Easy PPTP Setup?

2011-01-03 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I am looking for a way to set up PPTP on F14. I did it long time ago on a different machine back in F6 and it has been working all the way to F14. The tool there opens a dialog box. Unfortunately, I have no access to that other machine right now. The only information I have is the

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Alex wrote: >> As for LVM it sits on top of all the physical volumes(that the kernel >> sees, /dev/sdX or in short the whatever you can list with fdisk -l). >> So the decision to use LVM is solely dependent on how flexible you >> want your disk partitioning setup to

fedora13 - mouse IBeam change

2011-01-03 Thread bruce
Hi. down vote favorite hi. sorry to have to ask such a basic question!! i've got fedora 13, trying to figure out how to change the "I Beam" pointer. earlier, i had a "thin" "I Beam" pointer in my gedit/term windows. now, I have a "thicker/shadow" kind of "I Beam" pointer when i move th

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/04/2011 02:34 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install FC14 x86_64 on a quad-core AMD box with 4 1TB > SATA disks, and have some questions about partitioning. > > I'd like to create a RAID5 array with no spares, using all four disks. > T

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 19:44 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > The problem that I see is that any system to which I have ever made a > connection now has a nice, routable IPv6 address back to the machine > that made the connection and can start probing that machine to see if > any vulnerable services m

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 21:46 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:31:37PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > The IPv6 firewalls on Linux are just as good as the IPv4 firewalls. I > > didn't start participating in IPv6 until I had decent firewalls. But > > that was 10 years ago

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:31:37PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > The IPv6 firewalls on Linux are just as good as the IPv4 firewalls. I > didn't start participating in IPv6 until I had decent firewalls. But > that was 10 years ago now at this point. That's old old news. That's not my conce

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
I have the Compiz and the Emerald Theme (and Ciaro dock) and my OpenOffice is now working fine (since I deleted that tmp file). William - Original Message - On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Aaron Konstam < akons...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: I am not sure what you are doing but I am

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 19:44 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on > > different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security. > > As a leading security researcher, let

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Maybe I explained myself incorrectly. I'm interested in a hardware >> RAID controller, but would like to use software RAID5, and wondered if >> it was necessary (or beneficial) to use LVM in conjunction with it? > > I am not sure what you mean by this statement. What is the point of > havin

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on > different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security. > As a leading security researcher, let me impress upon you that nothing > could be further from the truth

Advanced Format Hard Drives and Linux?

2011-01-03 Thread KC8LDO
I'm going to be screwing a new system together in the next few days. I got a Hitachi Deskstar HDS721010CLA332 1TB drive for main storage. My question is will Fedora, any particular version, install OK on one of these drives without doing anything special, the so-called 4K alignment, I've read ab

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:09 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed > > effort to extend the life of IPv4. > Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs b

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/03/2011 06:09 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed >> effort to extend the life of IPv4. > > Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs be exposed to

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Alex wrote: >> If you're looking for a way to have a 3TB RAID5 PV array at power on, I >> think the only way to do it is with a hardware RAID controller, such as > > Maybe I explained myself incorrectly. I'm interested in a hardware > RAID controller, but would like

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed > effort to extend the life of IPv4. Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs be exposed to the Internet? That's what I think I'm reading.

Error - Running Acroread

2011-01-03 Thread Jim
F14 , fresh install $ acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: DNS not working in Fedora 14

2011-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Dick Holland wrote: > > OK, here are the results of the tests Tom proposed: > > dig @8.8.8.8 -t google.com > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40250 > ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > dig @8.8.8.8 -t i

Re: ssh by user amandabackup

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2011 11:43 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 10:09 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Le 02/01/2011 02:14, Matthew Saltzman a crit : I'm trying to set up amanda using the amaddclient command. That requires that user a

Re: Help. Motherboard changed. Everything is fine except eth0.

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/29/2010 10:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:32:57 -0200 > Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > >> I found out that was also necessary to >> change the eth0 "MAC" using system-config-network. > > Could be, especially if you are us

Re: Problem with IPSEC transport

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:30 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > I want to establish an IPSEC tunnel between a fedora box and a NETASQ > router. > The router doesn't support AH transport, just ESP. Yeah, you don't want to use AH anyways. All that gives you is the authentication header (AH) and n

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 13:34 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install FC14 x86_64 on a quad-core AMD box with 4 1TB > SATA disks, and have some questions about partitioning. > > I'd like to create a RAID5 array with no spares, using all four disks. > There isn't room in the chassis for

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Kirk Lowery
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I am not sure what you are doing but I am running compiz and Open office > components open for me. > Hmmm. Since that's the case, then it's not compiz per se that's the issue, then. I wonder if it's the Emerald theme or one of the compiz pl

