/var/cache/abrt-di
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
Looking at my files and diskspace, I note the following:
$ sudo du -sm /var/cache/*
1961 /var/cache/abrt-di
1 /var/cache/cups
1 /var/cache/fontconfig
1 /var/cache/foomatic
1 /var/cache/hald
1 /var/cache/jwhois
1 /var/cache/ldconfig
3 /var/cache/man
1 /var/cache/mash
1 /var/cache/PackageKit
217 /var/cache/yum
Googling on how to reduce this abrt-di beast, I came up with the
solution that you should delete the reports in the abrt GUI tool. But
these are all deleted for me, and I think there must be a better way to
remove this cache? Any suggestions on how to do this cleanly?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
10 years, 7 months
How to setup IPSEC client?
by Eric B.
Hi,
I'm trying to setup FC14 with an IPSEC client to connect to my VPN at
work. I have been given a PEM/KEY file for authentication (and a p12 if
needed) but I can't seem to figure out how to configure IPSEC. I've
been trying to read up on it as much as possible, but I just can't get a
good grasp on how to do this.
I have all the settings I need, but I just can't figure out how/where to
configure them. The Network Manager tool doesn't have anything that
supports PEM/Key certificates, and the same goes for the Network
Configuration gui as well.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction how to best set this up?
Thanks!
Eric
10 years, 8 months
Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?
by Richard Shaw
I'm having issues with my builtin audio. At first I thought it was the
new speakers I bought. I know they're not quite as my Cambridge
Soundworks but the external 5.1 decoder is having issues so I figured
it was time. I hear a high tinny noise and assumed it was the cheap
amplifier but after plugging in some old but nice SGI headphones I
still heard it.
To that end I'm in the market for an inexpensive sound card but don't
want to go too cheap and get something equivalent to my onboard audio.
I found the Asus Xonar DG[1] for a decent price but it uses the
CMI8786 which is supported in alsa 1.0.24 (which I have) OR kernel
2.6.38, which I don't. I'm really hoping the OR is right and it's not
supposed to be an AND.
Interestingly enough this chip doesn't appear to have internal volume
controls so I'll have to rely on PulseAudio.
Anyone have this card working (well)? Even though it's not a big
investment I'd like to know someone has it working.
Richard
10 years, 8 months
privoxy version 3.0.17
by Patrick Mansfield
Hi -
There's a bug in privoxy I'm hitting that's fixed with the latest version
3.0.17, that version has been out since last November.
How can I get the new version picked up for Fedora 15?
There's already a bug for it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594003
I don't know who the package maintainer is for it in Fedora (or if there is even one).
Thanks ...
-- Patrick Mansfield
10 years, 9 months
tp_smapi
by Timothy Murphy
Is there a tp_smapi (for ThinkPads) Fedora RPM anywhere?
If not, how do ThinkPad users install tp_smapi?
Can one use dkms to keep tp_smapi up-to-date?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
10 years, 9 months
Flash for F-15 -
by Bob Goodwin
I have a new installation of F-15 and have been messing around here
for an hour but can't seem to install Flash. I need it to download
some crossword puzzles I work every day.
Can someone point me to installation instructions that will work?
Bob
--
10 years, 9 months
Network scripts question -
by Bob Goodwin
I have two F-15 computers. Box6 has the following files while box9
has only /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo, both are using
NetworkManager.
[bobg@box6 ~]$ ll /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
-rw-r--r--. 3 root root 577 Jun 22 18:16
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 254 Apr 27 13:17
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
-rw-r--r--. 3 root root 577 Jun 22 18:16
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-p2p1
I can ssh from box6 to box9 but not from box9 to box6. Either one
will ping the other, stopping the fire wall does not have any effect.
Any suggestions, what to look for?
Bob
.--
10 years, 9 months
mail / mailx question
by Paul Allen Newell
I am running an F14 system which is pretty much out-of-the-box except I
have the machine hardcoded to 192.168.2.13 to keep my network happy.
I see all sorts of uses of 'mail [...] root@localhost' which work great
when I look in /var/spool/mail/root. I have read the mail / mailx
documentation and tried sending mail to both root and my local account
and it works great. The man pages keep using examples like
"joe(a)somewhere.com", but when I try that with my email account
(name(a)whatever.edu), it fails (as in nothing happens and I sometimes get
resend errors). I can ping whatever.edu successfully.
I am certain this is a stupid pilot error, but can't figure it out.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
10 years, 9 months
Living with Systemd
by Arthur Dent
Hello All,
I am gradually getting used to systemd. I can now just about force my
fingers to type "systemctl restart httpd.service" even though my brain
is itching to write "service httpd restart" and I find this cheatsheet
to be very useful:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet
However, there is one thing I find *incredibly* frustrating and that is
the paucity of information when things go wrong.
When I am tinkering with some app or other and I mess something up (as I
often do), being told that the app has "entered a failed state", but not
*WHY* it failed is very unhelpful. At least with SystemV you would be
told that it's because a file is missing, permission problem, config
error... etc.
Looking into /var/log/messages is no help (it just repeats the same
message) and very often the program's own logs are of no use because the
app has not started logging.
I have looked at man systemctl but can see no "verbose" (or similar)
switch.
I find that the only way I can troubleshoot a failing process is to
start the program directly from its executable, or by manually running
the init.d script. Then I get some useful information as to why the
program failed, and fix it.
Jul 22 00:01:11 mydomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jul 22 00:01:11 mydomain systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
The above error was caused by one rule in the thousands of mod-security
rules that I had just updated.
Starting httpd directly from the init script I found this:
Syntax error on line 91 of /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/base_rules/modsecurity_crs_20_protocol_violations.conf:
Error creating rule: Unknown variable: REQBODY_ERROR
and I could see exactly what I needed to fix.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to get helpful error messages
with systemd that I don't know about - or are we stuck with "code=exited
status=1"?
Mark
10 years, 9 months
