Re: Breakin attempts

2010-04-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
augh. The universe isn't going to last long enough for them to guess even a small fraction of the keys. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Breakin attempts

2010-04-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
David Liguori writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> The core problem is to prevent someone from guessing users' passwords. >> You aren't going to achieve real security by hiding this or that >> attribute. If you don't want to worry about your users chosin

Re: Wireless camera under Fedora

2010-04-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nts (like electolytic capacitors) is a very strong function of temperature. You will probably find that the ones that are in the hottest areas don't last all that long. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI c

recent network breakage on f12?

2010-04-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
lks seeing the same breakage? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: Best Laptop Experience with Fedora

2010-04-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
he Intel SSD's. I'll get whatever AMD 15" laptop is current then. Usually it is cheaper to get the configure-yourself low-end with the upgraded CPU and then put more dram and a better disk in yourself. -wolfggang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why

Re: recent network breakage on f12?

2010-04-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ned to the package name. I just slapped in an extra * to cover all bases.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
er-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett writes: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett writes: >>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now >>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and >>> key

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
n the level 3 mode too. Rebooted, > looks good. Thanks Wolfgang. My pleasure! -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-06 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nt every header that was added by the spammer. Only the top ones added by your service provider (google) can be trusted. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list use

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
r ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-over

f15 power button stopped working

2011-06-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I have two older AMD athlon machines that I use as headless servers for backups etc. For years this wasn't a problem. Now, after the F15/64-bit (clean) install the power buttons stopped working. Surely I'm not expected to lug a monitor and keyboard over to the servers just so I can click the on

RE: Lost Firefox Menu Bar -

2011-08-19 Thread David S. Wiener
Type ALT+V to invoke the view menu. David Wiener Senior Analyst Duke School of Medicine 919-684-6395 From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Bob Goodwin [bobgood...@wildblue.net] Sent: Friday, Augu

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
low-power 15mW systems, you can always get something beefier at both ends. You can get nice 300mW systems and cards from places like Ubiquiti for not much more than department store router prices. see http://www.ubnt.com/ I have one of their 300mw PCI cards and a now discontinued 300mW AP card. -wol

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
=or&keywords=ubiquiti&x=0&y=0 (I know nothing about this company other than google search ranked them highly.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ing to fire through my exterior chicken-wire and stucco walls. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
urbs around Silicon Valley. Luckily I only need to be compatible with Fedora 13, Android phones and occational visitors with Apple Mac's to worry about. They all do WPA2. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Fedora 13 networking performs extremely well

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Uwe Zimmermann writes: > No reply for 5 days, so I'll modify my question: > > can someone point me in the direction of the experts, eg. mailing list, > name(s), organization, anything that might give me the answer? Why not track down where the kernel hackers hang out and as

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
u have a program that sometimes generates output that should be mailed off you can easily have it capture the output in a file and only mail that file if the file is no-zero. programname > /tmp/log$$ 2>&1 if [ -n /tmp/log$$ ] then /bin/mail -s "programname run at

Re: flash-plugin-10.1.82.76 not working within SELinux sandbox

2010-08-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
t would go in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ . -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: flash-plugin-10.1.82.76 not working within SELinux sandbox

2010-08-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Christoph A." writes: > It seams that this didn't fix it entirely - in some cases it doesn't > work again... > I'll have to dig deeper.. Try just copying it. If the mozilla does a chroot the symlink may be outside of what it can access. -wolfgang -

Re: security

2010-08-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
om enough. With a few minutes pondering this solution popped up. emacs doit . doit -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: Kernel-devel

2010-08-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
. > Nothing to do Fedora 11 is long dead. Support stopped one month after F13 came out and that was around 2010-05-26. You have to upgrade to F13 (or at least F12) if you want to install any new rpm's from the repositories. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bill Davidsen writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Bob Goodwin writes: >>> Yes I have been running WEP 'cause I have one old device that can >>> do no more than that, and I usually admit only certain [18 or 19] >>> MAC addresses that I

hdparm (was: understanding smart logs)

2010-08-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
exact same F13 64-bit fully up to date OS.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

