Fedora 20 alternatives to bluedevil
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I will be travelling later this week and I use an old 2G phone to
connect online. The process has worked reasonably well so far but this
is the first time I do not have blueman for company.
I am not very familiar with bluez stacks and stuff like that, so I was
wondering if there is a place I could go to for detailed description
of how to get the bluetooth for my phone working (under DUNS) on the
Fedora 20 side of things. I am happy to use commandline solutions and I
would ideally like to find an alternative to from bluedevil (it
pulls in about 200-300 MB of packages).
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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proper spec file format for designating systemd service files?
by Robert P. J. Day
kind of a general fedora packaging question, so forgive me if this
sounds silly -- i'm still getting back into rpm stuff after years with
ubuntu.
just noticed on my fully-updated f20 system that there are a few
systemd service files under /usr/lib/systemd/system that are marked
executable:
$ find . -type f -name "*.service" -perm /0111
./isdn.service
./pppoe-server.service
./wpa_supplicant.service
./capi.service
$
sure enough:
$ ls -l capi.service
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 184 Aug 3 2013 capi.service
$
doesn't hurt, of course, just unnecessary. so being inherently
curious, i popped over to the package git repo:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/isdn4k-utils.git/tree/
and took a look at the spec file to see what was happening:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/isdn4k-utils.git/tree/isdn4k-utils.spec
and the relevant parts seem to be, first this at line 249:
# install isdn startup script
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}
install -m0755 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/isdn
install -m0755 -d %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}
install -m0644 %{SOURCE11} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/isdn.service
install -m0644 %{SOURCE8} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/capi.service
followed by this further down starting at line 299:
%files
%defattr(-,root,root,755)
%dir /etc/isdn
%dir /var/spool/vbox
%dir /var/log/vbox
%dir %{_datadir}/isdn
%dir %{_libdir}/capi
%verify(not md5 size mtime) %config(noreplace) /etc/isdn/*
%verify(not md5 size mtime) %config(noreplace) /etc/ppp/ioptions
%config(noreplace) /etc/ppp/peers/*
%config(noreplace) /etc/capi.conf
%config(noreplace) /etc/capi20.conf
%if 0%{?fedora} > 13 || 0%{?rhel} > 6
%{_libdir}/udev/rules.d/40-isdn.rules
%endif
%{_libdir}/pppd
%{_datadir}/isdn/*.dat
%{_datadir}/isdn/dest.cdb
%{_libdir}/*.so.*
%{_libdir}/capi/*.so.*
%defattr(755,root,root,755) <---
%{_sbindir}/avmcapictrl
%{_sbindir}/hisaxctrl
%{_sbindir}/icnctrl
%{_sbindir}/isdnctrl
%{_sbindir}/pcbitctl
%{_libexecdir}/isdn
%{_unitdir}/isdn.service <--- aha
%{_unitdir}/capi.service <--- him, too
... snip ...
based on what i see, it would *seem* to make more sense to move
those two lines further down the spec file, after line 340:
%defattr(644,root,root,755)
%doc COPYING README isdnlog/README.*
%doc isdnlog/tools/zone/de/01033/zred.dtag.bz2
%ghost %{_datadir}/isdn/zone-de-dtag.cdb
... snip ...
does that make sense? as i said, not a big deal and certainly
doesn't affect operation, just wanting to clarify that i'm reading the
spec file correctly and understanding how it would have been written
properly.
and if i'm right, tempted to BZ it just cuz.
rday
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10 years, 1 month
Live CD and thin provisioning
by Florian Weimer
As far as I understand it, the Fedora Live image uses thin
provisioning to keep track of changes to the root file system. If the
space allocated for the thin provisioning runs out, the system tends
to freeze hard. Is there a way to increase the amount of RAM reserved
for thin provisioning?
10 years, 1 month
Thunderbird problem -
by Bob Goodwin
Thunderbird has stopped providing an indication of activity after I
click on "Get Mail." Normally there is information presented at the
bottom left of the display in what they apparently call the "Status Bar"
where I can see that DNS is working and it connects, etc., to me
essential information. Since late yessterday I find my self clicking on
Get Mail multiple times and nothing seems to happen until a message just
happens to come along?
I don't know if it is a new feature or if I have inadvertently done
something wrong while working on my Thunderbird mail files.
Seamonkey mail still displays that activity, Thunderbird only shows a
useless tally of Unread/Read messages in the status bar. Hopefully it is
just a configuration setting?
This is Fedora 20/64bit, XFCE, Thunderbird 24.3.0, F-20 updated a few
hours ago.
Any help restoring things will be appreciated.
Bob
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10 years, 1 month
Re: /var/log/messages
by Patrick Dupre
OK,
I run fine,
Thus I deleted some big files.
recover some room on the /
/dev/sdb6 6192704 5216872 661260 89% /
but then again:
/dev/sdb6 6192704 5532276 345856 95% /
I guess that it is the /var which grows up to fast!
I have /usr /tmp and /home on different partitions
Thank.
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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10 years, 1 month
freeradius and NIS
by Mark Haney
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I know it sounds like I'm working back in the late 90s, but I'm
looking for help with configuring freeradius to use NIS for
authentication. I've googled it and there's not much out there (for
rather obvious reasons). Does anyone have a good link or HowTo on how
to get freeradius to use NIS?
I'm moving all our systems to LDAP as soon as I can, but the boss
wants this working yesterday.
- --
Mark Haney
Network/Systems Administrator
Practichem
W: (919) 714-8428
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64
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10 years, 1 month
Session expiration after desired time
by antonio montagnani
We are setting up a kiosk for a library with Fedora xguest (running Lxde)
How can I force the guest session (and only the guest session) to expire after an hour (or any desired time)??
Tnx for help
Antonio Montagnani
10 years, 1 month
enscript duplex not working
by Robert Moskowitz
I have used enscript in the past for printing off Internet Drafts two-up
in duplex on my HP8600:
enscript -2r --margins=:::45 -DDuplex:true -P HP8600
draft-moskowitz-hip-dex.txt
Worked fine in the past on my f17 install. Well, you might recall that
back in December I installed f20 with Gnome, so for the 1st time I used
enscript to print off some IDs for next week's IETF meeting and duplex
is not working.
Duplex works fine from Acrobat reader and LibreOffice when I select that
option from the print dialog. So I know I have duplex properly
installed for the printer. Enscript does not use Gnome print dialog,
but sends directly somehow.
So any idea what I need to do for duplex printing? I am heading for the
plane in 12 hours, and don't want to lug more paper than I have to.
10 years, 1 month
best, up-to-date, *detailed* coverage of systemd?
by Robert P. J. Day
hi, i'm giving a talk on systemd to my local LUG later this week
and, rather than a superficial coverage, i really want to dig into it,
so i'm looking for the best, comprehensive coverage of that system.
i'm aware of lennart's 20-part series over at 0pointer.de, as well
as URLs like:
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
* https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Lin...
* http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
i guess i just want to make sure that whatever i dig into isn't
already out of date, if things have changed. any recommendations on
current, comprehensive coverage? thanks.
rday
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http://crashcourse.ca
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