mutt can't lock nfs mounted 'sent' on fedora 8

Did fc8 change the default compilation or configuration of mutt in
some way that affects file locking? Or does mutt 1.5 have a new
default behavior?.

I have some cron jobs that use mutt to send attachments. (Mutt does
this better than mail or mailx.) My home dir is NFS mounted. On fc7
and previous, no problem. On fc8, when I execute:

#  echo 'test email using mutt'|mutt -s  'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>

 it hangs up for a while (can't interrupt it with cntl-c or background
it with cntl-z and bg) and then produces this error message:

 fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)
 Couldn't lock /<myhomedirpath>/sent

 When I run

 #  echo 'test email using mail'|mail -s  'test email using mutt'
<myemailaddress>

 from the same context, it works immediately. So I am pretty sure it
is  not sendmail causing the problem.

 I don't really care whether my outgoing email gets saved in ~/send.
In fact I prefer not to save it.  I tried asking about this on the
mutt list, got a cryptic response "use maildir". Mutt man page doesn't
mention "sent" folder locking, stuff about maildir no help.

Re: moving /home

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I want to move /home to another internal disk.
> I know how to make the partition and to copy files to it.
> What I'm not sure of is how to change things so that
> the new partition automatically mounts as /home .
> If I edit fstab and reboot will it stick?
> Is fstab the point of truth or
> will some program "fix" it for me?
> 
> I've read that editing fstab is the way to go,
> but I've also read that fstab is edited by programs.
> 
Yes, editing /etc/fstab will do the trick. There are GUIs that will 
edit it for you, but I normally do it by hand if I want to change 
something after the initial install. There used to be programs that 
would add/remove mount points for removable media like USB "pen" 
drives, but that method isn't used any more.

Mikkel
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Re: ****Re: openldap + kmail

Craig White wrote:

> No - you misunderstood him
> 
> It is not possible to have a 'DN: Address Book'

No, it is you who misunderstand.
I was _asked_ for the DN,
and the only response that worked was "Address Book".

Bizarrely, I just checked, and now any response works -
presumably the DN (or RDN) has been stored somewhere.

> All you need is suitable 'ou' with ACL permissions to access that 'ou'
> and if that 'ou' were called 'People_I_Want_to_SPAM', Kaddressbook would
> be happy with that too. Of course, that gets into the nuts and bolts of
> LDAP. Having an 'ou' called 'Address Book' or 'AddressBook' has no
> meaning to Kaddressbook unless Kaddressbook is configured to use the DN
> like...
> ou=AddressBook,dc=xyz,dc=com

KAddressBook had already asked for my host.
The only sense I can make of it is that KAddressBook constructed the DN
from this, together with "Address Book", which I gave in response to "DN".

Incidentally, the reason I did this was that I was following
the yolinux tutorial at
<http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html>.
You are invited to access their LDAP server,
and I found that I could indeed see their address book

Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223

>   1. Lost fc7 boot loader: (Vincent Onelli)
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:25 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan <at> gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Lost fc7 boot loader:
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list <at> redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1209496705.27290.42.camel <at> bree.homelinux.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error,
>> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in
>> fedora.
>> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of
>> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in
>> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any
>> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7
>> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot
>> loader.
> 
> Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your
> old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You
> might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual
> boot will still work.

> poc

Re: Has anyone used BackupPC straight out of the box?

Arch Willingham wrote:
> In the past, I have successfully installed Backup PC by installing
> it from the files from the source at
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ but have never been able to get it
> to work via the version that comes with Fedora FC8 or FC9 (I.E. the
> version hat installed when you install via yum or add-remove
> programs in Fedora). Has anyone out there ever been able to get it
> to work?

Yup, works fine for me on F8.

Cheers,
Raman Gupta

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Re: moving /home

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:42 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I want to move /home to another internal disk.
> I know how to make the partition and to copy files to it.
> What I'm not sure of is how to change things so that
> the new partition automatically mounts as /home .
> If I edit fstab and reboot will it stick?
> Is fstab the point of truth or
> will some program "fix" it for me?
> 
> I've read that editing fstab is the way to go,
> but I've also read that fstab is edited by programs.

