Is there a command that knows about my bios?

2009-08-02 Thread Dave Burns
In our shop we have some software running on the windows boxes that 'audits' the machine. Most of the information is easily (and freely) duplicated on a linux box (mostly by looking in /proc/cpuinfo /proc/meminfo, /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, even /etc/X11/xorg.conf|), but I haven't found anything about

OT: can DHCP server tell laptop client to not try to update DNS?

2009-07-07 Thread Dave Burns
I've been looking at the dhcpd.conf man page, there is much info about how to get DHCP to do DNS updates, but I want to make sure there are none. I want DHCP server to tell all its clients "don't mess with the DNS server." Is it possible and if so how? The guys in charge of our DNS server say that

Cd won't mount normally in fc10

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Burns
I had trouble mounting a CD on an fc10 system yesterday. I was able to mount, but only from command line and using /dev/sr0 instead of /dev/cdrom or whatever. The system managed to change the title of the drive icon without my help, but not to actually mount the disk. Is the automounting handled b

old fc8 laptop power management strangeness

2009-06-09 Thread Dave Burns
I have to use an old laptop running fc8 today. I opened the power management panel and set it to never go to sleep when on AC power. It goes to sleep anyhow. Does anyone remember how to make this work in fc8? HW is dell latitude d410? I set the "put computer to sleep when inactive for" and "put di

Re: UTF-8 problem with NTFS support?

2009-03-23 Thread Dave Burns
shoot this filesystem? mahalo, Dave On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Dave Burns wrote: > I've mounted an external USB hard drive on my fc-10 system. I have all > teh NTFS-3G packages installed. >  rpm -qa|grep -i NTFS > ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 > ntfs-3g-devel-2009.2.1-2.f

UTF-8 problem with NTFS support?

2009-03-23 Thread Dave Burns
I've mounted an external USB hard drive on my fc-10 system. I have all teh NTFS-3G packages installed. rpm -qa|grep -i NTFS ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 ntfs-3g-devel-2009.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-devel-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64 ntfsprogs-gnomevfs-2.0.0-9.fc10.x86_64

bug? 'yum provides' shows only 32 bit options

2009-01-09 Thread Dave Burns
Is this a bug or what? I wanted to find the 64 bit version of libstdc++.so.5: $ yum provides libstdc++.so.5 Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-63.i386 : Compatibility standard C++ libraries Repo: fedora Matched from: Other : libstdc++.so.5 libst

Re: Fedora 10 ypbind error

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:33 -0800, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: > > Does someone have a working Fedora 10 NIS client? > Yes, several of them ;) Is NetworkManager running on them and NIS working? -- fedora-list maili

Re: Fedora 10 ypbind error

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Burns
Is NetworkManager running? Try turning it off. Of course, if you were using it to control networking, uncheck 'controlled by NetworkManager' first. then restart ypbind. By bizarre coincidence, I had the same problem on a new install of fc9 late yesterday afternoon, killing NetworkManager has fixed

Re: Fedora 10 ypbind error

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Burns
Wow I am stumped. Is selinux running? If so, try setenforce 0 You already killed the regular firewall, is the IPv6 version running? /etc/init.d/ip6tables status ? Otherwise, I am out of ideas. Dave On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > That'

Re: Fedora 10 ypbind error

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I think you are correct, the "invalid source port" is indeed unrelated. > > > You're not very specific. I am guessing that NIS is not working? Can you > nudge it into making more error > > messages,

Re: Fedora 10 ypbind error

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > After installing Fedora 10 from scratch today I'm getting this error in > /var/log/messages: > > Dec 8 16:50:44 hostname ypbind: NIS domain: xxxedout, NIS server: > Dec 8 16:54:03 hostname avahi-daemon[3608]:

Re: can't boot fc9 live CD on Optiplex 755

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Antonio Olivares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to boot the old fc9 live CD on a Dell >> Optiplex 755. It gets >> to the point where X is supposed

Re: Odd yum warning (error?) with FC10

2008-12-07 Thread Dave Burns
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting this message on two of my three FC10 installs. > > Any ideas (a) what caused it, and (b) if it's causing more than cosmetic > damage? I'm still getting updates applied... > > Attached to prevent mail damage. > >

