Re: A couple of random questions about login

2013-09-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/02/2013 04:42 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: My wife turned to me and said, If I were the bad guy, I'd just have the computer delete everything if someone entered the boat name, or at least send me a text. The boat was an obvious guess, and I would never accidentally type it in. This is pretty

Re: No sound for really old program

2013-08-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/14/2013 04:53 PM, Alan Evans wrote: Now I do remember years back that there was some sort of wrapper I could execute old programs in that would allow them to work with the latest (at the time) sound architecture. But I don't remember what it was called. And in any case, it

Re: libpeerconnection.log

2013-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2013 12:50 PM, Roger wrote: I would like to know too. I get it in my Rails4 development sites. It is always empty but frequently triggers a SELinux denial. Roger Chrom{e,ium} according to various hits for 'libpeerconnection.log' on google:

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 07/17/2013 04:01 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Again, nope, at least for common log files. logrotate copies the current ownership/permissions to the new files, unless otherwise configured (and only a few files have that set in the default config; they probably shouldn't either). *if the

Re: upowerd

2013-06-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 06/18/2013 04:37 AM, lee wrote: What does that mean? When I look at [2], all it does seems to do is to allow to know when power sources are added or removed --- which is something that never happens. I don't have any hot pluggable PSUs. It's an abstraction for finding the power devices

Re: systemd Unit - Modifying IPv4 parameters

2013-05-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/08/2013 05:44 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Tony Su ton...@su-networking.com wrote: In the old days edits were made directly to the appropriate file /proc/net/ipv4/... Are you looking for /proc/sys/net/ip4? AFAICT /proc/net hasn't existed since everyone

Re: hackers

2013-04-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/25/2013 12:31 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/24/2013 04:11 PM, Roger wrote: Continuing to educate the masses is the only way that people will learn the real meaning. As you can see here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer, the original meaning of the term Geezer, as still used in the UK, is

Re: hackers

2013-04-24 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/24/2013 03:42 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so I out not lose too much sleep over it. Actually the scientists (inc. prof. Higgs) are not so happy

Re: Reliable way to determine native packaging system

2013-03-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/14/2013 06:27 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: Interesting, I'll have a look. But the downside you mention is exactly the one I want to avoid. Having to handle a mapping between distributions and packaging systems. See the other message I just posted... I think that's the crux of this

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/15/2013 04:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I have noticed lately on my F18 installation that this file: C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt Ask Ubuntu :) http://askubuntu.com/questions/144408/what-is-the-file-c-nppdf32log-debuglog-txt keeps popping up in my HOME. Anybody know the explanation

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/11/2013 01:28 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Quoting lun, 11 mar 2013 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 11.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Patrick Dupre: I made a BIG mistake, I removed /var/lib. the machine is done How can I reinstall it? what do you imagine to reinstall no way -

Re: Cannot unlock screen from the lock

2013-02-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/06/2013 11:04 AM, Jean Jacques wrote: Has any one encountered the problem that the screen cannot back from lock? The new lock screen does not unlock after the password has been entered. I've seen similar behaviour in a few situations: when the load on the box is extremely high it may

Re: [OT?] question about external hd

2013-02-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/06/2013 06:33 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: Should I be root to be able to create/remove files/folder in my external hd?? No. Create a scratch dir on the hd (as root) and do chmod 1777 mydir This will create a directory that any user can write to. Or you could chown the root directory of

Re: system monitoring applet

2013-01-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/31/2013 09:53 AM, Raf Roger wrote: i'm looking for a good system monitoring for fedora 18. i found something about standard applet package called gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor-applet rpm I quite like this one and used it quite a bit. but i was think is the one displayed on the

Re: Lack of things in Gimp

2013-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/29/2013 04:45 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: If the Fedora team saw this as a problem, they would arrange to have rpmfusion keep drivers available for the obsolete kernels in the media as well as the current kernels you get with upgrade. At least for Broadcom and Ralink (net) and Radeon and

Re: WTH is ntlvm2

2013-01-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/28/2013 04:49 PM, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: Autofs in F18 won't work without it. Presumably you meant NTLMv2 (NT LAN Manager Version 2, aka NTLM2). It's an ancient Microsoft authentication protocol used with Windows file and print sharing and other Windows network services. Sharing more

Re: OT Motherboard max ram, dmidecode ?

