Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 15 January 2009 23:56:12 Robert L Cochran wrote: > Are the no-name-brand, two-port, USB 2.0 PS2 KVM switch boxes with two > cables which sell for $14.99 and free shipping on EBay any good? Here is > an example: item 140294824343 from seller insidecomputer. Recent > discussions (from 200

Scripting - SMS when there is a login

2009-01-16 Thread Leon Vergottini
Hi My manager tasked me with writing a script that will SMS a notification when someone logs in to our Linux server. The requirements are 1. Capture any login to the server 2. Create a csv file 3. Copy the csv file to a Windows SMS server I am really streched here because I have no knowlegde

thanks, computerworld!

2009-01-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"IT Professional, "Did you know that Linux® maintains its relevance for low-level tasks while remaining highly useful elsewhere in the data center?" well, slap me with a halibut and send me to alaska! thanks, computerworld, i had no idea. :-P rday -- ==

how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of my systems, and it fails with: "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc " fair enough, so which of the perl module packages would i need to in

Re: Scripting - SMS when there is a login

2009-01-16 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
Leon Vergottini wrote: My manager tasked me with writing a script that will SMS a notification when someone logs in to our Linux server. The requirements are 1. Capture any login to the server You have two ways of doing this with pam or with logfiles. You could use pam_preprofile module or w

Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread jack wallen
Robert L Cochran wrote: jack wallen wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: Are the no-name-brand, two-port, USB 2.0 PS2 KVM switch boxes with two cables which sell for $14.99 and free shipping on EBay any good? Here is an example: item 140294824343 from seller insidecomputer. Recent discussio

Fedora 10 boot screen

2009-01-16 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have installed F-10 on several machines. A HP proliant, a T42, and a Dell D620 On the T42, when it's booting, there's a nice graphical (kinda like a blue planet exploding :) in the lower right. There is also a back splash with the Fedora lo

Re: Fedora 10 boot screen

2009-01-16 Thread phil smith
Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have installed F-10 on several machines. A HP proliant, a T42, and a Dell D620 On the T42, when it's booting, there's a nice graphical (kinda like a blue planet exploding :) in the lower right. There is also a back s

Re: how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Flo Williams
Robert P. J. Day wrote: is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of my systems, and it fails with: "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc " yum whatprovides 'perl(IO::Uncompress::Gun

Re: HOWTO: Use KDE 3 from F8 on F10

2009-01-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> I'm not writing all the details here now, but if anyone is >> interested, I can do it (and publish the spec files if >> someone wants to try). > > Please don't. We don't want our users to run unsupported software, and we > especially don't want you

Re: Upgrade and SELinux messages

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les wrote: > I upgraded from F8 to F10. It appeared to go smoothly, but then I > received the following SELinux errors: > > // > /** first > > Summary: > > SELinu

Re: debuginfo-install failing for libtdb - just me ?

2009-01-16 Thread David Timms
Rahul Sundaram wrote: File it. fyi: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480316 DaveT. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
Hi, I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new terminal (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the new terminal starts with a current work dir being ~/Desktop (instead of ~/). Is this an u

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new terminal (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the new terminal starts with a current work dir being ~/Desktop (

Re: rkhunter Question.

2009-01-16 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2009, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:29:49 + > > > >John Horne wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > On Thursday 08 January 2009, John Horne wrote: > > > >...snip... >

Re: Update revisor

2009-01-16 Thread Todd Denniston
Kevin Kofler wrote, On 01/15/2009 09:43 PM: Terry Polzin wrote: I'm running F8 Fedora 8 is no longer supported. Please upgrade. Kevin Kofler Kevin, please re read what Terry wrote... upgrading is what he is asking about, though he is asking about how to do it with a specific tool.

App to manage/track/spawn processes

2009-01-16 Thread bruce
Hi. Not really a Fedora question, but maybe someone has thoughts on how to implement this. I've got a situation where I'm looking to have a process where I spawn off a number of external apps. I'd like an app to manage the entire process of creating/tracking the child apps. So basically, I'd like

preupgrade question

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
Am I correct if I am trying to use preupgrade to upgrade from F9 to F10 I am going to have trouble is in F9 the /boot is not a separate partition? -- === The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert Heinlein ==

Re: How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?

