to save. But using K3B if I do a burn of /home/user folder, it will burn contents of /home/user, but it won't burn files or sub directories in

Re: Fedora 9 VPN Client

2008-11-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 11:25:49 pm Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I have several clients I work with all of 'em have some sort of VPN - some are java web based, some are PPTP, Cisco, etc Anyone have recommendations for a good VPN tool (tools) ? Thanks in advance NetworkManager it has

Re: fonts in f9

2008-11-10 Thread Tim
Rick Stevens: Uh, I think they mean xorg-x11-fonts-*. There is no xorg-x11-conf stuff. Tom Horsley: Yea, I said font up at the top, but somehow my fingers typed conf down at the bottom :-). Sorry about the mixup. If you do a search for xorg-x11-font you're only going to find some of the

Re: How to get sound working in F9

2008-11-10 Thread Waleed Harbi
What is your sound card? try use *alsamixer *command. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:51 PM, GN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone please give me some clues on how to get sound working in F9. The System Preferences Hardware Sound doesn't look anything like that shown in the help file and

Re: Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

2008-11-10 Thread Richard England
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that will help me create professional looking invoices ? Thanks in advance OpenOffice 2.3 on my F8 system, and OpenOffice 2.4 on my F9 system both an invoice form available. I don't believe I've

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
ok... so you're saying that something is going on regarding the lan, and that when you attempt to fire up the lan, you're not getting the fc9 to bring up the text login/gui? is this with a straight wire lan, or wireless connection? are you using any other networking function like networkmanager,

Re: Problem with Intel Wireless (iwl4965) on HP 8510w laptop

2008-11-10 Thread Endy
Richard Shaw wrote: Let me start off by saying, it doesn't appear that the problem is with the wireless directly, but rather the negotiation when trying to connect. Once I get connected everything works fine. I seemed to have the best success with the kernel that shipped with F9, however, it

Re: Keeping Logical Volume during conversion from Fedora to RHEL 5.2

2008-11-10 Thread pat_allen
I've been trying to figure this out on my own and think I understand what I need to do. Here's the detailed steps as far as I can tell. Can somebody please verify this? 1. On Fedora 9 system, unmount the logical volume and then run vgexport. 2. Install RHEL 5.2 3. On RHEL5 system, run vgimport.

Re: Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

2008-11-10 Thread Waleed Harbi
Billingmanager will help you and free plus On-line. http://billingmanager.intuit.com/billing/welcome.url Open office: http://openoffice-invoice-template.qarchive.org/ On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Richard England [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; anyone have

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-10 Thread Waleed Harbi
Try Scalpel http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/ or Foremost http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dave Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted by mistake. No backup of

Re: Fedora 10 Tagline

2008-11-10 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 03:21 -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote: Hey, does anybody know if we have a tagline for Fedora 10? For example, with Fedora 9, we had Fedora 9. Make waves. This is for the front page of the website (so that we can get all strings ready to be translated). We've tried to make

RES: Comments: IN DEPTH: Fedora 10 Preview

2008-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Menezes
It's hard listen some reviews because the authors take position about something. Let's take this video as an example, both authors doesn't like Fedora at all. Second, yes, the artwork is really amazing but Gnome doesn't impress. Why not show KDE desktop? this is something amazing. Now, you are

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