2013-01-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/15/2013 11:57 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: http://fpaste.org/jijW/ ctrl-f : this line does this mean my board can take 16gb ram? Their website says 8gb http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P35-Platinum.html#/?div=Basic It means your memory controller has enough pins to drive 16GiB of memory.

Re: F-18/64 Install Methods -

2013-01-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/15/2013 05:29 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: Gentle People: My suggestion: Use Fedora 14 and immediately load all updates. Results from my testing: Fedora 17 x64 - Not usable way to many bugs. Not sure what this has to do with F18 install methods but I'm using F17

Re: tune2fs -E hash_alg=half_md4: safe for existing filesystems?

2013-01-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/09/2013 06:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I would try this on something you can afford to lose... I just don't see any more info on this than you did before asking. I am curious, since I Changing hash_alg on an existing file system sets the default hash algorithm for newly created

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 28/11/12 18:52, Rick Stevens wrote: I reiterate: 1. Install the kernel source RPM. 2. Navigate to your ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory. 3. Do rpmbuild -bp --target=x86_64 kernel.spec or rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel.spec depending on your

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2012 05:07 PM, JD wrote: The main point is that the build takes too darned long. On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days. Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste of time and machine. If you want to change the set of

Re: lvm duplication

2012-10-26 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/2012 12:49 PM, Ian Chapman wrote: On 26/10/12 19:44, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, How can I manage such an issue? WARNING: Duplicate VG name VolGrpSys0: s4LnbI-FRjU-fsPt-2W3d-XIIL-LT7o-uPsVfo (created here) takes precedence over

Re: how to disable unset HISTORY

2012-10-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/17/2012 12:06 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 10/16/2012 02:52 AM, Tiziana Manfroni wrote: Hi, I have some users that delete .history file (in tcsh shell), so I can't see their commands. Can I disable the command unset history? If it is not possible, what can I do? Thanks in advance

Re: how to disable unset HISTORY

2012-10-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/16/2012 07:52 AM, Tiziana Manfroni wrote: Hi, I have some users that delete .history file (in tcsh shell), so I can't see their commands. Can I disable the command unset history? If it is not possible, what can I do? You can't really prevent a user from altering their environment (it's

Re: process group display?

2012-10-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/16/2012 05:21 PM, Jack Craig wrote: Thx! I knew there had to be a solution, ... I'm also a big fan of ps ax --forest - it retains the ps fields while still giving you an asciigram of the process tree: $ ps ax --forest PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 2 ?S 0:00

Re: Plans for anaconda LVM/RAID support

2012-10-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 10/15/2012 03:46 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ian Pilcher wrote: I'm sure that this information is somewhere on the Fedora Wiki, but my search-fu apparently isn't up to the task of finding it. What are the plans for LVM and/or software RAID support? Currently (F18 Beta TC2), it seems to be

Re: Software Removal....

2012-09-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/18/2012 05:37 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: namely ones that don't even functionsome title are: Tetravex - Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, Nibbles some form of worm game and a few others. I have tried going to the Add / Remove Software module but it doesn't even find these

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/13/2012 08:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/13/2012 12:41 PM, Fedora User wrote: People must have too much time on their hands. Add some features; maybe clean up some code. But why on earth make major UI changes to a program that consistently did exactly what it was supposed to do exactly as

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/13/2012 08:57 PM, Fedora User wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:41 -0400, Fedora User wrote: People must have too much time on their hands. Add some features; maybe clean up some code. But why on earth make major UI changes to a program that consistently did exactly what it was supposed to

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/14/2012 11:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 14 September 2012 11:26, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/13/2012 08:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: And, while I'm at it, when did it stop being The GIMP[2]? I don't recall the splash screens or about box calling it The GIMP in a very long

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/14/2012 01:41 PM, Claude Jones wrote: On 09/14/2012 06:26 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What is it that you don't like in the new GIMP? For me the single window interface is far preferable to the old lets-hunt-around-the-workspace mode and it's optional if you do prefer the free-floating

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/14/2012 02:57 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Gimp and single window interface? What Fedora are you actually on?? I'm on a fully updated F17, and I don't have a single window interface in Gimp (wish I had).. F17 as I've said more than once. Look in the Windows menu perhaps? It should be the last

