iwconfig lies

2012-09-09 Thread JD
I have wpa2-psk, and aes enabled. wireless-tools-29-6.1.fc15.i686 (which is latest for fc16) Yet iwconfig wlan0 says wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"VegetarianMeat" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: xx. Bit Rate=243 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry l

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/09 19:02, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:02 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/10/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from

I/O or CPU bandwidth issue or wget issue or perhaps isp???

2012-09-09 Thread JD
fc16 (latest updates) + wget-1.12-4.fc16.i686, and system load negligible when I start wget. CPU is Athlon64 3700+ (but I run i686 kernel/apps). Sometimes, wget chokes 25% [+=> ] 1,000,855,688 --.-K/s eta 27m 57s even though I can actually start another

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

2012-09-09 Thread JD
On 09/09/2012 01:22 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 05:12:31AM -0600, JD wrote: On 09/09/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17. I wanted to keep the separate /home partition untouched (i.e. keep the data), but there d

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/09/2012 09:07 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: >> > You can test msmtp without using a configuration file by creating a >> > "message" and then doing something like >> > >> > cat message | /usr/bin/msmtp --host=smtp.blueyonder.co.uk -f >> > y...@whatever.com to...@someplace.com > Ha! That works

Strange behaviour in SSHD

2012-09-09 Thread 某因幡
Hi, When I ssh to the server, client gets a "Broken pipe" error and disconnects immediately. So I am trying to strace the server process, but if I attached to the server process with strace, the problem will be gone. And after detaching, it comes back. The server is a Cent OS 6.0. -- language: Ch

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 09:02 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/10/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI editor. So if

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread David
On 9/9/2012 9:02 PM, Roger wrote: > On 09/10/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: >>> >> Just become root (su -) and edit the file. >> >> > Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor > from the command line. Ev

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Roger
On 09/10/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI editor. So if you want to use gedit, or Kate, you'd

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI editor. So if you want to use gedit, or Kate, you'd have to go to a terminal, and become root, either by

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI editor. So if you want to use gedit, or Kate, you'd have to go to a terminal, and become root, either by su > password > Kate, or sudo Kate.

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 07:20 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/10/2012 07:07 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word E

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Roger
On 09/10/2012 07:07 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 05:07 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file Exit ge

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 04:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 12:19 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 12:19 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > >> On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: > >>> Try gedit. > >>> > >>> sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf > >>> put a # in

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 02:54 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/08/2012 05:19 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if I'm going to use "Free Open Source Software" then it should be "free".

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

2012-09-09 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 05:12:31AM -0600, JD wrote: > > On 09/09/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > >I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17. > >I wanted to keep the separate /home partition untouched (i.e. keep the > >data), but there didn't seem to be any option to achie

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM, jdow wrote: > > I thought Oracle called their version Unbreakable Linux and that it > is essentially a clone of RedHat. Well, yes and no. Oracle Linux offers you two kernels... one at the same level and CentOS, and another much more recent. See... centos 6.3 ker

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Chuck Peters wrote: > I thought Oracle called their version Unbreakable Linux and that it > is essentially a clone of RedHat. The product´s current name is "Oracle Linux". They offer as an option UEK aka "unbreakable enterprise kernel". I guess Oracle refers to

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

2012-09-09 Thread JD
On 09/09/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17. I wanted to keep the separate /home partition untouched (i.e. keep the data), but there didn't seem to be any option to achieve this in the installer. None of the options seemed to be able

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/08/2012 05:19 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if I'm going to use "Free Open Source Software" then it should be "free"...no?) No. "Free" describes your liberty to

preserving partitions during reinstall

2012-09-09 Thread Dave Mitchell
I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17. I wanted to keep the separate /home partition untouched (i.e. keep the data), but there didn't seem to be any option to achieve this in the installer. None of the options seemed to be able to recognise or preserve the partitioning info

Re: Another Issue.....

2012-09-09 Thread Tom Wroblewski
The Google repo is down wait a bit and try again. "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: >After reading another person's problem with fonts.I tried to enter >the commands for the font-manager myself...and I got the following >error. So my question is, is there something wrong with my repo? Or

Re: Clams

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 11:05 AM, DB wrote: On 09/09/2012 02:00 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Sound advice indeedand slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of itbut like..what you just described would have been for me?.a TOTAL re-installation of EVERYTHING!..I wonder

Re: Adding fonts

2012-09-09 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/09/2012 06:39, Peter Gueckel a écrit : > jonetsu wrote: > >> I'd like to know... > > Do something like this to make the font available to all users on the > system: > > sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf If you want to have any chances to make t

