why you don't create a private fedora mirror ?
Wouldn't he need to download a lot of packages that his machines
won't be using?
Yes, that's why I didn't want to set up mirrors (I would have to mirror
fedora, updates, rpmfusion, i686, x86_64, etc, etc...)
Adding the proxy line to yum.conf
Could someone point me to a good tutorial about how to configure squid
and yum optimally, so squid will act as a cache for yum?
Adding the proxy line to yum.conf is obvious, as is enlarging the
cache object sizes, but are subtler changes needed? For instance, does
the use of mirror lists
I have some HP inkjets. Sometimes they'll run low on ink, and cups will
disable the printer. After replacing the cartridges, you need root
access to re-enable the printers in system-config-printers.
How can I avoid the need for root access? Is there a printer enable
thyself option?
- Mike
On 11/13/2009 10:26 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
What version of Fedora is that on? That sounds like it might be an
HPLIP problem.
It's an up-to-date F11.
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On 11/13/2009 11:05 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
Perhaps you could file a bug report and include
the /var/log/cups/error_log* files you have? That would help me track
down why the printer became disabled.
OK:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537443
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Use gconf-editor to set:
/desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age
in days
/desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_size
in MB
Also, the paranoid will be pleased to know that you can set these values
to 0, in which case the cache will be cleared upon logout.
Setting them to -1 disables
I use the excellent tool bleachbit (http://bleachbit.sourceforget.net)
(rpms are provided) which frees you from many temp/auxiliary files
Ughh, that's not the right URL. That's a spamming pop-up nightmare.
You probably meant: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
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On 10/28/2009 01:47 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:39:01 -0400,
Todd Zullingert...@pobox.com wrote:
When disk costs fractions of pennies, is that amount of space even a
concern? I've had my thumbnails dir grow over several GB before,
after moving my photos to new
On 10/16/2009 10:35 AM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, William Case wrote:
I want a encrypted, password protected, container/file into which I
can store things like some personal data, site passwords, and bank
account numbers and passwords.
I use revelation for storing
On 10/08/2009 08:10 PM, Aldo Foot wrote:
Why miss the real fun? Try Clonezilla; it can image a drive inside of 20min.
But it can not image to a smaller drive, alas.
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On 10/09/2009 02:55 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
Paul wrote:
If you have adequate security, your ISP should have no better access to
your system/data than any other nefarious twerp on de intertubes. Actually
even if you don't have security, your ISP has no better (or worse) access
than the
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot,
swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard
drive, if the new drive is smaller?
If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward
way.
However, I want to try
I would think you would need to do a lvreduce and possibly a vgreduce to
get the data portion of the drive under 80GB. From there I think a 'dd'
would work just fine.
With a resize2fs first, I guess...
Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!
It looks like a minefield, so I'm going
On 10/07/2009 01:33 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
HOW TO SET UP A FIREWALL THAT ALLOWS NFS
Create the file /etc/sysconfig/nfs and add the following contents:
STATD_PORT=4001
LOCKD_TCPPORT=4002
LOCKD_UDPPORT=4002
MOUNTD_PORT=4003
Frank,
Slightly off-topic: you might want to look at migrating to
On 08/19/2009 10:47 AM, Chris Bredesen wrote:
List,
IMAP IDLE seems to have quit working for me in beta 3. It's either not
working or it stops working after a very short duration. Anyone else
seeing strange behavior with IMAP servers?
I have a setup where several users watch the same IMAP
On 07/16/2009 09:58 AM, Tim wrote:
Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups.
I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries
uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather
than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD
Thank you, that worked perfectly !!!
I wondered if this was a selinux problem. This represents a change from
previous versions. Can you give me references to reading material on
this.
All you really need to know is that selinux relies on file labeling. You
can see how your files are labeled
On 06/30/2009 09:41 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
This may be a little off topic so please forgive me.
