Re: building ppp from src rpm failed in f17

2012-12-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Kevin Wilson wrote: What do you mean by repeatable environment.? The environment is the Fedora install, with all RPMs, configuration, and files in home directories – everything that could potentially affect the RPM build process. A repeatable environment is one that you can specify and be sure

Re: Controlling displays with HDMI output

2012-12-03 Thread James Wilkinson
Alex wrote: Hi, I have an fc17 system with two LCD monitors and an HDMI output to my TV using a Radeon HD5700 card. The TV is in a completely separate room. I also have a USB cable running to that room, and have a wireless keyboard and mouse connected, so I can control my PC from the other

Re: F18: Fedora icon on gdm replaced by a fuzzy rectangle

2012-11-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Nick Urbanik wrote: I have installed Fedora 18 on seven machines using yum distro-sync, and am happy with the result. On my son's machine, however, gdm presents a fuzzy rectangular patch instead of the Fedora logo. This is also the case with the icons at the top right of the gdm screen,

Re: kernel private key

2012-11-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Jared K. Smith wrote: Yes, as I understand it the kernel key is used for module signing. The most obvious new use for module signing is Secure Boot, so that the kernel will only load modules signed with its key. JD wrote: If what you say is true, then the kernel config option

Re: f17 - minimal + gnome :: init 5 does not work

2012-11-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ah, startx. well I don't think it was installed as I typed in start and hit the tab and nothing completed. I have since done a reinstall and figured out how to 'properly' get gnome installed. Did you hit tab twice? If there are multiple possible completions, bash

Re: How to tell when a file is read from disk or cache?

2012-11-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Philip Rhoades wrote: Is there some way of doing this? - even for a simple situation like opening a text file in Vim? Depends on what you want. If what you’re after is to tell after the fact that a file has been accessed, you should look into auditd, or just turn on atime on your filesystem

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that data is cacheable. In general, true. It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying, though. It sounds like they’re dynamically

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that data is cacheable. I replied: In general, true. It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying, though. It sounds like they’re

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Dave Cross wrote: I can't be the only person with this problem. No, you aren’t. I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. This seems

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-20 Thread James Wilkinson
nomnex wrote: I also read that (most?) vendor will allow Secure boot to be switch off on the BIOS. When I purchase a notebook (Prior to Secure boot), I erase the partition. I boot from a Live CD. If everything seems to work, and if I like the DE, I install the OS. And that's my question

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT] FIXED

2012-09-16 Thread James Wilkinson
Arthur Dent wrote: I tried taking out (commenting out) the tls stuff. No joy. I tried altering the from... Success! I changed it to be m...@mydomain.org. mark is a valid user on this machine. Is that what the problem was? If that is the case I didn't spot anywhere that it was a requirement

Re: digikam

2012-09-15 Thread James Wilkinson
Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, digikam work when I am root, but not as a user: Failed to connect to the camera. Please make sure it is connected properly and turned on. Would you like to try again? How can I solve this issue? What sort of camera (brand, model), and how is it connected

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Artifex Maximus wrote: Is there any good tutorial on how to lower the power consumption of my netbook? I mean sysctl, proc, etc. settings. There is a tool called powertop in the standard Fedora repos: run it from a terminal as root. There is a tab (you get to it with the right arrow) called

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

2012-08-11 Thread James Wilkinson
David wrote: Win 2000 was not meant for home use. It was a business release and was very expensive. He either has a used machine that he bought at a swap meet or a Pirated copy. FWIW, I have a legitimate personal copy of Windows 2000. The upgrade cost about the same as a Windows 9x upgrade. I

Re: SPAM filtering where From == To

2012-08-10 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: And that leads to one of my pet hates about junk mail buttons on ordinary mail clients used by clueless people. They'll hit the junk button on mail they don't want to see, but isn't actually junk (such as a message list that they've subscribed to, but can't arsed to unsub

Re: Proxy/network configuration prevents yum and firefox but not konqueror (FC17)

