Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-08 Thread Chuck Peters
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > there is nothing new and nobody with a brain would say any > system is uncrackable > I thought Oracle called their version Unbreakable Linux and that it is essentially a clone of RedHat. Can we infer Oracle, or its marketing people, don't

nut startup driving me nuts...

2012-08-20 Thread Chuck Peters
Configured nut as I have with Ubuntu, same machine, and enabled startup on F17... So why isn't it starting? [root@fedora tmp]# systemctl enable nut-server.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nut-server.service' Reboot and test i

Kppp missing from KDE Spin F17

2012-07-24 Thread Chuck Peters
Two days ago I did a reintall of a friends Fedora and now she is really mad at me because kppp wasn't there. I found wvdial and got it working after being frustrated by system-config-network, but she is demanding a gui dialer. A google search found the package knetwork-kppp, but yum install knetw

Re: Dialup users and keeping a system updated

2012-05-28 Thread Chuck Peters
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 21/05/12 07:49, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> When asked if this is OK, say No.  Should then get a line that reads >> something >> similar to... >> >> yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-05-21.14-46.yuA8Tw.yumtx > >> Take the yum_save_tx.2

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 sim