Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-12-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/24/2009 04:21 AM, John Austin wrote: Just tested my machine with UDP and TCP This was using md5sum for about 10GB over the NFS mount 1. The default for F12/Centos5.4 appears to be TCP - which freezes 2. Forcing UDP gives NO errors for 10GB transfer 3. Forcing TCP gives a freeze I

Re: F12 installs report here.

2009-11-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dell Inspiron 531S: Installed 64-bit, everything I've tested works perfectly. Dell Latitude E6400: Installed 64-bit, everything I've tested works perfectly. Dell Inspiron 546: +Airlink 101 wireless PCI card Installed 64-bit, everything I've tested works perfectly. (Side

Re: Preup to F12, won't boot

2009-11-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/19/2009 10:51 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: I just preupgraded from F10 to F12, and booting goes as far as the Fedora logo (circle with lower tip) filling up with white, then flashing briefly. Then the screen goes and stays blank afterwards, except for a cursor, and it displays if I

Re: spoof rsa fingerprint

2009-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/15/2009 05:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Did you read the URL I posted? It's a tutorial with very explicit information. If you understand how public-key crypto works, you'll realize that spoofing the fingerprint doesn't help the attacker. In the scenario that the OP

Re: spoof rsa fingerprint

2009-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/17/2009 04:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It's my understanding that the password would still be sent over an encrypted channel (using the original host's public key), so I don't see the problem. There is no original host in the hypothesized scenario. There's an attacker whose

Re: the ultimate fedora laptop?

2009-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
I've been pretty happy with my Dell Latitude E6400. I bought mine from their outlet store. If you go that way, look for one with Intel wireless rather than Dell wireless (Intel vs Broadcom chipset) and Intel or AMD video. The E6400 has a Core 2 Duo which is 64bit and supports hw

Re: pseudo terminals

2009-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/10/2009 08:12 AM, devi wrote: Hi, I think , I have not explained it correctly, in the first mail. I mean that echo service httpd status /dev/pts/2, is executed in first terminal(/dev/pts/1), and the output is redirected to the /dev/pts/2. That is correct. The echo command

Re: SELinux Exim Problem

2009-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/09/2009 02:56 AM, John Horne wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 12:21 +0530, Didar Hossain wrote: But, why check /boot? As far as I understood from the statvfs(2), it accepts a path to get the information. /boot is not something that Exim will use as a spool directory. Or am I missing

Re: pseudo terminals

2009-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/08/2009 09:16 AM, devi wrote: I executed a command like echo service httpd status /dev/pts/2 , where /dev/pts/2, is the virtual machine's terminal from the other terminal. The command service httpd status is executing in the virtual machine's terminal. I think you're

Re: exim: SELinux

2009-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/14/2009 07:33 PM, Frank Chiulli wrote: Here's what I did: - as root, I ran '/etc/init.d/exim stop' - as root, I ran 'exim -bd -d+all/tmp/ex.file 21' - as a normal user, I ran 'fetchmail' In the past, this would result in an AVC error; but not this time. BTW, there

Re: PostgreSQL setup and use

2009-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2009 11:43 PM, Brad Pepers wrote: 2. So now I have it installed and I try to create a database using createdb. I'm logged in as bpepers and just do createdb foo on the command line. I get this error message: createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: Ident authentication

Re: Kickstart configurator

2009-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/19/2009 03:49 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I wanted to install my fedora on an existing logical volume. However, the configurator want to have sdax or hdax. How, can I specify /dev/Vol_Group1/LV_usr ? Are you trying to upgrade an existing installation or install a fresh OS on an existing

Re: Client connect to NFS server as user?

