Re: what kind of /etc/fstab is this?
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Amadeus W.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed, cat /etc/fstab UUID=37f495c9-c91c-4310-9598-14076aad3c62 / ext3 defaults1 1 UUID=db242ada-59d9-4cc3-a0c9-04016ba6245d /backup xfs defaults1 2 UUID=fd4ec4c9-4b0a-4742-a5e2-5f3e25f2a3d1 /varxfs defaults1 2 UUID=6fbc5461-6eb5-4bc7-bb75-7ad96da8c161 /usrext3 defaults1 2 UUID=d21466ea-715d-44be-be5c-b162a1460eb1 /usr/local ext3 defaults1 2 UUID=770ebefb-c760-4aef-81f5-57ff41b80ed4 /tmpext3 defaults1 2 etc. What's with the cryptic device labels? What creates them? What was wrong and what happened with the good ole' /dev/sda? and such? The same crap can be found in grub.conf too. Is it selinux? Are my drives encrypted or something? And what can I do to get back to the sane old-style drive names? Yes, I know I can do mount to see what drive is mounted where, but I really don't understand what purpose this sort of improvement serves. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I'm curious: what linux version and kernel you have? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Logwatch report on another machine?
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine,
changing the last line to
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(and running newaliases) but this did not do the trick.
I also tried adding MAILER(local) in sendmail.mc on helen
(and restarting sendmail), but this appeared to have no effect.
I'm not sure what MAILER(local) means?
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send email from one machine on a LAN to another.
Is there some line I could add to sendmail.mc which would enable this?
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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Timothy,
It's been awhile since I last played with sendmail, but last I remember
is that in a fresh Fedora install the problem had to do with properly
setting MTAHost in /etc/mail/submit.cf.
The setting may be different on other systems.
# diff submit.cf_org submit.cf
112c112
D{MTAHost}[localhost]
---
D{MTAHost}[smtp]
I went trough the same drill as you, so maybe you just need that setting.
~af
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Re: YUM: problems to update the system
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Fernando Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the following problem when I try to bring up to date the system through yum: -- Running transaction check --- Package muine.i386 0:0.8.8-3.fc8 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine -- Processing Dependency: mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine -- Processing Dependency: mono(gtk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0 for package: muine --- Package liferea.i386 0:1.4.15-6.fc9 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13(GNUTLS_1_3) for package: liferea -- Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 for package: liferea --- Package wireshark-gnome.i386 0:1.0.0-2.fc9 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 for package: wireshark-gnome --- Package perl-DateManip.noarch 0:5.44-4.fc8 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) for package: perl-DateManip --- Package wireshark.i386 0:1.0.0-2.fc9 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13(GNUTLS_1_3) for package: wireshark -- Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 for package: wireshark -- Processing Conflict: syslog-ng conflicts rsyslog syslog-ng and rsyslog have problem when running simultaneously. test this: disable syslog-ng and try updating again. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
compile graphical ssh - GFTP
Hi, I posted in the GFTP mailing list, but I see little hope of getting an answer, so I got nothing to loose if I ask here. The web has only incomplete bits and pieces on the subject. This is all about building from source. I'm trying to install gtk+-2.13.3 in order to install GFTP (a graphical SSH tool). I'm running Fedora Core 8 (2.6.24.4-64.fc8) Some prerequisites are required, so I installed glib-2.17.2 from source, but my system has this default glib stuff installed: $ rpm -qa | grep glib glibmm24-2.14.2-1.fc8 glib2-2.14.6-1.fc8 glibc-devel-2.7-2 glibc-2.7-2 glibc-common-2.7-2 glib-1.2.10-28.fc8 dbus-glib-devel-0.73-8.fc8 glib-java-0.2.6-10.fc8 taglib-1.5-1.fc8 dbus-glib-0.73-8.fc8 glibc-headers-2.7-2 glib2-devel-2.14.6-1.fc8 I've tried to point the 'configure' to the glib I installed from source. $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/glib/glib-2.17.2/lib:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib ...because this error stops everything, how do I work around it?. configure message checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 = 2.17.1 atk = 1.13.0pango = 1.20cairo = 1.6) were not met: Requested 'glib-2.0 = 2.17.1' but version of GLib is 2.14.6 No package 'atk' found Requested 'pango = 1.20' but version of Pango is 1.18.4 Requested 'cairo = 1.6' but version of cairo is 1.4.14 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. /configure message the GTK configure keeps looking at the rpm installed version of glib (shown above). I tried editing the file 'configure' but that did not help. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Fedora 9 will not update
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: ...big snip... 1:perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-22.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-22.fc9 is needed by package Interesting... Cpan says Pod::Escapes require no dependencies. But very frequently some modules require three or more modules as prerequisites when installing from source. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: compile graphical ssh - GFTP
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:36 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: I'm trying to install gtk+-2.13.3 in order to install GFTP (a graphical SSH tool). Just for an exercise? Unless you want to do that, you don't have to compile it. Yes. Something like that. I want to be able to compile the thing in some other system. I thought my F8 box would give me a stable test ground. GFTP (a graphical *FTP* tool, as the name says, with some other protocols, too), already exists as a precompiled package, and can simply be yum installed. I did installed the package yum provides. It works fine. I use port 22 with SSH2. So -is there anyone who has played with this GFTP source before? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: compile graphical ssh - GFTP
2008/7/15 wwp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Aldo, On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:51:57 -0700 Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:36 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: I'm trying to install gtk+-2.13.3 in order to install GFTP (a graphical SSH tool). Just for an exercise? Unless you want to do that, you don't have to compile it. Yes. Something like that. I want to be able to compile the thing in some other system. I thought my F8 box would give me a stable test ground. GFTP (a graphical *FTP* tool, as the name says, with some other protocols, too), already exists as a precompiled package, and can simply be yum installed. I did installed the package yum provides. It works fine. I use port 22 with SSH2. So -is there anyone who has played with this GFTP source before? GFTP is a pretty dead project tome, the author is not responding (at least, was few years ago) and not reacting to bug reports and patch submission. Moreover, it's too easy to make it crash with reproducible and simple scenarii, thus I recently switched to filezilla, which is much more mature and stable. Regards, wwp Ah! talk about something that works as advertised! Filezilla is great -untar the thing and it's ready to go. I'll be using this one instead of GFTP. many thanks. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: netstat is broken on F8
2008/7/16 Paolo Galtieri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I run netstat -s --tcp on all my F8 systems I get: IcmpMsg: InType0: 10 InType3: 145 InType8: 7 InType11: 113 OutType0: 4 OutType3: 2079 OutType8: 40 Tcp: 58457 active connections openings 4915 passive connection openings 5627 failed connection attempts 2863 connection resets received 11 connections established 11566532 segments received 15124519 segments send out 38925 segments retransmited 37 bad segments received. 7018 resets sent UdpLite: error parsing /proc/net/netstat: Success no further information is shown such as the TcpExt statistics. The command works in F9. What I'm also curious about is that there are a lot of statistics in /proc/net/netstat which don't get displayed, e.g the TCPAbort statistics (TCPAbortOnSyn, TCPAbortOnData, TCPAbortOnClose, etc). How do I get these displayed? Thanks, Paolo I get the same output as yours in my F8 box -not TcpExt statistics. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Acknowledge consent before login
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:20 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Personally, I don't see that clicking on an additional yes button makes any difference. I'll click on it and lie, anyway. Or not abuse the system, anyway. not for sure, but he may be talking about a military base use. not a good place to lie about such things. -- tc,hago. g It's a legal requirement in some places to display some text advising the user that their keystrokes may be monitored and other things. They can use the system if they are good with that. I heard of a least once case that was decided because of what the login banner said and whether the person actually consented to it. So I can see the OP's concern. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: sendmail not sending
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, John Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Sendmail/alpine not sending mail on newly installed FC9. Incoming messages arrive O.K. The correct SMTP server is in the ~/.pinerc file. The maillog entries are *way* too cryptic for me to decipher. Any pointers short of trying to wade thru the *choke* sendmail configuration file? ..snip... I don't recommend editing sendmail.cf or any other sendmail files manually. It's a can of worms and it's easy to break sendmail that way. That's why you make a backup copy of the file, then work on it. ;-) John Cornelius -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: Mounting of drives
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the dd command. It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to faithfully create the / partition. So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the partition of /. How can I do this safely? cp -a? What I do not want to do is to copy over from /, the devices for example so what is the best method for copying over the partitions esp. that of / ? I think /boot is not a problem with cp -a but I have a feeling / is significant. Please advise? Thanks! Dan I have found that using tools like gparted to copy partitions tends to work better. There is a live CD and a live USB image that lets you clone the partitions while they are not mounted. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Hmm... interesting. I will try it! Thanks for the suggestion! Dan They now seem to have something even more interesting. GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD - GParted and Clonezilla Unification http://news.softpedia.com/news/GParted-Clonezilla-LiveCD-51328.shtml ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: How do I set up networked printers in F9 ?
