Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-04-18 08:51, g wrote: i have been using the fnal release, 1st in list, for about years, just after the release of sl 5.0, and i can say that it has been a very stable and reliable linux. What is your use case? I mean: I use CentOS 5 & 6 for Web developpers usage. We have to use custom

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread g
On 04/12/2013 11:04 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: <<>> One outstanding suggestion that came up in this discussion was Scientific Linux as the "Supported by CERN" could be a powerful selling point. That post had me doing the classic head thump D'Oh! I had forgotten about that release! Female invol

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/18/13 11:23, William Mattison wrote: > I imported from a Redhat 9 system many files created by vi and containing a > mix of English and simplified Chinese. When I load any of those into vi(m) > on the Fedora-18 system, the simplified Chinese is not displayed properly. I > notice at the b

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread inode0
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Craig White wrote: > Scientific Linux has paid staff to build packages whereas CentOS is > strictly unpaid/volunteer packagers. I think that changed last year. http://centosnow.blogspot.com/2012/06/centos-project-release-times.html John -- users mailing list u

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-17 Thread William Mattison
> (Fedora-18; all desktops) > ... > How does root and/or the user set up his account so he always has these > abilities? > In effect, we want the account to be bi-lingual, with English as the primary > language, > and simplified Chinese being a secondary language. > > Thank-you in advance for you

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 09:04 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > Excellent summation Tim! As I said my problem was not what I wanted but > what I could "Sell" to the Boss. > > One outstanding suggestion that came up in this discussion was > Scientific Linux as the "Supported by CERN" could be a powe

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > use rpmfusion and NOT atrpms > that's the same as for a physical install Thanks, enabled RPMFUSION and it's now downloading a thousand deps (ok, 29 deps actually), and it'll use 55 MB of HD space. I still think a static build of MPlayer wou

Re: how to create iso9660 archive.

2013-04-17 Thread Mark C. Allman
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 20:01 -0500, g wrote: On 04/17/2013 07:26 PM, William Mattison wrote: > > (fedora-18, all desktops) > > > > I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet > > file made from: * /home/user1/project17/ * /home/user2/project17/ * > > /home/user2/.hidden/

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2013 02:36, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > I booted Fedora 18 off a LiveCD, and want to play back wma files. > > So far, all my attempts have been unsuccesful. It's clear no wma > playback codecs are included with the files. > Plus, MPlayer, which usually plays back 'everything' is NOT incl

Re: how to create iso9660 archive.

2013-04-17 Thread g
On 04/17/2013 07:26 PM, William Mattison wrote: (fedora-18, all desktops) I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file made from: * /home/user1/project17/ * /home/user2/project17/ * /home/user2/.hidden/ Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirecto

F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
I booted Fedora 18 off a LiveCD, and want to play back wma files. So far, all my attempts have been unsuccesful. It's clear no wma playback codecs are included with the files. Plus, MPlayer, which usually plays back 'everything' is NOT included in the official repos, and if I try to install mplaye

how to create iso9660 archive.

2013-04-17 Thread William Mattison
(fedora-18, all desktops) I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file made from: * /home/user1/project17/ * /home/user2/project17/ * /home/user2/.hidden/ Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirectories.  user1 and user2 each has other directories

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:23:06 +0200 poma wrote: > On 17.04.2013 19:32, poma wrote: > > On 17.04.2013 17:33, Frank Murphy wrote: > Hah! > Frank, it would be nice of you to use the correct terminology[1]. ;) > Your so called "virt-images" are not a virtual machines per se. > It is possible that you

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:32:51 +0200 poma wrote: > On 17.04.2013 17:33, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:20 +0200 > > poma wrote: > > > >> Mount points are the mount points, regardless of the disks > >> layout. :) > > […] > > > What are you talking about? > > What am I talking

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread poma
On 17.04.2013 19:32, poma wrote: > On 17.04.2013 17:33, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:20 +0200 >> poma wrote: >> >>> Mount points are the mount points, regardless of the disks >>> layout. :) > > […] > >> What are you talking about? > > What am I talking about!? :) > >> If th

Re: OT: Linode doubling RAM

2013-04-17 Thread Darrell Duane
Thanks for putting this here. I'm bummed because I didn't know about this until I happened to come across the blog post. I checked with Linode and asked them if there was a way to send e-mail notifications out about such enhancements and they said no, but that one could set up RSS to do this. I

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-17 Thread James Hogarth
> > > The top program may shed some light, I don't think of anything off-hand which measures disk performance on a per-process basis. > > There is actually an iotop that does this ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: Problem with cron

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2013 02:57 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: I'm not sure I understand the question, because above example already shows how the $EDITOR environment variable is set to nano for crontab to pick it up. What I don't understand is why you're bothering with this three weeks later. It's just lik

Re: How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?

