Re: kmod-catalyst breaks install with ATI HD4570

2011-04-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Guilherme Patriota guilhermep...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 April 2011 04:01, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Guilherme Patriota guilhermep...@gmail.com wrote: Strange about the installation is that the partition

Re: Claws versus Evolution for email.

2011-04-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Claws appears to be Gnome based, but also runs on Windows ? Claws is the default email client for XFCE. In my opinion it is the almost perfect email program. Very easily customisable and even the defaults are very sane

Re: Claws versus Evolution for email.

2011-04-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 04/04/2011 11:16 AM, suvayu ali wrote: Claws is the default email client for XFCE. In my opinion it is the almost perfect email program. Very easily customisable and even the defaults are very sane (e.g. plain text emails

Re: Claws versus Evolution for email.

2011-04-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 April 2011 20:44, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I ask questions that have seemingly simple answers on this board.  So much knowledge and experience and everyone does things a bit differently. I had

Re: Claws versus Evolution for email.

2011-04-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I generally avoid it, but sometimes I do use html formatted emails. Like when I need to send a long weblink and I know the recipient isn't very computer literate. Does claws have an html email editor for composing such

Re: buut paramerers for seeing the verbose boot process

2011-04-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:23 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: What happens is at boot, there is a fast scroll of text and suddenly, the screen appears as if it got powered off, but it also behaves that way when switching from bios text mode to graphics mode. It stays blank  (black) for about 2.5

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-10 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is not to be mean to the other users. It's to protect the other users from the vulnerabilities in flash. If flash is installed globally (the usual thing that happens when you use the rpm package), all users become

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-13 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Joel, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: And we always su (if we do use su to do administrative tasks) from users that we never surf the web from, right? You understand why? I presume you are alluding to the possibility of the system being affected by

Re: f14 and xfce 4.8

2011-04-13 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM, David A. De Graaf d...@datix.us wrote: I note that a script, /usr/local/bin/touchpadfix:    /usr/bin/synclient TapButton1=1    /usr/bin/synclient HorizEdgeScroll=1 can work around this problem, but a)  it's a kluge b)  I can't find a way to automatically run

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Joel, On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:03:00 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Does that explain why I'm saying you don't want Flash loading every time you run your web browser as any user? How does this change when flash is installed as the regular user? From what I said

Re: f14 and xfce 4.8

2011-04-14 Thread suvayu ali
Hi David, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:26 AM, David A. De Graaf d...@datix.us wrote: Maybe put those lines in your ~/.bash_profile or whatever is the profile file for your shell? [...] That's what DID NOT work for me. I replaced that with your file, which also doesn't work. That is,

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: So your objection is definitely a valid point but it is not specific to flash. Its a general principle of not exposing your administrative password to user accounts that might have been infected by the outside world. The

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. Xournal does not or cannot save the edited pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own format - with .xoj  extension. That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf. -- Suvayu Open

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Nikolaus, On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I went with Debian. I don't exactly knwo what Debian unstable offers

Optimising transmission

2011-04-17 Thread suvayu ali
Hi everyone, Lately I am noticing that despite reasonably low network activity, my network access speeds go down whenever transmission is seeding many torrents even if the upload bandwidth usage has been limited to 30Kbps. Pausing some of the seeding torrents usually resolves the issue. I also

Re: Optimising transmission

2011-04-19 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: The latest Transmission Beta in Rawhide has µTP support which should help.  I think there are too many changes to be pushing in as an update for older releases but just a heads up

Re: Optimising transmission

2011-04-19 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Rahul, On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Since this is a leaf package, it should be possible to get an exception if needed.  At this point,  I don't know yet if there is going to be an feature update to Fedora 15.   I have a Transmission repo

Re: Adding new software on F15 beta

2011-04-22 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Oh, and I forgot to mention I'm using the XFCE spin. Try, XFCE Menu -- Administration -- Add/Remove Software or from the terminal, su -c 'gpk-application'. Either will ask you for the root password before letting

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:04 AM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: I have a PowerPoint Slideshow that I want to look at the pictures one at a time in Impress, but how do I stop the slide show from starting in full screen mode. I want to extract a picture from slide show. Just open it

Re: Stopping a PPT slideshow in Impress

2011-04-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I'm not sure what the OO behavior is, but you could open Impress first then File-Open the file. Maybe that way it will not go into presentation mode. +1 I think this should work. -- Suvayu Open source is the

Re: So where are my workspaces??

