Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:31 +0200, wwp wrote: > Hello Jim, > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:12:24 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wwp wrote: > > > Hello Jim, > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >> wwp wrote: > > >> >>> Hell

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Chambers
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:00 -0400, William Case wrote: > I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gui_rpc_auth.cfg > to /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg > > No joy. Does anybody else have any ideas?? If /var/lib/boinc is where the files exist, then you need to try the following.. 1 - cd /

Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

2008-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 16:34 +0930, Tim wrote: > Try telling them that when a government decides that they do own you, > and that you must do this and that... You must pay us taxes or else, > you're drafted, you can't leave/enter a country without our say so, > these are the laws that will be appl

Desktop effects, workspaces, and the workspace switcher

2008-06-19 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces. I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this behaviour? I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it

Re: firefox 3 and RealPlayer 11

2008-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 16:00:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after installing firefox-3.0-1.fc9.i386, I additionally installed RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm. But after this, no more files with suffix ".ram" can be played: /tmp/allfilms-5.ram could not be opened, because the associa

Re: SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-19 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Donnerstag, den 19.06.2008, 09:52 -0600 schrieb Robin Laing: > Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 13:25 -0400 schrieb Jorge Fábregas: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a > >> couple of times a day. When i

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 03:50 +, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Don't the Free Software alternatives like Kaffeine work for you? There are > ways > to get the patent-encumbered codecs for them, for example > xine-lib-extras-nonfree (which should actually be called something like > xine-lib-patent-encu

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 02:55 +0200, Bassel Safadi wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have desktop effects (you mean Compiz etc. right?). > Anyway, > here's the full dope: > >[EMAIL P

Can F9's gdm be configured for more than one session or not?

2008-06-19 Thread Knute Johnson
I just installed F9 and XFCE. The problem is there is no way I can find to select XFCE from the gdm login. Does anybody know how to do it? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fe

Re: Using Apache as proxy in port-forwarding role (inward to misbehaving NATted devices)

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Prindeville
Philip Prindeville wrote: [snip] I'm using the config: LoadFile/usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 LoadModule proxy_html_module modules/mod_proxy_html.so ... ProxyHTMLLinks a href ProxyHTMLLinks areahref ProxyHTMLLinks linkhref ProxyHTMLLinks img

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
> Any suggestions welcome. > > > > poc > > just go here: > http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current > and get the 64 bit version I actually did that before seeing this message, and fetched http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/index.html?filename=2008

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Don't the Free Software alternatives like Kaffeine work for you? There are ways to get the patent-encumbered codecs for them, for example xine-lib-extras-nonfree (which should actually be called something like xine-lib-patent-encumbered-codecs, since that's what it really contains) does wonders

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 19Jun2008 21:16, Kevin J. Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I only use the ssh 2 protocol. As such, I have/use authorized_keys2. The version without the "2" is for ssh 1 protocol, and its used should be deprecated as its not as secure as ssh 2. Actually a modern

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
Cameron Simpson wrote: > Actually a modern ssh will get ssh2 keys from authorized_keys. To > lock it down you should specify "Protocol 2" in the sshd_config > file, thus forbidding ssh1 in the sshd config, and not by luck with > the key file. FWIW, this has been the default in openssh for a bit o

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Jun2008 21:16, Kevin J. Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aldo Foot wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be >>> accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for so

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 01:46 +0200, Bassel Safadi wrote: > I did exactly what the wrote in the guide, and still having the same > problem You may have already thought of this idea, but is the LBP 2900 a postscript printer? If so, you can use the Foomatic generic postscript driver, or the driver f

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for some guidance. The systems in question are a Fedora 9 and a Fedora Core 6 sy

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Jun2008 18:12, Aldo Foot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > The first thing I did was on my workstation (that I ssh from) is create a | > public/private key pair and installed the public key in | > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, and disabled the password authentication in the | > /etc/ssh/sshd_config an

gnome-system-monitor -- most of the views greyed out.

