FC6 Java installation problem
by fyzyk007
Hi,
I wanted to install Java (jdk-1_5_0_10-linux-i586.bin) following the
instructions on FedoraFaq pages (http://www.fedorafaq.org/).
During the last installation point:
" yum localinstall /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-* "
i have got a message:
"Package java-1.5.0-sun-fonts-1.5.0.10-2jpp.i586.rpm is not signed"
and the installation did not get successful.
I do not know what it means "..NOT signed" or if there are some problems
somewhere else?
Cheers,
Jaroslav
17 years, 2 months
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com>,Subject:
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The way to get security is to make the system consistent and easily
> understandable.
Couldn't agree with you more. To me that means configuring services the
way most people will need them.
> If users need to hand-edit complex config files for
> common operations you haven't accomplished that.
That's just it. Probably 99% of all Linux installs don't entail
configuring the system as a true mail server. The FC and RHEL approach
means *MOST* users don't have to edit a complex config file.
> How, for example,
> would you advise a user to check for whether sendmail was active on the
> network or not, and how to change it?
Ask their mail server admin. They have no business running their own
mail server.
> Why should this differ from what
> you'd say about dovecot?
When I set up dovecot I had to edit /etc/dovecot.conf before it worked:
diff dovecot.conf dovecot.conf.centos
14c14
< protocols = imap imaps pop3
---
> #protocols = imap imaps
21,22c21,22
< imap_listen = 192.168.255.254:143
< pop3_listen = 192.168.255.254:110
---
> imap_listen = [::]
> pop3_listen = [::]
26,27c26,27
< imaps_listen = 192.168.255.254:993
---
> #imaps_listen =
87c87
< login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
---
> #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
92c92
< login_user = dovecot
---
> #login_user = dovecot
While the file is easy to understand, knowing what to enable or not
enable and why isn't. Should we have a dovecot configuration GUI?
> If every program is a special case, few people
> are going to understand the system well enough to keep it secure.
Agreed. That means it absolutely makes sense to install sendmail such
that the typical user doesn't have to understand how to configure it to
be secure.
How long are you going to keep insisting on something that very few
people need or want? Most people don't run a true mail server. They
connect to either their ISP's or their employer's mail server. They
don't want to have to know how to secure sendmail nor even how to enable
or disable it.
I can think of quite a few other system configuration tasks that I would
rather see Red Hat or the community put resources into over expending
effort on some kind of GUI sendmail configuration tool that most users
will never use and those who need to configure sendmail will ignore
because they know they need to edit sendmail.cf to correctly configure
it for their particular needs (e.g., filters, RBLs, etc.).
Dave
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17 years, 2 months
Multihead video cards?
by Knute Johnson
Does anybody have any multhead video cards running under Fedora or
any other Linux? I'm in the need of between 5 and 10 video outputs
for a project that is coming up and I would like to run it under
Linux. I know that Color Graphics used to make 4 and 8 port cards
and had drivers for them but they don't any more.
Thanks,
--
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Molon Labe...
17 years, 2 months
GRUB : could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
by Bruno Costacurta
Hello,
I'm using Fedora Core-6 and installed Core-7 on a third hard disk
but receive the following error when booting on it :
(note: first+second disks are RAID1+LVM, third disk is also under LVM)
..
found volume group VolGroup02 ..etc..
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
..
Please see Fedora Core-7' label hereafter.
I'm using LVM and have the following grub.conf:
#boot=/dev/mapper/isw_cfaabdceig_RAIDv0
default=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
# ---> error hereafter
title Fedora Core-7
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2949.fc7 ro
root=(hd2,0)/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2949.fc7.img
Thanks for any clue.
Bye,
Bruno
17 years, 2 months
udevtrigger absent
by Aaron Konstam
udevtrigger is not available in FC5 and I suspect is not available
Fedora versions. So restarting udev can't be done with udevtrigger on
those Fedora versions.
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17 years, 2 months
postfix .src.rpm fails to build on fc6
by Asrai khn
Hi am trying to build postfix-2.3.3-2.src.rpm with Mysql support on FC6 but
each time it fails and during build process it gives millions of lines
scrolling ...
(..)
postsuper.c:112:1: warning: "/*" within comment
postsuper.c:113:1: warning: "/*" within comment
postsuper.c:114:1: warning: "/*" within comment
postsuper.c:115:1: warning: "/*" within comment
postsuper.c:116:1: warning: "/*" within comment
postsuper.c:117:1: warning: "/*" within comment
(..)
And in end it exit with error ..
+ exit 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.651 (%install)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.651 (%install)
I have tried to build it on two different hosts but faced with same problem.
Any idea please ?
Thanks.
17 years, 2 months
Cached Swap?
by Mike McCarty
Ok, I asked before, what can "cached swap" possibly be, besides
an oxymoron. I have this line from top:
Swap: 524120k total, 133360k used, 390760k free, 61148k cached
I got the reply that this is not "cached swap", but just "cache".
