thunderbird file associations, where to set ?
by korgull
Hi,
I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird
without actually saving it to disk first.
This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade
acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the
attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the
association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the
thunderbird preferences.
I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but
thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?
regards,
Marcel
17 years, 7 months
FC6 and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd
by Kevin Layer
If I change /etc/smartd.conf and remove the auto-generated marker so
my changes do not get clobbered, I get an error when the init script
is run:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd: line 40: [: ==: unary operator expected
This change fixes the problem:
&& [ "$GEN_CONF" == "*SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED*" ] \
to
&& [ $GEN_CONF == "*SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED*" ] \
I originally sent this to the smartmontools-support mailing list and
they said it wasn't their code...
Kevin
17 years, 7 months
Re: Running own mail server
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:08 -0700, David G. Miller wrote:
>> > The only problem I've run into is my ISP still claims my IP address on
>> > a reverse look-up so there are a very few places (spamhaus in
>> > particular) who won't accept e-mail from my domain.
>>
>
> This is where it's an advantage to get your ISP to host your DNS
> records. You *may* be able to get them to put in a PTR record for you.
> You've very unlikely to get them to do so when you host your records
> elsewhere.
The scary part of asking my ISP to host my DNS records is:
[root@bend kernel]# dig any www.mesanetworks.net
; <<>> DiG 9.3.3rc2 <<>> any www.mesanetworks.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I'm sure they'll be back sometime soon. Out for a beer maybe 'cause
it's Friday night.
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 7 months
Latest yum update of KDE loses some icons
by Arthur Pemberton
I just did a yum update, and KDE came down the pipe. The update
however seemed to have hosed server icons on my system: including, but
not limited to some icons in my KMenu.
My yum.log for the day is attached.
--
Fedora Core 5 and proud
17 years, 7 months
hibernation is working! but not quite all it could be
by Phil Nelson
OK! I selected the appropriate configuration options and my (GQ ZX-5361)
laptop now hibernates. And didn't have to use a command line.
There is one problem- I have a dual boot machine and if I hibernate FC6,
I can't get back to Windows XP because Grub doesn't pause to allow me to
choose the other boot option. Is there a config option to make it do
that? I need to hibernate FC6 so I can boot into Windows, do something,
then come back to where I was in FC6.
17 years, 7 months
Re: Running own mail server
by J M
>I think you'll find that trying to run OUTGOING mail from your server will
>be a continuous exercise in frustration
Before I started bouncing around the planet and decided to have my domain
hosted, I was doing this, and ran into all the problems you described; mail
being banned because of RBL's for netblocks of DSL/Cable Modem networks, the
whole nine yards. Very frustrating. But one system will accept your mail
from the network you're on, that being your ISP's mail server.
Now, I can't couch for every ISP, but I was on a large cable service
providers network, and their servers (at least at the time) didn't care that
they were relaying mail from mydomain.com, off to where ever it was
destined. I was also fortunate in that they weren't blocking port 25
inbound, which some do as well, to dissuade people from hosting mail servers
on their home computer, and cut down on spam.
Probably, when you signed at the installation of your service, you agreed
NOT to run a server on your connection either. If you do so, and set it up
very carefully to not be an open relay, etc. they may leave you alone. I
got away with it for three years, while others I knew at work, on the same
providers service, had set up servers in a neglectful manner, and they
didn't make it a few months before they were on them to shut it down or have
their service shut down... Lesson there seems to be that at least _some_
providers will turn a blind eye to a properly configured system...
You could try, but nothing is definite, and the provider of course can
change the game, at any time, and put new road blocks in place without
warning to you, because of the nature of the service agreement. And
honestly, some places hosting your site and mail for barely more than $5 a
month, it's hardly worth the hassle, although it can be quite a fun learning
experience if you are patient.
17 years, 7 months
RE: Running own mail server
by Gregory Malsack
It is compatible meaning that it interacts with sendmail very well.
However, the configs files are written in English not Klingon like
sendmails config files are. I started using postfix over 3 years ago,
and when I started I went from being able to install a mail server
(sendmail) to a mail server expert in 10 minutes, just because postfix
mail files are so easy to understand. Now I'm not a real expert (I don't
think) but I think you get my drift.
