Re: Someone was able to hack my mail account

2009-12-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/12/10 kevin : > Please if anyone knows how to stop this with postfix and amavisd-new please > let me know !!! > > I am clueless how someone outside $mynetworks was able to do it. As others have said, it's just a spammer spoofing your email address. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Job Y

Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/12/4 oleksandr korneta : > so I'm  on Fedora 12, 64bit. It was an unpleasant surprise to find out that > that some extensions for thunderbird from mozilla's website cannot be > installed because of 64bit architecture (wtf? is this opensource or what?). > Yes I'm talking about lightning calenda

Re: F12: Missing Config Dialogue

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Cross
2009/11/29 Sam Sharpe : > 2009/11/29 Dave Cross : >> There's a config dialogue box that I can't find in Fedora 12. I've >> used it in the last few versions of Fedora. It's the dialogue box >> controlling Window appearance. In particular I want the opt

F12: Missing Config Dialogue

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Cross
There's a config dialogue box that I can't find in Fedora 12. I've used it in the last few versions of Fedora. It's the dialogue box controlling Window appearance. In particular I want the option that controls the behaviour that's triggered when you double-click on a title bar. I want to set it to

Re: Dell Latitude Suspend/Restore

2009-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/11/9 Andras Simon : > On 11/9/09, Dave Cross wrote: > > [...] > >> Most things still work fine, but suspend/restore has stopped working. >> Well, suspend seems to work ok, but restore doesn't. I now have to >> reboot the laptop each time I want to use it.

Dell Latitude Suspend/Restore

2009-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
I have a Dell Latitude M1330. Originally it was running F10 and I upgraded it to F11 some months ago using preupgrade. Everything continued to work well. Including suspend/resume. Recently, for reasons too boring to go into, I trashed this installation and started again. I booted from an F11 Live

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > OK.  So I enable group wheel with visudo.  Then I look into adding me to the > group. > > I see the following files in /etc that have group wheel: group, group-, > gshadow, and gshadow- > > You only said to add to group. Yep. That's what I do. Just /etc/group. > W

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > Dave Cross wrote: >> >> 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : >> >>> >>> At times I find I need to login as root. >>> >> >> You really don't. >> >>> For example, as a regular user su to root, th

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz : > At times I find I need to login as root. You really don't. > For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that > terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.  And at least in FC10, > I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they al

Re: OpenOffice Errors

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/1 Dave Cross : > Yesterday I installed OpenOffice on this (new, but completely updated) > Fedora 11 system. I installed it from the standard Fedora repositories > using yum. Dozens of RPMs were downloaded and installed. But > something, somewhere is not right. > > I fi

OpenOffice Errors

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Cross
Yesterday I installed OpenOffice on this (new, but completely updated) Fedora 11 system. I installed it from the standard Fedora repositories using yum. Dozens of RPMs were downloaded and installed. But something, somewhere is not right. I first realised there was a problem when I double-clicked o

Re: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Cross
2009/9/27 bruce : > hey... > > trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal > session. > > how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via > the cmdline... > > i'm trying to figure out if you can use escape sequences, or modifying the > pro

Re: F11: X Startup Problems

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Cross
2009/9/12 Dave Cross : > This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a > "yum update" to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I > rebooted the machine and now X won't start. > > Well X starts to some extent. I get the login s

F11: X Startup Problems

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Cross
This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a "yum update" to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I rebooted the machine and now X won't start. Well X starts to some extent. I get the login screen, but when I type in my username and password I get a blank scree

Re: amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/12 Kevin Kofler : > Dave Cross wrote: >> Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_date_time.so.3 >> Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_filesystem.so.3 >> Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_iostreams.so.3 >> Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_regex.so.3 &g

amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
Looks to me like the amazonmp3 downloader isn't going to work under Fedora 11. The version on their download page[1] is built for Fedora 9. This still worked fine under Fedora 10, but I think the updated version of boost in F11 has broken it now. $ package-cleanup --problems Setting up yum Loaded

Re: Howto yum update F10->F11?

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/11 Neal Becker : > I failed.  I installed fedora-release-11-xxx and rpmfusion-{free,nonfree}- > release-11-xx rpms.  This completely broke yum, because the format of > fedora.repo is not understood with F10 yum. > > Try updating to F11 yum?  No good either, needs python-2.6. > > So how is it

Re: how de delete a ligne from a file

2009-06-10 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/10 Chad Kellerman : > pe > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: >> >> Hi list >> >> Is there a method to delete a line from a file withoout editing it! > > you can use perl > > perl -p -i -e `s/Line in file you want to remove//' filename That removes the data, but leaves

Re: git-svnimport

2009-05-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/5/10 Todd Zullinger : > Dave Cross wrote: >> Is git-svnimport packaged in an RPM for Fedora 10 anywhere? I have >> the git-svn RPM and that includes git-svn (the command that allows >> git to talk to an existing svn repository). What I'm looking for is >>

git-svnimport

2009-05-10 Thread Dave Cross
Is git-svnimport packaged in an RPM for Fedora 10 anywhere? I have the git-svn RPM and that includes git-svn (the command that allows git to talk to an existing svn repository). What I'm looking for is git-svnimport (the command that imports an svn repository into a new git repository - so you can

Re: Perl/Tk fedora 10

2009-03-18 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/17 Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > I am experiencing problem with the following code: I cannot edit the > Widget. It was working fine in fc 7. > It does seem to be link to nothing to the graphics card or with. > (I changed the graphics card). However, it work on another fc10 machine. > This one

