Developing a Command-line course for technical users

Hello, I've just started to develop a technical user introduction to Linux and, specifically, to Fedora and it's mysterious ways ;) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renich/Course/Introduction_to_GNU_and_Linux#Introduction Please, contribute if you feel like it. It just aims to get developers

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:31 PM, L wrote: > I manually installed > > > libXv.i686 > libXScrnSaver.i686 >  qt.i686 >  qt-x11.i686 and its depeendencies > > Now skype works > You can get yum to tell you what package contains that required file - a bit manual, but the easiest way to find if there's

Re: Removing an RPM from update stream

On 10/18/2010 09:25 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote: >On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, JD wrote: >> On 10/18/2010 04:35 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote: >>> I downloaded an RPM from the internet, that wasn't in any of the >>> repositories. I now no longer want it, so I removed it. But the Update >>> Manager

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM, L wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: >> On Monday 18 October 2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586)  installed  on >>> Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is >>> skype: error whil

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On 10/18/2010 09:22 PM, L wrote: > > I tried the repo > > sudo yum install skype --nogpgcheck > Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit > Setting up Install Process > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package skype.i586 0:2.1.0.81-fc10 set to be installed > --> F

Re: Re: Removing an RPM from update stream

On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, JD wrote: > On 10/18/2010 04:35 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote: >>I downloaded an RPM from the internet, that wasn't in any of the >> repositories. I now no longer want it, so I removed it. But the Update >> Manager is wanting to update it. How do I completely remove the

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586)  installed  on >> Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is >> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open >>

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586)  installed  on >> Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is >> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open >>

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On Monday 18 October 2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: > Hi > > I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) installed on > Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is > skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > after ins

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On 10/18/2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: > Hi > > I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) installed on > Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is > skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > after install libXv

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On 10/18/2010 08:49 PM, JD wrote: > On 10/18/2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) installed on >> Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is >> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open >> shared object file: No suc

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas! [Solved]

On 10/16/10 11:00 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > > I'm not really sure how to formulate such a report. I had a problem > with X starting properly after some updates of a month or so ago. I > have no recollection which round of updates started the problem. I > tried many, many, things to resolve thi

Re: skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

On 10/18/2010 08:46 PM, L wrote: > Hi > > I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) installed on > Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is > skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > after install libXv

Re: su or sudo su?

On 10/18/10 2:13 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:40 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather >> something like /home/root. > Wrong. Bad advice. The following somewhat mitigates that, but you've > muddied the water with bad advice i

skype for Fedora 13 X86_32

Hi I have skype linux version (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) installed on Fedora 13 X86_64. I can't start, error is skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory after install libXv.i686 sudo yum install libXv.i686 it showed anot

Pulseaudio 40% of CPU

I played one video on youtube, then killed the youtube browser tab. I have no video or audio playing. Many minutes later and still pulseaudio taking 40% of CPU. What in blazes is it doing? Why was it designed to do this with nothing playing? Every time I finish watching a flash vid, or listening

Re: su or sudo su?

Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: > Back in the mists of time when men were men and dinosaurs roamed the > Earth, the home directory for "root" was indeed "/", but of course I'm > talking about Unix, not Linux. Heh, I just turned off one such system last month (one more to go)! -- Chri

Re: su or sudo su?

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:20 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather > something like /home/root. > > I've known of several folks who 'forgot' they were root or had > either sudo'd or su -'d and > > then issued the famous (or infamous) rm -rf * wiping o

flush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so on FC13 and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second freeze) every 5-10 seconds. "top" showed flush-253:0 process at the moment of the freeze. Major device number 253 corresponds to device-mapper. I advised my friend to re-instal

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

JD wrote: > I found that current release of libreoffice is same as > openoffice. OpenOffice is at version 3.3 in F13, while LibreOffice is only at 2.96 in Rawhide. Are you sure they are the same? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010/10/18 Chris Smart > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Manuel Escudero > wrote: > > We have many many "Office Projects" at Linux, Even separate programs as > > Abiword and so on... > > I believe it would be better if all of them join to create a Powerfull > > OpenSource Alternative to MS Offi

Re: Removing an RPM from update stream

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:35 -0700, Silent-Hunter wrote: > I downloaded an RPM from the internet, that wasn't in any of the > repositories. I now no longer want it, so I removed it. But the Update > Manager is wanting to update it. How do I completely remove the package > from my system? You ins

Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

On 10/18/2010 04:00 PM, Piscium wrote: > On 18 October 2010 23:51, Dan Thurman wrote: > >> You may notice that when using the move slider >> completely to the left, 1MB unallocated space appears >> in the 'Free Space Preceding' textbox. Apparently, you >> cannot set this value to 0 with the move

Re: Removing an RPM from update stream

On 10/18/2010 04:35 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote: >I downloaded an RPM from the internet, that wasn't in any of the > repositories. I now no longer want it, so I removed it. But the Update > Manager is wanting to update it. How do I completely remove the package > from my system? How did you remov

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

On 10/18/2010 05:22 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > > > 2010/10/18 Genes MailLists mailto:li...@sapience.com>> > > On 10/18/2010 04:33 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > > > It's interesting but Flashblock in FF4 beta seems to think this is a > > flash video (and the chromium beta won't p

Removing an RPM from update stream

I downloaded an RPM from the internet, that wasn't in any of the repositories. I now no longer want it, so I removed it. But the Update Manager is wanting to update it. How do I completely remove the package from my system? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Spread Sheet Applet / Accessory.

On 10/18/2010 04:05 PM, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Does anyone know of a nice little spreadsheet program. I would like > something that is equivalent to 'gnotes' but based on columns and rows. > Simple, only a few arithmetic features, that can be launched from the > panel, almost no menu. Sl

Spread Sheet Applet / Accessory.

Hi; Does anyone know of a nice little spreadsheet program. I would like something that is equivalent to 'gnotes' but based on columns and rows. Simple, only a few arithmetic features, that can be launched from the panel, almost no menu. Slightly more advanced than gcalctool but very much smaller

Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

On 18 October 2010 23:51, Dan Thurman wrote: > You may notice that when using the move slider > completely to the left, 1MB unallocated space appears > in the 'Free Space Preceding' textbox.  Apparently, you > cannot set this value to 0 with the move slider or by > entering it manually, it does n

Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

On 10/18/2010 01:58 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: > I used gparted on F13 to create an extended partition with > various logical partitions installed and from the F13 gparted > gui, there was no gaps. > > But when I rebooted and logged into my F9 system, I started > gparted and I am showing 1MB unallocat

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

2010/10/18 Genes MailLists > On 10/18/2010 04:33 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > > > It's interesting but Flashblock in FF4 beta seems to think this is a > > flash video (and the chromium beta won't play it at all, as you > > mentioned) and wants to block it (at least on my machine). > > > > For

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > We have many many "Office Projects" at Linux, Even separate programs as > Abiword and so on... > I believe it would be better if all of them join to create a Powerfull > OpenSource Alternative to MS Office Don't you? No, I like my freedom

Re: su or sudo su?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:40 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather something like > /home/root. > I've known of several folks who 'forgot' they were root or had either sudo'd >or su -'d and > then issued the famous (or infamous) rm -rf * wip

Re: su or sudo su?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Tim wrote: > >> Most folks just install using the defaults and some systems default to >> root's home being the base root directory and not /root or /home/root. > > I've never seen that, what distro does that?  Geez, what a bad idea! > Maybe a busybox based initra

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010/10/18 JD > On 10/18/2010 01:57 PM, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Any suggestions which one to use? > > > > What are your personal recommendations? > > > > -- > > robert > I found that current release of libreoffice is same as > openoffice. So take your own pick. They are the same. > >

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

On 10/18/2010 04:33 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > It's interesting but Flashblock in FF4 beta seems to think this is a > flash video (and the chromium beta won't play it at all, as you > mentioned) and wants to block it (at least on my machine). > For what its worth - google-chrome (8.x) plays

Re: su or sudo su?

James Mckenzie: > I did not state /root but rather the base root directory '/'. > Anything else would be ok in my book from a security standpoint. Sorry, I misread your prior post. I don't know why I didn't notice the brackets where you wrote: / (root) > Most folks just install using the defaul

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 23:34 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > The question is why it shouldn't be intended for productive use as it > is based on OpenOffice that runs farly stable. It's a beta because it's not finished and completely tested yet. While it's based on Openoffice, it's not Ope

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 23:34 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > 2010/10/18 Frank Cox : > > > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> Any suggestions which one to use? > > > > Did you read the LibreOffice download page, particularly the part where > > it says "T

Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

On 10/18/2010 01:58 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: > I used gparted on F13 to create an extended partition with > various logical partitions installed and from the F13 gparted > gui, there was no gaps. > > But when I rebooted and logged into my F9 system, I started > gparted and I am showing 1MB unalloca

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On 10/18/2010 01:57 PM, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Any suggestions which one to use? > > What are your personal recommendations? > > -- > robert I found that current release of libreoffice is same as openoffice. So take your own pick. They are the same. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: su or sudo su?

Tim wrote: >Sent: Oct 18, 2010 2:13 PM >To: James Mckenzie , Community support for Fedora >users >Subject: Re: su or sudo su? > >On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:40 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather >> something like /home/root. > >Wrong. Bad

Re: apmd rpm missing

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 21:45 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit > > laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After > > trying to install it with yum I found that there are apmd

Re: [389-users] Debian packaging

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +0200, Angel Bosch Mora wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFDSPackaging > > changing FDS to 389 is supposed to help people not to confuse the link > between those two products. Good idea. Fixed: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debian389DSPackaging regard

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

The question is why it shouldn't be intended for productive use as it is based on OpenOffice that runs farly stable. Ok but following your answers there is currently no repo for Libreoffice. That's what I wanted to know. :) -- robert 2010/10/18 Frank Cox : > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200

OpenOffice Updates was: Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On 18/10/10 22:17, Tom Horsley wrote: > > But will there be 190MB of updates to download every > dadgum day like there has been for openoffice > in the f14 repos? :-). > I don't get that much, maybe cause it's writer only. Maybe twice updated since I branched to F14. -- Regards, Frank Murphy

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Any suggestions which one to use? Did you read the LibreOffice download page, particularly the part where it says "This beta release is not intended for production use!" -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvillet

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Any suggestions which one to use? > > What are your personal recommendations? If the one that you can "yum upgrade" from within Fedora, from the usual repos, works fine for you, then use *it*. It's much easier to keep your syst

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:14:31 +0100 Frank Murphy wrote: > Libreoffice will obsolete Openoffice in F15. But will there be 190MB of updates to download every dadgum day like there has been for openoffice in the f14 repos? :-). (I've gotta remember to just not install openoffice when I'm beta testin

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

Ah ok good to know. Is Libreoffice already available in any repo? -- robert 2010/10/18 Frank Murphy : > On 18/10/10 21:57, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Any suggestions which one to use? >> > > Libreoffice will obsolete Openoffice in F15. > > -- > Regards, > > Frank Murphy > UTF_8 Encoded > F

Re: authentication issues in system settings

On Monday, October 18, 2010, James Mckenzie wrote: > I didn't say that I was offended. If it is plain that the > problem is in a test version, we direct. If it is not, we > could always ask a few more questions to define what is > 'broken'. If, through the questions it in RawHide/Alpha/Beta > to

Re: Using awstats on Fedora 13

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 08:30 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Except, awstats already has a label. :) But is it what the original poster had? They really gave us no good information. Just another "it doesn't work" posting. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't sen

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

On 18/10/10 21:57, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Any suggestions which one to use? > Libreoffice will obsolete Openoffice in F15. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Re: su or sudo su?

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:40 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather > something like /home/root. Wrong. Bad advice. The following somewhat mitigates that, but you've muddied the water with bad advice in the first place. > I've known of sever

Re: Suggestions about podcast apps (rhythmbox and vlc)

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > I hadn't thought of recording! I was looking for where it downloads > the podcasts so that I can play them later (like the other podcast > apps). It's more likely that most media player programs, like VLC, do not store what they receive, merel

F13: Problem with Gparted?

I used gparted on F13 to create an extended partition with various logical partitions installed and from the F13 gparted gui, there was no gaps. But when I rebooted and logged into my F9 system, I started gparted and I am showing 1MB unallocated space for every logical partition that I created.

OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

Any suggestions which one to use? What are your personal recommendations? -- robert -- 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_gui

Re: F13: PackageKit now replaced with KPackageKit?

Terry Polzin wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Since last week, I was using PackageKit updates until I noticed PackageKit became KPackageKit by surprise. What gives? Are you running KDE. My xfce destktop shows PackageKit-glib-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686 PackageKit-dev

Re: Edit gnome menu

Thanks for this fast response. That was exactly what I needed. -- robert 2010/10/18 Piscium : > On 18 October 2010 20:50,   wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> normally I would edit the gnome menu by clicking the right mouse on >> the fedora icon in the gnome panel. >> >> But there is no option to edit. >>

Re: apmd rpm missing

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit > laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After > trying to install it with yum I found that there are apmd rpms in > Everything/i386 and Everything/source but not in Everyth

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

On 10/18/2010 02:28 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > > > 2010/10/17 Hiisi mailto:very-c...@rambler.ru>> > > 2010/10/16 Manuel Escudero >: > > Hi! as many of you may know, Chromium is having problems > > inside fedora with youtube's HTML 5 Video, see, when I wan

Re: su or sudo su?

suvayu ali wrote: >Sent: Oct 18, 2010 12:30 PM >To: James Mckenzie , Community support for Fedora >users >Subject: Re: su or sudo su? > >Hi James and Patrick, > >On 18 October 2010 09:40, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Suvayu Ali wrote: >>>I am not sure how it is insecure, could you elaborate? At le

Re: Edit gnome menu

On 18 October 2010 20:50, wrote: > Hi guys, > > normally I would edit the gnome menu by clicking the right mouse on > the fedora icon in the gnome panel. > > But there is no option to edit. > > Any suggestions? yum install alacarte After that you need to restart the gnome-panel, for example, lo

Edit gnome menu

Hi guys, normally I would edit the gnome menu by clicking the right mouse on the fedora icon in the gnome panel. But there is no option to edit. Any suggestions? -- robert -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: su or sudo su?

On 10/18/2010 02:30 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi James and Patrick, > > On 18 October 2010 09:40, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Suvayu Ali wrote: >>> I am not sure how it is insecure, could you elaborate? At least to me >>> giving (limited/full) root privileges to an ordinary user seems a lot >>> more

Re: su or sudo su?

Hi James and Patrick, On 18 October 2010 09:40, James Mckenzie wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: >>I am not sure how it is insecure, could you elaborate? At least to me >>giving (limited/full) root privileges to an ordinary user seems a lot >>more risky. > > Which is what you are doing with the file be

About /etc/rsyslog.conf

I would like to have fiewall messages of dropped or blocked packets to go to a separate file /n /var/log. So I looked at /etc/rsyslog.conf and I see entries like: ews.=debug /var/log/news/news.debug kern.=debug /var/log/

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

2010/10/17 Hiisi > 2010/10/16 Manuel Escudero : > > Hi! as many of you may know, Chromium is having problems > > inside fedora with youtube's HTML 5 Video, see, when I want to > > play a HTML 5 Video in youtube, this message comes out: > > "Your browser does not correctly recognize any of the vid

Re: F13: PackageKit now replaced with KPackageKit?