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Hi; I use gnome-system-monitor all the time. Leave it on the upper left corner of my top panel. In F9 I find that all the options other than Memory Maps and Open Files are greyed out -- and they do nothing discernible. I can no longer choose All processes, active processes or my processes. The

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be > accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for some > guidance. The systems in question are a Fedora 9 and a Fedora Core 6 system. > > The

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread stan
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [snip] OK, the errors are fewer: Opening ALSA PCM device default Opening ALSA PCM device default The program 'realplay.bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. etc. So

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Anthony Messina
On Thursday 19 June 2008 03:29:41 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have RealPlayer-11.0.0.4028-20080225.i586 (my system is x86_64 but > Real only seem to have a i586 rpm available). When I run realplay from > the command line with an appropriate URL (e.g. a BBC video link) I get: > > realp

Re: Using Apache as proxy in port-forwarding role (inward to misbehaving NATted devices)

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Prindeville
Matthew J. Roth wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: It does help if the internal device doesn't embed absolute URLs in its web page output (which it may not, even if it looks like it superficially). ... If the internal devices are embedding absolute URLs in their HREF links you may need to run, addi

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have desktop effects (you mean Compiz etc. right?). Anyway, > here's the full dope: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:S1] realplay > http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/world/bb/video/world_bb.ram?ad=1&ct

Gnome->Places->Connect to Server

2008-06-19 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello Folks, I just upgraded (fresh install) to F9 from F7. I preserved my home directory. When you go to the above mentioned menus, its now missing the WebDAV(Secure) option, any reason why ? Did I miss something in the release notes ? How do I get this functionality back ?

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Jun2008 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The first thing I did was on my workstation (that I ssh from) is create a | public/private key pair and installed the public key in | ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, and disabled the password authentication in the | /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: F9 xorg.conf doesn't set gamma [solved]

2008-06-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 15:32 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The xorg.conf file at the end of this message works, except for the ... > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2008 21:29:41 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have RealPlayer-11.0.0.4028-20080225.i586 (my system is x86_64 but > > Real only seem to have a i586 rpm available). When I run realplay from > > the command line with an appro

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 01:38 +0200, Bassel Safadi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, the errors are fewer: > >Opening ALSA PCM device default >Opening ALSA PCM device

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Thanks Adalbert; Mostly joy. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: > William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008: > > > I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8) > > yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including > > gui_rpc_auth.cfg. > > If gui_rpc_auth.cfg

Re: NM alternatives for wireless

2008-06-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/20/08, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go read the source code and you'll see why its not packaged with > Fedora. It may work for some users, but it is a thorough hodge-podge > and packaging with with rpm is a peculiar task. It seems it is doable though: the second half of this pa

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Zoltan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a guide for installing LBP printers to Linux on the canon > website: > "http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028622.asp?model=";, you may > give it a try. > I did exactly what the wrote in the guide, and

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, the errors are fewer: > >Opening ALSA PCM device default >Opening ALSA PCM device default >The program 'realplay.bin' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects

Re: Somewhat OT, R/W access to UFS from recovery CD

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have some machines which were left by someone > who left the company some years ago. They ware loaded > with Solaris 7 and have UFS file systems. They > also have SCSI disks and my Solaris 10 boot CD doe

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:07 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Adalbert; > > Now I am totally confused. > > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:44 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: > > William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008: > > > > > > [snip] I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gui_rpc_auth.cf

Re: FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

2008-06-19 Thread stan
Daniel Kirsten wrote: Hallo, I try to install Fedora 9 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550 using a DVD. I use text bases installation due to Radeon HD2700. When the installation program installs the rpm-packages from the DVD, it stops after some hundred packages and gives a long python-relat

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:39 +0200, Bassel Safadi wrote: > I think real player is is trying to load nodoka engine (32-bit) > > try installing (gtk-nodoka-engine.i386): > > yum install gtk-nodoka-engine.i386 OK, the errors are fewer: Opening ALSA PCM device default Opening ALSA PC

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 June 2008 21:29:41 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have RealPlayer-11.0.0.4028-20080225.i586 (my system is x86_64 but > Real only seem to have a i586 rpm available). When I run realplay from > the command line with an appropriate URL (e.g. a BBC video link) I get: > > realplay

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread Adalbert Prokop
William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008: > I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8) > yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including > gui_rpc_auth.cfg. If gui_rpc_auth.cfg is there and readable for you, then cd /var/lib/boinc; boincmgr should start the manager. If this wor

Re: Headset and speakers problem

2008-06-19 Thread stan
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using F9 x86_64. I have noticed a weird thing, I can't solve: If I plug my headset, the speakers don't mute. I've tried to dig into volume control and PulseAudio, but I can't make them work properly. Any hints? Thanks in advance This sounds like an

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 June 2008 19:43:33 Bassel Safadi wrote: > D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdAcceptClient: skipping getpeercon() > D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdAcceptClient: 19 from localhost > (Domain) D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST / HTTP/1.1 > D [20/Jun/2008:00:36

Re: A question for the open source people

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
I'm a web programmer, I don't know C or C++ but actually can't live a day without open source web content management systems like worldpress which I'm hacking and building a copy of it for special needs, and yes a lot of people ( including me ) spend hours reading others code, learning and hacking,