Re: Fedora What is in F* similar to Ebox

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Frank Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://ebox-platform.com/ > > Is there anything in Fedora 9\10 as easy to use as Ebox? Maybe puppet? I don't actually use either, so they may not even be comparable. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

can't boot fc9 live CD on Optiplex 755

2008-12-02 Thread Dave Burns
I'm trying to boot the old fc9 live CD on a Dell Optiplex 755. It gets to the point where X is supposed to start and the screen goes wonky, apparently crashes. I tried various boot options, e.g. resolution=640x480 and nomodeset, no help. Can't do dmesg since it never gets far enough. Ctl alt f1 doe

avahi logging "Invalid legacy unicast query packet" my config?

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Burns
I'm curious about the following log entries: Dec 1 13:09:10 x avahi-daemon[2173]: Recieved repsonse with invalid source port 46404 on interface 'eth0.0' Dec 1 13:09:13 x avahi-daemon[2173]: Recieved repsonse with invalid source port 46404 on interface 'eth0.0' Dec 1 13:22:38 x avahi-daemon[2173

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Chris Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > "mount /dev// /mnt/anymountpoint >> >> It demands -t. > > This usually indicates that there is no recognized filesystem on the > block device (i.e., wrong or empty block device). Hmmm, well it was bootable the last tim

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Chris Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:30 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the >> drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition &

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
pe 'lvm2' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount -t ext2 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test2 mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 already mounted or test2 busy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkdir test4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount -t ext2 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 test4 mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 alr

how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, but I can't figure out what parameter to give to -t. man mount no help. man lvm doesn't se

Re: Firefox Crashing/Shutsdown

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm not near the computer that causing this problem I'm going over there > today and install NX on it so I can troubleshoot it from home, So I will get > a better look at it then, and get back to you. > > It is using KDE and the

Re: Firefox Crashing/Shutsdown

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>FC8/kde >> >>Firefox-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 is crashing when

Re: Firefox Crashing/Shutsdown

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FC8/kde > > Firefox-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 is crashing when it goes to another website, if I > even try to check my Yahoo email on a http or https website. > > I removed and reinstall Firefox and I also removed .mozilla on user > directory

dell gx520 with fc9 won't wake up

2008-11-06 Thread Dave Burns
I just installed fc9 on a dell gx520, fc6 was on it before and worked fine. I installed from the live cd, while installing the screen went to sleep and I could not wake it. I tried again from the beginning and got through the install, rebooted, turned off services and was doing a yum install when i

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Burns
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you just skip the .gvfs items specifically, by name, with -prune? man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually throw in the -mount option to find on general principles to keep > it from walking into isos or nfs mounts that might be in arbitrary places > and explicitly list the mount points I want if it has to span them. No

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is? (Is there a >> real solution?) > > Yeah, is there any

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is? (Is there a > real solution?) Yeah, is there any gnome setting that lets you turn gvfs off or make it act reasonable? Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-li

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, R. G. Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > This problem got me a while ago, and discussed here. http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-list@redhat.com/msg18051.html is all I found, no help there. > The problem is the mount permissio

Re: Installing a RPM

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This rpm openoffice.org-pdfimport-3.0.0-9.6.fc10.i386.rpm isn't in a yum > repo. It was downloaded from a different site, and it isn't available in FC8 > repos. > I don't quit understand what you mean by rpm localinstall ? Should ha

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:27:32 -1000 > check whether .gvfs is a mounted > filesystem (it probably is). Yep. > Why can root not access it? > Perhaps because there is no read permission in the mount point? I created an identical

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Rick Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: >> at least give me a hint what to do or what to google for. > > .gvfs is a virtual filesystem and doesn't follow normal filesystem > semantics (witness the fact the size of it

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
No Joy. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might try the -mount (or -xdev) options to 'find', but that will > also restrict you from crossing into other mounted filesystems. sudo find /users/tburns/ -xdev|grep gvfs find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Pe

Re: Installing a RPM

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tryed to install openoffice.org-pdfimport-3.0.0-9.6.fc10.i386.rpm and it > needs a number dependencies like libuno_*, > these dependcies are in /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/ but they can't be > found by rpm -ivh. Which means... e

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so: ls -la ~/.gvfs total 4 dr-x-- 2 tburns isys0 2008-10-13 07:43 . drwxr-xr-x 73 tburns root 4096 2008-10-24 11:49 .. As owner of dir, no problem: find /us

Re: URL of fedora-list archive

2008-10-16 Thread Dave Burns
try // instead of / On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:14:02PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> Dave Feustel wrote: >>> What is the URL of the fedora-list email archive? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >> >> For future reference, it's in the he

OT xls2csv date problem?

