Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread NOSpaze
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:28 -0700, Peter Gueckel wrote: > NOSpaze wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. P

Re: suid mystery (SOLVED)

2011-12-09 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Fri, 09Dec11 19:33 -0800, Scott Doty: wrote: > On 12/9/11 6:53 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > > > I just tested your suggestion. The timestamps are changing. > > > > It's probably running: /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config I think you have solved the mystery, Scott. The access time on

Did DBAN miss something, & "Linux Filtering-PackageSafe", & Build huge files of the trusted websites, & "Preferred safe-bundles"..?

2011-12-09 Thread Linda McLeod
To too: supp...@dban.org, webmas...@mozilla.org, spa...@fedoraproject.org, and here.. __ Topic: Did DBAN miss something, & "Linux Filtering-PackageSafe", & Build huge files of the trusted websites, & "Preferred safe-bundles"..? I just completed a new install of Fedora

Re: suid mystery

2011-12-09 Thread Scott Doty
On 12/9/11 6:53 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > I just tested your suggestion. The timestamps are changing. > It's probably running: /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config -Scott -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 23:06, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > I have actually tried ssh -t user@host "nohup /path/to/shutdownscript &" and > it seemed to be doing the same thingwaiting for the shutdownscript to > finish before moving to the next line.    I was expecting the nohup > & to immediately retu

Re: suid mystery

2011-12-09 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Sat 10Dec11 13:08 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 09Dec2011 17:36, Dean S. Messing wrote: > | I have a little suid mystery that perhaps someone would > | kindly help me solve. I just discovered that the files and > | symlinks in > | /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped > | get their "Modify

Re: suid mystery

2011-12-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Dec2011 17:36, Dean S. Messing wrote: | I have a little suid mystery that perhaps someone would | kindly help me solve. I just discovered that the files and | symlinks in | /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped | get their "Modify time" updated each time I start firefox | as me (not root). I

suid mystery

2011-12-09 Thread Dean S. Messing
I have a little suid mystery that perhaps someone would kindly help me solve. I just discovered that the files and symlinks in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped get their "Modify time" updated each time I start firefox as me (not root). I just re-started firefox (at 17:19) and here is 'ls -l

Favorites Icon Size

2011-12-09 Thread Smith, Herb
All, Is it possible to change the icon size in the Favorites launch bar? I haven't found anything that indicates how to do that. TIA Herb -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread g
On 12/09/2011 06:47 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > Here is what I am trying to do: > >>From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple > Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an > account on the machines added to the sudoers file to allow them to shu

Re: Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

2011-12-09 Thread Fred Erickson
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 17:56 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2011 12:18:30 Alan Stern wrote: > > Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in > > /var/log/boot.log. Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting > > udev:" would appear there. > > > > After I u

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 22:04 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100, NOSpaze wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > > slow and unappropriate w

Main Menu Won't Run

2011-12-09 Thread Smith, Herb
All, I did a fresh install of F16 on my Dell Inspiron Laptop. All seemed to go fine, however, when I try to run the Main Menu (alacarte) application, it acts like it tries to start and then goes away (no window pops up, only a small icon in the upper task bar and a small spinning icon). The f

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are > probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It > may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW? I am seeing the same symptoms on different

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Doug Kuvaas
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Frank Elsner wrote: > > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:16:00 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > > > > > > > Here is what I am trying to do: > > > > > > > > >From a central server running HP

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100, NOSpaze wrote: > Hi. > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > advise to change OS,

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100 NOSpaze wrote: > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book lyx -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Rikke D. Giles
On 12/09/2011 12:22:15 PM, NOSpaze wrote: > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of > writing a book > Mind mapping (freemind is ok, any alternatives?), editing separated > chapters and ordering afterwards, possibility of looking a list of > sections or chapters summari

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread jack wallen
> Hi. > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on all my laptops. >

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, NOSpaze wrote: > Hi. > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > advise to change OS, I'm

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread jack wallen
> Hi. > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on all my laptops. >

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Peter Gueckel
NOSpaze wrote: > Hi. > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on a

Virtualization Documentation

2011-12-09 Thread Gene Poole
The last official piece of documentation on virtualization was written for Fedora 13. I've found a unofficial document on 'How To Forge' about KVM virtualization and Fedora 14. Hasn't there been enough changes and additions to KVM virtualization by Fedora 16 that makes that older documentation

Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread NOSpaze
Hi. I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on all my laptops. Mind mappin

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Frank Elsner wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:16:00 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > > > > > Here is what I am trying to do: > > > > > > >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple > > > Fedora PCs using a

Re: Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Friday 09 December 2011 12:18:30 Alan Stern wrote: > > Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in > > /var/log/boot.log. Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting > > udev:" would appear there. > > > > After I upgraded to F

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Elsner
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:16:00 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > > > Here is what I am trying to do: > > > > >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple > > Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an > >

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > Here is what I am trying to do: > > >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple > Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an > account on the machines added to the sudoers file to allow them to shut

Re: Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Richard Shaw
Perhaps try using sleep in the script in combination with "disown" so the shutdown process is disconnected from the ssh session before it dies? Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Remotely shutdown multiple PCs via script