However,
# cat /proc/meminfo | head
MemTotal: 248088 kB
MemFree: 7828 kB
Buffers: 4612 kB
Cached: 58268 kB
SwapCached: 66212 kB
Active: 181632 kB
Inactive: 10964 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 248088 kB
So I ask: What is SwapCached?
Mike
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17 years, 2 months
Time Zone Data
by James Kosin
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Eveyone,
I found this entry in the changelog for FC1; so, I'm not sure about
the worry for the timezone data being wrong. It looks like the plan
for the 4-week extension has been in place for years.
- -James
- --
* Tue Sep 6 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2005m-2
- - 2005m
- changes for USA (extending DST by 4 weeks since 2007), Tunisia,
Australia, Kazakhstan
- historical timezone data changes for Japan, Poland, Northern
Ireland and
Mali
- timezone name change for East Timor
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17 years, 2 months
Why does FC6 client become unresponsive during NFS write operations?
by Nick Thompson
My FC6 desktop client becomes unresponsive every 15-30 seconds for 5-15
seconds during long NFS write operations. My installation is up-to-date as of
this morning. This occurs with both an FC4 NFS server and another NFS server
I have running nfs-utils. I can't see any issues in nfsstat on the client:
[root@ratbert nick]# /usr/sbin/nfsstat --nfs
Client nfs v3:
null getattr setattr lookup access readlink
0 0% 39 0% 3 0% 16 0% 30 0% 0 0%
read write create mkdir symlink mknod
0 0% 476675 99% 2 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
remove rmdir rename link readdir readdirplus
3 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 223 0%
fsstat fsinfo pathconf commit
5 0% 10 0% 0 0% 376 0%
Client nfs v4:
null read write commit open open_conf
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
open_noat open_dgrd close setattr fsinfo renew
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
setclntid confirm lock lockt locku access
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
getattr lookup lookup_root remove rename link
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
symlink create pathconf statfs readlink readdir
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
server_caps delegreturn
0 0% 0 0%
On the server I see nothing wrong:
# cat /proc/net/snmp
Ip: Forwarding DefaultTTL InReceives InHdrErrors InAddrErrors ForwDatagrams
InUnknownProtos InDiscards InDelivers OutRequests OutDiscards OutNoRoutes
ReasmTimeout ReasmReqds ReasmOKs ReasmFails FragOKs FragFails FragCreates
Ip: 2 64 2033141 0 0 0 0 0 2033109 1264641 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icmp: InMsgs InErrors InDestUnreachs InTimeExcds InParmProbs InSrcQuenchs
InRedirects InEchos InEchoReps InTimestamps InTimestampReps InAddrMasks
InAddrMaskReps OutMsgs OutErrors OutDestUnreachs OutTimeExcds OutParmProbs
OutSrcQuenchs OutRedirects OutEchos OutEchoReps OutTimestamps
OutTimestampReps OutAddrMasks OutAddrMaskReps
Icmp: 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tcp: RtoAlgorithm RtoMin RtoMax MaxConn ActiveOpens PassiveOpens AttemptFails
EstabResets CurrEstab InSegs OutSegs RetransSegs InErrs OutRsts
Tcp: 1 200 120000 -1 2 205 0 0 1 2031363 1263636 2 0 0
Udp: InDatagrams NoPorts InErrors OutDatagrams
Udp: 1700 17 0 993
Any ideas what I can look at? I need to get NFS running for home directories,
but the machine using it become unusable when copying big files around.
Thanks,
Nick.
17 years, 2 months
How to add /sbin to useable paths on FC5
by Nigel Henry
I have a problem when compiling a library. I am upgrading Aldrin, a music app.
The latest version needs a library that used to be integrated in Aldrin, but
now needs to be installed separately. The library "libzzub" doesn't seem to
be available for FC5, at least not in extras, or freshrpms.
This library is built using scons, but when I su to root to do a "scons
install" it insists on running ldconfig, which it can't as it's not
calling /sbin/ldconfig, and lunches out saying there's a problem.
I had a look in /etc/profiles, and I'm sure on an earlier version of FC, I
added /sbin to the paths, but FC5 seems to be a bit different.
What do I need to do, so that it is not necessary to call ldconfig
as /sbin/ldconfig?
/etc/profiles on my FC5 install is below.
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
pathmunge () {
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
fi
}
# ksh workaround
if [ -z "$EUID" -a -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
EUID=`id -u`
UID=`id -ru`
fi
# Path manipulation
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
pathmunge /sbin
pathmunge /usr/sbin
pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi
# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
USER="`id -un`"
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
fi
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -r "$i" ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
unset pathmunge
What does "pathmunge" mean?
Thanks for any help with this problem.
Nigel.
17 years, 2 months