I purchased a Security Camera in order to do some experiments. I have a
WCS-2060 IP CamSecure made bywww.level1.com. I am suspicious that os
of the camera is linux based, but there software is
On 06/29/2009 02:07 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I have/root/.ssh/authorized_keys containing the *.pub keys of the
remote unites, but fc11 is not using this to authenticate.
Has anyone else had this problem?
If you copy files into ~/.ssh, run this afterwards:
restorecon -r ~/.ssh
to fix the
On 06/18/2009 12:30 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
It displays fine when reading the message. the text after -- is a
signature, and it's displayed in gray (which is correct). But when I hit
Reply, the quoted text only goes up to the -- and doesn't quote
anything below. In particular, the earlier
Adeel Akbar wrote:
Hi,
Is there any Image viewer software that have at least some of the
features of a software like Acdsee for Fedora Core 10
gThumb is similar to the older versions of ACDSee.
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I would like to see moserial added.
moserial is a clean, friendly gtk-based serial terminal for the gnome
desktop. I use it daily for hardware hacking.
http://live.gnome.org/moserial
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/moserial/2.26/
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/moserial
It is written in
Claude Jones wrote:
I know there are a number of Redhat/Centos/and even Fedora specialized
distributions out there that are packaged for server use. Can any one
recommend any that they've used? We have an aging mail server, Debian
based, that is failing and need to replace quickly. GUI based
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
and it occurs to me to ask whether anyone would want to get
*seriously* into virtualization without having machines with those
extensions.
No.
is it safe to say that, by now, most modern systems come with VT or
AMD-V support? and by serious virtualization, i don't
Neal Becker wrote:
How can I enable automatic updates on a F10 box without having a desktop
login (that is, I have ssh access)?
One way: put yum -y upgrade in crontab.
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Most new machines now have the virtualization flags. It's always
worth checking before you buy, though.
i do recall reading somewhere that, yes, you have to be careful to
check that the system not only has the virt extension but that it's
*turned on*. i can't recall
Hi all,
I have a bunch of HP DC7700, DC7800, and DC7900 computers running F10.
The DC7700s are having trouble - they keep freezing up. The hard disk
seems to go to constant activity, and everything else freezes up. Mouse
movement works for a while (but clicks are ineffective), but then it too
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
...
This started a few weeks ago. The DC7800s and DC7900s are fine, which
suggests some weird hardware-specific kernel issue with the older DC7700s.
Does booting the old kernel help?
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll try that after some BIOS
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Hi all,
I have a bunch of HP DC7700, DC7800, and DC7900 computers running F10.
The DC7700s are having trouble - they keep freezing up.
Hmm, it seems that people have been reporting this problem for years,
regardless of OS:
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com
Frank Cox wrote:
It looks like the machine can see the second drive and the lvm that's on it
/dev/sdb2, but it has the same VolGroup name as /dev/sda2.
Yes, this is common and annoying. Here is the guide that I followed when
it happened to me:
fred smith wrote:
Trying to install the latest Citrix client (downloaded from Citrix) and it
insists on libXm.so.4. I have only libxm.so.2.
The citrix web page says it requires OpenMOTIF 2.3.1 or later. I see
Fedora isn't distributinig OpenMOTIF, but instead lesstif, which seems to
have only
Is there some reason why rawhide's ypbind should fail to bind, if I have
nsswitch.conf =
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
other stuff snipped
This worked fine on F10, and it works OK if I downgrade to the F10
ypbind rawhide. But with the rawhide version, the
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Stick with the motherboard's onboard Intel graphics. Supports 3D and works
great on the modern desktop. No proprietary drivers required. Just install
system and go!
Unless you have one of the new systems like the HP DC7900, which has
Intel graphics and a
2. I always was under the impression that gnome especially was a
democracy but it turns out it's under dictatorship and then call it:
Meritocracy with a dictator like taste.
No, gnome is not a democracy at all, and does not claim to be. The
individual module maintainers basically have total
Hi all,
The libvirtd autostart VM option seems to be broken [1,2], so I need a
work-around.
