Re: [389-users] Logfile buffering
On 05/19/2010 01:39 PM, Roland Schwingel wrote: Hi One last question before switching of my machine... Is it possible that the dirsrv logfiles (access, error etc.) are written to disk with activated buffering? When I do a tail -f on these logfiles I see a big delay in output. When I do eg. an ldapsearch from a client the result appears immediately at the client, but it takes about 10 to 15 seconds until the tail -f shows the search (or whatever I do). This is a bit inconvenient when debugging things. Does this happen only to me or is this generally the case? Can this be switched off/changed? The access log output is buffered by default. You can turn this off by setting the nsslapd-accesslog-logbuffering attribute to off in the cn=config entry. The errors log is not buffered. -NGK Thanks for your help, Roland -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: [389-users] storing x509 certificates in the directory
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:44:23PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: Luke Schierer wrote: Hi all, I have been using fedora directory server/389 directory server for a couple years now with out any real issues, so I want to start off by thanking all of the developers for the hours they put into making it available to us. Lately I have had the need to look at storeing x509 certificates in my LDAP directory, to make them available to an application we use. Looking at the documentation available on the website, it appears that the usercertificate attribute either used to be a binary attribute, or that there is a way to make it a binary attribute that I am not seeing. It is and always has been a binary attribute. What documentation on the website leads you to think otherwise? We need to fix it. If the former, that it was but is no longer a binary attribute, it appears to me that the 389-console cannot handle the PEM formatted certificates, once one is added, I can no longer select that attribute to manipulate either it, or the certificate it contains. Sounds like a bug. If the latter, that it can be changed to be binary, I would greatly appreciate a pointer on how to do so. Hopefully someone who has worked with certificates in 389-ds can give me some pointers either way, so that I can either submit a bug report, or find the right docs to be reading. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The docs do say that it is a binary attribute, but they say that in the 389-console that it should have a button to select the file to upload. Instead, it has a text box. That is what confuses me. Should I put the filename in that text box? Thanks!! Luke -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: [389-users] storing x509 certificates in the directory
Luke Schierer wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:44:23PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: Luke Schierer wrote: Hi all, I have been using fedora directory server/389 directory server for a couple years now with out any real issues, so I want to start off by thanking all of the developers for the hours they put into making it available to us. Lately I have had the need to look at storeing x509 certificates in my LDAP directory, to make them available to an application we use. Looking at the documentation available on the website, it appears that the usercertificate attribute either used to be a binary attribute, or that there is a way to make it a binary attribute that I am not seeing. It is and always has been a binary attribute. What documentation on the website leads you to think otherwise? We need to fix it. If the former, that it was but is no longer a binary attribute, it appears to me that the 389-console cannot handle the PEM formatted certificates, once one is added, I can no longer select that attribute to manipulate either it, or the certificate it contains. Sounds like a bug. If the latter, that it can be changed to be binary, I would greatly appreciate a pointer on how to do so. Hopefully someone who has worked with certificates in 389-ds can give me some pointers either way, so that I can either submit a bug report, or find the right docs to be reading. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The docs do say that it is a binary attribute, but they say that in the 389-console that it should have a button to select the file to upload. Instead, it has a text box. That is what confuses me. Should I put the filename in that text box? No, I think the text box is for the base64 encoded (i.e. PEM) cert data. Thanks!! Luke -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 15:24 -0700, jackson byers wrote: I still left ifcfg-etho with DOMAIN=pacbell.net; (possibly also set in my router config? It has been years since I had to fuss with that). I might want to get into the router and change pacbell.net to sbcglobal.net, but it seems there is no serious conflict using pacbell.net The domain= or search= parameters are to do with what domain names to automatically prepend to hostnames. Say, for example, you try ping testbox it'll automatically try to ping testbox.pacbell.net The same goes for other things you address by just a hostname (NFS mounts, mail servers, web servers, etc.), and for constructing local domain names from DHCP assigned hostnames (though it might be the source of providing the domain name, rather than the client adding a domain name). If you do that sort of thing (make use of short hostnames), having an inappropriate domain name parameter will cause you problems. If you don't do that sort of thing, you'll probably never notice it. An inappropriate domain name is one that isn't yours to control, and that includes your ISP's domain name. The domain parameter virtually says this is your domain. The search parameter can list a series of domain names to try appending. Though you really shouldn't have both options set, according to the docs I read some time ago. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Best backup option
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:06, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 05/18/2010 06:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Here's my script to backup to an external USB drive I'd suggest rdiff-backup (steven you may want to look into this). It uses rsync library but adds ability to roll back as far back as you'd like. The backup tree is browsable (just as an rsync backup would be). rdiff-backup is brilliant. It gives you the browseable backup, so you can copy from the last backup directly. But it also keeps a history of the increments for as long back as you have space. It is also pretty efficient if you use it over the network and I use it to make backups of remote servers. Christof -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Can Windows and Linux co-exist?
