RE: vmware workstation 7 on 64-bit fedora 12?

2010-01-06 Thread Dan Burkland
Here is a link to the blog post that helped me get the modules to compile properly on 2.6.32.2: http://sadevil.org/blog/2009/12/31/vmware-player-3-vs-linux-2-6-32/ Dan Burkland   > -Original Message- > From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list- > boun...@redha

RE: vmware workstation 7 on 64-bit fedora 12?

2010-01-06 Thread Dan Burkland
I'm running it just fine on my installation of Fedora 12 x86_64. When I installed my custom kernel (2.6.32.2), I had to do a bit of tinkering to get the network & vmci modules to compile/install. You shouldn't have any problems though with the stock Fedora kernels.

RE: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read. Looks like I'll be doing some testing this week :) Dan > -Original Message- > From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list- > boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram > Sent: Wednesday, December

RE: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite sure). Dan > -Original Message- > From: fedor

RE: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12

2009-12-23 Thread Dan Burkland
Xen uses a special kernel so as far as I know you will first have to remove the default one with "yum remove kernel". Then try the " yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen" command and it should work. Regards, Dan > -Original Message- > From: fedo

Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread Dan Irwin
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:27 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I don't think there is a very "user friendly" way to > do what you want other than using different SSIDs. > I suspected this could be the case. Are there no hidden knobs in NetworkManager (via gconf) which could be twea

Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread Dan Irwin
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > man iwconfig > (or "man iw" if you have it) > Thanks, but I'm well aware of iwconfig. As you can probably guess, iwconfig is of zero help when using NetworkManager. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: ht

Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-15 Thread Dan Irwin
and 5.8GHz? Regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Slow gnome startup with compiz enabled

2009-12-09 Thread Dan Burkland
stopher, Did disabling compiz resolve the delay in loading gnome? Regards, Dan Burkland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

RE: LDAP authentication error

2009-12-09 Thread Dan Burkland
e the following in your slapd.conf file: Access to dn.children="ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com" attrs=userPassword By self write I do not know if the built in password management tools support LDAP but if they do the above will allows those changes to be made. Regards, Dan -O

RE: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Dan Burkland
I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that. Regards, Dan Burkland -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Adams Sen

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Thurman
ed to 'fixBoot' because somehow the partition data (boot.ini) and the partition "MBR" are not "in sync". Vista on the other hand does not work even if dd'ing source to destination, with the same partition#s. I am fighting a battle on another system trying to g

Slow gnome startup with compiz enabled

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Burkland
to solve the problem. Has anybody else noticed this and possibly found a way to speed up the load times with compiz enabled? Thanks, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject

Re: To dd or to rsync, that's the question...

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-12-01 13:01:47, Dan Thurman wrote: Which is the preferred "backup" solution? ... I am trying to get data off of disk1 which is failing (via smartd) and wish to use the correct backup and restore method getting the data off of disk1 onto dis

To dd or to rsync, that's the question...

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Thurman
it being asked for. Any pointers/advice is appreciated! Kind regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Why is load on my server stuck at 1

2009-11-25 Thread Dan Track
TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 15 0 10344 568 540 S0 0.0 0:02.03 init [3] As you can see top isn't showing anything, how can I find out what is causing this? Thanks in advance Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:32 +0000, Dan Track wrote: >> Hi Bryn, >> >> Many thanks. I tried hostname -s but I keep getting the following: >> >> hostname: Host name lookup failure > > Possibly your resol

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:13 +0000, Dan Track wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dan Track wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm running a command like this: >> > >> >

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 11/04/2009 02:10 PM, Dan Track wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a command like this: >> >> for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i "`hostname`";done. >> >> However the

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dan Track wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a command like this: > > for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i "`hostname`";done. > > However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server > that the above command i

[OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Track
lly runs on server 1, server2 etc.. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: : bash command help - nohup

2009-10-30 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 30Oct2009 09:42, Dan Track wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I'm trying to run mutliple commands from the command line while using > | nohup. But I can't seem to get the syntax right, can someone please > | correct thi

[OT]: bash command help - nohup

2009-10-30 Thread Dan Track
to be run with the single nohup command, any thoughts? Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Dan Track wrote: >> > Great thanks. Can I ask one more question. I'm trying to put all the >> > information in the following website: >> > h

Re: How to find driver usage.

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:52 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> I've got two disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I'd like to reload the >> driver that they are using. How can I find out what driver is being >> used by

Re: How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Dan Track wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> >>> Once upon a time, Dan Track said: >>> >>>> I'd like to know the parameters of an ext3 filesystem i.e what >>

Re: How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Dan Track said: >> I'd like to know the parameters of an ext3 filesystem i.e what >> blocksize was used, inodes etc... Can someone please show me a command >> I can use to find this information

How to find driver usage.

