Re: DenyHosts {Solved}

2013-03-16 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> >> Did I type that.. >> >> It is /var/log/auth.log > > Marvin, > > Yes, but if it was just a typo and denyhosts is working now then you're all > set. > > Regards, > > Matthew Roth > InterMedia Marketing Solution

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon come up on the desktop when I put a cdrom in the drive. The same disk works as expected

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/13 16:42, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> >> I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is >> apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon >> come up on the des

Re: OT: Re: "Hacker" vs "Cracker" et al.

2013-03-16 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 March 2013 23:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 18:47 -0400, Doug wrote: >> On 03/15/2013 06:25 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:07 -0700 >> > Richard Vickery wrote: >> > >> >> Does this mean that you just let them adulterate the term? >> > You wou

Re: Gnome 3 in fallback mode for no apparent reason

2013-03-16 Thread Sanne Grinovero
On 16 March 2013 01:45, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 16.03.2013 02:36, schrieb Sanne Grinovero: >> The only common element I see in the two systems is that both have an >> NVidia video card and I'm forced to use the proprietary drivers >> because of other issues, >> but this worked pretty well so

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/03/13 05:02, Ed Greshko wrote: Another indication, I get: > >[root@box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg1 /mnt/cdrom >mount: /dev/sg1 is not a block device > >I suppose the drive could be defective but I would like to know I'm doing everything right before I pursue that path. > Wh

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: >On 16/03/13 05:02, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Another indication, I get: >>> > >>> >[root@box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg1 /mnt/cdrom >>> >mount: /dev/sg1 is not a block device >>> > >>> >I suppose the drive could be defective but I would like

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/13 20:21, Ed Greshko wrote: > "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: > >> >> [root@box10 bobg]# ls -l /dev | grep cdrom >> crw-rw+ 1 root cdrom21, 1 Mar 16 2013 sg1 >> brw-rw. 1 root cdrom11, 0 Mar 16 2013 sr0 >> >> [root@box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/03/13 08:21, Ed Greshko wrote: "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: [root@box10 bobg]# ls -l /dev | grep cdrom crw-rw+ 1 root cdrom21, 1 Mar 16 2013 sg1 brw-rw. 1 root cdrom11, 0 Mar 16 2013 sr0 [root@box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom

Screen flashing when dpms tries to turn off the screen

2013-03-16 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, Fedora 18 actually installed quite smoothly on my wife's new Acer V3-551 w/ ATI 7640G graphics after fighting to turn off safeboot for about 3 hours. One major oddity though is when the system attempts to turn off the screen for power saving, in the console it actually flashes black and some s

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/03/13 08:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/16/13 20:21, Ed Greshko wrote: "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: [root@box10 bobg]# ls -l /dev | grep cdrom crw-rw+ 1 root cdrom21, 1 Mar 16 2013 sg1 brw-rw. 1 root cdrom11, 0 Mar 16 2013 sr0 [root@box10 bobg]# mount -

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/13 21:35, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 16/03/13 08:32, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/16/13 20:21, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: >>> [root@box10 bobg]# ls -l /dev | grep cdrom crw-rw+ 1 root cdrom21, 1 Mar 16 2013 sg1 >>

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/03/13 09:44, Ed Greshko wrote: Do I need to create it under /dev/char ? You don't have [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Mar 12 07:27 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 Ok now I made that: [root@box10 bobg]# ll /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Mar 16 10:00 /dev/cdrom -> sr0

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 16/03/13 10:05, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Next to get it to "eject" the disk ... Eject -F did that, after that "eject" alone seems enough ... I suspect it's time to reboot and see what results I get when a disk is inserted? -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-1

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 03/14/2013 02:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm from scratch, something more intuitive than

Re: F-18 CDROM problem -

2013-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/13 22:17, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 16/03/13 10:05, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> Next to get it to "eject" the disk ... >> > Eject -F did that, after that "eject" alone seems enough ... > > I suspect it's time to reboot and see what results I get when a d

Unable to boot live cd in both safe and regular graphics mode Fedora 18

2013-03-16 Thread Kevin Daly
When I boot the live-usb stick x starts, but the login dialog does not come up.. I just get the default blue background screen. I have tested this usb-stick with other computers so it is working fine. This is a Intel Atom based system witg integrated graphics. lspci output 00:00.0 Host bridge: I

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15 years, let it be someone else's

Settings.....

