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

2012-11-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi dex, On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:28:53AM +, dexter wrote: > 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 pac

Re: Understanding rpmbuild check-rpath error

2012-11-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi dex, On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:27:45PM +, dexter wrote: > On 11 November 2012 01:21, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > I came across this: > > > > > > > > I guess that means in my case working around by setting QA_RPATHS is the

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.11.2012 02:31, schrieb 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

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Gabriel VLASIU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the market for a > new unit. Are you sure is not only the battery dead? > I could get another APC 1400, but part of the reason it died was I w

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the market > for a new unit. And replacing the battery is impossible because? FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread lee
jarmo writes: > 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,

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Timothy Murphy writes: > 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 s

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Raymond Pittigher
On 11/13/2012 04:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.11.2012 02:31, schrieb 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 ha

[OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room and I came across this article from the August 2012 (really!) edition of Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer I know we all love to hate Microsoft, but after reading this I *almost* felt sor

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.11.2012 13:10, schrieb Raymond Pittigher: > Get a USB to serial adapter > > Email addresses of ITT Exelis employees have changed from itt.com to > exelisinc.com. Please update your favorites > and contact information to reflect these changes. > > This e-mail and any files transmitted wi

KDE dilogs in Firefox

2012-11-13 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi Folks, Surely it's a repeated question, but I don't remember how to do it. How can I set up kde dialogs based on Firefox in Fedora 17. I don't find the packages. Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com LPIC-2 Certified - h

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/13/2012 03:21 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>> wrote: Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the market for a new unit. And replacing the battery is impossible because? I suspe

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread Tom Horsley
And now they've ejected the guy responsible for foisting Windows 8 on the world. -- 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_guidelin

Re: Multiple default routes, same subnet

2012-11-13 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi other Fernando, I have two internet links, from different ISPs for my office network, each one with it's own router (which is a linux PC) so I don't loose internet connectivity easily. One ISP has a much higher bandwitch, so usually all my computers use it as the default gateway. The other on

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-13 Thread Steve
On 11/11/2012 09:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: 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 Fedora on such a machine, an

Any RPi people on here ?

2012-11-13 Thread Steve
Is anyone playing around with Fedora on a Raspberry Pi ? How are you finding it ? What are you doing with it ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: System fonts are all messed up ????

2012-11-13 Thread Steve
On 11/10/2012 10:11 AM, Steve wrote: F16 install, KDE, fully up to date. Did an upgrade to F17 via the F17 DVD. Now all the system fonts are messed up, size wise. All of them are way too large. On the session login screen, for example, the font size in the Username and Password fields are

Re: Any RPi people on here ?

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:41:53 -0700 Steve wrote: > Is anyone playing around with Fedora on a Raspberry Pi ? > > How are you finding it ? What are you doing with it ? > > Thanks The arm list may be a better bet: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-November/004366.html -- Regar

Amarok

2012-11-13 Thread jarmo
Hi Just tried to testplay one mp3 with Amarok. No worky. Require MPEG 1 layer 3 plugin. I have installed all "good, bad and ugly" :) plugins for Gstreamer, but when trying to play, poup says, that it can't find MPEG 1 layer 3 decoder. Trying to use packagekit to install it, no worky. F17 and all p

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Bob Goodwin: > I always naively assumed they were used in the order listed, now > you've introduced an element of doubt, I used to presume that, especially when you're presented with a configuration gadget that asked you to enter "primary" and "secondary" name server addresses. But that naming ha

Re: Any RPi people on here ?

2012-11-13 Thread Antonio M
2012/11/13 Frank Murphy > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:41:53 -0700 > Steve wrote: > > > Is anyone playing around with Fedora on a Raspberry Pi ? > > > > How are you finding it ? What are you doing with it ? > > > > Thanks > > The arm list may be a better bet: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread vendor
The best article I've ever read on the change at Microsoft was a memoir by Joel Spolsky (the "Joel on Software" blog) written in 2006. He wrote about having to pitch a project to Bill Gates, and how important it was that Gates had a technical background. See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/i

