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On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:59 +, Adam Williamson wrote
> Are you sure this is the case? There are a wide variety of intel
> graphics chipsets and not all behave the same. If they were all
> broken - especially in F12 - I would have expected to hear a much
> larger stink by now.
It defini
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:43:05 +, Ikem Krueger wrote
> That's doable? o.O
The copyright holder can relicense the code however they see fit.
What they cannot do is retroactively remove the GPL license from
old versions.
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:21:19 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> In my effort to create a proof of concept for using git to manage our
> package source control, I have completed what I am calling phase one,
> that is taking our current dist-cvs and converting it into git format.
That's just the na
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:35:27 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> The only time my systems have run 32 bit code in several years is for
> the Flash plugin (since the open-source plugins don't seem to be able
> to keep up and since the 64 bit Adobe plugin doesn't seem to get the
> security updates)
It
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On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:11:52 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> manually". Does this mean that the Fedora officially "Supports"
> upgrades now?
Were upgraded installs not always supported, as long as the upgrade
did not take place within the running system?
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On 28.11.2009 12:29, nodata wrote:
> X is *really* slow to me until the desktop has finished loading. So slow
> I can't select a username from the login screen unless I wait for a
> while. This didn't happen in F11.
Could that be the same as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54187
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:39 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote
> The 4GB limit is only on processes. Most recent 32-bit Intels can
> address 32GB of system memory.
PAE is no fun at all.
> Not necessarily relevant, but a win
> for Linux (Microsoft never figured out how to make this work :).
Rather
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:39:13 +, Richard Hughes wrote:
> No, that won't work either. In PackageKit parlance "installing a
> package" is installing a package that does not already exist on the
> computer. You can't downgrade (or upgrade) packages using the
> PackageKit InstallPackages() met
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:23:31 -0600, King InuYasha wrote:
> 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not
> really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before
> then)
As much as I am in favour of 64 bit, but that is a red herring. 32bit
systems are per
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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:33:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Dracut produces a generic initrd by default instead of something
> system specific. If you want to reduce that, go to /etc/dracut.conf
> and enable the hostonly option.
Can preupgrade generate an initrd?
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:17 -0800, John Reiser wrote
> Also, it is only recently that a Mac might boot from USB2.0 at all;
> Firewire (IEEE 1394) was required for most of Apple history.
My old iBook G3 booted from USB. That was USB1.1, though, which may
or may not be significant.
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:39:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Dickson writes:
> > Because the mount command will try NFS v4 first, mounts to older
> > Linux servers will start failing like:
>
> What happens with a mount to a UDP-only server? (or actually /net
> automount is what I care about
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:50:42 +0200, nodata wrote:
> Running on the compromised system, or running somewhere else?
> Where are you running rpm from?
Running from an external boot medium (CD/DVD/USB stick/whatever), not
from within the (possibly compromised) system itself. The known good
signa
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:40:46 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> In most cases, you can get that information from the original RPM
> compared to the system... if you have the RPM :).
>
> rpm -Vp
Which is pretty much what I want, just pulling the data from an external
(signed) source inste
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:15:46 -0400 (EDT), Seth Vidal wrote
> Record original copies of the config files and tuck them away - heck
> you could save off a copy of the pkg hdrs if you wanted to.
Hm. The config file copy might actually be pretty straigtforward to
do.
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:39 +0200, nodata wrote
> It sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me.
Well, the problem is being able to determine whether the files on
your system have been compromised, which seems like a sensible idea
to me.
> Here's a better idea:
>
> * Host the conf
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:50 -0400 (EDT), Seth Vidal wrote:
> You could, of course, just have koji keep the pkgs and then you could
> use the existing metadata to grab the header from the pkgs and access
> the information that way.
That would be a solution, of course, but keeping the files f
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:03 +0300 (EEST), Panu Matilainen wrote:
> To make any use of that data you'll obviously need the file names
> too, so:
> [pmati...@localhost Packages]$ rpm -qap --qf "[%{filedigests}
> %{filenames}\n]" *.rpm |wc
> 430716 804104 47467960
That has to be databased s
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:17 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> What would this be good for?