2009-01-16 Thread Todd Denniston
Linuxguy123 wrote, On 01/15/2009 04:04 PM: I'm doing some embedded development and my flash programmer has a USB interface. Everything works fine if I program the device as root, but I'd like to be able to do it as a regular user. I get port permission errors if I try to run the programmer as a

Re: Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:27 -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > B Wooster wrote: > > I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora > > Core 7. > > > > I want to avoid shutting down and rebooting and spending the hours to > > install Fedora 10 on this. > > > > I do have a second

Re: mount question [SOLVED]

2009-01-16 Thread Steve
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > I'll try changing the type from fuse to ntfs tonight and see what > > that does. The error message of "permission denied" leads me to > > think that this will not solve the problem but hey, I've been wrong > > before...1982 I think it was... ;-D > > > > I

Re: Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?

2009-01-16 Thread Antonio M
2009/1/16 Aaron Konstam : > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:27 -0500, Chris Snook wrote: >> B Wooster wrote: >> > I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora >> > Core 7. >> > >> > I want to avoid shutting down and rebooting and spending the hours to >> > install Fedora 10 on

connectivity problems with FC10

2009-01-16 Thread Harry R.
Friends, I have installed FC10 (fresh install, new partitions, format all) and installation went fine, but the network connections. I can connect to all machines on my own network, but Firefox 3 cannot, claiming that whatever http address I type in is wrong. Opera however works fine, and I ca

Re: rkhunter Question.

2009-01-16 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:18 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > I have run rkhunter --propupd many times, I do have a copy of group > and passwd in /var/run/rkhunter, but I always receive an email saying > that there is no copy of group and passwd. Upgrading to 1.3.4 did not > change anything. This

hal rules (was: How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?)

2009-01-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:39:36 -0500 Todd Denniston wrote: > suggestion: find the udev|hal rules for allowing the console logged in user > to > use the sound card, and mimic them for your device. I always wonder about how to fiddle hal rules. I have found hal rules in the past I wanted to change

Re: preupgrade question

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Am I correct if I am trying to use preupgrade to upgrade from F9 to F10 > I am going to have trouble is in F9 the /boot is not a separate > partition? I think that most people are in that boat. I wouldn't say that you are going to have

Re: Setting gnome-terminal default size

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 17:08 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say) > 90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am > getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system. > > Thanks - jon > gnome-term

Re: FC10, Could not start Kstartupconfig

2009-01-16 Thread Jim
Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:57 -0500, Jim wrote: Had to reinstall box with KDE and when partitioning I left the /home/users directories alone. after installation i had to put the users back in with passwords (no change in username and password) Out of five users when trying to log ba

Re: connectivity problems with FC10

2009-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 16 January 2009 14:52:33 Harry R. wrote: > Friends, I have installed FC10 (fresh install, new partitions, format all) > and installation went fine, but the network connections. > > I can connect to all machines on my own network, but Firefox 3 cannot, > claiming that whatever http address

Re: unable to enumerate USB device

2009-01-16 Thread Jim
Robin Laing wrote: jack wallen wrote: After an update (fedora 10) none of my USB devices are recognized. This is what i get from dmesg: Jan 14 17:17:13 localhost kernel: usb 1-7: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 20 Jan 14 17:17:13 localhost kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor

Re: rkhunter Question.

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2009, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: >On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 11 January 2009, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:29:49 + >> > >> >John Horne wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > On Thurs

Re: No system-config-display, so what now?

