Re: Anaconda is insisting on installing TigerVNC-Server for dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Hiisi
2010/9/3 Claude Jones : > I removed tigervnc-server the other day to install RealVNC enterprise. I > noticed while removing tigervnc that it also uninstalled Anaconda which > seemed very strange. I just tried to reinstall Anaconda and it wants to > reinstall Tigervnc-server for dependencies, but, i

Re: Can't link atlas or cblas libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Henrik Mannerström
On 09/02/2010 11:02 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/02/2010 06:25 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > >> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:55:58 +0300 >> Henrik Mannerström wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On my Fedora 11, when I try to compile a program that uses BLAS the >>> linking fails: >>>> /usr/bi

Re: Can't link atlas or cblas libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:02:14 -0700, Rick wrote: > > You need to pass the linker option -L/usr/lib64/atlas so that the > > linker finds the libraries. > > The OP should also check /etc/ld.so.conf.d and verify that there is > an atlas-x86_64.conf file in there. If not: > > # echo "/usr/lib6

Re: F12/13: Gnome Desktop Session saves - do not work

2010-09-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/03/2010 04:44 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I am getting all sorts of wierd problems trying to > get the gnome desktop sessions save to work, > and it does not work most of the time or at least > I cannot save the durn thing at least once you know, > like the Ronco: "Save it and forget it!

Re: F12/13: Gnome Desktop Session saves - do not work

2010-09-02 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I am getting all sorts of wierd problems trying to > get the gnome desktop sessions save to work, > and it does not work most of the time or at least > I cannot save the durn thing at least once you know, > like the Ronco: "Save it and f

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad... - iPed XXX

2010-09-02 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:24:15 +0530 > From: steve > Subject: Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad... > To: Community support for Fedora users > Message-ID: <4c8000e7.1020...@lonetwin.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > On 09/02/

F12/13: Gnome Desktop Session saves - do not work

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am getting all sorts of wierd problems trying to get the gnome desktop sessions save to work, and it does not work most of the time or at least I cannot save the durn thing at least once you know, like the Ronco: "Save it and forget it!" sort of thing... ok, ok, so I embellished it. When is thi

Re: Anaconda is insisting on installing TigerVNC-Server for dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:46:41PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I removed tigervnc-server the other day to install RealVNC > enterprise. I noticed while removing tigervnc that it also > uninstalled Anaconda which seemed very strange. I just tried to > reinstall Anaconda and it wants to reinstall

Anaconda is insisting on installing TigerVNC-Server for dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Claude Jones
I removed tigervnc-server the other day to install RealVNC enterprise. I noticed while removing tigervnc that it also uninstalled Anaconda which seemed very strange. I just tried to reinstall Anaconda and it wants to reinstall Tigervnc-server for dependencies, but, if I try to do that, it confl

Re: SELinux help

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/02/2010 05:16 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > HI all, > > I know there's been a lot of discussion about SELinux lately, but I > like it and I use it (although I'm a recent Fedora convert). However, > just today I have hit a snag and I don't know to get around it - I'm > after some advice on how to

SELinux help

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Smart
HI all, I know there's been a lot of discussion about SELinux lately, but I like it and I use it (although I'm a recent Fedora convert). However, just today I have hit a snag and I don't know to get around it - I'm after some advice on how to work around it (without turning SELinux off!). I have

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

2010-09-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 09/01/2010 07:36 PM, dp wrote: > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail: > > == > Updating: > NetworkManager i6861:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13 > NetworkManager-glib i6861:0.8.

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

2010-09-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 09/02/2010 03:45:31 PM, dp wrote: > > > > On 09/01/2010 04:36:06 PM, dp wrote: > > > > > > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail: > > > > > > > == > > > Updating: > > > NetworkManager

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:39 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > Solve that with an FM tuner for $20.00-$30.00 US. Where from ? I need AM and FM. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager

2010-09-02 Thread dp
> On 09/01/2010 04:36:06 PM, dp wrote: > > > > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail: > > > > == > > Updating: > > NetworkManager i6861:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13 > > NetworkManager

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/02/2010 09:06 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Hi people. > > I need to vent... I'm getting frustrated with Linux. Well, not Linux > per se, and not Fedora, but the whole experience part of things. > > I desperately need to do something about the audio system in my car. > Its got a head unit that

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:12:05 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu September 2 2010, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > Might I recommend: > > http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/index.html?country=us&lang=e > >n > > > > It's coming out in October, but it's a 10.1" Android tablet for $300 > >

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > The various vendors in the Linux camp really need to get their butts in > gear and start delivering.   Hardware companies need to get their > tablets OUT into the market.  Nokia et al need to get Meego OUT and get > some nice apps written for

What's the Best Firefox-64 Multimedia Plugin?

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Flash is not available for Firefox-64. But there are several frameworks that play (just about) everything that Flash will, in particular mplayer, xine,and gstreamer. There are plugins for mozilla that rely on these frameworks: gstreamer via totem and mplayer. Probably also on xine. Are there ot

Re: Changing permissions to LVM block device using udev rules

2010-09-02 Thread Hiisi
2010/9/1 Roberto Fichera : >  Hi All in the list, > > I'm just fighting with udev rules in a F13 environment about setting > permissions (group, owner and mode) to certain block devices created > from a LVM storage so that they become persistent across reboots. > > Does anyone give me some hints. >

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-09-02 Thread Joshua C.
2010/9/2 James McKenzie : > Joshua C. wrote: >> From my point of view it looks like a fedora bug, not a wine bug. I >> haven't tested the code from winehq but there were some commits with >> some font changes in the lastest koji. >> >> I got the same error with gnome and it also happens on i686. Af

Re: bonded nic not starting at boot

2010-09-02 Thread aragonx
Hi again, I thought I would add this tidbit: /etc/init.d/network stop and then /etc/init.d/network start brings the bond0 interface down and up as expected.  Could there be an issue with when the aliases are available from /etc/modprobe.conf?  There is nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages that

Re: Can't link atlas or cblas libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/02/2010 06:25 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:55:58 +0300 > Henrik Mannerström wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On my Fedora 11, when I try to compile a program that uses BLAS the >> linking fails: >> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcblas >> >> I have packages blas, blas-devel, atl

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread steve
Hi, On 09/02/2010 08:36 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > [...snip...] > Along comes the iPad. And it seems to do everything I want. Plays > MP3s. Does nav. Bright screen. Affordable. And if you check youtube, > lots of people have embedded them in cars. > > But being an OS guy, I want a machine runni

Re: erlang-doc - dubious dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote: > > > Curious about the language I decided to install the > > documentation using: yum install derlang-doc > > > > Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others. > > File a bug

Re: erlang-doc - dubious dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote: > > > Curious about the language I decided to install the > > documentation using: yum install derlang-doc > > > > Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others. > > File a bug

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu September 2 2010, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Might I recommend: > http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/index.html?country=us&lang=e >n > > It's coming out in October, but it's a 10.1" Android tablet for $300 > USD. Seems like it might fit the bill. Might I also throw in: http://ww

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> But being an OS guy, I want a machine running Linux, not iOS or whatever > its called. Where is it ? I keep reading stories about dozens of > tablet devices running Linux/Android/Meego on Slashdot, but where are > they ? Linux will run on most PC tablet devices, but there aren't many made - i

[389-users] problem creating dynamic groups

2010-09-02 Thread Anderson, Cary
Has anyone had success creating dynamic groups for objectclasses not associated with users and groups? I was trying to create a dynamic group for the various iphost objects I have created, but none of the search strings I have created return any associated iphosts. ldap:///dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xx?