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
Hi, I've got two disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I'd like to reload the driver that they are using. How can I find out what driver is being used by them? Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
Hi, I'd like to know the parameters of an ext3 filesystem i.e what blocksize was used, inodes etc... Can someone please show me a command I can use to find this information. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

How to mount cdrom?

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
ew-onetick kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5 Oct 14 12:03:45 new-onetick kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x cd/rw tray Can someone please tell me how I can mount this? Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: Testing Device Failure

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:12 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dan Track wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've got two SAS links to my San, I want to test failure/recovery by >

Re: Testing Device Failure

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dan Track wrote: > Hi, > > I've got two SAS links to my San, I want to test failure/recovery by > eleminating and device node. The easiest way is to manually unplug a > controller link and see what happens. I'd like to know how I can do it

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Dan Track wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:23 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >>> I've already got the following /dev/mapper/mpath0 and >>> /dev/mpath/3600c0ff000d7ba4f4575b24

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:23 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> I've already got the following /dev/mapper/mpath0 and >> /dev/mpath/3600c0ff000d7ba4f4575b24a0100. Can you tell me how I >> can reload the config and en

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 10/13/2009 10:17 AM, Dan Track wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've configured multipath but I'm confused with the following. When I >> run "multipath -v2" I don't get any output,

Testing Device Failure

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
ev/sda and /dev/sdb. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
ures=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=50][active] \_ 0:0:0:1 sda 8:0 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=10][enabled] \_ 1:0:0:2 sdb 8:16 [active][ready] Does that mean multipath is working on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb? Is the lack of output for "multipath -v2" a

GPT Partition Deletion - HELP

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
on this please, as I think it is related to GPT. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Advice on what dmsetup/fdisk/lvm does!

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Track
looking to create a logical volume on this disk. Once multipath is working should I only see one entry in /proc/partitions, instead of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb? Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-07 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 10/05/2009 09:58 AM, Dan Track wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've just added a new hp array to my server and when looking in dmesg >> I can see the following: >> >> scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS106

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-06 Thread Dan Track
ks on the server. I need to know how to reach the partition >> > on the array. Incidentally the array is still building the volume but >> > it does say that since it is doing it online the partition is >> > available but I can't see on bootup. Any thoughts? &g

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-06 Thread Dan Track
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Dan Track wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:58 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've just added a new hp array to my server and when looking in dmesg >>

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-05 Thread Dan Track
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:58 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just added a new hp array to my server and when looking in dmesg >> I can see the following: >> >> scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E

How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-05 Thread Dan Track
d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) My question is how can I tell where the partition on the array is mapped to on my server? Thanks in advance. Dan -- fedora-l

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-06 Thread Dan Hensley
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 22:41 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/05/2009 10:19 PM, Dan Hensley wrote: > > > Here's mine (I recreated the original link again): > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-09-05 17:11 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp > > No, the link needs t

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-05 Thread Dan Hensley
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 22:01 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 09-09-05 19:05:48, Dan Hensley wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora 9 system to Fedora 11 from DVD, but > > right after I identify my partition, it gives me an error saying > > that /usr/tmp is not a symboli

Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-05 Thread Dan Hensley
nting to /var/tmp. But I changed it anyway to be a symbolic link pointing to /tmp instead, and the installer is still complaining. How do I get past this? I've Googled but have not found any resolutions--only one other person with a similar question, but no answer. Thanks, Dan -- fedora-li

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Dan Track
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > On 5/19/09, 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 >> hi

How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Dan Track
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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T

[OT] ssh login script - Please Help

2009-05-07 Thread Dan Track
c/init.d/ntpd restart arg 1: server2 spawn scp /etc/ntp.conf r...@server2:/tmp/ spawn ssh r...@server2 /etc/init.d/ntpd restart r...@server2's password: Shutting down ntpd: [ OK ] Starting ntpd: [ OK ] Any ideas? Thanks for any help. Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T

Re: [OT] SSH login script - Help

2009-04-24 Thread Dan Track
2009/4/24 Manuel Aróstegui : > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:12 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I've written a simple for loop see below: >> >> for i in orion earth;do scp /etc/hosts /etc;done >> >> I have a small scripting knowledge so wou

[OT] SSH login script - Help

2009-04-24 Thread Dan Track
script the password it will use it to auto-reply to any password promtps that scp asks for when logging into all the servers. If I am right I believe readline needs to be used. If it can't be done in bash can you give me a perl alternative please. Thanks for your help. Dan -- fedora-list mail