Re: Something is wrong with my desktop

2008-06-19 Thread Wayne Feick
Evolution hangs a lot for me. Always has. Probably always will. Are you using exchange? If so, make sure you're not using the "global catalog server" as seems to be a sure fire way to make it hang. It's under the "receiving options" tab when editing the account. This was reported long ago, but no

Intel duel head problems

2008-06-19 Thread Louis E Garcia II
I have narrowed my slowness issues to the updated xserver and duel head setup. When running my laptop with i915GM alone the display is nice and snappy. When connecting a vga monitor configured for spanning duel mode both displays are sluggish. Window redraws and scrolling are slow. Also in duel mod

Re: Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
I think real player is is trying to load nodoka engine (32-bit) try installing (gtk-nodoka-engine.i386): yum install gtk-nodoka-engine.i386 On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have RealPlayer-11.0.0.4028-20080225.i586 (my system is x86_64 but >

F9 xorg.conf doesn't set gamma

2008-06-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The xorg.conf file at the end of this message works, except for the Monitor section, which was just added to set gamma. Entering: $ xgamma -gamma 0.80 from a console works fine. Here is the non-working xorg.conf file. Does anyone know what's wrong with it? # Xorg configuration

Re: NM alternatives for wireless

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Andras Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/08, Sven Winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that is with wicd? http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ > > Thanks, this comes very close to what I had in mind! And it's the only > thing besides NM that I'm able to connec

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:12 -0400, Jim wrote: > wwp wrote: > > Hello Jim, > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> wwp wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Jim, > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> >

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Hi Adalbert; Now I am totally confused. On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:44 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: > William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008: > > Hello! > > > When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message: > > > > "Authorization failed connecting to running client. > >

Somewhat OT, R/W access to UFS from recovery CD

2008-06-19 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I have some machines which were left by someone who left the company some years ago. They ware loaded with Solaris 7 and have UFS file systems. They also have SCSI disks and my Solaris 10 boot CD does not have the correct drivers, thus it cannot see the disk. I have tried booting from the Syste

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread Adalbert Prokop
William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008: Hello! > When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message: > > "Authorization failed connecting to running client. > Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the > client." > > They are both in /usr/bin/

Re: SEtroubleshooting (./.xsession-errors) ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
OK Todd On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:34 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > William Case wrote: > > As far as I remember, and I have had Fedora 9 only installed for > > five days so not hard to remember, I have only used sudo and su - to > > preform normal root procedures. > > Then I don't see how or why

Re: SEtroubleshooting (./.xsession-errors) ??

2008-06-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
William Case wrote: > As far as I remember, and I have had Fedora 9 only installed for > five days so not hard to remember, I have only used sudo and su - to > preform normal root procedures. Then I don't see how or why you would have a /root/.xsession-errors file at all. Seeing as that file is o

Re: ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for some guidance. The systems in question are a Fedora 9 and a Fedora Core 6 system. The first thing I did was on my workstation (th

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread wwp
Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:12:24 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wwp wrote: > > Hello Jim, > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> wwp wrote: > >> >>> Hello Jim, > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL

Re: SEtroubleshooting (./.xsession-errors) ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:15 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > William Case wrote: > > ERROR message in SEtroubleshooting. > > > >SELinux is preventing the pam_timestamp_c from using potentially > >mislabeled files (/root/.xsession-errors). > > > >[SELinux is in permis

Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Hi; When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message: "Authorization failed connecting to running client. Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the client." They are both in /usr/bin/ and boinc_client is running happily. If however, in boincmg

Re: SEtroubleshooting (./.xsession-errors) ??

2008-06-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
William Case wrote: > ERROR message in SEtroubleshooting. > >SELinux is preventing the pam_timestamp_c from using potentially >mislabeled files (/root/.xsession-errors). > >[SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been >denied but was permit

Re: SSL VPN

2008-06-19 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:05:00PM -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:34 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:08:54AM -0400, John Priddy wrote: > > > > > > > > I guess I did not explain well. First, I ssh from the server (which is > > > > behind a firewall) o

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Jim
wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ?? I have downloaded and installed Firefo

Re: SSL VPN

2008-06-19 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:34 +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:08:54AM -0400, John Priddy wrote: > > > > > > I guess I did not explain well. First, I ssh from the server (which is > > > behind a firewall) out to my home computer and leave this connection > > > open. Then when I go

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Firefox for ever > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 12:41 PM > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 08:03 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > 1) it does no

SEtroubleshooting (./.xsession-errors) ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Hi; ERROR message in SEtroubleshooting. SELinux is preventing the pam_timestamp_c from using potentially mislabeled files (/root/.xsession-errors). [SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was permitted due to permissive mo

Re: A question for the open source people

2008-06-19 Thread Rick Stevens
Michael Harpe wrote: What I have always been curious about is this: how many of you actually take advantage of the open source? In other words, how many of you really take the source code and do something with it? Personally I don't. I can program in C, i'm pretty good at it. I've just never

ssh?

