Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-02 Thread Tim
Tim: >> It always struck me that personal files ought to have no group or >> world permissions set by default. If you wanted your files to have >> those extra permission set, then it ought to be done as a deliberate >> choice. > Joel Rees: > Maybe "user-id" is mis-named. There are sure a lot of p

Re: [389-users] Password Sync - Extended Characters nothing happnes?

2012-04-02 Thread MATON Brett
Hi, The password sync service between AD and Directory server appears to “can” passwords with extended characters. I’m working for a client in Belgium at the moment and they’re quite accent happy with passwords. Now, Active Directory happily accepts these passwords but I don’t even

Re: [OT] 2006 motherboard vs 2012 DVD burner

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/03/2012 11:28 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a 2006 motherboard, D865GBFL, attached to an internal DVD burner that doesn't. Are new internal DVD burners electrically compatible with my motherboard? Having just remembered where I put some documen

Re: [OT] 2006 motherboard vs 2012 DVD burner

2012-04-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/03/2012 11:28 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I have a 2006 motherboard, D865GBFL, > attached to an internal DVD burner that doesn't. > Are new internal DVD burners electrically > compatible with my motherboard? > Open up your system, confirm that it is connected to the Parallel ATA IDE conne

Re: moving /tmp to RAM on f17

2012-04-02 Thread patrick korsnick
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. With the latest update, it works now. It's weird: Just to double check I re-installed from the Alpha Live USB and added my entry to /etc/fstab, rebooted and it won't boot. I had to comment out the entry. Did a yum update, uncommented and it works fine. Go figur

[OT] 2006 motherboard vs 2012 DVD burner

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
I have a 2006 motherboard, D865GBFL, attached to an internal DVD burner that doesn't. Are new internal DVD burners electrically compatible with my motherboard? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scisso

users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 20:39 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: >> From there, it follows that the easiest way to do this is to make 002 >> the default umask, which means that all new files and directories >> created by normal users have these permissions. T

Re: evolution + spamassassin

2012-04-02 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 04/02/2012 06:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:33 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: Hi folks: I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolu

Re: moving /tmp to RAM on f17

2012-04-02 Thread dexter
On 1 April 2012 21:54, patrick korsnick wrote: > A common tweak recommended to SSD users on various distros has been to move > /tmp to RAM to avoid writing to the SSD. Adding this line to /etc/fstab has > worked fine for me on f16: > > none    /tmp    tmpfs   defaults        0 0 > > However on f17

Re: evolution + spamassassin

2012-04-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:33 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > >> Hi folks: > >> > >> I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, > >> but lately it is not work

Re: evolution + spamassassin

2012-04-02 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: Hi folks: I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, but lately it is not working effectively. It happens in my POP3 account for my institution email. I have to

Re: evolution + spamassassin

2012-04-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > Hi folks: > > I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, > but lately it is not working effectively. It happens in my POP3 account > for my institution email. I have to mark always the same messages as

Re: Incorrect charge indications

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2012 11:16 AM, Fedora User wrote: I cannot file a bug report until I know if this is a KDE or kernel issue. I cannot know that without identifying the /proc file that displays battery status. I cannot find that file. Download and burn a Fedora LiveCD that doesn't have KDE on it and see

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code > names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: > >Fedora 18 Fedora 17++ -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year

Incorrect charge indications

2012-04-02 Thread Fedora User
This first appeared in Kernel 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 and persists through 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64. I have a vanilla Intel i5 based laptop with one battery. Power data used to come from /proc/acpi/battery but I don't have that file. The KDE applet displays, on hover, that the adaptor is plugged in, Batte

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/02/2012 05:36 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Personally, systemd may have some benefit on desktops, but at > servers, small and embedded devices is perhaps overkill. I see a great performance improvement on my little ARM systems. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2012 10:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i propose "socialized health care", but that's just my canadian side coming out. I presume you mean that as a joke. My suggestion was serious; I really would like to see F 18's name be a celebration of life and I have a good reason for it.

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:40 AM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > > After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora > > leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea > > Maxima GNUlpa" > > I know it's not going to fly, but I'd like to se

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2012 05:40 AM, Kernel Guardian wrote: After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea Maxima GNUlpa" I know it's not going to fly, but I'd like to see the F18 code name be a celebration of life. Why

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> Kernel Guardian wrote: >>> After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora >>> leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea >>> Maxima GNUlpa" >>> >>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa) >> I thi

evolution + spamassassin

2012-04-02 Thread Germán A. Racca
Hi folks: I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, but lately it is not working effectively. It happens in my POP3 account for my institution email. I have to mark always the same messages as junk, which is frustrating. Some spam mails get filtered, but others

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hiisi wrote: > On 2 April 2012 17:12, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> I think when in future distros will be 1) some Gmome2 fork, >> 2) instead of systemd upstart/sysvinit again (or as option >> in conjunction with), and 3) all will not be drived by >> NetworkManager, then Fedora will be usable prompt

[389-users] Password Sync - Extended Characters nothing happnes?

