Re: comparison of gnote to tomboy is confusing.

2009-10-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/13 Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net: On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: If you do a yum info on both of these you'll get your answer. I don't.. Running pinfo on both program names produces the same manual pages with the only difference is the name of the

Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/10 Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Baiduspider.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^msnbot.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^NaverBot.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Sogou-Test-Spider.* RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Mozilla/4.0.*

Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/10 Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com: 2009/10/10 Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Baiduspider.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^msnbot.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^NaverBot.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Sogou

Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
-Test-Spider.* RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}        ^Mozilla/4.0.* RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}        ^T-Mobile Dash.* RewriteRule .* - [F,L] The goal is to see the spiders bouncing off. On 10/10/09 14:55, quoth Sharpe, Sam J: Are you actually missing the [OR] at the end of the 4th and 5th

Re: xmessage alternative?

2009-10-09 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/9 Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com: I'm using xmessage from /etc/profile to put up a message whenever anyone logs in. It works fine but it is butt ugly! Does anyone know of an alternative? Perhaps something that uses a GNOME theme? Zenity It's probably already installed as loads of

Re: computer speed test

2009-10-09 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/9 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru: At the moment it has 512 MB of RAM. I've bought 1 GB. So, it's gonna be 1.25 GB. Should have bought a calculator instead... -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: grub.conf options

2009-10-08 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/8 James Wilkinson fed...@aprilcottage.co.uk: If the kernel doesn’t understand what to do with a parameter, it ignores it, but it (still) makes it available to the start-up scripts, which may do something with it. A good example of this is rhgb. And this is incredibly useful if you

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/10/4 psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org: hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do echo $w;done wl1 Consider that for a second... You are trying to generate a list of all possible combinations of an 8 character word

Re: fribidi error with abiword on F11

2009-09-30 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/30 Globe Trotter itsme_...@yahoo.com: 2) Can you show that the libfribidi.so.0 library is found and linked with /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so? Run: ldd -r /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so|grep frib ldd -r /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so|grep frib        libfribidi.so.0 =

Re: reading /var/mail

2009-09-30 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/30 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: I want a SIMPLE GUI tool for reading mail in /var/mail.  Like for /var/mail/root I don't want a heavy hitter like Evolution or Thunderbird, and mail is not a GUI.  I have used Webmin's reader, but I have systems that I do not want to install

Re: Live USB from Live CD image?

2009-09-30 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/30 Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com: Hi, I saw somewhere a tip how to make LiveUSB when booting from LiveCD image, but now I can't find that reference... I would be really grateful for anyone pointing me in right direction. http://tinyurl.com/yc6ebh3 It basically boils down

Re: fribidi error with abiword on F11

2009-09-30 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/30 Globe Trotter itsme_...@yahoo.com: From: Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com M that's interesting. As root it's resolving to a library in /usr/lib but as the user it's resolving to a library in /usr/local/lib (why do you have fribidi libraries in /usr/local/lib

Re: creating a new gnome terminal, running a command when the term starts...

2009-09-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/28 bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net: Hi. I'm trying to create/invoke a new gnome-terminal, were i start/run a script when the term starts up.. from the gnome-terminal docs, i'm assuming i can accomplish this by using the -x/-e attribute when i fire up gnome-terminal... this doesn't

Re: sed, awk, or something...help meeeeeeeeeee

2009-09-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/28 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:48 +0200, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Probably it's not what you want, but I would prefer writing a 50 lines standard C program for that task... Gah!  'Probably' isn't the right word. More reading and now I've

Re: sed, awk, or something...help meeeeeeeeeee

2009-09-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/28 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:33 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Yes, but it involves reading the man page for sed - I'm not totally sure you are capable of doing that. I suggest looking at the output of man sed, finding the section about

Re: How to install Apache w/ PHP when yum install httpd php fails?

