Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

I wrote: > I’d also advise the Original Poster to consider whether he might ever > upgrade this laptop. Jatin K wrote: > Not in near future as I got it just before 4 days But are you prepared to say “never”? Upgrades from 32 bit to 64 bit aren’t supported, and are considerably harder than a

Re: How to set cursor in editor to pattern given on command line?

Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I have rather general problem than Fedora specific: > is there some simple (the simpler the better) console editor, > in which is possible to specify string (or, better, pattern) on > its command line so that editor after start will locate in edited > file this pattern an

Re: How to set cursor in editor to pattern given on command line?

I wrote: > How does > nano +100 /etc/services > look to you? (^X means ctrl-X) pressed “Send”, and realised you wanted to open at a regexp, not a fixed line. That sounds like a job for shell scripting. If the file isn’t massive, try something like: nano +$(grep -n "message submission" /etc/servic

Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

Paul wrote: > Having only 3GB of RAM, you do not *need* 64-bit, True. > and you will not > benefit from the larger addressable space. That depends. Any software that can make use of more than 3 GB of virtual memory space will benefit from a 64 bit install. This could be something like the GIMP

Re: Can't edit text -

Bob Goodwin wrote: >I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice >word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? > >I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust >me to change anything, a matter of permissions perhaps

Re: downloaded dvd and live 12 times,hash alway same but wrong!

David wrote: > You are aware that the disk will offer to test itself if you boot it up? > No smoke or mirrors needed. :-) Depends how paranoid you are. Really, you should check the GPG checksum on a believed-to-be-good computer… gpg --verify F12-Beta-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM The integrated disk che

Re: grub.conf options

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Where are they documented? You’ve had a lot of advice, but I’m not sure anyone’s made clear that: > In particular: > * What does the quiet option do? quiet isn’t really a grub option. It’s passed straight through to the kernel. You can find documentation on the

Re: booted from X if I unplug USB external drive

Maurizio Ungaro wrote: > Hi all, > > My USB external disk doesn't go to sleep, even if it's not mounted. > It was sleeping properly (even mounted!) with Fedora 9. > Furthermore, if I unplug it (to make it sleep), I get booted from X. > > var/log only shows this: > Sep 28 12:44:50 mauri kernel: us

Re: location of popup helpers question

Rick Stevens wrote: > Uh, doesn’t “ls” show the mtime (modify time) by default? Anne Wilson replied: > AIUI, reading a file is an access - in fact if you open a text file anywhere > on your computer then close it without any change you will see the timestamp > get updated. That does not mean it

Re: BIOS update

Hiisi wrote: > Dear all! > I would like to update BIOS on my desktop. It has gigabyte motherboard > and manufacturer provides only exe-utility for BIOS update. I was > trying to follow this tip: > http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.ht

Re: I can't connect via ssh

Germán Racca wrote: > Hi list: > > I need to use ssh to transfer data between a PC and a notebook, both > with Fedora 11, but the result is, from notebook to PC: > > > $ ssh xx.xx.xx.xx > ssh: connect to host xx.xx.xx.xx port 22: No route to host > > $ ping xx.xx.xx.xx > >From xx.xx.xx.xx icmp_

Re: DNS, ISP stupidity, and DNSBLs

Bruno Wolff III wrote: > That depends on your ISP. For some ISPs, using their cache is a bad thing. > There are some ISPs, for example, that change TTLs and that can cause > unexpected delays in propagation of updates. It's probably less likely > now, but in the past cache poisoning was a problem a

Re: re Subject: F-11 32-bit dial-up connection

Phill wrote: > > I can't offer any helpful suggestions. I would like to confirm that > Fedora 11 isn't fully supporting dial up. Does anyone know for sure? I > have several old machines that I would like to use Fedora on but I > will need dial-up support as well. Can anyone confirm this, or sugges

Re: CPU burst

Hiisi wrote: > Dear List! > I have a desktop running F11. The computer is an old Pentium 4, 3.0 > GHz, 32 bit. It uses logical processors, so I think it's 'an old duo > processor'. Not duo, I believe, since they required a Socket 775 processor: http://processorfinder.intel.com/list.aspx?ProcFam=21

