Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:11 PM, Roger wrote: Wow! You understand the indecipherable -- Regedit, wow, Linux is easy after that! Back when I was doing tech support for an ISP, I kept a shortcut to Regedit on my desktop. Of course, after a few months, I almost never used it (or had callers back up the

Re: Clams.....

On 09/09/2012 01:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well, yes and no. Rather it demands suff

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 11:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well, yes and no. Rather it demands suff

Re: Icon themes

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:00:41 -0300 Lailah kirjoitti: > > Oh! I see... Well, I'd never find any difference between Fedora Icon > Theme and Oxygen Icon Theme. May be you can try downloading other > icon theme and installing it. See if that works. If not, it is a > bug. > > > > Have a nice day

Re: Adding fonts

Peter Gueckel wrote: > sudo ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf This line is wrong. It should be: sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/ttf /etc/X11/fontpath.d/ttf -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Adding fonts

jonetsu wrote: > I'd like to know... Do something like this to make the font available to all users on the system: sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf sudo cp -i HGRSKP.TTF /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrskp.ttf sudo chown root.root /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrskp.ttf sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrs

Re: Clams.....

On 09/09/2012 12:20 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/08/2012 08:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: And I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to absorb I have a friend who's (among other things) a computer and political columni

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 08:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: And I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to absorb I have a friend who's (among other things) a computer and political columnist. I've both seen and heard him describ

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well, yes and no. Rather it demands sufficient knowledge to work on problems as they occur. T

Re: Clams.....

This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well, yes and no. Rather it demands sufficient knowledge to work on problems as they occur. This was discussed many years ago and I

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file Exit gedit and in the terminal type sudo freshclam and it will go and get the virus files. Roger Interestingly en

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 11:06 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is running Scienti

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 11:06 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is running Scienti

Re: Clams.....

Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file Exit gedit and in the terminal type sudo freshclam and it will go and get the virus files. Roger Interestingly enough, I don't have "nano" OR "pico"..

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is running Scientific Linux 6.3 which is a rebuild of r

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:37 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:07 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is running Scientific Linux 6.3 which is a rebuild of redHat RHEL 6.3. ===8<--- ## ## Example config file for

Re: Clams.....

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 09/08/2012 10:07 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >>> >>> So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but >>> here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus defin

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:07 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.c

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:01 PM, Larry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2012 08:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Plea

Re: Clams.....

Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is running Scientific Linux 6.3 which is a rebuild of redHat RHEL 6.3. ===8<--- ## ## Example config file for freshclam ## Please read the freshcla

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf ERROR: Can't open/parse the config

Re: Clams.....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2012 08:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but > here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... > > > ERROR: Please edit the example config fil

Re: Clams.....

So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/freshclam.conf Is there something I'm miss

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 09/08/2012 09:24 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 08:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 20:19:42 -0400, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: So how would someone who's still a greenhorn to Linux protect their machine?...I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me f

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 09/08/2012 08:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 20:19:42 -0400, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: So how would someone who's still a greenhorn to Linux protect their machine?...I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch

F17: power consumption on wired ethernet port

I've just started messing around with powertop 2.1, and I notice something that strikes me as decidedly ODD... On my eeepc 901, powertop reports that network interface p33p1 consumes in the range of 5.6 to 7.7 watts, depending on factors that aren't obvious to me. it doesn't seem to matter if the

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 2012/09/08 17:19, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/03/2012 12:35 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/09/02 20:25, JD wrote: On 09/02/2012 08:56 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 09:46 -0700, jdow wrote: My take away from this is that absolutely nothing except a totally disconnected machine in an

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 2012/09/08 17:44, Chuck Peters wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Reindl Harald mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote: there is nothing new and nobody with a brain would say any system is uncrackable I thought Oracle called their version Unbreakable Linux and that it is essent

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > there is nothing new and nobody with a brain would say any > system is uncrackable > I thought Oracle called their version Unbreakable Linux and that it is essentially a clone of RedHat. Can we infer Oracle, or its marketing people, don't

