yumdownloader use cachedir?

2013-05-06 Thread Frank Murphy
I can download i686.rpms on a x86_64 box using a list from a i686 box using: yumdownloader --archlist=i686 --releasever=19 `cat fedin.list` But, they download to current dir. Getting them to download to the F19 ~/cachdir is catching me at the moment. I could specify a download-dir. But, that wou

showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread Frank Murphy
How can "showmount -e" be used to find nfs-server Name and ip unknown as yet. I do know them, but as above q. man showmount hasn't helped in this nagios(plugin) would probably find this stuff. But, want to keep it a close to default Xfce install as possible. -- Regards, Frank - I check for new

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/06/13 16:13, Frank Murphy wrote: > How can "showmount -e" be used to find nfs-server > Name and ip unknown as yet. > > I do know them, but as above q. > man showmount hasn't helped in this > > nagios(plugin) would probably find this stuff. > But, want to keep it a close to default > Xfce in

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread poma
On 06.05.2013 10:13, Frank Murphy wrote: > How can "showmount -e" be used to find nfs-server > Name and ip unknown as yet. > > I do know them, but as above q. > man showmount hasn't helped in this > > nagios(plugin) would probably find this stuff. > But, want to keep it a close to default > Xfc

Re: gnome-shell and syslog problems

2013-05-06 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 17:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/05/2013 04:45 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered > > that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty. It turns out > > that syslogd was dead. I've found that it simply doesn't

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread poma
On 06.05.2013 10:58, Ed Greshko wrote: > I suppose you could always do something like this. But it will take a > fair amount of time > > for i in `seq 1 254`; do echo Address 10.10.156.${i}; /sbin/showmount -e > 10.10.156.${i}; done; time nmap -n --open -T5 -p 2049 192.168.1.* | grep

Re: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/05/2013 08:18 AM, Len Philpot wrote: > I had to enable "CSM mode" in firmware. Your laptop may have another term for > it. This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical > to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. There are apparently ways to boot > from an EFI USB st

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/06/13 20:40, poma wrote: > On 06.05.2013 10:58, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I suppose you could always do something like this. But it will take a >> fair amount of time >> >> for i in `seq 1 254`; do echo Address 10.10.156.${i}; /sbin/showmount -e >> 10.10.156.${i}; done; > time nmap -n

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread poma
On 06.05.2013 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/06/13 20:40, poma wrote: >> On 06.05.2013 10:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> I suppose you could always do something like this. But it will take a >>> fair amount of time >>> >>> for i in `seq 1 254`; do echo Address 10.10.156.${i}; /sbin/showmo

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/06/13 21:50, poma wrote: > On 06.05.2013 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/06/13 20:40, poma wrote: >>> On 06.05.2013 10:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> I suppose you could always do something like this. But it will take a fair amount of time for i in `seq 1 254`; do e

Re: showmount how to find a nfs server?

2013-05-06 Thread poma
On 06.05.2013 15:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/06/13 21:50, poma wrote: >> On 06.05.2013 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 05/06/13 20:40, poma wrote: On 06.05.2013 10:58, Ed Greshko wrote: > I suppose you could always do something like this. But it will take > a fair amount o

Re: autofs mount point on same box?

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 16:36, schrieb Frank Murphy: > Can a autofs mountpoint be used on the same pc? > man autofs if from 1997, still talks about ~/init* > > Box has: > /md0 (boot,/) > /md1 (home) > /md2 (/shareyumcache) > /dev/sdg (swap) [can't see a benefit in raiding swap] > > I want to use autofs t

Re: autofs mount point on same box?

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 16:46, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 16:41:23 +0200 > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> why would anybody do this? > > To only have /md2 mounted as necessary, > without clicking/typing anything.. > >> a bind-mount on your /etc/fstab is your friend >> >> /shareyumcache /va

Re: autofs mount point on same box?

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 16:54, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 16:51:24 +0200 > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> why would anybody mount it only on access to make the setup >> useless more fragile? > > Free resources for the nfs connected > clients who will be reading > the /shareyumcache what do

Re: yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 18:12, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? > > Without yum-fastestmirror any yum install is excuciatingly slow, think 256 > Kbps or slower. > However if I enable yum-fastestmirror I download from the local mirror in .AR

Re: yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 21:49, schrieb Mike Wright: > 05/05/2013 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:12 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? >> >> Because it doesn't work? The heuristic it uses is far too simple

Re: Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.05.2013 23:39, schrieb Anthony: > Hello Everyone, > > I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium > set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected. > However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular > Chrome instead of Chr

Re: screenshot running on bootup

2013-05-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.05.2013 22:22, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni: > On 05/05/13 16:13, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> On 05/05/13 16:06, Mike Wright wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Running f18 installed from the xfce spin. >>> >>> Starting this morning f18 runs 75 copies of the Screenshot accessory every

Re: yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

2013-05-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Yes. It assumes that low latency equals high throughput, which is not > always the case (in fact it is often not true). Now, mirrormanager > should be pointing you to a regional mirror to start with, so you should > probably check that (the

Re[2]: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-06 Thread Len Philpot
On 05/06/2013 at 08:09 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >Enabling CSM is not required, nor should it be enabled if you want to >use UEFI-mode. > >You must create a UEFI-compatible USB stick, which you stated you did >not do. Pass "--efi" to the "livecd-iso-to-disk" script to do so. I don't think I

Re: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/06/2013 12:35 PM, Len Philpot wrote: > I don't think I specifically said that I created a non-EFI USB stick -- I > simply stated I created a USB boot stick (I didn't say whether it was EFI or > not). Actually it /was/ an EFI USB boot stick, but I was unable to figure out > how to launch anaco

Re: gnome-shell and syslog problems [SOLVED]

2013-05-06 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 02:28 +0200, poma wrote: > On 06.05.2013 01:45, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I have a Fedora 18 machine on which I use gnome-shell as a desktop. > > After the last set of updates, I tried to restart. The machine froze > > during shutdown and I had to reset it from the front p

Re: f18+gnome3: howto recording desktop with audio

2013-05-06 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 01/26/2013 07:09 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: How to record via ctrl+alt+shift+r, video and audio together ? I have fount this trick: http://askubuntu.com/questions/112473/audio-not-working-for-gnome-screencast-ctrl-alt-shift-r But the command for set the "org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline" key:

Re[2]: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-06 Thread Len Philpot
On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this thread. >You specifically stated: > >> This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. Yes, but I never said the U

Re: gnome-shell and syslog problems [SOLVED]

2013-05-06 Thread poma
On 06.05.2013 21:34, Matthew Saltzman wrote: … > So now that this has me thinking about themes, what gnome-shell themes > do y'all like, and why? http://shimmerproject.org/project/greybird/ cause ain't just a gnome-shell theme, but rather well maintained gtk theme. ;) BTW fits well with GNOME Clas

Re: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/06/2013 04:10 PM, Len Philpot wrote: Of course, having full package selection available*within* the installer instead of having add them later would be nice, but I digress... If you set up your networking during the install, you have access to the regular Fedora repos and can get just