Re: what is an administrator?

2017-09-27 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Terry Polzin kirjoitti 27.09.2017 klo 17:05: In Anaconda adding a user account as an "Administrator" adds that user to the "wheel" group by default the wheel group is enabled wthin sudo to run all commands with "root" privileges. After install adding a user to the "wheel" group will have the sam

Re: Live Media Only??

2016-03-07 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hi, 08.03.2016, 00:15, Bear Tooth kirjoitti: I went to download F3 from https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/ (using Opera 35.0 under F23) and everything I got turned out to be Live CDs (except for being larger than any CD I have). I don't mean to hesitate. I want a real full install. W

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-07 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2015-03-07 11:04 GMT+02:00 Tim : > On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 08:28 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: >> No, the journalctl man page does not tell you about ntp logs, nor do >> the rsyslog pages explain grep :) > > ;-) > > The man page suggested that the search parameter was a service name > (that I wouldn't kn

Re: F20: No sound unless root ??

2015-02-02 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2015-02-02 22:18 GMT+02:00 sean darcy : > On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote: >> >> I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any >> outputs: >> >> $ aplay -l >> aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found... >> >> But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card: >

Re: Another systemd annoyance

2015-01-31 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2015-01-31 13:52 GMT+02:00 Heinz Diehl : > Hi, > > tried to safely bring down a crashed Fedora 21 machine today, but M-sysrq > didn't do anything. After bringing the machine up again, the logs showed > that M-sysrq functionality was disabled. After investigating further, it > seemed > that only Sy

Re: F21 minimal install?

2014-12-16 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hi, 2014-12-16 19:57 GMT+02:00 Ian Pilcher : > Do any of the F21 installation media provide a minimal install option > anymore? IIRC, the "basic server" (or whatever it's called) now > installs more than 600 packages, around twice as many as the F20 minimal > install. At least with a kickstart c

Re: smplayer nagware

2014-10-30 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hello, 2014-10-30 13:33 GMT+02:00 Tim : > I thought I'd escaped from this sort of crap when I shifted to Linux, > all those years ago. I've just started up smplayer and got a pop-up > saying "you can support SMPlayer by sending a donation or sharing it > with your friends," with buttons to donate

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-09-17 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
> > OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18: > skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm > but it still depends on i686 libs and other components. > > I was wondering if there is a way to extract the spec file > from it and rebuild it (i.e. relink it) with 64bit libs, by > editing the spec file

Re: Fedora 20 with AMD catalyst video driver

2014-09-15 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hello, 2014-09-15 19:18 GMT+03:00 Bruno Jean : > So my question is the following: Is the default video driver in the fedora 20 > allows for a 2560×1440 external monitor resolution with AMD GPU, or I should > go with another GPU (Nvidia?) or a motherboard GPU. > > Thanks in advance for your suppo

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-14 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-14 18:12 GMT+03:00 Timothy Murphy : > But what you actually said was > "I might add that according to the documentation, you can avoid the > persistent journal by removing /var/log/journal/ directory or by > specifying Storage=volatile or Storage=none in > /etc/systemd/journald.conf". > I g

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-14 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-14 16:36 GMT+03:00 Balint Szigeti : > On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:22 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > > 2014-09-14 15:22 GMT+03:00 Timothy Murphy : > I have already done it that you wrote and still no affect. The 'journalctl' > just doesn't read or handle its con

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-14 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-14 15:22 GMT+03:00 Timothy Murphy : > As a matter of interest, I changed Storage to volatile > and re-booted my laptop, > but this did not seem to have any effect - > journalctl still gives over 500,000 lines (I stopped there) > and goes back 3 months. > The first line of journalctl says it

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-14 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-14 14:01 GMT+03:00 Timothy Murphy : > Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > >> It is not slow if you have little journal content, as you would in >> cases where you prefer plain-text logs and set journald to not keep a >> persistent log. > > How? > I don't se

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-13 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-14 0:26 GMT+03:00 Lars E. Pettersson : > On 09/12/14 21:12, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> The amount of memory and i/o is trivial, IMHO. > > > Trivial? Take a look at my nine month old bug report, that has received no > response whatsoever form the systemd maintainers, about the sluggishness of > t

