Re: dpkg for building deb package from Fedora

2010-01-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
AlannY wrote: > Hi there. I'm a developer. I can build RPM package of my software in > Fedora with rpmbuild. But now, I want to build deb package for > redistributing my software on Debian-based distros. > > I think, I need dpkg tool for building deb file. But where to find > it? I tryed to search

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Tyler wrote: > Suggestions for new text values are welcome -- but you will have to > sell your proposal. IMO, the current description should be changed, but I'd prefer to not see a lengthy debate on the list about it. It just doesn't seem important enough nor terribly on-topic. With over 6

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Andrew Jamison wrote: > Did you make sure the new Fedoral-list address was added to your > safe list? Recently the Mailing lists switched to Fedora > infrastructure and off of the Red Hat servers. That hasn't happened yet. I am sure that we'll announce it when it is completed (and probably again

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
Sawrub wrote: > I don't see that al this a problem of torrent . As mentioned earlier > [though i'm still confused] its some issue in the signing of the > ISO. let me give a try creating the boot-able USB under windows. No, the problem is that your download is not complete. You stated earlier: >

Re: Yum command

2009-12-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jim wrote: > FC12/KDE > > How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing to > update python. I did it this way but it won't work. > > yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python You should give options (--enablerepo) _before the command (update). The yum man page and help output

Re: Fedora mailing list migration

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Konstam wrote: > When is this migration going too occur? And where is it described? I > did not see it on the announce list. Check the announce list archives, it's there. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/thread.html -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Rick Stevens wrote: > I know that and you know that, but there seems to be a lot of folk > who haven't seen the page, forgotten about it or are simply > confused. Indeed. I figured mentioning it once again might help spread the information. I realize it will remain a problem until F-13 when we a

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Rick Stevens wrote: > This has been discussed before on the list. > > The header indicates that the checksum file _itself_ was signed with > an SHA1 checksum. The checksums _inside_ the checksum file are the > SHA256 checksums of the various .iso images. And this is why we added the large red war

Re: grip authors email address?

2009-12-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote: > Mike Oliphant, the author of grip, needs to update his address on > his web page at nostatic. > > Does anyone have a current address for Mike? I don't know of one, but grip is certainly not actively maintained by Mike any longer. It's still a fine app for ripping and encodin

Re: Fedora mailing list migration

2009-12-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Björn Persson wrote: > To prepare for the change I need to know the complete list-IDs of > the new lists. So, piecing this together, when the mapping maps > "fedora-announce-list" to "announce", this means that the list-ID > "fedora-announce-list.redhat.com" becomes > "announce.lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Fedora mailing list migration

2009-12-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Frode Petersen wrote: > A minor confusion here... > I noted that the new ID's do not include any information on the > source of the lists. I.e. 'Fedora-music-list' becomes just 'music'. > Isn't this a bit too generic and a source for conflicts with lists > from other sources? Well, the list-id is

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim wrote: > It'll take quite some effort, not impossible, but very difficult, to > get a signed compromising package into the repos. One rogue package maintainer could do it easily. In fact, if one rogue upstream provided a tarball with a backdoor in it, it might slip into many distributions bef

Re: Is Visualization possibe. {Typo I mean virtualization.]

2009-12-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Konstam wrote: > Aws someone pointed ort it is virtualization I mean. You seemed to > understand that but you did not answer the question. For example, > you web page seems to imply that a vmx flag is needed. The list of > kernel options I included above has no vmx flag. Is virtualization a >

Re: Is Visualization possibe.

