Fedora release policy and KDE

2010-08-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm quite new to Fedora (though using Linux for the last 10 years or so), and I have a question about Fedora's release policy. I understand it's a "bleeding edge" distro. New package versions seem more or less integrated as soon as they come out. How about KDE point releases? Is KDE 4.5 d

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 00:27 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based > system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w > power supply. All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. > > Say those systems have been runni

Re: Fedora release policy and KDE

2010-08-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:04 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite new to Fedora (though using Linux for the last 10 years or so), and > I have a question about Fedora's release policy. I understand it's a > "bleeding > edge" distro. New package versions seem more or less integrated as s

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 10:27 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based > system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w > power supply. That is seriously overloaded I would say! Every motherboard should draw about

Building Android on Fedora 13

2010-08-18 Thread Ian Pilcher
I just went through the process of building the Android 2.1 and 2.2 userspace on Fedora 13. Since Google revealed more questions than answers when I ran into issues, I have written up what I did: OpenOffice.org version: http://mysite.verizon.net/ian.pilcher/f13-android-howto.odt (Verizon's

Re: Building Android on Fedora 13

2010-08-18 Thread Gavin Spurgeon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/2010 09:45 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I just went through the process of building the Android 2.1 and 2.2 > userspace on Fedora 13. Since Google revealed more questions than > answers when I ran into issues, I have written up what I did: > > O

Re: Building Android on Fedora 13

2010-08-18 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 08/18/2010 03:54 AM, Gavin Spurgeon wrote: > .pdf the file via OOo ? http://mysite.verizon.net/ian.pilcher/f13-android-howto.pdf ($DIETY, that's bloated. Probably embedding fonts. Anyone know how to turn that off?) --

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Gordon Messmer: >> You'll want to arrange a smart-host through which you can route all of >> your outbound mail. JD: > I talked to them, and I am able to at least send out email. Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of addresses your ISP doles out to its private custome

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Dyndns, and other such things, are useful for giving yourself a hostname >> that you can control, to a static IP. But aren't going to be much good >> if you have a dynamic IP. Private webserving's easy enough with a >> varying IP, mail serving's another matter. PaulCartwright: > You can

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 00:27 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I would guess that too much juice might hurt the systems, The voltage must be correct, but that's not one of the variables. The power is (which is voltage times current, to put it simply). A power supply is capable of supplying up to the

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 06:31 PM, Tim wrote: > Whether it be monthly, or more rapidly, SMTP servers aren't supposed to > change (numerical IP) addresses. It's not a good idea to run a SMTP > server from a dynamic address. When your address changes, you lose mail > (from anything that cached your IP, and k

Re: Building Android on Fedora 13

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 04:07 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > $DIETY, that's bloated. Probably embedding fonts. Anyone know how to > turn that off? Brute force and ignorance method: Author your document using the same default fonts already supported by PDF files. Info: http://www.pdfbox.org/usergui

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 06:28 PM, Tim wrote: > Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of > addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a > blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail > servers, or their incoming mail filters, to o

Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate. pgpfNvSVersCu.pgp Descriptio

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/18/10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but > this server does not need to h

Re: Introduction

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Cheers, Cheers. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- 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: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but > this serv

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread JB
Sam Varshavchik courier-mta.com> writes: > > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but > this server does

forwarding Syslog messages on localhost:514

2010-08-18 Thread Mansuri, Wasim (NSN - IN/Bangalore)
Hello, I have following problem with respect to syslogd on fedora13. With the following configuration in the /etc/syslog.conf i should be able to receive all syslog messages on localhost:514 port. *.* @localhost I am not getting anything on localhost:514. However if additionally i give foll

Re: forwarding Syslog messages on localhost:514

2010-08-18 Thread Gavin Spurgeon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/2010 12:48 PM, Mansuri, Wasim (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote: > > Hello, > > I have following problem with respect to syslogd on fedora13. > > With the following configuration in the /etc/syslog.conf i should be able to > receive all syslog m

Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
hi, I have a kingston 32 GB pen drive which I tried to format but it is showing me the following error: Error mounting device org.freeDesktop.DeviceKitDisks.Error.Failed: Not a mountable file system But when I insert any other per drive it works. Is there any remedy for this? -- Regards, Parshw

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-18 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 16/08/10 16:05, g wrote: > > i look forward to hearing more of what you find. > > now i will have someone to fall back on when i change my > linksys wrt54g. (gbwg) > > > later > I think I have the Netgear WNDR3300 set up as a router but I'm stumped when it comes to telling th

Re: SSSD and Kerberos tickets

2010-08-18 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/2010 05:02 PM, Christoph Höger wrote: > >> If you had access to the school's LDAP setup (and I suspect they'd tell >> you if you asked) SSSD does what you're looking for internally. > > Neither do I have access to that LDAP (though it might

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:52:41 am Thomas Cameron did opine: > Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based > system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w > power supply. All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. > > Say those systems have be

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Mikkel
On 08/18/2010 07:27 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > I have a kingston 32 GB pen drive which I tried to format but it is > showing me the following error: > > Error mounting device > org.freeDesktop.DeviceKitDisks.Error.Failed: Not a mountable file system > > But when I insert any other pen driv

Re: Wifi Monitor

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/17/2010 10:19 PM, Dick Roark wrote: >> How about NetworkManager? Works fine for me: > > >Dont think it shows all the AP's and their MAC addresses, nor their > current quality etc - i dont even think it shows the mac for the AP > you're currently connected to -

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Whether it be monthly, or more rapidly, SMTP servers aren't supposed to >> change (numerical IP) addresses. It's not a good idea to run a SMTP >> server from a dynamic address. When your address changes, you lose mail >> (from anything that cached your IP, and keeps on using the cached >>

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of >> addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a >> blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail >> servers, or their incoming mail filters, to only accept mail sent from >

Re: FC13 network install using local repos

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:12 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm trying to do an install from a network export of the install DVD and >> a repo created from /var/cache/yum which has every upgrade and install >> RPM I've ever pulled off the network. I tried putting the c

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/17/2010 02:08 AM, Tom H wrote: > #! /bin/sh >> IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy INPUT ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy FORWARD ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy OUTPUT ACCEPT > > >Not saying I'm commenting on t

Re: Fedora release policy and KDE

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:04 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite new to Fedora (though using Linux for the last 10 years or so), and > I have a question about Fedora's release policy. I understand it's a > "bleeding > edge" distro. New package versions seem more or less integrated as s

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mikkel wrote: > Can you post the output of "fdisk -l" with the drive plugged in? The output of "fdisk -l" is (pen drive plugged in): Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225

Re: [389-users] Clarification on admin server and console

2010-08-18 Thread Gerrard Geldenhuis
>> >> What is also frustrating is that the script is so quiet about why it failed. >> I was running setup-ds-admin with -ddd It appears that the script used to >> configure the >>admin server does net get passed the debug flags. >> >> Any further ideas? >> >I was afraid of that. The admin server

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:37 +, JB wrote: > Sam Varshavchik courier-mta.com> writes: > > > > > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > > set up? I do understand that a swap pa

Re: FC13 network install using local repos

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:40 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > If it's any use, here's my /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo file: > > > Thanks, my problem is getting the cached RPMs to work. Without going into the sordid details, this might be easier: yum install yum-plugin-local That will automatically

Re: [389-users] Clarification on admin server and console

2010-08-18 Thread Rich Megginson
Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: >>> What is also frustrating is that the script is so quiet about why it >>> failed. I was running setup-ds-admin with -ddd It appears that the script >>> used to configure the >>admin server does net get passed the debug flags. >>> >>> Any further ideas? >>> >>>

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: > I have done all that. Really. ISP (at&t) has unblocked port 25 > per my request. So I can indeed smtp out. But when an smtp request > comes in to the router, the router seems to get confused as to the > session type - and calls is an Unknown session type, and blocks > the request. Rout

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 09:13 PM, Tim wrote: > The trouble is that the problem is external, and out of your control. > Others can use any number of filtering techniques, good or bad. If your > on just one black list, that's a problem. Yes, many things are external to ones system and out of ones control.