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:08 AM, linuxguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are networking our printers so that everyone in the house can use them. We have an HP all in one USB device that we connected to the network via a Linksys ASUS print server. We also just got a Dell 1720DN networked printer. Both devices work via USB on both my F9 machine and a Windows machine. The Dell is connected directly to the network. If I http://192.168.1.110, the printer configuration page comes up. The HP is connected to the print server, which is connected to the network. If I http://192.168.107 , I get the print server setup page. I'd like to get the Dell 1720DN running first. Here is what I am doing. I start system-config-printer. I select New Printer. The New Printer window appears. Now it wants me to select a connection. My options are AppSocket/HP JetDirect, Internet Printing Protocol, LPD/LPR Host or Printer or Other. What connection should I use for the 1720DN and where do I go from there ? Just use AppSocket/HP JetDirect. Enter the IP or hostname in the hostname field and leave the port number 9100 alone. In the next step select the printer from the database or provide your own PPD if you have it. Dell ships a linux app for installing the 1720 on the CDROM, but I thought I would be able to set the 1720 to PS emulation and connect to it the way I connect to a CUPS server. Am I wrong ? Thanks The drivers in those CDROMs are usually older. CUPS normally does a good job. Here are some resources: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-printers.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9 - cups - windows shared printer
also, a request for others who are using cups, if they would check cupsd.conf and printers.conf files to see if authentication line is present. I use CUPs (F8). No AuthInfoRequired line present. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9 - cups - windows shared printer
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:19 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: also, a request for others who are using cups, if they would check cupsd.conf and printers.conf files to see if authentication line is present. I use CUPs (F8). No AuthInfoRequired line present. of course not because if it was there, you would be complaining. You're probably right. However, I am intrigued as to how that line got to where it is. people should ignore geleem's request - he's not having a problem anyway and isn't helping with a solution. He's just stirring things up to start another 100-message thread, eh? ;-) Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon with this message: /bin/sh: root: command not found Remove the word 'root' from both lines? I'm not positive, but if the two scripts have the proper #!/bin/sh line in them, putting /bin/sh in the crontab line should also be unnecessary. Dave That's correct. The lines should work like this: 45 12 * * 0 /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh 11 3 * * 6 /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: How to search the Fedora List
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching the Fedora List came up in another thread. I thought this important enough information to have a thread of its own. See web link below: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-listr=1w=2 The link is useful. But I believe it would be an improvement to the Fedora archives to add a search box. I'd be easier to find info. I know I can use Fedora's Find, but how come this very active list does not have a better search mechanism; why resort to goggle? not that there's anything wrong with it. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM, dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu August 28 2008 19:40:10 Les Mikesell wrote: Those are useful if you are curious about _why_ fedora doesn't play your multi-media files, run your java apps, or work with hardware that needs vendor-provided drivers. If you are interested in actually fixing these things you have to look elsewhere. Well actually you only have to look to this list to find solutions for all these problems. Official Fedora people are bound and gagged, you me the Users can say and build what we like and help others do the same if they so wish. Just take the bits and mould them in your own image, Leave the politics for fedora legal. ...dex /me thinks we need another stanton-finley.net OS politics and legalism does not help me troubleshoot a broken system or application. If I have a problem with Fedora and I have to go elsewhere other than the fedora list, then I think there is a flaw somewhere. Very frequently there are ideological exchanges in this list, maybe there should be a new list called fedora-ideology-list. :-) That way the fedora-users would remain as technical repository of idea for less experienced users. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 04:51 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: snip Maybe these FAQs are good enough in terms of content (I don't know), but if newbies don't know about them and oldies very rarely refer to them then there's a piece missing. all of them were easily found by clicking menus at left of main pages. But how many people even bother to look at these pages? This was discussed recently. Until shown otherwise, I stand by my theory that the lack of search is due to the list being managed by Mailman. i really do not feel blame is 'mailman'. I'll repeat what I said a few days ago in another thread: even the Mailman archives (i.e. the archives of the mailman-users list) don't have a search box! See http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030520 which confirms this and suggests several alternatives. I'm sure if was easy to do this it would have been done long ago and this list would have a search function. Note: *easy*, not *possible*. poc Not easy, but not impossible... we simply got to stick to the limitations of the design. A search function would greatly simplify the search for answers. Don't we normally say google this, google that because we know the benefit of a search mechanism? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
USB slow when two devices connected
My F8 system has two USB ports in the front side. I had a USB DVDRW connected to one of the ports and was writing an ISO image to CDR. Then I plugged in a USB stick to transfer some files from it to my desktop, the transfer was stalling and was slow even after the CDR task ended. Then I unplugged the DVDRW and the USB stick transfer rate was as fast as lightning. Why was the USB stick file transfer so slow when the DVDRW was plugged in? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: USB slow when two devices connected
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: My F8 system has two USB ports in the front side. I had a USB DVDRW connected to one of the ports and was writing an ISO image to CDR. Then I plugged in a USB stick to transfer some files from it to my desktop, the transfer was stalling and was slow even after the CDR task ended. Then I unplugged the DVDRW and the USB stick transfer rate was as fast as lightning. Why was the USB stick file transfer so slow when the DVDRW was plugged in? ~af Most modern mother boards offer as many as 8 USB ports on as many as 4 different USB controllers. However, there are many motherboards that offer only 4 total USB ports on a single controller. lsusb is useful to determine what's what in your particular system. # yum install usbutils if you need to. All that, to say this: a single slow USB device on a controller will cause the controller to drop to slow (USB 1.1) mode. Not just a single port drops, the whole controller drops. Plug both devices in at the same time and check lsusb output. Are they both on the same controller. Check dmesg output. Did the USB driver complain about a 'slow' USB device? Again, using lsusb, it is possible to plug in the second device in a different slot, and have it show up on a different USB controller. On my laptop (newish) the two ports on the side are together, and the two on the back are together on a different controller. Many laptops use at least one USB controller for internal connections. Mine has an internal Bluetooth, and sits on a USB controller. This problem used to be very problematic when most USB mice and keyboards were USB 1.1 Now days, all USB devices should say 2.0 on them somewhere. Here is a sample output from lsusb: - lsusb Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1307:0163 Transcend Information, Inc. 512MB USB Flash Drive Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 009: ID 046d:c03f Logitech, Inc. UltraX Optical Mouse Bus 006 Device 008: ID 050d:0109 Belkin Components F5U109/F5U409 PDA Adapter Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 003: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp. Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp. Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 355 Bluetooth Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub The thumb drive and APC are on the side of my laptop on different controllers. The Belkin USB serial device and the Logitech mouse are plugged into the back, and are on the same controller. Your Mileage will vary. When my mouse plugs in, dmesg says this: usb 6-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/input/input18 input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-:00:1d.1-2 Please note the words/phrases LOW SPEED and 1.1. If I plugged my thumb drive into the back at the same time my mouse was plugged in, in the back, transfers would drop to about 1MB/sec. Good Luck! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Well I learned something today. My USB stick seems to behave erratically. It behaves as before even when I have the USB DVDRW connected to the front panel and the USB stick on the back. From lsusb output Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0457:0151 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Super Flash 1GB Flash Drive Bus 001 Device 005: ID 054c:02d1 Sony Corp. From /var/log/messages (google did not showed anything on error -71) Sep 2 13:54:47 xxx kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Sep 2 13:54:47 xxx kernel: usb 1-6: device descriptor read/all, error -71 Sep 2 13:54:48 xxx kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Sep 2 13:54:48 xxx kernel: usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Sep 2 13:54:48 xxx kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Sep 2 13:54:53 xxx kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB007 mini-USB2BU 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Sep 2 13:54:53 xxx kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] 1003520 512-byte hardware sectors (514 MB) Sep 2 13:54:53 xxx kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off Sep 2 13:54:53 xxx kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Sep 2 13:55:23 xxx
