Re: grub.conf options [redux]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:28:00PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:09 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Where are they documented? > > In particular: > > * What does the quiet option do? > > * How can I get the system to display messages during shutdown? > >

Re: kickstart with iscsi

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 08:24:20PM -0800, Jon wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 17:55 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 02:55:11PM -0800, j...@destar.net wrote: > > > > > > Hello List, > > > > > > I have been trying to find

Re: kickstart with iscsi

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 02:55:11PM -0800, j...@destar.net wrote: > > Hello List, > > I have been trying to find an example of a working kickstart using iscsi > disks as the install disks but cannot find one. Every iteration of using > iscsi in my ks file has failed miserably this far. > > Can so

Re: intel integrated graphics

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:30:21PM +0100, jenny chapman wrote: > > Hi I have an intel chipset G31/946Z with graphics (GMA 3100). I have > just installed fedora 11 but am not able to change the screen resolution > so assume I may need additional drivers. New to linux. Advice much > appreciated.

Re: Converting GPT to MBR

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:20:07AM -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > Subject: Converting GPT to MBR > > > Second try to find an answer... > Hi all, > I purchased a 1.5 TB HD, and I used gparted to create 4 partitions (GPT), > without knowing that winx XP (32) cannot access GPT. Among the > is a v

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:48:44PM +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > > On 10/08/2009 01:27 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: > >> Most people trust their ISP, and rightly so, I suppose. But what if an > >> ISP was a vilain? :) What kind of access would it have to its users' > >> computers? Isn't it the

Re: Running a Script- and debugging.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:19:26AM -0400, Jim wrote: >> >> Also 'odd' things can happen if '.' and strange places >> are in your PATH. Are you running it as root via "su", >> as root via "su -", as root via "sudo" or as yourself. >> >> > Mitch you DID IT !! su - instead of su Glad

Re: Running a Script- and debugging.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:17:34PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 15:46 -0400, Jim wrote: > > Could someone give me a Ideal as to this part of a script would > > hangup > > script. > > In FC11. > > > > The hangup stops at; > > > > cd 'dirname $0' > > $0 is usually the

Re: Disk/Partition encryption

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19:46PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Weiner, Michael on 09/18/2009 12:03 PM wrote: > > Has anyone here done this? > > You can only use a FUSE-like encryption method on a live system. If you > want to use dm-crypt/LUKS you have to reformat. > > eCryptFS is one s

Re: Ati Drivers ??

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:15:02PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/18/2009 12:38 PM, Jim wrote: > > I have a Dell laptop that came with a ATI video, I found myself a > > mini-card that had Nvidia on it and made the change. > > Some preliminary googling has shown me that while nVidia lists

Re: Alt + f4 switches to virtual terminal

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:50:48PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Philip Munksgaard wrote: > > I installed Fedora 11 today on my laptop, and i'm quite liking it so far. > > > > I have one small problem though: When i try to close windows by pressing alt > > + f4, i Fedora switches to a virtual te

Re: java development questions

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:23PM -0700, jack craig wrote: > > I am using a FC11 os and want to learn Java. > > I am faced with choices that i don't have good answers for and wonder > what wisdom this group may have to offer? > > first, IDE's; there are eclipse and IcedTea6 (which doenst have mu

Re: Recovering lost+found

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:57:58AM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Major crash. 4000+ files in /lost+found. > (/vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE) > > The obvious strategy to re-install and re-update. Does anyone have a > better idea? Depends on what is in the 4000 files. You might be a

Re: How to sort a file -

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Go

Re: How to sort a file -

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:27:38PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>>> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>>> Bob Goodwin wrote: >>>>>> I have a file of Netgear rout

Re: How to sort a file -

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a file of Netgear router data that I would like to sort on date and time. Just curious -- how do you collect the data? -- T o m M i t c h e l l

Re: low-level formatter for linux

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:45:22PM -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > > > Markus Kesaromous wrote: > > > >> Is there a low-level HD formatter for linux? > > > > Why I need to do low level formatting? > Disk monitor is reporting 93 uncorrectable sector e

Re: gzip

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:44:05PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > What is the difference in gzipping on a i386 and a x86_64 machine ? > Both machine use the same version of gzip 1.3.12 but the > gz file have a slightly different length (5 more bytes for the 64 bit > machine). > In theory, I woul

Re: echo " " question

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:23:24AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > chloe K wrote: > > how can I use echo quote? I try it and it doesn't work > > > > eg: > > > > echo  " "$q" " >> a.txt > > > > it can't have " " in the a.txt > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/quoting.html > > Kevin Kofl

Re: RedHat PDC Setup Instructions...

