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KDE ssh-agent
by Michael D. Berger 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

On my FC7, it appears that KDE creates an ssh-agent when it starts. Is this a surprise? What is it for? My FC4 did not do that. Thanks, Mike.

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IMAPS and/or openssl problem
by Timothy Murphy 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I'm trying to access my IMAPS (dovecot) server on my laptop while on holiday. But when I run kmail I get the message "Could not connect to host <myserver>". Both server and laptop are running Fedora 7 + KDE. I suspect the problem lies in my openssl setup, as when I run openssl s_client -ssl2 -crlf -host <myserver> -port 993 I get no response - the program just waits until I press ctrl-C. As is probably obvious, I am fairly ignorant about all this. I can access my server with ssh, and so can change anything there, except that I am unable to access the ADSL modem, where I have opened peepholes for ssh, http and imaps (port 993). (I cannot access the modem because when I run firefox on the server it does not open a window on my laptop - perhaps an X-permissions issue?) Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Specifying tmp for tar
by Dotan Cohen 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I have a 2 GB bz2 archive that unzips to over 10 GB (wikipedia dump). Although I have over 50 GB free in /home, / has only about 8 GB free. Thus, as tar uses /tmp, the / filesystem fills up and I cannot continue. How can I specify a tmp directory for tar in my home directory? Note that man tar makes no mention of a tmp option. Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/

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Where is the root password?
by potat0 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I am trying to install Fedora on a pentium 5 using (F-7-i386-DVD.iso). All works OK, but I seem to have missed the part where I get to set the root password. My installation seems to have worked OK. I can log on with a user I created during the installation, however, with no root permissions. Is there a default root password that comes with the install? Thanks in advance. -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=180737&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame peterkane(a)iinet.net.au.

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thunderbird 2.0
by Martin Marques 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I installed a month ago Fedora 7 on my new Compaq Notebook, and when using Thunderbird found out that the search component (small box that lets you filter mail in the selected mailbox by sender, to or cc, body content, etc.) is missing and I can't find anywhere to enable it (if it's still part of thunderbird). Do I have to install it as an extension, because I search for it on thenderbirds addons with no luck. -- 21:50:04 up 2 days, 9:07, 0 users, load average: 0.92, 0.37, 0.18 --------------------------------------------------------- Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática | '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional | DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador ---------------------------------------------------------

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cron.daily hosed? crontabs update did it.
by SternData 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Since installing the crontabs update on each of my systems, cron.daily has not run. Aug 30 06:58:54 Updated: crontabs.noarch 1.10-15.fc7

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Re: Re-doing F7
by Robert McBroom 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

You can do the brute force method. The Everything DVD respin with updates requres a dul layer DVD. I don't see any duplicates in the file. Haven't picked up on how to cut things down although I don't use PAE, XEN, and such. Figuring out a package list that corresponds to some vision has probably put the unity project in a spin. TNWestTex

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Intel 82566DC-2 problem
by Michael Semcheski 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi everyone! I've got a computer I'm trying to install Fedora 7 on. It has an Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit NIC. It is the only NIC on the computer. But, its not showing up as eth0 (or anything else, for that matter.) I did an lscpci, and I see the NIC (that's how I know its an 82566DC-2). # lspci | grep Gigabit Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit... (typing from memory) # modprobe e1000 # lsmod | grep e1000 e1000 1117633 0 (typing from memory, the second number is 0) # dmesg | grep e1000 # dmesg | grep eth0 Nothing in dmesg about it. I understand the situation, it see the PCI device but e1000 doesn't think it should deal with it. What should I do? I'm kind of stumped here.

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Re: LVM or FS:EXT3?
by ke5c＠hot.rr.com 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

> > I'm just about to install F7 onto one of my machines. I have FC6 installed and happy on one of my boxes and Mandriva on another. I'm more used to managing FS:EXT3 or EXT2 partitions than FC6's LVM. If I set up the new box with FS:EXT3 at the partition stage will F7 have any problems? I have a 40Gb chunk of IDE and a 250Gb of SATA to play with. > I ignored LVM and went for the traditional EXT3 partitions with FC7. Didn't have any problems with that. I've, previously, had plenty of problems with LVM, and I need to be able to *EASILY* put drives in and out of different boxes, in different combinations, so I don't like LVM. I need a dual boot DOS and Linux box. Before LVM, I just installed a Linux distro (Ubuntu or Fedora), then gparted the ext down to make room for FreeDOS. Well, I tried that with Fe 7, and learned a lot (but not enough) about LVM. Unless I missed something, it is very, very hard to downsize a physical partition associated with LVM. I did a resize2fs to shrink the filesystem. Then I did a lvreduce to reduce the logical volume, and I ended up with the planned 3G unallocated within the physical partition after that, but try as I might, I could not get the physical partition to shrink. When I tried pvresize, even though I was supposed to have 3G unallocated within the physical partition, I kept getting an error and it refused to do the operation. I found this "pvresize will refuse to shrink PhysicalVolume if it has allocated extents after where its new end would be", but as I said I supposed had unallocated extents. Finally I just reinstalled Fe 7 with without LVM. I had an unusual application, and I can see where LVM might be great if you want to grow a (logical) volume to span hard drives. I can also see for the casual user who would never rezise his/her volumes, LVM is very transparent. Good luck!

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Linux suitable motherboard/µprocessor?
by Bob Goodwin 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

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