Re: howto lock DNS number in /etc/resolv.conf

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 20:36 -0400, james tate wrote: > How can I lock down DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf , every time I > reboot the DNS is changed ? > > Fedora is getting bad DNS numbers from a 2Wire router. And I'll say what the other two haven't said: Why can't you reconfigure the ro

Re: Lost Firefox Menu Bar -

2011-08-20 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/20/2011 04:17 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > I've managed to screw up Firefox! > > I disabled the "Menu Bar". I believe that's what it's called. I > can no longer see File, Edit, View, etc. And of course View is >

Re: Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/20/2011 03:15 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote: > Does anyone know how to do this? > For F14, this works: - From Nautilus. right click on a .pdf file. Click on Properties. Chose the Open With tab. Click on Adobe Reader 9 It should work on F15 as well

Re: howto lock DNS number in /etc/resolv.conf

2011-08-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:36:55 -0400 james tate wrote: > How can I lock down DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf , every time I > reboot the DNS is changed ? Two ways: Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- script for the interface associated with the router providing the bad info and add t

Re: howto lock DNS number in /etc/resolv.conf

2011-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/21/2011 08:36 AM, james tate wrote: > Fedora 15 > > How can I lock down DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf , every time I > reboot the DNS is changed ? > > Fedora is getting bad DNS numbers from a 2Wire router. Assuming you are using Gnome All you need to do is bring up "network sett

howto lock DNS number in /etc/resolv.conf

2011-08-20 Thread james tate
Fedora 15 How can I lock down DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf , every time I reboot the DNS is changed ? Fedora is getting bad DNS numbers from a 2Wire router. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 23:28 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 20 August 2011 23:05, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 13:15 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to do this? > > > > answer would depend upon which desktop manager you use > > > Subject: Make acroread t

problem with skype at starting on F15

2011-08-20 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Dear list I have a strange problem with skype. When I login, a huge time of hard disk activity starts on F15 and delay at least 10 minutes during which I can't almost use my laptop. I use F15 on dell laptop. do you have any experience with this? Regards. -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Add

Re: Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 20 August 2011 23:05, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 13:15 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: >> Does anyone know how to do this? > > answer would depend upon which desktop manager you use > Subject: Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome I would tentativ

Re: Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 13:15 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: > Does anyone know how to do this? answer would depend upon which desktop manager you use Default (GNOME) KDE XFCE ? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be cle

Re: Video DVD is not playing

2011-08-20 Thread antonio
Tim ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 20/08/2011 15:51: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:35 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: >> when I insert a Video DVD (UDF format I suppose) nothing happens. > Are you expecting something to happen just because you inserted a disc? > Is your desktop set u

Make acroread the default application for pdf in Fedora 15 gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Gordon Charrick
Does anyone know how to do this? -- Gordon Charrick -- 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: Network won't start.

2011-08-20 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 19/08/2011 21:59, Jim a écrit : > On 08/19/2011 01:44 PM, Jatin K wrote: > I just discovered that the network is connected, I'm connected with web > browser and surfing the internet. > NetworkManager is disabled but the network icon does not ind

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 11:53 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > > > >> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not > >> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2011 05:17 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > "which" is a shell alias in bash rather than a binary somewhere. Anyway > you can always use "find" but yes locate is a good tool. Actually, if you check, "which" is an alias that expands to a call to /bin/which with a set of switches that will give the m

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: >> >> Perhaps you have some setup that defeats automatic detection of the >> available modes. >> >> are you following this? >> >> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > > This seems to

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
> Vesa is for sort of drawing a picture of what it thinks text mode might look > like -- if text mode was tiny, illegible, and all et up with unicode. Vesa > is not VGA. There has never been a graphics font that can put 4000 > characters (80x25) on a screen legibly, which is what VGA can do. Sor

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not >> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where >> the acceptable 'videomode' files might be.

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Larry Brower wrote: > On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >>> Evidently linux does >>> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. >> >> Yes it does.  Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:20:08 +0200, RH (Reindl) wrote: > > > Am 20.08.2011 17:16, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote: > > > >> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which > >> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686 > >> > >> # yum remove which > >> << snip >> > >> Remo

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2011 09:56, schrieb Lars Eighner: > 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting > the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file > itself says nothing in it will have any effect. your only problem in this case is that you are una

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-20 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 05:52 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> Paul Allen Newell wrote: >>> On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.m

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2011 17:16, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote: > >> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which >> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686 >> >> # yum remove which >> << snip >> >> Remove 356 Package(s) >> >> Installed size: 2.1 G >> Is this ok [y/N]: n >> E

