gam_server freezing system
by Eric Mesa
Ever since the last two kernels on Fedora 16 my gam_server goes to
disk sleep. When that happens I can't use dolphin or any kde file
dialogs. This doesn't happen with the 3.3 kernel. Also, when this
happens I cannot su to root or reboot cleanly. The system gets stuck
near the end of the shut off process. I looked through the archives,
but there's nothing there about gam_server for the past 4 years. What
might be going on? selinux?
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Eric Mesa
http://about.me/ericmesa
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com
11 years, 10 months
OT: Spam Problems
by Errol Mangwiro
Hi,
Recently I started receiving bounces from mail purporting to having been sent from addresses in my domain. But the addresses don't exist. So I thought that someone was faking the sender header and sending spam. I added SPF and domain-key records to try to combat this. However, either hotmail and yahoo don't check these or they ignore them because I'm still getting spammed.
Does anyone know of a way I can tighten fake sender policies & prevent this from occuring again?
Thanks
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11 years, 10 months
Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD ?
by Philip Rhoades
RG,
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:01:49 -0400
> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury(a)mandamus.org>
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var
> on,>>
> >HD
> Message-ID: <4FFCD07D.7080504(a)mandamus.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
>
>>> >On 10.07.2012 06:07, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>>> >>People,
>>>> >>
>>>> >>I have been using RH and Fedora since the beginning and love it!
> <big snip>
>
>> So even putting /var on the hard disk would not help much?
>>
>>
>>> >You should probably assemble a little cluster and then use kvm for
>>> >virtualization. It's very speed efficient to reboot virtual
>>> machines.
>>
>> I did think of that but that does not resolve all the problems - it
>> allows me to create a new (virtual) server quickly and swap it in
>> when
>> it is ready to go - so there is not much downtime BUT then the
>> underlying OS doesn't get updated . . and I still have the same
>> problem
>> to update that. I have been thinking about using a SSD for the OS
>> but
>> it would be nice to be able to plug in a new drive without taking
>> the
>> box apart - I suppose I could look for plug-n-play SSD that can be
>> inserted into a drive-socket in a standard CD drive bay . .
>
> USB sticks are not fast enough. However, you might find that an SSD
> in a
> portable case *with eSATA* will be fast enough not to be
> objectionable.
> Set things to boot from the external (in BIOS) and test it. When
> ready,
> halt the server, swap the SSD into the box and reboot, change the
> BIOS,
> and done!. Downtime maybe 4 minutes if you are quick. Data can be on
> another physical drive, or replicated to a partition on the
> to-be-swapped drive immediately before server shutdown.
>
> I have a portable external drive case which cost maybe $8 more for
> eSATA
> capabilities and it IS fast. Waaayyyy faster than USB!
OK, I'm convinced. I think what I'll do is:
- put existing 3.5" drives into something like this:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0354508
- Use SSD drives in something like this:
http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=114
Then do something like what I did for the last upgrade: create a
virtual machine with the new OS but use a physical SSD for it (instead
of a virtual drive) and then when it is ready to go, reboot it as the
new physical boot drive. Then I can just repeat the process with
another SSD in one of the other slots when the following OS is
available.
I will test out the eSATA stuff as well.
Thanks!
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
11 years, 10 months
Matching message headers in mutt hooks
by Suvayu Ali
Hi mutt using Fedora users,
I am trying to set the from name based on the "Delivered-To:" message
header. In my case, the header has values like this:
Delivered-To: mygmailid+keyword(a)gmail.com
This is what I have tried:
reply-hook "~h 'Delivered-To: mygmailid+keyword(a)gmail\.com'" \
"set from = 'emailid(a)otherdomain.com'"
I have also tried the message-hook with no success. Does anyone have any
idea what I'm doing wrong?
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
11 years, 10 months
Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on,>> >HD
by R. G. Newbury
>> >On 10.07.2012 06:07, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> >>People,
>>> >>
>>> >>I have been using RH and Fedora since the beginning and love it!
