Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-14 Thread Rick Sewill
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:58 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 13:35 -0700, simon.schneeb...@okko.org wrote: At my brothers place I managed to connect to the internet with no problem. All programmes worked, so I could add all the additional programs I needed and install

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-13 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 17:16 -0700, simon.schneeb...@okko.org wrote: Quoting H. Willstrand h.willstr...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, simon.schneeb...@okko.org wrote: I currently have 6 Troubleshooter isues: - SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python write access on

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-26 Thread Rick Sewill
I don't know if it will be useful, but have you considered using STUN software to get the IP address? There is a package, libnice, which contains a program, /usr/bin/stunbdc You need to select a public stun server, perhaps from the list at URL http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/STUN Please

Question on using a Joystick as a mouse in Fedora please?

2009-09-14 Thread Rick Sewill
I have a question on using a Joystick as a mouse in Fedora. I wish to avoid getting carpal tunnel syndrome. I noticed, when I use regular mice, I have poor hand position. So far, my wrist is okay...but it gets red if I'm not careful. I was thinking, it might be better for me, if I could use a

Re: enabling root over ssh on F11

2009-09-12 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 18:13 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: On 12/09/2009, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Aaron Gray wrote: I need to enable root access via sshd. I will be using certificates and firewalled access. I tried remove the suffix user != root quiet from /etc/pam.d/gdm.

Re: enabling root over ssh on F11

2009-09-12 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 18:18 -0500, Rick Sewill wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 18:13 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: On 12/09/2009, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Aaron Gray wrote: I need to enable root access via sshd. I will be using certificates and firewalled access. I tried

Re: Open SSH client error

2009-07-27 Thread Rick Sewill
I just installed fedora 11 64bit on our server, the problem is I cannot connect to other Linux server using ssh the error says ssh: connect to host 83.229.64.51 port 22: No route to host. Its strange because I already disabled the firewall and the selinux on this server and I can

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-25 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:48 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: I was leading you on a wild goose chase...sorry. Looking at your syslog, your ISP is providing you with DNS servers. Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: local IP address 76.236.148.89 Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: remote IP address

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-24 Thread Rick Sewill
Sorry. I messed up my mailing list subscriptions. I need to respond to a previous message in this thread. I saw your response on https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-July/msg02609.html You indicated there is no DNS resolution? What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file please? My

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-24 Thread Rick Sewill
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 16:05 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM, charles zeitlercfzeit...@gmail.com wrote: using fedora11, after a while ( about 1.5 weeks on this computer ) my network connection stops working... thanks to the help offered, i have reduced the

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-23 Thread Rick Sewill
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 02:18 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Sewill
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:22 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 19:05, quoth Rick Sewill: My thought is to pgp sign my mail. Those who know me, who have spoken to me over the phone and have received mail from me, can save my

Re: Does Iced Tea Web Start work on Fedora 10? What about Fedora 11?

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Sewill
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:51 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Gianluca Sforna gia...@gmail.com [2009-07-13 03:31]: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Rick Sewillrsew...@gmail.com wrote: Step 2 - Complete your setup fails when I use Iced Tea Web Start on Fedora 10. I click Configuration Room to

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 09:47 -0700, Les wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 18:38 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: \ If I may, I'd like to amplify on G's lack of Netiquette. I am also using Thunderbird with the

Does Iced Tea Web Start work on Fedora 10? What about Fedora 11?

2009-07-12 Thread Rick Sewill
I use Fedora 10. I have not tried upgrading to Fedora 11 yet. I am using a 64 bit kernel and try to use 64 bit programs wherever possible, uname -r gives 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64 I use firefox, firefox-3.0.11-1.fc10.x86_64. I decided to attend some online webcasts--I believe they are one

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Sewill
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:16 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: Besides the fact that Skype is closed source, I was under the impression that the idea of distributed voice transmission was an advantage. Shouldn't a ideal communication system have no single point of failure (or a country club of them,

Re: ssh tutorial

2009-06-07 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:26 -0700, gmspro wrote: Many thanks. This is a great tutorial. It helps to learn basic uses of ssh. I was looking for this. It saved my time from googling and reading long man ssh page. One last thing,reading other mail from fedora-list I knew that I must be the