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:34:42AM -0400, Lupo, Kelly wrote: > >I was wondering if there were any RedHat (preferably RHEL or CentOS) >docs regarding the setup of a Linux PDC. I know there's a lot of >"here's how to configure Samba / LDAP / etc", but I was really looking >for a ste

Re: Managing .rpmnew files?

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:28:40AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 06/05/2009 11:26 AM, Michael Rohan wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > Is there a standard way to manage the .rpmnew files created on "yum > > update"? It would seem the updates should be "merged" into the locally > > modified files

Re: Which directory contents I can remove??

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:19:29PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 21:03 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Normally you don't have to. There is supposed to be cron job that > > deletes files /tmp and /var/tmp that haven't been read or written in a > > while. > > Doesn't work here (severa

Re: Thuderbird focus stealing

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:16:26AM -0400, William Murray wrote: > > Hello all, > I have a UI issue with thunderbird. When I reply to an email > the next > thing I do is drag it into the corresponding 'dealt with email on that > subject' folder > Maybe this is an unusual behaviour. >

Re: smartd self test never completes (Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS CC34)

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:08:44AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > > I just got a Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS with CC34 firmware and I > noticed that the smart self-tests never complete. 24 hours after . > > The "aborted by host" was me stopping the tests after the one or two

Re: Blocking an IP for one user

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:53:19PM +0100, Paul wrote: > > Hi, > > My son is getting to that "funny" age whereby I need to keep certain > sites away from him. > > Is there any way that I can block an IP address or certain keywords from > his user settings so that it doesn't matter which browser h

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:58:27AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On 05/30/2009 04:49 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > How do you access the security erase facility? > > All kidding aside, there's a web site from which you can download a > little DOS utility to invoke security erase on a drive. Th

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:15:35PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > > Bonsoir, > > I am going to buy a Dell laptop (Latitude E6400) with nvidia graphic > card Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With PC-Card > > > Is this card working under fedora 10? Always ask this type of queston on the vendor's help foru

Re: Difference between NAT and NAPT?

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:49:13PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 07:51, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > In short, what is the difference? Are there any (dis)advantages of > > &g

Re: Editor to program in C

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:03:17AM +0930, Tim wrote: > Subject: Re: Editor to program in C > From: Tim > To: hlhow...@pacbell.net, > "Community assistance, encouragement, > and advice for using Fedora." > Cc: > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:17 +0930 > Reply-To: "Community assistance,

Re: Difference between NAT and NAPT?

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > In short, what is the difference? Are there any (dis)advantages of > using one over the other? Put your subject line in a search engine like Google. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lewis/networkpages/m05s09NAT.htm For most "mortal

Re: Mouse goes to sleep?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 08:53:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > System is Fedora 10 x86_64, the mouse is a Micro$oft wireless Laser > Mouse 5000. > > The mouse occasionally stops responding for one or two seconds and then > continues like nothing happened. There are no messages in the log

Re: mii-tool ??

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:54:53AM -0400, Jim wrote: > > FC10- X86_64 > > # mii-tool > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported > eth1: no link > > eth0 is my lan . > > Why ?? > The reason mii-tool is deprecated has to do with driver support for the mii hooks. If eth0 is the intere

Re: Question about mkfs.ext3

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:11:59PM -0700, john wendel wrote: > Subject: Question about mkfs.ext3 > From: john wendel > To: For users of Fedora > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:11:59 -0700 > Reply-To: "Community assistance, encouragement, > and advice for using Fedora." > Delivered-To: niftyfed.

Re: Bouts of Extreme System Slug

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:11:24AM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 09:56 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > Apparently, my problem was heating related. My laptop is sitting on > > a table with an uneven plastic table cloth, and since I raised it > > slightly up from the table by putting

Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:15:26PM -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:39 -0700 >> Hugh Caley wrote: >> >> >>> Problem: After running Firefox for a time (a few minutes to 30 >>> minutes) it will start taking 80%+ of CPU (as shown in top) and will >>> keep

Re: Editor to program in C

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:51:08AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: > > No one mentioned 'ed' the original line editor. > > LOL hahaha ROTFL!!! > > It's no longer April 1! > > Kevin Kofler > I know of one very senior Unix/Linux programmer that uses 'ed' as his edit

Re: emacs question: removing "self" keyword in python-mode

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:09:09PM -0700, Evan Klitzke wrote: > > I know, this is an emacs question and not a fedora question per se. But > I've asked my question on the emacs help news group without a response, > and I know there are some emacs users lurking around these parts, so I > thought I'd