2009-12-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Konstam wrote: > /proc/cpuinfo displays cpu flags below. Is this system capable of > visualization? > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov > pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm > constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid

Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 70, Issue 59

2009-12-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You've committed the following no-nos: > > 1) Replying to a Digest. Never do this, not ever. Signing up for the > non-digest version is trivial, and that's the preferred method, but > it's also easy to reply from various aggregation sites such as > Gmane. With respect,

Re: Makefile for lib64 libraries

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Zullinger
Steve Searle wrote: > I have just upgraded to 64-bit Fedora, and have a mysql appliation > where the build fails with: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient > > I know that this is because the library is in lib64, and my > Makefile.am contains: > > bin_PROGRAMS = scraperes > scraperes_SOURCES

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-11-29 Thread Todd Zullinger
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > You can also set it as a user's background via the normal > preferences setting and then make that the system default (via the > bottom "Make Default" button). Oh nice. I had looked right past that, even after reading Bill's message. :/ That works fine here as well

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-11-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Could you explain a little more what you are trying to do? > > If you're just trying to change the wallpaper, what happens when you > just use the standard menu to do that? Or are you trying to do > something more? > > What behavior do you get when you (from memory) > syste

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-11-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
fred smith wrote: > all the images in that dir have the same owner and permissions. > selinux is not in enforcing mode, but I tried the command above > anyway. result: no change. > > Is it possible that /usr/share/backgrounds/images isn't the right > place? there are several other dirs in /usr/sh

Re: changing GDM background image on F12

2009-11-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
fred smith wrote: > I've looked thru the forums and done some googling but I don't see an > answer THAT WORKS for this question: > > How to change the default GDM background/wallpaper to some other image? > I've tried all the things listed in the forums and none of them works, > including (but not

Re: The recent ssl vulnerability

2009-11-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote: > True, but I have little control over that other than threatening to > move my money. That has generally been sufficient so far, and has > cured several cases of blue smoke emitting from both my ears. :-) > But this was I read, a problem on my end, not the banks problem. > Thi

Re: The recent ssl vulnerability

2009-11-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote: > Is there any chance of getting the fixed openssl-0.9.8i for F10? > > This has stopped my ability to do any online banking, and with all > the horror stories about regarding loss of X when upgrading to F12, > I really don't want to destroy a working system just to get this > se

Re: could the "missing codec" redirection be more informative?

2009-11-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > um ... ok. in that case, why is fedoraproject.org explicitly > pointing people at rpmfusion.org here? > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OtherRepositories IIRC, it's because it is allowed to do so in such a general sense. But pointing directly to a particular codec packa

Re: Fedora 12 sha1sum

2009-11-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Woudld it be possible to do the signature using SHA256 also? On one > of the iso's I recently burned did have a checksum file with a gpg > SHA256 signature hash. That was enough to remind me that I should > be using the SHA256 for checksumming the iso. Yes, that is

Re: logwatch?

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: > I installed from the DVD iso image. I guess it isn't on that (I > didn't add any network repos at install time either). Apparently it's not. Good call. I guess that settles that minor mystery. :) -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~

Re: f12 yum/rpm commands to list all dependencies on a library

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Skunk Worx wrote: > On f12 I see a package called oprofile-gui depends on the qt3-3.8b > rpm. > > What command(s) can I run inside a local repo (where all the rpm > packages are) that will tell me how many f12 "Everything" packages > are still using qt3? > > What command(s) can I run for the locall

Re: Fedora 12 sha1sum

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Antonio Olivares wrote: > --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Felipe Nunez wrote: [...] >> when I verify the sha1sum >> for the twice download files I get the same value in both >> cases: >> $ >> sha1sum f12/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso >> 97a018ba32d43d0e76d032834fe7562bffe8ceb3 >> f12/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso >

Re: logwatch?

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: >> I don't see logwatch installed by default in f12. Is there a >> preferred substitute these days, or should I just "yum install >> logwatch" to get it back? > > I poked around some and didn't find any info on some substitute, so > yum install logwatch has been executed :-). I

Re: BZ or other page to request package update?

