Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a situation in which

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 05:08 -0400, Steven Susbauer wrote: On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:10 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: There was a discussion a while back as to how to describe list. The result is what you see today. The idea 0052b2a6-0010ist

Re: Firefox performance with flash

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 22:07 -0800, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: Hi all!! I've installed flash plugin from Adobe ( flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386), everything work ok, i mean, in firefox without the plugin activated, when I surf in a page with flash, firefox become extremely slow,

GDB crashes?

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Tyler
Anyone else seeing gdb segfault in F12? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538626 -Chris -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 12 and the Fedora community

2009-11-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 23:10 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com | Quoting Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net: | | In case anyone is interested; | | http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps- |

Re: Need to add date to script -

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I would like to have a date command inserted to separate each group of six lines. Can some one tell me how to do that or point me in the right direction. To add a date every 6 lines, you could pipe your output through something

Re: new install, Firewall, anti-virus?

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:15 +, Jim Douglas wrote: I just trashed Windows 7 and installed FC11 but before I connect to the internet how best could I protect the machine? Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home machine but I plan on adding a web server. What is

Re: Errors from ata6:00 -- How to find corresponding device?

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 09:17 +, Andy Campbell wrote: What does the 6 or 6:00 correspond to? It doesn't appear to be a major or minor device number, or correspond to any entries in /sys that I can find. If the 6 is not the device (but rather the driver version or something), is there any

Errors from ata6:00 -- How to find corresponding device?

2009-11-07 Thread Chris Tyler
I'm getting tons of messages in /var/log/messages about 'ata6' or 'ata6:00': Nov 7 11:16:21 concord3 kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Nov 7 11:16:21 concord3 kernel: ata6.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Nov 7 11:16:21 concord3 kernel:

Re: FC11- getting message about 'battery broken'

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:10 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am running gnome and when I log in I get: Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be old or broken. Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it

Re: pls send free redhat cd

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Tyler
Hi Sujeesh, This list is for the Fedora project, which is sponsored by Red Hat but which deals with a community-based Linux distribution. Some of the technology used in Fedora is eventually incorporated into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product. We did have a Fedora Media Request form, but that

Re: How to mount cdrom?

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:07 +0100, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I've just used HP's virtual media to mount a cdrom and see the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 14 12:03:39 new-onetick kernel: usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Oct 14 12:03:39 new-onetick kernel:

Re: Testing upload/download bandwidth speeds for verification

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:29 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have been testing my residential ISP/DSL-Landline connections and wanted to make sure that I was getting what I am paying for. Supposedly, one can use the various website based speed test tools to determine their upload and

Re: force modifier keys off?

2009-08-07 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 08:25 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: My system just became convinced that the control and shift modifier keys were pressed all the time (don't ask me how it got in this state). I finally just rebooted to set everything back to normal. Is there any handy utility I can use to

Re: Unable to start isomaster in Fedora 11

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 22:37 -0400, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: While it has been a month or two since I installed Fedora 11, this is the first time since then that I have tried to run isomaster. I do not know if this problem started when I upgraded (with a clean install) of Fedora 11 or if it

Mock Failures on F11

2009-07-18 Thread Chris Tyler
I'm having a ton of trouble getting mock --rebuild to work in F11 -- I've tried it on several systems (both i386 and x86_64) with Fedora-{10,11}-{i386,x86_64} config files and various input SRPMS. None of the builds work: mock fails on a yum depsolv command with an --installroot option. When I

Re: Is this a firefox 3.5 problem? (Actual URL enclosed :-).

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 14:49 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 01:45pm on Sunday, July 12, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: Here is a randomly selected multi-page article from time.com: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909616,00.html At the bottom of the article

Re: Poor desktop responsiveness

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:21 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm running Fedora 10 with KDE on a quad-core Intel system (@ 2.4 Ghz), with 6Gb RAM. I generally run Firefox with several open windows and/or tabs, as well as Adobe acroread, and I'll have a number of terminal windows open.

Re: ssh tutorial

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Tyler
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Re: Earning money as linux developers!

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 13:10 -0700, GMS S wrote: Hello, Linux as a free and open source development,how do the open source developer earn/get money? That's an interesting question. Some open source developers are hired by companies to add certain features, solve bugs, or provide support;

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:31 +0100, Dan Track wrote: Hi, It's really annoying for me, that when I run Ctrl+R to search through the history I end up finding my command but I'm stuck in the history, how can I get to the end of the history with a keystroke. Thanks Dan Ctrl-C ought to do the

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:31 +0100, Dan Track wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/19/09, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It's really annoying for me, that when I run Ctrl+R to search through the history I end up finding my command

Re: is lvm deprecated?