Re: Forttran 77

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:05:23PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > mj...@lavabit.com wrote: >> hi to all >> >> I want help to install Fortran 77 on my laptop at >> present i am using FC9. please help me . > > Install: > >compat-gcc-34-g77 > > It sould give you a g77 c

Re: Another basic networking question.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:04:37PM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:37 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > One question per post please. > > > Sorry, I didn't want to start different threads that come back to the > one issue, which would be how di

Re: Another basic networking question.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:56:16AM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > Sender: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com > > G'day everyone, > I've been working through a networking cookbook that obviously > assumes > some basic knowledge on networking ... that I don't have. So to humbly > ask

Re: timeline for python 3?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:10:28AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > perhaps admitting my ignorance of python upgrades and backward > compatibility, but is there a timeline for the adoption of python 3 > into an official fedora release? thanks. > > see? a whole post from me without mention

Re: KDE desktop effects + GPU temp

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Endy wrote: > > I'm running up to date F10 with KDE on a dell vostro 1400 with an nVidia > 8400gs. I'd really like to be able to use transparency (one of the > desktop effects), but as soon as I enable desktop effects the GPU temp > starts rising, ge

Re: How to build a linux based cheap (handheld ) computer

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32:42PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > Can someone provide some links to build cheap / inexpensive computer > > (even with limited memory and no storage) which can run linux off a > > usb stick and can be used for basic operations. > > Isn't that basical

Re: blinking is evil

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:17:55PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. >>> Most of the he

Re: blinking is evil

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. > Most of the header lines were blinking at me. > What's going on? > How do I make it stop? > If I find the inventor of blinking text, > how slowly should I kill him? > You

Re: file locking...

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:54:59AM -0800, bruce wrote: > > hi bruno. > > for my situation. i have a bunch of files being created by an upfront > process, and on the backend, i have a number of client/child processes that > get created, which have to operate/process the files. no file is processed

Re: Partition XP disk to add F-10 -

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:27:34PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:48 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:10 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > >> I've acquired a computer with a 40 gig hard drive with > > >> one NTFS partition an

Re: Domino on Fedora

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:57:43PM +, James Wilkinson wrote: > Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > Local delivery can be done with procmail. > > Yes, but if the command expects to use /usr/sbin/sendmail to send the > mail, and that command isn’t there… > > > Nothing h

Re: Domino on Fedora

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:35:26PM +, James Wilkinson wrote: > Sender: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com > > Tom Van Looy wrote: > > Hi > > > > We are installing Domino on Fedora (9). The (IBM and Redhat) manuals > > tell you to disable sendmail and remove it from the runlevels. > > > > Great! B

Re: DHCP assistance required.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:50:30PM +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:32 +, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 05:56am on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Simon Slater > > scrawled: > > > > You owe me one :-) > > > > > default-lease-time 600; > > > max−lease−time 7200; >

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:21:05PM -0800, bruce wrote: > > hey sam > > since you've been here before.. any chance that you could post/provide your > scripts that you used to help solve the issue... > > this would be a seriously great help to anyone who runs into this issue and > would be sea

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:14:08AM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: > > Hi all! > Especially Hi to Tom! > > Thanks for your help. I tried using the --limit-rate switch on wget and it > still wasnt using the while speed. Then I found my old USB Stick (Netgear > WG111), put some effort in getting the rig

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:10:20PM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 16:34, Phil Bieber wrote: > <--snip--> > > I checked the  MTU and it says 1500, I changed it and now the speed > > test is better than the last time (~700kbit/s up, 700kbit/s down). But > >

Re: Poor WiFi Performance

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Phil Bieber wrote: > > Hi everybody! > I've recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora 10 to escape a nasty > problem I'm having but without luck. > I have a DELL Inspiron 640m / e1405 notebook based on a Centrino > chipset with an Intel 3945abg WiFi card and

Re: Why is uid/gid 350 bad? [WAS: Re: f10 gdm user hide]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:29:39PM +1300, Morgan Read wrote: > > Hi Folks > > I've just set up a user account for our scanner - no the scanner will > never login at GDM (will ftp in). So, after much gnashing of teeth, > I've given it a uid/gid of 350 so that it doesn't show up in the GDM > login

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:03:28AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:42 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > > This is explained in nearly all textbooks on Computer Architecture. So > > > the question remains, where is the address space in Linux. > >

Re: service

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:33:54AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:30AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db

Re: RAM question for everyone!