To expand on the motivation for this:
The idea is to have a list of known good file hashes to test your local
files against, if you have reason not to trust your local RPM database
(which may have been comp
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:17 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> What would this be good for? Actually for some files it would be a
> known bad file hashes because these files (binaries or scripts) would
> contain known vulnerabilities and so knowing that you have a file
> that was once included in Fe
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I was wondering the other day how much space the file information (i.e. the
stuff that rpm -V checks against) takes up in an RPM file. And, going from
there, how much space we would waste over the years if we kept this
information for every RPM ever built by koji.
The idea would be to have a
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:17:13 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote
> Yes, but you should make the dump with the dump utility of the new
> release to which you want to update.
So version x.y+1 is unable to read a dump created by version x.y?
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:48:47 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote
> Well, I already know one, cyrus-imapd most probably requires mail rw.
> Is there anything else?
Cyrus is running it's own mailspool.
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:10:28 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote
> If it's possible to write programs and shared library loaders so that
> redetection can be performed mid-execution, then prefer that method
> over one which only detects hardware when the program starts up.
I have no qualms whatso
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:29:11 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote
> Surely the way to do this is to know what your workload is doing,
> and not do live migration to random hardware?
Redetection of CPU features in a live system is complete madness.
The virt-infrastructure has to make sure that the sy
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:18:37 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> > Just for my information, do I read this correctly that
> > dracut/plymouth is supposed to show a graphical password prompt to
> > unlock encrypted partitions at boot time?
> Yes, if you have modesetting enabled and get a graphical splas
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:06:48 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> Right, showing an unexpected password dialog at boot with no prompt is
> a serious bug. It's the bug in dracut I think we need to fix.
Just for my information, do I read this correctly that dracut/plymouth
is supposed to show a graphic
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:36:28 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote
> I'm not clear on how the existing encrypted partitions get unlocked
> but I think perhaps dracut does it? I get prompted for the encryption
> password during boot.
I have a similar, but slightly different question. I have used an
encrypt
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:08:25 +, Colin Walters wrote
> In this particular case it seems to me we want it to be a dynamic
> property; e.g. if I start an update while on my mobile broadband card,
> suspend in the middle of downloading, go to an office where I have a
> local mirror, well idea
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:41:19 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
> As reported by Jesse Keating and me, currently live CD builds - since
> 20090918, 20090917 was the last working one - appear to be entirely
> broken. Boot fails with 'no root device found', booting from CD or
> USB. This will be a pro
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:24:18 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> I also think that the reason xinetd came into existence in the first
> place has long since passed. The original intent was to save memory
> by not having half a dozen servers running. (Remember the early
> 1990's systems.) Today we hav
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:35:29 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> It doesn't.
Shouldn't that be 'it does'?
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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:19:36 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote
> Maybe users won't be aware of the risk or what might happen with their
> data.
> I'd also tend to say - like John does - that linking a non-anonymous
> bugzilla account/email with a smolt profile might be somewhat .. too
> much.
So I
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:43:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote
> You might be referring to PPP which some (IMO only crappy ISPs do
> this for DSL) DSL providers require you to use.
PPP is pretty much standard for broadband access because it allows
for some very useful tricks.
Please note that I
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:49:40 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> execution. The damage was done one [dynamic] statement prior,
> in this case line 1101: ann[annlen] = '\0';
And that looks like a typical one-off-error.
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:27:05 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > sharkcz:BADURL:xa-2.3.5.tar.gz:xa
> site doesn't like wget, download from browser works
Probably a good idea in general to have the check script fake
it's user agent.
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote
> > Errr. wouldn't that be tomorrow, technically?
> >
>
> No, my isos were for the Fit and Finish test day that happened
> yesterday.
Well, they're referenced on the wiki page regarding the NM test
tomorrow.
