Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 13:29 +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: > not necessarily appropriate for all users. SELINUX is > so horrible to use, that after wasting a large amount of time > enabling it and then watching all of my applications die a > horrible death since they didn't have the appropriate > hand

Re: Fedora 13 installation over vnc - Xvnc refuses connection

2010-08-30 Thread Ambarish Sridharanarayanan
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Ambarish Sridharanarayanan wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 13 over VNC [1], with TigerVNC on Windows as > the VNC client. In the middle, my connection dropped; when reconnecting, > TigerVNC tells me "The server is already in use". Looking at the sources, > it looks like

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Try: >> >> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t \ >>  /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so >> > OK, it works for Errno.so, but I have to do it all the files of the > package ! You can set context for all the files in a directory (such as /

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/30/2010 04:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >>> Try: >>> >>> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t \ >>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so >>> >> OK, it works for Errno.so, but I have to do it all the files of the >> package ! > You can

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Try: chcon -t texrel_shlib_t \  /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so OK, it works for Errno.so, but I have to do it all the files of the package ! You can set context for all the files in a directory (such as /usr/

Re: Fedora 13 installation over vnc - Xvnc refuses connection

2010-08-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Ambarish Sridharanarayanan wrote: > Fixed the problem by > > * downloading debug symbols for tigervnc > * extracting symbol files (rpm2cpio) > * attaching gdb to the running Xvnc process and with the help of the symbol > file, changing idleTimeOut to 1 sec, so that the stale connection would be

pkg for gnome daemon configuration

2010-08-30 Thread admin lewis
Hi, anyone know what package I've to install on fedora 12 to configure daemon/services startup ? -- 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/Maili

Re: pkg for gnome daemon configuration

2010-08-30 Thread JB
admin lewis gmail.com> writes: > > Hi,anyone know what package I've to install on fedora 12 to configure daemon/services startup ? > $ yum info chkconfig $ yum info system-config-services JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - o

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Takehiko Abe
> I've had exactly the opposite experience running SELinux, even with hand- > compiled applications from a variety of sources - including my own. You say "the opposite" but you seem to have a lot of problems and spent fair amount of time because of SELinux. And what you get in return? Nothing exce

SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Trying to install the intel compiler, I get: Your system is protected with Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux). We currently support only "Permissive" mode, which is not found on the system. To rectify this issue, you may either disable SELinux by - setting the line "SELINUX=disabled"

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Takehiko Abe
> You have to wonder if those programs had such big problems because they > were badly coded, trying to do things that they shouldn't do. So you measure the quality of the programs with SELinux. Ouch. > You see warnings with some programs about it trying to make something > executable that SELin

Re: pkg for gnome daemon configuration

2010-08-30 Thread Takehiko Abe
> anyone know what package I've to install on fedora 12 to configure > daemon/services startup ? ntsysv -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wi

Re: HP 6930p: mute button doesn't work properly

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/29/2010 01:25 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 20:09 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: >> Secondly - create an empty text file - named 'alsa-base.conf' >> Third - For content insert this single line without quotes - ' options >> snd-hda-intel pos

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/29/2010 11:27 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message: > Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for > module Math::GSL::Errno: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GS

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread JB
Patrick Dupre york.ac.uk> writes: > > Hello, > > Trying to install the intel compiler, I get: > Your system is protected with Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux). > We currently support only "Permissive" mode, which is > not found on the system. > To rectify this issue, you may either disable SEL

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:36:52 -0400 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > In this case it looks like Math:CSL either built their libraries > incorrectly or require code that triggers this access (Assemply)? Yea, it is very very simple to have a library with hand coded assembly as part of it that is missing the

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:12:14 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre wrote: > Would ou just turn off SELINX ? > I know I need to learn about SELinux ! Well, here's my opinion of selinux: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html No doubt there are those who disagree though :-). -- us

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
Dan - thank you. selinux is outstanding - and through your efforts (and others) especially on the fedora policy files, grown over the last several years into something really useful. Anti-selinux folk. It takes work to deploy it on some systems for sure and I am just learning - i have a l

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 30 August 2010 13:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:12:14 +0100 (BST) > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Would ou just turn off SELINX ? >> I know I need to learn about SELinux ! > > Well, here's my opinion of selinux: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Tim
Tim: >> You have to wonder if those programs had such big problems because they >> were badly coded, trying to do things that they shouldn't do. Takehiko Abe: > So you measure the quality of the programs with SELinux. Ouch. I certainly put bad marks against programs which do unwise things (try to