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > where's the proper place to request a package version update? as > in, a new source version just came out, could fedora eventually look > at it and rpm package it for update. or is that done as a regular BZ > request for that package? Yes, bugzilla is the proper place t

Re: waldyr.rebello.ss...@uol.com.br

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bob Goodwin wrote: > I thought someone had fixed this last night? > > It's still happening. I can filter it out ... It was fixed, but the individual subscribed again without fixing the problem. That address has now been banned from subscribing. If the individual at waldyr.rebe...@uol.com.br wish

Re: anti-spam UOL

2009-11-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
I wrote: > FWIW, I con't recall ever having receieved such messages and I've been > posting here for quite a while. And all it takes is to say that and I get one. ;) The offending account has had list mail disabled until they can fix or disable their antispam setup. -- ToddOpenPGP -> Ke

Re: anti-spam UOL

2009-11-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote: > Please forcibly unsubscribe this person from the list. > From: > AntiSpam UOL Please forward one of these messages with full, unaltered headers to fedora-list-ow...@redhat.com. I recall reading a while back that the source of these messages wasn't an address that is subscri

Re: can anyone build guile-1.8.7 on f12?

2009-11-19 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in fact, downloading the source rpm for guile-1.8.7 and using > "rpmbuild" to try to build the binary also fails with the same error. > i think it's BZ time. Without seeing the error you're getting, it's rather difficult to help much. The package build logs¹ show it bu

Re: Fedora 12 bad checksums

2009-11-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Greg Woods wrote: > I have tried twice to download the Fedora 12 DVD ISO's for i386 and > x86_64 through the torrents. In both cases, the SHA1 checksums do > not match what is in the CHECKSUM file. Both of my downloads match > each other. Is this a problem with the ISO's, with the CHECKSUM > file,

Re: Anybody knows how to compile and install Ubuntu/Debian source packages on and for Fedora 11 x86_64?

2009-11-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > The source package that I am interested in building and installing > for F11 is here: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/karmic/ufsutils > > After extracting the tarball, I could not find any configure script. This doesn't have much to do with Debian/Ubun

Re: Fedora 12

2009-11-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Andre Costa wrote: > Just a warning: I just downloaded Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso using > http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.torrent and > CHECKSUM file contains a SHA256 checksum although it says it is SHA1. > According to the file: > > Hash: SHA1 That Hash: line is p

Re: Has anyone used bash4 under Fedora 10, 11 or 12?

2009-11-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
Steven W. Orr wrote: > Does it cause problems? Does it work ok? It's been used in rawhide for many months now, and what will be Fedora 12. I've seen various minor issues reported and fixed on the bug-bash list. Fedora 12 currently has bash 4.0.33 (which is only slightly behind upstream's 4.0.35

Re: Building an rpm with a modified Makefile

2009-11-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I may need to build audacity with the Makefile modified to set > __WXDEBUG__ . The natural way to do this would seem to be to invoke > $ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/audacity.spec > edit the Makefile, and then run something like > $ rpmbuild --short-circuit -bb audacity

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: [...] >> a followup question would be, is there an ls option that would >> *prevent* that security setting character from being printed? i >> ask since i'm working with a software project (openembedded) that >

Re: Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

2009-11-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Marcel, Marcel Rieux wrote: > With all due respect... I'll echo what I sent to you privately: this is _entirely_ inappropriate for the fedora-list. Please drop this thread now and refrain from posting such off-topic messages in the future. -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: ww

Re: Problems with yum update (iptstate)

2009-11-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
L wrote: > please do not police users. Patrick merely pointed out the list guidelines. There is nothing wrong with that, especially when someone has apparently missed them in the list welcome message and the footer of ever post. For reference, those guidelines are at: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: [Fedora-xen] Disappointed with the Upcoming Fedora 12 Release

2009-11-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > Sigh...Another six months wait... This is a complaint that should be made to the Xen folks for not getting their stuff upstream sooner (I'm sure they would appreciate complaints in unified diff format). It's completely unreasonable to expect the Fedora kern

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Concretely, I want yum to look first in /var/cache/yum/updates on my > laptop, then in alfred:/var/cache/yum/updates on a local machine, > and then in the remote repository. Why would you want yum to look in /var/cache/yum/updates on the local system? The only thing that s