2011-04-28 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:08:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That's as may be (I use KDE myself so I confess to a certain amount of schadenfreude :-) but nonetheless the place to bitch about for the moment is the Test

Re: Fedora 14 + ATI Video Drivers + VLC

2011-04-30 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Frank Tanner III pct...@mybellybutton.com wrote: Does anyone know of any issues regarding VLC in Fedora 14 with ATI Video drivers? I'm running into a huge memory leak issue when I play a video in VLC. The video plays fine for about 30 or 45 seconds then memory

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Tony Foster tflinuxm...@surewest.net wrote: When I unpacked the download none of the shell files were executable. I assume that I need to add executable permission to some of the executable files to run from home directory? There should be an executable file

xrandr not working

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Fedora users, On my laptop this used to work before: $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --above But today it stopped working. Following is the output from xrandr on my system. Any thoughts what is going wrong? $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current

Re: xrandr not working

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
Sorry disregard the message. Found my typo. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Fedora users, On my laptop this used to work before: $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --above Should have been: $ xrandr

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-03 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Tony. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Tony Foster tflinuxm...@surewest.net wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:23 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Tony Foster tflinuxm...@surewest.net wrote: When I unpacked the download none of the shell files were executable. I

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-03 Thread suvayu ali
Hi, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:31 AM, jarmo oh1...@nic.fi wrote: Suvayu Ali kirjoitti tiistai, 3. toukokuuta 2011 18:19:11: [1] http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/ How about try Remi's package? Updates 3.6 FF. If I understood, FF4 is not coming for FC14? So

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:08 PM, jarmo oh1...@nic.fi wrote: suvayu ali kirjoitti keskiviikko, 4. toukokuuta 2011 01:27:51: there any preference among the two? I don't recall receiving any updates from that repo. So I was wondering which is more up to date? Or has there been no updates

Re: Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason

2011-05-09 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus arad...@gmail.com wrote: And according to Joel Rees who suggested a step by step method, I applied the YUM clean all before and it helped me. Thanks Now I have 840 MB free. I have not tar files there and in fact as I checked

Re: wallpaper sync for workspaces?

2011-05-10 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:16 AM, BeartoothHOS bearto...@comcast.net wrote:        But then I'd need to differentiate again -- say, for instance, by putting a blaze orange 1 in the bottom left corner of all 16 workspaces on machine #1, a 2 on #2, and so forth. Is there an easier way to do such

Re: codecs, firefox and packageKit

2011-05-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:44 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-260.19.12-3.fc14.x86_64 : Libraries for xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Repo        : rpmfusion-nonfree Matched from: Filename    : /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so $ yum list installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-lib*

Re: ugly on fonts on upgrade from F13 to F15

2011-05-25 Thread suvayu ali
Hi everyone, I preupgraded my desktop to F15 from F13 today. Everything went very smoothly except this issue with the ugly fonts. For some reason for the same font settings I get these ugly fonts after the upgrade to F15. I compared with my F14 laptop, they look good just like it used to on F13

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: ...and the benefit of this is what? If you mean what is the need for systemd, this page might help: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html AFAIU systemd is more of a feature enhancement rather than bug fix. So if you strictly

Re: ugly on fonts on upgrade from F13 to F15

2011-05-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, 25 May 2011 14:21:10 -0600 Phil Meyer pme...@themeyerfarm.com wrote: On 05/25/2011 09:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: Hi everyone, I preupgraded my desktop to F15 from F13 today. Everything went very smoothly except this issue with the ugly fonts. For some reason for the same font

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Harald Hoyer wrote: Most of them are from the sandbox init script NOT from systemd!! Yes, this was not documented in the release notes. It is part of SELinux/pam_namespace usage. Is there any wiki or manpage I

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: As already noted, this isn't related to systemd but in case, you are looking for systemd documentation, here is a comprehensive list of them https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#systemd_documentation Thanks Rahul,

Re: Maybe a clue to poorly rendered f15 fonts?

