Release of FC 7 - tommorow.
by sizo nsibande
I have to say, I am anciouse to start my download of this new release
tommorow. I certainly hope the guys at Fedora don't suddenly decide to
move the schedule up to some other time. I guess we will all have to
wait and see then.
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16 years, 10 months
F7 and WLAN on Sony
by SternData
I've enabled Network Manager via chkconfig and rebooted. The system
sees the built-in wireless but it will not connect to my network secured
with WPA2. It spins for a while then gives up. What's the trick to this?
16 years, 10 months
Mail aliases help
by Poohba
I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username :
alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
sendmail. What else should I be doing?
16 years, 10 months
Robert Alan Soloway Arrested for SPAM!
by Mike McCarty
Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged
with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc.
Mike
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16 years, 10 months
New Mouse Install sans system-config-mouse
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
HI,
I decided to upgrade my mouse to
an optical wheel mouse. Shut down,
plug in, and reboot caused the crazy
mouse syndrome seen when the xorg.conf
file does not match the actual mouse.
system-config-mouse does not work
on FC6, FC7T4, nor CentOS5. Being
findrpm rpms for this package stop
at FC4, It appears support is being
dropped.
Putting back the old mouse worked
fine. My next plan of attack is to
disconnect the PS2 mouse connection
from the KVM and hope kudzu picks
up the change. Then reboot with the
new mouse plugged directly in and hope
kudzu picks up the new mouse.
I would then repeat this on the
FC7T4 box and the RH9 box and then
reassemble the KVM.
I am hoping that system-config-mouse
has been replaced by something just
as good that I have not found.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Bob S
16 years, 10 months
Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem
by V＠ly
hello! i've one day of my life downloading your FC6 DVD image. i've burnt it
and checked it for errors. it was ok so i "started" setup. you might wonder
why the "" around started... well the graphical setup just wouldn't start.
after the blue setup screen, at the part where it says "running
anaconda....." when it tries to detect my video card it only detects the
manufacturer which is nVidia but not the actual card which is a GeForce 6200
A-LE. the screen goes black and nothing happens. please include the
appropriate drivers for my video card in fedora 7. i really need a good
opensource release because i don't have the money to buy a MS OS.
i hope you'll fix this problem.
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>>> V@ly <<<
16 years, 10 months
FC6 and F7rc2 poweroff problem on server HP ML110
by Dario Lesca
Hi, On a HP ML 110 with this component:
> [root@ca1 ~]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7230/3000/3010 Memory Controller Hub (rev c0)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02)
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)
when I push the poweroff button or I run poweroff, the system start the
shutdown procedure, but when the system is Off, after 2 or 3 seconds it
restart! .. and when it is active, some USB device not work property.
Then in order for poweroff machine and do work USB device, i must
remove the power cable when the system is shutdown!!....
If I install on this server FC5 all work great.
There is a solution to this problem of FC6?
I have also install on this HP system F7rc2: with this version of Fedora
all work fine, but the poweroff via Button Press not work, I have see
witch acpid is not installed by default and there is run a new (for me)
process called
"hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event"
Is this process that it would have to be taken care to poweroff the
system? why do not do it?
Thank for your reply.
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Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>
16 years, 10 months
Re: I love IP Tables....
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Les <hlhowell(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> One thing missing in this discussion is the scale of costs. No
> individual, outside of maybe Bill Gates could begin to repay for the
> damage caused by a rogue computer spreading a virus. Nor can one
> individual be even considered of being capable of patching a flaw in a
> piece of readily available software of proprietary nature (remember that
> "reverse engineering" is banned by most user license agreements.) So
> lets say you get a law passed that puts the onus on an individual. You
> get hacked, and the hacker uses a bit of code inside your system to
> "spiff up" his latest virus/worm program. Your name is in the code
> (courtesy of the memory map when your bit was built). Now that code
> breaks out and infects 200,000 systems, bringing them to their knees.
> You had all the good AV stuff installed, the system had a firewall, but
> this particular hacker managed to slip by
As I have mentioned several times in my postings on this subject, the
law usually considers whether you have taken "reasonable and customary"
measures to protect against such things. Especially, see my previous
posting regarding a joyrider stealing a car.
Self-propagating viruses act a lot like the real thing. It doesn't take
a 100 percent inoculation rate to stop a real virus from spreading; only
getting enough of the population protected that the probability that the
infection can spread is low. One of the problems is that way too many
computer users don't understand their vulnerability and how harmful
having a vulnerable system is. This is what needs to change.
We've already seen a number of attack vectors go out of favor as a
certain large software vendor has patched the security holes in it's
operating system and other products. If a significantly larger
percentage of users were to install effective AV software, the problem
would drop significantly. I'm not saying it would go away but we would
probably see the people who write such software look to other
approaches. Some of these might initially be successful but having a
larger percentage of systems running effective AV software would mean
that such problems would rapidly be contained.
It would be nice if that same software vendor were to tighten up their
product rather than rely on after the fact patches like AV software.
Being as how their behavior has barely changed in over 25 years, I'm not
holding my breath.
Cheers,
Dave
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16 years, 10 months
Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update
by Langdon Stevenson
I have a Fedora 7 test 4 system that has just decided that it wants to
download 124 updates. Am I right to assume that this update represents
the final release of Fedora 7 and that I won't need to do anything else
to it?
Regards,
Langdon
16 years, 10 months