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Timothy Murphy wrote: > But couldn't yum just have an option to look for RPMs on the local > network? Ie look first in local cache, then on LAN, then at remote > repo. I would have thought that would be easy to implement. It's trivial to change the yum repo settings to look anywhere you want. I

Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4 > (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3) > just by running "yum update". > > Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that? > Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...? No. When CentOS-6 is released, a yum update on a Cent

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dan Track wrote: > The basename command works well. At what? Unless your hostname contains a /, I don't see how basename would do anything the way you are using it. -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dan Track wrote: > Thanks for that, any thoughts on how it fits in with my script: > > for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i > "DNSNAME=\"basename\`hostname\`\";echo $DNSNAME";done What are you trying to achieve with DNSNAME=\"basename\`hostname\`\"; anyway? If you want the domainname, dnsdomai

Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails

2009-10-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim wrote: > Hmm, I hadn't thought about using that to clear away personal files. > I've occasionally wiped out that directory, but hadn't looked at it > recently. I see mine's wasting lots of drive space: > > ~]$ du -h .thumbnails/ > 560M .thumbnails/large > 361M .thumbnails/normal > > Sounds

Re: MAC address generator script

2009-10-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > I just can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S > > Has anyone has one? There's one in the cobbler source code (which was pulled from xen). Something like this perhaps: $ cat /tmp/genmac.py #!/usr/bin/python import random def generate_random_mac():

Re: cryptsetup dm_mod

2009-10-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Rick Stevens wrote: > You can only encrypt entire devices (e.g. partitions), not > individual directories or directory trees. > > I'm not sure how your partitioning is set up, but if you used the > default, then you have a "/boot" partition and a "/" partition > (which contains the /home directory)

Re: where is crontab file for a user

2009-10-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I think its not Ed. Its the service he is using for his email. Look >> at the message by Steve in this very thread, it has been copied >> too. Looks like both of them use the same service and it is broken. > > Perhaps (I already deleted the offending messages and the l

Re: Strange behavior with PS1 prompt

2009-10-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
Cameron Simpson wrote: > This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use single quotes > instead of doubles. You are correct, of course. I was only concerned with testing the escape character stuff and I totally overlooked the problem that using double quotes causes with ${PWD}. Thanks for ca

Re: Strange behavior with PS1 prompt

2009-10-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Donald Russell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:36, Petrus de Calguarium > wrote: >> Donald Russell wrote: >> >>> Any ideas/suggestions? >> >> None, except to report the bug. >> >> I have noticed this problem on and off for years and it doesn't >> have anything to do with the PS1 prompt. Try e

Re: bournal reviews please !?!

2009-10-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > I use revelation for storing encrypted data like that. It is very > simple and easy to use. Just "yum install revelation". I use revelation as well. It's perhaps not as good for storing random personal data, but for passwords, login info, credit cards, ans such,

Re: How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dan Track wrote: > On another note I see that stripe-width option in mkfs.ext3 is > missing. Any reasons why that may be the case? You set stripe-width using the -E option. This is documented in the man page on F-10 and F-11 at least. I didn't check rawhide, but I expect it's the same there. --

Re: debootstrap

2009-10-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:44 +0530, devi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using debootstrap-1.0.7 on fedora 7 to install the debian or >> any other distribution mirror. But in vain, I always get the below >> error. >> >> The specific command is >> debootstrap --arch i386 hardy

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tait Clarridge wrote: > All you need to do is look at the %post section of the kickstart > file > > For example: > > %post > > /usr/bin/yum -y update >> /root/post_install_update.log 2>&1 > > This will update the system without you having to do anything and > log what it has done for your viewing p

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
gary artim wrote: > Thanks for the replybelow is my .ks , i'm installing using vsftp > on a private net. [...] > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T > #version=F11 > # Firewall configuration > firewall --disabled > # Install OS instead of upgrade > install > # Root password > rootpw --iscrypte

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
[Please don't top post. Thanks.] gary artim wrote: > thanks will read more on this. So would this be a additiion step or > replacement step (just being lazy now) to using the DVD iso image. I don't know exactly how you are using the DVD iso image in your kickstart, so I can't say. I have kickst

