Gee, Fedora people must ignore their logs.
by jdow
Since nobody has whined about this yet I suppose somebody must. So
consider this an official whine.
For the last week or so I've been getting log messages about updating
to clamav 0.93 from 0.92.1. I just searched the updates and updates/testing
for both 7, which I am running, and 8. There is nary a sign of clamav 0.93.
Tsk tsk, gentlemen. Please do get on it.
And to those of you who've been ignoring your logs - shame on you.
{^_^} Joanne
16 years
Re: Port forwarding
by Andy
Hi,
Jari Marikainen wrote:
> I would like to forward incoming traffic from internet to
> "<195.198.111.x> port 80" to "<some other ip on the internet> port 80"
> in FC3 on the same interface.
I would try the DNAT/SNAT iptables targets, along the lines of:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 195.198.111.x \
-j DNAT --to-destination 65.114.4.69
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d 65.114.4.69 \
-j SNAT --to-source <your external IP address on this machine>
The second line makes the real server send it's replies through the same
path (otherwise it will reply directly to the client)
You have to enable/allow forwarding for everything to work.
hth,
/Andy
16 years
time lag between /sbin/ifconfig eth2 up and when interface becomes usable...
by Gautam Thaker
Hi:
I realize this question may not be fedora specific but here it is.
I am trying to determine how soon after a
/sbin/ifconfig eth2 up 192.168.0.2
can I actually successfully send UDP packets out that interface. (UDP
since i wanted to keep things simple, not TCP flow/congestion control
entanglements.) I have a loop such as:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$utime = $ARGV[0];
while(1) {
system "usleep $utime";
system "/sbin/ifconfig eth2 down";
system "date";
print "after eth2 down\n";
system "usleep $utime";
system "/sbin/ifconfig eth2 up 192.168.0.2";
system "date";
print "after eth2 up\n";
}
From my tests it appears that it takes between 4 to 6 seconds after the
"up" command before my UDP packets actually start going out. The tests
are between two machines with addresses 192.168.0.2 <---> 192.168.0.3.
Any hints welcome. The "/sbin/ifconfig eth2 up 192.168.0.2" command
returns right away, but the interface is not ready to go for a few
seconds. What can this be due to?
Gautam
16 years
f8: PC dies while using firefox
by Renich Bon Ciric
Hello,
I've been experiencing, lately, some total freezes. The computer just
dies:
- The mouse won't respond.
- The keyboard won't respond.
- X can't be restarted
The only option is to hard-reset. Once done, firefox looses most of it's
configuration options and sessions. It doesn't loose field history,
history and bookmarks.
I have the following addons:
- Google sync
- Google toolbar
- Google notebook
- Facebook toolbar.
I've experienced problems even without these. Tried removing flash with
no luck...
Anybody experiencing the same problems? Any idea of what's the problem?
--
Renich Bon Ciric <renich(a)woralelandia.com>
Woralelandia
16 years
Help Requested in Choosing a Power Linux Laptop/Notebook with Multimedia.
by Sanjay Arora
Greetings from India to all
First of all, I would like to thank the community for the effort it
puts in and users like us get the benefit. I started using linux about
5 years ago and today I personally use Fedora and all other six users
in my SME company use Centos. And, I am proud to say that today we
only a single Windows installation in our small office (for ISP
troubleshooting, even though most of the use is Desktop.
However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB
RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full
Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment
Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos
& Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some
of my office applications
I have browsed lots of sites & mailing lists, even some linux
certified sellers, but all seem to show either outdated hardware or
low multimedia.
I would like to know of such a Laptop which has linux drivers for all
its hardware, even if scattered on the net and someone is using such a
system successfully for similar applications. I could perhaps
outsource the driver compilation & installation to someone remotely,
as I do not know much about compiling & troubleshooting Hardware
problems.
My Windows usage is rare & for only a couple of programs for Equity &
Commodity Trade Charting and works in hypervisor, though I have not
tested it yet.
