FC5, Firefox 1.5.0.6 and Flash
by Aly Dharshi
Hello All,
I hope that you are well. Are there any know issues with the above
software from the fedora core installs not working, my firefox locks up
on a page with the flash-plugin rpm or directly installed ones from
Macromedia or via the firefox autoplugin installer.
Cheers,
Aly.
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17 years, 8 months
Is there a Solaris Explorer equivalent for Fedora? .
by Brad Alpert
Does anyone know of a program for Fedora which is substantively similar
to Sun's Explorer tool in concept and execution?
Having such a thing would be very helpful for server maintenance.
Thanks/Brad
17 years, 8 months
question on using mencoder
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
I have a .wmv file which I would like to change to a Mpeg file. Just wondering
does anyone know how to use mencoder for this?
Many thanks in advance,
Trotter!
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17 years, 8 months
fdisk "unable to open" /dev/hdb
by neidorff
Hi folks,
My wife's hard disk stopped booting, and her backup is corrupt. (of course)
I took the disk and put it as a slave (/dev/hdb) in a linux machine. Booted
up. fdisk reported that it is "unable to open" the drive. Now this is
weird. The bios reports that the drive is there when I power on. This is a
different error than a missing disk, that error is "unable to read". Anyone
have any idea what type of failure I have on the disk and how to read it to
recover data?
Many, many thanks,
Mark
17 years, 8 months
Hardware inventory
by Ashley M. Kirchner
I thought I'd ask before reinventing the wheel... Can anyone
suggest an application for Linux that can track hardware inventory
across a network? I have several machines on our unix network and
things are starting to get out of control trying to figure out which has
what storage or memory or something as simple as, 'What OS does that
have again?'
I've seen many different applications for Windows but they don't
know how to query a Linux box. So I'm asking for help here. Most of
the machines are running some FC version (1-5) and only two of them have
RH7.3 on them. (Imagine my surprise when I manually scanned the network
this afternoon...RH7.3?? Badly in need of an upgrade.)
Anyway, I'd like to be able to have this beast track hardware on
each machine and possibly also what services they provide (though some
of that will have to be manually entered as some machines serve specific
services (for specific domains) while others don't.) If it can scan the
network and query each machine for data, that'd be a plus, however if
that's not possible, I'll make do.
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17 years, 8 months
Command for scrolling back through text on CLI
by Nigel Henry
If I'm in text mode and run a command like, ls /usr/bin, I get a load of text
scrolling by with no way to get back to the start of it. What command do I
need to use so that I can scroll back through the text? Or are there any
specific key combinations that will do this?
I looked at "man ls" and "man tail", but there didn't seem to be any help
there.
Thanks.
Nigel.
17 years, 8 months
Mozilla shortcut key not working
by Philip Walden
I upgraded my RH9 to FC4 and now FC5. I use Mozilla as a mail and news
reader.
The short cut key shift+ctrl+C which marks all mail as read, has not
worked since I went to FC4. The other short cuts seem to be fine. For
example, my work-around: alt+A to select all, followed by M to mark
selected as read, works fine.
Any suggestions?
17 years, 8 months
XGL and a second X server?
by Chris Clarke
Hi All,
I've been playing around with Xgl and I've got say I love it :) The
only downside is I haven't been able to get twinview working. Since
all I ever use the second monitor (actually a TV,) for is mythtv and
watching videos I was wondering if I could start a second X server
(with a different xorg.conf) and use the tv? I've got an Nvidia card
and the nvidia drivers from atrpms. Any advice or pointers would be
appreciated.
TIA,
Chris
17 years, 8 months
Re: Enabling "localhost" for Applications?
by Russ Kinter
Hi James,
Many thanks! Adding "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost"
to the hosts file got the client/server application(s) to connect.
Those commented warnings were not kidding.
Thanks,
Russ Kinter
> Can you post /etc/hosts and confirm that it begins like this:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> Can you run
> ping localhost
> (from a terminal session), leave it for five seconds, press Ctrl-C
>
> Thanks,
> James.
>
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