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-12 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hey, 2014-09-12 21:30 GMT+03:00 Anders Wegge Keller : > I'm asking for a pointer to the numerous rebuttals of falsehoods, and > carefully considerations, that time and time again are claimed to exist. A > Debian document, written to whitewash a forced descision is not what I'm > asking for. The

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-12 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-09-12 11:06 GMT+03:00 Anders Wegge Keller : > Do you know of a place where I can find the analysis behind this > assessment, or is it just your personal opinion? The recent initsystem debate [1] from Debian pretty exhaustively explores the pros and cons of many major init system options. Whi

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-04-10 17:08 GMT+03:00 Arthur Dent : > Does everyone here now do without email alerts, or does everyone just > install postfix or some such? > > I would really like to know if there is a workaround for me... > > Thanks again > > Mark > My impression is that an MTA is currently not installed by

Re: wireshark installed but not available

2014-04-07 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2014-04-07 16:43 GMT+03:00 Robert Moskowitz : > ARGH I hate logging out!!! I have too many apps running 'just right' > to logout more than say once a month. (really when I have to reboot when > things get doggy) > > sigh. For now, you might be able to perform the capture by running tcpdump f

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2013-12-31 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/12/31 Joe Zeff : > Not always. As an example, I'm getting error messages at boot time on my > laptop about [sdb] even though there isn't one. Locating them with > journalctl would require me to know exactly what field to look for, instead > of just doing this as root: > > cat /var/log/messag

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Sorry for posting again so soon and replying to myself, but I just noticed one very useful thing that might help quite much in the specific problem you described: 2013/11/18 Joonas Sarajärvi : > 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : >> the other day, I wanted to >> investigate why my laptop sh

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : > Hi Jonas, > > I have a comment, and a question. > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >> The journald log format is documented at least to some extent [1], and >> there exists free software for reading the log. T

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik : > Steven Stern wrote: >> On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >>> For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous >>> bullshit, >> >> In what way might the logs be hazardous? > > It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go

Re: Can I run two "instances" of apache httpd?

2013-08-09 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hello, 2013/8/9 Zdenek Pytela : > Yes. You just have multiple Listen lines in your config file and > then you have to restart the httpd.service. I think the main goal was not just to get Apache to listen to multiple ports, but to have two entirely separate Apache instances running, to prev

Re: Can I run two "instances" of apache httpd?

2013-08-09 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
9.8.2013 11.05 "Georgios Petasis" wrote: > > In general I think it can be done (i.e.: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RunningMultipleApacheInstances), > but is a way to do this in fedora 19, and keep all this "systemctl * httpd" stuff? > I have not attempted it, but I think it should be possible. You

Re: F-18 startx -

2013-03-12 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hi, 2013/3/13 Tim : > It does seem a rather brutal approach. I do not much like setting symlinks manually, either. However, systemctl also can set them for you if you run just something like this: systemctl enable --force multi-user.target This works because multi-user.target has a line like

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2012/12/29 Mika Suomalainen : > I (or actually not me, but many people whom I know) have another > problem with GNOME3, they don't know how to halt the computer > properly, because the "Shutdown" button is hidden behind the menu in > top-right and you must press "alt" to access the option. Fortuna

Re: force yum to download

2012-08-08 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
You might want to use yumdownloader instead. -- 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_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http:/

Re: was: Still no kmod for new nvidia- now: so Move On

2010-08-03 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
s? > Could it be used to raise funds for further development? > Does anyone care? There exists the Open Graphics Project: http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php. They are developing a completely open graphics hardware design. I have not followed them lately, but at least the site seems still quite active. -- Joonas Sarajärvi mue...@gmail.com -- 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_list_guidelines

Re: Package Hunt

2010-01-24 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
not good enough reason for upgrading? Of course you still have a few months of support in F11 available, but eventually you will probably need to upgrade it. Fedora is not very good a distro for long term use unless you have the upgrades planned into your usage. -- Joonas Sarajärvi mue...@gmail.co