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Takehiko Abe
>> So you measure the quality of the programs with SELinux. Ouch. > > I certainly put bad marks against programs which do unwise things > Unwise according to SELinux -- another program. >> Linux is not Microsoft Windows. > > Though some programmers seem to think that it should be. Some > users,

re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon Aug 30 12:01:10 UTC 2010 Genes MailLists wrote: > Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are > grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio > buttons. Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the > latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper > to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and > it at first appears to be

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Genes MailLists writes: >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > + correct if its a different subnet than wired > + arguably wrong if its th

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2010 08:12 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to install the intel compiler, I get: > Your system is protected with Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux). > We currently support only "Permissive" mode, which is > not found on the system

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 07:54 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Genes MailLists writes: > >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > > + cor

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/30/2010 07:01 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > + correct if its a different subnet than wired > +

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
Followup - after switching to wired being on wired for a while - the radio buttons are no longer grayed out ... it now seems normal. This may be useful for the bug. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/30/2010 10:25 PM, Takehiko Abe wrote: > heh. To me it looks like many fedora users are so much traumatized by > Windows insecurity that they brought the same habits into computing on > Linux which are not necessary -- like fearing HTML mail or feeling > vulnerable without firewall or other s

Re: Advanced Format drives + RAID5 + LVM + EXT4 = migraine

2010-08-30 Thread Jake Peavy
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jake Peavy wrote: > ... > > > > > > I have a feeling my array should perform much better than this and it's > > probably because I haven't taken the 4k sector size into account and I'm > > bleeding perf

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a >> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper >> to hook itself to the

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread g
On 08/30/2010 02:30 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/381764.html > > let's keep only one thread on this open, for simpler following so close your post and follow 'genes maillist' thread, being th

Download confirmation now not prompts me!

2010-08-30 Thread Parshwa Murdia
hi, In a sudden changing manner, now if I try to update the system, using the command, [fedo...@localhost ~]$ su - Password: [r...@localhost ~]# yum update It doesn't prompt me to type in 'y' or 'n' if some downloadable update is there unlike earlier when I used to type in 'yes' to download a par

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:43:39 +, JB wrote: > > So, permissive mode is only useful for policy development. > If you do not, you may as well disable selinux. > JB Permissive mode keeps files properly labelled. If you ever use disabled mode, you need to do a relabel if you go back to permi

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Eggers
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:10:12 +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: >> I've had exactly the opposite experience running SELinux, even with >> hand- compiled applications from a variety of sources - including my >> own. > > You say "the opposite" but you seem to have a lot of problems and spent > fair amount

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, August 30, 2010 14:27:28 Genes MailLists wrote: >Dan - thank you. selinux is outstanding - and through your efforts > (and others) especially on the fedora policy files, grown over the last > several years into something really useful. [snip] > To Dan, Stephen (and the NSA) and all

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 08:20 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I wanted to make a screenshot but if I right click and then press > the stamp button I do not have the "save screenshot" pop-up... any way > to do it (without a digicamera.. ;-) Find a program that lets you taked a timed screenshot. You

Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
F13, latest updates. wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 The Datasheet says: Output Power 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11an: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11gn: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm I am r

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:41 -0700, JD wrote: > F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ±

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 11:00 AM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:41 -0700, JD wrote: >> F13, latest updates. >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 >> >> The Datasheet says: >> >> Output Power >> 802.11a: 12.5dB

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/30/2010 10:39 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 08:20 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> I wanted to make a screenshot but if I right click and then press >> the stamp button I do not have the "save screenshot" pop-up... any way >> to do it (without a digicamera.. ;-) > > Find a program th

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > >> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: >F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm >

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 11:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> I have a gateway M-6750

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: >> F13, latest updates. >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 >> >> The Datasheet says: >> >> Output Power >> 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
Alex: I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: 1. Post a new message to the list with a subject that relates to the question you're asking. "General Desktop Questions" is an un-informative subject lin

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:04:20PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 11:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:45 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: > >> F13, latest updates. > >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > >> > >> The D

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 12:28 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:45 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: F13, latest updates. wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread James Mckenzie
"Joshua C." wrote: > >Actually I need to run a simple batch file. That's why I used a >kde-livecd-f14-x86_64 and installed wine-core.i686 wine-wow.i686, >wine-common and wine-fonts. All dpendencies were pull automatically. >Wine works fine but when trying to start "wineconsole cmd" I got the >erro

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi, Regarding attaching files in Thunderbird... > You can find the files through the Thunderbird Attach menu option by > browsing to your home folder (/home/alex, for example) and searching > for the .gvfs directory. You may need to hit Ctrl-H to show hidden > files in the dialog or Ctrl-L to edi

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi Ted, > I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions > on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: Thanks for your input. I'm very surprised my questions were such that you believed pointing me to the CATB doc was necessary; I'm not new at this.

