Re: Using Lightning with kerberos?

2010-08-25 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/8/25 Christoph Höger : > is there any way to use Thunderbird Lightning > (thunderbird-lightning-1.0-0.27.b2pre.fc13.x86_64) with kerberos? > Thunderbird itself works fine, but Lightning always asks for a passwd > when accessing webdav. Is this bug report helpful? https://bugzilla.mozilla.

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 30 August 2010 13:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:12:14 +0100 (BST) > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Would ou just turn off SELINX ? >> I know I need to learn about SELinux ! > > Well, here's my opinion of selinux: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html

Re: Problem browsing http://bugzilla.kernel.org/

2010-08-31 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 31 August 2010 18:57, JD wrote: > > Aimed my firefox at  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ > and got this error: > > >  Software error: > > Can't connect to the database. > Error: Too many connections >   Is your database installed and up and running? >   Do you have the correct username and password

Re: How to find rpm for fedora

2010-09-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 September 2010 09:06, admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to compile partclone (http://partclone.org/) because I havent > found it on any repos of mines. > I run make but I see I need of  libcursesw-dev ... Have you tried installing the Fedora ncurses-libs and ncurses-devel packages? It lo

Re: somewhat OT: sudo question

2010-09-09 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 9 September 2010 22:18, JD wrote: > On 09/09/2010 12:12 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> Append a line like the following to /etc/sudoers >>> >>> ranjan      ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL >> Sorry, maybe I was not clear. I wanted to have the ability to use sudo >> without password for the above two

Re: GNOME Terminal alternatives?

2010-09-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 September 2010 16:15, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago I posted the message below, and still haven't been able > to find the answers to the Terminal configuration questions that I > have, and hoped someone might have some ideas. Is there an alternative > that might be better suited for wha

Re: /etc/init.d/mysqld not installed on F12 machine

2010-09-12 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 12 September 2010 21:06, Aaron Gray wrote: > MySQL does not seem to be installed on my F12 machine. > I have done a :- >    yum install mysql > but /etc/init.d/mysqld and friends are not installed. > Is there a separate package that installs them ? mysql-server I believe. -- Sam -- users mai

Re: /etc/init.d/mysqld not installed on F12 machine

2010-09-12 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 12 September 2010 21:17, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > yum list \*mysqld\* [...@www ~]$ yum list \*mysqld\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error: No matching Packages to list However: [...@www ~]$ yum list \*mysql\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Installed Packages mysql-libs.x86_64

Re: Rhythmbox doesn't quite share

2010-09-20 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 20 September 2010 21:50, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > I will always be mystified how people are suckered into buying Apple > products. I guess that's why I'm not a Steve Jobs. Because good looks sell things. I may not totally agree with Steve Jobs, Apple as a company, or the "Mac Experience",

Re: Rhythmbox doesn't quite share

2010-09-20 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 21 September 2010 02:08, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 16:29 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 09/20/2010 03:50 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> > Steven Stern wrote: >> >> Well, that's useful, Craig. I guess I should hand my Mac to the nearest >> >> homeless person. >> > >> > You

Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?

2010-09-30 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 October 2010 00:40, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/30/2010 08:56 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> However, be aware that Fedora tries to be on a six month or shorter >> release cycle.  Fedora is basically a 'wide beta' for RedHat and that >> is also stated on the Project's web page. > > Where is t

Re: fedora system-switch-mail alternative

2010-10-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 October 2010 22:08, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > Thanks Craig, actually thats are the steps that system-switch-mail do? > That is roughly what system-switch mail does. This is it enabling sendmail: os.system('/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail') o

Re: VSFTPD 421 Service not availabl

2010-10-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 October 2010 00:41, Aaron Gray wrote: > On 2 October 2010 23:58, Aaron Gray wrote: >> >> On 2 October 2010 23:56, stan wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:37:40 +0100 >>> Aaron Gray wrote: >>> >>> > I have installed a fresh version of F11, unfortunately I did not >>> > install VSFTPD with

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 October 2010 12:46, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:42 -0700, JD wrote: >> That may be so! >> But it is not YOUR place to say to anyone >> if their post is out of place. >> Especially if the post IS about Fedora! > > actually, it is my place to say to someone that their pos

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 October 2010 20:36, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP >> and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp, >> kasablanca, etc.). > > what you mean is sftp.. for windows a gr