2009-05-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Mike Burger wrote: It's actually very simple and painless. LVM is reasonably simple. But in my view its disadvantages - particularly the difficulty of dealing with any kind of corruption - far outweigh its advantages. I agree

Re: mv and exlude list

2009-05-07 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 17:38 +0200, Guillaume CHARDIN wrote: Hi, maybe some scripting genius gonna help me :D I need to move some file from one directory to other with some exclusions. Ex: move files from /data/product/ to /data/archives/2005 while the *.dat file/dirs stay in the right place.

Re: determining this UUID stuff

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 05:52 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 01:31 -0700, jdow wrote: $blkid /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: LABEL=/boot-7 UUID=bfe129cd-8087-4c0b-aad1-08508b7adee2 SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 It works by partition not drive. I think it is more like, you won't

Re: How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 13:09 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: I now have X11 via ssh working on F9, but refresh of the remote X11 window is extremely slow, even over a 1GB switch. Is there a way to speed up the refresh? Suggestion: If your hardware supports it, turn on compositing (Preferences Look

Re: kmod-nvidia and rpmfusion problem

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 18:47 -0400, Gary Waters wrote: I'm trying to install the kmod-nvidia driver. I typed yum install kmod-nvidia and got swamped by errors such as this: Downloading Packages: (1/4): kmod-nvidia-180.29-1.fc10.2.x86_64.rpm | 24 kB 00:00

Re: System time 1 hr ahead of real time

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 04:19 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: Hi all, The system time on my F10 is showing a time one hr ahead of the real time, neither does it let me change. What could be wrong? $ date Mon Apr 6 05:17:16 PDT 2009 -- Suvayu Perhaps your system is set to keep time in UTC, and

Re: useradd with * in passwd field

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:37 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: Hi All, I need to add a user who will have entry in the /etc/passwd file as below, where the passwd field is marked as * myuser:*:12:23:guest:/:/bin/bash I need to do this by using command useradd, but i am not able to find easier

Re: useradd with * in passwd field

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:20 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: Hi Pavan, First, you should in almost all cases have shadow password support enabled, so the actual passwords will be in /etc/shadow not /etc/passwd. Second

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:26 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: At this point, since the second hard drive seems to be in good condition, I think I would like to re-format it and either add it to the existing volume on sda2 to make one big logical drive, or just reformat it and make a second lvm on it

Re: URLs [OT]

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 19:19 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I am wondering: usually a URL has the form http://www.company.com/dir/subdir... but lately, I have often come across http://www.company.com//dir/subdir What does this '//' mean? Usually that http://www.company.com/ and

Re: Label Program reccomendations ??

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:59 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Can someone recommend a quick and easy label maker. Up to now I have used the label facility on OOo Writer. Its OK, in fact, its good for a large-ish merge etc. but a bit of a PIA for just one or two file folder etc. labels. I

Re: shrinking reiserfs partitions, filesystems

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:45 -0800, jackson byers wrote: I had thought that the size of a filesystem was just the amount of stuff in there as given by df in the Used column eg on my external usb /dev/sdc1 which is one large reiserfs partition [r...@bootp ~]# df -kh Filesystem

Re: yum recovery issue

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: In the process of getting Fedora 10 up and running on a x86_64 machine I've totally messed up yum and am getting this error: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery How do I run recovery Thanks for the help! --Jerry

Re: Swap space

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 14:56 +0100, chedi toueiti wrote: Hi, You can try this: 1- Create a swap file (use this if you can't change your partition layout) via the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap_file bs=1024M count=1 2- format the swap file with : mkswap /tmp/swap 3- add the new

Re: How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 23:30 +, iarly selbir wrote: - create a lvm partition with fdisk fdisk /dev/xxx n ( new partition ) p ( type primary ) 1 ( first partition ) t ( select partition type ) 8e ( lvm ) - create physical volume # pvcreate /dev/xxx1 Alternately, add it to the

Re: How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 18:51 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: # lvextend VolGroup00 /dev/xxx Whoops, I should obviously have written vgextend. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Removal

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 12:01 +1100, Michael Pace wrote: Please remove me from the email listing Hi Michael, You can unsubscribe (or change your subscription options) using the link at the bottom of each message: To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -Chris

Re: please explain yum list to me...