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

Joel Rees wrote: > I have ADSL, with a "modem"/router that does filtering, dhcp, etc. > Since I want to refer to the boxes on the internal LAN (natted to > local-address subnet) by name, I have the router set to only > automatically allocate a piece of the subnet. Usually, all of the > internal mac

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

g wrote: > james, this is not to insult or hurt your feelings, but, from what you have > posted, you do not know much about batteries. especially when it comes to > cycling, ie, charging and discharging. I think you’ve got me confused with other posters. > presuming that you battery is lithium-io

Re: simple way to build rpm?

Fernando Cassia wrote: > The HP inkjet drivers (HPLIP) is one example of a "fire and forget" > installer that just detects "where am I? what platform is this? what > compilers do I have available? is the build environment safe? are the > additional required packages available? (if not it fetches th

Re: Alt + f4 switches to virtual terminal

Philip Munksgaard wrote: > I installed Fedora 11 today on my laptop, and i'm quite liking it so far. > > I have one small problem though: When i try to close windows by pressing alt > + f4, i Fedora switches to a virtual terminal, as if i was pressing ctrl + > alt + f4. And it's the same with all

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

Jatin K wrote: > please visit *http://www.batteryuniversity.com/* .. and gain > some knowledge abt batteries Was that supposed to be general advice? (If so, thank-you – but I’m not sure why it was necessary.) Or did you feel that there was some mis-information being given out? In which case,

Re: Update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 duplex problem

Anton Buenavista wrote: > I disabled rhgb and quiet at boot. > > The boot process exactly stops at "Registering binary handler for > Windows applications". I think this is a Wine issue. Does it get as far as the “[ OK ]” at the end of that line? If not, then blame Wine. If it has the “[ OK ]”

Re: F11: x86_64: Different boot styles

Tom Horsley wrote: > Speaking of mode setting, is there any legitimate reason for > dragging stuff like that into the kernel? Isn't that normally > the sort of thing that gets moved out of the kernel? Not really, hardware drivers normally belong in the kernel (at least low-level stuff). There

Re: From Rawhide to Stable

Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Probably the easiest way to do this to save your data and do a fresh install. > Since things seem to be working for you, I'd suggest holding off until > you find an actual problem before trying to revert. It's late enough in the > F12 cycle that there probably won't be a lo

Re: Fedora 10: No sound! How to make it to default drivers

Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: > By mistake I have installed drivers that do not work, and my good working > drivers are gone. > Now, how to reach to default situation? Erm – how did you install the drivers? If you ran a program that you downloaded from a manufacturer’s web site, then it could ha

Re: Fedora version

Rajendra Sakpal wrote: > Hi Paul, Not Paul, but… > I need some suggestion or input from you. Which architecture type did you > choose for your installation on i7-920 processor? Please refer the table > below. > > Intel (except Atom 230, Atom 330, Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core2 Duo, and > recent vi

Re: Update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 duplex problem

Anton Buenavista wrote: > Recently updated kernel to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 and now my Fedora > system won't boot up. > > It boots up to the splash screen after which I am greeted with an "alt1 > :02:00.0: eth0 link is up 100 Mbps full duplex" on my screen. It > stops there and I am unable to d

Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora

Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: > This is the result: > ### > [r...@jjj ~]# yum -d 10 whatever > Loading "aliases" plugin > Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin > Loading "auto-update-debuginfo" plugin > Loading "basearchonly" plugin > Loading "blacklist" plugin > Loading "changelog" plugin > Loading "d

Re: fedora11 /usr/share/dict/words file

online.service@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way i can install /usr/share/dict/words file for fedora 11 > , (it should be a list of dictionary English words?)? You’ve had a couple of good suggestions. Possibly even simpler is yum install /usr/share/dict/words Hope this helps,

Re: memory footprint of pulseaudio

Mail Lists wrote: > Running top - pulseaudio occupies 500 MiB - seems a little large to me > - resident is less. Machine has been up for 2 days. Presumably you mean the “VIRT” column, then? That measures how much virtual memory address space PulseAudio is using. Virtual memory addresses can be