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 03:39 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Isn't the command: Xorg -configure > > /usr/bin/X is a symlink to Xorg. > > Kevin Kofler > So it is. Which allowed me to get into a confusing loop. The help data for gnome-terminal says you can use the --ge

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aldo Foot wrote: > > My understanding is that in /media the OS expects to find removable media > such as usb drives. The /mnt mount point is for nfs and local filesystems. > Those mount points are sort of "designated" places for specific filesystems. > > Please shed some light if I'm wrong. > ~af

Re: connectivity problems with FC10

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:52 +0100, Harry R. wrote: > Friends, I have installed FC10 (fresh install, new partitions, format all) > and installation went > fine, but the network connections. > > I can connect to all machines on my own network, but Firefox 3 cannot, > claiming that > whatever htt

Re: How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?

2009-01-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm doing some embedded development and my flash programmer has a USB > interface. Everything works fine if I program the device as root, but > I'd like to be able to do it as a regular user. I get port permission > errors if I try to run the programmer as a regular user. >

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. > One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new > terminal > (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the > new terminal > sta

Re: Need help with WLAN on Eee PC 1000H

2009-01-16 Thread Jim
Adalbert Prokop wrote: fred smith schrieb: Hello! And there's no need to compile it for f10 either. Just add the RPM FUsion free and nonfree repositories then use "add/remove software" to add the kmod or akmod packages for the rt2860 driver. Voila. Well, my experience say otherwise..

Re: preupgrade question

2009-01-16 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: I wouldn't say that you are going to have trouble...what does happen is that it will attempt to download a bootable image which requires a wired internet connection with dhcp so the network adaptor will configure itself, obtain DNS and download the necessa

Re: how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Jake Peavy
On 1/16/09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding > package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of > my systems, and it fails with: > > "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc " > > fair enough, so

Re: No system-config-display, so what now?

2009-01-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:16:14 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: > The help data > for gnome-terminal says you can use the --geometry option and to look at > man X for further details. Ah, but conveniently, the X11 docs are left out of the default install. If you "yum install xorg-x11-docs", then you will

F10 Installation: Unable use Add/remove packages or Yum

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
F-10 Repository: Fedora 10 - i386 Fedora 10 - Updates 1. Add/Remove Software: No results were found. Try entering a package name in the search bar. 2. Yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirror list http://mirros.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=i38

No login screen after reboot in Fedora 10

2009-01-16 Thread abhishek rane
Fedora 10 was running fine on my friend's laptop.Today when I rebooted the bootloader and bootsplash everything shows up but there is no login screen only a black screen with a blinking cursor.So I went to the terminal and typed startx which gave me errors like (EE) module ABI major version (4) doe

Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread Les
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0500, jack wallen wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: > > Are the no-name-brand, two-port, USB 2.0 PS2 KVM switch boxes with two > > cables which sell for $14.99 and free shipping on EBay any good? Here is > > an example: item 140294824343 from seller insidecomputer. Recen

Re: Fedora 10 boot screen

2009-01-16 Thread Shannon McMackin
phil smith wrote: Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have installed F-10 on several machines. A HP proliant, a T42, and a Dell D620 On the T42, when it's booting, there's a nice graphical (kinda like a blue planet exploding :) in the lower right.

Re: Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?

2009-01-16 Thread Phil Meyer
B Wooster wrote: I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora Core 7. I want to avoid shutting down and rebooting and spending the hours to install Fedora 10 on this. I do have a second drive in this system that is not being used. So, wondering if I could run some sp

Re: F10 Installation: Unable use Add/remove packages or Yum

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: F-10 Repository: Fedora 10 - i386 Fedora 10 - Updates 1. Add/Remove Software: No results were found. Try entering a package name in the search bar. 2. Yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirror list http://mirros.fedoraproject.org/mirrorli

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new terminal (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the new terminal starts with a

Re: F10 Installation: Unable use Add/remove packages or Yum

2009-01-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: F-10 Repository: Fedora 10 - i386 Fedora 10 - Updates 1. Add/Remove Software: No results were found. Try entering a package name in the search bar. 2. Yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirror list http://mirros.fedoraproject.org/mirrorli

Re: Your favorite CMS running docs.fedoraproject.org?

