Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Robatino
I just back up everything including hidden files/directories. The hidden files/directories generally don't take up a lot of space and it ensures that I don't miss anything. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

FC12 udev rules

2010-02-25 Thread T. Horsnell
Hi all, I need to set up a custom rule to give me mode 666 on a custom USB device (or on all the otherwise un-handled USB devices). I used to do this (in FC9) by modifying ruleset 50-udev-default.rules at the libusb entry (I know this was not the 'correct' way, but I could never understand udev

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: AFAICT, SMB is no longer involved with my printing services. XP can access them directly, and I configure them as an internet printer via a URL like: http://server:631/printers/printerName Correct, you're accessing CUPS

Re: Recursive comparing of files

2010-02-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 01:31:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote: I have the following task: there are two directories on the disk, say a/ and b/, with various subdirectories and files inside. I need to find and erase all *duplicate* files, and after that all empty directories. Folks, thanks for

Re: KMail

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: John Aldrich wrote: Who's brilliant idea was it to push out a broken update anyway??? It works just fine for most people. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what exactly is going wrong for you without further information. interesting. All I know

mpack gcc 4.4.1 3.4.6

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to compile mpack 0.6.4 and I get an error message which seems to be due to a problem of compatibility between gcc 4.4.1 and gcc 3.4.6 probably required to mblas and/or mlapack (fortran compatibility). In fact I only have the 3.4 compatibility installed. Any idea ? Linux

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio No Sound problem

2010-02-25 Thread Don Levey
On 02/25/2010 01:41 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-02-24 23:07:41, Don Levey wrote: I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since F12 came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the previously offered solutions seem to have helped). ... You

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + Andrew Gray wrote: Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN As a work around you can manually connect by invoking pppd as root from command line, something like: pppd call connection name updetach Probably need to setup some route commands

Re: remote install process/practice

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:46:30 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Some people have claimed that there is a way to do this via VNC. I've not tried this. I've used VNC before, but that just gets things installed. I've never figured out how you can still use VNC to get through the necessary

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:37:05 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: If you want multiple backup levels you have to have storage for several complete mirrors. Depends on how picky you are about the structure of said backups. I use the delete option to move the changed files to a deleted directory rather

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 25.02.2010 12:28, schrieb Andrew Gray: I updated to ppp 2.4.5 on the 25 February and it has broken PPTP VPN working Plugin /usr/lib64/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5 An updated version of the pptp plugin has been pushed today:

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 07:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + Andrew Gray wrote: Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN As a work around you can manually connect by invoking pppd as root from command line, something like: pppd call

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:20 +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: I'm sure there's a more accurate historical reason, but all of your application's configuration settings and data are stored that way to avoid you deleting things accidentally and keep your

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Robert Nichols wrote: rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time only. If you want multiple backup levels you have to have

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
John Aldrich wrote: I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my KMail. Here's what I get when I try to run akonadictl start from Konsole: I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Konsole,

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:25 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: Do you happen to have a locally-installed mysql in /opt/mysql? If so, it's possible it is what is causing this. Rex, I appreciate your suggestion. Unfortunately I do not have anything in /opt/mysql. The only thing in /opt is /opt/Adobe (Adobe

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 8:26:31 am John Aldrich wrote: I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my KMail. Here's what I get when I try to run akonadictl start from Konsole: I tried starting

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: Again, you're likely to get more of a response if you post this on the Fedora-KDE list. Ok. I'll see what I can do... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Andre Goree wrote: I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start Akonadi again. $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql mysql-server qt4-mysql (ie, it should already be there). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:24:27 am John Aldrich wrote: [j...@slave1 akonadi]$ sudo service mysql start [sudo] password for john: mysql: unrecognized service I have also verified that, in fact, mysql *is* started. Oops, I meant to say 'service msqyld start'. Notice the mysqld

