A yum/KDE problem ? -
by Bob Goodwin
I had to do "yum update --disablerepo=kde-*" this morning to get the
system update to run.
Is there a yum/kde problem or is something broke in my system?
Bob Goodwin
16 years, 12 months
Kernels removal.
by david walcroft
I have this setup in
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
[main]
enabled=1
# this sets the number of package versions which are kept
tokeep=4
But installing the latest kernel removed all existing bar two kernels
Any ideas why.
Thanks david
16 years, 12 months
problem with 1680x1050 resolution
by Phil
I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
resolution.
I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...
Any help would be appreciated.
16 years, 12 months
Redefining udev permissions on a given device (/dev/isdninfo)
by Felix Schwarz
Hi,
I'm using Fedora Core 6. My ISDN card (Fritz!Card PCI v2) was detected by Fedora
and works flawlessly.
Now, udev sets the permissions on /dev/isdninfo in a very secure way so that I
can't access as a ordinary user.
> [fs@ws2 ~]$ ls -la /dev/isdninfo
> crw------- 1 root root 45, 255 28. Apr 13:23 /dev/isdninfo
I like to have the permissions that way:
> [fs@ws2 ~]$ ls -la /dev/isdninfo
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 45, 255 28. Apr 13:23 /dev/isdninfo
How can I configure udev so that the permissions will be set appropriately?
I think the basic permissions are set in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
> [root@ws2 udev]# grep -R isdn /etc/udev/
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdn*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660"
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdnctrl*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660"
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="isdnctrl0", SYMLINK+="isdnctrl"
What I do understand is that /dev/isdninfo has the mode 0600 after booting (not
0660 as in the mode setting above).
Changing /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules (even though this is discouraged) to
> KERNEL=="isdn*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"
showed no effect.
Same goes with creating /etc/udev/rules.d/99-isdninfo.rules:
> KERNEL="isdninfo", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"
[1] ("Customizing Udev on Fedora" / "Permissions") suggests that one should
create a .permissions file in /etc/udev/permissions.d/. According to [2] this is
obsolete since udev 053 but I tried nevertheless:
> [root@ws2 udev]# cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/99-isdninfo.permissions
> isdninfo:root:dialout:0644
No effect either.
So basically I am stuck and don't know how to redefine the permissions on
/dev/isdninfo.
Any help is appreciated!
fs
[1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/udev/
[2] http://www.jetico.com/linux/bcrypt-help/l_probl.htm
16 years, 12 months
To Internet-install or not to...
by Frode Petersen
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution :
> Download a single small CD and install from the Internet
>
> Under the distribution 'os' folder (mirror list), in a folder
> named 'images', you can find a small boot.iso file, which can be
> burned to CD and used to start an Internet-based install. Please
> be aware that there are reliability concerns associated with this
> installation method, and it should probably not be attempted by a
> novice user or the faint-of-heart. This method is often of interest
> to testers.
Have anyone any experience with this method of installation? If I
install from a DVD, then most of the packages would be updated from the
internet anyway, so why not start there?
I'd like to know what those 'reliability concerns' are, though. Pro and
cons, anyone? :-)
Frode
16 years, 12 months
2 questions about relay mail servers and secondary mail servers.
by Dan McCullough
I hope everyone is having a good day or evening depending on where you
are, if I woke you I apologize.
I am looking to add redundancy and solve some ongoing mail issues. My
first issue is that I want to setup a second mail server to act as a
fail over mail system, so that if the first one is unavailable there
is a small fail-over until the other one is fixed, turned on, plugged
in, whatever. Now for some information I am using Fedora, Postfix,
Dovecot, etc for the mail server setup. Also the system does not
store emails, except in the case that someone is out of the office,
but as a rule very few people have mail stored on the server.
Are there steps out there to follow?
Are there pro's and con's?
Any real experiences?
The other thing that I am looking to do is for our satellite offices
is installing small mail relay servers, that will allow internal staff
to relay mail, rather then connecting to the vpn and sending mail that
way. One thing that I have noticed is that the smaller offices are on
DSL and have some issues when sending large > 5MB attachments, which
is a lot of their mail, and we will have issues where the mail server
here will not get all the data in time and drop the connection before
it has finished. So my thinking was give them a relay mail server
that would send mail here, if it dropped it would continue retrying
until successful, unless I am missing the point. However I have been
told that mail relay might be a problem with DSL connections as those
typically get labeled as spam since they are dynamic IP addresses,
technically our IP addresses are labeled dynamic even though their ISP
consider them static.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
16 years, 12 months
SMART errors - are they for real? or, BIOS weirdness?
by Thufir
I'm getting SMART errors, but I'm not sure how much credence to give
them. It seems to be the same two e-mails over and over.
I recently had to bring the pc to the shop because it wouldn't power on.
I thought that the power supply had failed, but the guy did something to
the BIOS. I don't have the hardware details at the moment, but could the
error be more of a configuration thing rather than an actual hard drive
thing?
One of the e-mail's:
PINE 4.64 MESSAGE
TEXT Folder: INBOX
Message 51 of 57 ALL
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:51:00 +0100
From: root <root(a)localhost.localdomain>
To: root(a)localhost.localdomain
Subject: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host:
localhost.localdomain
This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
host name: localhost.localdomain
DNS domain: localdomain
NIS domain: (none)
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hdb, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.
Thanks,
Thufir
16 years, 12 months
Re: Where's The Link
by Bob Chiodini
replies-lists-a1z2-redhat(a)listmail.innovate.net wrote:
> i use clamav as a milter, and that message came through fine.
>
>
> Sender: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.1/3191/Wed May 2 02:44:17 2007 on ...
> X-Virus-Status: Clean
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291
>
> I thought that since there are lots of threads on webcams ...
>
>
> you appear to be using clamav 0.88.7 which is a tad old. 0.90.2 is the
> current release. don't know if that's the source of the issue.
>
>
> - Rick
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 07:56:45 AM -0400
>> From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin(a)bellsouth.net>
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>> Subject: Where's The Link
>>
>> Original message:
>>
>> Philip Walden wrote:
>>
>>> I thought that since there are lots of threads on webcams in this
>>> forum, that this article would provide good reading.
>>>
>>> phil
>>>
>>>
>> Where's the link? Oh wait:
>>
>> Sender: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>> Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>> X-Spam: [F=0.0000000000; S=0.010(2007032701); MH=0.000(2007050158);
>> R=0.010(s10/n6893)]
>> X-MAIL-FROM: <fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com>
>> X-SOURCE-IP: [192.168.16.111]
>> http: //www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291
>> <------------------ here it is!
>> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3191/Tue May 1 22:44:17 2007 on
>> littlenail.chiodini.net
>> X-Virus-Status: Clean
>>
>> I thought that since there are lots of threads on webcams in this
>> forum, that this article would provide good reading.
>>
>> phil
>>
>>
>> It looks like clamav is mucking around, adding a space after http:
>> and putting header info after the link and before any other text.
>> Sending a link from Firefox to a user not running clamav sees the
>> embedded link correctly. Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>>
>
>
Rick,
Thanks for the input. Where did you get the 0.90.2 version?
I went to bugzilla (Redhat's) after posting and found some references to
0.90 indicating problems. Supposedly that's why a newer version is not
up on the repo. See the following:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230075
I've been using 0.88.7 for quite a while, judging by the "DON'T PANIC"
warnings I've been seeing in the daily logwatch reports.
I just did a couple more tests, using the "Send Link" option from
Firefox. It seems that putting a blank line prior to the link avoids
the problem. Also tried konqueror (send URL option). Same issue the
URL is missing from the email after clamav(-milter) scans it.
Bob...
Bob...
16 years, 12 months
rsync -S
by Terry Horsnell
rsync and tar offer the -S switch for 'handling sparse files efficiently'.
But when would I ever want to handle them INefficiently? i.e. why doesnt it
do this automatically?
Cheers,
Terry.
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