[389-users] Newbie question: What does NS stand for?

2021-01-19 Thread Tom
A lot of config options, for example nsslapd-sizelimit, start with NS. What does NS stand for? Thanks in advance for tolerating a newbie with OCD! ___ 389-users mailing list -- 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[389-users] Re: Newbie question: What does NS stand for?

2021-01-19 Thread Marc Sauton
and nsds50 stands for Netscape Directory Server 5.0 as it became iPlanet Directory Server 5.0 in the 2001 time frame with major new features, like: MMR / Multi Master Replication ! hence the famous nsds50ruv records and other replication agreement attributes with the nsds50 prefix string.

[389-users] Re: Newbie question: What does NS stand for?

2021-01-19 Thread William Brown
> On 20 Jan 2021, at 08:42, Tom wrote: > > A lot of config options, for example nsslapd-sizelimit, start with NS. What > does NS stand for? NetScape! A lot of the directory server code originally was part of netscape and then had some adventures going through SUN, AOL and finally Red Hat

Re: a Newbie question

2020-12-14 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/13/20 12:59 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 07:41:12PM -0600, David wrote: If a Linux user was going to build a new desktop computer using 2020 components, for home use in January of 2021, what version of Fedora should they use and what options or flavors or isos would

Re: a Newbie question

2020-12-13 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
I would recommend Fedora 33 MATE-Compiz; Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-33-1.2.iso and would add the rpmfusion F33 repos to get the bits and pieces Fedora can't package. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: a Newbie question

2020-12-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 07:41:12PM -0600, David wrote: > If a Linux user was going to build a new desktop computer using 2020 > components, for home use in January of 2021, what version of Fedora should > they use and what options or flavors or isos would one recommend ? Unless you have a

Re: a Newbie question

2020-12-12 Thread edward via users
workstation for desktop,developing,etc and server for server applications.  i think fedora 33 would be  better than 32 for hardware support,updates,etc. On 12/12/2020 5:41 PM, David wrote: If a Linux user was going to build a new desktop computer using 2020 components, for home use in

a Newbie question

2020-12-12 Thread David
If a Linux user was going to build a new desktop computer using 2020 components, for home use in January of 2021, what version of Fedora should they use and what options or flavors or isos would one recommend ? For example, if they installed 32, but with community "Respin" build. I am assuming

Re: newbie question

2020-11-10 Thread Flo H
> Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020? The older, the more tested, the better patched, the more stable > > If a user were to take present state of Rawhide, but not update risky > packages, would there be any benefit to that ? Meaning to manually > update,

Re: newbie question

2020-11-09 Thread Ian Laurie
Take a look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895569 It wasn't just you. I'm not seeing any problems with F32-Mate or F33-Mate. Not sure if it was an update (unlikely) or something I did (very likely) to trash my Rawhide-Mate install, but I just reinstalled the latest

Re: newbie question

2020-11-09 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
I'm not seeing any problems with F32-Mate or F33-Mate. Not sure if it was an update (unlikely) or something I did (very likely) to trash my Rawhide-Mate install, but I just reinstalled the latest nightly, and so far, so good. ___ users mailing list --

Re: newbie question

2020-11-08 Thread ilau...@bigpond.net.au
Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020? While a release is not EOL it tends to stay fairly well synchronized to the latest release. For example, 33 and 32 are running the same basic kernel. If a user were to take present state of Rawhide, but not update

Re: newbie question

2020-11-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/8/20 3:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 03:51:02PM -0600, David wrote: Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020? Based on crash reports, both seem like pretty solid releases. I don't think one is particularly riskier than the other.

Re: newbie question

2020-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 03:51:02PM -0600, David wrote: > Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020? Based on crash reports, both seem like pretty solid releases. I don't think one is particularly riskier than the other. > If a user were to take present state of

newbie question

2020-11-08 Thread David
Is Fedora 32 more stable than 33 or vice versa, as on November, 2020? If a user were to take present state of Rawhide, but not update risky packages, would there be any benefit to that ? Meaning to manually update, skipping some packages. Are some Desktop Environments in Fedora more stable ?

Re: newbie question about Linux software

2020-10-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/16/20 10:50 PM, David wrote: I installed the package "sysbench" and did two operations:    "sysbench memory run" and "sysbench cpu run", and after about 30 seconds, it listed a bunch of numbers, which I have no idea what they mean. I have looked at glances and htop and cpu-x and have

newbie question about Linux software

2020-10-16 Thread David
I recently built a new computer and Fedora is my only operating system. As far as I know, everything is hooked up properly, and the computer is working nominally. I installed the package "sysbench" and did two operations:"sysbench memory run" and "sysbench cpu run", and after about 30

Re: Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

2020-09-17 Thread David
Thank you. Let me re-phrase that question. My install is Gnome, ( soon to be Gnome 40, LOL ! ) I do not yet know which of my apps besides mediawriter are Qt5. I was reading another article that the trend is to move towards flatpak, and that would encourage more Qt5 apps being used in

Re: Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

2020-09-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 10:21 -0500, David wrote: > I just installed mediawriter and noticed it is a Qt app.What > other popular apps are Qt in Fedora ? > > I just read a year old article about that topic, about the adwaita-qt > thing, trying to make Qt apps look like gtk apps. > > As of