Re: Blinking window -

2011-08-20 Thread g
On 08/20/2011 12:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 20/08/11 01:32, g wrote: >> On 08/19/2011 09:29 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> It' works as it is but it bothers me. Does anyone know where to >>> go to stop the flashing? >> easy way just may be to have download window close when finished. >> >>ab

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 05:52 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > >> > >> > >> Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between > >> machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get > >>

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not > have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where > the acceptable 'videomode' files might be. Using the -lines switch, it > will reduce the n

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote: > # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which > which-2.19-5.fc12.i686 > > # yum remove which > << snip >> > Remove 356 Package(s) > > Installed size: 2.1 G > Is this ok [y/N]: n > Exiting on user Command > Complete! > > almost impossible to

Re: Video DVD is not playing

2011-08-20 Thread james tate
On 08/20/2011 09:51 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:35 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: >> when I insert a Video DVD (UDF format I suppose) nothing happens. > Are you expecting something to happen just because you inserted a disc? > Is your desktop set up to run an application for you? >

Re: dns

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 15:28 +0200, Gergely Buday wrote: > I have installed a fedora 15. After some fiddling the network started > to work, but I had to write > > namserver ip.add.re.ss > > into /etc/resolv.conf manually. The value I got from right-click on on > the network icon and choosing Con

Re: Network won't start.

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 15:59 -0400, Jim wrote: > I just discovered that the network is connected, I'm connected with > web browser and surfing the internet. NetworkManager is disabled but > the network icon does not indicate it's connected, I just have a red > box with a X in it in system tray . A

Re: Video DVD is not playing

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:35 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > when I insert a Video DVD (UDF format I suppose) nothing happens. Are you expecting something to happen just because you inserted a disc? Is your desktop set up to run an application for you? Can you manually play a video DVD? (Try vl

Re: dns

2011-08-20 Thread Leonardo
hello, probably your router aren't giving you dns numbers. you can change the connection configurations by changing in ipv4 (or 6) tab from dhcp to something like only address dhcp, and then providing the dns's in the proper box 2011/8/20 Gergely Buday : > Hi there, > > I have installed a fedora

dns

2011-08-20 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi there, I have installed a fedora 15. After some fiddling the network started to work, but I had to write namserver ip.add.re.ss into /etc/resolv.conf manually. The value I got from right-click on on the network icon and choosing Connection Information, so I did get it automatically, but someh

Re: https mirrors

2011-08-20 Thread Leonardo
Hello and thanks for the answer, indeed mirrorlist is a secure url, but i didn't figured the "modify repository" yet. i use mostly yum from command line. also mirrorlist gives me an non-https mirror, so there's my problem. for your attention thank you 2011/8/20 Gregory Woodbury : > > > On Sat,

Re: https mirrors

2011-08-20 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Leonardo wrote: > at work may sites and url's are blocked so packages like > gnome-power-manager aren't downloaded by yum since it have "power" in > his name. > > so i would like to know if such thing like https mirror exists and if > yum supports it. > Yes, by d

fedora 15 didn.t detected my Wifi card.

2011-08-20 Thread Navdeep Singh Sidhu
Hello, I have installed fedora 15 on my portable hardisk. Recently i had updated my fedora kernel to 2.6.40 nd now it is working fine but it didn't detected my wifi card(Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 ). Need some help. Plz. Regards Navdeep Singh -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

https mirrors

2011-08-20 Thread Leonardo
hello all, at work may sites and url's are blocked so packages like gnome-power-manager aren't downloaded by yum since it have "power" in his name. so i would like to know if such thing like https mirror exists and if yum supports it. thanks in advance. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-20 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> >> >> Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between >> machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get >> the results you indicated. Sure worth a try, let me give it a go. >> > Crai

Thanx for updating drivers in Linux kernel 2.6.39

2011-08-20 Thread Navdeep Singh Sidhu
Hello I am very thankful to the programmers & contributors of Linux Kernel 2.6.39. Bcz recently i'm facing problem on my Dell XPS 15 that Linux doesn't run from USB. yesterday i updated my kernel to 2.6.39 through VMware & then tried to boot Linux from portable hardisk it work's for me. Everything

Corrupted background when activating menu in gnome shell

2011-08-20 Thread Richard Shaw
Anyone else see this? I rebooted, while it was logging me in I switched to a VT, came back, and then when I activated the gnome shell menu (or whatever it's called now) by going to the upper left instead of "darkening" I saw a corrupted version of a google chrome screen, which I hadn't even loaded

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: > 5) attempting to set vga= in grub leads to a blank screen and an > unresponsive keyboard. I'm not sure what the problem is here but vga=ask does work, I just tried it as I've been meaning to tweak my virtual terminal resolution for a while bu

