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python bindings for RPM documentation
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi, What is the ML to subscribe to, to discuss abouut python RPM bindings? There has been: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2000-August/msg00256.html But it is quite old now, and may be things have changed. My goal is to install-remove a RPM with only python, no shell script. Obviously, I will try to write a kind of documentation (tutorial or "long documentation") if I succeed. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation.

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Using bittorrent on FC4
by Michael Yep 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello I used to be able to just type btdownloadcurses.py on other versions of linux. Now after yum install bittorrent, I can't use this method. I am interested in the text only version of torrent. Any help? - -- Michael Yep Development / Technical Operations RemoteLink, Inc. (630) 983-0072 x164 GPG Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x126439D9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD/jR+0hHqPRJkOdkRAsyhAKDHJVpq/33hdI3RseKS5d5nC1a+sACgyLrq QPTwd6rsIH786VEVWvnEuJ0= =d2Y3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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installing to external USB drive: FC5 any better?
by Michael McFarland 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Like many others, I've been struggling to get FC4 installed onto an external USB drive. This seems like it would be a great method to recommend for people who want to test the linux waters without touching their windows installs.... if some major distro would make it work! After following the impressive instructions at http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk to create & tweak a new initrd image, I'm still seeing nothing but kernel panics. Now, it's my understanding so far that this could all be avoided if the default initrd image used for the standard install would just include the proper modules. Or maybe it could add those libraries to the image if it was determined in the DiskDruid parititioning step that I'm installing to an external device. Does anyone know if this change is being included (or considered) for the upcoming release of FC5? Would fixing this be significantly harder than it sounds? Also, just to be sure... I've seen a few (apparently untested) suggestions that it might be possible to avoid the initrd mess if I were to specifying some kernel parameters during the normal install. Is there any truth to that? I really think it's in everyone's best interests to find some kind of real solution here. (preferably soon) - Michael

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Re: FC4 kernel with nvidia driver
by Todd Simi 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

If you download from NVIDIA, make sure you check for all the patches you will need. There are several depending on which kernel version you are running. > > From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)ces.clemson.edu> > > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > > Subject: Re: FC4 kernel with nvidia driver > > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:11:36 -0500 (EST) > > > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Randy Vice wrote: > > > > > Are there any rpm'd FC4 kernels for nvidia's driver? I know, evil > > > closed source driver, but AFAIK, I'll need it for using Cedega > > > (transgaming). Figure closed source driver is better then dealing with > > > multi-booting XP with FC. ;) > > > > There are NVidia driver RPMs for FC4 kernels at rpm.livna.org. > > Alternatively, you can get the drivers directly from nvidia.com and > > rebuild them yourself for any FC4 kernel. > > > >

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kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4, system hangs at reboot
by oleksandr korneta 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello there, I got AMD Turion based laptop. Installed FC4 for x86_64 on it. Everything was more or less fine. but after last kernel update the system hangs whenever I want to reboot it. No matter whether I initialize the reboot from command line or from gdm. I can see all the messages about halting the processes and stuff and then it says "rebooting the system" and screen goes black and that is it... Sometimes though, it seems like trying to reboot the computer and there are vertical white stripes across the screen (?), but no more than that. I can still poweroff it normally. did anyone experienced anything similar? thanks in advance. -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./

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Re: Announcing Fedora Core 5 Test 3
by Jim Cornette 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

The question was asked regarding FC5T3 release. FC5T3 was released today and is available for download. Replying to the anounce list! Jim Jesse Keating wrote: >Forty-four years ago, John Hershel Glenn Jr. is successfully launched >into space aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first orbital >flight by an American astronaut. Russia had already sent two cosmonauts >into orbit at this time. In the many following years Russian and >America race each other for space superiority. Much later Russia and >America have finally started cooperating in Earth's adventures into >space. Competition is good, but collaboration can by so much better. > >Today, Open Source stands as one of the ultimate examples of >collaboration. No boundaries, no borders, no barriers. As an example >of this collaboration, we are proud to announce: > >Fedora Core 5 Test 3 Now Available >================================== >The Fedora Project announces the third release of the Fedora Core 5 >development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and PPC/PPC64 >architectures. Beware that Test releases are recommended only for Linux >experts/enthusiasts or for technology evaluation, as many parts are >likely to be broken and the rate of change is rapid. > >http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/ >Final is scheduled for release March 15. This aggressive schedule makes vitally >important your help in testing, reporting and suggesting fixes for bugs. >Please direct bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com, Product Fedora Core, >Version fc5test3. As always, be sure that your bug is not already fixed >by updates and search for existing bugs before filing. > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/ReleaseFreezeProcess/ >During the continual freeze process, very few changes will be >introduced. This is to prevent new bugs from surfacing and to ensure >that Fedora Core 5 is the best release we can make it. Rawhide reports >over the next three weeks should be very sparse. Please do test the few >updates extensively. > >Thanks to all in the Fedora Project who have contributed to this >release. Your continued efforts are what makes Fedora possible. > >Downloads >========= >DVD, CD and network installation are available. >Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more >details. > >http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ >The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. > >http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html >HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors >listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. > >Notable Features of FC5 Test 3 >============================== >* Xen, now with x86_64! >* Package selection within the installer has been reenabled. >* Rebuilt again on later gcc4.1 snapshot for performance and security >* Hibernate should be functional on a wide variety of hardware again >(use pm-hibernate to test) >* PPC Install CDs are bootable once again >* Unified SRPM set instead of one per arch >* Lots of bugfixes from Test 2 release testing >* 1600+ Extras packages conveniently available via yum > >http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ >Latest version of release notes are available from here. (not yet >uploaded, will be soon. > >Important Warnings >================== >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Test3CommonProblems >Please see this page for an updated list of important notes for FC5test3 >in order to avoid common problems and troubleshoot problems that you may >see. > >Have fun testing this release, and enjoy the collaboration >of Linux. > > > -- The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

