Duplicating CUPS Printer installation
by Tony Molloy
Hi All,
I need to set up a default CUPS printer on lots of machines in labs ( several
hundred ;-( ) running Fedora 7. I've got it configured and working on one
machine. Is there any way to duplicate the settings from that machine so that
I could install the printer on the other machines without running
system-config-printer on each machine.
It's not as simple as copying the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to each
machine.
Regards,
Tony
16 years, 8 months
Kernel-2.6.22-9-91.fc7 breaking nfs
by Eric Prescott
As per last months message about "Kernel 2.6.22.1-27 breaks NFS" and bug
report 250597 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250597
I have tried the "-Onosharcashe" add to the options line in
/etc/sysconfig/autofs.
I still find that when the system is rebooted one filesystem does not
get mounted by autofs with out an error. If I restart autofs I can
access it for a while but at some point later autofs unmounts it and it
will not remount without a restart of autofs. The but ticket expected
this to be fixed with nfs-utils-1.1.0-3.fc7 I do have this but no joy.
Any thoughts out there or solutions?
Thanks
-Eric Prescott
16 years, 8 months
firefox JS problems in FC6
by sbeam
I have been developing some web apps with DHTML effects on my FC6
system. But it seems FF is broken with respect to certain draggable and
opacity effects on this platform. Here is an example:
http://script.aculo.us/
On FF 1.5 on Win and Mac I see 4 large circles which can be dragged
around. On Linux, nothing but green space.
Does anyone else notice this, or is it just me? I am running 32bit FF on
a x86-64 system. Other than that its all stock with a few common
plugins.
thx
Sam
16 years, 8 months
firewire 400 and FC7
by michael
I've just tried to connect my LaCie disk up to my Fedora box (Intel Duo2
Core):
$ uname -a Linux veri.phy.umist.ac.uk 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Aug 21
21:50:50 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
but it's not happy with the Firewire 400 connect. All I can see of
relevance in /var/log/messages is:
Oct 3 14:49:37 veri kernel: firewire_core: giving up on config rom for
node id ffc0
Looking about I see that there's been some issues re Firewire and FC7
but does anybody know if it's been fixed or how I can use my LaCie box?
Thanks, M
16 years, 8 months
ks and installation dvd
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
I install a bunch of CentOS machines.
It gets very repetive going through all the
packages each time.
I remember someone mentioned a kick start file,
which I believe will get created each time you
do a manual install.
I found some information on the network about ks.cfg and a boot cdrom.
I am using a DVD now, and wodner whether the procedure is similar.
It also seems to be conflicting saying the ks must be in the top level directory,
but later says it must be in the isolinux directory.
Anyway, solving that can I just copy the boot CD to a hard drive, add the ks
file and write a new DVD, or is it more complicated than that?
Thanks
Tony
16 years, 8 months
Re: BackupPC is a great program once you get it working but it is a nightmare to configure. The version that comes with the base install of FC7 is 2.x but you can now get 3.0x. I have been able to get it to install 50% of the time using the scripts (
by Paulo Cavalcanti
Sorry for the wrong subject in the previous message ...
On 10/1/07, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > BackupPC is a great program once you get it working but it is a nightmare to configure.
> > The version that comes with the base install of FC7 is 2.x but you can now get 3.0x.
> > I have been able to get it to install 50% of the time using the scripts
>
> > (and the version that you download straight from http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)
> > and a cobbled together set of instructions from postings I found all over creation.
>
> > Hoping it would be easier if I installed it straight from the normal repros,
> > I tried that but it does not work.
>
> > Has anyone gotten it to work from the normal repros?
>
>
> In fact I did. I am running version 3.0 from extras, but for FC6.
>
> Although, there are a lot of documentation in the official site,
> it is very difficult to realize the few things one has to do to make it
> work.
>
> Since Fedora ships it with the user backuppc associated to the nologin,
> one has to set the ssh keys somehow, maybe changing the
> backuppc user to an ordinary login shell (bash), setting everything
> and then setting it back to nologin.
>
> Another point is the problem of realizing where to put the configuration
> file for each client.
>
> I think that a simple README.Fedora in the rpm would do the trick.
>
> At least the security issues seem to have been taken care by the packager.
