DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then I rebooted back to Gnome. Wired networking seemed to no longer work. Actually, networking worked but no domain na

Re: Custom init scripts and systemd

2011-09-12 Thread Jan Willies
2011/9/13 Alex Thomas > Hello I use an older Thinkpad R32 as my primary linux machine. I use it > primarily for web / email / chat while working or gaming on main machine. > Since it did not come with an internal wifi card, I have to use the pc card > port. This has always been interesting becau

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-12 Thread Javier Perez
Here is the result of df. As you can see, the mount points are right where one would expect them to be. Therefore I am confused about why these "mount points" appear on /mnt (/mnt/home, /mnt/var and /mnt/boot ) [root@pepewin ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-12 Thread Javier Perez
No, 4:30 AM was right :) JP On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 09/11/2011 11:38 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 boot > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 home > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 var > > All of th

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 13/09/11 01:25, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware > simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've > connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP > addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts. Somet

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Something that used to be > simple -- i.e. open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts & -- > doesn't work and instead delivers error messages that make no sense to > me, let alone give me anything to work with. > Have you tried + F

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 10:47 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > nearly unusable editors like vi or nano and the like. I, OTOH, find nano exceptionally easy to use because the most common commands are listed at the bottom of the screen, including ^G to get the rest of them. Of course, I go back to when the CLI w

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Peter Gueckel
Gerhard Magnus wrote: > open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts & -- I haven't tried all of that, but I use sudo kwrite /etc/somefile all the time when I want to do some configuration. There are a lot of messages about connecting to deprecated signal, application may misbehave, but a

Custom init scripts and systemd

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Thomas
Hello I use an older Thinkpad R32 as my primary linux machine. I use it primarily for web / email / chat while working or gaming on main machine. Since it did not come with an internal wifi card, I have to use the pc card port. This has always been interesting because if I did not have an explicit

SL6 epel garmin 18 lvc serial port pps kernel trace

2011-09-12 Thread Skunk Worx
Hi everyone, I have two Mini-ITX Intel mobos I am using as ntpd time servers with a Garmin LVC 18 serial port GPS that provides a PPS input. I've had good luck with this unit and gpsd in the past, but I get a kernel call trace if I run "setserial" then the "shmpps" daemon. Here is the info --

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On 09/12/2011 04:30 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing >> everything as close to the top of the page as possible. Everything else >> on the page looks normal. The docum

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Linus Ulrick
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On 09/12/2011 04:30 PM, Kam Leo wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Steven P. Ulrick >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hello Everyone, >>>     Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing >>> everything as close to the top of the p

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 05:32 PM, Elliott Chapin wrote: > vi should do it - elementary use is actually easy. Other editors are > blocked in many environments. Or, for those of us who neither know nor want to learn its arcane, obfuscated syntax, you can use nano. All you need to know is that, as used to b

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On 09/12/2011 04:30 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing >> everything as close to the top of the page as possible. Everything else >> on the page looks normal. The docum

Re: Xephyr nested X-server seems to ignore backing store option

2011-09-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/2011 05:00 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote: > I have been trying to use Xephyr for running an old legacy > application that doesn't function properly at color depths greater > than 8 bit. I have been exploring this as a possible alternative to > runnin

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Elliott Chapin
On 09/12/2011 08:25 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware > simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've > connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP > addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts.

running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Gerhard Magnus
As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts. Something that used to be simple -- i.e. open Konsole,

Re: /USR/SBIN/CROND

2011-09-12 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > If you feel the output is incorrect or could be improved, please file a > bug on cronie? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=15&component=cronie > > kevin Thanks, Kevin, i will do it. Franta -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: /USR/SBIN/CROND

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
If you feel the output is incorrect or could be improved, please file a bug on cronie? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=15&component=cronie kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Re: /USR/SBIN/CROND

2011-09-12 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Larry Brower wrote: > On 09/12/2011 05:55 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> CROND in Fedora 14- distros are OK, crond childs are running with >> this name. But, what shit are F15 crond records (usually directed to >> "/var/log/cron") aka: >> >> Sep 13 00:30:01 x /USR/SBIN/CROND[11095]: (root) CMD (/u

Re: /USR/SBIN/CROND

2011-09-12 Thread Larry Brower
On 09/12/2011 05:55 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > CROND in Fedora 14- distros are OK, crond childs are running with > this name. But, what shit are F15 crond records (usually directed to > "/var/log/cron") aka: > > Sep 13 00:30:01 x /USR/SBIN/CROND[11095]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/... > > I hope t

/USR/SBIN/CROND

2011-09-12 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
CROND in Fedora 14- distros are OK, crond childs are running with this name. But, what shit are F15 crond records (usually directed to "/var/log/cron") aka: Sep 13 00:30:01 x /USR/SBIN/CROND[11095]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/... I hope that isn't next step nearer to ass of some case-insensitive OSes

Scroller

2011-09-12 Thread Lawrence E Graves
Is there a scroller to install in themes application window? -- Lawrence E Graves (lgra...@risingstarmbc.com) All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 & 6 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Xephyr nested X-server seems to ignore backing store option

2011-09-12 Thread Doug Kuvaas
I have been trying to use Xephyr for running an old legacy application that doesn't function properly at color depths greater than 8 bit. I have been exploring this as a possible alternative to running X in 8-bit color mode, primarily because X does not seem to work properly in 8 bit color mode an

Re: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/12/2011 02:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 09/10/2011 01:55 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote: >> I just bought a Brother laser all-in-one (MFC-7860DW) after determining >> that it should work fine with Linux. It does wired/wireless and I have >> it connected to my network via wireless. > >

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello Everyone, >     Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing > everything as close to the top of the page as possible.  Everything else > on the page looks normal.  The documents that I have been using to test > this iss

Re: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2011 01:55 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I just bought a Brother laser all-in-one (MFC-7860DW) after determining > that it should work fine with Linux. It does wired/wireless and I have > it connected to my network via wireless. > > A mac an

HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing everything as close to the top of the page as possible. Everything else on the page looks normal. The documents that I have been using to test this issue with have .79" margins all around. This is a new issue f

Theme space

2011-09-12 Thread Lawrence E Graves
Is there a way to scroll in while the theme selecting mode. Is there a limit to the number gnome-shell themes that will display on the screen. (Window-Application-Theme) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Thunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/09/11 15:24, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/13/2011 01:47 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> For example, I dropped the "t" in printing this morning >> "prining" and it offered me the following list: >> >> preening >> pruning >> priming >>

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-12 Thread g
On 09/12/2011 06:45 PM, james tate wrote: > F15 > > I'am going to install F15 on a friends old 13 yr. old Compaq box. > > I guess to get into the BIOS , click on Del key ? > Does anyone know how to Boot off a CDrom, do you have to click on a "F" > key or go into the BIOS to Setup ? in addition

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/13/2011 01:47 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > For example, I dropped the "t" in printing this morning > "prining" and it offered me the following list: > > preening > pruning > priming > pining > printing > > > If

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread g
On 09/12/2011 05:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/09/11 13:04, g wrote: <> >> one wants normal words, other wants u.s. english. neither tells v/r. >> >> using "version 2.0.0.24 (20110906)", when i; >> >>"edit> preferences> composition> spelling" >> >> i see near middle of window; >> >>

Re: Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 11:45 AM, james tate wrote: > I guess to get into the BIOS , click on Del key ? > Does anyone know how to Boot off a CDrom, do you have to click on a "F" > key or go into the BIOS to Setup ? When you turn it on, the first thing it does is run a POST and check memory. While it's do

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2011 11:05 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > Wow. Thank you. I was hesitant to try KDE after reading about 4.x, but > XFCE has brought most of the snappiness back to my machine. There's an old trick that most of the early window managers used that I hadn't seen in years until I tried XFC

Fedora Install on a Compaq ?

2011-09-12 Thread james tate
F15 I'am going to install F15 on a friends old 13 yr. old Compaq box. I guess to get into the BIOS , click on Del key ? Does anyone know how to Boot off a CDrom, do you have to click on a "F" key or go into the BIOS to Setup ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-12 Thread Frederick N. Brier
On 09/09/2011 03:57 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >> A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version 4.0, in >> a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4 >> is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE. > Stable? I had to wait until KDE-4.6 until I finally

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/09/11 13:12, g wrote: > On 09/12/2011 12:53 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and >> frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop >> one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seems worse than >> ever, the suggestions it lists are frequent

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/09/11 13:04, g wrote: > On 09/12/2011 04:17 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 12/09/11 11:30, Ian Pilcher wrote: >>> On 09/12/2011 07:53 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop one. The spe

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread g
On 09/12/2011 12:53 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and > frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop > one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seems worse than > ever, the suggestions it lists are frequently bizarre. Has > anyone else o