2009-09-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/28 Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com: I did yum install httpd php to install Apache w/ PHP, and created a test page with ?php phpinfo(); ?. When I visit it and view source, I get back ?php phpinfo(); ? instead of my PHP config. /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf says nothing about PHP,

Re: sed, awk, or something...help meeeeeeeeeee

2009-09-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/28 Joerg Bergmann em...@jbergmann.de: Am 28.09.2009 21:07, schrieb Sharpe, Sam J: You specified that BB was to be /replaced/ with 1, so you will need to do this: [...@samlap Desktop]$ sed -e '/BB/R file2' -e '/BB/d' file1 This code may fail in case file 2 contains a line with BB

Re: Personal Experiences w/ HP DV6 laptops and Fedora

2009-09-24 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/24 Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com: given the poor support right now for Intel. Why do you say that? I've seen a couple of posts very recently complaining about problems with Intel drivers, but I've been using it for a long long while on: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-24 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/24 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru: If only I could find Fedora-live-floppy Enjoy this: http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm ... (note: FC5 is far far out of support ;o) -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: FC10 -- adding /var/log/messages to daily logrotate

2009-09-23 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/23 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: I just discovered that /var/log/messages is NOT part of the daily logrotate on my FC10 netbook.  My drive was full with a 4Gb messages file.  Deleted it and now the system is working right again. So I want to add it to the daily rotate.  Is

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-09-22 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/22 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: FYI, when one joins LinkedIn or other social networks you are asked if you want to have it access your address book to send invitations to your contacts. Apparently this is what happened... Sounds

Re: Fedora Rawhide 11.91 slow startup

2009-09-20 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/20 Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com: Hi, I've been on rawhide for quite some time now, and although I defragment my ext4 filesystem regulary, startup is quite slow. Until KDE has fully started up, it takes almost 2 minutes on my Core2Duo laptop. I've a second partitition where

Re: grub in mbr needs bootable flag

2009-09-17 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/17 Herbert Gasiorowski ga...@web.de: Im using a kickstart installation with my own partitioning. I had no problems with Fedora 10 but now on f11 grub will not start without a bootable flag set on any partition. It nearly looks as if grub is installed in some partition but I am quite

Re: Rhythmbox --command-line ??

2009-09-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/14 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Hi; Does anyone know how to get RhythmBox started from a command line in a launcher? I would like to put a Gnome launcher on my desktop or panel that launches RhythmBox gui but with the Radio source and my favourite Radio Station selected i.e

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

2009-09-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/14 Smith, Herb herb.sm...@boeing.com: I wish to avoid getting carpal tunnel syndrome. I adopted a track ball mouse that allows you to move the cursor with your thumb and thus eliminate the necessity to have a lot of wrist movement.  It works great for me. +1 for that. I have a

Re: Fedora 11 SSH Restricting remote user to specific dir+ sub dirs.

2009-09-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/13 Mauriat Miranda mli...@mjmwired.com: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to restrict a user to a specified dir say: /Documents/* fail2ban also installed if relevant. I used Jailkit for this exact purpose:

Re: snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

2009-09-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/13 Peter l Jakobi li...@kefk.oa.shuttle.de: 2.   Wasting  someones  time  with  excess  quoting  and  flaming   in mailinglists is a good way to ensure that he'll loose his enthusiasm. Flaming is bad, but I for one don't have too much of a problem with excess quoting. It doesn't take

Re: enabling root over ssh on F11

2009-09-12 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/12 Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@googlemail.com: 2009/9/12 Jonathan Dieter jdie...@gmail.com On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 20:53 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: I still cannot access root at login ! Must still be doing something dumb :( Aaron Looking at your earlier log, I have to ask.  Are

Re: [Solved] Re: Recuperating panel icons

2009-09-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/11 gil...@altern.org: On Friday 11 September 2009 03:33:57 gil...@altern.org wrote: I don't know how to add it back to the KDE Panel, in Gnome it is right click on Panel, choose Add to Panel - Notification Area. Solved. Thanks. Please, never end a thread this way.  Always say how

Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

2009-09-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/11 Kavon Farvardin kavo...@gmail.com: Fedora is as easy as Ubuntu to use (and I've less issues than with Ubuntu), I don't see what the fuss is about Fedora colour scheme is predominantly blue. Ubuntu colour scheme is predominantly brown /end differences -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing

Re: unable to login after getting system update of X11 in fedora 11

2009-09-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/11 Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/11 Jatin K ssh.fed...@gmail.com: On 09/11/2009 09:19 PM, Rodrigo Renault wrote: Same problem here after those updates. While the problem is not fixed, try to change to tty2 at the login screen, kill your X session and then start it again. After

Re: unable to login after getting system update of X11 in fedora 11

2009-09-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/11 Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/11 Jatin K ssh.fed...@gmail.com: On 09/11/2009 09:19 PM, Rodrigo Renault wrote: Same problem here after those updates. While the problem is not fixed, try to change to tty2 at the login screen, kill your X session and then start it again. After

Re: Recuperating panel icons

2009-09-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/10 gil...@altern.org: As I explained here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-August/msg02753.html a sleuth of icons have disappered from my top panel, but it seems the problem is only with the icons: the applications still work. For instance, I recently received a

Re: Latest kernel update for F11?

2009-09-08 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/8 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com: Is there any automatically updated web page showing the latest greatest kernel version/build available for a given Fedora version, I mean, without getting into the repos?. Say, if I want to create a shell script to check the latest kernel on the

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-02 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/2 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com: On 02/09/09 21:32, Dean S. Messing wrote: I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean.  It originally had 2 partitions.  I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran     shred -vz /dev/sdd

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-02 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/2 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little box that says System Clock uses UTC? Windows does not really understand

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-02 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/2 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/9/2 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little

Re: Argh!! Html is on again!

2009-09-02 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/2 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:15 +, g wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Looks like you forgot to turn it off before sending the above :-) actually, that is 'quoted-printable'. Why are you replying to a different list? ARRGGHHH, I spent

Re: start location for windows

2009-09-02 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/9/3 Bob Marcan bob.mar...@gmail.com: On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0100 Ron Yorston r...@tigress.co.uk wrote: Steven Stern wrote: When I start a new program in Gnome, it positions the new window at the top left of the screen. Is there a way to tell it to use some other location (e.g.,

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-23 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/23 Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au: On 21Aug2009 05:17, ann kok oiyan...@yahoo.ca wrote: | ls -1 but I only want the file to list not directory Please don't top-post. PLease BELOW and TRIM the quoted material for context, as I have done. Have you tried:  ls -l | grep '^-' I don't

Re: Is RPMfusion on strike?

2009-08-21 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/21 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com: On 08/21/2009 05:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: File a bug? Demand? What response time does your support contract promise? If this is the attitude of RPM Fusion packagers, why on earth are they touting kmod as a superior kernel module packaging

Re: More on the Cat with a Twitter account

2009-08-20 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/20 Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net: Spurred on by the touching story of the creation of a Twitter account for a cat I indeed found that if firebox was put in Internet Explorer mode using the User Agent I could create a Twitter account. I felt appropriately chastened until this

Re: raid stripe size vs performance

2009-08-20 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/20 Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:43:27PM -0700, Phill wrote: I'm rebuilding a RHEL 5 server used primarily for building code. It has perc 6i controller and I'm installing 6 15K sas drives. The plan is to setup a raid 10 configuration for improved performance.

Re: (no subject)

2009-08-18 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/18 gil...@altern.org: Does Red Hat really think that Fedora users will buy RHEL because they dig GIMP 2.2 so much? Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a very successful, profitable product line, which many people buy. I'm not sure how many of them are Fedora users and I'm not sure how much Red

Re: HACKED!

2009-08-12 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/13 gil...@altern.org: snipped 5 paragraphs of irrelevant crap So, I desinstalled/installed the MM applications and, after some playing around, everything almost seemed back to normal... with GNOME-MPlayer for playing ASF/WM files by default. For ASX, I believe Amarok was still

Re: The ideal mail client?