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
> 1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently linux does > not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. An example of why you > need locate: apparently the console fonts are in a (sub)directory called > kbd. You'd pass over that a hundred times before you would think

Re: Blinking window -

2011-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/08/11 01:32, g wrote: > On 08/19/2011 09:29 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> It' works as it is but it bothers me. Does anyone know where to >> go to stop the flashing? > easy way just may be to have download window close when finished. > >about:config > >filter= closewhendone set to tru

Re: Personal VPN on Fedora

2011-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2011 11:33, schrieb Manuel Escudero: > Hi there: > > I was wondering if is there something like Hotspot Shield or TunnelBear for > Linux > or if not, How can I easily mount a VPN connection in Fedora? > > Have been reading a lot, but it's quite difficult :S > > OpenVPN is too difficu

Re: New Kernel

2011-08-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.08.2011 11:16, schrieb Mahdi Foladgar: > I update my FC15 and now have to kernels > kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 > kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686 > but my computer boot from kernel-2.6.40.3-0! > Is 2.6.40.3-0 is newer than 40-4 or that is my grub misconfiguration? logically because t

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:14 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > > > > Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between > > machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get > > the results you indicated. Sure w

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting > the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file > itself says nothing in it will have any effect. had you bothered to read the release

Re: New Kernel

2011-08-20 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 13:46 +0430, Mahdi Foladgar wrote: > I update my FC15 and now have to kernels > kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 > kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686 > but my computer boot from kernel-2.6.40.3-0! > Is 2.6.40.3-0 is newer than 40-4 or that is my grub misconfiguration? > No grub

Re: New Kernel

2011-08-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/20/2011 02:46 PM, Mahdi Foladgar wrote: > I update my FC15 and now have to kernels > kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 > kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686 > but my computer boot from kernel-2.6.40.3-0! > Is 2.6.40.3-0 is newer than 40-4 or that is my grub misconfiguration? Show us /etc/grub.co

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 03:26 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Tim wrote: > > > I think a language barrier came across in your message. Did you mean > > it's also not installing which and apropos commands? Or did you mean > > they're not useful until an updatedb has been run? > >

Personal VPN on Fedora

2011-08-20 Thread Manuel Escudero
Hi there: I was wondering if is there something like Hotspot Shield or TunnelBear for Linux or if not, How can I easily mount a VPN connection in Fedora? Have been reading a lot, but it's quite difficult :S OpenVPN is too difficult to Setup and Tor is not what I'm looking for. Any advice? --

HP printer problem

2011-08-20 Thread James Bridge
Hi all - hoping someone may be able to give me a pointer on this. I have an old HP deskjet and a new wireless HP photosmart. Both work correctly under Vista and both are installed and functioning with Fedora 15, using the HP printer manager (downloaded from sourceforge). hp-check says all is well.

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Markku Kolkka
Lars Eighner kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 20. elokuuta 2011): > 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a > console by setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems > to be a mistake, for the file itself says nothing in it will > have any effect. It was true in

New Kernel

2011-08-20 Thread Mahdi Foladgar
I update my FC15 and now have to kernels kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686 but my computer boot from kernel-2.6.40.3-0! Is 2.6.40.3-0 is newer than 40-4 or that is my grub misconfiguration? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread jarmo
Lars Eighner kirjoitti lauantai, 20. elokuuta 2011 10:56:37: > 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by > setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the > file itself says nothing in it will have any effect. > > 2) But the file goes on to s

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:14 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I comment out the 127.0.0.1 line in sendmail.mc as suggested, did a > service sendmail restart It's *ages* since I set up sendmail, but don't you need to have a smtp line in there, rather than comment out the local loopback one? If yo

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner : [...] > I've done 4 or 5 various installs today, and at least one of them did not > include 'which' - perhaps it was the minimal one. Apropos seemed to work in > all of them but was not very helpful. locate has been the most helpful so > far. If you know part of the na

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Tim wrote: > I think a language barrier came across in your message. Did you mean > it's also not installing which and apropos commands? Or did you mean > they're not useful until an updatedb has been run? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting differ

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > 1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently > linux does not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. Updatedb was always run as a CRON job, not immediately after installations, nor updates. So if you don't wa

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner : [...] > > (Previously: > > yes, yum will install wvdial, which is not installed with the GUI install, It is, if you want it to be. > but as I have mentioned, yum will not run unless the fedora and update repos > are disabled because (says yum) their .xml files do not hav

Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Lars Eighner
1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file itself says nothing in it will have any effect. 2) But the file goes on to say run level 3 can be acheived by creating a symbolic link to multi-user

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/20/2011 01:32 AM, Larry Brower wrote: > On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >>> Evidently linux does >>> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. > >> Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing >> anythi