SATA optical drives
by David Fletcher
I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months.
Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's
even seen a dual layer disk :'(
SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA
optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to
buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable?
Is anybody already running them with Fedora?
Thanks for any advice/experiences.
Dave F
2 days, 21 hours
[FC8] ssh and CAC card???
by Todd Denniston
From what I understood, the change to openssh listed in:
rpm -q --changelog openssh |less
as:
"* Wed Jun 20 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 4.5p1-7
- experimental NSS keys support
- correctly setup context when empty level requested (#234951)
"
was supposed to allow the Common Access Card (CAC) to work with the shipped
Fedora 8 ssh.
As per NSS usual, everything is undocumented, i.e., `ssh-add --help` does not
help at all, and `man ssh-add` points to `ssh-add -s reader`
# ssh-add -s 0
Enter passphrase for smartcard:
SSH_AGENT_FAILURE
Could not add card: 0
# ssh-add -s 1
Enter passphrase for smartcard:
SSH_AGENT_FAILURE
Could not add card: 1
So does anyone know how to use the possible functionality, or are we reduced
to reading the source?
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
10 months, 2 weeks
Changing date with procmail
by Michael A. Peters
Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming
messages?
If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just
change it to the current date.
If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just
change it to the current date.
I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how.
I've done some searching, still have some to do.
Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if
necessary.
11 months, 3 weeks
Re: Backing up system
by gmspro
Hi,
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
With the SystemRescueCd I backed up the /dev/sda6 partition in /mnt/backup/ naming "diskimage"
After backing up operation the file has the automatic extension like "diskimage.000".
Is this file ok to restore?
If I name it "diskimage.gz" then it is automatically renamed with this extension "diskimage.gz.000"
But here below
http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots
the file is name like this:
"diskimage.pimg"
Do I have to name with the .pimg extension during backup to restore correctly?
And how can I restore it?
2 years, 3 months
VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom
I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora
firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site.
That site will be the place I present services to the world;
httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers"
and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net;
if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the
colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address,
and I am not opening any inbound ports.
There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive
are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html )
and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that
one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have
simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth,
and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the
main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail.
Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is
there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to
break with FC1 or FC2?
Keith
--
Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993
KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
3 years, 6 months
nc missing option -z
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have
internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z
option in particular. But now I see that has been removed:
$ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh
ncat: invalid option -- 'z'
Here is the excerpt from the old manual page:
-z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without
sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in
conjunction with the -l option.
Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement?
Thanks for any ideas.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
6 years, 6 months
Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?
by R. G. Newbury
gilpel(a)altern.org wrote:
> R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> > Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to
>> > change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows
>> > what causes this, or how to fix it.
>
> It seems somebody at the Fedora Forum had the same problem and solved it:
>
> http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-U...
>
> http://minilien.com/?s9wh5OnNYI
>
> You might also want to try without the "Solved" keyword. There are more
> results and sometimes people forget to add "Solved".
>
>> > It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and
>> > Ubuntu) an OS for experts only.....
>
> It could indeed be better but geeks will always come up with the right
> keyworks and show you the solution was there, somewhere.
>
> It's easier to find the right keywords when you know the solution :)
I wasn't searching using "Solved" and the only keyword 'kstartupconfig4'
And *that* answer does not work. My home dir was already 'user:user'.
I have also confirmed the chcon context is now
'unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0' for /home/user
And it doesn't work! Still get the error and no login.
Geoff
--
Please let me know if anything I say offends you.
I may wish to offend you again in the future.
Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."
7 years, 11 months
Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?
by R. G. Newbury
On 07/24/2009 06:29 PM, gilpel(a)altern.org wrote
<snip>
> I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a
> pause for choosing the kernel. If they don't like this setting, they
> wouldn't have to use vi, just the Administration menu. All it takes is a
> few seconds and, thereafter, they would never have to suffer a pause when
> they reboot every six month.
>
> What's the name of the guy responsible for this mess? Can you imagine
> proselytizing Mac users and having to make sure they understand they will
> have to change a default setting, otherwise, they may be locked out of
> their system?
Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to
change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows
what causes this, or how to fix it. (Well, if there IS a 'great expert'
who knows this, he's not talking). And what happens when you get this
error? You cannot log in as a normal user.
So I've been forced to log in as root for well over a month now on this
laptop. (Quick! Get the smelling salts! A grey-bearded pony-tailed guru
just fainted with an attack of the vapours!)
And the problem has existed since I "upgraded" to F11...I suspect it has
something to do with the fact that the /home partition was retained from
F10 and that the chcon context might have something to do with it, but
then, like pulseaudio, chcon has entirely too minimal a set of
documentation. And I didn't even know chcon existed until a week ago,
when it turned up as the possible source/answer to a completely
different question about httpd.
It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and
Ubuntu) an OS for experts only.....
Geoff
--
Please let me know if anything I say offends you.
I may wish to offend you again in the future.
Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."
7 years, 11 months
Re: Ranter or evangelist?
by Antonio Olivares
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote:
> From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org>
> Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:32 PM
> 'Tonio wrote:
>
> > Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook
> and others. In a
> > last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code
> to linux. Check out
> > this at distrowatch.
> >
> > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720
>
> Since Linux is strongon th server market, they want to
> attract them to
> Hyper-V, from what I've read. So?
>
> > BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they
> > really falling off
>
> Red Hat signed "a contract" and Suse signed "a contract",
> so Red Hat ans
> Suse are just the same for both signing "a contract".
>
> Which "a contract" have both companies signed?
>
> --
The stories about Microsoft releasing code, was more of a another way to cover up for a GPL violation :(
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/
http://www.osnews.com/story/21882/Microsoft_s_Linux_Kernel_Code_Drop_Resu...
Not really because Micro$oft wants to help out a rival or a plague like Steve Ballmer once said. The truth comes out sooner or later.
Regards,
Antonio
7 years, 11 months
