X11 forward in F12

2010-05-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
What in the name of all that's holy do I need to install/enable/disable to get X11 forwarding to work in F12? I had a vague recollection that the default SELinux policy blocked it in F12, but I disabled SELinux, and I still can't get X11 forwarding to work. The shell that I get on the system

Re: X11 forward in F12

2010-05-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
> > On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:34:18 -0400 > "Marcus D. Leech" wrote: > > > You want to: > > - make sure the 'xauth' package is installed on the machine you are > connecting to. > > - Use 'ssh -X' (NOTE: cap X, not x). lower ca

Re: X11 forward in F12

2010-05-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/11/2010 05:43 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > May I suggest using -Y instead of -X. Its supposed to be more secure. > > I'm not that worried, given that all the computers involved are mine, on a network that is also mine, behind a virewall that I manage. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investiga

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/11/2010 10:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/11/2010 08:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel >> greatly superior to the KDE analogue? >> >> > IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to > what

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/25/2010 12:46 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make >> the picture clearer? >> > > Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in > the USA. They teach you

Broadcast support for 'nc'

2010-04-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I can't help but notice with my FC12 system, that the 'nc' command doesn't support the '-b' (broadcast) option. Other Linux distributions have supported that option for *years*. Why doesn't Fedora? -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbra

Re: OT: Tool to work with bash script files

2010-05-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/02/2010 10:41 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > I've been looking for a tool to help working on bash script. > I am the maintainer of the g4l project, and its primary script has been about > 3300 lines long. I've been going thru it, and using functions and other > methods, I've gotten it do

YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with >4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have heard of something like this. Yum seg faults when I ask it to do "things" when I have >4096M of physical memory installed. I'm running on a system with a Core 2 Quad, QX9770, with a x86_64 install of Fedora 12 from LIVE CD. I

Re: YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with >4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2010 07:37 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > >> I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have >> heard of something like this. >> >> Yum seg faults when I ask it to do &q

Re: YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with >4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2010 07:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 05 May 2010 19:22:21 -0400 > Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > >> Any clues? >> > I'd run memtest86 on it to find out if the memory is all good. > Could be some bad memory that doesn't normally get used

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/13/2011 12:06 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: > James, > > No point in arguing with this guy. This *is* the reason why linux in > general is the state in which you describe. Responses like his only > further prove your points. It's too bad that there are way more David's > out there than those l

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/13/2011 01:11 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > I like to fix machines for my students and they laugh and joke around when a > fake rogue virus shows up that it is scanning and I start the machine in safe > mode and look for the startup folder in the user/TEMP/ApplicationData/ > folders wher

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 13/06/2011 3:01 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > > No, I think that Windows is just more "user-friendly" and does more "hand- > holding than Linux. I think we need to get out of the mindset of "we don't > want 'everybody' using linux because then it wouldn't be cool." It often > seems that's the attitu

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 14/06/2011 3:47 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > There is a story at distrowatch comment # 66 about a person who used linux > for a while and like it still does, but went back to windows because of > several problems. Here's link: > > http://batsov.com/Linux/Windows/Rant/2011/06/11/linux-deskt

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
> mount point and the desktop icon (on my F13/GNOME system). > The problem continued to exist when I went to F14, and is still there > now that I've switched to XFCE. My main complaint isn't that it doesn't > work, it's that the USB devs refused to even admit that their software > wasn't reporting

Re: selinux is a pain

2011-09-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 20/09/2011 3:57 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2 > I spoke with someone who works in HP (system administration) that told > me they have SELinux disabled on the servers, as the overhead in > administration is to high. > > I'd like to believe my problem is due to lack of selinux configuration > know

Re: SELinux

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've been a security wonk for many years, and the problem I have with SeLinux is that when it makes a decision I disagree with, it's like pulling teeth to change it's mind. So I sometimes just turn it off Sigh -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.

Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD performance, and I can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H Memory: 8Gbyte 1333 Disk: 1TB Western Digital CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T The system performance is ge

Re: Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
> > On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > >> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD >> performance, and I >> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. >> > Sounds like a

Re: Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/12/2010 10:22 PM, JB wrote: > Marcus D. Leech ripnet.com> writes: > > >> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD >> performance, and I >>can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.

Re: Recurring problem on 6-core FC14 system

2011-03-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/03/2011 12:38 AM, William Austin wrote: > Recently I replaced MB/CPU/Memory on my main workstation, and a few > days later I installed FC14. The problems started then. I have tried > looking this one up in bugzilla, but so far with no luck. > > The system ran cleanly for 4 days on FC13 and

Display geometry in F14

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a system with a LG Flatron W2243T monitor, and a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H motherboard. Under F14, this monitor refuses to come up in anything other than fairly-low resolution (1024 x 768), although the monitor is clearly capable of 1920 x 1080. The automatic probe that Xorg does shows

Re: Display geometry in F14

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 24/05/2011 10:07 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > How old is that monitor? I ask because F 14 fails to detect my monitor > correctly although earlier versions found it. If yours is a few years > old it might have "fallen off the radar" like mine. It's quite recent--last year. -- users mailing list us

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 10:02 AM, Tim wrote: > Has anybody connected one of the various domestic audio mixers with USB > outputs to a Linux box? An example of one at this link: > > http://bavasmusic.com.au/store/behringer-xenyx-1204usb-p-2023.html > > Given a decent mixer, and something that's compatible, i

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/18/2010 02:00 PM, Tim wrote: > > Though, still "just" a sound card. The advantages of using a real mixer > are many: > > A sound card generally only has one or two inputs, and they only cope > with a narrow range of signal levels, impedances, unbalanced audio, and > have DC voltages on those

What is going on with Fedora mirrors today?

2010-11-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Most of the mirror sites appear to be missing their Fedora mirrors this afternoon--what's going on? Trying to do an update of an F14 system, and most mirrors are returning 505/404 when YUM tries to fetch updates. If I go in with my browser, I get the same thing. Fedora part of the mirror simp

F12 updates broken today?

2010-01-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm getting this message on a freshly-installed-from-live-cd system for F12 today: Error Type: Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/he

Re: F12 updates broken today?

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Thanks manual updating as suggested seems to have worked -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2010/1/15 Marcus D. Leech : >> I'm getting this message on a freshly-installe

Missing admin tools in F12?

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Where are all the admin tools? I've done a couple of F12 installs so far, from the Live CD, and most of the "expected" tools under System->Administration appear to be gone. Some of them seem to have moved to "Preferences", but for example there doesn't appear to be a tool for doing service st