Re: School me on server hard drive management. (Hot swap, SATA channels, LVM, backup, etc.)

2011-09-30 Thread David
On 29 September 2011 23:46, linux guy wrote: > > Is there an easy was to know if a disk is mounted and act accordingly or > prevent data from being written to a mountpoint ? Here is how I prevent data accidentally being written to a unmounted mountpoint. You must first ensure that "/example/mount

Re: I've got an interesting problem (at least to me).....

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Martin
On 09/29/2011 10:45 AM, Joe Wulf wrote: > Interesting thread. :) > > I would like to know a bit more about your process for booting knoppix (which > version/edition, too) and rsync'ing between the two > partitions. Thanks. > > > ---

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-09-30 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2011 08:14 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > SELinux rules. Look into /var/log/messages and > /var/log/audit/audit.log. at least in my case. chrome works well on > F15. > > > On 29 September 2011 19:05, jackson byers > wrote: >> $ uname -r 2.6.

How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Volovics
I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad - TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint After install of F15 the trackpoint works but not the touchpad. The scroll f

Kernel Questions (pos compiling)

2011-09-30 Thread Jo�o Daniel Neves
Hi folks, I have compiled kernel 3.1 rc7 under Fedora 15. Compiling the kernel drive me into a several question. I tought that if I remove support for hardware that I wont use it would improve performance (at least boot time ). But booting from my new kernel (instead of the 'old' fedora ker

Re: Kernel Questions (pos compiling)

2011-09-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Hi Jo�o, Please don't send HTML mail to the list - you can find the posting guidelines here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines On 09/30/2011 01:55 PM, Jo�o Daniel Neves wrote: > So I discovered that my initramfs file was to large. About 112 MB. > Fedora intramfs is about 15Mb

Re: Fedora Users responsibility to Developers [scratch] Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-30 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 20:15 -0700, jdow wrote: > 1) Respect > > Writing software is not the slam dunk simple thing most people seem to > think it to be based on their whining and carping. Please respect the > effort. Dive in and try something simple yourself. A most interesting > language is 2 yea

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
Speaking of which, what is a good way to compare the files in two directories (recursively, of course) to ensure that they are exactly the same ? Something like diff for files ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:18:12 -0600, linux guy wrote: > Speaking of which, what is a good way to compare the files in two > directories (recursively, of course) to ensure that they are exactly the > same ? > > Something like diff for files ? diff -rq -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 19:33, linux guy wrote: > It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you > know what you are doing. This exemplifies the problem with FOSS software and the "here's the recipe on how to fix it" culture, . Don't get me wrong, I'm not throwing bla

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:18 AM, linux guy wrote: > Speaking of which, what is a good way to compare the files in two > directories (recursively, of course) to ensure that they are exactly the > same ? > > Something like diff for files ? As opposed to diff for non files? :) I think you mean non

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Malone
On 30 September 2011 16:32, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 19:33, linux guy wrote: >> It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you >> know what you are doing. > > This exemplifies the problem with FOSS software and the "here's the > recipe on how t

Re: How to rebuild the kernel for the network install

2011-09-30 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:57 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: > As the title says, I'd like to reinstall fedora 15 with the netinstall > image because it's about 100mb (kernel and initrd) instead of the > install dvds. My problem is that those files located in > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/l

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/30/2011 08:32 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > a. A BUG REPORT ON FDISK is entered, so that: > * It works correctly on drives bigger than 2TB, or > * (interim solution) it displays a user-friendly message telling the user > that for big drives as (the current drive size) gparted is

Re: difference between "ping -I INTERFACE" and "ping -I IPADDRESS" ?

2011-09-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
JB wrote: > Frantisek Hanzlik hanzlici.cz> writes: > >> ... > > Just a wild guess if you want to try. > > Turn off ICMP redirect: > # echo "0' > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects > # echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/send_redirects > > Flush arp cache: > # ip neigh flush all >

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 14:25, Joe Zeff wrote: > > And, there'd be more progress if people filed bug reports instead of > just ranting that somebody else shou I was just making an observation, trying to influence people who DO experience problems to actually FILE BUGS rather than just coming up w

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
Lets be clear here. There isn't really a bug in fdisk. It just doesn't handle any partition table types other than MSDOS. And MSDOS type partition tables have the 2 TB limitation, not fdisk. I don't blame developers for not updating fdisk. I think its an inferior tool to parted (and gparted).

