Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/12/28/red-hat-rant/
Ahhh, so in my getting to grips with, I have a few gripes about Linux. Some day I may cultivate these into a well-formed, coherent technical explanation, but just now . . . just now, I’ll share with you a special favorite rant of mine.
New install, right? By default, it wants to check the install media (who cares?) then there’s a screen that says “welcome to <version of Red Hat>” where you get the chance to say “ohhh, wrong CD …” then you move on to disk partitioning, and you have to intentionally select that yes you want to erase all data, and enter a bunch of other parameters … network … firewall, SE-Linux … altogether 10-15 minutes if you know what you are doing. Nothing onerous. Lots of “yes, a firewall, and these other things, these are all a good ideas, I’ll just mostly agree to what you suggest.” (more…)
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Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/12/07/pkgwhich-rpm-qf/
Aye. So, let us say you want to know what package a file comes from.
On FreeBSD:
0-17:16 djh@web3 ~> find /var/db/pkg -name +CONTENTS | xargs grep -l pdftex
/var/db/pkg/teTeX-1.0.7_1/+CONTENTS
Ugly, eh? Which, I think the portinstall stuff has a pkgwhich command.
Update: On FreeBSD, one may use:
pkg_info -W `which pdftex`
Linux?
[root@novadb0 pdftex-1.30.5]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdftex
tetex-2.0.2-22.EL4.4
Schweet!
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Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/11/16/installing-software-on-fc4/
I’m new to Linux, but I’m trying out Fedora Core 4 on my work laptop. It’s pretty slick once you change the desktop environment to KDE. But I want to be able to play mp3s, and there’s nothing in the default system that can handle this, and yum doesn’t know where to find good stuff like mplayer or mpg123. (Yeah, I’m a command-line type of guy . . .)
So, I go shopping for “repositories” that extend the Fedora Core base repository . . . and the short answer is that if you do this: (more…)
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Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/11/12/permitrootlogin-p4wn3d/
For many yers I have used FreeBSD nearly exclusively. In the BSD tradition, root is pretty well protected — root can not log in from remote unless you put some effort into hooking that up, and local users can only run su if they are members of the wheel group. Because of the nifty sudo tool and my own disinterest in memorizing any more passwords than necessary, I have tended to remain unconcerned with the root password, setting it and storing the thing somewhere, which is a pain, or setting it to something dumb, or just not setting it, depending on the security needs of a given system.
I recently learned a painful lesson from Fedora: not all unices are as protective of the root user. Sure, I knew that in Linux any local user can run su, but OpenSSH isn’t going to allow people to log in as root, right? Wrong! (more…)
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Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/11/09/install-redhat-serial-console/
This is an easy problem, but Googling the answer didn’t immediately return a great solution.
I want to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux via serial console. How to set that up? Red Hat says how. Hook up a keyboard / monitor, and at the boot prompt, enter:
linux text console=ttyS0 (more…)
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Link:
https://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/10/20/shrink-ntfs-knoppix/
It took a few days of struggle, but ultimately I found a great way to shrink an NTFS partition on a notebook computer to make room for a Linux-Windows dual-boot.
Although I am trying out Fedora Core 4 . . . just to, you know, learn Red Hat? Well, if you download the Knoppix CD, you can boot into a KDE environment which makes available a vaguely intuitive point-and-click interface to ntfsresize called QTParted. (more…)
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