Re: auto-mounting removable drives

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/12/2013 1:19 PM, poma wrote: I tested with vaxon77's "delayed mount"[1], however the value required for this varies from machine to machine, and on some it isn't necessary at all. So you can start with one second to more until you reach the automounting. Do not forget to chmod the file: #

Re: International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread poma
On 13.12.2013 02:42, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I apologise for the lack of articulateness in this question; I am > floundering a bit. Basically --- how can I obtain a font which will > render the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet? http://unifont.org/fontguide/ poma -- users mai

Re: Libre office

2013-12-12 Thread poma
On 13.12.2013 05:59, Richard Vickery wrote: > Is there someone to email to for a suggestion for improving Libre office? https://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ poma http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ http://templates.libreoffice.org/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Libre office

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Vickery
Is there someone to email to for a suggestion for improving Libre office? It would sure be nice if the program did a grammar check and made suggestions on how to improve one's document. I haven't used MS Word for as long as I've used Linux, and I really miss the grammar-check that it did. -- users

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread g
On 12/12/2013 09:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gregory Hosler wrote: On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev

Re: failed updates

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank McCormick wrote: On 08/12/13 07:31 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 20:23:42 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. I'

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pasha R wrote: An issue I recently encountered: USB created with dd or LiveUSB creator might not boot on EFI systems. The only tool that worked for me was livecd-iso-to-disk with --efi option (required me to add --format, too, so it is destructive). I thought the LiveCD had the appropriate UEFI

Re: International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rolf Turner wrote: I apologise for the lack of articulateness in this question; I am floundering a bit. Basically --- how can I obtain a font which will render the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet? 1 - find the font in any supported format, like TrueType (file.ttf) 2 - drop it

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/

Re: International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/13/13 09:42, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I apologise for the lack of articulateness in this question; I am > floundering a bit. Basically --- how can I obtain a font which will > render the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet? > > I tried "yum list font" just now (prompted by another

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 12, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > It also strikes me that one can set the ssd disk password at any time > after OS installation. Since the disk contents are already encrypted > and will continue to be encrypted by the same AES key, from the data's > perspective noth

International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Rolf Turner
I apologise for the lack of articulateness in this question; I am floundering a bit. Basically --- how can I obtain a font which will render the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet? I tried "yum list font" just now (prompted by another posting on this mailing-list) and got a catalog

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Chris Murphy writes: > On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:36 PM, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" > wrote: >> >> If I didn't have always on, hardware FDE for free in the SSD, I'm >> sure I'd be happy with LUKS. > > Yes, it's annoying. But the task is also difficult to do correctly in > a preboot environment. Arguabl

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: >> >> 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: > > 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>&1 > > in /etc/cron.d/everyMinute > > but nothing is happening. I've done "service crond restart". > > An

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:36 PM, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: > > If I didn't have always on, hardware FDE for free in the SSD, I'm > sure I'd be happy with LUKS. Yes, it's annoying. But the task is also difficult to do correctly in a preboot environment. Arguably they got ahead of themselves a

OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>&1 in /etc/cron.d/everyMinute but nothing is happening. I've done "service crond restart". Any ideas? Thx, Mike Wright -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 12, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > I've got a standard consumer Intel 520 SSD, which claims to do hardware > based AES disk encryption with no speed penalty. It sounds like a > useful way to protect laptop data if the laptop is ever stolen. Has > anyone tried to d

Re: auto-mounting removable drives

2013-12-12 Thread poma
On 12.12.2013 00:25, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Confirmed bug and submitted bugzilla.xfce #10539 (included that user > "poma" from this list found the bug, though I only submitted what I > could confirm through my testing). > > After all this, I discovered that the drives/media still do not >

Re: Post upgrade woes

2013-12-12 Thread David
On 12/12/2013 3:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/12/2013 11:07 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Issue, XFCE doesn't save the desktop when I logout and ask for save. I >> have a console open, it isn't opened on next login, but was with fc18. >> thoughts? > > This may be an Xfce-specific issue. You might

