[389-users] cannot build admin-console on Mandriva

2012-05-20 Thread Liutauras Adomaitis
Hi all, this is my acquaintance with 389 directory server. I need to build admin console so I can connect to an installed server. I'm following instructions in http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/BuildingConsole Everything went fine up until Building Directory Server Console (389-ds-console).

way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hello: Is there a way to flush output to /etc/log/message so a tail -f catches things when they happen rather than what I think I am seeing as a buffer hold-until-full delay? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread JD
On 05/19/2012 11:51 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: Is there a way to flush output to /etc/log/message so a tail -f catches things when they happen rather than what I think I am seeing as a buffer hold-until-full delay? Thanks in advance, Paul output of what? See logger (1) -

updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
As it's a general question asking here. Will security=1 within the repo file, allow me to update testing with security fixes _only_ -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started in Redhat 5... ) Did you try to load the BIOS defaults? As mentioned above, I saw the same thing before, and this was the solution. Don't ask me why, it's totally irrational, but

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread David
On 5/20/2012 4:35 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: As it's a general question asking here. Will security=1 within the repo file, allow me to update testing with security fixes _only_ There is a plugin: yum-plugin-security -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/05/12 10:20, David wrote: On 5/20/2012 4:35 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: As it's a general question asking here. Will security=1 within the repo file, allow me to update testing with security fixes _only_ There is a plugin: yum-plugin-security Yes, but it seems to be on the command line

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread David
On 5/20/2012 5:26 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 20/05/12 10:20, David wrote: On 5/20/2012 4:35 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: As it's a general question asking here. Will security=1 within the repo file, allow me to update testing with security fixes _only_ There is a plugin: yum-plugin-security

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/19/2012 08:08 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: The iptables on the converted machine is the factory default. The problem is almost certainly not iptables. Unless you've intentionally added some kind of egress filtering, none will be present. I looked in /var/log/messages and didn't see

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/05/12 10:54, David wrote: I, personally, know of no GUI that does this. The CLI for this would be: Not a GUI problem, a config option yum update --security What is wrong with that? It's not as tidy as cat /some/*repo security=1 keepcache=1 skip_broken=1 RFE filed:

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread David
On 5/20/2012 5:59 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 20/05/12 10:54, David wrote: I, personally, know of no GUI that does this. The CLI for this would be: Not a GUI problem, a config option yum update --security What is wrong with that? It's not as tidy as cat /some/*repo security=1

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/05/12 11:06, David wrote: _broken=1 RFE filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823245 I see. An interesting idea. Not that it matters :-) but I agree. Maybe If there more cc's ;) -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars -- users mailing list

Re: updates-testing.repo security updates-only?

2012-05-20 Thread David
On 5/20/2012 6:17 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 20/05/12 11:06, David wrote: _broken=1 RFE filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823245 I see. An interesting idea. Not that it matters :-) but I agree. Maybe If there more cc's ;) Had not thought of that. Done. --

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Alan Cox
Is it not possible that anything in the software somehow is causing this ? It is certainly possible, however the only thing that ought to be capable of causing an accidental reboot is the kernel (hence the 'try old kernel' comment) or maybe the X server [try booting norhgb 3] -- users mailing

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/2012 11:51 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: Is there a way to flush output to /etc/log/message so a tail -f catches things when they happen rather than what I think I am seeing as a buffer hold-until-full delay? Thanks in

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way tail -f works. You may want to read the man or info page on tail. Maybe `less +F

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.05.2012 14:52, schrieb suvayu ali: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way tail -f works. You may want to read the

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:45:01 PM Alan Cox wrote: Is it not possible that anything in the software somehow is causing this ? It is certainly possible, however the only thing that ought to be capable of causing an accidental reboot is the kernel (hence the 'try old kernel' comment) or

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:13:39 AM Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started in Redhat 5... ) Did you try to load the BIOS defaults? As mentioned above, I saw the same thing before, and this was

Re: Tasque Dependency Failure

2012-05-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/19/2012 11:13 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:04:41 -0400, RH (Richard) wrote: Try to install tasque I get: /home/rgheck/ sudo yum install tasque [snip] -- Running transaction check --- Package mono-extras.x86_64 0:2.10.5-1.fc16 will be installed --- Package