2009-08-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/31 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: Is there a single mail client that has a nice UI, can support both html mail and maildir format, as well as syncing caldav calendars and support gog encryption? Of course supporting multiple email accounts including imap is essential. claws does

Re: How to sort a file -

2009-08-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/1 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: I have a file of Netgear router data that I would like to sort on date and time. the form is as below:   [Site allowed: weather.noaa.gov] from source 192.168.1.9 Saturday,   Aug 01,2009 17:02:51   [Site allowed: safebrowsing-cache.google.com]

Re: The ideal mail client?

2009-08-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/8/1 Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net: On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:21 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: You only need to set your server setting (where you normally set pop or imap) to email in maildir format setting. That works great for me ;) This seems to mean that if I go to        

Re: [Totally OT] Fedora is over - Hannah-Montana-Linux Rules

2009-07-29 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/29 g gel...@bellsouth.net: Craig White wrote: Knowing how the Disney people operate, I would presume that their licensing letter/cease and desist has already been generated by their legal team. i would have thought so too, but being that it is here;  

Re: [Totally OT] Fedora is over - Hannah-Montana-Linux Rules

2009-07-29 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/29 g gel...@bellsouth.net: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: If this effort gets just one or two more members of the fairer sex hooked on Linux in their teens, then in about 10 years we might have a bit more balance  in the Community - that can only be a good thing! (no offense to all you old

Re: [Totally OT] Fedora is over - Hannah-Montana-Linux Rules

2009-07-29 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/29 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/29 g gel...@bellsouth.net: Craig White wrote: Knowing how the Disney people operate, I would presume that their licensing letter/cease and desist has already been generated by their legal

Re: [Totally OT] Fedora is over - Hannah-Montana-Linux Rules

2009-07-29 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/29 Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:04 AM, john wendeljwende...@comcast.net wrote: Seriously (well not really), http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2009/07/27/hannah-montana-linux/ Regards, John I no longer underestimate what kids can learn these days. I see

Re: Playing quicktime movies on Firefox

2009-07-26 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/25 Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk: There's a webpage at: http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/GalleryAction.movie?movie=libellula-croceipennis%28hlf%29.movscientific_name=Libellula%20croceipenniscommon_name=Neon%20Skimmer that involves a quicktime movie (I think). Is

Re: is there a burt on ifconfig for fedora11?

2009-07-26 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/26 Sarkar, Kaushik kaushik.sar...@netapp.com: Don’t know from where ifconfig getting netmask as 255.255.0.0 when I set it for 255.255.255.0 I do... r...@kaushik_fedora11 / cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 snip NETMASK=255.225.255.0 Read that very very carefully... ;o)

Re: is there a burt on ifconfig for fedora11?

2009-07-26 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/26 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 18:32 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/26 Sarkar, Kaushik kaushik.sar...@netapp.com: Don’t know from where ifconfig getting netmask as 255.255.0.0 when I set it for 255.255.255.0 I do... r...@kaushik_fedora11 / cat

Re: httpd fails after boot

2009-07-23 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/23 Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:25:48 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On my Fedora 7 (I know its old) I have been upgrading my httpd.config, including adding some Includes and RewriteCond(ENV:...).  I just noticed that after a boot, the

Re: httpd fails after boot

2009-07-23 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/23 Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:38:45 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: [...] I just examined the Rewrite log and I found that it does not recognize the environment variable.  I have S85httpd at levels 3 and 5.  Where do the environment variables

Re: Suddenly I can't mount DVD

2009-07-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/13 jack craig ja...@linuxlighthouse.com: what is the lshw command you speak of? its no on my fc11??? Then you haven't installed it... (try 'yum install lshw') But to answer your question: [...@samlap ~]$ rpm -qif /usr/sbin/lshw Name: lshw snip Description : lshw is a small tool