2009-01-16 Thread Karsten Wade
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Operator (postnuke.tv) wrote: > > > The Zikula project might be very interested... You could have Zikula > > deployed with the project's help and support? > > Moreover, at some point in the near future, we'd like to be providing > > a F

Re: F10 Installation: Unable use Add/remove packages or Yum

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Ralf Corsepius wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: F-10 Repository: Fedora 10 - i386 Fedora 10 - Updates 1. Add/Remove Software: No results were found. Try entering a package name in the search bar. 2. Yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirror list http://mirros.fed

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
Aaron Konstam writes: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. >> One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new >> terminal >> (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the p

how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Globe Trotter
Hi, Just installed Fedora from scratch on a machine using the XFCE spin. I usually keep the userspace in another partition, /usr/local (let us say /usr/local/trotter. Previously, I would add skip the create user step and log in as root and then create user with directory using system-config-use

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Globe Trotter wrote: > I usually keep the userspace in another partition, /usr/local (let > us say /usr/local/trotter. I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different partition? That seems more elegant to me (and would work better with SELinux as well, though you might not care if you disab

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Globe Trotter
> I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different > partition? > That seems more elegant to me (and would work better with > SELinux as > well, though you might not care if you disable SELinux or > run in > permissive mode :). Thanks! I wonder that myself, sometimes, but it is for historica

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Harry R.
If I understand the question correctly, here is my 2 cents. I simply move the original '/home' dir to a partition of my liking then create a symlink from / to that partition. Then I rename /home to something else. Has worked perfectly for me so far H. On 16 Jan 2009 at 10:02, Globe Trott

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Les
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:54 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Globe Trotter wrote: > > I usually keep the userspace in another partition, /usr/local (let > > us say /usr/local/trotter. > > I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different partition? > That seems more elegant to me (and would wor

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Aldo Foot wrote: >> >> My understanding is that in /media the OS expects to find removable media >> such as usb drives. The /mnt mount point is for nfs and local filesystems. >> Those mount points are sort of "designated" places for spe

Re: unable to enumerate USB device

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:14 -0500, Jim wrote: > Hubs that get there power source from the computer are the ones that > give you problems, because of voltage drop across the cable to > computer. Not just the potential of that happening, but the host mayn't be able to supply the amount of current d

Re: F10 Installation: Unable use Add/remove packages or Yum [SOLVED]

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: F-10 Repository: Fedora 10 - i386 Fedora 10 - Updates 1. Add/Remove Software: No results were found. Try entering a package name in the search bar. 2. Yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirr

squid help for F7?

2009-01-16 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I'd like to run squid on my F7 setup and am getting an error every time I try to start the service. The logfile shows the output below (repeatedly) Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.009 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.005 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page fa

unable to get email

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
I just installed Fedora core 9 on my laptop, to replace Ubuntu. I have a separate /home, so I didn't lose any emails, or settings.. Once I reinstalled thunderbird, and copied over the old settings, I thought I had it working. But it fails to get emails from my IMAP accounts, except for my 1 busin

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Robin Laing
Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Craig White wrote: Not true. The ntfs module could be compiled with write abilities in RH9. It wasn't _reliable_ but it was there, and it didn't use udev. udev really doesn't have anything to do with filesystems other than potentially triggeri

Re: how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Gustavo Eli
another way to view the installed modules installed to see the documentation for each module ;) perldoc perllocal Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H. > > is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding > package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of > my systems, an

Total newcomer trrying to set up wireless

2009-01-16 Thread David Henig
Hi all, I recently built my first Linux system, figuring it was time to give Linux a try after years and years with Windows (and many more besides in years gone by, including Unix). It's not going well I'm afraid... I connect to the internet using a Buffalo Wireless G adaptor, but having plugged th

Re: Asset Management

2009-01-16 Thread Robin Laing
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I know there are plenty of asset management software out there. Everything I've seen so far is for hardware and software, network, manufacturer, etc., etc. I'm looking for something a little bit broader. I want one location for all our marketing and web assets. Stoc

Re: unable to get email

2009-01-16 Thread Mark Haney
Paul Cartwright wrote: > I just installed Fedora core 9 on my laptop, to replace Ubuntu. I have a > separate /home, so I didn't lose any emails, or settings.. Once I reinstalled > thunderbird, and copied over the old settings, I thought I had it working. > But it fails to get emails from my IMAP

Re: how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
> is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding > package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of > my systems, and it fails with: > > "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc " [r...@cerberus bruno]# yum whatprovides '*/IO/Uncompress/Gun

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Aaron Konstam writes: > >> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. >>> One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new >>> terminal

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Marc Schwartz > wrote: >> Aaron Konstam writes: >> >>> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One thing that midly a

Re: hal rules (was: How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?)