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 October 2010 21:23, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > what you mean is sftp. >> >> No, FTP-S.  FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990.  sftp is a part of ssh >> and uses it's encryption mechanisms. > > what I SHOULD have said is " what I 'THINK' you mean",

Re: Setting up a Linksys WRT54G router for SSH port forwarding

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 October 2010 00:02, Jim wrote: >  Fedora 12 on both computers That's irrelevant. This isn't a Fedora problem, this is a basic networking problem. > I have two computers setting behind this Linksys WRT54G router and I > want to connect to both of them by SSH remote across the Internet.    I

Re: Attribute copying problem with "useradd"

2010-10-06 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 6 October 2010 21:46, Chris Tyler wrote: > One of my students showed up with an intriguing issue yesterday. They > added a /home filesystem to their F13 installation, and now "useradd" > fails to completely copy /etc/skel for new users -- it stops copying > with an error on setting attributes o

Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

2010-10-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided... -- Sam On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: >> I'd really appreciate it if anyone could explain why these things are >> happening and how I could configure the Zimbra Web Client

Re: ... why top-posting should be avoided... (was Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?))

2010-10-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 10 October 2010 21:31, JD wrote: >  On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided... >> >> -- >> Sam >> >> On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim  wrote: >>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew

Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

2010-10-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 10 October 2010 22:44, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 21:22 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided... > > No, I did not.  They didn't ask about that.  I answered the first part > of their query ("why" what wa

Re: ... why top-posting should be avoided... (was Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?))

2010-10-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 10 October 2010 23:14, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 15:40 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> Has anyone ever noticed that gmail (and likely a lot of other online >> email services and desktop software) opens a gap at the top for typing >> the response? > > That doesn't mean you have to

Re: Installing JRE - New Install

2010-10-12 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 12 October 2010 22:49, jim wrote: >  Fc13-i686 /Kde  New install > > I have jre1.6.0_21 installed and ln -s to, in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > > There is no plugins directory in /usr/lib/firefox. > > I tried libjavaplugin_oji.so and libnpjp2.so but I can't get it to show > after starting about:p

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-15 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 15 October 2010 02:31, JD wrote: > Try to use www.arin.net > You will see that arin.net will not tell you to which > network (such as APNIC ) it belongs. Very mysterious :) s...@samlap:~$ whois 218.14.146.200 % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic.net/db/db

Re: Installation Impressions

2011-02-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > suvayu ali writes: >>> Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able >>> to install Fedora? Is there no way around this? >> >> Well you have two options I think, >> >> 1. the obvious first, resize your LVMs to free 500 MB a

Re: Resizing PVs (was: Installation Impressions)

2011-02-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2011 22:15, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in > the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing. That's interesting. I do consider it resizing... It's not the function of the pvresize command to move the L

Re: Resizing PVs

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 6 February 2011 14:34, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Chris Adams writes: >> Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath said: >>> You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in >>> the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing. >> >> Changing the size of something is

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 February 2011 21:55, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 21:30 +, Mark Eggers wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:11:34 +0100, Outway wrote: >> >> > Is there a specific reason why the fedoraproject chose to use a mailing >> > list instead of a newsgroup? >> >> You could read the ma

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 February 2011 23:22, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Darr wrote: >> On Thursday, February 10, 2011 @21:49 zulu, Fernando Cassia scribed (twice): >> >>> Are you using a time machine to report news, from the past? look >>> at the dates... >>> >>> Published:  Mar 07 2

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 February 2011 23:26, mattias wrote: > Are we talking about antivirus software? > If so > No need for it on linux Are you trolling? I can't tell, so I'm going to assume you are serious. It's this kind of attitude that will *make* Linux a bigger target... I run critical production servers a

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 February 2011 23:48, mattias wrote: > But linux viruses? > How many exist? > Yes i'm are serious As I said - it's not about today's threat, it is about tomorrow's. Installing AV once you have been notified about a real, working linux virus is not an effective countermeasure. The problem co

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 February 2011 23:58, mattias wrote: > Yes if you running a windows box to i can understand you > But only linux > A big > NO I applaud your self confidence in the fact you are better at defending your system than a clever virus writer is at attacking it. I wish you luck in the future and si

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 March 2011 22:41, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:34:25 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, > > > Good luck, lots of big mail systems are designed to make it very hard to > scan for actual user names (spammers like that) so you are m

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-08 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 8 March 2011 15:34, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > ok, i putted an OpenVPN server on port 1194 on an OpenWrt 10.03 router. > https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xEZTvnhT > http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1138443 > Questions: what could i do to increase security regarding this OpenVPN > server? - i mean on serv

Re: what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 9 March 2011 09:30, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few > websites: > { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} } > .twitter.com > .facebook.com Should you not ask in a Privoxy forum? This doesn't seem particularly related to Fedora. > Ok! it

Re: oovoo.com

2011-03-13 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 13 March 2011 18:13, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Dear List, > > I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video > conferencing with oovoo.com.  It is apparent that they support Mac and > Windows. > > Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo > for Fe

Re: oovoo.com

2011-03-13 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 13 March 2011 20:07, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On 13 March 2011 18:13, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo >> for Fedora?  Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow >> video conferencing with Fedora. > > It appears

Re: X won't start - segmentations fault

2011-03-14 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 03/14/2011 02:56 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Only: it dropped to a rediculously small resolution. Have you tried running nvidia-settings instead of the Fedora display settings tool? That is how I generally set my resolution... -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 21 March 2011 23:46, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/21/2011 04:23 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Whereas in >> a proper root shell aren't you prone to "grave mistakes" due to silly >> things like typos, "forgot where I am in the directory tree" like >> errors? > > First, I only use su - if and *only* if I h

Re: Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

2011-03-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
> On 03/21/2011 10:16 AM, stan wrote: >> begs the question of*why*  people might be deserting Fedora. > No it doesn't; it *ASKS* the question. I'd like to step in here, as a heavy user of en_GB and say that the original form is correct *and* in common usage. I accept that it may not have made it i

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 22 March 2011 00:07, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:46 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > ... >> As I've been writing this, something interesting has occurred to me: by >> the time I stopped doing tech support for an ISP (Our call center was >> closed and the entire support cre

Re: QR code login through GDM?

2011-04-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 April 2011 20:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 21:02 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > The question is simple: is there any possibility to use login with Cam > > and QR code? > > The question would be even simpler if you didn't use obscure acronyms. I t

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-15 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 15 April 2011 09:34, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >    I am not familiar with sed and the commands are overwhelming [to >    me]. Man sed hasn't helped ... I am interested. > >    Perhaps you can tell me what's wrong? Wrong tool for the job... sed is not something geared to processing XML. sam@server

Re: iptables questions

2011-04-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 April 2011 20:33, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/17/2011 12:02 PM, JD wrote: >> All 3 addresses belong to google. >> Just do  whois 1e100.net > >  Domain Name: 1e100.net > >         Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com >         Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com >         Registrar Homepage: http:

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 18 April 2011 21:58, JD wrote: > On 04/18/2011 11:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/18/2011 09:22 AM, JD wrote: >>> But the OP seems not to have taken this road :) >> And wisely, IMO.  Not because it's not a good idea but because doing >> that would require him to trust the hosting company, and I

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 18 April 2011 22:46, JD wrote: > On 04/18/2011 02:21 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> On 18 April 2011 21:58, JD  wrote: >>> On 04/18/2011 11:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>>> On 04/18/2011 09:22 AM, JD wrote: >>>>> But the OP seems not to have taken this road :

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 18 April 2011 23:07, JD wrote: > On 04/18/2011 02:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/18/2011 02:46 PM, JD wrote: >>> "good ones" as in "$$" per year? :) >> You may not always get what you pay for, but you almost never get what >> you don't pay for.  Going with the cheapest possible hosting ser

Re: FireFox 4: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2011-05-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 May 2011 21:15, Tim Evans wrote: > Newly installed Fedora 14 > > # uname -a > > Linux osprey.tkevans.com 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 22 > 16:01:29 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > FireFox 4 (downloaded directly from mozilla.com) reports the above > error, even though th

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4 If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this: To

Re: a project idea... help needed!

