Re: F10, AthlonXP 2500+, recently updated...System freeze?

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Burger

>
>> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:18 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>> After the last round of updates to F10 on my AthlonXP 2500+ system, a
>>> couple/few weeks ago, my system has been freezing.  I get nothing in
>>> my
>>> logs, I see nothing in the way of the normal kernel debug output that
>>> often spews out to the screen...the system just completely freezes.
>>
>> Yup, my Athlon 2500+ is also doing the same thing.  Five lockups now
>> since release.  I'm not sure if it is a kernel bug or the bad powersave
>> stuff or the bad xorg ati radeon package.
>>
>> I'm tired of waiting for fixes that just aren't coming.  If I don't get
>> a fix in the next day or so, I'm backing out F11 and reverting to F10
>> for stability reasons.  I can't afford to have my home automation go
>> offline every once in a while...
>
> I thinkyou can rule out the ATI radeon package...I'm running the Xorg
> nvidia package...but I also had the issue when running in runlevel 3
> (multiuser text mode)...and this is with F10...so if you do back out, I'd
> recommend not necessarily updating.
>
> I also don't think it's necessarily a kernel bug, as I've reverted to the
> oldest kernel I have installed on the system, and the same thing happens.
>
> Guess I need to go check bugzilla, and file a report if there isn't one.

Well, we're not the only ones...there's a bug for this in reported for
both F10 and F11, I believe.

I booted my system up in single user mode...it's been up for 3:16, now.

Hoping it stays up for a while.

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Re: F10, AthlonXP 2500+, recently updated...System freeze?

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Burger

> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:18 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>> After the last round of updates to F10 on my AthlonXP 2500+ system, a
>> couple/few weeks ago, my system has been freezing.  I get nothing in
>> my
>> logs, I see nothing in the way of the normal kernel debug output that
>> often spews out to the screen...the system just completely freezes.
>
> Yup, my Athlon 2500+ is also doing the same thing.  Five lockups now
> since release.  I'm not sure if it is a kernel bug or the bad powersave
> stuff or the bad xorg ati radeon package.
>
> I'm tired of waiting for fixes that just aren't coming.  If I don't get
> a fix in the next day or so, I'm backing out F11 and reverting to F10
> for stability reasons.  I can't afford to have my home automation go
> offline every once in a while...

I thinkyou can rule out the ATI radeon package...I'm running the Xorg
nvidia package...but I also had the issue when running in runlevel 3
(multiuser text mode)...and this is with F10...so if you do back out, I'd
recommend not necessarily updating.

I also don't think it's necessarily a kernel bug, as I've reverted to the
oldest kernel I have installed on the system, and the same thing happens.

Guess I need to go check bugzilla, and file a report if there isn't one.
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F10, AthlonXP 2500+, recently updated...System freeze?

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Burger
This may be coincidence, or maybe not...

After the last round of updates to F10 on my AthlonXP 2500+ system, a
couple/few weeks ago, my system has been freezing.  I get nothing in my
logs, I see nothing in the way of the normal kernel debug output that
often spews out to the screen...the system just completely freezes.

I've tried in runlevel 5 (where I normally run, as I use this system as my
desktop) and in runlevel 3.

I seem to recall a thread, recently, where some laptop users were noting
that they were noting increased heat and their fans running more often,
after some recent updates (and specifically noted that they were not
having this issue when dual booting into Windows)...has anyone else noted
similar issues on desktop type systems?

While I realize that there are risks to using "bleeding edge" operating
systems, I've been a Red Hat user since 4.2, and a Fedora user since FC1,
and not having my desktop system usable is causing me great distress, at
this point.

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Re: Just and FYI about Firefox 3.5

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Burger

> On 07/09/2009 07:13 AM, Bradley wrote:
>> There are several websites that are beginning to issue warnings to
>> not use Firefox 3.5 with their site due to a known (to them) lack of
>> compatibility as compared to other versions and browsers.  I have
>> experienced this myself and recommend that if you are having problems
>> accessing or using any website with version 3.5 to downgrade to 3.0
>> and you will likely find that the problem will disappear.  Mozilla has
>> been notified of this problem.
>>
>> Bradley
>>
> I suppose that I better also add that this doesn't appear to be a
> widespread problem across the web but seems to be limited to sites that
> use certain scripting commands.  I do not know the details about what is
> causing it but am merely passing along this information.  Due to my lack
> of technical knowledge about scripting commands I am unable to pursue it
> any further but have personally confirmed that the problem does exist.

I don't think anyone is doubting, necessarily, the claim...I think we're
just trying to verify it for ourselves, as well...that's why you're being
asked for specific URLs on which you've tested/seen this happen, or any
that have been provided to you, in an anecdotal capacity.

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Re: Just and FYI about Firefox 3.5

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Burger

> On 07/09/2009 08:17 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
>>> One of the sights is comcast.net. I login and the the browser closes.
>>> This
>>> did not happen with core 10.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Larry
>>> - Original Message -
>>> From: "Fernando Cassia"
>>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>>> 
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 8:26:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>> Subject: Re: Just and FYI about Firefox 3.5
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Bradley  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Â  Â There are several websites
>>>>
>>> Which ones?
>>>
>>>
>>>> that are beginning to issue warnings to not
>>>> use Firefox 3.5 with their site
>>>>
>>> Screenshots?
>>>
>>>
>>>> due to a known (to them) lack of
>>>> compatibility as compared to other versions and browsers.
>>>>
>>> Mozilla.org Bugzilla bug numbers?
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have experienced this myself
>>>>
>>> Care to name some URLs?
>>>
>>> Just curious. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your report but as you
>>> see there's a lot of information missing...
>>>
>>
>> Is there a particular part of Comcast's site?  I'm not seeing an issue,
>> just going to www.comcast.net.
> Oddly enough, the comcast site is not one of the websites that 3.5 is
> having a problem with...that I know of.

Color me clueless...I could have sworn that comcast.net was one of the
sites that was listed in the response.

Sorry.
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Re: Just and FYI about Firefox 3.5

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Burger

>
>
> One of the sights is comcast.net. I login and the the browser closes. This
> did not happen with core 10.
>
>
>
>               Larry
> - Original Message -
> From: "Fernando Cassia" 
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
> 
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 8:26:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Just and FYI about Firefox 3.5
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Bradley wrote:
>>    There are several websites
>
> Which ones?
>
>> that are beginning to issue warnings to not
>> use Firefox 3.5 with their site
>
> Screenshots?
>
>> due to a known (to them) lack of
>> compatibility as compared to other versions and browsers.
>
> Mozilla.org Bugzilla bug numbers?
>
>>I have experienced this myself
>
> Care to name some URLs?
>
> Just curious. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your report but as you
> see there's a lot of information missing...

Is there a particular part of Comcast's site?  I'm not seeing an issue,
just going to www.comcast.net.
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Re: NM and TKIP

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Burger

> On Friday 19 June 2009 23:55:43 Craig White wrote:
>> > I have come to accept that what applies in one setup doesn't
>> necessarily
>> > apply in another.  I have things that work perfectly on an F10
>> > workstation but not on an F10 netbook.  I'm guessing that there is
>> some
>> > difference in software installed, as well as hardware differences, but
>> it
>> > can be almost impossible to track down some problems.  Thankfully they
>> > seem to get sorted out almost by accident when some other reported bug
>> is
>> > being addressed.
>>
>> 
>> I think if you create keyrings in GNOME (evolution, NM, other stuff)
>> that use the same password as your login, most of this stuff just works
>> automatically, even if you use KDE.
>
> Hmm - that could be the difference, then.  I use a more secure password
> for
> TKIP than for my local login.

Not quite the same thing, Anne.  The password he's referring to is the
keyring app, not the actual TKIP key.  The TKIP key would be stored in the
keyring app...the password that he and I refer to is for the keyring app,
itself.  He's suggesting that if your login password and your password for
the keyring app are the same, then you may not be prompted for the keyring
password.

Might you have been prompted, Anne, to save the key in the keyring, but
opted not to do so, earlier on when you first set up the wireless
networking on your system?

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Re: clone

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Burger

> Hello,
>
> If I understand correctly, anaconda and kickstart let install a
> machine identically to a previous machine installed with anaconda.
> If the machine has been upgraded by all sort of packages, then the use
> of anaconda is obsolete. Am I correct ? Is there a way to
> rebuild a file which could be used on the 2nd machine, either which
> anaconda or with yum or something else ?

Anaconda is the installation program used by RH/Fedora for the initial
install.

If you've updated the packages on your source machine, you have a couple
of options:

A) Run "yum update" on the newly built system(s) after the kickstart build
has finished.

B) Download the updated packages to your source/install repository, and
let them be installed by the kickstart build process.  If you look at your
kickstart file, you'll note that there are no versions listed...only
package and/or package group names.  As long as all the appropriate
packages are there to satisfy prereq/dependencies, you should be fine.

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Re: NM and TKIP

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:18:41 Mike Cloaked wrote:
>> > Anne Wilson-4 wrote:
>> > > Unfortunately under F10 at least it cannot/will not use the saved
>> key.
>> > > It has
>> > > to be manually entered every time, causing delay in making the
>> > > connection.
>> >
>> > This has been working fine for me in F10 ever since F10 GA - and it
>> does
>> > save the key - however this is in gnome. Maybe it does not work in
>> KDE4?
>> >
>> Could be.  I've never got it to use the saved key.
> 
> you could have fooled me because my laptop on F10/KDE saved the key but
> it is now running F11 so I can't test but I never have had to re-enter
> the key.
Nor do I, though I do have to input my password for the keyring.
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Re: NM and TKIP

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Burger
> Bonjour,
>
> I tried to find where to configure networkmanager to use TKIP for a wifi
> but I failed...
>
> I failed to connect that way (using NM) and I am wondering if it is
> possible.
>
> running f10.
>
> Thanks for advices.

Bonjour, Francois.

Indeed, it is possible to use WPA/TKIP with Network Manager under F10...I
am doing so, myself.

All you need to do is to click on the NM icon that shows up in the system
tray area...it should pop up a list of nearby wireless networks.  Select
the network you want, and it should then prompt you for the key.  It will
also prompt you to save the key in the password wallet type program, and
will ask you for a password to encrypt that repository, as well.

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Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Burger

> I have been using Verizon DSL as my Internet connection for several years
> with no problems. I decided to upgrade my connection from .768 to 3 megs.
> after about three weeks multiple phone calls , two different modems,
> technician visit, line work and hours on the phone, I am now down to .6
> MB/sec. and the technician can't come again for another week. I will be
> just short of a month getting an upgrade.
>  I therfore decided to try Cox Cable high speed internet. I signed up ,
> installed the modem and went through the activation process in Windows
> XP.all right. When I try Linux/Firefox, I get a situation that is
> completly baffling to me. Most of the URLs I try result in firefox hanging
> at "loading" However Gmail works fine. I tried Cox support and they are
> very good at confirming that my hardware in windows is good, but they
> don't speak Linux.. I tried to look at the configuration values but
> couldn't see anything suspicious. If a config value is wrong I would
> expect that i wouldn't get Gmail.
>  Can anyone give me a clew on where to start? I tried google, but couldn't
> see anything
>  helpful. I did see one message that said the modem I have is "not
> compatible with Linux." although most of the talk was about a USB
> connection and I have ethernet. the modem is a Scientific Atlanta 2100.
> This may be off topic and I would apreciate redirection to a better group.
> I looked but didn't see one.

It sounds, to me, like you're connecting from your PC to the DSL modem,
and attempting to connect using PPOE software.

