Re: how to switch desktops, and window managers

2017-05-03 Thread Mark Whidby
hese. As far as I know, this list is generated from the list of *.desktop files which reside in /usr/share/xsessions so if they don't appear to match then something is possibly wrong on your system. I hope this helps. (BTW, I tried replying privately but it bounced.) -- Mark Whidby System Administrator/Operations IT Services

Re: How I upgrade Krusader to 2.5.0 on Red Hat

2016-11-07 Thread Mark Whidby
ilt in a > much "cleaner" and pristine environment. > > I struggled with mock until I found this "getting started" guide: http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/05/11/building-rpm-packages-with-mock/ I hope this helps someone as much as it helped me. -- Mark Whidby System Administrator/Operations IT Services

Re: SL7 no network after install

2015-12-07 Thread Mark Whidby
and Network Proxy. There don't seem to be any eth0, eth1 > configuration files in /etc. > > I really need this computer operational so may have to resort to going > back to 6.4 if its not easily fixable. > > Any help gratefully received. What does "lspci" show? -- Mark Whidby System Administrator/Operations IT Services

Re: GDM a slightly different Banner Message display issue

2015-10-16 Thread Mark Whidby
On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 10:06 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > On 10/15/2015 07:57 AM, Mark Whidby wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 07:28 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > >> On 10/15/2015 06:27 AM, Steven Miano wrote: > >>> Are you fol

Re: What's the best way to learn RPM packaging?

2015-08-13 Thread Mark Whidby
/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF And as someone else mentioned, the information on the Fedora project page is also extremely useful. -- Mark Whidby System Administrator/Operations IT Services

Re: paraview

2014-10-09 Thread Mark Whidby
-64bit.tar.gz file and it supposedly works - I am not a ParaView user but it certainly starts up and does not crash in the way you describe. -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Re: Upgraded to SL 6.5 - no ethernet

2014-03-14 Thread Mark Whidby
would check this file and the yum.log to further investigate. And, as Connie suggested, you should be able to boot from an older kernel at the grub menu. -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Re: How a user can execute a file from anothe user

2013-09-26 Thread Mark Whidby
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:06 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote: Hi I want to grant users to access (read/execute) some files and folders inside my home directory. Using chmod seems to be insufficient. For example I have made an executable file public for all [mahmood@tiger ~]$ chmod 777 test