Change login screen background?
by Geoffrey Leach
Does anyone know how to change the background used for the login
screen? It's not gnome-appearance-properties, BTW.
13 years, 4 months
pure number allowed as username in the useradd command?
by Joachim Backes
Can somebody explain why pure numbers are allowed for username in the
useradd command?
sudo useradd 123456789
is not rejected!
As is known, this leads to big problems if referring to such a user and
the username differs from the userid: should such a username be
interpreted as username or userid?
Thanks for each comment.
Kind regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
13 years, 4 months
Can't boot from live CD
by Konstantin Svist
USB optical drive, nothing interesting.
F13-Live-XFCE-i386 boots fine
F14-Live-XFCE-x86_64 complains that it can't find root
13 years, 4 months
Final release of RHEL 6
by Jatin K
Hello
does anyone know , what are the final release date for the RHEL 6
Warm Regards
--
°v°
/(_)\
^ ^ Jatin Khatri
Registerd Linux user No #501175
www.counter.li.org
No M$
13 years, 4 months
capi4linux service
by Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow fedora users,
I have several machines running Fedora 14 and I get the message:
Starting capi4linux: udev-work[46X]: kernel-provided name 'capi' and NAME= 'api20' disagree, please use SYMLINK+= or change the kernel to provide the proper name
Does this "service" do anything special or important on the computer that is is "really needed"?
I am deliberating whether to
# service capi4linux stop
# chkconfig capi4linux off
and not see it again?
I see machine freezing randomly too, Don't know what to blame, nouveau, capi4linux, or other thing? Machine froze several times since Fedora 10, but then had not froze, but now it does and screen just changes color. Is there something I can do,
NO I won't check the memory, been there and done that. Memory tests report fine :)
Thanks for advice/suggestions/ and other answers are greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Antonio
P.S. will give smoltProfile if needed to determine if that could be what is wrong?
13 years, 4 months
F14 pycurl update seems to have broken yum
by John Wendel
Yum update Tuesday morning, now yum is broken with pycurl error 6. Can't
connect to any repos.
Any clues on how to recover will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
13 years, 4 months
flash.exe files
by Hiisi
Hi, List!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no way to run windows exe flash
movies under linux without wine? I have a foreign language video
tutorial packaged for windows users. On the course dvd there's all data
(video lessons, images and texts in xml format). Testing it under
VirtualBox windoze xp reveals that main executable (start.exe) opening
flash player with different menus and buttons. Without that it's
difficult to organize all that stuff in right order. However performance
of video under VirtualBox is very poor. And I don't want to install wine
on my machine. It would be a big hole in security. So, any suggestions?
TIA
--
Linux is obsolete
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
13 years, 4 months
looking for arping or equivalent tool
by Claude Jones
Arping was a useful tool that was discontinued during the RHEL5
lifecycle and I have not been able to find an installable
equivalent for Fedora 14 due to glibc dependencies.
Does anyone know of a tool that can broadcast an ARP announcement
saying "this IP should resolve to this MAC” and let you specify
both
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
13 years, 4 months
freezing machine smolt profile
by Antonio Olivares
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c986f9a2-3c1f-47c5-a58f-72cfa19bcc87
capi4linux service, started machine with acpi=off because it "freezes" :(
Welcome to Fedora
Starting udev: [ OK ]
Setting hostname emachines-el1200-01e: [ OK ]
Setting up Logical Volume Management: 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_emachinesel120001e" now active
[ OK ]
Checking filesystems
/dev/mapper/vg_emachinesel120001e-lv_root: clean, 336161/3276800 files, 2613456/13107200 blocks
/dev/sda1: recovering journal
/dev/sda1: clean, 40/128016 files, 65151/512000 blocks
/dev/mapper/vg_emachinesel120001e-lv_home: recovering journal
/dev/mapper/vg_emachinesel120001e-lv_home: clean, 33194/6348800 files, 1024046/25378816 blocks
[ OK ]
Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ]
Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]
Entering non-interactive startup
Starting monitoring for VG vg_emachinesel120001e: 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_emachinesel120001e" monitored
[ OK ]
ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]
Starting capi4linux: udevd-work[463]: kernel-provided name 'capi' and NAME= 'capi20' disagree, please use SYMLINK+= or change the kernel to provide the proper name
[ OK ]
Starting auditd: [ OK ]
Starting portreserve: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: [ OK ]
Starting irqbalance: [ OK ]
Starting rpcbind: [ OK ]
Starting mdmonitor: [ OK ]
Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters... [ OK ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]
Starting Avahi daemon... [ OK ]
Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ]
Starting cups: [ OK ]
Starting acpi daemon: RTNETLINK1 answers: No such file or directory
acpid: error talking to the kernel via netlink
[ OK ]
Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]
Retrigger failed udev events [ OK ]
Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): [ OK ]
Enabling Bluetooth devices:
Starting sshd: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
Starting abrt daemon: [ OK ]
Starting console mouse services: [ OK ]
Starting crond: [ OK ]
Starting atd: [ OK ]
Registering binary handler for Windows applications: [ OK ]
Thanks for advice, on this or other thread :> )
Regards,
Antonio
[olivares@emachines-el1200-01e ~]$ uname -r
2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64
[olivares@emachines-el1200-01e ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
13 years, 4 months
bind
by Genes MailLists
Does the version in koji (bind-9.7.2-1.P3) resolve :
CVE-2010-3613
CVE-2010-3614
CVE-2010-3615
Which *seem* to only impact versions up to P2 - am I correct in
thinking this version indeed resolves the above 3 issues ?
Thanks !
13 years, 4 months