2009-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/21/2009 07:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I'm still trying to mount as user bobg without success! 192.168.1.48 is the server, 192.168.1.9 is a client and in the box9 client I have the following lines in /etc/fstab: 192.168.1.48:/home /home/NFS-files nfs rw,users 0 0 192.168.1.9:/home

Re: F11 moans

2009-06-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/16/2009 06:41 AM, William Murray wrote: c) kerneloops Always seems to be running on boot up. It consume 100% of a cpu core for 10 -20 minutes before popping up a notification. This may be due to LOTS of these messages: Jun 16 15:34:07 hepntl141 kernel: [drm:drm_wait_vblank] *ERROR* failed

Re: RPM noob (query, log, build)

2009-06-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/05/2009 10:41 PM, Thufir wrote: So, I went and built my first RPM recently. I had to go back and forth a bit with the developers, but it's built from the most recent svn update of curl-java, and, from what I see, is exactly what I wanted to install is installed the way I want it

Re: F11 - X forwarding display problem

2009-06-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/31/2009 08:06 PM, John wrote: xorg-x11-xauth was already installed. I created a new user and tried to login. Here is the output: [j...@lt-02 ~]$ ssh -X t...@lt-01 t...@lt-01's password: /usr/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/tom/.Xauthority [...@lt-01 ~]$ gedit

Re: Questions with rsync

2009-06-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/03/2009 06:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 03:02 -0700, GMS S wrote: Will this command do the job for backup? rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup Er, isn't this recursive? What I meant to say was isn't

Re: F11 - X forwarding display problem

2009-05-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/31/2009 10:53 AM, John Foisy wrote: I've already tried the -Y option with no results. Here is the content of the pertinent section of sshd_config: That's odd. I have two machines running F11 with all of the updates, and X11 forwarding between them works just fine with both -X and -Y.

Re: F11 - X forwarding display problem

2009-05-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/31/2009 11:53 AM, John wrote: [j...@lt-02 ~]$ ssh -v LT-01 -X ... debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. ... [j...@lt-01 ~]$ ls -lZ $XAUTHORITY drwxrwxr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bin ... It looks like XAUTHORITY isn't set, which means

Re: emacs c++ code completion help

2009-05-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Steven W. Orr wrote: BTW, How do you make a hormone? Two ways: ... I'd have thought that after the Rails Perform like a porn star debacle, more people would realize that this kind of thing isn't really appropriate in general, and serves to keep women from joining the community. --

Re: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

2009-05-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
g wrote: intel sucks on anything but ms, because intel joined the ms whore house years ago along with many other oem suppliers because of their fear of not being included in ms specs. in off quote of b.g., 'exclusively ms or be left out'. Balderdash! Intel appears to be working quite hard to

Re: Running 32 bit binaries on 64 bit systems

2009-05-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Although I'm having this on FC11 I had it on FC6, so it's hardly new or testing material. The problem with trying to run 32 bit binaries is that they take vast numbers of libraries which have to be located and installed, and generally one at a time. find . -type f -perm

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

2009-03-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I thought I'd posted the details earlier -- if not here they are. F10 64-bit x86 install with daily yum updates. Anything else you need to convince yourself this is a problem? I'm curious. I have the same setup (64bit F10), and I don't see the same problem.

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Adel ESSAFI wrote: My idea is to build a distribution that is based on Fedora at 100% with 1. LTS 2. with a very reduce number of packages I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I think you underestimate the amount of effort involved in this. Fedora is a community with many members, and

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
M A Young wrote: I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot line), and once you have it installed, boot to a text console (add 3 to the boot line), then add Option NoAccel true to the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I'm curious whether it's necessary to disable

Re: creating own RPMs

2009-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
David Hláčik wrote: So far i was creating packages by using rpmdevtools and rpmbuild itself. I've read about mock , which is chrooted environment for building SRPMs . But does this mock can be applied on spec files? Do i need to prepare srpm package before i can work with mock? If so, this will

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

2009-03-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com writes: I think you're confused by the fact that the identities are still listed by ssh-add -l. They're certainly deactivated and require a passphrase in order to be used again (tested in GNOME 2.24). No, I'm confused by the fact

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

2009-03-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Todd Zullinger wrote: Are you able to remove identities from the gnome provided agent? I am not. Not with the -d or -D switch. Yes, I am. Both -d and -D work properly on GNOME 2.24 in F10. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

2009-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Another thing that appears not to work with the gnome version of the ssh-agent is ssh-add -d or ssh-add -D. Not good. I think you're confused by the fact that the identities are still listed by ssh-add -l. They're certainly deactivated and require a passphrase

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

2009-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Todd Zullinger wrote: I do appreciate the efforts of the gnome keyring folks, but the documentation is sorely lacking, and having undocumented magic in the area of crypto key handling is not something that gives me warm fuzzies. I believe the documentation wasn't written because services were

Re: FC9 Compromised...