You may be better off using a router, instead...let it handle all the
authentication and negotiation, and just let your PC connect through the
router, and do what it does.
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Re: Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Burger

>
>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>> I am still struggling with this f10 install. It appeared that the
>>>> NIC in eth0 was no good. I pulled it out and left the second card
>>>> which was/is eth1.
>>>>
>>>> It looks to me like that designation eth1 might be changed to eth0
>>>> using ethtool but if so, I can't find the right command.
>>>>
>>>> I have used service-config-network to set it up as 192.168.1.10
>>>> and
>>>> eth1, network-scripts is set up for eth1. but no matter what I do
>>>> a
>>>> ping to another computer yields "Network is unreachable."
>>>>
>>>> This is a wired connection. I've tried a different cat5 cable.
>>>> "ethtools eth1" looks ok compared to the other computers. Not sure
>>>> what I have missed but it would be simpler perhaps if I could
>>>> convince the NIC that it was eth0 instead of eth1 but I can't
>>>> determine how that is set.
>>>>
>>>> Any help appreciated. I am about at wits end.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, it's probably in your /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> /etc/modprobe.conf is an empty file?
>> Do I need to use it to change the eth designation? Don't know how
>> but ...
>
> Used to...it's possible that it's being done via udev, at this point.
> Lemme look around at ethtool and udev info.
Did a little googling of "udev eth designation" and found this:

http://www.mepis.org/node/10770

The short of it is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.

You can remove the line for eth0, then take the line for eth1, and as long
as the "ATTR{address}" line matches the MAC address of your current eth1
NIC, just change:

NAME="eth1"

to

NAME=eth0"

Reboot, and voila!!!

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Re: Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> I am still struggling with this f10 install. It appeared that the
>>> NIC in eth0 was no good. I pulled it out and left the second card
>>> which was/is eth1.
>>>
>>> It looks to me like that designation eth1 might be changed to eth0
>>> using ethtool but if so, I can't find the right command.
>>>
>>> I have used service-config-network to set it up as 192.168.1.10 and
>>> eth1, network-scripts is set up for eth1. but no matter what I do a
>>> ping to another computer yields "Network is unreachable."
>>>
>>> This is a wired connection. I've tried a different cat5 cable.
>>> "ethtools eth1" looks ok compared to the other computers. Not sure
>>> what I have missed but it would be simpler perhaps if I could
>>> convince the NIC that it was eth0 instead of eth1 but I can't
>>> determine how that is set.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated. I am about at wits end.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, it's probably in your /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>>
>>
>>
>
>     /etc/modprobe.conf is an empty file?
> Do I need to use it to change the eth designation? Don't know how
> but ...

Used to...it's possible that it's being done via udev, at this point. 
Lemme look around at ethtool and udev info.

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Re: Where is eth0/eth1/assigned -

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Burger

>
> I am still struggling with this f10 install. It appeared that the
> NIC in eth0 was no good. I pulled it out and left the second card
> which was/is eth1.
>
> It looks to me like that designation eth1 might be changed to eth0
> using ethtool but if so, I can't find the right command.
>
> I have used service-config-network to set it up as 192.168.1.10 and
> eth1, network-scripts is set up for eth1. but no matter what I do a
> ping to another computer yields "Network is unreachable."
>
> This is a wired connection. I've tried a different cat5 cable.
> "ethtools eth1" looks ok compared to the other computers. Not sure
> what I have missed but it would be simpler perhaps if I could
> convince the NIC that it was eth0 instead of eth1 but I can't
> determine how that is set.
>
> Any help appreciated. I am about at wits end.

Actually, it's probably in your /etc/modprobe.conf file.


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Re: preupgrade or anaconda error

2009-06-02 Thread Mike Burger
> I was trying to upgrade to F11-preview from F10. I was told to use
> preupgrade instead of using yum, which passed the dependency problems
> that stopped yum, but after rebooting anaconda gave errors which I was
> unable to save. :-(
>
> Couldn't connect to my wifi (which doesn't have encryption), nor was I
> able to save it to disk (even though I saw the disks mounted).
>
> I would like to give information on how anaconda crashed, but how? I
> really want to test F11, and looks like preupgrade is a good tool to
> accomplish it.

Is it possible to connect the computer, in question, to a wired connection
and to try again?


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Re: OT: Pushing back Time

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Burger
(Yes, I'm top posting, but it's only to make this point, and to actually,
maybe, have it seen)

Guys, I doubt that he was trying to troll, in this case.  It seemed to me
that he was simply pointing out something he thought was humorous.

What I suspect is that Chris is not subscribed to the
fedora-announce-list, and hasn't necessarily seen the announcements that
the date was slipping by a week or more, due to the fixes, etc.

So, maybe we should cut him a little slack?

> On 5/29/2009 8:08 PM, Chris wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:58:37 -0400
>> David  wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/29/2009 7:45 PM, Chris wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> Every few days to a week I check the project site for the release
>>>> of 11. It cracks me up to see the days just seem to be counting in
>>>> the wrong direction.
>>>>
>>>> For example, a few days ago it said 7 days. Tonight, we're at 11.
>>>> Might I suggest the tag line say something like:
>>>>
>>>> It will be release when it's released.
>>>
>>> If you had any idea of what is happening behind the screens. If you
>>> had any idea of what the developers are doing. Working on. Fixing.
>>> trying to make this a good, no great, release, you would troll your
>>> way out of here.
>>>
>>> Bye troll.
>>>
>>
>> *shrug*
>>
>
> Gee... You mean that you want them to release a 'maybe bad - don't work
> for a lot of users' release' just so you can have the 'latest and the
> greatest'? *WOW!!!*
>
> Which just might not, maybe, wont work for you and many others?? Or
> would you prefer, what most of us would prefer, that they present a
> release that at least works for most? And has promise to work for those
> that it does not with a tweak or two??
>
> Crawl back under the bridge Troll. Not a troll? Really  Then shut the
> hell up about schedules that slide for the better of the the masses.
>
> Here's an idea! You want Fedora 11 *RIGHT NOW*? Download the last RC.
> Install it. And then update it. *PING*! You got it!
>
> Then? The bridge is that way. >>>
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Re: Lappy has F8, network connection, whats best way to bring it up to F10?

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Burger
I do believe that preupgrade will work...if not, boot directly from the
F10 DVD and upgrade that way.

At least, that's how I've been doing them.

> Greetings all;
>
> I am going to need my laptop again, which has F8 on it, and a network
> connection.  Fired up for first time in most of a year, pup is upgrading
> 50
> packages right now.
>
> What's the quickest & least typing, way to upgrade it to F10?
>
> Thanks.
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Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thursday 28 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>Steve Underwood wrote:
>>> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio.
>>
>>Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio
>> is
>>evil.
>>
>>> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little
>>> output
>>> to help you resolve problems. If you get it working it seems to offer
>>> you
>>> nothing you didn't have before you had pulseaudio.
> +1000
>>
>>It makes sound just work, without apps fighting for the sound device (or
>>multiple incompatible sound servers all trying to "fix" this fighting for
>>the sound device). No more annoyances like games failing to play sound
>>because some GUI event sound was still being played when they tried
>> opening
>>the sound device. (I've seen, or rather heard, that happen way too often
>> in
>>pre-PulseAudio times.)
>
> Yeah, but with it working, only the system beep works...
>
>>Most sound cards don't do mixing in hardware. A few do support it, but
>> the
>>ALSA driver doesn't. Only few sound cards can do it and have ALSA support
>>for it. So PulseAudio is a mixing solution which works for everyone.
>>
>>Kevin Kofler
>
> If only it worked...
>
> And I will continue to denigrate it until we have a configuration tool
> that
> WILL let us make it work regardless of ones choice of hardware.

And therein lies the rub.

There are times when I can start up my X session, and it appears that
everything works...then, other times, I start up my X session and I get a
popup box indicating that PulseAudo wouldn't work because of something,
and it's falling back to another mode of sound.

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Re: cups disable help

2009-05-27 Thread Mike Burger

> Can someone help direct me to cups code that disables printers?
>
>
>
> I have a parallel HP Laserjet with an HP print server 170x. Every so often
> cups will disable a printer
>
>>From cups logs, or syslog, etc.I have found nothing.So I now just want to
>> keep all printers from disabling.

Usually, a printer will become "disabled" if/when it becomes
non-responsive.  It goes to sleep, the network connection goes dead, it's
powered off, it's in an alarm state and isn't accepting jobs.

Unless you can prevent the printer from all possibilities of going
incommunicado, it may not be possible to prevent disabling.

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Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd
>>>>> installed.
>>>>> I
>>>>> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it
>>>>> was
>>>>> not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd?
>>>>> It's
>>>>> just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server
>>>>> processes to be added to the inetd config. Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>>xinetd is available for F10...it depends, greatly, on what options you
>>>>chose when you installed. For example, if you didn't select to install
>>>>telnet or some other tools, it may not have opted to install xinetd.
>>>>
>>>>Many services do not run, usually, from xinetd, such as ssh or httpd,
>>>>though they could be made to do so
>>>>
>>>>Was there something specific that you wanted to run, that would
>>>> normally
>>>>require xinetd?
>>>
>>> The backup program amanda comes to mind, portions of its server utils
>>> are
>>> xinetd.d controlled.
>>
>>I'm guessing, then, that "yum install amanda" would then install xinetd
>> as
>>a prerequisite.
>
> I haven't the foggiest, Mike. I don't run amanda from an rpm, as has been
> discussed here at considerable length & with no little heat.

Aaahhh...one of those TEHO situations.

I don't read every thread on this list...if I did, I'd never get any work
done. ;-)


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Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote:
>>> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed.
>>> I
>>> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was
>>> not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd?
>>> It's
>>> just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server
>>> processes to be added to the inetd config. Am I missing something?
>>
>>xinetd is available for F10...it depends, greatly, on what options you
>>chose when you installed. For example, if you didn't select to install
>>telnet or some other tools, it may not have opted to install xinetd.
>>
>>Many services do not run, usually, from xinetd, such as ssh or httpd,
>>though they could be made to do so
>>
>>Was there something specific that you wanted to run, that would normally
>>require xinetd?
>
> The backup program amanda comes to mind, portions of its server utils are
> xinetd.d controlled.

I'm guessing, then, that "yum install amanda" would then install xinetd as
a prerequisite.

But, as noted, if Amanda was not selected at install time, like telnet
server, etc., Anaconda would not have grabbed xinetd for installation.

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Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger
> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I
> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was
> not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's
> just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server
> processes to be added to the inetd config. Am I missing something?

xinetd is available for F10...it depends, greatly, on what options you
chose when you installed. For example, if you didn't select to install
telnet or some other tools, it may not have opted to install xinetd.

Many services do not run, usually, from xinetd, such as ssh or httpd,
though they could be made to do so

Was there something specific that you wanted to run, that would normally
require xinetd?
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Re: firefox

2009-05-21 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, 21 May 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 90% of the time when I open a pdf file from firefox the document
>> does not appear in the right window (I mean not in the firefox window,
>> but
>> in side any window), ie that I do not have any control
>> on the document position !!
>> How can it be fixed ?
>>
> In fact the problem comes from evince

My understanding is that evince does not operate as a plugin, as the Adobe
Acrobat reader can/does (at least, under Windows).

If you can find a PDF reader that can act as a plugin to firefox, under
Linux, you should be able to accomplish what you want to do.

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Re: Problem with NM and wired /wireless network

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Burger
> Hi
> I have F10 running network manager
>
> Both wireless and wireless work fine independently, however when
> network cable is plugged in wireless says it is connected (as per
> applet) but cannot access any sites .
>
> Any idea what is going on here?

You have two network connections activated, quite likely on the same
network, and the traffic isn't sure which way it's supposed to
leave/return to your system?
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Re: is lvm deprecated?

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Burger

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Mike Burger
> wrote:
>
>>
>> What you appear to have done is created your "volume groups", but not
>> created any actual logical volumes in them, nor formatted those logical
>> volumes to create filesystems.
>>
>> What you'll want to do, now, is to run system-config-lvm, and run
>> through
>> the process of creating actual logical volumes and setting them up as
>> filesystems.
>>
>> It's actually very simple and painless.
>
>
> I burst out laughing when I read this.