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2010 01:33 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:26 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > >> >> Anyway... Apple locks down the iPad pretty tight, which makes for a >> robust but very inflexible system. Beware. If you like the

Re: erlang-doc - dubious dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote: > Hi there. Recently I was at a meeting where erlang came up in the > conversation. Curious about the language I decided to install the > documentation using: yum install derlang-doc > > Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 other

Re: [389-users] starttls does not work with chaining backend

2010-09-02 Thread Rich Megginson
Jacek Nykis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to setup chaining backend and I encountered some problems. > > I setup nsBackendInstance object with all attributes but it would seem > that "nsusestarttls" does not have any effect. Here is what happens: > > > > If I use ldaps over port 636 every

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:26 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > Anyway... Apple locks down the iPad pretty tight, which makes for a > robust but very inflexible system. Beware. If you like the freedom of > Linux, you may chafe at the restrictions in the iPad. That is basically what is k

erlang-doc - dubious dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Williams
Hi there. Recently I was at a meeting where erlang came up in the conversation. Curious about the language I decided to install the documentation using: yum install derlang-doc Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others. I just wanted to look at the documentation, it seems s

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Tim írta: > Tim: > >>> You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, >>> or another of your own logins needed, and then had to move it from >>> one to the other? >>> > > Zoltan Boszormenyi: > >> For that, I always create a /home/common directory with >> sgid bit

Re: umount cifs

2010-09-02 Thread JD
On 09/02/2010 08:13 AM, Jonathan Velleuer wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm using the cifs protocol from the samba-client package > (3.4.8-59.fc12.i686) on my linux machine (2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686) to > mount a remote windows share drive. > Mounting and accessing the windows share through this protocol

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread James Mckenzie
Michael Hennebry wrote: > >On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, James Mckenzie wrote: > >> However, this portion of the thread is the first case where I could actually >> state that this could be a MAJOR security hazard. Let's expand this: >> >> 1. An account with a weak password gets compromised. >> 2. This a

Re: [OT] general C++ question

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:23:54 +0200, Christoph wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 02.09.2010, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Michael Schwendt: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:15:27 +0200, Christoph wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just learned about closures in the Boost library and wanted to write > > > some sho

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, James Mckenzie wrote: > However, this portion of the thread is the first case where I could actually > state that this could be a MAJOR security hazard. Let's expand this: > > 1. An account with a weak password gets compromised. > 2. This account has a file added (either FT

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-09-02 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > kalinix wrote: > > >> What exactly is ksplice meant to do? > >> I yum-installed it today, > >> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel. > >> I expected this to start running, but it didn't. > >> Admittedly I didn't read any

Re: Installing fedora on a system without display

2010-09-02 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 11:26 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 20:50 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > hi, > > > > I have a system (no monitor, just the cpu). I'd like to install fedora > > on this and convert this into a server. Can it be done? > Yes, research headless install via VNC

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 09/02/2010 11:06 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Hi people. > > I need to vent... I'm getting frustrated with Linux. Well, not Linux > per se, and not Fedora, but the whole experience part of things. > > I desperately need to do something about the audio system in my car. > Its got a head unit that do

Re: How to find rpm for fedora

2010-09-02 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 02 September, 2010 @08:06 zulu, admin lewis scribed: > I'm trying to compile partclone (http://partclone.org/) because I > havent found it on any repos of mines. > I run make but I see I need of libcursesw-dev ... > well my newbie question is: > where I have to look for find rpms tha

umount cifs

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathan Velleuer
Dear all, I'm using the cifs protocol from the samba-client package (3.4.8-59.fc12.i686) on my linux machine (2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686) to mount a remote windows share drive. Mounting and accessing the windows share through this protocol works very well. I just noticed a while ago that umount of th

Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-02 Thread William Case
Hi Terry; On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 13:01 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:53 -0400, William Case wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:46 -0400, William Case wrote: > Just curious what do you do to get audio? I don't get audio. After futzing about for a long while, submitting bugs

OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
Hi people. I need to vent... I'm getting frustrated with Linux. Well, not Linux per se, and not Fedora, but the whole experience part of things. I desperately need to do something about the audio system in my car. Its got a head unit that doesn't have an aux in, nor does it support mp3s, etc.

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2010 09:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:30:29 -0400, > John Mellor wrote: >> >> I agree with you about the extreme cost of the relabel problem, but that >> may be due to a lack of knowledge on my part. Relabeling

Re: How to override /media as a mount point?