>
>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
16 years, 8 months
Security basics
by Karl Larsen
I have sure heard a LOT about security updates and I have had my own
problems. For years I thought the only thing necessary was a good root
password. This year I found out with ssh around you need a good password
for your own login name. My problem was caused by having a super poor
login password which was my last name. Since the login name was karl it
followed.
Fixed that problem with a real hard password for karl and root has a
changable hard password. In my olden working days we had safes for State
Secrets and they had what were called "one hour" locks and 30 minute
burn protection. We changed the combination every 6 months. Drove me bats!
So the question is this: If I have passwords that are safe for an
hour, is not my computer safe from tampering? I guess the Internet could
send you a file that works to discover passwords and then emails them to
the sender? But this is hard to do.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 8 months
Re: what are possbile Fedora 8 code names?
by Michael Angell
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> I saw that new fedora 8 code name is up for a vote. So what are the
> choices for new Fedora 8?
> Werewolf and kvass
>
> Rahul
>
Write-ins welcome.
16 years, 8 months
Re: default gateway
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
Yeah it is actually 192.168.5.1 which is the router.
That is the default gateway.
But the other machine did have 10.0.0.215 which is NOT a router
but rather a regular linux machine
> They are both the same machine, but 192.168.5.X network is
>
> accessible to the outside world.
It had better not. 192.168/16 is a private IP space, specifically not
routable in the Internet.
The default gateway is the IP address of a machine on your local network
that has an interface on the Internet as well. This is typically a
router (or a machine behaving like a router). Essentially, any traffic
for machines with addresses that are NOT on your local network go to
the gateway, and from there out onto the big, bad Internet.
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16 years, 8 months
wpa_supplicant
by Mike C
I have been playing with wpa_supplicant - and on one Dell d610 running
up-to-date F7 I can get the wpa_supplicant running (both manual and daemon) to
get a stable working link to thw AP with the ipw2200 inbuilt wireless card. This
is using wpa_supplicant to connect using WEP encryption to the local AP. At this
point I believe that setting up a WPA network section in wpa_supplicant.conf
will likely get a working connection with WPA encryption.
However I have also been trying two other systems which need to be tested before
thinking about switching encryption on the AP from WEP to WPA, and I will give
the current situation with each before asking a few questions on this list.
a) Laptop 2 is an Amilo with no inbuilt wireless and it runs F7 fully up to date
with an Edimax USB wireless card. By compiling the rt73 driver myself this can
connect nicely to the WEP encrypted AP, but the rt73 driver is not supported in
wpa_supplicant version 0.5.7 in F7. There is nominally a driver in the current
kernel (rt2x00) which has rt73usb support, and is supported in the current
version of wpa_supppicant, but it does not work with this wireless card! I
understand that rt2x00 is under heavy development now. However the rt73 driver
does support WPA encryption natively so it should in principle be possible to
get a connection to a WPA encrypted AP with a little extra work.
Has anyone managed to achieve this ? If so how? Are there details on a web page
somewhere?
b) Laptop 3 is a Samsung Q35 running FC6 and has an IPW3945 wireless card in it.
With the recent kernels and the iwl3945 driver it has been possible to get this
driver working and connected with a stable WEP encrypted link to the AP.
In this machine the FC6 version of wpa_supplicant is 0.4.9-1 and seems not to
support the iwl3945 driver yet!
So I have a dilemma here - it would be nice to have all three laptops able to
make a WPA encrypted connection to the AP. However it seems that at present I
can only get one of them to potentially achieve this! Maybe the second with a
tail wind!
So the questions are:
1) It may be possible to get the EDimax USB dongle to get a WPA link going but
this is not tested - has anyone else managed to achieve this in F7? If so how,
and is there a web page describing the details?
2) I am reluctant to move the Samsung from FC6 to F7 yet since I am not 100%
confident that the ipw3945 card will be supported in a stable way with the
iwl3945 driver in F7 (anyone done this?) but also I would like to know if there
will soon be a version of wpa_supplicant in FC6 that does work with iwl3945 -
has anyone managed to do this successfully yet?
Is there a test version of wpa_supplicant for FC6 available that will work in
FC6 with the iwl3945 card using the iwl3945 driver in the latest FC6 kernel?
Thanks
16 years, 8 months