Re: [389-users] Operations Error on object

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Gettes
I am continuing to pursue this problem… I am assuming this is NOT a replication problem since the DN is not of the form nsuniqueid=text+DN and I am not finding any replication conflicts when I search for them “nsds5ReplConflict=*” on any servers. Further info shows on one master I have: dn:

[389-users] LAN vs WAN

2014-03-26 Thread Amjad Farooq
Hi everyone, I have TWO linux machines in my office. One is on LAN (only locally-accessible) and the other on WAN (WWW-accessible). On the WAN, I have an apache server running but I also mounted a hard drive from the LAN machine using NFS so that I can easily access and transfer data files

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-03-22 10:38, lee wrote: Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org writes: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:19:05PM +0100, lee wrote: And on top of that, what is the Fedora-way of replacing gnome --- which I find totally useless --- with fvwm, which perfectly does what I want? It sounds

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?)

2014-03-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-03-23 10:19, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:35:20 +0100 lee wrote: One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. +1 The distro that actually seems to care (at the moment) about users is Linux Mint

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?))

2014-03-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-03-25 05:29, lee wrote: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au writes: I reckon it's the case for most OSs that /most/ users don't really care much about what they're using, nor how it works. The large number of clueless people using computers would seem to be evidence of that. The number

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?)

2014-03-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/26/2014 06:45 AM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-03-24 08:25, Liam Proven wrote: On 23 March 2014 21:56, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written much to but mostly read from, so you might put the partitions that can be

Re: my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

2014-03-26 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 25 March 2014 21:27, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 03/25/14 23:17, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 March 2014 18:00, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: maybe in your experiences, but mine has been just to rename users's .mozilla directory and when firefox was called, firefox created a new

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?))

2014-03-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:14:44AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote: I would really like to see Fedora move to a constant flux where applications are developed and then pushed out as updates which are actually upgrades. It is Fedora policy to not do that:

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?))

2014-03-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:14:44AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote: I would really like to see Fedora move to a constant flux where applications are developed and then pushed out as updates which are actually upgrades. Get to a point of not having a F19 or F20 but just Fedora. You move from 19 to

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/26/2014 01:32 AM, Robin Laing wrote: I`m not an expert with Fedoras installers in any way. This is simply my user experience. Maybe the user experience the installer provides should be different. It is hidden. I do use it. If you were trying the live disk, then I believe that the

vsftpd and sebool

2014-03-26 Thread Rafnews
Hi, i setup an FTP server to allow me and my friend to upload, create, delete, modify files/directories into /var/www/html directory (as ftp home dir). however if authentification works great, i'm not able (even locally so using ftp localhost) to create a simple directory e.g. test here

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-26 Thread lee
Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com writes: On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:41 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Maybe it begins with the installer messing together all the disks in some weird way rather than to treat them separately and just let you partition them the way you want to. IIRC, there

Steam on Fedora

2014-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20. This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems. However when running it I get a popup error saying: OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems. For more

Re: Steam on Fedora

2014-03-26 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20. This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems. However when running it I get a popup error saying: OpenGL GLX context

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, Why?))

2014-03-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Roger wrote: If I were a developer thinking about improvement, speed, constant changes in architecture and incessant increasingly aggressive system attacks, which you and I are so sheltered from, I would not give a whit about what users think. There are others who handle that part of the

Re: my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

2014-03-26 Thread g
On 03/26/14 03:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 02:36 +0600, g wrote: and so, be prepared to hear from some gmail and cell phone users who will deny that such can easily be done, as well as replying interspersed, therefore they do not. :-) IN Gmail it's trivially easy.

Re: my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

2014-03-26 Thread g
On 03/26/14 12:28, Ahmad Samir wrote: -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Steam on Fedora

2014-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 08:23 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20. This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems. However when

Re: user and groups permissions

2014-03-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 25 March 2014, Rafnews sent: i'm trying to figure out what is the best approach for files and folders permissions in case of a shared webserver. we are 2-3 developers and we have a server on which we installed Fedora 20 as web server for our development testing

RE: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Powell, Michael wrote: [note ] A non-gui installation is not something that the majority of users will choose so it's not apparent, but if you want that method, here you go: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/

Re: Steam on Fedora

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/26/2014 09:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: For more information visit https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457. A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using a