2011-05-27 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Tom, On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708525 I happened to set a font to a large size in an app, and suddenly it appeared to be rendered completely differently. I did an experiment, which is documented

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Michael, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: because the .* also includes .., the parent directory, which in this case is /home A quick question, how can one use globs to expand only dotfiles without including ..? -- Suvayu Open source is the

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 12:18 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: Hi Michael, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: because the .* also includes .., the parent directory, which

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Patrick, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: $ ls \.[^.]* Thanks a lot Patrick, I had no idea ls accepted regular expressions! It doesn't. You need to read up on how the Shell works. I was under the impression the shell accepts simple

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: I was under the impression the shell accepts simple globs like '?' for any single character and '*' for any one or more characters hence I assumed it is an ls feature. I just read the pattern matching section in

Re: Unable to disable sshd by setup?

2011-05-30 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/31/2011 06:42 AM, H Xu wrote: Hello, I've used the setup program to uncheck sshd, however, sshd still starts up after I reboot. This doesn't happen on FC14. Then I tried to use setup to disable other daemons, it

Re: ddclient in systemd

2011-05-31 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have a recipe for running ddclient (updates dynamic DNS info) from systemd? The current version is written for the classic init system. Can I just install it that way? Doesn't this work? # systemctl

Re: 14-15 upgrade comments

2011-06-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Rich Emberson emberson.r...@gmail.com wrote: Lastly, the fonts are, well, not what they were before the upgrade. Others have mentioned this and I will live with them until some future time. You need to turn on autohinting[1]. Include 10-autohint.conf in your

Re: Preupgrade still sucks. Maybe sucks less, maybe sucks more.

2011-06-03 Thread suvayu ali
[...] Regards, Mike My experience was exactly opposite. I upgraded from F13 to F15 without a hitch. While I was working at my workstation at home, I started preupgrade from the terminal and it downloaded the new packages. Once it was done, I rebooted it and made sure the upgrade process had

Re: looking for rpm/yum database utility

2011-06-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Sam JD, I must apologize for asking this question to the wrong list. I knew the Fedora version does this. What I'm actually looking for is that same repo info for a RHEL5 system with some additional packages

Re: Flash update questions for f14

2011-06-05 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/06/2011 08:25 AM, Alex wrote: The Adobe page points to an i386 version, and no Adobe Labs version is currently available. How can I continue to use the 64-bit version on fedora as an RPM with the current version?

Re: looking for rpm/yum database utility

2011-06-07 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: Why parse things when you can just ask for the information from RPM in the format you'd like it? The rpm command allows you to list the available query tags (fields) and then construct custom query formats on the command

Re: Upgraded F14 - F15, now how do I use this?

2011-06-09 Thread suvayu ali
[OT comment] On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: I'm sure it is.  One of the things I was delighted to find in XFCE was that when you right-click on the desktop, the context menu includes the complete Main Menu as an option. Try a middle click, and you can see all the

Re: Upgraded F14 - F15, now how do I use this?

2011-06-09 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 06/09/2011 11:52 AM, suvayu ali wrote: Try a middle click, and you can see all the windows in all desktops too. :) Now if only there was a way to rearrange the windows from this menu ... There are two problems with this: first

Re: How to make yum history show more than the last 20 transactions?

2011-06-09 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: If I had a list 100-118 or something similar I could have found out the transaction number in just one command. What about yum history list all then grep for the date range? Javier -- Suvayu Open source is the future.

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:13:46AM -0400, Digimer wrote: On 05/15/2013 12:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? Btw, what is the highest vertical resolution I can get? I used to have a Dell

Re: Terminal title doesn't change correctly

2013-06-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:30:41PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: cat .bashrc [...chomp...chomp...chomp...] $ cat .bash_profile [...chomp...chomp...chomp...] These seem oaky to me. You need to customise your PS1 variable to get dynamically updated titles. For Bash, the window title has to be

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: On 06/17/2013 11:52 AM, jackson byers issued this missive: And just what is SVG? I believe SVG is a GUI interface to subversion. SVG is a vector graphics format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics --

Re: what do you use tracker for?