2011-05-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 23 May 2011 22:08, Matthew Byrd wrote: > The basics.. you have an icon in the notification area of gnome or in > the system menu.. click on the icon then you have a list of your hosts > or groups or whatever, once you click on any one of the hosts or > groups, you're prompted to choose the acti

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 30 May 2011 22:30, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 30/05/11 20:46, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 05/30/2011 12:28 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>> Easy for you to say when you don't have the problem, and I wish you >>> never have a similar problem. Then I'd be interested to see your >>> response. In

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 31 May 2011 18:33, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/31/2011 02:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Incidentally, isn't it time the Fedora developers >> gave up this passion for DVDs? >> Does anyone burn DVDs to install Fedora today? >> Half the new machines I see don't have DVD drives anyway. >> Surely ever

Re: USB support for VirtualBox

2010-10-27 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 27 October 2010 15:29, Robert Karge wrote: > I have been using Fedora off/on since F3.  I'm a heavy user of VirtualBox. > From F3 to F13 USB is not evident.  All suggestions from Fedora sources > don't work.  All other Linux Distros I have tried have automated access to > USB in VirtualBox. > >

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 November 2010 23:12, Hiisi wrote: > Another question here is about compability of two packages. Will I be > able to upgrade my system from F14 to F15? Will OpenOffice be changed to > LibreOffice automatically? > -- > ___ > / And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 November 2010 23:25, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/04/2010 04:21 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> While I appreciate that you have worked on your signature script, are >> you aware that the signal in this post was about 169 characters, >> versus the  470 of noise for your signature. P

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 November 2010 00:48, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/04/2010 04:41 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> It's weird actually. I like context to my messages... so giving >> context and history to what you are saying by >> quoting a little too much doesn't bother me as much

Re: Automate tweaking??

2010-11-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 21 November 2010 20:40, Beartooth wrote: > >        If this really doesn't exist, I want to make a feature request; > but I have somehow missed discovering it. > >        Any time I do a fresh install, I have a big job afterward on each > machine. A third of it is going through PackageKit, addi

Re: Launch metacity -- how by default??

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 December 2010 16:16, Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:40:53 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: >        I'm obviously not getting my question across. How do I get it to > launch *on* *boot* -- knowing that it does not now. I think you missed Joe's useful post, which tells you how to check that

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 December 2010 14:34, S Mathias wrote: > It's ok, that i can use this, when i want an incrementing sequence, in a > given way: > > # {START..END..INCREMENT} > $ for i in {0..10..2}; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done > Welcome 0 times > Welcome 2 times > Welcome 4 times > Welcome 6 times > Wel

Re: import certificates via command line - Firefox

2010-12-11 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 11 December 2010 17:41, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:48:36 -0800 (PST) > S Mathias wrote: > >> is there any way under Fedora to import certs to Firefox from the terminal? > > Perhaps the certificate import procedure for Sylpheed that I describe here > will > be relevant: > > http:

Re: Outgoing email filters for claws-mail

2011-01-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 January 2011 16:05, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can anyone point me to how to setup outgoing email filters with claws. > I am using Claws with Gmail over IMAP and would like to put a copy of > the sent email in the folder I am replying from. Without this my > replies don't appear in

Re: Outgoing email filters for claws-mail

2011-01-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 January 2011 23:44, Suvayu Ali wrote: > PS: Claws mail seems to be the near perfect email client I was looking > for so long, loving it! :) I love it too. For a long time I used it exclusively until I decided that actually I could get by pretty well with just the Gmail interface and my work

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 January 2011 22:27, S Mathias wrote: > $ ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print length}') )); echo > "$a $ASDF"$(for i in {1..$a}; do printf "."; done) > 65 hello. > Why doesn't it print: > 65 hello. Because {1.

Re: svn with dyndns

2011-01-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 January 2011 18:00, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > I'm not going through > apache to try and make life easier. > All requests in via tcp:3690 are routed to the server. > I've set things up using the instructions at > http://queens.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/linux/subversion-howto/ (option 2) > > If I

Re: FIXED Compiling Games Program

2011-01-10 Thread Sam Sharpe
This thread has decended into a slightly pointless and certainly bandwidth stealing argument about Language and spelling, so I thought I would bring it back onto a computing track: On 6 January 2011 19:42, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > I probably learned how to use language like that long before you wer

Re: Triple head?