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Geoffrey Leach : > On 03/04/2009 11:12:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> 2009/3/4 Reber, Simon : >> > I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de >> and >> install it using: >> >        perl Makefile.PL >> >        make &

Re: Something Broke My Grub

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote: > >> An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word >> "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the >> last hour or so. > > Has happened to many people before: > https://bug

Something Broke My Grub

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the last hour or so. Here's what I did. * Earlier today I ran a "yum update" which pulled in a new kernel. I didn't reboot the system at that point. * Later on

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Reber, Simon : > I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de and install > it using: >        perl Makefile.PL >        make >        make install Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then please use the canonical URL (http://www.cpan.org/) rather than a

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 "Stanisław T. Findeisen" : > How can I know which RPM in Fedora release contains which Perl modules? In > particular I want to install Test::More, but don't know where to look for > that. :-/ I usually go and search for the module at http://search.cpan.org/. That'll tell you which CPAN di

Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 Aldo Foot : > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Norman Gaywood wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10? > > This is not the "recommended" way, it's just another way. > > If perl is already install in your system and using cpan, then do >

Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 L : > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> 2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood : >>> Hi list, >>> >>> So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10? >> >> rpm and/or yum >> >>> What we have been doi

Re: Looking for three FC10 RPMs

2009-02-08 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/8 Jim : > I'm looking for three FC10 RPMs, I'm trying to install > gscrot-0.64~ppa12-1.fc10.noarch.rpm it is a frontend for scrot that is in > the Fedora FC10 repos > > perl-Gnome2-Wnck > perl-Goo-Canvas perl-Image-Magick I can't help with the other two, but perl-Image-Magick is called Im

Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood : > Hi list, > > So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10? rpm and/or yum > What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum > if one is available for the module we want. > > If the module is not available via rpm, we use "

Re: Yum repos

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/15 Girish Venkatasubramanian : > Hello, > I have been using yum on FC5 (I know I should upgrade - but I don't > have that option - due to the specifications at work) without any > issues till about a couple of weeks ago. For the last couple of weeks, > every time I try to install something

Re: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/9 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I also am having problems with FC10 update and packagekit dependencies and > I don't use anything but > fedora, rpmfusion, and livna repos. Yes. It has nothing to do with third-party repos. It was an inconsistent set of updates that were pushed to the Fedora

Re: yum update errors (Fedora 10)

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/8 Kevin Kempter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I ran yum update and got the below errors. > > Anyone have any thoughts / advice ? > > Thanks in advance > > # yum update [ snip ] > Error: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10()(64bit) is needed by > package gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.x

Re: root in FC 10

2008-12-06 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/6 Todd Zullinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gene Heskett wrote: >>>Disabling root login is a common security practice. Sounds like it's >>>been disabled by default in F10. That's got to be a good thing. >> >> Apparently so, but then the install doesn't add the one user it asks >> you to define

Re: root in FC 10

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/5 Mike Dwiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I upgraded a throw away test system from FC 8 to FC 10. When it finished, I > tried logging in as root user and could not. > > Logging in as a normal user I went to a text session and the su command > worked with the old root password. > > Did I do so

Re: Perl RPM bindings in F10

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/27 Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I thought, perhaps, there might be a replacement package for Perl bindings > for RPM. It looks like there might be. http://search.cpan.org/dist/RPM4/ I assume that the '4' in its name means that it's based on RPM 4.x. But it doesn't seem to be

Re: Perl RPM bindings in F10

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/27 Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In F10, I cannot compile neither Perl-RPM nor Perl-RPM2. > > Am I boned? Looks like the Fedora Perl package maintainers might have reached the same conclusion. RPM2 was included in Fedora 9, but appears to have been dropped for Fedora 10. https://

Re: firefox rpm source

2008-11-21 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/21 Iarly Selbir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, where can i get the firefox rpm source ( last stable version for fedora > - )? The most recent SRPMs are in http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/SRPMS.newkey/ Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T

Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/7 Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the > earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable > to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried. > &g

Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried. But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the machine just freezes

Re: Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
2008/10/12 Mail Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/12/2008 02:17 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > >> So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent >> kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of >> times and I now also have

Re: Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
2008/10/12 Mail Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/12/2008 02:23 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd > > > the PAE drivers are on livna .. the latest F8 is > > kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-28.fc8PAE-173.14.1

Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd therefore like to use the kmod-nvidia drivers from Livna. However, this system uses a PAE kernel and it doesn't look like kmod-nvidia is built for this architecture. Has anyone else done this? Is my best approach to grab the km

Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
I've got a new Dell XPS 1330m laptop and I've installed Fedora 9 on it. I have a couple of problems with the wireless connectivity. Any advice would be appreciated. According to hwbrowser, the card is "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection". This is detected and configur

Laptop Recommendations

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Cross
I'm about to buy a new laptop. And I'd like to buy one that works well with Fedora 9. My current thinking is to go with something from Dell, because they support Ubuntu on some of their laptops - and if something works with Ubuntu then there's a good chance that it can be made to work with Fedora.

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Cross
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:19 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Phil Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dave Cross wrote: >> >> >> >> A

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Phil Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: >> >> As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to >> upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really >> appreciate any he

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:27:00 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >[...] >> So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but I >> can't boot it. I think it would work i

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, David Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:27:00PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to >> upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:27 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to >> upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Raymond C. Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: >> >> As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to >> upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really >> ap

F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Cross
As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really appreciate any help to fix this. I basically have two problems. 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the installation DVD I get to the