Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread JD
On 10/08/2010 12:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may > safely return it to the re

Re: proxy problem with mplayer

2010-10-08 Thread Tim
Although you censored your user details the first time, they're on display further down the page. You might want to change them, now that you've published them. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/09/2010 10:11 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:59 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > Its a new drive. I'm returning it for a refund. > Well, if you're concerned about drive content, you should probably > discuss this with who you're returning it to. You may be able to bring > it in, v

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:59 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Its a new drive. I'm returning it for a refund. Well, if you're concerned about drive content, you should probably discuss this with who you're returning it to. You may be able to bring it in, verify it's dead, and physically destroy it whi

Re: password change does not work: LDAP, sssd, nss or pam error?

2010-10-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/06/2010 01:28 PM, Volker Potworowski wrote: > I have the directive > pam_password exop > in /etc/ldap.conf. Hope this is enough (but doesn't work anyway). sss doesn't use /etc/ldap.conf. Check /etc/sssd/sssd.conf. > > My slapd.conf includes > > access to attrs=userPassword > by self w

Re: No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

2010-10-08 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Hiisi wrote: > > 2010/10/8 Silent-Hunter: > >> Unless I use sudo. It's weird, it only works if I use sudo. Otherwise, > >> no mouse in MC. Is it a permissions thing? If so, how do I fix it? > > I have no such problem: > > mc-4.7.4-1.fc12.i686 > > gpm-1.20.6-9.fc1

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread suvayu ali
Hi William, On 8 October 2010 10:29, William Perkins wrote: > I have been very frustrated in my search for new > mirrors to use for Fedora updates.  I could not find a new mirror list and > the old one I had or did find had entries for servers that were no longer > in service or had not been upda

Re: Re: No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

2010-10-08 Thread Silent-Hunter
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/10/8 Silent-Hunter: >> Unless I use sudo. It's weird, it only works if I use sudo. Otherwise, >> no mouse in MC. Is it a permissions thing? If so, how do I fix it? > I have no such problem: > mc-4.7.4-1.fc12.i686 > gpm-1.20.6-9.fc12.i686 > Have yo

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:02 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an >> external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an >> internal drive. >> >> How do I absolutely destroy

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may > safely return it to

Re: Fedora SMP and 12 core cpu's

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: > > > On 09/30/2010 10:12 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:59:38 -0700 >> JD wrote: >> >>> What I would like to know is the degree of granularity >>> of the SMP implementation in Linux. >> Don't know what granularity means :-), but we have run kernel.org >> kernels on up t

Re: ffmpeg problem

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Thanks > This command is exactly what I need. > However, when using loop_input it never stop encoding (last very long time) > And when I drop it, it generates a very short file. > > Could you help please? > The solution omited the "-shortest" option which is required. > > > > 2

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread James Mckenzie
Linuxguy123 wrote: >Sent: Oct 8, 2010 12:59 PM >To: James Mckenzie , Community support for Fedora >users >Subject: Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ? > >On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 12:39 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Linux guy: >> >> Ball peen hammer. > >Its a new drive. I'm returning it for a ref

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Oct 2010 at 16:21, Bill Davidsen wrote: To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject:Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? Date sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:21:18 -0400 > Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > On 7 O

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may > safely return it to the retailer for a refund ? > If

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 7 Oct 2010 at 17:36, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > From: Bill Davidsen > Subject: Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? > Date sent:Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:36:08 -0400 > Send repl

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Oct 2010 at 8:52, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Date sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:52:27 -0700 From: "Daniel B. Thurman" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? Cut -- Good Questions.. > 1)

Re: (Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x - bundling external libraries

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Timms wrote: > On 07/10/10 20:07, Mason wrote: >> Is anyone aware of any potential issue when using Mozilla's private >> libcairo on Fedora 13? > Fedora packaging guidelines [1] prevents bundling external libraries. > Main reason [2] is that security and bug fixes should be fixed in the > one

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 12:41 -0700, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > HI > > Try this: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe/ $ yum list wipe Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit Available Packages wipe.i686 0.21-4.fc12 fedora --

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 12:39 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Linux guy: > > Ball peen hammer. Its a new drive. I'm returning it for a refund. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread JD
On 10/08/2010 12:41 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > HI > > Try this: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe/ > > Good Luck > > Marvin > > > On 10/8/10, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an >> external drive only to find that it won't fit in my l

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread JD
On 10/08/2010 12:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may > safely return it to the re

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Jason Brown
You can use dd and urandom to destroy the disk. dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd{drive letter} bs=1024 You'll want to slave the drive to another machine so you can wipe the entire drive. There is also dban which is a bootable iso. On Oct 8, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a ha

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Marvin Kosmal
HI Try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe/ Good Luck Marvin On 10/8/10, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all th

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread James Mckenzie
Linux guy: Ball peen hammer. If you want some reasonable safety and want the drive intact, write to the entire drive seven or more times with varying data patterns. NSA produces a product called Secure Wipe, I don't know if you can get to it. Also, there was a recent lengthy conversation on j

Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Linuxguy123
I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an internal drive. How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may safely return it to the retailer for a refund ? Thanks -- users mailing list u

Re: yum check for deltas?

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 19:09 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > The best place files an RFE, for stuff in your wish list: > http://yum.baseurl.org/ > > They have a mailing list and roadmap. Yum-presto isn't currently part of yum. It's a plugin. If you want to file an RFE, either use https://fedorahos

Re: yum check for deltas?

