Help me make backups better on GNU/Linux

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots. I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of the work, and then a few hours of testing and fixing to get things working r

Re: Auth failure with uid >= 1000 on fc18

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/18/2013 07:02 PM, Alex wrote: I am trying to ssh into my fc18 server as root and have the following message in syslog: Mar 18 18:29:20 bwipropnew sshd[12473]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "uid >= 1000" not met by user "root" You'll see that after an auth failure for any account

Re: mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > no mplayer and no vlc in the base LiveCD... Seems like Ubuntu got mplayer2 static builds...or someone attempting to https://launchpad.net/~ripps818/+archive/coreavc/+build/4317875 why cant we? I also found win32 static builds... http://

Re: mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/13 12:32, Fernando Cassia wrote: > It worked, but, when loading the flv file from the browser it tells me > if I want to open it with the default player associated with flv > extensions, which is ' Parole Media Player ' (this is fedora XFCE > btw), which in turn tells me it lacks the plugi

Re: mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Since you're booting a LiveCD, not matter what you do it will be gone on the > next boot. So, how about trying "yum install totem-mozplugin"? This gets > you /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so which, according to FF > about

Re: mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > yum install totem-mozplugin thanks for the help Ed. Will try that and report back. If I ever do my own distro, I'll make sure LiveCD includes static builds of mplayer... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a re

Re: mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/13 11:31, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Is there any place where I can find a static i686 build of mplayer2? > can't install stuff on this system ATM -I've booted a Fedora LiveCD- > but I need to watch a flv file and so far I've been going round in > circles no mplayer and no vlc in the bas

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 3/18/13, Jim wrote: > Then why is this same driver crashing on some Fedora installs but not > others. > I have talk to Samsung and they don't see any problems. > I firmly believe it is a problem between fedora and setup. Are they running the same version of Fedora? Your syslog indicates the

mplayer2 static build??

2013-03-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
Is there any place where I can find a static i686 build of mplayer2? can't install stuff on this system ATM -I've booted a Fedora LiveCD- but I need to watch a flv file and so far I've been going round in circles no mplayer and no vlc in the base LiveCD... FC -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread Jim
On 03/18/2013 09:46 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On 3/18/13, Jim wrote: On 03/18/2013 08:41 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 / KDE I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 and now on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. Here is the /var/log/messages when I try t

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread Jim
On 03/18/2013 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/19/13 08:56, Jim wrote: On 03/18/2013 08:41 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 / KDE I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 and now on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. Here is the /var/log/messages when I try to

Auth failure with uid >= 1000 on fc18

2013-03-18 Thread Alex
Hi all, I am trying to ssh into my fc18 server as root and have the following message in syslog: Mar 18 18:29:20 bwipropnew sshd[12473]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "uid >= 1000" not met by user "root" I see this is defined in /etc/login.defs as well as various files in /etc/pam.d/. I

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 3/18/13, Jim wrote: > On 03/18/2013 08:41 PM, Jim wrote: >> Fedora 18 / KDE >> I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 >> and now on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. > Here is the /var/log/messages when I try to "Print Test Page" > > > Mar 18 20:34:09

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/13 08:56, Jim wrote: > On 03/18/2013 08:41 PM, Jim wrote: >> Fedora 18 / KDE >> I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 and now >> on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. > Here is the /var/log/messages when I try to "Print Test Page" > > > Mar 18 20

Re: Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread Jim
On 03/18/2013 08:41 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 / KDE I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 and now on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. Here is the /var/log/messages when I try to "Print Test Page" Mar 18 20:34:09 localhost systemd[1]: Started CUPS Pr

Printer setup headache

2013-03-18 Thread Jim
Fedora 18 / KDE I have set this print driver Samaung CLX-3170 up on Fedora 15, 17 and now on 18 and I can't get it to print up on Fedora 18. Cups Debug log below. D [18/Mar/2013:20:29:46 -0400] [Job 21] Unloading... D [18/Mar/2013:20:29:46 -0400] [Job 22] Unloading... D [18/Mar/2013:20:29:46

thank you for the new version of okular (0.16.1)

2013-03-18 Thread Frédéric Bron
that has beautiful zooms! Great! Frédéric -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://as

Re: Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

2013-03-18 Thread Temlakos
On 03/18/2013 09:41 AM, Lailah wrote: El sáb, 23-02-2013 a las 09:17 -0500, Temlakos escribió: On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote: El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió: On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote: El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos escribió: Ev

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 18/03/13 17:02, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/19/13 03:17, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Mar 18 03:49:10 box10 systemd-udevd[398]: worker [438] /devices/pci:00/:00:11.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 timeout; kill it Mar 18 03:49:10 box10 systemd-udevd[398]: seq 1742

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 18/03/13 14:14, Ed Greshko wrote: What kind of drive is it? Can you swap cables, etc from the working system to the failing system? I pulled a DVD Reader from another box and substituted it for the DVD Writer I had installed. The reader works as expected, an icon pops up on the desktop w

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/13 03:17, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > Mar 18 03:49:10 box10 systemd-udevd[398]: worker [438] > /devices/pci:00/:00:11.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 > timeout; kill it > Mar 18 03:49:10 box10 systemd-udevd[398]: seq 1742 > '/devices/pci:00/:00:

Re: Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

2013-03-18 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 23-02-2013 a las 09:17 -0500, Temlakos escribió: > On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote: > > > > > > > El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió: > > > > > On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos

Re: vim fails on F18 x64

2013-03-18 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
n 03/18/13 10:28, Ed Greshko wrote: > The one getting the error reproduces the issue. > > Curious. OK.. I figured it out One system is hitting this bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858135 "vim-command-t should require ruby" -- Ed, Thanks for your debug

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 03/18/2013 09:25 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > F

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 18/03/13 14:14, Ed Greshko wrote: Did you check the logs on the "working" system to see if it has similar errors? If not, it would seem you have HW problems. From the working system: [bobg@Box7 ~]$ systemctl status systemd-udevd.service systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 18/03/13 14:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/19/13 00:46, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Certainly I should not have to re-install Fedora 18 to get the optical drive to work? Bob Remember you posted Mar 16 23:32:18 box10 systemd-udevd[543]: failed to execute '/usr/lib/udev/pci-

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/19/13 00:46, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> >> I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is >> apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon >> come up on the des

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:37:16 +0100 Reindl Harald wrote: > the problem was that the OP did even not have Fedora and YUM > and if he would state this at the very first begin of the > thread i would not have answered in the whole thread because > i do not know how tu build RPM's on other distributio

[389-users] 389 hang while upgrading from 1.2.2 to 1.2.10

2013-03-18 Thread Roberto Polli
Hi all, while upgrading with yum from 1.2.2 to 1.2.10, 389 hang while in ns-slapd upgradedb. gdb says it's in ldbm_ancestorid_create_index(), but it's running from 3hrs on an almost-empty database (there are just a few test entries). Can somebody shed some light on that? Thank you very much

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.03.2013 18:30, schrieb Jared K. Smith: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> what the hell did you not understand in "rpmbuild" > > Your tone is not appropriate... it sounds like the original poster > either doesn't have a spec file to begin with, or doesn't understand

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > what the hell did you not understand in "rpmbuild" Your tone is not appropriate... it sounds like the original poster either doesn't have a spec file to begin with, or doesn't understand it. There's no reason to talk down to him like this.

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but > sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec > files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15 > years, let it

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Doug wrote: On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec

LiveCD with Samsung F2FS ??

2013-03-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
Until now I' ve been using Linux Live USB creator (on windows) to create pen drives out of Fedora livecd images http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ ...mainly because I like its startup menu which allows to select between normal LiveCD boot and ' persistant mode' which allows one to save files to the pen

Re: Where is S.M.A.R.T?