2009-01-16 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:59 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:39:36 -0500 > Todd Denniston wrote: > > > suggestion: find the udev|hal rules for allowing the console logged in user > > to > > use the sound card, and mimic them for your device. > > I always wonder about how to fi

Re: How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?

2009-01-16 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:39 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > suggestion: find the udev|hal rules for allowing the console logged in > user to > use the sound card, and mimic them for your device. I agree with the approach, although reading an article that outlined how it works these days in F10 wou

Re: squid help for F7?

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:16 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > I'd like to run squid on my F7 setup Fedora 7 is very old, very outdated, and so is any software pre-packaged for it. If it has bugs, and it probably does, they won't be fixed. This is especially important for security related bugs. And an

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:58 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > The fix is to run this as root: > > gconftool-2 --set --type=bool > /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true Shouldn't that be done as the user that wants their configuration changed? It works for me, done as me, here on my comp

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Steve
Robin Laing wrote: > > > > From the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html That page has not been updated since 2004. Still valid? Apparently, HAL doesn't think so. > > /media : Mount point for removable media > Purpose > > This direct

Re: FC10, Could not start Kstartupconfig

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> How did you create the new user logins? >> >> I'm guessing that you just added new users, one by one, and didn't >> add them in the same order as the first time around. So that some >> user names have the same user ID (numerical), and some don't. Jim: > Most likely that's what i did and

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:58 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >> The fix is to run this as root: >> >> gconftool-2 --set --type=bool >> /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true > > Shouldn't that be done as the user that wants their configuration

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:58 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >>> The fix is to run this as root: >>> >>> gconftool-2 --set --type=bool >>> /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true >> >> Should

Re: Total newcomer trrying to set up wireless

2009-01-16 Thread Seann Clark
David Henig wrote: Hi all, I recently built my first Linux system, figuring it was time to give Linux a try after years and years with Windows (and many more besides in years gone by, including Unix). It's not going well I'm afraid... I connect to the internet using a Buffalo Wireless G adapt

Re: mount question

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:23 -0500, Steve wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > > > > > > From the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. > > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html > > That page has not been updated since 2004. Still valid? Apparently, HAL > doesn't think so. still valid for

Internal IDE DVD Burner

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Poole
I think I've run into a bad DVD burner/reader and maybe someone can help. At home I've got 5-internal DVD burners and at work I have 1-external DVD burner at my disposal. Of these 6-burners I'm pretty sure I know the brand names of most (2-Sony; 1-HP; 1-eMachine; 1-Pioneer; 1-LiteOn) based upon

Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:12 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Are the no-name-brand, two-port, USB 2.0 PS2 KVM switch boxes with two > cables which sell for $14.99 and free shipping on EBay any good? [...] Here's another possibility. An outfir called MiniView (probably generic Chinese, g

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Globe Trotter wrote: > Thanks! I wonder that myself, sometimes, but it is for historical > reasons. In the days that there was no rpms, I used to keep locally > installed programs there and did not want it wiped out with every > new tinkering. I still use some of them, but all options are set to >

ASUS Eee just arrived - F10 install planning

2009-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Gee, my old Libretto 110 has a better layout than this thing! Too bad its max memory is 64Mb Once I instal F10, is there a way to have a right mouse click from the pad? Or am I only going to get that with an external mouse. Where can I find hard docs, specs, on this? The bottom label s