I'm not sure if I should be happy or unhappy about your
laughter...especially since my response was born out of nearly 7 years of
using LVM tools under AIX, and 4 or 5 of doing so under Fedora.

Which part of my response drove you to laughter, if I may?

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Re: is lvm deprecated?

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Burger

> Hi all,
>
> This is wrt f10.
>
> I have an 80G drive.  When I installed f10 I chose a custom layout for
> it.  My intent was to have a separate /boot partition, swap partition,
> and 4 lvms of approx. 20G each.
>
> When all was said and done the drive ended up looking like this:
>
> /dev/sda1   *   1  13  104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2  14243519454715   83  Linux
> /dev/sda32436485719454715   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda44858996441021977+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda54858727919454683+  8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda672807406 1020096   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda77407996420547103+  8e  Linux LVM
>
> Certainly not what I intended.
>
> Tried lvdisplay and got no results.  Tried lvscan first then lvdisplay
> and got the same outcome.  vgdisplay, ditto.  pvdisplay, nada.  fdisk
> seems to think there are logical volumes.
>
> cat /etc/mtab and I see this: /dev/mapper/pdc_gdgdgcfhp1 (and 2).  In
> fact in /dev/mapper there are 9 of these.
>
> Anybody know where this is documented?  Is lvm dead?  Inquiring minds
> want to know ;)
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Mike Wright

LVM is very much alive and in use.

What you appear to have done is created your "volume groups", but not
created any actual logical volumes in them, nor formatted those logical
volumes to create filesystems.

What you'll want to do, now, is to run system-config-lvm, and run through
the process of creating actual logical volumes and setting them up as
filesystems.

It's actually very simple and painless.
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Re: [OT] ssh login script - Please Help

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>> Mikkel wrote:
>>> Or don't log in at all. Use scp to copy the file, and then ssh where
>>> it is set to run a command when you connect. (Use the
>>> comand="comand" format for the key.) One thing I am not sure of is
>>> if you can use the same key for scp when using the command= option.
>>
>> Well, is part of the openssh suite, and does/will use the same key as
>> the
>> ssh executable.
>>
>> I use keys to scp and ssh to run commands all the time, without having
>> to
>> pass passwords along, in order to automate processes, all the time.
>>
> I do the same. But I have never tried to use the private key that
> was tied to a command on the other machine with scp, so I do not
> know if scp will work with a key that is only allowed to run one
> program on the remote machine. (You can not "login" in using that
> key.) What I was thinking of was:
>
> scp file to remote machine
> ssh to remote machine witch triggers a command on the remote machine.
>
> From the sshd man page:
>
> command="command"
>Specifies that the command is executed whenever this key is
>used for authentication. The command supplied by the user
>(if any) is ignored.  The command is run on a pty if the
>client requests a pty; otherwise it is run without a tty.
>If an 8-bit clean channel is required, one must not request
>a pty or should specify no-pty. A quote may be included in
>the command by quoting it with a backslash. This option might
>be useful to restrict certain public keys to perform just a
>specific operation. An example might be a key that permits
>remote backups but nothing else. Note that the client may
>specify TCP and/or X11 forwarding unless they are explicitly
>prohibited. The command originally supplied by the client is
>available in the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable.
>Note that this option applies to shell, command or subsystem
>execution.

Ok...I see where you're going.

Well, he could just continue to go with the methodology he's currently
employing...use scp to copy the file over, then use ssh to run a command
(that command could be a script that runs a number of things, obviously)
or multiple commands (multiple ssh calls).

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Re: [OT] ssh login script - Please Help

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>> Alternately, Dan ought to, instead of an expect script, use a non-root
>> user, key-based authentication (bypass the password), scp the conf file
>> to
>> the non-root user's homedir, and sudo to provide root level privs to
>> move
>> the conf file into place and restart NTP.
>>
> Or don't log in at all. Use scp to copy the file, and then ssh where
> it is set to run a command when you connect. (Use the
> comand="comand" format for the key.) One thing I am not sure of is
> if you can use the same key for scp when using the command= option.

Well, is part of the openssh suite, and does/will use the same key as the
ssh executable.

I use keys to scp and ssh to run commands all the time, without having to
pass passwords along, in order to automate processes, all the time.

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Re: Turn off animations in Firefox

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Is there a way to disable animation in FireFox?
>
> Thanks.

Uninstall the flashplayer plugin and disable javascript?

Seriously...what type of animations are you looking to disable?  Your
question doesn't provide nearly enough detail on what you're facing.


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Re: [OT] ssh login script - Please Help

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Dan Track wrote:
>> I appreciate this is OT but could someone just give me a little
>> advice, I've written this script to logon on each server then
>> restart the ntpd daemon. The problem I have is it only restarts the
>> daemon for the last server provided in the list, any ideas as to why
>> and how to fix it?
>
> While I'm not offering any help on why your expect script is failing
> you, I would say that if you have a need to ssh into multiple machines
> to copy config files and restart services, you should look into tools
> like func and puppet.  Func is perfect for quick, one-off commands.
> Puppet is better for complete configuration management.
>
> As a t-shirt from Reductive Labs¹, the makers of Puppet said, "SSH in a
> loop is _not_ a solution." ;)
>
> ¹ http://reductivelabs.com/images/Layouts.pdf

Alternately, Dan ought to, instead of an expect script, use a non-root
user, key-based authentication (bypass the password), scp the conf file to
the non-root user's homedir, and sudo to provide root level privs to move
the conf file into place and restart NTP.

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Re: F 10 Start up Problem

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:54 -0400, Shannon McMackin wrote:
>> Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>> > Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the creping progress bars and
>> > get back the startup screen so you can see whats going on?
>> >
>> > I am having some service start problems and would love to be able to
>> see
>> > whats going on!
>> >
>> Pressing escape during the progress bar should allow you to see the
>> services starting.  Adding vga=792 as a kernel append in /etc/grub.conf
>> should give you the plymouth graphics.
> 
> probably getting close to the point where this is unnecessary as
> F11-Beta is giving me plymouth startup goodness on my Aspire One so it
> seems that they have at least some of the kernel modesetting stuff
> worked out for F11.

FWIW, it works just fine on my Aspire 5100, too...but I get the text crud
on my desktop, with an nVidia graphics card.
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Re: Apache Virtual Server

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Burger

>
>  I am playing with the Zend Framework on my laptop. In my reading of
> Zend documentation it looks like Zend wants a certain directory structure
> so I created:
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/application/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/application/controllers/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/application/views/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/application/views/scripts/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/library/
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/public/
>
> The last directory 'public' wants to be the DocumentRoot
> I want to set up a virtual server whose DocumentRoot is
> /var/www/html/QuickStart/public
>
> my machine's name is confianza and it is running Fedora 10
> [r...@confianza conf]# uname -a
> Linux confianza 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:37:54
> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I set up /etc/hosts so both confianza and confianzazend resolve to
> 127.0.0.1
> [r...@confianza conf]# grep 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost confianza confianzazend
>
>
> My current apache web server uses /var/www/html as it's DocumentRoot and
> runs fine.
>
>
> [r...@confianza conf]# yum list installed | grep -i http
> httpd.i386  2.2.11-2.fc10
> installed
> httpd-tools.i3862.2.11-2.fc10
> installed
> jakarta-commons-httpclient.i386 1:3.1-0.3.fc10
> installed
> system-config-httpd.noarch  5:1.4.4-2.fc10
> installed
> [r...@confianza conf]# yum list installed | grep -i zend
> php-ZendFramework.noarch
>
> I edited /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as follows:
> #
> ServerName confianza:80
> NameVirtualHost *:80
> #
> 
> ServerName confianza
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> 
> #
> 
> ServerName confianzazend
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/QuickStart/public"
> 
>
> I then restart httpd
> [r...@confianza html]# service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:[  OK  ]
> Starting httpd:[  OK  ]
>
>
> I want http://confianza to return the contents of /var/www/html
> I want http://confianzazend to return the contents of
> /var/www/html/QuickStart
>
>
> What is happening is that both http://confianza and http://confianzazend
> are both returning the contents of /var/www/html
>
> I've looked at several web pages and they all say the same thing, this
> should just work (TM). It seems simple enough yet my problem persists.
> What else do I need to do?
>
> Thanks

Dennis:

Having read the entire thread, so far, I don't believe that anyone else
has actually identified the issue.

The issue is the use of:



You've got a wildcard in every "VirtualHost" declaration.  As a result,
you're going to match on the very first VirtualHost, and never get past
it.

Instead, your VirtualHost declaration needs to be specific about the
hostname (or FQDN) for which it is supposed to serve up the particular web
pages.

What you need to do, instead, is set:



and



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Re: Flash player "Settings" menu, 64-bit

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Burger

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On 04/23/2009 03:03 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On 04/23/2009 01:11 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

Ok, I've got one. I'm trying to do some testing for a client using a
video chat system based on Flash. Flash simply won't use the camera or
mic on my system although both work just fine in ekiga, cheese, skype,
you name it. In fact, a right click in the Flash pages on the client's
site brings up the Flash control panel, but the "Settings..." option
is greyed out.

Anyone else run into this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?


Complain to Adobe.


Singularly useless response, Pat. I have told Adobe. My curiosity was
whether I had a misconfiguration on Firefox, since a right click brings
up Flash's menus, but "Settings..." is greyed out.

Under Konqueror, "Settings..." is NOT greyed out. However, if you
select it and the settings screen pops up, you can't select anything in
the settings screen, nor can you close it. The only way out is to close
Konqueror.

In Opera, I can't find the Flash menu anywhere (right click brings up
Opera's options window).

So, three different browsers, three different behaviors. Smells like a
config problem to me...that's why I posted my question.


We aren't mind-readers Rick. If you had mentioned any of that before, 
we could have saved ourselves the effort of this exchange. When asking 
a question it's important to give enough information for a meaningful 
answer.
That having been said, I think the issue is still best handled by Adobe 
support.  If the behavior is different in multiple browsers, yet 
sufficiently similar to each other (option either  does not display, or 
displays but is unusable), it's not likely to be an issue of the browser.


Additionally, the browser only uses the app as a plugin.  There are no 
settings, specific to th flashplayer, that are configurable from within 
the browser's settings...they're all at the Flashplayer level.  Again, 
it's probably best left up to Adobe to determine the issue and address it.


Or maybe it's just me.

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Re: NetworkManager and domain names in /etc/resolv.conf

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Burger

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this has already been asked:
>
> Before using NetworkManager I had my own domain entries in
> /etc/resolv.conf, but since I use NetworkManager, additional entries
> in /etc/resolv.conf are only living until the next reboot because
> NetworkManager seems to re-build /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> All advices are welcome.

Do you have access to your DHCP server?

If so, I'd recommend editing the "option domain-name" line to include the
domains you'd like to search.

Otherwise, if this is a hardwired LAN connection, don't use NM, and just
modify the ifcfg-eth0 script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.


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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu (the distro in which I believe upstart to have been started) has
>> done away with the inittab, altogether, in favor of another script in
>> their /etc/events.d (their equivalent of Fedora's /etc/event.d)
>> directory
>> that determines default runlevel.  Maybe Fedora needs to consider the
>> same?
>
> this is interesting and brings a question, are you saying that ubuntu and
> fedora use /etc/event.d/ instead of inittab or just ubuntu?

>From what I've read, Ubuntu does not use the inittab, at all...doesn't
even include one.

> ria, i *replaced* 'id:5:initdefault:' with 'id:3:initdefault:' in inittab
> and
> made no changes in /etc/event.d/, and i boot level 3 with no problems.

