Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:59:16 -0700, KW wrote: > To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm > pkgs: thank you! > > I would like to learn how to do this so that I could contribute. > > I know a little bit about cpan2rpm, I know a little bit about rpm; I'd > like to learn mor

To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you! I would like to learn how to do this so that I could contribute. I know a little bit about cpan2rpm, I know a little bit about rpm; I'd like to learn more and contribute. Could someone who knows, point me in the r

Re: A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15

On 04/25/2011 06:59 PM, ssc1478 wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Doron Bar Zeev wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:08, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> >>> He obviously doesn't do any sysadmin type work. The most glaring >>> difference >>> I find between the two is the radically different

Re: smartd reporting disk failing

On 04/25/2011 08:11 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I also have 2 other external drives (both 1.5Tb) that work just fine. In > fact they sit right next to the Seagate Go drive. What's interesting is > that when I boot to Win 7 and test the drive Windows says there are no > problems (of course it is

Re: smartd reporting disk failing

On 04/25/11 18:11, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 04/25/11 17:45, JD wrote: >> On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >>> I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as >>> NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is >>> failing. Specifically it's tel

Re: smartd reporting disk failing

On 04/25/11 17:45, JD wrote: > On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as >> NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is >> failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors. >>

Re: smartd reporting disk failing

On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as > NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is > failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors. >There are no messages in /var/log/m

smartd reporting disk failing

I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors. There are no messages in /var/log/messages indicating any failures. Why is smartd

Re: checkinstall

JD wrote: > Where can I get the most recent rpm for this? > Fedora dropped it quiet a long time ago?? Homepage is at: http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ and I think checkinstall was for the last time in Dries repository for Fedora 7 (in version 1.6.0). Franta Hanzlík -- users mailing

Re: A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Doron Bar Zeev wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:08, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> He obviously doesn't do any sysadmin type work. The most glaring >> difference >> I find between the two is the radically different sysadmin environment. >> >> We had to make a red

checkinstall

Where can I get the most recent rpm for this? Fedora dropped it quiet a long time ago?? -- 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_g

RE: Re: Please Help Me Installing Fedora 14 - I finally did it!

Oh, I finally did it. I thought that Fedora 14 don't use SATA3, then I would use SATA2! And I plugged DVD and HDD in SATA2 port. It perfectly worked! Thank you. -Original Message- From: "Beartooth" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Sent: 11-04-25(월) 22:56:22 Sub

Re: A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:08, Tom Horsley wrote: > > He obviously doesn't do any sysadmin type work. The most glaring difference > I find between the two is the radically different sysadmin environment. > > We had to make a redhat <-> debian translation wiki page at work for > reference when you

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011/4/25 ssc1478 > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Searle > wrote: > > Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler > scrawled: > > > >> putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available > (which > >> reduces the effectiveness of encrypting to

Re: A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:48:53 +0300 Doron Bar Zeev wrote: > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/from-ubuntu-to-fedora-landing-on-foreign-soil-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ He obviously doesn't do any sysadmin type work. The most glaring difference I find between the two is the radically different

Re: ecryptfs and password

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 07:14 -0400, ssc1478 wrote: > I encrypt the home directory - to defend against theft. But entering > the passphrase at every boot each time is not all that friendly. I encrypt the main volume, which holds all the partitions. You get asked to enter a password before boot can

A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15

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Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Woods wrote: >> >> There are ways that these worries can be addressed and we do. > > What you decribe seems OK. > > What I find stupid is when you have 20 people on desks using Wi-Fi > because managem

Re: Can't dual-boot Fedora 14 on new MacBook Pro?

Hy there Maybe it's a little too late for this but anyhow: I encountered the same problem on a MacPro workstation using rEFIt and a triple-OS setup (OSX 10.6, Win 7 Enterprise, Fedora 14). Syncing the GPT data onto the MBR was necessary for both Fedora 14 and Win 7 to work, but it was obviousl

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:30 -0600, CS_DBA wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of any projects / methods to install Fedora on a tablet > like the iPad or an android tablet? > > I have an iPad and I run into things I wish I could do with it every > day. Linux on my tablet would rock! I just bought a

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > There are ways that these worries can be addressed and we do. What you decribe seems OK. What I find stupid is when you have 20 people on desks using Wi-Fi because management is too cheap or lazy to install proper networking... Then the ent

Re: Preupgrade questions

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:13:39 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > Even with F15 abandoning metacity, and possibly also whatever > is causing the other minor issues, my guess is that I'll be better > off doing all fresh installs this time, except perhaps on one brand > new PC.. In fact, I'm already

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 13:41 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I´d refuse to work on any place that *forces* me to use Wi-Fi instead > of a proper, Cat5e Ethernet (or fiber) LAN We do not force people to use wireless; we do have a wired LAN as well. But lots of people have mobile laptops, smartp

bash-completion 1.3-3 upgrade...

Brian Ericson ptc.com> writes: > Is it just me or did the upgrade from bash-completion-1.2-5 to 1.3-3 > break ls, rm, mv, etc? Now, when tab-completing a directory, the name > of the directory completes with a trailing rather than a / > (Doc completes as "Documents " rather than "Documents/"

bash-completion 1.3-3 upgrade...

