[OT] Open Source monitoring tools
by Mark Haney
This is slightly OT, but I'm really interested in getting input from the list on monitoring software. I've been out of IT for almost 4 years dealing with some pretty serious medical issues (6 surgeries on my feet in 20 months along with elbow and knee surgeries) and I want to see how much has changed. Before I left IT I used Nagios and BB for network monitoring, but want to see if there is anything new that could replace those in my arsenal or are they still some of the elite software out there.
Things change so fast in IT, I want to be sure I'm up to date on all the options and opinions on those options from those who weren't on a sabbatical. I would appreciate any input you might have.
Mark Haney
IT Support Associate/Network Administrator
Practichem
10404 Chapel Hill Road
Morrisville, NC 27560
W: 919-714-8428
10 years, 6 months
install to disk for another system
by idwsh6b02@sneakemail.com
I'm looking for strategies that support installing fedora to a removable disk that will then be removed to run in another system. Ideally this will be automated (as opposed to clicking on 'Next' buttons like the standard anaconda install from CD).
Basically I'm picturing something like:
- set up partitions / filesystems based on some config file
- install packages from local repository
- post-package configuration (e.g., configure etc files)
- remove disk, insert another, repeat
This sounds very kickstart-ish, but kickstart is usually used to install onto storage on the actual target system. I want to install to a disk in a separate machine, then move the disk to the target system.
This might even be an installation for a target system that is not the same architecture as the installer system.
Fire away. What solutions are out there?
10 years, 6 months
Video Rotated 180 degress
by Mickey
Fedora 18
Moved a Video out of Cell Phone onto my PC , The video plays using VLC
or Dragon Player , but it's upside down, 180 out of phase.
None of the players allows me to Rotate it.
How do I Rotate it ?
10 years, 6 months
twm keyboard layouts
by Hiisi
Hi, list!
After nearly two years of trying I found Gnome 3 too fancy for me. Hence I
decided to switch for something more ascetic. twm (timeless window manager)
seems to be the best option available. The only problem is that I need to
use additional keyboard layout (russian namely). How does one add keyboard
layouts to twm? Is there an option to use gnome features for this?
TIA
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Hiisi.
Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: https://linuxcounter.net/
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Spandex is a privilege, not a right.
10 years, 6 months
Laptop screen blank when using second monitor
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
Until this morning, my Lenovo Thinkpad T430 running KDE on Fedora 19 was
working fine sitting on a base with a second monitor attached. I removed it
from the base and connected another second monitor (a projector) and things
were still fine. When I put it back into the base, the laptop screen went
blank, and it was using only the second screen. When I remove it from the
base, it uses the built-in screen, but as soon as I put it into the base,
it only uses the second screen. Interestingly, when I restart, it uses both
screens properly until after I log in.
Any advice? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker
IT Project Lead at PanGenX (http://www.pangenx.com)
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
10 years, 6 months
Installing NVIDIA Driver on Lenovo ThinkPad T430
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
I'm having some problems with using dual monitors on my Lenovo ThinkPad
T430 with Fedora 19 and KDE and want to see if installing the manufacturer
provided driver helps. This laptop has two GPUs:
- Intel Integrated HD Graphics
- Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M (1 GB VRAM) with Optimus Technology
So I want to install the driver provided by NVIDIA for 64-bit Linux.
I tried
http://forums.if-not-true-then-false.com/index.php/topic,595.0.html
where step 5d caused some warning or error I did not understand and step
5e failed saying you can not install the kernel module except on top of a
driver configuration.
I have:
[oruebenacker@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18
22:34:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any advice? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker
IT Project Lead at PanGenX (http://www.pangenx.com)
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
10 years, 6 months
Firefox - gedit is the best!
by Mateusz Marzantowicz
Why, Firefox on Fedora 19 wants to open all different sort of files of
well known types with gedit? It's ridiculous that torrent files, zip and
gz archives and even doc file are suggested to be opened with gedit.
Creating new FF profile doesn't resolve this issue. Is it that hard to
recognize file type and open it with correct application?
Now, you can slaughter me but Firefox on Windows suggests apps correctly
so it's more likely Fedora related bug.
Any way to fix it?
Mateusz Marzantowicz
10 years, 6 months
F19: "yum groups mark convert" problem
by Dario Lesca
Like suggest from "yum groupremove 'Cinnamon desktop' (why I must run
this command?), I have run 'yum groups mark convert', at the end the
command have show 'Converted old style groups to objects.' and all seem
work fine.
But now, if I run 'yum update', the system want download and install 1,6
Gb of software!
After show one hundred package to install, show this message:
> Transaction Summary
> ==========================================
> Install 579 Packages (+760 Dependent packages)
>
> Total download size: 1.6 G
> Installed size: 5.2 G
What's happens?
It's possible recovery this situation?
NOTE: if I try update my notebook via software updates, the system say
to me witch my system is up to date.
Thanks for help me.
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Dario Lesca - sip:dario@solinos.it
(Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora19+Gnome3.8)
10 years, 6 months
latest F19 version of openssl breaks ssh on i686 machine with old CPU
by Andre Robatino
I have an old i686 machine with a Cyrix M II CPU which is (barely) capable
of running Fedora. The latest version of openssl
(openssl-1.0.1e-28.fc19.i686) breaks incoming and outgoing ssh. Outgoing
fails with the error "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" (see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022346 ). I installed the
necessary debuginfo packages to get a stack trace from the core file (see
the bug). I guessed that the problem has to do with my CPU not supporting
the NOPL instruction, but can't tell from the stack trace. Has anyone else
had similar trouble with old CPUs, and is there any other information that
would be useful to collect? The maintainer hasn't responded so far.
10 years, 6 months