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > Since last week, I was using PackageKit updates > until I noticed PackageKit became KPackageKit > by surprise. > > What gives? > > Are you running KDE. My xfce destktop shows PackageKit-glib-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686 PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.6

Re: su or sudo su?

wrote: > ... Thanks, guys. I now understand the difference. -- 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

F13: PackageKit now replaced with KPackageKit?

Since last week, I was using PackageKit updates until I noticed PackageKit became KPackageKit by surprise. What gives? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fe

Re: [389-users] Debian packaging and Ubuntu issues

Hi Roberto, On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Roberto Polli wrote: > The debian packages can't be straightforwardly installed on ubuntu due to > mismatching dependencies (matter of names, I think). could you send me the log of how it fails? What's the Ubuntu distro you are using (maver

Searching Google using Firefox Awesome Bar

Hi all, I'm facing an issue with the search feature of the Firefox awesome bar. Typing text on the awesome bar shows me the bookmarked and visited pages, but submitting the text on the bar does not shows up the google results [Google is the search engine defined against 'keyword:URL'], instead

Re: [389-users] Strange wedging

Edward Z. Yang wrote: > Excerpts from Rich Megginson's message of Mon Oct 18 11:22:25 -0400 2010: > >> This looks like another symptom of bug 634561 >> rpm -qi 389-ds-base >> > > Maybe. > > [r...@whole-enchilada ~]# rpm -qi 389-ds-base > Name: 389-ds-base Relocation

Re: [389-users] Strange wedging

Excerpts from Rich Megginson's message of Mon Oct 18 11:22:25 -0400 2010: > This looks like another symptom of bug 634561 > rpm -qi 389-ds-base Maybe. [r...@whole-enchilada ~]# rpm -qi 389-ds-base Name: 389-ds-base Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.2.6.1

Re: [389-users] The case of a rather odd byte sequence (nsslapd-referral)

Done. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643979 Cheers, Edward P.S. Boy, I'm submitting a lot of bug reports these days! Sorry 'bout that :-) -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users

Re: su or sudo su?

On 10/18/10 12:01 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2010 09:15 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> su - exposes the root password and is generally discouraged. sudo >> does not but exposes which users have this privilege. Logins >> through unsecured means should be disabled or very closely

Re: openoffice

If you fed up with OOo the try this: http://280slides.com/ Zoltan 2010/10/18 Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > On a fedora 11, I have an extremely slow open office presentation > editor (3.1.1). It spending a lost of time in calculating what ? > > Thank > > -- > --- >

Re: Warning KDE Users

On 10/18/2010 11:40 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Jim wrote: >> Sent: Oct 18, 2010 8:36 AM >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Subject: Re: Warning KDE Users >> >> On 10/18/2010 10:05 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Jim wrote: >>> The plasmoid that Monitors in KDE the IP address of your

openoffice

Hello, On a fedora 11, I have an extremely slow open office presentation editor (3.1.1). It spending a lost of time in calculating what ? Thank -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry

Re: escape .c files to html code with bash how?

Jozsef Vadkan wrote: > i need to encode .c files to html, like on this website: > > http://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/ > > i tried to write a bash script for it: > > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=mZKAw4c5 > > but it's not working very well :D > > does anyone has a script, that does this? Ch

Re: su or sudo su?

Suvayu Ali wrote: > >On Monday 18 October 2010 09:15 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> su - exposes the root password and is generally discouraged. sudo >> does not but exposes which users have this privilege. Logins >> through unsecured means should be disabled or very closely >> controlled. Most S

Re: su or sudo su?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. Recently, I discovered I > could simply type su -. > > What's the difference: > > su - > sudo su - When you use "sudo su -", you have to type in the password of the user running sud

escape .c files to html code with bash how?

i need to encode .c files to html, like on this website: http://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/ i tried to write a bash script for it: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=mZKAw4c5 but it's not working very well :D does anyone has a script, that does this? thank you :\ -- users mailing list user

Re: su or sudo su?