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Burns
When I use xls2csv (part of catdoc package) it can't handle dates. -f switch is supposed to help, but does nothing, results are identical with/without it. xls2csv -f +%m/%d/%y Desktop/list.xls 2>/dev/null|head "updated as of: 09/25/08", ,"Name","Status","Host / Supervisor","Funding","Loc

Re: DISCOVERY Re: Why is Firefox such a beast??

2008-10-08 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >(Why should there *be* permissions trouble with a file or folder, > belonging to user btth on one machine, burned to CD by that user, > inserted into another machine, then dragged and dropped by the same user > into som

Re: Package Rebuilding

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shouldn't yum > install pull in and install all the dependencies provided you > pointed yum to the package on your hard drive? What do I have wrong? No, that would attempt to load the package from a remote repository. I

Re: Dual Monitor Display Help

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I've got a ATI 3870 graphics card with two DVI connections. I've got > one monitor running but how do I configure a second monitor? > > If I go to the display option and select a generic ldc 1280x1024 I My guess is you n

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-01 Thread Dave Burns
echo 'textone texttwo something'|xargs textone texttwo something On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:13 AM, David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys, > > i want to have those lines joined to one line with spaces > > Before : > > textone > texttwo > something > > After : > > textone texttwo somet

Re: Fedora makes bad pdf files?

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To my knowledge, Firefox doesn't save/export directly to PDF. Time to update your knowledge. In firefox 3 on fc9, there is a radio button in the print to file dialog that lets you choose either ps or pdf. >When you > "prin

Re: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

2008-09-10 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Paul W. Frields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # yum --exclude yum --excluce yum-utils update excluce typographic error -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-24 Thread Dave Burns
Also note that nvidia either ignores or screws up settings set with the display panel after the real drivers are installed. I forget the name of the config utility that gets installed with the rpms at the moment, but look at rpm -q --filesbypkg, you should be able to figure it out. Dave -- fedora

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

2008-08-21 Thread Dave Burns
Know what I wish? That posts with the subject "Re: Infrastructure status" actually discussed infrastructure status, and that discussions of 'how to improve dissemination of info about infrastructure status' had a different subject. Though the one I just suggested kinda blows. And here I am contribu

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:33 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I just searched f

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Wayne Feick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > I mentioned MarkMail previously, I added markmail to my search bar, but because it is not limited to fedora users it is still not quite what I was hoping for. So I added a custom search page to google, now at htt

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > www.google.com > > entering the following in the search area... > > site:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list fedora ... >> >> > >> >> > I get 143,000 hits >> >> > >> >> > Craig same for me when I did that. I was

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Burns
Wayne, this looks like exactly what I was wishing for, thanks! Dave On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Wayne Feick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I add MarkMail to my browser's search box? > >If you are running a browser that supports OpenSearch browser >search plugins s

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just searched for "googlesmithing" with nothing fancy. Popped right up. I am not trying to find googlesmithing on the web. I am trying to find it (and more generally, any search term) strictly within the archives

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 20:22 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote: >> Tom Horsley: >> Just a funny little thing: >> I don't get any hits from normal or advanced search when searching for >> 'googlesmithing' > > Works for me. >

Re: How to search the Fedora List

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always use google's advanced search page and specify the root web > address of the mailing list archives. Works for pretty much everyone's > mailing lists (except the folks who for some reason have configured > their archiv

Re: Googlesmithing for beginnners

2008-08-18 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Frode Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns skrev: >> >> Does anyone know a really handy way to search the archives? Googling >> by hand with site:https://www.redhat.com/archives as one of the terms >> will do it, but

