Re: MSMTP Problem [OT] FIXED

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/09/2012 09:07 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> > You can test msmtp without using a configuration file by creating a > >> > "message" and then doing something like > >> > > >> > cat message | /usr/bin/msmtp --host=smtp.blueyonder.co.uk -

Re: Knode sync

2012-09-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> One approach: Run knode on the server, access it over SSH. >> >> Simple, brute force, effective. Timothy Murphy: > when I run knode on my server through ssh I get the error > --- > [tim@rose ~]$ ssh grover knode > (26507)/: Cannot find the D-Bus session server

Re: Knode sync

2012-09-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: >>> One approach: Run knode on the server, access it over SSH. >>> >>> Simple, brute force, effective. >> when I run knode on my server through ssh I get the error >> --- >> [tim@rose ~]$ ssh grover knode >> (26507)/: Cannot find the D-Bus session server >

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello everyone, First, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll > > definitely need to manage your

Re: Fedora 17 in a CHROOT on Ubuntu - and the wrong dependency on rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir)

2012-09-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Bill, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:31:20AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Marc Wäckerlin wrote: > >Hi > > > >I am working in Ubuntu and compiling RPMs for Fedora. That's why I install > >Fedora in > >a **chroot** environment. That works fine with Fedora 16, but fails with > >Fedora 17 due > >to

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to

start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Jim
Fedora 17 SSHD is not in or started in Services , how do I start it ? -- 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/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a q

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:00 -0400, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > SSHD is not in or started in Services , how do I start it ? As root: systemctl enable sshd.service (to ensure it starts at boot time) systemctl start sshd.service (to start it) systemctl restart sshd.service (to restart it) systemctl stop

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/14/2012 02:27 PM, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:58:07PM -0300, Lailah wrote: El jue, 13-09-2012 a las 15:41 -0400, Fedora User escribió: People must have too much time on their hands. Add some features; maybe clean up some code. But why on earth make major UI changes to

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/14/2012 02:32 PM, Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, fred smith wrote: because there's been a LOT of whining from many people about the multi- window interface. Allegedly it alienates Photoshop users, preventing them from being willing to learn to use Gimp (and Linux, et

Byobu

2012-09-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. After the last kernel upgrade (=> 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that). I've tried reverting back to 5.17 with no luck (both via Yum & compi

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/16 10:08, Arthur Dent wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:00 -0400, Jim wrote: Fedora 17 SSHD is not in or started in Services , how do I start it ? As root: systemctl enable sshd.service (to ensure it starts at boot time) systemctl start sshd.service (to start it) systemctl restart ssh

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/16/2012 12:11 PM, jdow wrote: Gee, they could make for even more keyboarding my requiring an essay about why you need this action to take place followed by the word "please". They screwed up. (hint, isn't the ".service" suffix rather redundantly needless repetition?) If nothing else, syst

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/16 12:30, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/16/2012 12:11 PM, jdow wrote: Gee, they could make for even more keyboarding my requiring an essay about why you need this action to take place followed by the word "please". They screwed up. (hint, isn't the ".service" suffix rather redundantly needles

grub2 confusing need to add simple setting

2012-09-16 Thread Edward M
Hello, I have not needed to touch grub2 config files until now to add a simple setting and I am finding grub2 confusing. How do I add nomodeset in grub2. I miss the old grub:'( . Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: grub2 confusing need to add simple setting

2012-09-16 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 16.09.2012 22:13, Edward M wrote: > Hello, > > I have not needed to touch grub2 config files until now > to add a simple setting and I am finding grub2 confusing. >How do I add nomodeset in grub2. > I miss the old grub:'( > . > > Thanks Try editing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/defaul

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT] FIXED

2012-09-16 Thread James Wilkinson
Arthur Dent wrote: > I tried taking out (commenting out) the tls stuff. No joy. I tried > altering the "from"... Success! I changed it to be "m...@mydomain.org". > "mark" is a valid user on this machine. Is that what the problem was? If > that is the case I didn't spot anywhere that it was a requir

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:11:19PM -0700, jdow wrote: > >I still find this a useful resource: > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet > >Hope that helps... > Gee, they could make for even more keyboarding my requiring an essay > about why you need this action to take place f

Re: how 2 make LibreOffice the default app for RTF files?

2012-09-16 Thread fred smith
On Sun, SOP 16, 2012 at 11:58:08AM +0800, Ed Garish wrote: > On 09/16/2012 11:05 AM, fred smith wrote: > > Can't figure out how to get F17 to use LibreOffice Writer when opening a > > RTF file,... It seems to want to use Calibre for that. :( The "Preferred > > applications" item on the menu only o

Re:grub2 confusing need to add simple setting[SOLVED]

2012-09-16 Thread Edward M
On 09/16/2012 02:22 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Try editing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub. Remember to update grub configuration with: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. this did the trick. thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Hannon
>At the moment I am short on time, so cannot experiment with sage.  That >said, Fedora has a long standing packaging effort for SAGE[1].  It seems >to me sage needs a TeXLive-like distribution model to be not so >intimidating for new users.  This however does not make the effort >required to inclu

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-16 Thread Roger
On 09/17/2012 03:20 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/14/2012 02:32 PM, Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, fred smith wrote: because there's been a LOT of whining from many people about the multi- window interface. Allegedly it alienates Photoshop users, preventing them fr

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 09:13 -0400, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > Ick... This thing (sage) is a

Booting Grub2 on F17

2012-09-16 Thread Jim
Fedora 17 This is a dual boot computer Fedora and Windows 7 How would I edit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to get the the boot process to stop at the Menu to be able to select Fedora or Windows7. I do not want to have to hit "Return" or "Tab" to get it to stop at the Selection Menu. A new User to Lin

Re: Fedora 17 in a CHROOT on Ubuntu - and the wrong dependency on rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir)

2012-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Bill, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:31:20AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Marc Wäckerlin wrote: Hi I am working in Ubuntu and compiling RPMs for Fedora. That's why I install Fedora in a **chroot** environment. That works fine with Fedora 16, but fails with Fedora 17 due to t

Installing MATE

2012-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually see how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon and XFCE installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the list of managers available at login. Before I spend a lot of time in documentatio

GRUB2 Default Partition

2012-09-16 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Does anyone know how to change the default boot partition in GRUB2. I have stared at the setups until my eyes crossed and cannot find it. Of course it is probably so obvious I will Kick myself. Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/17/2012 03:11 AM, jdow wrote: > On 2012/09/16 10:08, Arthur Dent wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:00 -0400, Jim wrote: >>> Fedora 17 >>> SSHD is not in or started in Services , how do I start it ? >> >> As root: >> systemctl enable sshd.service (to ensure it starts at boot time) >> systemct

Re: Installing MATE

2012-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually see how > it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon and XFCE > installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the list of > managers available a

Re: GRUB2 Default Partition

2012-09-16 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 09/16/2012 08:59 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > Does anyone know how to change the default boot partition in GRUB2. I > have stared at the setups until my eyes crossed and cannot find it. > > Of course it is probably so obvious I will Kick myself. set root=(hd0,msdos1) will often do the thing, may

Re: Installing MATE

2012-09-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/17/2012 09:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually see >> how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon and XFCE >> installed. After doing the yum install, I don't