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: I'm thinking specifically (at the moment) of MySQL, openVPN and openLDAP. Is there anywhere an account of how to set up a Windows client with a Linux server for these applications? I've setup FreeS/WAN (http://www.freeswan.org/) for my VPN. It seemed to work quite well from Windows and Linux clients alike. I haven't used the LDAP so I can not comment on that but MySQL works fine from my Windows and Linux clients also. Thanks for the info, and the suggestions. I now have MySQL working perfectly from Windows. And LDAP works in the sense that I can access my OpenLDAP data from http:server/phpLDAPadmin ; I haven't yet worked out how to access my LDAP address book from inside Outlook 2003. I'll turn to VPN next. I want to stick to OpenVPN on my Linux server and machines, since this works perfectly. It wasn't clear to me if Freeswan works with OpenVPN, and I'm not really clear about the relation between IPsec and VPN, or indeed what the purpose of IPsec is, since all my inter-machine communication already seems to be encrypted. But I shall continue my study ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Screensaver weirdness with nvidia/nouveau
I wonder if anyone else has seen this. This is F12, gnome, nouveau video driver. I have my screensaver setup as Regard computer as idle after 1 minute Power management: Put display to sleep when inactive for 5 minutes Sometimes the screen blanks, sometimes it doesn't. I can't find any real pattern to this: recently the screensaver/power down seemed to stop working for days, and then it started working yesterday. I was wondering if this was maybe related to running a vnc server, but it's very hard to tell. Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
Hi folks, I've got a PC with 5x500GB HDD's running software raid. On drive 0 and 1 I had RAID0 for the boot partition and then on all 5 drives I had RAID 5 for everything else. One of the first two drives has died causing the PC to hang, and then when I rebooted it couldn't get past GRUB. I have found out which drive it is and disconnected it. It then got past GRUB, loaded the kernel which then paniced and hung. I have tried booting using a FC11 install DVD (I believe the dead PC is either FC9 or FC10) and going into rescue mode but it says that there are no Linux partitions and doesn't go any further. Going into fdisk for each drive (with the dead one still disconnected) shows the partition tables. in theory, this system should still be bootable, can anyone suggest things to try to get it working again. Thanks -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Screensaver weirdness with nvidia/nouveau
Andrew Haley writes: I wonder if anyone else has seen this. This is F12, gnome, nouveau video driver. I have my screensaver setup as Regard computer as idle after 1 minute Power management: Put display to sleep when inactive for 5 minutes Sometimes the screen blanks, sometimes it doesn't. I can't find any real pattern to this: recently the screensaver/power down seemed to stop working for days, and then it started working yesterday. I was wondering if this was maybe related to running a vnc server, but it's very hard to tell. Any ideas? I had observed on an F12 machine that uses the mach64 driver that the monitor won't get powered off if no keyboard or mouse activity occurs after a reboot. gdm is configured to autologin, so a reboot automatically logs me into my desktop. If I do not touch the keyboard or mouse, the screensaver will kick in, but the monitor won't get turned off. I have to punch something to the keyboard. Only then, after a suitable delay, would the monitor get powered off. pgpkOsusqhy6Z.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
On 05/19/2010 12:04 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks, I've got a PC with 5x500GB HDD's running software raid. On drive 0 and 1 I had RAID0 for the boot partition and then on all 5 drives I had RAID 5 for everything else. Why use RAID0 for the boot partition? That means that a failure of either drive will make the system unbootable (since half the file system needed for booting is on the dead device). I tend to use RAID1 for boot devices, RAID5 for general storage (where I either don't care too much about write performance or expect a low level of write I/O). I would only use RAID0 for transient data that can be easily regenerated after a hardware failure (or combine it with RAID1 if you need to combine redundancy with better write performance but make sure you understand the way that different stackings behave[1]). One of the first two drives has died causing the PC to hang, and then when I rebooted it couldn't get past GRUB. I have found out which drive it is and disconnected it. It then got past GRUB, loaded the kernel which then paniced and hung. If the boot file system was really stored on a RAID0 device one side of which is now absent then it is possible that we are loading a broken vmlinuz or initrd (initramfs) image from the surviving disk. I have tried booting using a FC11 install DVD (I believe the dead PC is either FC9 or FC10) and going into rescue mode but it says that there are no Linux partitions and doesn't go any further. You might need to activate the arrays manually depending on how they were configured. Going into fdisk for each drive (with the dead one still disconnected) shows the partition tables. in theory, this system should still be bootable, can anyone suggest things to try to get it working again. I'm not sure I agree if you had /boot on a RAID0. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
