Re: way to flush /var/log/message

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:25:44 -0700 Paul Allen Newell kirjoitti: > To be honest, now that I found out that the problem with ssh from F16 > to Cygwin was POM on the Windows side (and notice I am not limiting > to just Cygwin (smile)), it has become "not so important". But some > of the suggestions lo

create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

Hi, Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ As order in the wiki, I have installed: livecd-tools, sping-kickstarts and then changed Selinux permissive mode to 0 and executed the following command: livecd-creator

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

On 05/22/2012 12:32 AM, Edward M wrote: Hi, Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ As order in the wiki, I have installed: livecd-tools, sping-kickstarts and then changed Selinux permissive mode to 0 and execute

additional pasckages for Octave

how do I install additional packages for Octave, i.e. the packages that are not available in repos. From Octave, installation seems disabled, I see the list of packages, but when I select one package, I see dowloading, installing lines, but eventually nothing is installed -- Antonio Montagnan

Re: yum update question/problem??

On Mon, 21 May 2012 21:53:36 -0700, J (JD) wrote: > I just did a yum update (after having done rpm -e > kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686). > And yum updated the kernel again to kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686. > (why I had removed that kernel is another story - I have already > filed a bug with buzilla.redhat.

Re: Unfinished transactions remaining:

On Tue, 22 May 2012 01:05:04 +0200, TM (Timothy) wrote: > > A couple of days ago I started to yum-remove a package > (I don't recall which) > and I was told that a vast array of packages > would also be removed. > I ^C-ed to stop the process, > as I wasn't sure whether I would be asked for my per

Re: Unfinished transactions remaining:

Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/21/2012 04:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I ^C-ed to stop the process, >> as I wasn't sure whether I would be asked for my permission >> before the packages were removed. > > Unless you've used -y you will always be asked to confirm before > anything is installed, updated

stop iptables from log to dmesg

how can i tell F16 that it should not spit iptables-logging to dmesg? each iptables-rule with logging has: -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix "Firewall " first rule "in rsyslog.conf" :msg, startswith, "Firewall " -/var/log/firewall.log :msg, startswith, "Firewall " ~ kern.=de

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 00:34:56 -0700, Edward M wrote: since this is my first trying this, iḿ not sure how long this usually takes on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz with 4GB RAM or simply the procedure has gone awol? thanks! Forgot to mention the shell prompt has been busy f

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:32 -0700, Edward M wrote: > Hi, > > Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś > wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ > As order in the wiki, I have installed: livecd-tools, sping-kickstarts > and then changed Selinux permissive

Fedora 16 rhythmbox keeps freezing

Since upgrading to F16 from F14, both my wife and I have found rhythmbox freezing after 3 or so songs, and it needs to be force-killed. Any thoughts? What may be relevant is that I have seen (at least for me, not necessarily my wife) a spew of the following sort of error logged in m

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:32 -0700, Edward M wrote: Hi, Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ As order in the wiki, I have installed: livecd-tools, sping-kickstarts and then changed Selinux p

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Edward M wrote: > Hello list, > > >   got a question about zfs. Has anybody have used or are usingZFS on linux > in Fedora? And >   if so, is it possible to delete certain exsiting ext4 filesystems and > create zfs filesystem in there place on the same drive fedor

Re: wifi bit rate

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 20:30 -0700, JD wrote: > And besides, what does it really matter? It wastes storage space and bandwidth. Everyone's. I don't know the number of members on this list, but you're being wasteful on a large scale, it's not just an email between you and one or two people talki

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

Thanks for the replys:-) Creating the LiveCD by executing the following command; livecd-creator \ --config=/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks \ --fslabel=Fedora-LiveCD --cache=/var/cache/live issued the following warning, however the LiveCD creation procdeure continued: th

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On 05/22/2012 06:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I've had review requests at RPM Fusion for some time but no one has been interested in reviewing them. They are quite complicated due to the need to build kernel modules on a kernel update. SPL (Solaris Porting Layer) https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/sho

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

On Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:12:53 AM stan wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 09:38:24 -0400 > > Armelius Cameron 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."

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Edward M wrote: > On 05/22/2012 06:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> I've had review requests at RPM Fusion for some time but no one has >> been interested in reviewing them. They are quite complicated due to >> the need to build kernel modules on a kernel update.

how to type special characters?

Hi all, There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life of me I can not find it. e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. I made pretty heavy use of it for a while but it ceased work

Re: wifi bit rate

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 22:02 -0700, JD wrote: > > "Do not over-quote by the hierarchy level in the correspondence. > > [...] Also remove any irrelevant text." > > > > (From the list Guidelines, referenced at the end of every single > message > > on this list.) > > > > poc > > > So, sue me :) > Clea

Re: Upgrading F14->F15 on x64 - system freezes during cleanup - rescued

On Sat, 19 May 2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, David wrote: On 5/19/2012 10:08 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greeting, I'm upgrading from F14 to F15 on an x64 system. (I've been doing so successfully since 2007). Howeve

Re: how to type special characters?