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:27 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mikkel wrote: > > > Can you post the output of "fdisk -l" with the drive plugged in? > > > The output of "fdisk -l" is (pen drive plugged in): > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 head

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 02:34 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 00:27 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based >> system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w >> power supply. All running Linux,

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/18/2010 03:18 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Does running 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' as root allow you to create and save > new partitions? Probably want just 'fdisk /dev/sdb' if you're planning to create partitions and save the table - the -l switch will cause the program to print the current

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2010 08:28 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 07:50 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 05:10 PM, JD wrote: >>>On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 08/

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 02:36 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 10:27 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based >> system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w >> power supply. > > That is seriously overloaded

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:52:41 am Thomas Cameron did opine: > >> Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based >> system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w >> power supply. All running Linux,

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:18 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Parsha, > > Does running 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' as root allow you to create and save > new partitions? Parsha, Very sorry. Leave out the '-l'. Should not hit the Send button just after the telephone rings. --Doc Savage Fairview

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Does running 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' as root allow you to create and save > new partitions? docsavge, yes. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

[389-users] Variables in ldif files

2010-08-18 Thread Gerrard Geldenhuis
Hi Is there any standard script that comes with 389 that can take a set of parameters and replace those parameters in a ldif file? For example the parameters specified in /usr/share/dirsrv/data/template-suffix-db.ldif dn: cn=%ds_bename%,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config I can write my own b

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Probably want just 'fdisk /dev/sdb' if you're planning to create > partitions and save the table - the -l switch will cause the program to > print the current table on sdb and exit. Not planning that but only wanted to have the pen drive

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 09:06 PM, Tim wrote: > While the next person to get your IP mayn't actually receive mail, > they'll still get attempts to connect to their SMTP server, whether or > not they even have them, until other people's systems find out about > your new IP. Sure. As a matter of fact, I did

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Very sorry. Leave out the '-l'. Should not hit the Send button just > after the telephone rings. docsavge, Yes. leaving i would have to check. Just after the telephone ring, one should not hit the Send button. -- Regards, Parsh

Re: Building Android on Fedora 13

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Klinke
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 03:45, Ian Pilcher wrote: > http://mysite.verizon.net/ian.pilcher/f13-android-howto.html Thanks for the FC13 notes! I don't know if you're limiting your How-to to FroYo and earlier builds so the change to a mandatory 64 bit build environment and Java 1.6 in the last

Re: kernel crash

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:44:16 +0300 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:08 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:12:16 +0930 > > Tim wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:05 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > I've been looking at my logs some more. I don't u

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 07:22 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I've replaced all the PSUs with 500 watt units. I was really more > worried about whether I did any permanent damage to any of the system > components. Now only time will tell. If you see the problems persisting then you have, otherwi

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/18/2010 04:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate. Depends on the purpose of the machine. Desktops oft

NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64 not running.

2010-08-18 Thread Jim
NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64 already installed and latest version But It won't start, It doesn't show up in /usr/bin/wifi-radar or /etc/wifi-radar.conf . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based > system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w > power supply.  All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. Wiser folks than me have chimed in, but I

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread James Mckenzie
Andras Simon wrote: >Sent: Aug 18, 2010 4:20 AM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty > >On 8/18/10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. >> >> With this amount of RAM being suffic

Re: kernel crash

2010-08-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:41 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:44:16 +0300 > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:08 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:12:16 +0930 > > > Tim wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:05 -0400, Steve

Re: kernel crash

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:44:53 +1000 David wrote: > On 18 August 2010 09:22, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> > > If this line is for real: > >  194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   116   253   000    Old_age > > Always > >  -       34 > > > > Then your drive is running hotter than boiling water and has

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread James Mckenzie
Kwan Lowe wrote: >Sent: Aug 18, 2010 8:37 AM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system? > >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Thomas Cameron > wrote: >> Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based >

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/18/10, James Mckenzie wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >>I'm not sure what you mean by "need", but Fedora will run without a >>swap partition. >> > It will, that is true, but from my UNIX training, it is always a good idea > to have a swap partition, but you don't have to follow the 2x rule. 5

