L2TP
by Luc MAIGNAN
Hi,
I'm looking for a HowTo that explains how to setup a L2TP over IPSEC
tunnel for Fedora.
Has someone an idea ?
Thanks for any help
12 years, 1 month
disable automatic updates for ALL users (F16)
by Mike Zingale
On Fedora 16, the system defaults to do automatic updates for security,
which can cause the system to break if you use external modules (like
nvidia). I know that I can disable the automatic updates via gnome when I
am logged into the machine, but if a different user later logs into the
machine and didn't disable the updates as well, then the updates will occur
and the machine will get broken again.
I can't seem to find a way to disable automatic updates system-wide --
regardless of user. Can anyone help?
Thanks.
12 years, 1 month
RE: Is it me or is it sudo?
by Alan Gagne
> That's true. However, as I've explained, that line is commented out
> while I'm debugging the issue with the username. I suppose, push comes
> to shove that I can use an empty sudoers file except for that one line
> in order to make absolutely certain nothing else is interfering, but
> since Aaron Konstam verified that is /should/ work as I have it (as well
> as others) I don't think I need to go that drastic.
>
> The one thing I haven't done is post my entire sudoers file. I will if
> anyone thinks it'll help.
>
> I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts.
You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these
entries get processed last.
I use the wheel group set-up with passwd in sudoers file so I just
added a file using sudoedit /etc/sudoers.d/utest. Then added a line
USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
This overrides my wheel group entry and works fine.
Alan
12 years, 1 month
xxxterm for fedora
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have been using this browser for a while and I wonder whether the ISC
license (something I had never heard of before) is something that
allows for it to be packaged for fedora.
Here is the license: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Main_Page
And the software page is here:
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xxxterm
>From what I read there, the software will change its name to xombrero
from the next release (or something like that).
I was able to compile the git version without any trouble.
Best wishes,
Ranjan
12 years, 1 month
Sound Problem with USB Headphone
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Hello,
I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now
the problem is:
I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I
plugged in an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound and all but now
I can't hear anything with it plugged in.
I tried changing the order of the sound card (Internal, Manhattan,USB
Audio) & looked into ALSA Mixer. But I just can't hear anything.
And is there anyway to playback via XINE rather than gstreamer? I'm
running KDE here.
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12 years, 1 month
Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus
by Zoltan Szecsei
Hi All,
I see a nice healthy discussion on these DEs - please can someone with
actual experience give me some guidance.
As an Ububtu user, I am following this list because F17 will have
"native" multiseat support.
My staff run 1 (and only 1) application in Linux: A proprietary GIS
package, to do spatial data capture. Nothing else.
I've been using Ubuntu 6.06 only because multiseat was stable. I believe
that Gnome messed that up so lately I've been using single seat boxes
with Ubuntu 11.10, but the screen focus is annoyingly different. Yes I
have tried different "preference" settings.
So, my questions are:
Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17
drivers/methodology)
Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or
the newer Gnome)
More on Screen Focus:
The GIS package is NOT a GUI package, but rather a bunch of commands you
can string together in BASH-syntax-like scripts that run within the
package. I make heavy usage of one command that allows you to position
the mouse somewhere on the graphics output screen, and then either
click, or touch a key on the keyboard. This command then returns "button
X Y" which you can trap, and then do further processing in your script.
In other words, I now have a 104-button mouse.
In the older Gnomes, when my script requested an input from the graphics
locator, the focus would automatically drop to the graphics window, so
touching the keyboard instead of clicking the mouse would send the
"keypressed-X-Y" to the mouse-input que, and not the keyboard buffer. On
the newer Gnomes, this is extremely erratic, and touching the keyboard
instead of clicking the mouse sometimes (and not always) puts that key
depression into the keyboard buffer (to create later havoc), but hangs
my script until the operator manually focusses to the graphic screen and
then does the mouse-point-key-depression "click".
Extremely annoying, so I was wondering if any of you had in-depth
knowledge of where this screen-focus issue might arise from, or whether
XFCE was suitable for multiseat configurations.
TIA,
Zoltan
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12 years, 1 month
camera
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I have a Canon Power shot G2 that I can easily mount with fedora 14
(it appears as an icon under nautilus and which shotwell), but it
fails with fedora 16!
lsusb
Bus 006 Device 008: ID 04a9:3055 Canon, Inc. PowerShot G2
but digikam says:
Failed to connect to teh camera: Please make sure ist is connected
propoerly and turned on.
(same with shotwell)
Is some thing missing?
Thank.
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Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
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12 years, 1 month
a daemon uses too much cpu
by Gergely Buday
Hi,
today I booted my fedora 15 box and setroubleshootd consumed all the
cpu cycles and swapped a lot so for ten minutes my machine was
unusable.
Is there a way to make a quarantine for such processes so that they
get less cpu cycles? For five minutes I was not even able to start a
terminal to see what is up.
- Gergely
12 years, 1 month