I do not now want to revert to Windows for other applications like
Multimedia, because I have been quite happy with Fedora Multimedia on
my Desktop. Only issue is choosing the right hardware for which
drivers are available & outsourcing to someone to build driver rpms
for me & others for that particular laptop. After that, at least one
high end model will be available for other people like myself.
Hope the Fedora Gurus will give some guidance about selecting such a
laptop for which full hardware support can be built in the
community....I will gladly pay someone reasonable amount to do it for
me and build it into the Fedora code.
With best regards and my thanks.
Sanjay.
16 years
fedora 8 - i386 or live cd
by g
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what are pros and cons for installing fedora 8, use i386 dvd or live cd?
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tc,hago.
g
.
without fences, who needs gates.
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16 years
Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Robin Laing
I came across this article and as a Fedora user at home and work, I
think this is important to know.
A few weeks ago, there was a discussion about Ubuntu on this list and I
feel that this is part of that discussion.
----Article link----
The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide
open to Ubuntu
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102011/index.html
In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear
that their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer.
What they do not know is that they just left the door wide open for
Ubuntu to conquer the desktop and the server space.
----/Article link-----
Basically, both Novell and RedHat are backing away from pushing Linux to
the desktop. But Ubuntu is not backing away.
As a Fedora user, I see this as an issue. At home I need games and the
applications that my family use. To date I have not had issues with
Fedora up to 7. When I updated my machines at home, there were
applications that I couldn't get for F8 so I installed F7. I have not
checked to see if these are available for F8 at present. But they were
available for the latest release of Ubuntu.
I am interested in others views on this.
--
Robin Laing
16 years
Network anomalies since F8 install
by Simon Slater
G'day all,
I'm stuck again, but with my efforts fragmented over the past couple
of weeks I'm sure I've missed something simple. Here's the situation.
After upgrading a laptop from F7-8 the wired network connected without
hassle. I wanted to wipe the slate clean, however and installed F8 from
scratch. /etc/hosts has the other computers in the lan with 192.168.0
IP's as it had with the upgrade. eth0 is up but wants to use 169.254.
IP's which I thought zeroconf setup but zeroconf is not running.
Network manager is running (networking and wireless enabled) and reports
connected to the wired network, network service is not running.
I cannot ping any of the 192.168.0 IP's (network unreachable) from the
laptop, nor can I ping the 169.254 address it has taken for itself.
Under >Places>Network there is an icon for SFTP File Transfer ( which I
did not put there, nor can I delete it) which would connect to that box,
until today.
How do I use the 192.168.0 range of addresses and get connected to the
lan?
Thanks
--
Regards
Simon
16 years
Keyring password
by Bradley
Now I'd like to see if another annoying thing can be removed - getting
rid of the prompt for the keyring password. Since my machines are not
used publicly, I have no desktop security issues to worry about and
would like to know how I can keep it from prompting me for it in the
first place. Any ideas how to automate or remove this?
Bradley
16 years
canonical approach to shared sound?
by Matthew Miller
I do the not-so-rare "trick" of having two X sessions running, allowing
ctrl-alt-f7 / ctrl-alt-f8 to be a very painless fast-user-switch.
In order for this to work, I want more lax permissions on the sound devices.
(All members of group "sndshare" get access.) Previously, this was
accomplished by changing the settings for the <sound> device class in a file
in /etc/security/console.perms.
That device class no longer exists in that file. I assume this is because
there is some new special modern udev way of accomplishing the same goal.
But, since all of the udev .rules files contain the line "# do not edit this
file, it will be overwritten on update", I'm not quite sure where is proper.
Plus, the 40-alsa-rules doesn't seem to be quite comprehensive -- some of
the devices must be created via defaults somewhere else.
So, what's the Right Thing To Do? (I'm using F9beta but I think the same
thing applies to F8, which I skipped.)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
16 years
