Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 10:47 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: nearly unusable editors like vi or nano and the like. I, OTOH, find nano exceptionally easy to use because the most common commands are listed at the bottom of the screen, including ^G to get the rest of them. Of course, I go back to when the CLI

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-13 Thread Javier Perez
Here is the result of df. As you can see, the mount points are right where one would expect them to be. Therefore I am confused about why these mount points appear on /mnt (/mnt/home, /mnt/var and /mnt/boot ) [root@pepewin ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted

Re: Custom init scripts and systemd

2011-09-13 Thread Jan Willies
2011/9/13 Alex Thomas karlth...@gmail.com Hello I use an older Thinkpad R32 as my primary linux machine. I use it primarily for web / email / chat while working or gaming on main machine. Since it did not come with an internal wifi card, I have to use the pc card port. This has always been

DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then I rebooted back to Gnome. Wired networking seemed to no longer work. Actually, networking worked but no domain

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 11:48 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: How the heck is an ordinary user supposed to figure this out? Do you have the SELinux troubleshooter running? If so, you should have gotten an alert. For that matter, isn't there something that shows you a list of any problems you had at

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 20:11 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Of course, it still appears that at least one of the updates that I just downgraded broke my printer. Is anyone else having this issue? and how can we figure out WHICH one of the updates broke my printer? I think it's most likely

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/12/2011 07:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/12/2011 11:05 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote: Wow. Thank you. I was hesitant to try KDE after reading about 4.x, but XFCE has brought most of the snappiness back to my machine. There's an old trick that most of the early window managers used that

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread Miroslav Grepl
On 09/13/2011 06:48 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then I rebooted back to Gnome. Wired networking seemed to no

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-13 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the result of df. As you can see, the mount points are right where one would expect them to be. Therefore I am confused about why these mount points appear on /mnt (/mnt/home, /mnt/var and /mnt/boot )

Re: Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.comwrote: Try running modprobe parport_pc as root, and see if that enables the card. Also, if I remember correctly, the device name will not be lp0. But I can not remember the name. If you want to use the serial port, you

Re: F15, diskless node, systemctl start tmpfs.device timeout

2011-09-13 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
Frantisek, Thanks for your reply. I tried to link the /lib/systemd/system/default.target to /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target, but the error same. And you mentioned the swap, I don't know to enable it, could you give me a hint? I also found the selinux was not installed on the diskless

Re: F15, diskless node, systemctl start tmpfs.device timeout

2011-09-13 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
Robert, I don't know what I should do to test the var-run-tmpfs. At least I can touch file in the /var/tmp/. The service 'NetworkManager-wait-online.service' was not installed on the diskless node. But I found a way to boot the sshd, so I think it was not a network issue. Thanks Best Regards

Re: Xephyr nested X-server seems to ignore backing store option

2011-09-13 Thread Doug Kuvaas
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/2011 05:00 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: I have been trying to use Xephyr for running an old legacy application that doesn't function properly at color depths

Re: Documentation in deep

2011-09-13 Thread admin lewis
2011/9/12 Pete Travis m...@petetravis.com: This should give you some insight: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-docs.html On Sep 12, 2011 8:55 AM, admin lewis adminle...@gmail.com wrote: thanks very much :-) -- Linux Server, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server, Exchange 2007

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2011 08:19 AM, Miroslav Grepl wrote: On 09/13/2011 06:48 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran

RE: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:55 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: I click the Network Printer dropdown under Select Device and the printer shows up with the proper IP address. Under Connection, IPP network printer via DNS-SD is selected. I choose the driver and apply the settings. It prompts

Re: running programs as root in KDE: Solved

2011-09-13 Thread Gerhard Magnus
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:39 +0530, Digvijay Patankar wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Gerhard Magnus mag...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: Something that used to be simple -- i.e. open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts -- doesn't work and

RE: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:54 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: I have a Brother MFC665CW connected wirelessly. I installed the cups and lpd driver rpms from the Brother site, and run a cups service on the computers which use that printer. The URI for the printer is: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 That's the

Re: Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

2011-09-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2011 05:29 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com mailto:mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Try running modprobe parport_pc as root, and see if that enables the card.

