Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution
by Errol Mangwiro
Yumex fan over here
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Genesis 11:6
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:33:30
To: <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:10:17 +0530
Linux Tyro wrote:
> But in future, I would learn the basics of
> administration too, so please guide me which is a better administration -
> rpm or deb?
I would say they are just different, not better or worse, though if
you like a GUI package management tool, nothing beats "synaptic"
on the ubuntu/debian family (I tend to prefer the command line
tools since I use ssh to get to most systems and don't want
to fool with remote X display, so for me it doesn't matter
much if I use yum versus apt-get or rpm versus dpkg - it is
just a question of sorting out all the command line options).
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12 years, 5 months
Re: Use of pam_exec or pam_smbpass
by David Jansen
> What's the GUI? Couldn't you do this thru a webpage and just have the
> webserver take the appropriate information and then pass that
> to your backend application? Then, only the webserver needs to be
> part and parcel in the SMB domain and you could use your
> pam_smbpass solution.
I meant the locations that allow changing a password, like in the Gnome
preferences. I want to avoid the situation, where a user sees a password
change option somewhere, that seems to work (it changes the Linux
password), but causes problems later (Windows or Radius doesn't use the
new password).
That's why I hope to solve this on the PAM level somehow, so all
programs that change passwords, will work completely. Telling the users
to change their password on some web page, is not really an improvement
over aliasing 'passwd' to the command needed to change the password, and
telling them to only use that command, and not any other interface that
offers to change a password.
David Jansen
12 years, 5 months
my SysV daemons not starting on boot
by Michael D. Berger
In my new F15_64 box, my SysV daemons are not starting on boot,
although I can start them with:
/etc/init.d/myDaemon start
(thanks to SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT).
chkconfig --list myDaemon
indicates start levels 3 and 5, and the links in /etc/rc.d are
in place and correct.
Debug indicates that the daemon function is being called.
Also, the boot log says the daemon started.
But the myDaemon log shows nothing, and ps -ef does
not find it. I tried putting a sleep(1) at the
start of myDaemon, but it didn't help.
Thanks for your help.
Mike.
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12 years, 5 months
Use of pam_exec or pam_smbpass
by David Jansen
I'm trying to implement a custom password scheme through pam and samba.
Basically, if a user wants to change their password on a client, the
change has to be propagated to the samba server so it can also set the
windows password. It works fine to tell users to use 'smbpasswd -r
samba.mydomain', or to make passwd an alias that does that, but it would
be better to make the change go through PAM so it will work from the GUI
as well.
Now, I found 2 ways to do this: pam_smbpass and pam_exec, but with both,
I seem to be hitting a stone wall.
pam_smbpass:
On a machine that has a full smb.conf with all the LDAP connections etc
(including ldap bind credentials in secrets.tbd), something like
password required pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok try_first_pass
in the appropriate /etc/pam.d files seems to do the trick. However, I
don't really want to make every desktop a full member of the domain.
So, it would be nice if there was a way to make pam_smbpass connect to a
remote samba server, but I haven't been able to find one. Any help in
this area would be appreciated.
pam_exec:
The man page states 'All module types (auth, account, password and
session) are provided.' So it should be possible to write a script or
prtogram to handle a pam password call, right? But, the script I wrote
doesn't seem to receive the old or new password. And re-reading the
documentation, I notice that nothing is mentioned about passing a
password to the module anywhere, except on authentication, when
expose_authtok will do that (then the password will be passed through
stdin). But nothing like that when called for a password change.
Again, what did I miss? Is the password module type not fully
implemented, or should this be handles in another way?
(OS: Fedora 15, RHEL 6, both same situation)
David Jansen
PS: I know a 3rd option would be to switch everything over to winbind,
which may or may not work in our complex situation with various Windows
domains with trusts. The point is: everything else works, except for a
consistent password change method, so before we decide to redesign the
whole setup, we want to be absolutely sure that there isn't something
simple we are overlooking.
12 years, 5 months
Packet loss problem and some questions related with OS
by Benjamin
Hi All,
I have some doubts , please clear me.
Query 1 ) should we set irq afinity of pci lan interface or onboard lan
interface or we can do for both ?
Query 2) H/w must be APIC enabled and for them only we can do set irq
afinity , is it so?
Query 3) What are the root cause for packet loss on interface ?
Actually in one of my server , i m having strange result, i can not see
any value update for lan interface in interrupts.