Re: NetworkManager applet: force connection list refresh

2011-09-12 Thread Pedro Francisco
Actually I spoke to early, upon reboot things started not working again. I'm back to killall modem-manager, nm-connection-editor, change something in the connection, save and then it appears on network dropdown. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Pedro Francisco wrote: > Killing nm-applet won't wo

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread g
On 09/12/2011 04:17 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/09/11 11:30, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> On 09/12/2011 07:53 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and >>> frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop >>> one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seem

Re: NetworkManager applet: force connection list refresh

2011-09-12 Thread Pedro Francisco
Killing nm-applet won't work as Gnome-Shell doesn't use (though it is loaded it doesn't do anything) But «service NetworkManager restart» does work. I now have the following lines and seems to be working (sleep time is still under test :p) Thank you! # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vodafone-fix.rule

Re: Documentation in deep

2011-09-12 Thread Pete Travis
This should give you some insight: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-docs.html On Sep 12, 2011 8:55 AM, "admin lewis" wrote: -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/09/11 11:30, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 09/12/2011 07:53 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and >> frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop >> one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seems worse th

Re: Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 09/12/2011 07:53 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and > frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop > one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seems worse than > ever, the suggestions it list

Re: Howto avoid a process beeing paged out?

2011-09-12 Thread Joe Wulf
Bite bullet, add more physical memory. For a time-critical process that seems like it is business critical, then do the right business decision.  Purchase more memory to get the job done. R, -Joe Wulf > >From: Clemens Eisserer >To: "Community assistance, e

Re: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:55 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I click the Network Printer dropdown under "Select Device" and the > printer shows up with the proper IP address. Under "Connection", "IPP > network printer via DNS-SD" is selected. I choose the driver and apply > the settings. It promp

Documentation in deep

2011-09-12 Thread admin lewis
Hi, anyone could give me some doc hint to understand deeply the boot process in fedora 15 ? thanks luigi -- Linux Server, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server, Exchange 2007 http://predellino.blogspot.com/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Theunderbird alternative spellchecker -

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
I can spell fairly well but I am a lousy typist and frequently mistype words, mostly transpose letters or drop one. The spellchecker with Thunderbird 6.0 seems worse than ever, the suggestions it lists are frequently bizarre. Has anyone

Re: selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-09-12 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda < marcosluis2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Well, test it and say the response to us. > So the first issue was: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/postalias from search access on the directory /etc/postfix. It then complained (one at a tim

Any way to disable wireless roaming?

2011-09-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm in hotel with multiple access points, apparently. The wireless is a bit dodgy. I see this pop up fairly regularly in /var/log/messages: Sep 12 07:59:10 lc2440 NetworkManager[650]: (eth1): supplicant interface state: associating → disconnected Sep 12 07:59:16 lc2440 NetworkManager[650]:

Re: slim (simple login manager)

2011-09-12 Thread Derek Tracy
I tried installing slim last night to see if I could get it to work. I think there is a bug in slim, I tried editing the prefdm file along with Xclients, I can get slim to start from command line and all is well but no go from system startup. Does anybody know the xauth command line slim uses whe

Re: Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello all > > I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it some > time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new hardware > does not load CentOS. > > Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead.

Re: Howto avoid a process beeing paged out?

2011-09-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:19:50 +0200 Clemens Eisserer wrote: > I tried to call mlock(), but after this call dynamically loading shared > libraries failed :/ mlock() is what you want, but it sounds like there isn't enough memory to use mlock. I'd guess the server needs more memory if it is going to

Re: Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Lewis Handy wrote: > > > You could always try a virtual machine with freedos, that is how I play all >> my old dos games under linux these days. >> -- >> > What about printing on LPT/Parallel port in such a case? Thanks. Sanjay. -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Lewis Handy
On 12 September 2011 10:12, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello all > > I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it > some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new > hardware does not load CentOS. > > Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 a

Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new hardware does not load CentOS. Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead. However, it clearly states that pr

Howto avoid a process beeing paged out?

2011-09-12 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I run a time-critical application on a vServer which seems to have very little memory (even 512mb are guaranteed). Every page that hasn't been accessed the last few minutes is immediatly swapped out, and if a request comes in the system is busy many seconds loading the working-set of the appli

Re: systems partitions on /mnt

2011-09-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/11/2011 11:38 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 boot > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 home > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 var All of them created at the same time. Did you really install the system at 4:30 AM ? :-) If not, maybe s