syslogd stops functioning after logrotate?
by Peter Smith
I have a number of Fedora Core 3 servers, on all of which syslogd seems
to _stop_ logging after a time. I believe that it stops after a
logrotate. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, I will create a
bug for it.
Do a 'ls -la /var/log/messages' and look at the last date it was written
to and also the file size. If the file size is "0" then it is likely
that syslogd is not functioning and you will have to do 'killall -HUP
syslogd'.
The only thing specific I can think of about my configurations is I
typically turn compression on and alter rotate to be 999 in logrotate.conf .
Peter
19 years, 3 months
acer aspire 1523+FC3+ INPROCOMM IPN 2220+suspend
by Günther Fischer
Hi,
I have got a Acer Aspire 1523 and I've installed FC3/X86_64. Most works
well, some trouble with Nvidia and the 1280x800 I could solve from
dirfferent lists ...
2 open problems remain:
* I didn't get the the notebook to suspend mode - I tried klaptop
with different modes and also software-suspend (compile errors ...)
-> Has anybody solved this problem on an Acer Aspire 1523?
* INPROCOMM IPN 2220 is not supportetd:
-> Is anybody working on such a driver?
Thanks for your answers
Guenther Fischer
19 years, 3 months
Evolution POP - deleting messages when emptying trash.
by Ken Shaffer
I know that this is off topic, but I have spent hours trying to RTFM and
this is stopping me from killing my windows PC for good.
I am trying to use evolution, but I have POP mail only from several sources.
I need to read mail from many machines, so I leave mail on server with
outlook and
set "delete when removed from deleted items". I can leave mail on server
with evolution 1.4 or 2.x. But how can I ever delete messages after I trash
them. I have seen a few references to this issue as being "discussed and
dead". But, I can't find any more info.
I can't suck the mail to my Linux Box using fetchmail or such because I need
to get it from everywhere and I don't want to setup an IMAP server, static
DNS, a domain, etc etc. I CAN do all these things, as I have done it all,
but I have better things to do with my time.
What is the best solution to this? How does everyone else do it with
Fedora/redhat? Why is evolution not supporting this? I get the impression
that it is a religious issue, but I don't know why.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ken
19 years, 3 months
Intel Pro 2200BG wireless + WPA-SPK issue?
by Madhan Premkumar
Hi All,
I dont know whether this topic is discussed before in the list or not. But
i am posting here again.
Recently I installed Fedora Core 3 in my laptop. Everything went ok. But
struck with my wireless card. I have Intel Pro 2200BG wireless lan card.
I checked the open source of that site (http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net)
and installed the firmware and the driver in FC3 and bingo after restart
FC3 detected the hardware and after little work, i was able to connect to
my wireless router and hence to internet. But that is without security, ie
router is open to all. But when i set my router to WPA-SPK security, I
could not connect thereafter. I dont know whether Intel pro 2200BG driver
support WPA-SPK or not. Do anyone have any idea about this ? Like securing
the router instead of open in Fedora environment with Intel Pro 2200BG
wireless card ?
Help will be greatly appreciated.
I checked the sourceforge site.. but could not get enough information
about WPA-PSK stuff.
Thanks
Madhan
19 years, 3 months
VMWare + FC3 - Video = ???
by Ryan D'Baisse
Anyone know if there is a way to run VMWare v4.5 on a FC3 box without
the need for Gnome or KDE? I want to set up a machine just for the
purpose of serving virtual machines. Sure, if someone wants to log in
remotely to a Win2K virtual machine, they can use Terminal Service to
do it, but I should need the GUI on the server.
If VMWare won't do it, is there anything else that will?
Thanx,
Ryan
19 years, 3 months
firefox and java
by Gerhard Magnus
I'm trying to get the java plugin working with Mozilla Firefox running
under Fedora 3. I believed the Java Runtime Environment 5.0 has been
installed successfully in /usr/java/jrel.5.0. I put a link to the
file /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
Software I'm running from a website needs Java -- but I keep getting the
message that J2SE50 needs to be manually installed. I can't tell if
this is some problem at this website or that I haven't installed Java
correctly.
Is there anything obvious I've done wrong here -- or an easy way to
check if I've done things right? I was thinking of trying some other
website using Java in an obvious way so that if the plugin wasn't
installed correctly I could tell.
Any suggestions for troubleshooting this would be most appreciated.
19 years, 3 months
Firewire vs. USB
by Les Mikesell
I have an external hard drive with both USB and Firewire interfaces.
FC1 will recognize a firewire connection if I go through the
contortions of:
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe sbp2
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
FC3 automatically sets up scsi emulation and finds the
partitions if I connect the drive via USB, but the machine
where I want to use it only has USB1 which is too slow.
With a firewire connection, FC3 seems to get as far as
making the disk device appear as /dev/sdc, but times out
on any access and never finds the partitions. (The FC1
machine doesn't have any native scsi, the FC3 box does,
hence the /dev/sdc mapping). Is firewire support still
broken in the current FC3 kernel or should I be able to
make this work?
---
Les Mikesell
les(a)futuresource.com
19 years, 3 months
kernel settings with x86 hyperthreading
by Fabio
Hello,
I would like to know if hyperthreaded x86 computers need kernel SMP option
activated in order to use that feature.
Furthermore, in the above-mentioned case, I need to know if FC3 is provided
with a default SMP kernel because I have to install the distribution on a
hyperthreaded P4 box and only after a while I will have time for kernel
recompiling.
My last question is about the hyperthreading itself: Do we really get
improvements by turning on that feature? The kernel has been written with
supported multiple CPU operations, so I think it would benefit from hyper.,
but what about KDE, konqueror, kdevelop, qtdesigner and gcc (these are my
most used applications) ?
I thank you all in advance for each reply.
Fabio
19 years, 3 months
FC 3--where are the ptys
by Robert Love
I've just done a fresh install of FC3. I look in /dev and find there
are not any pty files listed. Shouldn't there be?
I have an app that is expecting to use /dev/ptypd and it fails because
it is not there.
So, does FC 3 have the usual ptys? Do I have a bad install?
How do I get them?
All advice appreciated.
19 years, 3 months
Memory Usage: Firefox / Evolution
by Ryan D'Baisse
Ooooh, HECK, no! Could someone please explain to me how Firefox could
be taking up 114MB (34 MB shared) and Evolution 207MB (26.7 MB
shared)?
Thanx,
Ryan
19 years, 3 months