Re: Googlesmithing for beginnners

2008-08-18 Thread Dave Burns
I was inspired by this post to add a firefox search engine customized to just search the fedora users archive. Instead I found one (by searching at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=+fedora) that searches the 'fedora forum' at http://fedoraforum.org/forum/. Seems to have different

Re: x server nvidia driver problem

2008-08-14 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Ken Gullaksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble getting the nvidia driver to run. X server locks up > on boot. This seems to be a known issue. > A post on nvnews: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102335 mentions that > 1.4.99 is not s

Re: kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

2008-08-14 Thread Dave Burns
No hints where to find the boot-time error messages if not in dmesg? On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fetched livna SRPMS: > > buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-9.lvn9.src.rpm > nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.src.rpm > > Install the first, edit: > /usr/src/redh

kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Burns
Laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M. X was working yesterday, until yum update installed new kernels. At boot it complains: "checking for module nvidia.ko [failed] nvidia.ko for kernel ***14-108.PAE was not found the nvidia driver will not be unabled until" blah blah * Wh

Re: Running VMware-server on x86_64 Fedora 9

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Burns
This post helped me. Thanks, Gene. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Gene Czarcinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Install x86_64 Fedora 9 with development packages (e.g, compilers, etc.). more explicitly: gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel best, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redh

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

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Burns
If you're really doing so much switching, I suggest you look at virtualization, so you can stop the rebooting madness. Dave On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:10 AM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb. > > Some days I find m

Re: Entering Interactive startup

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why would you want an interactive startup? you can enable and disable > services once you get in! a) service conflict causes machine to crash b) service conflict requires me to wait 5 minutes for something to time out. Dave --

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know of any links to a "getting started understanding SELinux" > type of guide? That's some heavy lifting. The cheat I tend to use is grep sealert /var/log/messages SELinux puts stuff in the log that includes a suggestion

Re: Creating a default keyring with passwd.

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 08:02 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > wanted to know the passwd to open the >>

Re: Creating a default keyring with passwd.

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wanted to know the passwd to open the > default keyring. But I am lost in remembering how to do this. If you delete the contents of ~/.gnome2/keyrings it starts over at the beginning. It is supposed to ask you to create a

NetworkManager sabotages DNS? on fc9

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Burns
I just installed fc9 on a Dell precision T5400 from the live CD. On previous fc9 installs, I've had a problem that networking doesn't start at boot if I didn't open up the network panel and check "controlled by networkmanager". On this new install, when I have that box checked, DNS does not work (n

Re: how come Sys -> Adm -> Display can't see the full resolution?

2008-07-13 Thread Dave Burns
Sorry for top posting, but I'm really responding just to the subject, not the body text. I had a similar problem, display panel did not make all valid resolutions available, and further, it would not properly update the x config if I made a coice and saved. Turns out it was due to the nvidia card

Re: Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-09 Thread Dave Burns
packages and showed which kernels they were compatible with, so I could find the one that matched my installed kernel. Dave 2008/7/2 Ricky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have a similar issue. =( > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Pe

solved vmware kills syslog fish, fedora users archive fishing

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Burns
I solved this issue myself, but thought I'd send this message anyhow. Indulge me. toss me a fish: There was a thread recently that discussed a problem whose symptom was that syslog died and the logs were deleted. Turns out that installing vmware had something to do with it. I thought I carefully

Re: Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Burns
Perhaps I need a tool called nvidia-xconfig? nvidia not compatible with system-config-display? Unfortunately, I apparently need to use livna and upgrade my kernel to even try it. http://hacktux.com/fedora/9/nvidia Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://ww

Re: Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Burns
D630 has an NVIDIA(R) Quadro NVS 135M1 and Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I select menu item System/Administration/Display and authenticate. I > select a resolution from the resolution menu. I cli

Re: Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Burns
D630 has an NVIDIA(R) Quadro NVS 135M1 and Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I select menu item System/Administration/Display and authenticate. I > select a resolution from the resolution menu. I cli

Re: Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Burns
Oops, hitsend with my elbow. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I select menu item System/Administration/Display and authenticate. I > select a different resolution from the resolution menu. I click 'OK'. > A dialog box pops up: >