2008-06-19 Thread jeff
I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for some guidance. The systems in question are a Fedora 9 and a Fedora Core 6 system. The first thing I did was on my workstation (that I ssh from) is create a

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Goksin Akdeniz
On Thursday 19 June 2008 23:26:29 Jim wrote: > What was the name of Thread, do you remember ? >A backport of F9 RPM is available on my little repo. > >http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/06/18/Firefox-3-Final >Feel free to try it >++ > >P.S : FC6, F7 and F8, i386, x86_64 and ppc available I

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread wwp
Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wwp wrote: > > Hello Jim, > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ?? > >> I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3

Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I have RealPlayer-11.0.0.4028-20080225.i586 (my system is x86_64 but Real only seem to have a i586 rpm available). When I run realplay from the command line with an appropriate URL (e.g. a BBC video link) I get: realplay.bin:31914): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Jim
wwp wrote: Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ?? I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3 from the FC9 repo. Discussed some hours ago, it's available from remi's repos, check the archives

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Zoltan Szabo
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:15:11 +0300 "Bassel Safadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello every body, > just installed a fresh copy of fedora 8 to use as a file and print > server, I have a canon LBP2900 printer that used to print perfectly > on windows two days ago on the same machine before converti

Re: Upgrade fc7 to fc8 not possible with yum

2008-06-19 Thread Javier Perez
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Upgrade from fc7 to fc8 is not possible by yum because 2 packages are > > not available to update.How to overcome this problem? > > Simple answer: Uninstall those pack

Re: SSL VPN

2008-06-19 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 07:51 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu June 19 2008 04:55:17 Rick Bilonick wrote: > > I guess I did not explain well. First, I ssh from the server (which is > > behind a firewall) out to my home computer and leave this connection > > open. Then when I go home, is there any wa

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
Thanks for your response Bruce But I saw in different link on the same site that it works Mostly very strange, the difference is the (-) between LBP and 2900, please try: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-LBP2900 On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Bruce Byfield <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 21:15 +0300, Bassel Safadi wrote: > Hello every body, > just installed a fresh copy of fedora 8 to use as a file and print > server, > I have a canon LBP2900 printer that used to print perfectly on windows > two days ago on the same machine before converting it to Linux, > cup

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 08:03 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > 1) it does not require agreements Neither does FF. There is nothing to click through at least on Linux. > 2) puts no toolbars FF toolbars can all be turned on or off (See View->Toolbars) > 3) integrates nicely in KDE and works also

Re: Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread wwp
Hello Jim, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ?? > I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3 from the FC9 repo. Discussed some hours ago, it's available from remi's repos, check the archives of the last few day

Re: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:43 -0400, Mauriat wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> indirecty we have to accept or disable the "services". > > > > 1) The "services" aren't the browser and thus are in no way involved > > with the freeness o

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
- CUPS see the printer - I'm using the correct driver - lpstat -t show the printer as enabled Thanks in advance for any possible advice Bassel > > Kevin Martin wrote: > > > You don't say what the actual problem is. Are you unable to print? Are > you unable to setup the printer? Does CUPS see

Re: Renaming a User

2008-06-19 Thread Deron Meranda
>>> I was wondering if it's possible to quickly and easily switch a >>> username on a samba controlled domain. >> sure but you'd have to change... >> >> /etc/passwd (or wherever user accounts are stored) >> /etc/shadow (or wherever user passwords are stored) >> the users $HOME directory >> smbpas

Re: QOS

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Kirillov
What is the easyest way to limit bandwitdh usage for an IP address on my network ? Try shorewall. It has some traffic shaping capabilities. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

2008-06-19 Thread Jim
Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ?? I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3 from the FC9 repo. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Headset and speakers problem

2008-06-19 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm using F9 x86_64. I have noticed a weird thing, I can't solve: If I plug my headset, the speakers don't mute. I've tried to dig into volume control and PulseAudio, but I can't make them work properly. Any hints? Thanks in advance -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin wrote: Bassel Safadi wrote: here is the error log for cups hope this will help you helping me ;) Thanks a lot again :) You don't say what the actual problem is. Are you unable to print? Are you unable to setup the printer? Does CUPS see the printer? Are you using the

