Gnome Terminal and Session management Query
by Dan Track
Hi
I've got fedora 9 installed and I'd like it to store sessions for all
my routers,switches, firewalls, servers etc just like putty and
securecrt do. How can I manage that in a sensible way, I've got nearly
a 100 different devices so a long list wouldn't be ideal, something
like creating folders e.g network, linux and then storing the sessions
in there would be good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dan
15 years, 7 months
login fails
by Luca
Hi all,
I have a workstation with Fedora 8 installed. Everything was working fine,
then I guess I messed up something in the /usr and /var directories.
Now when if I boot at run level 3 everything is fine, till the login
message. Then the login gives me the message "Login incorrect" before I can
even enter the password. This happens if I try to login as root or normal
user.
The /etc/passwd file seems to be ok.
Can someone help me? Thanks
Luca
15 years, 7 months
Re: usb plugins cause reboots
by Jack Howarth
Doh! The problem appears to be that someone broke off
the plastic sheath that covers the top of the contacts
on that usb port. Without that tab of plastic, usb plugs
apparently can short across the free standing contacts.
Jack
15 years, 7 months
Repair FC9 for new hardware
by Joseph L. Casale
I had to replace a MOBO with a new graphics card and NIC.
The storage controller is the same and the machine boots to run level 3 fine but its confused about the NIC (I know it works, I had a fresh install working out of the box) and X crashes the machine if I go to run level 5.
I don't have the time to re-install (all the data is backed up though) so what's my best approach for reconfiguring this box until I can cleanly set it up again? I have never done this sort of thing before so I am a bit in the un-know :)
FWIW, Network Manager is not installed, the module for the NIC is loaded, and the mac for the ifcfg-eth0 was changed to point to the new NIC. I also need to adjust the alias in modprobe.conf (forgot that, and not at wkst now) which may only leave me with reconfiguring X?
Thanks!
jlc
15 years, 7 months
Why does smbpasswd not work for some users?
by Bob Latham
Hi Everyone,
Using Fedora8.
I find some users I create have no problem having their smb passwords
changed using smbpasswd. Others simply don't work and I get the error
message "Failed to modify password entry for user <whatever>".
What are the possible causes for this, and could you point me at a method
of fixing it please?
I remember from a fiddle I had with Linux some years ago that I used to
have to copy the OS user passwords to SMB passwords using a method like
this...
cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
Is this procedure still required?
Thanks everyone for your help and patience. I know novices are a PITA.
Cheers,
Bob.
15 years, 7 months
DVD Movie players...
by Dan Thurman
Is there a DVD movie player that includes support
for full menus, esp. one that allows me to choose the
language subtitles since I am hard-of-hearing? Seems
totem does not allow me to choose the wide/full screen
support as well? It seems to look only at titles 1-X for
which one has to manually select and run, one at a time
and seems to be a limited player, unless there is add-on
support or something if it is supported?
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 7 months
CNN Video - Flash
by Craig White
If it makes anyone feel better, Ubuntu Hardy, FF3, Flash plugin from
Adobe...CNN Video doesn't work a lick. At least on Fedora, it tries to
work (but does fail after a little while). Youtube does work though.
Craig
15 years, 7 months
dependency problem installing Bacula from SRPM
by Gary Stainburn
Hi folks.
I've just built the 2.4.2.2 rpms for FC9 using:
rpmbuild --rebuild \
--define "build_fc9 1" \
--define "build_postgresql 1" \
bacula-2.4.2-2.src.rpm
and after sorting some dependancies they built fine.
I then tried
rpm -ivh \
bacula-debuginfo-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \
bacula-gconsole-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \
bacula-mtx-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \
bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \
bacula-updatedb-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm
and got:
error: Failed dependencies:
libtermcap is needed by bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386
To me, this means I need ncurses-devel, so I tried to install that. However, I
then got:
[root@curly ~]# yum install ncurses-devel
[snip]
Package ncurses-devel-5.6-18.20080628.fc9.i386 already installed and latest
version
Nothing to do
[root@curly ~]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
[root@curly i386]# rpm -ivh bacula-*
error: Failed dependencies:
libtermcap is needed by bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386
[root@curly i386]#
I've tried:
rpm -vv --rebuilddb
just in case, but that made no difference.
Anyone got a clue what I do next?
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15 years, 7 months
Last updates change is August 12th is this correct?
by Howard Wilkinson
I use RSYNC to keep a local copy of a subset of the fedora release
structure. We mirror from a couple of UK/European sources. The last
updates we saw in any of the hierarchy is the 12th of August? Is this
correct?
Howard.
15 years, 7 months
Am I a Bonehead or what? (# rm /dev)
by Mike McCarty
Well, I was using a chrooted environment with some bind mounts
to /dev and other places, and realized that some of the builds
I had done still pointed outside the chrooted environment, and
the images won't run becuase they are linked wrong.
I decided to wipe it all and start over. So, as root, I started
deleting the stuff out of the chrooted environment (needed to
be root for some of the stuff, doncha know).
Anyway, I deleted some of the chrooted stuff, among it /dev,
when suddenly (a little later) realized that I still had
bound mounts! So, I wiped my REAL /dev. Well, I used
mount to tell me what was still mounted, umounted and deleted
the rest of the stuff. Holding my breath, I rebooted.
Of course, now my machine won't boot, right? Right. It gets
as far as "Nash starting" and then hangs.
What to do?
Well, I boot a rescue disc, and copy off what was the original
real / onto another disc, and then start to ponder. I need help!
Using the LiveCD rescue disc, I created me another user with
my name, and uid and group and gid, and point the home directory
to the mounted disc which contains it in the live environment.
Ok, su - jmccarty now works, I'm logged in as me (sorta) and
I can access my files and my PATH is set correctly to my local
~/bin so I can run my mailer, and ask for help here.
NOPE! Thunderbird can't open the display for some reason.
Hmm. This environment thinks it has enough devices to run.
Hmm.
# cd /media/hda5
# mv dev dev_save
# rsync -a /dev .
# shutdown -r now
System now boots and runs. Mailer works fine.
Phew! Dodged a bullet!
Anything else I need to do?
Mike
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15 years, 7 months