2009-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jack Lauman wrote: Have any other incidents like this been reported lately? Not that I know of. What network services were running on these hosts, and what web applications? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: can nat work in vlan

2009-02-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
ann kok wrote: I want to configure 802.1q 3 vlans can nat work in those vlan? Yes. You can treat a VLAN interface as you would a real hardware interface. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: 2nd try: Was Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

2009-02-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Tim wrote: And wouldn't that mean that for at least some time, you have a network without any firewall protecting you? Yes, but on a host firewall or NAT firewall, there's very little risk in that. In between the network init and firewall init, there's nothing exposed (unless you're using

Re: 2nd try: Was Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

2009-02-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ed Greshko wrote: I've not looked into the OPs problem... But I do wonder about what you've said that prompts me to ask... I was actually wrong about the problem. His firewall set ip_forward to 1, but sysctl.conf set it to 0. During boot, the firewall service started first and enabled IP

Re: Using rsync to maintain local FC10 updates repo

2009-02-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: You can install from a mirror with updates such that no post install yum update would be needed? That's right. You can do it with either the script that I posted or with revisor. Or several other tools. I thought the original base packages were hardcoded in

Re: Using rsync to maintain local FC10 updates repo

2009-02-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: ... rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/ \ --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/fedora/10/updates/i386 Except that this mirror's rsync seems to be broken! ;) How does that work? Why don't you need -r to recurse? I tried

Re: CDMA PC Card (Verizon PC5570) no longer works in F10

2009-02-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Kenneth Lee wrote: Thank you for the link! The fix is also in the most recent kernel update. -- 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: dmesg: any idea about this ssh error

2009-02-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
ann kok wrote: any idea about this ssh error in dmesg? How to fix it? __ratelimit: 13 callbacks suppressed sshd[12827]: segfault at 0 ip 08048f03 sp bf97ca00 error 4 in sshd[8048000+c5000] Use memtest86 to check your RAM? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: CDMA PC Card (Verizon PC5570) no longer works in F10

2009-02-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Kenneth Lee wrote: When I first installed Fedora 10 when the distribution first was available, I was really pleased with how well integrated NM was with CDMA cards from Verizon. I would just plug the card in, and I was able to surf the net. It just worked. Last week, I was at a conference and

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
john wendel wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: My first guess is that your system is using the VESA driver rather than nv. Maybe you should send /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thanks, I didn't think of this one. I'll check when I return to work. Did you ever get to check that, John? If you're still

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gene Heskett wrote: The bottom line would appear to be, if you don't have any databases to save, then yum remove *mysql*, updatedb locate and nuke ANYTHING left behind, then re-install. If you have a database to save, well, rotsa ruck. Hope you have backups. It's not quite that bad. You

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gordon Messmer wrote: It's not quite that bad. You can reset by simply removing the contents of /var/lib/mysql and starting the mysql service. If you have a database to save, you can use --skip-grant-tables and resetting any passwords that you

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gene Heskett wrote: ... With all due respect Craig, what the hell use is it then when ALL the documentation is wrong? ... /tmp itself is drwxr-xr-x amanda disk system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 tmp Well, that's totally wrong. I'm curious about how permissions on /tmp got broken. That's

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gene Heskett wrote: See other posts that describe what I did to recover. Thanks. I read your other posts, but didn't see that you'd recovered. Things are working now? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: file search engine in fedora

2009-02-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Barry Yu wrote: Other than using find command, is there any GUI search engine like Spotlight in MAC or Search in Windows? The Search in Fedora File Browser I just don't know how to use it. If you install one of beagle or tracker, the Search item in the Gnome Places menu will use them for

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
john wendel wrote: Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Resizing or moving a window is a nightmare, the screen redraw is too slow to keep up with the cursor, and I see lots of screen glitches. When I open an app like Firefox with a complicated screen, I see the screen

Re: XFCE depends on GNOME, why?

2009-02-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Globe Trotter wrote: I thought I provided a very specific list of dependencies as an example. It might be helpful if someone showed you how dependencies are generated, because I don't think you understand. It's not accidental on the part of the package maintainer. $ rpm -q --requires

Re: Wifi dies about once an hour. Bug in update ?

2009-02-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Linuxguy123 wrote: My wifi dies about once an hour. The only way I can get it working again is to reboot. Very irritating. ... uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 02:09:37 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Power management has been flaky on

Re: rsync using sudo.

2009-02-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
gary artim wrote: The problem: the local files get permission denied on root owned files subdirs. If I add sudo /usr/bin/rsync --stats -ae ssh --rsync-path=sudo /usr/bin/rsync /my rs...@host1:/backup/my I get prompted for a ssh passwd. Has anyone solved or done this? sudo rsync --stat -ae

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2009-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mail Lists wrote: Switching was not without some discomfort and effort ... of note: - I've been unable to add items to my desktop menu(s) System - Preferences - Look and Feel - Main Menu I'm able to add and remove items using this tool. - keyring management needs help - and

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
Aaron Konstam wrote: This is explained in nearly all textbooks on Computer Architecture. So the question remains, where is the address space in Linux. Patrick isn't the only one confused by your question. I can't make heads or tails of it. Are you asking where the mapping between the

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
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, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started researching RAID controller cards. It looks like it will cost me $520 to get a good PCI-E card (3Ware 8 port). I don't think I want to spend that much if I don't have to.

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:06 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: maybe based on the idea that swapping will cause the system to behave badly It seems strange to think that a system will swap just because there's swap space available. No where did I suggest that. What I was referring

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:06 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: It's also important to bear in mind that under the standard configuration, you must have at least as much free memory as the largest application in your server, or else that application won't be able to call

Re: OT ? PyQt: how is the commercial license not GPL ?

2009-01-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
Linuxguy123 wrote: The free version of PyQt is licensed under the GNU General Public License. If your use of PyQt is compatible with the GPL then you do not need to buy a commercial PyQt license. Similarly you do not

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Reserving a swap area and its size is rather dependent on what the machine is doing. We have database servers that, on occasion, get hammered and revert to using swap for a brief time. We use a 2X swap size and we've come close to using it all, so it's still valid. You

Re: RAID5 gets a bad rap

2009-01-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: ... No. Even in the worst case it would read N-2 blocks (you are writing a new data block and calculating new parity), and two writes. Let's just say that I've seen controllers behave in ways that I don't understand, and that I agree, the cost

Re: RAID5 gets a bad rap

2009-01-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Your assertion ignores the fact that filesystems themselves are, in fact, databases. Real-world experience with many production systems and many workloads has convinced me to use RAID 5 as rarely as possible. Even when I'm forced to use it, I

Re: RAID5 gets a bad rap

2008-12-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
Chris Tyler wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 01:02 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: That's not quite it. RAID 5 performance suffers because every write requires that the entire block that's being written be read from every drive in the array, parity calculated, and then the data and parity written

Re: RAID5 gets a bad rap

2008-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
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. That's not quite it. RAID 5 performance suffers because every

Re: E-mail Server

2008-12-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
There's plenty of advocacy for Postfix and Dovecot on this list; I occasionally like to chime in with a bit for Courier MTA: http://www.courier-mta.org/ Among the advantages I appreciate: * Maildrop is much easier to manage than procmail * Configuration is much simpler: it's substantially

Re: home directory

2008-12-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Todd Denniston wrote: Craig White wrote, On 12/19/2008 12:03 PM: getent passwd | grep $1 | awk -F: '{ print $6 }' ... Thanks for that getent call suggestion, it simplifies one of my scripts greatly. The grep is useless, and should be discouraged. Use something like this instead: getent

Re: Apt-get really screwed up on F9

2008-12-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Nigel Henry wrote: [r...@localhost djmons]# apt-get update ... Hit http://rpm.livna.org 9/i386/ filelists.sqlite apt-get: rpm/rpmindexfile.cc:645: std::string rpmRepomdIndex::IndexURI(std::string) const: Assertion `Res.size() 0' failed. ... I've had to do a yum update to update F9, which

Re: infrastructure modest proposal

2008-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:33:49 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: Isn't that sort of the intent of the testing repo? I dunno :-). Maybe we don't need another layer, maybe we just need the simple check for obvious dependency problems in testing, but I think maybe the the associated

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
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 foo har | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}' foo har --

Re: infrastructure modest proposal

2008-12-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Tom Horsley wrote: With all the dependency problems that always seem to crop up in updates, I'd like to make a simple suggestion that would hide 99% of these issues from us pore old users: Add another layer of repos: Just before the updates repo, have a almost updates repo. Packages that get

Re: How to get rid of selinux

2008-12-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
gab_v wrote: p.s. I said not how to disabled SELinux because I did it once and I did not solve the problem and, after that, I had a block at boot process. You probably ran setenforce 0 or added a kernel arg in grub (but not grub.conf). Those don't permanently disable SELinux. To do that,

Re: want to prevent people from making mistakes?

2008-12-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jeff Spaleta wrote: The the current lifetime is an honest representation of the amount of contributor support that we have on hand. The Fedora Legacy sub-project was attempted but it did not have enough contributor support to be self-sustaining. Which reminds me of something I was thinking

Re: mysql

2008-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
ann kok wrote: I configure the mysql replication but got this warning How can I fix this problem? ... [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use

Re: Regenerating expired mail.crt?

2008-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Philip Prindeville wrote: How do I reconstruct an expired mail.crt file? As I remember, the cert was originally generated automatically by the .spec when I installed some package or another, but I can't figure out which it was or I'd just peek into the .spec and repeat it again. # cd

Re: DNS broken after Fedora 10 upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
woodson2 wrote: This is what I see in /var/log/messages 03-Dec-2008 10:07:46.262 /etc/named.conf:28: using specific query-source port suppresses port randomization and can be insecure. 03-Dec-2008 10:07:46.263 could not get query source dispatcher (0.0.0.0#53) You should probably take the

Disable sound for KVM guest

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
I've noticed that when I create a new virtual machine under F10, it takes control of the dsp device when it's running. I've tried commenting out the sound element in its XML configuration file, but that hasn't helped. Is there a way to disable sound support for KVM guests? -- fedora-list

Re: Disable sound for KVM guest

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: Which tool do you use to create the XML? I'll take a look, but I have been starting my stuff mostly from command line. Leaving off -soundhw seems to do the job. I used virt-manager to create the VM. The configuration file is /etc/libvirt/qemu/TestCentOS.xml. The guess

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Simon Andrews wrote: John Austin wrote: I think it probably only needs the documentation updating to say put the install.img file in an images subdirectory for an NFS install I disagree. You shouldn't need to do this - and it make it a right pain if (as I have) you have an i386 and and

Re: Revisor

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Martin Schiøtz wrote: Does somebody know what's going with the revisor project? The mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not seem to work. The lists were moved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] this afternoon. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/revisor-users I have been trying to build CentOS and

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just echo *log instead of ls. Neither of those are reliable. If there are enough matches to require xargs, then both ls

Re: F10 nfs installs

2008-11-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Cloaked wrote: Interestingly I was trying to set this up from an existing F9 system with SElinux enabled, and following the guidance at the page you quote I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED] f10]# mount -o loop /home/mike/isos/f10/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/tmp -t iso9660 then [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh+background process in script

2008-11-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
hari krishna angadi wrote: $ vim myscript.sh ./Pgm $ /usr/bin/ssh -x -n -o BatchMode=yes 127.0.0.1 cd /home/tom/Test_Dir/ '' ./myscript.sh If i run this command hello world is not printed. If i run this same in FC2 hello world in printed. *Whether there is solution to this or it is a bug

Re: More strange F9 dependencies

2008-11-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
Beartooth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum remove bluez-* ... Removing: bluez-libsi386 3.36-1.fc9 installed 126 k bluez-utils-cups i386 3.36-1.fc9 installed 40 k I feel like I should point out that all of this fuss is

Re: [sudo-users] How to disable ( deny ) user to change the password of root

2008-11-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, what means about the sentence ? The last line of the script that I suggested to you was: passwd -- $1 That line would be more secure if it were specific about where passwd should be: /usr/bin/passwd -- $1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Sudo from scripts

