Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 08:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Thanks for your response. I guess iPlayer is exactly what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it is restricted to UK residents. I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:32 PM, Edward S.P. Leong wrote: Dear All, Happy New Year ! As the title... Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ? Thanks ! Edward. -ENOTENOUGHINFO What sort of RAID card? How much do you want to spend? What capacities are you looking for? What features do you

Re: FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:06 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:19 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 864 votes (4*216).

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- linux/ I'm not sure I understand the term recovery in this

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:48 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: bash-4.0$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:44 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 07:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I'm sorry, I missed the grep. So all I did was cat the /proc/info and didn't know what to look for? This F-11 box yields: [b...@box9 ~]$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo nothing returned This

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain

Re: linux as router

2009-12-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 22:59 +0100, paul van der meij wrote: I don't think that it makes sense to configure a router with one physical network card. If another PC on the same cable segment tries to reach something it needs a router that has connection with more than the same network cable. Not

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 12:57 AM, Craig White wrote: problems typically occur because Fedora always names the LVM groups/partitions with the same naming scheme and when you want to This is a posibility here with older releases (although F12 doesn't do this (thank you! thank you!); it now includes the

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 09:18 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I posted the question and found the response interesting and helpful. I spent a couple of hours reading man pages and experimenting with the lvm commands on various drives. But I have not been able to open a volume and list the directories and

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected also? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678 Jarmo A user with root privileges (or who has configured the necessary authorizations for their user account via

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 03:02 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 11/12/09 14:55, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected also? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678 Jarmo Given

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I bought a new gadget, a USB2 Universal Drive Adapter which does essentially what an external drive box does but it is not limited to SATA drives, On the F-12 computer it shows up in lsusb and I can see a drive at /dev/sdc

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:28 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 10/12/09 10:19, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: blkid /dev/sdc1 Ok, thank you, that gives me a bit more information: [r...@box6 bob]# file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: LVM2 (Linux Logical Volume Manager) , UUID

Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:23 +, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: Hi All, I have several Xen virtual machines within logical volumes using LVM2. I did not use disk images for performance reasons. Conventionally, if I want to clone my virtual machines, I have to dd the LV to an

Re: [Xen-users] How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:45 +, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64 of=mbr.w7-x64 bs=512 count=1 I think if you do this, you are only backing up the first 512 bytes of the logical volume, not the MBR. Someone correct me if I am wrong. That

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the output from ls -l? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions Bryn. --

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:58 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get the numeric mode back.

Re: Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

2009-11-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 03:50 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:47 +1100, David Timms wrote: Things to think about: - if you are talking about the same machine, disk drive tiredness would have reduced the access speed that you can achieve, when r/w to disk. Beg yours... drive

Re: Kernel using LZMA compression

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/04/2009 06:18 PM, Ikem Krueger wrote: The executive summary is: Xen does not let a kernel boot itself, because mimicking bare hardware is too tedious (and pointless.) Instead, Xen instantiates an instance of a kernel into the Xen environment. To do this instantiation, Xen does its own

Re: Kernel using LZMA compression

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/04/2009 06:37 PM, Ikem Krueger wrote: I am reading between the lines here (I have never looked at this stuff in Xen) but I would assume it's for the reason given above. The kernel's own decompression routines must run very early on in the boot process - well before the first line of C code

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:10 +, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server that the above command is run from. I'd like to know how to run this

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:13 +, Dan Track wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:14 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:10 PM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server that the above

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:32 +, Dan Track wrote: Hi Bryn, Many thanks. I tried hostname -s but I keep getting the following: hostname: Host name lookup failure Possibly your resolver on the servers is not configured to search its own local domain. Add a line like this to

Re: [OT] any good online doc for the details of compiling hello, world?

2009-10-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 02:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not really a fedora question, but i'm interested in a step-by-step description of what happens when one compiles and runs hello, world. it's sort of a fedora question since i want to relate those steps to the essential fedora packages

Re: Testing Device Failure

2009-10-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:12 +0100, Dan Track wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got two SAS links to my San, I want to test failure/recovery by eleminating and device node. The easiest way is to manually unplug a controller link and see

Re: How to find driver usage.

