Re: [akonstam@trinity.edu: Re: squirrelmail help. one more time.
by Warren Togami
akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:21:45PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>
>>akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
>>
>>>I got squirrelmail working on my dewsk machine by dumping dovecot and
>>>returning to the default imap server. However I notice the following
>>
>>Eh? dovecot is the default IMAP server, and should work very easily
>>with dovecot + squirrelmail RPMS as shipped in FC3.
>>
>>Warren
>
> Both dovecot and imap rpms are supplied in FC1. Which is the default
> who knows. But dovecot was not installed by default on my machine.
> dovecoat did not work for me with squirrelmail and imap did without
> any configuration. So I am using imap.
imap has been unsupported and not included in the distribution since
RH9, because of severe concerns about its reliability, security and poor
performance. I used it for many years too, until I realized that there
were better alternatives out there (pretty much anything).
You are probably using a very old and outdated package. Please beware.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
19 years, 5 months
RE: GNU grub boot loader
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
The odds are that the issue is the boot order in the BIOS. If you had boot from
hard drive first and CDROM second, starting with a blank hard drive would boot from
CD, but once there was something that looked bootable on the hard drive, it would
boot from the hard drive. This would produce what you were seeing.
When you power on, there is a screen which tells you to press Del, or F2, or F1,
or something to enter bios setup. Poke around till you find the boot options and put
the CDROM first and hard drive second (Usually has a name like Primary Master).
You can leave it that way as it will boot from the hard drive unless you stick a bootable
CD in the drive.
Bob Styma
-----Original Message-----
From: Church, Simon [mailto:schurch@lifemasters.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:54 PM
To: 'fedora-list(a)redhat.com'
Subject: GNU grub boot loader
Hello,
I am a newbie to Linux and have been installing Fedora Core 2. I recently tried installing all the packages and at some point the install bombed. However, now whenever I reboot the machine, it goes straight to the GNU grub utility. It seems to have overridden the ability to boot to my CDROM so that I can reinstall Linux again. Any idea how I get rid of this?
Thanks,
Simon
19 years, 5 months
GNU grub boot loader
by Church, Simon
Hello,
I am a newbie to Linux and have been installing Fedora Core 2. I recently
tried installing all the packages and at some point the install bombed.
However, now whenever I reboot the machine, it goes straight to the GNU grub
utility. It seems to have overridden the ability to boot to my CDROM so that
I can reinstall Linux again. Any idea how I get rid of this?
Thanks,
Simon
19 years, 5 months
Absolute symlinks hell!!
by Robin Atwood
My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted upgraded
my box. I used either 'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute symlinks
everywhere, eg:
[root@opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X
-> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. Is
there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe?
TIA
-Robin.
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19 years, 5 months
Req. for suggestions on alternate lite e-mail client.
by ashwin kesavan iyengar
Hi,
I am currently using evolution 2.0 (one that comes bundled with
FC3). It consumes approx. 127MB (thats what sys-monitor reported), that
a lot of memory. I have only 256MB. Can anyone suggest a e-mail client
app. thats light on memory & CPU. I am using FC3 on a Pentium III @
500MHz.
Thank you,
with regards
ashwin
19 years, 5 months
RE: Problems modifying / adding users groups
by Dan Burke
Sounds reasonable. How do I tell if it's enabled? I did some looking
on how to disable it, and it looks like creating a file
/etc/sysconfig/selinux and add SELINUX=disabled to it, and I also saw
passing selinux=0 as a kernel option on boot. But I can't reboot this
box until Saturday night, so I can't play with it until then.
Is there any way around this in the meantime? I mean, root should be
able to do anything, right?
I may just wind up vi'ing the group, passwd and shadow files and adding
the entries manually today.
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:27 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Problems modifying / adding users groups
Hi
"RuntimeError: couldn't get security context of `/etc/group': No data
available"
looks like selinux is enabled. disable it if you are not aware of the
implications
regards
Rahul Sundaram
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19 years, 5 months
Fedora Core 3 - upgrade notes
by Some Things
In case anybody cares, here are a few comment from one person's update
to Fedora Core 3.
--- Really, really bad ---
- On my box I need to enter "linux ide=nodma" at the very first prompt or
the install soon hangs. This is terrible. What if I didn't know
this. Its enough
to make a newbie give up. Isn't there a way for the IDE drivers to
attempt to use
DMA and it doesn't work fall back to nodma?
- Perhaps because of the above during the install, I got the popup dialog
saying a package could not be installed because the media might be corrupt.
I got this message lots ... maybe 25 times during the whole install.
There's a button to retry however, and this is my point, there is no way
to SKIP the package. Once I got this dialog for the words package.
I would be happy to skip this package if it meant getting to the end
of the install! Luckily, for me each time I asked it to retry it worked.
I seem to recall a skip option in earlier Redhat releases.
--- Could be better ---
- The boot is very ugly. In the rhgb there's a "Show Details" button
but it seems to click
itself at one point. Later it goes back to "no details" without
user intervention.
There are many screen mode changes as it switches to Kudzu. It
seems to have curses
problem drawing up. I tried disabling Kudzu and the details/no details switch
still occurs.
- Its nice that rpm makes .rpmsave backups of config files but it
should not make
the .rpmsave files when there is no change.
--- Nit picks ---
- Why not merge the zip and unzip packages just like both gzip and
gunzip are in the same package
- No description for libgpg-error as its installed (I said these were nitpicks)
- The description for system-config-network-tui begins "NEtwork". E
shouldn't be capitalized.
- The description of the httpd package doesn't mention Apache
- There are package names with underscore. But most have dashes. Inconsistent.
- Include yam (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam) in next release
- Isn't it time to rename yp to nis? (eg there's still /etc/yp.conf)
--- Nice ---
- Feels faster
- Firefox
- /etc/yum.repo.d is good
19 years, 5 months
Re: PCI card not being detected
by Paul Kopacz
James wrote:
Paul Kopacz wrote:
> I have a problem that I think is hardware based, but since people here
> seem to know something about everything, I thought someone might be
> able to give me some advice:
>
> I have a PCI modem which I have attempted to install into a box with
> an ECS P6LX-A+ motherboard. This computer does not seem to detect
> this card (as in lspci does not list the card).
Many BIOSes will list PCI cards they've detected immediately before
handing over control to the bootloader. The bootloader will often put up
its own display, so you don't get to see this.
Do I understand that all your hard drives are SCSI? Pull the SCSI card,
and see if you get a list of PCI devices. See if that card is in there:
the device numbers will be those reported by lspci -n if you stick it in
a computer that *does* recognise it.
Have you ever flashed the BIOS on this motherboard?
James.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I do get to see the list of PCI devices when the machine boots up, and
that device is not in it. I tried the same card in another computer
with the same motherboard (and no SCSI card) and it is not detected in
that one either. The BIOS is flashed as high as it can go, but that
BIOS is from the middle of 1999. I don't if it's possible that it
simply doesn't support some PCI standard that came in after this time.
Thanks,
Paul
19 years, 5 months
100% CPU activity
by ashwin kesavan iyengar
Hi,
At times, for no obvious reason the notches 100% activity. I would
like to know what causes this. I am using FC3 with Pentium III processor
@ 500MHz. I would also like to know whats the function of pre-linking ?
Thank you,
with regards,
ashwin
19 years, 5 months
Touchscreen Fedora Core 2
by Petar Nedyalkov
Hello list,
I have some problems with the configuration and installation of an Elo Systems
touchscreen. Following the instructions on Elo's site at
http://www.elotouch.com/Support/linux.asp I added the needed options in the
xorg.conf file:
<snip>
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Inputdevice "touchscreen1" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
#########################
# Touchscreen section #
#########################
Section "Inputdevice"
Identifier "touchscreen1"
Driver "elographics"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "AlwaysCore"
Option "screenno" "0"
Option "MinX" "600"
Option "MaxX" "3600"
Option "MinY" "600"
Option "MaxY" "3600"
Option "UntouchDelay" "3"
Option "ReportDelay" "1"
EndSection
</snip>
I detect the touchscreen at /det/ttyS0, but in the Xorg.0.log file I get the
following messages and errors:
<snip>
(II) LoadModule: "elographics"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/elographics_drv.o
(II) Module elographics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) TOUCHSCREEN: always reports core events
(**) Elographics X device name: TOUCHSCREEN
(**) Option "ScreenNo" "0"
(**) Elographics associated screen: 0
(**) Option "UntouchDelay" "3"
(**) Elographics untouch delay: 30 ms
(**) Option "ReportDelay" "1"
(**) Elographics report delay: 10 ms
(**) Option "MaxX" "3600"
(**) Elographics maximum x position: 3600
(**) Option "MinX" "600"
(**) Elographics minimum x position: 600
(**) Option "MaxY" "3600"
(**) Elographics maximum y position: 3600
(**) Option "MinY" "600"
(**) Elographics minimum y position: 600
(**) Elographics device will work in Landscape mode
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "TOUCHSCREEN" (type: Elographics
TouchScreen)
//this is repeated a lot of times
(--) Elographics touchscreen is a DuraTouch, connected through a serial link.
(--) The controller is a model E281-2310, firmware revision 1.3.
Unable to change Elographics touchscreen operating mode
Not at the specified rate or model 2310, will continue
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Unable to ask Elographics touchscreen identification
</snip>
Since a touch on the screen is detected at the port, and the server starts -
can you tell me where's my mistake?
Has anyone configured an Elo touchscreen under Fedora Core 2?
Thanks.
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19 years, 5 months