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: Andre Goree wrote: I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start Akonadi again. $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql mysql-server qt4-mysql (ie, it should already be there). Yep. Got 'em. -- users mailing list

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:38:03 am Rex Dieter wrote: Andre Goree wrote: I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start Akonadi again. $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql mysql-server qt4-mysql (ie, it should already be there). -- Rex I thought as

Re: FC12 udev rules

2010-02-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:42:15AM +, T. Horsnell wrote: Hi all, I need to set up a custom rule to give me mode 666 on a custom USB device (or on all the otherwise un-handled USB devices). I used to do this (in FC9) by modifying ruleset 50-udev-default.rules at the libusb entry (I know

F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Barry Yu
I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap, last night I restore it and partimage indicated successful, then reboot it, got stuck and displayed message: [drm:drm_rmfb] * tried to rmove a fb that we didn't own boot has failed, sleep forever what happened and how to

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I'm not sure what the problem was, but after reading some suggestiosn on the KDE forum, I tried renaming ~/local/share/akonadi to akonadi-old and tried starting KMail again and it miraculously started normally. I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this

Re: [389-users] Directory Server help

2010-02-25 Thread Edward Capriolo
2010/2/25 Natr Brazell natrbraz...@gmail.com: All, I'm new to the community and apologize if posting to the wrong area.  I'm looking for _current_ information relating to a forum or documentation on RHEL Directory Server wrt to application integration.  I'm making the assumption that the FDS

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess [resolved]

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Andre Goree wrote: Great to see you got it working :) You and me both! I suspect the problem occurred because I was reading email while updating Fedora. I had no idea it would be a problem as it's never been a problem before. Perhaps some developer should look

Re: F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/25/2010 03:56 PM, Barry Yu wrote: I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap, last night I restore it and partimage indicated successful, then reboot it, got stuck and displayed message: [drm:drm_rmfb] * tried to rmove a fb that we didn't own boot has failed,

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for KDE apps, but that's simply not possible for the

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am 25.02.2010 17:34, schrieb John Aldrich: On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for KDE

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Jake Peavy
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Servers don't really make good routers. When you are talking about traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those directly

gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to have gsl with long double precision, but I cannot find the files: gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... I have gsl and gsl-devel installed and cannot find any package including such files. thank. -- --- == Patrick

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 11:17:55 AM Subject: Setting custom screen resolution I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for video drivers. I would like

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Mohamed ELMORABITY
2010/2/25 Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk Thank for your email. When I was looking for long double with gsl, I found this: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Support-for-different-numeric-types.html So it looks like that I need some extra files likes: gsl/gsl_foo.h etc...

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: it just happens to be mandated by the IT department I figured it was something like that, but I thought it was still important to point out the known weaknesses of PPTP so that someone else who happens on this thread doesn't decide that

Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-25 Thread A. Racca
Hi there: I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to install a program, I go to System - Administration - Add/Remove Software, then I select the package, and finally it asks me for the root password. But in my notebook, with Fedora 12 i686 and Gnome desktop, the same

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Serj Burcev
25.02.2010 21:55, Patrick Dupre пишет: Hello, I am trying to have gsl with long double precision, but I cannot find the files: gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... I have gsl and gsl-devel installed and cannot find any package including such files. thank. yum provides \*/gsl\*.h skip

Re: question about program execution

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Paolo Galtieri wrote: I have a strange problem that I'm not quite sure what the issue is or how to fix it. It doesn't seem to need fixing. [...] Note I have setup nautilus so that when I open a jar file it runs java -jar on that file. This works and the program does execute. However,

Re: [SOLVED]Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

2010-02-25 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:44 -0500, Jake Peavy wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Germán A. Racca german.ra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Germán A. Racca wrote:

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steven I Usdansky wrote: - Original Message From: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 11:17:55 AM Subject: Setting custom screen resolution I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Tyler wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:17 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for video drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: 768x12426 900x14562 1024x16568 1920x1186 1280x791 1024x632

KDE 4 Changing changing Icons to Pictures

2010-02-25 Thread Jim
FC12/KDE4.4 In Konqueror or Dolphin, When opening the Pictures Folder, how do I get all pictures to be displayed seeing pictures, instead of seeing Camera Icons ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-25 Thread bruce
if you're root... perhaps it has something to do with your selinux/permissions access?? don't quote me on this.. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Germán A. Racca german.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there: I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to install a

Can't log into X after newest f12 update!