2009-10-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:52 +0100, Dan Track wrote: I've got two disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I'd like to reload the driver that they are using. How can I find out what driver is being used by them? The sysfs file system (normally mounted at /sys) is your friend, e.g: $ ls -l

Re: How to find out the parameters of an ext3 filesystem

2009-10-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Dan Track wrote: Great thanks. Can I ask one more question. I'm trying to put all the information in the following website: http://busybox.net/~aldot/mkfs_stride.html and it is asking me for the following: number of filesystem blocks

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:48 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: Yes, multipath -l may not show anything. multipath -v3 should always multipath -l and multipath -ll will always produce output when there is an active multipath device on the system (as is the case here) but that's not what the OP was asking

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 17:17 +0100, Dan Track wrote: I've configured multipath but I'm confused with the following. When I run multipath -v2 I don't get any output, but if I run multipath -v3 I get lot's of output e.g.: snip mpath0: pgfailback = -2 (controller setting) mpath0: pgpolicy =

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:23 +0100, Dan Track wrote: I've already got the following /dev/mapper/mpath0 and /dev/mpath/3600c0ff000d7ba4f4575b24a0100. Can you tell me how I can reload the config and end up with /dev/mapper/san1? That's a little bit strange; normally you'd expect the

Re: a fully open source ECM suite? i'm glad you asked.

2009-09-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:43 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:22:45 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html DISCLAIMER: i know the lady in question, but that doesn't stop you from appreciating

Re: um ... where is ksymoops?

2009-09-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 05:24 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i suspect i'm tripping over it without seeing it, but is there an actual fedora package containing ksymoops? The ksymoops utility is kinda ancient history these days. Much of its functionality has moved into the kernel; at least for

Re: Viewing virtual memory locations from the command line ??

2009-09-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 14:32 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I can use gnome-system-monitor with the Ctrl-M key to view memory addresses for various processes. It will show me a pop-up window with | VM Start | VM End | VM Size | Flags | VM Offset | etc. What would be the command line

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:50 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: haha ok, I guess I feel like it's MORE accurate to say yum is a package manager because it manages the RPM packages, but I digress. You make a reasonable argument... Semantics was never my strong suit, thus engineering over law :p

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:56 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: I'd like to buy a vowel. Yum is not a package manager. Can someone tell me what package xxd is in? I use this: qwhich () { if [ $1 == ]; then echo usage: qwhich cmd ; fi ; rpm -qf `which $1` ;} $ qwhich xxd

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:13 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:56 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: I'd like to buy a vowel. Yum is not a package manager. Huh

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 17:09 +0400, Hiisi wrote: Hi any way to list files but not directory Thank you ls -hl | grep ^- Lists things that aren't regular files. Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-21 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 05:17 -0700, ann kok wrote: ls -1 but I only want the file to list not directory ls -l | grep -v '^d' But that will also show you symlinks, fifos, device nodes etc. Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: comand-line driven image editor

2009-08-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:21 +0400, Hiisi wrote: Dear Fedora Folks! I want to write a script that would browse the WEB (Internet shops) and using wget will download goods description and pictures. I will parse resulted htmls then and represent data into another form (SQL INSERT command). I

Re: How to share a desktop? (for tutoring)

2009-07-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 11:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: I have a need to share a minimal desktop, VNC is out of the question as it's extremely heavy. But I haven't been able to find anything on desktop sharing with FreeNX, and there doesn't seem to be any RDP

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 17:21 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: I was reading an article today in ComputerWorld about something called KSplice, which allows Linux users to install critical updates and patch in without rebooting the computer. I tried it and while it was a bit odd for installing (not

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:22 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: Also, while KSplice is currently being used for kernel updates, it isn't limited to those. It could be adapted to work for other updates that normally force a reboot. Though, I can't think of any off the top of my head, it has been over

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:38 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: Then Linux shouldn't be compiled using kmods and instead as a monolithic binary, since kernel modules fall under the patent. Besides, there are tons of prior art on it. KSplice is a good technology that could possibly be integrated

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:34 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: The difference with what Ksplice inc. are now offering for Ubuntu is that they also provide a stream of pre-prepared updates for the released Ubuntu kernels (the Uptrack service). And as I explained, this can't

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 19:24 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: On 5/19/09, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: Page down works for me if I'm understanding what you want correctly (it takes me down to a blank command line s.t. hitting up arrow again will take me to the last line of history

Re: If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

2009-05-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 21:07 -0700, john wendel wrote: Intel finally realized that pipeline flushing was the main thing the processor was doing. The new (I7) architecture has fixed this problem, with very impressive results. I think you're confusing this with the original Core architecture

Re: fdisk issues - external drive.