Re: Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

2020-09-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:21:43 -0500 David wrote: > Are Qt5 apps lighter ? snappier ? or easier to code than the gtk 3 > counterparts ? I believe KDE apps are mostly Qt (or a Qt variant with KDE bits wedged in). I certainly find it easier to code Qt than gtk. The gtk apps I've debugged from time

Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

2020-09-17 Thread David
I just installed mediawriter and noticed it is a Qt app.What other popular apps are Qt in Fedora ? I just read a year old article about that topic, about the adwaita-qt thing, trying to make Qt apps look like gtk apps. As of September 2020 and beyond, what is the general trend about this

Re: newbie question about version numbers of Linux software

2020-07-08 Thread David
It looks like most of the bumps in the version numbers of the specific games that I have installed are just adding or updating the languages translations. But after tinkering with the game-launcher Athenaeum for a few hours, I do not yet understand it very well. There is an "Update All" feature

Re: newbie question about version numbers of Linux software

2020-07-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 7, 2020, at 23:11, David wrote: > I still have not figured out > the game-launcher "Athenaeum." I can't get any of the > games installed with that to update. Is there a separate > updater inside the game-launcher ? Maybe they are up > to date, but Gnome Software does not think

newbie question about version numbers of Linux software

2020-07-07 Thread David
According to some programs in Gnome, the version number is "bumped up," even though there were no changes. This ideology seems odd to me. Example the Gnome game, "Hitori." And while I have your attention, I still have not figured out the game-launcher "Athenaeum." I can't get any of the

Re: newbie question about appimages

2020-07-05 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 07:57 -0500, David wrote: > Today, I downloaded the very latest development version of Chromium > as an appimage, and tried unsuccessfully to run it. > > Is that feasible ? > > My understanding is that if the app is marked executable, then you > just click on run in

newbie question about appimages

2020-07-05 Thread David
I know zero about appimages. Today, I downloaded the very latest development version of Chromium as an appimage, and tried unsuccessfully to run it. Is that feasible ? My understanding is that if the app is marked executable, then you just click on run in the properties. David Locklear

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 06:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-21 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Just an update on this. After faffing around trying to recover the > > failing disk, I decided to replace it and start afresh. > > > > I formatted 2 1TB drives with ext4 and created a new md

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 15:50 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/20/20 2:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I formatted 2 1TB drives with ext4 and created a new md volume as > > RAID1. However they are taking many hours to sync, despite being empty. > > Is this normal? > > This is somewhat

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 22:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, I presume I should mount the md device, using an fstab entry like > > this: > > > > /dev/md0 /raid ext4defaults0 0 > > > > but attempts to do that give an error: > > > > mount:

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/20/20 2:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I formatted 2 1TB drives with ext4 and created a new md volume as RAID1. However they are taking many hours to sync, despite being empty. Is this normal? This is somewhat unclear. It sounds like you formatted the drives before making the raid.

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-21 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just an update on this. After faffing around trying to recover the > failing disk, I decided to replace it and start afresh. > > I formatted 2 1TB drives with ext4 and created a new md volume as > RAID1. However they are taking many hours to sync,

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 19:57 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > George N. White III wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 17:18 +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > On 15 May 2020, at 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and if so, how?

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 15 May 2020, at 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the > docking station's

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I intentionally partitioned my 3tb drives into 4x750G, and built 4 separate arrays out of it, and used LVM to make it one big device. #1: it allowed me to use 2x1.5tb in place of a 3tb for a while (I had the old 1.5tb ones) prior to me buying more 3tb ones, later on it allowed me to use those

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Though it can be surprising to find out how they've used a drive. >> Such as a 4TB WD MyCloud that provides that 4TB using two 2TB >> partitions on the *same* drive, using RAID to make them one 4TB. I >> dunno why they'd do it that way. George N. White III: > If you control the hardware

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 23:09, Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > This is not so surprising when you realize that most NAS boxes run > > Linux. > > Though it can be surprising to find out how they've used a drive. Such > as a 4TB WD MyCloud that

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 19:57 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > George N. White III wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action > > > > > >

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 08:21 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15May2020 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > docking station for them. To my astonishment

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > This is not so surprising when you realize that most NAS boxes run > Linux. Though it can be surprising to find out how they've used a drive. Such as a 4TB WD MyCloud that provides that 4TB using two 2TB partitions on the *same* drive,

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Todd Zullinger
George N. White III wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action >> >> That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce >> set to

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 15May2020 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Are there any general recommendations for monitoring these beasties? I don't want to change anything for the time being and will be using the thing mainly for backup, but I see there is such a thing as

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15May2020 11:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action > > That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce > set to 'off'. > This can happend if you run :

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 14:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 2:41 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action > > > > That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 2:41 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce set to 'off'. First, is that the right md number? But also, you

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 22:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > echo check > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action That's giving "permission denied" even with sudo, and with setenforce set to 'off'. poc ___ users mailing list --

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:27 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS)

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/15/20 3:53 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the docking station's "clone" button? It

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:50 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > > docking station for them.

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 08:50 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them > > immediately as a

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 07:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them > immediately as a RAID1 array

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:44:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: One other thing. On connecting the dock, I get this from dmesg: [259115.502000] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk [259115.505730] sd 7:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [259115.820568] md127: Warning: Device sdf1 is

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:32:03 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: That's not a good sign, but sometimes you can still get a lot of use out of such a drive. If you don't want to spend effort figuring out where the bad sectors are, you

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected),

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected),

Re: Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the docking station's

Newbie question on mdadm

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS) without me doing anything. However

Re: a newbie question / Thank you

2020-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-28 10:51, Jerry James wrote: > I'm sure there are backups archived somewhere, but whether that > location is deep underground or not, I do not know. https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/ -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions.

Re: a newbie question / Thank you

2020-04-27 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:53 PM David wrote: > That was a lot of very interesting valuable information. I plan to save > that email and study it word for word, someday. If anything is unclear, let me know and I'll try to explain better. > What precisely is "the main repository" in a physical

Re: a newbie question / Thank you

2020-04-27 Thread David
Mr. James, That was a lot of very interesting valuable information. I plan to save that email and study it word for word, someday. What precisely is "the main repository" in a physical sense ? I assume that specific repo is stored on a very fancy modern server, along with other valuable

Re: a newbie question about how Fedora ecosystem

2020-04-27 Thread Jerry James
Hi David, On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:55 AM David wrote: > I am only curious here, ( this is mostly about mirrors and > the Rawhide repo ): > > After coding changes in each package get approved, by > someone in Fedora, > > I assume somebody above them in the chain-of-command, > has the authority

a newbie question about how Fedora ecosystem

2020-04-27 Thread David
I am only curious here, ( this is mostly about mirrors and the Rawhide repo ): After coding changes in each package get approved, by someone in Fedora, I assume somebody above them in the chain-of-command, has the authority to upload that package to the main Fedora mirror.Right ? If so what

outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(note: even though i'm running rawhide, this issue has nothing to do with rawhide itself, so i'm using the regular list.) having never messed with GPS software running on linux, one or two truly beginner-level questions. if i want to simply buy a GPS receiver and set up my fedora laptop to

Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread John Mellor
There is no other expense, unless you want to get into tying in your location to map data from a non-free source. I use an older Holux puck-type receiver, similar to your first selection. Since my upstream is somewhat flakey due to the variable latency problems introduced by my incompetent

Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, John Mellor wrote: There is no other expense, unless you want to get into tying in your location to map data from a non-free source. I use an older Holux puck-type receiver, similar to your first selection. Since my upstream is somewhat flakey due to the variable

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-26 Thread Mike Chambers
On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 06:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/26/2012 06:04 AM, jdow wrote: yum upgrade? Thanks to Fedora's (IMO: absurd) UsrMove Feature, this doesn't work smoothly for -F17 upgrades. IIRC, there's a wiki page somewhere (on Fedoraproject.org?) describing the nasty

Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread vendor
Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the right one. I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but am stuck. The instructions I read said to reboot and then choose

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread Doug
On 10/25/2012 09:46 PM, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the right one. I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but am stuck.

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread vendor
I did -- he said that it was my responsibility to upgrade the virtual machine. The service they would provide would only be a reinstall of the image of Fedora 16. The bottom line is that I'm give a virtual box and 5 static ips, and all maintenance is my responsibility. billo On Thu, 25

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread jdow
yum upgrade? {^_^} On 2012/10/25 19:47, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: I did -- he said that it was my responsibility to upgrade the virtual machine. The service they would provide would only be a reinstall of the image of Fedora 16. The bottom line is that I'm give a virtual box and 5 static

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/26/2012 06:04 AM, jdow wrote: yum upgrade? Thanks to Fedora's (IMO: absurd) UsrMove Feature, this doesn't work smoothly for -F17 upgrades. IIRC, there's a wiki page somewhere (on Fedoraproject.org?) describing the nasty details - It's pretty tedious and risky ;) Ralf -- users

Re: Newbie question abt network install

2012-10-25 Thread Steven Stern
On 10/25/2012 08:46 PM, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the right one. I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but am stuck.

Re: [389-users] newbie question about replication

2012-04-24 Thread Maurizio Marini
i have a server fedora-ds running by 2009 with changelog activated, maybe 3 years ago I tried to replicate and i forgot the check after the tests disregard i solved myself i can do either way... bye -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org

[389-users] newbie question about replication

2012-04-24 Thread Maurizio Marini
i have a server fedora-ds running by 2009 with changelog activated, maybe 3 years ago I tried to replicate and i forgot the check after the tests now i have to setup replica for a disaster recovery and I have discovered the check; yesterday i setup replica server importing all the db and now

Re: [389-users] Newbie question: Which distro?

2011-07-21 Thread solarflow99
That will work, you can have a master and slave to do this, since 389 is in EPEL, I think you're best to use rhel/centos for the server. hope this helps.. 2011/7/21 Steven Santos ste...@simplycircus.com I would like to set up an instance of 389DS for my school. This LDAP server would be