Re: kernel crash

2010-08-18 Thread David
On 19 August 2010 00:41, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > Running sensors-detect produced the same /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors > file that I already had. Running sensors shows this: > > +3.3 Voltage: +1.68 V (min = +3.00 V, max = +3.60 V) > +5.0 Voltage: +1.62 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Mikkel
On 08/18/2010 08:57 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554432000 bytes > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 32000 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > I don't

Re: kernel crash [SOLVED]

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:07:18 +0300 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:44 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > I leave my computer on 24/7 so that my backups can run at night. > > Lately, it has been crashing during the night usually leaving no > > trace of what happened. Last night it c

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Mikkel
On 08/18/2010 10:55 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> Sent: Aug 18, 2010 4:20 AM >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Subject: Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty >> >> On 8/18/10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: > Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of > addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a > blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail > servers, or their incoming mail filters, to

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 01:28:56 pm Thomas Cameron did opine: [...] > Thanks, Gene, much appreciated. I've upgraded to 500w PSUs. Do you > think I did any damage to the system components? That remains to be detected. Depending on how the drive runs its servo's, poor power could mean p

Re: FC13 network install using local repos

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:40 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> If it's any use, here's my /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo file: >>> >> Thanks, my problem is getting the cached RPMs to work. > > Without going into the sordid details, this might be easier: > > yum install yum-

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate.

Re: forwarding Syslog messages on localhost:514

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mansuri, Wasim (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote: > Hello, > > I have following problem with respect to syslogd on fedora13. > > With the following configuration in the /etc/syslog.conf i should be able to > receive all syslog messages on localhost:514 port. > > *.* @localhost > > I am not getting a

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/17/2010 02:08 AM, Tom H wrote: >  #! /bin/sh >> IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy INPUT ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy FORWARD ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy OUTPUT ACCEPT > >   N

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Tom H
>  On 08/17/2010 08:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 11:36 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> Well, what does your iptables start out with? >>      iptables -P INPUT  DROP >>      iptables -P OUTPUT DROP >>      iptables -P FORWARD DRO > Sorry, my question was not clear. > I meant cat the first few

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 01:06 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 02:08 AM, Tom H wrote: >> #! /bin/sh >>> IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" >>> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy INPUT ACCEPT >>> $IPTABLES --table filter --policy FORWARD ACCEPT >>> $IPTABL

[389-users] GOSA as a frontend for the 389 Directory Server?

2010-08-18 Thread Stefan-Michael Guenther
Hello, one of our clients wants to use GOSA (https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/) as a frontend for the 389 DS. I found a number of postings that configuring GOSA to work with the 398 DS isn't easy. Therefore my question is whether anyone has a working combination and might publish a howto on i

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread suvayu ali
On 18 August 2010 09:08, James Mckenzie wrote: > Maybe a brand name's power supply would have not shorted out, but then the > mobo, drives and everything else would have received a 6000 volt shock.  And > yes, the UPS was brand name (highly rated BTW) but the short duration was so > short that

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >> Probably want just 'fdisk /dev/sdb' if you're planning to create >> partitions and save the table - the -l switch will cause the program to >> print the current table on sdb and exit. > > > Not planning that but

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: > On 08/18/2010 01:06 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> On 08/17/2010 02:08 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> #! /bin/sh IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" $IPTABLES --table filter --policy INPUT ACCEPT $IPTABLES --table filter --policy FORWARD

Re: Fedora 13 networking performs extremely well

2010-08-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:33:16 -0400, Uwe Zimmermann wrote: > > Can some expert point me at a specific fix (spec, kernel module, source > code revision) that could account for this? It would be in the networking > code, possibly the socket demultiplexer. I have looked for this for a > while a

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:28 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > On 08/18/2010 08:57 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554432000 bytes > > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 32000 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x > > > >Device

Re: Fedora 13 networking performs extremely well

2010-08-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Uwe Zimmermann wrote: > > Hello, > > our product "MIMIC Simulator" has been running on Fedora for a long time > (eg. see > > http://www.gambitcomm.com/site/support/support_platforms.shtml > > ).  But, we have seen a steady decline in performance over successive > ve

