Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > is there a safe way to do a complete > reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is? Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melv

Re: Why httpd wants to access /boot?

2012-08-20 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/19/2012 02:09 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting this strange selinux denial, each time the httpd server is > restarted: > > type=AVC msg=audit(1345399262.193:190): avc: denied { getattr } for > pid=3900 comm="httpd" path=

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her > primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on > mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, > there's no obvious way to do it. Does an

Network Manager creating problem in mounting file-system from network

2012-08-20 Thread magina antimage
Hi, I have ported fedora for my target board(x86). I am mounting File-system from nfs During boot when NetworkManager service starts ,it kills nfs probably because of resetting ip and my board doesn't boots up and i get "nfs: server '*value of ip_address passed during boot*' not resp

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.08.2012 23:19, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 08/19/2012 02:01 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> As far as I remember, Fedora has it compiled in, but the standard is >> "disabled". Look in /etc/sysctl.conf after "kernel.sysrq", and if it's >> set to 0 or not present, add "kernel.sysrq = 1" and do a "sysctl

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.08.2012 23:38, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 08/19/2012 02:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> STRG + ALT + PRINT + >> STRG + ALT * PRINT + S = emergency sync as example >> >> you do NOT let go any key >> you press it in this order and let down the keys all the time > > What key is "STRG" supposed to

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Frank Cox : On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: is there a safe way to do a complete reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is? Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition? Definitely the way to go if you don't w

Re: F17: How to always show desktop notifications?

2012-08-20 Thread sguazt
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM, sguazt wrote: > Hello, > > In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a > specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new > notifications from that source do not pop-up. > Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications"

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Best, Christopher Svanefalk On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Frank Cox : > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 >> Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> >> is there a safe way to do a complete >>> reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 23:01 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 19.08.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > If you have any suggestions about how to make it work properly, I'll be more > > than happy to do some more testing. > > As far as I remember, Fedora has it compiled in, but the standard is > "disabled".

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 14:54 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/19/2012 02:34 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Open a console, try holding down the AltGr+Sysrq with your right hand > > and press "s" with your left. This combination forces an emergency > > sync (fsync) and does not harm. You should see a messa

Re: No Sound through headphones on an iMac

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Rouch
On 16 August 2012 23:57, Hugh Caley wrote: > Fedora 17 on a newer iMac, the sound is pretty much inaudible with > headphones plugged in, but the speakers seem to work fine with nothing > plugged into the headphone jack. > > I've check alsamixer and the Gnome3 Sound control panel, nothing seems to

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 19/08/12 21:08, Ed Greshko responds: FWIW, I use rsyslog to log messages from my Dlink router. I don't use the "source" method. I simply have this in my rsyslog.conf if $msg contains 'D-Link' then /var/log/dlink.log since an entry from the router looks like this Aug 20 09:04:05 M

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 20/08/12 10:26, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA responds: On 19/08/12 21:08, Ed Greshko responds: FWIW, I use rsyslog to log messages from my Dlink router. I don't use the "source" method. I simply have this in my rsyslog.conf if $msg contains 'D-Link' then /var/log/dlink.log since

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/19/2012 08:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/19/2012 05:25 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/19/2012 02:17 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/19/2012 09:34 AM, Jim wrote: On 08/18/2012 08:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/18/2012 05:26 PM, Jim wrote: Trying to print and get this in /var/log/messages , from using a

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 15:37:20 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Alright - is there anyway to set this up ad hoc? Can I just make a new partition, move my home folder there, and then go ahead with the reinstall? Or do I need to change something else? You'll need to tweak fstab in the cu

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/2012 10:44 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I've tried several forms: > >/etc/rsyslog.d/emptyfile.conf > >:source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 /var/log/tomato.log >:source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 ~ > >But can't find the right one. I believe you need either

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 08/20/2012 12:57:04 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Dear all, > > apart from restoring from a backup (which in my case is inconvenient > due to > the sheer size of my home folder), is there a safe way to do a > complete > reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder > a

Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
F17, Firefox won't play flash videos. Firefox-14.0.1 flashplayer-plugin-11.2 r202 libflashplayer.so link is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. What is the RPM command to determine what dependencies Firefox and flashplayer-plugin uses . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 20/08/12 10:54, Ed Greshko responds: On 08/20/2012 10:44 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I've tried several forms: /etc/rsyslog.d/emptyfile.conf :source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 /var/log/tomato.log :source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 ~ But can't find the rig

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:27 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 20.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >> Am 20.08.2012 15:55, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > If a system hangs, the most important thing is to get all your data > >>>

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2012 15:55, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >> If a system hangs, the most important thing is to get all your data >> written to disk, to minimize data loss. This is done by pressing "S", >> after pressing and holding down AltGr+Prt(SysRq). An often cited and >> well known combination (and easy t

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 20.08.2012 15:55, schrieb Aaron Konstam: If a system hangs, the most important thing is to get all your data written to disk, to minimize data loss. This is done by pressing "S

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2012 17:32, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:27 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 20.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >>> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.08.2012 15:55, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >> If a system hangs, the m

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/2012 11:29 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >It doesn't seem to accept double quotes, single still yields an >error message. > >[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /var/log/tomato.log > >Aug 20 11:02:27 box9 rsyslogd: the last error occured in >/etc/rsyslog.d/em

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/2012 10:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > i am only using reply-all because moderated and it takes > up to days until moderators are realsing posts here This list isn't moderated. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-pr

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 20/08/12 11:42, Ed Greshko responds: On 08/20/2012 11:29 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: It doesn't seem to accept double quotes, single still yields an error message. [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /var/log/tomato.log Aug 20 11:02:27 box9 rsyslogd: the last error

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/2012 11:58 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > [root@box9 bobg]# cat /var/log/messages > > snip a few megs > > Aug 20 11:52:44 localhost kernel: ACCEPT IN=br0 OUT=vlan1 SRC=192.168.1.9 > DST=74.126.6.130 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=30

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 20/08/12 12:07, Ed Greshko responds: It was my understanding that you were trying to shunt log entries sent by your "router" to a file different than /var/log/messages. What you are showing are logs generated by your "localhost" that are created by iptables. You seem to have a rule set up

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/21/2012 12:17 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > Ok, but I Have not intentionally done anything to accomplish that. This must > result from tomato's logging? It' internal log displays: > > snip > >> Aug 20 12:12:09 localhost user.warn kernel: ACCEPT IN

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 20/08/12 12:28, Ed Greshko responds: "tomato" is your router, right? Not a Fedora machine, right? Those log entries are being written by "localhost". They are iptables log entries. Now, I see you having 2 choices. 1. You could post your iptables rules and and have someone debug the

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/21/2012 12:36 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > System information under status says: > > System > Name tomato > Model Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL > Time Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:33:00 -0400 > Uptime 1 day, 23:14:16 > CPU Load (1 / 5 / 15 mins) 0.01 / 0.01 / 0.00 > Total

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 07:47 AM, Jim wrote: Had to install drivers from Samsung in F15 and in F17 they won't work. Thank you. This is what you should have said in the first place. Now, we have enough information that somebody on the list might be able to help you. Also, have you asked Samsung? -

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 02:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/20/2012 07:47 AM, Jim wrote: Had to install drivers from Samsung in F15 and in F17 they won't work. Thank you. This is what you should have said in the first place. Now, we have enough information that somebody on the list might be able to hel

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 11:18 AM, Jim wrote: Also, have you asked Samsung? I don't want to be funny Joe ,but are you kidding ? Just call Samsung and ask support for Linux and their DRIVER, the phone goes CLINK No, I wasn't kidding. I've never used a Samsung printer in my life and had no way of k

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 11:18 AM, Jim wrote: Also, have you asked Samsung? I don't want to be funny Joe ,but are you kidding ? Sorry for responding twice, but another thought occurred to me: so far, all I've been doing is extracting[1] the information from you that's needed to troubleshoot your print

Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the Ctrl button. So to reboot you would have to use the Ctrl+Alt+SysReg+ b button. On my workstation Keyboar

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Hiisi
On 20 August 2012 23:55, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the <--SNIP--> > > So how does one use these magic keys ? > -- Could you please post the link to the wikipedia? -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://count

