Are the logs in /var/log/ automatically rotated?
by Don Bedsole
Hi,
I was wondering if the logs in the /var/log directory
(especially /var/log/messages) are automatically deleted after a certain
period of time or when the log file gets to a certain size. Or, is this
something that needs to be set up manually by the user using a cron job or
something like that? I have just changed my iptables rules to include some
logging and the messages go to /var/log/messages. I'm not too worried about
getting my hard drive filled up with log messages, but I don't want to save
them forever either. Thank you.
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18 years, 2 months
FC4 kernel with nvidia driver
by Randy Vice
Are there any rpm'd FC4 kernels for nvidia's driver? I know, evil closed
source driver, but AFAIK, I'll need it for using Cedega (transgaming).
Figure closed source driver is better then dealing with multi-booting XP
with FC. ;)
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18 years, 2 months
The triple boot possibly from hell.
by akonstam@trinity.edu
Now that OS X works on Intel architecture it becomes possible to have
(or it soon will be possible to have)
a machine that triple boots into Windows, Fedora and OS X (or some
subset thereof.
Has any one tried to boot OS X on an Intel machine with Windows or
Fedora?
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18 years, 2 months
./configure question
by peter kostov
Hi,
I have noticed that if I have installed say two packages - A.tgz
(source) and B.rpm, and now I want to install C.rpm (depending on both A
and B), the installer doesn't find the (installed) dependency A.
So I think that configure by default uses different paths than rpm and
I should pass some parameters, like
./configure --prefix=?
What is the exact parameter that I have to pass to configure to make
both installations from source and from rpm compatible, or is the
problem elsewhere?
I use FC3, RPM version 4.3.2
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18 years, 2 months
Dovecot not fetching my mail?
by Ryno Burger
Hi guys,
Have a strange problem here...
I have upgraded to FC5 test this morning. I have backed up my virtual
servers via virtualmin / webmin. After the new install of my FC5 test system
I restored my virtual servers, made changes to Postfix to listen to a non
default port (25) for mail. My mail gets delivered to the correct user on my
server and sit there to be fetched. I started up dovecot and made sure that
it listens to all sources for incoming connection. I made sure by telnet
into my port 143 and 110, all good. I configured my email client and ran the
"test settings" option, all good. But it simply doesn't download the email
from the server, while I know for a fact there is about 10 email in my mail
folder on the server.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Ryno
18 years, 2 months
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 24, Issue 254
by William W. Austin
On Mon 2006-02-27 08:26:37, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:18 -0500, William
W. Austin wrote:
(SNIP)
>> To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box,
and so
>> I
>> installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still
>> have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison...
>>
>> Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect;
(SNIP)
>>
>> Problem 1: network card goes to sleep.
>>
>> This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L
>> (Intel
>> 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and
>> does
>> not show any problems.
>> The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL
>> modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or
>> even
>> ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10
>> times/day.
>> If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network
>> configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can
>> make
>> them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting
>> networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing
>> which works.
>>
>> Problem 2: slow local network.
>>
>> Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast.
>> Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s -
>> and
>> throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does
>> not
>> occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly
>> as
>> I can make it. No workaround found so far.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Anything relevant in the syslog?
Sorry - I meant to include it and left this one out: (note that when I
restart the network the 1 GB card restarts as a 100 MB, not 1GB,
card...), Almosting nothing really - here's the only entry from the
logs (and this set of 3 occurs only ONCE over several days...):
Feb 27 00:47:38 dsl027-161-055 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link
\is not ready
...
Feb 27 00:51:16 dsl027-161-055 kernel: e1000: eth0:
\e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Feb 27 00:51:17 dsl027-161-055 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
link becomes ready
Again, this one has me stumped (I've been running linux boxen at home
and at the office for many years and this is a new one to me...)
Thanks.
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18 years, 2 months
FireFox Wierd Behaviour
by Ali Helmy
Hey mates,
I got a very strange problem with FF, that I was hoping some of you may have
an answer to...
In short; On my Fedora system, I have FF as my default browser, and it is
working very nicely, except for one thing... When I click a link in any
web-page it usually takes forever to load, unless, I click on it again!
It is not a heart-stopping problem, I admit, but it still annoys me a bit...
Any suggestions?
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18 years, 2 months
Migrating to software raid on fc3
by Eric Persson
Hi,
I'm having a server which I suspect will have a drive failure real soon,
since its been remounting the partition(ext3) read-only a few times, and
I have to do fsck -c on it and then reboot to be able to write to it,
and its coming more often.
So, so prevent this I ordered 2 new disks(200gb) which I intend to
replace the faulty one with.
My plan is the following, and I would appreciate if someone could give
me some insights or hints on it whether it would work.
1. install one new drive as a mirrored software raid with one missing disk.
2. either mount the old drive as readonly manually and then use dd to
move everything to the new md0 disk.
3. install bootloader on the new disk.
4. remove the faulty disk and boot on the new md0
5. install the second new disk and add it to the md0.
Would this be possible at all, I havent tried it in practice yet, but
will probably to it on a live server which will bring it to a certain
downtime.
Will it be a problem that the old disk is 80gb and the new ones are 200?
Can I grow the ext3 partitions later on when its finally migrated?
Can anyone foresee any other possible problems? :)
Thanks in advance,
Eric
18 years, 2 months
python bindings for RPM documentation
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi,
What is the ML to subscribe to, to discuss abouut python RPM bindings?
There has been:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2000-August/msg00256.html
But it is quite old now, and may be things have changed.
My goal is to install-remove a RPM with only python, no shell script.
Obviously, I will try to write a kind of documentation (tutorial or
"long documentation") if I succeed.
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18 years, 2 months
Using bittorrent on FC4
by Michael Yep
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Hello
I used to be able to just type btdownloadcurses.py on other versions of
linux. Now after yum install bittorrent, I can't use this method.
I am interested in the text only version of torrent. Any help?
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18 years, 2 months