On 05/19/2010 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 05/19/2010 12:04 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks, I've got a PC with 5x500GB HDD's running software raid. On drive 0 and 1 I had RAID0 for the boot partition and then on all 5 drives I had RAID 5 for everything else. Why use RAID0 for the boot partition? That means that a failure of either drive will make the system unbootable (since half the file system needed for booting is on the dead device). I tend to use RAID1 for boot devices, RAID5 for general storage (where I either don't care too much about write performance or expect a low level of write I/O). I would only use RAID0 for transient data that can be easily regenerated after a hardware failure (or combine it with RAID1 if you need to combine redundancy with better write performance but make sure you understand the way that different stackings behave[1]). Oops, forgot to include the link: [1] http://www.aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ One of the first two drives has died causing the PC to hang, and then when I rebooted it couldn't get past GRUB. I have found out which drive it is and disconnected it. It then got past GRUB, loaded the kernel which then paniced and hung. It might help to post the panic text (or at least a description) but to be honest I think you'll likely need to rebuild your /boot file system from scratch and re-install grub to get this working again. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 12:13:12 Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 05/19/2010 12:04 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks, I've got a PC with 5x500GB HDD's running software raid. On drive 0 and 1 I had RAID0 for the boot partition and then on all 5 drives I had RAID 5 for everything else. Why use RAID0 for the boot partition? That means that a failure of either drive will make the system unbootable (since half the file system needed for booting is on the dead device). I tend to use RAID1 for boot devices, RAID5 for general storage (where I either don't care too much about write performance or expect a low level of write I/O). I would only use RAID0 for transient data that can be easily regenerated after a hardware failure (or combine it with RAID1 if you need to combine redundancy with better write performance but make sure you understand the way that different stackings behave[1]). Sorry Bryn, I mean RAID1. I thought that with RAID1, if I disconnected the dead one it should either just work, or i should be able to access both that and the RAID5 setup from the bood DVD. However, as I said, it won't boot and the rescue DVD doesn't see the Linux partitions, presumably because it can't/won't use the RAID devices -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
Remember that if you use old ATA disks, the slave often gets completely braindead if the master on the same chain dies. Because of this, your boot device should be striped over two master disks (on 2 different chains of course). If this is your case (striping over slave and master on the same chain) I would try with a physically sound disk to replace the failed drive so the slave should work again, and check that only the slave has an active, bootable partition. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 14:32:40 +0200, birger bir...@birger.sh wrote: If this is your case (striping over slave and master on the same chain) I would try with a physically sound disk to replace the failed drive so the slave should work again, and check that only the slave has an active, bootable partition. If this is the problem, changing the jumper will also work. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [389-users] SASL auth problem on bind with Mac OS X 10.4
Hi Is the ldap server configured for sasl? it would seem that the osx client tries with sasl and only sasl when that does not work it unbinds and does not try simple bind, it may see that the ldap server is showing sasl as a available authentication method but it is not really available, can you exec login into it? As I found no other way to test it I moved away my libcrammd5.so on my 389ds box and restarted dirsrv. CRAM-MD5 was no longer in the list of supported methods. I rebooted also my mac. My mac no longer issues a CRAM-MD5 SASL bind that is the good news, but it does not switch over to a simple bind using a binddn. It just does no bind anymore. What a mess. Anyway: Maybe I haven't found it but an option to enable/disable certain SASL methods within 389ds would IMHO be good to have for other situations where you can come into these needs. Roland -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
On 05/19/2010 12:28 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Sorry Bryn, I mean RAID1. I thought that with RAID1, if I disconnected the dead one it should either just work, or i should be able to access both that and the RAID5 setup from the bood DVD. Ah, that makes a lot more sense then! It's true that MD RAID1 setups in many cases can be made to boot reliably with a failed drive (there can be problems with getting the BIOS on some systems to reliably boot the surviving disk or to correctly ignore the dead one but this tends to work better on most machines now than it did a few years ago). By the sound of it you're not hitting this kind of problem here though since you are getting the bootloader and kernel to load. However, as I said, it won't boot and the rescue DVD doesn't see the Linux partitions, presumably because it can't/won't use the RAID devices You can check to see that the arrays are seen in the rescue environment by running: # mdadm --detail --scan This will scan storage devices for MD labels and list out all the arrays found and their UUIDs, e.g.: # mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=0.90 UUID=eb08491d:20a2b1a6:4d0f9285:bfb3869d ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=0.90 UUID=3bfd52c0:323e8987:28551b16:3c510952 ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=0.90 UUID=c4217b57:2102c749:15b01350:1139f0fa You can then assemble and start the arrays with the -A/--assemble option to mdadm and piece together the system from there. It would be useful to know more about the kernel panic that you're seeing when booting the system with the degraded array - that might provide some hints as to what's up. If you don't have a serial console or other means to capture the text verbatim then copying off the last few lines by hand and posting them here might give some hints. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 01:52 -0400, Dennis Mattingly wrote: 1) How can I list the packages that were updated in my last update? Look at /var/log/yum.log and check the dates. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 01:52 -0400, Dennis Mattingly wrote: 1) How can I list the packages that were updated in my last update? Use the command: yum history info -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Fedora-12 boot fails at Starting udev:
I am having a boot problem on my work station with any of the Fedora-12 update kernels. The hardware appears to lock up with no response possible from the keyboard. They all fail by hanging at the Starting udev: line during the boot process. The original installed kernel (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP) boots and works just fine. I am not new at using Linux, but this is the first time that I have encountered this type of problem and I am unsure where I need to start and what tools I need to use to resolve the problem. Any pointers would be helpful. This is a home build system using a Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard with one processor and four gig of memory, and has an array of disks using SCSI (primary partitions), SATA and IDE interfaces. Software RAID and LVM are used to organize the disk partitions and file systems. This system is about five years old and has never had any hardware problems except for disk and fan failures. 73, Bill William M. Perkins, KJ4ASH UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator The Greenwood ARES / Skywarn / ARCA Galax, VirginiaE-mail - w...@grnwood.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 08:33 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 01:52 -0400, Dennis Mattingly wrote: 1) How can I list the packages that were updated in my last update? Use the command: yum history info I can't find that on F11, is this a new feature? -Chris -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [389-users] storing x509 certificates in the directory
On 5/18/2010 6:44 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: Luke Schierer wrote: Hi all, I have been using fedora directory server/389 directory server for a couple years now with out any real issues, so I want to start off by thanking all of the developers for the hours they put into making it available to us. Lately I have had the need to look at storeing x509 certificates in my LDAP directory, to make them available to an application we use. Looking at the documentation available on the website, it appears that the usercertificate attribute either used to be a binary attribute, or that there is a way to make it a binary attribute that I am not seeing. It is and always has been a binary attribute. What documentation on the website leads you to think otherwise? We need to fix it. If the former, that it was but is no longer a binary attribute, it appears to me that the 389-console cannot handle the PEM formatted certificates, once one is added, I can no longer select that attribute to manipulate either it, or the certificate it contains. Sounds like a bug. If the latter, that it can be changed to be binary, I would greatly appreciate a pointer on how to do so. Hopefully someone who has worked with certificates in 389-ds can give me some pointers either way, so that I can either submit a bug report, or find the right docs to be reading. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can always use ldapmodify e.g. dn: uid=username, changetype: modify replace: userCertificate userCertificate::PEM data or userCertificate:file:///path/to/binary/encoded/file If using the Mozilla LDAP tools with the latter method, make sure to specify LDIF version 1 because otherwise the literal string file:///path/to/binary/encoded/file is stored. version 1 dn: uid=username, changetype: modify replace: userCertificate userCertificate:file:///path/to/binary/encoded/file Thanks!! Luke -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: Fedora-12 boot fails at Starting udev:
On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:08:56 -0400 (EDT) William Perkins wrote: They all fail by hanging at the Starting udev: line during the boot process. The udev step tends to be where lots of drivers get loaded, so it is probably some specific driver that is killing it. If you could find it and blacklist it, you might be able to boot (depending on how critical the device involved happens to be). No idea how to find which one though :-(. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On 05/19/2010 09:52 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 08:33 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: Use the command: yum history info I can't find that on F11, is this a new feature? Yes. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
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Re: [389-users] SASL auth problem on bind with Mac OS X 10.4
Roland Schwingel wrote: Hi Is the ldap server configured for sasl? it would seem that the osx client tries with sasl and only sasl when that does not work it unbinds and does not try simple bind, it may see that the ldap server is showing sasl as a available authentication method but it is not really available, can you exec login into it? As I found no other way to test it I moved away my libcrammd5.so on my 389ds box and restarted dirsrv. CRAM-MD5 was no longer in the list of supported methods. I rebooted also my mac. My mac no longer issues a CRAM-MD5 SASL bind that is the good news, but it does not switch over to a simple bind using a binddn. It just does no bind anymore. What a mess. So the mac finds that CRAM-MD5 is not available, and does nothing at all? Note that Digest-MD5 requires that the directory server store the password in clear text. This is because the directory server must use the clear text password to generate the challenge for the client. This prevents any clear text passwords from being sent across the wire, as is done with a regular simple DN and password BIND operation. Anyway: Maybe I haven't found it but an option to enable/disable certain SASL methods within 389ds would IMHO be good to have for other situations where you can come into these needs. It's on the Roadmap - http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Roadmap Roland -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:10:30 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Use the command: yum history info I can't find that on F11, is this a new feature? Yes. You could look at /var/log/yum.log instead and find all the updates that happened at about the same time (there is a timestamp at the start of the line). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On 19 May 2010 06:52, Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: - NVIDIA binary driver You lost developer interest right there. Richard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:05 -0400 Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: The most recent round of updates did two things: : It changed my resolution (fonts are smaller, desktop icons moved, toolbar icons moved) : I can no longer play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features: GL_ARB_texture_rectangle or GL_EXT_texture_rectangle So I have two questions: 1) How can I list the packages that were updated in my last update? 2) How much blame shall I assign to NVIDIA / Fedora? Very likely you installed the new kernel from fedora updates, but rpmfusion had not yet pushed out the new nvidia kmod, leaving you with a non working binary only non free nvidia driver. ;( So, your options are: - Boot to the previous kernel, everything will work, just wait a few days, then boot back to the new kernel and 'yum install kmod-nvidia' to get the new kmod from rpmfusion. - yum install akmod-nvidia to switch to the akmod, which builds on boot of any new kernel. I'm assuming you are using the rpmfusion one. If you are using the nasty .run file from nvidia, you will need to download and re-run it each time your kernel updates. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
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Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On 19 May 2010 06:52, Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: - NVIDIA binary driver Subject: Re: May 17-19 update borked my system You lost developer interest right there. Richard. You caught me. I actually meant to say that I use the one from RPM Fusion. I followed the guide I think at fedorasolved.org/nvidia/somethingsomething Heh. Just a minor detail, right ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: May 17-19 update borked my system
On 19 May 2010 06:52, Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: - NVIDIA binary driver Subject: Re: May 17-19 update borked my system You lost developer interest right there. Richard. You caught me. I actually meant to say that I use the one from RPM Fusion. I followed the guide I think at http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia/yum/kmod/somethingsomething Heh. Just a minor detail, right ? Nah, but I have been C++ programming at my (Windows) job for over 3 years. C++ expert over 6 years. One day I'll join the fedora-devel list... One day... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to find a needle in a haystack?
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:49 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I need some ideas. I have a backup server that contains 10 ext3 file systems each with 12 million files scattered randomly over 4000 directories. The files average size is 1MB. So each filesystem is about 12*10^6 * 1MB = 12*10^12 or 12 terabytes? Each filesystem is 2.5TB so the average file size must be much smaller. At last count, one of the filesystems contained 20 million files. You don't say what the file contents are like, e.g. text, structured data, unstructured binary, etc, nor do you say how you match the file you want (e.g. is it equivalent to a text substring, a regular expression, or what?). Knowing what the contents look like would help to evaluate if it's worth e.g. generating a hash for subsections of the file when it's being stored. Alternatively, it could conceivably make sense to search for strings in the raw disk and work backwards to calculate what files they belong to, who knows? The data in the files is of the unstructured binary type. When I do a search, I have _most_ of the file name. Enough to uniquely identify it. I hope that helps. --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver
Tim wrote: The domain= or search= parameters are to do with what domain names to automatically prepend to hostnames. The same goes for other things you address by just a hostname (NFS mounts, mail servers, web servers, etc.), and for constructing local domain names from DHCP assigned hostnames (though it might be the source of providing the domain name, rather than the client adding a domain name). If you do that sort of thing (make use of short hostnames), having an inappropriate domain name parameter will cause you problems. If you don't do that sort of thing, you'll probably never notice it. An inappropriate domain name is one that isn't yours to control, and that includes your ISP's domain name. The domain parameter virtually says this is your domain. The search parameter can list a series of domain names to try appending. Though you really shouldn't have both options set, according to the docs I read some time ago. I make very little use of short hostnames. re whether I should be trying to change my domain from pacbell.net to sbcglobal.net: i get response from shieldsup: Your Internet connection's IP address is uniquely associated with the following machine name: ppp-71-xxx-xx-xxx.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net The string of text above is known as your Internet connection's reverse DNS. The end of the string is probably a domain name related to your ISP. This will be common to all customers of this ISP. But the beginning of the string uniquely identifies your Internet connection. The question is: Is the beginning of the string an account ID that is uniquely and permanently tied to you, or is it merely related to your current public IP address and thus subject to change?... -- for that quad number: first two numbers i think remain the same, but the last two change periodically. How often I don't have enough data to say. For me pacbell.net is probably a domain name related to your ISP It then seems ok, maybe unnecessary?, that I use DOMAIN=pacbell.net in my ifcfg-eth0. And I will drop the idea of trying to change domain from pacbell.net to sbcglobal.net FWIW, NM-created resolv.conf: [by...@f12 f12]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager search pacbell.net nameserver 206.13.31.12 nameserver 68.94.156.1 [by...@f12 f12]$ doesn't use both search and domain, consistent with your advice thanks Jack -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything
Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi folks,
I've got a PC with 5x500GB HDD's running software raid. On drive 0 and 1 I
had RAID0 for the boot partition and then on all 5 drives I had RAID 5 for
everything else.
