Fedora7 or Fedora ?
by clemens＠dwf.com
With Fedora7 being released within a month, I would like to ask where
the discussion of Fedora 'N' becoming just Fedora that was going on a
month or two ago went.
I find it irritating (if not impossible) to have to reinstall with each new
release of Fedora, and having an OS that could be continuously updated
would be a real plus. I realize that during 'initial' development this is
difficult, but since we are at '7' it seems that Fedora should be as smart
as other distributions that CAN do continuous updates.
So, what happened to that discussion?
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Reg.Clemens
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16 years, 12 months
Claws-Mail: a fantastic mail client
by Jorge Luis
I'm not one of the developers and this is a totally unprompted
recommendation, but, if you haven't tried it, I can't say enough good
things about the Claws Mail client. It's an extended version of
Sylpheed, I think, and is the only graphical (Gtk) mail program I've
found that comes anywhere near to Mutt.
Unlike Evolution, it does only one thing, but it does that one
thing--mail handling--very, very well indeed. Plugins are available
to handle PGP in all its various permutations; to read PDFs inline;
there's even a Perl plugin that allows you to script actions that
can't be configured natively, though what those may be I can't
imagine.
If you're looking for a mail client that can chew through a large
number of mailing lists, do check it out: threaded indexing (à la
Mutt), handles quote levels in contrasting colors (like Mutt), and is
set up for easy pre- and post-processing of mails. It's also
fast--much faster than Evolution. (I have to admit that even as a Nat
and Miguel fanboi.)
I still use Mutt to read mail on the server, but when I'm on my Fedora
box, Claws Mail is just so good I just had to share.
(Be sure to get the claws-mail-plugins RPM if you try it out.)
JL
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PGP KEY -> 0x65751721
17 years
core 6 issues
by JJ JJ
Hi guys,
I'd like to ask you a couple of things regarding my core 6 install.
How do I shut it down? I mean, completely power off?
Rebooting is not a problem, but when I choose shutdown, it stops everything,
and then says "system halted" and that's it. I believe it even puts to sleep
the hard drive, but the computer is still on.
What should I do?
The second one is about VmWare, during the install it can't find the kernel
c headers, and I have no idea where they are. Where are they?
By the way, I have the 64 version for pc.
Many many thanks!
Jessica
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17 years
RE: FC6 grub problem...
by Paulo Cavalcanti
> And how do I change the grub.conf from the grub prompt?
> I have used knoppix but it wont let me edit the grub.conf file…
The easiest way is using FC6 install disk.
Boot with it, and type
linux rescue
at the prompt.
Configure the keyboard, and there is no need to activate the network.
Then type:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
After that you can edit any file you want, for instance,
/etc/grub.conf
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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
17 years
strange quota problem - wrong UIDs
by Götz Reinicke
Hi,
recently I noticed, that we do have a problem with quota on some accounts.
Our students have nummeric usernames like 010203 and there accounts are
generated "semiautomatically" by using the scriptfunktion of webmin.
Now a "repqouta -a" shows the current usage, but some accounts have
compleatly different values if I try to change their quota with edquota.
e.g. the user with the name "0106322" anmd the ID 1093 from /etc/passwd
looks like this:
repquota:
0106322 +- 101204 81920 163840 none 1 0 0
edquota:
Disk quotas for user 0106322 (uid 36050):
Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard
/dev/sda6 0 0 0 0 0 0
The strange thing is, that I do have users whith the right UID in ther
quota settings and a nummeric username.
Any ideas, hints or tricks? What could be the problem and better, how to
solve this?
Thanks and best regards
Götz Reinicke
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IT Koordinator
Tel. +49 7141 969 420
Fax +49 7141 969 55 420
E-Mail goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Mathildenstr. 20
71638 Ludwigsburg
www.filmakademie.de
Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Dr. Christoph Palmer, MdL, Minister a.D.
Geschäftsführer:
Prof. Thomas Schadt
17 years
Email ???
by CH
Hello everyone,
I am not sure what the exact name of it but I will try to explain it.
Say you reply to am email to a person and it comes back saying that you
need to verify that you are a real person and not a spammer.
Is there anything out there similar to that under the GPL or free??
Hopefully I explained that right. I would have used google but I do not
know the exact name of it.
Thanks,
Will
17 years
Home Lan with D-Link DI-604
by Carlos Alberto Alves
Hi people!
I would like to see your opinion on this matter. I am running a home lan
with two computers, one ASUS MB K8-VX SE and another K8-VX, both onboard
lan, FC6 and a radio connection with a D-Link DI-604 broadband ethernet
router. Both computers can access internet at the same time smoothly,
but they cannot see each other's shared folders. NETFS, Network, NFS,
NFSLOCK and PORTMAP services are all up and running. Even if I disable
guarddog firewall on both computers, I still cannot see shared folders.
Any hints on how to setup NFS???
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17 years
dump/restore (or "star") and SELinux problems
by Kayvan A. Sylvan
Hi folks,
I am trying again. I haven't gotten an answer that works yet and hoping that
people who know more about SELinux and Fedora can see this and suggest
a solution (or at least a way to investigate).
My goal: To be able to reszie a partition (or rearrange filesystems) without
losing any data or meta-data.
parted is useless, since it won't handle the xattr filesystem data.
I used dump to create a filesystem backup, then used the FC5 Install DVD
to go into rescue mode and restore the dump. That seem to work okay for
the file data. However, for each and every file, I get the message:
restore: lsetxattr ./filename_being_restored failed: Invalid argument
Using "ls -Z", I see that all the files end up being unlabeled (or they
are in the unlabeled_t context).
These files were all set up in Fedora FC4, using the targeted policy.
When I am booting up using the FC5 Install DVD ("linux rescue"), the SELinux
startup shows:
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats
security: 55 classes, 38679 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev loop0, type squashfs), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
I have also tried using "star" with the following args:
star -v -c -xdev -sparse -acl -link-dirs level=0 -wtardumps \
f=root.star -C / .
And then, when booted into the rescue mode, did the following to extract:
star -xpU -restore f=root.star
This produced the same result. The files end up being unlabeled.
I am wondering if I have to have the same SELinux policy loaded while
in the rescue mode in order to avoid the "lsetxattr: invalid argument"
error? How would I go about doing that?
Thanks for any help!
---Kayvan
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Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
17 years
FC2 to 5 upgrade
by Travis Bullock
Hey,
What kind of disasterous outcome should I expect from sticking my FC5 cd's into my existing MISSION CRITICAL server and upgrading from FC2 to FC5?
What is the general concensus? Smooth operation? Or freakin' nightmare? Should I jump on board with FC6?
Cheers,
Travis Bullock
Systems Administrator
Avmax Group Inc.
17 years
problem with 1680x1050 resolution
by Phil
I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
resolution.
I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...
Any help would be appreciated.
17 years
