Re: Connecting a Android Galaxy SII

2012-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2012 23:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jim writes: > >> The fedora app to connect to Android , is it something like MFB or MTB ? > > > The android phone should show up as an ordinary USB storage device. > > Your android phone may offer several USB connection options, like mass > storag

Re: DNS problems this morning - CORRECTION

2012-11-12 Thread Tim
Reindl Harald: > > maybe you have a crappy ISP which blocks DNS if it is > > not their own one - let me guess: USA, here in europe > > it is absolutely no probem to setup a dns-server which > > does recursion and never tocuhes any ISp crap, some > > providers think they knpw better what their users

[389-users] Password + anything works ?

2012-11-12 Thread Ali Jawad
Hi I just noticed that you can use the password+ANYLetters and it will work, I.e. if the password is xyz xyz99 or xyzABC will work as well, is this a misconfiguration on my part or a bug ? Regards * * -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-12 Thread Tim
Tim: > > Configure the other computers on your LAN to use the DNS server > > computer's IP address as their DNS server. It's as simple as that. Bob Goodwin: > Will dns look-ups from the other computers be added to the > nameserver list? You appear to have the wrong end of the stick. When any cl

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 11.11.2012 01:04, schrieb lee: >> No, I'm not using DHCP, and the cables are fine. I have a theory about >> what it might be, though. Is "system-config-network" related to >> networkmanager, or is it something else? > > it is for the classical "network.service" and yo

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:04:07 +0100, > lee wrote: >> >>No, I'm not using DHCP, and the cables are fine. I have a theory about >>what it might be, though. Is "system-config-network" related to >>networkmanager, or is it something else? > > Network manager does use

Re: DNS problems this morning - CORRECTION

2012-11-12 Thread lee
"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" writes: > On 11/11/12 14:50, Reindl Harald wrote: >> "PEERDNS=no" is your friend touch prevent touch resolv.conf >> and NO it is NOT ok to have ANY unrelieable DNS in >> resolv.conf becasue as explaiend you have no control which is >> used for a request, there

Re: Can't change resolution in VNC on F17

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Thomas Cameron writes: > Howdy - > > Following the instructions at > http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/setting-up-vncserver-on-fedora-16/, > I changed my /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service file so it looks > like: > > [Unit] > Description=Remote desktop service (VNC) > After=syslo

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Tim
Tim: > > _EXACTLY_ how are you giving it the data? Lee: > I was using system-config-network and editing some files when it didn't > work. Well, unless things have changed, then you're fighting two things against each other. System-config-network directly controls the network settings. NetworkMan

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Tony Molloy
On Saturday 10 November 2012 16:05:49 lee wrote: > Hi, > > apparently network manager continues to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf > with incorrect data. Adjusting it with system-config-network > doesn't help. > > I have: > > > , > > | UUID="4881d1f8-79a5-46f3-a490-2464eebd89aa" > | NM_CONTR

Re: Connecting a Android Galaxy SII

2012-11-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 10:07 -0500, Fedora User wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 17:45 -0500, Jim wrote: > > The fedora app to connect to Android , is it something like MFB or MTB ? > > The app is adb. You need to set your usb connection to debugging mode in > application settings. You will still be

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
lee wrote: >> it is for the classical "network.service" and you should >> NOT mix tools for different worlds in your usage > > It's not surprising that it doesn't work then. So how do you configure > networkmanager? > > Whose extremely stupid idea was it to have two different and conflicting >

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:13:43 +0100, lee wrote: How do you change that with system-config-network? I didn't see any checkbox for it in the interface I was presented with. I'm not surprised. I just edit the ifcfg files directly. Networkmanager either uses something else or is very bugg

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Tony Molloy writes: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 16:05:49 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> apparently network manager continues to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf >> with incorrect data. Adjusting it with system-config-network >> doesn't help. >> >> I have: >> >> >> , >> >> | UUID="4881d1f8-79a5-

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Timothy Murphy writes: > lee wrote: > >>> it is for the classical "network.service" and you should >>> NOT mix tools for different worlds in your usage >> >> It's not surprising that it doesn't work then. So how do you configure >> networkmanager? >> >> Whose extremely stupid idea was it to ha

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:13:43 +0100, > lee wrote: >> >>How do you change that with system-config-network? I didn't see any >>checkbox for it in the interface I was presented with. > > I'm not surprised. I just edit the ifcfg files directly. Yes, that's much easie

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread lee
Tim writes: > Tim: >> > _EXACTLY_ how are you giving it the data? > > Lee: >> I was using system-config-network and editing some files when it didn't >> work. > > Well, unless things have changed, then you're fighting two things > against each other. > > System-config-network directly controls th

Re: [389-users] Password + anything works ?

