Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:05 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Dennis J. wrote: You have PackageKit installed on servers? really? Why shouldn't he? AFAIK there is nothing in the package warning users not to install this on a server. like I said in another email - I

Re: Question(s) default firewall in Fedora

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Locke
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:13 +0930, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 19:17 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: snip [r...@localhost ~]# service iptables status Table: filter Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination 1ACCEPT all --

Re: No IP4 address after NetworkManager update

2009-03-10 Thread Robert Locke
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:05 -0400, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: Mark Knoop wrote: Yesterday's updates included: Mar 09 09:44:45 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0.99-1.fc10.i386 Mar 09 09:44:50 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10.i386 On booting this morning, NetworkManager fails to

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Locke
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:56 +0100, Mark wrote: Hey, The question is simple: Lets use the browser view of nautilus in the next fedora release. Hate voting, but -1 Try using Shift-DoubleClick the next time you open a window while in Spatial Mode. There are lots of other tricks apparently,

Re: libvirt autostart VM is broken

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Locke
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:38 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, The libvirtd autostart VM option seems to be broken [1,2], so I need a work-around. How can I start the libvirtd service, and then (after the service has fully started) start a particular VM from the command

Re: F10: Unrequested automatic installation ::rant

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Locke
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:57 +, Richard Hughes wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:37 -0500, lanas wrote: I'm suprised this packagekit-whatever default behaviour went into production w/o anyone raising a red light. Even if it's a bug. truly surprising. Not a bug, quite deliberate.

F10: Unrequested automatic installation

2008-12-05 Thread Robert Locke
This seems unusual: Fresh install of F10 (from DVD) couple of days after release (28-Nov). I have added rpmfusion and livna repositories when the install was done. This morning after booting and logging in, a little bubble opened in the lower right hand corner that said some updates were

Re: F10: Unrequested automatic installation

2008-12-05 Thread Robert Locke
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:56 -0500, Robert Locke wrote: This seems unusual: Fresh install of F10 (from DVD) couple of days after release (28-Nov). I have added rpmfusion and livna repositories when the install was done. This morning after booting and logging in, a little bubble opened

Re: F10: Unrequested automatic installation

2008-12-05 Thread Robert Locke
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:43 +, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Robert Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems unusual: Fresh install of F10 (from DVD) couple of days after release (28-Nov). I have added rpmfusion and livna repositories when the install was done

Re: domU kernel for Fedora 10?

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Locke
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:48 +0100, David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, will be domU kernel available for F10 , and xen-boot images in /images/ directory for virt-install ?? It's a little different now (unified kernel) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Virtualization HTH, --Rob

Re: Fedora 10 and Xen (at this point)?

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Locke
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 20:03 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: M A Young wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Kevin Martin wrote: What is the status of XEN and Fedora 10 at this point? The website http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 shows a last update date of 7/30/08. It is

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:42 -0400, brian wrote: I have a /tmp volume that I'd like to increase. I've been having a look at the LVM HOWTO [1] and various other pages online and think I've got it figured out. Those being famous last

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:48 -0400, brian wrote: brian wrote: Robert Locke wrote: As an alternative, that might be easier, why not install system-config-lvm? It presents a graphical view of shrinking and enlarging. Thanks, I'll check that out. That looks easy to use

Re: What are your unsatisfied NetworkManager use cases?

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:23 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: Many people seem to have different issues with NetworkManager. I would like to attempt to assist with the progress of NetworkManager by collecting use cases which it does not cover at all or properly. So please reply with a use case

Re: IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Locke
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 02:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You are using IPv4 ( If IPv6 disabled )... Edward. Agreed Edward, but when it doesn't show the ipv6 addresses at all, the interface is brought up in milliseconds, as

Re: IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Locke
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:26 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After FC8 System, there is no /etc/modprobe.conf ( default hand by system ), the user may use the GUI ( NOT text mode ) tool or modify ifcfg-eth* file for it... Edward. Edward, You may want to actually try the advice

Re: Fedora 9 support for the XFS file system

2008-09-27 Thread Robert Locke
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 15:41 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: PS = Pete Stieber PS Sorry I wasn't clear, but what package do I have to PS load to get fsck.xfs and/or xfs_check, xfs_repair, PS xfsdump? To answer my own question... # yum install xfsprogs I found this by looking through

Re: LVM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:20 +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gene Poole wrote: I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out of space. All of the return codes and messages showed a good completion. However, when I did a display

Re: Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:50 +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh wrote: What is the difference between /media and /mnt In addition to the other two replies I've seen answering this, /media is used by the auto-mounting system. And, by auto-mounting system, you

Re: Palm Centro and pilot-link

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 04:50 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: Is anyone on this list syncing a Palm Centro using pilot-link? Thanks Bob Bob, Syncing is probably too strong a word for what I do with my Verizon Centro. I currently use pilot-link to backup my Centro, for the eventual hard

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Locke
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:05 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE;