On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:43 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have
elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
I'm not sure why that's the case. I do know that we explicitly do not
require root privileges for K3b, as they aren't necessary. (We also
disable the check from upstream K3b which warns if wodim is not suid
root, it works just fine without it!)
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Mike Burger wrote:
It's not the case, any more, but I do recall it being an issue in FC3 or
FC4, if memory serves.
I've not seen it since FC5, and I know it's not the case in F8 or F9
(haven't tried in F10, yet).
Yeah. I think that was about the time I discovered
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have
elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's installed via the F10
repositories.
I'm running boinc on an unprivileged user.
I've been trying to get BOINC
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have
elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's installed via
the F10 repositories.
I'm running boinc on an
John Aldrich wrote:
Yes, that's the sort of behavior that annoys the crap out of me.
Fedora/RedHat in their *infinite wisdom* have decided that we can't be
trusted to run *anything* as a normal user
That's not true, actually with technologies like ConsoleKit and PolicyKit
the trend is towards
(as witnessed by them requiring admin priveleges awhile back to run
XCDRoast!)
I'm not sure why that's the case. I do know that we explicitly do not
require root privileges for K3b, as they aren't necessary. (We also
disable
the check from upstream K3b which warns if wodim is not suid root,
John Aldrich wrote:
Anyone here running Boinc on Fedora 10 x86_64? I followed the instructions on
their (Boinc/s...@home) website and ran yum install boinc... and it
installed two packages. Now when I try to run boincmgr, I get the following
error in the console:
connect: Connection
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:32 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
THiings like this are why I run in permissive mode.
If you do that all the time, you may as well disable SELinux, it's not
protecting you from anything in permissive mode.
Enforcing - SELinux does what it's supposed to, it's enabled.
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
with a specific connection before anyone logs in
_if that is what one wants_,
or if not requires the user to authenticate
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
sounds.
(Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to
pay
the equivalent of several pints of beer.)
OT, but
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:58 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
with a specific connection before anyone logs in
_if that is
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all
users, by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to
start with a specific connection before anyone logs in
_if that is what one wants_,
or if not requires the user to
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Since this subject is bout Boinc and solved, shouldn't another thread be
started, at least about what your currently talking about so can be
followed from archives a little easier? Otherwise, who would know to
search for boinc when
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
sounds.
(Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
until I login.
Again, you are confusing between NM and nm-applet.
I don't think so.
I am using the term NetworkManager - as I
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
sounds.
(Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to
pay
the equivalent of
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
until I login.
Again, you are confusing between NM and
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 19:57 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
[SNIP]
report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll
ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package.
It's important to work
Andrew Kelly wrote:
There is also a large amount of work that needs to
be done on fixing software that doesn't react well to network
connections disappearing underneath them as happens often with wireless
networks on laptops and mobile systems.
Rahul
As much as I am not a fan of
Mike Evans wrote:
For machines with a wired connection I have been in the habit of
disabling NM and using the good old network service. Works like a dream
and doesn't need tampering with. You can do that through the
Admin-services gui if you don't like fiddling with the links in the
init
Timothy Murphy wrote:
But this was a specific, concrete query.
Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started.
It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or
Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
But this was a specific, concrete query.
Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started.
It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or
Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
until I login.
Again, you are confusing between NM and nm-applet.
Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
has
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
But this was a specific, concrete query.
Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started.
It is a system service which starts
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Think about how accessing wireless systems works. If you have to
authenticate, then you have to be logged in to do it (or you have to
preconfigure it). If you are a mobile user, you may have to do it
several times--NM makes the
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Think about how accessing wireless systems works. If you have to
authenticate, then you have to be logged in to do it (or you have to
preconfigure it). If you are a
Timothy Murphy:
Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be clear.