Re: Slow network with F13

2010-08-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
john wendel writes: > I've got a couple of boxes connected with wire and a gigabit ethernet > switch. With F11 on the sending and receiving sides, I see a transfer > speed of ~ 40 MB/s transfering large files. With F13 on the sending box > (same box, just new software),

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
files to the router and keep current version under CVS on your fedora box. In short, it is very fedora-friendly. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

faster /dev/random

2010-08-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
MD???) Is there a way to funnel this into the entropy pool? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
dom. I'm a bit wary of urandom since it will cut down on the search space for my key. If I need to wait a few days for my 28 keys to be crunched, I'd rather just wait. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
for the disk will probably also be quite biased. Interrupts that come at a one per sector rate will probably have strong spikes in their probability functions for "(rotation-time / number-of-sectors-per-track)". Even with disk zones, there probably won't be that many different sectors-p

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bill Davidsen writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool >> for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa >> keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit an

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
the ssh key attackers could log in here. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
s a very interesting idea! -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- 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/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
at least two nameservers. > Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? yes. > My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the > world. Should I host the reverse zone there? yes. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Renich Bon Ciric writes: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht >>> Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? >> >> yes. >> >>> My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the >>> world.

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Renich Bon Ciric writes: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht > wrote: >> Obviously the 10.x.x.x is an example address.  I've learned the hard way >> never to give live examples.  Someone invariably cuts-and-pastes it into >> somewhere that even

Re: F13 kernel update mystery

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
r them. Yes, one can also NFS export the yum cache and symlink and share it across hosts, but that is a bit of work to set up and get going. Most people just aren't going to go through that, especially when the end result is a much more brittle yum installation. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e between the two links at the routing level and add a bit of routing cost to the wireless link. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich
> I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what > to trust... > > Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec?? You need to enable rpmfusion (rpmfusion.org) repo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- users mailing list us

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-08-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
that needed to finish, I'd have to check for those too, but I don't. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

2010-09-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Kevin J. Cummings" writes: > On 08/31/2010 09:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Why not just do reboots at 3 in the morning and it just won't matter all >> that much. I just have a cron script in /etc/cron.daily that checks to > No! I'm often doing s

Re: Kickstart installations and printer pre-configuration in Fedora 13

2010-09-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
mod-time after I installed the system). Hopefully someone will be disgusted enough with this answser to speak up and tell us the correct way. ;-) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: DNS problem

2010-09-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ier code than the current named/bind in the yum repositories. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Neal Becker writes: > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-o

adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Adobe Flash Player zero-day under attack http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/adobe-flash-player-zero-day-under-attack/7342 According to various news clips, Adobe won't have a fix for another 2 weeks days (till between Sept 27 and Oct 1). If flash is now very unsafe, is there a working a

Re: adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:25:25 -0700, > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: >> >> If flash is now very unsafe, is there a working alternative yet? Is > > Adobe's flash player has been unsafe for a very long time and I don'

Re: adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Andre Robatino writes: > Today Adobe released a newer Preview Version which is available for both 32- > and > 64-bit for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The 64-bit version is working fine for > me > so far. > > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > > There is also a 3rd-party yum repo

Re: Hole in 64-bit Linux kernel provides root rights

2010-09-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y systems with high uptimes act funny (perhaps due to things like fragmentation or memory leaks). Periodic reboots fix all those things. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F13 <-> Samsung Galaxy S via USB

2010-09-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gary Stainburn writes: > If you look at the following extract from /var/log/messages, you can see that > it gets as far as seeing the two devices (Phone memory and Micro SD card) but > doesn't make them available. The Toshiba shown below is the memory stick > that works. Did you use the Andr

Re: Unable to blank DVD+R R/W

2010-09-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e current gnome machinery will mount the disc for you, even if you intend to erase it. This will, of course, prevent you from being able to erase it. Do a "df" or "mount" to get the name of the dvd's mounted fs's and do an unmount on it. Then try the erase again.

