Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-15 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Parker wrote: > > > adding nomodeset to the kernel params on my laptop gives me 80x25 (and > the GUI appropriately ugly) on F15 Thanks Andrew Got the 80x20 mode on console BUT the X is not booting up...ugly would have been acceptable ;-) Is there a way t

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Craig White wrote: > #1 - time to update your Fedora. F13 is EOL and soon F14 will EOL too. > Installing new packages on F13 is going to be difficult if not > impossible at the point they move the repo into archive (if they haven't > done that already). I've but I'm too lazy

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, James Wellnitz wrote: > gtkpod on F15 works well for managing music and videos on my > (non-jailbroken) iPod Touch. thanks, I'll give it a try! Could it deal with e-books as well? Walter -- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

F15: turnin off uneeded services

2011-09-15 Thread mike lan
Hello everyone I've turned most of services on F15 except of avahi-deamon which is not available in "chkconfig list" how to turn it off ? thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: F15: turnin off uneeded services

2011-09-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/09/11 09:33, mike lan wrote: > Hello everyone > > I've turned most of services on F15 except of avahi-deamon which is not > available in "chkconfig list" > > how to turn it off ? > > > thanks systemctl avahi-deamon.service disable (iirc) -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fe

Re: F15: turnin off uneeded services

2011-09-15 Thread sguazt
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/09/11 09:33, mike lan wrote: >> Hello everyone >> >> I've turned most of services on F15 except of avahi-deamon which is not >> available in "chkconfig list" >> >> how to turn it off ? >> >> >> thanks > > systemctl avahi-deamon.service

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Pedro Francisco
Why LXDE instead of XFCE? Just curious... On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe this might have come up earlier, but I would like to once again > encourage all those users who are reluctant about making the leap from Gnome >

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:44 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Craig White wrote: > > Indeed I'm not interested in passing music on the ipad but ebooks and > pdf files, I'd like to use it as a sort of e-reader. I don't know if gtkpod has any interest in managing files on an

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.09.2011 22:26, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >> To run a GUI application as the root user with KDE you need to enter >> "kdesu kwrite", either from a konsole or krunner. You will then be >> required to enter the root password before kwrite will start as a root >> application. >> Alt-F2 should b

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.09.2011 20:47, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 09/12/2011 11:05 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote: >> Wow. Thank you. I was hesitant to try KDE after reading about 4.x, but >> XFCE has brought most of the snappiness back to my machine. > There's an old trick that most of the early window managers used

Re: SVN over HTTP and mod_security

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.09.2011 03:47, schrieb Craig White: > nada - don't use mod_security, know absolutely nothing about it. > > I was going to suggest that you check and see if apache foundation has a > mail list for mod_security because you would get better answers there as > it appears no one on Fedora Users

Re: What Determines Order?

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.09.2011 15:25, schrieb Gene Poole: > I've got a mother board with 2 embedded ethernet ports. I also have an PCI > ethernet expansion board on this machine. > My question is how can I control who is eth0, eth1, and eth2? I'm running > Fedora 13 /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Re: reaching a server behind a NAT

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.2011 16:25, schrieb Christopher Svanefalk: > On 09/08/2011 01:51 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 09/08/2011 06:52 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> did you tried your NAS in DMZ mode ( add your NAS IP in DMZ mode on router ) ??? is it working ?? >>> Will try that when

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.09.2011 17:18, schrieb Daniel B. Thurman: > On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted >>> Diginotar CA certificate? Instructions given by Mozilla >>> does not remove this certifi

Re: reaching a server behind a NAT

2011-09-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.09.2011 17:20, schrieb Christopher Svanefalk: > Hey all, > > sorry if this is not purely Fedora related, but I was hoping I might get > some feedback anyhow from someone who knows more than I do. > > I have this: > > A NAT-configured router between my house and the internet. > A NAS behi

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 17:21 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 06.09.2011 17:18, schrieb Daniel B. Thurman: > > On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >>> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted > >>> Diginotar CA certific

Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Linux Experts, > I'm a linux user (Fedora 13 is on my machine) and recently I got an > ipad2. I'd like to transfer data among the linux box and the ipad2 as > itunes does on Mac/Windows is this possible? I don't need all the itunes > fu

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:09 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 13.09.2011 22:26, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > > >> To run a GUI application as the root user with KDE you need to enter > >> "kdesu kwrite", either from a konsole or krunner. You will then be > >> required to enter the root password befo