It's "edited by programs" when you install the system. AFAIK no program
will change an existing fstab entry. How you edit it depends on how it's
currently set up, e.g. is your /home on:

a) a physical device partition (/dev/sda1): just edit fstab to change
the old partition for the new one.

b) a logical volume (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02). See the LVM
documentation for how to include the partition in the appropriate
logical and physical group and leave fstab alone.

3) a labelled partition (LABEL=/home): label the new partition (see
e2label(8)) and add or change the entry in fstab if necessary.

d) a UUID device (UUID=f3cf7586-fc2a-46d3-82a3-2a985cf30385): create a
UUID for the new partition using uuidgen(1) and copy it into fstab.

poc

Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 09:02 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 08:20 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote:
> > It's called "mindshare."  And since when do you define relevance for Redhat's customers?  Sounds rather
presumptuous, to me.  You mention the mindshare concept later, but don't seem to understand it works both
ways.  And it's a huge advantage in a competitive marketplace.
> 
> I am simply stating RedHat's stance on the matter, they are defining
> this themselves. It is hard, however, for RedHat to compete in the
> consumer desktop desktop space while playing the rules of Microsoft and
> Apple. You likely didn't pay for Fedora, yet you expect certain things,
> I think that is a little more presumptuous.
> 
> > Ya think?  Ok "strides" compared to what - the over 90% share M$ enjoys?  Methinks we got alot more stridin'
to do.
> 
> That has NOTHING to do with what I meant, although in fairness I wasn't
> clear on that. What I meant was that Linux is convincing many companies
> to become part of the open source ecosystem. At this point, use by the
> average home user isn't a priority. RedHat wants a good, strong story to
> take to consumers before it ever tries to enter that space.
> 

> > I suppose Redhat more prefers neglect to rape.  Or maybe passive coercion.  But this approach is doomed to
failure as we've already seen by Ubuntu's success.  Redhat's ability to ensure anything in this industry
is doubtful and becoming less a factor all the time as long as they and people like you decry the "ignorant"
society and people who can't add a repo.  Fedora has become a niche oddity in the Linux distro field because
they view the vast majority of potential users as scapegoats for some holier than thou OS delusion.
> 
> Define the success Ubuntu has seen. Ubuntu is NOT making money, at all.

Howto get an automatic Wifi connection?

Hi all,

I have a PC with F8 & a usb wifi dongle and I would like to configure
the PC that when it boots it will automagically negotiate a WPA2/PSK
802.11g link with my Access Point and get an IP address from the DHCP
server behind the AP.

Since the PC boots into runlevel 3 I can not use NetworkManager. Instead
I have the network service enabled. The kernel module for the wifi
dongle autoloads and the dongle is recognized, active and ready to go to
work.

Now how do I configure this WPA2/PSK link to my AP?

Your feedback is most appreciated.

Thanks,
Patrick

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Re: Howto get an automatic Wifi connection?

Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a PC with F8 & a usb wifi dongle and I would like to configure
> the PC that when it boots it will automagically negotiate a WPA2/PSK
> 802.11g link with my Access Point and get an IP address from the DHCP
> server behind the AP.
>
> Since the PC boots into runlevel 3 I can not use NetworkManager. Instead
> I have the network service enabled. The kernel module for the wifi
> dongle autoloads and the dongle is recognized, active and ready to go to
> work.
>
> Now how do I configure this WPA2/PSK link to my AP?
>
> Your feedback is most appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
>   

I believe Ubuntu does what you want: http://xkcd.com/416/
:)

More serious, NetworkManager doesn't work in runlevel3 because it needs 
a GUI frontend to manage it. In Fedora 9 (which comes out soon), it 
should work in runlevel 3 without a problem.

Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 11:44 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Francis Earl <lunitik <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Apparently some of the MP3 patents are supposedly
> > > dying out, but not so soon :(
> > > 
> > >
> >
> http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/
> > 
> > I was under the impression they were expiring around
> > 2010, thank you for
> > that link. The big one there is Alcatel-Lucent as
> > they are the guys
> > really throwing their muscle around.
> > 
> > > As for the apple Ipod, and others they can get
> > hacked
> > > and unpaid music can be placed onto them.  I have
> > some
> > > students that are very bright in this area, they
> > put
> > > music onto cell phones without paying for the
> > music. 
> > > They are sharp with computers and electronics but
> > ask
> > > them about academics and they do not answer.  They
> > do
> > > need to be dissapointed with Apple as they do not