Re: Another Firefox 3.5 problem update

2009-07-09 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/9 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Thursday 09 July 2009, Phil Meyer wrote: This is nothing new. Nothing to see here.  Move along ... Std crowd control practices apply here too. :) Shoot the ringleader and then point out the next guy to go unless everyone else moves back? Not

Re: mysql vs selinux

2009-07-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/6 Amadeus W.M. amadeu...@verizon.net: Trying to run mysqld with datadir=/data/mysql (i.e. different than the default datadir=/var/lib/mysql). When I start mysqld for the first time it fails: [r...@alm ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start Initializing MySQL database:  Installing MySQL

Re: Moving/dragging panels on Gnome Desktop

2009-07-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/6 Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com: On 06/07/09 19:20, Max Pyziur wrote: With the F11 release it seems that panels on the Gnome Desktop are no longer moveable. In F10, I could drag a panel, situated at the bottom of the Desktop, to either one of the sides or the top. Or is this

Re: How to share a desktop? (for tutoring)

2009-07-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/6 Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com: There is an RDP server for Linux (xrdp, http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/), but it's not packaged for Fedora and it doesn't share the main desktop but sets up a separate X desktop using twm (I think).  Building it is pretty stupid simple, however I've never

Re: Moving/dragging panels on Gnome Desktop

2009-07-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/6 Max Pyziur p...@brama.com: On 06/07/09 19:38, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/6 Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com: On 06/07/09 19:20, Max Pyziur wrote: With the F11 release it seems that panels on the Gnome Desktop are no longer moveable. In F10, I could drag a panel, situated

Re: Help with d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs

2009-07-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/6 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Monday 06 July 2009, David wrote: On 7/6/2009 11:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, William M. Quarles wrote: I have a directory in my home directory named .gvfs with the following properties when I do an ls -Al: d?  

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: Can anyone tell me how to enable user bobg to access the nfs server on my box48? At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need a new install to get them back where they ought to be.   [b...@box9 ~]$ ll -al  

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: Can anyone tell me how to enable user bobg to access the nfs server on my box48? At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need a new install

Re: any ETA on improved ATI drivers?

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/4 Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca:  i ask since a problem i was having with the radeon driver during the test phase -- screen suddenly going dark, literally right in the middle of keystrokes -- is coming back and seems to be getting more frequent.  never caused any breakage,

Re: rescue from Live USB?

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/5 David L idh...@gmail.com: My 4 year old just tripped over my laptop's power cord and it smashed into the hardwood floor.  :( At this point, I thought your child was hurt! The hard drive appears to have been somewhat damaged, but still kinda sorta works. At this point I realised you

Re: OT: A note to the person in the next cubicle

2009-07-03 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/3 William Case billli...@rogers.com: I am often reticent to use bugzilla for something that is minor and has more to do with look and feel or smooth operation or a manuals usefulness than being broken.  I don't want to be a PIA by constantly nitpicking, but on the other hand I would

Re: OT: A note to the person in the next cubicle

2009-07-03 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/3 Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com: 2009/7/3 William Case billli...@rogers.com: Are people doing something (using special search criteria) to search the bug database at the same time as a general google search or are they doing a separate search in RedHat bugzilla or do

Re: f11 - missing font?

2009-07-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/1 Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com: Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:48:00 +0300 Markku Kolkka wrote: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 That wasn't installed, but installing it wasn't the solution -- the error is still present. Did you restart X (and xfs) after installing the font?

Re: accessing a samba network drive via the command line

2009-07-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/1 Kevin Kempter ke...@kevinkempterllc.com: Hi all: I have a network drive that I've setup as a samba connection in dolphin. in dolphin I can go to Network -- LacieBigDisk and connect to the drive However I want to access it via the command line I can see this info per smbclient

Re: Totem Movie Player

2009-07-01 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/2 gil...@altern.org: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 22:11:04 +0200,   gil...@altern.org wrote: Don't say Silly you!. I already said %...@#$ silly me!. Just tell me how to find which key/repositories are signed to provide updates on my system. I'll check and remove any reference to rpmfind.

Re: f11 - missing font?

2009-06-30 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/30 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net: On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:16:40 +0300 Markku Kolkka wrote: What's missing? xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 That wasn't installed, but installing it wasn't the solution -- the error is still present. Next guess urw-fonts, evidence is: [...@samlap ~]$

Re: samba shares unmountable by user

2009-06-27 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/27 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: Greetings all; Here is another example of why I run as root on the main box here, regardless of how much hell you give me about it. snip [g...@coyote Pictures]$ mount -t cifs /lappy.coyote.den/genesdir ./lappy-samba mount: only root can do

Re: samba shares unmountable by user

2009-06-27 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/27 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Saturday 27 June 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/6/27 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: Greetings all; Here is another example of why I run as root on the main box here, regardless of how much hell you give me about it. snip [g

Re: How to tell if kernel compiled from kernel.org is x86_64 or just 32 bit?

2009-06-21 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/21 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com Dear fellow Fedora users, Is there a way to tell if a kernel is 64 bit or 32 bit? If one compiles and installs a kernel from kernel.org. Why am I asking? I have a 64 bit Fedora 11 installed and it showed 2.6.29.4-???x86_64 at the end so I

Re: f11 install: dl360 and ethernet

2009-06-21 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/21 Toxicroadkill - Fedora toxicroadkill_fed...@toxicroadkill.homeip.net: im attempting to install f11 on a 1gen hp dl360, all goes well, except when it tries to init the ethernet interface, im getting 'cant bring up eth0' message. im using the exact same ip config as f7, and have tried

Re: Are there any BMR (bare metal restore) style apps for linux

2009-06-15 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/15 Gabriel - IP Guys gabr...@impactteachers.com: Thank you for taking the time to read  my email, I’m looking for a BMR app for fedora, so that I can at least have the piece of mind that I can rebuild within an hour rather than a day or so. I’ve looked at Amanda, but I’m wary about the

Re: Midnight Commander

2009-06-15 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/15 Yoram Halberstam yoram.halbers...@gmail.com: A little question for Fedora. With Suse I had Midnight Commander, a clone of Norton Commander - can I get it packaged for Fedora? # yum install mc [...@samlap ~]$ sudo yum info mc Name : mc Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version

Re: Is KOffice2.0.0 in F11?

2009-06-15 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/15 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org: Two-part question.  Is KOffice2.0.0 in F11, and specifically, is anyone running KWord?  Is it complete?  Under F10 I have a badly broken version. No, it's apparently 1.6.3 [...@samlap ~]$ yum info koffice-suite Name : koffice-suite Version: 1.6.3

Re: Root Access

2009-06-15 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/15 Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net: The locked box approach is probably not used in very large enterprises. At least not where I work ( 100,000 employees, 98,000 Tier 3 workstations.) I think there is a difference between administering a large number of Workstations (as in a

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/14/2009 11:35 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: 2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram # yum list installed | grep fc10 remove them manually if needed Carefull. Rahul said if needed. Some packages in F11 are named fc10, asw they are packages that

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com: 2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/14/2009 11:35 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: 2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram # yum list installed | grep fc10 remove them manually if needed Carefull. Rahul said if needed. Some

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/14/2009 11:51 PM, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Where is the F11 version of unique - I don't see it... # rpm -q unique unique-1.0.4-4.fc11.i586 Also, what about these? [...@samlap ~]$ sudo yum list | grep fc10 I don't have time to check

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/15/2009 12:06 AM, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: So, the outcome is that there are genuine packages in F11 that are tagged as fc10 - I can check more cases if you are still not sure. I am sure there are but the examples you gave out earlier

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/15/2009 12:09 AM, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/6/14 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: On 06/15/2009 12:06 AM, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: So, the outcome is that there are genuine packages in F11 that are tagged as fc10 - I can check

