Yum default settings and the cache
According to the docs from man yum... keepcache Either `1' or `0'. Determines whether or not yum keeps the cache of headers and packages after successful installation. Default is '1' (keep files) A fresh install of f17 shows grep cache /etc/yum.conf cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever keepcache=0 So which is correct? -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: kill a dead process
pkill -f name-of-process That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first place Regards, John On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: Hi all, I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and becomes unresponsive. I've tried opening and reinserting the media but nothing seems to happen, but iIt appears that each time I did that it spawned another process. Even the eject command hangs. On inspection I found some processes using ps -ax that are marked with the status D. The man page says that indicates an uninterruptable sleep. Is there any way to kill these short of a reboot? (Feels s M$). TIA, Mike Wright -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Password issues
On 06/09/2012 06:21 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: Hi There, Just a rant, nothing more. I know the solution. I like Linux (Fedora in particular) because my computer doesn't tell me what I can and can not do - I tell the computer what to do. Today, I decide to change my own user password into something that's easier to type (through the settings - user accounts dialogue). Lovely feature has this thing; I want to set on my own computer a password of my liking, and I am in charge of that, okay? Stupid machine! Error: The password is too simple, please choose another one! Well fark me! Me not liking that at all. This computer holds few important things, this computer is under lock and key - it's harder to get to it than to crack a decent password so why the fark would I want a difficult password??? I understand the rationale behind this error message, but I don't believe it's the government's duty to protect the stupid from harm. If you willingly go against all common sense and die, well - it's your own stupid farking fault. And so I don't believe the dev's of Fedora, or Gnome, or anyone else is responsible for people dumb enough to stick an easy to guess password in their bank account. If I lose my money because my password is too easy to hack, there's nobody to blame but me. Advice is great; thank you (Users and Groups dialogue) for warning me that my password is too weak - do you really want to take that risk? Yes, please - my own responsibility. Anyway, there is an easy workaround. And this is the first thing I encounter in F17 that irks me. For the rest - I absolutely adore it. Love it. Great. Everything is getting better all the time.Thank you for this great OS, with a feature built in to protect people who are too stupid to own a computer. I mean, if you're smart enough to step away from Windoze and are able to familiarize yourself with any flavour of Linux, I'm certain you've heard of clever passwords. If I wanted a nanny, I'd get a sexy one - not a digital one. Thank you for reading. Have a good day. You can always ignore the warning. Let's give this new user a password of 1234 [jayeola@x40 ~]$ sudo su - [root@x40 ~]# adduser somedude [root@x40 ~]# passwd somedude Changing password for user somedude. New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is too short Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Minimal desktop install option
On 06/03/2012 02:34 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: Hi, How do I go about requesting another install option Minimal Desktop? I'm finding myself removing a lot of packages after Graphical desktop install. TIA, Tommy Base or something like that -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F16 rocks !
+1 (F16+XFCE)^awesome = ^_^ Sent from mah BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Roger are...@bigpond.com Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:22:31 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: F16 rocks ! On 16/03/12 09:36, linux guy wrote: I haven't been around the list much lately, but F16 absolutely rocks. KDE too, I can't wait to get my hands on KDE 4.8 to see what its got. The last few kernels 3.2.7 and on have been nice too. Keep up the good work, people. I agree, well said. I use Gnome 3 and Xfce Roger -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: VLC as a root
On 01/15/2012 04:54 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a closed WAN and I want to run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ? Is there a way (beside building VLC ?) rgs, Kevin. Why? -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
alternatives to revisor or fixes for creating fedora remixes
Hi Chaps, First post so do tell me to move onto another list if this is not the right place. I wanted to start using revisor but kept facing the /anaconda/-runtime not installed error. Have not got around to overcoming this err just yet. So what else do people use nowadays to create thier own Fedora respin? -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