2012-08-09 Thread James Wilkinson
Don Levey wrote: I have one machine on my home network that I protect via a squid proxy - my kids' machine. Somehow, something I (or they) did created a situation where I cannot connect externally via Firefox, and cannot connect to any repository via yum. However, Konqueror doesn't seem to

Re: Firefox install-problem

2012-08-04 Thread James Wilkinson
Heinz Diehl wrote: Firefox, built from .srpm from F17-updates repository, fails to install: This is the error-message which shows up: Unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox;501bceec: cpio: Digest mismatch The package is original Fedora and not altered in any way.

Re: Gnome 3 Copy Progress Bar

2012-07-20 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: Having said all that, I much prefer how another OS I used to work, worked. Writes to drives were completely completed (file written to the disc, plus the directory data updated) in one go, and you could pull a disc out moments later. There was no mounting or unmounting. And

Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

2012-07-19 Thread James Wilkinson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Pick your favorite mirror, and rsync its updates directly, to a flash drive, or something similar. Set enabled=0 in everything in /etc/yum.conf.d, then just copy one of the configs and point it to the mount point of the flash drive. Aaron Konstam asked: What is

Re: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i suspect it's going to take some work just to figure out what's worth moving to the SSD for extra speed. i'm thinking that i can *start* with what you did -- install to the SSD only, but put /home on the second drive, then over time, decide what's worth migrating to

Re: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-14 Thread James Wilkinson
I wrote: What I’d recommend is putting an empty /home on the SSD too, mount the traditional hard drive somewhere like /home2 or /home/hard-drive, Thinking about it, putting it under /home is likely to keep SELinux happier. James. -- E-mail: james@ | I tried a home printer but the home

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: With the comments of I have no problems with them, versus I've nothing but problems with them, I wonder whether this is due to different people getting boards made for them in different countries. Or, a distribution channel that damages boards in transit. Or different generations

Re: wine-mono is not welcome

2012-07-12 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mono will be automatically downloaded by wine if you uninstall wine-mono as stated in my previous reply to the OP. You cannot avoid having Mono on your system with Wine. I’m sorry, I don’t think you are correct. A quick Google gave me http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono,

Re: wine-mono is not welcome

2012-07-11 Thread James Wilkinson
Dario Lesca wrote: How to use wine without get mono (44Mb of wine-mono)? $ repoquery --whatrequires wine-mono wine-0:1.5.8-1.fc17.i686 wine-0:1.5.8-1.fc17.x86_64 So the only packages in the repo that require wine-mono are the “wine” packages themselves. But yum info wine says: In Fedora

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread James Wilkinson
ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using mutt for years as my only email client, and I can tell you from personal experience that mutt is _much_ faster to get around in and read and process mail than one with a gui. In fact, that's it's chief selling point. Mailing lists like this one are one

Re: OT: Spam Problems

2012-07-09 Thread James Wilkinson
, not the address in the header. (For example, once this message has gone through the fedoraproject.org servers, it will have an SMTP FROM address of users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org , so mailman should get any bounces, but it will still have From: James Wilkinson fed...@aprilcottage.co.uk up there, so

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-01 Thread James Wilkinson
John Wendel wrote: Is it possible to setup Fedora, using Fedora provided tools/software, with a read-only root partition? As I understand it, /etc does have to be on /. So you will need to either set up network user authentication, or live with any local users not being able to change their

Re: F17, power switch offers no choices??

2012-07-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Aaron Konstam wrote: Well you arew almost right. If you hold down thew alt button on Gnome yout get poweroff, and reboot. Or if you install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu . Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Top Tip: If you are being chased by a police dog,

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Heinz Diehl wrote: Don't know if this is important, but if he uses Evolution as an Outlook replacement (this is what I do at work, to avoid using Wind*ws), Thunderbird won't fit his needs, because there is no mapi or Exchange support. Unless Exchange has SMTP relay and either IMAP or POP3

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I will have to install Windows on my desktop, which is currently running Fedora 17. The problem with this is that Windows overwrites the MBR (there is no way of opting out of this afaik), and hence my grub as well. How can I reinstall grub after I install windows,

Re: smb share from an application??