Not surprising...the underlying issue, for us using Fedora, is that the
Upstart script that reads the inittab does not distinguish between lines
with comment delimiters and lines without.  Having just the single line
would work, as expected.

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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>> Again...within inittab, the # character is not a comment delimiter...the
>> ;
>> character is.
>>
>> Because the # was used, the first default line was matched, therefore
>> processing to determine the default runlevel stopped at the first
>> match...the line with the 5 in it.
>>
>> Subsequent lines, which do not contain "initdefault" are processed,
>> because they do not match the "initdefault" parameter that was matched
>> above.
> Strange - I have always been under the impression that both # and ;
> work as comment delimiters in inittab. If # is not a comment
> delimiter, then all the other comment lines that start with # should
> generate syntax errors.

As has been noted, it turns out it's nothing to do with the delimiter
being used for commenting, after all, but a scripting logic error that
ignores the fact that there's a commenting delimiter in place, at all.
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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Burger

Tom Horsley wrote:

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Mike Burger wrote:

  

I'm still doing some digging.



I thought there was a thread on this very topic in a previous
release, but I can't find it (maybe it was in fedora-list
rather than fedora-test-list), anyway it is a very old bug
I'm surprised is still around.

The script in the upstart code that searches /etc/inittab to
find the runlevel was not ignoring commented out lines, so
whatever line it found first, that's the one it grabbed the
runlevel from regardless of the comment prefix.
  


Bugger.

This *is* the Fedora list, BTW, rather than the fedora-test list.

However, I pop in and out of this list, given the level of traffic and 
my availability to monitor and try to answer questions (when I *think* 
that I'm actually capable of answering them), based on workload and 
travel, so it may be possible that I completely missed that thread, 
somewhere.


Since I never really noticed this in F9...the only F9 systems I had were 
my laptop and workstation, so I didn't have much reason to 
customize)...I had no reason to investigate, either.


If this is a filed bug, and you happen to have the bugzilla report ID, 
please forward.  I'll also try to dig into it and see if I can find it, 
too...I'd like to see this one squashed...or, at the very least, verify 
which script it is and see if I can figure out the logic to fix it.
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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Burger

>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hummm  Bad news
>>>>>
>>>>> I had to test this and have in the intttab file
>>>>>
>>>>> #   5 - X11
>>>>> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>>>>> #
>>>>> ; id:5:initdefault:
>>>>> id:3:initdefault:
>>>>>
>>>>> And the system still comes up in run level 5.
>>>>>
>>>> There is probably no comment sign anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Upstart just rapidly scans /etc/inittab for the default runlevel and
>>>> ignores
>>>> everything else. The only reason the file is still /etc/inittab is for
>>>> backwards compatibility. So it doesn't use a complete inittab parser,
>>>> it
>>>> probably just scans for the first occurrence of id:?:initdefault,
>>>> completely ignoring any comment signs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> While I've not read any upstart documentation to refute your assertion,
>>> I
>>> do believe that I've commented and uncommented enough since starting
>>> with
>>> F9 that I am fairly confident that there is, indeed, still the default
>>> ;
>>> as an inittab comment delimiter.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Just don't leave commented lines around.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fair enough, if that is to be the end product...but if you want to test
>>> something, and don't want to litter the system with dozens of backup
>>> inittab files and the like, commenting a line is quicker than fully
>>> editing it in and out.
>>>
>>> Probably a matter of preference, I would say.
>>>
>>>
>> Kindly be careful with your attributions  The comments concerning
>> upstart were those of Kevin Kofler.
>
> Apologies...quite possibly a crop gone awry...your name *was* the one at
> the top of the quote/requote/rerequote sequence, but I may have not have
> "chopped" low down enough in the chain, or it's possible that my
> Thunderbird installation is not properly set up to properly attribute the
> most recent quote.
>
>> Yet the fact remains, ; had no more effect than #.  If you don't trust
>> the test that I did, you can do it yourself in order to prove it.
>
> My response, in the message above, was not in response to your test, but
> to Kevin's note about not leaving commented lines around.
>
> While I'm looking at this, though, my earlier assertion that # wouldn't
> work as a comment in inittab, at this level, would appear to be incorrect,
> as well, given that *all* of the comments at the top of the file start
> with a #.
>
> I'm still doing some digging.

At this point, the only other thing I can confirm, after performing Ed's
test, and then taking it a step further, is that no amount of commenting
seems to matter...the first initdefault line in the inittab is still read
to determine the default runlevel.

First, I tried it using the method Ed used...comment out the line, and
then reinput it with 3 instead of 5, below the commented line.  Rebooted,
and voila, still in runlevel 5.

Next, I moved the commented runlevel 5 line *below* the uncommented
runlevel 3 line.  Rebooted, and voila, booted up at runlevel 3.

All of this bears out both Ed's point that comments don't do anything and
my point that upstart's read of the inittab stops on the first match of
"initdefault".

So, the (temporary?) fix for this situation appears to be that if you're
going to comment out one runlevel in order to put in another, insert the
new initdefault line *above* the commented "old" initdefault line.

On the other hand, this issue may illustrate the need for a bugzilla entry
on the issue.

Ubuntu (the distro in which I believe upstart to have been started) has
done away with the inittab, altogether, in favor of another script in
their /etc/events.d (their equivalent of Fedora's /etc/event.d) directory
that determines default runlevel.  Maybe Fedora needs to consider the
same?

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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hummm  Bad news
>>>>
>>>> I had to test this and have in the intttab file
>>>>
>>>> #   5 - X11
>>>> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>>>> #
>>>> ; id:5:initdefault:
>>>> id:3:initdefault:
>>>>
>>>> And the system still comes up in run level 5.
>>>>
>>> There is probably no comment sign anymore.
>>>
>>> Upstart just rapidly scans /etc/inittab for the default runlevel and
>>> ignores
>>> everything else. The only reason the file is still /etc/inittab is for
>>> backwards compatibility. So it doesn't use a complete inittab parser,
>>> it
>>> probably just scans for the first occurrence of id:?:initdefault,
>>> completely ignoring any comment signs.
>>>
>>
>> While I've not read any upstart documentation to refute your assertion,
>> I
>> do believe that I've commented and uncommented enough since starting
>> with
>> F9 that I am fairly confident that there is, indeed, still the default ;
>> as an inittab comment delimiter.
>>
>>
>>> Just don't leave commented lines around.
>>>
>>
>> Fair enough, if that is to be the end product...but if you want to test
>> something, and don't want to litter the system with dozens of backup
>> inittab files and the like, commenting a line is quicker than fully
>> editing it in and out.
>>
>> Probably a matter of preference, I would say.
>>
>>
> Kindly be careful with your attributions  The comments concerning
> upstart were those of Kevin Kofler.

Apologies...quite possibly a crop gone awry...your name *was* the one at
the top of the quote/requote/rerequote sequence, but I may have not have
"chopped" low down enough in the chain, or it's possible that my
Thunderbird installation is not properly set up to properly attribute the
most recent quote.

> Yet the fact remains, ; had no more effect than #.  If you don't trust
> the test that I did, you can do it yourself in order to prove it.

My response, in the message above, was not in response to your test, but
to Kevin's note about not leaving commented lines around.

While I'm looking at this, though, my earlier assertion that # wouldn't
work as a comment in inittab, at this level, would appear to be incorrect,
as well, given that *all* of the comments at the top of the file start
with a #.

I'm still doing some digging.
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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Tim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
>>>>>>> with the X Window System running.  What am I missing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # id:5:initdefault:
>>>>>>> id:1:initdefault:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> In order to comment out a line in inttab, you need to use a
>>>>> semicolon, rather than a pound sign.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> To clarify...the reason that this didn't work, in the first place, is
>>>> that the initial initdefault line wasn't truly commented out, due to
>>>> the pound sign instead of the semicolon.
>>>>
>>>> After that, the init processing for an entry stops on the first
>>>> match...since the "not properly commented" entry was first, it got
>>>> matched, and runlevel 5 was how the system came up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't quite understand what you are saying
>>>
>>> You said "the init processing for an entry stops on the first match".
>>> What is being matched to what?  Also, if the # isn't a comment
>>> character
>>> then how are the other 25 lines in the inittab being parsed?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Never mind.  I see what you are saying after all  I forgot for
>> the moment that the original id line was left in the modified file
>> Duh...
>>
>>
> Hummm  Bad news
>
> I had to test this and have in the intttab file
>
> #   5 - X11
> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> ; id:5:initdefault:
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> And the system still comes up in run level 5.

Interesting.

Someone once told me to use two semicolons in inittab, but I've never
needed to try that.

Might be worth a try.

On the other hand, since Upstart doesn't use many of the options that used
to be in the inittab, it may be possible that the default runlevel is
actually set in an upstart config file, somewhere, now?
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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> Never mind.  I see what you are saying after all  I forgot for
> the moment that the original id line was left in the modified file
> Duh...

And, of course, I replied before seeing this.  Sorry.

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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Hummm  Bad news
>>
>> I had to test this and have in the intttab file
>>
>> #   5 - X11
>> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>> #
>> ; id:5:initdefault:
>> id:3:initdefault:
>>
>> And the system still comes up in run level 5.
>
> There is probably no comment sign anymore.
>
> Upstart just rapidly scans /etc/inittab for the default runlevel and
> ignores
> everything else. The only reason the file is still /etc/inittab is for
> backwards compatibility. So it doesn't use a complete inittab parser, it
> probably just scans for the first occurrence of id:?:initdefault,
> completely ignoring any comment signs.

While I've not read any upstart documentation to refute your assertion, I
do believe that I've commented and uncommented enough since starting with
F9 that I am fairly confident that there is, indeed, still the default ;
as an inittab comment delimiter.

> Just don't leave commented lines around.

Fair enough, if that is to be the end product...but if you want to test
something, and don't want to litter the system with dozens of backup
inittab files and the like, commenting a line is quicker than fully
editing it in and out.

Probably a matter of preference, I would say.

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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> Tim wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
>>>>> with the X Window System running.  What am I missing?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> # id:5:initdefault:
>>>>> id:1:initdefault:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
>>>>
>>> In order to comment out a line in inttab, you need to use a
>>> semicolon, rather than a pound sign.
>> To clarify...the reason that this didn't work, in the first place, is
>> that the initial initdefault line wasn't truly commented out, due to
>> the pound sign instead of the semicolon.
>>
>> After that, the init processing for an entry stops on the first
>> match...since the "not properly commented" entry was first, it got
>> matched, and runlevel 5 was how the system came up.
>>
> I don't quite understand what you are saying
>
> You said "the init processing for an entry stops on the first match".
> What is being matched to what?  Also, if the # isn't a comment character
> then how are the other 25 lines in the inittab being parsed?
>
> Thanks

Again...within inittab, the # character is not a comment delimiter...the ;
character is.

Because the # was used, the first default line was matched, therefore
processing to determine the default runlevel stopped at the first
match...the line with the 5 in it.

Subsequent lines, which do not contain "initdefault" are processed,
because they do not match the "initdefault" parameter that was matched
above.
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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

Mike Burger wrote:

Tim wrote:

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
 

I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running.  What am I missing?



 

# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:



I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
  
In order to comment out a line in inttab, you need to use a semicolon, 
rather than a pound sign.
To clarify...the reason that this didn't work, in the first place, is 
that the initial initdefault line wasn't truly commented out, due to the 
pound sign instead of the semicolon.


After that, the init processing for an entry stops on the first 
match...since the "not properly commented" entry was first, it got 
matched, and runlevel 5 was how the system came up.


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Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Burger

Tim wrote:

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
  

I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts
with the X Window System running.  What am I missing?



  

# id:5:initdefault:
id:1:initdefault:



I seem to recall seeing that before, delete the commented-out line.
  