Dell D630 fc9 can't change screen resolution with system-config-display

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Burns
I select menu item System/Administration/Display and authenticate. I select a different resolution from the resolution menu. I click 'OK'. A dialog box pops up: "Display settings changed You need to log out and restart the X server for the changes to take effect. Coinfiguration was written to /etc

Re: enter password for default keyring to unlock

2008-06-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Richard England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that you an remove the current password by removing the file > .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring This worked for me. I deleted that file, logged out, logged back in, NetworkManager brought up the usual dialog to

enter password for default keyring to unlock

2008-06-30 Thread Dave Burns
I just installed fc9. I never knowingly set any password other than my login password and root password. But ever since I got wireless working when I log in I get a dialog: "enter password for default keyring to unlock The application 'NetworkManager Applet' wants access to the default keyring but

selinux advises restorecon unknown?

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Burns
I just installed FC8 x86_64 on a Dell Precision T5400. I then installed nmap. I ran nmap. SELinux signalled that something was wrong. I looked in the log, then I ran sealert -l 47 and it advises me to "try to restore the default system file context for , restorecon -v ". a) What should I do? I am

Re: How to write to files on OS (F8) that won't boot

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Burns
knoppix mounts read only by default. You need to remount -o rw? I forget the exact syntax, check 'man mount'. HTH, Dave On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried every incantion I can think of to write to F8's filesystem using > Knoppix. I can read the f

Re: howto use curl to get Internet IP

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Burns
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use curl to get my Internet IP address, and getting it to > ddclirent. > Using getip.com and dyndns.org to get my IP for ddclient, isn't working > out, they shutout ddclient after awhile from getting my Internet IP to

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > >> OP seems to have two problems: >> >> 1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is >> not delivered. >> 2) He would like to send

Re: laptop fc7 with NetworkManager couldnt find wired ip

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:21 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> There is a weird incompatibility between NetworkManager and network, >> not well documented anywhere I know about. I am in a similar positi

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that these names are not known to the real world. > But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email > from one machine on a LAN to another I can think of four ways, there could be more: * use 'real' DN

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Burns
OP seems to have two problems: 1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is not delivered. 2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either the domain doers not exist or DNS not working right? Could it be that his machine has the hostname set as 'alfred' a

Re: laptop fc7 with NetworkManager couldnt find wired ip

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Burns
There is a weird incompatibility between NetworkManager and network, not well documented anywhere I know about. I am in a similar position, can use either wirelesss or wired but have to do a whole reconfig to switch between the two. I'd explain it to you if I understood it. Dave On Mon, Jun 2, 200

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-03 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com) > sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN? > > I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine, > changing the last line to >

id field of top command?

2008-06-01 Thread Dave Burns
I've got a server that is running slow (slow to log in, commands on command line take way longer than usual). But the top command doesn't say much (that I understand). The one interesting item is a 99.7% value in the 'id' field at the top of the output. Reading man page and googling has left me no

rpm -VVa jre results in IntegrateWithGNOME: command not found? WTH?

2008-05-25 Thread Dave Burns
This machine is running fc6. rpm -VVa is generating that weird error. I googled the error message, got about 4 hits from about a year ago. The only recommendation was to do the following, but error remains, as you can see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo rpm --verifydb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo rpm --

Solved: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-23 Thread Dave Burns
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like I stumbled upon the answer to my original question about > where to RTFM: http://fedoramobile.org/Members/MrHappy/getting-started After following the steps on that page, wifi is now working on the d40

Re: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-23 Thread Dave Burns
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some questions. You d have NM on and network and wpa_supplicant off? Had a hard time turning wpa_s off. I'd stop it and init would immediately restart it. I had to stop NM, stop wpa_s, then could restart NM and wpa_s staye

Re: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a canonical source to RTFM? Googling gets a million hits, no >> relevance so far. >> >> I am try

wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Burns
Is there a canonical source to RTFM? Googling gets a million hits, no relevance so far. I am trying to connect to a WEP network. I left click on the NetworkManger icon upper right, select 'connect to other wireless network', it opens a dialog, I type in network name, select 128 bit wep and enter t