2012-06-15 Thread James Wilkinson
Antonio M wrote: I go to Nautilus, I click on Network, then on the name of my network, then on the shared folder list and I can mount it I have no problems with Nautilus, but I don't see shared folder in any save/open file application window Ian Chapman wrote: It's also available under a

Re: How to apply updates to a system with no Internet access?

2012-06-05 Thread James Wilkinson
Fulko Hew wrote: Just because there is no internet access, doesn't mean there isn't network access, and sometimes you need need to update to newer stuff when you change/update your own applications. True, but you should actually think and make a reasoned decision. Updates can cause problems,

Re: How to apply updates to a system with no Internet access?

2012-06-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Is there any way to download all the required updates (on a machine that has Internet access, obviously) and save these downloads for the creation of the local repository you speak of? Let me clarify. The target system (with no Internet access) is in a customer site. The development

Re: In F16, Atheros AR5008 being restricted to 18mb/s

2012-05-22 Thread James Wilkinson
JD wrote: $ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:Private Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B Power Management:off

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type characters not on a keyboard by using the alt key but for the life of me I can not find it. e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be alt apostrophe i. You might find

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Timothy Murphy wrote: You are assuming that because your colleague's HP cost €800 it is of higher quality than my daughter's under €300 Asus netbook, where by higher quality you apparently mean will last longer. From my - very long but not broad - experience there is little or no

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: There are throttling options for proxy servers, like Squid, so you could try browsing through it (when throttled) to see a slower network response. But that's not really a true test, slow networks have latency issues, too, not just slower throughput. You could have a look at

Re: Re: Odd email errors

2012-04-29 Thread James Wilkinson
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: That's the odd part. The server that's producing those errors CAN resolve that host just fine. Note, that hostname has several round robin IPs, except I have not been able to get the .73.26 one that you came up with: There are a whole load of weird things that

Re: External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

2012-03-31 Thread James Wilkinson
I asked Patrick: Does it work with older (pre 3.3) kernels? Patrick Lists wrote: I don't have a pre-3.3 kernel as these are kickstart deployments of F16 + updates. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 has links to all the recent kernel builds, including the last 3.2

Re: External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

2012-03-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Patrick Lists wrote: I have an up-to-date F16 x86_64 box with 2 eSATA ports on the back powered by a JMicron JMB362 chip. When I attach an external SATA drive to the eSATA port and power up the drive it is recognized fine. But when I power down that drive, wait 2 minutes, and power it up

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Reindl Harald wrote: sounds more you do not understand what ACLs are for how could a private user group replace ACLs? if you have different users and groups which needs defined permissions you will always need ACLs because chmod can only reflect the primary group for restrict access to a

Re: Firewall disabled; yet connection refused

2012-03-28 Thread James Wilkinson
I suggested: A better idea would be to put that line into a /etc/dovecot/conf.d/local.conf file and leave 10-master.conf alone. The local.conf file, since it sorts after 10-master, will over-ride the settings in 10-master.conf. This will leave the RPM-packaged 10-master.conf file alone, so

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-28 Thread James Wilkinson
Reindl Harald wrote: one of the odd defaults many are not using why should i have a group with the name of my user if it has only one user - or why should i put the user caroline in group harry except for chaos no idea who invented this silly default, however, do not assume all people

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-28 Thread James Wilkinson
Mark Haney wrote: I'm kinda confused by the sudo problem I'm having. I've edited the main file with visudo to include: ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere rootALL=(ALL) ALL markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL (obviously only the last line was my addition) But for

Re: Mouse sensitivity suddenly changed

2012-03-28 Thread James Wilkinson
Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a really odd one, I have a keyboard and PS/2 mouse on a KVM switch, accessing four Linux system. All of a sudden the mouse sensitivity changed to dead slow on one machine. I checked the settings in preferences, and tried (a) another account and later (b) KDE,

