Fedora on Intel Haswell
by Anthony
I've been waiting for a x86 mobile ready chip for a while and it looks
like Haswell might just be the answer. I'm wondering though: since
it's based on the x86 arch, does that mean Fedora will run on it
without modifications?
Regards,
Anthony
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10 years, 10 months
Small home web server
by Roger
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power
web server for my home office.
Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4
applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day
possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of
the time we expect 20-40 per day.
It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer
Fedora.
I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems
than enough.
Shared servers won't host Rails.
VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements
High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall
everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks
Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql.
Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no
knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please.
Help greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Roger
10 years, 10 months
USB printer connection
by Timothy Murphy
I have a printer (HP Officejet J4580)
which only has a USB interface.
What is the simplest way to connect this printer
to a WiFi LAN?
10 years, 10 months
Re: converting text to pdf
by Jackson Byers
Tim wrote:
>Having said that, I haven't got cups-pdf installed,
>yet if I call up the print requester
>to print something (such as this email),
>and pick the print-to-file option,
>I have options to produce a file that's
> PDF, Postscript, or SVG. And they all work.
I am having trouble finding any option, method,etc to
"print-to-file".
(I did install cups-pdf, and I imagine it just works.
I see cups-pdf listed in the printer list.)
But what I would really like is what Tim describes.
Tim, just what do you mean by "call up the print requestor"?
some path in http://localhost:631 ?
or some way to query lpr?
And how do you generate your options?
And just what is SVG?
Jack,
feeling very stupid,
as if this is or should all be common linux knowledge.
10 years, 10 months
Fedora18, updates, busted wifi
by jmaclean
Hey chaps,
My Lenovo x220 laptop was working fine and dandy with f18 until I ran an
update. Then suddenly my wifi stopped working. I __think__ it was
because the iwl1000 wasn't being loaded or something similar. In any
case, how can I prevent this from happening again? Would it be looking
at a package's changelog to see if I can work out if, (for example), a
kernel update would mean that graphics, wireless etc may not work for my
hardware?
I'm going to try fedora19 this evening and will most likely exclude iwl*
from being ever updated. Any other suggestions are very welcome.
Cheers.
/sys/john
10 years, 10 months
new selinux alert on F19
by Fred Smith
Hi all!
I've been running F19 (alpha and now beta) on my Acer Aspire One D255E
netbook for a few weeks now.
just today when I booted up I got this alert I've not gotten before.
I know how to teach selinux not to alert for that, but I don't know if
it's an action that SHOULD be allowed or not.
It also give another alert, apparently at boot, for complaining that
/usr/sbin/lightdm tried to create file .dmrc.0GT8WW, presumably in
my home directory, though it didn't explicitly say.
Wondering if these are bugs/features introduced in recent updates...
I'd appreciate advice on what to do here.
thanks!
Fred
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The alert says:
The source process: /usr/libexec/accounts/daemon
Attempted this access: read
on this directory: /var/log
Here's the "details" output:
SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log.
***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ***************************
If you believe that accounts-daemon should be allowed read access on the log directory by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep accounts-daemon /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp
Additional Information:
Source Context system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0
Target Context system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects /var/log [ dir ]
Source accounts-daemon
Source Path /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
Port <Unknown>
Host aspirebox
Source RPM Packages accountsservice-0.6.34-1.fc19.x86_64
Target RPM Packages filesystem-3.2-10.fc19.x86_64
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-48.fc19.noarch
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Host Name aspirebox
Platform Linux aspirebox 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue
Jun 11 19:39:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count 3948
First Seen 2013-06-14 13:49:29 EDT
Last Seen 2013-06-15 12:16:19 EDT
Local ID eaab0b0b-7b1c-4823-90eb-5dd00ff0ca7a
Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1371312979.299:646): avc: denied { read } for pid=399 comm="accounts-daemon" name="log" dev="sda6" ino=2883620 scontext=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1371312979.299:646): arch=x86_64 syscall=inotify_add_watch success=no exit=EACCES a0=8 a1=7f09d8b4ad00 a2=1002fce a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=399 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=accounts-daemon exe=/usr/libexec/accounts-daemon subj=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 key=(null)
Hash: accounts-daemon,accountsd_t,var_log_t,dir,read
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it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
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10 years, 10 months
Evolution links to launch Chrome
by Craig White
Just upgraded to F18 and now links in Evolution launch Firefox and not
Chrome (unlike F17).
Using KDE...
$ cat .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Added Associations]
video/x-flv=livna-mplayer.desktop;
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
[Default Applications]
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
.local/share/applications/defaults.list is a symbolic link to
mimeapps.list
doesn't change anything.
ran
[craig@lin-workstation ~]$ gconftool-2 \
--set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command \
-t string 'google-chrome %s'
[craig@lin-workstation ~]$ gconftool-2 \
--set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command \
-t string 'google-chrome %s'
didn't change anything
Can anyone toss me a bone here?
Craig
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10 years, 10 months
Advice: remote 3D games using Spice
by Jamie Bohr
I am getting ready to build a new PC for games and am looking for advice
surrounding remote game play via Spice. My family is into playing Disney's
Toontown which only works on Windows or Mac. Each family member has a PC
that is aging and has trouble playing newer games; I would like to purchase
or build a single computer that can handle at least two remote games. I
know the video card will have to be powerful.
I am looking for advice on whether playing 3D games will work over Spice.
Thank you,
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10 years, 10 months
