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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
by jaivuk 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello guys, I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora 11. First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default one?! Second problem I have is shutdown button (and possibly restart as well) - when you click on shutdown button by mistake, system will shut - there is no confirmation dialog. I also tried to find some ways how to customize gdm in Fedora 11 but I did not find any usable guide. Can anybody please advise me how can I have prompt asking for username only (showing last logged user at maximum) and not displaying the list of all local users? Also can I somehow add confirmation or remove shutdown restart buttons from gdm screen? Or can you please advise any alternative to gdm? Thank you very much, Jan

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SMS server/gateway
by Jamie Bohr 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

I am looking for a SMS server software for RHEL. The phones we use can receive email but it does not always get to the phone in a timely manner and sometimes I get "connected refused" when trying to send messages via email. I've looked at smstools and Googled around but would like the forums opinion on what they have used and experiences. Thank you for your time, -- Jamie Bohr

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Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's
by JayLinux 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this: Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g. Opera, Adobe Reader, etc. so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L) This would be similar to the 'aptonCD' package in Ubuntu ( http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/) APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one > or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages > you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository > that you can use on other computers. > APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your > .deb packages located in one specific repository, so that you can install > them into your computers without the need for an internet connection. Thanks, Jay -- Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686)

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PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi there, the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit troublesome. I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager, but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly) under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab, but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the notification icon). I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root. And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do do ifdown and ifup each time that happens. Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated. /W

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Perl TK
by Patrick Dupre 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello, Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!) Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the widget ! I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Tk ; use strict ; my $types = [ ['Text Files', ['.txt', '.text']], ['TCL Scripts', '.tcl' ], ['C Source Files', '.c', 'TEXT'], ['GIF Files', '.gif', ], ['GIF Files', '', 'GIFF'], ['All Files', '*', ], ]; my $main = MainWindow -> new () ; my $filename = $main -> getOpenFile (-filetypes => $types) ; if ($filename ne "") { # Open the file ... print $filename ; } -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? AU files are Sun audio files - I have a very large number of them on a Sun server. Many of those do not play well on either of 2 f7 boxen (dual-core Athlon, if relevant - YMMV). However, so far _all_ of the ones I have tried work find with /usr/bin/aplay which is part of the alsa-utils package. Good luck -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I haven't found it (sorry...). My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor. I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be great - and much apprecited. Thanks in advance, -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars unimportant). To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison... Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either of these unless I missed them). Problem 1: network card goes to sleep. This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does not show any problems. The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day. If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing which works. Problem 2: slow local network. Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast. Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as I can make it. No workaround found so far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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