Re: minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

2012-03-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael Hennebry wrote: Stepping 9. No NX. Of course, the next question is whether the installer or installee require NX. No, but it allows the kernel to block certain sorts of attacks. I’m pretty sure Fedora kernels still use Exec-Shield on non-NX processors, which should provide most of

Re: Firewall disabled; yet connection refused

2012-03-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Ed Greshko wrote: Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf and comment the lines like so #address = localhost # allow plain imap only on localhost Do that for all the protocols you want to enable on an external interface... A better idea would be to put that line into a

Re: minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

2012-03-26 Thread James Wilkinson
Bill Davidsen wrote: Another thing you might try is the Live-CD install if the object is just to get it working. Without firing up another system I can't remember if the P4 has PAE or not, do know that about yours before trying the install. Yes, it does. However, earlier P4s didn’t have

Re: still having update issues with gcc

2012-03-26 Thread James Wilkinson
les wrote: HI, everyone, I am still having the update issue with gcc. I will follow this message with the error received from yum update. Also my processor is periodically locking up. Is anyone else experiencing either of these errors? When it locks up, it is running one of

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: And more - at several important machines when I want reboot them, I press for logging off and then login on for this only shutdown -r now command. And by then I at these machines not observed problems with bash history. Maybe it is speculation, but seem for me as

Re: Change F16 Log-in screen? -

2012-03-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Bob Goodwin wrote: Can the log-in screen background be changed to be blank, plain blue perhaps and how to do so? Usual question – are you using Gnome or something else? Are you using GDM to login? If so, I’ve got a file called /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-local-settings containing

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Martín Marqués wrote: Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd to go to a file? suvayu ali wrote: I could. $ systemctl status sshd.service /tmp/bla That’s standard output of systemctl, not StandardOutput the directive in systemd unit files. I suspect the

Re: redirect postgresql logs

2012-03-13 Thread James Wilkinson
Martín Marqués wrote: That's the question. How can I redirect potgresql logs using systemd? In the old System V times, I just edited /etc/init.d/postgresql and looked for the line that had the execution of the server and jus redirected the output to the file I wanted to have the logs

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-06 Thread James Wilkinson
Aaron Konstam wrote: The only way you can get a prompt containig root is by using su - . su will only produce a root prompt by starting as root. It it not posible to do this: [bobg@box6 ~]$ su Password: [root@box6 bobg]# Emilio Lopez wrote: Im doing

Re: During some CD operations Fedora freezes for some seconds

2012-03-03 Thread James Wilkinson
Joachim Backes wrote: having a weird effect (in F16, [F17 too]): during some CD operations, ejecting for example, or clicking on the CD symbol by nautilus if a new CD is inserted in the drive, my system freezes, so my desktop is insensitive for some seconds. Somebody sees this too, and how

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread James Wilkinson
Geoffrey Leach wrote: Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. So what's the best way to reduce the clutter? Is there a service? One option is tmpfs. Put something like this in /etc/fstab: none/tmp

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread James Wilkinson
Martín Marqués wrote: That's all I want (what's in the subject). I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I have /var on another partition. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade

Re: Installing GCC-4.3.0 in Fedora 16

2012-02-25 Thread James Wilkinson
R Logeshwaran wrote: Hi I'm a research scholar doing my research in networking for that i use NS-2 package (ns-allinone-2.29). it will work good in Fedora-9 which uses GCC-4.3. My system is a new one it is not possible for me to install Fedora-9. So i have installed Fedora 16, but now NS.2.29

Re: Fedora 16 kernel panic

2012-02-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Brian Johnson wrote: Thank you all for the responses. I went to reboot my laptop into the old 3.2.2 kernel to confirm that it was having the same issue, and it boot into it with no problem. I then reboot my laptop and let it start up with the latest 3.2.7 kernel, and it, too, started with no

Re: Start script

2012-02-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One other thing - homer the TMP variable. Not so much for system programs, but for user programs. I have a tmp directory as part of /etc/skel, so every user gets a tmp directory as part of their home directory structurer. The I set TMP as part of the login script.

Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database

2012-02-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? How big a database? Thing is, this sounds like bulk emailing: if it’s large enough that you want

Re: Issue with vncserver not starting?

2012-02-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I've fount that the vncserver doesn't start correctly after a power outage or non-normal shutdown. It appears that file in the /tmp/.X11-unix directory is left after the reboot, and causes the startup to fail. My solution at the moment is to have

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-02-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Joe Zeff wrote: Why? All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able to use it on your Mac. Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the market, and to Adobe, that's all that matters. Not any more: they’ve never had Flash on iPhone or iPad, a lot of Android devices don’t have it,

Re: Ogg to mp3, anyone?

2012-02-20 Thread James Wilkinson
Timothy Murphy wrote: I think it may depend on the version of Android; my phone (a newly acquired Samsung Galaxy S2) is running Android 2.3.3 . This phone is probably supported by the CyanogenMod rebuild of Android: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/samsung-galaxy-s2

Re: Desktop desires and questions

2012-02-19 Thread James Wilkinson
les wrote: The need to click to get to the computer is annoying at its very best and a real vocabulary expander in normal use. Every time I use one application and I want to access another I have to click activities Or press the Windows key my windows shrink and I

Packets from 10.0.0.0/24

2012-02-16 Thread James Wilkinson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: While it is possible you are receiving packets that claim to come from 10.*.*.* addresses, most likely the source is local to your network. Tim wrote: Or, perhaps, internal to your ISP. To get an attempt from an address like that, it'd have to be on one side of the

Re: Firefox clogged

2012-02-15 Thread James Wilkinson
Beartooth wrote: I tried yum reinstall firefox, and yum claimed to have done so. But that didn't help. Setting up a new Firefox profile might help. Either run firefox -p or rename the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | “It was rare to catch

Re: setting fille capabilities.

2012-02-13 Thread James Wilkinson
stan wrote: Mystery solved. $ rpm -q --filesbypkg libcap-devel snip libcap-devel /usr/share/man/man3/cap_to_text.3.gz-- The reason yum whatprovides didn’t tell you that would be the .3.gz at the end: something like yum whatprovides /*/cap_to_text* would have told you that.

Re: X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread James Wilkinson
Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Hi, When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: Oh no! Something has gone wrong etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the

Re: Cannot log in after boot:-(

2012-02-09 Thread James Wilkinson
don fisher wrote: I guess I am not sure which level it is. I linked /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target to /etc/systemd/system/default.target. It may be level 3. The system used to work until a crash. I restored the system, but something is amiss in the login verification. Did you restore

Re: root password

2012-02-08 Thread James Wilkinson
Steven Stern wrote: I keep meaning to edit the sudo config files to block things like sudo su - sudo bash but I get lazy. Someday, this will bite me in the ***. Note for anyone considering this: it’s virtually impossible to make this watertight, because there are too many ways for

Re: What list to use?

2012-02-08 Thread James Wilkinson
don fisher wrote: If one discovers a missing piece in the system, to which mailing list should it be reported? For example, trying to run grub2-mkrescue results in the error: /usr/bin/grub2-mkrescue: line 310: xorriso: command not found http://bugzilla.redhat.com , except

Re: Cronometer (GPL) goes web based, loses GPL ?

2012-02-07 Thread James Wilkinson
linux guy wrote: Has the cronometer provided broken the rules of the GPL by enhancing it and turning it into a web application and not providing the course code back to the user base ? If so, where and how should this be reported ? The generally accepted answer (including by the FSF) is no:

Re: [F16] Why PAE kernel with 1 GB RAM?