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 02/09/10 11:10, Tim typed ... > If autofs is still used, I think you can play with /etc/auto.master > and /etc/auto.misc. I think that restricts my mounts to be under the autofs controlled dir. (in my case, /mnt/autofs). -- [n...@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [n...@fnx ~]# ls -l .sig

Lots of mirror errors on yum

2010-09-02 Thread Edmon Begoli
Hi, When I recently run yum install on my virtual Fedora 13 (my test machine) I get into lots of 404 http errors on mirrors. I suspect that this has to do something with this Fedora not being as frequently updated as my physical one, so I would like to know if there is something I can do with my

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread James Mckenzie
Ed Greshko wrote: >Sent: Sep 2, 2010 6:58 AM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life. > > On 09/02/2010 08:41 PM, Tim wrote: >> Ed Greshko: > Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown > of a file under your UID to

dmesg garbage

2010-09-02 Thread Ankur Sinha
hi, I need to look at dmesg output for some work. However, my dmesg is filled with garbage: [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0x

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2010 08:41 PM, Tim wrote: > Ed Greshko: Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown of a file under your UID to another's UID as a normal user? > Tim: >>> You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, or >>> another of your own

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/02/2010 12:21 PM, JB wrote: > - its philosophy > A kernel that was surrounded by flexibility in its system and user space > (modular, single purpose, stand-alone utilities, easy to assemble and > disassemble for a work to be done; a fruitful model for a broader, > self-sustained, and

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/02/2010 01:46 PM, Tim wrote: > Again, it's more or less what I said, earlier. To *give* someone a > file, your only options are to let them read the file, and then they > copy it. If you want them to *own* the file, instead of you. > And that's how it's supposed to work. Only root (or rat

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:30:29 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > > I agree with you about the extreme cost of the relabel problem, but that > may be due to a lack of knowledge on my part. Relabeling the very small > subset of space that is used for system and some of the more common > applications

Re: Can't link atlas or cblas libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:55:58 +0300 Henrik Mannerström wrote: > Hello, > > On my Fedora 11, when I try to compile a program that uses BLAS the > linking fails: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcblas > > I have packages blas, blas-devel, atlas and atlas-devel installed. > There exists a symlink f

Re: [OT] general C++ question

2010-09-02 Thread Christoph Höger
Am Donnerstag, den 02.09.2010, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:15:27 +0200, Christoph wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just learned about closures in the Boost library and wanted to write > > some shorter code. To test, I used the following snippet: > > > > #include

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 22:13:29 +0930, Tim wrote: > > Yes, that's the same sort of thing as I've done, before. But you're > still left with copying files about, to *give* someone a file. Accept that sometimes people don't want someone to give them a file, so you need a protocol where both pa

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:11 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Look into groups some time - they're a whole world of fun (and there to > solve the kind of problems you're discussing). Yes, I've done that before, too. > There are even mechanisms to allow you to create directories that can be > written

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
Tim: >> You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, >> or another of your own logins needed, and then had to move it from >> one to the other? Zoltan Boszormenyi: > For that, I always create a /home/common directory with > sgid bit set on it and the directory chgrp's to "

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
Ed Greshko: >>> Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown >>> of a file under your UID to another's UID as a normal user? Tim: >> You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, or >> another of your own logins needed, and then had to move it from

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread John Mellor
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:21 +, JB wrote: > Marko Vojinovic gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > > > > - it should be self-contained, installable and removable at any time, > > > > > without influencing the system > > > > > > > > No serious security system can run entirely in userspace, they are

Re: SELinux

2010-09-02 Thread Takehiko Abe
> And since he is not a criminal, he published his findings so that > Adobe can fix the appropriate hole. Thanks for the link. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: SELinux

2010-09-02 Thread Takehiko Abe
>> Just count the known incidents of such exploits. ZERO. No WMD. > > Hmmm. Is that why we run it on our systems? Just for the record I > cannot discuss anything else, but believe me, the vulnerabilities > and their exploits do exist. The "such exploits" refers to buffer overrun type exploits (I