2011-01-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
2011/1/17 夜神 岩男 : > --- Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora?  I >> figure it will >> require the proprietary driver, and while that is >> not optimal, I'm >> willing to do it.  I really want to have thre

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-01-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 21 January 2011 22:23, Richard Shaw wrote > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Robert Myers wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Jim wrote: >>> Fedora 14 / KDE >>> >>> Today my Thunderbird-3.1.7 crashed and sent all my 1500 emails to the >>> Trash Can. Thunderbird was taking so long to co

Re: Finding programs

2011-01-25 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 26 January 2011 00:07, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/26/2011 05:23 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> I'm not sure how new users are supposed to find evince. > > Maybe it is the same method that many folks should use to find things. > http://tinyurl.com/6ce2nvo  :-) :-) I appreciate your point, b

Re: Dsik usage error

2010-01-13 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/13 William John Murray : > >  Hello all, >         Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk > partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: > > /dev/dm-0             65570580  60494828   1744888  98% / > > However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it > add

Re: Dsik usage error

2010-01-13 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/13 david walcroft : > On 01/14/2010 09:20 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> 2010/1/13 William John Murray: >>> >>>   Hello all, >>>          Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk >>> partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: >>>

Re: Missing admin tools in F12?

2010-01-15 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/16 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 appea

Re: Add Xfce desktop & apps in Fedora 12

2010-01-20 Thread Sam Sharpe
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Jay_Linux wrote: > > On a new Fedora 12 install how can one add libraries and applications > > for Xubuntu  (i.e. add the Xfce Desktop with it's apps) ? Am using > > GNOME as the desktop presently. yum groupinstall XFCE -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: Using Xandr

2010-01-22 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/22 Jim : > FC12-X86_64/KDE,  noveau > > I'm trying to change the Resolution to 1024x768 using xandr but it won't > work. > Could someone help me. > >  # xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 4096 x 4096 > VGA-0 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x

Re: Where ffmux_mp4 comes from?

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 23 January 2010 19:50, Alain Portal wrote: > Hi > > As I get some difficulties to rip CD for my iPod (in aac format) with soun- > juicer, I should want to know where "ffmux_mp4", that ones can see in the > profile, comes from? I have a feeling it comes from ffmpeg. Do you have ffmpeg-libs and

Re: F12 - nm-applet - enhancement maybe ?

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 23 January 2010 22:07, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:51 -0500, Mail Llists wrote: >> >>    Oftentimes there are mutliple AP's on the same SSID. >> >>    It can be very useful to see what MAC addess of the AP one is >> currently connected to - it can also be very usefule to see

Re: NFS mount error

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 23 January 2010 22:17, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 13:59 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> I've got a simple network, systems 'A' and 'B' connected via wireless. >> B wants to mount A's /, /home and /usr/local. The fstab entries are >> A:/               /A                nfs      

Re: Help: Where is the subscriber's account manager?

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 23 January 2010 23:24, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I need access to my account and the old redhat site is no longer valid! > Where is the link to manage the subscribers account, please? Do you mean this? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users (it's in the auto-appended footer

Re: [Solved] Nividia Twinview Problem?

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 24 January 2010 00:19, Marcel Rieux wrote: > Twinview just doesn't work. Try as you might, at least if you use > Linux and two screens of different aspect ratios, you're losing your > time. Does it work with Windows or screens of the same aspect ratio, I > have no idea. But the net is literally

Re: test

2010-01-23 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/24 kevin : > test I don't know how many members the Fedora List has, but we probably all got this. I don't believe this is an appropriate method or forum to test your MTA, twice. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: F12 - nm-applet - enhancement maybe ?

2010-01-24 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/24 Aaron Konstam : > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 17:34 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: >> On 01/23/2010 05:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >> > The mac address is the second line in the  the connection information >> > displayed for the active connection on my machine. >> >> >> >> >>    That is my MAC add

Re: F8: CPAN problem

2010-01-26 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/26 Dan Thurman : > On 01/25/2010 04:25 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: >> Dan Thurman spake thusly: >> >>> To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added >>> to my sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox) >>> >> IS that "F8" as in "Fedora 8"? >> >> Fedora 8

Re: F8: CPAN problem

2010-01-27 Thread Sam Sharpe
2010/1/27 Dan Thurman : > Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi

Re: F12: weird dependenciy between xpaint and emacs

2010-01-29 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 29 January 2010 11:33, Joachim Backes wrote: > On my F12 box, both emacs and xpaint are installed. > When trying to uninstall emacs, I get: > >  Package         Arch          Version                 Repository  

Re: Mount point for Windows shares?