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin Martin
Bassel Safadi wrote: here is the error log for cups hope this will help you helping me ;) Thanks a lot again :) You don't say what the actual problem is. Are you unable to print? Are you unable to setup the printer? Does CUPS see the printer? Are you using the correct driver? Does

Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
Hello every body, just installed a fresh copy of fedora 8 to use as a file and print server, I have a canon LBP2900 printer that used to print perfectly on windows two days ago on the same machine before converting it to Linux, cups see the printer with the latest driver installed from canon websit

Re: Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

2008-06-19 Thread Bassel Safadi
here is the error log for cups hope this will help you helping me ;) Thanks a lot again :) D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdAcceptClient: skipping getpeercon() D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdAcceptClient: 19 from localhost (Domain) D [20/Jun/2008:00:36:54 +0300] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST /

FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hallo, I try to install Fedora 9 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550 using a DVD. I use text bases installation due to Radeon HD2700. When the installation program installs the rpm-packages from the DVD, it stops after some hundred packages and gives a long python-related error message ending

Re: Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

2008-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 June 2008 15:04:01 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:32 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'd really like to find some way of keeping konqueror and firefox > > bookmarks > > sync'd, but it seems far from easy. Then there's the problem of > > various > > boxes :-( > >

Re: firefox 3 and RealPlayer 11

2008-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 June 2008 16:00:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > after installing firefox-3.0-1.fc9.i386, I additionally installed > RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm. But after this, no more files with suffix ".ram" > can be played: > > /tmp/allfilms-5.ram could not be opened, because the associated helper

Re: Using Apache as proxy in port-forwarding role (inward to misbehaving NATted devices)

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Philip Prindeville wrote: The standard FC8 apache doesn't come with mod_proxy_html... whither might I find it? Or do I have to build from source? Philip, I suggest building it from source. It's pretty simple and you're guaranteed to get a module that is compatible with your installation o

Re: Renaming a User

2008-06-19 Thread John Cornelius
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:44 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to quickly and easily switch a username on a samba controlled domain. I have a user who got married and I need to change her login from sgillies to scampbell. Is there a quick way I could

Re: Xen commands help

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Wright
Dan Track wrote: Hi I want to install a xen VM, I know I can use the virt-manager, but I prefer not to use GUI's. Can someone please provide me a link to where I can read up on creating VM's from the command line? Thanks Dan http://tx.downloads.xensource.com/downloads/docs/user/#SECTION03120

Re: Memory, swap, and limits

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, tom wrote: >Sadly, many of us are so set in our ways and fictions >that we are pretty much asleep at school. Sadly, I find that is a trap I have tripped over more than once of late, which can be embarrassing in front of all these frogs. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are f

Postfix smtp date problem

2008-06-19 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I have a date problem with my smtp daemon (postfix). Postifx use several daemons I can see in /var/log/maillog. The problem is that all postfix dameons use my real time, except smtp wihich uses GMT time. How can I solve this issue ? BR -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: totally offtopic (race to make car that runs on tap water)

2008-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yeah, exactly. And if you buy in the next 4 hours, we'll include a > > fantastic solar powered clothes dryer. > > Careful - there are sound useful reasons for solar powered clothes driers > that go via electricity or steam first. Jeeez, Alan.

Re: Memory, swap, and limits

2008-06-19 Thread tom
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008, James Kosin wrote: [...] Sorry, I'm a bit dated and now I've probably revealed my age. I've been around since the first personal computers and remember when 64K was considered a LOT of memory. James So was I James, but heck,

Re: QOS

2008-06-19 Thread Steven Tardy
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, What is the easyest way to limit bandwitdh usage for an IP address on my network ? BR man tc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Memory, swap, and limits

2008-06-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:58:49 +, Beartooth Sciurivore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK; but then there's something else I don't know, or don't > understand. Does a Fedora machine do any swapping while it has memory > left? I didn't think I had (or needed) any control at all over

Re: SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-19 Thread Robin Laing
Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 13:25 -0400 schrieb Jorge Fábregas: Hello Everyone, I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a couple of times a day. When it does I see this on /var/log/messages: --- cut here ---

Re: Memory, swap, and limits [now becoming OT]

2008-06-19 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:57:18AM -0400, James Kosin wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:56:25 -0400, > > James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> > >>> > >>Having TOO much swap space can be a detriment and not an asset. > >>Usually, the rule of thum

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