One of the first two drives has died causing the PC to hang, and then when I
rebooted it couldn't get past GRUB. I have found out which drive it is and
disconnected it. It then got past GRUB, loaded the kernel which then paniced
and hung.
It boots after removing the first disk because the second one shifts
in first position from the poiint of view of the BIOS and your boot
is RAID1 (as you corrected yourself in another post).
The panic is probably a can't find root filesystem problem.
I have tried booting using a FC11 install DVD (I believe the dead PC is
either
FC9 or FC10) and going into rescue mode but it says that there are no Linux
partitions and doesn't go any further.
The install DVD is not really smart when coping with (degraded) RAID arrays.
Proceed manually.
Going into fdisk for each drive (with the dead one still disconnected) shows
the partition tables.
That is the important part.
So the data is there.
Are your partition of type fd (RAID autodetection)? In that case the RAID5
should auto assemble itself on boot.
If this is not happening, try to see if the kernel attempted the operation
or not by looking the dmesg output.
in theory, this system should still be bootable, can anyone suggest things to
try to get it working again.
You have to assemble the RAID manually, as it has already been suggested
to you.
To better understand the situation, please post the output of
fdisk -l /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e}
and
mdadm -E /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}
or similar commands.
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Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:53 -0700, jackson byers wrote: i get response from shieldsup: Your Internet connection's IP address is uniquely associated with the following machine name: ppp-71-xxx-xx-xxx.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net That fully qualified domain name (FQDN, the entire host and domain names) was resolved by them doing a reverse lookup on your public numerical IP address. The whole thing, including the domain name (pacbell.net) suffix was set by your ISP, that'll happen regardless of what's set in your files that we've been talking about. The ppp-71 will be related to the ISP's equipment that you've connected up to. Which could be PPP server 71, or the 71st port on it... The xxx bits would be related to your connection. Commonly they're based on your MAC address, or your public IP address. But since they're created by the ISP, it could be anything, even randomly made up. For me pacbell.net is probably a domain name related to your ISP It then seems ok, maybe unnecessary?, that I use DOMAIN=pacbell.net in my ifcfg-eth0. And I will drop the idea of trying to change domain from pacbell.net to sbcglobal.net If your parameters are set up by DHCP, I'd expect all of that to be set up when you connect to the ISP, but their server. You probably don't need to set any domain= parameter, yourself. I've never set mine up to match the ISP's. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to find a needle in a haystack?
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:07 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: The data in the files is of the unstructured binary type. When I do a search, I have _most_ of the file name. Enough to uniquely identify it. So you don't need to look into the file to get a match? Sounds like the best procedure would just be to keep an index of all the filenames and update it when files are added/removed (assuming you have control over both of these processes). A simple database should be able to handle this easily, which is pretty much what you suggested yourself. In fact it looks so simple that a Berkeley DB file would do it, without needing all the fancy DB machinery or MySQL or Postgres. See for example man DB_File. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: [389-users] SASL auth problem on bind with Mac OS X 10.4
Hi Rich... Thanks for your reply! I rebooted also my mac. My mac no longer issues a CRAM-MD5 SASL bind that is the good news, but it does not switch over to a simple bind using a binddn. It just does no bind anymore. What a mess. So the mac finds that CRAM-MD5 is not available, and does nothing at all? Mac OS X 10.4 behaves that way. At least as far as I can tell from my wireshark sniffing and the 389ds access log file. It just does some searches for user attributes (including userPassword), but no bind for authorization as user just an anonymous bind ahead of all this which does not retrieve the password due to the anonymous aci entry of 389ds. I removed the restriction to not deliver the userPassword in searches with anonymous bind but it did not help either. I consider this to be a bug in 10.4. With Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 this has changed. There it tries the SASL auth first (if available) and if it fails (or it is not available) it is doing a simple bind which then succeeds. Maybe I haven't found it but an option to enable/disable certain SASL methods within 389ds would IMHO be good to have for other situations where you can come into these needs. It's on the Roadmap - http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Roadmap Nice to read... Thanks :-) But generally speaking - with thinking while typing: If the password policy is set to something else than cleartext SASL MD5 methods do not make sense at all. An auth using these methods will not succeed. Right? So they could automatically be disabled by dirsrv if the password policy is set to something different than cleartext? Or am I wrong? Hmm... Or would it work (at least if the password is stored in md5 not s(sha)) if the same salt is used in the sasl md5 challenge supplied to the client? If the client uses this supplied salt for hashing the password, the sent result should be comparable with the stored md5 hashed password using that same salt. So a SASL MD5 auth would be possible than. Maybe I am wrong and it is already much too late for me to think about these things today ... ;-) Roland -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
Re: How to find a needle in a haystack?