Re: Amarok

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:55:32 +0200 jarmo wrote: > Hi > > Just tried to testplay one mp3 with Amarok. No worky. Require MPEG 1 > layer 3 plugin. I have installed all "good, bad and ugly" :) plugins > for Gstreamer, but when trying to play, poup says, that it can't > find MPEG 1 layer 3 decoder. T

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Alex wrote: > What are the steps to create a self-signed certificate for apache? These are my notes for CentOS 5, but they should still apply. The view/verify steps are not strictly necessary, but they are useful for checking your work as you go along. Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Tim: > > If using Gnome, there's a desktop taskbar icon for NetworkManager, it > > lets you pick a network out of a list of available networks (if there > > are several to choose from), and there's an edit connections menu item > > to customise particular choices. They could be fully automatic (th

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Oliver
From the documentation, (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html ) it seems that checking on "administrator" just puts the user in the wheel group. Odd -- I thought "wheel" had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in only for backward

firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and readily apparent as the thing you went to, to adjust your firewall. But there's nothing, obvious as the way to

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:47:33AM +1030, Tim wrote: > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system > settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? I'm not sure about F17, but there's a new tool called firewalld, which includes a new GUI, as a feature for F18. See h

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Gabriele Trombini
Il giorno mer, 14/11/2012 alle 02.47 +1030, Tim ha scritto: > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system > settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? > [cut] Try: $ firewall-config Cheers. Gabri -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/13/2012 10:17 AM, Tim wrote: > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system > settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? > > In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and readily > apparent as the thing you went to, to adjust your firewall.

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-13 Thread Lailah
El lun, 12-11-2012 a las 16:29 -0600, Robert Moskowitz escribió: > > > 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 > > >

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Larsen
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 02:47 +1030, Tim wrote: > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system > settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? Not sure about a gui - lokkit is the tool I use. Commandline yes, but it's a lot easier to use than editing /etc/sysconfig/ip

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:29:18 -0600 Steven Stern wrote: > On 11/13/2012 10:17 AM, Tim wrote: > > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the > > "system settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? > > > > In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and >

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 13/11/12 09:59, Tim wrote: I seem to recall that there is a way to set the timeout delay before abandoning the first query, and querying the next server, but I don't recall the details, and there's no man file for resolv.conf on this installation of F17. I don't know if there's configuration

Re: Any RPi people on here ?

2012-11-13 Thread Steve
On 11/13/2012 07:45 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: The arm list may be a better bet: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-November/004366.html Already subscribed, thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Zind
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote: > > Odd -- I thought "wheel" had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in > only for backwards compatibility. Who knew. > reference? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote: > From the documentation, > (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html > ) > it seems that checking on "administrator" just puts the user in the > wheel group. It just does that, *

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 01:29:31 +1030, Tim wrote: It may well work fine, if all you ever ask the name servers to do is resolve outside internet addresses. But, if you have a LAN that communicates with things within the LAN, by name, then *all* name queries need to be answered by your LAN DN

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hi, I don't directly get ml e-mails in my inbox and I see that Bill Oliver post is empty at archive link: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-November/426712.html I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in other users' replies... It would also be good to

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

2012-11-13 Thread Alex
Hi, >> What are the steps to create a self-signed certificate for apache? > > These are my notes for CentOS 5, but they should still apply. The > view/verify steps are not strictly necessary, but they are useful for > checking your work as you go along. > > Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate

Re: [389-users] MMR issue ...

2012-11-13 Thread Rich Megginson
On 11/13/2012 09:24 AM, Reinhard Nappert wrote: Hi, I’ve encountered issues with a MMR setup, which looks like the following: A --- B \ / \ / \ / C The replication works for approximately 24 hours. There are not many chan

Re: [389-users] MMR issue ...

2012-11-13 Thread Reinhard Nappert
I use 1.2.8.2 From: Rich Megginson [mailto:rmegg...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:18 PM To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project. Cc: Reinhard Nappert Subject: Re: [389-users] MMR issue ... On 11/13/2012 09:24 AM, Reinhard Nappert wrote: Hi, I’ve encount

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in > other users' replies... > It would also be good to see the "other things" as written by Matthew Miller: > " > ... many things in the distribution, including sud

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Tim: > >It may well work fine, if all you ever ask the name servers to do is > >resolve outside internet addresses. But, if you have a LAN that > >communicates with things within the LAN, by name, then *all* name > >queries need to be answered by your LAN DNS server, as no external DNS > >server c

Re: [389-users] segfault while moving entry to non-existent LDAP container

2012-11-13 Thread Noriko Hosoi
(2012/11/13 05:22), Rich Megginson wrote: On 11/13/2012 03:30 AM, Vladimir Elisseev wrote: Hello, First of all I'd say that most likely this segfault is a result of badly designed application and/or bad coding. The segfault occurs while this application tries to move an entry to non-existing LD

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Tim wrote: > > I seem to recall that there is a way to set the timeout delay before > > abandoning the first query, and querying the next server, but I don't > > recall the details, and there's no man file for resolv.conf on this > > installation of F17. I don't know if there's configuration optio

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 08:38 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA issued this missive: On 13/11/12 09:59, Tim wrote: I seem to recall that there is a way to set the timeout delay before abandoning the first query, and querying the next server, but I don't recall the details, and there's no man file for

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

2012-11-13 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Alex wrote: > It won't accept an empty password. How do I create a key without a > password so I don't have to enter it every time I restart apache? Use the decrypted key in your Apache configuration as follows: # Point to the PEM-encoded certificate and private key SSLCertificateFile /etc/

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 10:04 AM, Tim issued this missive: My reading of the man file suggested that one would add the options into the resolv.conf file. Else why else are they mentioned in the man file for it? e.g. /etc/resolv.conf domain lan.example.com. search lan.example.com. nameserver 192.168.1.2

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, Steven Stern sent: > Gosh, is it so hard to type "system-config-firewall"? I'm not sure > about Gnome, but on XFCE, it's APPS -> Administration -> Firewall. The point being that new users will not know about it. There's no mention of "firewall" in any of

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Tim: > > Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system > > settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? Gabriele Trombini: > Try: > $ firewall-config Nup, nothing other than firefox begins with "fire" on this system, even as the root user. Another blunder for the

Re: [389-users] MMR issue ...

2012-11-13 Thread Rich Megginson
On 11/13/2012 11:02 AM, Reinhard Nappert wrote: Rich, Do you know what the cause of this issue is? No, I don't know. You would expect that you saw this issue in different deployments, but I only saw it in one instance. If it turns out that the issue I see is identical the issue, you men

Qalc interprets 1,000 as a vector

2012-11-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I've been very happy with the desk calculator Qalc, except for one thing. If you enter a comma separated number, say 1,000 (easy to do if you paste it in from a financial web site), qalc interprets it as a vector. Is there any way to suppress this? The documentation indicates that it should be p

GDM has wrong monitor resolution, with a bit of a howto

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
For some reason, my installation picks the wrong monitor resolution, by default. In my case, less resolution than it could manage, and results in a weird aspect ratio. So I have to manually configure each user to use the correct one, which is a bit annoying. That leaves gdm with the wrong resolu

Re: [389-users] MMR issue ...

2012-11-13 Thread Reinhard Nappert
The 3 servers do not crash. I am not sure about the network, though. My first assumption was that the firewall (between A and B) might cause the issue. The latest occurrence (the one, I described) had the firewall removed. I see quite some TCP Retransmissions in the packet captures. Could that

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/13/2012 10:47 AM, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > Il giorno mer, 14/11/2012 alle 02.47 +1030, Tim ha scritto: >> Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system >> settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? >> > [cut] > > Try: > $ firewall-config > > Cheers. > >

locale settings

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale settings aren't what they ought to be? Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during post-installation, was on a US setting. And that personal locales inherit that, and each logon needs manually setting to Austral

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:47:43 +0100 Gabriele Trombini wrote: > Try: > $ firewall-config > That is one of the firewalld pkgs, not available in F17, F18+ -- "The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace." -- Holly Near -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Tim: > > My reading of the man file suggested that one would add the options into > > the resolv.conf file. Else why else are they mentioned in the man file > > for it? > > > > e.g. > > /etc/resolv.conf > > domain lan.example.com. > > search lan.example.com. > > nameserver 192.168.1.2 > > options