2011-12-09 Thread Doug Kuvaas
Here is what I am trying to do: >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an account on the machines added to the sudoers file to allow them to shut down the systems, and connect to said systems usin

Re: Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

2011-12-09 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 09 December 2011 12:18:30 Alan Stern wrote: > Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in > /var/log/boot.log. Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting > udev:" would appear there. > > After I upgraded to Fedora 16, this no longer works. Nothing gets > written to

Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Stern
Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in /var/log/boot.log. Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting udev:" would appear there. After I upgraded to Fedora 16, this no longer works. Nothing gets written to /var/log/boot.log. All the output from systemd simply gets sen

Re: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:18:21 +0100, MF (M.) wrote: > I got the GRUB 2 menu just fine. However, when I select or let start > the default entry, the screen goes completely black. If I remove the > "quiet" option in the grub entry I see that the last thing before it > goes black is "radeon something..

Re: Using Draftsight on a 64 bit system

2011-12-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 03:15:14 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I didn't spend too much time trying to get it to work, it was probably > some 32-bit library I was missing. I decided that using an open source > program like FreeCAD which includes solid modeling If solid modeling isn't important, t

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 14:55 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > I was under the impression that Gnome's design directive was to follow > > Windows look and feel, but not be a slave to it. > > That's what they wanted you to believe. > > In fac

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2011 01:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/09/2011 01:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I do have a rendering problem tha

Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:41:51AM -0200, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: > What can I do to troubleshoot this? Anyone with similar problems? > []s, Fernando Lozano Suggest looking into /var/log/messages and ~/.xsession-errors. Look for anything related to networking, dbus, and gnome-shell. -- Reg

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 10:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:20:08 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> The characters are just "suddenly" not >> there. > Do you have an ATI card? Could be this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708529 No ATI, nVidia. :-( -- A common mistake

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-09 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 17:47:20 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/08/2011 05:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > This scenario assumes that there are no hardware malfunctions and that > > the nVidia driver is working correctly. All this is plausibly true, > > based on the Xorg log which reports that both

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-09 Thread JB
Ian Malone gmail.com> writes: > ... > I'm finding an email blacklist is useful for protecting my sanity. > 'Better the devil you know than the devil you don't". JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:20:08 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > The characters are just "suddenly" not > there. Do you have an ATI card? Could be this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708529 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/07/2011 07:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to > mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't > figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on > fedoraforum had an answer in just a f

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 09:06 PM, Craig White wrote: > just thoroughly derailed Nope My thread, my call. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless -- users mail

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 09:03 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I had a similar thing happen once or twice with FireFox. > > It turns out that there was some sort of goofy permissions issue with > the fonts in /usr/share/fonts > > I did the following and got things working: > > chown -R root:root /usr/sha

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 20:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: > But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > > question.

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-09 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/08/2011 01:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > A sudden thunk: could it be GDM that's bombing? Should I remove it and > replace it with KDM or some other login mangler? having recently gone through a similar problem, it was indeed GDM that was bombing - here's what got the machine to not use it:

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 20:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: > But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > > question.

Re: CMake compile problem

2011-12-09 Thread Rex Dieter
david walcroft wrote: > I'm trying to compile 'k3b-2.0.2.i686' from a tar file but run into this > error:- > > [david@reddwarf build]$ cmake .. > CMake Error at icons/actions/CMakeLists.txt:1 (kde4_install_icons): >Unknown CMake command "kde4_install_icons". You're probably missing some buil

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2011 01:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but >>> I do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope >>> this is not hi

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but >> I do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope >> this is not hijacking your thread - > I think your problem is

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 07:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > question. >>> > Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Ch

Re: Stateless IPv6 questions

2011-12-09 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 03:47 +, nu...@gmx.com wrote: > Is there a way to set up dns servers for clients automatically without > using DHCPv6? Well, the point of DHCP *is* to *automatically* set up such things. Anything else is just going to be a substitute for doing the same thing. So, I don't

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > question. >>> > > Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/09/2011 01:54 AM, jdow wrote: > On 2011/12/08 16:56, Craig White wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in dmesg

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original >>> > question. >> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I do have a rendering problem th

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 December 2011 00:05, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 07.12.2011 20:48, schrieb Linda McLeod: >> >> "Mindless toilet-class kooks" are targeting my PC's via the Internet.. >> I got this message mess when I attempted an update... > > please stop this braindead trolling > NOBODY is targeting your P

Re: fedora 15 Alt panel

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Before (until fedora 15), it was easy to configure the panel: > Just right click, add to panel. > Does this function disappear? > check the net, it looks like that I may have to use Alt and/ot Ctl? > The right click does not seem to

Re: how do you make Fedora 16 run a script at boot time, was: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 22:52:15 +0100, MF (M.) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 22:40:11 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > # > > #! /bin/bash > > > > modprobe radeon > > echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch > > echo OFF > /sys/kernel/

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On 09/12/11 01:00, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 22:25 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> Can't tell if serious... ? > > Wondering if they're merely a troll, or a genuinely nuts. > It could be a brain conditon, or just someone who is needy. In either case, need 'help'. Just not IT help. -- Regards, F