Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/12/2010 08:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + > | From: Timothy Murphy > | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general > | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new par

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + | From: Timothy Murphy | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | | Joachim Backes wrote: | | > having the following qu

Re: Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?

2010-12-11 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 09 December, 2010 @13:48 zulu, Richard Shaw scribed: > That's what I was looking for. It seems rather kludgy to rely > on yum sorting the repo's and using them in a particular order > even though that's what yum-plugins-local does. The yum-plugin-local app makes/keeps a copy of ever

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: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Michael Miles
Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:12:12 -0600 Michael Miles > wrote: > > >> Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:48:24 -0600 Bob Goodwin >>>wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 0

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:16:33 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:55:13 -0600 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are > > needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: > > > > livesys > > livesys_la

Re: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:12:12 -0600 Michael Miles wrote: > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:48:24 -0600 Bob Goodwin > > wrote: > > > > > >> On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin > >>>wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:55:13 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are > needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: > > livesys > livesys_late > > They are both enabled. Are these follow-ups of the installation from

Re: F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook?

2010-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:17:24 -0500, >  Jesse Palser wrote: >> F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook? >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install Fedora 14 32bit Linux >> onto my NetBook with no CD drive. >> >> I created a bootable USB drive on anoth

Re: Boot Messages

2010-12-11 Thread Fred Zinsli
Thanks for the comment, although it has raised more questions for me. I haven't added any new hardware, unless you count the fact that I did connect my new phone to charge it. and I connected my USB bluetooth dongle to transfer data to it. I removed the dongle after the file transfer. Now it is s

Re: failed to synchronize hardware clock

2010-12-11 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... While you are at this, one more display for me: # ls -al `which hwclock` # ls -al /sbin/hwclock I took a look at the package involved and located the program logic handling these functions. Waiting for your answers to my previous Q & A post. JB -- users mailing

Re: Boot Messages

2010-12-11 Thread stan
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:43:34 +1300 (NZDT) "Fred Zinsli" wrote: > I note there is a boot messages alert. Below is a short piece of that > message. > > I don't have a clue what they mean or how to fix it. > > Any comments would be most helpful. > Boot Messages: > > ION match 'add'(plain) > > u

Re: VDQ? M$ wizards (in Wine) hogging screen

2010-12-11 Thread stan
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:45:27 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: Glad you got things working. > > How about Alt-F10 to minimize it? > > What I know of F keys, aside from tweaking a BIOS, would go > in a gnat's eye. Is there a section on them in some collection > of Helpful Hints for the Subtec

Re: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Michael Miles
Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:48:24 -0600 Bob Goodwin > wrote: > > >> On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin >>>wrote: >>> >>> On 10/12/10 05:38, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12

Re: Linux Format mag. article F14 vs ubuntu

2010-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 14:14 -0500, Jesse Palser wrote: > On 12/10/2010 01:54 PM, William Henry wrote: > > I had bought the (expensive) Linux Format mag. while on a trip recently for > > an article comparing Fedora and ubuntu. I managed to track down a version > > of a Linux Format mag article (ub

Re: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:48:24 -0600 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/12/10 05:38, Tim Waugh wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 04:43 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Where do I look for

Re: VDQ? M$ wizards (in Wine) hogging screen

2010-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:10:15 -0700, stan wrote: > So it doesn't let you use the Ctrl-Alt-Left and Crtl-Alt-Right keys to > switch workspaces? That seems ill behaved. I can't recall ever having > an application do that in X. mplayer does that in the console though. Many thanks for the c

Re: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/12/10 12:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin > wrote: > >> On 10/12/10 05:38, Tim Waugh wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 04:43 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Where do I look for more level adjustments? >>> I've found that ekiga has a "whiteness" a

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joachim Backes wrote: > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running > system, but how to achieve this? > > So my question (or

Boot Messages

2010-12-11 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello all Several days ago my system started booting oddly. If I leave it to boot naturally I see lots of lines going up the screen and the system never gets to the login screen. If I F8 during startup and select any other option the system starts but takes a long time (10-15 minutes) to get to t

Re: import certificates via command line - Firefox

2010-12-11 Thread Frank Cox
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://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/sylpheed-gmail/index.html

Re: F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook?

2010-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:17:24 -0500, Jesse Palser wrote: > F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook? > > Hi, > > I am trying to install Fedora 14 32bit Linux > onto my NetBook with no CD drive. > > I created a bootable USB drive on another computer > using current LiveUSB Creator program on F14. Ther

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: F-14 and a USB Webcam -

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:23 -0600 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 10/12/10 05:38, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 04:43 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> Where do I look for more level adjustments? > > I've found that ekiga has a "whiteness" adjustment control which has had > > good results

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread S Mathias
thank you, but already solved! $ for i in $(seq 0 4 16); do seq $i 1 $(( $i + 1 )); done 0 1 4 5 8 9 12 13 16 17 --- On Sat, 12/11/10, John Haxby wrote: From: John Haxby Subject: Re: bash increment in a given way To: "Community support for Fedora users" Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 4:5

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:22:56 -0600 stan wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:55:13 -0600 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are > > needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: > > > > livesys > > livesys_late > > > > They are

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread John Haxby
On 11 December 2010 14:34, S Mathias wrote: > > but what's the "magic" for this? : > > $ MAGIC; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done > Welcome 0 times > Welcome 1 times > Welcome 4 times > Welcome 5 times > Welcome 8 times > Welcome 9 times > $ > > for i in 0 1 4 5 8 9; do -- users mailing list