Re: Updates

2009-06-14 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Martín Marqués martin.marq...@gmail.com: 2009/6/14 Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com: To answer my own question, if you've pre-upgraded from a recent F10 to F11, you will still have the fc10 version of unique as it's a higher version (1.2-8) than the version shipped

Re: Questions with rsync

2009-06-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/13 gmspro gms...@yahoo.com: --- On Thu, 6/4/09, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote #! /bin/sh snip /dev /home/*/.gvfs/ /home/*/.google/ /home/*/.dbus/ /home/*/.fonts/ There are no files like /home/*/.gvfs/ /home/*/.google/ /home/*/.dbus/ /home/*/.fonts/

Re: rpm -qa or yum list installed sans version numbers?

2009-06-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/13 Scott Beamer geek...@angrykeyboarder.com: I'm trying to accomplish either. I've done it before but I forgot how. I previously was able to find this information via a Google search but today I've come up empty. If you know how, please share. :) [...@samlap ~]$ rpm -qa --qf

Re: rpm -qa or yum list installed sans version numbers?

2009-06-13 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/14 Phil Meyer pme...@themeyerfarm.com: On 06/13/2009 03:55 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: I'm trying to accomplish either. I've done it before but I forgot how. I previously was able to find this information via a Google search but today I've come up empty. If you know how, please share.

Re: F11: can't record from line input

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/10 James Bridge ja...@xmas.demon.co.uk: F11 seems only to have microphone input. I could record from line input in F10, using audacity. (Gnome sound recorder always gave problems.) F11 has simplified the audio controls to the point that it seems impossible to activate the line input.

Re: ssh tutorial

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 gmspro gms...@yahoo.com: --- On Sat, 6/6/09, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net Subject: Re: ssh tutorial To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 6:49 PM Uwe Kiewel wrote: yourname=linux user account  // Am i

Re: ssh tutorial

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 gmspro gms...@yahoo.com: I would try     ssh -v ipaddress This does not work. It says permission denied after giving the password three times. and     ssh -l abc ipaddress Giving the same password this works. Is your username on the machine you are ssh'ing from the same as

Re: ssh tutorial

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 gmspro gms...@yahoo.com: Is your username on the machine you are ssh'ing from the same as your username on the machine you are ssh'ing to? Never, usernames are different. Well that is why ssh -l abc ipaddress and ssh a...@ipaddress work for you, but ssh ipaddress won't. You are

Re: httpd mod_file_cache missing so is someones logic

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 Brian Millett bmill...@gmail.com: Ok, I looked at the Changelog for httpd-2.2.11-8 and I see this: * Tue Mar 17 2009 Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com 2.2.11-8  - fix pidfile in httpd.logrotate (thanks to Rainer Traut)  - don't build mod_mem_cache or mod_file_cache

Re: How to mount old FC10 hdd as secondary drive in new FC10 machine

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 Frank Millman fr...@chagford.com: Hi all I have installed FC10 on a new hdd. I have an existing FC10 on another hdd, and I want to copy some data onto the new hdd. I have put the old hdd into the same machine, as a secondary drive, but I am having difficulty in mounting it. Here

Re: Monitor Driver for Sony VGN-FW235J

2009-06-11 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/11 thor richards fve...@yahoo.com: I downloaded Fedora 11 and running it on my laptop through a Virtual box by Sun. It's working great but the monitor driver is not loaded, therefore; the resolution is limited.  Does anyone know where I can find the video driver for the laptop listed

Re: UPS monitor application

2009-06-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/10 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net: F10 What is the name of the UPS Linux application that you can monitor APC Battery Backup ? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=APC+UPS+Linux -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: RPM Fusion-10-5.rpm

2009-06-10 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/6/10 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net: On 06/10/2009 01:26 PM, g wrote: Jim wrote: Where can I find most updated rpmfusion.rpm's ? i would think that http://rpmfusion.org will have latest. see chart at bottom of page for versions. Thanks for the direction. I see what you mean,

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