Re: [389-users] RH5 upgrade Problem Directoryserver

2011-09-15 Thread Rich Megginson
On 09/15/2011 05:05 AM, Enrico M. V. Fasanelli wrote: Hmmm. this does not works for me: On 14 Sep 2011, at 23:50, Rich Megginson wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:00 PM, Robert Viduya wrote: I'm having issues with this as well, but I'm trying to do a clean install, not an upgrade. I pulled down 389-d

Re: [389-users] RH5 upgrade Problem Directoryserver

2011-09-15 Thread Enrico M. V. Fasanelli
On 15 Sep 2011, at 15:12, Rich Megginson wrote: >> [root@dsa ~]# yum clean all >> Loaded plugins: kernel-module >> Cleaning up Everything >> >>> then >>> yum install 389-adminutil # this should install 1.1.14 which provides >>> libadminutil.so.0 and libadmsslutil.so.0 >> No. The error is: >> >

Re: Network printer not working, how to debug?

2011-09-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 09:27 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I finally got the printer to work by setting the device to > ipp://192.168.1.31/ipp. Too bad it couldn't figure that out itself. FWIW, you might well find that adding "ipp" to the end of the original dnssd device URI would also work. If

Re: [389-users] RH5 upgrade Problem Directoryserver

2011-09-15 Thread Rich Megginson
On 09/15/2011 07:36 AM, Enrico M. V. Fasanelli wrote: On 15 Sep 2011, at 15:26, Rich Megginson wrote: On 09/15/2011 07:24 AM, Enrico M. V. Fasanelli wrote: On 15 Sep 2011, at 15:12, Rich Megginson wrote: [root@dsa ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: kernel-module Cleaning up Everything the

[389-users] Solved (was Re: RH5 upgrade Problem Directoryserver)

2011-09-15 Thread Enrico M. V. Fasanelli
Ha all, I had to specify the .x86_64 architecture. So the Rich's instructions become (for me): 1) yum clean all 2) yum install 389-adminutil.x86_64 3) yum install 389-admin.x86_64 4) rpm -i http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/389-dsgw/1.1.7/2.el5/x86_64/389-dsgw-1.1.7-2.el5.x86_64.rpm 5)

Re: Epson Artisan 725: anyone using with fedora?

2011-09-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I got I/O errors when I tried sane the first time, so I followed > the links in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1817008, > only searched for rpm instead of deb, then I went on a search > for the missing libltdl3, and found an opensuse

Re: script to create dvd sized folders for backup

2011-09-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Making more progress, but script just sits there, I insert blank dvd and then > I get : > > [olivares@GHSE213-033561 ~]$ discspan.py --dir ~/Music --iso-dir ~/tmp/ > Using /etc/discspan.ini as config file. > Insert disc and wait for drive

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > why you need something as root does nobody know except you > and would you explain us what is "screwy"? I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that requires root access. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
I never really tried XFCE to be honest, guess someone else would have to give the verdict on that. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Pedro Francisco wrote: > Why LXDE instead of XFCE? Just curious... > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < > christopher.svanef...@gmail.com>

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2011 11:03 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > I never really tried XFCE to be honest, guess someone else would have to > give the verdict on that. I use F14. As soon as I learned what Gnome3 was like I did some research and ended up with XFCE. Even if they make a version of Gnome3 tha

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Have you tried LXDE as well? How would you say they differ? On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/15/2011 11:03 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > I never really tried XFCE to be honest, guess someone else would have to > > give the verdict on that. > > I use F14. As soon a

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
Jeff Wrote: >I use F14. As soon as I learned what Gnome3 was like I did some research and >ended up with XFCE. Even if they make a version of Gnome3 that I don't find >horrible I'd >never go back. I tried XFCE also and found it to be so close to the familiar Gnome 2 that I also cannot see a

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2011 11:17 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Have you tried LXDE as well? How would you say they differ? No. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedor

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2011 11:47 AM, Smith, Herb wrote: > Jeff Wrote: No, "Jeff" did not. My name is "Joe Zeff," and I'll thank you, sir, to get it right in the future. This time I'll accept that it was a careless accident, but not if it happens again. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
Yes, my dyslexia ... sorry. No offense intended. -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Joe Zeff Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:06 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: LXDE is an

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2011 12:07 PM, Smith, Herb wrote: > Yes, my dyslexia ... sorry. No offense intended. There was a time when I'd take out the Flamex 6000 and go for excessive damage on a first "offense," but I've mellowed over the years. As I wrote, I presumed it was an accident. Next time, of course,

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Joe Zeff Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:33 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2 On 09/15/2011 1