In order to comment out a line in inttab, you need to use a semicolon, 
rather than a pound sign.


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Re: view more or less?

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Burger

> Hello,
>
> just a quick question?
>
> I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague
> insisted I do not use less but view instead.
>
> I thought about this but could not think of a good reason to use view over
> less.
>
> I think less is more than more and view is less then more or less than
> less?
>
> Do you agree?

I've been a fan of less over more or other pagers for a while.

I typically do not use (or recommend that people use) view, as it is, in
essence, vi/vim.  The potential problem is that, being vi/vim, it opens a
temp file in /var/tmp for every file opened within.

This can be troublesome if perusing large log files, which may cause the
/var filesystem to fill up, and can cause applications or even the system
to experience problems.

Less does not make use of disk space in this way, thereby having less of a
potential impact due to important filesystems filling up.

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Re: installation problem through yum

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 18:43:45 Rohit Gupta wrote:
>
>> [r...@satadal Download]# rpm -Uvh fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
>> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>
> cd /var/lib/rpm
> /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover

Hmm...I ran into the same problem as Rohit...didn't think to run
"rpmdb_recover"...I tried "rpm --rebuilddb", which didn't work.

Oddly enough, I rebooted the system in question, and yum/rpm worked just
fine.

I was thinking it might have something to do with libraries not yet in use
or some such.

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Re: OT: Network setup - NAT

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Burger

> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 15:08 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> You will also have to add routes on all the machines. If you have
>> configured ifcfg-eth0 correctly on the laptops, they will already
>> have the routes.
>
> I've never had to add routes, just giving my network configurations
> network masks and a gateway address has always done the trick for me
> (configured through my DHCP server, these days).

Not wanting to sound too picky, but setting a default gateway is, in
effect, setting a (default) route.

Just saying...
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Re: RPMs forward compatibility between releases

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Burger
> "Stanisław T. Findeisen" wrote:
>
>> Is there any problem about using RPMs from newer Fedora releases in
>> older releases?
>
> Yes, in general there are problems using rpms from different
> distros/releases, not recommended.

If/when I need to do something like this, I download the src.rpm, instead,
and use rpmbuild to build it for the version I'm running.

This usually suffices until I am ready to perform a full upgrade.

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Re: Preupgrade F-9/F-10 disaster -

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Burger

> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:15:25 +
> Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>
>> > What install  notes are these? I have nwever heard of this restriction
>> > before.
>> >
>>
>> That was the answer I was given, when I tries u\g F9-10 with Preupgrade.
>> Was told to do it DvD due to the way F9 anaconda interprets preupgrade.
>
> Preupgrade worked fine for me from F9 to F10 on the half-dozen computers
> that I
> did it on.
>
> With the exception that I had to boot most of them off of the rescue cd to
> reinstall grub afterward, but that's a minor issue and easily dealt with.

Preupgrade worked for me, somewhat...I had to go back and increase my root
fliesystem at one point, and after it was done, there were still a number
of filesets to update.

In addition, there are still quite a number of fc9 RPMs still installed,
mostly in the xorg set of programs...drivers that I don't really need, but
I really didn't expect to see fc9 in the rpm -qa output.


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Re: Virtual Box

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Burger

Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:32:23 -0700
Aldo Foot wrote:

  

I think VirtualBox may be preferred because it appears more
manageable in the surface.



A friend at work who uses it says it is vastly easier to
do things like pass USB devices through to the virtual hardware
with VirtualBox than with anything else he has tried,
so he can do things like use Windows scanner software for
scanners not supported by anything in linux.

  
I have to agree...at this point, I simply installed the VirtualBox RPM, 
ran the setup, started up VirtualBox, and voila!!!


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Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Burger

Langdon Stevenson wrote:

Frank Cox wrote:

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:39 +1100
Langdon Stevenson wrote:


Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this issue?


Have you considered using preupgrade instead of trying to upgrade 
from a disk?


Thanks for the reply Frank.  I tried preupgrade on another F8 system 
recently and had issues.  That was resolved by an upgrade using a DVD.


I wanted to avoid that issue with this server if possible.  Anyway, I 
will give preupgrade another try and see where that takes me.
Ran into a minor issue with mine, too...I think there was a disk space 
issue in root that horked me up...I got the preupgrade to run, but now I 
still have 490 filesets to update.


Should be good in a little while.

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Re: Request for help on VM

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Burger

Paul W. Frields wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:51:53PM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
  

RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:


G'day all,

I have two partitions in my PC. I have installed F10 on one partition  
and Windows XP on the second partition. Now, can I run the XP as guest  
OS on F10 using VM? and how?
  

Did you try VirtualBox?



VirtualBox isn't part of Fedora, and it's not required to do what the
OP's asking about.  The virtualization that comes with Fedora works
just fine.
  
That being said, and the fact that the OP wasn't specific about which VM 
system he wanted to use, if a specific one was in mind, VirtualBox works 
wonderfully, so far, in my limited use, if he's interested in that option.


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Re: Fedora 10 x64 doesn't detect all RAM

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Burger

Tosh wrote:

spmirowski wrote:

Hi,

I am running a Dell 370 with 4 GB of RAM. Vista 32 SP1 shows that 4 GB
is installed in System Properties. The change
from 3 GB to 4GB wasn't picked up in Fedora 10 x64. It's a Intel 925X
chipset if that helps out. Does anyone know
why it might not register 4 GB on a 64 bit OS?

free mem

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3092948 1524736 1568212 0 46608 701228
-/+ buffers/cache: 776900 2316048

Thanks,

Stephen


bios limitation, nothing to do with linux
have had the same problems on many boards
try the following :
(1) update bios
(2) run live linux to check
(3) update grub (reinstall if necessary)
(4) upgrade to new kernel
if these steps do not work, well then it is a hardware issue, nothing 
to do with the software


Additionally, it could have something to do with how much memory was 
given to on-board video, if on-board video is in use.


Otherwise, I'm in agreement...F10 64bit sees all 4GB on my Acer Aspire 
5100 laptop.


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Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:33:03 -0400 (EDT)
> Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> While I'm thinking of it...if I wanted to run pre-upgrade on a headless
>> system that normally runs in runlevel 3, is there not a text based
>> version
>> of the preupgrade interface?
>
> /usr/sbin/preupgrade-cli

Bugger all...nothing "locate preupgrade | grep bin" couldn't have told me,
eh?

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Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:13:50 -0400 (EDT)
> Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> I'll go crawl back into my hidey-hole, now.
>
> You could always upgrade to F10 while you're in there.  *tee hee*

That is my plan, but since it's X based, and I'm not sitting at my
console, I'm not inclined to start the process from remote, then to have
to remote desktop to the system from which I started it, to then take back
control of the process (way too much WAN traffic back and forth for my
taste ;) ).

I'll probably kick that off over the weekend.

While I'm thinking of it...if I wanted to run pre-upgrade on a headless
system that normally runs in runlevel 3, is there not a text based version
of the preupgrade interface?

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Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:28:26 -0400 (EDT)
> Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> While I'm not the original poster, I've not seen an option to download a
>> "preupgrade" that will take one to F10.  I had used preupgrade to go
>> from
>> F8 to F9, but I've not, yet, found one to go from F9 to F10 (or, I may
>> simply be missing something).
>
> You're missing something.  I used preupgrade from F8 to F9 to F10 on
> several
> machines.

Son of a gun...you are, of course, dead on correct.  If I run preupgrade
on my F9 system (the same system I on which I used preupgrade to go from
F8 to F9), it presents me with the option to upgrade to F10.

I'll go crawl back into my hidey-hole, now.

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Re: Fedora 8 system won't upgrade to Fedora 10

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:39 +1100
> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this issue?
>
> Have you considered using preupgrade instead of trying to upgrade from a
> disk?

While I'm not the original poster, I've not seen an option to download a
"preupgrade" that will take one to F10.  I had used preupgrade to go from
F8 to F9, but I've not, yet, found one to go from F9 to F10 (or, I may
simply be missing something).

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Re: BOINC

2009-03-18 Thread Mike Burger
>> (as witnessed by them requiring admin priveleges awhile back to run
>> XCDRoast!)
>
> I'm not sure why that's the case. I do know that we explicitly do not
> require root privileges for K3b, as they aren't necessary. (We also
> disable
> the check from upstream K3b which warns if wodim is not suid root, it
> works
> just fine without it!) Have you tried filing a bug against xcdroast?

It's not the case, any more, but I do recall it being an issue in FC3 or
FC4, if memory serves.

I've not seen it since FC5, and I know it's not the case in F8 or F9
(haven't tried in F10, yet).
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Re: Help

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Burger

James Perry wrote:
hi i've just installed fedora 10 on my computer and every time i boot 
my computer up it ask localhost login, and then password, i do not 
rember putting anything in for those fields does any one know why this 
is happening?

James,

Linux is, in essence, a Unix type system...it is not, by default, 
configured to log in a particular user at boot.  You *must* log in...if 
you did not create a regular user during the first boot sequence (a part 
of the install alluded to in another response), then you'll need to log 
in as root.


If you *did* create a regular user during the "first boot" sequence, 
then you should be able to log in as that user.


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Re: off-topic ports 1720 and 6000-6009 shown even though they should be filtered

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Burger

Phill wrote:

I know this isn't RHEL support, but I thought I'd ask this question anyways, 
see if you gurus know what might be going on. I have a rhel 5 web/ftp server. 
I'm using iptables to filter all ports except 21 and 80. Yet if I do an nmap of 
the server, this is the output I get.
---
PORT STATE  SERVICE
21/tcp   open   ftp
80/tcp   open   http
1720/tcp open   H.323/Q.931
6000/tcp closed X11
6001/tcp closed X11:1
6002/tcp closed X11:2
6003/tcp closed X11:3
6004/tcp closed X11:4
6005/tcp closed X11:5
6006/tcp closed X11:6
6007/tcp closed X11:7
6008/tcp closed X11:8
6009/tcp closed X11:9
6017/tcp closed xmail-ctrl
6050/tcp closed arcserve
-

Note the listening port 1720, netstat shows no service listening 
Should be irrelevant since the only traffic I'm accepting is  port 21 and port 80, and related established. Shouldn't this output just show me port 21 and port 80 open and nothing else?
  
How is your firewall configured?  It appears, from the output, that the 
firewall (I don't know if you're scanning from inside your network or 
outside, so it could be iptables on the server or an external firewall) 
is configured to allow those ports, although the server appears to not 
be answering on those ports.


Making sure that those ports are closed on the firewall, as well, nmap 
won't actually be able to scan them.


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Re: Importfilter for MS-Works files (*.wps)

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Burger
Unfortunately, OpenOffice is not always capable of opening up Microsoft
Works files.

Meng Qiu wrote:
> Why not install OpenOffice in your F10?
> Then, you can do anything.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:11 AM, R. G. Newbury  <mailto:newb...@mandamus.org>> wrote:
>
>
> >does somebody know how to process MS-Works files (...wps) by
> OpenOffice
> >or some other tool in F10?
>
> I had a client send me a file in this format. I eventually googled
> something like '.wps to .odt' and found a website which will do a
> translation. You send the file, they email back in the new format.
> Sorry, I didn't keep the URL.
>
> Geoff
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Re: Showing how to find the net installation images?

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Burger

Todd Zullinger wrote:

Jud Craft wrote:
  

My complaint is that I wish Fedora made it easy to _find it_.  None
of the posts so far, nor Fedora's website, have actually told me
where to find the darn image.  I have had to dig through the
repositories on my own to find it, something that many people would
prefer not to do.



Perhaps adding it to http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all, after
the Live media links?  That way, if you went to the main download page
and chose "Show me all download options in one page" you'd find the
images.  Do you think that would be a good place?