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 11:52 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > At the very least, yum should provide an estimate of the delta download > size *before* the user is presented with the option for allowing > download to begin. Yum-presto did originally do this, but only by doing incredibly hackish things t

Re: yum check for deltas?

2010-10-08 Thread Frank Murphy
On 08/10/10 17:52, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> >> There is one suggestion which may help people with low bandwidth or >> expensive net connections. Yum should have an option to update packages >> for the one's, it can find only deltas. If a dependency problem occurs >> then that package can be mentione

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:29 PM, William Perkins wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion.  I have tried the mirrors.kernel.org today > and have found that it will work very well.  It is fast and I know that it > will be reliable.  I have been very frustrated in my search for new > mirrors to use fo

Re: ffmpeg problem

2010-10-08 Thread Lets Go Canes
Hi all. --- On Fri, 10/8/10, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > I want the procedure to go 100% automatic :) I think ffmpeg has an option that lets you tell it how much of the input to process. If you know the length of the input music, you might get what you want by providing that option. --

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread William Perkins
> On 10/08/2010 12:57 AM, William Perkins wrote: >> Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is >> it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora >> updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it >> stopped accepting connections fr

proxy problem with mplayer

2010-10-08 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hi list I use this syntax to listen to my video but I get aan authentifiaction problem algthout the login/password are correct http_proxy://: 1...@192.168.0.1:3128/mms://stream.mosaiquefm.net/mosaique64k any help please Resolving 192.168.0.1 for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6

Re: yum check for deltas?

2010-10-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:41:53 -0500 Vikram Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:31:15PM +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 23:09 +0200, Dj YB wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > my internet connection is pay per traffic so I prefer to use deltas when > > > possible. > > > Is

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Andrew Haley
I've never found anything better than dump 0f - device | restore rf - This copies the whole thing, including files with holes, attributes, and so on. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: yum check for deltas?

2010-10-08 Thread Vikram Goyal
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:31:15PM +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 23:09 +0200, Dj YB wrote: > > Hello, > > > > my internet connection is pay per traffic so I prefer to use deltas when > > possible. > > Is it possible to know before you say 'yes' to the update process, what

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread William Perkins
Hi JB, > William Perkins patriot.net> writes: >> >> Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is >> it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora >> updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it >> stopped accepting connections

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 10/06/2010 10:06 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 6 Oct 2010 at 10:58, Maxime Alarie wrote: > > Subject: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? > Date sent:Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:58:50 -0400 > From: "Maxime Alarie" > To: > Send reply to:Community support for Fedora users > >

Re: ffmpeg problem

2010-10-08 Thread Adel ESSAFI
2010/10/8 JD > On 10/07/2010 10:53 PM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > > > > > > 2010/10/7 Dj YB mailto:yehi...@mail.ru>> > > > > On Thursday October 7 2010 10:51:55 you wrote: > > > Thanks > > > This command is exactly what I need. > > > However, when using loop_input it never stop encodin

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread JD
On 10/08/2010 12:57 AM, William Perkins wrote: > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connections from th

Re: ffmpeg problem

2010-10-08 Thread JD
On 10/07/2010 10:53 PM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > > > 2010/10/7 Dj YB mailto:yehi...@mail.ru>> > > On Thursday October 7 2010 10:51:55 you wrote: > > Thanks > > This command is exactly what I need. > > However, when using loop_input it never stop encoding (last very > long time) >

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread JB
William Perkins patriot.net> writes: > > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connections from the syste

Re: password change does not work: LDAP, sssd, nss or pam error?

2010-10-08 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/2010 10:40 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 16:13 +0200, Volker Potworowski wrote: >> Hello Matthew, >> >> am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2010 schrieb Matthew J. Roth: >>> Volker Potworowski wrote: Is there somebody out there usi

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/08/2010 03:57 PM, William Perkins wrote: > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connections from the

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 03:57 -0400, William Perkins wrote: > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connectio

Re: ipv4 address disappear

2010-10-08 Thread cheng chen
Ah,ja. It seems that I should stop this service. But may I know the reason how this would happen? Thx. 2010/10/8 Jatin K > On Friday 08 October 2010 11:26 AM, cheng chen wrote: > > I am using the Fedora13 to connect to my embedded board. > And I set the Fedora13 ip address with command "ifconfi

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:57 AM, William Perkins wrote: > > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem?  I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connection

Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread William Perkins
Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it stopped accepting connections from the system that handles package updates for all of my serv

Re: No console mouse support in Midnight Commander

2010-10-08 Thread Hiisi
2010/10/8 Silent-Hunter : > >  Unless I use sudo. It's weird, it only works if I use sudo. Otherwise, > no mouse in MC. Is it a permissions thing? If so, how do I fix it? I have no such problem: mc-4.7.4-1.fc12.i686 gpm-1.20.6-9.fc12.i686 Have you installed mc and gpm by yum? -- Hiisi. Registered

apache with mono ..trying to run asp pages on FC13

2010-10-08 Thread Jatin K
Dear all, I'm using FC13 to host the asp.net website on apache .. is there any step-by-step guide to do that ... -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: ipv4 address disappear

2010-10-08 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 08 October 2010 11:26 AM, cheng chen wrote: I am using the Fedora13 to connect to my embedded board. And I set the Fedora13 ip address with command "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.101" but each time after I use embedded board's u-boot to ping the computer it says "192.168.1.101 is alive". So