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:32:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote
> Sorry, I had no idea somebody else was referring to them. Next time,
> kindly tell me if you want to reuse something that I put up with the
> explicit warning that it will be removed shortly after the test day
> that it was intended
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On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:38:37 -0700, Tom London wrote
> Similarly, I can "recover" the NetworkManager applet by running
> 'killall nm-applet; nm-applet&', also from a terminal
That used to work, these days it works better to restart NetworkManager
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:11:58 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
> No, we wouldn't consider it blocking the Alpha per the criteria (we
> consider only bugs that break the critical path - booting into X,
> getting a network connection and updating the system - as blockers for
> the Alpha, pretty much
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:13:40 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote
> Indirectly, probably yes. There's a workaround for that known problem
> posted on rawhidewatch - restart notification-applet (or whatever the
> exact name is) until you get the icons instead of the boxes (can take
> over 20 tries, fo
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:07:03 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote
> Maybe you are seeing effect of:
> [1]
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libgnome/commit/?id=3af3f24488fd467472f1f8cc3622481ea48003bf
> [2]
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libgnome/commit/?id=c7ac044820d119ce927b405d0586c5db8291cb82
> in GNOME s
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:12:25 +0200, nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote:
> GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01500.html
Works for me. Well, almost all of the icons are gone, but I blame
https://bugzilla.redhat.co
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:39:14 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> But whatever. Just please stop imposing pulseaudio on those who don't
> want to use it. For the record, I'm still considering leaving Fedora
> because - as a GNOME desktop - it's becoming unusable without
> pulseaudio
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:28:17 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> You'll have fun when Rawhide goes to a newer version of Firefox than
> the last stable release has.
Yes, I'm aware that there's the potential for all kinds of fun here.
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:38:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > No, some people (me included) use tmpfs for /tmp , so this would
> > result into reboot, no packages found (if it did not hit a space
> > problem either).
> Your problem, if you are using a non-reboot persistant /tmp
I'd think tha
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:42:58 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote
> Yes, it is particularly bad at the moment.
For these cases (I have updated to current rawhide, but not restarted
yet, and so far everithing still works) I have resorted to keeping
a root fs with the last stable release (F11 in this
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:33 -0700, John Poelstra wrote
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort
Am I right in thinking this feature is about DisplayPort sinks
on DisplayPort sources? Because I use a monitor (albeit via a
DisplayPort/DVI adapter) on my G45 based desktop, and it
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:01:15 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote
> Jakub Jelinek's comments suggesting how to recover worked for me:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509655#c13
In order to upgrade prelink (or glibc, in my case) without
sinking the whole system do the following:
a)
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:42:32 +, Rawhide Report wrote
> glibc-2.10.90-3
> ---
> * Wed Jul 08 2009 Andreas Schwab 2.10.90-3
> - Reenable setuid on pt_chown.
That glibc explodes on my x64 laptop (everything segfaults), reverting
to -2 fixes that.
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:04:31 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Perhaps I wasn't clear in my last post. You two need to take this
> offlist, or simply let this thread stop by agreeing to disagree. This
> is the last friendly warning I'm giving before triggering the "hall
> monitor"/"moderati
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:16:12 +, Rawhide Report wrote:
> prelink-0.4.1-1.fc12
>
> * Sun Jul 05 2009 Jakub Jelinek 0.4.1-1
> - add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC on i?86/x86_64 and
> R_{386,X86_64}_IRELATIVE
> - add support for DWARF3/DWARF4 features generated newly by rece
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On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:58:52 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote
> I wanted to draw your attention to a feature I've proposed for Fedora
> 12, mysteriously called Extended Life Cycle.
Is it that time of the year again?
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On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:59:46 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote
> Given the fact that F11-xorg actually works on my GM45, while rawhide
> with the mentioned .30 kernel and 2.8 intel driver died various
> horrible deaths without ever producing a picture makes me question
> the general u
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On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:15:49 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote
> The fact is that F11 shipped with broken Xv support for old Intel
> chips such as the i855 among other deficiencies. The problem can
> mainly be attributed to the outdated xorg-drv-x11-intel-2.7.0 that
> came with F11. A newer version (2.