2013-03-18 Thread ergodic
If you are using Gnome, the application gnome-disks is a very nice graphical interface for the S.M.A.R.T tools. The Disk binary is at /usr/bin/gnome-disks - Original Message - On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:32:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > The S.M.A.R.T disk health monitoring tools used to be

Re: F-18 CDROM problem - MORE -

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon come up on the desktop when I put a cdrom in the drive. The same disk works as expected

Gnome 3.8 Test Day on Thursday

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Holec
Hi Gnome users, developers and friends! We continue our Test Days ride [0]. You are invited to join Gnome 3.8 Test Day [1] on this Thursday. Gnome 3.8 final will be released on 2013-03-27. You can test new Gnome 3.8 [2] features [3] running from Fedora 19 Live test images and help to make this

Re: Where is S.M.A.R.T?

2013-03-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:32:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > The S.M.A.R.T disk health monitoring tools used to be distributed > with Fedora. Now I can't find the package. Pointers? Thanks. yum info smartmontools, should be the animal. -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing

Where is S.M.A.R.T?

2013-03-18 Thread Geoffrey Leach
The S.M.A.R.T disk health monitoring tools used to be distributed with Fedora. Now I can't find the package. Pointers? Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.03.2013 15:48, schrieb Joachim Backes: > On 03/18/2013 03:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 18.03.2013 14:40, schrieb Rejy M Cyriac: >>> On 03/15/2013 11:02 PM, Doug wrote: I recently had a pdf file that Firefox's pdf decoder couldn't read, and I had to diable the automatic

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-18 Thread Joachim Backes
On 03/18/2013 03:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 18.03.2013 14:40, schrieb Rejy M Cyriac: >> On 03/15/2013 11:02 PM, Doug wrote: >>> I recently had a pdf file that Firefox's pdf decoder couldn't read, and >>> I had to diable the automatic FF-pdf and make it so the Adobe Reader >>> plugin wor

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.03.2013 14:40, schrieb Rejy M Cyriac: > On 03/15/2013 11:02 PM, Doug wrote: >> I recently had a pdf file that Firefox's pdf decoder couldn't read, and >> I had to diable the automatic FF-pdf and make it so the Adobe Reader >> plugin works. Adobe can read the file. I don not like Okular: it

Re: [389-users] dsadmin python library - about Entry behavior

2013-03-18 Thread Roberto Polli
Hi Rich, a question about Entry behavior. Given the following entry: t = 'o=foo', {'objectclass': ['organization', 'top']} e = Entry(t) Use dict.update would be very nice, but if you try e.data.update({'dc': 'bar', 'objectclass':['organization', 'top', 'domain']}) you'll end up with a strange

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-18 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 03/15/2013 11:02 PM, Doug wrote: > On 03/15/2013 12:51 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 03/15/2013 12:32 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >>> On 03/15/2013 04:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I have noticed lately on my F18 installation that this file: C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt >>> >>> Ask

[Resolved] Re: XFce configuration

2013-03-18 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, poma wrote: On 15.03.2013 22:11, Max Pyziur wrote: ... 1 - How do you configure a shortcut key to bring up the Applications Menu? I found some online help, but that didn't work. - xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu: ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-sh

Re: Installing ngspice 25

2013-03-18 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 03/17/2013 08:36 PM, les wrote: > That appears to have done it. But I appear to have overwritten my > original. Ok, I'm trying my current simulations to see if everything is > OK. One question is how will yum update deal with the change? You made a mess when overwriting the original. With a

Re: Accented characters are now shown correctly on Thunar and on Terminal

2013-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> Thanks, Roberto. I get everything correct, likewise what you get. The >>> problem occurs with directories that I brought in from previous Fedora >>> installations. For example, I get the following in Thunar: >>> >>> Estat�stica (invalid en

SOLVED Re: service files help needed

2013-03-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:18:06 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > > Add StandardOutput=tty to [Service]. > > -T.C. Thank You T.C. -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap