reading /var/mail
by Robert Moskowitz
I want a SIMPLE GUI tool for reading mail in /var/mail. Like for
/var/mail/root
I don't want a heavy hitter like Evolution or Thunderbird, and mail is
not a GUI. I have used Webmin's reader, but I have systems that I do
not want to install Webmin on.
Are there other alternatives?
14 years, 8 months
Firefox 3.5.3 can only print to file.
by Keith Hunt
Running F11 64-bit, with Firefox 3.5.3 64-bit. I'm no longer able to
print to a printer from Firefox. The only option is print to file.
Firefox does not show any of my defined printers, even though there
are a number of lines in prefs.js related to my default printer.
I'm not sure when this happened in relation to FF versions, as I guess
I don't print web pages that often. I think it probably occurred
sometime during the 3.5x updates.
Other apps see the expected list of printers and are able to print to them.
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Keith
14 years, 8 months
SWAT with -P option
by Arun Shrimali
Dear All
I am running Samba (3.41) with swat on Fedora 11 and both are working
fine. Now I want my users to be able to change their password through
web based application. I have tried many option but none of them
working perfectly with the latest version of Samba.
Finally, I zeroed down to SWAT, which is working perfectly for users
to change their password, but I don't want to have "view" tab on their
panel when they approach to change the password. This view tab gives
the complete configuration file - how their account is configured.
I found that "-P" option in SWAT can help me in this. Can any body
help me how to configure this in SWAT.
Regards
Arun
14 years, 8 months
Preventing ConsoleKit from interrupting audio when switching consoles.
by William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209
Hi all,
I use speech output for reading the screen. Currently, I'm using
espeak compiled to use portaudio. Whenever I switch consoles, I have to
wait a few seconds for audio output to resume. I understand that
ConsoleKit is responsible for the delay while it figures out if I'm the
same user and should be allowed to use the audio device.
If anyone knows how to disable this behavior, or knows fore sure that
ConsoleKit can't be configured to accomplish this, I'd really like to hear
about it. With respect, what I don't need to hear about is how desirable
folks think the current behavior is and how I should learn to love it too.
Pulseaudio won't help either, until it can be made to run
system-wide.
TIA.
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Bill in Denver
14 years, 8 months
Live USB from Live CD image?
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
I saw somewhere a tip how to make LiveUSB when booting from LiveCD
image, but now I can't find that reference...
I would be really grateful for anyone pointing me in right direction.
Cheers.
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14 years, 8 months
How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?
by linux guy
My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I
want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using
a PAE kernel ?
What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
Thanks
14 years, 8 months
A CPU monitor
by Robert Moskowitz
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
14 years, 8 months
Latest updates are missing a dependency
by Jonathan Ryshpan
An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from yumex.
Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest.
jon
Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-chewing-1.2.0.20090818-1.fc11.x86_64 (installed)
Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-m17n-1.1.0.20090211-5.fc11.x86_64 (installed)
Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-hangul-1.1.0.20090328-2.fc11.x86_64 (installed)
Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-rawcode-1.0.0.20090303-3.fc11.x86_64 (installed)
14 years, 8 months
creating a new gnome terminal, running a command when the term starts...
by bruce
Hi.
I'm trying to create/invoke a new gnome-terminal, were i start/run a script
when the term starts up..
from the gnome-terminal docs, i'm assuming i can accomplish this by using
the "-x/-e" attribute when i fire up gnome-terminal...
this doesn't work... others appear to have the same issue...
so, when i do:
gnome-terminal -x "foo"
a new gnome term is created, but it hangs without a bash prompt (or any
prompt) created.
so it appears that a useless blank term window is displayed. the "foo"
script is simply an empty script for testing. it has the chgrp of 777 with a
chown of 777 and a chmod of +x.
in the fstab, there is a default devpts so the virtual dev for the term
window should be ok.. i think.
i'm running an older fedora 9 for this test.
any pointers/thoughts...
thanks...
14 years, 8 months
