Re: Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/27/2010 07:32 PM, eredicat...@hugedesigns.net wrote: > On 10/28/2010 11:17 AM, JD wrote: >> On 10/27/2010 06:03 PM, EredicatorX wrote: >> >>> Short version. >>> OS: Fedora 13 >>> Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE >>> Hardware: Lenovo x100e >>> Problem:Trying to build drivers for re

Re: Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.

2010-10-27 Thread eredicat...@hugedesigns.net
On 10/28/2010 11:17 AM, JD wrote: >On 10/27/2010 06:03 PM, EredicatorX wrote: > >> Short version. >> OS: Fedora 13 >> Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE >> Hardware: Lenovo x100e >> Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan. >> >> When I tried to build drivers initally wit

Re: Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/27/2010 06:03 PM, EredicatorX wrote: >Short version. > OS: Fedora 13 > Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE > Hardware: Lenovo x100e > Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan. > > When I tried to build drivers initally with > rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 every time I

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:02 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > There's no /etc/mail/localhost file on both machines. Should I create > it? If so, then where (i.e. on which machine)? > There's only /etc/mail/local-host-names. It holds localhost aliases. > Correct, my bad. It's /etc/mail/local-host-names file

Re: Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, EredicatorX wrote: > Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan. Not helpful for your building issue, but have you considered installing kmod-staging package from RPMFusion? yum install kmod-staging depmod -a modprobe r8192e_pci -c -- users maili

Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.

2010-10-27 Thread EredicatorX
Short version. OS: Fedora 13 Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE Hardware: Lenovo x100e Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan. When I tried to build drivers initally with rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 every time I would try to load the driver with modprobe it would error

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 10/27/2010 06:57 AM, Hiisi wrote: > Failed :-( > (reason: 550 5.7.1 ... Relaying denied. IP name > lookup f > ailed [192.168.3.20]) > > Any other suggestions? Look at your /etc/mail/access file. You will need to add the hostnames of all machines on your local network that you want to have ac

Re: No audio, video plays at 8x

2010-10-27 Thread stan
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:04:28 -0400 Alex wrote: > When I try and run pavucontrol, it just reports "Connection Failed: > Connection refused". I had to install this program through yum; it > wasn't installed by default in FC13. Yeah, I don't think pavucontrol is part of the default install. I woul

Re: Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote: > If it stays good I will put up some instructions on my blog about the > procedure to make it work. > Great, good to know it's working for you :-) > Thanks for all the help so far! > No worries. Sorry I didn't know about that particular issu

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/23/2010 09:54 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Anyway, you seem to be right! Restarting X purged most of the swap, from > 1.3 GB it went down to 31.4 MB. And the system regained responsiveness. Whatever is using swap is probably the application using the most RAM. Take a look at 'System Monitor

Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!

2010-10-27 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start? The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process, for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be voting on positions in the

DNS issue, solved

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Zeff
Earlier, when I posted resolv.conf, I spotted what might be a problem: Network Manager was active, even though I'd turned it off long ago. Using the GUI tool, I turned it off again. This morning's updates included some kmod-nvidia stuff and later I found that one of my games (Plants vs Zombies, un

DNS issue solved

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Zeff
Earlier, when I posted resolv.conf, I spotted what might be a problem: Network Manager was active, even though I'd turned it off long ago. Using the GUI tool, I turned it off again. This morning's updates included some kmod-nvidia stuff and later I found that one of my games (Plants vs Zombies

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/27/2010 01:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > id 502 is me, a non-root user. True, by definition. In Linux, as in Unix, root isn't a privileged username. What's privileged is userid 0. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/27/2010 01:14 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On 10/27/2010 09:07 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: >> * Michael Cronenworth [2010-10-27 16:00]: >>> Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. >>> >>> I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the >>> site installed a C

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/27/2010 01:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. > > I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the > site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing > and was running I noticed the processes wh

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Kevin Martin on 10/27/2010 03:30 PM wrote: >> What are the permissions for /opt?  Are you sure that the vpnagentd wasn't >> installed as part of some rpm? > > No RPM was installed. I was not prompted by PackageKit or by any other > too

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Is this something "allowed" by some configuration setting in OpenJDK > somewhere? I'd like to turn off this "feature" ASAP. > I found out what it was. My user is in the sudo group with no password permission. The Cisco VPN client installs with "sudo cisco-binary.sh".

