Screensaver will not start - Fedora 7 & KDE 3.5.8
by Kevin Kempter
Hi List;
I'm running Fedora 7 on a Sony Vaio laptop (VGN-SZ430N/B)
I have it set to start after 1minute. I also have Kpowersave to start the
screensaver if I close the lid.
I can right click on the desktop, choose 'lock session' and the screensaver
will start. Also if I close the laptop lid the screensaver will start however
if I leave the machine Idle for several minutes the screensaver never starts.
Thanks in advance for any help...
16 years, 5 months
configuring sudo access for some users
by ankush grover
Hi friends,
I want to configure sudo access for some users on my system. I am currently
using FC7 on my system. What they require (I mean users) is to do all the
things except they cannot su/su- to become anyother user or root user, they
should not be able to change anybody's password or atleast root's password,
cannot modify /etc/sudoers and etc/pam.d/su files . I have a script which
can extract all commands issued with "sudo" but if these users become root
then I won't be able to know who has done what.
I have already restricted su/su - access by editing /etc/pam.d/su and
uncommenting the below line:
# Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group.
auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid
Authentication on my system is done through LDAP but also Use MD5, Use
Shadow and Local Authorization is sufficient options are enabled so that
local user for ex myself can login without authenticating to LDAP. Users for
which i want to configure sudo access will all be authenticated through
LDAP.
Currently I have added these 2 lines in /etc/sudoers (I used visudo command
to edit this file)
test ALL=(ALL) ALL, !/usr/bin/su
test2 ALL=(ALL) ALL, !/usr/bin/su
Both test and test2 are able to become root when they use "sudo su - " but
they are not able to become root user when they issue "su -". How do I
restrict these users not to become root or any other user through sudo su -
and also these users should not able to change their or other users
passwords on this system.
Thanks & Regards
Ankush Grover
16 years, 5 months
Installing Fedora 8...
by Dan Thurman
Since there is no longer a full-set of iso's for CDs, can I install
the full set using Gnome or Kde Live CD and still be able to
install F8?
Thanks!
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16 years, 5 months
Re: Stop postfix
by Andrea Bencini
Thanks Craig
I did
chkconfig --del postfix
chkconfig --add postfix
chkconfig --levels 2345 postfix on
Now is OK
Andrea
> chkconfig --add postfix
> chkconfig --levels 2345 postfix on
16 years, 5 months
RE: Installing Fedora 8...
by Dan Thurman
>Yes. There is a boot option for it, and an install icon on the desktop.
>
>Mikkel
>--
ok! Thanks!
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16 years, 5 months
Stop postfix
by Andrea Bencini
I installed F8.
I updated F8 (yum update)
I removed sendmail (yum remove sendmail).
I installed postfix (yum install postfix).
I installed dovecot (yum install dovecot).
I installed fetchmail (yum install fetchmail).
I installed samba (yum install samba).
I installed dhcp (yum install dhcp).
If I shutdown and restart ( shutdown -r now) the messages are regular ( all
OK).
If I shutdown (shutdown -h now) I receive this message:
"Start killall: Stop postfix [Failed]
[Failed] "
Can you help me?
Thanks
Andrea
16 years, 5 months
Re: Odd kernel ATA message on F7
by Tom Killian
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:14:04 +0100
> From: Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Odd kernel ATA message on F7
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: abraxis(a)telkomsa.net
> Message-ID: <20070607231404.5282f9ec(a)the-village.bc.nu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:33:34 +0200
> Neil Thompson <abraxis(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just seen a message on my logs that I've never seen before -
> >
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24)
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x4a data 8 in
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: res 58/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
>
> That means the drive and controller ended up disagreeing violently about
> what the controller was up to.
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2: soft resetting port
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> > Jun 7 20:24:34 eeyore kernel: ata2: EH complete
>
> And we reset it.
>
> > Jun 7 20:24:35 eeyore kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
>
> Odd
>
>
> We've seen some drives have problems with NCQ and do that, you also get
> HSM errors off some emulations (eg in xen it seems) because of emulation
> problems.
>
> Bugzilla it, include dmesg and lspci -vvxxx and assign to alan(a)redhat.com
> (me) and I'll take a more detailed look
Was there ever any resolution to this? I'm seeing the same problem on
an F7 x86_64 system with a Promise sata controller.
16 years, 5 months
Dual-Head with Different Resolution (slightly OT)
by Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello,
I have an LCD with 1280x1024 native resolution. I plan to buy a new widescreen
LCD with 1680x1050 resolution, to use in dual-head configuration. I have
NVidia GeForce FX 5200, with VGA and DVI output to drive them, by plugging
one LCD to VGA and the other one to DVI port.
Is it possible to use this setup, and have the card drive the monitors with
different resolution ? I'm using NVidia proprietary driver.
I have done something similar with both monitor runs on the same resolution,
using "Twinview" option on the Xorg.conf, but I don't know how to do it with
different resolutions on the monitors. If my current setup doesn't work, will
a better video card (presumably one with dual DVI) help me, or do I have to
have same resolution monitors ? can anyone recommend one ?
I don't do gaming and only use this mostly for programming and CAD drawing and
3D data visualization, so I don't need high-performance graphic card, only
something decent to work with.
Thanks for any help / info.
RDB
16 years, 5 months
I miss smbfs: cifs doesn't work as expected
by Nico Sabbi
Hi,
with another distribution I could mount an SMB share as my user
(passing different credentials to mount.smbfs)
in such a manner that on my pc the mounted files appeared
to belong to my user.
The /etc/fstab entry was:
//server/dir /home/nico/dir smbfs
noauto,users,rw,noexec,username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD 0 0 0 0
In FC8, instead, using cifs I can't obtain the same result: mounting
always fails. The problem seems to be related to mount.cifs:
$ smb4k_mount -t cifs -n //server/dir ./a -o
username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD
mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
How can I make this configuration work? I can neither change
the user exporting the share nor change my local user.
I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) .
Thanks,
Nico
16 years, 5 months
forkbomb attack
by Zhukov Pavel
why modern fedora affected by simple forkbomb attack?
16 years, 5 months