2013-07-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 03:04:43PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Do you use tracker? Can you give examples of how you've used it and if you find it useful? Tracker is one of the better desktop search utilities. I tried it for sometime several years back, however I stopped because I do not

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

2013-07-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:29:02PM -0400, staticsafe wrote: http://durham.io/2013/07/09/seth-vidal-creator-of-yum-open-source-software-killed-in-bike-accident-off-hillandale-rd/ May he rest in peace. Sad news indeed. My condolences. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. --

Transmission daemon not starting in Fedora 19

2013-07-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I'm having trouble starting transmission-daemon. When I try to start it with systemctl, it hangs: # systemctl start transmission-daemon.service If I let it be for a few minutes (~5), it finishes with a failure. The log is extremely unhelpful. This is very strange because it was working

Re: Transmission daemon not starting in Fedora 19

2013-07-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Rahul, On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:14:29AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/16/13 10:37, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com mailto:fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble starting transmission-daemon. When I

Re: Transmission daemon not starting in Fedora 19

2013-07-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:52:33AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/16/13 07:25, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble starting transmission-daemon. When I try to start it with systemctl, it hangs: # systemctl start transmission-daemon.service If I let it be for a few minutes

Re: Transmission daemon not starting in Fedora 19

2013-07-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:01:31AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: That said, now transmission-remote-cli does not work (incompatible protocol versions). I believe there is a new version of transmission-remote-cli[2] that supports

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:59:35PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm tired of saying sudo less /var/log/maillog or messages. For /var/log/messages you could use `dmesg -T | less +G' instead. Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:29:04AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it said: Will it cause any problems if I change the permissions on these files? Nope, been doing it for years. I thought changing the permission on /var/log/messages will cause

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Timothy, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:35:46PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/17/13 22:27, Timothy Murphy wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Heck, you could always make your sudo password less and you could always assign the frequently used commands aliases. I guess my question should have been:

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com said: On 07/17/2013 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I thought changing the permission on /var/log/messages will cause problems with syslog, no? Maybe you are thinking

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:21:20AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Note that if you're using the systemd journal (and you are, in recent Fedora, including persistent logging to disk with F19), adding yourself to the 'systemd-journal' group will allow you to see system logs with 'journalctl'.

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:57:02PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:02:47PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: Note that if you're using the systemd journal (and you are, in recent Fedora, including persistent logging to disk with F19), adding yourself to the 'systemd

Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

2013-07-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:59:00PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:18 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:59:35PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm tired of saying sudo less /var/log/maillog or messages. For /var/log/messages you could use

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

2013-07-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:13:12PM +0200, lee wrote: Hi, does anyone know what conky displays as CPU usage for a process? The values are different in conky and top, for example, top might show 11.6 for a process while conky says 3.01. Not on my system. The polling times are a bit

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

2013-07-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Sadly I do not have answers to any of your questions. However I have to say, I have been using conky for 5 years now; it has been incredibly reliable for me. If you think it would help, I could share my conkyrc. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing

Re: Transmission daemon not starting in Fedora 19

2013-07-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Rahul, On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:00:48PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:01:31AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: That said, now transmission-remote-cli does not work (incompatible protocol versions). I believe

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

2013-07-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 09:48:11AM +0200, lee wrote: Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: Sadly I do not have answers to any of your questions. However I have to say, I have been using conky for 5 years now; it has been incredibly reliable for me. If you think it would help, I

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

2013-07-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:33:53PM +0200, lee wrote: I've done that yesterday. It's working already, showing an automatically scaling graph of the used network bandwidth over 360 samples, with the update interval given on the command line. Let it update every 10 seconds, and you see the

Re: netinst of fedora xfce

2013-07-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 26/07/13 12:54, François Patte wrote: Is there somewhere a place where I can find the netinst image iso of fedora with xfce desktop Get Network install cd from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and select

SELinux error on every policy package update

2013-07-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I have been having this weird problem; everytime I there is a selinux-policy update, I get the following error: libsepol.print_missing_requirements: hotplug's global requirements were not met: bool init_systemd (No such file or directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link

Re: a different point of view to etiquette

2013-07-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:23:48AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: On 07/31/2013 12:59 AM, jdow wrote: Andrew, one thing a woman needs to develop to survive in the technical fields is an incredibly thick skin. I know, and that's what needs to change or many of the best brains will continue to

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:07:07AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way to turn it off for all users (especially root)? You have to set your PS1 in your ~/.bashrc such that there are no colour escapes. This is what I do: if

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way to turn it off for all users (especially root)? There

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:59:43PM -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room Now I get errors when I boot and try to login AFAIK, /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem in newer Fedoras. That means, you can just reboot, and things will be back

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Joe, On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 12:11:58PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to

Re: SELinux error on every policy package update

2013-08-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
*Bump* Anyone have any ideas? Some hints would be good, I am clueless here. Cheers, On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, I have been having this weird problem; everytime I there is a selinux-policy update, I get the following error