How can I start the libvirtd service, and then (after the service has
fully started) start a particular VM from the command line? (I can do
this from the gui of course, but I want to stick it in a
Robert Locke wrote:
fully started) start a particular VM from the command line? (I can do
this from the gui of course, but I want to stick it in a script).
Try the command line utility, virsh, as in virsh start domainname
Exactly what I needed! Thanks!
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I have an oscilloscope with a 19200 bps serial port on it. It works fine
with my old Windows 2000 computer.
But it will not work with the on-board serial port on my shiny new HP
DC7900 with Fedora 10! 19200 bps is too fast, and the data is always
(slightly) corrupted, regardless of what sort
I want to get my HP lp2475w monitor to work with the DisplayPort
interface on my DC7900.
Nothing seems to work at all... this is what xorg reports (with no
xorg.conf file):
X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux
Has anyone installed F10-x86_64 on the new HP DC7900? Did you need any
special kernel flags to make it work?
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Is it possible to run a 32 bit Python on a 64 bit Fedora? Or have both
32 and 64 bit version co-existing?
I would really rather not, but I have hardware that only provides 32 bit
userland libraries (but with a 64 bit kernel driver). Which is weird...
(Specifically, I'm trying to access a
Can someone recommend a good, in-production, hassle-free cordless mouse
with a middle-clickable scroll wheel?
I would rather not mess with xorg.conf, and I can't seem to get the
Logitech MX Revolution to just work (i.e. middle click doesn't work).
My older MX Lasers work great, but they
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: cannot open current directory: Permission denied
Looks like a permission problem of cron.daily
No, that's not it. It's failing at this line of source code:
here = open(., O_RDONLY);
Why wouldn't
I have a bunch of machines that are not happy about running logrotate
daily. I get these error emails:
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: cannot open current directory: Permission denied
Does anyone know what would cause this?
- Mike
Richard Shaw wrote:
I just logged into my F9 laptop after some recent updates I got an error
Error Starting Gnome Settings Daemon. Relogging nor rebooting helped.
I tried moving my .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2 directories and letting gnome
recreate them but it didn't help.
I searched the web but
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
HELP!
On October 2, 10:00 we had a power outage (I turned my PC on at 17:00).
Since then, my Fedora9 is rebooting approx every hour and 19 seconds.
I have had a few power-failure-related problems lately. They were fixed
by re-installing the filesystem rpm,
Hi all,
I thought that recent remote (nis) users were supposed to show up in the
gdm chooser, based on:
http://markmail.org/message/7orafrekd2jkavct
but it doesn't happen for me on current F9 installs. Is there some trick
to it?
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Anyone know what could cause this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ck-list-sessions
** (ck-list-sessions:4001): WARNING **: Failed to get list of seats:
Failed to execute program /lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
I see lots of references that F9 supports a encrypted filesystems
natively and I recall that the installer even offered to set up
encryption for me. The question is, how does one set up encryption
later on? I can't find any recent documentation. Google has
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
2008/9/25 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been using virtualbox, and it's pretty nice. I'm wondering if any of the
more open virtualization efforts have progressed to the point that I'd want to
try replacing virtualbox. What I'm interested in is:
1) Able to run
I have F9 x86_64, which I installed from a revisor iso.
When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb
port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under
Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear).
I suspect I'm missing
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb
port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under
Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear).
Some follow-up: running gnome-mount -v -d /dev/sr0
rpm -qa | xargs yumdownloader
rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm
For the curious, this did in fact restore my system. I also ran
touch /.autorelabel
touch /.autofsck
just in case.
Thanks for the suggestions!
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One of my F9 systems experienced a utility power failure, and now
non-root users can't log in. Googling based on the errors suggests that
some critical library file has probably become corrupted. Could be
anything, really.