Is it just me or did the upgrade from bash-completion-1.2-5 to 1.3-3 break ls, rm, mv, etc? Now, when tab-completing a directory, the name of the directory completes with a trailing rather than a / (Doc completes as "Documents " rather than "Documents/"). -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: [389-users] Error using db2ldif to backup NetscapeRoot

On 04/25/2011 10:43 AM, Diego Woitasen wrote: 2011/4/25 Noriko Hosoi mailto:nho...@redhat.com>> On 04/25/2011 09:27 AM, Diego Woitasen wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Diego Woitasen mailto:di...@woitasen.com.ar>> wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rich Me

Re: [389-users] Error using db2ldif to backup NetscapeRoot

2011/4/25 Noriko Hosoi > On 04/25/2011 09:27 AM, Diego Woitasen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >> >>> On 04/25/2011 10:13 AM, Diego Woitasen wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> [...] >>> >>> >>> Shall

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > This is primarily why rogue access points > are forbidden at my workplace; it's not security paranoia, it's > interference with the production wireless network that is at stake. I´d refuse to work on any place that *forces* me to use Wi-Fi ins

Re: [Errno 5] Input/output error

I use ext4 filesystem 2011/4/23 charles zeitler > -- > > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Leon Legorreta > wrote: > > I appreciate your help Charles Zeitler, use FSCK the problem was in / var > > since they had some bad blocks, > > gl

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 25 April 2011 15:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: >> >> Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, >> everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have >> currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms. And there are al

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 01:06 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Oh yeah, because IT departments are continuously "war driving" around > the office with directional antennas, scanning the airwaves for access > points... It isn't necessary to do that much work to detect "rogue" access points. Instead,

Re: Preupgrade questions

On 04/25/2011 07:43 PM, Beartooth wrote: > Iirc, preupgrade (which I've been pleased with in the past) won't > do anything, or at any rate won't install F15, until that is officially > released; right? Not true. You have a checkbox to tick but it would work otherwise. Rahul -- users ma

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: > > Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, > everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have > currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms. And there are also > two applications that I build from source, but t

Preupgrade questions

Iirc, preupgrade (which I've been pleased with in the past) won't do anything, or at any rate won't install F15, until that is officially released; right? Also, I have a couple of odd minor issues on different PCs, relating to metacity a/o the monitor (HP w2207h) a/o the KVM s

Re: [389-users] how to sync 389 Directory servers

Yep, you just set up master/slave replication (the documentation calls it single master replication): http ://docs. redhat .com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/ html /Administration_Guide/Managing_Replication-Configuring_Single_Master_Replication. html Hope that helps! Deon

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 25 April 2011 13:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so >> the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other >> repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms. > > This isn't really a good comparison as the same comman

Re: Please Help Me Installing Fedora 14

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:39:04 +0900, 신승원 wrote: > Hello. > I'm a student in Korea, and I'm in sixth grade. I'm not good at English, > so please understand :) I have a DVD which Fedora 14 Installing ISO is > burned, and I have a computer. [] Just checking a couple of things. If I under

Re: Dang! DVD printing busted again...

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:07:27 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > Hey, it's a long shot, but I just thought of something. Have you > updated your PPD's for your printer? I installed from scratch when I installed f14, but that doesn't mean there aren't newer ppd files available from some update now. When I

Re: Dang! DVD printing busted again...

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I don't print DVDs often enough to notice when it first broke, > but I can't print them with fedora 14: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699241 > > If I boot my old fedora 13 partition, it works fine > with the same hardware. >

Re: SELinux is preventing khidpd_0d620558 from write access on the socket Unknown.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2011 03:12 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > SELinux is preventing khidpd_0d620558 from write access on the socket Unknown. > > * Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *** > > If you believe that khidpd_0d6205

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 04/25/2011 05:32 PM, Piscium wrote: > Debian has an advantage on number of packages available. Debian claims > on its website to have 30 K packages. And this is on Fedora: > > [xx@d3000 ~]$ yum repolist > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto > Adding en_IE to language list > repo id

Re: ecryptfs and password

On 25/04/2011 12:14, ssc1478 wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Searle wrote: >> Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler scrawled: >> >>> putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available >>> (which >>> reduces the effectiveness of

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 18 April 2011 14:01, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Nothing of this is really essential, but these are nice Debian features > that Fedora apparenttly doesn't have. Now I would like to know about > stuff comparable to this that Fedora has, but Debian hasn't (I'm sure > there are many). Debian has an a

Please Help Me Installing Fedora 14

Hello. I'm a student in Korea, and I'm in sixth grade. I'm not good at English, so please understand :) I have a DVD which Fedora 14 Installing ISO is burned, and I have a computer. CPU : Intel i5-2300 Motherboard : ASUS P8H67-M LX HDD : SATA3(6Gbps) 500GB VGA : NVIDIA GT240 And when I finish

Re: ecryptfs and password

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler scrawled: > >> putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available >> (which >> reduces the effectiveness of encrypting to begin with). >> >> However ...

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Roger writes: >> Hi Nikolaus >> >> I'm thinking that you could make yourself a list of what apps you would >> like to have and another of what apps you really need to do your thing >> for both and compare. I have not found the problem you m

Re: Installing Mono.

Thanks for the info. En 22/04/2011 17:11:21, James Wilkinson escribió: Lázaro Morales wrote: But the user is an Active Directory user in an existing domain, so when I try http://DOMAIN\user:pass@proxy:8080 The environment variable take the value: http://DOMAINus

Re: ecryptfs and password

Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler scrawled: > putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available > (which > reduces the effectiveness of encrypting to begin with). > > However ... crypttab has allowance of putting the passphrase into a file.

Re: ecryptfs and password

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2011 01:01 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > On 04/24/2011 11:58 PM, Gregory Hosler wrote: > >> alternately, you can setup /etc/crypttab so that the password is not entered >> manually. > >> All the best, > >> -Greg > > > > Would this not then d

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, JD wrote: > If the company has > an intelligent gateway/router, it will detect NAT'ed > packets, and if the IP address being NAT'ed is not > in the list of allowed IP adresses, then some messages > would be sent to a network cop. If you work for a 3-letter paranoi