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 10:32 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > why you need something as root does nobody know except you > > and would you explain us what is "screwy"? > > I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that > requires root a

Firefox 6 crashes with (most recent) Java

2011-09-15 Thread Per Anton Rønning
The problem listed in the subject line seems to be widespread. Svereal people report this problem on various discussion lists. As soon as Firefox tries to start a plugin, it breaks down with a message "this is embarrasing" etc. I have not yet found any fix that seems to work. I tried to install

Re: Firefox 6 crashes with (most recent) Java

2011-09-15 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Per Anton Rønning [2011-09-15 17:51]: > The problem listed in the subject line seems to be widespread. Svereal > people report this problem on various discussion lists. > As soon as Firefox tries to start a plugin, it breaks down with a > message "this is embarrasing" etc. I have not yet found

Re: Firefox 6 crashes with (most recent) Java

2011-09-15 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Deepak Bhole [2011-09-15 18:19]: > * Per Anton Rønning [2011-09-15 17:51]: > > The problem listed in the subject line seems to be widespread. Svereal > > people report this problem on various discussion lists. > > As soon as Firefox tries to start a plugin, it breaks down with a > > message "

[389-users] Certificate based Authentication

2011-09-15 Thread David Partridge
Attempting to configure Certificate based authentication with SASL External such that if TLS successfully completed the user is authenticated by certificate DN as an authenticated user without the requirement for the corresponding DN to be present in the Directory Server. nsslapd-sasl-force-extern

[389-users] Certificate based Authentication

2011-09-15 Thread David Partridge
Attempting to configure Certificate based authentication with SASL External such that if TLS successfully completed the user is authenticated by certificate DN as an authenticated user without the requirement for the corresponding DN to be present in the Directory Server. nsslapd-sasl-force-extern

Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/16/2011 04:42 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > He should be able to do that using sudo or by becoming root through su - > Evidently that latter method does not work in KDE, which makes no sense > to me. The later method works perfectly well for me in KDEand always has. -- Even if you do lear

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread nomnex
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:28:54 +0100 Pedro Francisco wrote: > Why LXDE instead of XFCE? Just curious... The first time I tried XFCE, the rat and the ugly font logo, the icons, all the GUI environment was looking cheap & somewhat childish. I was not found of the file browser, the email clients (cla

Modern Firefox versions for F14?

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Kloiber
After some quick Googling, it's apparent there are 3rd party repos offering more modern Firefox versions for F14 and up. My question is why these packages are not in Fedora proper. I could not find a statement as to why this is the case. I'd have thought this would be a security issue and get f

F14 -> F15: preupgrade fails

2011-09-15 Thread sean darcy
Running F14, did yum upgrade, but can't use preupgrade to upgrade to F15: preupgrade-cli "Fedora 15 (Lovelock)" Loaded plugins: blacklist, langpacks, whiteout No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo Adding en_US to lan

Re: DNS mystery: NetworkManager vs SELinux

2011-09-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Daniel J Walsh | Well I just tried to run NetworkManager as root and see something | similar, although I also end up with the resolv.conf having bogus data | in it. I can fix F16 to label this correctly if it happens. But we | can not fix this in F15. I'm glad you can fix it. It won't

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Walter Cazzola | Indeed I'm not interested in passing music on the ipad but ebooks and | pdf files, I'd like to use it as a sort of e-reader. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the security aspects, but dropbox runs on Fedora and on an iPad, so you can share files that way. It works well

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

2011-09-15 Thread James Wellnitz
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, James Wellnitz wrote: > >> gtkpod on F15 works well for managing music and videos on my >> (non-jailbroken) iPod Touch. > > thanks, I'll give it a try! Could it deal with e-books as well? I had assumed you were talking

evolution hack?

2011-09-15 Thread Randolph Jones
fc 14, evolution 2.32.0 my inbox has suddenly started showing the same piece of mail regardless of which message I try to open. the message line appears ok, but when i click to open it I get the same piece of junk mail. this applies to all but the last message i received. i recently rolled back f

RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-15 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost. Doesn't matter what card I put in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there. So, I bought one of those "new" $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port. Surprisingly small! 802.11n capable as well! The problem? It appears in the lsusb list:

Re: Modern Firefox versions for F14?

2011-09-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 21:47, Chris Kloiber wrote: > After some quick Googling, it's apparent there are 3rd party repos > offering more modern Firefox versions for F14 and up. My question is why > these packages are not in Fedora proper. I could not find a statement as > to why this is the case.