2010-01-30 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 31 January 2010 00:36, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz > wrote: >> When I connect to a Windows share via the Places->Connect to Server >> menu, I can see the share in Gnome, but I can't find it anywhere in the >> file system from a terminal window.  W

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-01-31 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 31 January 2010 22:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Mikkel writes: >> Nope - sleep only accepts an integer value. Using sleep, 1 second it >> the best you will get. > > $ time sleep 0.5 > > real    0m0.503s > user    0m0.001s > sys     0m0.002s We're talking about the C sleep function...

Re: F11 Issues

2010-02-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 February 2010 20:32, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > libprojectM.so.2 is needed by package > ultrastardx-1.1.1-1.7.20090411.fc11.i586 http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rpmfusion/free/fedora/11/x86_64/ultrastardx-1.1.1-1.7.20090411.fc11.x86_64.html > + This has been around for some time, and is a

Re: how to find out promiscuous mode

2010-02-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 February 2010 22:11, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I find out that someone is using it's network card in > promiscuous mode in a subnet? http://tinyurl.com/yk3tox4 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla(att: Rahul)

2010-02-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 February 2010 22:53, Aaron Konstam wrote: > This problem was minor but in the past I was the system administrator of > a network of 80 Linux computers and a problem with one of the system > components failed and its failure was critical for the running of the > system. No response was offered

Re: javaws/netx: clearing cache

2010-02-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 February 2010 22:26, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >     Hello, > >  I have some netx-based javaws, and I can't figure out how to clear > the cache. Any one knows? Thanks! rm -rf ~/.netx/cache/* -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: No /sbin PATH after sudo in Fedora 12 even after the PATH is added in .bash_profile

2010-02-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2010 01:14, Ed Greshko wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> On 4 February 2010 16:13, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:00:39 -0800 >>> suvayu ali wrote: >>> >>> As far as I understand this, sudo still uses your (the regular user's) $PATH. >>> Nope, that's mere

Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla [Making Progress]

2010-02-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 February 2010 14:55, Ed Greshko wrote: > Yes  But, I think, is where the confusion came in. > > Even without the sftp.service file F11 would indicate sftp service > availability.  But, in both F11 and F12 there does exist a ssh.service > file.  So, apparently, the F11 client would presume

Re: NetworkManager, dbus, 3G USB Modems and SMS

2010-02-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2010 08:04, Dan Irwin wrote: > I'm pretty sure I'm not posting this question to the best place, but here > goes. > > Can I write a program which will talk to NetworkManager or ModemManager over > dbus to send and receive sms messages? Will this work while connected to a > mobile broa

Re: How do I use the drupal installed via yum?

2010-02-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2010 20:12, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:01:18PM +, Gavin Simpson wrote: >> Thanks. Yes, apache2. Not sure what you mean by the "sites available" >> directory. > > In stock Apache, configuration information is in /etc/apache2.  Websites > are defined in httpd.c

Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla [Making Progress]

2010-02-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 February 2010 15:35, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 01:29 +0000, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> On 4 February 2010 14:55, Ed Greshko wrote: >> > Yes  But, I think, is where the confusion came in. >> > >> > Even without the sftp.service

Re: About expelling "Linda" and similar people

2012-01-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 January 2012 19:25, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 18:34:42 PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> Threads like this are completely useless and annoying, right from >> the beginning. Because, if you don't like to read someone, just use >> a filter or ignore the mails. > > Please don't emb

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 April 2012 10:25, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 07.04.2012 11:13, schrieb Fernando Cassia: >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 08:20, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> would you PLEASE send replies only back to the >>> list and ONLY to ONE incarnation of this list >>> the first To and the Cc are useless >>> in thu

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 April 2012 14:57, Reindl Harald wrote: > really, as long you do not understand the headers in > a mail and the fact the no one needs multiple copies > of the same mails do not explain people "the normal way" Scroll up a few messages. I've already stated that the problem was in the headers of

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 April 2012 15:52, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 07.04.2012 16:48, schrieb Sam Sharpe: >> On 7 April 2012 14:57, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> really, as long you do not understand the headers in >>> a mail and the fact the no one needs multiple copies >>&g

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 April 2012 17:21, Reindl Harald wrote: > some stuff Hi, You don't get my point; you seem to want to keep an argument going. I don't understand why, but I know for certain you can't sustain an argument on your own, so I'll just cut you off at this end. Have a pleasant weekend. -- Sam -- u

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 7 April 2012 19:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 17:07 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> Fernando has the >> same on his Gmail I would guess, so he didn't hit "Reply to All" - he >> has no such option. > > Actually Gmail has both

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