upgrading from F7 to F8
by Jimmy Bradley
Does anyone know if it will be possible to upgrade from F7 to F8,
rather than do a whole new install?
Thanks
Jim
16 years, 6 months
bash History on F7
by Adel ESSAFI
Dear All
I have a strange behaviour on my bash shell on F7. In some session, I
lose all the histoty!!! I don t find any command that I have executed in
my previous sessions.
Regards.
Adel
16 years, 6 months
swatch vs. logwatch (vs. syslog-ng? something?)
by Dave Burns
What do you guys use to make sure that evil log messages get noticed quickly?
I've been trying to set up swatch. There is an rpm to install the
binary, but it does not provide a default config file or set up swatch
as a service in chkconfig. So I am doing it myself, no problem. But I
keep googling for various things, and if I include 'fedora' in the
search terms I don't get much, as if no one used it. Swatch has been
around a long time, so if anyone used it I think there would be a lot
more information available and stuff ready to go.
The basic capability I am looking for is a daemon that tails one (or
more) log files, greps out stuff that is boring, and immediately sends
me an email about the interesting stuff. Especially stuff that I've
never seen before and therefore don't have a nice regular expression
for other than /./. Swatch seems aimed right at this sort of problem.
Logwatch is similar, but by default is set up to run once a day, and
includes a lot of stuff by default that I consider dull, and even the
stuff that I consider interesting is formatted in a way that makes me
have to think too much before knowing "everything's cool" or "oh
fudge!" Is there an easy way to make it more event driven and grep out
all the boilerplate? Do you leave logwatch's setup alone, turn it off,
or tweak it?
I know nothing about syslog-ng, other than it handles centralized
logging over TCP, maybe it can so something like this, grep out the
noise and email the signal? Any other options?
My feeling is that I should only have to look at logs when I am
looking for error messages related to some problem I am having, that
the sort of bad news that shows up in a log file unexpectedly should
come chasing after me (via email) instead of waiting for me to come
take a look at the logs, something I am always tempted to put off for
'later'.
Thanks,
Dave
16 years, 6 months
Problems with F7 kernels
by Tony Crouch
Hi All,
Over the past couple of days I have been updating my F7 machine and have
installed both the two latest kernels which have been released. Both of
these have caused my machine to fail to boot successfully.
On choosing the appropriate kernel my machine "hangs" at the 'starting
udev' section. The laptop's fans spin in ultra-high gear and regardless
of how long I leave the machine, it never gets past this section.
The latest kernel on which the laptop fails to boot is:
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
I also tried the immediate kernel before this one (sorry cannot think of
the id number), but it was over-written by the 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 kernel.
The last known kernel which works fine (there may have been others
slightly more recent, but due to failing to update may never have been
installed) is:
2.6.22.9-91.fc7
I was wondering if anyone might be able to let me know what file /
commands outputs would be required in order to resolve this problem get
my machine using the latest kernels.
Thanks for your assistance.
Cheers,
Tony Crouch
16 years, 6 months
Wise disk parting.
by Strong
I want to get the list's advice on disk partitioning.
I have a laptop with 74Gb hdd. At the first I thought to partition it
having single partition on it - it is very useful - no need to look for
the free space of a partition - if whole disk is full then it is full -
unlike with several partitions on it - when it is necessary to move
data from one to another just to have the necessary sum of free space.
Then I sought on defragmentation of fs, that it would be much less
defragmented/higher_performance/longer_hdd_life if I divide the often
changable data from relatively constant - that is the OS files from
var/home/other_storage dirs. So, I decided to use at least 2 partitions.
What is the list opinions and arguments on this matter regarding what
have been said? Big thanks.
16 years, 6 months
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16 years, 6 months
Canoscan N640P in FC6
by Gary Waters
Hi,
I was given a canoscan N640P scanner and simply cannot get this thing to
work in Fedora core 6. I've googled until my mind turned to mush. I
found considerable info on configuring sane with this unit, and followed
everything step-by-step, but to no avail. The unit definitely works in
XP. Any clues, pointers, rain dances, astrological forecasts, or even
Nostradamus quotes regarding a solution would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks!
Gary
16 years, 6 months
Re: fsck -c usage question
by Mark C. Allman
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:59 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:32 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> >> Mark C. Allman wrote:
> >>> System: 2.6.22.9-91.fc7, Dell XPS M1710 laptop, 80GB HD, 2G ram
> >>>
> >>> >From what I've read, it's a good idea to occasionally have fsck run when
> >>> you reboot a system. Also, I've had Fedora lock up a few times (over
> >>> the past year, BTW, so I'm not complaining!) such that I had to power
> >>> off and back on to restart.
> >>>
> >>> What I do to have fsck run on startup:
> >>> 1. Create /fsckoptions with the switches I want to supply to fsck
> >>> 2. Run "shutdown -rF 0' to create /forcefsck and reboot.
> >>> Note: When fsck is finished after the reboot the /fsckoptions
> >>> and /forcefsck files are removed automatically.
> >>>
> >> tune2fs -c 21 /dev/xxx
> >>
> >> This is what I have on my laptop, it is set to fsck after 21 mounts (I
> >> think 21 is pretty typical setup for a lot of distros like Ubuntu (or
> >> gentoo in my case) change the 21 to suit your needs that should
> >> eliminate the need for the setup you have.
> >>
> > Not really "eliminate." I want to control when the fsck is run. I
> > don't want to be stalled on a reboot waiting for fsck to complete. I
> > only want to run it, say, on an evening when I know I have time. Also,
> > I don't see where it says that a bad block check is run. it may be
> > documented in the man page right in front of me, but I don't see it.
> > This isn't usually what fsck does by default. If I don't run the bad
> > block check (with the -c switch) then what I'm doing now runs fine.
> >
> > But to my original question: why doesn't what I'm doing work? Shouldn't
> > it? That's what I'm asking: why is adding the bad block check causing a
> > problem?
> >
> > -- Mark C, Allman, PMP
> > -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
> > -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
> Well, that's a really good question. I've done the bad block check and
> never had this problem before. You don't state in the OP that you've
> tried this from a rescue session to see what the bad blocks check
> displays from there. That might give you a hint perhaps.
>
>
>
>
I'm not sure what you mean by "rescue session." Do you mean booting
from a rescue disk? Hadn't tried that.
BTW, that brings up something else strange. I booted from the rescue
disk so I could delete the /forcefsck and /fsckoptions files. What the
rescue disk asked for was where the Fedora 7 CD images were (hard disk,
HTTP, FTP, CD-ROM, etc.) for repair. I hadn't seen that before. I gave
it a FTP site to go get images/stage2.<something I can't remember> and
got to the repair shell prompt. Just strange. Usually after the
keyboard, networking on/off, and "do you want to mount existing Fedora
filesystems" prompts, anaconda kicks off and I get to the repair shell
prompt.
-- Mark C, Allman, PMP
-- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
-- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263
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