BTW, for some reason I don't seem to get your posts from the list. It
could be some sort of dupe checking gnus does on my side, but I thought
I should mention it just in case.
Reindl Harald writes:
> Am 12.06.2013 00:41, schrieb lee:
>> For example, I know for sure that I never needed or wante
Joe Zeff writes:
> On 06/11/2013 03:41 PM, lee wrote:
>> + There doesn't seem to be anything like aptitude Debian has that lets
>> you view what packages there are, what is installed, etc.. I know
>> there's some GUI gnome tool for that --- which, unfortunately,
>> doesn't seem to
Hi,
is it "normal" for emacs in Fedora to have 'backward-delete-char-untabify
bound to the Del key? Or is this "normal" for emacs in general? This
really doesn't give the expected behaviour, and IIRC it used to work
as expected at some time.
MOTT I use Ctrl-d, but when you press Del and the vis
Reindl Harald writes:
> Am 11.06.2013 23:39, schrieb lee:
>> One question that just occurred to me when looking at [1]: Do I need to
>> do anything about grub? Yum says the version from Fedora 18 is
>> installed, so I should be fine?
>
> the grub-configuration abd grub itself in the MBR is usall
…
> $ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink\|Mute'
> Sink #0
> Mute: yes
>
> $ pactl set-sink-mute 0 0
>
> $ pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink\|Mute'
> Sink #0
> Mute: no
>
> man 1 pactl
…
> Besides HDMI audio with the assistance of the 'nouveau.ko' *do* work.
To conclude,
http://goo.gl/ETNFL
On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
you should also know enough to be careful with rm. As root, unless I'm
deleting exactly one file, I use ls first to see exactly what I'm going
to d
On 06/11/2013 05:31 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Matthew Miller sent:
The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Sometimes a prompt is a rather vague you must authenticate type of
phrase.
Once it was pointed out to me, I looked, and it did ask f
On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Never rely on that, not to mention that there are plenty of other
commands that you can foolishly hose a system with. And you may not get
that alias if you use one of the alternative shells.
Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do tha
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Matthew Miller sent:
> The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Sometimes a prompt is a rather vague you must authenticate type of
phrase.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
> there's a reason that by default rm for root is aliased to rm -i.
Never rely on that, not to mention that there are plenty of other
commands that you can foolishly hose a system with. And you may not get
that alias if you use one of the altern
On 06/11/2013 04:05 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
- For both paying attention to the #/$ prompt and CWD display are
helpful. That's what I check whenever I switch to a given terminal
(also useful to know which machine you're logged into). Arguably
there's more potential for confusion if you normally only
On 06/11/2013 03:41 PM, lee wrote:
+ There doesn't seem to be anything like aptitude Debian has that lets
you view what packages there are, what is installed, etc.. I know
there's some GUI gnome tool for that --- which, unfortunately,
doesn't seem to even come close. I'm not usin
On 11 June 2013 20:03, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
>>> return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
>>> root.
>>
>> That's
Reindl Harald writes:
> Am 11.06.2013 21:55, schrieb lee:
It seems so --- the question is why aren't such packages removed by yum
distro-sync?
>>>
>>> because it is not it's job to remove any package which is not
>>> found in the repos because you may have installed it manually
>>>
>>>
Reindl Harald writes:
> Am 11.06.2013 01:15, schrieb lee:>> that is why i do "rm -rf
> /var/cache/yum/*" since years
>>> before dist-upgrades and after *every time* i used
>>> "--releasever=" wich a changed param
>>
>> Sounds good, but I don't know if that might remove files which are still
>> n
On 06/11/2013 02:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Here I think you're talking about the policykit dialogs in the desktop,
right?
The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Yes, it was. However, I'd been in the habit of putting root's password
into those dialog boxes for so
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Lingxian Guo wrote:
> About installing the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox,I know
> the file of libflashplayer.so should be copied to
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin.By Terminal,after I input the command of sudo
> cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/pl
Am 11.06.2013 04:10, schrieb lee:
> Reindl Harald writes:
>>> | [root@yun etc]# yum list installed |grep fc17
>>> | NetworkManager-gtk.x86_64 1:0.9.6.4-3.fc17 installed
>>> | [...]
>>> `
>>>
>>> For example, is this version of networkmanager-gtk in Fedora 18?