I know that one of the goals of the web team is to keep the main
download page as clean and uncluttered as possible, so I imagine they
would prefer to see it on the get-fedora-all page.  Or possibly as a
one of the baloon links on the right side, though those are probably
best reserved for other things (we talked about putting clearer links
to the .iso SHA1SUMS and such in another balloon).

  
Another idea may be to add the netinst.iso and/or boot.iso images to the 
Torrents lists, as well.


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Re: Showing how to find the net installation images?

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Burger

Jud Craft wrote:

Forgive me.  You do not understand what I am saying.

I know well that the 128MB boot.iso exists -- and in Fedora 10 it is
called netinst.iso.

My complaint is that I wish Fedora made it easy to _find it_.  None of
the posts so far, nor Fedora's website, have actually told me where to
find the darn image.  I have had to dig through the repositories on my
own to find it, something that many people would prefer not to do.

Meng's message told me how to do a net-install with the default DVD/CD
images (not what I wanted), and pointed me to a page of the
Installation Guide that tells me "Oh, guess what?  You can use the
minimal boot image install!"  That's great, installation guide, duh.
I want to know where to GET it.

Neither chapter 4 nor 6 in the Installation Manual say where to get
the minimal/network/boot.iso.  I just think either the Guide or the
Get Fedora page itself should explicitly mention where to find the
network/minimal install image, that's all.

  
I stand somewhat corrected...in the 
/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/iso directories of the 
mirrors, id does appear that there is a "Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso".  
It also appears that there is a similarly named ISO image for the x86_64 
series.  My apologies for my mistake, there.


That being said, it wasn't all that difficult to find...the directory 
structure, wherein locating ISO images vs. RPMs, etc, hasn't changed in 
many, many releases...the netinst.iso is in the same directories as all 
of the other ISO images.


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Re: Showing how to find the net installation images?

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Burger

Jud Craft wrote:

I apologize for my sarcasm.  It is frustrating when you feel misunderstood.

  

It's understandable.

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Re: Showing how to find the net installation images?

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Burger

Jud Craft wrote:

No, I mean I know how to do a net installation.  Just did one last
night.  But I wanted to point out that it's very difficult to find the
net-installation-only image.  That install guide doesn't actually
mention where to find the minimal net install image.

And for some, there's a huge difference between 128 MB and 800 MB CDs,
or 4 GB DVDs.
  
Meng's message told you...use the boot.iso.  It's readily 
available...gives you the option of selecting a network based install, 
CD, Hard disk, etc...and is only 128MB, as well.


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Re: Sound Card Question [quasi off topic]

2009-03-11 Thread Mike Burger

> My onboard sound, Intel HDA (Azalia) works fine. The manual states that it
> produces both digital HD Audio and legacy AC-97 Audio. It can be switched
> in
> the BIOS.
>
> I don't have a clue what the difference between analog and digital audio
> is.
> Do I need special speakers, if I want to set the sound output to digital
> HD
> Audio?

Digital audio output is done either via coaxial or optical SP/DIF
connection...you'd need to have the connector for either of those outputs
installed in the back of your system, and connected to the appropriate
pin-outs on your system board.

While there are probably digital speakers, you'd normally use these
connections to connect to a sound system, much like you'd do with a
DVD/BluRay player, or your TV's set top box.

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Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-07 Thread Mike Burger

>
> Our user e-mail INBOXes are sitting in /var/mail/[user].  Does
> anyone know of a way for me to institute per-user quota on their
> INBOXes?  See our problem is that while I can apply user-quotas on
> /home/[user], that doesn't take into account what's on /var/mail/[user]
> ... and some users are leaving their e-mail sitting in their INBOX
> because they don't want to eat up their user quota.  So, I want to limit
> the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas.
>
> Possible?

You can set quotas on the /var filesystem...though, with logs and other
stuff there, I'd be more inclined to make /var/mail (actually
/var/spool/mail) its own filesystem, and then set quotas on that.

On the other side of that coin, I'm running Postfix instead of
Sendmail...Postfix has an option in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file that can
be used to control the maximum size of the main inbox, as well as the
maximum size of emails that can be accepted/delivered.

Those settings are:

mailbox_size_limit =

and

message_size_limit =

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Re: How to set up wireless for text mode login

2009-02-27 Thread Mike Burger

> I've got Fedora 10 on my home "server" with an old wireless B card
> installed. If I start X and run system-config-network I can successfully
> bring up the wireless network using Network Manager, so support for my
> wireless card is already built-in. But as soon as I "log off" and go
> back to run level 3 (I boot up in level 3 and start X by hand) it shuts
> down my wireless connection.
>
> I'd like to set this machine up so the wireless network comes up
> automatically at reboot. I've got the router set up with WPA2 and AES so
> I need to store the key somewhere. Are there good instructions for doing
> this somewhere?

I believe you can set up wpasupplicant to do this for you.

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Re: Windows XP & Fedora on one computer

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Burger

> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>
>>> That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key
>>> disconnected
>>> and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB
>>> key, and boot the system.
>>>
>> I have ben doing this using grub (and preciously lilo) for at least the
>> last 15 years. Works like a charm. No need for a USB key.
>>
> Add me to the list that has used that method for years. I have a
> laptop that dual boots F8 and XP. Once I get some more memory in it,
> I will probably run XP in VirtualBox.

This is actually my plan for my current dual-booting laptop...it currently
has Vista installed, with F8 booting from USB, and I'd like to go all
Linux with Windows in a VM.

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Re: Windows XP & Fedora on one computer

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Burger

> 02.10.08, 17:32, "Paul W. Frields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: />> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:09:49PM +0400, isad ilexa17
> wrote:> > I have the following problem:> > Windows
> XP is installed on my computer and I want to> > install Fedora
> keeping Windows alive (bootable).> > Thanks and sorry for my
> bad English.> This is not a difficult problem to solve,
> fortunately! :-) You simply> need to have sufficient free space
> in the partition itself, or on the> hard disk outside that
> partition.  Most people find themselves in the> first situation.
> You may find things work best if you go to your> Control Panel
> > Administration Tools > Computer Management > Disk>
> Management, and analyze and defragment your partition first.  I'm />> afraid help with Windows is outside this list's topic, but the />> procedure should be a fairly simple point-and-click operation. />> Once you've done that, during the Fedora installation, you can
> edit> the existing Windows XP partition on your disk during the
> disk> partitioning step.  Most people choose "Custom setup" for
> the disk> partitioning to get into the partition editing screen.
> Click the> checkbox to resize the existing Windows partition to
> leave enough> space for Fedora.  Then establish partitions for
> the Fedora> installation.  You can find more information about
> disk partitioning> here:>  href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.html";
> mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.html";
> >http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.html
> > I recommend reading all of Chapter 12, but especially these
> sections:>  href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general.html";
> mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general.html";
> >http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general.html />>  href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice.html";
> mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice.html";
> >http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice.html />> Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP installation and sets
> up> a dual-boot configuration for you.  When you boot your
> computer, you> are able to choose between booting Fedora or
> Windows by interrupting> the GRUB boot screen with any key. />> -- > Paul W. Frields href="http://paul.frields.org/"; mce_href="http://paul.frields.org/";
> >http://paul.frields.org/>   gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58
> FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717>href="http://redhat.com/"; mce_href="http://redhat.com/";
> >http://redhat.com/   -  -  -  -href="http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/";
> mce_href="http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/";
> >http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/>   irc.freenode.net:
> stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug />Yeah really thanks but it doesn't work. Some "OTHER" booting
> option appeared but it doesn't work:(When i select it nothing
> happens. Only the counter sets to 60 seconds again.

What I did, instead of relying on Grub or the Windows boot manager, was to
install the /boot filesystem and grub onto a USB key and add the USB slot
to my bootable device list in my system's BIOS setup.

That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected
and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB
key, and boot the system.

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Re: What different between FC8 and FC9 ?

2008-10-01 Thread Mike Burger
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  ita.org.mo> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I just add an adapter ( PCI NIC ) for the test :
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 8139too ( a new one )
> alias eth1 r8169
>
> Then /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
> Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
> Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
> Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
> Bringing up interface eth1: r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be
> present, delaying initialization.
> [FAILED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
>
> BTW /var/log/messages :
> kernel : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
>
> So, is there any solution for these two points problem ?

Well, the question is...is your card actually an 8169, or is it an 8139,
and did you make a mistake when you edited your modprobe.conf file?
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Re: Fedora x86_64 madwifi / ndiswrapper.

2008-10-01 Thread Mike Burger

> Now I running fedora 9 at 32 bits on a turrion 64 x2 laptop with
> madwifi working so well from livna. I want to move to 64 bits
> architecture, but I want to know if madwifi is going to work as well
> as 32 bits one, or if I have to chenge to ndiswrapper.
>
> I hope my words express what I want to ask. Thank's.

I have madwifi working on a Turion 64 x2 laptop with an Aetheros 5K
chipset under Fedora 8 x86_64.
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Re: What different between FC8 and FC9 ?

2008-10-01 Thread Mike Burger

> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>>  ita.org.mo> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Would you mind to help as the title ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>A lot of things. F9 has KDE 4 (currently 4.1.1), F8 has KDE 3 (currently
>>3.5.10). F9 has X.Org X11R7.4 (server 1.5.0), F8 has something inbetween
>>X11R7.2 and X11R7.3 (server 1.3.0 from X11R7.2). F9 has GNOME 2.22, F8
>> has
>>GNOME 2.20. F9 has TeXLive, F8 has teTeX. And so on.
>>
>>But most importantly, F8 will stop receiving updates very soon (1 month
>> after
>>the F10 release - with the F10 release scheduled for November, that will
>> be
>>December of this year).
>>
>>Kevin Kofler
>>
>>
>>
> Dear All,
>
> For FC9 ( Modules Profile )...
> Do you know where is it ( modprobe.conf ) ?
>
> In FC8, it is /etc/modprobe.conf...
>
> Thanks !

It's in the same place.

Without wanting to sound rude, here, I have to ask...why...did you think
it would be some place else?
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Re: Fedora 9 support for the XFS file system

2008-09-28 Thread Mike Burger

> PS = Pete Stieber
> PS>> I was using a 1 TB LaCie Big Disk
> PS>> (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10923)
> PS>> and the board in the drive died.  I took the two hard
> PS>> drives that were in the drive (SATA 500 GB each Raid 0
> PS>> using the XFS file system) and got them mounted in a
> PS>> Fedora 9 x86_64 box.  Now I'm having trouble with the
> PS>> drives.
> PS>>
> PS>> Are XFS utilities like
> PS>>
> PS>> xfs_check
> PS>> xfs_repair
> PS>> xfsdump
> PS>>
> PS>> available on Fedora 9?
> PS>>
> PS>> I tried looking on the Fedora website, but I couldn't
> PS>> figure out how to answer this question myself.  Any
> PS>> pointers?
>
> MB = Mike Burger
> MB> Yes...Fedora supports SGI's XFS filesystem.
>
> Thanks for the help Mike.  Yeah I know it supports it.  I got the drives
> working for a while, but now I need to run fsck on them because
> something is broken.
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear, but what package do I have to load to get fsck.xfs
> and/or xfs_check, xfs_repair, xfsdump?

Sorry...look for xfsprogs.

If you built the XFS filesystems at install time, or built them after, the
fileset should be installed (mkfs.xfs is part of that package), then
you've got the package.

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Re: Fedora 9 support for the XFS file system

2008-09-27 Thread Mike Burger
Yes...Fedora supports SGI's XFS filesystem.