Problem updating google-chrome

2014-03-26 Thread Franklin McCormick
Updating my Fedora 19 system this morning turned up a problem...the newest version of google-chrome-unstable requires libmojo_system which apparently is not available. I posted a bug report...but anyone aware of any work-arounds ? -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic

Re: Steam on Fedora

2014-03-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:01:34PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: To answer your question, I bet you just need to install the 32bit version of the nvida libraries. On my system I have: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-331.49-1.fc20.i686 I did that and it seems to have worked (at least in

Re: Problem updating google-chrome

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Airs
On Wednesday 26 Mar 2014 13:18:47 Franklin McCormick wrote: Updating my Fedora 19 system this morning turned up a problem...the newest version of google-chrome-unstable requires libmojo_system which apparently is not available. I posted a bug report...but anyone aware of any work-arounds ?

Cisco WebEx on Fedora20

2014-03-26 Thread Pal, Laszlo
Hi, At my workplace I have to use Cisco WebEx for a lot and this is a complete pain in Fedora... it is require Oracle's Java, but it is not an issue... the big one is the total 32bit dependency... I've tried to set-up a second, 32 bit Firefox w/o success (several buttons are grey, so I still have

Re: Cisco WebEx on Fedora20

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/14 15:51, Pal, Laszlo wrote: do you have any experience with this great tool and how the full funcionality can be enabled using 64 bit Fedora? The same tool running quite seamless under 32bit slackware and Ubuntu Precise Thank

Atomic?? (was Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25))

2014-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:31:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25/ [] Fedora Atomic - Since this week has been a little slow, I’m going to cheat a bit and pull something big from the backlog.

Re: the separate /usr subthread

2014-03-26 Thread David G . Miller
Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have separate mount options,

Re: Atomic?? (was Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25))

2014-03-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Mar2014 20:16, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:31:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25/ [] Fedora Atomic - Since this week has been a little slow, I’m

Re: Atomic?? (was Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25))

2014-03-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 08:16:04PM +, Beartooth wrote: pull something big from the backlog. Fedora developer Colin Walters has launched a new project called Fedora Atomic. This system constructs git-like trees from existing official Fedora RPMs, and moves operating-system deployment

Re: the separate /usr subthread

2014-03-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
David G. Miller wrote: The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where user directories lived. When KR ran out of room in / for programs, they looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was /usr. Originally programs ended up in /usr/bin

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-26 Thread Liam Proven
On 24 March 2014 16:37, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: /dev/sda5 / 16GB - this is where I want to put Fedora; it used to be elementary's / Is this a plain partition, or is it an LVM physical volume? Plain MBR

Re: the separate /usr subthread

2014-03-26 Thread Liam Proven
On 26 March 2014 22:42, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Yes, I recall that the first Unix system I ran, version 5 on a pdp-11/23, had two (enormous) 10MB disks, one for the kernel and the other /usr . Wow. Well, that's *us* told. Schooled, even. 8-) -- Liam Proven * Profile:

Re: Problem updating google-chrome

2014-03-26 Thread Franklin McCormick
On 26/03/14 02:01 PM, Martin Airs wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2014 13:18:47 Franklin McCormick wrote: Updating my Fedora 19 system this morning turned up a problem...the newest version of google-chrome-unstable requires libmojo_system which apparently is not available. I posted a bug

Re: the separate /usr subthread

2014-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 22:42 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: David G. Miller wrote: The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where user directories lived. When KR ran out of room in / for programs, they looked to for a partition that had additional space available

Re: Problem updating google-chrome

2014-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 18:47 -0400, Franklin McCormick wrote: On 26/03/14 02:01 PM, Martin Airs wrote: On Wednesday 26 Mar 2014 13:18:47 Franklin McCormick wrote: Updating my Fedora 19 system this morning turned up a problem...the newest version of google-chrome-unstable requires

smart errors- move grub to sdb ?

2014-03-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 27 Offline uncorrectable sectors ok, I have a dual-disk setup. /dev/sda has my /home and is getting errors fedora / is actually /dev/sdb1 . I also have a spare partition on sdb that my /home is copied to daily. so if /dev/sda dies ( original disk with the computer) I can

Fedora 20 Apple thunderbolt monitor - it just works!!!

2014-03-26 Thread CS_DBA
All; Just thought someone on the list may find this useful: As a business owner I tried moving to appple, it worked ok for over a year before I just couldn't take it any more. So I ordered a Thinkpad W540 with 32G of RAM, the 1920x1080 display - and it comes with a thunderbolt port. I