In cases like this I usually do
rpm -qa | xargs
Todd Denniston wrote:
Might have been useful to see the actual error message(s).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su - mjc
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/mjc: Permission denied
su: /bin/bash: Permission denied
The same thing happens to all users, except root. Something is badly
broken in
Craig White wrote:
The same thing happens to all users, except root. Something is badly
broken in the login process. X does not start, and text console logins
also fail.
is it possible that /home is mounted as read-only or not mounted at all?
No, /home is not a separate mount - it is
MKas wrote:
Hello,
I have F9. I installed flash plugin from adobe yum distro. But there's no sound when I
run youtube or some page like that.
Maybe someone knows where can be a problem?
yum install libflashsupport
would be my guess.
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Can somebody point me to the correct method of configuring kvm
virtualization so that the guest OS (Windows XP in my case) appears as a
simple IP address on the host LAN (participating in local subnet
broadcasts, etc)?
I have kvm running now in the default mode, which implements NAT / DHCP.
Try this:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332781#c17
- Mike
Dan Steele wrote:
Hello
When I got it to recognize the sound card a lot of update came
through and now when I try to test the sound card it comes back with
this message.
audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 !
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
Hello Mike,
The DC 7700 has an onboard Realtek ALC262 soundcard, probably bridged
through an Intel ICH9 chipset. You could try installing the latest Alsa
drivers (1.0.17) and check the documentation that comes with these
drivers for any modprobe options.
Hmm...
I suspect that the intel driver has a bug.
... and switching to an ATI 2600PRO card and using the radeonhd driver
seems to have fixed the problem.
So I'd say the intel driver has a bug.
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If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability.
Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets
Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't
working at a different resolution than the desktop...
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:08 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability.
Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets
Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Does the X server have to be restarted for every login?
I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in
the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be a
problem on systems that run continuously.
There was a time when it
Hi all,
I have an HP DC7700 with an ADD2/DVI card driving a 1600x1200 NEC
Multisync monitor, using the stock Fedora 9 intel driver.
Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen
goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X will
not run properly
Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen
goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X
By any chance is your keyboard (or mouse) connected in some interesting
way? Like wireless, through KVM switch, USB, or anything else other than
PS/2
Mine occasionally change to reading the other inputs, if you have
input selection you might try that. Or just another monitor, to see if
the monitor is in any way the culprit.
No, it's not that... the screen is blue, but if I move the mouse, I can
see the gdm login dialog flicker by and
Does anyone have sound working on an HP DC7800 (x86-64)?
If so, was any modprobe trickery needed?
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Do you see anything wrong here?
No. It has always worked for me. F9 x86_64 fully updated
(whatever this means these days :-) ).
Check:
Is sound disabled in bios (if this is possible)?
Does it work if you log in as a different user? As root?
Hmm, the error messages go away if I'm logged in
Hi all,
I have a multiple HP DC7700s with integrated Intel ethernet adapters.
They work when the network cable is plugged into a 10/100 port on a
switch. They do not work when plugged into a 10/100/1000 port. I also
have DC7700s with integrated Broadcom chips (tg3 driver) and they work fine.
Craig White wrote:
I suppose that you could up the log level of samba to get more useful
logs but then you'd have to go through the logs to figure it out.
Did that, and ... drum roll ... found the problem!
Current samba releases disable lanman authentication by default. And
they quietly
Bassel Safadi wrote:
What magic is needed to make the openoffice-base program recognize
the postgresql-jdbc driver?
Just googled your question and found this step by step tutorial:
Hi all,
What magic is needed to make the openoffice-base program recognize the
postgresql-jdbc driver?
I want to use oo-base to access a pgsql database. The pgsql sdbc driver
for oo-base has some bugs, so I'd like to use the jdbc driver.
Does oo only work with Sun java? Or is OpenJDK OK?
A Windows 98 machine of mine can not access samba shares after the samba
server was upgraded to F9. It worked OK before the upgrade.
The samba logs say:
[2008/06/20 13:45:23, 0] lib/util_sock.c:matchname(1670)
matchname: host name/address mismatch: :::192.168.0.93 !=
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