Re: Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote: > I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was > bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then > installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to connect > to wifi. > > I use

Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

Hello everyone, I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to connect to wifi. I used the command lspci -vnn and at the end it shows t

Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

If anyone's interested, Beta2 has been released (https://kororaa.org/download). This release includes several fixes, updates, as well as the following major changes: * GNOME version – that’s right, now Kororaa comes with GNOME too! * GNOME Shell – experience the future of the GNOME deskto

Re: Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

On 02/11/2011 04:11 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Valent, > > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: >> Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't >> see python libs. > > So I deleted everything, downloaded fresh using your tutorial. I already

Re: Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

Hi Valent, On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 01:05 +0100, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Just remove all blender files and start over. Somehow blender doedn't > see python libs. So I deleted everything, downloaded fresh using your tutorial. I already had gettext and gettext-devel. Same error: [duffy@Bri

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

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > One could avoid this problem to a good extend by > cherry picking updates and doing just security updates on your system is > simple and easy with either PackageKit or yum  (via yum-security plugin) First time I hear of this... (yum-securit

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

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:57 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > The real issue is two fold: > > > > 1. The vast number of compute systems across the Internet that are not > > managed at all. > > > > 2. The inability of platform creators to consider security as a priority. > > This is driven by economic

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

On 02/10/2011 03:57 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > - Users don't understand what poor security costs them so won't pay >for it Oddly enough, however, users who won't pay for a secure OS are more than willing to pay for third-party programs designed to plug the security holes. -- users mailing list us

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

> The real issue is two fold: > > 1. The vast number of compute systems across the Internet that are not > managed at all. > > 2. The inability of platform creators to consider security as a priority. This is driven by economic realities - Users don't understand what poor security costs them s

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

On 02/11/2011 03:36 AM, jdow wrote: > Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to > the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine > unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it > seems, you have problems. Fedora doesn't di

Re: Default user groups

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > /etc/default/useradd contains the values used to fill out the "useradd" > command if you don't put in the options, but it doesn't supply anything > for the "-G|--groups" option of useradd.  You still need to add that > option to the command.

Re: Default user groups

On 02/10/2011 12:35 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, g wrote: > hey g >> >> consider /etc/default/useradd; >> >> Â # useradd defaults file >> Â GROUP=100,20,63,1010,2020 > > Thanks, but I actually tried this and it didn't work because it treats > them as a single group, "1

Re: Default user groups

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, g wrote: > > then how about this; > > add an 'alias' to you '.bashrc', like 'usernew'  that will call a script > that takes name entry as argument and passes it to > I did something similar in the end, but I was looking for a "proper" way to set a configuration op

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

On 02/10/2011 03:06 PM, jdow wrote: > Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to > the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine > unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it > seems, you have problems. > > It is an explo

Re: Default user groups

hi chris, On 02/10/2011 08:35 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, g wrote: > hey g >> consider /etc/default/useradd; >> >> Â # useradd defaults file >> Â GROUP=100,20,63,1010,2020 > > Thanks, but I actually tried this and it didn't work because it treats > them as a single

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

On 02/10/2011 05:06 PM, jdow wrote: > Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to > the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine > unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it > seems, you have problems. > > It is an expl

Re: GNOME kdesu?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > File a RFE.  I think it is actively maintained. > OK. I had thought that GNOME was moving away from this sort of thing (i.e. gksu) to PolicyKit. I think beesu/gksu is still useful, though! -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

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

Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it seems, you have problems. It is an exploit. It attacks Linux machines. That's proof tha

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

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:06 PM, jdow wrote: > heads up: > > if case you are using spamassassin milter: > > active exploits going on. > > > Are you using a time machine to report news, from the past? look a

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

On 02/10/2011 01:06 PM, jdow wrote: > For all of you with your touching faith that Linux is invulnerable I > offer up this message from the Spam Assassin list. This is an exploit > into a piece of software running with root privileges - in your email > system. Is this a "proof of concept," or is i

Re: GNOME kdesu?