<big snip>
> So even putting /var on the hard disk would not help much?
>
>
>> >You should probably assemble a little cluster and then use kvm for
>> >virtualization. It's very speed efficient to reboot virtual machines.
>
> I did think of that but that does not resolve all the problems - it
> allows me to create a new (virtual) server quickly and swap it in when
> it is ready to go - so there is not much downtime BUT then the
> underlying OS doesn't get updated . . and I still have the same problem
> to update that. I have been thinking about using a SSD for the OS but
> it would be nice to be able to plug in a new drive without taking the
> box apart - I suppose I could look for plug-n-play SSD that can be
> inserted into a drive-socket in a standard CD drive bay . .
USB sticks are not fast enough. However, you might find that an SSD in a
portable case *with eSATA* will be fast enough not to be objectionable.
Set things to boot from the external (in BIOS) and test it. When ready,
halt the server, swap the SSD into the box and reboot, change the BIOS,
and done!. Downtime maybe 4 minutes if you are quick. Data can be on
another physical drive, or replicated to a partition on the
to-be-swapped drive immediately before server shutdown.
I have a portable external drive case which cost maybe $8 more for eSATA
capabilities and it IS fast. Waaayyyy faster than USB!
G.
11 years, 10 months
NetworkManager strange stuff -
by Bob Goodwin
This is F-17/64 bit.
The dd-wrt router assigns dhcp addresses on our LAN. However this
computer 192.168.1.9., if I let NetworkManager assign an address via
dhcp it insists on assigning 192.168.1.10, the next unused dhcp
address no matter what I enter under NM edit Automatic. If I go to
NM edit and assign the address as Manual it becomes 192.168.1.9 as
expected. Obviously the simple solution is to stay with the latter case.
My question then is, is this to be expected due to two dhcp servers
trying to assign an address, or am I doing something wrong?.
Bob
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http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box9
11 years, 10 months
Tuesday morning fun (can't get to gdm login prompt)
by Brian Johnson
Happy Tuesday all,
So, an interesting thing happened to me when I came into work this
morning....my computer was sitting at the password prompt to unencrypt my
disk so I could continue booting my machine. Apparently we had a power
outage at work last night.
So, I put in my encrcyption password and continued to watch it boot up. It
went, and went, and went and right when I thought it was going to give me
my login prompt, it...stopped. My mouse cursur is just a spinning ball of
wait. I'm never given the opportunity to log in, it's just a black screen
with my spinning cursor.
I've tried each of the different kernels on my computer, all PAE --
3.4.0-1, 3.4.4-3, and 3.4.4-5, and nothing seems to change.
However, I was just able to boot into runlevel 3, log in as myself, and run
'startx' and get in that way. When I do it, though, it runs *very*
sluggish. Gnome-shell, with nothing but an xterm, is running ~65% cpu and
my load average is running at 2.16.
I can't find anything that might have been updated that would explain the
issue. I have 3 machines all running Fedora 17, one of which I know is
completely up to date as my work computer is, and I don't see the issue on
it (had a power outage at the house this morning, so I had to reboot the
one at home as well).
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks!
Brian
11 years, 10 months
Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD
by Philip Rhoades
Suvayu,
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:25:46 +0200
> From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on
> HD
> ?
> Message-ID:
> <CAMXnza1nhRq-tLtzm94nh8ivtYGrOpuU+p_+N6tc=N9HD3MgOw(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au>
> wrote:
>> Now I am thinking of installing to a USB stick but having all the
>> changeable
>> files on /var (or anywhwere else) symlinked to a dir on the HD for
>> speed.
>
> If you have a HDD available, why do you want to run on a production
> server on a USB stick at all?
The bit you snipped from the top of the mail explained it - I want a
quick way of swapping in a new OS without having to mess around with the
HDs in the box.
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
11 years, 10 months