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
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
3 months, 1 week
ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
by Angelo Moreschini
Hi,
my computer boot only in emergency mode ...
Looking the journalctl (command journalctl -xb), I found (in thejournalctl
) these lines in red color :
ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
(and after..)
ATA200: SRST failed (erro 16)
That seem indicate that it is a problem to access the HDs..
I found a possible solution to the problem in this post:
http://codeverge.com/opensuse.org.help.install/-solved-ata1-srst-failed-e...
There is wrote that :...the problem can depend by the physic set up of the
HD (as "master", "slave", "single drive", ...): this set up can be done by
changing the position of a jumper on the HD...
I know that, in the past time, the HDs had to be set physically in this
way.., but recently I never heart anymore that the modern HD need this
operation..
So actually I don't care anymore of the configuration of the HDs
(my HD is Toshiba 1 TB that I bought few mounts ago).
I would like to have a confirmation that what I read in the post is only an
obsolete information and, in any case, I would like to know also what I can
do to go around in my problem..
>From the command line: ls /dev/sd* I get:
give me this input :
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
Thank you
regards
Angelo
2 years, 12 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.
3 years, 3 months
F21: Thunderbird insists on calling Fedora list messages junk!
by William Mattison
Good afternoon,
Most messages received from this fedora list are labelled junk by
Thunderbird. This is even though I whitelisted "From" =
"users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org". Actually, I have this problem
both in my Fedora-21 and my windows-7 systems. Any ideas? Surely
messages from this list are not junk!
thanks,
Bill.
3 years, 7 months
smartd errors
by Paolo Galtieri
Folks,
recently I have started seeing these messages in /var/log/messages
Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16
Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16
Offline uncorrectable sectors
which are mounted as follows
/dev/sde1 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-1 type ext4
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
/dev/sde2 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-2 type ext4
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
I have unmounted the filesystems and run fsck on them and fsck reports
no errors.
[pgaltieri@jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde2
fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
NSM-SENSOR-2: clean, 11/45498368 files, 2905980/181964288 blocks
[pgaltieri@jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde1
fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
NSM-SENSOR-1: clean, 32/46080000 files, 2993510/184320000 blocks
It only reports errors on this drive.
Should I be concerned about what smartd is saying? How do I, if
possible, correct this?
Paolo
4 years, 1 month
VNC and sound
by Chris Kottaridis
I am running Fedora 22 on a machine that is off in a closet and am using
VNC to access it from a machine at my desk. I followed the instructions
in System Admin guide chapter 8:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/System_Administrators...
I successfully got Tiger VNC server working. it was quite easy. Cudos to
everyone involved to make that so simple.
My VNC client is Windows TigerVNC version 1.5.
I don't seem to get sound. It doesn't seem to come out on my VNC client
or on the VNC server's sound card. My remote machine is close enough
that I could run a wire from it's sound card to the speakers on my desk
if that is easier. But, right now I can;t get the sound to come out the
VNC server sound card.
Any pointers or recommendations are appreciated.
Thanks
Chris Kottaridis
4 years, 2 months
Fedora mirror speed's are low!
by Mihuleac Sergiu
Hi!
I'm from Romania, the speed from Fedora repo mirror is very low (from
50kb/s to 1 mb/s when it's good, usually the download speed stays
between 50 and 150 kb/s with the official repos and over 1 mb/s with
other repos ) when doing updates and when I install packages with dnf. I
tried using fastmirror module but I see there is no change and I lose
even more time because of the search for the best mirror.
1. What can I do to resolve this issue?
2. Is there a way to manually test mirrors and chose the best one for me?
3. How do I know witch mirror can I trust?
4. Where can I find a mirror list?
5. How can I create a local mirror?
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Best Wishes,
Mihuleac Sergiu
4 years, 2 months
nedit
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I cannot any more make CRT+C ctl+V under nedit as soon that there are
2 windows open.
Is nedit still maintained?
I would be happy to use another editor if I find one which let me
copy data by column (CTL+Maj V with nedit).
Thank for any help.
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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4 years, 2 months
