Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. > > > > You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in > > dmesg. > > > Great, but could the displaying of the information be made more obscure?

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 22:25 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > Can't tell if serious... ? Wondering if they're merely a troll, or a genuinely nuts. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lis

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. > Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that > stupid doorknocking on port 22... A genuine question: Does it really matter? -- [tim@loc

Re: CMake compile problem

2011-12-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:39 PM, david walcroft wrote: > I'm trying to compile 'k3b-2.0.2.i686' from a tar file but run into this > error:- > > [david@reddwarf build]$ cmake .. > CMake Error at icons/actions/CMakeLists.txt:1 (kde4_install_icons): >  Unknown CMake command "kde4_install_icons". Not

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> An ignorant question, but do the terms "virtual terminal", "desktop" >> and "virtual desktop" all mean the same thing? > > No, they don't. Virtual terminal is what is also called a text console, > the thing you get into with ctrl-alt-Fn. The "desktop" can mean a lot of >

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 08:19 PM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. >> Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that >> stupid doorknocking on port 22... > A genuine questi

Re: Major upgrade failure -> people maintain > 1 computer

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2011 01:50, schrieb Craig White: > I manage a lot of networks and always use LDAP for user base and > typically (but not always) use NFS and for that matter, NFS automounts. as said - you are knowing only your small world and will not realize that there other usecases than yours sign

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 14:40:52 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/08/2011 02:05 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > > I guess you'd give it multi-user.target or runlevel3.target if you > > wanted to boot it as a one-off. Also the old runlevel numbers still > > work; you can just add '3' to the kernel arguments and

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 09 December 2011 01:37:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > In order to debug the above faulty-GDM scenario, try the following: > > * boot into runlevel 3 and login (not as root) > * startx > // this should start X and then GDM, which should fail only once and put you > back into the terminal, ho

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > This scenario assumes that there are no hardware malfunctions and that the > nVidia driver is working correctly. All this is plausibly true, based on the > Xorg log which reports that both the graphics card and driver are working as > expected. Alas

Re: Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:30 -0200, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > >If you never use wireless, do what I do on my desktop: get rid of > >Network Manager and use network. > > I never had problems with NetworkManager before, I really like it, and I do > use it a lot for 3G internet c

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > And which one has that Win2000 look/feel that I kind of grew up with :) > > I probably need to just bite the bullet as at some point the corp system > will go from XP to Win7 and I will be expected to recongnize some things > there...

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/08 16:56, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. >>> >>> You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in >>> dmesg. >>> >> Great, but could the displaying of

Re: Private: to mods and forum owners...

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 17:52 -0800, Linda McLeod wrote: > I know I've been a bit of a "pain", but I have reasonable reason.. Not for posting this screed, which has *nothing* to do with the purpose of this list. And "Private"? What's that about? You're posting to a public list. Get over it. If you

Re: Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread fernando
Hi Joe, >I don't know who you think you're replying to, but it wasn't me. My >name is Joe, not Jeff, and I've been known to flame people to a smoking >cinder for that. This is your (and the list's) one warning... You should be used to typo erros on the net and be tolerant and polite about th

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 17:50 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/08/2011 12:47 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 14:30 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> Activate "activities" by putting the mouse into the upper-left corner of > >> the > >> screen. Then you can see a list of

Re: Major upgrade failure -> people maintain > 1 computer

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 02:36 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 09.12.2011 01:50, schrieb Craig White: > > I manage a lot of networks and always use LDAP for user base and > > typically (but not always) use NFS and for that matter, NFS automounts. > > as said - you are knowing only your small worl

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread g
On 12/08/2011 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:02 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> 101年農會人員考試 11/28~12/2å ±å��ï¼� fmbdugloaf >> >> will read >> >> 10111/28~12/2 ï¼� fmbdugloaf >> >> Restarting TB will restore it. Anyone seeing anything like it? >>

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 11:18 AM, g wrote: > On 12/08/2011 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Bad formatting The line length of the above examples should have >> been the same. > they are here. > > Glad to hear the line length was equal for you... -- A common mistake that people make when trying to desi

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread g
On 12/09/2011 03:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 11:18 AM, g wrote: >> On 12/08/2011 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Bad formatting The line length of the above examples should have >>> been the same. >> they are here. >> >> > > Glad to hear the line length was equal for you... ---

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 11:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 11:18 AM, g wrote: > > On 12/08/2011 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Bad formatting The line length of the above examples should have > >> been the same. > > they are here. > > > > > > Glad to hear the line length was equal

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > A sudden thunk: could it be GDM that's bombing?  Should I remove it and > replace it with KDM or some other login mangler? You could also check /var/log/gdm/ and see if it says anything useful. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread g
On 12/09/2011 03:36 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 11:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 12/09/2011 11:18 AM, g wrote: >>> On 12/08/2011 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Bad formatting The line length of the above examples should have been the same. >>> they are here. >>> >

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 11:36 AM, Craig White wrote: > as you can see, I had vastly different perspective I'm sorry to hear you weren't as lucky as George But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original question. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design some

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread g
On 12/09/2011 03:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 11:36 AM, Craig White wrote: >> as you can see, I had vastly different perspective > > I'm sorry to hear you weren't as lucky as George > > But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > question. lol. i d

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 11:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 11:36 AM, Craig White wrote: > > as you can see, I had vastly different perspective > > I'm sorry to hear you weren't as lucky as George > > But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > question

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: >> But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original >> > question. > > sorry, don't use T-bird and rarely do Chinese, especially 'subject' - > wife is here with me in the US and don't send her much e-mail these days > not to me

Stateless IPv6 questions

2011-12-08 Thread nullv
Hi, I'm kinda new to IPv6 and have a few questions on setting it up. I've set up an IPv6 tunnel on sit1 and I have radvd broadcasting a prefix on em1. My clients are able to generate global IPv6 addresses and ping & browse other sites on the internet. However, I noticed that I have to enter DNS

Re: Private: to mods and forum owners...

2011-12-08 Thread David
On 12/8/2011 9:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 17:52 -0800, Linda McLeod wrote: >> I know I've been a bit of a "pain", but I have reasonable reason.. > > Not for posting this screed, which has *nothing* to do with the purpose > of this list. And "Private"? What's that abo

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:46 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Oops, sorry, this will not start GDM, but will start Gnome3 (or whatever DE > you have configured) directly. This is because you are already logged in and > the greeter is not necessary. Always assuming, of course, that I can get the computer to pay

Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:48 PM, Craig White wrote: > I'm using it - seems fine to me. I think what you are responding to is > someone with a proclivity to overreach their knowledge and over-manage > their system and thus draw conclusions as if they were pertinent for > everyone. Actually, I'm reporting on

Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 06:15 PM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: > You should be used to typo erros on the net and be tolerant and polite about > then. Maybe you forgot your own surname (see the "From:" on your past > messages) is "Zeff" which is just one letter different from "Zeff". > When I was six year

Re: Private: to mods and forum owners...

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 10:04 PM, David wrote: > Please don't feed the Trolls. :-) http://www.zeff.trollz.png may be appropriate under the circumstances. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

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