>>
>> there is no "net
Am 11.06.2013 01:43, schrieb lee:> Reindl Harald
writes:
>> distro-sync is supposed to upgrade/downgrade all packages to the exact
>> versions in the online-repos and in case you had updates-testing
>> enabled as example the way to go to revert this in a predictable way
>
> Ok, let's try this:
Am 11.06.2013 01:15, schrieb lee:>> that is why i do "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*"
since years
>> before dist-upgrades and after *every time* i used
>> "--releasever=" wich a changed param
>
> Sounds good, but I don't know if that might remove files which are still
> needed...
there are no files ne
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:54:21PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I tried putting myself into wheel once when I did a clean install.
> I found it very off-putting, to say the least, to find that giving
> the root password when prompted (or so I thought) didn't work
> because the system was expecting *my*
> This error means that the server is not able to replace in the entry cache
> and old entry by a new one.
> It triggers the failure of the operation that is not committed although it
> has a csn.
> Do you have special tuning of the entry cache (nsslapd-cachesize,
> nsslapd-cachememsize) ?
Hi
On 06/11/2013 01:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Or, on Fedora, add yourself to the "wheel" group (and log out and in again).
You can do this with "User Manager" tool in gnome, or with
gpasswd wheel -a username
as root or via sudo from another user with sudo privs.
I tried putting myself into
Same thing happens to me. I can run netflix-desktop from the Ubuntu PPA on
this same hardware in Debian Wheezy, but my results match yours with the
Fedora package.
--
Steven Rosenberg
http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com
ste...@stevenrosenberg
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:10:34PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 08:57 PM, Lingxian Guo wrote:
> >About installing the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox,I know
> >the file of libflashplayer.so should be copied to
> >/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin.By Terminal,after I input the command of
Reindl Harald writes:
> Am 11.06.2013 04:10, schrieb lee:
>> Reindl Harald writes:
| [root@yun etc]# yum list installed |grep fc17
| NetworkManager-gtk.x86_64 1:0.9.6.4-3.fc17 installed
| [...]
`
For example, is this version of networkmanager-gtk in Fe
On 06/11/2013 12:32 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive:
On 06/11/2013 12:03 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forge
On 06/11/2013 12:03 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
root.
That's why you either l
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>> When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
>> return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
>> root.
>
> That's why you either log out from root or close the term
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
root.
That's why you either log out from root or close the terminal as soon as
you're done doing root stuph.
--
u
On 06/11/2013 06:31 AM, Tim wrote:
Once the command finishes, your terminal is left with your unprivileged
logon, so there's less chance of serious mistakes happening by accident
(e.g. badly wildcarded "rm" commands), if you're going to keep that
terminal open.
If you only need to run one comma
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:41:42 +0200
poma wrote:
> On 11.06.2013 06:10, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:54:54 +0200
> > poma wrote:
> >
> >> On 09.06.2013 00:46, Matthew Miller wrote:
> …
> >>> Well, you can use boot.fedoraproject.org -- download one of these
> >>> and go. http://bo
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> I have a Lenovo X230 (laptop with a small internal screen) and
> a large external screen.
>
> When the external screen is not plugged in, mouse movements are
> fine.
>
> When I plug in the external screen (I have the XFCE desktop sprea
On 06/11/2013 01:52 AM, Fred Erickson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:10:34 -0400
...snip
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
On 06/11/2013 08:31 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
>> To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin
>> tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password.
>> However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person wh
Hi folks.
I followed the instructions as per
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F
and all seemed to go fine - no errors that I saw. However, having completed
the upgrade the touchpad in my DELL Vostro has stopped working. It seems to
view it as a PS/2
Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
> To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin
> tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password.
> However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person who
> installed Linux and created the root
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Lingxian Guo sent:
> About installing the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox,I
> know the file of libflashplayer.so should be copied to
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin.
That approach for installing the Flash player is about the worst way to
manage it. Y
I have a Lenovo X230 (laptop with a small internal screen) and
a large external screen.
When the external screen is not plugged in, mouse movements are
fine.
When I plug in the external screen (I have the XFCE desktop spread
over both internal and external), horizontal movements of the mouse
bec
On 11.06.2013 06:10, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:54:54 +0200
> poma wrote:
>
>> On 09.06.2013 00:46, Matthew Miller wrote:
…
>>> Well, you can use boot.fedoraproject.org -- download one of these
>>> and go. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/download
>>
>> 'bfo.iso'
>> Install > Fedora
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