Re: AOL and Yahoo Mail in Thunderbird

2011-09-13 Thread james tate
On 09/13/2011 10:21 AM, james tate wrote: Fedora 15 Will AOL and Yahoo mail settings work in Thunderbird, using the Thunderbird New Mail Account Wizard setup Also , is there a AOL web browser that runs in Linux, I'm installing a F15 box for a friend and he wants to use the AOL browser. --

Re: AOL and Yahoo Mail in Thunderbird

2011-09-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:21, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: Will AOL and Yahoo mail settings work in Thunderbird, using the Thunderbird  New Mail Account Wizard setup I don't know about Yahoo, but AOL mails have been converted to standard IMAP accounts about 6+ years ago, perhaps

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Thanks for all your useful replies. | From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | Do you have the SELinux troubleshooter running? I don't know. The new-to-me Gnome 3 desktop is still quite a puzzle. If I have it running, it didn't signal me in a way that I noticed. Is it part of the default F15 desktop

running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-13 Thread mcforum
  As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these teething troubles don't discourage you. Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune.  This protecting me from myself is getting terribly frustrating.  I want to do work not continually chase the user interface.  I

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread TNWestTex
james tate wrote: I'am going to install F15 on a friends old 13 yr. old Compaq box. I guess to get into the BIOS , click on Del key ? Does anyone know how to Boot off a CDrom, do you have to click on a F key or go into the BIOS to Setup ? -- I haven't been able to get my older

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread g
On 09/13/2011 04:45 PM, TNWestTex wrote: james tate wrote: I'am going to install F15 on a friends old 13 yr. old Compaq box. I guess to get into the BIOS , click on Del key ? Does anyone know how to Boot off a CDrom, do you have to click on a F key or go into the BIOS to Setup ? -- I

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2011 11:49 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Thanks for all your useful replies. | From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | Do you have the SELinux troubleshooter running? I don't know. The new-to-me Gnome 3 desktop is still quite a puzzle. If

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/13/2011 08:49 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Is it part of the default F15 desktop setup? I run F14, so I can't say for sure, but it's always been in the past. Go to Administration, Services and make sure it's active. As far as the alert at boot, I see it on the gdm panel just after I

Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I am using kde on fedora 15. I need to setup a couple of login terminals on Alt-F2/F3 to 80x25 ascii resolution (of the dos/cga days). Have researched a lot but can't seem to find a short simple answer. Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent changes.

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 Sanjay Arora wrote: Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent changes. As far as I know, there isn't any way to do this. The best you can do is make the font it uses bigger. See:

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread g
On 09/13/2011 06:31 PM, TNWestTex wrote: The note on KNOPPIX live cd applies to Fedora 10 and newer as well. The cd spins forever. i missed that note somewhere. where was it? actually, i was not reffering to using a knoppix live because i would believe it difficult to install fedora using

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread TNWestTex
g-30 wrote: On 09/13/2011 06:31 PM, TNWestTex wrote: The note on KNOPPIX live cd applies to Fedora 10 and newer as well. The cd spins forever. i missed that note somewhere. where was it? actually, i was not reffering to using a knoppix live because i would believe it difficult

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 Sanjay Arora wrote: Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent changes. As far as I know, there isn't any way to do this. The best you can do is

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread g
On 09/13/2011 06:53 PM, TNWestTex wrote: g-30 wrote: On 09/13/2011 06:31 PM, TNWestTex wrote: The note on KNOPPIX live cd applies to Fedora 10 and newer as well. The cd spins forever. i missed that note somewhere. where was it? actually, i was not reffering to using a knoppix live

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/13/2011 12:37 PM, g wrote: if that does not work, my only other suggestion would be to put hard drive in a box with a more current bios, install fedora live on it, reinstall in old compaq box, to see if it will boot. You might also consider Puppy Linux, at http://www.puppylinux.org as

RE: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-13 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 09/13/2011 02:29 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:54 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: I have a Brother MFC665CW connected wirelessly. I installed the cups and lpd driver rpms from the Brother site, and run a cups service on the computers which use that printer. The URI for the

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 07:16 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: On 13/09/11 01:25, Gerhard Magnus wrote: As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've connected to the Internet and now want to enter

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-13 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On 09/13/2011 04:04 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 20:11 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Of course, it still appears that at least one of the updates that I just downgraded broke my printer. Is anyone else having this issue? and how can we figure out WHICH one of the updates broke