Re: USB slow when two devices connected
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Chris Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:26 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: All that, to say this: a single slow USB device on a controller will cause the controller to drop to slow (USB 1.1) mode. Not just a single port drops, the whole controller drops. Slightly expanded: (a) USB 1.1 vs. USB 2.0 isn't directly related to speed -- USB 1.1 supports low (1.5 Mbps) and full (12 Mbps) speeds; USB 2.0 adds support for high (480 Mbps) speed. USB 2.0 devices don't *have* to operate at full speed, though -- e.g., a true USB 2.0-certified keyboard is still going to send your scancodes to the host at low speed. (b) Using a low- or full-speed device doesn't force that controller (actually pair of controllers - EHCI+UHCI) into a low- or full-speed mode -- low-/full- and high-speed connections can be interleaved. However, USB is a shared bus, and use of the bus is scheduled in time slices, so as an example transferring 8 Mbps at full speed (plus control overhead) will use the bus just over 2/3rd of the time, reducing the time available for full speed transfers to less than 1/3 (160 Mbps), yielding a total throughput of under 168 Mbps. This can be alleviated by using a hub with a transaction translator, which will buffer low- or full-speed transfers and send them in bursts to the host at high speed (and vice versa for data coming from the host) to mitigate the impact of the low- and full-speed devices on the high-speed ones. This problem used to be very problematic when most USB mice and keyboards were USB 1.1 Now days, all USB devices should say 2.0 on them somewhere. Even a Certified USB 2.0 mouse will operate at low speed (I haven't seen any 480 Mbps mice!). For example, from /proc/bus/usb/devices on my desktop: T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=03 Port=02 Cnt=03 Dev#= 9 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=046d ProdID=c00e Rev=11.10 S: Manufacturer=Logitech S: Product=USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 98mA I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=10ms Note the Ver= 2.00 in the D: line (USB version 2.0), but Spd=1.5 in the T: line (low speed, 1.5 Mbps). -Chris Checking on the speed was interesting. The /proc/bus/usb/devices shows that both devices rut at 480Mbps. It appear the the usb stick is having a problem from too many read/writes. It's been a while since I've been using. FROM DVDRW T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=03 Cnt=01 Dev#= 10 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=054c ProdID=02d1 Rev= 0.00 S: Manufacturer=Sony S: Product=DRX-830U FROM MEMORY STICK T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=05 Cnt=02 Dev#= 11 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0457 ProdID=0151 Rev= 1.00 S: Product=USB Mass Storage Device thanks for the enlightenment ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Secrecy and user trust
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Travis Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080902 22:52]: [drivel snipped] Hey I am currently downloading the ISO dvd to install after I finish my day's lessons, is this not a good idea to do? The word from the Fedora folks on Aug 14th was - don't update until further notice. Since then, they have - IIRC - said it's safe to do so. The ISO's should be safe, as well as the packages that you can update to from the servers. New updates should start rolling once they have resigned everything. /Anders For once I'm glad I've not updated my system in the last few days; and I won't for quite a few more. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Printer takes ages to print one page with FC8
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:58:10 +0200 M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I tried to print only the 4th page, the exact same thing happened: I suspect that there is something weird on or about the fourth page of your document. Possibly a bad font, a bad graphic, or something else altogether. What happens if you try to print your document starting from page 5? I've seem similar strange behavior when printing documents with a mix of photos, graphic charts and all sorts of fonts. It always has to do with some image in the document or a mathematical equation created with equation editor in MS Office.. A few times I had to do this on Mac OS X: In the problem page start cutting all images (paste them elsewhere to save) to see which one is the culprit. Once I found the problem image I cut it, then from a menu option (I don't recall) I selected paste special and chose the image type as jpeg. That solve my problem. I've done it more than once. I bet your printer is fine. Try printing some other document type: text, web page. hope this helps. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Network configuration
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Fedora 9 machine running VMware with two network interfaces, eth0 and eth1. The first, eth0, is connected to a DMZ network and the second, eth1 is connected to a more secure private network. I'd like to configure Fedora's networking such that the virtual machines have TCP/IP access to the eth0 (DMZ) and not eth1 (the private network). Conversely, I'd also like the host machine to be able access eth1 (the private network) but not eth0 (DMZ). On a Windows Server host, this would be achieved by unbinding the TCP/IP stack from the DMZ network adapter on the host, which is done by opening the interface properties and unchecking TCP/IP. As long as the virtual machine service remains bound to the adapter, any VMWare virtual machines can still configure TCP/IP on this interface but the host machine cannot. I'd like to do exactly the same on Fedora 9. Is this possible using the network scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts? Anyone done it? Many thanks Chris Here's some reading for a general understanding of what you need to do. http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Security/IPtables_Basics.html I have not done what you describe in VMWare, but basically you shutdown one interface in one environment leaving the other one active. This stops all traffic to eth0: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j REJECT The network scripts simply assign network information to eth0/eth1; they don't filter traffic please someone correct me if I'm wrong. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F9: Found certain files/directories in /
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found: /%1 (file) /Desktop /.config /.kde in the root directory. Is this normal? Are these safe to delete? Thanks! Dan The only file I find directly under / is .autofsck in F8. Root's files should be in /root, which is root's home directory. Also check that the root account has the correct home directory grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Secrecy and user trust
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 23:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: NAK - if a fake public key were distributed then packages signed with the fake key would be matched, allowing full access to install crap in your machine. True. Actually I don't understand the paragraph above. It seems to be saying that packages would be signed with a public key which can't be done. So, the person making that statement needs to clarify. Which is the point I made earlier. And packages signed with any valid redhat key would be rejected. Which is what I said. Thus it would be noticed immediately. No, they would not be rejected as long as you still have Red Hat's public key installed on your system. You can determine what public keys are on your system by rpm -qa gpg-pubkey*. When an rpm is signed it is signed with a private key and information about the corresponding public key is placed in the rpm file. That information is used to retrieve the correct public key for verification. So, as long as you've not deleted it, they will verify. The hypothetical scenario being discussed is that you have already replaced the former (good but now possibly suspect) public key with a spurious new one. If that were to happen, you would be in danger of accepting trojanned packages signed with this new fake key. My point is that you would also *reject* packages signed with the new good key, and this would be noticed very quickly (basically the next time you did an update). poc That's what logic says. Things should work If a new private key is created and the corresponding public key distribuited. Doesn't matter how many fake keys I may have. I'll know something is wrong with my updates if I have a pirate public key. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Secrecy and user trust
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 10:30 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: hardest of all find a secure way to provide the public part of the signing key The whole point about asymmetric encryption is that you don't need a secure distribution channel. The worst that can happen is that some fake public key gets distributed, which won't match the private key and hence will be instantly detectable. NAK - if a fake public key were distributed then packages signed with the fake key would be matched, allowing full access to install crap in your machine. And packages signed with any valid redhat key would be rejected. The public key really must be distributed in a secure manner. Isn't the point of a Public Key to be publicly distributed? The Private Key is what you closely guard against all tampering. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a switchdesk and set KDE as the default window manager. I am told that I have to restart X to make it happen. I do that by typing: ctrl-alt-backspace (or I go to init 3 and then back to init 5). But nothing works. Were have I gone wrong? -- In /etc/X11/prefdm edit your preferred desktop manager: Normally you log out of your GUI session to go to a CLI and then do the switchdesk command, then startx. You can also use startkde. I never had to restart X after using switchdesk. try doing a clean reboot. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I've never used switchdesk. Does it do something spectacular? I've always logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, then logged in again. What extra does switchdesk give you? Can't one just edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop , or doesn't that work any more? It should, but that file has to be created in F8, is not there in my box. the switchdesk is an optional package. I find is the quickest way to change your desktop at the CLI -no file editing. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:35 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I've never used switchdesk. Does it do something spectacular? I've always logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, then logged in again. What extra does switchdesk give you? Can't one just edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop , or doesn't that work any more? My /etc/sysconfig/desktop is an empty file. See Patrick's reply. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:51 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I've never used switchdesk. Does it do something spectacular? I've always logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, then logged in again. What extra does switchdesk give you? Can't one just edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop , or doesn't that work any more? It should, but that file has to be created in F8, is not there in my box. the switchdesk is an optional package. I find is the quickest way to change your desktop at the CLI -no file editing. ~af How do you do it using CLI? Install the switchdesk package, then change the desktop. $ sudo yum install switchdesk $ switchdesk KDE that's it. you can use your Fedora CD to install if you don't want to use yum. I'm running F8, and I figure F9 should be no different. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:59 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:51 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I've never used switchdesk. Does it do something spectacular? I've always logged out, used the icon on the login panel to select the other session, then logged in again. What extra does switchdesk give you? Can't one just edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop , or doesn't that work any more? It should, but that file has to be created in F8, is not there in my box. the switchdesk is an optional package. I find is the quickest way to change your desktop at the CLI -no file editing. ~af How do you do it using CLI? Install the switchdesk package, then change the desktop. $ sudo yum install switchdesk $ switchdesk KDE that's it. you can use your Fedora CD to install if you don't want to use yum. I'm running F8, and I figure F9 should be no different. ~af It is different, and the above does not work. It certainly worked in F8. -- I saw this in the F9 Release Notes (10.1.2). I wonder what else changed. Note: ~/.Xclients and ~/.xsession are no longer read automatically at login time. If you use either of these files, install the xorg-x11-xinit-session package. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: This is why /etc/sysconfig/desktop is not a candidate for the job. So how come it works for me and apparently many other people? I'm under the impression that settings in /etc/sysconfig/desktop... DISPLAYMANAGER= has the effect of choosing which dm launches at next startup/launch of runlevel 5 DESKTOP= has the effect of choosing which desktop manager is the default for users who haven't logged in previously. I could be wrong and I've done no intelligent research on this but this is what I think I have come to understand happens. Craig -- What I understand is that when initdefault is set to 5, there are three components that launch in this order: (1) a Display Manager (GDM) (2) an X Server (3) a Desktop Manager (GNOME, KDE) gdm is simply a GUI where one can enter the user/pasword and choose a Desktop Manager. Once you hit enter GDM, will launch X, which will serve GNOME/KDE. Both the GDM and GNOME/KDE are x-clients. Note that a regular user could not modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but any user can use either switchdesk (I've done it) or gdm (login window). In F8 the user is given a .Xclients-default file which can be modified. #! /bin/bash # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher WM=startkde ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: NFS statd fails to start
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, While booting F9, I NFS statd fails to start. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul What troubleshooting steps have you taken? More details are needed. The mandatory questions: have you checked your logs for messages? Do you get any errors? Have you searched the archives for answers? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: NFS statd fails to start
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While booting F9, I NFS statd fails to start. Any ideas? What troubleshooting steps have you taken? More details are needed. The mandatory questions: have you checked your logs for messages? Do you get any errors? Have you searched the archives for answers? Thanks, Aldo. My logs after I run '/sbin/service nfs start are: -- Sep 6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel failed: errno 5 (Input/output error) Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel failed: errno 5 (Input/output error) Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period Sep 6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:49:16 localhost acpid: client connected from 2400[0:0] Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: Input/output error Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). -- Any ideas? Paul Is the rpcbind service running in your system? if not start it. You must be running Fedora 9, right? ~ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Can't switch to KDE
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 15:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 12:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 08:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Look, we have been at this too long. Agreed. switchdesk changes the file .Xclient-defaults but that file is not sourced on my machine. If you know how to get it sourced when you login I will be glad to learn something new. And I've been trying to explain that I don't use switchdesk because I get the right result by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which for some reason isn't working for you. I suspect that if you find out why switchdesk doesn't work for you, you will also find out why my method doesn't work for you. The answer may be to do with your X setup, not with switchdesk or /etc/sysconfig/desktop. This is what is supposed to happen on F9 (note that this has changed a bit since F8): Boot goes to state 5 ... which runs /etc/event.d/prefdm ... which runs /etc/X11/prefdm ... which consults /etc/sysconfig.desktop if present, and sets the desktop manager ... and then executes it. The desktop manager runs the login session ... then runs X as a child You might want to look at /var/log/messages to see what is actually happening. poc You boot process stops to soon. Once you are in a login session we still have the question of what window manager is launched when you login. What do you think controls that? What do you think controls it? It's usually part of the X initialization process, which itself is run via xinit or startkde or whatever. The window manager is simply another X client. I say usually because you can have X running with *no* window manager. It's not terribly useful but it can happen when the wm crashes for some reason (in which case if you have a terminal open you can just start it again without ending the session.) poc That is correct. In fact, you can launch X from the CLI and have it display a small xterm with nothing else in the desktop, but what's the use of that... that's why we have Window Managers like Gnome, KDE and the others mentioned earlier. I think the OP should really read the man pages: xinit for starters. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: NFS statd fails to start
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Aldo Foot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While booting F9, I NFS statd fails to start. Any ideas? What troubleshooting steps have you taken? More details are needed. The mandatory questions: have you checked your logs for messages? Do you get any errors? Have you searched the archives for answers? Thanks, Aldo. My logs after I run '/sbin/service nfs start are: -- Sep 6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel failed: errno 5 (Input/output error) Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel failed: errno 5 (Input/output error) Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Sep 6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period Sep 6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:49:16 localhost acpid: client connected from 2400[0:0] Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Sep 6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: Input/output error Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). -- Any ideas? Is the rpcbind service running in your system? if not start it. You must be running Fedora 9, right? Whenever I run /sbin/service rpcbind restart I get everything OK, but Selinux pops up a message indicating: AVC denial After the rpcbind restart, no progress regarding nfs being able to start. Yes, I am running F9. Paul I don't run F9 -so I cannot be much help if I don't have system to look at. But google AVC denial it has been discussed in this list before. Perhaps someone who has solved this will be kind to share it that with you. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 100
I think the fact that is generates so much backlash is what keeps it down - You get hammered for it, and do not get any help until you correct your behavior. And there are probably some that get hammered for it, stagger around a bit, and then move on to other places with a bad taste in their mouth. Perhaps is just a matter of new users who are not aware of posting appropriately. Everyone learns with time. Well, mostly everyone. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Mailing-list Gudelines. Yes or No
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Frank Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are possible going to lose a number of seasoned user troubleshooters, if mailing list guidelines continue to be pushed back in peoples faces, for attempting to do the correct thing. Maybe once and for all decide does the list need guidelines, Yes or No? Guidelines are needed. They have the purpose of establishing order. A newcomer will do whatever unless he is made aware of the conventions used. Some individuals have a sense of order and commitment and will try to bring the guidelines up to light. This actually helps because most people don't care about keeping order. I believe the approach is the key: the tone used to remind repeat offenders or made newcomers aware of the conventions. Anarchy must be avoided. Everything around us is an ordered chaos. This list is *the* resource of help for many. Thanks to the few that share their years of experience with the rest of us. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Does Thundergird Crash when to many Emalis in Inbox ??