2012-02-02 Thread James Wilkinson
Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: Freshly installed Fedora 16 for 32 bit (i686) from DVD on a Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. Why does Fedora 16 installs a PAE kernel by default? Previous versions of Fedora (on that machine) did not install the PAE kernel but the regular one. Does your Pentium 4 have

Re: adios flash, watch youtube videos in html5

2012-02-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Tom Horsley wrote: So if you have to opt in to this, what have I been watching videos with on my phone? It is android 2.2, and doesn't have flash, yet youtube has been working fine. Android has its own Youtube app which doesn’t need Flash (since both Android and Youtube are Google products,

Re: [ why i do not like base64]

2012-01-21 Thread James Wilkinson
g wrote: viewing source, header can be read, but not able to read body because of 'base64'. For what it’s worth, you can read base64 encoded text by piping it to openssl enc -d -base64 James -- E-mail: james@ | You can accept the existence of rain without denying the aprilcottage.co.uk

Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

2012-01-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Freak Trick wrote: Is there a way I can skip Gnome and go directly into CLI (barring systemd). Win 98 had a wonderful feature that allowed direct entry into CLI by pressing F8 at boot and selecting appropriate option. Sadly neither XP nor Fedora seems to provide such an option.

Re: ddos defence?

2012-01-18 Thread James Wilkinson
jdow suggested: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -m recent --name sshattack --set iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -m recent --name sshattack \ --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 2 -j LOG --log-prefix 'SSH REJECT: ' \ --log-level info iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22

Re: F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-17 Thread James Wilkinson
Terry Polzin wrote: I created a /run/ddclient folder, no help. Anyone have an idea? and: ddclient will start from CLI and and run persistently as a daemon. It seems that it just won't start at boot correctly as a service. I don’t use ddclient, but I presume that when you say you created a

Re: howto boot from usb iso?

2011-05-04 Thread James Wilkinson
Fernando Cassia wrote: A U3 flash drive presents itself to the host system as a USB hub with a CD drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 This page mentions: U3 Tool is an open-source management tool (for Windows and Linux) that allows the locked U3 partition to be removed or replaced

Re: So where are my workspaces??

2011-04-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Chris Kloiber wrote: I run 8 workspaces, 4 across, 2 high. Email on screen 4 (upper right) personal stuff on 8 (lower right) and up to 6 different work tickets on the others. It's important for me to directly access any of them with a click on the panel so I can jump back and forth from

Re: Keyboard doesn't work in GDM

2011-04-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Richard Shaw wrote: My computer got restarted (presumable by my 3 y.o. daughter) and now all of a sudden my keyboard doesn't work in GDM. Works fine in the BIOS, plymouth, it will even wake up the monitor when it goes to sleep, but when GDM comes up I can't do anything. Not even numlock.

Re: nspluginwrapper

2011-04-23 Thread James Wilkinson
g wrote: latest flash is 10.2.159.1. anything prior has security and crash problems. Craig White objected: the implication being that the specific version mentioned doesn't have known security and crash problems which I think both have been found to be incorrect implications. JD asked:

Re: dhcpd gateway settings

2011-04-23 Thread James Wilkinson
I asked: Do you have forwarding turned on on the gateway? Aaron replied: No I said: That might be a good place to start. Aaron replied: Okay is that IPTables or routing ? Both, really. Since you’re behind a router, I’d start by turning iptables off, and then echo 1

Re: nspluginwrapper

2011-04-22 Thread James Wilkinson
JD wrote: I uninstalled it and there was no complaint of any dependency. It must have been a remnant from F13 when performed the upgrade to F14, and the next yum update simply installed updated the F13 version to F14. Without nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in the same process as Firefox

Re: dhcpd gateway settings

2011-04-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Aaron Gray wrote: I am trying to set up a network and gateway on 192.168.1.x that I am using for BOOTP'ing servers. snip But I cannot seem to get HTTP or other services to work on 192.168.1.x I have the existing 192.168.0.x network and was wondering how gateway requests should get from

Re: dhcpd gateway settings

2011-04-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Aaron Gray wrote: I am trying to set up a network and gateway on 192.168.1.x that I am using for BOOTP'ing servers. snip But I cannot seem to get HTTP or other services to work on 192.168.1.x I have the existing 192.168.0.x network and was wondering how gateway requests should get from

Re: Installing Mono.