Greg
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tom Horsley
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:19 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Running own mail server
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:07:05 +1100
Steffen Kluge <kluge(a)dotnet.org> wrote:
> Switch to postfix right now
I've seen this advice many times, and I find it easy to believe that
postfix is better, having run screaming from sendmail config files
in the past, but when I recently went to read up a bit on postfix,
the very first thing I read on the home page is:
>Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure,
>while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not
>upset existing users.
If it is sendmail compatible, doesn't that mean it has the same
config file that can be used to frighten little children?
I'd be far more attracted to postfix if the homepage said it was
in no way remotely similar to sendmail :-).
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17 years, 7 months
RE: To upgrade or not to upgrade....
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> All,
>
> I have just noticed that FC6 is available and the question is how does
> the upgrade process work? More specifically, is there anything that
> sets out which directories are not affected by the upgrade process. I
> have a number of applications installed in /opt and other places and
> wondered if these would be affected. I admit that I probably haven't
> handled that process as well as I could have in all cases, but that is
> due to my own lack of understanding sometimes. I assume that
> /home will
> be unaffected, but it is not clear if the files located in
> some of these
> other locations that are not part of the Fedora distribution will be
> disturbed.
>
> Any insight would be helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Herb
Hi Herb,
You should of course take a backup of all your data just in case
the upgrade goes sour and you have a non-bootable system. The partimage
program on a recovery CD works nicely to image a bootable image.
I always take a back up /etc to another machine as it contains most of
the config files. While you CANNOT get away with just restoring it, the
files in the directory contain a lot of values you may end up needing, like
DNS server address, the contents of your smbpasswd file if you run samba,
your web server config file, etc.
In a previous go around of this question, someone mentioned saving the output
of "rpm -qa > /tmp/some_file.txt" to save a list of all the packages that were
loaded on the system. Someone else posted a slightly more elegant version:
rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' > /tmp/rpm-pkgs
If everything works perfectly, you might not need these.
Bob Styma
17 years, 7 months
Re: Running own mail server
by J M
>Just don't learn at the expense of others. A badly configured server
>can cause collateral damage, both in increasing SPAM and blacklisting
>innocent users that have IP addreses 'near' yours.
Agreed. Personally, to me the best way to learn if you want, is to set up
your internal network as an intranet. For instance, I have mydomain.com
which is now hosted and independent of all my junk at home. Here at home, I
have mydomain.intra. What I do in here affects no one but me and my (ever
patient) wife. To be honest, even with our five computers I don't even
bother running anything much other than Samba, so that we can keep our stuff
on a RAID, as my wife has some horrible curse with failing disks. Even name
resolution I just set up host files, because with the 4 systems I would want
to access by name it is not worth setting up DDNS.... But you can set up
your own internal DNS server, use Dynamic DNS, secure pop, secure smtp,
Samba, and anything else you want, and not run the risk of bothering anyone
else on the internet, or invoking the wrath of your ISP.
With a couple of machines, Fedora, and VMware Server and/or Xen you can set
up two domains in your house firewall them behind iptables firewall with
virtual networks, send mail back and forth between them, learn to lock them
down, and everything else under the sun... You can make a mess fast and
make no one want to slam their head against a desk but you. You can also
download Solaris 10, FreeBSD, and Novell Netware (they have a 5 User
unlimited time Demo out there somewhere on their site), Windows Server 90
day licenses and so on and really keep yourself busy. Set up NFS, RIS and
Software Distribution Servers, Samba servers for Windows Clients; your
options, and ability to learn, are virtually limitless with a couple
computers these days... and really if you can learn to hop on any *nix or
windows/whatever system, and have a good fundamental knowledge of networks,
you only make yourself more valuable. It won't teach you everything there
is to know about a corporate network, but it will get you on your way...
beside being able to sit in front of a Novell, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
or Mac system, and feeling comfortable is a good feeling.
17 years, 7 months
Personal File Sharing broken in Nautilus?
by Jeff Gustafson
Hello all,
I was trying out the 'Personal File Sharing' application in
Gnome and found that Nautilus cannot open the published link! When I
click on the link that is discovered via mDNS, it reports:
"dav:///" is not a valid location.
Ironically, Konqueror connects to the share right away. If I
take the url that appears in Konqueror and paste it into Nautilus it
will connect. It appears the Nautilus is not setting up the link
correctly. Is there anyway to fix the behavior, or is it a bug?
...Jeff
17 years, 7 months
