How to get rid of.....
by François Patte
Bonjour,
FC6 new install.... After fighting to configure the system, I have to
fight with user accounts: some people at Fedora do not care about the
waste of time and put things they believe useful by default.
I use to install new releases without changing the home partition for (I
think) clear reasons to everybody.
Now, user's complains come: they do not find their pervious config they
build to work and no help is available....
1- When openning a session: two windows open automatically: one is named
"sessions" and display some information we don't understand; no help
available to understand them and to avoid this window to come up.... The
second window is the nautilus file manager: I don't want this window (my
file manager is only a terminal!) no help to know how to get rid of this.
2- When using two screens, the previous configuration (fc4) displayed
gnome panel only on the main screen, now to more panels come up on the
secondary screen: why? You can suppress them only for the current
session and they come back the next time you login. How to suppress them
permanently? No help available.
3- Why my thunderbird configuration has been changed? I have to suppress
again some services that I did not want previously....
4- Where are the CD/DVD that I insert in the DVD-drives? I can only see
them if I put in my preferences "open automatically the files when media
is inserted" (something like that, I translate from French): I don't
want this, I want to access them through a terminal! No icon is
displayed on the desktop to remind you that there is a CD in a
drive..... Same if I plug a usb hard-drive, but this one is accessible
through /media folder.
Why does developpers spread the idea that M$ is THE RIGHT NORM for
computers.
Regards
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 3 months
[FC6] Thunderbird weirdness
by M. Lewis
Thunderbird v 1.5.0.9
Has anyone else noticed the loss of the ability to drag and drop a
message from one IMAP folder to another IMAP folder in the past few
days? This is something I very commonly do every day. But in the last
several days, this does not work.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike
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22:20:02 up 3:46, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.05
Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org
17 years, 3 months
Re: DPMS for runlevel=3?
by Michael Klinosky
Mikkel:
> Take a look at the powersave options of setterm.
Well, I tried 'setterm -powersave on' - but it responded with "cannot
(un)set powersave mode".
What gives?
17 years, 3 months
Re: bind and fc6
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:51 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote:
>
>> > True but AFAIK you need root privileges to do this and named drops
>> > these as soon as it is chrooted.
>>
>
> Why would BIND need root in the first place? It only has to read its
> own files, it doesn't have to write any system ones.
In order to open the privileged ports used by a nameserver.
nameserver 42/tcp name # IEN 116
nameserver 42/udp name # IEN 116
Lots of services only need to be root in order to open their service
port (e.g., httpd). They then become a normal user and some, such as
bind, switch to a chroot jail.
Cheers,
Dave
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-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 3 months
Remote VNC install
by Ashley M. Kirchner
Hey folks,
I have a remote server that needs to be upgraded to FC6 (read: fresh
install) At the moment it's up and running with FC1. This machine is
also on the (local) network where I have all the iso's needed to
install. Now, normally, when I am at that location, I will grab the
vmlinuz and initrd files off of the first ISO, put them on the machine
to be upgraded, add the necessary lines to grub and reboot the thing.
Once it reboots and goes into the installer, I tell it to do an NFS
install and off I go.
However, that approach won't work right now because I'm not
physically there nor is there anyone else who can do the initial stuff
for me. Now, since FC6 can run a vnc server during installation, I can
then remote install the system, right? So my question is, what
parameters do I feed grub to tell it a) launch 'linux vnc' instead of
just linux, and b) have the ip address fed to it directly (with all
other parameters the installer asks for, language, keyboard settings,
network settings and the NFS server information). Remember, I'm not
there to type anything on the keyboard and I know the installer is going
to ask me for the IP information before it launches vnc.
Anyone?
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17 years, 3 months
usb hd
by John
I plugged in an old hard drive, via usb. I was able to format the
drive (fat32, don't ask)- that's as far as I can go with it though... I
click on the icon and I'm told I don't have enough privilege to mount
the drive. Doh! Another weird thing I've noticed- not sure if it
matters. I had to set jumpers at cable select, instead of as master,
just so the crazy thing can even been 'seen' by FC. I'm using FC5, but
plan on using the set up with 6 (my laptop) and Windows.
John
17 years, 3 months
Re: Fedora ISO distribution with Metalink
by Anthony Bryan
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:02:55 -0500, Anthony Bryan wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to invite people to try out downloading Fedora ISOs with
> > Metalink.
> > It's an XML format for listing mirrors and checksums along with other
> > information. openSUSE, OpenOffice.org, Arch Linux, and other distributions use
> > it.
> >
> > It usually results in much faster and more reliable downloads.
> >
> > aria2 is in Extras and is a great command line client for segmented downloads
> > and BitTorrent, along with Metalink. There are also other GUI clients on Mac,
> > Unix, and Windows.
> >
> > You can find .metalinks for most Fedora ISOs at
> > http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/
> >
> > For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
> >
> > I'd be interested in any comments people have.
>
> OK, I read most of the fedora parts, started to download aria2, and
> suddenly thought to try yum install aria2 instead. It worked -- you got it
> and installed it -- but now I have an old old Very Dumb Question : how do
> I invoke it?? It doesn't seem to have added a launcher to the main menu
> under internet, where I'd expected to find it ...
Yes, 'yum install aria2' will work. aria2 is a command line app, and
for some reason the command to run it is aria2c, so you'd use:
aria2c URL
or
aria2c http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/FC-6-i386-DVD_iso.metalink
(if you wanted that ISO).
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(( Anthony Bryan
)) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
17 years, 3 months
cron processes
by bruce
hi...
i can setup a cron process to run on a daily/weekly/monthly periodic
frequency. however, if i'm in jan, and i setup a cron to run on a monthly
basis, starting on jan 29, what happens when the os gets to feb 28, and
there is no feb 29?
thanks
-bruce
17 years, 3 months
bind and fc6
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I (lazily) move my fc4 config for bind to my fresh fc6 install and....
it doesn't work.... (log message is : /etc:named.conf not found) I have
a /etc/named.conf....
Where can I find some bind-fc6 how-to?
Thank you.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 3 months