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SELinux, Samba, rsync and (maybe) others
Those who installed Samba on Fedora or any other SELinux enabled distribution may have faced the problem when they actually cannot access any Samba shares from their Windows machines. Samba logs in /var/samba/log may show lots of such messages: [2007/07/03 … Continue reading
Email notification with yum-updatesd via mailx
1. Install and configure yum-updatesd 1# yum install yum-updatesd mailx ssmtp # Or msmtp We want only be notified of new updates. We want not to install them automatically. Your /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf should be similar to this: 1234567891011121314151617181920[main] # how … Continue reading
Real Media (realplayer) & Firefox in Fedora (9)
Make all as root! mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so. NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xp t.NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-co mplex-plugin.so.NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-c omplex-plugin.xpt.NOT yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 Install realplayer 10 rpm (not 11 and not helixplayer), i used RealPlayer-10.0.9.809-20070726.i586.rpm Start Real Player from … Continue reading
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Read/Write NTFS in FC5
Download the captive-static binary (not the rpm) from Jan Kratochvil: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Unpack the archiv. Be root! $ su – Run $ ./install #from the captive-static directory. Make directory $ mkdir /mnt/drive-c Finally mount the NTFS-Filesystem in r/w-mode $ mount -t … Continue reading
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