2013-04-17 Thread poma
On 17.04.2013 15:57, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to run Fedora on a nilfs2 root-partition. > For now I only added the nilfs2-module to dracut.conf and it loads > fine up to the point where it tries to execute the non-existing > fsck.nilfs2. "nilfs2 on /" :) > Is there any way

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread poma
On 17.04.2013 17:33, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:20 +0200 > poma wrote: > >> Mount points are the mount points, regardless of the disks >> layout. :) […] > What are you talking about? What am I talking about!? :) > If the stated disk in Virt-Manager is sdf for eg Fedora-1

Re: How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?

2013-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2013 17:33, schrieb Clemens Eisserer: > Hi Harald, > >> man fstab for the last two columns >> UUID=b935b5db-0051-4f7f-83ac-6a6651fe0988 / ext4 0 0 > > Hmm, that alone didn't do the trick as / has to be mounted in order to > read /etc/fstab but READONLY, that is what the ro is for

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:20 +0200 poma wrote: > Mount points are the mount points, regardless of the disks > layout. :) > > poma What are you talking about? If the stated disk in Virt-Manager is sdf for eg Fedora-17 and the host then changes it to sdg, it's still sdf in virt-Manager. Thus it

Re: How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?

2013-04-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Harald, > man fstab for the last two columns > UUID=b935b5db-0051-4f7f-83ac-6a6651fe0988 / ext4 0 0 Hmm, that alone didn't do the trick as / has to be mounted in order to read /etc/fstab. However I found out about an "fastboot" kernel option which seems to work well in combination with your

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:44:41PM -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 04/16/2013 12:57 PM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > > > To be fair to Bill, your original analogy equating a subscription to RHN > > > to > > > homeowner's insurance is false. He did the best he could with what yo

Re: [389-users] X11 forwarding refused

2013-04-17 Thread Aziza Lichir
Hey, Thanks for your quick answer, for the moment I installed the 389 console on a WindowsXP machine and i want to know if i can replicate users from AD knowing that i only use a normal user account and without activating Ldaps ? thanks for your help *

Re: How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?

2013-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2013 15:57, schrieb Clemens Eisserer: > I would like to run Fedora on a nilfs2 root-partition. > For now I only added the nilfs2-module to dracut.conf and it loads > fine up to the point where it tries to execute the non-existing > fsck.nilfs2. > > Is there any way to disable the execu

Re: The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread poma
On 17.04.2013 10:41, Frank Murphy wrote: > I have 5 physical disks, on which the virt-images are stored. Probably you have 5 physical disks *partitions* *mounted* on a storage *pool* *directory* defaulting to "/var/lib/libvirt/images", right? > What I have found is for whatever reason, I need to

How to disable fsck of root-filesystem at boot time?

2013-04-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I would like to run Fedora on a nilfs2 root-partition. For now I only added the nilfs2-module to dracut.conf and it loads fine up to the point where it tries to execute the non-existing fsck.nilfs2. Is there any way to disable the execution of fsck.nilfs2? Thanks, Clemens -- users mailing l

How to avoid ARP flux issue in linux?

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin Peterson
Hi, I have a setup where eth0 and eth1 interfaces are in same broadcast domain. But i have a virtual IP configured on eth1 and a physical ip on eth0. It is observed that if eth0 is default route then eth0 will respond to arp request for the IP configured on eth1. This would cause an issue sinc

Re: random reboot finally hits me

2013-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2013 13:55, schrieb Tom Horsley: > I've been seeing other f18 users talk about random reboots, > and last night I finally had one as well. I'm not sure this > 3.8 kernel should be called "stable" yet :-). it is stable here on 6 physical machines, 4 of them are servers 24/7 on as also on

random reboot finally hits me

2013-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been seeing other f18 users talk about random reboots, and last night I finally had one as well. I'm not sure this 3.8 kernel should be called "stable" yet :-). I thought maybe all the scripts I have on cron downloading and transcoding programs from my TiVo overheated the CPU, but all the tra

Re: Problem with cron

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:02:31 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2013 03:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Verify that $EDITOR is set actually. $EDITOR is evaluated here just fine. > > And > > > >$ echo $EDITOR > >emacs > >$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e > > > >crontab: no changes made

The Virt-Manager Storage Disks Fedora 18 host.

2013-04-17 Thread Frank Murphy
I have 5 physical disks, on which the virt-images are stored. What I have found is for whatever reason, I need to put a new disk or disk-controller card into the host machine. It can changes the order of the disks as seen by the host. So vm's may not start as the physical disk they are on eg: /de

Re: Extract ".rar" file -

2013-04-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:18:54 -0300 "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > > "for some reason the folks that built the p7zip-plugins rpm didn't > compile the 7z.so with the rar format plugin in it" > > p7zip packagers explain that in the spec file: > > "RAR sources removed since their license is incompat

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roger wrote: This is a call for understanding because of lack of knowledge. Apologies for the mix of issues in one message but they all relate to the same problem. Firstly, I've been reading the pro's and con's of RHEL and Fedora and am none the wiser. It seems to be around cost of service and la