Another Issue.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
After reading another person's problem with fonts.I tried to enter the commands for the font-manager myself...and I got the following error. So my question is, is there something wrong with my repo? Or is this link pointing to a different place than it should be? (Maybe this is the reason w

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file Exit ge

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:50 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: sudo /etc/freshclam.conf Thanks for this.after all o it...it STILL won't show me that the vidurs definition files are up to date..hmm.wonder if an un-install - re-install would help?.or else I'll just look at some of the othe

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:32 AM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:59 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to absorbat times I almost feel like crawling back into my "Regedit" / "Task Manager"

Re: Keyboard Font problem - A solution

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 07/09/12 12:26, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA types: I posted this two days ago and got no response. I find it hard to believe that I am the only one with this problem. Perhaps someone can try selecting "US International keyboard" and see if it can be unselected restori

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Maurizio Marini
> Just become root (su -) and edit the file. i can't understand why people quote 200 lines to reply with only one line -m smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:49 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:11 PM, Roger wrote: Wow! You understand the indecipherable -- Regedit, wow, Linux is easy after that! Back when I was doing tech support for an ISP, I kept a shortcut to Regedit on my desktop. Of course, after a few months, I almost n

Re: Clams

2012-09-09 Thread DB
On 09/09/2012 02:00 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Sound advice indeedand slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of itbut like..what you just described would have been for me?.a TOTAL re-installation of EVERYTHING!..I wonder if there's a "manual" with all the

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:11 AM, Roger wrote: On 09/09/2012 01:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Wel

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:07 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well

Re: Adding fonts

2012-09-09 Thread nomnex
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:48:53 -0400 > jonetsu wrote: > > > I'd like to know now to add fonts so that LibreOffice and Gimp can If your DE is LXDE, XFCE or Gnome, # yum install font-manager It will manager your font collection. http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/ -- nomnex Freenode: nom

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-09-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/30/2012 09:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > Right now, both Thunderbird and Firefox do exactly that the first time you > run them after an update. The problem is, how do you arrange to get that > done *before* the update is installed, and how do you deal with the needed > input from the user. R

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: > > Try gedit. > > > > sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf > > put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the > > file, then to save the file > > Exit gedit and in the terminal

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 20:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/09/2012 08:14 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > Well I don't know exactly how msmtp works, but I can't find any > > reference in maillog to the test outgoing mails. > > > > Here's what I have in /etc/msmtprchttp (the configuration file > > acces

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
This is a directory listing of your home directory. Try ls -l /etc/fresh*, if it's still there you need to edit that file. The file is owned by root, therefore you won't be able to edit it as yourself but will need to edit it as root. To edit the file as root you have a choice, either use su

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/09/2012 08:14 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > Well I don't know exactly how msmtp works, but I can't find any > reference in maillog to the test outgoing mails. > > Here's what I have in /etc/msmtprchttp (the configuration file > accessible by apache which I refer to in php.ini: > logfile /var/log/m

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:59 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live > Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to > absorbat times I almost feel like crawling back into my > "Regedit" / "Task Manager" hole and staying there And h

Re: how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

2012-09-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/09/2012 08:23 PM, Tim wrote: > You can only test such things by mailing yourself, or viewing the copy > saved in your sent mail folder. OK Then I will tell you It does as I said... If you have mailnews.send_default_charset set to UTF-8 it will send it in UTF-8 regardless. -- Pr

Re: how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

2012-09-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 20:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > If you have mailnews.send_default_charset set to UTF-8 it will send it > in UTF-8 regardless. Just check the header of this message. I can't *really* tell. While the headers do tell me I'm reading a UTF-8 plain text message, they also tell m

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 20:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/09/2012 06:28 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Not really a Fedora problem, but the level of helpful knowledge here is > > second to none :) > > > > My fedora 17 box hosts my small family web-server. I am trying to get an > >

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/09/2012 06:28 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > Hello all, > > Not really a Fedora problem, but the level of helpful knowledge here is > second to none :) > > My fedora 17 box hosts my small family web-server. I am trying to get an > email contact form to work using php mail(). I have never had any >

MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Not really a Fedora problem, but the level of helpful knowledge here is second to none :) My fedora 17 box hosts my small family web-server. I am trying to get an email contact form to work using php mail(). I have never had any success with sendmail so I installed msmtp and changed ph

Re: Finding Toner Level

2012-09-09 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Is there any way to find the amount of toner remaining in a Brother HL-1440 > printer? The amount of drum use? Other than using a Windows driver. There > are counters in the printer that measure usage, but I can't find out how to > acces