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:00 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/03/2011 01:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > On 01/02/2011 04:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > >> (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforw

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:15 -0500, William Henry wrote: > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not > crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the > Christmas break. > > William > > > _

Re: Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

2011-01-03 Thread James Mckenzie
Ted Roche wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Beartooth wrote: >>        If I can find an old one, I'll try copying it in; but I doubt >> that'll work ... >> > >If you execute Xorg :0 -configure as root, it will write out an xorg.conf. > >man Xorg for more details. > >You would need to stop

Re: Installed F13 from DVD - Won't Boot

2011-01-03 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >  I installed F13 from DVD on a PC with two SCSI hard disks. The F13 > partitions (e.g. /boot) seem to be there and look OK, but the BIOS > says there is no operating system. Also, if I try rescue mode from the > DVD and say "

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 21:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/02/2011 08:54 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > >> Probably the simplest approach is to use a router appliance that groks > >> IPv6 for the WAN, and IPv4 for the LAN. On a Linux system, if you want > >> it to be your firewall--and a

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, >> I'd like to create a RAID5 array with no spares, using all four disks. >> There isn't room in the chassis for more disks, and they will never be >> replaced with larger ones. Should I even worry about LVM? ... > If you're looking for a way to have a 3TB RAID5 PV array at power on, I > think

Re: FC14 module-init-tools fatal error

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Further testing... I do not get an error if I mount the DVD iso and install from it. So I tried renaming the 'bad' file and moving a new copy into the repo tree and still got the error. So I wonder if the problem is in the repodata xml and what file might be corrupted that I have to recopy? On

Re: Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

2011-01-03 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Beartooth wrote: >        If I can find an old one, I'll try copying it in; but I doubt > that'll work ... > If you execute Xorg :0 -configure as root, it will write out an xorg.conf. man Xorg for more details. You would need to stop X before you issue that comma

Re: firefox not working with net connection through wireless modem

2011-01-03 Thread JB
wipro.com> writes: > ... Check: - add-ons (Tools - Add-ons - Extensions) - Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Network - Connection / Settings - Proxy) JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 13:34 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install FC14 x86_64 on a quad-core AMD box with 4 1TB > SATA disks, and have some questions about partitioning. > > I'd like to create a RAID5 array with no spares, using all four disks. > There isn't room in the chassis for m

Re: Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

2011-01-03 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:48:36 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: [] > Well not by default anyway... I figured if the LiveCD worked then you > must have one present since they have basically the same software and > versions (other than updates). No such luck. If I can find an ol

Re: Viewing apple.com trailers

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, > It's just gecko-mediaplayer. The file contains both the player and the > plugin. > > Also, you should uninstall Totem completely, since gecko-mediaplayer does > everything it does and does it better. I've never had good results with Okay, I've done that, and the good news is that apple.co

Re: CHROOT for SSH

2011-01-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:33:14 +0100 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I gave an SSH access to my server to somebody. But I want (and only > for him) "chroot" him to its home. > > What is the easiest way to do this ? man sshd_config and look at 'ChrootDirectory' and 'Match'. You should be able to

Re: CHROOT for SSH

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:33 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I gave an SSH access to my server to somebody. But I want (and only for > him) "chroot" him to its home. > > What is the easiest way to do this ? As a simpler-to-configure alternative, depending on your use case, a restricted shell

Installed F13 from DVD - Won't Boot

2011-01-03 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I installed F13 from DVD on a PC with two SCSI hard disks. The F13 partitions (e.g. /boot) seem to be there and look OK, but the BIOS says there is no operating system. Also, if I try rescue mode from the DVD and say "boot from local drive", it simply hangs. Any idea? Thanks! T

Re: Viewing apple.com trailers

2011-01-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Alex wrote: > >> Here is an example: > >> > >> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/truegrit/ > >> > >> Perhaps there's a firefox plugin, or you know how > to get something > >> like VLC to play them from the URL? > > > > Do you have all the required codecs? I use the

Partitioning questions

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to install FC14 x86_64 on a quad-core AMD box with 4 1TB SATA disks, and have some questions about partitioning. I'd like to create a RAID5 array with no spares, using all four disks. There isn't room in the chassis for more disks, and they will never be replaced with larger ones.

