LVM problem

2010-04-15 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I want to add a new disk (/dev/sdb1) to an existing VG. Here what I've done : * pvcreate /dev/sdb1 * vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb1 * lvresize -l +20901 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (LogVol00 is mounted on /) Then, when I make a 'lvdisplay' I saw the correct size of the volume (sum of the old

Re: God, No Volume Groups Found !!!!

2010-04-15 Thread Roberto Ragusa
依和 wrote: Dear all, I'm using FC8 and I download the kernel source 2.6.33.2 from kernel.org and build it by myself but, everytime I try to boot from the new kernel I met the error No Volume Groups Found. I tried everything I could but failed still. Would you please give me any idea?

Re: Scanning broken in Fedora ?

2010-04-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/14/2010 01:46 AM, Hiisi wrote: On 04/12/2010 11:16 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218 Is scanning working for you? Looks like it's broken. Any news of a fix anytime soon?

Open Office 3.2

2010-04-15 Thread hewjr1000
attempt to install from desktop, ask me to become root for best install. how do I become root on desktop -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread hewjr1000
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Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary or you can su (or sudo) to

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:24:32 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-). I'm still waiting for someone to point me to the web page documenting the actual case histories of horrible

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:24:32 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-). I'm still waiting for someone to point me to

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:24 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? The system-config* tools will prompt for root

Re: vlc streaming tantalizingly close - thanks - that worked.

2010-04-15 Thread Joe Feely
Thanks Stefan - that worked - it was simple, even obvious - and I missed it!! (well done me) From: stefan riemens fgfs.ste...@gmail.com Have you opened your firewall? You can use the system-config-firewall utility for that. Joe Feely joe.fe...@googlemail.com: I suspect I'm missing

Re: Open Office 3.2

2010-04-15 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:03:12PM +, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: attempt to install from desktop, ask me to become root for best install. how do I become root on desktop open a terminal window and type in: su - root and enter the root password when prompted. from there on, that

Re: Open Office 3.2

2010-04-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:03 -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:03:12PM +, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: attempt to install from desktop, ask me to become root for best install. how do I become root on desktop open a terminal window and type in: su - root

Re: dealing with states of drowsiness, FC12, netbook

2010-04-15 Thread Chris Rouch
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jack craig jcr...@extraview.com wrote: Hi Folks, I admit to being new to mobile computers, laptops, netbooks, etc. there are more states on these systems that a desktop usually uses, including sleep and hibernate. is there an URL somewhere that will tell me

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tim
Richard Shaw: The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary Tom Horsley: Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-). Not here. Once you've authenticated, that info is cached for a few minutes, and automatically renewed as you keep on doing things as

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread bruce
two questions can you point to articles where a user as root was using an IRC client and got zombified?? and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a user to log in as the root user? thanks On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:

SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Christoph Höger
Hi, I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. But what do I do for ssh traffic? Since ssh is not host agnostic, it will always complain about localhost having a different RSA key. I just do not want to edit the

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:49:08 -0700 bruce wrote: and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a user to log in as the root user? The GDM program doesn't allow you to login as root (though you can edit some obscure files to change that). A gnome session is willing to run

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread dhyang
在 2010-04-15四的 10:13 -0400,Tom Horsley写道: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:49:08 -0700 bruce wrote: and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a user to log in as the root user? The GDM program doesn't allow you to login as root (though you can edit some obscure files to

Re: Scanning broken in Fedora ?

2010-04-15 Thread Jim
On 04/15/2010 05:33 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jimmickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/14/2010 01:46 AM, Hiisi wrote: On 04/12/2010 11:16 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218 Is scanning working for

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 04/15/2010 01:52 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI Running a root GUI login is very much frowned upon. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread bruce
hi tom... right.. it used to be the pam files as i recall to allow root to login from the login screen... i'm assuming these are the obscure files you're referring to ... or did the fedora team make other changes in f11/12/13 that i'm not aware of?? thanks On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Tom

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 04/15/2010 07:12 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. But what do I do for ssh traffic? Since ssh is not host agnostic, it will always complain about localhost having a

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:44:28 -0700 bruce wrote: right.. it used to be the pam files as i recall to allow root to login from the login screen... i'm assuming these are the obscure files you're referring to ... Yea, some sort of pam change seems familiar. I haven't paid much attention since I

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:48:41 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: You could use a nonstandard port for the connection. known_hosts includes the port information when the port is not 22 - it looks something like [localhost:1234] Really? When did that start happening? It always honks about localhost

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Christoph Höger wrote: I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. But what do I do for ssh traffic? Since ssh is not host agnostic, it will always complain about localhost having a different RSA key. I just

Re: dealing with states of drowsiness, FC12, netbook

2010-04-15 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 15:22 +0200, Chris Rouch wrote: On my hp laptop, pressing the power button once will cause it to wake up again. On my old asus laptop (running f11 i think) this didn't work properly, though it would try to resume. On my Asus laptop, pressing any key would wake up from a

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/15/2010 08:58 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:14:30 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: and we never typed or clicked on anything we didn't mean to Right. You can type things you don't mean to as easily as click things you don't mean to. I'm just looking for the

Re: dealing with states of drowsiness, FC12, netbook

2010-04-15 Thread jack craig
Ah! there Is a kind soul on this list, Thx Chris, ... On 04/15/2010 06:22 AM, Chris Rouch wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jack craigjcr...@extraview.com wrote: Hi Folks, I admit to being new to mobile computers, laptops, netbooks, etc. there are more states on these systems