Todd Zullinger wrote: > >James Mckenzie wrote: >> Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >>> >>>When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. >> >> This is plain wrong. The command should be sudo . > >And su - is a command. ;) But this is, in most cases, redundant. > >There's really nothing wrong with

Re: su or sudo su?

On Monday 18 October 2010 09:15 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > su - exposes the root password and is generally discouraged. sudo > does not but exposes which users have this privilege. Logins > through unsecured means should be disabled or very closely > controlled. Most SAs now disable or remove u

Re: su or sudo su?

On 10/18/2010 12:05 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. Recently, I discovered I > could simply type su -. > > What's the difference: > > su - > sudo su - The answer depends on how you configure your sudo. The difference could be the lack of prom

Re: su or sudo su?

James Mckenzie wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> >>When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. > > This is plain wrong. The command should be sudo . And su - is a command. ;) There's really nothing wrong with that command from a technical standpoint. Whether someone should have acc

Re: Build custom module

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:54 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > It's this module here: http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop > > I own a Lenovo SL500 with which this module worked very well in the past. > > Thank you for your help. I'll check it out tomorrow. - Gilboa -- users mai

Re: su or sudo su?

Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. This is plain wrong. The command should be sudo . >Recently, I discovered I >could simply type su -. > >What's the difference: Passwords and what is recorded in your log files. If you use sudo, all actions are r

Re: Suggestions about podcast apps (rhythmbox and vlc)

Hi Bill, On 18 October 2010 04:17, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> So I tried out the latest feature enhancements in vlc, again it works >> perfectly except that I can't save any of the podcasts. >> > What happens when you click the RECORD button? The default save format is > "same > as source" and the

su or sudo su?

When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. Recently, I discovered I could simply type su -. What's the difference: su - sudo su - ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: authentication issues in system settings

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On 10/18/10 11:08 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Good reason not to jump on someone for reporting what on the surface looks >> like a problem with FC14. Maybe asking for additional information is in >> order before we direct someone to the test list (hmmm?) Rememb

Re: F13: Automatic Updates not Working

Hello, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:03 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>   The machine has been running since the last seven hours and no >> indicator (orange sun) for software updates has appeared. >> >>   "yum update" says that there are

Re: Build custom module

It's this module here: http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop I own a Lenovo SL500 with which this module worked very well in the past. Thank you for your help. -- robert 2010/10/18 Gilboa Davara : > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:07 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Hmm and there is no

Re: authentication issues in system settings

On 10/18/10 11:08 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Good reason not to jump on someone for reporting what on the surface looks > like a problem with FC14. Maybe asking for additional information is in > order before we direct someone to the test list (hmmm?) Remember, we may > want to know about l

Re: Warning KDE Users

Jim wrote: >Sent: Oct 18, 2010 8:36 AM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: Warning KDE Users > > On 10/18/2010 10:05 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Jim wrote: >> >>> The plasmoid that Monitors in KDE the IP address of your computer on the >>> internet , is freezing up the >>> KDE Des

Re: authentication issues in system settings

Claude Jones wrote: >Sent: Oct 18, 2010 6:15 AM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: authentication issues in system settings > >On Sunday, October 17, 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 11:29 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: >> > I'm running F14TC1x64 - it's a f

Re: Warning KDE Users

On 10/18/2010 10:05 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Jim wrote: > >> The plasmoid that Monitors in KDE the IP address of your computer on the >> internet , is freezing up the >> KDE Desktop. >> The plasmiod has a Earth Globe at the left side of IP address. > What's the name of this plasmoid? I'd like to

Re: Build custom module

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:07 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hmm and there is no chance to use it with the current kernel? In theory, it should be possible to fix the module and make it Fedora compatible. >From where did you get the module? > The problem with asus_laptop module is that it

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