Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich Mahn
I think this has more or less been said, but I'll say it this way. Regarding the use of the term "format". The MSDOG format program actually did (and may still -- i'm not sure) do a "low-level format" (which is laying down tracks on a disk) on floppy diskettes. Earlier microcomputer operating sy

Re: [fedora-list] Primary and secondary sendmail servers

2011-07-29 Thread Rich Mahn
Chris Adams wrote: [snip] > You really need the secondary to have some way of knowing all the valid > recipient addresses at the domain (and have any spam filtering > configured to match), so it doesn't accept mail that the primary > wouldn't. > This is more complicated; for sendmail, you have t

disabling automount in F15

2011-06-21 Thread Rich Mahn
How do I go about disabling automount in F-15. I don't want anything except what's in /etc/fstab at boot and what I mount directly. I've looked at man pages for systemd, but it's so confusing I can't find out where or what it is that's causing raw disks to become mounted. I used to be able to tu

controlling source IP on connections

2011-06-14 Thread Rich Mahn
Hi, I use openvpn as a tunnel between my office LAN and my home LAN. It works great with one exception. Connections through the tunnel originating at the VPN endpoints use the tunnel IP address as their source address. I need the local IP address to be used instead. More specifically: offi

Multicast Routing on Fedora 15

2011-05-31 Thread Rich Mahn
e about mrouted and pimd as possiblities, but I don't see either of them in Fedora repositories. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Rich Mahn -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

PDF manipulation software

2011-05-03 Thread Rich Mahn
I have dozens of PDF files containing a few thousand scanned images that I need to organize. I am looking for suggestions for PDF software that will: - rotate pages, groups of pages, or entire PDF files - re-order pages - move/copy pages from one PDF file to another without re-imaging (or wh

Re: [fedora-list] How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-06 Thread Rich Mahn
Donald Russell wrote: >I have an application that uses the logger -t command to add >specific messages in /var/log/messages. I'd like to add those in a >section of it's own in the logwatch report but am having trouble >following the information in /usr/share/doc/logwatch-7.3 in t

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Rich Mahn
On 6/24/2010 9:33 AM, Mikkel wrote: > On 06/24/2010 08:11 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> Also found in dmesg: (full file available at >> http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt ) >> >> scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 >> CCS >> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi gene

Re: no subject

2010-06-08 Thread Rich Mahn
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Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-23 Thread Rich Mahn
>> First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. >> In reality, 1gb is 1024mb. Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as >> a 320gb > In fact they are giving you more than you asked for. Giga is a prefix > for 10^x series. So really they should be giving you 10 bytes Th

Re: How to move my / partition

2010-02-16 Thread Rich Mahn
> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop > from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6), > because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness. > > Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is running? > Unfortunately the CD drive does not