Better Firefox fonts?

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi, Quite often the fonts in a web page, or printing something from within Firefox looks blurred. Here is a sample screenshot: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7923/loc.png It's a random page I chose to exhibit the problem. Printing web pages also looks like crap, but perhaps that's something

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> >>> Geoffrey Leach wrote >>> Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM To: Fedora List Subject: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT >>>

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 August 2010 13:01, Alex wrote: > Hi Ted, > >> I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions >> on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: >> >> 1. Post a new message to the list with a subject that relates to the >> question you're asking. "Ge

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > >   Dan - thank you. selinux is outstanding - and through your efforts > (and others) especially on the fedora policy files, grown over the last > several years into something really useful. > >   Anti-selinux folk. It takes work to  depl

Re: Better Firefox fonts?

2010-08-30 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 08/30/2010 09:12 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often the fonts in a web page, or printing something from within > Firefox looks blurred. Here is a sample screenshot: > > http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7923/loc.png > > It's a random page I chose to exhibit the problem. Printing web pages >

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > lspci -n # lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > What kernel are you using? # uname -r 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > lspci -n > # lspci -n > 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) > 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) > 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) > 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) > 00:1c.1 0604:

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:38:02PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > What kernel are you using? > # uname -r > 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 mwl8k is enabled on that kernel. You can verify that it is present by running 'modinfo mwl8k'. -- John W. Li

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> |hand-crafted security policy, caused me to swear off of it. For > |me, given my threat model and how much my time is worth, life is > |too short for SELinux. > > And JWZ: > > http://jwz.livejournal.com/719608.html And if you have a machine actually plugged into the internet,

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html > > No doubt there are those who disagree though :-). Indeed - I think I'd consider a consultant who did that on my systems as setting themselves up for a negligence lawsuit if the box got hacked. Alan -- users mailing list us

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding attaching files in Thunderbird... > > This worked, but creating a bookmark didn't, unless I'm doing it wrong. > > The bookmarks to two network shares appear when in Nautilus, but not > in Thunderbird. > No, that's consistent with wh

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:46 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: >> >>> lspci -n >>> >> # lspci -n >> 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) >> 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) >> 00:1b

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:48 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > modinfo mwl8k $ modinfo mwl8k filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32.19-163.fc12.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko license:GPL author: Lennert Buytenhek version:0.10 description:Marvell TOPDOG(R) 802.11 Wireless Net

Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-30 Thread William Case
Hi; Just some clarification and double checking. I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13. I get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater. There is nothing in the repositories that I can see resembling Sun JVM. Apparently I can download and install fr

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JB
JD gmail.com> writes: > > F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Alex wrote: > Thanks for your input. I'm very surprised my questions were such that > you believed pointing me to the CATB doc was necessary; I'm not new at > this. I'm a greybeard, too, but it doesn't hurt to consider many tactics to get the answers you want. An

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Marcel Rieux
I have a somewhat similar "problem" with a wired ADSL connection. I used to disable the connection by right clicking the icon and unclicking "Enable connection". Now "Enable connection" is checked and grayed out. It's impossible to disable the connection by unchecking. BUT, it you left click and ch

Re: Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 August 2010 14:10, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Just some clarification and double checking. > > I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13.  I > get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater.  There > is nothing in the repositories that I can see re

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: > iwconfig eth0 txpower auto Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: $ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"deleted" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Pow

Re: Problem with hibernation

2010-08-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > My laptop has ceased hibernating. > When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate > the sleep-moon starts flashing > and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual, > but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk. I solved my problem by adding RAM - there w

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card - SOLVED

2010-08-30 Thread JD
A patch was submitted on Aug 25th, 2010 and integrated in 2.6.36. Google the exact phrase "rt2x00: Fix max TX power settings" so, it will be quiet a while before a fedora kernel package sees it. On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: > JD gmail.com> writes: > >>F13, latest updates. >> wifi c