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/20/2012 12:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for the reply. First section yes. On the telnet cygwin 22, I am getting Connection refused. And I just verified again that a ping works. As I mentioned to Joe, I need to get far enough along on my F16 install to get some logs so

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: When you saw this, did it reboot after finish booting (i.e. get to KDM / GDM ) or was it just at the grub menu ? It started to boot, but never got into X, it rebooted somewhere in between. Nothing worked, and after a few days, just before trying to

how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Smagin Vladimir
Hi all. I found that my fedora 16 doesnt clean /tmp at shutdown like any other linux distributions. How I can fix this issue? Using tmpfs is a wrong way. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Smagin Vladimir: Hi all. I found that my fedora 16 doesnt clean /tmp at shutdown like any other linux distributions. How I can fix this issue? Using tmpfs is a wrong way. Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default you can create your own file

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

2012-05-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:35 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: It probably already has: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-04-26-ooo-comparison.html Sadly, most end-users care remarkably little about licenses - clicking through them without even reading; that is something we should try to

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Smagin Vladimir
Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default you can create your own file with oerrides tmpwatch and crones also wrong way. no reason to remove ALL from /tmp while shutdown why do you bother about? because cleaning /tmp is a normal system function. -- users mailing list

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.05.2012 17:45, schrieb Smagin Vladimir: Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default you can create your own file with oerrides tmpwatch and crones also wrong way. says who? no reason to remove ALL from /tmp while shutdown why do you bother about? because cleaning

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 02:54 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: Disable your Windows firewall temporarily Ye gads! This is the worst OS in the world to do that to. Dropping Windows pants for a second is enough for it to get rogered by marauding bastards on the net. I've seen a friend's PC get rooted

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Smagin Vladimir
 Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default  you can create your own file with oerrides  tmpwatch and crones also wrong way. says who? I am. In Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse and others no crons, tmpwatch, tmpfs and other bycicles. All clean.  no reason to remove ALL from /tmp while

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.05.2012 17:52, schrieb Smagin Vladimir: Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default you can create your own file with oerrides tmpwatch and crones also wrong way. says who? I am. In Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse and others no crons, tmpwatch, tmpfs and other bycicles. All

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.05.2012 17:52, schrieb Smagin Vladimir: Fedora handles this with tmpwatch and a too large default you can create your own file with oerrides tmpwatch and crones also wrong way. says who? I am. In Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse and others no crons, tmpwatch, tmpfs and other bycicles. All

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:20:32AM +0930, Tim wrote: This is the worst OS in the world to do that to. Dropping Windows pants for a second is enough for it to get rogered by marauding bastards on the net. That's true...except it shouldn't really matter. Because nobody should run a Windows box

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Sunday, May 20, 2012 05:01:35 PM Heinz Diehl wrote: On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: When you saw this, did it reboot after finish booting (i.e. get to KDM / GDM ) or was it just at the grub menu ? It started to boot, but never got into X, it rebooted somewhere in between.

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread antonio montagnani
Il 20/05/2012 07:54, antonio montagnani ha scritto: Il 19/05/2012 23:11, antonio montagnani ha scritto: Where can I find the odepkg rpm for Octave. Any idea?? Tnx Just for clarification: 1) this package is a package for solving ordinary differential equations and more. 2) can't be

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 19/05/12 22:11, antonio montagnani wrote: Where can I find the odepkg rpm for Octave. Any idea?? Tnx yum info octave -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread Antonio M
2012/5/20 Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com On 19/05/12 22:11, antonio montagnani wrote: Where can I find the odepkg rpm for Octave. Any idea?? Tnx yum info octave -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/05/12 18:21, Antonio M wrote: but octave-ode is missing (and in my opinion it might be the most interesting) Tnx for help -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 It was part of octave-forge, last built for Fedora 15. It may work on Fedora 16?