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Tim írta: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown >> of a file under your UID to another's UID as a normal user? >> > > You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, or > anoth

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread JB
Marko Vojinovic gmail.com> writes: > ... > > > > - it should be self-contained, installable and removable at any time, > > > > without influencing the system > > > > > > No serious security system can run entirely in userspace, they are all > > > implemented in the kernel. Standard UNIX permiss

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
kalinix wrote: >> What exactly is ksplice meant to do? >> I yum-installed it today, >> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel. >> I expected this to start running, but it didn't. >> Admittedly I didn't read any instructions. > ksplice and yum update are two entirely different thin

Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-02 Thread David Timms
On 02/09/10 02:53, William Case wrote: > My video has returned in full glorious colour after my latest upgrade ... > Updated: xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-18.fc13.x86_64 > Installed: kernel-2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64 .. are my guesses. rpm -q --changelog on each one. you might be able to tell if it was only

Re: [OT] general C++ question

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:15:27 +0200, Christoph wrote: > Hi all, > > I just learned about closures in the Boost library and wanted to write > some shorter code. To test, I used the following snippet: > > #include > #include > > #include > #include > > class FakeVisitor { > public: > virtua

Re: How to find rpm for fedora

2010-09-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 September 2010 09:06, admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to compile partclone (http://partclone.org/) because I havent > found it on any repos of mines. > I run make but I see I need of  libcursesw-dev ... Have you tried installing the Fedora ncurses-libs and ncurses-devel packages? It lo

[OT] general C++ question

2010-09-02 Thread Christoph Höger
Hi all, I just learned about closures in the Boost library and wanted to write some shorter code. To test, I used the following snippet: #include #include #include #include class FakeVisitor { public: virtual void visit(int e) {} virtual void visit(std::string e) = 0; }; template clas

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/02/2010 05:39 AM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 04:24 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Try to change the ownership of a file as an ordinary user (to "disown" >> your own file), for example. The chown simply won't allow you to do >> it, it is a serious security hole. > > That's something

Re: How to override /media as a mount point?

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 09:36 +0100, Neil Bird wrote: > I have a new USB drive I've set up to replace some old internal drives, > and I'd like to have it automount it's partitions to where the internal > drives were mounted, instead of /media/fslabel. If autofs is still used, I think you can play

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2010 06:05 PM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown >> of a file under your UID to another's UID as a normal user? > You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted,

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Are you saying that you think it is a good idea to be allowed to chown > of a file under your UID to another's UID as a normal user? You've never downloaded a file as one user, that another user wanted, or another of your own logins needed, an

Re: PackageKit (was: Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?)

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:02:40 +0100, Richard wrote: > >> Also, you forgot to point to bugzillas in your email. > > > > There is no bugzilla ticket about it, because I simply don't have the time > > to open tickets for _every_ issue I run into and have > > Then please don't send sarky emails to user

How to override /media as a mount point?

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Bird
I have a new USB drive I've set up to replace some old internal drives, and I'd like to have it automount it's partitions to where the internal drives were mounted, instead of /media/fslabel. I have to presume it's be some sort of udev config., but I can't for the life of me even see any

How to find rpm for fedora

2010-09-02 Thread admin lewis
Hi, I'm trying to compile partclone (http://partclone.org/) because I havent found it on any repos of mines. I run make but I see I need of libcursesw-dev ... well my newbie question is: where I have to look for find rpms that aren't on my repos ? for example, http://www.rpmfind.net is safe ? thx

Re: PackageKit (was: Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?)

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 September 2010 12:08, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Then I could return to running "yum -y update --skip-broken" instead of > letting an autostarted desktop app be "more convenient". Right? Up to you. >> Also, you forgot to point to bugzillas in your email. > > There is no bugzilla ticket about

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-02 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
When did Ubunters come into Fedora? ;) SELinux rules! It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for; it's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned! Renich Bon Ciric http://www.woralelandia.com/ http://www.introbella.com/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro