gdm does not execute PreSession PostSession scripts
by Paul Johnson
I'm wondering if this is a widely experienced problem. I've found one
report about it in the Fedora bugzilla.
I've noticed that the customized gdm PreSession/Default and
PostSession/Default scripts that I've been using for years in Fedora
1-8 no longer run on a system that recently upgraded to Fedora 9.
There have been many changes in Fedora's gdm this time, no more
gdmsetup program and such, but as far as I can see in the
documentation, the scripts are supposed to run still, but they don't.
This bug report says that the /etc/gdm/PostSession default is not executed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449675
THat's probably same as this one;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453483
It appears to me that neither PreSession nor PostSession is executed.
You can see for yourself if you put something simple in PreSession/Default like
echo "whatever" >> /tmp/checkingOnGDM
It simply appears as if GDM is by passing the scripts altogether.
It is important to me to know if we are just a few isolated people for
whom this does not work. I mean, does it work for nobody, but most
people don't try? Or does it work for some people?
There are so many changes in the gdm used in F9 and the documentation
has not caught up with it, I think.
Assuming gdm is broken, can you suggest an alternative way to run a
script every time users log in and log out?
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
15 years, 7 months
Fedora-10 boot from hard disk
by Timothy Murphy
I've been trying to boot Fedora-10 from the hard disk.
More precisely, I have the DVD ISO on / partition.
I have abstracted the isolinux directory with "mount -o loop"
and copied it to /boot ;
and I have abstracted install.img and copied it to / .
Then I added a stanza to /etc/grub to boot
from the isolinux kernel and initrd .
It seems to me that F-10 is different to previous Fedoras,
in that when you boot from the isolinux files,
it looks for install.img rather than the ISO.
In fact it does not look at the ISO at all,
but rather downloads all the packages from the internet.
As it happens, this works;
but after downloading the packages and installing the bootloader
it bombs out with an exception in /usr/bin/anaconda line 946
that it "needs more than 1 value to unpack".
I'll post a proper bugzilla;
but for the moment I'm just asking about the mechanism
for installing from the hard disk.
Has it indeed changed?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
15 years, 7 months
Running cmd via Browser with FC9
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear All,
Do you know which user of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow who can running
some of cmd ( eg : cgi ) though the browser as the title ?
Thanks !
Edward.
15 years, 7 months
OT Squid for Cache, Audit, and Authentication
by Tod Merley
Hi All,
We hope to put together a system to monitor the internet use at a
mission. They have six computers for use by the residents as well as
a wifi connection they wish to make available to some others.
They want record each users use of the internet (time on/off, where
they went, etc...). So they want each user authenticated before
access is granted to use the internet.
We hope to use a Fedora/Squid box between the internet and the
resident computer network.
Simply I am looking for advise/examples of how best to do this. Our
budget is small.
I have noticed, I think, some Squid management SW - perhaps packages
to pretty much meet the requirements. I hope someone is already doing
this and willing to share some insite.
Thanks!
Tod
15 years, 7 months
fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number
by Aldo Foot
The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the Bocks number.
root@orion> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 128 2039 15358140 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2040 2294 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 2295 9729 59721637+ 5 Extended
I understand the meaning is that not all the blocks are included in
the fdisk value.
Is this meaningful at all when resizing/moving/copying a partition or creating
a volume or raid disk?
~af
15 years, 7 months
ndiswrapper does not load at startup
by Zoran Spasojevic
I set up wireless linksys wmp54gs successfully using ndiswrapper on FC9.
However, ndiswrapper does not load at start-up.
executing ndiswrapper -m writes
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.
Executing ndiswrapper -ma creates 4 different lines in
/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
about which the system complains at start-up.
Including alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in various other files does not seem
to help.
Every time I want to connect to the internet I execute as root
/sbin/modeprobe ndiswrapper
in order to connect to the internet.
Is there a way to load ndiswrapper at start-up?
Thanks in advance,
Zoran
15 years, 7 months
Fedora-10 problems
by Timothy Murphy
I tried installing F-10 from the hard disk
on my Thinkpad T43
but came up against two major impediments:
1. The cursor is not visible.
Occasionally something lights up, to show where the cursor is
(eg when specifying one's location),
but on other occasions it does not seem to be active at all
(eg when nominating partitions for / , etc).
2. The display extends below the bottom of my screen,
and there seems to be no way of moving to the bottom,
where the "Continue" button is hidden.
I can move on by pressing TAB several times
and guessing where I have got to.
Quite often I hit the Back button by mistake,
which is rather annoying.
[It does not seem possible to move the display
holding down Alt-Left button.]
Anyone come across these problems with F-10?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
15 years, 7 months