2009-02-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 06:51 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: Why is this ? $ yum list *synaptics* It's a good idea to quote any arguments with wildcards in them, e.g.: yum list *synaptics* Otherwise, if you have a local file (or files) containing synaptics in the name, the shell will

Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

2009-02-07 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 21:13 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote: I do not understand how Fedora expects you to upgrade or reinstall every 6 months or so. This is just not right. Should a distro keep continuing to make you install every six months, if so, I would rather use Microsoft. Why not

Re: Fedora 10, showing the details as the system boots up

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 10:25 -0500, Margaret Doll wrote: Fedora 10 when it boots up shows a sliding scale across the front. What if I want to see what it is doing? Seeing the details is very important if the system has difficulty in booting up completely. Just press ESC. -Chris --

Re: Problems with evolution when storing a folder on Fc10

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 18:13 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 18:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On 02/02/09 16:27, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Dear Members,ion I am having a problem with evolution on a FC10 x86_64 machine. There are times when evolution

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

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

Re: Evolution broken

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:45 +, Noel James Bridge wrote: Without any apparent reason, Evolution has suddenly become unable to send or receive messages. I set up Thunderbird instead and that works fine. However, it downloaded about 3500 messages that should have been deleted, so it looks

Re: NetworkManager overwriting resolv.conf

2009-01-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 19:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: I think you have a misunderstanding of the role of both 'network' and 'NetworkManager' services. 'network' service is clearly better for server usage as it is a true startup daemon that doesn't require any user interaction.

FUDCon F11 Barcamp Session Video Available

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Tyler
Video from the FUDCon F11 Barcamp is available via the barcamp schedule page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_BarCamp_schedule These videos are in unedited .ogg/.ogv format and are under a CC-BY-SA 3.0-US license. -Chris -- fedora-announce-list mailing list

Re: xorg.conf resolution issues

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:24 -0500, jack wallen wrote: hello all, just installed F10 and am having issues with resolution. i have googled the heck out of this only to find no answer. i have an nvidia geforce 6600. on ubuntu 8.10, mandriva 2008, and SuSE 10 the card worked perfectly with

Re: RAID5 gets a bad rap

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 01:02 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: Philip A. Prindeville wrote: If you're *not* a database weenie, and you're doing usual manly things with your filesystem (like lots of compiles, for instance), you're typically not going to be modifying files in place at all.

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 15:37 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, After

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 12:43 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: $HOME/xorg.conf.new # /root/xorg.conf.new because it's must be run root # And, srsly, I's cant's grammatic neithr. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: X session freeze

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 23:01 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I looks like that it is related to gnome, because xinit works OK gnome freeze after I get the background, before I freeze, I have the mouse for a couple of seconds. It looks like that it happens when loading the gnome

Re: Xserver resolution changes

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:43 -0200, Ernesto Silva wrote: I'm running fedora 9 with Gnome and everything works fine. I've also tried Blackbox, twm and WindowMaker windows managers and the screen resolution it's not the same as in Gnome, I can't understand why. Obviously when I start Blackbox

Re: home directory

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 20:31 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: try 'echo ~/$LOGNAME' to get logged in user and directory As you'd notice if you tried it before posting this doesn't work and couldn't possibly work. i did. it does. and

Call for A/V volunteers and equipment - FUDConF11

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Tyler
I'm looking for a few good folks to volunteer to help with A/V (streaming and recording) and to loan suitable equipment for the barcamp day of FUDConF11 (January 10/2009). If you are coming to FUDConF11 and are willing to help with A/V or are willing to loan any of the following, please let me

Call for A/V volunteers and equipment - FUDConF11

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Tyler
I'm looking for a few good folks to volunteer to help with A/V (streaming and recording) and to loan suitable equipment for the barcamp day of FUDConF11 (January 10/2009). If you are coming to FUDConF11 and are willing to help with A/V or are willing to loan any of the following, please let me

Re: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:05 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When you are attempting to debug why drivers and such are not working, being root saves time which is saving money. Once things work, then I go back to 'normal'. Yes, I often open a terminal window and su, and then 'nautilus ', but

Re: stty switch

2008-11-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 02:37 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Before, ie until version 7 at least, it was possible to start in a non graphic mode, to log in a tty mode and then to start an X session (startx). Then it was possible to switch to another tty (2 for example) than then work

Re: How to resize disk in fedora?

