Re: help setting umask corrently

On 15Mar2011 16:54, Gregory Machin wrote: | found the info I needed to get it correct | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask "man 1 umask" should get you info also. You may need to follow up with "man 2 umask" and/or "man 3 umask". |0 – read, write and execute |1 – read and write |2 –

Re: help setting umask corrently

On Monday, March 14, 2011 11:00:10 PM Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > > so I ended up with umask 003 > > Just to make sure you want it, this means everyone can read everyone > else's data. > > It's equal to 774. > > -c the default is 022 with what

[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

I thought you guys might get a chuckle from this, My wife just got a shiny new HP laptop with Windows 7 installed. She has never used Windows before, having mainly used Gnome on Fedora boxes. After a week of struggling, she just asked me to wipe Windows and install Fedora so she can get some wo

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 03/14/2011 06:46 PM, Clive Hills wrote: > Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Why not? Just because it's not fedora-specific doesn't mean we can't give the OP a pointer in the right direction. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

F-14 Daylight Savings Time - Fail

My F-11 and F-13 (XFCE) boxes did the DST switch, but my F-14 / KDE box didn't. Then the KDE control thingy wouldn't let me reset the time ("you don't have permission"). Finally did "sudo date -s", but I wonder what caused this failure. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: help setting umask corrently

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > > so I ended up with umask 003 Just to make sure you want it, this means everyone can read everyone else's data. It's equal to 774. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: help setting umask corrently

Hi. found the info I needed to get it correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask 0 – read, write and execute 1 – read and write 2 – read and execute 3 – read only 4 – write and execute 5 – write only 6 – execute only 7 – no permissions so I ended up with umask 003 Thank

Re: help setting umask corrently

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > Hi. > > I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc > > umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r > A umask is back-to-front, so don't you want something like this in /etc/skel/bash.profile umask 077 That means, the user has full rwx, everyo

Re: help setting umask corrently

Once upon a time, Gregory Machin said: > I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc > > umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r > > The problem with this is that at logon it echo's "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r" > out. You are telling umask to print the value with the "-S". Take it out. I will say that i

Re: rpm with biblatex.sty?

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Btw, installing the rpms from the 2010 test repo messes up pdfjam. Which > maintainer should be informed for this? jnovy? Yes I believe so. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 03/14/2011 09:46 PM, Clive Hills wrote: Uhuh Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Clive users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

help setting umask corrently

Hi. I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r The problem with this is that at logon it echo's "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r" out. This breaks things like scp . What is the correct umask . I have read a number of doc's on this and still can't seem to get it correct.

Re: automatic menus for window managers

Uhuh Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Clive > > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users ma

Re: problem with nfs ls latency during high IO

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, but async looks to me a little "dangerous" don't you think? Regarding the kernel, I've seen that the new update in fedora's kernel will not change to the stable one. What do you suggest? Shall I compile the new kernel? I have to put this server on production

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On 03/14/2011 02:56 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Only: it dropped to a rediculously small resolution. Have you tried running nvidia-settings instead of the Fedora display settings tool? That is how I generally set my resolution... -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On 03/14/2011 02:56 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Only: it dropped to a rediculously small resolution. Search the forum for answers; you're not the first person this has happened to. If that doesn't help, consider joining the forum and asking there. I've found the two venues quite complement

Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

not android! Debian, Fedora, or anything (natively = not in chroot) I'm not sure, but the Nokia N900 can run Debian http://openattitude.com/2010/03/19/easy-and-amazing-debian-for-the-n900/ I just need Linux because i need: - iptables/netfilter - an openvpn client - a good browser (google

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/14/2011 01:38 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>    I installed fedoraplus, but can't find the option that installs >> kmod-nvidia. Which is it? Thanks! > > Has Dangermouse removed that?  I hadn't known.  In that case, go here > a

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On 03/14/2011 01:38 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >I installed fedoraplus, but can't find the option that installs > kmod-nvidia. Which is it? Thanks! Has Dangermouse removed that? I hadn't known. In that case, go here and follow the appropriate instructions: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/14/2011 11:13 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>    I erased the only package that had "nouveau" in its name, which was >> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.i686, and rebooted, and the NVIDIA installer >> still complains that Nouveau is used b

Re: [389-users] Manage Certificates button item (slightly different)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:10:19AM -0500, Christopher Wood wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:01:52AM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote: > > On 02/10/2011 08:57 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:42:45AM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote: > > >>On 02/10/2011 08:23 AM, Christopher Wood

Re: rpm with biblatex.sty?

