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can't login as root at the graphical login prompt

by Mohammed El-Afifi

Hi All, I've installed the fedora core 4, recently. I can login as a normal user but when I try to login as root at the graphical login prompt, I receive the error message "Root login is not allowed.". May I be missing some package(s) or some configuration? --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.

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FC4 - SERIOUS problem with GRUB. How can I solve this?

by Hoffmann

Hi All: In order to try to solve my previous problem (see the posting below), I decided to delete my Fedora partition by using the program Partition Magic. My goal was after deleting the linux partition, reformat it, and reinstall Fedora. However, after the deleting process (and rebooting it to Windows), all I got was a GRUB propmt: grub>_ This way, I cannot go back to Windows in order to recreate the linux partition. I also cannot either reinstall Fedora or restore Windows as it was when I bought the machine. Could anyone, please, let me know how could I solve this issue? Thanks! Hoffmann ---- Hello: I realized that since the beginning of the week, during the booting process, I have got the follow error: /1. Contains a file system with errors, check forced. In the majority of the times, after that error, the system restarts normally. However, one day, it didn't work, and I needed to cut the power off manually. What does that error mean? Should I reinstall Fedora, just in case? Thanks! Hoffmann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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configuration interface for embedded device..

by Gregory Machin

Hi I'v been asked to write a configureation interface for a linux router that will run on embeded technology. The interface has to be able to configure all the underlying os functionality. I have managed to get the project to include php and apache, cause I know php. My problem is figuring how to structure the configuration information. So fare I I'm ending up with 100's of config files or acouple of config's with arrays of arrays of arrays ...... both could end up messy and make for source managabiltiy problems. I would like to create a single engen that handles this, so adding new funtionality to the interface is easier down the road .... Any input would be grate .. Many Thanks -- Gregory Machin greg(a)linuxpro.co.za gregory.machin(a)gmail.com www.linuxpro.co.za www.exponent.co.za Web Hosting Solutions Scalable Linux Solutions www.iberry.info (support and admin) +27 72 524 8096

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Re: Spamassassin emails have wrong perms -- CC'ed to selinux list]

by Justin Willmert

Justin Willmert wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 22:52 -0600, Justin Willmert wrote: >>> Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: >>>>> I'm cc-ing this to the fedora-selinux-list. I think some of the >>>>> problems may be applicable there. >>>>> >>>>> OK, after some more testing, when I disable SELinux, many of the >>>>> errors go away. First of all, I get rid of the error message >>>>> saying user can not be found and with it the 'still running as >>>>> root' error. Second, it is able to access the bayes_journal file >>>>> (as long as normal unix permissions are right, which I've figured >>>>> out). So I guess the problem is an SELinux issue which I can't >>>>> solve. I'd attach some avc error messages, but I can't seem to >>>>> find any. I've looked in maillog, secure, and messages, but nothing. >>>> Have you looked in the audit log, where all such messages are >>>> usually found ? >>>> /var/log/audit.log >>>> >>> Below is what showed up in audit/audit.log when I sent a message >>> through >>> spamassassin. I'm _*really*_ rusty on SELinux...it's the one thing I >>> have to deal with quite often that I haven't been able to learn how to >>> use...it's so foreign to me. I've never looked in audit.log before: the >>> avc messages used to show up in messages, but now as far back as my >>> logs >>> go, I don't have a single avc message. This all looks like jibberish to >>> me, so I need your guy's help. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin >>> >>> type=AVC msg=audit(1138596151.681:104174): avc: denied { >>> name_connect } for pid=23796 comm="spamd" dest=389 >>> scontext=root:system_r:spamd_t >>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:ldap_port_t tclass=tcp_socket >>> < clipped > >> >> Are you using LDAP for authentication or to handle mail accounts? >> >> Paul. > No, I am not using LDAP in spamassassin itself (there are ldap > arguments to spamd and I'm not using those), but my system uses LDAP > authentication through nsswitch/pam (whatever the distinction is). > Does spamd need to know my ldap server's information? > > I believe I found a temporary work around for the bayes files: I put > them in a non-standard location (/etc/mail/bayes/) because I wanted a > system-wide database (some users don't get enough spam to warrant > their own database). I found if I set /etc/mail/bayes/ to > user_home_dir_t and /etc/mail/bayes/* to user_home_t that the denied > messages for files are gone (if I'm reading the logs right). I don't > see the file denial messages in the log output I put above, but they > are in audit.log and in the latest test, they aren't there so I'm > hoping I'm looking into all of this right. If you want me to confirm > all of this, I can reset the directory context and do some tests, then > set up the directory context again and compare that result, somebody > just has to ask. > Now I've just got to solve the LDAP messages. I'll try to look into > this a bit, but I'm probably going to need the help, so thanks to all > those who take time to reply. > > Justin > > -- > fedora-selinux-list mailing list > fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list > I've got a question about how SELinux works underneath. I'm doing a lot of speculating based on the few things I think I know, so correct me when I'm wrong. When SpamAssassin wants to get the user information, it probably uses a system call that is controlled through /etc/nsswitch.conf (I've seen the call before, but can't think of it off the top of my head). That in turn would connect to my LDAP server and authenticate the user and download its profile information. The nsswitch libraries would be in SpamAssassin's process space (if I understand linux programming correctly), so that would mean that if SpamAssassin is under an SELinux context, then the nsswitch libraries would be too. Would this be where I'm getting denied messages for ldap_port_t messages from? If I've thought this through correctly and this is a problem, would somebody tell me so that I can post a bugzilla report? I'll search bugzilla later to make sure that it's not already in there (I've got to go to school so I don't really have time to do it right now). Thanks to all those who've helped! Justin