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
I file my fair share of bugs. Generally I like to post issues to discussion groups (mailing lists) to be sure there is indeed an issue and that I am not overlooking something. Lets see where this discussion goes and then I/we can determine if it warrants a bugzilla entry. When I was working on t

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
As for the automount gpt issue, as far as I can tell, kernel support for gpt is fairly new. I'm sure this issue will be address shortly, if it hasn't been already. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/30/2011 10:54 AM, linux guy wrote: > Now... could fdisk (and gparted) be improved ? Absolutely.Here is how: As we're discussing in a different thread, if you want this done, file a feature request in Bugzilla. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/30/2011 10:57 AM, linux guy wrote: > I file my fair share of bugs. Generally I like to post issues to > discussion groups (mailing lists) to be sure there is indeed an issue > and that I am not overlooking something. > > Lets see where this discussion goes and then I/we can determine if it >

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 14:54, linux guy wrote: > Lets be clear here.   There isn't really a bug in fdisk. If it doesn't want the user about this, I consider it a bug. lack of documentation and human-readable feedback is a bug. :) Like you say, firing fdisk on a >2TB disk should give users SOME

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:00 PM, linux guy wrote: As for the automount gpt issue, as far as I can tell, kernel support for gpt is fairly new. I'm sure this issue will be address shortly, if it hasn't been already. I've been using a GPT disk in my laptop for quite a while, F12 at least, dual

Re: difference between "ping -I INTERFACE" and "ping -I IPADDRESS" ?

2011-09-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Kernel Guardian wrote: > On 29 September 2011 09:56, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > > How are you create rules? (maybe there is a problem?) > what do you want to achieve with wifi* adsl table, load balancing or > splitting access? I tried create rules with Fedora convention - via appropriate files i

More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Aaron Konstam
I don't know when this happened but unetbootin-linux-555 is now available. This allows dozens of live Linux distributions to be downloaded onto a USB stick. The new version includes Fedora 15. The yum available unetbootin does not allow this. You can download it from: http://www.unetbootin.sou

e1000e startup problem

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin H. Hobbs
I have a fedora 14 server here who's ethernet interface seems to take just a bit too long to establish a link. Whenever it starts it is inaccessible over the network, which is a real pain for a server. I have to go over with the monitor and keyboard, crawl under the desk... When I try to restart

Re: How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo > T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. > > cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: > - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad > - TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint > > Af

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:59 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > I don't know when this happened but unetbootin-linux-555 is now > available. This allows dozens of live Linux distributions to be > downloaded onto a USB stick. The new version includes Fedora 15. The yum > available unetbootin does not

Re: difference between "ping -I INTERFACE" and "ping -I IPADDRESS" ?

2011-09-30 Thread JB
Frantisek Hanzlik hanzlici.cz> writes: > ... Suggestions: 1. use -R option to see routing (like ping plus traceroute in one) Perhaps it will give you some clue about how it travels. # ping -R -n -c 2 -I source_ip target_ip # ping -R -n -c 2 -I source_if target_ip You may try with

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/30, Ranjan Maitra : > It does not? Mine does. However, what it does not (and from the > screenshots on the referred-to page still may not) provide is > downloading other spins from Fedora such as LXDE, XFCE and the like. What prevents you from downloading them yourself? Does unetbootin onl

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-09-30 Thread jackson byers
Daniel J Walsh replied >This is definitely something in SELinux. The current upstream google >chrome is a little strange from an SELinux point of view. Have you >tried chromium? >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium well, no. Advice on this llist over last year or so is that google-chro

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:59 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> snip > This allowed me to download the latest Ubuntu version. I admit the > interface as at leas as weird as Gnome 3. If you like weird, take a look at Mandriva's KDE desktop. Their motto: "You want stinkin' icons? We'll give you sti

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 13:51 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:59 -0500 Aaron Konstam > wrote: > > > I don't know when this happened but unetbootin-linux-555 is now > > available. This allows dozens of live Linux distributions to be > > downloaded onto a USB stick. The new

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:25:18 -0500 Andras Simon wrote: > 2011/9/30, Ranjan Maitra : > > > It does not? Mine does. However, what it does not (and from the > > screenshots on the referred-to page still may not) provide is > > downloading other spins from Fedora such as LXDE, XFCE and the like. >

Re: e1000e startup problem

2011-09-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/30/2011 11:37 AM, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > I have a fedora 14 server here who's ethernet interface seems to take > just a bit too long to establish a link. > > Whenever it starts it is inaccessible over the network, which is a real > pain for a server. I have to go over with the monitor and k

Re: How to rebuild the kernel for the network install

2011-09-30 Thread Joshua C.
2011/9/30 David Lehman : > On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:57 +0200, Joshua C. wrote: >> As the title says, I'd like to reinstall fedora 15 with the netinstall >> image because it's about 100mb (kernel and initrd) instead of the >> install dvds. My problem is that those files located in >> http://download

