Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-03 Thread David G . Miller
Chris Murphy colorremedies.com> writes: > > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:42 PM, "Lars E. Pettersson" homer.se> wrote: > > > On 01/02/2014 11:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Yes, all critical notifications are supposed to stay persistent. That > >> is the right model to alert desktop users about

Re: Adding mail aliases

2014-01-07 Thread David G . Miller
Robert Moskowitz htt-consult.com> writes: > > So I have been taught it is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you also > have to run newaliases to update /etc/aliases.db. Both these files > exist in the base install, along with mailx. But newaliases does NOT > exist. A 'quick' yum whatprovide

Re: Do any systemd devs actually use it on a server?

2014-01-25 Thread David G . Miller
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > > This bugzilla is absurd: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043212 > > I've just added a new entry to it because last night's > disruption corrupted the binary format journal files > and sent rsyslogd into a 100% cpu loop even after > a reboot.

Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

2014-03-26 Thread David G . Miller
Matthew Miller fedoraproject.org> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > > > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just > > > really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have > > > separate mount options, files

Re: why is a .txt file being run as a php script?

2012-10-08 Thread David G . Miller
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > > On my local system I have apache running so I can test web pages > before I upload them to my ISP. > > I have a sample .php script which I explicitly named with > a .php.txt suffix so it would be treated as a plain text > file, not a php script. > > Yet apach

Re: Laptop doesn't know which display to use when docked.

2012-10-19 Thread David G . Miller
Terry Polzin wowway.com> writes: > > I am running xfce on F17 completely patched and current. > > My laptop is a HP probook 6460b. When I boot it docked the grub screen > appears on the external display. When the boot has completed the > background screen is displayed on the external display.

Re: enable second monitor in F14?

2012-10-19 Thread David G . Miller
Dave Stevens uniserve.com> writes: > > I tried to uninstall OpenOffice before installing LibreOffice and > found that my proprietary ATI X driver was uninstalled too. After > sorting that out I wound up sticking with OO after all. But now my > monitors mirror each other and I don't see whe

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-18 Thread David G . Miller
Roger bigpond.com> writes: > > Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. > I've been using whois but it seems limited. > > Thanks in advance > Roger > Chances are that any sort of multi-host attack will use zombies as proxies. Even if you are able to chase the IP

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-29 Thread David G . Miller
Gabriel VLASIU vlasiu.net> writes: > > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, JD wrote: > > > That does not make sense. > > > I have a unicore!! An old Athlon64 3700+, > In this case %{?_smp_mflags} is expanded to "-j1" or "" and you will have > exactly only one "cc1". > > > and yet ps -ef shows up to 4 m

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-29 Thread David G . Miller
JD gmail.com> writes: > For the last time: > rpmbuild has no -j anything option!!! > JD - Calm down. Have a glass of wine or a beer or whatever. Noone is saying rpmbuild has a -j option. Several of us are trying to explain to you that programs like rpmbuild can do things that the end user m

Re: Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-03 Thread David G . Miller
Frank McCormick videotron.ca> writes: > On 02/01/13 04:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Having come from

Re: Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread David G . Miller
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > > I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an > option, > because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. SNIP > > Suggestions? > I just did a "modprobe b43" and the b43 module loaded without requiring any additional files or pac

Re: Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread David G . Miller
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > > David G. Miller wrote: > > Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > >> I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an > >> option, SNIP > > I just did a "modprobe b43" and the b43 mo

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread David G . Miller
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > Lots of SNIPPING > From > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD?rd=FirewallD/#Direct_options > > The arguments of the passthrough option are the same as > the corresponding iptables, ip6tables and ebtables arguments. > > poc > So, c

Re: Holding down the power button when the systems freezes

2013-01-28 Thread David G . Miller
Paul Smith gmail.com> writes: > When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to > power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest? Simple test: if CapsLock and/or NumLock and/or ScrollLock still work (keyboard light reflects change in state), you have a shot a

Re: F18: post-friday updates + ssh ports + iptables

2013-01-28 Thread David G . Miller
Ranjan Maitra inbox.com> writes: > So, I have a strange problem which I can't figure out. After Friday's > updates, I was unable to ssh into the machine with a nonstandard port. > I changed the port to the default and was able to get in. I was able to > resolve this only after stopping and starti

Re: Holding down the power button when the systems freezes

2013-01-29 Thread David G . Miller
Max Pyziur brama.com> writes: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Paul Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:24 AM, David G. Miller davenjudy.org> wrote: > >>> When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to > >>> power off

Re: telnetd mystery ....

2013-01-29 Thread David G . Miller
Ed Greshko greshko.com> writes: > > On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18? > > I just did, and I didn't add -D, but I did change "disabled = yes" to "no" > > in the telnet

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-01-31 Thread David G . Miller
Joe Zeff zeff.us> writes: > > On 01/31/2013 08:34 AM, Andras Simon wrote: > > I'd think it's the coolness thing. > > What's cool about looking like an ignoramus? I just go with these are the same people who aren't intelligent enough to operate a baseball cap so they end up wearing it backwards.

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-01 Thread David G . Miller
Joe Zeff zeff.us> writes: > As an example, does anybody reading > this know what I mean by "an identical cousin?" Yes and now I have the d**n jingle from the show going through my head "but they're cousins, identical cousins..." AAGGH! Cheers, Dave -- use

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-02 Thread David G . Miller
Antonio Olivares inbox.com> writes: > > And, on a more international note, if somebody just mentions "the war," > > which war do you think of first? > War between the States!(Civil War) I used to work with a gentleman who grew up in northern Virginia. He said it wasn't until he was in high s

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-04 Thread David G . Miller
may I suggest: rpm -q --whatprovides `which df` and let us know what comes back? Cheers, Dave -- 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/M

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-04 Thread David G . Miller
Reindl Harald thelounge.net> writes: > > > Am 04.02.2013 19:29, schrieb David G.Miller: > > may I suggest: > > > > rpm -q --whatprovides `which df` > > > > and let us know what comes back? > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > [harry srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides `which /usr/bin/df` > coreut

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-04 Thread David G . Miller
Michael Schwendt gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:42:20 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > coreutils is reinstalled and clean > > > > i found out that "binutils" was borked and "ld" not found anymore > > "ld" is OK after "yum reinstall binutils" but df still does not > > show the r

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread David G . Miller
Rick Stevens alldigital.com> writes: > > On 07/23/2013 02:02 PM, Darryl L. Pierce issued this missive: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:52:06PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 23.07.2013 22:39, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > >>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:35:44PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >

Re: Mouse button debouncing

2013-08-19 Thread David G . Miller
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > I have a Logitech Bluetooth mouse which I'm fairly sure has a hardware > problem. The left button frequently issues two click events in rapid > succession when pressed only once. Is there a way to tell X that two > such events in under some threshold sh

Re: Mouse button debouncing

2013-08-20 Thread David G . Miller
John Pilkington tesco.net> writes: > > On 19/08/13 21:22, David G. Miller wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > > >> > >> I have a Logitech Bluetooth mouse which I'm fairly sure has a hardware > >> problem

Re: Laptop screen blank when using second monitor

2013-10-29 Thread David G . Miller
Oliver Ruebenacker gmail.com> writes: > Hello, >   Until this morning, my Lenovo Thinkpad T430 running KDE on Fedora 19 was working fine sitting on a base with a second monitor attached. I removed it from the base and connected another second monitor (a projector) and things were still f

Re: OT: C programs and architectures (use on Fedora)

2013-11-02 Thread David G . Miller
Mihai T. Lazarescu gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have obtained a set of open-source programs from > > > > http://petertoft.dk/PhD/Recon2D.tar.gz > > > > uncompressed, etc, and it all goes through fine. > > > > Whe

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread David G . Miller
Tim yahoo.com.au> writes: > > Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Frank sent: > > Guess all the 'younger' members are afraid to reply :) > > Oi!I'm middle-aged. > > I've played with computers since before the PC days (sending punch cards > in the post), ignored the C64 but used altern

Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-20 Thread David G . Miller
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:35:45 -0300 > Germán A. Racca wrote: > > Anyway, it is safer to use something like VIM to edit files as root, I > > only tested gedit because I saw your emai

Re: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2012-02-20 Thread David G . Miller
M. Fioretti nexaima.net> writes: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 20:18:21 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > I've got a HP G6 1273SL laptop with this chipset and a live cd of > > Fedora 16 x86_64, KDE spin... when I [boot] the screen goes > > completely black. > > > > if I... add to its initrd lin

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-21 Thread David G . Miller
Bruno Wolff III wolff.to> writes: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:48:29 +, >Phil Dobbin gmail.com> wrote: > > > >Digest mode is perfectly acceptable for use when searching for > >relevant topics but a bore when replying. > > > That are two available formats for digests. The nice one inc

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread David G . Miller
don fisher comcast.net> writes: > > I am trying to find documentation on the alsa/pulse audio system. My > goal is to set it up independent of gnome or KDE. > > Thanks, > don I ran into a similar problem with my FC16 installation of the Xfce re-spin. The solution I finally came up with was t

Re: rc.local not loaded on boot

2012-03-25 Thread David G . Miller
Bruno Martins gmail.com> writes: > > Hello list, > > I can read here: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html > > the following: > > 3.2.4. rc.local no longer packaged > You need to enable the service through s

Re: rc.local not loaded on boot

2012-03-27 Thread David G . Miller
Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > > On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 17:34 +0000, David G. Miller wrote: > > Quite a bit more to it than just putting a script there: > > > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272075 > > > > Cheers, >

Re: Broken network hdw/softw

2012-06-03 Thread David G . Miller
David Highley highley-recommended.com> writes: > > After power cycle on system the line drivers for the network interface > seemed to die, no link connection and no light. This is a mother board > interface and dmesg still shows hardware discovery. > > Bought a PCI Express card and installed it

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread David G . Miller
Christopher Svanefalk gmail.com> writes: > > > I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it).I just wondered if Fedora can

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-02 Thread David G . Miller
John Wendel comcast.net> writes: > > On 07/01/2012 12:17 PM, jdow wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > The equivalent is done with live CDs you know. > > > > {^_^} > > I think you just supplied the answer! I didn't think of it, but the > equivalent of a live CD is exactly what I need. Now I just need to

Re: NetworkManager strange stuff -

2012-07-10 Thread David G . Miller
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wildblue.net> writes: > > On 10/07/12 17:37, Steven Stern types: > > On 07/10/2012 04:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >> This is F-17/64 bit. > >> > >> The dd-wrt router assigns dhcp addresses on our LAN. However this > >> computer

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-07-24 Thread David G . Miller
Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone. ... > A yes. The infamous Intel 945 chipset...I waded through the whole sluggish feel issues of the >2048 res issue. Then an update appeared to have ad

Re: possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

2012-08-12 Thread David G . Miller
Paul Allen Newell cs.cmu.edu> writes: > Up until recently, I have been able to scp/ssh from my F16 box to my > WinXP under cygwin without problem. Today, it appears that isn't the case. >it is logging errors and I see the following: > > Aug 11 23:43:43 yoyo kernel: [ 779.725071] > IN=eth0

Re: possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

2012-08-13 Thread David G . Miller
Paul Allen Newell cs.cmu.edu> writes: > > [inline] > > On 8/12/2012 4:12 PM, David G. Miller wrote: > > Paul Allen Newell cs.cmu.edu> writes: > > > > > > I checked ifconfig/ipconfig, plus verified the hosts file on both > machines. I also ch

Re: Odd Question, Wifi

2013-02-19 Thread David G . Miller
Jim comcast.net> writes: > > Is there any way a Unsecure Wifi connection, one can determine how to > contact the owner about his connection. > > I can't visualise how , but I just thought I would just ask. Use nmap to find the actual host IP addresses of systems on his network and then use th

