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Giving back for the holidays
by Skunk Worx 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Over the last two years Fedora has solved some problems for me quickly and easily. Prior to using Fedora, I bought and used a RedHat box set once or twice a year since around RedHat 4. I'm going to donate $250 across one or more open source projects this month. The Kadischi LiveCD and Sourceforge Unichrome projects helped me out a lot, but neither have paypal or donations. Does anyone have opinions on what developers or projects were unusually helpful to Fedora over the last year or two, and have some means of accepting donations? Thanks, John

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Funny FTP
by Jarkko Elfving 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hello I've get trying to work with VSFTPD in binary mode several months on now. But now I got it work. That's funny, before I have files in the folder /var/ftp/pub/pub (that was a minor bug in my database :) why the data source was at there) but it works only in ASCII mode (in my vsftpd.conf file has a option anon_root=/var/ftp/pub). Now I change the the anon_root to /var/ftp and moved the data one level down, check that permissions were correct I got the Binary mode work. Why? Why it doesn't work in first place - the directory has correct permissions; actually same permissions than the files has. And why it work with Kongueror and Firefox but not in Opera? Funny :) But now it works, and that's fine for me. Regards, Jarkko Elfving

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adsl internet connection problem with 2 network cards
by yufan 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

buddies, my box has 2 network cards.one of them is connected to a external adsl modem.i just installed fedora in this new com and now i am trying to connect to internet through the adsl and use the other card to share this connection with my another com.however,i cannot surf even after i configure the PPPoe and activate the connection.what's goes wrong or could someone just tell me how to figure this thing out?thanks in advance. yufan

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linux rescue
by Ramazan Gezer 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hello, I studied on FC 4 for some practice, after restarting the compupter I saw something like that: >>> cannot remove '/etc/dmseg/': Read- Only file system.... and about 7 more like this......: Read-Only..... and nothing works. I started with the rescue CD and from the command bash I made something like that: " chmod 777 / ".....because it said that "Read-Only file system" .. See how new I am? So what should I do? Should I reload FC from 4 CDs for about an hour? Thanks in advance... Ramazan

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OT: Thunderbird + procmail = is it possible?
by jack wallen 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

sorry about this OT post but...I searched the thunderbird support forums but couldn't find any info about this. i typically use fetchamil + procmail + evolution. i really want to get evolution out of the picture because 1) it's WAY to slow to upgrade 2) is buggy as all get out 3) is slow as all get out and 4) crashes randomly. BUT, i use a procmail for local delivery on my machine. i want to continue to use procmail for local delivery but thunderbird only allows POP and IMAP. is this even possible? -- \||/ jack wallen, jr 00 www.monkeypantz.net > -

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RE: Where is the IPTABLES rule set?
by Mike McGrath 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

> Hi > I have enable the firewall in FEDORA CORE 4. > > Now I want to make some rule changes... where is the iptables file that is called > that I can make changes in? > > Thanks. > You're not really supposed to edit the file manually, but its /etc/sysconfig/iptables I think the proper way to edit the file is to use system-config-securitylevel or to run iptables commands manually and save them with service iptables save. -Mike

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DNS Problem Help Needed
by Khalid 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello named service is stop automatically giving this error named[1018]: task.c:395: REQUIRE((((task) != ((void *)0)) && (((const isc__magic_t *)(task))->magic == ((('T') << 24 | ('A') << 16 | ('S') << 8 | ('K')))))) failed named[1018]: exiting (due to assertion failure) Pls help me Thanks Mohd Khalid

