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Re: Recommedations
by Wayde C. Gutman 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

When it comes to linux, everyone has to start somewhere. Myself, when I walked into a software shop in Vista, California and asked the person there if there was something better than Windows. That was 1997 and Slackware 3.4. Fedora may be a bit too much for a new user, Red Hat and SuSE would be better. Regarding KDE, it isn't exactly Open Source, is it ? In the past, Red Hat default has been Gnome. -Wayde

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procmail & .forward
by Jeetendra Mirchandani 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

can you please tell me what is the significance of the following line in .forward "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75 # username" i am getting an error ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75" (reason: Service unavailable) (expanded from: <username(a)my-server.com>)

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Re: FC1 as a server but NOT HP Proliant
by Castelhano, Dan 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hey, Are you using the ext3 filesystem? Have you upgraded to the latest bios and raid firmware for your proliant servers? I had a few problems with my hp's about six months ago where they would randomly crash when using ext3 (didn't crash when using ext2). After hours spent talking to their software and hardware folks - where all the did is blame each other - all my problems disappeared one day when I updated to their latest firmware. -dan >>Hi, >>It's working but ... >>If it's a critical production environment, and if you plan to contract >>support whith HP, forget it ! >>I do have a problem with a G3 server which crash after 2 weeks in >>production mode. >>Since I have an other G3 as office server which run perfectly, I'm quite >>sure that it's a hardware problem, and I have standard 3 years garanty >>from HP. >>So I called them, and I have been told that they don't care about my >>problem because of FC1 !!!!!!!! >>They just told me to install RH8 which is the last "open" release >>supported, or to by RedHat ES3 !. >>Not really what I expected from such a company ! ( why do not install >>WFW3.11 ??? ) >>>> >>If somebody has an other feed back HP, please let me know ! >>Regards. >>Gaetan Yavorsky.

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x-server crashed after update
by Yves Beeken 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

I updated FC1 and after restart the system crashed: I get a message with sometihing like " Cannot start x-server"... FATAL SERVER ERROR xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Input/Output error) Can anybody help me please? Yves

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riddle this: disc2 fails media test. And YES I have checked md5, etc...
by John Christian 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Dear Fedora gurus, PLEASE read everything I've tried before responding. This is crazy! I cannot get the yarrow-i386-disc2 to pass the media test. CD's 1 and 3 pass the media test. CD 1 seems useable since I can start the install. CD 2 is partialy useable since I can continue the install, but does not fully work. The failing of CD 2 is understandable since it doesn't pass the media test. Here's the good part. YES, I have really... ...fully downloaded the iso image from 3 different mirrors. (636 MB (667,516,928 bytes) according to WinXP Home and Cygwin and Solaris) ...rechecked the downloads using rsync (no changes). ...confirmed the md5 checksum matches the posted checksum. ...double checked the checksum using the md5sum binary on Solaris and Cygwin. ...triple checked the posted checksum from 3 different sites. (fd23fe32fafe7557f5d1fa1d31100580) ...burned at 24x 16x 4x and even 1x. ...burned using 2 different iso burn utilities ...verified I am burning the CD as an image, not just burning the .iso file as a single file. ...burned through about 9 CDs from two different sets (some from home, some swiped from cube-mate). ...placed 3 tiki statues around my laptop (left, right, and on the touchpad) while sprinkling magic voo-doo dust (powdered sugar) on the screen. All of the CD's I've burned before (and since) work fine. The other Fedora iso images (discs 1&3) seem fine. I have a Toshiba Satellite A-10-S169, WinXP Home Ed. 2002 sp1 (current patch level AFAIK), VMware workstation version 4.0.5 build-6030. WHAT the fedora is going on here? What silly/obvious problem am I missing? What else can I try? Please help! I'm losing my mind! TIA! -john __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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Samba Help
by Jwp 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

I'm back again! Cosmo = linux box; Marco = XP box So I got samba configured and apparently working as verified here: # /usr/bin/smbclient -L localhost -U johnny Password: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2-7.FC1] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- johnny_data Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (samba server) ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (samba server) Anonymous login successful Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2-7.FC1] Server Comment --------- ------- COSMO samba server MARCO Dell Win XP Workgroup Master --------- ------- MYGROUP COSMO Now the The dell XP machine is also in the workgroup 'Mygroup' Both boxes are able to ping each other by name. However Cosmo does not show up in the Network neighborhood on the XP machine?? In the tcp/ip configuration for the XP box I point to the Linux box as the WINS server. My XP logon/pass match the samba id/pass. Here is the pertinent smb.conf information: workgroup = Mygroup username map = /etc/samba/smbusers wins support = yes local master = yes os level = 99 domain master = yes preferred master = yes hosts allow = 192.168.1 127. interfaces = eth0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 [share_data] path = /home/share browseable = yes writeable = yes Thanks for any and all help, JP

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Why i always get segment default errors for some kde programs
by climb 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi: it is my first time in this list. I have found that some kde programs in my system (Fedora 1) are very easy to produce segment default. The affected programs now are kdevelop2 ( just apt from the official source) and kile-1.6.1. In fact, at first they worked ok. But after sometime, they could not be started. If run in console, it said Segment Default. So, in order to use them, i have to re install the rpm either use rpm -e and rpm -i or use rpm -U --force. Then they can start again. However, after sometime ( i really dont know when), they will fail again. :-( so i have to the reintall again. One thing i can be sure is that after each re-installation, they surely can be started. Does anybody have the same experience ? Any expert tell me why and how to solve ? I dont want to keep the rpms in my home dir in order to reinstall them that often. Thanks very much climb

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Networked Folder Permissions
by Jwp 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

I can't seem to figure out how to mount a network directory to make it writeable by any user on the linux box. I can mount the directory no problem, however only ROOT has write access (I can chown chmod I guess but I am sure you all know of a better way, thanks) Some details: drwxr-xr-x root root /mnt/marco (the mount point) # mount -t smbfs -o username=uname password=pword //Marco/TEST /mnt/marco I assume that the username /password apply if the XP box requires it? Basically I want to mount the TEST to be writeable by any of my Linux user accounts. Thanks, JP

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bootable iso
by Chadley Wilson 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Dear Linux friends, I have an existing bootable [win based] disk that I have created. It contains a 1.44mb bootable dos disk with menus created using a combo of the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. I have the iso of the disk on hdd. I would like to mount it make some changes and then re burn it to cd. I know how to mount and read the contents but can I actaully replace files. I need to do this but dont have a win box to do it on as I have loaded FC1 on my box. Any-one know where I can find the command. I cant find one with rw options. this is the command I use to mount: mount -o loop -w -t iso9660 /mnt/backup/isos/win98se.iso /mnt/winiso/

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Building EL kernel on FC1
by Norman Gaywood 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

I'm trying to build the EL kernel on FC1 but I'm getting compilation errors. I presume I have to build it with gcc32, but I can't seem to make rpmbuild do that: Amongst other things, I've tried: export CC=gcc32 rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.src.rpm But, looking at the output and processes while building, I can see that the default gcc 3.3 is being used. What's the trick? -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm(a)turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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