Fedora
How to activate desktop sharing under Fedora
Fedora uses a program called Virtual Networking Computing (VNC) to facilitate remote desktop sharing. Therefore, the remote viewer must use VNC as well. The Microsoft Windows operating system uses the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) protocol by default; therefore, a third party client must be used if connecting from Windows. Apple’s OS X uses VNC by [...]
How to configure Bonding on Fedora 11
The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical “bonded” interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends upon the mode; generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, link integrity monitoring may be performed. There are only few steps for creating a Bonging [...]
utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing.
When i was compiling php on a fedora machine i was getting the follwoing error ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs –with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql –with-curl=/usr/local/curl –with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/libxml2 –with-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib –enable-soap –enable-zip  –enable-ftp –with-xsl=/usr/local/libxslt  –with-gd=/usr –with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/jpeg6 –with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib –with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib –with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/freetype –enable-pdo=/usr/local –with-pdo-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql –enable-mbstring –with-imap –with-imap-ssl –with-kerberos utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing. This should not happen. Check config.log for additional information. After [...]
How to Update Fedora Linux
The Fedora Project frequently releases updates to Fedora. Many of these are simple fixes for common bugs, others are security updates. Installing these updates on your system will help keep it as reliable and as secure as possible. Fedora Linux comes with a special applet (a small program on taskbar) to update your system automatically [...]
“Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.”.
You may notice that you can start MySQL correctly only once under Fedora Core 1. All subsequent attempts result in the message “Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.”. [root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. Starting MySQL: [FAILED] [root@bigboy tmp]# This is caused by the MySQL startup script [...]
How to Assign Virtual IPs to your NIC
A virtual IP address (VIP or VIPA) is an IP address that is not connected to a specific computer or network interface card (NIC) on a computer. Incoming packets are sent to the VIP address, but all packets travel through real network interfaces. VIPs are mostly used for connection redundancy; a VIP address may still [...]
How to Install VLC (VideoLAN Client) on Fedora
Multimedia can be the achilles heel of Linux, but with just a little work you should be able to play just about anything your friends can. Besides Mplayer the other great video player is called VLC. It too is trivially easy to install once you have your repositories set up: # yum -y install vlc [...]
How to Install MP3 Plug-in in Fedora
To automatically install the MP3 plug-ins for xmms and Rhythmbox like this: # yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 gstreamer-plugins-ugly \ gstreamer-plugins-bad libmad libid3tag While you’re here you might as well install my personal favorite (this week at least) music player Banshee: # yum -y install banshee The -y flag is to automatically answer yes [...]
How to Upgrade your Fedora
One of the great new features is to be able to do a live upgrade from an older Fedora release to Fedora 9. You simply have to install the new package called preupgrade and run the program as root: # yum -y install preupgrade # preupgrade This process does take a LONG TIME, requires a [...]
How to enable IP forwarding in Fedora
To be able to use IP forwarding, you must tell the kernel that it’s okay to forward traffic from one network card to another. This setting is found in /etc/sysctl.conf. Set net.ipv4.ip_forward to 1. To do this, execute: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo “net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1″ >> /etc/sysctl.conf The first command enables IP forwarding now, [...]
How to Manage xinetd Programs
Many network enabled Linux applications don’t rely on themselves to provide restricted access or bind to a particular TCP port; instead they often offload a lot of this work to a program suite made just for this purpose, xinetd. The xinetd RPM is installed by default in Fedora Linux and uses /etc/xinetd.conf as its main [...]