2009-05-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:09 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote: I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this: 1) # fsisk device You ran fdisk on /dev/sdc1

Re: fdisk issues - external drive.

2009-05-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:16 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: I think FDisk is known to have issues with a single partition of this size. Try using parted to partition the disk instead. That's not true - it's a limitation of the MSDOS partition table format, not fdisk. The MBR partition table

Re: How to find which disk a LUN is mapped to

2009-04-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:16 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:25 +1200, Paul Ward wrote: Hi all, I need to find out which disk LUN6 points to on my RH3 box. Hmm. I just noticed that version. If you mean RHEL3 rather than Fedora Core 3 then you're unfortunately out

Re: How to find which disk a LUN is mapped to

2009-04-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 11:21 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:16 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:25 +1200, Paul Ward wrote: Hi all, I need to find out which disk LUN6 points to on my RH3 box. Hmm. I just noticed that version. If you mean

Re: How to find which disk a LUN is mapped to

2009-04-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:25 +1200, Paul Ward wrote: Hi all, I need to find out which disk LUN6 points to on my RH3 box. I have looked at /proc/scsi/scsi This gives me LUNS from 00 to 05 Does this mean 05 is infact LUN06? These days it's easiest to find this information from sysfs. Under

Re: size from df -kh vs size from fdisk -l

2009-04-22 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:08 +0930, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 09:13 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: After using fdisk or parted, one must do partprobe at the CLI to record the changes. Both the OS and the Kernel need to know the changes. I don't recall having to do that. The last time I

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:33 +, g wrote: Dave Ihnat wrote: I don't know where anyone got this lame substitute user stuff, but it's not authentic. then run 'man su' in a linux os and you will find out. Since we're discussing the origins of the species in this thread a historical copy

Re: RPM security (a newbie question)

2009-04-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 15:22 +0200, Stanisław T. Findeisen wrote: Todd Zullinger wrote: And, of course, on top of compiler options and firewalls, SELinux is one more layer that is added to protect against problems in upstream code. If upstream code has some hole that tries to mail off

Re: RPM security (a newbie question)

2009-04-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:12 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Then again, if you want to be safe, you should only use code you have written/inspected yourself, compiled on a compiler that you have written yourself. After all, it was proven that you could imbed code in the compiler that would

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. What Wackipedia has to say and what the actual situation (reviewed by people

Re: Shell confusion

2009-03-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:09 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: Thanks for the explanation of the use of - in the su command. I checked the man pages for su, (why did you put su(1)), and found the Because the man pages have traditionally been organised into several sections. The number in

Re: Shell confusion

2009-03-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:41 +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:09 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: Thanks for the explanation of the use of - in the su command. I checked the man pages for su, (why did you put su(1)), and found the Because the man pages have

Re: Disk Errors during boot and run time.

2009-03-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:22 +1300, Paul Ward wrote: # ls /boot ls: reading directory /boot: Input/output error What's in dmesg at this time? I have been told that the disks use multipath but I have no experience of this to date. I know the disks are on a SAN but as yet have not been able to

Re: Boot display -

2009-02-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Bob Goodwin wrote: Another question I know has been answered before but I haven't found it. How do I restore the normal boot text display using inittab set to 3? All I see now is a blue progress bar. Remove rhgb from all kernel lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list

Re: Morph software

2009-02-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Paul-Erik Törrönen wrote: I Appreciate the offer, and you probably should publish for people looking for a Better late than never: http://poltsi.fi/Software/morphing_with_imagemagick.html As pointed out earlier in the thread, this isn't actually morphing in the sense the original poster

