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

2009-01-26 Thread Stuart Sears
boot into rescue mode and do it from there) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Silly question

2009-01-11 Thread Stuart Sears
rg/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1003 Works for me (tm) - Although it seems that sometimes you have to switch header views back from full to normal and then back to full for the change to kick in. Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My

Re: Help -- can't SSH into my box

2009-01-06 Thread Stuart Sears
ntioned I *hate* SELINUX?!?!? ) since there doesn't appear to be any way to disable it entirely. In any case, I'll try that later... Not wishing :) to open a massive can of worms (even though this probably will) but why do you hate it so much? Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc.

Re: Activate second volume group at boot

2009-01-04 Thread Stuart Sears
acility to do it that I've missed, I prefer to use the Fedora Way if it exists. incidentally, *why* have you put a volumegroup on an external disk? Seems like an odd thing to do. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite

Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread Stuart Sears
On 03/01/09 14:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Stuart Sears : okay, what I would do here is use the grub console to find /boot... in case you don't know how: hit 'c' to bring up the console type root (hd grub should fill in the disks it can see (hopefully hd0/1/2) for eac

Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread Stuart Sears
ur previous post, that you may be pointing grub at what you think is sdc, which may only have sdc1 - Extended sdc5 - first logical partition on it. I had a similar issue with the installer seeing my disks in a different order to what I expected. Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA e

Re: Preventing USB automount

2008-11-04 Thread Stuart Sears
out the libusb > entry in 50 so it's disabled and only the 20-local.rules file will take > action? The hal solution offered earlier seems like a good start if you want the devices to be mountable, but not automounted. There's probably a gconf key to prevent this from happening under

Re: Where is modprobeconf

2008-11-03 Thread Stuart Sears
Stuart Sears wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: >> I just noticed there is no modprobe.conf in f9. What takes its place? replying to myself, as I have come to look on another system. > Well, I have one... are you definitely looking in the right place? look at the various files in /et

Re: Where is modprobeconf

2008-11-03 Thread Stuart Sears
Aaron Konstam wrote: > I just noticed there is no modprobe.conf in f9. What takes its place? Well, I have one... are you definitely looking in the right place? Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-l

Re: FC9 login without password

2008-11-02 Thread Stuart Sears
linux-general-1/fedora-9-auto-login-644821/ Unless you want your users to literally have *no* password... This is a very bad idea! I'll let someone else tell you how to compromise your system security like that. I can't bring myself to do it... Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "

Re: No sound in Flashplayer

2008-10-14 Thread Stuart Sears
Stuart Sears wrote: > Jim wrote: >> FC8-i386 To get sound in flashplayer, do you need to install >> libflashsupport ?? > > yes. oops. I mean. possibly not. On Fedora 9 this is needed, but IIRC on fedora 8 there wasn't such a problem. /me goes back into hiding Stuart -

Re: No sound in Flashplayer

2008-10-14 Thread Stuart Sears
Jim wrote: > FC8-i386 To get sound in flashplayer, do you need to install > libflashsupport ?? yes. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://

Re: extra harddisk on RAID5

2008-09-30 Thread Stuart Sears
robably have to shut down for this unless you have hotpluggable disks) HTH Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: fc10 and raid-10

2008-09-28 Thread Stuart Sears
r or far) copies of each chunk. this is what mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 10 -n4 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d}1 would do, for example. As opposed to manually creating 2 mirrors and striping over them. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Stuart Sears
Group00 to make available. Only one of the volumegroups will currently be available, you can't have 2 conflicting /dev/VolGroup00 entries. That way lies madness. Alternatively, remove one disk, boot F9 (or FC5, really doesn't matter which!) with a rescue disc and rename the volumegr

Re: yum repositories question

2008-09-23 Thread Stuart Sears
-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm (that link will wrap) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guid

Re: Ntpdate fails to start

2008-09-07 Thread Stuart Sears
localhost ntpdate[2908]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting > > Any ideas? service ntpd status Should show you that the ntp daemon is already running. You can't run both ntpd (the server) and ntpdate (the client) at the same time. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It

Re: NFS statd fails to start

2008-09-07 Thread Stuart Sears
h /.autorelabel If you do this your system will be checked and relabelled on its next boot. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.

Re: NFS statd fails to start

2008-09-07 Thread Stuart Sears
Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Stuart Sears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...edited...] >> An 'AVC denial' is just telling you that SELinux has prevented >> something from happening on your system. We'd need the actual >> denial message to

Re: NFS statd fails to start

2008-09-06 Thread Stuart Sears
s just telling you that SELinux has prevented something from happening on your system. We'd need the actual denial message to see what it's complaining about - click on the "Sheriff's badge" in your system tray and tell us what it says. Then we may know what is wrong! Rega

Re: Can't switch to KDE

2008-09-04 Thread Stuart Sears
> in previous installations. Any ideas? On my F9 system it doesn't appear until you have selected your username - then you get language and session boxes to choose from in the bar at the bottom Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day,"

Re: strange behavior of vim syntax highlighting

2008-09-03 Thread Stuart Sears
; Uwe >> > It should have already been an alias by default. It's no longer an alias if you are root. I suspect this may have some bearing on the issue. I've just got used to typing 'vim' instead just a guess :) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's toda

Re: "Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Stuart Sears
ething on a 'spare' > partition. Or when you change the fstab without realizing the implications! True. 'users' and 'user' are not default options and tbh I don't see the point of using them most of the time. IMO the only devices that users should be mounting/

Re: FEDORA8: NOT GETTING TO DESKTOP AFTER MAKING LOGIN

2008-08-26 Thread Stuart Sears
NEED TO SHOUT if you can avoid it. regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHC* "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: "Permission denied" error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Stuart Sears
bsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid). IIRC 'user' has the same problems. Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Fedora Install Using DVD and HTTP

2008-08-10 Thread Stuart Sears
installer, and tell it to do an http install. or, of course, just share the ISO image via NFS (yes, not http. I realise that...) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedo

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-25 Thread Stuart Sears
irs=1 seems that it might. It basically treats nfs_t the same as user_home_t /me smiles inwardly at the idea of NFS being described as "locked down" at all. -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-l

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-24 Thread Stuart Sears
mail and you may be able to symlink that as well. But do think about the labels on parent directories in the path to your mailspools. cp -a /var/spool/mail /opt/local/ Will probably do the move for you. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-24 Thread Stuart Sears
me_dir_t. The semanage option is (arguably) better though. Incidentally, if you mv (or cp -a) files from one dir to another, they take their original labels with them. This bites people a lot. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite da

Re: SElinux concerning symlink?

2008-07-24 Thread Stuart Sears
oblem. I have yet to explore whether there will be problems with dovecot if the mail area is symlinked (again normal previous practice for me with SELinux disabled previously) symlinked from where? /opt again? Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. &qu

Re: url for fc9 images

2008-06-10 Thread Stuart Sears
rservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/ summarised as: http://tinyurl.com/6ogyk5 (who knows, that may even work in the installer. never tried). obviously it would make sense to choose a mirror that is fairly close to your location. regards,

Re: I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

2008-06-10 Thread Stuart Sears
Reik Red wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wait a minute. People are talking about using maildir format instead of mbox format. Fine. But the original question was about local/offline storage, not the server storage. You can stil

Re: I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

2008-06-09 Thread Stuart Sears
linuxguy wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 19:08:46 linuxguy wrote: My email setup is 6 different gmail accounts, being sorted into about 25 folders via rules. The largest folder has about 150,000 messages in it. The smallest one has 5,000 me

Re: howto use curl to get Internet IP

2008-06-07 Thread Stuart Sears
Jim wrote: What approach would you suggest that is better to use ? I have a DSL AP 2Wire783 in front of my computer that does not have the capability of giving me the Internet IP This works for me after a moment's experimentation: links -dump http://www.getip.com/| awk '/^IP Address:/ {prin

Re: Troubleshooting yum

2008-05-23 Thread Stuart Sears
Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot to save the actual message, so I'm quoting from memory. I keep getting something like 'Not using repom.d. Older than the one I have' I can't see anything odd about the repo files, so what could be wrong and where do I look? I don't think this is an error. The