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
gary artim wrote: > I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the > image to install over the net machines on a specific subnet. My > question is if there is an automated way I could update the Package > directory to the most current (ie patched) rpm's? I'd like to do > this

Re: any site for package of fedora 6

2009-10-06 Thread Todd Zullinger
chloe K wrote: > How can I install package for fedora6 Please note that Fedora Core 6 has not been supported for a long, long time and discussion of such versions is generally off-topic here. That said, you might find what you want at http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/ Unless you

Re: Mock can't build x86_64 packages

2009-10-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
Clodoaldo Neto wrote: > Trying to build rpm packages with mock in F11 i386: > > I can build i386 packages but not x86_64 as I get this: You can't build for x86_64 on i386. Doing it the other way around works fine though. -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

Re: gedit follows me around like a bad penny

2009-09-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I just built a new FC10 system. When I open gedit, it always stays > in the current workspace. No matter what method I use to switch > workspaces, and if it is the forground task or back a few, it moves > with me. > > Very annoying. > > I did have this once before on anot

Re: debootstrap package

2009-09-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > try this > > yum -y install fedora-packager > > fedora-cvs -a debootstrap > > cd debootstrap/devel > > make > > now you have the lasted sources in debootstrap/devel, you can now > build it with rpmbuild -ba debootstrap.spec That will almost surely fail because the pack

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi Bill, William Case wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:11 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> Have you checked the Received headers of the messages in question? > > No I hadn't. I am not sure what I would be looking for. Ahh. Well, you'd want to follow the received h

Re: I think something is 'stuck' on the fedoara-list ?!? [SOLVED - kinda]

2009-09-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
William Case wrote: > Just for future reference, and to add to my own personal knowledge, > I wish I had a better idea of what was going on. I have wasted 2 or > 3 hours try to figure out what I did wrong when I probably haven't > done anything I shouldn't have. It would be nice to be able to > r

Re: MD5 sum mismatch in httpd-2.2.11-10.src.rpm

2009-09-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Peter Taylor wrote: > Downloaded httpd-2.2.11-10.src.rpm from: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/12-Alpha/Fedora/source/SRPMS/httpd-2.2.11-10.src.rpm > > rpm -Uvh httpd-2.2.11-10.src.rpm > warning: httpd-2.2.11-10.src.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 signature: NOKEY, key >

Re: sftp access to fedora11

2009-09-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
online.service@gmail.com wrote: > I don't have any ftp server installed/turned on , why i still have > sftp access? Because sftp is provided by ssh. So if you're running an ssh daemon, you'll have sftp by default. -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-09-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > 2009/9/23 Tim : >> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I won't personally touch those sites with a 10 foot piece of cat5. >> >> Hmm, I would have thought that whipping them with a cat-o-five >> tails would be the proper way to deal with them...  ;-) > >

Re: root e-mail (Was Questionable Status)

2009-09-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mikkel wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> >> For a good majority of Fedora desktop users, that root mail is >> never read. >> > This is not good. Maybe a modification of the install procedure to > set an alias so that all mail goes to the first normal user that is > set up? Or an option to do t

Re: Boot.log question/fix ?

2009-09-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
William Case wrote: >> I believe those are the ascii codes to change the colors. more or cat >> the file instead of editing it. :) >> > Right you are! Interesting. 'cat' and 'more' /var/log/boot.log prints > a proper colourized file to stdout. However 'less' and > 'gnome-system-log' only show

Re: How to use fedora-11 source dvd?

2009-09-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Abhishek Sharma wrote: > I accidentally downloaded the fedora-11-source-DVD, instead of > downloading the bootable version of fedora. Now I have few doubts > regarding this DVD. > > 1. Can I use it to install fedora? I'm sorry to tell you that you cannot. > 2. Can I use it to install packages co

Re: libgpod: how to use new iPod Nano with built-in video camera

2009-09-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dario Lesca wrote: > The last version of gtkpod/libgpod is no more compatible with the > new version of iPod Nano with built-in video camera. > > Someone have some suggest for manage this new version of iPod? This is the nano released in the past week or two? AIUI, the database has format has cha

Re: simple way to build rpm?

2009-09-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Fernando Cassia wrote: > Could you please tell what is wrong with checkinstall other than "it > sucks" ?? The biggest problem with checkinstall is that it requires you to run it as root. If you've taken a look at many of the Makefiles shipped with a lot of software, you'd be very cautious about r

Re: simple way to build rpm?

2009-09-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Fernando Cassia wrote: > It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs. Feel free to write such a tool. Those that exist have various fatal flaws. I'd certainly never use checkinstall on my system nor would I want anyone producing rpms with it for inclusion in Fedora. :) > I

Re: root GDM login failing on F11

2009-09-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Gray wrote: > I am still having problems logging in using GDM. I have removed the > suffix " user != root quiet" from /etc/pam.d/gdm, which works on > F10, but not on two F11 system instillations. Please ask yourself whether you have any need to do something that makes your system much less

Re: system/admin menu

2009-09-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Anne Wilson wrote: > Maybe because sysadmins are not 'normal users'? If you are > responsible and experienced enough to use a sysadmin application, > you are experienced enough to know how to get to it. That might explain why such bugs go unnoticed, as many admins might never use the menus. :) B

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

2009-09-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert L Cochran wrote: > Here in the USA, I do not need to be ashamed for having a different > view and a different way of doing things. I can have my own beliefs > and practices. Please don't conflate personal freedom with ignoring list norms and basic netiquette. This is akin to insisting on s

Re: system/admin menu

2009-09-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Anne Wilson wrote: > Try launching the application from a root konsole. I think some > sysadmin apps don't work properly from user menus. And if that's the case, it's surely a bug if a package installs a menu item that does not work for normal users. I'd file bugs for any such menu items. -- T

Re: enabling root over ssh on F11

2009-09-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Gray wrote: > I need to enable root access via sshd. I will be using certificates and > firewalled access. > I tried remove the suffix " user != root quiet" from /etc/pam.d/gdm. This only affects login via the Gnome Display Manager. > Also added "PermitRootLogin yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

2009-09-12 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: >>> ... And they use deb-packages - there's no yum. > > They guys who have to actually package up our software at work > consider that an advantage. From the practical complications > involved in packaging, they say deb packages are infinitely easier > to understand and generate

Re: fedora11 /usr/share/dict/words file

2009-09-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
online.service@gmail.com wrote: > is there a way i can install /usr/share/dict/words file for fedora 11 > , (it should be a list of dictionary English words?)? Sure, install the words package. :) -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~

Re: Help with Fedora Research

2009-09-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
Please don't top post, thanks. S.W. Bobcat wrote: > I am a loyal Fedora USER, and it is a shame that the Fedora > Leadership seems unwilling to listen to the complaints of its USERS. > I'm still ising Fedora 8 and I'm hoping that in Fedora 12 the Fedora > Leadership will have at long last started

Re: simple way to build rpm?

2009-09-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote: > I'd just use template specfile in Fedora's vim distribution. (Just > type vim something.spec) It's almost (almost) as easy as > checkinstall (if the build is that simple, just plain autotools > without anything fancy), and you can reuse the specfile for newer > ver

Re: simple way to build rpm?

2009-09-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Valent Turkovic wrote: > I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;) > > The procedure used to be very simple: > > ./configure > make > checkinstall make install Ewww, checkinstall is _not_ recommended¹ (and never was by anyone worth listening to as far as I am concerned). > What is t

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-05 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mike Wright wrote: >># ll -d /usr/tmp >>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2009-07-28 07:31 /usr/tmp -> ../var/tmp > > shouldn't that be ../../var/tmp ? Why? When you're in /usr, it's only one .. to get to /var. -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/lib64

2009-08-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
online.service@gmail.com wrote: > It seems i have two python2.6 folders located in /usr/lib vs > /usr/lib64 respectively. Most python stuff (source) is in > /usr/lib64/python2.6 but when in installed packages they have been > put into /usr/lib/python2.6 Architecture-dependent python modules

Re: fedoraproject.org down (ipv6 only)

2009-08-29 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Adams wrote: > I was just looking to see if Maxmind had an IPv6 database (we use > Maxmind's country database that is available for free here), and > they show US for my IPv6 IP. I would guess there's a bug in > mirrormanager's handling of IPv6 and geoip lookups. Ahh, then yeah, that seems

Re: fedoraproject.org down (ipv6 only)

2009-08-29 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Adams wrote: > It appears that the mirrormanager is not handling IPv6 correctly. I > have a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel (from Ashburn, Virginia) to my > home network, and now mirrormanager is giving me non-geolocated > URLs. I needed to install something, and one hit downloaded from > Br

Re: fedoraproject.org down (ipv6 only)

2009-08-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > I see fedoraproject.org has a record now (how new is that?) but > the IP is not responding today. Access to fedoraproject was working > up until today so I'm not sure if the record is brand new today > or if it's just down. The records were added in the

Re: F11: httpd problems [SOLVED]

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > So that little program (System->...->HTTP) should be > updated to reflect the proper pid path location - this > could be a minor issue, but can cause others headaches > in trying to figure it out! ;) Someone has already filed this in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redha

Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jay Mistry wrote: > What is the mail list where Fedora Project new release announcements > are made; also for GNOME & KDE releases for Fedora ? > > I am presently subscribed only to the main Fedora list (i.e. this one: > fedora-list@redhat.com), and woefully out of date on new release info. Import

Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Jay Mistry wrote: > Also, what's the fastest way (http / ftp) to download the DVD ISO from > the mirrors; I am on a cable connection @ 256 kbps (not particularly > fast, would take about 30 + hours at that speed to get the full 4 GB > DVD ISO). I tend to get the best speeds from bittorrent. I'm n

Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
William John Murray wrote: > Thanks to all those working on this... > > But the Live media the x86_64 direct download says 'forbidden', > while the other 3 live-media links all work. However I cannot use > bittorrent here Give it a little time. Not all of the mirrors have synced since the bit

Re: Quewstion on Evolution Bug reprt

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Aaron Konstam wrote: > When I run evolution I sometimes get a bug report. The part of the > report that describes the error I have included below. Can anyone > expplain its meaning and how the errors can be fixed? > > --- .xsession-errors (56 sec old) - > For log files c

Re: dovecot update warning

2009-08-24 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: > Its complicated :-). What? I thought everything was black and white. Now you tell me there are shades of gray. ;-) > Dovecot isn't really the one losing the mail, it depends on how > sendmail or postfix or whatever you are using is configured. Ahh, thanks for explaining it

Re: dovecot update warning

2009-08-24 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:19:46 -0400 Bill McGonigle wrote: > >> would a sed script to fix this be appropriate in the RPM? Sorry, I >> forget if scripts can know if they're running in upgrade mode. Yeah, rpm does provide a mechanism for scriptlets to know if they are installing,

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Steve Blackwell wrote: > This plainly says >>> there will be no more bugfixes for version > 2.26 and earlier. <<< > > Now you say there will be bugfixes. Who am I to believe? That says the upstream developers will not provide bugfixes to that release. It doesn't preclude the Fedora package mainta

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Steven W. Orr wrote: > and lsd is left as an exercise for the student. ;-) Ha! I've had lsa and lsd as simple aliases for ages and always chuckle about their alternate meanings when I use them (which isn't all that often, as I trained myself to type the extra ' -{A,d}' anyway). ;) Thanks for a c

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
(Please don't top post.) ann kok wrote: > ls -1 but I only want the file to list not directory And do you just not want to see the contents of any directories or not see them at all? Using 'ls -d1' you would see the directory name in the output, but not the files inside it. To avoid that, I thi

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