No, just thunderbird. what I mean by crash is the emails come but there screwed up, email comes one person. and has body of email from another person. Do you mean it looks like forwarded email? I think you're describing an email spam problem. Or perhaps the machine is being used as a mail relay. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ssh2
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:30 AM, roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am using a terminalemulator Anita to login to a server, who validates the ssh connection with 3DES Cipher. Now this server is hacked, somebody entered with the root user. Suddenly I have ssh2 So now I get the following message, when trying to login: dsa_verify failed for server_host_key I see the directory .ssh2 in the /root directory, but not in any $HOME dir How can I stop ssh2 verifying? Or is there something else I can do? I'd be backing up my data by now and getting ready to reinstall the system. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ssh2
So please give me another advice, because nobody seems to know how to stop ssh2. Thanks for understanding Roland Have a look at this: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1806 is best if you understand some details of how keys work. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143 This week Announcements trumpets the arrival of a new version of Bodhi, the freeze of Rawhide and some essential reading on the new package keys. In Developments we shock you with Non-X System Consoles to be Removed. What is the point of removing the System Consoles? Does this mean removing the console at ctrl-alt-F1? That's what I've gathered so far. So now, what's going to be? There won't be any vt's when the X-Windows is running and if you press ctrl-alt-backspace you'll be drop to a text login? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143 This week Announcements trumpets the arrival of a new version of Bodhi, the freeze of Rawhide and some essential reading on the new package keys. In Developments we shock you with Non-X System Consoles to be Removed. What is the point of removing the System Consoles? Does this mean removing the console at ctrl-alt-F1? That's what I've gathered so far. You have gathered incorrectly. This whole thread is based on misconceptions. Read https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01417.html This is nothing new and how some other distributions have done things for several years now. Move on folks. Rahul Thanks for the clarification. I'll have to keep an eye on the fedora-devel-list. Using a kernel framebuffer is a great idea for working with a minimized X Windows environment. Good thing the 'nomodeset' option is there, otherwise newbies may have a tough time understanding kernel/video options to make the new concept work. But as you say it's nothing new. There are some troubleshooting utilities that use a few floppies to start a windows/gui environment and they work fine. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
cannot use IP to install OS over http
I was doing a Linux install over HTTP. When asked to enter the HTTP server host identification I chose to give the IP rather than the FQDN, which resulted in an error halting the install. The problem is fixed by giving the FQDN of the host rather than the IP. The part of interest is the [id 960017] in the /var/log/httpd/error_log. [Thu Sep 18 13:25:28 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] ModSecurity: Access \ denied with code 400 (phase 2). Pattern match ^[d.]+$ at \ REQUEST_HEADERS:Host. [id 960017] [msg Host header is a numeric \ IP address] [severity CRITICAL] [hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] \ [uri /inst/disc1/images/stage2.img] [unique_id vQ66SI-onWgAAFVnrkUH] I use the error id to locate a line in the config file /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_21_protocol_anomalies.conf which prevents the use of IP address in the above scenario: I guess the problem is eliminated by commenting the line out. Is there a better solution? Why is using the IP a problem as indicated earlier? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: cannot use IP to install OS over http
Dumb question - are you set up to use virtual hosts on your web server? Mikkel -- Not a dumb question at all. I haven't set any virtual hosts. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Revive corrupt user
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am an IT professional but quite new to Linux. I am using Fedora 9 and a few times now, most of which have been my fault, I will experiment and/or make some changes that would then give me errors while logged in as my personal user or at times I cannot even get to the desktop. The only fix I have found is a fix of a novice. I just create a new user, copy all my personal files over to the new user, reset all of my preferences, and am back up running again. Yesterday after running the latest Fedora updates, I could no longer get to the desktop of my personal user so in the end I had to go through the same process of creating a new user before I could login. But I again had to go through the tedious task of copying my personal files and personalising the settings of the new user. Here is the question: Is there any way to backup my existing user info so that I can just restore the backup when I need to and have all of my user preferences set the way I left them? I have tried backing up the Home folder but after restoring it, I still had the same problem. Any help would be appreciated, Alex You need to make sure the hidden files from the source account get copied to the target account. If you use tar this is done automatically. If you use the 'cp' command then change directories to the source directory and do cp -r ./.* ../targetDir That only copies hidden files. Do ls -a targetDir to check. Notice the syntax-- ./.*it's a dot, slash, dot, star. Then copy no hidden files the normal way. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Script help
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:18 PM, James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:50 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: James Pifer wrote: I've been googling to find ways of doing this but I'm not finding what I'm looking for. I think this should be fairly easy, so I'm hoping a script guru out there can tell me what I need. I have some files that are all named like: myfile387465893495643658734.txt myfile547647453645635632454.txt myfile563546356243546767546.txt myfile465565634678567345656.txt myfile456674567452345566345.txt I need to find all files that start with 'myfile', end in .txt Then I need to find the most recent version and use it in a command. Can anyone rattle this off of the top of their head? `ls -t myfile*.txt | head -1` might work for you. Did a couple tests. I think that will work. Thanks a lot! James -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Just another way: You can also use the find command if the file you're looking for is elsewhere: find whereToLook pattern -cmin 30. The -cmin finds files modified the last 30min. The -ctime option find files modified a number of hours ago. It's in the 'find' man page. ~af ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Cannot find DVD drive
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid this may be a very ignorant question, ..snip.. So is this the correct device? How can I tell? Do cdrecord --devices. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Cannot find DVD drive
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ $ cdrecord --devices cdrecord: No tracks specified. Need at least one. Usage: cdrecord [options] track1...trackn ..snip.. Interesting. I get something in my F8 box. $ cdrecord --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : - 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'TOSHIBA' 'DVD-ROM SD-R1312' - ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Cannot find DVD drive
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid this may be a very ignorant question, but how do I access the DVD drive on my desktop? It is shown by lshal: -- udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B' block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B' (string) info.product = 'DVD-ROM DRD-841B' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B' (string) When I do lshal in my F8 box I get this (way down in the output): udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_SD_R1312' access_control.file = '/dev/sr0' (string) block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string) linux.device_file = '/dev/sg0' (string) I'm just curious: do you get any of that? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Cannot find DVD drive
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is this the correct device? How can I tell? Do cdrecord --devices. Thanks for the suggestion. I get --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] tim]# cdrecord --devices wodim: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : - 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'LG' 'DVD-ROM DRD-841B' - [EMAIL PROTECTED] tim]# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom mount: No medium found --- There was a previous discussion regarding cdroms. Maybe you'll get something there (cited on a recent thread): http://marc.info/?l=fedora-listm=122020539417194w=2 ~af http://marc.info/?l=fedora-listm=122020539417194w=2 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Corsair 16G USB Flash Drive
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Les [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone, I cannot get my F8 system to mount my Corsair flash drive. I looked at the Forum, searched Corsair's website, and no joy. lshal finds it, and lsusb works intermittantly, finding the drive when it works, but not listing it as a drive, although lsusb seems to hang quite frequently when the drive is plugged in. DMESG says: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice ..snip.. usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 But the drive mounts and reads correctly under windows. Any ideas? Regards, Les H Do you another usb stick or another usb device to test? maybe another usb port? Try a bit more debugging and see what you get. See this related problem: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3478 Google for device descriptor read/64 for other posts out there. Someone even suggested to check whether there was a mount point in the /media dir for usb devices. The descriptor error seems to be the key. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Newbie Help With Fedora 9 installation
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, E.H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I downloaded a Fedora 9 i386 DVD ISO file using utorrent , so i hear downloading through utorrent ensures the integrity of the file. I burnt the image on a DVD at 4x speed and did the media check. All is fine. But there is another screen saying test for additional media or something like that which has two options TEST and CONTINUE Continue gives an error and clicking on TEST gives a message saying checksum not found. what is wrong? The Documentation says the ISO is supposed to work... Are you using bittorrent from a Windows PC? There may be issues downloading ISO images larger than 2GB. Try the instructions here and see whether you can install directly from a fedora web site. http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/fedora-netinstall First download the Rescue CD, which smaller size that a full DVD ISO. Alternatively, download the CD ISO images directly from here: http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/ HTH, and enjoy using Fedora. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Help with network card issue
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Maurice Mines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I am a graduate student at the University of Northern Colorado in the Educational Technology Department and I recently purchased HP Pavilion Elite m9252p desktop computer and installed Fedora 9 in a second partition. My problem is that the realtek RTL8168c GB ethernet card is not being recognized even though a mod probe shows that the correct card is being recognized and several internet searches show that there are several drivers for the card available but none are in the rpm package format. Does anyone know if there are rpm packages available for this card and if not is there an alternative card type that I should switch this to to allow the fedora side of the machine to have access? If this card is completely unsupported what would someone recommend as a replacement for this card next year when the warranty expires? P.S. This card works just fine in Windows. See this for Ubuntu --maybe it'll help you.: http://www.jamesonwilliams.com/hardy-r8168.html ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Fedora makes bad pdf files?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Linux Using Friends: I've run into a trouble that Firefox users who print to file and create pdf output generate files that acroread cannot open. I'm running TB v2.0.015. I loaded a PDF add-on to print to pdf. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=PDF+Downloadcat=all However. I've found that Cups-pdf works perfectly well. BTW -there's a utility for Windows PC called Doro PDF -save lots of paper by converting any doc to pdf. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ssh2
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:04 AM, roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wonder why this person/hacker is still trying to login with root and other names. So he must have been unsuccessful the first time. Now root login is blocked and the root passwd is changed. From what you are saying I can understand that I should reinstall the server, even if he is not successfully login in again? If the root password is changed once again, then it's clear someone is mocking you. Just unplug that system already and reinstall. Upgrade to a more recent OS if you can. Go CentOS if Fedora is too hard for you. But more importantly learn about tcpwrappers and system security otherwise it does not matter what effort you put into this thing. You must learn on your own. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: ssh2
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was not clear enough, I did changed the password for root and I blocked remote root login. Now he is still trying to login with root, but unsuccessfully. So probably he did not finished his job. roland It was not clear to me whether you or the attacker had changed the root password. This guy's got your number and will keep coming. I would have pull the plug on that system long ago. There's nothing else really to do about this. I wish you luck with that system. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Command help?