Re: How to stop NetworkManager from frobbing my /etc/resolv.conf

2010-09-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
TWORKWAIT=yes -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- 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/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
o much. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: cp210x.ko hangs on open attempt

2010-09-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
and then wonder why they can't open the port. Carrier detect is a very useful line for detecting if the rs-232 plug fell out of the computer. People should get in the habit of at least looping RTS->CTS, DTR->{DSR,DCD}. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wo

Fedora user base (was: Can I know which fedora is stable?)

2010-09-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gordon Messmer writes: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interview-with-greg-dekoenigsberg-red-hat-community-architect-725426/ > > Interview with Greg Dekoenigsberg - Red Hat Community Architect > > * What do you think is the biggest misconception about Fedora? * > > That

How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-07 Thread Dean S. Messing
Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the colour of the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using grub2 in F13? (By "console" I mean the "framebuffer-based" console. X isn't running yet.) The back-story: Last evening I built and installed grub2 on my new F13 syst

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-11 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 02:21:08 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > > > Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the colour of > > the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using grub2 in F13? (By > > &

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-11 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:10:10, Stan wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the > > > colour of the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using > &

Sound, Fedora13, and VMware

2010-10-11 Thread Dean S. Messing
I just installed VMware Workstation 7.1.2 on my i686 machine. I attached my old Windows XP client image, and things came up nicely---except for sound ("no /dev/dsp found" was the sad announcement). Has anyone successfully fixed this on F13? I've run across one solution (uncommenting the magic l

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

2010-10-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y service. I'll probably start blocking all incomming SIP (both UDP and TCP) except from known peers and clients. Luckily I don't have any dynamic SIP clients that roam the net at large. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) --

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-15 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:57:02 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > any reason you did not use grub2 that is in fedora? Yes. Read this: http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/06/upgrading-fedora-13-to-grub2.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-15 Thread Dean S. Messing
lems with akmod and don't use it. YMMV). The one time I downloaded a binary driver directly from nvidia (about 1 year ago) for some experiements, the package borked the module installation process so at boot time I had to always "rmmod" and the "modprobe" drivers. Th

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-15 Thread Dean S . Messing
Dennis Gilmore wrote: > I find no valid argument in that page for not using the fedora packages. > building from source as you do means you lose the ability to verify > whats installed on your system. there is zero reason why you cant > install grub2 as the only bootloader using the fedora rpms

Re: While waiting for Fedora 14, a question for the engineering types re: searching and finding

2010-10-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
to keep the cache filled for memory intensive operations like pattern search or block move. Special search hardware in the cpu would be fixing the part of the problem that is already faster than the supporting hardware. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (I

Re: emacs not working on GNOME in fedora 14

2010-11-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tom Horsley writes: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:07:02 +0100 > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1409936 >> >> Cannot confirm that. Running Emacs as root after logging into GNOME as an >> ordinary user also works for me. > > Works for me as well, but if I

Re: Preupgrading headless remote systems

2010-11-05 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
e network settings. I might addd that it had guessed the the settings correctly, it just wanted me to confirm them (eth0, dhcp for ipv4, and the standard RFC automatic config for ipv6). -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mai

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port > forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other > host, I start emacs. Emacs appears to come up properly, with its > window tunneled, and opening on my de

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Klaus-Peter Schrage writes: > You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: > http://www.correctpi.com/ Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB warning. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprech

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
mmend you install F14 as a clean (from scratch) install, accepting all default values. Ideally would be if you told the installer that it could use the whole disk so that it could redo the whole partition table from scratch. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: > >> >> Sam Varshavchik writes: >>> On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port >>> forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other >>> host

(F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
After doing an F13 update today, in which a load of KDE packages got updated, my system tray now contains drab, grey, hard-to-see icons instead of the nice coloured ones it had previously. The previous update (before the one that broke the icons) was on 2nd November, so this is due to stuff brou

(F13, KDE) More problems

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
More "issues". Apart from the system setting GUI being entirely re-arranged (of which I'm not complaining :-) I now have lost all my wallpaper assignments on the various desktops! Nor can I find where to re-assign wallpaper to desktops. Is this KDE update (to 4.5.2 it appears) broken, or am I j