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:00 PM, linux guy wrote: > > As for the automount gpt issue, as far as I can tell, kernel support for >> gpt is fairly new. I'm sure this issue will be address shortly, if it >> hasn't been already. >> > > I've been us

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:56 PM, linux guy wrote: > > Great tip ! Thanks for sharing that. > > I forgot to say, FOSS ROCKS ! It ain't perfect, but its very, very good and for the most part it gets better with every release. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: More live linux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:30:08 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 13:51 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:59 -0500 Aaron Konstam > > wrote: > > > > > I don't know when this happened but unetbootin-linux-555 is now > > > available. This allows dozens of li

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:40 PM, jackson byers wrote: > Daniel J Walsh replied > > >>This is definitely something in SELinux.   The current upstream google >>chrome is a little strange from an SELinux point of view.  Have you >>tried chromium? > >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium > > > well,

Re: More liive linuux distributions available

2011-09-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/30/2011 01:30 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > There seems to be a misunderstanding. I am talking about being able to > download distributions. You are interested in DEs. If you want let us > say LXDE under F15 you install F15 with its default DE and then install > LXDE using yum. Or, you can inst

Frostwire execution problem

2011-09-30 Thread mickey
F15 I installed frostwire and executed same and got error, can someone tell what this error message means. $ frostwire HOSTNAME IS BigOne Starting FrostWire... Java exec found in PATH. Verifying... Suitable java version found [java = 1.6.0_27] Configuring environment... Loading FrostWire: ls:

installed but not installed.

2011-09-30 Thread Joao Daniel
So guys, I need to install snort on a machine. It seems that snort need a library called daq and libpcap version > 1.0 [root@localhost daq-0.6.1]# find / -name *libpcap* /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so.1.1.1 /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so.1 /lib/lib/libpca

Re: installed but not installed.

2011-09-30 Thread Rohan Sheth
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Joao Daniel wrote: > >  ERROR!  Libpcap library version >= 1.0.0  not found. >     Get it from http://www.tcpdump.org I think you need libpcap-devel to build against libpcap. Try yum installing that and giving your configure another go. -Rohan -- users mailing

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:12 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 14:54, linux guy wrote: > > Lets be clear here. There isn't really a bug in fdisk. > > If it doesn't want the user about this, I consider it a bug. lack of > documentation and human-readable feedback is a bug. :

Re: difference between "ping -I INTERFACE" and "ping -I IPADDRESS" ?

2011-09-30 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
JB wrote: > Frantisek Hanzlik hanzlici.cz> writes: > >> ... > > Suggestions: > > 1. use -R option to see routing (like ping plus traceroute in one) >Perhaps it will give you some clue about how it travels. ># ping -R -n -c 2 -I source_ip target_ip ># ping -R -n -c 2 -I source_if ta

Re: Fedora Users responsibility to Developers [scratch] Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:56 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I wish I had any evidence that developers listen to the suggestions you > want to send them. I have seen no such evidence. I would assume most of > the people on this list are well aware of the difficulty of programming > secure and "foolpr

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:57, Craig White wrote: > I don't think this exemplifies the problem with FOSS software except for > maybe indicating that sometimes the information is there for all to see > but some people don't actually look and rely upon misinformed web pages, > people, etc. I used t

If "DBAN" was one of the Fedora install-disk options...

2011-09-30 Thread Linda McLeod
My IP and OS are a vandalism target of mindless childish hellbound kooks hellbent on causing me grief to appease their delusions that I'm in any ways like them, and that I might somehow want to help them solve their useless bullyish lives.. is why I find it best to "DBAN" compromised OS's, to make

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 23:31 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:57, Craig White wrote: > > I don't think this exemplifies the problem with FOSS software except for > > maybe indicating that sometimes the information is there for all to see > > but some people don't actually

I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw..

2011-09-30 Thread Linda McLeod
I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw.. FF is way too easy to hack and crack by demon-bullies to get into to mess-up the browser... Please tell: What be the most secure browser for Linux Fedora?.. Is there such a thing as a "secure browser"..? Have you got any ideas when Mozilla mig

Re: I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw..

2011-09-30 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/30/2011 11:53 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: > > I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw.. FF is way too easy > to hack and crack > by demon-bullies to get into to mess-up the browser... > > Please tell: What be the most secure browser for

Re: If "DBAN" was one of the Fedora install-disk options...

2011-09-30 Thread Pete Travis
Are you looking for some kind of support? We might be able to help... On Sep 30, 2011 10:04 PM, "Linda McLeod" wrote: > My IP and OS are a vandalism target of mindless childish hellbound kooks > hellbent on causing me grief to appease their delusions that I'm in any > ways like them, and that I mi