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/30/2010 03:37 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > I have a somewhat similar "problem" with a wired ADSL connection. I > used to disable the connection by right clicking the icon and > unclicking "Enable connection". Now "Enable connection" is checked and > grayed out. It's impossible to disable the con

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Darr
On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto > Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html suggests the RAW_TXPOWER_SETTING parameter needs to be

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/8/30 James Mckenzie : > "Joshua C." wrote: >> >>Actually I need to run a simple batch file. That's why I used a >>kde-livecd-f14-x86_64 and installed wine-core.i686 wine-wow.i686, >>wine-common and wine-fonts. All dpendencies were pull automatically. >>Wine works fine but when trying to start

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 03:31 PM, Darr wrote: > On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > >> On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >>> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto >> Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: > > http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html > sugges

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-30 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 08/30/2010 01:14:42 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > >> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > >> > >>> Geoffrey Leach wrote > >>> > Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM > To: Fedora

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 03:31 PM, Darr wrote: > On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > >> On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >>> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto >> Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: > > http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html > sugges

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread JB
Alan Cox lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html > > > > No doubt there are those who disagree though . > > Indeed - I think I'd consider a consultant who did that on my systems as > setting themselves up for a negligence lawsuit if

Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well as SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in Chinese became black squares or question marks when listing them, and there were additional strings "invalid encoding" attached after each filename. In addit

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 08:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well > as SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in > Chinese became black squares or question marks when listing them, and > there were additional strings "invalid

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response. Does this help? yum groupinstall "Chinese Support" -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for reply. I tried *yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"*, then restart the server, but didn't get any luck. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > > Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response. > > Does this

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for reply. 1. Where did the imported files come from? Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. 2. Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for example, GB2312? Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to convert them to GB2312 ? On Tue, Aug 31, 201

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Quan Qiu writes: « HTML content follows » Thanks for reply. 1.  Where did the imported files come from? Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. 2.  Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for example, GB2312? Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to co

grub-install question

2010-08-30 Thread JD
A friend has a PC with windows only on the main boot disk, and another windows + F13 on the second disk. Because he did not install grub on sda, he can only boot windows on sda. Bios boot menu does not allow him to select the second disk for booting. Only way he can boot second disk is by disabl

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread L
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Quan Qiu writes: > >> « HTML content follows » >> Thanks for reply. >> >> 1.  Where did the imported files come from? >> >> Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. >> >> 2.  Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Jens Petersen
> ls | while read filename > do > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > done Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 11:18 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: >> ls | while read filename >> do >> mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" >> done > Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. Hadn't known about that command. Thanks Sometimes the hardest thing is to

Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. My movie player will not work. Error message below.. The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer plugin which is not installed. Neither yum or the package manager could find it. I googled and got a 1000 hits.

Re: Problem with hibernation

2010-08-30 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/31 Timothy Murphy : <--SNIP--> > > I solved my problem by adding RAM - > there was 512MB, and I added 1GB. > After this, to my surprise, hibernation worked again. > So it seems the cause was a shortage of memory. > I'm rather surprised, as I have (and had) 2GB swap space. > > > -- > Timothy

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 08:31 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. > > My movie player will not work. > > Error message below.. > > The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) > demuxer plugin which is not installed. > > > Neither yum or

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/31 Ed Greshko : <--SNIP--> > > Hadn't known about that command. Thanks > > Sometimes the hardest thing is to determine what encoding the file names > are in to start. :-( > > -- > A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北 > 市八德路四段 > > For that purpose there's a p

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 01:15:15 JB wrote: > Well, if selinux is the best that happened to security since sliced bread, > then why people make these comments ? Umm, let me see... :-) (a) because SELinux has a learning curve; (b) because SELinux uncovers bad admin practices by breaking lousy c

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks a lot. You are very right about this problem! Now, Fedora can display Chinese file names properly although the font doesn't look pretty. :-D One more question, when I used Putty to SSH the server, all files named in Chinese couldn't display properly. Is that because of the Putty doesn't sup

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 11:54 AM, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/8/31 Ed Greshko : > <--SNIP--> >> Hadn't known about that command. Thanks >> >> Sometimes the hardest thing is to determine what encoding the file names >> are in to start. :-( >> >> -- >> A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you. 葛斯克 愛德華

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for pointing. I will look at the convmv tool On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: > > ls | while read filename > > do > > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > > done > > Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. > -- > u

  1   2   >