Maintaining a local yum repository
by Derek Tattersall
Hello,
I currently have 3 computers running Fedora 8. I think it would probably
be a good thing to set up a local repository for yum, rather than
downloading each package 3 times.
I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really
happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular
mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date.
It seems to me that this would have some problems. For one thing it puts
a bigger load on whichever mirror I am rsync'ing to. For another thing,
It seems to that there might be some security issues with just grabbing
the packages without checking the key as yum does.
Is there a better way to keep a local repository up to date? Ideally, I
would like to find a way to just download the packages that my local
users ask for, not the whole thing. And I would prefer to use the mirror
list at fedora rather than just use one particular server.
I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing it
manually.
Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off just
continuing to use the fedora repository?
Thanks
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Derek Tattersall tatters(a)newsguy.com
16 years, 3 months
Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?
by Chris G
I tend to use the command line most of the time but I occasionally use
Nautilus when, for example, I'm housekeeping image files and it's
useful to be able to see the images.
However, for me, nautilus has some very annoying defaults and I'm
wondering if they can be changed, i.e. :-
Nautilus opens a new window for every directory, this rapidly gets
annoying with deep hierarchies. Is there an option to get
Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the *same* window?
(Windows can do it, when using XP I always have this option set)
When using the File - Open Location option nautilus defaults the
location to the home directory *and* selects it so that it
overwrites what's in the clipboard. This is *intensely* annoying
if you have just carefully selected the directory you want to go
to (in another window) and have put it in the copy buffer already.
Can I turn off the auto-entry of the home directory and/or the
automatic selection of the text?
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Chris Green
16 years, 3 months
alternatives to Dell Optiplex 320 mini-tower
by Dave Burns
A few months ago, I tried to install fedora on a Dell Optiplex 320
mini-tower. After some problems and googling, I found out that this
model's bios, graphics setup, and(something else I forgot) seem to
resist mightily the idea of running fedora. People seemed to have
problems getting grub running and the SATA disk in that model doesn't
like LVM. This guy
(http://wirelessness.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/installing-fedora-linux-on-a...)
claims to have gotten fc6 running on a 320, after 19 hours of
tweaking. I tried following his advice, but didn't get far.
Now I am wondering whether anyone on the list can suggest either a
comparable PC from Dell that will not be so annoying, or perhaps the
whole issue has become moot since then (fc8?) and I should try again?
The workstation 490s have given me no trouble, but they cost more.
By the way, knoppix runs fine on the 320 - what's up with that?
Dave
16 years, 3 months
cannot browse https sites
by Yogesh Patil
hi,
I am using SQUID 2.6.STABLE17 with fedora core 8, & BIND
DNS SERVER configured on the same box, i have configured squid as
transparent proxy with all default settings , and applied iptables
rule by using the following
command
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT
--to-port 3128
i am able to browse http websites, but when i try to open https sites,
such as, gmail.com, hotmail.com etc.. i am not able to get any response from
the proxy.
i have also tryied with forwarding 443 (https) port to the 3128 (squid) port
but still no success., so i think it doesnt seems to be netfilter (iptables)
problem, it may be problem with the squid config, anybody can please help me
out with this.g
16 years, 3 months
setting preferences globally?
by francis keyes
Hi All,
I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop
computers shared among over 100 people. The problem is that NOBODY
remembers to log out when they are done with a particular machine. This
leaves the screen locked and the next user has to choose "switch user" to
log in, which ends up causing various problems when 30 people are logged
into a machine but only one is actually using it.
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's screen
saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
This would at least let people log out of an open session that some
inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from.
Thanks!
16 years, 3 months
How to remove folders from desktop in FC8?
by wob
Hi there,
I'm a new user on Fedora 8, and I noticed that it put severything in my home directory on the desktop. Is there a way to disable this behavior? I googled for days and couldn't find a thing.
Thank you very much!
Owen
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16 years, 3 months
hello fedora & intel driver + suspend question
by Khashayar Naderehvandi
Dear list,
I've been running linux for a few years but had never specificallty tried
Fedora until quite recently. My wife's iBook started to behave like never
before, constantly crashing a throwing her the black screen of death, so I
suggested we'd wipe OS X from there and install Fedora. After a weekend of
tweaking (the long time partly due to my inexperience with rpm and redhat
based distros), she is very pleased.
If there are any devs readubg this list, I would just like to say thank you
for keeping the ppc-branch alive. It's much needed, and I guess will be all
the more over the coming years. Please don't kill it off!
Now, being very pleased with Fedora myself I thought I'd install it on my
notebook (it's a fujitsu-siemens lifebook p7010, for the record). That went
quite well except for the fact that my laptop would give me a black screen
after resuming from suspend, at least while running compiz. The problem
reminded me very much of this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1...,
that we tried to solve a while back. A small patch was written as a result
of the bug hunting (but due to Ubuntus weird update policy it's not included
in Gutsy yet for some reason), and suspend/resume has been working fine ever
since for me using the updated driver that can be obtained on that launchpad
page.
