Re: Date and Time - timedatectl

2013-05-27 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 05/27/13 03:42, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/27/13 15:02, poma wrote: >> $ timedatectl set-ntp false/true >> Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory > Maybe it is a simple case of "not yet implemented" in F18? > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ timedatectl > Local time: Mon 2013-05-27

Re: rsyslogd and services in general

2013-03-02 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
root 0 Feb 24 10:48 /var/log/messages > > I must be missing something. TIA. systemd provides a new command for some startup logging: journalctl Also, the configuration for rsyslogd has probably changed, check the man page? -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com -- users mailing list u

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-20 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
ion so we can move forward > and hopefully not make mistakes. Thanks for the help. > I just looked at this a few minutes ago. The docs (such as they are) are in the fedoraproject Wiki. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/ HTH -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com -- users mailing

Re: copy corrupting last block of file?

2012-12-20 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
c rather than cp to copy the file, lo and behold the > contents turn up identical! > > Is the "cp" command busted? That would be insane. Yes, it would be insane. It is much more likely to be a hardware problem. Try another large file copy to the sdcard and see if something similar

Re: how can i get widescren display on my new Dell 3010?

2012-12-11 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
my new Dell maxes out with a [5:4] resolution of something close to > 1200x1024. This is the box with the UEFI that I finally got past. the > last thing is the widescreen solution. Install "lshw-gui" and explore what the machine has inside. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury FAS: redwolfe (pro

Re: how to disable "unset HISTORY"

2012-10-16 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 10/16/2012 11:50 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> You can turn on "BSD Process Accounting" (which is in the kernel for >> Fedora) in the system profile. This causes the kernel to dump a record >> for each process spawned into the system logs. You will want to install >> and use a tool to analyze the log

Re: how to disable "unset HISTORY"

2012-10-16 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 10/16/2012 06:03 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 10/16/2012 07:52 AM, Tiziana Manfroni wrote: >> Hi, I have some users that delete .history file (in tcsh shell), so I >> can't see their commands. >> Can I disable the command "unset history"? >> If it is not possible, what can I do? > > You can'

Re: GRUB2 Default Partition

2012-09-16 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
set the system root. linux vmlinxuz- ro root=/dev/sda3 []* HTH -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- 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

Re: update my fedora computers from my own server.

2012-08-31 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
the time. If you need specific setup details, just ask. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe (proventesters) -- 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

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-29 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 07/30/2012 01:09 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Hello all, Just thought about asking you guys what the actual name is, Linux or GNU/Linux (In our Bangladeshi community, we're really divided on this issue). I personally prefer Linux , what do you think? It is a political/religious issu

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
s for each of the packages installed during the main phase. You can switch to vt2 and run top in the shell and watch the madness. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe (proventesters) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only at some point, thus making rsync fail dmesg says (complete output below) that: [625087.410234] FAT-fs (sdb1): error, fat_free_clusters: deleting FAT entry beyond EOF

Re: F16 - Adding a second video card

2012-07-15 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
ure" may do most of the work once the kernel module is loaded. HTH -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe (proventesters) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fed

Re: Network Install

2012-07-02 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
eleases/17/Everything//os" is one of "i686" or "x86_64" Hope This Helps -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe (proventesters) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
lems. robatino is tracking the development and I hope the rc1 gomes in an update soon. After yumming in the beta6 rpm, don't forget to grub2-install /dev/sd to actually replace the grub2 code on the disk. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury aka redwolfe (proventesters) -- users mailing list user

Re: Grub2 menu question

2012-06-30 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 06/30/2012 07:51 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: Hi, I've got a remote test box which is set to dual boot Fedora 17 and CentOS 6 using grub2 as the bootloader. It's currently set to boot into Fedora "default=0" in grub.cfg I want to change it to temporarly boot into CentOS. I've got the following me

Re: Install package during installation of the system

2012-06-21 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 06/21/2012 04:50 AM, Celso Viana wrote: Hi all, I would like to install "Virtualbox" already during the installation of "system". both added to the repository rpmfusion free and nonfree, but the package virtualbox does not appear in any of the groups of programs. Does anyone know if this is

Re: Readlink: permission denied -- now: proc filesystem

2012-05-23 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
es the kernel has allocated to the process, either by the processes request or while handling those requests. The process itself can read its own resources, or root can, and certain related processes can read some of them. The proc file system is really an elegant way to monitor certain thin

Re: Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

2011-12-24 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
properly work. Another possibility is figuring out the udev stuff that mounts the external drive and adding a custom stanza to the rules to mount it somewhere beside /media. Perhaps someone with more expertise in the systemd/usdev/etc stuff can comment? -- G.Wolfe Woodbury aka redwolfe

Re: Why updatedb doesn't traverse my external HD?

2011-12-23 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
r/tmp" I have also configured bind mounts to be traversed, hoping that it might fix the problem with /media. It didn't. This configuration used to work on F14. Skipped F15, clean-installed F16, if it matters. Maybe the "usbfs" tag in prunefs? -- G.Wolfe Woodbury -- users ma

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
BIOS setup screens). I've seen disk errors when voltages start losing power. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe (proventesters) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidel

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-28 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/28/2011 02:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/28/2011 10:58 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: >> Well, I'm sure that some folks are of the opinion that the GNOME developers >> attitudes and responses to user concerns are pretty fascist. > Only those who use the term as a generic

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-28 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/28/2011 01:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/28/2011 05:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> The only thing missing is the confirmation of the Godwin's law. :-D > Well, the number of people hating Gnome proves that Ugol's Law still > works. Now, all we need is an example of Cole's Law Well, I'm su

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

2011-11-12 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/13/11 00:29, Michael Hannon wrote: > Greetings. I just installed Fedora 16 (x86_64) on my home computer today. > Not an altogether pleasant experience so far, I must say. > > I've got one issue in particular that's really puzzling me. I use my > linux > box as a nameserver for a few other c

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
a Vbox guest, as this normally sends the *host* OS > to the text console. Probably some Vbox setting we have different. > CTRL-Alt-Backspace can be sent to the guest from the Machine menu in > Vbox. The way to get other VT's in Virtual Box is "right control"+"F"

Re: Networking problem

2011-05-14 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
se do I need to do to be able to talk to machine 192.168.1.60 > and it to my fedora machine? Try: -A INPUT -s 192.168.1.60/32 -j ACCEPT there needs to be a netmask in the syntax. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe(proventesters) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T