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/11/2010 10:19 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/11/2010 09:34 AM, S Mathias wrote: > >> but what's the "magic" for this? : >> >> $ MAGIC; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done >> Welcome 0 times >> Welcome 1 times >> Welcome 4 times >> Welcome 5 times >> Welcome 8 times >> Welcome 9 times >> $ >

Re: "ultimate" backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/11/2010 06:17 AM, S Mathias wrote: > i have: > "SERVER A" > "SERVER B" > > with "full root permisson" [ssh, etc] > > each server has a folder. > > i want to backup a folder in "SERVER A". > > are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : > > > 1) running from e.g.:

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread stan
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:55:13 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are > needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: > > livesys > livesys_late > > They are both enabled. Are these follow-ups of the installation from > a live

F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook?

2010-12-11 Thread Jesse Palser
F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook? Hi, I am trying to install Fedora 14 32bit Linux onto my NetBook with no CD drive. I created a bootable USB drive on another computer using current LiveUSB Creator program on F14. When I plug in USB drive into NetBoot and turn on, I get the following error message:

what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: livesys livesys_late They are both enabled. Are these follow-ups of the installation from a live cv? Can I disable them at all run levels? Many thanks, Ranjan -- u

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/11/2010 09:34 AM, S Mathias wrote: > but what's the "magic" for this? : > > $ MAGIC; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done > Welcome 0 times > Welcome 1 times > Welcome 4 times > Welcome 5 times > Welcome 8 times > Welcome 9 times > $ > > thanks:\ > > Probably lots of ways to do this here'

bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread S Mathias
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 Welcome 8 times Welcome 10 times $ but what's the "magic" for this

import certificates via command line - Firefox

2010-12-11 Thread S Mathias
is there any way under Fedora to import certs to Firefox from the terminal? theres a website [using https] with a self-signed certificate, and i'm just wondering, how could someone "set it throu ssh" [on the clients], so that the "This Connection is Untrusted" sign doesn't appear on the clients

Re: failed to synchronize hardware clock

2010-12-11 Thread JB
Randolph Jones qwest.net> writes: > ... At this point we have to assume that the problem could be anywhere, in hardware or software, and we have to dig deeper. Please answer these questions: - do you have other OSs on your machine (Win, FreeBSD, etc) ? Do you observe the same faulty clock/tim

Re: "ultimate" backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Thierry Vanden Broucke
indeed 2010/12/11 Richard Shaw > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:17 AM, S Mathias wrote: > >> i have: >> "SERVER A" >> "SERVER B" >> >> with "full root permisson" [ssh, etc] >> >> each server has a folder. >> >> i want to backup a folder in "SERVER A". >> >> are there any backup methods, that meets t

Re: "ultimate" backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:17 AM, S Mathias wrote: > i have: > "SERVER A" > "SERVER B" > > with "full root permisson" [ssh, etc] > > each server has a folder. > > i want to backup a folder in "SERVER A". > > are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : > > > 1) running from e

"ultimate" backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread S Mathias
i have: "SERVER A" "SERVER B" with "full root permisson" [ssh, etc] each server has a folder. i want to backup a folder in "SERVER A". are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : 1) running from e.g.: a cronjob 2) when running, it just checks the folder in "SERVER A" a

Re: Ethernet MAC address

2010-12-11 Thread Misha Shnurapet
05.12.2010, 01:08, "Bruno Wolff III" : > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 00:22:32 +0800, >   Misha Shnurapet ; wrote: > >>  05.12.2010, 00:04, "Tom Horsley" ;: >>>  On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 09:48:47 -0500 >>>  Tom H wrote:   The "FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF" is a sign of hardware failure. >>>  Yea, I've had at least

Kmobiletools

2010-12-11 Thread jarmo
Anyone knows package for FC14 of kmobiletools? Help? Jarmo -- 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: apxl file under Fedora?

2010-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:18:37 -0500, Darr wrote: > (gleaned from the results of the original search provided by this list's > resident smartass). :) Well, that "original search" was not meant to be a full answer or the only answer. It only tried to compete with the OP's brevity, refusal to do a

Re: Asian fonts are not shown correctly in F14?

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/11/2010 09:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2010 04:28 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> if I select lohit-tamil and then type something, no tamil chars appears. >> > Yes, but do you have the ibus input method installed/enabled and have > you selected an input method that allows you to type tho

Re: Asian fonts are not shown correctly in F14?

2010-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2010 04:28 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > if I select lohit-tamil and then type something, no tamil chars appears. > Yes, but do you have the ibus input method installed/enabled and have you selected an input method that allows you to type those characters? signature.asc Description: Open

Re: Asian fonts are not shown correctly in F14?

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/11/2010 09:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2010 03:40 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> that's possible, and displays properly. >> >> But my problem: Opening a new OOwriter document, then switching to a >> lohit font and typing some chars: no lohit chars appear, but some >> western (and no asi

Re: Asian fonts are not shown correctly in F14?

2010-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2010 03:40 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > that's possible, and displays properly. > > But my problem: Opening a new OOwriter document, then switching to a > lohit font and typing some chars: no lohit chars appear, but some > western (and no asiatic) font. > How are you typing the "tamil"?

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/11/2010 08:58 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes > mailto:joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not