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:54:00 -0500, Adam Miller wrote
> 1) Cisco VPN
> I don't use this myself but I was told it just needs these rules, so I
> don't see a big issue here:
> $IPT -A FORWARD -i $IF -o $INIF -p udp --dport 500 -m state --state
> NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> $IPT -A FORWA
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:09:27 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Any ideas on getting this to work again?
On my system all sound files (/dev/snd) were owned by root instead of the
user logged into X. Don't know who's responsible for fixing that.
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As I don't have the time to maintain audacious any more I'm orphaning the
following packages:
audacious
audacious-plugins
libmowgli
mcs
The last two are dependencies which, as far as I am aware, are used by
nothing else.
There is an accompanying package in the Voldemort Repository which con
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:36:33 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> I think installing gconf schemas got slower with the gconf backend
> changes. This may have something to do with things, not sure.
>
> If that is a significant cause of the slowdowns, we can partially
> alleviate the problem, by changi
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:59:57 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> to grab the fedora-release package from the FC5 release instead. If
> you want to keep testing and helping to develop things for Fedora
> Core 6, expect for some fun to pop up as always.
Sooo... what are we going to break first?
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:14:17 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> I also got problems if the HWADDR is not specified.
This is because the network scripts identify the card by HWADDR, and
then rename it to the "real" (ethX) network device name.
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:30:08 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Go read:
> http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
So shipping the targetted policy is a dumb idea. RH will be glad to hear that.
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:09:05 -0500, Build System wrote:
> firefox-1.5.0.1-9
> -
> * Sat Mar 11 2006 Christopher Aillon - 1.5.0.1-9
> - Add a notice to the about dialog denoting this is a pango enabled
> build.
> - Tweak the user agent denoting this is a pango enabled build.
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> > * I do not know if such a change can be made while retaining backwards
> > compatibility to older RPM versions (if this is desired, that is)
>
> You are proposing a scheme that doesn't touch the RPM format itself, so
> I don't see how this would enter here.
The
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:36:02 -0500, William Lovaton wrote
> world time. Is there any regression if I disable apic and lapic in
> the kernel parameters? They are under heavy load usually.
>
> What they are for (apic and lapic)?
Interrupt handling. I think you can not disable them on SMP mac
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Every one in a while the problem of repository scoring comes up (maybe
under a different name, but I chose this one): The wish of users to
give different RPM repositories different "rights" with respect to the
packages that can be installed from the various sources, mostly to prevent
third par
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:51:26 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Isn't this a property of whoever formatted the stick, rather than the
> stick itself?
I have a (rather oldish) stick which can not be partitoned (the hardware
prevents it).
But it also has a sector size of 2048 bytes, so it is a li
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:04:09 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> [du...@nor75-15-82-67-190-22 include]$ rpm
> -qf /usr/X11R6/include/Mrm/MrmAppl.h openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.1.9.2
> [du...@nor75-15-82-67-190-22 include]$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/include/Mrm/
> file /usr/X11R6/include/Mrm is not owned by any
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:33:07 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> In /usr/X11R6/include there are also the following unowned
> directories that should belong to openmotif:
> Mrm uil Xm
> The files within those directories belong to
> openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.1.9.2.
Can you check something for me?
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:27:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Useradd has -r and groupadd has -r and -g options in Fedora/RHEL to
> do similar things. check the man page for them for additional
> details. Does that serve your purpose?
This is not exactly about system accounts. Looking though
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:26:05 -0500, Build System wrote:
> - use an assigned uid/gid, do not loop over user ids looking for a
> free one
I have often wondered why useradd does not have built in support for
stuff like this. From time to time I'd like to do something like
"add a user, I do not c
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:55:33 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> The origin of (a) I believe comes from the fact that historically
> there was a one-to-one mapping between email addresses and usernames
> and since email addresses are not case sensitive, usernames that only
> differ by case cause email
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