Adding fonts

Hello, I'd like to know now to add fonts so that LibreOffice and Gimp can use them. For instance, I have downloaded a HGRSKP.TTF file which is a Japanese font. What is the procedure to make available that font in the system ? Also, some fonts are .exe files. Are these also installable in Fed

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 20:19:42 -0400, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: So how would someone who's still a greenhorn to Linux protect their machine?...I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if I'm going to us

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 09/03/2012 12:35 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/09/02 20:25, JD wrote: On 09/02/2012 08:56 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 09:46 -0700, jdow wrote: My take away from this is that absolutely nothing except a totally disconnected machine in an impenetrable safe is uncrackable, even Fedora mach

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 09/02/2012 10:59 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 11:03 -0500, inode0 wrote: Since this entire conversation is about if and how to change the process beginning with Fedora 19 there is no answer to your question until a new process is agreed to or the effort is abandoned, neither of which

f16 logout error

a recent attempt at logout from f16$ uname -a Linux f16a9.pacbell.net 3.4.9-2.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 18:41:34 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux via the logout button on "Applications menu" gave the following error logout error failed to receive a reply from the seesion manager Session

Re: f16, no response to commands "grub" or "grub2"

Michael Schwendt responded >> Seems you're missing the grub2-tools package for some useful tools, >> such as grub2-install and grub2-mkconfig. >Oh, wait, with Fedora 16 the tools are in the main "grub2" package, >so you just need to read up on how to use them. I have done some reading on both g

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

On 09/01/2012 10:41 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John Wendel wrote: Actually, '?' is not "an invalid character" in a Linux filename. Only "/" and the NULL character (0) are invalid in filenames. Regards, John Well, it´d be akin to writing FAT with filenames that

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

On 09/01/2012 03:55 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs. Thanks for the help and suggestion. I´m sure I´ll end up fixing this on Monday when I return and have access to the drive from my F17 Linux machine.

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On 09/08/2012 02:46 PM, jdow wrote: Joe and Carroll, he said he was not in a position to perform a search. So I shall show the courtesy to provide him with at least the most basic knowledge quoting Wikipiddle. That's why I gave him the url, so he could read up on it at his convenience. -- users

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 09/01/2012 08:17 AM, Lailah wrote: El dom, 19-08-2012 a las 12:42 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: I would love just "Bernhardt", as in "Verne". Just the name, without any other word. /Cheers/ */Lailah/* I think that's a great idea! "Bernhardt".version F19?F20?LoL!

Finding Toner Level

Is there any way to find the amount of toner remaining in a Brother HL-1440 printer? The amount of drum use? Other than using a Windows driver. There are counters in the printer that measure usage, but I can't find out how to access them. Direct communication with the printer via the console is

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On 2012/09/08 13:53, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:31:23 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: big snip Ok.so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently unavailable to do a "search"whatexactly IS CERN?a school?.a military outfit?some kin

Re: update my fedora computers from my own server.

On 08/31/2012 06:15 AM, Edward M wrote: On 08/31/2012 02:47 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: I update all my Fedora boxes from the one location. No server as such. Just a shared /var/cache/yum on an NAS. I also use keepcache=1,, and tidy-cache. So I can "yum downgrade if necessary" Hello Frank,

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:31:23 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: >>> big snip > Ok.so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently > unavailable to do a "search"whatexactly IS CERN?a > school?.a military outfit?some kind of society?just > curious... > >

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On 09/08/2012 01:31 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Ok.so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently unavailable to do a "search"whatexactly IS CERN?a school?.a military outfit?some kind of society?just curious... All it took me was putting CERN into th

Re: Icon themes

Oh! I see... Well, I'd never find any difference between Fedora Icon Theme and Oxygen Icon Theme. May be you can try downloading other icon theme and installing it. See if that works. If not, it is a bug. Have a nice day Lailah PD: You can download icons, theme, and other stuff from kde

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On 08/30/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:19:11PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, 30. August 2012. 14.27.48 Mark Haney wrote: On 08/30/2012 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 10:39 AM, Mark Haney wrote: I may be a bit thick here, but I see no referen