Re: Internal IDE DVD Burner

2009-01-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:12 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: > The burner I seem to be have the problem with is the Pioneer. It > doesn't seem to process a Fedora 9 x86_64 or CentOS 5.2 x86_64 > installation DVD - even if the thing was burned on it! Sounds suspiciously like a flakey drive. > Is it beca

Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 16 2009, Beartooth wrote: > > Are the no-name-brand, two-port, USB 2.0 PS2 KVM switch boxes with two > > cables which sell for $14.99 and free shipping on EBay any good? [...] > > Here's another possibility. An outfir called MiniView (probably > generic Chinese, given where I

Re: Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote: > 2009/1/16 Aaron Konstam : > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:27 -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > >> B Wooster wrote: > >> > I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora > >> > Core 7. > >> > > >> > I want to avoid shutting down

Re: HOWTO: Use KDE 3 from F8 on F10

2009-01-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> So it now runs F10 with KDE 3.5.10 from F8 updates. > > These packages are NO LONGER UPDATED. And running F8 packages on F9 or F10 > has always been asking for trouble, especially for software like KDE with a > lot of dependencies. Kevin, the package

Re: HOWTO: Use KDE 3 from F8 on F10

2009-01-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Rex Dieter wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >>> I'm not writing all the details here now, but if anyone is >>> interested, I can do it (and publish the spec files if >>> someone wants to try). >> Please don't. We don't want our users to run unsupported software, and we >>

Re: No system-config-display, so what now?

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:35 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:16:14 -0600 > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > The help data > > for gnome-terminal says you can use the --geometry option and to look at > > man X for further details. > > Ah, but conveniently, the X11 docs are left out of

skype and sms

2009-01-16 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hi list I want to send SMS with skype. I found this extra http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skysentials/ The developper just says to have python and to have skype4py in the same directory. I have extracted skysentiels in skype4py but I don't know how to use it. can you help please regards Adel

Re: Total newcomer trrying to set up wireless

2009-01-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:30 +, David Henig wrote: > Hi all, I recently built my first Linux system, figuring it was time > to give Linux a try after years and years with Windows (and many more > besides in years gone by, including Unix). > > > It's not going well I'm afraid... I connect to th

Re: skype and sms

2009-01-16 Thread Mark Haney
Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Hi list > I want to send SMS with skype. > I found this extra http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skysentials/ > The developper just says to have python and to have skype4py in the same > directory. > I have extracted skysentiels in skype4py but I don't know how to use it. > c

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:32:18AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Aaron Konstam writes: > > > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. > >> One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a ne

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:48:09AM -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tim wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:58 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > >>> The fix is to run this as root: > >>> > >>> gconftool-2 --set --type=bool > >>

Re: Need help with WLAN on Eee PC 1000H

2009-01-16 Thread Adalbert Prokop
Jim wrote on Friday 16 January 2009: Hello! > Did FC10 possibly setup a driver for it before you installed the kmod > driver ? Which driver could F10 possibly setup? There is no rt2860sta module in the fedora flavored kernel and I suppose no other module is responsible for the ralink chipset i

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:48:09AM -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Kam Leo wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tim wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:58 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >> >>> The fix is to ru

Re: HOWTO: Use KDE 3 from F8 on F10

2009-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Not even I've recompiled its src.rpm. Just satisfied dependencies. That's one of the issues. To make this work in a somehow reasonable way, you have to rebuild KDE 3 against the current libs, not rebuild old libs to run the old packages. Another big issue is that you have

Re: Evolution crashes with exchange after update to testing

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 17:50 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I updated Evo this morning to the version in updates-testing. Now it crashes on startup, unless I remove the evolution-exchange package. Normally, I'd just uninstall the testing version and go back, but tha

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:15:30PM -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > You'd only want to do this on a per-user basis, so that's the expected > > behavior. Global GConf schemas and defaults are stored in /etc/gconf. > > How does one view or edi

Re: HOWTO: Use KDE 3 from F8 on F10

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 23:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Not even I've recompiled its src.rpm. Just satisfied dependencies. > > That's one of the issues. To make this work in a somehow reasonable way, you > have to rebuild KDE 3 against the current libs, not rebuild old l

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