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:25 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: nobody should run a Windows box connected to the Internet except through some sort of firewall appliance anyway. A good one. (The ones built into most cable DSL modems are marginal at best.) I came across one ADSL modem/router that goes

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 13:00 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote: In my case it finished booting completely. I could even log in if I type fast enough. Then within a few seconds, it reboots. I suppose I should ask the obvious question: Does it actually reboot, or does it crash? -- [tim@localhost

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 May 2012 09:38:24 -0400 Armelius Cameron armeli...@gmail.com wrote: The only mode that didn't cause reboot is emergency (i.e. changed single to emergency as kernel argument in grub, which as Fedora doc stated doesn't load any init. This is a long shot. But given the above, why

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread antonio montagnani
Il 20/05/2012 19:24, Frank Murphy ha scritto: On 20/05/12 18:21, Antonio M wrote: but octave-ode is missing (and in my opinion it might be the most interesting) Tnx for help -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 It was part of octave-forge, last built for Fedora 15. It may work on

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 5/20/2012 5:20 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/2012 11:51 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: Is there a way to flush output to /etc/log/message so a tail -f catches things when they happen rather than what I think I am seeing as a

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread antonio montagnani
Il 20/05/2012 19:24, Frank Murphy ha scritto: On 20/05/12 18:21, Antonio M wrote: but octave-ode is missing (and in my opinion it might be the most interesting) Tnx for help -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 It was part of octave-forge, last built for Fedora 15. It may work on

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 5/20/2012 2:54 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/19/2012 08:08 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: The iptables on the converted machine is the factory default. The problem is almost certainly not iptables. Unless you've intentionally added some kind of egress filtering, none will be present. I

Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 5/20/2012 8:00 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: It also should be a very simple matter to prove to yourself that the cygwin system is at fault. Just go to your cygwin system, open a window on that system, and ssh to itself. This eliminates the network and since you are going from a system to

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/20/2012 11:37 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: in F17 it doesn't install!!! Report it on the F17 test list. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Package ode for Octave

2012-05-20 Thread antonio montagnani
Il 20/05/2012 21:08, Joe Zeff ha scritto: On 05/20/2012 11:37 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: in F17 it doesn't install!!! Report it on the F17 test list. It doens't install on F16 either -- Antonio Montagnani Fedora 17 Beta Acer 5670 http://www.campingmonterosa.com

[SOLVED?]: Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 5/20/2012 11:39 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 5/20/2012 8:00 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: It also should be a very simple matter to prove to yourself that the cygwin system is at fault. Just go to your cygwin system, open a window on that system, and ssh to itself. This eliminates the network

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Smagin Vladimir 2...@blindage.org writes: Hi all. I found that my fedora 16 doesnt clean /tmp at shutdown like any other linux distributions. How I can fix this issue? Using tmpfs is a wrong way. Just put this into /sbin/halt.local and make it mode 755. [wolfgang@arbol sbin]$ cat

In F16, Atheros AR5008 being restricted to 18mb/s

2012-05-20 Thread JD
$ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:Private Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B Power Management:off Link

basic systemd question

2012-05-20 Thread Brian Wood
I'm starting to use systemd. I've written a simple unit file and systemd starts the service during boot. When I manually kill the process though, it doesn't get restarted the way I expected it would. Is there an option to specify for that? Thank you. Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises

Re: basic systemd question

2012-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/21/2012 07:08 AM, Brian Wood wrote: I'm starting to use systemd. I've written a simple unit file and systemd starts the service during boot. When I manually kill the process though, it doesn't get restarted the way I expected it would. Is there an option to specify for that? Thank

Re: [SOLVED?]: Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/21/2012 05:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I did at least one power cycle yesterday on the XP and, as stated above, got the failure on XP box today. So, this is solved by reason of POM (phase-of-moon). I apologize for the noise even though, given at least one power cycle on a F16

Dialup users and keeping a system updated

2012-05-20 Thread Chuck Peters
I have a friend using Fedora 15 and I have asked her keep the system updated, but she has fallen behind and now has 300+MB to download (not counting presto if it helps). I have searched for a method which would allow me to download them on a faster net connection, but I haven't found something

Re: basic systemd question

2012-05-20 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sunday, May 20, 2012, Brian Wood woodbria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to use systemd. I've written a simple unit file and systemd starts the service during boot. When I manually kill the process though, it doesn't get restarted the way I expected it would. Is there an option to

Re: [SOLVED?]: Re: ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

2012-05-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 5/20/2012 6:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes, at least you've been able to verify for yourself that problem lies on the cygwin box. Otherwise, you may have succumbed to the I made changes so the problem must be here syndrome. Ed: My problem was the other way I knew I hadn't changed

Setting up Koji question

2012-05-20 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am setting up a Koji server, and following the instructions given on the Fedora Koji wiki http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerHowTo Part way down, there are directions on Generate a PKCS12 user certificate This is