On 02/10/2011 03:32 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> beesu should help > Yep, thanks Rahul. I've added this and it works fine - would be good > if it respected sudoers though, instead of always prompting for root's > password :-) I saw another post

Re: Utility to graphically install software / browse repositories?

On 02/10/2011 04:10 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Thanks, > >> # yum install gnome-packagekit >> >> Run gpk-application > Thats strange - all the package-groups are empty, as with kpackagekit. > Is this a known problem/bug? Nope.Try yum clean all; yum makecache Rahul -- users mailing list

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

jdow wrote: > For all of you with your touching faith that Linux is invulnerable I > offer up this message from the Spam Assassin list. This is an exploit > into a piece of software running with root privileges - in your email > system. I tried real hard to perform this exploit on my postfix/spama

No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

For all of you with your touching faith that Linux is invulnerable I offer up this message from the Spam Assassin list. This is an exploit into a piece of software running with root privileges - in your email system. {^_-} Original Message Subject:Fwd: RE: alert: New eve

Re: Default user groups

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, g wrote: hey g > > consider /etc/default/useradd; > >  # useradd defaults file >  GROUP=100,20,63,1010,2020 Thanks, but I actually tried this and it didn't work because it treats them as a single group, "100,20,63.." and doesn't separate them :-( -c -- users mai

Re: Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2011 01:13 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:27 -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote: >> Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone >> gets a page. >> >> The first server to be updated will be fedorahosted.org. >

Re: Default user groups

hi chris, On 02/06/2011 10:18 PM, Chris Smart wrote: <> > Thanks Thomas, but unless I missed something it doesn't really help > :-) I realise that each user gets their own private group, but I want > to have new users added to extra groups at the time of creation. consider /etc/default/useradd;

Re: LDAP/SASL/GSSAPI

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 03:32 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am having some difficulty. I am using dovecot. I have it working with > LDAP as the backend for userdb. Unfortunately, the LDAP I am using is > now requiring SASL binds (GSSAPI/Ker

Re: Scrambled Text - After recent update

On 02/10/2011 12:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It is true that glibc was updated yesterday to: > glibc-2.13-1.i686 > > But I am nor seeing what you see. Thanks Aaron. It turned out - apparently - that it was the "video mode" I specified in the kernel line in GRUB (because otherwise I don't get t

Re: How to be notified if the battery of my notebook is low?

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:07 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 02/09/2011 05:40 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I don't usually run my laptop until the battery gives out but I would > > swear that I am notified when the battery is low. No wall command is > > issued though. This happens without an

Re: Scrambled Text - After recent update

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 19:05 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This morning I updated my system (Fedora 14) and after rebooting it I > get this wierd behaviour on text rendering (terminal window, firefox, > everywhere): the text gets scrambled (smudged). I also found this new > bu

Re: [389-users] Manage Certificates button item (slightly different)

On 02/10/2011 07:45 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: > 11;rgb://On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:49:28PM -0700, Rich Megginson > wrote: >> On 02/09/2011 07:59 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 06:14:27PM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote: On 02/08/2011 04:11 PM, Christopher W

Re: [389-users] Manage Certificates button item (slightly different)

11;rgb://On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:49:28PM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 02/09/2011 07:59 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 06:14:27PM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote: > >>On 02/08/2011 04:11 PM, Christopher Wood wrote: > >>>These bugs are almost exactly the issue

Advice / options - using and providing web services on Fedora

Hi folks, I'm using a LAPP setup and have to now start looking at using and maybe providing web services in order to connect to another organisation's systems. I currently have no knowledge of web services, XML, SOAP etc. so any help pointers or resources would be appreciated. I've done some G

Re: need printer driver

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2011 05:10 PM, Jim wrote: > On 02/09/2011 04:59 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 02/09/2011 04:30 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: >>> Chris ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 09/02/2011 22:02: I have a Samsung ML 2851 ND laser printer and

Re: need printer driver

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:41 -0600, genomega wrote: > Support would come from the linux kernel its self. Often this is true with drivers in general, but printer drivers (i.e. filters converting between different printer formats) are entirely in user-space. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: Thi