Re: Stemming a flood of kernel warnings

2012-09-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/10/2012 01:31 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: Is there any possible way I could configure ABRT to stop nagging me about this particular bug? Note this bug is really just a WARN()/assertion in a kernel module (i915). Other than the annoyance caused by the frequent bug reports, it causes no

Re: To telnet or to netcat... that's the question

2012-08-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/31/2012 01:41 PM, NOSpaze wrote: But if I use nc and do... # nc 127.0.0.1 5038 EOF Action: Login ActionID: 1 Username: youwanna Secret: uwanna EOF Asterisk Call Manager/1.0 Does the behaviour differ if you

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/05/2012 03:30 AM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Is there any list of Cargo cult sysadmin practices for Fedora? A perennial favourite: * disable, remove and BURN WITH FIRE pulseaudio at the first sign of any sound playback trouble. It doesn't matter if it caused it. It must be purged and

Re: remake /dev

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 15:50 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: On 28.7.2012 15:07, Patrick Dupre wrote: My idea what to repair the installation from another installation. So, I mounted the defectuous installation, and I did a chroot to it. It works except that I have an error message: so

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself properly after the suspend. This is very common. In fact, I wrote a script (in Gentoo) to unmount external drives before a suspend operation, so that the numbering of

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:29 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:13 AM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: This is very common. In fact, I wrote a script (in Gentoo) to unmount external drives before a suspend operation, so that the numbering of disks in /dev don't become littered

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:42 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 30/07/12 10:44, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What state is the device in following a resume? (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). What is that? I don't see anything near this path on my system. You probably mean a faulty resume, in that case

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 17:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What state is the device in following a resume? (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). I am not so sure that is a good indication of anything. I have 2 drives on my system /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:48 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: Do you see that happen a lot? Do you mean the error, or the sharing of scripts? The error: it's an abnormal condition so if you are seeing that, especially

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:50 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Interesting, I've never come across such a beast. Could you supply a URL to one that you'd recommend as I'd be fascinated to check one out? Embedded systems may use considerably less GNU bits than we're used to in a general purpose

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 12:09 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 30/07/12 11:51, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:42 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 30/07/12 10:44, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What state is the device in following a resume? (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). What

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2012 05:59 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 17:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What state is the device in following a resume? (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). I am

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2012 06:16 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: In this case a suggestion that for whatever reason the kernel hasn't properly dealt with the removal of the device that had been assigned to sdd (it presumably existed at some point

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2012 06:29 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Do you have a card reader device? Yes And that is sde. I would guess it's a multi-card reader device and those additional SCSI device nodes correspond to empty slots within the reader

Re: Configuring graphics(resolution) on Dell Vostro 460 i5

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 19:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I find the output of lspci a bit odd. I thought that it would indicate the card type. Mine, for example, is ... 1:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GT 230] (rev a2) Getting numeric output indicates that

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 05:55 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself properly after the suspend

gnome 3 extensions install fails silently

2012-07-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Attempting to install the put windows extension for gnome3: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/39/put-windows/ I get the Download and install 'Put Window' from extensions.gnome.org? dialog and OK it and the extension apparently fails to install somewhere. Couldn't find anything obvious

Re: How to debug high system load?

2012-07-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2012 02:36 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 07/12/2012 06:00 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: rottled down and are at about 1%. So my question is since CPU usage is already so low, what could be driving up the system load? This is bugging me since I

Re: How to debug high system load?

2012-07-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2012 03:29 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Bryn, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: That would normally also be reflected to some extent in CPU usage and process activity as shown in top (unless the problem

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/2012 02:31 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 10.07.2012 11:26, Dave Cross wrote: On 10 July 2012 10:15, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: Is it possible that broken kernel which won't boot or cause any other

Re: mount usb camera as a disk

2012-07-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2012 12:18 PM, Gergely Buday wrote: fedora did not automount my camera. So I tried lsusb, which has found it, but even in verbose mode it did not tell me any data that can be fed to mount. How can I mount then my camera? Bus 001 Device

Re: mount usb camera as a disk

2012-07-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2012 12:52 PM, Gergely Buday wrote: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b0:031d Nikon Corp. [gergoe@oldship regio_et_religio]$ lsusb -vs 001:004 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0

Re: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 03:11 PM, Jim wrote: I run dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb1 to copy, supposely a 26gb image to sdb1 but i do not see a image on sdb1 . Confused ??? That writes a block-for-block image of the content of sda2 to the device sdb1. It

