Ogg & Totem kill X

2008-08-12 Thread Steve Dowe
Hi, I have F9 with Totem and VLC installed. When I try to watch an ogg video from Red Hat's web site in Totem, the screen goes blank and I can hear my hard disk head park. I can't recover X from this - I have to hard reset the machine and boot back into the desktop. When I try the same vid

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 August 2008 03:51, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I want F9 on a USB stick. It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned > > with using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or > > not. > > > > Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn't boot

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 08 August 2008 14:44, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I want F9 on a USB stick. It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned > > with using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or > > not. > > > > Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn'

Re: Xvfb - desperate -- help needed...

2008-08-12 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: > > but I gotta have the X11 > > > applications features enabled (thus Xvfb) > > > > > Hi Ric! > > > > The little I know of virtual frame buffers is that they are used to

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Björn Persson
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. > > Not here. How odd. Maybe it depends on how the file is initially created? > That sounds more like you've moved it out of the way. I would have known if I had done that. > Is

Re: Is Apache included with Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Björn Persson
Adil Drissi wrote: > I want to use Apache-Mysql-Php in my fedora 8. > I did "yum install apache" the result was "no package apache available" but > httpd is already installed. > > So i want to know if apache is installed in my machine under the name httpd > or i have to download it myself. If it is

Re: Is Apache included with Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Bill Crawford
Yes, but the important point is that he wouldn't have known the background to the rename, which was "The Apache project isn't just a web server". Could try "yum search apache" but that will return several other things (I get several hundred lines of output). 2008/8/12 Björn Persson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread jeffrey . berger
[was Re: burning iso image on a Mac] I'm just starting to play around with Linux. A couple of days ago, I installed Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500. When I switch from one application to another by clicking (say) on a Firefox window when Help is in the foreground, it takes many seconds before th

How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread John Smith
I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to update to the latest patch due to the DNS issue. How can I upgrade my RPM install? Is there an RPM that is independent of the Fedora OS? Or is it possible to compile and use the patch installed from source overtop my RPM? Any

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Haney
John Smith wrote: I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to update to the latest patch due to the DNS issue. How can I upgrade my RPM install? Is there an RPM that is independent of the Fedora OS? Or is it possible to compile and use the patch installed from source

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread John Smith
Do you mean build the source and install it overtop the RPM or do you mean uninstall the RPM then build and install from source... On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Smith wrote: > >> I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Weiner
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> >> I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to >> update to the latest patch due to the DNS issue. How can I upgrade my RPM >> install? Is there an RPM that is independent of the

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread James Kosin
John Smith wrote: I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to update to the latest patch due to the DNS issue. How can I upgrade my RPM install? Is there an RPM that is independent of the Fedora OS? Or is it possible to compile and use the patch installed from sourc

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Haney
John Smith wrote: Do you mean build the source and install it overtop the RPM or do you mean uninstall the RPM then build and install from source... Please, don't top post, it's hard to keep track of what I've said. No, it means get the latest source RPM for bind: http://download.fedora.redh

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in my reply to Bill, fdisk sh

Re: How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

2008-08-12 Thread John Smith
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Smith wrote: > >> Do you mean build the source and install it overtop the RPM or do you mean >> uninstall the RPM then build and install from source... >> >> > Please, don't top post, it's hard to keep track of what I've

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-12 Thread Gene Poole
My mistake on the lack of details. I am attempting to use the tar.gz format of the vmware server 1.0.6.91891. To be exact, the install works, it's the configuration that aborts at the vmmon creation step. I tried a new test and found the following: 1. On a machine running the 32-bit v

F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might be better off with F8 than F9. Is this true? Thanks, Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: fc9 install

2008-08-12 Thread James Kosin
Paul Newell wrote: From reading the fc docs, it appears that this is the mailing list to send questions about installation of fedora core (in the case, FC9). Before I send email, I want to make sure I have the right mailing list and, if not, would please ask for advice about which mailing lis

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might be better off with F8 than F9. Is this true? The answer is either "y

how to decrease timeout when enter wrong password

2008-08-12 Thread michael
Peeps, any thoughts on the below? Ta, M On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:59 +0100, michael wrote: > I've tried and tried but failed and failed to determine where the > setting is for the delay post wrong user/pass at the gdmgreeter screen. > It current seems about 90 secs which is a bit too long (I'd be m

Re: time/ntp[d]

2008-08-12 Thread Todd Denniston
michael wrote, On 08/11/2008 07:46 AM: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:15 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: michael wrote, On 08/07/2008 10:47 AM: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: BTW assuming ntpd is still running it might be interesting to run date && \ ntpdate -d ntp2.mcc.ac.u

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Haney
Ed Greshko wrote: The answer is either "yes", "no", or "maybe". And you get 10 points for asking one of the silliest questions I've seen asked her in quite some time. Why is it silly? I think it's personally a good one to ask especially where stability is concerned. We all know F9 is

RE: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Arch Willingham
It sounded like a reasonable question to me. Who knows if this guy is new to this group (or even Linux) but non-friendly answers are a good way to send a newbie packing (and perpetuate the rumor that Linux is non-friendly to a new user). Mike...in the FWIW department, I have F9 running on 12 ma