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 124 0 0 78 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 0 0 0 614 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 0 0 0 159 IO-APIC-edge i8042
19: 0 13411 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
ata_piix, ata_piix
21: 0 0 70 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
ehci_hcd:usb1
23: 0 0 32 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
ehci_hcd:usb2
40: 229974 0 0 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet2
41: 0 85867 0 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet3
42: 0 0 73987 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet4
43: 0 0 0 106848 HPET_MSI-edge hpet5
45: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
aerdrv, PCIe PME
46: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
aerdrv, PCIe PME
47: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
PCIe PME
48: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
PCIe PME
49: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
PCIe PME
50: 0 0 0 219714 PCI-MSI-edge
51: 10880 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
_ 52: 4 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge em1_
NMI: 44 16 8 29 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 282 248 158 68 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 44 16 8 29 Performance
monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
RES: 6283 2718 2153 5353 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 128 100 228 278 Function call interrupts
TLB: 15 33 12 22 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 78 78 78 78 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
em1 is my lan interface.
ifconfig
em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:0A:E6:A2
inet addr:192.168.100.152 Bcast:192.168.100.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe0a:e6a2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:216457 errors:0 _dropped:16064_ overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12715 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:36976063 (35.2 MiB) TX bytes:2391031 (2.2 MiB)
_Interrupt:16_ Memory:fb5e0000-fb600000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
But i can not see any 16 irq no. in cat /proc/interrupts.
I tried to increase rx and tx for em1 but still same i m having packet
loss on interface.
OS : fedora 15 64 bit.
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
Connection
Kernel : 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64
Please guide me to solve this issues and resolve my queries.
Warm Regards,
Benjamin
12 years, 5 months
Rpmfusion
by Lawrence E Graves
When will the rpmfusion respository be fixed.
--
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
12 years, 5 months
Problem seeing PDF files with firefox
by Timothy Murphy
Normally if I click on a link in firefox to a PDF file,
I am asked if I want to see it or save it.
But recently this has stopped working;
if I click on such a file now, nothing happens.
Eg, google just brought up the URL
<http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/~uvah099/Maths/LinkingCosets4.pdf>,
but when I click on this choice nothing happens -
the screen remains blank.
I have no problem retrieving the file with wget.
Has anyone come across this problem?
I'm running Fedora-15, which I keep updated.
I see that I updated firefox a couple of days ago,
which may be when the problem started:
-------------------------------------
Oct 30 12:09:50 Updated: firefox-7.0.1-3.fc15.i686
-------------------------------------
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12 years, 5 months
ld problems if trying to make the ChucK software
by Joachim Backes
I'm trying to install the ChucK software
(http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/). Compiling OK, but problems during linking:
/usr/bin/ld: chuck_main.o: undefined reference to symbol
'pthread_cancel@(a)GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_cancel@(a)GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO
/lib64/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib64/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
rpm -qf /lib64/libpthread.so.0
glibc-2.14.90-14.x86_64
Any hint?
Kind regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
12 years, 5 months
Fedora needs some audio-fun added to it.. There's probably thousands of sounds to choose from...
by Linda McLeod
Fedora needs some fun added to it.. ummm..? Keys custom set to play
instant sounds.. a blood-curdling scream.. a barrage of extreme
uncontrollable laughter.. a powerful fart, or two.. an idea sound.. a
drum roll.. a sudden ripping-blast-rift on the congas, and/or on the
bongos.. a sound of a well starched fedora tossed to the hat-rack, and
of it spinning to a rest.. a ship's fog-horn... A most wicked powerful
panther's growl... a wicked testosterone-overload cryptic-laugh..
umm..? sweet liddo wee canaries chirpin' soft sounds..? bees a
buzzing...
There's probably thousands of sounds to choose from...
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12 years, 5 months
Apache vulnerability?
by Alex
Hi,
I thought someone might be familiar with apache and expected behavior
to know whether the access_log entries below are attack attempts, or
something less alarming. I'm seeing repeated entries like these from a
handful of IP addresses at a time, all with 404 errors using "POST
/index.php":
222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:29 -0400] "POST /index.php
HTTP/1.1" 404 7168 "http://www.example.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 31508 7609
222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:46 -0400] "POST /index.php
HTTP/1.1" 404 7169 "http://www.example.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 85912 7610
Is this a known exploit attempt? The server has been responding
slowly, and I believe this is partly the cause.
How can I troubleshoot this further?
Thanks,
Alex
12 years, 5 months