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

2012-07-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Jim wrote: Thanks Rick I have done all that you have said but now I'm running into read-only file systems, what command would I use to change the ro to rw on external hard drive sdb1 ? It was probably still mounted from

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

2012-07-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Jim wrote: Thanks Rick I have done all that you have said but now I'm running into read-only file systems, what command would I use to change the ro to rw on external hard drive sdb1 ? Since the original dd command: dd

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/2012 04:03 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Use an offset, e.g. # mount -o loop,offset=4 Thanks, I should have thought of that. Alas, it didn't work. # mount -o loop,offset=4 -t vfat myusb_sdb.dd /media/desktop/ mount: wrong fs type,

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 10:06 PM, Thibault Nélis wrote: On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)? I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2 from what I read

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2012 04:19 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote: I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD unmounted. Full SMART scan verified the pending bad blocks. However, I can't

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 04:56 AM, JD wrote: FWIW, perhaps - just perhaps - this is an attempt by MS and redhat (and perhaps others like Oracle), to try an convince government customers that a system with a signed bootloader and kernel and modules, provides

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 12:15 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:59:42 +0100 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 04:56 AM, JD wrote: FWIW, perhaps - just perhaps - this is an attempt

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 12:18 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Who gets to make a call what is trusted, and what even trusted means. Slightly off-topic but a favourite Ken Thomson talk/paper of mine that is very relevant to the discussion of trust in software

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 01:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Aside from some clear performance wins for not-that-uncommon workloads (deleting lots of large files, storing large images etc) there's the fact that most of the attention upstream these days is going

Re: cannot create-md on DRBD with external meta-disk

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 03:55 PM, Lutz Griesbach wrote: Hi there Fedora17 with drbd 8.3.11 an i am trying to create a resource with external meta-disk: resource cos62 { #meta-disk internal; meta-disk /dev/vg_drbd/lv-cos62-drbd-meta; - From the parse

Re: cannot create-md on DRBD with external meta-disk

2012-06-01 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 04:24 PM, Lutz Griesbach wrote: as you described but the parse error still appears. [root@fed17-2 drbd.d]# drbdadm create-md cos62 drbd.d/cos62.res:8: Parse error: '[' expected, but got ';' (TK 59) Also i am not sure, if the

Re: I do think the world is coming to a end

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 07:04 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/30/2012 08:01 PM, Tim wrote: On the one hand, it says calls do not pass through it (it just organises the two parties to connect to each other). And, on the other hand, it talks about not exposing the

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 12:15 PM, Paul Smith wrote: I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 02:35 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 03:58 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: That's a good point. I guess now would be a good time to mention that a volume snapshot != backup (see below), however, I've heard of snapshots sometimes being used to create a still or point-in-time copy

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 04:01 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: I have already an external disk formatted with ext3, but for safety reasons I am now wanting to have two external disks with the same backups. When I formatted the first external disk, I did not know

Re: Need more info: UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora

2012-05-31 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 06:06 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/31/2012 03:31 AM, Alan Cox wrote: That will generally speaking exceed their profit margin on the board by quite a bit so will make them very keen to document it clearly for future users. Demanding

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 07:50 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: # udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent in KERNEL[183.649491] change

Re: Can I remove sendmail?

2012-05-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2012 03:23 PM, sergiocmailbox-fedoraus...@yahoo.com.br wrote: ..and I also figured it's required for some basic packages, so I'll just disable its service. Thanks. I think things should depend on MTA or smtpdaemon rather than sendmail

Re: Can I remove sendmail?

2012-05-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2012 04:06 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/05/30 07:51, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 05/30/2012 03:23 PM, sergiocmailbox-fedoraus...@yahoo.com.br wrote: ..and I also figured it's required for some basic packages, so I'll just disable its service

Re: I do think the world is coming to a end

2012-05-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2012 05:19 PM, Jim wrote: I'm sorry that I may have posted this to the wrong location, but the Linux world has got to see this. If it's the end of the world as we know it I feel fine. :-) Won't Microsoft have a run in, with the GPL-3 ?

Re: Can I remove sendmail?

2012-05-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2012 05:31 PM, jdow wrote: It's been covered as a problem in that it is not a problem - at least Who said it was a problem? It's just how it works.. on the RHEL trees. SL2 has this sequence of links: $ ll /usr/sbin/sendmail lrwxrwxrwx.

