Re: Today's F20 update of hicolor-icon-theme messed the desktop

2014-03-05 Thread Marco Maccaferri
On 05/03/2014 11:34 Ed Greshko ha scritto: No problems here on either KDE or GNOME desktops. Weird, I updated hicolor-icon-theme again and this time all is good. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

2014-03-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
lee writes: > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes: > >> lee writes: >>> Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an attack >>> or at least as something bad? Someone requesting an URL from a web >>> server that doesn´t serve this URL --- or doesn´t serve the specified >>> domai

Re: Thunderbird problem -

2014-03-05 Thread g
On 03/05/14 18:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: Thunderbird has stopped providing an indication of activity after > I click on "Get Mail." Normally there is information presented at > the bottom left of the display in what they apparently call the > "Status Bar" where I can see that DNS is working and

Re: VEry OT Ruby

2014-03-05 Thread Roger
On 03/06/2014 01:50 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, Roger sent: and Uber security protocol is world class which is why they are so strict about the original problem of not allowing Web frameworks and other stuff Which doesn't quite gel with them allowing an old version of R

Re: VEry OT Ruby

2014-03-05 Thread Roger
On 03/06/2014 02:33 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Roger wrote: Thanks billo. They are on UberGlobal shared server virtual machine, don't know how many static IP addresses, stacks of email addresses heaps of database allowance and plenty of disk space for $300 a year and get the g

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 March 2014 23:55, Tom Horsley wrote: > I install in a virtual machine where nothing can hurt my real > system, then I use the guestfs tools to copy the new installation > to the exact partitions I want it in, edit the fstab and grub > configs to point to the new partitions, and boot with the

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 March 2014 23:42, Fred Smith wrote: > Well, in my opinion, if ease of use was their goal, then they missed > it by a mile. Particularly in the disk partitioning section, they leave > you to stumble around trying to figure out how to step thru it with > no guidance. for example (from memory),

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Tom Horsley
>Is it me, or is the installer just not flexible enough to cope with >this sort of scenario? I've worked out a wonderful way to install fedora these days so that I no longer have to worry about what in the Sam Hill anaconda is likely to do to my computer: I install in a virtual machine where no

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:02:42PM +0100, Frode, maillister wrote: > On 05. march 2014 16:58, Liam Proven wrote: > >Is it me, or is the installer just not flexible enough to cope with > >this sort of scenario? > > The designers/developers have apparently decided to prioritize ease > of use at the

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 March 2014 22:02, Frode, maillister wrote: > The new Anaconda will not let you install grub2 on a partition Aha! > but you can > choose to not install a boot manager at all if you don't want the mbr to be > overwritten. Yes, I tried that. That's when it collapsed in a pile of Python error

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Frode, maillister
On 05. march 2014 16:58, Liam Proven wrote: So I need to tell Fedora to put root on sda5 and /home on sda10 and use sda8 for swap. I want the bootloader on sda5 as well. I'm currently using Ubuntu's GRUB, as it's my primary OS, but I plan to replace this with a standalone boot manager. The new

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 March 2014 18:21, Fred Smith wrote: > I don't think the "new" Anaconda is as flexibled as the old one, I wouldn't know, TBH! > so > it may well not allow you to do what you wanbt, Ah, good, so it is not just me being dumb then? :¬) > But what I DO know > is that everything in the new inst

Re: OT: bash question

2014-03-05 Thread Jon Ingason
2014-03-05 21:13, Mike Wright skrev: > Hi all, > > I need to extract the name of a parent directory, not the whole path. > > Combinations of dirname and cut didn't get me anywhere. > > Given this: (the ... indicates that I don't know the dir depth) > > /.../mydir/my.file > > How would I extra

Re: OT: bash question

2014-03-05 Thread Kevin Martin
On 03/05/2014 02:29 PM, Joe Benson wrote: > dirname /PATH/PATH/PATH/filename.txt | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' should do > it. > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Mike Wright > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need to extract the name of a parent directory

Re: OT: bash question

2014-03-05 Thread Joe Benson
dirname /PATH/PATH/PATH/filename.txt | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' should do it. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to extract the name of a parent directory, not the whole path. > > Combinations of dirname and cut didn't get me anywhere. > > Given this: (th

Re: OT: bash question

2014-03-05 Thread CS DBA
On 03/05/2014 01:13 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I need to extract the name of a parent directory, not the whole path. Combinations of dirname and cut didn't get me anywhere. Given this: (the ... indicates that I don't know the dir depth) /.../mydir/my.file How would I extract this: /..

OT: bash question

2014-03-05 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I need to extract the name of a parent directory, not the whole path. Combinations of dirname and cut didn't get me anywhere. Given this: (the ... indicates that I don't know the dir depth) /.../mydir/my.file How would I extract this: /.../mydir/my.file ^ TIA to all takers

Re: Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:58:48PM +, Liam Proven wrote: > Hi there. First post from someone returning to the RH family fold for > the first time since about 1996-1999, when I was a RHL user (v4 - v6 > full time on my servers, v7/8/9 reviewed for various magazines - then > I switched to Caldera

overview of fonts in Fedora

2014-03-05 Thread lee
Hi, is there some sort of overview of all the fonts that are included in Fedora? There are quite a few, most of them not installed, with unknown looks. It would be nice to see screenshots to get an idea about what all these mysterious fonts look like. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users

