Script for configuring ClamAV server

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, I'm not sure if something like this already exists or if there's a sanctioned way to do it, but I've written a script to configure instances of clamav-server on Fedora 12. AFAIK the current process is manual, with configuration files (and the instructions on what to do) sitting under

Re: Modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686/modules.dep

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/18 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net: FC12/KDE fresh install. Modprobe: Fatal: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686/modules.dep No such file or directoy I googled this, it's all over google, everyone is making a lot of guesses but no fixes. Hi Jim, If you're booted to

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/20 sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com: Hi Everybody, I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to update it.But I found this error:  Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Hi Sandeep, Do you have a connection to

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com: I tried this.But still it is showing error.Please help me someone.what the hell is going on fedora 12. Already thanks. Can you please post the exact line that you typed into your yum.conf? -c -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: But, as I said. I still have this problem: e2fsck -c /dev/sdb e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb That's because you are trying to

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: That's because you are trying to check the file system on the device, not the partition. Robert Nichols already pointed out that you need to be running that against /dev/sdb1 (where 1 is the first primary partition). P.S. You might want

Re: No snd-hda-intel

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net: FC12/KDE Intel sound 82801H, All the setting in PulseAudio is up to Max. I have a fresh FC12 install with no Sound, and I have attached LSMOD and Sound from /var/log/messages Although it might sound stupid, firstly make sure that mute is off. Try:

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk Hi Chris, The original command was tar cvzf F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz /home/Dave and the problem is that tar tvh F11*gz lists all the files on the F11 desktop, but when the external HDD is transferred to the F12 laptop, tar tvh (and ark) give the

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: You're right, my hasty extrapolations were wrong. But I don't believe you can get a Flash drive working that will be listed only as /dev/sdb any more than you can have a HD working with only /dev/sda. I have no idea about arrays, I'm talking about

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have a lost and found directory on that drive. I'm pretty sure that your USB stick currently has a MBR partition table on it (there's nothing wrong with that). Can you post this? su

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: su -c fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes Disk identifier: 0xX   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  

Re: formating usb

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Morisso Buffalo mangu...@yahoo.com how do i format a flash disk in FAT32 Some more information might be helpful. What kind of flash disk? mkfs.vfat is the command to format the device with. -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/22 DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk: Ah that gives 2 entirely different 32-digit numbers on the F11 desktop cee716a79cc7af0ee8f5f2613ca50578 and on the F12 laptop 802d5ea893af6f936e77b81cf00a45fb Did you run the sync command before you unmounted and unplugged the usb drive?

How to get 64bit Fedora on 32bit EFI Mac

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Smart
For anyone wanting to install 64bit Fedora on an Apple Mac which has a 32bit EFI (but obviously a 64bit CPU), I have released an updated EFI loader which supports this: http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/12/22/updated-efi-grub2-tarball-including-64bit/; This also allows multiple installs of

Re: No F-12 Flash -

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/23 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: What is the procedure to install Adobe Flash Player in Fedora 12 [in this case installed from the Omega livecd]? This might help: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#64-bit_alpha; -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: deleted the /root/.ssh folder - what should I do for for recovering the keys

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/22 Mark Ryden markr...@gmail.com: Hello,  I have a machine on which I deleted the /root/.ssh folder; You might be able to recover them with tools like photorec from the testdisk package. When you delete something it's not zeroed out, so unless you write over that part of the disk again

Re: Unable to use USB Modem Virgin Broadband, Australia

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/23 Ankit Bhatnagar ankit_...@yahoo.co.in: Hi all, currently using Fedora12 unable to get USB modem detected as modem it appears it recognizing as flash drive, make of the USB modem is HUAWEI E169, earlier i googled HUAWEI  E22 works but i m nt sure hw to get E169 work, i am attaching a

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/23 Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano mont...@gmail.com: The umount command does the sync so if you run umount /media/My_External_HDD and then you get back to the shell, you are safe to remove the HDD. My point was to run the sync command and then run the checksum before unmounting This ensures

Re: grub configuration, boot.

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/24 Dj YB yehi...@mail.ru: the problem using /dev/sdxn is that this sdxn is not constant and not unique even on the same computer, if i change the setup of hard-drives all change. But if you cloned the drives then they will both have the same UUIDs. Also, you are booting two systems with

Re: grub configuration, boot.

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/24 Dj YB yehi...@mail.ru: thanks I have noticed that the uuids  are the same how do you suggest doing what you said, and how do i make grub use this idntification and uuids? YB Boot your normal Fedora, once booted plug in the USB drive. Scan for and activate all lvm volumes: su

Re: evolution 2.28.2 still can't connect to exchange server 2007

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/28 L yuan...@gmail.com: Someone suggested that evo 2.28.1 and evo-mapi-0.28.1 may work well. Now, I have evo upgraded to 2.28.2, I still can't connect evo to exchange server 2007. EVO crashed when I tried to create a evo-mapi account (at the step of authentication). File a bug as

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/28 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: It's the first time I open Ryththmbox since I upgraded and it seems there's a problem. When I click the icon, it doesn't open. In a shell: (plugin-scanner:2610): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GstBaseVideoCodec' I've no

Re: slow boot for latest fedora kernel 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/29 Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net: I didn't have a problem, but you can see it spew a lot of info about what is happening if you remove the quiet option from the kernel boot line. That might give a clue where it is spending time. Or run bootchart.. http://www.bootchart.org -c --

Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
Has anyone looked into openSUSE's brilliant integration of Firefox into KDE4? Is this something that interests the Fedora community? Status: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration; Code: http://gitorious.org/firefox-kde-opensuse; -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/2 Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: We (fedora-kde sig) would be more interested in this if there were more effort to push such integration to mozilla upstream.  As far as I'm aware, there is very little to date.  (ie, I personally wouldn't be too interested in trying to maintain

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/2 Mail Lists li...@sapience.com:  Actually chrome is way faster, more secure and takes way way less memory - I suspect firefox usage will slowly tail off much like netscape did in the past - as chrome takes over .. it is so so much better ... even in its beta form. Maybe so, but there

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/2 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: I don't quite trust Google enough, but I do think that the browser holds a lot of promise. Google also has the brand name to take massive market share, so it will be interesting. Just downloaded and installed 4.0 beta of the Iron port which

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/2 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au: Is there a description of what that actually means?  A page of statuses gives no clue, but the name sounds like someone's trying to copy the Microsoft lunacy of integrating MSIE into the desktop. Firefox is GTK based which means it integrates into

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/3 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com: In principle, this is a good idea. In practice, I'm not sure how well it can be done and is it worth the effort. But I welcome the initiative, of course. It has already been done and it was certainly worth the effort. Download the openSUSE KDE Live

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 david walcroft d_j_...@bigpond.net.au: Hi, I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should. Dying hard drive? Bad installation media? -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 david walcroft d_j_...@bigpond.net.au: No I don't think it's a dying disk or bad media as kde runs on a fresh install,my trouble starts upon a reboot. Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps it's file system corruption. Have you tried ext3? -c --

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/2 Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: We (fedora-kde sig) would be more interested in this if there were more effort to push such integration to mozilla upstream.  As far as I'm aware, there is very little to date.  (ie, I personally wouldn't be too interested in trying to maintain

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 Mail Lists li...@sapience.com:  Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live cd and run fsck on the partition. Complete stab in the dark :-) Doing a fsck is a good idea - I was assuming that the partition was

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu: I though control-C was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it. It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a different queue. You should be able to background yum

Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? I assume it's by installing via the DVD and un-ticking package groups, leaving just the base apps, but perhaps more seasoned Fedora users have a better suggestion? The other day I installed F12 on a PPC machine with the network

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: What do you mean by minimal? A basic command line system to use as a base to then make the system whatever I like, with only the apps I want. A base install could be a server, or turned into a desktop with a basic graphical interface without

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation (less than 200 packages for F11) whether you want

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: 2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: If you do a text-based install (add text to the installer's kernel options, or automatic if you have less than the minimum RAM for a GUI install), you'll get an extremely stripped-down installation

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: If you want customised partitioning scheme then text based install is not a good idea. I still think trying out the netinstall image would be the best bet for the OP. I tested this, but the netinstaller still defaults to installing a full

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Julian Aloofi julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com: An easy way to get a minimal system would be to untick *all* groups (yes, all, even the Base group) in the DVD image. This will result in a very basic system, which still will be bootable. Thank you, this also works (and installs the

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/msg00146.html Oh yes.. I have no idea how much ram that iMac thing has. Thanks, -c -- fedora-list

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/5 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: I just tried this myself on a VM, all you need to do is uncheck those package groups. Yep, agreed. Thanks. -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com: The output of `free` will tell you. Yep, thanks :-) -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com: Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ?   Does this sound like a kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ? If your drive and BIOS supports S.M.A.R.T, then gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest) will tell you the status of your drive.. -c --

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com: You need to do this with the Customize selection option, rather than simply turning off the small number of extra capabilities shown on the general users screen.  If you leave something selected behind the scenes, its dependencies will bring in a

Re: Tar oddity...