2012-11-12 Thread Mark Reynolds
Also what password storage scheme are you using? For example "crypt" only checks the first 8 characters of a password. On 11/12/2012 11:18 AM, Dan Lavu wrote: In regards to a password policy? Just 389 or are you using winsync with AD? Because the password policy from AD does not transfer over.

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread jarmo
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:27:22 +0100 lee kirjoitti: > Tim writes: > > > Tim: > >> > _EXACTLY_ how are you giving it the data? > > > > Lee: > >> I was using system-config-network and editing some files when it > >> didn't work. > > > > Well, unless things have changed, then you're fighting two things

K3B , Ripping DVD's

2012-11-12 Thread Jim
F17 "k3b uses Transcode to rip Video DVDs . Please make sure it is installed" Were do I get this Transcode from ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-12 Thread Lailah
El dom, 11-11-2012 a las 11:53 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió: > I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch > screen > which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways, > including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fe

Re: K3B , Ripping DVD's

2012-11-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > "k3b uses Transcode to rip Video DVDs . Please make sure it is installed" > Were do I get this Transcode from ? rpmfusion.org -- rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-12 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/11/12 06:09, Tim wrote: Tim: > > Configure the other computers on your LAN to use the DNS server > > computer's IP address as their DNS server. It's as simple as that. Bob Goodwin: > Will dns look-ups from the other computers be added to the > nameserver list? You appear to have the wr

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lailah wrote: El dom, 11-11-2012 a las 11:53 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió: I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways, including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with usi

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/12/2012 07:55 AM, Lailah wrote: El dom, 11-11-2012 a las 11:53 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió: I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can

Re: Understanding rpmbuild check-rpath error

2012-11-12 Thread dexter
On 11 November 2012 01:21, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:53:15PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >> I'm trying to build a git snapshot rpm package of notmuch and I keep >> running into a warning. As I understand from the message, it can be >> worked around but I would rather resolve

Re: Using mock with --scm-enable and external spec file

2012-11-12 Thread dexter
On 11 November 2012 01:38, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello again, > > I mentioned in another thread that I have been trying to build git > snapshots for a few packages I use. I tried mock's --scm-enable option > to get the packages from git. The spec file in the repository is buggy, > so I would like

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
lee wrote: >> As I understand it, you have asked NM to manage your ethernet connection >> (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1). >> I believe that NM over-writes /etc/resolv.conf if it cannot establish >> the specified connection. >> In my opinion this is silly; but that is what NM does. >

UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the market for a new unit. I could get another APC 1400, but part of the reason it died was I was not monitoring it to note a battery had failed. And I was not monitoring it because it uses serial connection for the monitoring syste

ifcfg file for Open vSwitch "fake bridge"

2012-11-12 Thread Ian Pilcher
I need to statically configure an Open vSwitch "fake bridge", so that I can attach VMs to a specific VLAN. There doesn't seem to be any specific support for this in the ifup scripts, so I'm using the following: DEVICE=ovs0.249 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=no TYPE=OVSBridge DEVICETYPE=ovs OVS

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Zind
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:43:54AM +, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 16:05:49 lee wrote: > > A kludge to fix this is to make resolv.conf immutable. Then > NetworkManager or nothing else can interfere with it. > > Set up /etc/resolv.conf as you want it. > > Then as root: >

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-12 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 13 November 2012 05:59:03 Zind wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:43:54AM +, Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Saturday 10 November 2012 16:05:49 lee wrote: > > > > A kludge to fix this is to make resolv.conf immutable. Then > > NetworkManager or nothing else can interfere with it. > > > >