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:54:24PM +, Dan Track wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan . > >> > > >> > I'm really curious. > >> > > >> > >> SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > >> DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. >

Re: service

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:30AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? > Thank > You should see the process id of the locker. Do a "ps -efl | grep PID" to be sure. I suspect you will find that gnome starts "gpk-updat

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Under Windows XP Run=>cmd I get > >> > >> ping www.google.com -f -l 1490 . > On my system (standard Fedora-10) "ping -s www.google.com" Caution. a massive net resource like all of google.com

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:57:05PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:47:11 +0100 > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Is there a similar option for ping under Fedora? > > ping -s sizeyouwant www.google.com you must also set a do not fragment flag. -- T o m M i t c h e l l

Re: Strange MTU-ish problem

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:20:21AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I'm presently away from home, in Italy, > using an alice.it (Telecom Italia's broadband service) ADSL modem. > > This works fine, except when googling, or using wget. > When I start a search, I only get half a page of links, > ev

Re: will it break the system files?

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:24:00PM -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > cjzjm100 wrote: > > Hi,all,i seted the encoding of vim in order to display chinese > > well.Because when i opened source files programed by myslfe,the chinese > > can't display well.My locale is zh_CN.UTF-8,here is the contents of .vimr

Re: ssh clarification needed

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:32:24AM -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Anne Wilson-4 wrote: > > > > > > Is a ssh key specific to a computer, or to a user? That is, does my key > > pertain to any box on the lan, as long as I'm the user? Or is it machine > > > > > > ssh keys are specific to the use

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

See reply below... this is a bottom post list. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:19:35PM +1930, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Beartooth wrote: > >Would you believe that's news to me? I've been at this twelve or > > fifteen years, with all the exposure that implies

Re: Unrecognized Hard Drive

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:14:16PM +1030, Tim wrote: > > Tim: > >> /me wonders whether warming them up, first, would have helped? > > Mikkel L. Ellertson: > > It might have - stick it in an oven or something. On the other hand, > > it might have cause other problems. What I think was happening is

Re: fedora 10: best video card

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:46:41PM +, Don Raikes wrote: > > The video card on my gateway desktop has failed, so as I shop for a new one, > I am wondering what cards are best with fedora 10. > > I work mostly at run leve l 3 (console), with occassions when I go into the > gnome desktop. > >

Re: Fedora Architecture Questions

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:41:19AM -0800, Michael Peterson wrote: > > Hello All, > > This is my first post so please ignore the formatting. I have server > questions about the Fedora 10 architecture that I will list below this > message. I am need to present a brief presentation to my Operating

Re: What servers ~/Public

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:27:21AM -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > Is there any light file transfer daemon servicing ~/Public (which gets > autocreated) > Not in any way that matches the windows share model. It is possible (but not recommended for all systems) to have Apache serve ~/public_

Re: script help

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:35:15PM -0500, RGH wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> 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

Re: root login

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote: > > > > appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you > > from logging in as the "root" user. > > > Not that I have noticed. I installed F10 on my home PC at the week

Re: gvim syntax highlighting on FC9

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:13:45PM +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi folks. > > In my php files I have either at the top or the bottom of the file the > following: > > > which has always forced php syntax highlighting instead of html when editing > the files. > > I have just upgraded one

Re: Joiner for Linux

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:26:46PM +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote: > > I am searching a joiner for Linux. I need to join an document with > another archive, and i want can open the document without problems. > > I am not creating a trojan or something, its for add size to specific > documents (securit

Re: Sudo from scripts

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:42:45PM +, g wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > Giving root ownership to a script IMHO is a security issue. > > this is true. i have always wondered why nothing has ever been coded to check > 'chown' to insure that such is only done by those who hav

Re: Confused by xconfig behaviour.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:30:48PM -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > > Im confused by xconfig behaviour. > > I am on a 64bit Pentium. > If I am running a 32 bit kernel, and I go to build a kernel, I dont see any > 32/64 > bit options, it just assumes 32bit. > If I am running a 64 bit kernel, and I go

Re: don't print last field

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

Re: Problem with .Xresources

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:58:27PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > When I log in, I want to get my .Xresources file loaded. That is not > happening. Then I found a file called /etc/X11/Xresources > > I added the content of my .Xresources file to it > > *customization: -color > *StringConversionW

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:49:46PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 10/28/2008 08:19 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> In summery, it appears at this time that the repeated DNS >> problem (if it is really that) is isolated to Firefox. >> >> > A couple of things first. > There is a daemon, nscd

Re: Slow Second Access to Internet

In -Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:00:15PM +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > > In my FC7, using Firefox, if for example, I access > www.google.com, I get an essentially instantaneous > response. If I then close the browser, reopen it, > and again try to access googl

