New to Linux
by Mera Mottaleb
Hi,
This is my first time ever using Linux. I have just installed Fedora
Core 2. During installation, I put in the password for the admin using
the number keys on the right, with the num lock key on.
After installation when I try to login using the username:
administrator and the password I created, with the num lock key on, I
get a message saying that user name or the password is not correct. By
the way I tried it with the num lock key off too.
This was my second installation. First time when I had the same
problem, I thought I had put in the wrong password, so the second time
when I installed it, I made sure that I was using the right password.
Is it possible to change the admin password or to do anything that will
prevent me from reinstalling?
Thanks
Mera
19 years, 5 months
Power off machine become halt only in FC3
by Wong Kwok-hon
Hi!
After I upgraded to FC3. I found that the poweroff option because halt
only and failed to power off my PC..
Is there some thing wrong on me or the kernel error ?
Ringo
19 years, 5 months
FC3: Garbage on text consoles
by Frank
I'm running FC3 and have all the latest updates installed. System boots
nicely into X and everything works except that if I change to one of the
text consoles (alt-F1) the screen is filled with gibberish with
different attributes (colours, blinking, reverse, etc.). The display is
identical on all consoles.
This worked fine a few days ago. Since then I have installed FC3
updates, and attempted to install a Matrox video driver. It told me
that my kernel is unsupported, so I am still running the generic VESA
driver. Not sure that any of that should matter on a text console...
What could cause this?
Frank.
19 years, 5 months
GYUM
by Eric Tanguy
Is gyum usuable with fc3? if not why and when will it be available for fc3 ?
Thanks
Eric
19 years, 5 months
Coldfusion MX Installer problem
by Stormblaze
Hey all,
I downloaded the trial for coldfusion mx. When I was running Redhat 8
this installed and ran just fine. With fedora I had issues. I got
errors about corruption and about the uncompress command not being
found. I took care of the latter by creating a soft link to gunzip.
Not sure if that is a perfect solution.
But now I get this:
-===-=-=-=-
Preparing to install...
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
./coldfusion-61-lin.bin: line 329: [: `)' expected, found -z
WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required and/or available
could not be determined. The installation will be attempted anyway.
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive...
Unpacking the JRE...
gzip: /tmp/install.dir.8405/Linux/resource/vm.tar.Z: corrupt input.
Use zcat to recover some data.
uncompress: /tmp/install.dir.8405/Linux/resource/vm.tar.Z: corrupt
input. Use zcat to recover some data.
gzip: /tmp/install.dir.8405/Linux/resource/vm.tar.Z: corrupt input.
Use zcat to recover some data.
The included VM could not be uncompressed (GZIP/UNCOMPRESS). Please try to
download the installer again and make sure that you download using 'binary'
mode. Please do not attempt to install this currently downloaded copy.
==-=-=-=-
Any help solving this would be most appreciative.
--
"We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without
hurting their feelings. Like: Well I'm bored. Let's go brush our
teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call...hold this gum in your
mouth.
19 years, 6 months
NTP won't update
by Nathaniel Hall
Hi all,
I am trying to get ntp running on a couple of Fedora Core 3 machines.
It seems that ntpd is running, however when I stop the ntpd service and
try to run ntpdate, it does nothing.
I have configured ntp on multiple Fedora Core 3 systems, but cannot get
it to run correctly on two of them. NTP was installed when the system
was installed and I have even uninstalled and reinstalled the rpm with
the same result.
Has anybody had the same problem or have any ideas?
--
Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
halln(a)otc.edu
417-447-7535
19 years, 6 months
FC3 issues
by calin
Hello,
I have an issue on FC3, as following:
after few hours the system become extremely slow in responding and
eventually will hang. The time interval for this to happen is usually
4-5 hours. I tried on several configuration, all Intel based, on i865
and i875 chipsets, with video and audio incorporated, on both PATA and
SATA. I also installed FC3 with and without SELinux, as well as fresh
install or upgrading from FC2.
Does anyone have any ideea how to work this out?
Thank you
Calin Cosma
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
19 years, 6 months
Mail server upgrade
by Paul Michael Reilly
It is time for me to migrate my mail system to FC3. It is a RH9 system
running sendmail/procmail and UW-imapd. I don't see any compelling
reason to change sendmail/procmail but the lack of support for uw-imapd
is pretty compelling to switch the IMAP server. The tenor of the mail
archives seems to point to dovecot as the IMAP server of choice for
someone like myself who is running a small shop and wants to have a
secure, simple and supported (out of the box, so to speak) solution.
The cyrus solution comes in a very close second.
The dovecot wiki has good support documentation for the migration but
before I jump in I'd like to get some opinions from people on this list
on what to watch out for, etc. that will make the migration as smooth as
possible.
As near as I can tell, it looks like all I need to do is save the
current sendmail configuration, the current /var/spool/mail/* files,
install FC3 fresh, restore the sendmail config and /var/spool/mail/*
files, enable and configure dovecot per the wiki migration notes and
then reconnect the system to the net. And it will work like a charm. :-)
I use TDMA for spam control now but would love to hear opinions on why I
should either keep TDMA or switch to spamassasin from those who have
faced that decision.
Thanks,
-pmr
19 years, 6 months
