How to prune out old rpm files from fedora repository?
by Paul Johnson
I run a server that has updates of RPMs I build for our lab. The
packages directory is getting too big and fat with 10 or 15 versions
of some RPMS. I wonder if somebody has a script that can clean out
the older versions? Something that cooperates with the createRepo
script?
pj
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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
16 years, 9 months
firefox bookmarks
by Richard E Miles
Is it possible to save the firefox bookmarks so that when I do a clean install
of FC4 I can reload them?
I tried to cp the bookmarks.html file back into the /home/rmiles/.mozilla/firefox/0qem39dn.default directory but it did not
restore them from an earlier saving of this file.
It would be nice to be able to reset the bookmarks that I had in FC 3 to the FC 4
firefox.
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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097
16 years, 10 months
How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories
by Nigel Henry
This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named
Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav
files.
What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up,
including all the files that are in the subdirectories?
Nigel.
16 years, 10 months
FC LDAP server
by Chris
Forgive my ignorance on this topic - I would like to build an LDAP
server at our shop. We a native 2k3 domain and would like this FC LDAP
server to pull in all the info from AD. Then periodically, have the FC
server sync with new addition/subtractions of AD.
Is there a How-To out there somewhere that someone can point me to?
I don't want to recreate the wheel by hand-inputing information into the
FC LDAP server.
TIA and thanks for the patience and understanding.
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Best regards,
Chris
Motorized vehicles only.
16 years, 10 months
Public keys - again.
by Anne Wilson
Realising that I hadn't installed lshw since I installed FC6, I tried to get
it today and came up once again against the public key problem. I'll never
get the hang of this :-( I followed the link on freshrpm's web page and
saved the file, then ran 'rpm --import path/to/file' which appeared to put it
into the right place, but still the package wouldn't install because it said
there was no public key. Wondering whether the problem was because something
was broken in my repo setup - out of date, perhaps - I removed the repo and
reinstalled it. Still no joy. Just what is it that I have forgotten?
Anne
16 years, 10 months
FC6 Cups with Samsung - 1610 laser printer
by Antonio M
I am using a Samsung ML-1610 laser printer.
I am experiencing many problems in printing images either with Eog,
Gimp or documents including same images as a openoffice writer
document or a PDF document.
I can't print my photo (that it is not a real problem as I use an
external lab)!!!
When I installed the printer (that was working a little bit better
with previous versions of Cups) I was compelled to use the GDI driver,
as if I try to use Postscript driver I get an internal cups server
error..
When I try to print an image i see red light flashing but no printing!!!
Any help
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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
16 years, 11 months
FC6 splix driver fro Samsung ML-1610
by Antonio M
when I install the printer I get the splix driver as recommended in
the ML-1610 drivers but when I try to install I get the message that
cannot be used with ML-1610.
Any idea???
Tnx
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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
16 years, 11 months
/dev/mapper and Anaconda install failures (FC6 x86_64)
by Sean Bruno
I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine. It
seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is
forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices
enabled.
I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue
mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on
trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0.
I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at
a time. Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at
least send you folks this email this way.
Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow
me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff? What's even
stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the
GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is
greyed out?!?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Sean
16 years, 11 months
rdesktop "X Error"
by Stephen Mah
Used to work in rhel4 u4. I'm on fedora now.
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
Value in failed request: 0x34a
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
Name : rdesktop Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 31 Aug 2006
10:26:15 AM PDT
Install Date: Tue 27 Feb 2007 01:57:24 PM PST Build Host:
hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com
btw, how do I get yum updates?
16 years, 11 months
nVidia drivers and TV-OUT
by Andrew
Hi,
I've got a 6600GT AGP card in my desktop and been trying to get it
to do dual display LCD + TV (for a while) Low-Def TV is PAL-Aus
On boot it shows the text screen on both the LCD and the TV, but
when I startx the TV goes strange (nothing that looks like hires
graphics)
To make matters worse I just got a 1680x1050 screen and had to
up my kernel (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) and upgrade xorg server
(xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6) to get that to work
Preferably as 2 screen rather than duplicating one screen on
both (since one is 1680x1050 and the TV is WAY smaller than that)
Can I do that with the nv driver or do I need the driver from
nVidia?
Has someone got a sample xorg.conf that works like this?
I've tried all sorts of options with the nv driver but have been
unable to get it to work since I'm not sure exactly how xorg.conf
should look or even if that works with the nv driver, and I can't
seem to find a clear example googling either
-Thanks for any help
16 years, 11 months