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I am starting to do some more advanced automated maintenance on my system but can't find a nifty way to do something and was wondering if anyone out there can help me with this. I am configuring my system to do an automated backup of all my data (2 to 4 hours per week) but need it to do certain things to protect the process. For an unattended process, I need to know how to: 1. Force all users currently logged on to be logged off (preferably with at least a 5 minute notice). 2. Prevent anyone from logging on. 3. Prevent the system from being shut down or rebooted. 4. Shut down the X server (speeds up processing time considerably). 5. After finished to restart X server and allow shutdown and logins. If anyone knows any commands to do at least some of these, I would appreciate knowing how. The part about shutting down the X server is optional but would be nice but not allowing anyone to be logged in and preventing system shut down is necessary. Bradley My 0.02 cents. start by doing man on login, nologin, shutdown, killall etc... /etc/nologin -- prevents user logins shutdown -k Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages to everybody. killall -u, --user Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: FC8 repository
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Aaron Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the status of the FC8 repository ? I did an install and update a while ago just before the intrusion and am wondering if it is better to do a fresh reinstall ? Status http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg9.html Procedure https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key I did it recently without problems. The repo names look like this: fedora-updates-newkey.repo ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Command help?
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input but, unfortunately, this doesn't give the results that I need. I gave up and configured one of the run levels for doing the needed tasks and have the system reboot into that run level where it does what I need it to and then reboots the system back to the normal run level. Not a pretty arrangement but it seems to work. While in the special run level, it does not activate any unnecessary services (network, servers, Xserver, etc.) and does not allow any user logins. This turned out to be simpler and cleaner to set up than what I had previously considered. Bradley System maintenance is best done as you describe. It could be done without rebooting... but one needs to have some creativity to set up the process correctly. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: System Update already in progress
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to manually update the F9 system today and got the message back system update already in progress but the update seems to be stuck. Is there a way to clear this condition? Thanks. do you have some cron job to automatically run updates? the only yum process that should be running constantly is yum-updatesd for automatic updates notifications. how about using ps to find all yum running process and see what's going on? Just kill them. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Command help?
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of rebooting, you could use telinit to change the run level. It will stop/start services as necessary to match the configuration for that run level. Mikkel Actually, I tried that but for some reason telinit doesn't work correctly. It doesn't shut down or start everything it's suppose to when called up. I get no errors and I still don't know why. This is why I have to reboot. Bradley I have observed the same behavior with telinit. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: System Update already in progress
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That update started all by itself. Something in the auto-updates is screwed up then. Not really. The yum-updatesd is simply to let you know that there are updates available. That's what causes that pop up message to come up every now and then. System updates should not start by themselves as far as I know; unless you have an automated script. But then again, we're running Fedora. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: System Update already in progress
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 03:49:37PM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That update started all by itself. Something in the auto-updates is screwed up then. Not really. The yum-updatesd is simply to let you know that there are updates available. That's what causes that pop up message to come up every now and then. System updates should not start by themselves as far as I know; unless you have an automated script. But then again, we're running Fedora. ~af which brings up an off-topic question I have been wondering about: why does linux root use Bash instead of ksh (my favorite shell for the last 20 years :-) )? Is Bash superior to ksh? I have not changed the root shell from Bash to ksh for fear of breaking fedora scripts that depend upon Bash features. Thanks. From the regular user perspective the Bourne Shell is good enough, user friendly. From a power user perspective the Korn Shell is a handy programming tool. It's about syntax, performance, portability, etc... You can use if it you want. I suggest you open another thread since this is a whole other topic. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem of install tarball packages
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How to config the sudo, then allow user A to install tarball packages with FC8 System ? You use the 'visudo' command to edit the /etc/sudoers files. Don't edit that file directly. see this /etc/sudoers sample http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/sample.sudoers 'rpm' is just another command you add to the allowed commands. so for example a the CLI: sudo rpm -Uvh someRpm.rpm', ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Workspace Switcher problem in Fedora 9
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Dan Track [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just noticed that I can't increase the default number of workspaces in fedora 9. The only way to increase them is by adding rows, so where has the option to add workspace to the current row gone, and how do I get it back? Thanks Dan Just curious: are you using Gnome or KDE? Does the problem occurr with both desktop mgrs? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem of install tarball packages
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 01:10 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How to config the sudo, then allow user A to install tarball packages with FC8 System ? You use the 'visudo' command to edit the /etc/sudoers files. Don't edit that file directly. see this /etc/sudoers sample http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/sample.sudoers 'rpm' is just another command you add to the allowed commands. so for example a the CLI: sudo rpm -Uvh someRpm.rpm', ~af Hello Aldo, Sorry, my means is tarball packages ( NOT rpm packages )... users don't need superuser privileges to use tar at all UNLESS they are trying to 'untar' into spaces where only superuser can write, in which case, security is out the window. Craig You're correct. How did I mix rpm and tar? My coffee was not strong enough this morning.. ;-) ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem of install tarball packages
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry, My means is how to running the command line of ./configure, make and make install ? How to config sudo or / and linux system for it ? Thanks ! Edward. Google this howto compile source... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=323939 As suggested earlier to you, read the man pages for sudo and visudo. You'll benefit in the long run. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem in the ssh access
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have a problem in the ssh access to fedorapeople.org, i've uploaded my pub key on FAS, but when i try the access show this message: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host follow the ssh debug: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -v OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/dbruno/.ssh/config debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to fedorapeople.org [152.3.220.168] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/dbruno/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/dbruno/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/dbruno/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host anybody have any idea? Thanks, I'm not familiar with the fedorapeople site, so I'll just make some general comments. Normally you secure your system by restricting host access. You said you loaded your keys and from the output it appears that a connection was established and then closed. Have you ever been able to connect all the way? I noticed from your output that you did not enter a password... so you don't have to authenticate? The server may only allow a limited number of connections at any one time. Try another time and see what happens. If the error persists then ask the site admin to understand what exactly you're supposed to do. There a link at the bottom of the page where you can email the admin. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kde or gnome
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:16 AM, William Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know witch one is better kde or gnome ? The default is Gnome. You setup KDE by personal choice... nothing else. But you may not like the latest KDE release. Browse this archive and you'll read for yourself. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is FC8 System... So, if I want to modify the config of controller card, then I need to edit the following files ? /etc/sysconifg/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? /etc/modprobe.conf And what else other profile also need to be modified ? /etc/modprobe.conf has nothing to do with your network settings. First --- look here http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/ch-networkconfig.html Then --- As root launch /usr/sbin/system-config-network and configure your netcard, which by default is eth0. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem in the ssh access
I noticed from your output that you did not enter a password... so you don't have to authenticate? Ooops! of course you never had a chance to enter a password since the connection was terminated. Actually a more accurate question is: how are you supposed to authenticate? If the idea is to not enter a password, then not only you copy your public key to the sever, but you also copy the server's public key to your $HOME/.ssh. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kde or gnome
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you install from the KDE LiveCD, then you have KDE by default. You're correct. But how many new user will first grab a KDE LiveCD? ;-) ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Problem of install tarball packages
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried to install the tarball packages as the following : [EMAIL PROTECTED] proftpd-1.3.0a]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd ./configure: line 88: conf4161.sh: Permission denied ./configure: line 89: conf4161.sh: Permission denied chmod: cannot access `conf4161.sh': No such file or directory ./configure: line 201: conf4161.file: Permission denied ./configure: line 1266: config.log: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] proftpd-1.3.0a]$ So, how to fix the problem ( Permission denied ) ? Any solution for it ? Thanks ! Edward. What's with the chmod line? chmod: cannot access `conf4161.sh': No such file or directory What do the referenced lines in conf4161.sh say? Do a little detective work. Did you download the tarball as the user other than the one you're using to run config? Who owns the tarball and the directory where is doing its thing? The configure may need to create temporary files and use them. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kde or gnome