> I was using a 1 TB LaCie Big Disk
> (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10923) and the board in
> the drive died.  I took the two hard drives that were in the drive (SATA
> 500 GB each Raid 0 using the XFS file system) and got them mounted in a
> Fedora 9 x86_64 box.  Now I'm having trouble with the drives.
>
> Are XFS utilities like
>
> xfs_check
> xfs_repair
> xfsdump
>
> available on Fedora 9?
>
> I tried looking on the Fedora website, but I couldn't figure out how to
> answer this question myself.  Any pointers?
>
> TIA,
> Pete
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Re: Fedora makes bad pdf files?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Burger

> Dear Linux Using Friends:
>
> I've run into a trouble that Firefox users who "print to file" and
> create pdf output generate files that acroread cannot open.
>
> My teaching assistant first discovered this while browsing the web.  A
> variety of pdf created by print to file were viewable in evince, but
> not acrobat.  SInce most students are using acrobat on Windows or
> Macintosh, this created a problem.
>
> In my Ubunutu Linux (Hardy Herron) system, the error message I see
> when I try to open the file is "There was an error processing a page.
> Error while parsing a Form, Type 3 font, or Pattern."  I have not seen
> the Microsoft Acroboat error with my own eyes, but the students
> complain it says "not a valid pdf file."
>
> In one example, the error says "Adobe Reader could not open 'file.pdf'
> because it is either not a supported file type or becausethefile has
> been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and
> wasn't correctly decoded)".  However, the EXACT same file can be
> viewed with Evince:
>
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/linux/file.pdf
>
> I'm posting a copy of a bad pdf file that was created by opening it in
> acrobat reader, and using save-a-copy:
>
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/linux/4145321-corrupt.pdf
>
> Sometimes I've had luck converting files pdf to ps and pack to pdf
> with pdftops and ps2pdf14, but it does not always work.  The end
> result has some of the heading fonts that are legible, but there are
> just fuzzy blocks where the actual text is supposed to be.
>
> I have seen the same problem happen when users open a pdf file in
> Firefox, which then opens the Acrobat for Linux plugin, and when the
> "save as" option is used, it creates an illegible pdf.  I'm quite
> baffled why that happens, because so far as I can tell, the pdf that
> was saved should not be changed by acrobat reader.
>
> If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Paul,

To my knowledge, Firefox doesn't save/export directly to PDF.  When you
"print to file", you're saving a postscript file, which usually has a .ps
extension...you can name it filename.pdf all you like, but naming it with
a pdf extension does not make it a PDF.

The reason evince reads the file is because evince understands the
postscript file format.

You will need to run that output file through ps2pdf(14?), first, to
actually convert it from postscript to pdf.

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Re: ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

2008-09-19 Thread Mike Burger

> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> Yesterday I ran a Live CD of F9 (i386 KDE version) on a Toshiba laptop.
>> I found it could see my Wifi network but somewhat erratically, i.e. the
>> connection would bounce up and down every few minutes. The access point
>> is about 6 feet away so it's not a signal issue (and my phone connects
>> with no problem so the AP is OK as well).
>>
>> I then went ahead and installed F9 on the hard disk, plugged in an
>> Ethernet cable and updated everything via yum. Now the Wifi doesn't work
>> at all. I even installed the latest NetworkManager from
>> updates-testing-newkey but no joy, even after rebooting.
>>
>> All I can see in dmesg is a few lines saying:
>>
>> ath5k_pci :04:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
>> ath5k: pky0: Atheros AR2424 chip found (MAC: 0xaO, PHY: 0x61)
>> ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2422MHz)
>> ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2437MHz)
>>
>> As regards ifconfig, there are a couple of new interfaces: wlan0 and
>> wmaster0, both marked as UP but with no IP addresses.
>>
>> wpa_supplicant is running, dhclient is not.
>>
>> The physical Wifi switch is on and the light is lit.
>>
>> "iwlist wlan0 scanning" gives no results.
>
> Just to add that I do know about Madwifi, the non-free driver available
> from Livna. I've installed it before on pre-F9 systems and have usually
> managed to get it working after a fair amount of agony. I was just
> hoping not to have to go that route with F9 as it is claimed to have
> Atheros support now.
>
> In any case, I suspect the problem isn't in the actual driver itself but
> in some interaction with NM.

Just a side note...unsupported by Red Hat/Fedora does not mean non-free.

The MadWifi drivers are, as I recall, open source.

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Re: Booting F9 without X

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Burger

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:16:50AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>> > What is involved in booting f9 without X (ie with just console logins
>> > permitted)?
>>
>> Edit your /etc/inittab.
>>
>> Change the id/initdefault line, swapping the 5 for a 3 (runlevel 5 is
>> "boot to X", runlevel 3 is "boot to text consoles").
>>
>> Save, reboot.
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> That's easy enough. :-)
>
> Thanks.

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Re: Booting F9 without X

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Burger

> What is involved in booting f9 without X (ie with just console logins
> permitted)?

Edit your /etc/inittab.

Change the id/initdefault line, swapping the 5 for a 3 (runlevel 5 is
"boot to X", runlevel 3 is "boot to text consoles").

Save, reboot.
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Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora

2008-09-16 Thread Mike Burger

> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand
>>>> the thinking behind it.
>>>>
>>> Sorry, but I think you don't. You might want to read Alan Cox's message
>>> on the fedora-test list:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-September/msg00314.html
>>> which indicates that the motivation is much more to do with cleaning up
>>> code and APIs. I fact security isn't mentioned.
>>>
>>
>> Now, I'm going to have to go back to the archives, and reread the start
>> of
>> this thread.  I thought that the original poster was asking about doing
>> so, not about the developers looking to do so.
>>
>> If I missed something in that, and that was not the original poster's
>> question, then I stand corrected.
>>
>>
> The OP asked the question:
>
>   "What is the point of removing the System Consoles?"
>
> after referencing:
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143
>
> Quote:
>
>   At this point Colin Walters set off a firestorm of complaints and
>   queries when he announced[9], as an aside, that "[w]e're going to be
>   removing the legacy non-X system consoles by default in the long run."
>
> This appears to be related to kernel modesetting, also referenced by
> this link in the same news letter:
>
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting
>
> Quote:
>
>   "...makes Fedora feel more like a polished, professional product."
>
> More like MS Windows, maybe?

In that case, I misread the point of the original post, and stand corrected.

I'll stand down, now.

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Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora

2008-09-16 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>> As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand
>> the thinking behind it.
>
> Sorry, but I think you don't. You might want to read Alan Cox's message
> on the fedora-test list:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-September/msg00314.html
> which indicates that the motivation is much more to do with cleaning up
> code and APIs. I fact security isn't mentioned.

Now, I'm going to have to go back to the archives, and reread the start of
this thread.  I thought that the original poster was asking about doing
so, not about the developers looking to do so.

If I missed something in that, and that was not the original poster's
question, then I stand corrected.

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Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora

2008-09-16 Thread Mike Burger

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Mike Burger
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Mike Burger
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What is the point of removing the System Consoles?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Other than securing the system's keyboard/console from unintended
>>>>>>>> login
>>>>>>>> attempts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What exactly does this mean?
>>>>>>> How does one make a login attempt without intending to?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry...allow me to be more clear:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would prevent attempts to access the system, at the console, by
>>>>>> unauthorized persons who might otherwise have physical access to the
>>>>>> box,
>>>>>> but were not intended, by the system administrator, to actually have
>>>>>> access to login to the system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not saying I agree with it...just that I understand the thinking
>>>>>> behind the question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought thats what passwords were for?
>>>>
>>>> Passwords *can* be cracked/hacked/obtained by unscrupulous
>>>> individuals.
>>>
>>> How is that different when logging on to a X session?
>>
>> Do you mean other than having the physical access to the machine, which
>> an
>> X session does not afford you?
>>
>
> If I am unscrupulous to have someone's password, and I have physical
> access to a host, how is removing console sessions going to stop me
> logging into that host?
>
> This is aside from the fact that someone who has physical access to a
> host can break in very easily without having any passwords.

As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand the
thinking behind it.

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Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread Mike Burger
> John Thompson wrote:
>> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>
>> > Is that being planned at all? Or is F8 only supported in terms of
>> > security patches & such?
>>
>> I was able to compile FF-3.0.1 for 64-bit Fedora8 using the Fedora9
>> src.rpm and a little tweaking. If you want to try them:
>>
>> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
>> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.src.rpm
>>
>>
> Why use the rpm's at all?  Why not just get it from Mozilla?  If you
> want the latest you need to do that anyway.

FWIW, it's just as easy to get the SRPM for F9, and rpmbuild it on F8,
which is what I've been doing.

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Re: Outlook Exchange Server to Open Source Alternatives?

2008-09-08 Thread Mike Burger
Have a look at Citadel:

http://www.citadel.org

Combined with the Bynari connector, you can use MAPI to continue native
support for the Outlook client.

> Hi All,
>
> As part of a larger project to move our company away from Microsoft
> products, I'm investigating options for replacing our enterprise
> exchange server.
>
> We have about 500 mailboxes that would need to ported out as well as
> public folders and contacts/calendars etc.
>
> Can anyone recommend a linux groupware solution that would enable us to
> provide an Outlook like environment? And allows importing of prior data?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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Re: Zimbra or something else

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Burger

> I'm in search of a new groupware application.
>
> I am currently using egroupware.  It works okay but there is a lot I don't
> like about it.
>
> So, I'm looking for another solution.  Zimbra seems to be the 'best of
> breed'.  However, I can not find the source code for it.  It had binary
> packages but only for Fedora 7 (of course I'm on 9)...
>
> So the question is, what does everyone else use?  Here are some that I've
> heard of:
>
> http://www.phpgroupware.org/
> http://www.open-xchange.com/
> http://www.kolab.org/
> http://www.citadel.org/doku.php

I'm actually involved in the Citadel project.  Very active development
team, and generally pretty solid suuport.

Pretty solid product, with a lot of functionality already existing, and
more planned.

Compatible, through Funambol, with mobile devices.  Compatible with
sync-kolab.  Compatible, using the Bynari connector, with Outlook (MAPI).

Highly recommended.
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Re: Internet speed

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Burger
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> MKas wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm using 3g/hsdpa modem (ZTE MF620) to connect to internet.
>> In windows my download speed is near 3.6mbps, but in Fedora 9
>> max speed only 490kbps and it's stable so I think it's somehow
>> software limited. I'm connecting with kppp.
>
> i have a slow dsl speed also, 1/2 of max rate.
>
> at this time, i am not doing a lot of downloads that i need full speed, i
> have
> not tried to find problem, which does appear to be software related.
>
> i am using a 2wire 2701hg-b on bellsouth.net and have check speed with
> speed test provided by both.
>
>   http://www.2wire.com/bandwidth/meter.php
>   http://speed.fastaccess.com/
>
> if you have need of independent testing, i can suggest;
>
>   http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/ no special software
>   http://speedtest.net/  requires flash 7 or higher
>   http://www.dslreports.com/stest/0  requires flash 8 or higher
>
> i will be following along with your thread to see if suggestions are of
> help to me and respond back.
>
> thank you for your post, it may help end some of my procrastination.

While not really having an answer to the hows or whys of the apparent lack
of speed, I find myself needing to ask this question:

Why not just purchase a DSL router, which will store your authentication
information, and let it handle all of the negotiation with the upstream
host?

As I'm running multiple hosts on my connection, I have all of my traffic
passing from my network, through an IPCop firewall, to an ActionTec GT724R
(used to use a Netopia Cayman router), and I'm getting as much bandwidth
as I should.

And, this way, I'm not stuck having to deal with "Sorry, we don't support
Linux" from the provider, because I'm not using my Linux system to
actually control the connection, itself.
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Re: install of squirrelmail broken

2008-08-28 Thread Mike Burger

> Hi
> I did a yum install of squirrelmail and whe I view the log in page and
> login there is htm tags and other html junk alover the place... So I
> downloaded the orignal source and got the same result ... how do  I
> fix this mess ?

Do you have the applicable PHP packages installed?

