F8 su rights problems for rc.local stuff
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I finally got kmail to update its filters, by exporting them to a text file,
after which it did save my edits, so that problem seems to have wandered off
into the desert, hopefully never to come back.
However, that still leaves me with problems that if they cannot be addressed,
is going to make me disable selinux again.
Problem is that I start several things by having a line like this in my
rc.local, basically so they are started as an unprivileged user and available
as background processes regardless of who's logged in.
1. selinux is denying the use of su in the context of 'su user -c "command"'
when it is done prior to any login from the rc.local script.
What can I do to address this problem?
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to
create him."
-Arthur C. Clarke
16 years, 5 months
DNS question
by Ashley M. Kirchner
We used to have a client that we hosted their domains on our DNS.
They have moved to a different host a while ago - like months ago. Now
suddenly, in the past 48 hours, I'm seeing a bunch of these in my logs:
named[1920]: client 216.199.46.11#58010: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/A/IN' denied
named[1920]: client 70.46.90.166#1064: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/A/IN' denied
named[1920]: client 208.109.78.200#31909: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/MX/IN' denied
named[1920]: client 38.102.229.30#32772: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/MX/IN' denied
named[1920]: client 208.53.147.132#41941: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/CNAME/IN' denied
named[1920]: client 70.46.90.166#1064: query (cache)
'travelhacker.com/MX/IN' denied
I have bind setup to deny recursive lookups, and it's doing what
it's supposed to do there. However, is there any harm being done here?
Should I be looking into some way to have this stopped somehow?
--
W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130
IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130
Photo Craft Imaging . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6
http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
16 years, 5 months
RFC: Fedora Xfce Spin
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Fedora Xfce Spin is a variant of Fedora with a focus on low resource
systems and in particular Xfce users. It is a live cd image that you can
optionally install to hard disk or USB images.
I have a kickstart file available at
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ks
This is meant for Fedora 8. You can either take a look at the list of
packages or try creating a local image
# yum install livecd-tools
# livecd-creator --config <kickstart file>
You might want to use a local mirror and --cache option to
livecd-creator. Creating local customizations is trivial. Comments,
fixes and suggestions, welcome.
Rahul
16 years, 5 months
user failures
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I had my boot drives partition table zeroed out last night by something unk,
and then X froze. Tapping the reset button is SOP here for that, but its
been weeks since X has locked up like that.
On the reboot, no dice. Screens full of 'GRUB'.
Boot f8 dvd in rescue mode, find partition table has been zeroed out on the
boot drive. As in all balls folks.
And no copy of it was available on another media, so, screw it, go ahead and
install F8, using only that drive. That went swimmingly.
I've used both amanda, and early on, dd to recover enough from my amandatapes
to get amanda installed and running again. But in the process of dd'ing
that, the user, me, got overwritten in /home cuz I grabbed the whole /home
tree as saved from the FC6 install.
So, can I, as root, copy that /home/gene tree to /home/gene.old, remove that
user and then adduser again, then copy stuff back a bit more selectively
this time and have it work ok again?
It makes sense anyway.
My initial login to x was as gene, then su - to run such as yum, amrecover
etc. Symptoms ATM for the user gene are that the kmenu looks good, but
clicking on anything in it to run it fails, apparently silently.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE
Oh, dear, where can the matter be
When it's converted to energy?
There is a slight loss of parity.
Johnny's so long at the fair.
16 years, 5 months
Windows XP Sucks!
by Karl Larsen
I got the file holding the Manual for my BIOS on this computer from
BioStar web page and after clicking on the manual thing I d/l a file. It
is CRUS5-M9_0829C_B.exe and I have d/l it several times because of Windows.
The .exe makes it a windows file for sure. I tried using the Linux
unzip on it and it failed. So fired up my Work laptop which has winXP on
it that is seldom used. I have it on a memory stick and when I put it on
Windows nothing much happened. But I recalled to bring up "My Computer".
And sure enough there was a Kenstin stick as e: and I clicked on it and
there was my file.
I put mouse over file and moved it over to the main window. It
didn't work and put up a long winded tail why I can't do that. It
appears I on the keyboard do not have permission to do that.
I have a kernel package for F7 on the stick that went to my F7 on
the laptop. I tried to slide that off and it went without a problem. In
fact only the above file can't be moved.
Next I right clicked the file on the stick and selected to Run it.
The error panel came up and told me the file is a Trogan type of thing
and will not open it.
At a coffee get together all the other guys run Windows and the said
there is a way to turn off the thing that calls EVERYTHING a problem.
But it is well hidden. I had to listen to all the register problems and
how you need to defrag windows every month or so.
Boy! Sure glad I changed to Linux.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 5 months
ldap on F8
by Amadeus W.M.
I want to install ldap on F8 for use with evolution. I did a quick google
search and it led me to the fedora directory project:
http://directory.fedoraproject.org
The FAQ says explains how fedora-ds relates to openldap. However, which
one do I install? Does it matter? Does evolution work with either one?
Thanks!
16 years, 5 months
Migration from RHEL WS 5 to Fedora
by Peter Boy
Recently we had a thread about experiences with migration from Fedora to
RHEL WS or CentOS / Scientific Linux.
I would like to move the other way. Since an upgrade from RHEL WS 4 to 5
the machines continously freeze two times a day or more, even when idle,
applications are crashing (esp. Evolution). It's no joy. I couldn't find
anything specific which could cause the crashes.
Question: Has someone done it and might share his / her experience?
Peter
16 years, 5 months
LSI megaraid SAS 8204
by Alessandro Raiola
I need the driver for my server, because LSI support only RHEL and
SLES10, there is source in kernel source?
Thanks!
16 years, 5 months