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[akonstam: Re: cups sucks me]
by akonstam＠trinity.edu 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:21:23PM -0600, John Pierce wrote: > Well, I had similar problems getting cups to serve up to my local > network, what I found was the cupsd.conf file says that certain > defaults exist to serve a local network, and according to the > documentation in the conf file those defaults should allow local > machines to print to it. > > What I discovered was having to manually set the defaults to make it > work, I think the redhat/fedora developers tell it not to share on the > network for security reasons, but fail to adjust the documentation to > match their build configuration. > > Take the following for example: > > ######## > ######## Network Options > ######## > # > # Ports/addresses that we listen to. The default port 631 is reserved > # for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and is what we use here. > # > # You can have multiple Port/Listen lines to listen to more than one > # port or address, or to restrict access: > # > # Port 80 > # Port 631 > # Listen hostname > # Listen hostname:80 > # Listen hostname:631 > # Listen 1.2.3.4 > # Listen 1.2.3.4:631 > According to the above statement the system should allow connection on > port 631, but if I do not add the following two lines I cannot print > to this host. > > Listen localhost > Listen 192.168.0.70:631 > > Go through and check the configuration file. > > John Ok, lets take this from the top. The cupsd.conf should have only one Listen statement in most cases, and that is: Listen 127.0.0.1 Clients on the same LAN will be able to print to the printer without any further configuration. That is , no server line needs o appear in the clients.conf file. Further, if the Server line appears in the client.conf file then the client will not be able to print to a local printer. Under no circumstances should system-config-printer be used to configure CUPS printers. It has serious flaws for this purpose. If the original poster used system-config-printer to configure the server printers this is one reason printer might have not worked on the clients. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ======================================================================= When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484

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ref: Subject: Is SELinux resetting permissions?
by Don Bedsole 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi Anne, See if this helps. It was posted a while back. //////////////////////////////////////quote////////////////////////////////////////////////// Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:32:53 +0000 From: James Wilkinson <fedora(a)westexe.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: chmod To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <20060209083253.GA4043(a)westexe.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii gary wrote: > In a attempt to get audacity running again (now I get i/o errors > in user mode) I decided change permissions on /dev/dsp from 600 > to 660 to see what effect that would have on my audacity problem. > Each time I leave root, /dev/dsp reverts back to 600. > > Why can't I change permissions on /dev/dsp? How are you becoming root? Are you logging in, or using su - from a terminal? I suspect you're logging in. This is generally considered a Bad Idea, because mistakes made while root are potentially more serious (they can do more damage), so it makes sense to limit the time spent as root. It would also mean that when you log back in again, udev carefully recreates /dev/dsp with the appropriate permissions -- 600. But in any case, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Either udev is seriously screwed, or /dev/dsp should be read-write for you anyway. $ ls -l /dev/dsp crw------- 1 james root 14, 3 Feb 9 07:42 /dev/dsp dsp should be owned by whoever's logged in at the console. Anything done by that owner should have full access to /dev/dsp. Hope this helps, James. /////////////////////////////end of quote/////////////////

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SMS gateway tutorial
by Fajar Priyanto 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi all, I have translated the SMS gateway tutorial. It's on http://linux2.arinet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Item… And the PDF format can be downloaded from: http://linux2.arinet.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=31&func=sel… Pls logon first to download. Hopefully this article can be helpful, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 00:39:39 up 4:59, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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samba shares in FC4
by Louis Garcia 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

I am trying to share a directory in FC4. readable and writable to everyone. The directory is /data/public : 2777 root:root. It is an ext3 partition. This is my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = HOMENETWORK netbios name = server server string = Samba Server security = SHARE guest account = guest hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.0/24 hosts deny = 192.168.0.1/24 [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /data/public read only = No guest ok - Yes I am able to browse the server but when I open the share public I get an error that the directory doesn't exist. The /data directory is a ext3 partition. I am able to share a directory in the / partition with no problems. I am stumped. --Louis

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