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:28:17 -0600 suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Ranjan, > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a package containing biblatex.sty on any > > of the unofficial repos for F14? > > > > Thanks very much for your help! > > Maybe you can t

[389-users] Server Side Sort, Virtual List View and Aci

Hi, when searching ds using ServerSideSearch control and VirtualListView control it does not seem to take into account the configured ACIs when returning the contentCount field of the VirtualListView response control. The contentCount field of the VLV response control it will be set to the tota

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>>     Hello, >>> >>>  Since this morning, X Windows on F14 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop >>> won't start

Re: Thunderbird Misbehaviour f14

On 03/14/2011 09:05 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > On 03/09/2011 06:26 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> >>> I've just taken the plunge with a f14 upgrade. Almost everything seems >>> sensible. One >>> rather annoying oddity is the behaviour of thunderbird with links in >>> emails. It >>> detects t

Re: problem with nfs ls latency during high IO

Judith Flo Gaya wrote: > Can you help me on this? am I wrong in my supposition (is the patch > really applied)? is it possible that my problem is somewhere else? > The patch looks to be backported (per BZ comment). Meaning: It's already upstream. The latest stable kernel (2.6.37) seems to have th

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On 03/14/2011 11:13 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >I erased the only package that had "nouveau" in its name, which was > xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.i686, and rebooted, and the NVIDIA installer > still complains that Nouveau is used by my system. Is this possible? > Thanks! Go to http://www.dnmouse.o

Re: rebuild kernel add syscall

On 03/14/2011 03:21 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > As a general rule, using static parameters in kernel space is considered > hazardous; nevertheless, a 128 bytes is relatively safe. Just make sure that you never write more than 128 bytes (including termination) into it. -- users mailing list users@

problem with nfs ls latency during high IO

Hello, I hope this is the list to write to, if it's not, please let me know. Here is the problem: I was told some days ago that my problem with my NFS system is related to this bug, as the problem that I'm experiencing is quite similar. The bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46984

OT: Re: rebuild kernel add syscall

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 21:24 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: > May be it can't be implement. > I mean . I create a file with a big size . > Then i write a super block struct ( I define it like the linux) > Then Inode table. > Then DateBlocks. > > I reimplement some syscall on it . > I j

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>     Hello, >> >>  Since this morning, X Windows on F14 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop >> won't start up. It may or may not be since the first reboot after the >> latest upd

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

On 14 March 2011 16:11, fedora wrote: > HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is part of udev. You find its config > files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ I'm not sure any of that statement is correct, sorry. Richard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM, fedora wrote: > HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is part of udev. You find its config > files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ > The corresponding HAL config file is /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hal.rules and > here (Fedora 13) looks like > > [myuser@myws /etc/udev/rule

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, Some one suggested to install the NVIDIA driver. The installer requires to disable Nouveau first. How can I disable Nouveau? Thanks! Take care Oliver On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >     Hello, > >  Since this morning, X Windows on F14 on my D

Re: [389-users] Changelog Modification

Thanks Rich. So to modify an existing replication agreement and add some attribute exclusions, could I do something like the following: create the .ldif below and add it each supplier agreement using ldapmodify? dn: cn="Replication to p-ldap-isvr02.example.com",cn=replica,cn="dc=example,dc=com",

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 03/14/2011 10:12 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > The Debian menu utility is still available in the current repositories for > Debian 6 Stable, which was just released a few weeks ago. No mention of > deprecation that I noticed. Not officially but there are a few references here and there http

Re: automatic menus for window managers

--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium > wrote: > > I am currently using a full desktop environment > (Gnome) but am > > considering using instead a window manager. There are > dozens of them > > around, so I have been exploring and comparing. > > > > I notic

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is part of udev. You find its config files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ The corresponding HAL config file is /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hal.rules and here (Fedora 13) looks like [myuser@myws /etc/udev/rules.d]$ cat 90-hal.rules # pass all events to the HAL daemon RUN+="socket

[OT] Problems with Adobe Flash Player

There are a number of web sites, such as Speakeasy Speed Test (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/) that does not work with the latest Adobe Flashplayer 10 Square: flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz But it does run fine under some older versions of flashplayer 10: libflashplayer-10.0.45.