2013-03-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Cameron wrote: On 03/14/2013 02:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm from scratch, somethi

Re: XFce configuration

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Two non-fatal/small issues relating to XFce. 1 - How do you configure a shortcut key to bring up the Applications Menu? I found some online help, but that didn't work. 2 - On boot-up, after the scrolling of service messages, and before the appearance of the login

Re: Unable to boot live cd in both safe and regular graphics mode Fedora 18

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Daly wrote: When I boot the live-usb stick x starts, but the login dialog does not come up.. I just get the default blue background screen. I have tested this usb-stick with other computers so it is working fine. This is a Intel Atom based system witg integrated graphics. When the boot m

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15 years, l

Re: NFS Server share /var/cache/yum?

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank Murphy wrote: Trying to replace an NAS with a PC. Figured I'd check before creating Having looked at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS?rd=Docs/Drafts/AGBeta/NFS How can I share on the NFS server /var/cache/yum. so it will be available as a local(nfs) cache to

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/16/2013 12:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: But in this case, I'm dealing with people who didn't even have tar and make installed, and expect that if I donated the programming I should donate support, too. Oh, and they still remind me I haven't made a money donation this year. Send them a sta

Re: Preventing a removable disk of being mounted by udisk (Fedora18)

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:29:10 +0100 Jean François Martinez wrote: Any ideas? http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/case-of-disks.html You need to work your way down to the bottom of that web page - the the way to fix this has changed a zillion times :-). It has, and may

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/16/2013 12:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Actually I'm spoiled using RPMcreator years ago, it just asked questions and did the rest. You would need to fill in the same text-box fields in a a GUI app that you would fill in a template spec file. In both cases, you'll need to supply the buil

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Doug
On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug: > Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm > Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to: > rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download > directory. > Tried again: rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm and still got > [doug@linux1 Downloads]$ sudo rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rp

Race Condition Causes dnsmasq to Fail to Start By NetworkManager

2013-03-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
I occasionally hit this when transitioning to a VPN connection or shutting one down: Mar 16 17:19:29 vfr NetworkManager[559]: VPN connection 'cbeyond' (IP Config Get) complete. Mar 16 17:19:29 vfr NetworkManager[559]: Policy set 'Built-in Ethernet' (em1) as default for IPv4 routing and

Re: Race Condition Causes dnsmasq to Fail to Start By NetworkManager

2013-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.03.2013 23:37, schrieb Garry T. Williams: > I occasionally hit this when transitioning to a VPN connection or > shutting one down: > > Mar 16 17:19:29 vfr NetworkManager[559]: VPN connection 'cbeyond' > (IP Config Get) complete. > Mar 16 17:19:29 vfr NetworkManager[559]: Policy

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Doug
On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug: Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to: rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download directory. Tried again: rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm and still got [doug@linux1

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Doug wrote: On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, bu

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/16/2013 04:24 PM, Doug wrote: My distro doesn't have YUM. --doug What distro are you using? AFAIK, yum is used by "almost all" RedHat based distros, including Fedora. And, if you're not using Fedora, why are you asking on a Fedora mailing list instead of one for your own distro? (No

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.03.2013 00:24, schrieb Doug: > On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug: >>> Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm >>> Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to: >>> rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download >>> directory. >

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.03.2013 00:52, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > Am 17.03.2013 00:24, schrieb Doug: >> On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug: Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to: rp

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Doug
On 03/16/2013 07:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2013 04:24 PM, Doug wrote: My distro doesn't have YUM. --doug What distro are you using? AFAIK, yum is used by "almost all" RedHat based distros, including Fedora. And, if you're not using Fedora, why are you asking on a Fedora mailing list

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.03.2013 01:14, schrieb Doug: > Thank you for your interest. It seems there is at least one other reader of > this list > who does not like me. So don't answer then, Harald it has nothing to do with "like" if you state at the very first beginning that you are not using Fedora some comple

How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again: I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was o

Re: Accented characters are now shown correctly on Thunar and on Terminal

2013-03-16 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 10:17 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I am using XFCE on F18. Unfortunately, the accented characters in the > file names are not shown correctly on Thunar, as well as on Terminal. > Is there some workaround? Post the output of running the locale command (as the user you're logged