2010-02-25 Thread cliff here
So after updating, (and eventually reinstalling and updating again) .. I've having this issue were I cannot log into X therefor no gui.. but I can log in via a virtual tty (ie. ALT + F2) So i'm looking through what's been installed trying to figure out what in the update broke my login, This is

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Servers don't really make good routers.  When you are talking about traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those directly to

Re: KDE 4 Changing changing Icons to Pictures

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:52 -0500, Jim wrote: FC12/KDE4.4 In Konqueror or Dolphin, When opening the Pictures Folder, how do I get all pictures to be displayed seeing pictures, instead of seeing Camera Icons ? View-Preview poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com said: Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR, 3 Years Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR Parts Labor, 3 Years (ships with US Power Cord as standard) (Typically ships in

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread birger
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:11 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: That's the whole reason that Red Hat actually does good business by charging such a collossal price for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to my boss the license costs for my RHEL servers are less than the rounding errors in

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Roger
It's UNIX tradition, going back forever: config files are always hidden. The idea is that when you say ls, you shouldn't see anything that you didn't put there yourself. It also makes it less likely that they will be deleted or renamed. Andrew. I have found over the years that the

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates forever and requires a forced kill. Ahhh If you are getting

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum keeps spinning after going into 0.0b

What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???

2010-02-25 Thread reg
Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics has been of zero length, but I see no other

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network

Re: What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
r...@dwf.com wrote: Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics has been of zero

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, DNS, etc.. a LOT of services and I am not seeing any problems. Just

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/25/2010 07:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, DNS, etc.. a LOT of services

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Steven Stern wrote: On 02/25/2010 07:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: You could try removing /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and then enabling fastestmirror again. I did that when I was troubleshooting when I found the problem with Singapore. FWIW, Singapore had been working just fine. I think

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, DNS, etc.. a LOT of

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am

Packagekit complaint: database disk image is malformed

2010-02-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Packagekit is whining at me, and complaining that there's a Problem connecting to a software source. More details gives a very helpful database disk image is malformed. Meanwhile yum update shows me the pending updates just fine, and is ready to install them. Then, if I run yum clean all,

Which VIDEO-PLAYER ?

2010-02-25 Thread j . halifax .
Hi video-gurus, Could you please give me an advice of which video-player (some SW) to use for the following task on FC12_64 ? (1) I need to create a web-site on my PC with a PLAYER playing video in one of its frames (2) The video-content played should be an endless list of small video-shots

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: ... I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol would interact to smack an imap connection. To me, based on your observations, I'm getting the feeling you may have a strange network problem that may be local to you or within

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: ... I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol would interact to smack an imap connection. To me, based on your observations, I'm getting the feeling you may have a strange network problem that may be

Cisco to Linux (Was: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays)

2010-02-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com : I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used for Web servers and that, for routing and firewalling,

Many bugs: pdf, Thunderbird, Firefox, goes knows.

2010-02-25 Thread Marcel Rieux
Some people seem to have problems opening pdf documents with Fedora 12, but my problem is slightly different. Until 2 updates ago, everything was fine, but now, if I click a pdf file at Google's, it downloads but doesn't open I click Tools, Downloads the click the pdf file. That's not all. If I

Re: What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics (thanks)

2010-02-25 Thread reg
r...@dwf.com wrote: Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics has been of

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Roberto Ragusa [via Fedora Users] ml-node+415115-878904345-22...@n3.nabble.com wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and inode