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 10:20 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you install from the KDE LiveCD, then you have KDE by default. You're correct. But how many new user will first grab a KDE LiveCD? ;-) Why wouldn't they? You get it from the same place. In fact it's the only kind of Live CD I ever download (both Fedora and Kubuntu). poc But then again _you know_ exactly what you're downloading and why. Normally the non-Initiated looks for something with the word 'install' in it and if they go to Fedora's site the first option they see is Install Media then at the bottom they see the KDE Live media. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kde or gnome
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But being more serious. Fedora uses Gnome by default, the documentation shows you how to use it with Gnome, much of the configuration uses Gnome tools, etc. The other window managers are *alternatives*. If you're starting out as a Linux newbie, and want an easier start, it's probably much easier to do so with Gnome. Then once you've got your footing, you can try out the alternatives. Gnome is better for a linux newbie. They don't know the difference between Desktop Managers (DM), but a Sys Admin does. If you install a new system and ask them: ...and what DM will you like to use today?, the response will be a blank face followed by a prolonged Huhhh. For what I read lately Gnome has Fire-And-Forget capabilities. So I'd just give them Gnome. I've tried and used several window managers. KDE is a time waster, Gnome just works. Some of the lighter weight ones don't work, without a big fight, with recent versions of Fedora (which seems to depend on Gnome or KDE triggering off a few things that says the current user of the console should have sound, should connect to a network, should mount an inserted disc, etc.). When you use some alternative window managers, you have to handle all of that yourself, manually. I started using Linux on text terminals... monochrome. Then one day I discovered graphical linux and started using Gnome, but I found it annoying that I had to open a new xterm for every other thing. I tried KDE and it gave me tabbed xterms, and that was it. I have used KDE for as long as I can remember and the only thing that it does not do is to say Hello Master... when I log into my system; could they add this feature? :-) I have concluded that the more you use the desktop features of a DM the more likely you'll get the point-and-click syndrome. For experienced users a GUI is an optional thing. Isn't the idea of a pretty DM aimed at giving Linux a nice appearance? It works well with new users. BTW - I used F8 and have not tried KDE 4.x yet. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just have the problem of Destination Host Unreachable from eth1 ( ping to other same network segment internal machine ) as the following setting : [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=no [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 IPADDR=192.168.0.254 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 ONBOOT=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# cat ../network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=svr1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# So, what is the problem of the current setting ? BTW, what different between modify ifcfg-eth? and running the tools of system-config-network ? The system-config-network is just a GUI to make it easier to configure the devices. What kind of network devices do you have? are they PCI cards or attached to the motherboard? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Why is Firefox such a beast?? -- New trouble
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:44 +, Beartooth wrote: I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines, and it's a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways; but the differences differ, too. The first thing they have in common is that it takes forever to launch -- when it does launch. The second is that it mostly doesn't. It will try, and the little blue dots will circle for a while, and the window list on the panel will show a mark for it -- for a while. Sometimes one or another window will flash up and disappear, usually too fast even to identify. [] I'm getting confused as between machines, which is which; but Firefox has come up with another little nasty trick on at least two of them : when it does launch, it does so in offline mode -- and then complains because it can't refresh various sites. Surely there has to be a setting somewhere for whether to launch in online or offline mode? I haven't seen it, much less changed it on purpose ... Is there an option like File-Work Offline checked in the browser? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just found a message for /var/log/messages : kernel : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 So, how to solve this problem ? In a previous reply you said: For 8139too driver, it is a network interface PCI card For r8169 driver, it is attached to the motherboard I have seen before that the OS will change the device if you have a PCI and a built-in NIC. If you unplug the PCI NIC, the built-in NIC becomes eth0. With the PCI NIC plugged in, the built-in NIC becomes eth1 and the PCI becomes eth0. Try unplugging the PCI NIC to check whether this is the case with your machine; take note of the MAC address with the ifconfig command to track which one is which. I have not understood why this happens though. Maybe someone can shed some light here. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Creating a common folder for all users
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the tips! How do I prevent someone from deleting /fileshare? Steve You could try using ACLs. Each user would have specific permissions. Each file and directory can have custom access. Do man setfacl. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just found a message for /var/log/messages : kernel : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 So, how to solve this problem ? In a previous reply you said: For 8139too driver, it is a network interface PCI card For r8169 driver, it is attached to the motherboard I have seen before that the OS will change the device if you have a PCI and a built-in NIC. If you unplug the PCI NIC, the built-in NIC becomes eth0. With the PCI NIC plugged in, the built-in NIC becomes eth1 and the PCI becomes eth0. Try unplugging the PCI NIC to check whether this is the case with your machine; take note of the MAC address with the ifconfig command to track which one is which. I have not understood why this happens though. Maybe someone can shed some light here. ~af Hello, Is this problem in FC8 System only ? So, have you tried to find doc though the net ? disclamer I have not done this and I don't know whether that is accurate. /disclaimer I did some reading. It appears that udev does the device switching. But if desired, the devices can be tied to a specific mac address. See this old thread --notice what they say about /etc/modprobe.conf. http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2005-September/msg00354.html Read this Debian related page: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm I don't now whether the problem is with F8 only. I haven't tried all the flavors. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number
The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the Bocks number. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l /dev/sdb Device Boot Start End BlocksId System /dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux /dev/sdb2128 203915358140 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 2040 2294 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb4 2295 972959721637+ 5 Extended I understand the meaning is that not all the blocks are included in the fdisk value. Is this meaningful at all when resizing/moving/copying a partition or creating a volume or raid disk? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I guess it would be more accurate to go by cylinders. But I'd have to convert the units to megabytes in order to get the partition size I want... ok. so just what it is that you are trying to do? get even partitions with out '+' or '-'? if so, please post *full* output from 'fdisk -l' and 'sfdisk -l'. it will be easier to help knowing how partitions are being seen. Yes the idea is to have a clean partition layout. In the initial email I sent I asked about the relevance of having the +/- in the partitions when it comes to resizing and manipulating volumes and raid disks. I'll follow up next Monday. I don't have the computer in front of me right now. thanks. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Newbie problems, sorry to trouble you
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Martin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear officers and Fedora users, I am a newbie to Fedora. I have just bought a HP Elitebook 6930p and I have just installed Fedora 9 on my new laptop. But Fedora cannot recognize both my network card and my wireless network card. There is another problem, I can see those icons for my Vista partitions(Dual boot) but I cannot access those partitions. I know I should first try to find documents in the archive but I tried and I cannot find since I am a newbie. I have just used Ubuntu for two months and now I want to try Fedora with my new laptop. Thank you very much.I really appreciate your helps Martin Start by finding out what kind of ethernet controller you have: lspci | grep Ethernet Is there a file named /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and does it have a flag ONBOOT=yes in it? for the wireless read some man pages: man iwconfig man wireless ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Newbie problems, sorry to trouble you
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Martin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear officers and Fedora users, I am a newbie to Fedora. I have just bought a HP Elitebook 6930p and I have just installed Fedora 9 on my new laptop. But Fedora cannot recognize both my network card and my wireless network card. There is another problem, I can see those icons for my Vista partitions(Dual boot) but I cannot access those partitions. I know I should first try to find documents in the archive but I tried and I cannot find since I am a newbie. I have just used Ubuntu for two months and now I want to try Fedora with my new laptop. Thank you very much.I really appreciate your helps Martin On another note: You'll get more help if you use a more descriptive subject line in your emails. At the bottom of every email you see this: Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Have a look at it. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: SSH Access Issues