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Mailga
Il giorno 13/nov/2012, alle ore 19:27, Steven Stern ha scritto: > yum search firewall-config > Warning: No matches found for: firewall-config > No Matches found > > > -- > -- Steve > -- Yes you're right, i'm on F18. I thought it was also on f17. Cheers Gabri -- users mailing list users

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 10:30 AM, Frank Murphy issued this missive: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:47:43 +0100 Gabriele Trombini wrote: Try: $ firewall-config That is one of the firewalld pkgs, not available in F17, F18+ firewalld is available for F17: Available Packages firewalld.noarch

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 10:31 AM, Tim issued this missive: Tim: My reading of the man file suggested that one would add the options into the resolv.conf file. Else why else are they mentioned in the man file for it? e.g. /etc/resolv.conf domain lan.example.com. search lan.example.com. nameserver 192.168

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 13/11/12 13:06, Rick Stevens wrote: You don't. You put the entries in the /etc/resolv.conf file and the resolver library picks them up. The 5 second timeout seems much to long when combined with 5 tries, perhaps fewer tries would be better? However I imagine there were good reasons f

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 11:12 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA issued this missive: On 13/11/12 13:06, Rick Stevens wrote: You don't. You put the entries in the /etc/resolv.conf file and the resolver library picks them up. The 5 second timeout seems much to long when combined with 5 tries, perh

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 13/11/12 14:32, Rick Stevens wrote: Is there a better way to test? Format is "options timeout:1 attempts:1", and I'd move it above the "nameserver" lines. Good, I've changed resolv.conf: [bobg@box7 ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager options ti

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Tim writes: > Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, Steven Stern sent: >> Gosh, is it so hard to type "system-config-firewall"? I'm not sure >> about Gnome, but on XFCE, it's APPS -> Administration -> Firewall. > > The point being that new users will not know about it. There's no > mention

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Lailah writes: > El lun, 12-11-2012 a las 16:29 -0600, Robert Moskowitz escribió: > >> >> >> 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

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Robert Moskowitz writes: > On 11/13/2012 03:21 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz >> mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>> wrote: >> >> Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the >> market for a new unit. >> >> >> And repla

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Matthew Miller writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:47:33AM +1030, Tim wrote: >> Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system >> settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17? > > I'm not sure about F17, but there's a new tool called firewalld, which > includes a new

Re: Multiple default routes, same subnet

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Fernando Lozano writes: > Hi, > > I have two internet links, from different ISPs for my office network, > each one with it's own router (which is a linux PC) so I don't loose > internet connectivity easily. One ISP has a much higher bandwitch, so > usually all my computers use it as the default g

Re: System fonts are all messed up ????

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Steve writes: > On 11/10/2012 10:11 AM, Steve wrote: >> F16 install, KDE, fully up to date. >> >> Did an upgrade to F17 via the F17 DVD. >> >> Now all the system fonts are messed up, size wise. All of them are >> way too large. >> >> On the session login screen, for example, the font size in the

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Tim writes: > Tim: >> > If using Gnome, there's a desktop taskbar icon for NetworkManager, it >> > lets you pick a network out of a list of available networks (if there >> > are several to choose from), and there's an edit connections menu item >> > to customise particular choices. They could be

Re: locale settings

2012-11-13 Thread lee
Tim writes: > Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale > settings aren't what they ought to be? > > Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during > post-installation, was on a US setting. And that personal locales > inherit that, and each logon needs ma

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

2012-11-13 Thread Alex
Hi, >> It won't accept an empty password. How do I create a key without a >> password so I don't have to enter it every time I restart apache? > > > Use the decrypted key in your Apache configuration as follows: > > # Point to the PEM-encoded certificate and private key > SSLCertificateFile /e

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Robert Moskowitz writes: > Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery. So I am in the > market for a new unit. THe other problem you have with your UPS is that it doesn't take standard size batteries. The more modern units take standard 9ah 12v cells that can be had mail order for around

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/13/2012 11:54 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA issued this missive: On 13/11/12 14:32, Rick Stevens wrote: Is there a better way to test? Format is "options timeout:1 attempts:1", and I'd move it above the "nameserver" lines. Good, I've changed resolv.conf: [bobg@box7