Re: Fixed disk marked as removable

Mike Martin wrote: > Since F10 my second hard drive is being marked as a removable disk and > I have mount it manually. Since F11 I now also have to enter root > password - is there any way to change this behaviour ie: to have all > fixed drives recognised as such? Put it in /etc/fstab? (If you’r

Re: OT: Is the AMD Phenom processor upwards compabible with the Opteron

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > 2. How much of a performance advantage is there to configuring for > the Opteron as against the generic? These options relate to the equivalent gcc options: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html “Generic” will change over time: i

Re: F11 OS Instability? Twice now, the system locks out!

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > The last time I had a system lock-out was several > weeks ago, and just today, I experienced another. > > I tried to access the system locally via the keyboard, > no response. Mouse, same. Remotely, not responding, > all remote connections, ports, etc. Not there. Have

Re: hyperthreading on f11 pae kernel?

Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I have an old Dell GX260 with one P4 and 1Gb of ram. > I installed F11 32 bit and updated it yesterday with latest kernel > available. > I noticed that kernel installed was the PAE one, as stated inside release > notes. Also in other documents I see that only i586 is the ot

Re: F11: Why is Xorg failing to allow 1600x1200 resolutions?

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On F8/9/10, I was able to drop in my xorg.conf > file into /etc/X11 directory and was able to get > the X display to recognize the Monitor type and > get 1600x1200 resolution, but for some reason, > I am not able to do this with F11. > > My montor is a Hitachi CM715, and

* blowing up in your face.

max bianco wrote: > If i read him right then the hidden files and such aren't getting the > right owner/group. I think its just the way the * is exapanded in the > shell. > he should have used *.* PLEASE take more care when making recommendations! Fortunately, it won’t work. It will match any fil

Re: How to find yum (rpm) duplicate packages?

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Erm... I don't mean exact duplicates, but packages that > are "left behind" and superseded by new packages. Sometimes > newer packages are installed and older ones are not removed > via the cleanup processes. There are exceptions of course, such > as kernels, which must

Re: Problem with Anaconda (Fedora) and Xcell 2000 mobo

Erick Martínez wrote: > Hello. I've problems trying to install Fedora (7,8,9, and maybe > realese 10, cause I almost finish the downloading) in an old cpu Intel > Celeron Coppermine-128 600 Mhz with 396 MB RAM on a PCChips M748LMRT > "XCell 200" MOBO. Ouch! The memory will be a bit limited, and th

Re: Evolution throwing away emails for one of my accounts ?

Tim wrote: > That's easy: Fetch a scad of mail when you have filters set, versus > fetch a scad of mail when you don't have any filters set. > > Unmolested, they romp into the inbox very quickly. When filtering puts > its fingers in, it's far worse than fetching mail over dial-up. That sort of

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

Bill Davidsen wrote: > the last I checked Avi told me that Win98SE did some > stuff in real mode which kvm can't catch, I believe that depends on the vendor: According to the [Intel] VT-x spec, guest OSes cannot operate in real mode… AMD SVM, on the other hand, supports real-mode for

Re: NM key hassle

Tim wrote: > Seconded. When things are working fine, yum takes care of itself. > > You *might* want to clear out downloaded packages, if drive space is > important to you. > If you > never want to keep them, you can set yum to not cache downloaded > packages. Which is the default on current F

Re: USB-SATA/IDE adapter on linux/Fedora?

L wrote: > Has any one had good experience with USB-SATA/IDE adapter on > linux/Fedora? if so, what is the brand? Most of these devises on > markets is marked as workable on win or MAC. non mention of linux Most of these use the USB “mass storage device class” standard, which means they should Jus

Re: linkage problem?

Gene Heskett wrote: > I note that in kontrol->file associations, there are often 2 copies of > firefox, presumably because when F10 installed itself, it installed 3.0.4 > alongside the 3.0.6 install. I had yum remove the 3.0.4 version Kevin Kofler wrote: > (And FYI, the version in F10 updates is

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

Tom Horsley wrote: > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > can boot different ones? Virtualisation? James. -- E-mail: james@ | If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an aprilcottage.co.uk | infinite number

Re: FC, Samba, and permissions problems

Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem > > I've set security to share, and then set up the following share Is SELinux enabled? Have you checked for SELinux errors? Have you reviewed the SELinux Samba booleans? I think they were in system-conf

Re: printout sending control codes to the console?