2008-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In any case, the owner of the script is only security-relevant in two cases: 1) if it allows someone to edit the script who normally couldn't, or 2) if the script is setuid. Of course it could also change who can *execute* the script, but if

Re: [sudo-users] How to disable ( deny ) user to change the password of root

2008-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT there is another problem of it ( I think it is a bug of sudo ). When you enter sudo passwd without the option (eg:userid): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo passwd Changing password for user root. New UNIX password: That's not a bug. sudo doesn't know what you're

Re: [sudo-users] How to disable ( deny ) user to change the password of root

2008-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Matthew Flaschen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Yes, there is. Don't let users execute any of those commands directly. That's not a solution. The user can still edit /etc/passwd manually. In the solution I propose, the user can only edit passwd-wrapper and other wrappers with sudo

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not resolve

2008-11-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bill Davidsen wrote: I just did a new FC9 (fully updated) install, and it regularly rejects outgoing mail with the subject error message. The address does resolve, of course, so I'm not sure what it means instead of what it says. Take the domain from the error message and run host domain on

Re: Build 64-bit kernel on 32-bit system

2008-11-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
john wendel wrote: john wendel wrote: Much to my surprise, there isn't a 32 vs 64 bit toggle in the kernel config. Google confused me, but did tell me I require a 64bit toolchain. This seems bogus, since the kernel is self contained. I think it should be enough just to set the proper gcc

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: utf-8 typing problem in X

2008-11-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Carlo Nyto wrote: 2008/11/7 Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think you should be using LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 You think my problem is because I have it set to Japanese, or that I should change it to Japanese to get proper English text? I think you have *something* set to use Japanese locale

Re: Build 64-bit kernel on 32-bit system

2008-11-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
john wendel wrote: After reading some of the 32bit vs 64bit thread(s), I thought I'd build a 64bit kernel on my 32bit F8 box. Got the latest kernel source and stable patch from kernel.org and tried running make menuconfig. Much to my surprise, there isn't a 32 vs 64 bit toggle in the kernel

Re: Is F9 Security an oxymoron?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Feustel wrote: I ask this because I am having new and persistant problems with both Firefox and Konqueror running on 32-bit F9. The problems suggest DOS exploits, and I wonder just how these exploits are being implemented against the two browsers. Install and run iptraf. Go to Detailed

Re: dependency champion?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Henk Breimer wrote: I fully understand what caused this. My next question would be : what would happen if such a helper program for every small lanquage were included in the same way? Pango *is* a helper for every language. Thai just happens to be one case where the functionality required

Re: What is Fedora..

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Monty wig wrote: 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? Linux is a kernel which provides device drivers, memory management, networking, and other essential services. It is used

Re: dependency champion?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Les Mikesell wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Henk Breimer wrote: Pango *is* a helper for every language. Thai just happens to be one case where the functionality required for rendering their language existed already and could be reused, rather than requiring the Pango team to write

Re: utf-8 typing problem in X

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Carlo Nyto wrote: I have a problem with Fedora 9 - if I type in X, whether it is in a firefox window, a gaim window, an xterm, a gnome-terminal, a gvim window, it will randomly switch to some Unicode part of the character set. It looks to me like the problem is that you're /not/ using a UTF-8

Re: dependency champion?

2008-11-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Beartooth wrote: Pango should never have required libthai in the first place -- not in a release -- not if libthai is anything remotely like what its name suggests. The alternatives are to a) write their own code for Thai font handling b) include libthai rather than link to it c) don't

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not need to stat() the directory entry: Sorry, won't work for GVFS filesystem mountpoints. As soon as the non-owner touches the inode, the error occurs. ... Note that test

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Nice to hear...or is it a change in GVFS? No, FUSE hasn't changed. The GVFS filesystem remains private to the user who mounted it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Burns wrote: man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: You need to tell find what to do with files not named .gvfs: find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune -o -print Will not work. As soon as the non-owner of .gvfs does a stat on the directory, the error will be spit out. find must stat() any item

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
Joe Smith wrote: Dave Burns wrote: ... Not sure if it is a bug in find or gvfs, but -xdev and -mount do not help with this problem. I've never seen these options work, ever. I sure would like to know why, or what I'm doing wrong, it would be handy to be able to use them. That depends on

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