Re: svn with dyndns

2011-01-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 January 2011 18:00, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > I'm not going through > apache to try and make life easier. > All requests in via tcp:3690 are routed to the server. > I've set things up using the instructions at > http://queens.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/linux/subversion-howto/ (option 2) > > If I

svn with dyndns

2011-01-03 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Has anyone using f14 managed to use dyndns to provide the IP name with their own svn server? I've got things set up here for svn, but when I try to connect via dyndns, it comes back with no route to host. I'm not going through apache to try and make life easier. All requests in via tcp:3690

Re: CHROOT for SSH

2011-01-03 Thread Mauriat Miranda
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I gave an SSH access to my server to somebody. But I want (and only for > him) "chroot" him to its home. > > What is the easiest way to do this ? > > BR I would recommend something like jailkit http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/ -- M

CHROOT for SSH

2011-01-03 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I gave an SSH access to my server to somebody. But I want (and only for him) "chroot" him to its home. What is the easiest way to do this ? BR -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Benjamin
I also recognized problems with compiz. When i try to watch flash videos via streaming in firefox, then the picture doesn´t move, when i toggle full screen. But still the videos is running, cause i can hear the sound. Whenn i switch back to normal screen, the picture begins to move again and ev

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
Hi Harish, Yes this worked thanks! William - Original Message - > William - > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry > wrote: > > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not > > crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the > > Chri

Re: Fedora 14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:54:55 +0700, wrote: > You trimmed out the solution to your problem from my reply :). I'll > quote it again, My sincere apologies for this... I overlooked it. Thanks for the wiki links. I'm going to work with this. -- Greetz, Roelof Kusters aka Ben The internet isn't

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Harish Pillay
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Kirk Lowery wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Harish Pillay > wrote: >> >> William - >> >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry wrote: >> > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not >> > crashing but my OO won't launch

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Kirk Lowery
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Harish Pillay wrote: > William - > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry wrote: > > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not > > crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the Christmas > > break. > > I've ha

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread Harish Pillay
William - On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry wrote: > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not > crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the Christmas > break. I've had a similar issue. I've filed in BZ - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sho

Re: OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

2011-01-03 Thread William Henry
My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the Christmas break. William - Original Message - The subject line pretty well summarizes it. I've got a vanilla Fedora 14 box, with the default theme and

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/03/2011 01:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 01/02/2011 04:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change >> (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? >> > > At the moment I use radvd and update

Re: skype on fedora 14 x86_64

2011-01-03 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 01/02/2011 09:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2011 18:15:31 Johan Scheepers wrote: >> On 01/02/2011 05:40 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: Now I would like to get a webcam going. Did some google but it seem that this is still in diapers?? I do hav

Re: skype on fedora 14 x86_64

2011-01-03 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 01/03/2011 03:04 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Johan, It works Plug and play, with Vx-1000, Vx-3000, and Vx-6000. All them from M$. Have a look at This Place. Bye, Lucélio. Thanks Luc

FC14 module-init-tools fatal error

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am installing FC14 on a system that has 503Mb of memory, so I am doing the install via a ks file. I did a text only install previously to get the basis for building the ks file and one person here sent me his anaconda-ks file for guidance on what to add. So the file module-init-tools-3.11.1-

Re: Viewing apple.com trailers

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, > If you just want to download it I found a little bash script[1] on the > web that does the trick quite nicely. > > [1] http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/download-apple-trailer-fix/ Ah, that's awesome, thanks. Best, Alex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Viewing apple.com trailers

2011-01-03 Thread Alex
Hi, >> An rpm search for gecko only displays gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-1.fc13.x86_64. >> >> Other ideas greatly appreciated. > > They are from rpmfusion since it uses mplayer as the backend. :) Hmm.. I have rpmfusion, though: rpmfusion-free rpmfusion-free-debuginfo rpmfusion-free-updates rpmfusion

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:55:03AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > I hate to spoil your fun, but I have my internal network receiving IPv6 > addresses. I wouldn't have it any other way. :) *Shrug*. Strokes. As long as you're not flooding the Internet with your internal IP addresses, good on

Re: F14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I > happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no > experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop > live-cd misses some ba

Re: mainstream kernel code contain RT3090 support; why Fedora not include it?

2011-01-03 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 04:08:14PM -0200, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > > Know anyone why Fedora not contain drivers for Ralink RT3090/RT3091/RT3092 > > PCI/PCIe and USB wireless adapters? > > > > It seems as these are supported in mainstr

Re: VirtualBox addons problem

2011-01-03 Thread Vincent Li
On 01/03/2011 08:20 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > I have installed the kernel-dev package > > > > > Le 04/01/11 01:34, Vincent Li a écrit : >> On 01/03/2011 06:23 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I try to install the VirtualBox addons on a Fedora 14 image. >>> >>> The error message is : KERN-DIR d

Re: VirtualBox addons problem

2011-01-03 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
I have installed the kernel-dev package Le 04/01/11 01:34, Vincent Li a écrit : > On 01/03/2011 06:23 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I try to install the VirtualBox addons on a Fedora 14 image. >> >> The error message is : KERN-DIR does not point to a directory. >> >> But I have setup it t