Re: User unlock too frequent -

2009-02-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Bob Goodwin wrote: I'm trying to configure F-10 on a new computer, an effort that takes considerable time. I collect information on this computer and then when I turn back to the new computer it's sleeping and requires me to jog the mouse and enter a long password again. I don't mind doing

Re: Old updates

2009-02-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
David Nečas wrote: Hi, are old updates kept somewhere? I want to track down the precise update that broke something but the repos contain only recent versions of the packages. If the previous updates are not available, what's the recommended method in such case? (Preferably some that does not

Re: fc, fc, fc, fc?

2009-02-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Why does Fedora Core still live on? kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10 Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc10 git-1.6.0.6-1.fc10 I'm dying here. Someone please help me. Iirc, the 'c' in the package tags was retained because dropping it would cause sorting issues for package NVREs. I

Re: fc, fc, fc, fc?

2009-02-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:20 +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Michael Cronenworth wrote: Why does Fedora Core still live on? kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10 Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc10 git-1.6.0.6-1.fc10 I'm dying here. Someone please help me. Iirc, the 'c' in the package tags

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Andrew Junev wrote: I'm prompted to enter a root password to get to system maintenance, or Ctrl+D to continue. In the system maintenance I can see there's /dev/VolGroup00 but there's no /dev/VolTerabytes00, so my newly-created VG seem to be missing! Running the command: vgchange -ay

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Andrew Junev wrote: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: Running the command: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any needed modules have been loaded). I tried running lvm and it says Locking type 1 initialisation

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Andrew Junev wrote: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: Running the command: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any needed modules have been loaded). I tried running lvm and it says Locking

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Andrew Junev wrote: /var/log/messages doesn't contain any information about that problem. The error happened too early during boot - so that the data didn't get into the log files (disks were mounted in read-only mode). You can work around this by commenting out the file systems on the

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Andrew Junev wrote: What shall I do to automatically activate this VG during boot? If I understand the VG commands correctly, you just did. I think the OP wants his VG to activate without the need for him to give

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Strange - /var/lock/lvm is empty, and its date does not correspond It's always empty unless an LVM tool is running (or you've disabled locking or are using some non-local locking mode for all your VGs). Try running e.g. vgchange in a debugger. Set a breakpoint on

Re: Morph software

2009-02-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Bill Davidsen wrote: I found that xmrm.com is still there, but the link to the source isn't. If I could get the source, once I get a way to generate the individual images I can easily use ffmpeg to create a stream from the images, I do that for some various fun projects I have, and in fact

Re: Morph software

2009-02-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Todd Denniston wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:02 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm looking for some morphing software, to take two images, and generate some intermediate images to show the effect of a smooth transition from one to the other. with gimp load image 1 on image 1's window select

Re: Morph software

2009-02-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
homb...@tips-q.com wrote: On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:11:24 -0500 Todd Denniston todd.dennis...@ssa.crane.navy.mil wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote, On 02/07/2009 11:13 PM: Paul-Erik Törrönen wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:02 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm looking for some morphing software, to take

Re: gcc issue

2009-02-05 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Steve wrote: I went to rpmfind (http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/9/x86_64/dhclient-4.0.0-22.fc9.x86_64.html) to get the dhcp src rpm and downloaded it. It comes from ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/SRPMS.newkey/dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9.src.rpm When I ran rpm

Re: Using ext2 on SSD drive

2009-02-05 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am installing FC10 on an ASUS with an SSD drive right now to see how it behaves. I know that with ext2 you are suppose to clean it up every so often, but I can't find my notes as to the command. What is the command and how is this done while the system is 'in use',

Re: Need second opinion, is my HD failing?

2009-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote: I've been having some quirky issues lately and decided to take a look at the SMART data for the disk. There seems to be a large count of errors in some of the categories. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART

Re: Need second opinion, is my HD failing?