2008-11-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 18:13 +0100, barba Fisko wrote: I installed some time ago Fedora 9, to try linux. When i was installing i set 50 gb of my disk space for fedora 9. Now i would like to reduce that size to some 20gb, because i don't need so much space on linux, and i need much more

Re: FC10 : x86_64 : Mouse cursor not visual, but mouse is working

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 12:13 +0100, E.D. Grootjans wrote: Hai, I have installed FC 10 x86_64 At the instal the mouse did not show up. The installation seems to be working fine, but i can not see the mouse-pointer I chainced the mouse settings at Preference- HArdware-Mouse and selected

Re: Nautilus crashes

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 23:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When gnome starts nautilus crashes. It gives me a message that says that nautilus cannot be used due to an error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the factory. What's going on? Any idea how to fix it? Thansk, EJ

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:30 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, but I can't figure out what

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:27 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dario Nievas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you please provide the output of: pvscan lvscan vgscan lvm pvscan;lvm lvscan;lvm vgscan PV /dev/sdc2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [7.28 GB / 32.00 MB free]

Re: LVM extend how (vmware)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:04 +0100, roland wrote: Hello, I used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend a virtual client This virtual client runs fedora and has a LVM. fdisk /dev/sda results in /dev/sda1 (id 83) /dev/sda2 (id=8e) /dev/sda3 How can I connect sda3 to VolGroup00 I read all kind

Re: Disable mouse buttons

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:04 -0600, Bradley wrote: Chris Tyler wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote: Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked. How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user? I have a 4 button mouse plus

Re: Disable mouse buttons

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote: Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked. How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user? I have a 4 button mouse plus a scroll wheel (which also acts as another button) and for one user want to

Re: Disable mouse buttons

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:53 +, g wrote: will also have to have a line in each users '.bash_profile' to return mouse to normal. No, the server reset will take care of it upon logout :-) -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: What is Fedora..

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 12:29 -0500, Monty wig wrote: Hello, Sorry for this silly question but I am a newbie trying to learn linux and wondering what is Fedora or what is the difference between Fedora and linux? Regards Monty Hi Monty, Linux is, at its most basic, an operating system

Re: what is happening to reply-to header?

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Tyler
Reply-to header was my fault, I was trying to straighten out the https issues. My apologies... -Chris On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:15 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 11:37 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 11:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 5

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 17:13 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, i want to have those lines joined to one line with spaces Before : textone texttwo something After : textone texttwo something So far i have been using fmt -w 2000 , but this is limited to 2000 characters.

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: i want to have those lines joined to one line with spaces Before : textone texttwo something After : textone texttwo something the good old command line cat was invented (I am told) to

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:37 +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:55:08PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: i want to have those lines joined to one line with spaces Before

Re: Command help?

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:16 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: AFAIK, telinit does NOT fire up the /etc/rc.d stuff by itself and that's how the K* and S* stuff get run. As has been pointed out what you say is not true. Changes runlevel should cause the correct rc* files to run. Check the man page

Re: Software: Barcode printing

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:41 -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: Anybody knows any barcode label printing program available in fedora? glabels can do some types of barcodes, and has a nice GUI if you're looking for an interactive program. You can lay out a label (or page, or business card, or

Re: How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:32 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: My home drive is nearly full - mostly with photos. I have created a directory named archive, and moved all the photo directories into it. Now I want to write the contents of that archive directory to a DVD (double layer - 8.5 GB).

Re: Video card

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:19 -0700, Dan Steele wrote: What is the least amount of memory needed on a video card to take advantage of all the 3D effects offered by Fedora 9?? Dan Hi Dan, I've run Compiz on 64MB cards. I suspect you could go lower as long as the memory was at least several

Re: lvm2 problem

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:31 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Bogdan Sarandan wrote: Hello, I want to know if there is any way to recover data from a damage lvm2 partition. The case is like this. We had a fedora core 7 server and i ran the command fsck when the disk was mounted and

Re: desperately seeking IgnoreEDID

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 17:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote: Since who ever it was made the change to using EDID, I have never had X work the way I want it to again. 1. It always chooses the wrong resolution for me, this is on at least 5

Re: Script help

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:08 -0700, Dennis Kaptain wrote: Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head? `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you. ls -t by itself may give you more than one filename per line. Use ls -t1 that will assure you get only one file

Re: Booting F9 without X

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:16 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: What is involved in booting f9 without X (ie with just console logins permitted)? Edit your /etc/inittab. Change the id/initdefault line, swapping the 5 for a 3 (runlevel 5 is boot to X, runlevel 3 is boot to text consoles).