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
nt approximation to 1/4. Excercise: Discover how the program works? Once you do, you will know how to make it more accurate, so that you can compute pi to _any_ finite precision you like. :-) This code was the winner of one of the wonderful "Obfuscated C" con

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
> > > > Clues? > > Do you mean the, "monochromatic icons [which] give visual clarity, and > more consistent user interactions improve usability" - introduced in > 4.5? > > http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/plasma.php What a laugh. Now, how to I revert to 4.4 ½:-) -- users mailing list u

Re: (F13, KDE) More problems (Solved)

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
I wrote: > More "issues". > > Apart from the system setting GUI being entirely re-arranged (of which > I'm not complaining :-) I now have lost all my wallpaper assignments on > the various desktops! Nor can I find where to re-assign wallpaper to > desktops. > > Is this KDE update (to 4.5.2 it ap

Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Dean S. Messing
My System: up-to-date Fedora 13 The Situation: I have two 2TB drives (/dev/sde1, /dev/sdf1) bound into a RAID-1 on /dev/md1. This device (md1) is an lvm PV on which there is a single VG (vg_medulla_bkup) In the VG is a single LV (vg_bkup). All has been working well since I built it two weeks a

Re: Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups? (Solved!)

2010-11-12 Thread Dean S. Messing
Laurentiu Coica wrote: Thanks VERY much, Laurentiu, for all the work you went through! I must apologise for not including more details of what I did. There are some differences between what I did and what you simulated which makes your conclusion not quite applicable. 1) /mnt/deanm (using your

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-13 Thread Dean S. Messing
Lamar Owen wrote: > Regarding your disk speed tests with hdparm, you may want to look at the "--direct" switch. Dean -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: "Alien" .deb converter to rpm in F14, how?

2010-11-23 Thread Dmitrij S, kryzhevich
Hi! I have alien built for F14 (64bit) here: http://krege.fedorapeople.org/alien/ It _could_ be used on 32bit system, but will create /usr/lib64 dir (my mistake while package building) wich is not required at all. Dmitrij. > Has anyone managed to install "Alien" (the .deb to .rpm package > co

Re: "Alien" .deb converter to rpm in F14, how?

2010-11-23 Thread Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich
> I actually have another question, is it safe to directly install > packages with dpkg ? Dpkg does NOT use rpm db to check files to be ovewriten if they are already exist in the system, dpkg does not make dependencies check. > Intuitively, I would say no... but then I wonder why this tool is

Finding programs (was: SELinux)

2011-01-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
of times because the name evince, just doesn't remind me of PDF. I can't expect a newbie to do that either. The unhelpful program names combined with 3 or more non-overlapping documentation systems (man, info, help), don't make things any easier. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rup

intrusion tracking

2011-01-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
hat I'm missing? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fe

Re: Finding programs

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Aaron Konstam writes: > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:07 +0800, 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

Re: intrusion tracking

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Joe Zeff writes: > On 01/25/2011 02:34 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>That lowered ssh security allowed a second intrusion at user >> level (probably by password guessing) > > No need. Once they had root they could add a user and use that for their > user-level

Re: intrusion tracking

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
erver attack (apache? dovecot?), there might be probes in log file. They might have been lazy and not deleted the log entries. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: SeLinux, should I disable it?

2011-01-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ls/Txlf-SelinuxForMereMortals -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- 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/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
tion > password. Even if you get NetworkManager to play ball, it isn't going to be seemless unless you bridge the wireless AP's and hand out IP addresses from some other server on your net. Once the IP address changes as you move from one AP to another, all your connectins will di

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more. (Google: Ubiquiti) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

[389-users] How to setup 389-DS Client?

2010-01-11 Thread Ajeet S Raina
I have successfully configured 389-DS with SSL. I want to setup RHEL Client for the server. I tried running: authconfig-tui Select LDAP Next Select TLS ldap:// dc=im,dc=logic,dc=com But when I am trying to run: dapsearch -h 389-ds.sap.com -b "dc=im,dc=sap,dc=com" -L "objectclass=*" SASL/EXTERNAL

Re: [389-users] How to setup 389-DS Client?