2012-04-02 Thread MATON Brett
Hi, The password sync service between AD and Directory server appears to "can" passwords with extended characters. I'm working for a client in Belgium at the moment and they're quite accent happy with passwords. Now, Active Directory happily accepts these passwords but I don't even g

Re: [389-users] ntUserFlags replication

2012-04-02 Thread Rich Megginson
On 04/02/2012 05:31 AM, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: Hi Does the attribute ntUserFlags replicate to Active Directory? no - please file an enhancement request at https://fedorahosted.org/389 I am testing this, but I can not make this work (i am setting the value according to the flags specifie

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Kernel Guardian wrote: >> After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora >> leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea >> Maxima GNUlpa" >> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa) > I think when in future distros will be 1)

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Hiisi
On 2 April 2012 17:12, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I think when in future distros will be 1) some Gmome2 fork, > 2) instead of systemd upstart/sysvinit again (or as option > in conjunction with), and 3) all will not be drived by > NetworkManager, then Fedora will be usable promptly after > release

Re: How to change network address ?

2012-04-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 08:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/02/2012 07:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 04/02/2012 04:52 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> ip is not part of the iproute2 package. It is part of the iproute > >> package. So we can fix at least one misunderstanding. > > OMG I forgot

Re: sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 14:52 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > yum groupinstall 'Sugar Desktop Environment' > > Not exactly the question I was asking, but, hmm. > > Okay, sugar-desktop shows up on the group list command on F16. > > But not on m

Re: PPTPD security

2012-04-02 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 14:53 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > I've seutp a PPTPD daemon to let an external iPad access to my network > via a tunnel. > > All seem to work fine. > > But I wonder if it is enough secure ? http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html As usual, the answer to "is this secure enough"

Re: moving /tmp to RAM on f17

2012-04-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 14:54 -0600, patrick korsnick wrote: > A common tweak recommended to SSD users on various distros has been to move > /tmp to RAM to avoid writing to the SSD. Adding this line to /etc/fstab has > worked fine for me on f16: > > none/tmptmpfs defaults0 0 > > H

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Kernel Guardian wrote: > After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora > leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea > Maxima GNUlpa" > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa) I think when in future distros will be 1) some Gmome2 fork, 2) instead of

PPTPD security

2012-04-02 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I've seutp a PPTPD daemon to let an external iPad access to my network via a tunnel. All seem to work fine. But I wonder if it is enough secure ? I force 128 bits encryption. Is there any security problem for this configuration ? Thanks for any help BR -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Kernel Guardian
After all of changes in Gnome, systemd, user id and of course Fedora leadership, maybe appropriate name could be "Mea GNUlpa" or "Mea Maxima GNUlpa" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa) On 31 March 2012 03:20, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/31/2012 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I think Fedora 1

Re: Kernel 3.3.0-4 & bluetooth

2012-04-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 04/02/2012 08:27 AM, Kernel Guardian wrote: Roger, I had similar problem with Asus u30jc and bluetooth. I must use custom scripts for suspend and hibernate. For some reason, unknown to me, pm-suspend can't power off all devices. Bluetooth device, BT-270 (broadcom) is attached on USB (by Asus d

Re: kernel 3.3.0.8 problem

2012-04-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:24:42 +0100, Andrew Gray wrote: Hi The kernel 3.3.0.-8 x86_64 is falling to ask me for the system encryption password, just says it can't fine root_fs !! Having to use the previous 3.3.0-4 x86_64 kernel that does ask for system encryption key. This is unlikely t

Re: Kernel 3.3.0-4 & bluetooth

2012-04-02 Thread Kernel Guardian
Roger, I had similar problem with Asus u30jc and bluetooth. I must use custom scripts for suspend and hibernate. For some reason, unknown to me, pm-suspend can't power off all devices. Bluetooth device, BT-270 (broadcom) is attached on USB (by Asus design). During entry in sleeping mode pm can't tu

dbus-daemon/upowerd flooding /var/log/messages (f16)

2012-04-02 Thread Neal Becker
with these messages: Apr 2 07:49:01 nbecker1 dbus-daemon[977]: ** (upowerd:1198): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

kernel 3.3.0.8 problem

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi The kernel 3.3.0.-8 x86_64 is falling to ask me for the system encryption password, just says it can't fine root_fs !! Having to use the previous 3.3.0-4 x86_64 kernel that does ask for system encryption key. ASUS P5K3 Deluxe Motherboard Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 6GB RAM Intel Matrix ICH9R

Re: sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-02 Thread Danishka Navin
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Danishka Navin > >> wrote: > >> > yum groupinstall 'Sugar Desktop Environment' > >>

Re: sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Danishka Navin >> wrote: >> > yum groupinstall 'Sugar Desktop Environment' >> >> Not exactly the question I was asking, but, hmm. >> >> Okay, sugar

Re: How to change network address ?

2012-04-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/02/2012 01:37 PM, jdow wrote: > IMAO "ip" sucks dead bunnies through garden hoses. So? Continue to use your favorite tools -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@list