Re: Enable fast user switching in Fedora 9?

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 08:45 -0700, Michael Hannon wrote: Howdy. I just gave my wife an account on the Fedora 9 system I use at home, expecting to be able to do fast switching between her login and mine. But I don't see any option to do that, and I don't see any way to enable it. Can you

Re: give me some informations...

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:23 +0100, Diogo Soares wrote: Hi… i am interested in your Project… happens that - what is the difference between i386 x86_64 pcc if you could explain me… by the way…sorry my BAD english Hi Diogo, Welcome to Fedora! - i386 is for 32-bit Intel, AMD,

Re: USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:00 -0600, linuxguy wrote: PS Some day maybe we'll have an undo option for yum :-) We do, more or less. Repackage/rollback works with rpm and yum, and a quick test shows it works with PackageKit, though it pops up an error alert (The constant 'repackaging' was unknown,

Re: ISCSI Installation Help

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:29 +0100, Paul Ward wrote: Hi All, Can anyone help me with an install of ISCSI on a RHEL4 box. I have been asked to mount an ISCSI disk to a mount point using IP. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I have installed the initiator utils and also the

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 01:21 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Are there any legitimate reasons why the atd and sendmail services are enabled by default? A default install is for a desktop and they are quite useless in that regard. I've never heard default defined as desktop before. Why do

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:01 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote: I like being able to assume basic outbound MTA functionality is present, so imho having sendmail there by default is a Good Thing. (But yeah, no one reads root's mail. Maybe firstboot should give the option -- enabled by default

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:23 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote: If a desktop application needs to send an e-mail to the Internet it will need to let the end-user take care of it due to my points about spam filtering. Ok, but here are two examples where outbound e-mail works out of the box on a

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:48 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:13 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: (b) Without sendmail or another MTA there, there is zero chance of being able to send outbound e-mail without doing configuration. Assuming that configuration here is meant

Re: Moving hidden folders between computers

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:36 +0200, Antonio M wrote: I wanted to move an hidden folder from computer A to computer B, and I could perform the operation copying from A to B in the Public folder. Then I wanted to copy same hidden folder from B to C and I try to complete the operation from

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 01:01 +0930, Tim wrote: I'm curious as to why installing from a live disc should be any better. Surely it'd use the same basic routines. The install from live disc basically consists of copying the ext3 filesystem to disk and then resizing it after the copy -- which is

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:49 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Also how can I have a seperate home directory? the LVM section in the partitioning

Re: USB slow when two devices connected

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:26 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: All that, to say this: a single slow USB device on a controller will cause the controller to drop to slow (USB 1.1) mode. Not just a single port drops, the whole controller drops. Slightly expanded: (a) USB 1.1 vs. USB 2.0 isn't

Re: [F8 x86_64] Pulseaudio w/USB Audio Device

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 19:50 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: With my USB Turntable connected when I login to my desktop, pulseaudio sets it's default sink to the USB Audio subsystem instead of my onboard audio card. I had the same issue with alsa many moons ago, and was able to work around that

Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Tyler
This has been an interesting discussion, including some good tangents. I think there's a general consensus that a tighter focus on encouragement/advice/assistance (which shapes up as support without saying support, and meaning support in more than just a pure-technical sense). Based on this

Re: Virus software? do I need it?

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:18 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for years without it. What say you? Jeff Jeff, if you've used OSX for years without antivirus software, then you'll probably be comfortable running Fedora without it too.

Re: Telnet Issue with Fedora 9

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:35 +0200, Leo Leavitt (leoleav) wrote: I have Fedora 9 installed on my Hp Laptop and I have Windows Vista on my other Hp Laptop. I also have Red Hat installed in a Desktop system. The issue that I have is that I can telnet OUT anywhere from my Hp Laptop that has

Self-printing program (was Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list)

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:18 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Not being a programmer or anything, WHAT in the heck IS that? LOL It's C. There's a whole class of

Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 23:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This list, fedora-list@redhat.com, is one of the first lists that most Fedora users join, and therefore quite important to the community. However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes perceived to have a high noise level), so

Re: Cancel mv after execution

2008-08-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:07:03 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: Adil Drissi wrote: Hi, Is it possible to cancel one command after execution? my command was : mv includes ../includes i was in /var/www so if a directory includes already existed in /var it was replaced. Thank you

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Tyler
Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more. I was wondering if say, all Broadcast companies are grouped as 64.70.xxx.xxx to 64.90.xxx.xxx or some such

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