Kernel bug in F11

2010-08-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Any chance this http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml will be fixed for F11? I know F11 is EOL but sometimes this has been overlooked if it's a really big bug, like this one. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Cana

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-18 Thread jdow
From: "g" Sent: Saturday, 2010/August/07 17:15 "yes, the higher the frequency, the greater the loss. but there is 'low loss' coax for vhf and micro freqs." "get your head out of cb radio days and rg58 days. :)" Gene has more experience with RF in his little finger than it sounds like "g" has

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread James Mckenzie
suvayu ali wrote: >Sent: Aug 18, 2010 1:31 PM >To: James Mckenzie , Community support for Fedora >users >Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system? > >On 18 August 2010 09:08, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Maybe a brand name's power supply would have not shorted out,

Re: Kernel bug in F11

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:16:07 -0700 Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Any chance this > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml > > will be fixed for F11? I know F11 is EOL but sometimes this has been > overlooked if it's a really big bug, like

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Mikkel
On 08/18/2010 04:10 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:28 -0500, Mikkel wrote: >> Off hand, it looks like you did something like "mke2fs /dev/sdb". >> While this is valid, it creates a drive without a partition table. >> This causes problems for the auto-mount software. >> >> While

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:28 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > > On 08/18/2010 08:57 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554432000 bytes > > > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 32000 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/18/2010 05:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server doe

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Kwan Lowe wrote: >>Sent: Aug 18, 2010 8:37 AM >>To: Community support for Fedora users >>Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system? >> >>On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Thomas Cameron > I had a system sa

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Mikkel
On 08/18/2010 04:18 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> Sent: Aug 18, 2010 1:31 PM >> To: James Mckenzie , Community support for >> Fedora users >> Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system? >> >> On 18 August 2010 09:08, James Mckenzie wrote: >>> M

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread JD
Thanks to all who made important suggestions. It now works. -- 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: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 06:49:35 pm James Mckenzie did opine: > suvayu ali wrote: > >Sent: Aug 18, 2010 1:31 PM > >To: James Mckenzie , Community support for > >Fedora users Subject: Re: Somewhat OT > >- can underpowered power supplies damage a system? > > > >On 18 August 2010 09:08, James

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: > Thanks to all who made important suggestions. > It now works. Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* it was solved. That's the point. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/2010 07:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > set > up? I do understand that a swap partition i

Fedora can't detect PCI devices

2010-08-18 Thread Brian C. Huffman
I just installed a new motherboard and memory in a machine that was previously working well. Unfortunately now the machine won't detect any of the PCI cards that are installed. The PCI-Express Video card is the exception - that's working fine. The motherboard in question is an Intel DP43BF.

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: >> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. >> It now works. > Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* > it was solved. That's the point. > > poc > Well, it was no

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen patches merged to upstream Linux 2.6.36, plans for 2.6.37?

2010-08-18 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
Dear Pasi, Xen developers, and Han Weidong of Intel Corporation, I have made a video demonstrating Intel IGD (primary VGA adapter) VGA passthrough to Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU virtual machine with Xen 4.0.1-rc6-pre and Jeremy Fitzhardinge's pv-ops dom0 kernel 2.6.32.19 on 18 August 2010

Re: Kernel bug in F11

2010-08-18 Thread James McKenzie
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Any chance this > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml > > will be fixed for F11? I know F11 is EOL but sometimes this has been > overlooked if it's a really big bug, like this one. > > Is there a particula

kernel BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/2513/0x10000001

2010-08-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have downloaded/compiled and installed kernel 2.6.35.2 on one of my machines. I get the above bug with details following: I get the message that there is a kernel oops, but I can't report it since the kernel is not a Fedora kernel and abrt does not work :( Is there a way I can s

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/18/2010 09:08 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: >>> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. >>> It now works. >> Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* >> it was solved.

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-18 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 @12:46 zulu, Bob Goodwin scribed: >I found a place under "Services" where I can start listing the >assignments I want but it wont let me save or apply them. That's the right place. But on the Setup Basic page you should set the DHCP scope to exclude t

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