Konstantin Svist wrote: > I have a script which prints out some data to the terminal, which I keep > in a screen session. > Often times I see indecipherable characters printed out and the output > freezes - I'm guessing some control code is being triggered from the > printout. > Is there a way to p

Re: 2nd try: Was Firewall problem: Only works on a restart.

Ed Greshko wrote: > If the system brings up the network interfaces, but no services that > utilize the network, prior to bringing up the firewall what > vulnerability is the system exposed to...and for how long? There is a point of view that says it is a security problem to allow a system to respo

Re: kernel

"Stanisław T. Findeisen" wrote: > Why doesn't Fedora use vanilla Linux kernel? It’s a bit out of date, but Dave Jones produced http://people.redhat.com/davej/patchlist-fc3.txt describing all the patches that went into an FC3 kernel. The kernel has changed a lot, but Fedora still patches for simila

Re: Swap space

I wrote: > This is true regardless of the media. It’s just that spinning disks are > lousy at getting to the point where they can start transferring data. > Your figures don’t measure that. Aaron Konstam wrote: > Yes it does. It is resented by the buffered read. “Represented”, I presume, and it’

Re: Swap space

I wrote: > What I’ve read is that the sort of flash you tend to get in these drives > can be very slow for writes, slow to read back data in sequentially, but > they can be a lot faster than hard drives to actually start accessing > the data, because there’s no physical movement required to start r

Re: Swap space

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You're forgetting that USB transfers consume a fair amount of cpu time, > unlike a SATA disk which is DMA. That's why I asked if anyone had > actually done a comparison. With so many complex interactions between > paging policy, system load, disk configurations, wide va

Re: Swap space

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Has anyone actually compared the speed of pendrives versus hard disks > when used for swap? Aaron Konstam wrote: > They have to be much slower … I don’t think they have to be – I suspect they might be faster than hard disks. What I’ve read is that the sort of flash y

Re: Domino on Fedora

Anne Wilson wrote: > If postfix is replacing sendmail, it's 'transport' database will have to be > configured. Well, it’s always a good idea to check the configuration for any new MTA to suit your site. But postfix will work out-of-the-box – for local delivery, or if you’re happy for it to send e

Re: Domino on Fedora

Anne Wilson wrote: > If sendmail is removed, does that imply that you have configured > postfix.sendmail to do the job? If postfix is installed then sendmail is removed, the Fedora alternatives system will do that for you. man alternatives says: “name” [in this case, sendmail] will be updated

Re: Domino on Fedora

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > Nothing has to listen on 25. I snarked: > It might help if Domino did… By which I meant “if the system is to act as a Domino MTA”, not for the purposes of delivering Linux system email. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. James. -- E-mail: james@ | [Training spam filter

Re: Swap space

Frank Murphy wrote: > Use a usb-stick, formatted as swap. > It will be made use of on boot up. > I have four machines using them (up to 4gb sticks) > ymmv Note that questions have been asked about how long flash will last if used for swap. (But the worst thing that can happen is that the machine c

Re: DVD : read but can't burn

Croombe F. Pensom wrote: > I have an LG CD/DVD reader/burner that, previous to this, has always > worked. Now, suddenly, I can do everything EXCEPT burn a DVD. > Any ideas where to look? How are you trying to burn (which program)? Do you know that you have privileges to write to the DVD (does it

Re: Domino on Fedora

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > Local delivery can be done with procmail. Yes, but if the command expects to use /usr/sbin/sendmail to send the mail, and that command isn’t there… > Nothing has to listen on 25. It might help if Domino did… > Go with the documented solution and if needed pull sendma

Re: Linux users want better desktop performance (Screw data. Prioritize code)