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Michael Cronenworth [2010-10-27 16:34]: > Kevin Martin on 10/27/2010 03:30 PM wrote: > > What are the permissions for /opt? Are you sure that the vpnagentd wasn't > > installed as part of some rpm? > > No RPM was installed. I was not prompted by PackageKit or by any other > tool for my root

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Phil Meyer wrote: > The only way that could happen is if you were logged in, or otherwise > running the browser as user root. $ ps -ef | grep firefox 502 2651 1 0 08:42 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox 502 2668 2651

Re: Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

2010-10-27 Thread Henrik Frisk
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/27/2010 03:18 AM, Henrik Frisk wrote: >> If it stays good I will put up some instructions on my blog about the >> procedure to make it work. > > Even better, put your instructions on fedoraforum.org so that even more > fedora users will see

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/27/2010 02:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. > > I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the > site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing > and was running I noticed the processes wh

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Kevin Martin on 10/27/2010 03:30 PM wrote: > What are the permissions for /opt? Are you sure that the vpnagentd wasn't > installed as part of some rpm? No RPM was installed. I was not prompted by PackageKit or by any other tool for my root password. $ rpm -qa | grep -i cisco (no results) $ rpm

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 10/27/2010 03:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. > > I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the > site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing > and was running I noticed the processes

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Deepak Bhole wrote: > Such a thing should/would not be allowed. Applets run as normal users > and escalated privileges would imply a severe security violation in the > base os itself. I agree. > How did you install/run the applet? 1) I visited the web page I was pointed to to set up the VPN clie

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 09:02 -0600, Patrick Kobly kirjoitti: > On 10/27/2010 8:32 AM, Hiisi wrote: > > > > I saw it when I was trying to send message to@[192.168.3.30]. If > > I send mail to@192.168.3.30 there's no such error in mailog but > > message is returned by MAILER-DAEMON to root. > > Thanks

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 10/27/2010 09:07 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Michael Cronenworth [2010-10-27 16:00]: >> Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. >> >> I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the >> site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing >> a

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Michael Cronenworth [2010-10-27 16:00]: > Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. > > I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the > site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing > and was running I noticed the processes where run

Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing and was running I noticed the processes where running as root and had installed into /opt. I had not

How to tell which user is active (which display is up)?

2010-10-27 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Assume there are two or more people logged in to separate X sessions with "Switch User". If I ssh in to that box (as root), how can I tell which user is the active one? Put another way, is there any way to tell which display is currently being shown. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Va

Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-27 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/27/2010 12:25 PM, JD wrote: > On 10/27/2010 12:21 AM, D Wyatt wrote: >> In ~/.mplayer/config, vo=xv, ao=alsa, vf=eq2 > I have mplayer-1.0-0.117.20100703svn.fc13.i686 > and I have the seame settings in ~/.mplayer/config > and yet, mplayer does not show any of the slides > you mention. Are yo

Re: vlc install on F13 x86_64...backtrace...what just happened?

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/27/2010 09:03 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > Ouch! VLC appears to not like the latest glibc on F13 x86_64. > > > Kevin > Maybe it is that you were unaware you had a vlc instance running, and when you updated with the testing repo, you clobbered a running -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

type 1400 avc denial messages

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
Dear all! I would like one of the computers on a LAN to send some files to another computer on the same LAN using scp. Both computers can ping each other without any problems and I set up ssh using keys authentication to work without passwords. The task I'm talking about should be done in automatic

Re: USB support for VirtualBox

2010-10-27 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 27 October 2010 15:29, Robert Karge wrote: > I have been using Fedora off/on since F3.  I'm a heavy user of VirtualBox. > From F3 to F13 USB is not evident.  All suggestions from Fedora sources > don't work.  All other Linux Distros I have tried have automated access to > USB in VirtualBox. > >

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 22:20 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: <--SNIP--> > > When I tried to get my modem/router to email its logs to a computer in > my LAN, and went through similar problems. The router would try to use > the DNS servers it knew about (the ones the ISP sets up through DHCP), > and obviously

USB support for VirtualBox

2010-10-27 Thread Robert Karge
I have been using Fedora off/on since F3. I'm a heavy user of VirtualBox. >From F3 to F13 USB is not evident. All suggestions from Fedora sources don't work. All other Linux Distros I have tried have automated access to USB in VirtualBox. Please help me with an absolute method. Thanks -- user

Re: Can't change password by using usermin....

2010-10-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:19 +0800, Edward S.P. Leong wrote: > Our is Fedora 11 Linux... > > After download > (http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NI/NIKIP/Authen-PAM-0.16.tar.gz) > > And install the package as the following : > > tar xvzf Authen-PAM-0.16.tar.gz > > perl Makefile.PL > make

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:20 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > Now I'm able to telnet to 192.168.3.30 on port 25 and can leave a mail > for user on that machine. However it's still impossible to send mail > to @192.168.3.30 from router. The message is returned with error > (reason: 550 Host unknown). It's name

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 19:03 +0800, Ed Greshko kirjoitti: > > First, you haven't said what router you are using. While it sounds as > if you will have to set up a local name server to properly resolve the > hostname of 192.168.3.30 to its IP address you may want to consult the > router's documentat

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/27/2010 06:57 PM, Hiisi wrote: > Any other suggestions? First, you haven't said what router you are using. While it sounds as if you will have to set up a local name server to properly resolve the hostname of 192.168.3.30 to its IP address you may want to consult the router's documentation

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 05:10 -0500, Mike Chambers kirjoitti: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:57 +0400, Hiisi wrote: <--SNIP--> > That should be the only option you have to change in your sendmail.mc > file, as I do that as well and use the line like you did below... > > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MT

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 18:37 +0800, Ed Greshko kirjoitti: > On 10/27/2010 06:20 PM, Hiisi wrote: <--SNIP--> > > I have seen a router where if you wanted to use an IP address instead of > a hostname you had to format the email address as u...@[192.168.3.30] to > prevent the router from trying to do a

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/27/2010 06:20 PM, Hiisi wrote: > OK, thank you, guys. Now I'm able to telnet to 192.168.3.30 on port 25 > and can leave a mail for user on that machine. However it's still > impossible to send mail to @192.168.3.30 from router. The message > is returned with error (reason: 550 Host unknown).

