/etc/init.d files under Fedora 16

Hello all, Last time I used Fedore was awhile ago. I decided to come back to it now, installed Fedora 16 and discovered the following: there are very few scripts under /etc/init.d And, also, I got my sshd installed but there is no /etc/init.d/sshd Why would that be? How do I configure my system

Re: /etc/init.d files under Fedora 16

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:07 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Last time I used Fedore was awhile ago. I decided to come back to it now, installed Fedora 16 and discovered the following

NIC interface names

Hello listmates, I recently installed Fedora 16 as a guest VM under VirtualBox and instead of the usual eth0/eth1 etc. names I got the following: [root@ipa-test0 ~]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128

Re: NIC interface names

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.comwrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance of them is? It was a Fedora 15 Feature. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

Re: NIC interface names

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.comwrote: Boris Epstein wrote: However, the question is: I've got another Fedora 16 / 32 bit machine installed under VirtualBox, and it has your regular eth0. How could that be? Is your VM originally F16 or was it upgraded

Re: ext4lazyinit?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I just reformatted a new 1TB USB 3.0 backup drive to ext4, mounted it, and I'm watching constant disk writes on my gkrellm display. I assume this is due to the ext4lazyinit process which showed up when I mounted the

Re: ext4lazyinit?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:26:42 -0500 Boris Epstein wrote: I would estimate the init would take 1-2 hours. Yep. I think it took about 1 1/2 hours for the disk activity to die down. -- I am sorry - I mistyped up

Re: Advice from filesystems expert needed.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, luis redondo luis.redond...@hotmail.comwrote: I have tried to put in /etc/fstab the following entry for a SDHC card: /dev/mmcblk0/media/C589-D18A vfat umask=000 0 0 but Ubuntu when boots tells me that the device is not ready to mount and I

Re: PDF viewer with 'postits'

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: I am looking for a PDF viewer that will allow me to maintain 'postits' so I can go through multiple points in reading a document. In particular, when I am reading an 802 standard pdf, I am bouncing back and forth

Re: root password

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530, Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility of retrieving it? It's normally easier to boot into single user

Re: Apple Mac can't access NFS -

Hello there, What version of OSX are you running? Macs are very bad with NFS - and under different versions you configure it drastically differently. Boris. On Jun 5, 2013 12:07 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: Our LAN has a mix of Linux and OSX computers

Re: /sbin/shutdown -r +5 doesn't work since recent systemd upgrade

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@gmail.com wrote: # uname -r 2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64 First there was an upgrade: Feb 12 05:09:27 s3 yum[14291]: Updated: systemd-units-26-16.fc15.x86_64 Feb 12 05:09:43 s3 systemd[1]: Reexecuting. Feb 12 05:09:44 s3 systemd[1]:

Re: yum remove selinux*

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Tommy Pham wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want/use selinux. Any reason I shouldn't just do: yum remove selinux* ? IIRC, selinux is part of the

Re: SSHD failing on restart

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Andrew Gray andr...@linnetsol.co.uk wrote: Hi the sshd.service is enabled and is shown starting at the bottom of boot.log but secure show it failing to bind to the PC IP address ! [^[[1;32m OK ^[[0m] Started OpenSSH server daemon. [^[[1;32m OK ^[[0m]

Re: Help needed for NFS behind a firewall on F17

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jouk Jansen jo...@hrem.nano.tudelft.nlwrote: Hi all, I'm running a NFS-server on a F17 system. Normally I set it to use fixed ports by inserting (as the system-config-nfs tool does) the following lines in /etc/sysconf/nfs : LOCKD_TCPPORT=4000

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

Wow, this is weird... Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. Boris. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Paolo Galtieri pgalti...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, here's my situation and am wondering if

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Paolo Galtieri pgalti...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.comwrote: Wow, this is weird... Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the problem but I can't think of anything

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

Paolo, We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, you are right. Boris. Boris, the DVD isn't defective since it's what I used to install F16 on the hard disk. I'm starting to believe I have another defective

Re: Perl programming related question.

Lazaro, I don't remember all the details of how you'd do it but I believe you can use the split() function to split the string and then find the last member of the resulting array. Good luck! Boris. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Lázaro Morales laz...@frioclima.com.cuwrote: Hello folks,

Re: SFLPhone / Mic

Vlad, Is there any way to switch the input there to PulseAudio? I'd look in that direction. Try to see if you could dothat in your sound controls. Good luck. Boris. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Pal, Laszlo (private) v...@vlad.hu wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use SFLPhone as IAX softphone

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

What hardware do you have in your machine? I've seen some NIC's with bad firmware that lose their MAC address assignment. Boris. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Randy Wyatt rwwyat...@gmail.com wrote: I am running a fully patched Fedora 21 system. We are trying to give it a long term

Re: bash/regex question..

Good points. I wonder if it wouldn't be best to do it all in awk. Saves CPU cycles and complexity, IMHO. Cheers, Boris. On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/12/2016 04:37 PM, bruce wrote: > >> awk -F': ' '{print $2}' | tail -1 | sed

Re: Anacron mail -

Have you considered installing something like IMAP on that machine to make mail more convenient to read? Boris. On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I have been using Linux for a long time and have yet to see a cron/anacron > mail message. > > In

Re: How to mount an LVM2 volume in Fedora Linux.

Wouldn't it be /dev/vg_maq01/lv_home that you want to mount to read files out of your home directory? Boris. On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas < aa.luce...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi friends, > > Anybody helps? > > Runnning old "Fedora 20-x86_64", and want to install >