Re: skype on fedora 14 x86_64

2011-01-03 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Johan, It works Plug and play, with Vx-1000, Vx-3000, and Vx-6000. All them from M$. Have a look at This Place. Bye, Lucélio. - -- Lucélio Gomes de Freitas ETFCSF-> U.G.F.-> P.U.C.(RJ) Engº, An

Re: Configuration of HP L2045 monitor

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On 01/01/2011 07:10 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 18:52:30 +, >Chris Jones wrote: >> Thanks for that. I have included the last section of the log here:- >> [109697.603] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DIN >> [109697.617] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-1 >> [1099

Re: VirtualBox addons problem

2011-01-03 Thread Vincent Li
On 01/03/2011 06:23 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I try to install the VirtualBox addons on a Fedora 14 image. > > The error message is : KERN-DIR does not point to a directory. > > But I have setup it to the path to my current kernel. > > What's wrong ? > > BR It seems you should install the ke

VirtualBox addons problem

2011-01-03 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I try to install the VirtualBox addons on a Fedora 14 image. The error message is : KERN-DIR does not point to a directory. But I have setup it to the path to my current kernel. What's wrong ? BR -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: xmms only playing mp3 as root

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 12:45 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Started on linux in 1998 with redhat 5 box set. The book in the box > "running linux by O'Reilly". Read it from cover to cover and found it > still valid today. Later mandrake, suse, ubuntu. So I *know* the > dangers of "root". But st

Re: USB Device info from terminal

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 21:43 +, James Kerr wrote: > This may be what you want: > > Open a terminal, become root and enter: > > tail -f /var/log/messages > > You can end the display by pushing Ctrl+c. Typing "dmesg" into the terminal, may also provide useful information. -- [...@localho

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 03:46 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > if i go to > https://www.facebook.com/ > > that's ok, it's https. > But all the links are "http" on the site.. > if i click on a "http" link, it will request the page on "http", and > THEN it switches to "https". Heres the problem. > > How

Re: microsoft.com -> NetBSD

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just that I don't click on random URLs without at least a minimum > explanation of what they're supposed to be about. I had a sacrificial lamb to try that link with. Here's what's on the page: "NetBSD for eMIPS "This download contains the ISO CD image for installin

Re: ergonomic typing enforcement

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 22:06 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Btw, why is it considered bad practice to type both the letter and the > modifier with the same hand? I do it on a regular basis (my little > fingers being very near the shift modifiers most of the time...), and > am not aware of any funct

Re: DNS not working in Fedora 14

2011-01-03 Thread Dick Holland
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:20 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Dick Holland wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 07:10 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dick Holland wrote: > >> > >> > Sending "dig -t google.com" to my local DNS server: > >> > > >> > So

Re: DNS not working in Fedora 14

2011-01-03 Thread Dick Holland
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:20 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Dick Holland wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 07:10 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dick Holland wrote: > >> > >> > Sending "dig -t google.com" to my local DNS server: > >> > > >> > So

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 20:30 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > Its only the green drives that have problems. Which brings the question: Are any off-the-shelf drive-in-a-box not "green drives"? I haven't seen one, yet. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE Don't send private

Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-01-03 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13 and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated. I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this from any email in KMail: No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD? and

Problem with IPSEC transport

2011-01-03 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I want to establish an IPSEC tunnel between a fedora box and a NETASQ router. The router doesn't support AH transport, just ESP. So I try to disable it by setting : AH_PROTO=none in the ifcfg-ipsec0 file. but it doesn't work ! In the log file, I can see : pfkey GETSPI succeeded: AH/T

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 17:40 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: >How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to > manage ? The simple answer is *DNS*. I don't email or web browse to numerical IP addresses. No

Re: F14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread Vincent Li
On 01/03/2011 04:05 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: >From savayu ali: >> I think the others understood that, what they were asking was why is >> the live CD not sufficient for your purposes since after the install >> is done, you can choose to install whatever other packages you need. > I live

Re: F14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
From savayu ali: > I think the others understood that, what they were asking was why is > the live CD not sufficient for your purposes since after the install > is done, you can choose to install whatever other packages you need. I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare.

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 14:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: >> $ ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print length}') )); echo >> "$a $ASDF"$(for i in {1..$a}; do printf "."; done) >> 65 hello. >> $ >> Why doesn't it print: >> 65 hello

Re: F14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 14:56:03 +0700, > I am aware of that, and such is not my goal. My goal is to get a DVD - > like > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso > > - but then specifically for the Design Spin. Is there such a

Re: F14 Design Spin

2011-01-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > I am aware of that, and such is not my goal. My goal is to get a DVD - > like > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso > - but then specifically for the Design Spin. Is