Re: Multiboot question

2013-02-28 Thread David G . Miller
Christopher Meng gmail.com> writes: > sd3.    55GB not parted > sd4.    32GB not parted > Now I want to install Fedora 17 on sd3 or sd4, but I don't know howto. From Anaconda I failed evrrytime for not enough space or some other reasons. > So any hints availabe? I think two lvm is the way of in

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-14 Thread David G . Miller
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > > 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 t

Re: Problem with cron

2013-03-22 Thread David G . Miller
Joe Zeff zeff.us> writes: > > I have my computers registered with the Linux Counter, and my main > desktop machine is supposed to update its status once a week, using a > cron job: > > # added by lico-update.sh version 0.3.14 > 58 11 * * 4 /home/joe/bin/lico-update.sh -m > > The permissions

Re: F18 fails to install on Toshiba Satellite M860

2013-04-14 Thread David G . Miller
Abu Attar Musharih gmail.com> writes: > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ed Greshko greshko.com> wrote: > Not very familiar with it since I've got "older" hardware  But, can you try disabling EFI/UEFI booting in your BIOS? > > >  The  EFI/UEFI boot is the boot option under the  me

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

2013-04-24 Thread David G . Miller
Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: > > Hi again, > > I found out that the issue is within rpm, not yum. > When installing rpm packages with the "--ignoresize" option, rpm > installs fine while otherwise it complains about not enough available > inodes. > > What I am looking for is a way to ma

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

2013-04-24 Thread David G . Miller
poma gmail.com> writes: > > On 24.04.2013 16:58, David G. Miller wrote: > > Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: > > […] > >> What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm > >> automatically. Is this possi

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

2013-05-01 Thread David G . Miller
Anthony Papillion papillion.me> writes: > > Hello Everyone, > > I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a > normal boot. > > When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a > certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. Try t

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

2013-05-02 Thread David G . Miller
Anthony Papillion papillion.me> writes: > > On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > > Anthony Papillion papillion.me> writes: > > > >> > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu o

Re: [OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-16 Thread David G . Miller
Ed Greshko greshko.com> writes: > > This was a bizarre coincidence but given the "lesson" I thought I'd offer it up. > > I had not updated this one system for a while so I ran "yum update". Noticed that the list of updates included a > kernel update and x11-drivers. Upon rebooting the system

Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

2013-06-21 Thread David G . Miller
Chiming in with some additional information that only *partially* contradicts certain things that have been said in this thread. First off though, the advice that drives are cheap and data is expensive is absolutely correct. Do NOT let anything I say talk you out of making sure any critical data

Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

2013-06-22 Thread David G . Miller
Paul Smith gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:48 AM, David G. Miller davenjudy.org> wrote: > > Chiming in with some additional information that only *partially* > > contradicts certain things that have been said in this thread. First off > > thou

F19 xfce bug or SL6 KVM bug?

2013-07-03 Thread David G . Miller
Just installed F19 as a KVM guest with Scientific Linux 6.4 as the host OS. Here's the oddity. The mouse cursor is invisible from the time the GUI comes until I start a terminal window. I can login with no problems since the login window gets focus on start up. I can make a reasonable guess at

Re: Scanner recommendations needed

2013-07-10 Thread David G . Miller
Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Tom Horsley gmail.com> wrote:I remember I once went through the entire list of supported > scanners on the sane web site and searched for each one > on the office depot and staples web sites. Not a single

Re: Proposal: Fedora should install with IPv6 disabled by default [was: Re: Disabling ipv6]

2013-07-12 Thread David G . Miller
Fernando Lozano lozano.eti.br> writes: > > Hi, > > > [As I changed the subject, let me clear: IPv6 still compiled in the kernel. Just the network interfaces configs Perhaps Fedora is the wrong distribution for you. The whole idea behind Fedora is for it to be an "engineering proving groun