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 15:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:07 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: The data in the files is of the unstructured binary type. When I do a search, I have _most_ of the file name. Enough to uniquely identify it. So you don't need to look into the file to get a match? Sounds like the best procedure would just be to keep an index of all the filenames and update it when files are added/removed (assuming you have control over both of these processes). A simple database should be able to handle this easily, which is pretty much what you suggested yourself. In fact it looks so simple that a Berkeley DB file would do it, without needing all the fancy DB machinery or MySQL or Postgres. See for example man DB_File. Is there any reason to not use the already existing updatedb/locate combo? The fedora updatedb seems to be based on mlocate, which as far as I know uses the mtime of directories to tell if a directory has changed since the last scan (mtime of the directory will change if files have been added or deleted). This should speed up runs unless a lot of directories change between runs. You can disable the default updatedb configuration and run it manually (or in cron jobs) specifying one file system for each job. Let them run in parallel with output to separate bases. Then globally set the environment variable to tell locate where to look so it finds all the bases. Look at the man pages for updatedb, updatedb.conf locate and mlocate.db. The last one is very optional. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Burning DVD Videos
I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but ! If I put the DVD in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to play on the CD-DVD Player ? They are *.avi videos -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
k3b users, I need help.
I have used k3b before to burn iso's, but never to build a CD/DVD of my own files. (I used to use xcdroast for this...) In any case, Im trying to build a CD with about 130k of data files. They were initially under 3 directory heads, but to simplify things Ive moved the directories under one directory head. When I bring up k3b, and drag that directory from the top to the bottom window, it tells me that there is 5.7Mb there, which is wrong. If I burn the CD, I see a whole lot of empty directories. So how do I tell k3b that I want all the data below each directory head? That would seem to be the obvious default, but its not happening, and I dont see any option to turn it on/off. Probably something stupid, but whatever, I need help. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: k3b users, I need help.
On 05/19/2010 07:21 PM, r...@dwf.com wrote: I have used k3b before to burn iso's, but never to build a CD/DVD of my own files. (I used to use xcdroast for this...) In any case, Im trying to build a CD with about 130k of data files. They were initially under 3 directory heads, but to simplify things Ive moved the directories under one directory head. When I bring up k3b, and drag that directory from the top to the bottom window, it tells me that there is 5.7Mb there, which is wrong. If I burn the CD, I see a whole lot of empty directories. So how do I tell k3b that I want all the data below each directory head? That would seem to be the obvious default, but its not happening, and I dont see any option to turn it on/off. Probably something stupid, but whatever, I need help. I just tried it with 4 nested levels of directories, each with about 40 data files. I just had it make the .iso file which I then loop mounted and verified that it was OK. No options to set, it just worked. Which version of Fedora / K3B are you running? Do you have 130,000 data files or 130KB of data? Regards, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010, Mikkel wrote: On 05/17/2010 04:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will not run for anybody but root. Considering that mkinitrd is part of the install procedure, and not part of the build procedure, why is that a problem? The initrd is system specific, so it does not really make sense to run it before the install stage. And you need to be root to do the install anyway. Mikkel Why? In terms of the install, there is no reason why the perms can't be changed so the user can do it all, except the mkinitrd, which in my scripts leaves the initrd-version.img sitting it the src tree to be copied as a separate line in my 'makeit' script. The kernel and the initrd once it built, can be installed by the user if the perms had been set to the users ownership because he built them. Gene, let me say this one more way. mkinitrd is not part of the build, it is part of the install. The output of the build can be moved to any similarly configured machine and installed, but the mkinitrd needs to know the hardware configuration of the machine where it will run. You building and installing on the same machine is a special case, but in general the built kernel is portable and the mkinitrd is part of the install and must match the final machine on which the kernel boots. And install must be done as root... -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Burning DVD Videos
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:01 -0400, Jim wrote: I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but ! If I put the DVD in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to play on the CD-DVD Player ? They are *.avi videos Think about it: does your player work with .avi files? Most modern ones do. If so, just create a Data DVD (e.g. using K3B) with the files on it. If not, you're out of luck. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Migrating MySQL 5.0.x to 5.1.x