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I have several F8 and F9 boxes in an internal network. I can ssh between them all happily as root, but not as individual other users. After prompting me for a password, it says: Permission denied. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have the lines: PasswordAuthentication yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no UsePAM yes X11Forwarding yes but I can't seem to move forward. Any ideas? Jonathan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines I'll follow up on a previous post regarding file permissions. If your sshd_config has a line that says StrictModes=yes, then the file permissions are checked. $HOME/.ssh should be perms 700. chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh Files inside the above dir should be perms 600. chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/* the permissions need to be applied to every user's $HOME/.ssh. and of course the user should be the owner of his own .ssh dir and its contents. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Fedora 9 on an IA64 workstation. When I ssh -X to another host, the ssh authentication succeeds in under a second, but the X11 authentication takes about 20 seconds and issues the warning: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Not sure whether this will help, but it's worth a try: Find out the hard coded path of the xauth binary in the sshd executable. strings `which sshd` | grep xauth the above command should show a line like /usr/bin/xauth, take note of whatever path you see. Add a line to your /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth. Restart sshd and see what happens. HTH, ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:31 +, Beartooth wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:23:32 -0400, Jim wrote: I installed FC-10 Beta i386 or i686 on my eeePC 702, and all hardware works great. Just to toot the horns of some of the people I work with (and certainly not my own, since I had nothing whatsoever to do with the matter), a few of the Fedora hackers inside Red Hat actually did quite a bit of kernel work upstream to get Linux kernel driver support for these units. I don't know if they have 100% coverage for all the eeePCs but it's certainly a lot farther along than it would have been otherwise. That's great to know. I've been thinking of getting one of those eeePCs for myself. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Installing software on standalone server
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Fred Zinsli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an FC4 server that is stand alone (lab environement) How can I configure yum to look at the CDROM drive when I want to install new applications? All I am seeking to do is to install other packages that are on the install CDs and I require their respective dependencies to be installed as well. There is no means for me to be able to connect the server to the internet to achieve this. Yes I know FC4 support is dead, but I can't install FC9 on this server as it seems the hardware support for this sertver has been removed. Regards Fred Here's another suggestion if you have Pirut installed. Insert the CD and if it does not mount automatically then loop mount it. Launch Pirut, click on Edit-Repositories Click Add and in the Location textbox enter the cdrom pathname; like file:///mnt/cdrom. (use df -h) Type something for the description. Disable all other repositories listed except the one just added. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Kate's terminal emulator freezes up
Kate's embedded terminal is helpful when writing programs. It works well as long as it's located at the Lower Sidebar. The terminal freezes up if it's moved to the left, right or upper sidebar. Is this a Kate bug? I'm running Fedora 8. Does this happen in the more recent Fedora releases? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: Kate's embedded terminal is helpful when writing programs. It works well as long as it's located at the Lower Sidebar. The terminal freezes up if it's moved to the left, right or upper sidebar. Can you give me steps to follow to reproduce this? (In particular, I'm not sure how to move the terminal from the bottom). If it's reproducible, then we can worry about filing bugs. -- Rex Rex, I tried these steps, which reproduce the problem every time. A note that may or may not be relevant: I use a KVM switch and my mouse and keyboard are attached to it. I'm running this kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 -- Launch Kate to edit Start typing a perl program and save it --Open the Terminal On the Bottom Sidebar click on the icon labeled Terminal The terminal opens in the lower pane. Type commands to change perms and run the program $ chmod 750 myprog $ ./myprog --Go back and edit the program some more, then go back to the terminal to run the program. Everything is fine so far. All the above works well as long as the terminal remains at the lower position. --Move the Terminal Right-click on the Terminal icon on the lower sidebar and select Left Sidebar to place the terminal on the left side. At this point the cursor may or may not become a little white box. If the cursor became a white box, then nothing else can be typed in. The only way to get the terminal back to work is to close it by _left-clicking_ on the Terminal icon, which is now on the left side. Then click on the icon again to open it. At this point you'll be able to enter commands for as long as you stay on the terminal. The terminal is disabled as soon as you click on the editing pane on the right to continue typing your program. . At this point the terminal may not work at all and it may be necessary to exit Kate and relaunch it. By default Kate will open the Terminal at the Bottom Sidebar. Let me know your results. Thanks. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: --Move the Terminal Right-click on the Terminal icon on the lower sidebar and select Left Sidebar to place the terminal on the left side. At this point the cursor may or may not become a little if cursor place indicator is *inactive*, 'little white box', click terminal window to reactivate. I did tried that, but no dice; the cursor becomes completely inactive. I have a wide aspect ratio display and having the terminal and the editor side by side is extremely convenient. This is especially true when running programs that produce long output or when you have much to debug. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: snip I did tried that, but no dice; the cursor becomes completely inactive. what do you mean by 'completely inactive'? It means I cannot type anything at the prompt. when 'terminal emulators' on my systems become 'inactive', by changing to a different window, or as in your case, changing from 'terminal emulator' to kate editor, cursor in 'terminal emulator' changes from black to white. clicking in 'terminal emulator' window changes cursor from white to black and keyboard entry continues. As I said, it works well when the terminal is at the bottom, but it fails when the terminal is on left, right or upper position. I have a wide aspect ratio display and having the terminal and the editor i understand how and why you are using kate with a 'terminal emulator'. if you are having 'terminal emulator' cursor lock up, then only other suggestion would be to open a regular terminal along side kate. i understand this is not as convent, but at least you will still have ability to edit a program, save it and then run it. i have debugged programs this way from when i first started using x windows under unix and still do so under linux. I know. I have done what you describe for the longest time. But this time I wanted to use the convenience of having everything in a single interface. I believe that's what Kate is all about. For now I have a left pane where I can browse for files and click on them to open for editing, I have an upper pane where I edit and a lower pane where I run the program. maybe some one else has had same problem as you and can offer some help much luck. Thanks. That what I was hoping for. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Kate's terminal emulator freezes up
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 as parting thoughts, go thru 'configure kate' to see just what is set. I'm not in front of my F8 system now, but I'm looking at a CentOS.52 build at this moment. Well, when you right-click on the terminal you can adjust the look-and-feel settings. One thing that jumps out is the Keyboard setting which can be made to be set to one of Xterm, vt100 or linux console. The same menu gives you the option to set Kate's terminal to be the same as your regular desktop terminal settings by clicking on the Use Konsole's settings option. The Kate manual points out that Kate is just a copy of the KDE Konsole terminal application I'll try to changing the keyboard setting on my F8 system next monday. BTW -the CentOS.52 system has no problems whatsoever with the Kate terminal. 'r r'. use yum to remove and replace. you may have a squirreled install. you never know until you try... I did look into the possibility of replacing the package but it's not an independent component. Kate is a part of the K Desktop Environment core files (kdebase.i386). I'm not sure I want to mess with the core files and brake something in an otherwise stable system. I appreciate your time, thanks for all the suggestions g. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fdisk and labels
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:01:30 -0700, gary artim wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somewhere along the line I saw a small script that provides a display of
label information as a part of fdisk -l results. My searches have
proved
fruitless. Anyone recall such a script?
do you mean /sbin/e2label /dev/yourdevname
or /sbin/blkid
Both are not part of fdisk -l results, though. ;)
What I mean is this:
When I fdisk -l I get:
/dev/sdb1 1 338 2714953+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2 * 339556041945715 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 5561 1208752428127+ 83 Linux
There's a crafty little script running around somewhere that gives you the
fdisk readout plus the partition labels when you run it:
/dev/sdb1 1 338 2714953+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2 * 339556041945715 83 LinuxFedora9-32
/dev/sdb3 5561 1208752428127+ 83 Linux Fedora9-64
I think someone provided this in the web forum but I've been unable to
locate it.
Trapper
The mount -l command gives you all the info you want, not in nice format.
The next command is just one way of doing it:
mount -l | grep dev | egrep -v 'tmpfs|pts' | awk '{print $1\t $3\t $5\t
$6\t $7}'
the output gives you the device name, mount point, fs type, mount
options and filesystem label if it exists.
To label a partition use e2label /dev/sdaX myLabel.
The e2label man page has more info.
~af
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Re: How to install Fedora 9 without DVD drive (but I have usb)
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Vijay Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been trying to find a way to install fedora 9 without a DVD drive but all of the existing solutions seem to be for upto Fedora 8 only. I am running my server on FC6 and would like to upgrade to Fedora 9 which must be pretty stable by now. I have usb ports available that machine and it can boot from usb. Regards Vijay From the F9 documentation. Happy reading. Instructions to make a bootable usb media. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html See this for alternate installation methods http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-other-install-methods.html The link Installation from a hard drive may be what you need. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: MYSQL setup
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:35 PM, woodson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B. mysqladmin -u root password 'newpassword' which yields the same error. I've searched tirlessly to resolve this on my own but everything I read says this only happens if you have set a password for root which I haven't done. Any help would be greatly appreciated..Thanks You'll benefit from this http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ search the web for ERROR 1045 (28000) You'll get plenty of hits. Look harder. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: MYSQL setup
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Fred Zinsli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may also want to check out this article http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html In particular, don't forget to FLUSH PRIVILEGES; ~af . -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] msbsos password recovery
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Implied in all of this is a lesson to us in large and small companies that access and pass words and keys need to be well managed. If you have not placed a sealed envelope with pass words and keys in your managers locked resource perhaps you should. Such things need to be covered by policy and process. Some companies shoot themselves on the foot when they require that user password be changed very frequently; every 60 or 90 days. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