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Hiisi
On 20 August 2012 19:23, Jim wrote: > F17, Firefox won't play flash videos. > > Firefox-14.0.1 > > flashplayer-plugin-11.2 r202 > > libflashplayer.so link is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. > > What is the RPM command to determine what dependencies Firefox and > flashplayer-plugin uses . > I've b

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the Ctrl button. So to reboot you would have to use the Ctrl+

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the Ctrl button. So to reboot you would have to use the Ctrl+

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/20/2012 11:18 AM, Jim wrote: Also, have you asked Samsung? I don't want to be funny Joe ,but are you kidding ? Sorry for responding twice, but another thought occurred to me: so far, all I've been doing is extracting[1] the information from you

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 00:00 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > On 20 August 2012 23:55, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the > <--SNIP--> > > > > So how does one use these magic keys ? > > -- > > Could you please post the link to the wikipedia? > --

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/20/2012 01:05 PM, Joe Zeff uttered this comment: On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the C

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Kernel Guardian
Samsung have quite good support within cups. Are you tried to find your printer in cups? I have samsung laser 2850nd and working nice in F17, connected on network of course. On Aug 20, 2012 9:12 PM, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > On 08/20/2012 11:18 AM, Jim wrote: > >> Also, have you asked Samsung? >> >> I

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the > > SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these > > Magic SysReg features to work you have tp ad

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 01:12 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: In non-graphical mode it's just Alt+SysRq (not Ctrl, and not Alt+Ctrl), but the GUI can choose to ignore the combination - there used to be some X keyboard setting you could set globally, but it doesn't work anymore. I think there's some workaround

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/20/2012 01:24 PM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment: On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Kernel Guardian
Just download yum repo rpm from adobe, then use yum to install flash-plugin. if you have nvidia graphics maybe you can have blue print on you tube. Of course delete libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin directory. If I remember well there is some avc denial in selinux when you manualy On A

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 01:16 PM, Jim wrote: The box I'm having problems with is a HP 3gb processor , it work fine with Fedora 15, but I can't get it to work on f17, even with Selinux disabled. even if I did two fresh installs of Fedora. Just to be absolutely clear: are you saying that you can't get the

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Kernel Guardian
...add libflashplayer.so in plugindir. sorry about 2 posts On Aug 20, 2012 10:05 PM, "Hiisi" wrote: > On 20 August 2012 19:23, Jim wrote: > > F17, Firefox won't play flash videos. > > > > Firefox-14.0.1 > > > > flashplayer-plugin-11.2 r202 > > > > libflashplayer.so link is in /usr/lib/mozilla/

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 20 August 2012 21:24, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> I can't speak for anybody else, but when I've experimented with it, I >> used both hands. > Ok, it can be reached when you use both hands but it still does not work > for me. Does it matter which Ctrl key you use? Offtopic: Almost 20 years ago one o

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 20 August 2012 21:29, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > to do CTRL-ALT-DEL, he fell off laughing when one of his students held > CTRL using one finger on one hand, ALT using an other finger on the > other hand and then hit the ALT using his nose... Of course, that should have been, CTRL, DEL and ALT in

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 04:04 PM, Hiisi wrote: On 20 August 2012 19:23, Jim wrote: F17, Firefox won't play flash videos. Firefox-14.0.1 flashplayer-plugin-11.2 r202 libflashplayer.so link is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. What is the RPM command to determine what dependencies Firefox and flashplayer-

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:26 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/20/2012 01:24 PM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment: > > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 01:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: It's supposed to be a simultaneous press of ALT, SYSRQ (or PRINTSCREEN) and the command key (B in your case). I've had good results from pressing the keys sequentially, but not releasing any of them until they're all pressed. YMMV, of course, but i

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 04:21 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: Samsung have quite good support within cups. Are you tried to find your printer in cups? I have samsung laser 2850nd and working nice in F17, connected on network of course. On Aug 20, 2012 9:12 PM, "Joe Zeff" mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote:

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 01:24 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Ok, it can be reached when you use both hands but it still does not work for me. Does it matter which Ctrl key you use? I've always used the left one. Just to be clear, in /etc/sysctl.conf I changed: kernel.sysrq to 1 from 0. If you've rebooted