Tom Horsley wrote: > The "prelinker" is enabled by default because one group of > geeks want their shared libs to load 10 nanoseconds faster > (while using 45 hours of cpu in a cron job to achieve that), > meanwhile the security geeks enable address space randomization > by default, thus insuring t

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

Beartooth wrote that he: > … did "yum install kvm virt-manager," and got both plus ten > dependencies. > > Is there a better way to get started than a man page? I’d start playing with Virtual Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager or virt-manager (from a root shell): it gives a basic graphical i

Re: Domino on Fedora

Tom Van Looy wrote: > Hi > > We are installing Domino on Fedora (9). The (IBM and Redhat) manuals > tell you to disable sendmail and remove it from the runlevels. > > Great! But, ... that breaks all the housekeeping stuff right? How do we > need to configure things to make sure the mail command, c

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

Beartooth wrote: > What of Rahul's comment, further up the thread, saying "KVM > (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you > need a GUI)"?? > > How do we tell if we have the hardware it takes? (And I for one > do need a GUI for anything very complicated.) Y

Re: What's on my system...

Tim wrote: > To have a database that includes information about what's used, would > require YOUR user interface (menus, desktop icon launches, links between > programs, etc.) to also add data to the database. It's do-able, but not > done here. > > I'm not sure that I'd want to, either. How do

Re: Fedora/Ubuntu Problems

GERALD HOOPER wrote: > Hi Group > I had to abandon installing Fedora because it was taking up too much > space on my hard drive. Instead I installed Ubuntu 7.1 Gutsy Gibbon > which took up much less space. Mark Haney wrote: > So, your point? Gerald had asked for support for getting the latest pat

Re: Intel i7

Louis E Garcia II wrote: > I'm looking at the Dell XPS Studio with the new intel i7 chip. Anyone > have experience with this new chipset with fedora? Not personally, but I know a lot of people (including Linus, and the major server manufacturers) have been running Linux on this processor for quite

Re: wine on fedora 8 X86_64, can't installed

L wrote: > when install wine on fedora 9 X86_64, always got the following errors? > > Any one has luck on this? > > Y > > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz from install of > openldap-2.4.10-2.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from package > openldap-2.4.8-3.fc9.x86_

Re: Certificate problem

Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > I want to setup an IMAPS connection on my mail server. But at the launch > time, I've got an error (DOVECOT) that tells me it cannot decrypt the > private key. > > How can I test my private key to see its contents or test the password ? Do you actually have an existing SSL

Re: open nautilus in text mode?

Dave Stevens escribió: > I've got a folder with 300K recovered jpegs that vary from teeny to several > megs. I tried to open the folder with Nautilus and got a 10 hour delay and > the whole display is so clumsy (slow) as to be useless. > > I'd like to take about 1K of the biggest files and move

Re: Packages without source?

Bill Davidsen wrote: > It appears > to be compiled in some "safe" configuration, with no mmx, sse, etc, > and is dog slow. I attempted to compile the source from the original > site, but that will not compile with the current FC9 or 10 gcc. Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > It may be worth filing a bug but

Re: getting /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on a 64-bit f10 preview install?

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so you're suggesting just installing the i[36]86 version of glibc? i > had considered that, but wasn't sure if that would cause any conflicts > so i was reluctant to test it. and, based on another commenter here, > i'm not the only person who's run into this, so surely

Re: getting /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on a 64-bit f10 preview install?

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > long story short: x86-64 f10 preview install on AMD64 laptop. > install coldfire cross-compile toolchain, which immediately fails > looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.2, which it obviously won't find since > the system has /lib64/ld-2.9.so (along with various symlinks). > >

Re: kernel: martian messages

Frank Cox wrote: > A "martian source" is an invalid IP address. In your case, 255.255.255.255 is > the IP address. It's impossible for that to be a valid address, not least > because *.*.*.255 is a broadcast address. Usually. If you’re using anything larger than a Class C (= /24 = netmask of 255

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

g wrote: > you use mutt. can mutt not send 'text/plain' in 8 bit? It does, and did. It looks as though somewhere en-route my last e-mail got recoded a couple of times, though. Incidentally, 8 bit without MIME is meaningless: you need the MIME headers to (reliably) make any sense of the non-ASCII