Does anybody know if those patches are included in the fedora 8 package
(which would mean that I'm seeing some other problem in Fedora), or if there
are plans to update the intel driver with those patches? I'm mostly asking
because I'm still pretty lost in the Fedora world, not yet sure where to
find things or how to rebuild packages with patches. If anyone could help me
with any such update I'd appreciate it.
If not, I'll definitely get back to Fedora sometime before 9 is released to
help bug testing. There are some really nice things about this distro, one
of which being its involvement in upstream. To me it looks like open source
at its best, and with up-to-date packages at that. I love it when a distro
ships bug fix releases without a fuzz!
Alright, this was just saying hello :-)
Best regards,
Khashayar
16 years, 3 months
[OT - NOT FEDORA] Question for the TV engineers
by John Wendel
Sorry for posting this, but I know that there are some smart TV guys here.
I've got a cheap TV card that works OK with Linux, except that it has
"noise" bars on channels 2-5. It looks OK on channels > 5.
Would it help if it enclosed the card in a (properly insulated) metal
box? Should I ground the box?
Thanks,
John
16 years, 3 months
what packages icludes stdio.h stdlib.h ....
by hicham
Hello
trying to compile a c application
but I keep getting :
error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
string.h: No such file or directory
.... etc
thanks
16 years, 3 months
FC8 kde : I'm having some configuration issues...
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
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I've got a new install of FC8 on a Gateway laptop (MT6451 Notebook PC)
It's got an AMD Turion 64x2 processor.
I'm not sure the KDE Control Center [kcontrol] is working properly.
After I used a root session to:
# yum install ksynaptics
I was able to disable "tapping" via
kcontrol > Peripherals > Touch Pad
But when I tried to configure some keyboard shortcuts via
kcontrol > regional & accessibility > keyboard shortcuts
the changes didn't seam to work.
Then I found the shortcut settings in:
{menu} > system > personal > keyboard shortcuts
And SOME of them worked.
I WAS able to use Ctrl+Alt+Space to activate window menu. where I use the
pull-down choices to resize, move, maximize, minimize or close a window.
And I WAS able to disable the direct shortcuts {such as Alt+F4} for those
functions.
I WAS able to assign work space switching to Ctrl+F1,F2,F3,F4 And
disable the direct shortcuts to switch to the workspace to the left
etc...
But setting Log out to Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't work. I still have to
use Alt+F1 > "move sideways to System" > "move vertically to log out"
I wanted to disable automatic loading, playing etc of removable
media.
In the past all I had to do was:
Alt+F2 > kcontrol > KDE components > Service Manager
uncheck KDED media manager
But with FC8 the KDE Control center indicates that ALL of the listed
services are NOT running ????????
Even so, I tried unchecking KDED media manager but it had no effect.
I did eventually find that I could:
Alt-F1 > "move sideways to system" > "move vertically to hardware" >
"move sideways, then vertically to removable drives and media"
uncheck each undesired option (ALL OF THEM) on at least the Storage and
Multimedia tabs.
Though I note that when I try to play a music cd by calling kscd on the
run prompt it didn't output any sound.
So I did Alt+F1 > "move down to sound & video"
Several players were listed, some of them worked. But what was not
listed was totem, which was the default player that started before I
unchecked the "play audio cd disc when inserted" box...
For the heck of it I tried calling totem at the run prompt. It started
but was unable to play the cd.
Under Movie the play disk audio disc choice was grayed out. the play
disk cd rom 1 choice wasn't gray but when I select it I get a pop-up
that says totem was not able to play this disk. Please check that a disk
is present in the drive. Yet if I recheck that "play when inserted"
preference setting, eject and reinsert the cd, totem starts up playing
the cd. Go figure...
One of the players that was listed was a simple looking player identified
simply as "cd player" that I'd almost like if I could call it by name
at the run prompt but it's name wasn't visible. So I fired up ksysguard
to look at the process table.
Now considering that when I installed FC8 I unchecked Gnome and checked
ONLY the KDE desktop, imagine my surprise to find that it's gnome-cd and
that gnome-keyring, gnome-panel, gnome-power-man, gnome-screensav,
gnome-session, gnome-settings-, gnome-vfs-daemo, gnome-volume-ma are all
listed as running processes... (sorry for the truncated names but I'm
not going to guess at the part I can't see...)
NO freaking wonder kcontrol and kscd aren't working properly. EVEN
though I selected KDE from the install dvd and expressly unchecked
gnome, it seams that several key services are using gnome tools.
This bothers me because I strongly dislike gnome. (I'd even prefer to
run under a microshaft environment!)
Can somebody please tell me how to get FC8 to stop using gnome, and let
the KDE tools work properly?
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