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 04:27 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: Just download yum repo rpm from adobe, then use yum to install flash-plugin. if you have nvidia graphics maybe you can have blue print on you tube. Of course delete libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin directory. If I remember well ther

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 04:28 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:16 PM, Jim wrote: The box I'm having problems with is a HP 3gb processor , it work fine with Fedora 15, but I can't get it to work on f17, even with Selinux disabled. even if I did two fresh installs of Fedora. Just to be absolutely clea

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Jim
On 08/20/2012 04:28 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: ...add libflashplayer.so in plugindir. sorry about 2 posts On Aug 20, 2012 10:05 PM, "Hiisi" > wrote: On 20 August 2012 19:23, Jim mailto:binary...@comcast.net>> wrote: > F17, Firefox won't play flash vide

F17 and "Input Signal Out Of Range"

2012-08-20 Thread Beartooth
I have an old Dell PowerEdge SC1420, originally used as a server, but now just following weather maps from the Web, and backing up newer machines. It has been running Fedora for at least half a dozen releases. Now, suddenly, it triggers the message on my monitor saying I have t

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:20 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/20/2012 01:05 PM, Joe Zeff uttered this comment: > > On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the > >> SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in or

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/20/2012 02:27 PM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment: On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:20 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:05 PM, Joe Zeff uttered this comment: On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the SysReg

Setting up a dedicated seeder

2012-08-20 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Dear all I have a relatively powerful (i7 3930K, 16GB RAM) desktop currently running simulations for the Folding@Home project 24/7. Since I am sitting on a pretty good landline (100mbit/s upstream), I would very much like to use it to seed torrents for FOSS projects (especially Fedora) as well, i

Re: Setting up a dedicated seeder

2012-08-20 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
To clarify a bit, is there a BETTER way to seed, than to simply let a client program (such as Transmission, which I currently use) do the seeding for me? I would like to feed as much data as possible. Best, Christopher Svanefalk On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Christopher Svanefalk < christo

Re: Setting up a dedicated seeder

2012-08-20 Thread Digimer
That is probably the most you can do with the least amount of work. Find some F/OSS ISOs with not too many seeds, download them and let the torrent program keep running. Once your share ratio goes over 1, you're officially helping. :) On 08/20/2012 06:46 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > To clari

XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

2012-08-20 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped. No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab. Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window disappeared. There are a few other similar abnormalities. I thought that this ma

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/20/2012 06:24 PM, Max Pyziur uttered this comment: Greetings, Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped. No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab. Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window disappeared. There are a f

Another Question....

2012-08-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's running my Fedora 17 just fine, I recently noticed my BIOS for this laptop was OLD...(1998! I think!) and I was wondering how do I go about installing the BIOS update

Re: Another Question....

2012-08-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's running my Fedora 17 just fine, I recently noticed my BIOS for this laptop was OLD...(1998! I think!) and I was wondering how do I go

Re: Another Question....

2012-08-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/20/2012 11:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's running my Fedora 17 just fine, I recently noticed my BIOS for this laptop was OLD...(19

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

2012-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2012 06:24 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: If anyone has experienced this problem and resolved it, please share your solution. Have you checked to see if xfwm4 is still running? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Another Question....

2012-08-20 Thread nomnex
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:28:14 -0400 > "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: > > On 08/20/2012 11:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: > > > >> Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if > >> anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

2012-08-20 Thread Hiisi
On 21 August 2012 00:31, Jim wrote: <--SNIP--> >> > Is the fedorautils a RPM or group name ? > http://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/ -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

nut startup driving me nuts...

2012-08-20 Thread Chuck Peters
Configured nut as I have with Ubuntu, same machine, and enabled startup on F17... So why isn't it starting? [root@fedora tmp]# systemctl enable nut-server.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nut-server.service' Reboot and test i

Re: Another Question....

2012-08-20 Thread Edward M
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > It's just that I'm concerned, the BIOS is showing as being from 2008, > and I wanted to keep it up to date along with everything else I've > updated. there's no real concern, just thought it'd be a good idea to > get it as close to the "present" as possible.is thi

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-(version)/Documentation/sysrq.txt > I appreciate all these tips but none make the sysrq suctions work. I'll > just give up. 1. Look into your kernel .config if m-sysrq is in your kernel: CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y Standard Fedora k