[OT] sed command to add line after matching lines

2009-04-23 Thread Dan Track
# server orion server fire.example.com server earth.example.com server space.example.com Please bear in mind there is a lot of other text in this file not just the above and all the other text should remain untouched. Thanks for you help in advance. Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Dan
ously, something isn't right someplace. I'll poke around the next couple of days and try to determine what the problem is. Thanks a lot for your idea though, I appreciate it. Kind Regards, Dan -- "The plural of anecdote is not data." --Roger Brinner -- fedo

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Dan
7;t work on this machine which has run 2.6.29 kernels (other distribution) previously. I'll look into it the next few days and see what the differences between the two kernels are and perhaps can solve my problem. Kind regards, Dan -- "The plural of anecdote is not data."

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Dan
..but it kind of help if it boots to begin with :) > HTH ;o) It helps, thanks a lot Sam Kind Regards, Dan -- "The plural of anecdote is not data." --Roger Brinner -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailm

kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Dan
r no hints. Anyone come across this or have any suggestions? Kind Regards, Dan -- "The plural of anecdote is not data." --Roger Brinner -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-21 Thread dan
download from servers outside of the U.S. That, however, possibly puts the individual in a less than desirable position. Kind Regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedor

Re: VPN

2009-02-24 Thread Dan Koehler
use OpenSwan and xl2tp for this. Then you can make a new network connection in Windows at home, to your F10 box, and have access to the network behind it. http://www.openswan.org/. They also have a nice mailing list similar to this Fedora list, which is very helpful. Dan Koehler -- SCANNED

Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 189

2009-02-24 Thread Dan Koehler
I use OpenSwan and xl2tp for this. Then you can make a new network connection in Windows at home, to your F10 box, and have access to the network behind it. http://www.openswan.org/. They also have a nice mailing list similar to this Fedora list, which is very helpful. Dan Koehler At 11

Re: vsftp and chroot problem

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Track
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > Dan Track wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> I'm hoping you pro's can help me on this. I've setup vsftp to chroot >> users to their home directory after logging in via ftp, however I nee

vsftp and chroot problem

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Track
Hi Guys, I'm hoping you pro's can help me on this. I've setup vsftp to chroot users to their home directory after logging in via ftp, however I need one of those users to chroot to a different directory /opt/ftp/upload, can someone please let me know how I can achieve th

How to fix fstab on bootup - forgot to comment out a line

2009-01-26 Thread Dan Track
Hi I forgot to comment out a line in /etc/fstab, now when my machine boots up it keeps dropping to a filesystem check and asks for teh root password. My question is how can I get to edit the /etc/fstab file on bootup or via grub? Please help. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dan Track wrote: > Hi > > I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB > logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about > creating a 9TB partition under rhel 5.2? What block size do I need to >

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
;how much swap do I need?" but > "how much RAM do I need to avoid swapping?". > > poc Hi All, This wasn't addressed to any paricular architecture, it was more of a query. Why do I even need swap or a large disk if all my app does is read a few pieces from a database on d

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> Dan Track wrote: >>>> I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be >>>> within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, sh

RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
case then there's no need to ever create swap, is there?!? Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
the array is attached via SCSI to the server. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

RE: PackageKit major annoyances

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Book
s a > sensitive enough action and infrequent enough to require an > administrator's authorization as a default policy. The argument could be made that any time a key is being imported, authorization had to have been given to install packages in the first place, probably a few seconds ago

Gimp Gap?

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Thurman
hanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Denniston wrote: N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
kadu + gyachi and finally the only one left is: fuse-emulator for which I cannot remove. What can I do to kick-start my yum updates so that I can later add back in the above removed packages? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
kadu + gyachi and finally the only one left is: fuse-emulator for which I cannot remove. What can I do to kick-start my yum updates so that I can later add back in the above removed packages? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
kadu + gyachi and finally the only one left is: fuse-emulator for which I cannot remove. What can I do to kick-start my yum updates so that I can later add back in the above removed packages? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Weather icons missing in GNOME clock applet [SOLVED-ish]

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
fred smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:25:38AM -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:18 -0500 fred smith wrote: Did you enable weather icons in preferences? Do you have enough space on your panel to show the weather? It

Re: Weather icons missing in GNOME clock applet [SOLVED-ish]

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
application via the method mentioned above. Occassionally, I find that the "User Switcher", and the "Clock" messes up as well and also needs to be reset. Don't forget to Session-Save as well after making the changes. FWIW, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redh

Is it me or what? Musical chairs with fonts?

