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Callback and RAS
by Robert Krawczyk 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hi I have a WIN2K RAS Server at work with callback enabled. So when I make a connection to my work with my WinXP workstation, the RAS server recognises me and gives me an oppurtunity to be called back. And then the line is hung up and the RAS Server calls my workstation. But when i use PPP connection from my Fedora linux workstation connection is establish but without opportunity to be call back. What and how should i configure? any links, faq? Regards Robert

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KISS firewall + iptables
by Jaider Viola - Deltaned 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Hi, I try to install on my fedora core 2 server a KISS firewall. The firewall is installed without any problem but when I try to start the kiss firewall I get the follow: Since the ip_tables, ipt_state, and/or ipt_multiport modules do not exist, KISS can not function. Firewall script aborted! I do: chkconfig --list | grep -E "iptables|ipchains" and get the follow output: iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Somebody have tips to get KISS working to secure my web machine? Thanks Jaider

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HTML encoding
by Sulyok Peti 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Does anybody know why are the generated HTML pages encoded to ISO-8859-1? I think UTF-8 would be better, because it is the default encoding in Fedora and GNOME2. Is it possible to change this setting without hacking xmlto? Peti

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Schedule/priorities
by Paul W. Frields 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Karsten, Since Tammy is currently out, would you like to step in and talk about projects that are either partly completed or need to be started, and in what order we might want to tackle them? We have a solid albeit small crew who, it seems, would probably like to start on some "real" FC documentation. (At least I hope so... the list has been rather quiet of late.) I would guess that a big part of that would be making some decisions on tutorials that are badly needed, rather than waiting for someone to walk in and suggest them. Some of my suggestions: - Installation guide? What's the status currently? Need help? - Setting up a local mirror for FTP/HTTP/NFS installation and system-intall-packages (yes, much of the former is in the anaconda docs, but it needs a more newbie-friendly home) - Setting up said mirror for provision of updates through up2date (as opposed to the manual yum/apt stuff) - General documentation of binutils and other command-line stuff for the masses (Done already in official RH docs, but we need new, clean-room versions for GFDL) Maybe my "targeting system" is a little off here. My interest lies in making Fedora Core accessible to Joe Newbie, while other people here might be particularly averse to that line of thinking. Back when I used Red Hat Linux, I always pointed people to the official Red Hat guides, because they were darn good, solid docs. They taught one to take advantage of the many nice ease-of-use facilities available in the distro, while still encouraging digging underneath if one were so inclined. I want people starting to use Fedora Core to have some of the same advantages I feel I had using Red Hat Linux, without having to resort to forking out a lot of cash to get a book that in large part goes over the same type of material. If anyone thinks I am way off base, say so. (You can't scare me, I'm a parent!) :-D -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE

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Elements of Style and the documentation-guide
by Paul W. Frields 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

After spending the last several days doing markup on a syntactically and grammatically, er, "challenged" tutorial, I found myself in need of the solace of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," if only to remind myself that good writing does indeed exist outside my imagination. I noticed during my Web search that EoS was released some years ago into the public domain, and can be found in a variety of formats, although DocBook XML was not one of these as far as I can tell. I realize that "public domain" != "FDL," and therefore am wondering if anyone out there has sufficient expertise to address the extent to which EoS might be included in the documentation-guide. It would be a handy reference for contributors, so they might acquaint themselves with the way to write concisely before beginning a tutorial from scratch. It also would help editors (myself included) to make the right changes when presented with documentation that has been tortured and abused before a handoff. :-) In addition, or as an alternative, to EoS, perhaps there should be some guidelines that have been useful to the Red Hat staff in preparing their official RHL and RHEL documentation over the years. I have found those guides consistently clear, concise, and informative, and I would hope that FDP products would be of similar quality. By comparison, a lot of the documentation on the Web is poorly written, and often lapses into informalities, colloquialism, unhelpful jargon, and vague generalities. On the other hand, in many cases those materials will form the basis for future FDP work, so FDP content guidelines might be very useful as time goes on. (In the event that EoS can be included in the documentation-guide, I will volunteer to do markup, since I brought up the issue. I doubt it will be very difficult in any case, given that it's dominated by non-technical matter.) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE

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Tomcat
by Dave Pawson 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Prowling around, I found: http://cymulacrum.net/writings/tomcat5/book1.html Very well written IMHO, and up to date. I should be getting the docbook source soon. I'll forward it to .... Tammy, hey come back we miss you :-) Karsten? Do you have CVS rights? regards DaveP

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documentation request?
by Dave Pawson 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

Unsure even asking about this one. Tomcat is an apache project, sort of a browser on steroids. They've recently gone from 4.x to 5.0x, and the documentation has gone from fair to downright ..... poor. I've just spent two days trying to figure it out. Hoping there might be someone willing to help me throw a minimum document set together? Except.... tomcat isn't part of the Fedora core distro. Comments anyone? regards DaveP

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doesn't reboot
by Christiaan Bos 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Hello, I have installed Fedora Core 2 on a Compaq Proliant 1600. But it doesn't reboot. It stop sometimes by unmounting filesystem and sometimes it gives many bad character. and I must it reboot with the power button. As it have booted, it is a stable system. only I wanted it to reboot from my other computers. When i do it install, it don't go with the rest sometimes, and must I reboot with the power button. And I have to go with the begin. After the install, I have the keyboard unplugged. and it is now a stable system. I can do all with it, but only he doesn't reboot. Can anyone help me? Or can anyone tell me wat is the problem? Sorry for my bad english. Christiaan Bos _________________________________________________________________ MSN Zoeken helpt je om de gekste dingen te vinden! http://search.msn.nl

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File System Check Error....HELP!!
by NeoAndersn007＠aol.com 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

hello, Im new here so if this has been asked before sorry but Ive tried everything else. I was trying to get my old harddrive, CD-Drive, and RAM stick in my computer running on Fedora Core 2. None of them worked and I had a terrible time getting my computer to even startup. After I got it to work it get me the following error which I can't figure out how to fix: fsck.ext3: Disk write-protected; Use the -n option to do a read-only check of the device. Read-only file system while trying to open /dev/hda2 *** An error occured during the file system check *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) (Repair filesystem) 1 # I have tried reconnecting everything, taking out my RAM and putting it back in, disconnecting power cord for long periods of time, re-installing fedora, and editing the bootup commands. nothing seems to be working, help!!!

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Re: File System Check Error....HELP!!
by NeoAndersn007＠aol.com 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

ok thanks I hope i can get this figured out soon

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