Re: Phoronix test suite gui on Fedora just a step away...

2010-10-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: > I managed to get all components needed for Phoronix test suite > installed but still have one issue. I put an update on my blog with detailed explanation: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/phoronix-test-suite-with-gui-on

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2010-10-27 kello 20:07 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: > Tim: > >> Will that machine be accessible from outside your LAN? If so, you need <--SNIP--> > users with wide-open wireless LANs. > > The point about internal abuse/mal-use still stands, too. > OK, thank you, guys. Now I'm able to telnet to 192

Re: Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

2010-10-27 Thread Henrik Frisk
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Henrik Frisk wrote: >> Searching for the error I came across the nvidia README [1] which, >> under chapter 9 "Known Issues", in the section "Kernel virtual address >> space exhaustion on the X86 platform" desc

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:57 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > Thank you, guys! I understand now where's the problem. I tried the > following changes in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.3.30, Name=MTA')dnl > and > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Name=MTA')dnl > And restarted sendmail a

Re: Can palimpsest disk utility create LVM partition?

2010-10-27 Thread Tim
Tim: >> When you get there, I'd use a formatting option that does a proper bad >> block check, as well. It'll take ages, but it's better to find out that >> you've got a bad drive before you start using it. Robert Moskowitz: > Smart gives the drive a thumbs up. Often the hardware of such devices

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-27 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Will that machine be accessible from outside your LAN? If so, you need >> to take anti-spam steps. Ed Greshko: > Since the OP mentioned the IP address to be 192.168.3.30 I didn't see > the need to bring all that up. I did, because I've seen modem routers which /helpfully/ forward all inc

Re: mail client for usage in shell scripts, using the thunderbird configuration?

2010-10-27 Thread Joachim Backes
On 10/27/2010 09:11 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:59 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Question: Is there an email client, using the thunderbird >> configuration, >> but fully running inside a shell script (piping,...) without GUI? > > Not related to Thunderbird configuration, b

creating cgroup hierarchy

2010-10-27 Thread Simon Brandner
Hello, i tried to create sub-directories in a cgroups mount. I tried the following: # mkdir test # cd test # echo 0 > cpuset.mems # echo 0 > cpuset.cpus # cat memory.use_hierarchy 1 # mkdir subtest mkdir: cannot create directory `subtest': Invalid argument So it did not work. Several tutorials m

Re: Phoronix test suite gui on Fedora just a step away...

2010-10-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
> You need two packages that aren't in Fedora, php-gtk, but php-gtk also > has it's dependency - pecl-cairo php-gtk needs to be downloaded from svn because pacakged version is really old and doesn't work with php 5.3 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Phoronix test suite gui on Fedora just a step away...

2010-10-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
I managed to get all components needed for Phoronix test suite installed but still have one issue. # phoronix-test-suite gui shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory pwd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot

Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-27 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/27/2010 2:06 AM, JD wrote: > On 10/26/2010 11:53 PM, D Wyatt wrote: >> I'm setting up a 64-bit F13; mplayer is from rpmfusion. Box is >> a core2 duo multiboot. >> >> F12, 32-bit, is on another partition and mplayer works fine there. >> The F13 mplayer is configured identically to the one i

Re: mail client for usage in shell scripts, using the thunderbird configuration?

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/26/2010 11:59 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Question: Is there an email client, using the thunderbird configuration, > but fully running inside a shell script (piping,...) without GUI? > man mail -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: mail client for usage in shell scripts, using the thunderbird configuration?

2010-10-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:59 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Question: Is there an email client, using the thunderbird > configuration, > but fully running inside a shell script (piping,...) without GUI? Not related to Thunderbird configuration, but I use this to send emails from scripts and progra

Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-27 Thread JD
On 10/26/2010 11:53 PM, D Wyatt wrote: > I'm setting up a 64-bit F13; mplayer is from rpmfusion. Box is > a core2 duo multiboot. > > F12, 32-bit, is on another partition and mplayer works fine there. > The F13 mplayer is configured identically to the one in F12, but > in F13 the audio slides won

mail client for usage in shell scripts, using the thunderbird configuration?

2010-10-27 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, normally, I use thunderbird for email purposes. Now, I need a cli interface for usage inside of shell scripts (for sending emails). I know that I can use mutt, but then I need to configure it. Brr! Question: Is there an email client, using the thunderbird configuration, but fully running