2009-01-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: But in Richard's case, 955 seems odd to me: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036Pre-failAlways - 955 Probably, you are right, and the value is OK. But I have never seen a counting like this before. I had a defective disk once, which

Re: f10: fs errors; journal write error in flush_commit_list

2009-01-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
g wrote: greetings, from start of installation of f10, 4 months ago, to present, f10 has been having a problem of staying operational, in that after being up for a short time, it would bomb and have just now found problem. last update update was last night and while at command line, system

Re: Printers

2009-01-26 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Alan Cox wrote: laser print onto vinyl (with backing sheet) including alignment marks Feed resulting sheet into vinyl cutting machine Tell machine to align to marks Cut Peel Apply Custom printed decals of any

Re: How to fix fstab on bootup - forgot to comment out a line

2009-01-26 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Chris Snook wrote: Dan Track wrote: Hi I forgot to comment out a line in /etc/fstab, now when my machine boots up it keeps dropping to a filesystem check and asks for teh root password. My question is how can I get to edit the /etc/fstab file on bootup or via grub? Please help. Thanks Dan

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Gilboa Davara wrote: Yeah, but this problem can more-or-less be avoided by lowering /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Sure, that will make the VM more likely to evict pagecache data than anonymous pages when it's trying to free pages. I haven't tested this to any real degree on my desktop boxes (as

Re: stack trace page with kdump, possible?

2009-01-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Hello, with CentOS 4 I was able to setup a server 1 with netdump client package and a netdump server 2 so that when a panic occured on 1, I received on the netdump server 2 both the vmcore file and another file named log containing stack trace (this log on 2 was also

Re: hardware question

2009-01-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
ann kok wrote: Hi How can I know the hardware info eg: type of memory No need to turn off the machine Thank you You can get a lot of information from the DMI tables provided by the BIOS, see the man page for dmidecode. There's also Smolt: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/ Which captures

Re: hardware question

2009-01-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
ann kok wrote: Thank you But I have problem here I am using fedora3 but doesn't have this package How can I get the lshw source to recompile it? or other way to do it Fedora Core 3 was released four and a half years ago and has long since reached end-of-life. There are no security or

Re: A Possible Reason for Problems with Flash Player

2009-01-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dave Feustel wrote: After attempting to install the Firefox Flash plugin, I kept getting SELinux alerts every time I started Firefox. After deleting all the files in the directory /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper, I continued to get SELinux alerts. That was probably not a good idea :) Better to remove

Re: A Possible Reason for Problems with Flash Player

2009-01-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Kam Leo wrote: That is not the flash-plugin. You are listing the files in the nspluginwrapper directory. Try su -c rpm -q flash-plugin. If flash-plugin is not installed go to http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and download the rpm package. You should receive

Re: Firefox 3.05 attempting to execute code on stack

2009-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dave Feustel wrote: SELinux is reporting attempts by Firefox 3.05-1 to execute code on the stack on 32-bit f9. Time for a Firefox upgrade? Java plugin? Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Firefox 3.05 attempting to execute code on stack

2009-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:54:06PM +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: SELinux is reporting attempts by Firefox 3.05-1 to execute code on the stack on 32-bit f9. Time for a Firefox upgrade? Java plugin? Bryn. I have no idea. Maybe something to do

Re: Firefox 3.05 attempting to execute code on stack

2009-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:14:39PM +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:54:06PM +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: SELinux is reporting attempts by Firefox 3.05-1 to execute code on the stack on 32-bit f9. Time

Re: Firefox 3.05 attempting to execute code on stack

2009-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It's part of nspluginwrapper. I've been getting segfaults from this for several months, though it doesn't seem to actually break anything I use. That's usually because the plugin it's wrapping segfaulted (e.g. I see dozens of these per day from flash: sometimes in

Re: A reminder of EOL for F8

2009-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Chris Snook wrote: David wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: From last I heard Wednesday, Jan 7 is EOL for F8. So be warned. In all honesty... EOL means End Of Line... Which means no more bugfix updates and no more security patches. It does *not* mean that fedora 8 will stop working on January

Re: USB stick with ext2?

2009-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Is there a way to make that work Yes. Make a directory on the stick with your user permissions. The / of the usb drive will always be owned by root through HAL/dbus/gvfs No - ext2/3/4's root inodes are just regular directories and can be owned

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