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 03:26 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: So then I looked at lspci (see below). I may be wrong but I can't see anything which might be a card reader listed there. It's as if I don't actually have a card reader. Most internal card readers are USB

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 03:46 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 04:15 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: I have never used udevadm before. If I have read the man page correctly, all I need to do is to initiate udevadm monitor and then plug in the card, is that right? Yes - just run the command as root and it

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 05:15 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 05/29/2012 04:15 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: I have never used udevadm before. If I have read the man page correctly, all I need to do is to initiate udevadm monitor and then plug in the card

Re: partition question

2012-05-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/2012 09:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 05/27/2012 12:45:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I went around that tree a few months back, and as far as I could discover there is no was to resize a partition. The parted documentation seemed to imply

Re: No Audio from media players

2012-05-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/2012 03:33 PM, JD wrote: May 8 22:07:44 localhost pulseaudio[31173]: bluetooth-util.c: Error from ListAdapters reply: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed May 8 22:07:44 localhost pulseaudio[31173]: module-ladspa-sink.c: Master sink

Re: red hat?

2012-04-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/17/2012 08:36 AM, Hal wrote: Roger had the answer. The Romans used stale human URINE(Uric Acid) to was their togas and other things. No movies my friend. More likely they were using stale urine for its high ammonia content. Dried-on uric acid

Re: red hat?

2012-04-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/2012 09:20 PM, Hal wrote: On 4/16/2012 2:37 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/04/16 07:28, fred smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04:45AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2012 06:40 PM

Re: red hat?

2012-04-16 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2012 06:40 PM, jdow wrote: It might help if you washed them once and awhile. {O.O} (You should know by not I lurk here and NO good straight-line is safe.) Washing tends to make them fall apart faster, not slower (intense mechanical

Re: red hat?

2012-04-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2012 11:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote: nono a physical wool felt hat I can put on my head to keep warm. Probably you have to buy a subscription to a hat nowdays ;-) Alan I would gladly buy clothes by subscription if it was a good service

Re: FYI: how to prevent mysql from oom-killer

2012-04-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2012 02:47 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 04/13/2012 03:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: with one single command you can protect processes from get killed i started to run this every 15 minutes to make sure it is also active after

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 07:21 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 02:07:28PM -0400, nu...@gmx.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code names, one that

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 10:19 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 04/04/12 10:08, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Red Hat Linux 10.3 Bryn. The Unnamed One Well, we can't call it Yarrow again :) Bryn. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 08:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: s/some/a lot of/ if you set it up right. It can still do a fair amount of nasty stuff. xhost local:subuser-id; sudo -u subuser-id

Re: A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements

2012-03-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/2012 04:13 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: Hi all, I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap. When I run $git gc --aggressive, I will get after few hours an error: $ git gc --aggressive Counting objects:

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/2012 12:12 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: That is not optimization, that is interface design. The two are entirely different. The premature optimization bit is about choosing implementation clarity (expression) at the expense of execution speed over

Re: is freedesktop.org dead? Any official desktop standard?

2012-03-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2012 10:30 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Bryn, thanks for info. http://www.freedesktop.org/ seems totally inaccessible yet, what is suspicious too. I will waiting when this site will be up. It's working fine here (I get the redirect to

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/23/2012 07:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: systemctl restart httpd.service is a joke compared with service httpd restart - a msart developer would have made .service as default-fallback and only httpd.socket as example would need full qualified

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-22 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2012 01:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I'll say this. I recently went to read the grub2 documentation and found this product rather obtuse and complex. As an example trying to figure out the camparative roles of grub2-mkconfig and

Re: is freedesktop.org dead? Any official desktop standard?

2012-03-22 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2012 02:56 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: It seems as freedesktop.org site is unmaintained or dead. Thus, know anyone, when it is there any other recent actual standard about desktop things? Does not appear dead according to:

Re: is freedesktop.org dead? Any official desktop standard?

2012-03-22 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2012 03:23 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I don't think he wanted to report problems as much as inquire into whether someone here knew anything about the status of the freedesktop.orgproject...seems legit to me at least, since it is

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency solving backends. The website has lots of information: http://www.packagekit.org/ Is it

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