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:36:59 -0800, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: Of course, with the Snowden revelations, one has to wonder how random the randomly chosen internal AES key is. If it is from an intentionally crippled RNG, it may be easy for someone in the know to do a brute-force search

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:32:41 -0800, > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: >>Google is failing me here due to search spam for LUKS which doesn't >>appear to be capable of *full* *disk* encryption. It only seems to >>encrypt individual partitions. > It can do full encry

Re: hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:32:41 -0800, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: I've got a standard consumer Intel 520 SSD, which claims to do hardware based AES disk encryption with no speed penalty. It sounds like a useful way to protect laptop data if the laptop is ever stolen. Has anyone tried t

Re: Post upgrade woes

2013-12-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/12/2013 11:07 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Issue, XFCE doesn't save the desktop when I logout and ask for save. I have a console open, it isn't opened on next login, but was with fc18. thoughts? This may be an Xfce-specific issue. You might want to check at the official Xfce forum, http://f

hardware full disk encryption

2013-12-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I've got a standard consumer Intel 520 SSD, which claims to do hardware based AES disk encryption with no speed penalty. It sounds like a useful way to protect laptop data if the laptop is ever stolen. Has anyone tried to do hardware-based full disk encryption with Fedora? Does one need to boot

Re: [389-users] group issues

2013-12-12 Thread Alberto Viana
Rich, but in my case, the new OU is not ou of my scope. The sync deleted all of my users from my group (I think that I didnt make myself clear enough and you thought that users were deleted from 389DS) on both sides and just keep the user that I changed from windows side. So just make sure that y

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 12, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Pasha R wrote: > An issue I recently encountered: USB created with dd or LiveUSB creator might > not boot on EFI systems. That bug with Live USB Creator should be fixed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810112 There might be a bug related to the ISO ima

Re: yum update

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:38:18 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, ON a fedora 19, everey time I launch yum update, I get: --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/nxssh for package: qtnx-0.9-16.fc19.i686 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: qtnx-0.9-16.fc19.i686

Post upgrade woes

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
I did fc18->19 upgrade via yum (having had many failures with fedup) and one issue and two questions remain. Issue, XFCE doesn't save the desktop when I logout and ask for save. I have a console open, it isn't opened on next login, but was with fc18. thoughts? Q1: I can't find where to instal

Re: What's wrong with yum in F19?

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:02:22 +0200, Cristian Sava wrote: > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py:761: UnicodeWarning: > Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - > interpreting them as being unequal > if checksum == sql_checksum: > Traceback (most recent ca

What's wrong with yum in F19?

2013-12-12 Thread Cristian Sava
Hi all, I have a virtual install of F19 x64 and I want to update: yum update ... Transaction Summary = Upgrade 188 Packages Total size: 143 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: Running tra

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Pasha R
An issue I recently encountered: USB created with dd or LiveUSB creator might not boot on EFI systems. The only tool that worked for me was livecd-iso-to-disk with --efi option (required me to add --format, too, so it is destructive). On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 11

Re: Fonts in Fedora 16 with Adobe location

2013-12-12 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 12 December 2013 06:16 PM, Prashanth Kasula wrote: I have installed RPM fonts with fedora 16 but i am not able to get enabled, please any one can help me on the same The below is the location where i can see some of the fonts. [root@KM-WS150 share]# cd fonts [root@KM-WS150 fonts]

Fonts in Fedora 16 with Adobe location

2013-12-12 Thread Prashanth Kasula
I have installed RPM fonts with fedora 16 but i am not able to get enabled, please any one can help me on the same The below is the location where i can see some of the fonts. [root@KM-WS150 share]# cd fonts [root@KM-WS150 fonts]# ls abattis-cantarell lohit-devanagari paratype-pt-sans vlgoth

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 December 2013 22:23, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > The LiveUSB creator lets you > 2) create a persistent store so changes you make on the live >system will be there next time you boot. >(But I've had some live USBs stop working, perhaps due to this.) > A persistent overlay is used t