Rahul Sundaram:
Perhaps if you will volunteer to contribute, it would have been done by
now. If you want to wait for someone else to do the work, it is going to
be done when others find time and
Tom Horsley wrote:
I don't think any problems in NetworkManager will ever be considered
bugs until RedHat foists it on their paying RHEL customers
There is a little problem with that theory. Both Red Hat and upstream
bugzilla shows a considerable amount of bugs being filed and fixed on a
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
[big snip]
yum install mod_ssl
service httpd restart
Port 443 now appears in netstat. Thanks.
Boinc still not working -- but that is an application problem to be
figured out in the morning.
seems hard to believe that mod_ssl
Craig White kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 28.
kesäkuuta 2008):
don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd
running (sounds like it)
You don't need httpd to run the BOINC client. It doesn't need any
incoming firewall ports open either. I think this thread
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
Didn't have iptables running. I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
trusted -- still nothing.
Do I have to move or link some
Hi Markku;
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:37 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:
Craig White kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 28.
kesäkuuta 2008):
don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd
running (sounds like it)
You don't need httpd to run the BOINC client. It
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1
Greetings William,
I have used the following site to get my boinc going:
Hi;
I give up. I am filing a bug.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
--
Greetings William,
I have used the following site to get my boinc
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I give up. I am filing a bug.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
--
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I give up. I am filing a bug.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Craig;
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I give up. I am filing a bug.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
bug; a Boinc bug; or both. Of course, if boincmgr does successfully
bug; a Boinc bug; or both. Of course, if boinc-clent does successfully
reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 16:19 -0400, William Case wrote:
If it can't I will try Patrick's Network Manager solution.
If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
bug; a Boinc bug; or both. Of course, if boincmgr does successfully
reconnect to WCG and download
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 06:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 16:19 -0400, William Case wrote:
If it can't I will try Patrick's Network Manager solution.
If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
bug; a Boinc bug; or both.
Hi Patrick and Craig;
Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
I believe that what
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Patrick and Craig;
Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.
Lucky guesses sometimes work out :-)
poc
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On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 06:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
If the analysis of NM starting too late in the boot process is
correct, wouldn't one of these make life a bit more tolerable?
Keeping in mind that I don't use F9, NM, or BOINC. :-)
1. Change the script number in /etc/init.d of NM to a
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart'
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and re-booted once again. --BINGO
Seeing as the problem's with Network Manager, I'd move the restart
script away from the rc.local file to the scripts that Network
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:10 +0930, Tim wrote:
It strikes me that something is *really* broken with Network Manager.
Other services wait until they start before returning to the next item
in the startup sequence. Network Manager seems to be returning as
ready, before it is, and buggering up
You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
John
William Case wrote:
Hi;
I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think.
Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any
rudimentary depth. So here goes.
I can get Boinc to connect to
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
Didn't have iptables running. I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
trusted -- still nothing.
Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME?
John
William
Hi Craig;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 00:44 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Craig;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 20:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 01:45 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Craig;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 00:44 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Craig;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 20:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400,
Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com writes:
If /var/lib/boinc is where the files exist, then you need to try the
following..
1 - cd /var/lib/boinc
2 - ./boincmgr
boincmgr is not in /var/lib/boinc, it's in /usr/bin. So:
cd /var/lib/boinc
/usr/bin/boincmgr (or just boincmgr, since it's in
Hi and Thanks;
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:59 -0400, William Case wrote:
Thanks Adalbert;
Mostly joy.
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008:
I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8)
yum installed all boinc files
William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008:
Hello!
When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message:
Authorization failed connecting to running client.
Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the
client.
They are both in /usr/bin/ and
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:07 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Adalbert;
Now I am totally confused.
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:44 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008:
[snip]
I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
to
Thanks Adalbert;
Mostly joy.
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008:
I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8)
yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including
gui_rpc_auth.cfg.
If gui_rpc_auth.cfg is there
Jonas Karlsson wrote:
Hello,
how about having Boinc (the client for distributed computing) part of
the main repository. And fix a gui/make an integration to let say a
screensaver activation so it only runs when user is idle. Use it as a
marketing purpose and say fedora comes ready to
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