I just upgraded my F10 server to F11. [long story, it was via a preupgrade to F13, and somehow *some* F11 packages got installed instead of F13, but my rpmfusion stuff got upgraded to rawhide, and my atrpms got upgraded to F13 and F12! so I fixed those and finished the package upgrades from what was left as fc10 packages by hand.] I've fixed up most of what got broken, except for MySQL. It won't start. I've re-installed the RPMs (mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-server) numerous times to no avail. # service mysqld start MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting MySQL:[FAILED] Here is what appears in /var/log/mysqld.log 100520 00:11:05 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 100520 0:11:05 [Note] Plugin 'ndbcluster' is disabled. /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist 100520 0:11:05 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 100520 0:11:05 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 13634811 100520 0:11:05 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect key file for table 'host'; try to repair it 100520 00:11:05 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended I've tried to run mysql_upgrade as the log suggests, but it won't run if mysqld isn't running. B^/ I've Googled the Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist error and the results say that the bug got fixed in 2007 or 2008, so I am confused as to how to migrate my data bases from 5.0.x to 5.1.x Did anyone else run into this? And if so, how did you get around it? I didn't see anything in the F11 release notes AFAICT, my old databases are still intact, I supposed I could downgrade back to the fc10 MySQL stuff in order to dump the database, then upgrade and restore from the dump, but there has got to be an easier way, isn't there? I know I can install from scratch (I did so on an F13 test system), but I need to migrate my data base intact. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Burning DVD Videos
On 05/20/2010 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:01 -0400, Jim wrote: I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but ! If I put the DVD in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to play on the CD-DVD Player ? They are *.avi videos Think about it: does your player work with .avi files? Most modern ones do. If so, just create a Data DVD (e.g. using K3B) with the files on it. If not, you're out of luck. Well, you are only out of luck if you don't want to do the work to get the *.avi files into the format, with menus, to play on a standard DVD player. I've done that a long time agoforget the steps that I went through...but I think it involved converting the *.avi files to *.mpg and then using dvdauthor. I'm sure a google would lead to solutions -- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -- A.H. Weiler 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Burning DVD Videos
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 12:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/20/2010 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:01 -0400, Jim wrote: I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but ! If I put the DVD in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to play on the CD-DVD Player ? They are *.avi videos Think about it: does your player work with .avi files? Most modern ones do. If so, just create a Data DVD (e.g. using K3B) with the files on it. If not, you're out of luck. Well, you are only out of luck if you don't want to do the work to get the *.avi files into the format, with menus, to play on a standard DVD player. I've done that a long time agoforget the steps that I went through...but I think it involved converting the *.avi files to *.mpg and then using dvdauthor. I'm sure a google would lead to solutions I've done it with devede. Not too difficult and it works pretty well, but of course the resulting files are much larger than the .avi sources. That's why he's out of luck if he wants to get a whole series onto one DVD as he said. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Burning DVD Videos
On 05/20/2010 01:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 12:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/20/2010 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:01 -0400, Jim wrote: I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but ! If I put the DVD in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to play on the CD-DVD Player ? They are *.avi videos Think about it: does your player work with .avi files? Most modern ones do. If so, just create a Data DVD (e.g. using K3B) with the files on it. If not, you're out of luck. Well, you are only out of luck if you don't want to do the work to get the *.avi files into the format, with menus, to play on a standard DVD player. I've done that a long time agoforget the steps that I went through...but I think it involved converting the *.avi files to *.mpg and then using dvdauthor. I'm sure a google would lead to solutions I've done it with devede. Not too difficult and it works pretty well, but of course the resulting files are much larger than the .avi sources. That's why he's out of luck if he wants to get a whole series onto one DVD as he said. I don't think he is necessarily out of luck. While the resulting files may be larger there are different techniques for reducing the overall size. I have taken movies, pressed on DL DVD's (9GB) and transferred them SL DVD(4.5GB). Yes, the quality slightly degraded and I wouldn't watch it on a screen larger than 26but without taking the time and effort I would not rule out success. While my DVD writer is DL capable...I've not used it since the cost of media is more than I'm willing to pay. The OP seems to be OK with using DL. -- Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing. -- The Mad Dogtender 葛斯克 愛德 華 / 台北市八德路四段 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