F15 slow tooltip and dialogs

2011-09-13 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I made side reference to this issue in another post. When I upgraded from F14 to F15 the tool tips and some dialogs became very slow. If this is not the case for most people, is it possibly a side-effect of doing an upgrade vs a clean install? Most everything else is okay. Running XFCE

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry Richard,  I tried your suggestions, but it still bombs out: [olivares@GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music --iso-dir ~/tmp/ [SNIP] I mentioned it but I guess I wasn't explicit enough. If your

libpng14-config (F15)

2011-09-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am on an x86_64 system and am compiling something that is looking for libpng14-config in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) Looking around, I get: sudo yum provides */libpng14-config Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit,

Canon PIXMA MG5320 all-in-one on linux?

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm looking for a replacement to my HP all-in-one that just died. The two features I need the most are printing CD/DVD media and scanning. I'm looking at the Canon PIXMA MG5320 and wondering if it works with sane and cups. Anyone happen to know? I suppose if I had to, I could operate it from a

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 9/13/11, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:58 PM On Tue, Sep 13,

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 9/13/11, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:58 PM On Tue, Sep 13,

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: [SNIP] [olivares@GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music --iso-dir ~/tmp/ Using /etc/discspan.ini as config file. Insert disc and wait for drive to become ready... Ok, once again, maybe 3rd time's the charm.

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
Richard, -- Making more progress, but script just sits there, I insert blank dvd and then I get : [olivares@GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music --iso-dir ~/tmp/ Using /etc/discspan.ini as config file. Insert disc and wait for drive to become ready... Unable to detect media, exiting.

Epson Artisan 725: anyone using with fedora?

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
I want at least scanning and DVD/CD printing to work? (I suspect it can print on paper if it can print on DVDs :-). Anyone used these features on fedora with this all-in-one device? Epson does point to a 3rd party driver. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Fedora 14 : perl-Config-Std - i386 available but not x86_64 ??

2011-09-13 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I need this package for a LedgerSMB install but the 64bit version is missing - why is this?: -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: ledgersmb-1.3.0_rc1-1.noarch (/ledgersmb-1.3.0_rc1-1.noarch)           Requires: perl-Config-Std = 0.0.4 yum list confirms that package does

F15 Samba shares: SWAT, smb.conf, system-config or KDE file share properties ? Bug ?

2011-09-13 Thread linux guy
I'm building a NAS server using Samba. Its a mixed OS network. I just spent several hours chasing some really funny bugs. I started out using SWAT in Firefox. I'd make a change in SWAT and commit it. Then I'd view the file. So far so good. Usually the change didn't run like it should have.

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-13 Thread Javier Perez
[root@pepewin ~]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 50G 7.4G 42G 16% / udev 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 4.9M 1.6G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 1.6G 740K 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sdb2

[Fedora] about mail

2011-09-13 Thread xinyou yan
I suggest we put [Fedora] in subject .So we can find the mail for the list . -- 嘉谟之行 “昔我往矣,杨柳依依 ; 今我来思 ,雨雪霏霏” -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [Fedora] about mail

2011-09-13 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/13/2011 09:23 PM, xinyou yan wrote: I suggest we put [Fedora] in subject .So we can find the mail for the list . or you could just create a filter on the email address and dump it into a folder :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-13 Thread g
On 09/13/2011 07:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/13/2011 12:37 PM, g wrote: if that does not work, my only other suggestion would be to put hard drive in a box with a more current bios, install fedora live on it, reinstall in old compaq box, to see if it will boot. You might also consider Puppy

Re: Canon PIXMA MG5320 all-in-one on linux?

2011-09-13 Thread nomnex
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:21:51 -0400 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a replacement to my HP all-in-one that just died. The two features I need the most are printing CD/DVD media and scanning. I'm looking at the Canon PIXMA MG5320 and wondering if it works with sane and

Re: [Fedora] about mail

2011-09-13 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 10:23 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: I suggest we put [Fedora] in subject .So we can find the mail for the list . I suggest we don't. We have more than enough headers (To, X-BeenThere, Reply-To, List-Id) in the messages for any *decent* mail client to identify this lists mail