Mount points for CD-ROM
by Scott Karlin
I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit
mount to read a CD-ROM:
# mkdir /media/cdrom
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
Is this typical? Is there some RPM that creates the mount points?
I don't mind becoming root to do the mount -- I was just surprised
the mount points weren't already there.
Scott
15 years, 3 months
Dumbass KDE 4.2 Compilation Question
by homburg@tips-Q.com
I thought that I would compile kde 4.2 in developer mode.
That is, the files are installed in the developer
directory. Thus I can test KDE 4.2 in advance of installing
it to the system.
The question is, if I move the installation to the system
directories, am I going to break anything? Will an
ldconfig repair any damage?
I guess that I should have queried before I was more
than halfway done; Fire - ready - aim.
Thanks
--
"Neither Lifestyle nor Agenda"
http://www.tips-Q.com
15 years, 3 months
OT - looking for feedback per development tools
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
We're preparing to embark on a new development project. It will eventually be
released dual projects similar to Red Hat with a commercially supported side
and a leading edge open source side.
The project will pull data from a database and present info to users. We'll
need a graph/chart component and a way to generate html, PDF and spreadsheet
reports/downloads. It will be a web based interface.
Questions:
1) I'm thinking we'll write the initial commercial (closed source) code in C.
Anyone have any thoughts/alternative suggestions ?
2) anyone know of a good source of C library routines (something like CPAN) ?
3) Any thoughts on the methods to generate XML via C ?
4) Any suggestions per the generation of the PDF, HTML, etc reports on screen
and for download ? maybe php within the web front end? a set of C routines to
be called based on basic report parameters? others ?
Thanks in advance for your feedback...
15 years, 3 months
Sendmail
by Adil Adil
Hi,
I have successfully installed Mysql and PHP but I am unable to send email via php. Sendmail is already installed apparently. I want to know if there is a way to test email by sendmail command lines. Another thing is that how to configure sendmail because i'm just a regular customer of an internet provider. I know the provider's mail server parameters. Can sendmail be used with these parameters?
Thank you
15 years, 3 months
LXDE as default in init 5
by solarflow99
I would like to set this as the default, but using runlevel 5 just brings up
GDM by default and I have to select lxde every time. Anyone happen to know
where you can can set this? it doesnt seem realted to prefdm, I tried that
already.
15 years, 3 months
Broadcom-wl v. Kernel
by homburg@tips-Q.com
I have a new Dell toy on which I installed F10. I had
been running F8 on a Vaio with a vanilla kernel that
had the athos drivers compiled in.
Setup installed the PAE kernel. Using rpmfusion, I
installed broadcom-wl along with the dependencies.
kernel
broadcom-wl
kmod-wl-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686
kmod-wl
I am not at all sure why it installed two kmod-wl. Both are
from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates???
Is the kernel dependency correct? Does this mean that - to
use wireless - I should boot from the non-PAE kernel?
I hate to ask - I feel stupid - but what is the difference
between rpmfusion free and nonfree? Is this a licensing
issue?
Thanks
--
"Neither Lifestyle nor Agenda"
http://www.tips-Q.com
15 years, 3 months
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 38
by Kirk
> -----------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:22:15 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "McGuffey, David C." <DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY(a)saic.com>
> Message-ID: <498B5F8F.7010408(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> McGuffey, David C. wrote:
> > Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional
> > Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best
> > (read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is
> > the easiest to install and configure?
>
> KVM (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you
> need a GUI)
>
> Rahul
>
I've been using VBox and its pretty user friendly. I'm running
WindowsXP for a couple of programs. http://www.virtualbox.org/
Kirk Ziegler
>
15 years, 3 months
System Time
by Michael Comperchio
I can't decide whats going on here, but....
I decided to try XFCE (it is seemingly faster - athlon, 2ghz, 1gig mem)
but the clock in the panel is 5 hours slow... actually, it's five hours
fast. The 'clock' command in a terminal tells me it's 9:05 eastern time,
the XFCE panel clock says 9:05, but the GNOME panel clock tells me it's
2:05 (pm). Also, the windows side of the maching tells me it's (-5)
hours. I don't much care about Gnome, but would like to know how to
reset my system time to the 'correct' time ( I know, the correct time
depends on how fast I'm going.... etc....)!
Thanks
Michael
15 years, 3 months
Network problems
by Aaron Gray
Hi,
I have been having problems with networking on FC8, FC9, and F10.
Basically if I bring the machine up with no ethernet connected, and then physically connect ethernet, I still am unable to get the upperlayers of networking fuctioning. After doinga 'service network restart', I can ping okay but HTTP and FTP are non functional.
I have tried right clicking on the network icon and enabling and disabling the network, tried edit connections and entering a MAC address, this used to work but is no longer solving the problem.
I have this problem on two machines, I tried updating the FC9 machine to F10 but it is still showing the same problem.
Help !
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
15 years, 3 months
Side effects of allocating more than 4 Gig FC9 64 bit
by Steve West
Hello,
I am using FC9 64 bit build. My C service allocates large amount of memory. When the service allocates about 6 or 7 Gig the command system("shutdown -r now") does not seem to work. If the service allocates around 4 gig everything works fine. Even with the system command not working the program seems to run fine. GDB does not offer any clues. Other services are able to run the system command just fine while the large service is running. Any thoughts?
Steve
15 years, 3 months