Re: SELinux error on every policy package update

2013-08-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:16:57AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 07/27/2013 03:16 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, I have been having this weird problem; everytime I there is a selinux-policy update, I get the following error: libsepol.print_missing_requirements: hotplug's

Re: SELinux error on every policy package update

2013-08-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:46:43PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: *Bump* Anyone have any ideas? Some hints would be good, I am clueless here. You should probably just file a bug report This seems more like a local problem

Re: su - in terminal hangs

2013-08-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:39:10AM +0200, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: Hi All, I use FC18 box (3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64) for ssh-ing to other boxes.  It was working normally without rebooting for months but now when  I tried to put su - in the terminal, it hangs. Does simple 'su' work?

Re: SELinux error on every policy package update

2013-08-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Daniel, On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:24:13PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: rm -f /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules/hotplug.pp You might also want to look at any other files in this directory that are not owned by an rpm package. Worked like a charm. :) I tested by doing yum

Re: su - in terminal hangs

2013-08-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:33:41PM +0200, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: Thank you for thinking about it. :) Also su only (without -) was hanging. The /root was 550 as before. Shouldn't it be 770? Another thing you could check is entries in /var/log/secure. If it is a pam problem, it

Re: Set default video application -

2013-08-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 03:33:02AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: But I did find that changing the File Manager icon to point to thunar instead of thunar settings does what I want. I don't recall setting that to thunar settings? Not sure what's going on there but it is

Re: Set default video application -

2013-08-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after reading the man page. It is actually not trivial! I do not think the mimetype argument to xdg-mime takes a glob. This makes it more

Re: Set default video application -

2013-08-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:54:05PM +0200, poma wrote: On 19.08.2013 17:24, Suvayu Ali wrote: As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can. If someone knows an easier way to add a class

Re: BASH and wildcard expansion

2013-08-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:18:40PM -0500, Bill Oliver wrote: # Filename format _MM_DD--HHMM.zip filename=$log_year-$log_month-$log_day--*.zip filelist=`ls $filename` Please don't do this. A much better solution is: filelist=($log_year-$log_month-$log_day--*.zip) See:

Re: BASH and wildcard expansion

2013-08-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Bill, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:56:03PM -0500, Bill Oliver wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:18:40PM -0500, Bill Oliver wrote: # Filename format _MM_DD--HHMM.zip filename=$log_year-$log_month-$log_day--*.zip filelist=`ls $filename

Re: What does require actually mean?

2013-08-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Michael, On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:16:30PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:43:10 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I thought I had a working understanding of yum and rpm, until I came across this: # rpm -q --whatrequires libvdpau no package requires

Re: What does require actually mean?

2013-08-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 01:48:58AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:35:22 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: package. Run rpm -e --test libvdpau to display those dependencies. The package may be renamed (or the contents moved to a different package) without breaking

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a system w/out accelerated graphics, your CPU will still be eaten by gnome-shell even if you log into MATE. I don't think that is correct, I have gdm

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:59:07AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: One thing I noticed, 'gdm' appears to use gnome-shell, so if you have a system w/out

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: $ rpm -e --test gdm error: Failed dependencies: gdm is needed by (installed) xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-8.fc18.x86_64 gdm = 1

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: The discussion was about the high CPU drain on slow GPUs due to gnome-shell, apparently triggered by gdm. This means that gnome-shell runs, not just is installed as dependency. :-) I use gdm + MATE and have gnome-shell

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
deeper, and now the comment in the spec file makes more sense. My comments and what I found are below. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:29:52PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdm.git/tree/gdm.spec#n348 This is what it says there: - Require gnome-shell. We no longer

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:41:49PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 06:20:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: 1. reboot normally. Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen: ps axuww | grep -w gdm Did you login to Gnome? If so, of course

Uninstallation failure during update on F19

2013-08-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, While updating my system today, I came across this issue: Running transaction /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ARyh47: line 1: fg: no job control error: %preun(nscd-2.17-13.fc19.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package nscd-2.17-13.fc19.x86_64 Verifying :

Re: Uninstallation failure during update on F19

2013-08-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:49:18AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 30.08.2013 00:46, schrieb Suvayu Ali: Running transaction /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ARyh47: line 1: fg: no job control error: %preun(nscd-2.17-13.fc19.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm

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