Re: UPS monitoring software and APC and Tripp lite UPSs

2012-11-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Fernando Cassia writes: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > > Well my APC smart1400 has died, shorted battery.  So I am in the > market for a new unit. > > > And replacing the battery is impossible because? I was about to suggest a replacement battery too. T

Re: locale settings

2012-11-13 Thread Sergio
On 11/13/2012 06:27 PM, lee wrote: Tim writes: Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale settings aren't what they ought to be? Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during post-installation, was on a US setting. And that personal locales inherit th

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:39 -0800 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/13/2012 10:30 AM, Frank Murphy issued this missive: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:47:43 +0100 > > Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > > > > >> Try: > >> $ firewall-config > >> > > > > That is one of the firewalld pkgs, > > not available in F17

Re: locale settings

2012-11-13 Thread Sergio
On 11/13/2012 07:42 PM, Sergio wrote: On 11/13/2012 06:27 PM, lee wrote: Tim writes: Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale settings aren't what they ought to be? Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during post-installation, was on a US setting

Re: Multiple default routes, same subnet

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Pikelner
pfSense is an excellent solution for your needs. We've used it for years with multiple ISPs (some years back and it worked very well for us. pfSense is free and runs FreeBSD at its core with pf from OpenBSD. Nice GUI for setting everthing up and can even run in redundant mode if you have multiple p

Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Oliver
Heh. I just remember back when I was a grad student using UNIX, "wheel" *was* root, was in the /etc/passwd file, and there was no such thing as root. I swear I distinctly remember running an IRIX network back in the 90s when root was no longer "wheel" but suddenly became "root," and "wheel" w

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:44:04 +0100 lee wrote: > Tim writes: > > There does appear to be some NetworkManager interface through the > > command line. Dunno whether it's going to be of any use to you, > > though. > > Hm I didn't find out what it is yet. man nmcli man nm-tool man nm-online man Net

Re: network manager has gone crazy

2012-11-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Oops, sorry, I forgot to answer this part... On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:44:04 +0100 lee wrote: > Of course I used tab comletion in the shell for /etc/network at first, > and that doesn't show up anything about networkmanager. Like I said > before, it's just braindead to name it /etc/NetworkManager

Re: Amarok

2012-11-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 16:55 +0200, jarmo wrote: > Hi > > Just tried to testplay one mp3 with Amarok. No worky. Require MPEG 1 > layer 3 plugin. I have installed all "good, bad and ugly" :) plugins > for Gstreamer, but when trying to play, poup says, that it can't find > MPEG 1 layer 3 decoder. Try

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Bob Goodwin: > The only way I have to judge time is watching the bottom of the > Firefox display where it tells me it's "Looking up" an address and > doing a number of reloads on a complex page It's hard to test DNS activity using Firefox, as it does its own caching. To make it look up the same

Fedora 17: Auto configuring wireless networks in Network Manager on first boot

2012-11-13 Thread Arun SAG
Hi, How do i configure wireless networks in NetworkManager during install time so that the user don't have to configure it manually. I tried to drop in the file ifcfg-networkname in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, but Network Manager keeps asking me to configure the network myself despite the pre

Re: DNS problems this morning -

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, Rick Stevens sent: > It may have to be above the nameserver specifications: > > domain blah > search blah > options attempts:1 timeout:2 > nameserver blah > nameserver blah > > In other words, it may only take effect

Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, lee sent: > Great, that is going to conflict with my shorewall configuration when I > update. And running another daemon process all the time for something > that rarely ever changes once it's set up? Adding even more > dependencies with networkmanager? I

DVD drive polling

2012-11-13 Thread Tim
(I'm breaking this out into another thread, as it doesn't belong to the firewall one.) Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, lee sent: > I still haven't even found a way to disable the DVD-drive polling. > Where is the configuration for that? Or what makes the light flash all > the time? I do

Re: Amarok

2012-11-13 Thread jarmo
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:48:12 + Frank Murphy kirjoitti: > Try this: > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ > > Tnx, seems intresting Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Amarok

2012-11-13 Thread jarmo
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:41:58 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan kirjoitti: > Are you sure you're using the Gstreamer backend in Phonon? Look at > System Settings->Multimedia->Phonon->Backend > > poc > Yes Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op