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

Beartooth wrote: > On #1, Where the printer is and I am now, I see almost identical > entries : > > = = = > > Search in Printers: Clear > > Showing 2 of 2 printers. > Sort Descending > psc-1310-series- (Default Printer

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

g wrote: > this i understand. where i believe it to be a waste is when a > plain text file is attached and it is converted to mime. Well, if you want it attached and not just a part of the main body of text you *have* to use MIME: MIME is what enables attachments in Internet e-mail. > also, a was

Re: Installing a RPM

Jim wrote: > I got OpenOffice-3.0-rpm from Open Office. > I was thinking, would a rpm install of openoffice from the rawhide repo > work, to install OOo-3 in FC8. > That way you could get all dependencies . Unfortunately, those dependencies would include a lot of Rawhide. You’d be running an unt

Re: What is filesystem panic?

Per Anton Rønning wrote: > I guess I should rephrase my question about my 4GB memory stick/pen, > where the filesystem > now is set to readonly when I enter it into one of the slots. > Could anyone tell me what might have happened by taking a look at the > snip of the logfile? > > I am not allo

Re: desktop cpuspeed

Tim wrote: > Generally, you can't make CPU go faster than it's supposed to without > some hackery involved. Look into "overclocking". But beware that > there's some risk involved (instability and wrecking it). And that the computer is somewhat less likely to give you the right answer, particula

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

Seann Clark wrote: > under linux, with the HP370 driver loaded into the kernel, it will work > as a RAID that isn't managed or taxing the CPU. The HP controller will > take care of all mirroring and striping aspects leaving the CPU free to > do whatever else. Sorry, but I’m pretty sure this

Re: fedroa 9 32 bit

Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > The 32-bit generic .i686 kernel sees what the BIOS tells it is > available. If you google it, you'll find a couple of good explanations > as to why 32-bit generic .i686 kernels don't see (or can't use) all 4GB, > it is usually something less (like 3.5 or 3.75 GB, d

Re: F9: Outgoing mail using "mail" doesn't work

Eric wrote: > It appears that outgoing mail using the simple "mail" command (as in > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]") isn't working in F9. > > I don't recall doing anything special in previous releases e.g. F8, > F6... it Just Worked. I think. I have some notes from those previous > installations a

Re: Updating FC8 -> FC9 is not possible from x86_64 to 32 bit

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > KDE 4 on F9 is a very different desktop from KDE 3.5 on previous > versions of Fedora. The version on the distro CDs is buggy, so it's > highly recommended to upgrade to at least 4.1 (using "yum upgrade"). Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > ummm this is not a good news. Upg

Re: firestarter closed unexpected (GLib-GObject-CRITICAL)

Claude Jones wrote: > firewall builder is the most comprehensive if you want really > full-featured but it's no longer in the repos - looks like you > have to get it from their site > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5314 $ yum search builder | grep -i firewall fwbuilder.x86

Re: Installing packages from Fedora repo - is it safe?

Stewart Williams wrote: > I think I know the answer to this, but I'm just clarifying. > > I have updated to the updates-newkey repo for updates, but there are > packages that I want to install, and these are still pulled from the > fedora (Everything) repo. > > Is it safe to use the repo yet or

Re: firefox 3 visited link color not showing

rfjones wrote: > fedora 8 firefox 3.01 > I set the visited link color to red; all links still display black on > white > any ideas? Try the View menu -> Page Style -> No Style. Does that help? (It turns off any colour instructions that come from the website.) James. -- E-mail: james@ | ...

Re: "indirect routing" through Squid and Privoxy

Frank Cox wrote: > I am considering the idea of getting one of those little "netbook" machines at > some point. I'm thinking that they will get very cheap around Christmas and > one of those would be a neat toy. > > I currently run Squid and Privoxy on my computers. I'm trying to visualize a >

Re: Fedora List Bounces?