2011-04-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Lázaro Morales wrote: But the user is an Active Directory user in an existing domain, so when I try http://DOMAIN\user:pass@proxy:8080 The environment variable take the value: http://DOMAINuser:pass@proxy:8080 It's seem that \ is not accepted and can't authenticate

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread James Wilkinson
updog wrote: Terminal beep also includes audible notifications from programs such as nedit and mozilla, e.g. search term not found. OK – that’s a desktop environment thing. (Which desktop environment, anyway?) It will almost certainly consider the beeper a fallback to use if there is no other

Re: Usage of 32 GB USB stick DataTraveler under Fedora

2011-04-15 Thread James Wilkinson
Joachim Backes wrote: I heard that such sticks are only usable if the partitions are formatted in fat32; formatting the partitions in ext3 or ext4 makes such partitions and the total stick unusable, that means, the partitions can't be mounted. Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm not sure who told

Re: When are we going to see some newer kernels ?

2011-04-15 Thread James Wilkinson
Phil Meyer wrote: Fedora releases usually don't update major kernel numbers. The idea is to start a release as near current as reasonable and then patch that up as it goes go along. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStatus lists the maintainers’ plans: Fedora 14 “Will follow 2.6.35.x

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-15 Thread James Wilkinson
updog wrote: Independently pcspkr works fine for the PC speaker, and snd_hda_intel for the internal speakers, however the two modules don't work together. Loading snd_hda_intel after pcspkr is in and working causes loss of the terminal beep. It's a problem in FC13; not sure about older

Re: USB mouse locks up

2011-04-07 Thread James Wilkinson
John Mellor wrote: Interesting. I have the opposite problem on my abit motherboard. The PS2 mouse happens to work and my preferred USB mouse just locks up about 5 times per day. Is this a known problem with a simple fix? I presume that unplugging and replugging the USB mouse fixes it for

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread James Wilkinson
Ken Smith wrote: I've seem problems like this reported in various forums. I have a i7 Asus MB system with FC13 x64 and I'm using a PS2 keyboard and mouse. They are old but they work well. After the machine has been running for around 10-15 mins all input from the keyboard and mouse

Re: apmd rpm missing

2010-10-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After trying to install it with yum I found that there are apmd rpms in Everything/i386 and Everything/source but not in

Re: Hyperthreading and multi-threading [Are all cores unlocked?]

2010-09-27 Thread James Wilkinson
JD wrote: Correct James. The clobbering of the cache by 2 different threads does not depend on whether or not the cpu is hyperthreaded. Any two threads can achieve this clobering on any cpu, and it is often the case. This last sentence is true, but with normal multitasking, and no

Re: Are all cores unlocked?

2010-09-25 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael Miles wrote: I can't wait to see the Bulldozer series in action ( 16 cores Hyperthreaded) yeah baby.. Unfortunately, Bulldozer doesn’t do conventional SMT (which is what Intel usually¹ means by hyperthreading). It has two integer cores sharing a wide floating point engine and

Re: Are all cores unlocked?

2010-09-25 Thread James Wilkinson
Michael Miles wrote: Thank's for the clear up. My question is with Hyperthreading that is if each core does double duty so to speak by looking after two threads would it not do basically the same work as one core full bore on one thread. Is there a speed difference (faster, slower) Good

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Tod Thomas wrote: I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they haven't had this problem. Is there any way to debug this? I can provide more information as requested. What graphics card do

Re: DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I am trying to get a handle on how to properly assign DNS PTR records, given these conditions: 1) Single machine containing: a) DNS Server b) Sendmail Server snip The problem here is assigning the PTR, since only ONE reverse IP address is allowed. In the

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