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Horsley
> I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above > all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might > be better off with F8 than F9. Is this true? I'm still running F8 as my primary system bec

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:05 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above > all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might > be better off with F8 than

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Christopher Mocock
Tom Horsley wrote: since the release. My main blocker with F9 now is that I haven't yet figured out how to rip pulseaudio out and get alsa functioning again. I've never managed to get pulse-audio working (although TBH I haven't tried very hard), so I just do a "yum remove pulse*" and that's al

Re: Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [was Re: burning iso image on a Mac] > > I'm just starting to play around with Linux. A couple of days ago, I > installed Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500. When I switch from one > application to another by clicking (say) on a Firefox win

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above > all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might > be bette

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Christopher Mocock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> since the release. My main blocker with F9 now is that >> I haven't yet figured out how to rip pulseaudio out >> and get alsa functioning again. >> > > I've never managed to get pulse-audio work

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Thanks once again Mikkel; On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:51 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > If you don't boot Windows often, and you normally want to boot Linux > the next time you boot after running Windows, you could try Booting > once-only setup in Grub. This is

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:25:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My >> requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; >> openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might >> be b

To mount or not to mount, that's the question!

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am a bit confused. I have a small audio/video collection and it is placed in an NTFS file-system on a secondary disk, and I noticed that it is fusefs mounted into the /media directory. The problem for me, is that I am unable to set ownership and attributes (selinux) on this mounted file-syste

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in

Re: F8: how to enable wpa-supplicant at boot from network scripts?

2008-08-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jurgen Kramer wrote: Hi, I want to replace my cable based network on my F8 based MyhtTV mediacenter with a wireless one. I already managed to configure wpa-supplicant properly. When I start it by hand it works nicely. The next step is to make it run using the network scripts, what do I need to

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike C wrote: Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: Better in what way? I think either case gets you out of typing a 2nd LIKS password. Using /dev/urandom seems to avoid having a password where anyone could ever recover it, and I think using LUKS on swap will kill suspend in either case (it may wor

Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Gene Poole wrote: My mistake on the lack of details. I am attempting to use the tar.gz format of the vmware server 1.0.6.91891. To be exact, the install works, it's the configuration that aborts at the vmmon creation step. Yes, I ran into this on F9 x86_64. I'm using the RPMs from VMWare.

Re: F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Snook
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Is anyone running this combination with either the nv driver or the binary nvidia driver? Are there any issues--in particular with suspend or hibernate and resume? I have a ThinkPad T61 with this card. I'd like to know before I upgrade that I will still be able to suspe

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Locke
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:05 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilte

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Russell Miller wrote: You know, those on this list may beat me up for this, but if you're looking for stability and least fuss, I'd suggest CentOS instead. As someone else pointed out, Fedora is for people who want to get their hands dirty and try out the bleeding edge - and it doesn't sound

Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Last week I was messing around with my network and Internet connections and managed to break NeteworkManager. See thread "Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?" Aug 5. Since I couldn't get it fixed, I stopped and disabled the NetworkManager service. I now find that many of my gnome

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:05 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilter

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Christopher Mocock
Russell Miller wrote: It might bea permissions problem... I found that by changing the ownership on the alsa device files to root:pulse-rt and adding your local user to pulse-rt, it started working. Someone is insisting that's not a bug, which does not make me happy. Thanks. I did try tha

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Christopher Mocock wrote: Russell Miller wrote: It might be permissions problem... I found that by changing the ownership on the alsa device files to root:pulse-rt and adding your local user to pulse-rt, it started working. Someone is insisting that's not a bug, which does not make me happy

Re: Live USB-stick format

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Davidsen wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec,

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Ter 12 Ago 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escreveu: > I need to install a few new systems in the next > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above > all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might > be better off with F8 than F9. Is this

Re: Re: Fedora 8 and VMware Server

2008-08-12 Thread Gene Poole
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > Yes, I ran into this on F9 x86_64. I'm using the RPMs from VMWare. I > had to go out and get the latest vmware-any-any-update. I think I found > version for 116, 117, and 117a. In order to get it running on my laptop. > > My laptop came with VMWare already conf

Re: Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [was Re: burning iso image on a Mac] > > I'm just starting to play around with Linux. A couple of days ago, I > installed Ubuntu on my Inspiron 7500. When I switch from one > application to another by clicking (say) on a Firefox win

Re: To mount or not to mount, that's the question!

2008-08-12 Thread Markku Kolkka
Daniel B. Thurman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 12. elokuuta 2008): > I am a bit confused. I have a small audio/video collection > and it is placed in an NTFS file-system on a secondary disk, > and I noticed that it is fusefs mounted into the /media > directory. The problem for me,

Re: Xvfb - desperate -- help needed... FIXED!!

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 06:30 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: > > but I gotta have the X11 > > > applications features enabled (thus Xvfb) >

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 19:54, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Em Ter 12 Ago 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escreveu: > > I need to install a few new systems in the next > > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above > > all, stability. I h

Re: Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:04 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 19:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > In my Fedora 9 system it's /etc/xorg.conf. > > > > Not here. > > How odd. Maybe it depends on how the file is initially created? > > > That sounds more like you'v

Re: Creating a local repository

2008-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 22:07:49 -0400, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I know that someday I will get the "command line too long" > message, and decided to create a repository. And it looks as if the While you might still want to do this, you probably won't be getting

Re: f9 kerneloops

2008-08-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:52 -0700, David L wrote: > I noticed my f9 system was slow and checked CPU usage with top. > top showed a process called kerneloops sucking 98% of the CPU. > Is this normal? If not, what is one supposed to do to provide > debugging > info? Exactly the same thing happened

FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

2008-08-12 Thread Stephen Soliday
I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4 I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard with the 0505 bios release IDE: /dev/hda1ntfs Windows vista boot /dev/hda2linux-swap /dev/hda3reiserfsdebian / SATA: /dev/sda1 & /

Re: FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

2008-08-12 Thread Seann Clark
Stephen Soliday wrote: I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4 I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard with the 0505 bios release IDE: /dev/hda1ntfs Windows vista boot /dev/hda2linux-swap /dev/hda3reiserfsdebia

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2008 19:54, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: >> Em Ter 12 Ago 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escreveu: >> > I need to install a few new systems in the next >> > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code

Re: Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I doubt the problem you're seeing is related to Ubuntu specifically. > It's more likely a configuration problem e.g. with the X drivers, or > perhaps you're using Compiz and your video hardware isn't up to it. Or > ma

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:55 AM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't I be able to make commandline adjustments to network > configurations (for ill or good) and still get NetworkManager to > continue to operate, on my machine at least? If I made mistakes, > shouldn't I, none-the-l

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Mark Haney wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The answer is either "yes", "no", or "maybe". And you get 10 points for asking one of the silliest questions I've seen asked her in quite some time. Why is it silly? Basically because it doesn't have enough detail. It doesn't tell us what versi

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:05:13 am Russell Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install a few new systems in the next > > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code > > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; an

Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread jeff goudie
Hi there, I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like to have them run once a week automatically using cron.. I looked on the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to create this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root 45 12 * * 0 root

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed the original thread detailing how you munched your NM config..ill > need to go back and read it. But quick answer for now on how you can work > around this until i understand how you screwed up your NM config: >

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:00 -0400, jeff goudie wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like > to have them run once a week automatically using cron.. I looked on > the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to > create this:

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:00 -0400, jeff goudie wrote: Hi there, I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like to have them run once a week automatically using cron.. I looked on the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root > 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh > 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh > > When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon > with th

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread Aldo Foot
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root >> 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh >> 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh >>

Re: F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

2008-08-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:00 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Is anyone running this combination with either the nv driver or the > > binary nvidia driver? Are there any issues--in particular with suspend > > or hibernate and resume? > > > > I have a ThinkPad T61 with this

Re: time/ntp[d]

2008-08-12 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:32 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > The time-of-year (TOY)* or BIOS clock is THE hardware clock in MOST > "PC" equipment, and yes it is usually backed up by a battery. I've seen some PCs where it's *only* run off the battery. i.e. There is no mains supplied power to the clo

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-12 Thread jeff goudie
Thanks for everbody's help! Both jobs ran after removing root as suggested. Thanks agan! On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Aldo Foot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTE

PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-12 Thread MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED
I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped working. When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly and then disappears. Other things, including Firefox and Apache seem fine so far. Thanks for you

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-12 Thread Roger Heflin
MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped working. When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly and then disappears. Other things, including Firefox and Apache see

help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-12 Thread Ravi
Hi , I am planning to install fedora 9 on my external USB hard disk. right now my laptop is having windows vista. how do I manage vista when i unplug my USB hard disk because grub will be stored on external hard disk. I have a dvd with fedora 9 to install fedora 9 I should

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-12 Thread MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) >> because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped >> working. When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly an

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ravi writes: Hi ,      I am planning to install fedora 9 on my external USB hard disk. right now my laptop is having windows vista. how do I manage vista when i unplug my USB hard disk because grub will be stored on external hard disk.   I have a dvd with fedora 9 t

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ravi wrote: Hi , I am planning to install fedora 9 on my external USB hard disk. right now my laptop is having windows vista. how do I manage vista when i unplug my USB hard disk because grub will be stored on external hard disk. I have a dvd with fedora 9

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi Jeff; I would appreciate the help getting things back to normal. On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:05 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I missed the original thread detailing how you munched your NM > config..

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-12 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > The advantages to this are that you do not touch the built in drive, > and you can plug the USB drive into another computer and boot from > it. That way, you can take your Linux drive with you and run it on > most other

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 21:54:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > > When ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers or one of its clients, > > or any other IANA RIR) assigns a /8, or /16 number and registers a

Re: Sony videocam w/ USB

2008-08-12 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss > of picture quality? have you considered 'dcraw'? http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. l

Re: Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 13:49 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > There was an issue with firefox aggressively requesting a > disk fsync to save state that appeared on linux late in the firefox 3 > run up. Good catch. I'd forgotten about that one. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T