Mike McCarty wrote: > Lately I've been getting messages sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm subscribed to fedora-list@redhat.com, and it seems that > some send to something, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > is forwarding it to the list. What gives? In case it’s not obvious, sending non-delivery “bounces” to

Re: ipop3d logwatch entry suspicious

I wrote: > You need to plan around a security problem being found with your version > of ipop3d. Either you need to follow the appropriate security lists, and > be ready to patch your version of ipop3d quickly, or you need to use a > supported operating system which will do this for you. Roberto F

Re: ipop3d logwatch entry suspicious

Roberto Figueroa wrote: > I'm getting a lot of this entries in the LogWatch mail under ipop3d > section: > > Success, while reading line user=appowner > host=customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net > [200.123.149.157 > ]: 1 > Tim

Re: Fedora on old hardware?

Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Just to let you know, your system will make a piss poor graphical system > (too slow) with the current environments. You'd really have to dig > around to find a light-weight one that works. Its probably OK for > command line stuff though. Um. The Original Poster

Re: Character encoding

Björn Persson wrote: > There's a whole set of environment variables that control the locale. The > command "locale" displays them all, but normally you'd just set LANG. You > should probably define LANG for the whole system in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. > > I don't know Vim but I'd guess that it uses

Re: Linksys WRT54G2

fred smith wrote: > i meant to add that you don't need their windows software for anything. > Those puppies all export their UI via a web page. If you don't know what > IP address it is configured for, Alternatively, if you don’t know which IP address a router has, you can set a computer to DHCP,

Re: Fedora 9 custom boot cd kernel panic help?

Matthew Nicholson wrote: > So, any hints/tips as to how to troubleshoot this? Is there some easy > way to get the kernel panic "log", even though the boot never completes? > As I said, this very same cd boots plenty of other systems, and its > almost identical to the boot.iso shipped by Fedora, so

Re: Repair FC9 for new hardware

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I had to replace a MOBO with a new graphics card and NIC. > The storage controller is the same and the machine boots to run level 3 fine > but its confused about the NIC (I know it works, I had a fresh install > working out of the box) and X crashes the machine if I go t

Re: Turn off bash completion?

I wrote: > However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works > properly. g wrote: > '$' defines a *string variable* Not in this case, no. ~/.inputrc is not a shell script (at least in the conventional case of the term). > and must be present. That’s what I was saying. >

Re: Virus software? do I need it?

Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for > years without it. What say you? Jeff There is a school of thought that says both traditional viruses and traditional anti-virus are becoming obsolete. Malware is changing, and traditional anti-virus is

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

Massimo Maiurana wrote: > I did it, but nothing had changed. > however maybe domain and workgroup are not the same thing, because also > on my home pc (which runs a samba server) domain is set to the name of > the host. That might be a bad idea – I think Windows likes different names for differe

Re: Turn off bash completion?

I wrote: > into ~/.inputrc , and log in again, completion should be disabled. > You'll also have disabled the rest of the settings in /etc/inputrc: you > might like to either copy them across, or try putting > $include /etc/inputrc > into ~/.inputrc . Mike McCarty replied: > Hmm, created ~/.input

Re: Turn off bash completion?

Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd like to disable the bash "completion" feature. I've read > the info bash stuff, and I see lots of ways to specify what > happens after or during completion, but I didn't see (overlooked?) > how to turn it off. Any bash gurus out there know how to disable > it entirely? > >

PAE and 4 GB of memory or less

Roger Heflin wrote: > If they don't remap above 4GB they will maximize the memory > usable for 32-bit windows (depending on the exact hw, they may have to > remap > larger amounts than are actually covered and that would lower the ram > usable under 32-bit windows, so no remap is better for 32-b

Re: "Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

R. G. Newbury wrote: > Weird bit is that I was logged in as root..WHICH WAS MISLEADING. When > 'nonexec' is set, ALL users are denied execution privileges. (This is > most useful for security purposes in denying the use of programs on for > example a USB stick from compromising the system. S

Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

Paul W. Frields wrote: > Good point Tim, maybe we should put a "caveat emptor" in the bit that > the list management software applies to the end of every message? Only > not so scary. If you’re going to edit that, can we please *finally* have a link to a FAQ list? Possibly http://fedoraproject.or

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