Gnome is sometimes blurred

2014-03-05 Thread antonio
Sometimes when I start my laptop (with Intel card) Gnome doesn't start as it should, icons are in the wrong position (I mean that the top panel is sitting on the right and I get the wheel on the bottom left angle of the screen). Any idea?? should I file a bug against Gnome?? -- Antonio M Skype:

Can't install ƒ20

2014-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
Hi there. First post from someone returning to the RH family fold for the first time since about 1996-1999, when I was a RHL user (v4 - v6 full time on my servers, v7/8/9 reviewed for various magazines - then I switched to Caldera, then to SUSE and then to Ubuntu when it came out.) I'm trying to t

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

2014-03-05 Thread Tom Rivers
On 3/5/2014 10:45, Tom Rivers wrote: Now that I had successfully simulated the attack signature in the log file of the proxy web server, I logged into the target web server and looked at its access log. Thankfully I found no log of any activity from my XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX workstation IP. Not want

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

2014-03-05 Thread Tom Rivers
On 3/5/2014 09:41, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, lee sent: Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an attack or at least as something bad? Have a look at the log line that the original poster sent: 185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET h

Re: [Solved -- sorta] Re: Has Firefox suddenly stopped working for you folk?

2014-03-05 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, David wrote: Maslow's hammer You say that like it's a bad thing :-) billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedora

Re: VEry OT Ruby

2014-03-05 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Roger wrote: Thanks billo. They are on UberGlobal shared server virtual machine, don't know how many static IP addresses, stacks of email addresses heaps of database allowance and plenty of disk space for $300 a year and get the greatest 24 hr email and phone support imagin

Re: VEry OT Ruby

2014-03-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, Roger sent: > They have the domain and are using it with the current ISP. When you own a domain, you can point it to anywhere. You don't *have* to use it with any particular ISP. Your domain records can point your website address, your email servers, and any

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 March 2014 13:21, lee wrote: > "Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: > >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: >>> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >>> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown >>> reasons. I never got it to work r

Re: VEry OT Ruby

2014-03-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, Roger sent: > and Uber security protocol is world class which is why they are so > strict about the original problem of not allowing Web frameworks and > other stuff Which doesn't quite gel with them allowing an old version of Ruby, but not allowing a newer ve

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

2014-03-05 Thread lee
"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes: > lee writes: >> Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an attack >> or at least as something bad? Someone requesting an URL from a web >> server that doesn´t serve this URL --- or doesn´t serve the specified >> domain at all --- could be

Re: F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

2014-03-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2014, lee sent: > Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an > attack or at least as something bad? Have a look at the log line that the original poster sent: 185.4.227.194 - - [03/Mar/2014:07:27:49 -0800] "GET http://24x7-allrequestsallowed

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-05 Thread lee
"Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: >> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown >> reasons. I never got it to work reliably and would not recommend using >> N

Re: error open ports

2014-03-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 March 2014, Les Howell sent: > I periodically use a USB connected Arduino. If I plug it back in > too quickly it will go to a new com port. If you unplug your device, > simply wait a few seconds (well, sometimes a minute) before plugging > it back in. A minute seems a

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Susi Lehtola
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:29:23 + "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 03/05/14 18:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Matthew Miller > >> wrote: > >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3413/g

Re: best, up-to-date, *detailed* coverage of systemd?

2014-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > > >Bugs > >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/systemd > > Don't be misled by the title of this page, which is currently: > "218 bugs found"; many of them are RFEs (request for enhancement). > > Regarding lennart's multi-part series at 0poi

Thunderbird problem -

2014-03-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
Thunderbird has stopped providing an indication of activity after I click on "Get Mail." Normally there is information presented at the bottom left of the display in what they apparently call the "Status Bar" where I can see that DNS is working and it connects, etc., to me essential information

Re: best, up-to-date, *detailed* coverage of systemd?

2014-03-05 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, >Bugs >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/systemd Don't be misled by the title of this page, which is currently: "218 bugs found"; many of them are RFEs (request for enhancement). Regarding lennart's multi-part series at 0pointer.de - I only know the first four of this posts, wh

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: > As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards > freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown > reasons. I never got it to work reliably and would not recommend using > NFS for anything. I've used NFS reliab

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/05/14 18:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Matthew Miller >> wrote: >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3413/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc20 >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.03.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > Well The article pointed to by poc states Yes, you're right. Sorry for the noise! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Today's F20 update of hicolor-icon-theme messed the desktop

2014-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/05/14 17:02, Marco Maccaferri wrote: > Hi, > > I did the usual yum update today and after a reboot I found my desktop all > messed and not functioning: the icons on the preferred applications bar were > all stick to each other without the usual border around them, the search > functionalit

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/05/14 18:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Matthew Miller > wrote: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3413/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc20 >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3363/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc19 >> >> These need testing and ka

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3413/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc20 > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3363/gnutls-3.1.20-4.fc19 > > These need testing and karma. AFAIK 3.1.20 is not the bugfixed version. It need

Today's F20 update of hicolor-icon-theme messed the desktop

2014-03-05 Thread Marco Maccaferri
Hi, I did the usual yum update today and after a reboot I found my desktop all messed and not functioning: the icons on the preferred applications bar were all stick to each other without the usual border around them, the search functionality wasn't working, the buttons on the applications sc