Safest way of accessing a home computer from outside?
by Timothy Murphy
What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system
from a remote computer?
I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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17 years, 3 months
What happens now ?
by George Hare
> George Hare wrote:
> > What happens now ? Will something new come down the pike? Where will
> > you all go? You all have been a great group, supportive and helpful. I
> > even gleaned some insight from the flame wars ;-). Thank you all.
> >
> > George Hare
> >
>
> What is this posting in relation to? What is changing?
> Jim
>
>
17 years, 3 months
Errors with Soft RAID 5 Array, no disks off line
by vamythguy
I have a 4 disk soft RAID-5 array and I'm receiving a ton of these messages
in the system logs:
Dec 31 17:04:38 tibeaux smartd[2384]: Device: /dev/sda, 3 Offline
uncorrectable sectors
Dec 31 17:04:39 tibeaux smartd[2384]: Device: /dev/sdd, 48 Currently
unreadable (pending) sectors
But cat /proc/mdstat reports:
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1]
735351936 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
unused devices: <none>
Best way to fix this, or is it not a problem?
17 years, 3 months
PAE / x86-64 on 965g
by javajunkie
Hello,
With a P5B-vm MotherBoard with 4 GB installed and either a PAE enabled
kernel or a x86_64 anaconda install and the memory remap feature enabled
in the BIOS (this is necessary to get above 3gb on the motherboard), my
system either crashes during boot or is very unstable (such as text from
the initial stages of the boot superimposed over the graphical x86_64
boot and the fan suddenly running at top speed and never stopping).
This motherboard is said to work with a win64 system...
Any suggestions on a work around or what information to report so that
it might get fixed?
Shawn
17 years, 3 months
Grub wont boot Windows?
by Bob Goodwin
I have an FC6 computer that I'm certain worked initially but will not
now boot Windows 2000.
I don't know what more to do other than reinstall Windows and then
that's going to mess the Linux boot process.
Grub.config is:
cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
title Windows 2000 Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
~
~
Which looks ok to me. However when I get the splashscreen that asks to
"press any key"
nothing happens? I can press Enter or the Space Bar and it ignores the
keyboard and contiues
conting down until the FC6 boot process begins.
fdisk shows:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2551 2563 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2564 9729 57560895 8e Linux LVM
Any thoughts on what to try next are welcome.
Bob Goodwin
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17 years, 3 months
Enable Service with FC6
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear You,
Happy New Year first !
If want to enable the telnet service :
/etc/xinetd.d/ekrb5-telnet
/etc/xinetd.d/krb5-telnet
Which telnet service do you recommend to enable ?
BTY, after re-set the config, how to restart the xinetd.d ?
Edward.
17 years, 3 months
Same files, different sizes in different partitions
by Paul Smith
Dear All
In hde2 I have a subset of the set of files in hdb6. However, quite
surprisingly, the used size in hde2 is greater than the used size in
hdb6:
/dev/hdb6 71630968 50686876 20944092 71% /mnt/mandriva
/dev/hde2 74770560 55040436 15931960 78% /mnt/montado
How can it be?!
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 3 months
Re: Installing DjVu plug-in
by Kam Leo
On 12/31/06, Szára György <lagymata(a)freestart.hu> wrote:
> Please anybody who ever could me lend a helping hand !
> I had an unsuccessful attempt to install DjVuLibre -3.5.17 plug-in on my
> Fedora Core 4. Last time I had not only tried but have comleted the
> process according to the enclosed README. But in spite of all my
> endevour the plug-in doesn't work for me !
> In the course of my atempt I had made as follows:
> I had downloaded from http://djvu.libre.djvuzone.org
> The tar.gz stuff was uncompressed, untared
> $ cd to the same directory
> $ ./configure
> $ make then changed to su
> # make install
> After I had ascerteaned the site of the file plug-in with ls -al that is
> /usr/lib/mozilla then the directorie /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> After I changed to # cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> I had to make -According to the written instructions- made symbolic
> link
> # ln -s /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/nsdejavu.so nsdejavu.so
> in order to make mozilla firefox find the djview the name of reference.
> The bug may be in the different environment suspected by Instruction
> and the real lay out of my FC4.
> In the Instruction one presumed:
> /usr/local/.netscape/plugilns/nsdejavu.so
> /usr/lilb/netscape/plugins/nsdejavu.so
> but in the real lay out there is nowhere /netscape/ subdirectory !
> With this plug-in one should be able read documents of these kind.
> In the hope I'll be able recompanse your pains
> I stay sincerely yours
> Gyurka
Simple fix. Do the following:
1) Run "updatedb" to refresh the find database
2) Run "locate nsdejavu.so" to find instances of the particular file.
17 years, 3 months
Croquet
by Ric Moore
Is anyone playing with this? It seems that the Windoze and Mac users
have latched onto this Open Source Program, that shares codebase with
"Second Life", the wildly popular commercial Virtual Reality world.
Croquet is the toolkit that builds objects and VR worlds. And, it's
free! Check it out...
http://www.opencroquet.org/index.html
I'm running into an issue where it doesn't see openGL as installed. I
hope we can get Fedora users to adopt into this project. I can use the
help!! If anyone is into this, please drop me a line. Ric
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17 years, 3 months
Duplicated packages on x86_64
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask)
Hi!
I'm new to Fedora, and I'm using FC6 on a x86_64 desktop. Something that
I find really strange is the fact that I have a lot of duplicated
packages for both x86_64 and i386 archs.
By my counting I have about 173 packages that have both the i386 and
x86_64 versions installed.
A while ago I tried to install 'subversion' using Yum, and said it would
install both arches. Then I tried the same install with Smart, and it
said it would install the x86_64 version only.
How can I make this behavior stop for Yum?
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