Re: Newbie with Login Issues

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:03:49PM -0700, Billy Gedney wrote: > >Hey, > >I'm a bit of a newb, so please forgive me in advance. I'm running >Fedora 8 on a home-brew P4 2.8 with 1 gig of ram. I am trying to run >Adobe's Flash Media Server, and I was in the middle of streaming, we

Re: VDQ : rhgb, plymouth -- and mkinitrd

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 05:18:02PM +, Beartooth wrote: > > It seems rhgb (which I have always detested, and routinely > removed from all machines) is to be replaced by plymouth . > So in F10B, "yum remove rhgb" turns into a command that removes > plymouth -- and takes

Re: Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 03:28:30PM -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote: > > I apologize if this question has been asked before. I have a new > Thinkpad T61 in scheduled to arrive sometime next week. I want to > install Fedora 9 on it. Being as it has a Core 2 Duo processor, I > assume I can install

Re: CUPS "Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)!"

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:54:47PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port > on a remote machine, but I get the above message. > I can access the computer in question with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 > T

Re: fdisk and labels

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > > "Paul W. Frields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can > > use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe. > > Thanks for the tip. > > One minor

Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:25:24PM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Nifty Fedora Mitch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Implied in all of this is a lesson to us in large and small companies > > that access and pass words and keys need to

Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:45:26PM +, g wrote: > > bob smith wrote: > > contact the system administrator, or company CISSO > > thanks for your suggestions. > > this was my first suggestion, but they were told 'security policy prohibits'. > > they are going to follow my second suggestion, af

Re: hwclock can cause system lockup

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:42:49PM -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > Ian Burrell wrote, On 10/17/2008 02:40 PM: >> Todd Denniston ssa.crane.navy.mil> writes: >>> 1) you don't need to call hwclock while NTP is running to keep the >>> hardware clock synced to system time, the kernel hackers "helpfully

Re: charting libraries

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05:26AM -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > > I've got some commodities data stored in a local mysql database. I've > been using command line perl scripts to access the data. I'd like to > throw some typical charting of high/open/low/close charts. > > So, I am trying to fi

Re: Wireless, Broadcom

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jeroen de Haas wrote: > >> There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora: >> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes >> you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain >

Re: mtrr funnies

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:59:02AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > I've got a motherboard with a fairly new chipset (Asus M3A78T > w. AMD/ATI 790GX) and I'm seeing a funny MTRR setting. I have 8GB > memory and am running a 64-bit kernel, but I'm only seeing ~4GB > mentioned in the MTRR's.

Login sound -- library mode

Does anyone know how to silence F8 login sounds short of turning down login sounds and other audio Tossing /usr/share/sounds/login.wav to the side seems to be sloppy. It is the classic boot in a library or lecture hall problem but I do not see any easy 'designed' way to get there from here

Re: display hw info from command line

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:36:45AM -0700, Fred Silsbee wrote: > --- On Wed, 10/1/08, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: display hw info from command line > > To: "For users of Fedora" > > Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3:18 PM > > I know

Re: Fedora 9

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:20:58PM +, Chris williams wrote: > >Hi > >I am currently using fedora 9. I have a 500 gig sata hard drive. the >hard driving is using XFS filing sysem. when i boot up my system. it >does recognise the hard drive but it wont let me access the >inf

Re: Git vs. Subversion. Which one?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:32:28AM -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > 2008/9/30 Nifty Fedora Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:30:39PM -0300, Armin Moradi wrote: > >>So I wanted to know about the public opinions on which one is better, > > &

Re: Git vs. Subversion. Which one?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:30:39PM -0300, Armin Moradi wrote: > >So I wanted to know about the public opinions on which one is better, >Git or Subversion as versioning control system (VCS?). If you can, please >come up with some reasons too! Like what benefits do you think your > p

Re: Evolution and Gmail

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:14 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +, Paul W. Frields wrot

Re: Eliminating duplicate photos

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:09:05PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:00 -0400, Trapper wrote: > > Itamar - IspBrasil wrote: > > > create a list of md5 of all files, > > > > > > with md5 you will find duplicated files. > > > > > > On 9/29/2008 9:04 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:31:46AM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 01:10 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Aldo Foot wrote: > >> > >> >On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >

Re: trying to install Scalapack on Fedora 9

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:24:11PM -0700, Agile Aspect wrote: > Gary Chen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get SCALAPACK to install > > properly on my Linux 64 bit installation. > > > > Running 'yum install scalapack.x86_64', the following dependencies get > > i

Re: Evolution and Gmail

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > PS "Works" is a relative term here. "Mostly works" is closer to the > > > truth because Evo occasionally loses contact with Gmail and has to > > be > > > restarted

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