On 05/22/2012 12:00 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. You need the USA-International keyboard layout (that's what I use). Here on F14: System/Preferences/Keyboard and then you go to the Layouts tab and change it there. HTH, Jorge --

Re: how to type special characters?

On 05/22/2012 12:18 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > You need the USA-International keyboard layout (that's what I use). > Here on F14: System/Preferences/Keyboard and then you go to the Layouts > tab and change it there. Or, in a terminal (I hope it still works in F15 or F16): system-config-keyboard

Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade

On Sat, 12 May 2012, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Max Pyziur writes: Greetings, Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. However, after going through the usual prel

Hi, I need help about error at external HDD 1 TB at FC6

Well just a month ago, I used ntfs-3g and fuse to work with an external HDD on Fedora Core 6, a few days ago system cannot save files on my external HDD, I unmount HDD, and restart and it was the solution, but now I can't create directories, the message is: mkdir: no se puede crear el directori

Re: Hi, I need help about error at external HDD 1 TB at FC6

On 05/22/2012 12:37 PM, Roberto Escobar Suárez wrote: Well just a month ago, I used ntfs-3g and fuse to work with an external HDD on Fedora Core 6, a few days ago system cannot save files on my external HDD, FC6 reached its End Of Life several years ago. If you're still using it, my best advi

Re: wifi bit rate

Tom Horsley wrote: Just for curiosity, does anyone actually know for sure what units the programs involves are calling "mb/s". Maybe one of them thinks it means megabytes and another thinks it means megabits :-). Generally people are starting follow the standards, although that's only generall

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

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 buffer hold-until-full de

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 5/21/2012 5:48 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:35 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I am having problems with is expecting to see new additions from iptables logging rejections and not getting them until much later, if at all? I just wanted to find out if there

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

JD wrote: > $ 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 Managemen

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 5/21/2012 5:07 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: One more suggestion; if I understand correctly, you want to tail -f a logfile, but you only want to see certain events; perhaps this is what you need: tail -f /path/to/some/logfile | grep certain_event Paul fyi, Max Pyziu

dbus[689]: [system] Rejected send message

what are this messages in /var/log/messages? they are quite new and happening each time a user logs out from afpd and all is working fine.. systemd-37-20.fc16.x86_64 May 22 22:03:43 fileserver dbus[689]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.25" (ui

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:14 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:32 -0700, Edward M wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś > >> wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ > >> As order in t

Re: how to type special characters?

Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type > characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life > of me I can not find it. > > e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. You might find https://live.gno

Re: Hi, I need help about error at external HDD 1 TB at FC6

On 05/22/2012 12:37 PM, Roberto Escobar Suárez wrote: Well just a month ago, I used ntfs-3g and fuse to work with an external HDD on Fedora Core 6, a few days ago system cannot save files on my external HDD, I unmount HDD, and restart and it was the solution, but now I can't create directories,

FC16 date rollback in VM

I have a VM used for running an old app, using an FC9 image, which is just the original disk drive image. It was running on FC9 with KVM and ran as long as the host was up, then FC13, same stability (typically in the 200-600 day range). I moved it to a nice new FC16 host, and every few days it l

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

On 05/22/2012 01:04 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: What happens if you move the computer right next to the access point? 54Mbit/s is a best-case speed: as you move away from the access point, speeds will drop. Hope this helps, James. Well, I believe another OP already suggested this. And I did tr

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:14 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:32 -0700, Edward M wrote: Hi, Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ As order in the wi

[389-users] Disable unhashed#user#password altogether

Is there a way to prevent the unhashed#user#password attribute from being stored or used at all? I don't need it to be replicated anywhere--I presume that the hashed password will be enough to authenticate users. Thanks, -Lucas -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://a

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

I have the latest versions posted to the review requests. I don't have any zfs volumes to mount but I did build and install all of them without issue. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

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

On 05/20/2012 05:55 PM, JD wrote: > $ 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 >

Re: wifi bit rate

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, JD wrote: > > When I take my laptop to starbucks or McDonalds hot spot, > even when sitting outside, bitrate never is below 54mbps, > sometime is as high as 72mb/s > Hi, Reading through your messages, you have now said two things: 1) You used an RTL card and go

Re: wifi bit rate

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, JD wrote: > Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this: > > 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 >

Re: [389-users] Disable unhashed#user#password altogether

Well I definitely don't need that. It looks like I will end up writing a script to delete or overwrite the attribute for now. Thanks, -Lucas On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 05/22/2012 04:09 PM, Lucas Sweany wrote: > > I am syncing from an AD domain one way (oneways

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

Andrew Haley writes: > On 05/20/2012 10:57 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> sync; sync; sync; > > It's been a few years since I saw that. :-) > > Andrew. Yea, done for old times sake. ;-) Never did know the story of the third sync. Always figured it was for good luck. -wolfgang -- g+:

Re: wifi bit rate

Bill Davidsen writes: > Generally people are starting follow the standards, although that's only > generally: > mb or mbit bits > mB bytes x 100 > miB bytes x 1024*1024 > Since a common rate in the 802.11 standard if 54 mbit that's probably right. What "standards" could they possibly be

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

Once upon a time, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht said: > Andrew Haley writes: > > On 05/20/2012 10:57 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > >> sync; sync; sync; > > > > It's been a few years since I saw that. :-) > > > > Andrew. > > Yea, done for old times sake. ;-) > > Never did know the story of the thi

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

On 05/22/2012 02:39 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 05/20/2012 05:55 PM, JD wrote: $ 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 RT

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

Chris Adams writes: > Actually, you were supposed to type that as three different commands > (not on the same command line with just semicolons separating them). > The idea was that the first sync was the only one that really mattered; > the time it took you to type "sync" twice more was just how

Re: wifi bit rate

On 05/22/2012 02:56 PM, John Horne wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, JD wrote: When I take my laptop to starbucks or McDonalds hot spot, even when sitting outside, bitrate never is below 54mbps, sometime is as high as 72mb/s Hi, Reading through your messages, you have now said two thi

Re: wifi bit rate

On 05/22/2012 03:12 PM, John Horne wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:18 -0700, JD wrote: Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this: iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Private" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE Bit Rat

Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade

Max Pyziur writes: Since this is an older Dell laptop (2005? vintage) I allocated about 100MBs when partitioning for /boot. In trying to complete this upgrade I've removed all kernels except for the most recent one in order to free up space. That still doesn't give me enough. There are ot

Re: wifi bit rate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/2012 10:02 AM, JD wrote: > On 05/22/2012 02:56 PM, John Horne wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, JD wrote: >>> When I take my laptop to starbucks or McDonalds hot spot, even when >>> sitting outside, bitrate never is below 54mbps, so

confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

Hello: As I continue dealing with iptables, another issue has come up that I can't tell is a mis-understanding on my part or a potential problem I have three F16 machines, one x86_64 and two i383/686. If I run /sbin/ifconfig on them, I get (short summary of): x86_64: eth0 i686: em1 Looking

[UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

[updated, keeping original post and adding new info at bottom] On 5/22/2012 8:12 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: As I continue dealing with iptables, another issue has come up that I can't tell is a mis-understanding on my part or a potential problem I have three F16 machines, one x86_64

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 05/23/2012 11:22 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > [updated, keeping original post and adding new info at bottom] > > On 5/22/2012 8:12 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> Hello: >> >> As I continue dealing with iptables, another issue has come up that I can't >> tell >> is a mis-understanding on my p

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On Tue, 22 May 2012 00:32:04 -0400, Edward M wrote: Hello list, got a question about zfs. Has anybody have used or are usingZFS on linux in Fedora? And if so, is it possible to delete certain exsiting ext4 filesystems and create zfs filesystem in there place on

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On 05/22/2012 02:37 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: I have the latest versions posted to the review requests. I don't have any zfs volumes to mount but I did build and install all of them without issue. I appreciate it, will give them a spin soon. Thank you for your time:-) -- users mailing list

Re: ZFS on linux for fedora

On 05/22/2012 09:40 PM, Andre Goree wrote: This forum thread will likely be of interest to you: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=276639 I'm currently using ZFS on Centos 6.2 and have done so on Fedora 16 as well. I personally wouldn't use it for anything other than "proof of con

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 5/22/2012 9:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I guess I really don't know what precisely is the problem you're having. Interface naming convention has been undergoing changes since, maybe, F14. Interfaces that were once called eth0 became em1 and other niceties. I don't recall if the names changed o

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 05/23/2012 01:31 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > SO, I am at least running (but with a groan at how) > > I'd like a single command with no "if's" (ip or other) that give me > 192.168.2.x (I > can handle if it has "/24?) on the end. Well, as you said, things are in transition And, if you d

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 5/22/2012 10:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Well, as you said, things are in transition And, if you did some google searches you'd find that there were/are differences between how interface names appear(ed) at various points depending on system architecture. That seems to be your main "issu

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 05/23/2012 02:17 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 5/22/2012 10:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Well, as you said, things are in transition And, if you did some google >> searches >> you'd find that there were/are differences between how interface names >> appear(ed) at >> various points depe

Re: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

On 5/22/2012 11:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Maybe the question you should be asking is this? I don't like the names that have been assigned to my network interfaces. How can I change them to be what I want them to be? Ed: Okay, that's a good question that I hadn't considered. So do you happen