Re: Nagios-plugins packaging change broke my Nagios (plugins moved out of nagios-plugins to nagios-plugins-all)

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:01:32 -0700 Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Kevin. The source of my nagios-plugins package is the EPEL repository from the Fedora Project. I installed Nagios about a year and a half ago. You probibly want the 'epel-devel' list then. EPEL

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/15/2010 11:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Since they were non-techies they didn't know the concept of file/directory ownership so permission denied was a real shocker. So, they'd log back in a root and try to fix things only to make them worse...or make things insecure. Directories which

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 04/15/2010 10:12 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiakm...@avtechpulse.com Subject: Re: Root with GUI On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make myself root in the GUI

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:42:46 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: At some point, they'd logout and later, next day...after lunch, login as themselves and now have all sorts of troubles they didn't have before. It is possible for idiots to screw up, is not the same as an actual case history of some exploit

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:01 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: GUIs are large, complex and buggy pieces of multiple interacting components written by diverse people of widely differing abilities. Which just proves that you should never use a gui for anything remotely sensitive, like accessing

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/15/2010 09:01 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 04/15/2010 10:12 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiakm...@avtechpulse.com Subject: Re: Root with GUI On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21 AM,hewjr1...@gmail.com

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 09:12 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. But what do I do for ssh traffic? Since ssh is not host agnostic,

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/15/2010 09:01 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 04/15/2010 10:12 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiakm...@avtechpulse.com Subject: Re: Root with GUI On 04/15/2010 08:24 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:21

Re: authentication problem

2010-04-15 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 11:51 AM, jack craig wrote: Hi Folks, I have an authentication issue with ssh that i'd like to ask for clues on solving? i have created a local host key, id_rsa.pub. i have copied that to the remote host, .ssh/authorized_keys,

Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Miles
How on earth do I set this up to get virus definitions that selinux won't jump all over I just want email scanned out and in I tried the latest 96 could only find i686 rpm for clamav, clamd, freshclam I am running Fedora 12 x86_64 The fedora repo has version 95 only I installed the i686

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need Clamav? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 03:22 PM, Michael Miles wrote: How on earth do I set this up to get virus definitions that selinux won't jump all over I just want email scanned out and in I tried the latest 96 could only find i686 rpm for clamav, clamd,

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is Fedora really that secure? Even if we limit the discussion to email viruses, that's a very complex and difficult question (to which the answer is yes :-). It's not an attribute exclusive to Fedora as such, but to all Unix-based systems,

Re: authentication problem

2010-04-15 Thread jack craig
On 04/15/2010 11:49 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 11:51 AM, jack craig wrote: Hi Folks, I have an authentication issue with ssh that i'd like to ask for clues on solving? i have created a local host key, id_rsa.pub. i have

RE: authentication problem

2010-04-15 Thread Jeff Kittle
Has anyone experienced issues with openssh 5.2 and Putty, keep getting strange behavior, IE: putty hangs, used To work no problem with Fedora 9. Right now I have the iptables firewall disabled just to eliminate it as A problem. -Original Message- From:

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Christoph Höger
Host remote HostKeyAlias myAliasForRemote HostName remote.com LocalForward veryremotehost:22 Host veryremote HostKeyAlias myAliasForVeryRemote HostName localhost port This comes very close to my needs. Only one thing left: Is there any way to

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 07:48 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist: On 04/15/2010 07:12 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. But what do I do for ssh traffic? Since

Boinc s...@home

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Miles
Is anyone running boinc for s...@home. I am looking for an optimized application with Vlar kill for cuda The only one I could find are dated and Lunitics opt apps for linux 64 are not there any more. The apps run fine until the cuda gets one with major vlar and bogs system until I abort

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/16/2010 12:41 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:42:46 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: At some point, they'd logout and later, next day...after lunch, login as themselves and now have all sorts of troubles they didn't have before. It is possible for idiots to screw up, is

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 04/15/2010 05:40 PM, Christoph Höger wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 07:48 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist: ssh localhost:12345 does not work (tries to resolve localhost:12345 as hostname, dunno why) Because it should be: ssh -p 12345 localhost RTFM -- Kevin J. Cummings

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 18:04 -0400 schrieb Kevin J. Cummings: RTFM Yeah, there was this -p switch because ssh uses : in a different way. I should have known this, its been a pretty long day. No time for reading man pages anymore ;) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-15 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 04:38 PM, Christoph Höger wrote: Host remote HostKeyAlias myAliasForRemote HostName remote.com LocalForward veryremotehost:22 Host veryremote HostKeyAlias myAliasForVeryRemote HostName localhost

Wifi link iwl3945

2010-04-15 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi All, Since the installation of F12 in my Acer Aspire 580 series laptop with Intel 3945ABG wireless module, I am having the issue where my Wifi link gets deactivated and activated (disconnects connects) frequently. AP is a Netgear WGR router with WEP enabled. Was using Debian GNU/Linux (Etch

Some question in include\linux\I2c.h

2010-04-15 Thread mojian4linux
Hi all. when i read the include\linux\I2c.h, i have a question between -- /* include\linux\I2c.h */ ... /* Standard driver model interfaces */ int (*probe)(struct i2c_client *, const struct i2c_device_id *); int (*remove)(struct i2c_client *);

Re: Wifi link iwl3945

2010-04-15 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 04/15/2010 08:42 PM, Kurian Thayil wrote: Hi All, Since the installation of F12 in my Acer Aspire 580 series laptop with Intel 3945ABG wireless module, I am having the issue where my Wifi link gets deactivated and activated (disconnects connects) frequently. AP is a Netgear WGR router