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Re: kpalmdoc - convert PalmDOC to Text

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Burger

> I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong here but I just can't see it.
>
> I have a number of pdb files that I want to convert to text.  It seems
> that the
> simplest solution is kpalmdoc (part of kdepim).
>
> So...
>
> I crank up kpalmdoc and find two file selection boxes:  "Text file:" and
> "DOC file:".  If I select the palmdoc file in the "DOC file" box and leave
> the
> "Text file:" box empty, then click on "Convert PalmDOC to Text", I get
> this
> message: "The text file /home already exists.  Overwrite it?"
>
> Er, no, let's not overwrite that.
>
> If I select a directory name under "Text file:" it tells me that "The text
> file /directory/I/selected already exists.  Overwrite it?"
>
> In order to convert an individual file to a text file I have to create a
> dummy
> text file first, then select that and tell the program to overwrite it.
>
> It gets worse if I select "Convert whole folders".  Then I get two
> selection
> boxes, "Text folder:" and "Palmdoc folder".  No matter what I selections I
> make
> in those boxes, I always get the message "No text files were converted
> correctly" when I click on "Convert PalmDOC to Text".
>
> So, what am I doing wrong here?  I can do this job by creating a
> dummy file for each of the pdb files that I want to convert, then
> individually
> selecting each file and telling it to overwrite the dummy file but that's
> obviously not the right way to do it.
>
> On a related note, can this conversion be done from the command line
> instead of
> having to go through the gui?

As I recall, pdb files are Palm database files (contacts, memos, etc), not
doc files.

I could be wrong, but my experience tells me otherwise.

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Re: F9: List of packages that has missing geko-libs v1.9

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Burger

> Craig White wrote:
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>>   --> Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package
>> gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 (installed)
>> Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package
>> gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 (installed)
>
>  From that output, I'm inclined to suggest that gxone is still broken?
> I do not have that package installed on my system
> Trying to install it tries to bring in a whole bunch of obsolete i386
> stuff.  Has a bug been filed against it yet?

That was my conclusion, as well.  I was seeing the same issue "gecko-libs".

I removed gxine and the system updated.

I'll check, every so often, to see if a fixed gxine comes out...I suggest
he do the same.

It's odd...never before have I run a Fedora release that had so many
broken dependencies from update to update...and I've run all of them
except for F7.

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Re: Fedora 9 and VMWare Server

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Burger

> Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?
>
> I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config
> script and everything seems to be installed correctly.
> When I try to connect to the web management server, it
> tells me that the server is not responding.

Noting that I've not worked, yet, with VMWare, at all, I still think the
question needs to be asked:

Did you start the VMWare server processes?


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Re: Fedora & wireless

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Burger

> Hello,
> I have Amilo A1650G laptop. I can't use my wireless card (Atheros AR5005G)
> even now (in F9), because set mode not works, commit not works & much more
> iwconfig commands. So before ~2 months I buyed new USB Wireless card
> (Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S). Everything was fine until today. Today morning
> ~12h (GMT +2) I did F9 update and restarted pc. After that I can't use my
> Wireless card. If I do Ad-hoc mode, then I can set essid but if someone
> tries to reach me - shows that I'm using key/enc (I can't turn on, only
> turn off, but nothing happens). If I do Managed mode, then I CAN'T set
> essid (Writes: Essid: Off/Any). I searched for info, tried everything, but
> nothing helped me.
>
> So how to turn on essid if "iwconfig wlan0 essid on" do nothing?

I think you'll want to install/use the madwifi drivers.

They work for me on my Acer Aspire 5100 with an Atheros wireless chipset.

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Re: How is one supposed to use the KDE4 desktop ?

2008-07-18 Thread Mike Burger

> 2008/7/18 linuxguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I upgraded to F9 when it first came out.  Everything works, but my
>> desktop is a mess.  But surely I am missing something, after all, why
>> are the KDE developers so proud of their work ?
>>
>> So... how is one supposed to use the KDE4 desktop ?  Right now I have
>> about 100 icons for folders and files randomly dispersed on the desktop.
>> How do I clean them up and get my desktop organized again ?
>>
>> I hate that I can't drag and drop files into folders on the desktop.  Is
>> there a way to do this without using Dolphin ?
>>
>> I hate the "collars" that appear around the file and folder icons.   Can
>> they be turned off ?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I use KDE 4 daily on both of my computers, as the primary desktop
> environment. I don't like the new desktop icons either, but I just
> turned them off. The ability to manage files on the desktop background
> is far from necessary, imo. In addition, there is greatly improved
> support for desktop icons coming in KDE 4.1, so this is just a
> temporary solution until the better one is ready.

Currently, I'm only running F9/KDE4 on one system (desktop...not upgrading
my laptop until I have a chance to try out KDE4.1 on my desktop).

I don't put much on my desktop...I use the "Favorites" section of the
menu.  I've never been a big fan of cluttering my desktop, anyhow...too
difficult to remember what's there, and where it is.

My one concern, now that I've been using it a while, is the limited
functionality of the Plasma widget tool in the upper left corner.

I've read a number of write-ups on KDE4, and note that there a couple of
things not set up to run from that widget...right now, it only allows you
to add/remove widgets from various places.  My understanding is that you
should be able to work with a number of settings, from the "Cashew", than
we seem to be able to do, now.

Another thing I miss, going from KDE3 to KDE4, is that KDE3 would save the
state of my desktop, so that any apps/konsoles I had up when I logged out
would be brought back up when I logged back in.

I'm having some trouble locating a setting for that, right now.

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Re: How is one supposed to use the KDE4 desktop ?

2008-07-18 Thread Mike Burger

> On Friday 18 July 2008 17:11:43 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> 4) Why does my desktop always start up as 1024x768 when I have a
>> landscape LCD?
>
> ?? 1024x768 is landscape, isn't it?

He probably meant widescreen.  However, to answer the question, no...not
really.  1024x768 is a standard resolution for a 4:3 style monitor up to a
particular size (14" and 15" monitors come to mind).  You remember:

640x480
800x600
1024x768
1280x1024 (most 17" screens)
1600x1200 (19"/20")

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Re: F9: Web Based system monitoring

2008-07-17 Thread Mike Burger

> All,
>
> I know this isn't exactly the place to look for anything like this,
> but I am wondering from the Fedora  users base, if there is any
> good/recommended tools to display real-time or near real time system
> information VIA web (AJAX or JAVA based) for a server? I would like to
> set up something where I can monitor server status at a glance without
> having 400 shell windows open (Like I do now when doing that stuff). I
> know Gnome and KDE have system monitoring applications, but since I
> dont' have X installed on the servers I desire to monitor like this, I
> figure web based would be next best.

Seann,

You've gotten some pretty good responses, so far, but I wanted to throw
something else out at you.

If you have an X manager on the workstation from which you want to monitor
the servers, you can still run the x based tools, remotely.

If your workstation is a Linux system, you're probably already running X. 
If it's a Windows system, I recommend xming...it's lightweight, and I've
run many an X app, remotely, using it.
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Re: major problem after enabling desktop effects (F9)...

2008-07-17 Thread Mike Burger

> On Wednesday 16 July 2008 22:35:47 Mike Burger wrote:
>> > I do not know if I have the package,
>> > xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386, installed, and I do not know how
>> > to check? I would go to system settings but as I said all I have is a
>> > mouse pointer and a black screen after the splash screen goes away.
>>
>> I'm not sure that it's the i810 package specifically.
>>
>> I have it installed on my system, as well, but have an nVidia card with
>> no
>> special drivers, other than the ones installed by Fedora.
>>
>> I did, however, get exactly the same problem with the black screen and
>> no
>> real feedback, other than the moving mouse, after recent updates.
>>
>> Unfortunately, one can not uninstall the i810 driver, on its own, unless
>> one uses "--nodeps" or, possibly, "--force", which might wind up
>> breaking
>> the xorg-x11-drivers package.
>
> Something in that group of updates corrupted a kde file, and the worrying
> thing is that no-one has any idea which update, or what actually happened.
> However, the good news is that once you have everything back as you want
> it,
> it doesn't recur.  Whatever the problem is, it must be something actually
> occurring during the update.

Therein lies the rub.

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Re: major problem after enabling desktop effects (F9)...

2008-07-16 Thread Mike Burger

>> Ditto.  However, just about a week ago a routine update installed
>> xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386.  This is the package that is
>> suspected of
>> being the cause of the problem.  Do you have that one?
>>
>> Desktop effects - try System Settings > Desktop and uncheck 'Enable
>> desktop
>> effects'.  These are not compiz-type effects, but things you can easily
>> live
>> without until things get fixed.  HTH
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> --
> I do not know if I have the package,
> xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386, installed, and I do not know how
> to check? I would go to system settings but as I said all I have is a
> mouse pointer and a black screen after the splash screen goes away.

I'm not sure that it's the i810 package specifically.

I have it installed on my system, as well, but have an nVidia card with no
special drivers, other than the ones installed by Fedora.

I did, however, get exactly the same problem with the black screen and no
real feedback, other than the moving mouse, after recent updates.

Unfortunately, one can not uninstall the i810 driver, on its own, unless
one uses "--nodeps" or, possibly, "--force", which might wind up breaking
the xorg-x11-drivers package.
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Re: Clicking on URL in konsole

2008-07-12 Thread Mike Burger

> When I hover over an URL in konsole
> (or some program like vim running in a konsole window)
> the URL is highlighted (underlined)
> but clicking on it has no effect.
>
> Is there some way of enabling such a click
> to bring up the URL in my browser (Firefox)?

You can right click on that URL, and select "copy link address"

There was a thread about making Firefox the default web browser through
the KDE menu...if you can make that work, then you could right click on
the URL and then click "Open Link".
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Re: firefox plugins and mpeg and wmv support

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Burger

>
>   just yesterday, i tried to make a convert of a friend by installing
> fedora 9 on the spare disk on her system, and she quickly learned
> about the notion of non-free software when she tried to view online
> mpg and wmv files, at which point i explained the notion of the GPL,
> etc, etc.
>
>   we got to the concept of mozilla plugins for firefox, whereupon we
> took a quick look under "about:plugins" and she pointed out that, as
> far as the output of that page was concerned, there was this thing
> called mozplugger which could handle various formats including
> video/mpeg, and there was an "installed" WMP plugin that could handle
> wmv files, and they were both enabled, and she said, "just from what i
> can see here, this is supposed to be the list of installed plugins,
> and it sure looks like those plugins are there and enabled, so why
> don't they work so i can play mpeg and wmv files?"
>
>   to which, because i don't have as much familiarity with multimedia
> under fedora as i'd like, i had to admit that i didn't know.  i hadn't
> installed any non-free media packages yet, so i really don't know what
> it means to look at "about:plugins" and be told that there are plugins
> that handle those formats, and they're enabled.  thoughts?  i really
> do need to read up on all the multimedia stuff.

I've got VLC running on my F9 system.

The three VLC components, in my case, are vlc-core, mozilla-vlc and vlc
(all installed from the Livna repo).

In addition, I believe I had to do a little research for the appropriate
codecs, but once installed, I'm able to play just about everything via
Firefox.

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Re: F9 Mount iso at boot up

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Burger

> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 10:38 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Getting a permission denied on that.
>> > tried as both user and root owning the various isos and mounts
>>
>> Getting a "permission denied" on what?
>>
>> Editing the /etc/fstab file?  Running "mount /mount/point" afterwards?
>>
>>
>
> During boot-up (rhgb is disable to see what happening)
> just after the udev -interactive bit is shown
>
> "sudo mount -a" works fine after login
>

Actually, that makes a bit of sense.  Depending on where in the fstab
(should be at the bottom, as the filesystem containing the iso has to be
online), it could work.

I guess the next option would be to add "noauto" with "defaults", and then
add "mount /mount/point" to /etc/rc.local, so you don't have to manually
run the mount command, later.


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