2010-01-11 Thread Ajeet S Raina
, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Ajeet S Raina wrote: > I have successfully configured 389-DS with SSL. > I want to setup RHEL Client for the server. > I tried running: > > authconfig-tui > Select LDAP > Next > Select TLS > ldap:// > dc=im,dc=logic,dc=com > > But when I am

[389-users] Doubt regarding 389 Client Home Directory?

2010-01-12 Thread Ajeet S Raina
610 GroupID:610 User name: snal Now When I try logging into the server through : username: meet password: It says: login as: snalamwar s...@10.209.37.77's password: Last login: Wed Jan 13 03:00:09 2010 from 10.209.37.146 Could not chdir to home directory /home/snal: No such file or dir

Re: [389-users] Doubt regarding 389 Client Home Directory?

2010-01-12 Thread Ajeet S Raina
I am sorry as I have changed few names due to security purpose. I appreciate your help on this regard. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ajeet S Raina wrote: > Hello Guys, > > All I have configured 389 Server and its working fine. > I can also run this command on client Machin

[389-users] How to add this entry?

2010-01-14 Thread Ajeet S Raina
Guys, I was following the link: http://www.directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/DNA_Plugin to make autoincrement of UID and GUID. I can see the entry: dn: cn=Account UIDs,cn=Distributed Numeric Assignment Plugin,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: extensibleObject cn: Account UIDs dna

Re: possible bad ipv6 mirror

2010-01-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
t in at least 9 hours). I've switched from using a "2001::" address to a "2002::" one. The advantage is that yum now tries ipv4 before ipv6. I'm not sure where the weird hueristic comes from to try an interface with a 2001 IPv6 address before IPv4, but to try a 2002 I

[389-users] Adding Users through script?

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
Guys, I downloaded a script called USERADD from link: http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhas/NetgroupWhitepaper.pdf Page 9 and follow as follow: It did create a new Users.ldif file as follow: dn: uid=dave, cn=EnvOD,ou=IM,ou=Bangalore,dc=im,dc=sap,dc=com changetype: add uid: dave objectClass: top obje

[389-users] the View Error !!!

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
I can see the following logs error: [15/Jan/2010:21:33:56 +051800] views-plugin - Error: the view filter [Octopus] in entry [ou=oct,ou=bangalore,dc=im,dc=sap,dc=com] is not valid [15/Jan/2010:21:33:56 +051800] views-plugin - Error: the view filter [(l=novell] in entry [ou=nov,ou=gurgaon,dc=im,dc=s

Re: [389-users] Adding Users through script?

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
Saludos, Thanks for the quick response. I tried ur suggestions and getting the error: ldapmodify -x -h 389-ds.sap.com -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w !ntra123 -f Users.ldif -bash: !ntra123: event not found Any idea ? 2010/1/15 Sergio A. Morales > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 21:30 +

Re: [389-users] Adding Users through script?

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
Thats Great !! Added single quote and it worked !!! Hey Sorry but that was fake password. Just was checking if ! at the start can work or not. Anyway..Thanks for the help. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Sean Murray wrote: > Ajeet S Raina wrote: > > Saludos, > > > >

Re: [389-users] Adding Users through script?

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
So Nice of You. I will read it defintely. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > 2010/1/15 Ajeet S Raina : > > Thats Great !! > > Added single quote and it worked !!! > > > > Hey Sorry but that was fake password. > > Just was checking

[389-users] How to add Account UID for DNA_Plugin ??

2010-01-15 Thread Ajeet S Raina
I have been suggested with http://www.directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/DNA_Plugin for understanding the DNA_plugin for auto IncrementalUID and GUID. I can see the ldif format as: dn: cn=Account UIDs,cn=Distributed Numeric Assignment Plugin,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: extens

Re: [389-users] 389 DS Client Login Access Error

2010-01-26 Thread Ajeet S Raina
I tried fixing the issue and can now login but it shows the following error: login as: ajrain ajr...@389-ds's password: Last login: Wed Jan 27 05:03:24 2010 from 10.210.53.120 id: cannot find name for group ID 569 [ajr...@389-ds ~]$ On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Ajeet S Raina

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