mozilla-mail & /var/spool/mail/$USER
by Raghu Vadapalli
Can I access my /var/spool/mail/$USER using mozilla-mail &
thunderbird. When I use the wizard all I see is pop/imap options. may
be it's a too dumb question. But any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Raghu.
19 years, 7 months
Yum repository with nessus
by Douglas Phillipson
Doen anyone know of a yum repository that includes the nessus vuln scanner?
Thanks
Doug P
19 years, 7 months
bz2 without mpg's
by chris
I am wanting to create a bz2 arcive of some files but without adding
mpg's. Anyone know a command or program that I can do that with.
19 years, 7 months
dynamic signatures
by Bestin P. Jose
i have a dynamic signature generation program(shell script).
i am using pine as mail client.
i want to have dynamically generated signatures for each mail i compose.
how to do this?
thanks,
Bestin Jose
19 years, 7 months
Sound Card Detection Problem
by Brandon Cirella
Fedora does "detect" my sound card but what it detects is not my sound
card. Is there any way I can manually set my sound card so I can get
sound?
19 years, 7 months
Sound problems in KDE
by Søren Neigaard
Hi
I have some strange sound problems on my system (Fedore Core 2 running
KDE). Its like the sound is always a little behind, both in games and in
MPlayer.
Also in MPlayer I cant adjust the sound.
I am using aRts both for xmms and MPlayer, and in xmms I can adjust the
sound but I cant in MPlayer (I cant even move the bar).
Any ideas whats wrong here, and how to fix it?
Best regards
Søren
19 years, 7 months
fedoratracker.org: An update and a request
by Brad Smith
Hi folks,
First the update: Since fedoratracker.org launched the number of
packages indexed by it has increased dramitically. This, as I'm sure
many of you have noticed, has had a very serious affect on
performance. When the problem got so bad that I found myself googling
for packages instead of using my own tool (believe me, that is _not_ a
fun position to be in) I knew something had to be done before FC3 was
released.
So, long story short, over the last several months I've devoted an
inordinate amount of time to comepletely re-writing chunks of the
Tracker's back-end code to improve performance and am pretty happy
with the results.
Improvements in this revision:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Very significant increases in package search speeds. Listing all
packages in FC1 now takes about 9 seconds, for example. Once the DB
has cached the result, the same search takes only 3 seconds.
- Scalability improvements (so you can expect it to stay fast for the
forseeable future)
- Results are now shown 25 at a time instead of loading every match at
once. I'm open to feedback about whether this number should be
increased.
- You can now search by package category, something I've been wanting
to implement for a long time
- Improved logging and exception handling
Known issues that I will fix when I can, but have no timeframe for
because I have to get back to the Real Job(tm)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Repository searches can still take about 15-20 seconds. I've figured
out ways to cut this time down significantly but haven't had time to
implement them yet.
- For some reason the fedora.us repos did not index properly during
the last nightly database update. Hopefully this problem will fix
itsself on the next run.
- I just noticed that the link for listing files in a package doesn't
currently show anything. Not sure why this is. Probably a quick fix
once I get around to it.
Please check it out and I hope you find it useful. If you have
comments, questions or bug reports, either respond in this thread or
email brads -at- red hat com.
http://www.fedoratracker.org
--Brad
19 years, 7 months
Fedora Upgrade
by Sri Chav
Is there a way to just change the boot loader configuration without
installing or upgrading Fedora? I have Fedora installed on my secondary hard
disk. However, the install cd will not let me change the boot loader since
the kernel parameters were not changed. Any suggestions/ideas?
Thank you
-s-
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19 years, 7 months
Re Problem copying files
by Ian Malone
(sorry, hadn't realised thread was still going)
Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:02:31PM +0100, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> ....
>> Could not write to /mnt/.....
> ....
>> It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions
>> and so on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones
>> with norwegian characters..
>> One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc
> nødbrannpumpe.doc
> 00000000: 6e c3 b8 64 62 72 61 6e 6e 70 75 6d 70 65 2e 64 |
n..dbrannpumpe.d
> $ touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc'
> touch: setting times of `nødbrannpumpe.doc': No such file or directory
> The file name is not a legal file name for this type
> of file system.
> $ df .
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 46786 6 46780 1% /mnt/flash1
> $ mount
> ....
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
> ....
<snip>
> A bit of digging may still be required but it looks as if the two
> bytes used for the multi byte character "ø" are not in the legal
> character set:
> (space) ! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . 0-9 ; = @ A-Z [ ] ^ _ ` a-z { } ~
They're not, and judging from his reply in this thread, changing the
name isn't a problem for the OP. I should point out, though, that it
is possible to successfully use utf8 filenames on a vfat volume by
giving mount the '-o utf8' option. I'm not sure how you would get the
updfstab system to add it though, so I can only suggest manually
'-o rw,nosuid,nodev,user,uid=bob' (and last time I tried, just doing
a remount isn't good enough, the volume must be unmounted, then
mounted with the new options). On top of that it will likely make
garbage of existing filenames with high bit characters, but I don't
/remember/ it being destructive.
This is quite useful if you dual boot with Windows (for Millenium
anyway), since windows also appears to use utf8 for filenames,
and files with names like "Veinte Años.ogg" can be shared bewteen
Linux and Windows. It's also likely to be useful when copying
files from a flash drive that were taken from a Windows machine
(although only the name will be affected, contents should be
readable regardless).
--
imalone
19 years, 7 months