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
the desktop settings. Not a big deal, just a bit annoying. Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Kevin Martin wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option but could not make it work as an "AND operator": # echo "foo har" | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}' goo har $ rpm -q sed se

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Gordon Messmer wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option but could not make it work as an "AND operator": # echo "foo har" | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}' goo har $ rpm -q sed sed-4.1.5-11.fc10.x86_64 $ echo &quo

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Dec2008 18:39, Dan Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip!] You can only do AND by nesting multiple pattern matches: /foo/{ /bar/{ ... do stuff for "foo" AND "bar" } } I tested your suggestion above with and witho

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Thurman
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Dec2008 18:39, Dan Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think sed can handle relational operators, but I have not been able to figure it out. Am I correct in assuming that sed can use relational operators such as OR (|) or AND (&)? Here is an example

Sed programming question

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Thurman
x27; I tried looking up examples on the Internet, but could not find it. My brain is getting real mushy. Kind regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: How can I open-with over an NTFS filesystem?

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: I have via Nautilus (Places->)Network, mounted a remote NTFS file-system from a Windows Server and it brings up the Nautilus Browser showing the contents of the file to be viewed. What I would like to do is to do a 'tail' on a log file therein which is a text-

How can I open-with over an NTFS filesystem?

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Thurman
ed out how to do this over the mounted NFTS file-system. So, my question is, with what application can I use, if any, that supports ACES, preferably with a tail? Kind regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedor

Re: Firefox launcher option %u cause of "Starting Firefox Web Browser" button?

2008-12-03 Thread Dan Ciarniello
my F10 box but does the new launcher option have "launch feedback" enabled? Does the old one? I believe that it's an option when you create the new launcher. Dan. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fed

Re: How to install firefox flash-plugin on Fedora 10 ?

2008-12-02 Thread Dan Ciarniello
ns or, alternatively, place it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and make a symbolic link to it in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Dan. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Contact for mirror list maintainers

2008-12-02 Thread Dan Ciarniello
installed F10. Since I seem to get cogeco better than 90% of the time, it is more than a little problematic. Thanks, Dan. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: I am testing convmv and need some example non-utf-8 filenames.

2008-11-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Zullinger wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I have been scratching my head and tried all sorts of what I thought were non-utf-8 filenames but I am never sure that the filenames that I have tried are truly non-utf-8 filenames. ... and yes, I have searched everywhere in the Internet looking and

I am testing convmv and need some example non-utf-8 filenames.

2008-11-29 Thread Dan Thurman
to get conmv to recognize and convert them in my scripts. So, can anyone here provide me some sample filenames I can try? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Time setting problem

2008-11-26 Thread Dan Ciarniello
The second scenario looks like it might be related to the new faster booting in that things are done in the wrong order but what about the first? Is this just an issue related to the live CD? I am thinking about filing a bug but I would like some feedback from the list before I do so. Thanks

How to access Nautilus's Network filesystems via shell or 'Open With...'?

2008-11-16 Thread Dan Thurman
tail process ID and then tried in a Gnome Terminal: tail -f "/home//.gvfs/d$ on /Logs/Tracker.log" and it worked! However, not long afterwards, I got a message: tail: /home//.gvfs/d$ on /Logs/Tracker.log: \ Transport endpoint is not connected tail: no files remaining Hmm... any ideas

Re: Strange 'find' case?

2008-11-15 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Zullinger wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: So, my question is, how do I get around this issue - to either write a script to convert these files to a `sane' encoded characters or change something like the Language environment that the OS can handle any encoded file names? The de

Strange 'find' case?

2008-11-15 Thread Dan Thurman
et around this issue - to either write a script to convert these files to a `sane' encoded characters or change something like the Language environment that the OS can handle any encoded file names? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https:

Yum Updates: Today - Pretty good. Just minor Issues (maybe?)

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Thurman
Did a Yum Update today some, 192 files. Two packages: SeaMonkey and Vlc reported: Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop': Key file contains line '? ?' which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment Not sure if that is o

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
Alan Thanks for the tip! I will review the link you gave me (already started!) Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
re not. So is there a way to show this? As I said, I get binary icons so how do I get the unicode decimal representation so that I can match against the unicode character table to see what it is? Would it be: print \\%d, $1 ? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
ly deleting them, but I'd like to know what they really are and if they can be translated into english? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: How do I create 6 pages?

2008-10-31 Thread Dan Thurman
dvanced Any ideas? Am I missing something? Do I have to pay extra ;-) Unless I am missing something, are you talking about Workspace Switcher? If so, then move mouse over the workspace switcher, right mouse button click, then select Preferences. In the pop up Preferences menu, increase "N

Re: Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be

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