Re: Create LDAP account from Web form

2008-12-04 Thread Art Wildman
aus.org/display/PENROSE/Home OpenDS Wiki - About https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/About OpenSSO - the opensource version of Sun's Access Manager https://opensso.dev.java.net/public/use/index.html Zimbra - Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac http://www

Re: GNOME Applications menu question

2008-11-13 Thread Art Wildman
I've been down this road lately, trying to customize a common set of menus & desktop launchers for some users where Gnome was required. Why the RH Docs don't show up during searches is very annoying . See if this helps... RedHat Desktop Deployment Guide - Gnome Menu Editing and Configuration http:

Re: Light Desktop

2008-11-13 Thread Art Wildman
Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi, > I thought I'd replied to this before, but I guess not. > I cannot find xfce for Scientific Linux, maybe somebody else can point > you to the right place. I use Xfce [http://www.xfce.org] on many of my (slower) systems & laptops, it is light+fast and easy to configure. I

Re: Desktop customization

2008-11-13 Thread Art Wildman
Wilm Schumacher wrote: > Hello Scientific Linux Mailing list, > > I use Ubuntu and Suse at home so I'm new with Scientific Linux and so I have > some questions about the customization of my Desktop. > > At first I want to use some effects from compiz but there is only the > possibility to activat

Re: SL52: firefox 3 not reading user lpoptions file

2008-11-13 Thread Art Wildman
The prefs.js & user.js files in the Firefox Profile are where the printer settings should be stored, just make sure the Firefox clients are closed when making edits as settings are cached & saved upon closing mozilla apps. There have been many mozilla bugs filed over the years about persistent prin

Re: Convert pdf files to doc (word)

2008-10-08 Thread Art Wildman
Rachid Ayad wrote: Hello, Do you know how to convert pdf files to doc files. They said we can do it through Acrobat 8 standard or professional and I do not think we have them in Linux. The acrobat I have in linux can convert it to txt file without images. The commercial Adobe Acrobat Std/P

Re: iptables firewall needed

2008-09-30 Thread Art Wildman
vivek chal wrote: hello all i have made a server which is acting as a dhcp,dns and internet gateway in scientific linux 4.5. Now i want my clients won't access some websites such as orkut,facebook etc . Also i don't want to use proxy. Please help me . The best practice is to setup filteri

Re: problems accesing site

2008-07-17 Thread Art Wildman
Troy Dawson wrote: Fernando Rannou wrote: Hello, I wanted to access the scientificlinux home page, but my browser (firefox) displays this error message: www.scientificlinux.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Er

Re: SL 4.5, Samba and Vista

2007-09-27 Thread Art Wildman
Mike Holzman wrote: > I am trying to connect a Vista Windows machine via Samba to a server > that is running SL 4.5. I've tried modifying the security policy on > the vista machine to use "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security > if negotiated" but that hasn't solved my problem. I am wonderin

Re: thunderbird on SL50 and profile migration

2007-09-27 Thread Art Wildman
Jon Peatfield wrote: > At least on SL308 the thunderbird 1.5.0.12 would offer to convert/import > a mozilla/netscape profile if the user didn't have any profiles when it > was first run. > > On SL50 (i386 tested so far), it no longer seems to do that. Instead it > seems to make a default profile a

Re: problem with the mouse

2007-09-01 Thread Art Wildman
Ricardo Franklin wrote: Hi all: Recently I installed SL-5.0 on my notebook (Hewlett-Packard hp510) everything works fine, but the touch pad (the mouse) don't work. Then I don't know how to solve the problem. Any suggestion will be accepted. Seems there are some bugs... http://www.google.co

Re: /etc/hosts and DNS, bug or feature?

2007-09-01 Thread Art Wildman
Nathan Moore wrote: Is there a way to share a hosts list via NIS? Are there any advantages to this over DNS or /etc/hosts? I'm running NIS, DNS, and home directory shares all off of one server (honker in the examples, 10.30.27.5 ) Sorry for the late reply, been busy & tr

Re: Authentication with Active Directory

2007-07-18 Thread Art Wildman
.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch10_:_Windows,_Linux,_and_Samba Wedding Samba to an Active Directory Domain http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9397/sam0414e/0414e.htm SAMBA Winbind PAM - auto create users home dir - Redhat KB http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_43_5367.shtm -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX

Re: gsl, gsl-devel in SL 5.0? -Thunderbird migration

2007-07-18 Thread Art Wildman
nts/s=9365/sam0506f/0506f.htm Email me off-list if your like for a dated draft Thunderbird Migration doc NOAA published, that's kind of windows centric, but it could help get your users on board... -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead

Re: gsl, gsl-devel in SL 5.0? - Firefox Add-ons replace Mozilla-SM Features

2007-07-18 Thread Art Wildman
amp;status=4 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=menu&status=4 Menu Editor Firefox Add-ons - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/710 Open Link In... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/379 -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead

Re: Yum updates applet

2007-06-14 Thread Art Wildman
Marco DELMASTRO wrote: Hi there... I was wondering anyone knows if/why the yum update notification applet (the one displaying an icon on a panel when new updates are available) has been removed in SL5. And if yes, is anyone is aware of have it back on a brand new SL5 machine? Not near an

Re: The Quest for Merging Repos...

2007-06-13 Thread Art Wildman
Also, there appear to be no new apt-rpm releases, and many repos no longer include apt-rpm /etc/sources examples in their FAQs, to help folks setup apt-rpm. Apt4RPM News - 28 Februari 2005: a new version (0.69.3) has been released... http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX F

Re: Alternate distro for i586 (Pentium 5 MMX) firewall

2007-06-11 Thread Art Wildman
Keith Lofstrom wrote: I intended to bring all my machines up to SL5, but that only supports kernels for i686 and x86_64 AFAIK. My firewall machine for my small network is an old P5 laptop. Other alternatives required. I want to stay rpm/yum based, and would like to keep the familiar Red Hat a

Re: EDAC problem

2007-06-01 Thread Art Wildman
Joe Kiskis wrote: I have just installed SL 5. I'm getting a large number of messages of the form EDAC MC0: UE page 0xbf1 offset 0x0 grain 4096 row 0 labels ":" : i82875p UE Initially they were being sent to /var/log/messages and to all terminal windows. I managed to get the latter to stop. The

Re: Scientific Linux 5.0 i386 is now available

2007-05-12 Thread Art Wildman
Arshad Momen wrote: My ISP does not allow me to download any file that is beyond 2.0G. So, I was wondering whether there is a script to create the SL5 DVD.iso out of the SL5 CD isos? Thanks in advance, Arshad --- Connie Sieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scientific Linux 5.0 i386 is now

Re: Scientific Linux 5.0 i386 is now available

2007-05-12 Thread Art Wildman
SL: How To Build a DVD Image from CD Images https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/build.dvd.image Arshad Momen wrote: My ISP does not allow me to download any file that is beyond 2.0G. So, I was wondering whether there is a script to create the SL5 DVD.iso out of the SL5 CD isos

Re: Hardware Compatability Lists

2007-05-09 Thread Art Wildman
mentation/network/ Wireless Cards - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported Linux USB Project - http://www.linux-usb.org/ -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead

Re: SL5: madwifi and Xen question

2007-05-08 Thread Art Wildman
roject.org/wiki/DocsProject (Allows the 'community' to contribute to future RH docs) -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead

Re: NFSv4 bug

2007-04-11 Thread Art Wildman
at=advanced SL Bugs & Features - https://www.scientificlinux.org/bug.feature/ -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will..." - Grateful Dead

Re: nfsd problem

2007-04-09 Thread Art Wildman
awk 'NR<=2 || /rpc/' $ rpm -qiv portmap $ rpm -qf /etc/rpc glibc $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/rpcinfo glibc-common $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd nfs-utils As you can see quite a few critical packages are required for RPC services to work, may need to re-install some of them -HTH [EMAI

Re: OT: Postgres vs. MySQL?

2007-03-29 Thread Art Wildman
Michael Hannon wrote: Hi, folks. If you have any words of wisdom about the relative merits of PostgreSQL and MySQL, would you please send them to me? It would be ideal to hear opinions/experiences, etc., that relate to the CURRENT versions of these products, but ancient prejudices, gossip, etc.

Re: Something is really wrong!!!!!!! - keyboard & mouse shortcuts

2007-03-14 Thread Art Wildman
RHEL4 Step-by-Step Guide - Keyboard Shortcuts http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/step-guide/ap-keyboard-shortcuts.html http://linux-newbie.dotsrc.org/html/lnag.html#6.Linux%20Shortcuts%20and%20Commands|outline http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys HOWTO Advance