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faxmail problem

by azeem ahmad

hi list i m configuring hylafax as mail to fax gateway. but its not working properly when i send mail to zonifax(a)zoni.com it gives me that error back which is shown below /etc/aliases file entry is as below zonifax: "|/usr/bin/faxmail -d fax@5848156" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original message was received at Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:53:49 +0500 from [192.168.10.12] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/bin/faxmail -d fax@5841019" (reason: Service unavailable) (expanded from: <zonifax(a)zoni.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- smrsh: "faxmail" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what should be done Regards Azeem

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install

by Yuandan Zhang

Hi, i incidentally yum remove -ed bluez-pin and bluez-utils. when reinstallation, got dependency errors, (see below). my system is update FC4. I looked at, the required versions of dbus and dbus-glib (0.22-10) is older that the current installed ones (0.33-3). How to get this fix? [root@host lib]# yum install bluez-pin bluez-utils Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package bluez-utils.i386 0:2.10-2 set to be updated ---> Package bluez-pin.i386 0:0.23-3 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.0 for package: bluez-utils --> Processing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.0 for package: bluez-pin --> Processing Dependency: libdbus-glib-1.so.0 for package: bluez-pin --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.0 is needed by package bluez-utils Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.0 is needed by package bluez-pin Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-glib-1.so.0 is needed by package bluez-pin [root@host lib]# yum provides libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0 Searching Packages: Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files dbus-glib.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: libdbus-glib-1.so.0 dbus.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: libdbus-1.so.0 Importing Additional filelist information for packages Importing Additional filelist information for packages dbus-glib.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.0 /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.0.0.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 dbus-glib.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.0 /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.0.0.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 dbus.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0 dbus.i386 0.22-10 base Matched from: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0

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YUM error handling

by Tim

It strike me that if "yum" gets a 404 HTTP error when trying to get a repo list from a mirror, it oughtn't to spew out masses of gibberish at the user unless it was being deliberately run in some verbose/debugging mode. It ought to just change to another mirror, at that point, with a short sensible explanation to the user watching the output. Likewise for forbidden/denied HTTP errors. e.g. HTTP access error (404), trying another mirror. At the moment it blithely ignores error messages, and attempts to parse whatever's presented along with the error code as if it were the repo XML data file. I imagine that there's some potential for a bigger problem, than just seeing annoying text scroll past, if it pays no attention to error messages from the web server. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

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Linux on BrailleNotes

by Chris Norman

Hi people, Does anyone know weather or not there is a linux distribution which will work on the BrailleNote from PulseData? Cheers, Chris Norman

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CD Label software on FC3/Centos

by Ankush Grover

hey friends, I am looking for a software through which i can create CD/DVD Labels, Jewel Case labels on FC3/FC4/Centos or any other distribution of Linux. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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weird fam/samba problem

by Gene Heskett

Greetings; I have a machine out in the workshop that I occasionally mount via a samba share. Its a debian variant, hence this posting to both lists. At present, no shells are logged into it, nor any utilities are open to the share known as /mnt/shop-slash on this machine. But if I try to umount it, its busy! And lsof|grep shop returns this: --------------- fam 3661 root 194r DIR 3,7 4096 246527 /mnt/shop fam 3661 root 202r DIR 0,19 4096 2 /mnt/shop-slash fam 3661 root 206r DIR 3,7 4096 246215 /mnt/shop-emc fam 3661 root 207r DIR 3,7 4096 246216 /mnt/shop-homes --------------- the first and third/forth verses of that report only exist as unmounted dirs in the local /mnt dir, so why is fam apparently issueing a lock against them all? This system is an FC2 system, somewhat hacked but otherwise uptodate. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

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