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it: That is really bad. If the machine is unreliable, any kind of hard computation (such as data compression) will have problems. I agree. Have you run memtest on it, Dave? It should be in the repo or already an option from the boot menu. You can

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com: If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart-Shutdown means, it can take up to 4 restart attempts before it fully boots. It has no problem launching grub and the kernel selection screen.  That it does reliably every time.   After that, there are

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Dear All, Happy New Year ! As the title... Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ? I use an Areca ARC1220 PCI Express hardware RAID card (inc Intel IOP333 RAID6 engine) with great success. Their driver is included in mainstream kernel.

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: youtube but apparently needs the bad plugins. Not sure it's an advantage over using the Abode plug-in... It's free software I guess.. -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Clean install of Fedora 12 will not bring up login screen after upgrade

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 John Nissley jniss...@nissley.org: Any ideas on what could be causing this? X.Org is automatically configured now. Have you tried turning off kernel based modesetting? Edit grub and add nomodeset to the kernel line. What does the X.Org log say? /var/log/Xorg.0.log -c -- fedora-list

Re: Any linux-based microSD utilities?

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Max Pyziur p...@brama.com: If the card has failed, I'd like to try and recover whatever data I can. What you want is photorec, part of the testdisk program. It can search your devices on the block level and recover data. Afterwards, you can re-format it with VFAT as it's most likely

Re: mac usb drive problem with F11

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com: I'd like to mount a (WD) mac usb drive in F11. It has a hfsplus filesystem on it. I can mount it and copy data to it but when I look in the drive I see no new data, just what was already there. Any suggestions? Does Linux have write support for hfsplus

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/7 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: Yeees... But have you seen the description for Gsretamer's bad plugins? Sure, it's bad and crappy, but at least it's open source :-) -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: Too many sites were not playing with gnash. So, I tried to install flash-plugin. First weird thing is that flash-plugin does not show as installed or installable in package manager for GNOME. If you're using 64bit, try the native 64bit plugin. If

Re: help

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 jorge a secas tala...@hotmail.com: we at work have some PC's with 256 MB RAM, the graphical mode doesn't load, so we choice the text mode, but in all machines we get the same error, Anaconda 12.47 do you have an idea how to solve it? I don't know what that error is, but AFAIK the

Re: Clean install of Fedora 12 will not bring up login screen after upgrade

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 John Nissley jniss...@nissley.org: I can boot to text mode fine.  I can then log in and type startx and the GUI will come up and operate correctly but if I try to boot directly into the GUI mode I do not get the log in screen to allow me to log in. Sorry, was this with or without

Re: mac usb drive problem with F11

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com: AFAIK, only HFS, HFS+ (journaled HFS) isn't there yet. Yes, that's what I thought. Interestingly though his mount command shows that it's mounted rw, yet if he couldn't write to it I'd expect some kind of error. So Dave, under OS X you can turn journalling

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 steve networ...@cox.net: I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-) First, make sure you have it installed correctly. If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run: su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: I have stumbled across a Firefox add-on theme called Oxygen KDE which I think does a pretty amazing job of making Firefox look like a KDE app. Oh, and this is a great add-on too, plasma notification: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/1 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: Has anyone looked into openSUSE's brilliant integration of Firefox into KDE4? Is this something that interests the Fedora community? I have stumbled across a Firefox add-on theme called Oxygen KDE which I think does a pretty amazing job of making

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu: No need to rebuild.  I just installed akmod-nvidia (the 64-bit one) and added  rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf.  You can add nomodeset, but I didn't need to.  This is a 64-bit F12. You could do that, but it's already

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: I checked a bit Wikipedia to understand the matter. It seems that Ogg Theora is free and offers good quality streaming. Why then has Dirac been developed? Dirac is based on wavelets, completely different technology. It's also lossless, while Theora is

Re: kernel module

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/9 Luca lucar...@gmail.com: Hi all,  I created a kernel module which can be passed some command line arguments (I tried that with insmod and it works). Now I would like, when I start the kernel with grub, to have this module loaded at boot time so I can pass, at boot time, a kernel

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/9 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com: According to that reference, Dirac is a typical lossy encoding method. The loss is introduced by the Quantization step, while the compression comes from entropy-coding the quantized (decimated) data with Arithmetic Coding. Yes, that's with

Re: mac usb drive problem with F11

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/9 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com: I guess the answer to that is no. Did you see my email about disabling journalling? I'm pretty confident that if you do that, you will be able to write to it under Linux - it's still HFS+, just without journalling. You can re-enable journalling under OS