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Re: Compusa 54MB Wireless G PC Card for Fedora4
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> > > On 11/28/05, *David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)* < dave(a)davenjudy.org > <mailto:dave@davenjudy.org>> wrote: > > mcfreemind(a)gmail.com <mailto:mcfreemind@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11/27/05, *David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)* < > dave(a)davenjudy.org <mailto:dave@davenjudy.org> > > <mailto: dave(a)davenjudy.org <mailto:dave@davenjudy.org>>> wrote: > > > > mcfreemind(a)gmail.com <mailto:mcfreemind@gmail.com> <mailto: > mcfreemind(a)gmail.com <mailto:mcfreemind@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > On 11/27/05, *Rey Cruz* < crxtasy_13(a)sbcglobal.net > <mailto:crxtasy_13@sbcglobal.net> > > <mailto: crxtasy_13(a)sbcglobal.net > <mailto:crxtasy_13@sbcglobal.net>> > > > <mailto: crxtasy_13(a)sbcglobal.net > <mailto:crxtasy_13@sbcglobal.net> > > <mailto:crxtasy_13@sbcglobal.net > <mailto:crxtasy_13@sbcglobal.net>>>> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:04 -0800, Min Chen wrote: > > > > Dave, > > > > > > > > Thanks for the info! I did "lspci -v" as root but got > > > "-bash:lspci: > > > > command not found". > > > > I have Kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on an i686. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Min > > > > > > > > > It looks like you just did su instead of su - (gives full > > path). I > > > think you can just do /sbin/lspci -v as a regular user > > instead of > > > changing to root. > > > > > > Rey Cruz > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Rey. > > > /sbin/lspci works but I couldn't find any subsystem for > > "wireless > > > adaptor". > > > > > > -Min > > > > With the card inserted you can also try: > > > > sudo cardctl ident > > > > or su to root (su -) and try the same command. I had a similar > > problem > > with earlier FC4 kernels (no PCMCIA support for my chipset) > so be > > sure > > you are running the most recent kernel. If FC4 still > doesn't identify > > the card, it's possible that your PCMCIA controller isn't > supported. > > The card may not be either but "cardctl ident" should tell you > > something > > > > Dave > > > > I got "Socket 0: no product info available" so FC4 doesn't > > identify the card. > > Which kernel version did you use? > > > > -Min > > > > > # uname -a > Linux fubar.local.davenjudy.org <http://fubar.local.davenjudy.org> > 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 #1 Wed Nov 9 19:01:56 > EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > You should be able to get the latest kernel by just doing "yum update" > as long as you have another way to get on-line with the system (wire, > built-in wireless and ndiswrapper). If not, you may want to look > into > pulling down the iso images for one of the unofficial FC4 updates that > are available. > > Dave > > I can't access the internet from this laptop yet. I can't sudo > either after tried wrong root password three times. However, I > can enter Netwrok Config (Desktop>System Settings>Network) by the > same root password. Is there any way to fix it or do I have to > reinstall Fedora? > > > Thanks, > Min > > > > !DSPAM:438f88a477341479244582! Several things... To use sudo, as root give the command visudo. This will give you a vi session that will allow you to edit the sudoers file. Add your own, regular user account. For now, you probably want to add something like: dave ALL=(ALL) ALL only replace "dave" with your account. Once you do, you can do things like "sudo service iptables restart" from your regular user account. You will be prompted for a password which is *your* account password; not the root password. The whole idea of sudo is to allow a regular user access to things normally only root can do but without having to give them full root access. You can refine the above to only allow access to certain commands at some point in the future. You will need to update to a more recent kernel to get access to the PCMCIA slot. I ran into the identical problem with some of the early FC4 kernels, started playing with the 2.6.13 kernel from kernel.org, got too busy to figure out what the problem was and now my PCMCIA slot recognizes a card with the current FC4 kernel. Based on a discussion I found on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), your PC card slot will not work until you get to a more recent kernel. Cheers, Dave

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Re: CLI line speed test?
by Timothy Murphy 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Kam Leo wrote: >> What is/are "DSL reports", as a matter of interest? > > http://www.dslreports.com/stest Thanks, Tim -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Error installing Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 4
by Neshat Afroz 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi I am trying to install Oracle 9i on Fedora core 4. If I try installing it as root then it errors out saying "cannot install as root". When I try installing as a user I get the following error: [neshat@localhost Disk1]$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2005-11-30_10-29-31PM/jre/bin/java. Please wait... /tmp/OraInstall2005-11-30_10-29-31PM/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/OraInstall2005-11-30_10-29-31PM/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied and then does not do anything. Please suggest as what can be the reason and how I can complete the installation. Thanks Neshat

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