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17 discussions

smb-shares
by Sturla Holm Hansen 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares, either on another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again. Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things seem to be working fine.... Any ideas? Sturla

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Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
by AL 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Any thoughts on this? I have a second hard drive located at HDD and it is a single partition 80GB drive. When I try to mount it as root I get the error "mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel." I currently have fat support loaded as a module. It shows up when I do lsmod, but its not in the kernel. At least it doesn't show up when I do a "cat /proc/filesystems." Am I missing something? -AL

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Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
by AL 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

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Discussion of RH Enterprise Beta?
by Bernd Bartmann 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Is there any mailing list for the discussion of RH Enterprise Beta Taroon or RH Enterprise in general? I've found some bugs which apply to Severn Beta1, Taroon Beta1 AS and WS. Shall I report these bugs in bugzilla for Taroon and Severn? Right now we have RH Enterprise WS, ES and AS but Taroon was only released as WS and AS. What are the plans for this product lines? Best regards. -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernd Bartmann <Bernd.Bartmann(a)sohanet.de> SoHaNet Technology GmbH / Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11 / 10553 Berlin Software / Hardware / Netzwerke * Entwicklung / Verkauf / Wartung Fon: +49 30 214783-44 / Fax: +49 30 214783-46

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GuruLabs.com ldapmigrate script
by Dax Kelson 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

We greatly appreciate the Open Source work produced by PADL Software Pty Ltd and we humbly offer the GuruLabs.com "ldapmigrate" script as an alternative solution to the PADL.COM migration scripts. It licensed under the GPLv2 and can be found at: http://www.GuruLabs.com/downloads.html Documentation can be read with --help. It requires the Net::LDAP perl module be installed. I have an outstanding RFE to get Net::LDAP added to RHL. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59225

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Bug voting? (in Bugzilla or whatever)
by Robin Green 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

There was some discussion on the rhl-devel-list about how we can know how many people want something / don't want something, given that posters to a mailing list are likely to be unrepresentative of the general userbase, for a variety of reasons. Well, one thing that seemed to work for java.sun.com - as a means of gauging demand - was allowing voting in their bug database. Although the extent to which they actually listen to it is debatable. I think it "worked" in their case because (a) they had a lot of serious bugs(!) and missing features that people wanted, (b) they have a vast number of users who are also developers and clued-in enough to file a bug report / feature request. Javasoft use a vote limit of 3 to prevent overvoting (one person having undue influence). That seems a little small, but it certainly forced voters to focus on their 3, or 2, or 1, most important bug(s). I propose enabling voting for all users in the bug system (Bugzilla or any future replacement thereof). Votes would obviously not be binding, but they could be taken into account at Redhat's discretion. The ability to vote against a bug/RFE[1] would also be useful to avoid one-sided voting. (This is currently a RFE in bugzilla's own bugzilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48570 .) Voting against a feature would mean "I don't like this"; voting against a bug would mean either "This isn't a bug" or "Too much important stuff which assumes the existence of this bug would break, if this were fixed". -- Robin [1] RFE = Request For Enhancement, a slightly more general term than "feature request"

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Easing the pain of LDAP setup
by Dax Kelson 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Getting a LDAP directory setup as a NIS replacement is needlessly difficult. When setting up an LDAP directory an early first step is importing your existing accounts. The PADL.COM scripts are included with RHL now and are the recommend way to get your LDAP directory populated. I wrote a single script "ldapmigrate" (free software) that replaces all the PADL.COM scripts. The advantages of "ldapmigrate" over the PADL scripts are as follows: 1. My script doesn't have to run on the LDAP server itself, ie, it can migrate /etc/* over the network. 2. It can optionally bind to the LDAP server over SSL/TLS for security. 3. It is a SINGLE ~400 line script versus the ~27 PADL.COM perl and bourne scripts that total over 3000 lines. (see note below) 4. It is driven via command line arguments and is self documented via --help. To use the PADL.COM scripts you must edit perl scalar variables in various spots *inside* the scripts. 5. You can easily select the which /etc file you would like to migrate. Finally getting to the point, I would love to have "ldapmigrate" included in RHL to promote and encourage and ease the adoption of LDAP. However, to do this I need the Net::LDAP module (it has a couple dependencies) included in RHL first. Even without "ldapmigrate" the Net::LDAP module would be a great addition. Here is a RFE I opened in Feb 2002, please add comments if you see fit. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59225 Dax Kelson Guru Labs (RHCE, Solaris, CCNP certified FWIW) Note: I see zero point in storing certain files in your LDAP directory such as /etc/rpc or /etc/protocols. This contributes to the reduced size of "ldapmigrate' vs the PADL scripts.

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other window managers
by Lawrence Mao 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

Just wondering whether RedHat or somebody else is thinking about adding other lightweights window managers besides that BlueCurve like Xfce, Fluxbox, or Fvwm! BlueCurve is nice but I don't need all those bells and whistles. I want something (window manager) that is fast and doesn't take up a lot of system resources... Lawrence __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Request for developer docs
by Murali Potla 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Hi List, I am very excited about the rhl project. I would like to contribute something to this project. I request the site administrator to put a downloadable copy of the developer documentation on the rhl site once it is restored -- Thanks & Regards Murali Potla

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Where is the RHL web site?
by Meyer, Andre 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

What happened to the RHL web site? Suddenly, <http://rhl.redhat.com/> http://rhl.redhat.com/ links back to http://www.redhat.com/ <http://www.redhat.com/> . Has the project ended as quickly as it gained publicity? I hope not! regards André Meyer

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