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Fedora needs some audio-fun added to it.. There's probably thousands of sounds to choose from...
by Linda McLeod 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Fedora needs some fun added to it.. ummm..? Keys custom set to play instant sounds.. a blood-curdling scream.. a barrage of extreme uncontrollable laughter.. a powerful fart, or two.. an idea sound.. a drum roll.. a sudden ripping-blast-rift on the congas, and/or on the bongos.. a sound of a well starched fedora tossed to the hat-rack, and of it spinning to a rest.. a ship's fog-horn... A most wicked powerful panther's growl... a wicked testosterone-overload cryptic-laugh.. umm..? sweet liddo wee canaries chirpin' soft sounds..? bees a buzzing... There's probably thousands of sounds to choose from... -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web

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Apache vulnerability?
by Alex 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi, I thought someone might be familiar with apache and expected behavior to know whether the access_log entries below are attack attempts, or something less alarming. I'm seeing repeated entries like these from a handful of IP addresses at a time, all with 404 errors using "POST /index.php": 222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:29 -0400] "POST /index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 7168 "http://www.example.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 31508 7609 222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:46 -0400] "POST /index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 7169 "http://www.example.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 85912 7610 Is this a known exploit attempt? The server has been responding slowly, and I believe this is partly the cause. How can I troubleshoot this further? Thanks, Alex

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Constructing Grid on Fedora
by Abu Attar Musharih 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Dear List, I have a cluster of several PCs, each is running Fedora, either 14 or 15. I want to make this PCs grid enabled, so I installed globus ( http://www.globus.org/ ) and made a server with a global IP and with a subdomain. My main objective is to be able to run parallel programming (mpi), harnessing the idle CPUs of onlines nodes. The stage at a moment, I have successfully set up simple-CA and the GSI of the server. Globus commands works fine, for example: ++++ $ globus-hostname-lookup fedora.org Resolving address (fedora.org) ------------------------------- Numeric address: 67.40.49.xxx Expected DN suffix: /CN=host/hoxx.trippy.org ++++ $ grid-proxy-init Your identity: /O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-localhost.localdomain/OU=localdomain/CN= Abu Attar Enter GRID pass phrase for this identity: Creating proxy ............................................ Done Your proxy is valid until: Wed Nov 2 05:01:04 2011 ++++++ I tried but failed to copy a file from one node to a server. $ globus-url-copy file:///home/username/Grid/Codes/cpi.c gsiftp://domainname/ The message is as follows, error: globus_xio: Unable to connect to domainname:2811 globus_xio: System error in connect: No route to host globus_xio: A system call failed: No route to host It seems something to do with the port 2811. Checking /etc/services of the server gave the port number and the protocol ++++ root$ less /etc/services | grep gsi gsigatekeeper 2119/udp # GSIGATEKEEPER gsiftp 2811/tcp # GSI FTP gsiftp 2811/udp # GSI FTP gsidcap 22128/tcp # GSI dCache Access Protocol ++++ As I do not have any experience, I have no idea how to fix it. I mainly rely on internet searching, but still can not find the answer. I expect from this list some suggestions or any comment. Thank you very much in advance. with best, AA

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SL6 to F16??
by Beartooth 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

I've been playing with Scientific Linux on an oldish machine, and now I want to try F16 with xfce -- *not* live, but installed, with the .iso on a DVD. I realize that requires me to install the gnome version and then add xfce. Do I just command "yum install xfce," or is there something more esoteric? In the course of playing with SL, I've put spare copies of various data into it, and of course tweaked all sorts of things, many of them a tad bit tedious; I'd like to preserve them into the F16 install. Is there a way Fedora can treat SL6 as if I were upgrading earlier Fedora install? I see this : $ uname -a Linux Hbsk.localdomain 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 17:20:08 CDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux There's plenty of space for dual-booting. I suppose I could install into free space, boot to it, mount the SL partition, and copy stuff. But that sounds like needless hassle to me, even if I got all of it right. Is there another way?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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TV Tuner cards?
by Alex 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi, I'm interested in a TV tuner card that I can connect to my roof antenna with a RG6 coax, and wondered if anyone had any suggestions? I've used the Happauge cards in the past, but that was quite some time ago. I've found the linuxtv.org page, and although they have a list of available TV tuners, they don't really give any impression on which have the best features, etc. I'd probably also like to set up MythTV at some point. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Alex

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localhost udp bind: address in use
by Michael D. Berger 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

I have some complex multi-thread C++ code in which I do some internal signaling with udp sockets: snd: 127.0.0.1:6501 rcv: 127.0.0.1:6502 On my new F15_64 box, I usually get: errno=98=Address already in use in response to the bind command when I bring up the snd socket (which is first up) even when I just come up from power off. Rarely, it works. I have no idea why. If I ignore the 98 error, I get a write error on the socket. Even when it fails, netstat -uap shows the socket, which is not a surprise, and it is not there when the program is not up. Now on my old CentOS 5_32 box, the same code (but, of course, compiled for 32) works with no problem. I can start and stop it rapidly with no problem. Thanks for your suggestions. Mike. -- Michael D. Berger m.d.berger(a)ieee.org http://www.rosemike.net/

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Drawer in xfce?
by Beartooth 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

I'm running xfce on an expendable laptop (under F16, in case that matters) which can also boot into gnome. How do I add a drawer or three to a panel? -- Beartooth Staffwright

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pppd over ssl worked until dreytek ADSL / broadband added to the mix
by Gary Stainburn 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi folks. I've set up another Fedora box as a VPN gateway. Working locally on the LAN everything worked fine. However, I've just installed it now at a remote site using that site's Dreytek Vigor ADSL router over a BT broadband and now I have a problem with the pppd connection constantly dropping / raising. The pppd link is raised using the following: /usr/sbin/pppd updetach noauth passive \ pty "ssh $HOST -P -o Batchmode=yes /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach notty noauth" \ $LocIP:$RemIP Which worked before and still does. However, as the /var/log/messages extract shows, there is definitely a problem. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to fix it. Gary Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5479]: Exit. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5496]: Exit. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:47 sma pppd[5513]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:47 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5513]: Exit. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5530]: Exit. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5547]: Exit. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: Using interface ppp1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/1 Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: Modem hangup Oct 31 23:25:48 sma pppd[5564]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:25:48 sma avahi-daemon[1050]: Withdrawing workstation service for ppp1. -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk

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