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

On 08/30/2012 03:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 12:01 PM, Don Levey wrote: Because they do it*after* installation. Why not do it before installation instead? I'm not talking about random extensions that are created off in some backwater corner of the internet. I'm talking about extensio

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

On 08/30/2012 02:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 11:29 AM, Don Levey wrote: On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote: Hi, So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks Provider 1.8.5 add on. There isn't a newer version of the add-on available. Wouldn't it be nic

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

Hi I asked a question here yesterday and most have done it in he wrong place. Now I am getting LOTS of questions. I am a beginner and I don't have a clue as to whats going on with Fedora. will try again to get in there and get me out of this mess. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: > The pain is in remembering all the apps for which conf files were > modified. To address that, inserting a comment like > # this is a modified conf file Whenever I change a config, I keep a copy of the same file with the ending .OWN in the same location. Now, a single

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 7 September 2012 23:28, JD wrote: > I wonder about /etc, because that's where so much conf is kept. > But it is small enough to simply back it up to an external partition. > The pain is in remembering all the apps for which conf files were > modified. To address that, inserting a comment like

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 16:05:00 -0600, JD wrote: I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of upgrading from 16 to 18. The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything, and the tenuous nature of the electric service and the network provider's "instability", s

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 09/08/2012 11:46 AM, Andy Blanchard wrote: On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl > wrote: Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of time and hairpull. Better yet, wh

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. > Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of > time and hairpull. > Better yet, when you do the re-install set up some disk partitions so you can segregate the

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 08.09.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > not all users have plain setups where you can easily > do a fresh install, this works not well if you have > customiized many configurations of many services > and that is why a distribution with a new release > each month should be much carefuller in contex

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 09/08/2012 11:36 AM, Alan Cox wrote: The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but the update stuff not so. A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions on updating via y

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: > It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded, > and I click next. [] Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of time and hairpull. -- users mailing l

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but the update stuff not so. A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions on updating via yum. Follow all the steps listed in order. 1

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 00:43 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 08:34:10 +0200 > Lukáš Šembera wrote: > > > on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that > > I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for example, > > when I'm mounting a NFS sha

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 08:34 +0200, Lukáš Šembera wrote: > Hi all, > > on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is > that I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for > example, when I'm mounting a NFS share, I've to use the IP address. > The same issue is

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 08:34:10 Lukáš Šembera wrote: > Hi all, > > on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that > I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for example, > when I'm mounting a NFS share, I've to use the IP address. The same issue > is wi

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

do a man on nslookup or dig for query, see /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswtich.conf. touch those bases and see what happens... good luck On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Lukáš Šembera wrote: > Hi all, > > on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that >

Re: how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

On 09/08/2012 07:17 PM, Tim wrote: > It may well be that unless you write a post that uses UTF-8 encoding, > Thunderbird will use the lowest common denominator. Lots of mail > clients behave that way. > > e.g. No matter what charset you set as your preferred default, if your > message is containe

Re: how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 14:10 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Whenever I send an email using Thunderbird the following header is > always included: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > How do I change it to charset=UTF-8? It may well be that unless you write a post th

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 09:20 +0200, Lukáš Šembera wrote: > Ok, so since I don't want to have static records in /etc/hosts, it is > necessary to configure the bind daemon somehow? I want to be able to > resolve hosts by their HOSTNAME value in /etc/sysconfig/network. If you're using dynamic address

Re: mysqldump on Fedora 16 slightly OT

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 15:53 +1000, Roger wrote: > I got this command line from Google > mysql mydb1 -u user -p password -e 'select tables like > "field_data_field%"'| xargs | mysqldump -u user -p password d7x I can't see the "select tables" command exists, although "tables" is a table with all t

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

Ok, so since I don't want to have static records in /etc/hosts, it is necessary to configure the bind daemon somehow? I want to be able to resolve hosts by their HOSTNAME value in /etc/sysconfig/network. Best regards, Lukáš Šembera On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sat,