Re: rebuild kernel add syscall

2011/3/14 Gilboa Davara : > On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 21:51 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: >> It is a homework . Use a kernel spcae as a char decieve >> Which can offer open write and so on. >> >> I just use a char buffer[128] in kernel space. >> > > As a general rule, using static parameters in kernel

Re: Fedora/KDE contact lists - looking for advice:

Genes MailLists wrote: >> But this must be an issue that many people have faced. >> How do you all keep your contacts available on different machines? > One way is to use gmail contacts - they sync with phone (android is > builtin and iphone works i believe) and with thunderbird on fedora using

Re: Fedora/KDE contact lists - looking for advice:

Craig White wrote: > Also, you don't actually 'import' an LDAP address book on each local > computer because that would defeat its purpose, you would simply set up > KAddressBook (i.e. Kontact) to use the LDAP just like it were a local > database which would allow you to have read/write permission

Re: Thunderbird Misbehaviour f14

On 03/09/2011 06:26 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >> I've just taken the plunge with a f14 upgrade. Almost everything seems >> sensible. One >> rather annoying oddity is the behaviour of thunderbird with links in emails. >> It >> detects that they are links (by colouring them and the cursor c

X won't start - segmentations fault

Hello, Since this morning, X Windows on F14 on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop won't start up. It may or may not be since the first reboot after the latest updates during Sunday. It says "Segmentation fault at address 0x3f" I don't know whether it plays a role here, but in the log file,

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 14 March 2011 11:13, Piscium wrote: > Thanks for the information (also to Tim). Yes, I managed to easily > create a menu in Fluxbox with  fluxbox-xdg-menu. Open box seems to > have a similar script though I have not tested it. I could not yet > find something similar for awesome. Looks like t

Re: PXE instillation of Fedora

On 03/13/2011 09:48 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 03/13/2011 08:41 PM, Digimer wrote: >> I wrote this a little while back, maybe it will help you? > > You should rewrite that and use cobbler instead of manually setting up > tftp and pxelinux. It is much easier to maintain. I like to cover

Re: PXE instillation of Fedora

On 03/14/2011 07:36 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: > On 14 March 2011 01:41, Digimer > wrote: > > On 03/13/2011 09:36 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > > Since these HP ProLiant DL150's dont have CD's, I need to do a PXE > > instillation from another Fedora box. > > > >

Re: PXE instillation of Fedora

On 14 March 2011 01:41, Digimer wrote: > On 03/13/2011 09:36 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > > Since these HP ProLiant DL150's dont have CD's, I need to do a PXE > > instillation from another Fedora box. > > > > Does anyone have a link to proper instructions on how to do this. I have > > looked at quite

Re: PXE instillation of Fedora

On 14 March 2011 01:47, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 03/13/2011 09:36 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > > Since these HP ProLiant DL150's dont have CD's, I need to do a PXE > > instillation from another Fedora box. > > > > Does anyone have a link to proper instructions on how to do this. I have > > looked at

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 14 March 2011 07:24, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Debian's  menu system dates back to the time when there was no > freedesktop.org xdg menu specification and my understanding is that, the > Debian menu system is considered deprecated.   Window managers in Fedora > usually  have utilities to generat

Re: rebuild kernel add syscall

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 21:51 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: > It is a homework . Use a kernel spcae as a char decieve > Which can offer open write and so on. > > I just use a char buffer[128] in kernel space. > As a general rule, using static parameters in kernel space is considered hazardous; nev

Re: automatic menus for window managers

On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium wrote: > I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am > considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them > around, so I have been exploring and comparing. > > I noticed that for many of the window managers that I install in > Deb