I just upgraded my server to Fedora 17 which made a switch of my bootloader from GRUB Legacy to GRUB2. There are two symbolic links in the /etc folder that points to the files grub.conf and grub.cfg in /boot/grub and /boot/grub2 respectively. Though the targets seem correct, the link icons are displaying an X status which seems to indicate that the links are broken. Upon right-clicking the property type, it states “link to unknown”. The [...]

So, currently on a server I have a Fedora VM for an end user who remotes in. Unannounced to me, it was overfilled with data, and now has no more disk space. At this point, it crashed about a minute after booting up. I went into the VM and allocated more space, but it hasn’t recognized this yet. So my question is: Is there a way to have the new volume partitioned and added on [...]

Would there be any technical differences if I installed Java from an RPM versus just running the available binary? I am running on CentOs 6.3 and Java is 1.7 Asked by BestPractices Depends what you mean by “technical differences” and “just running the available binary” but, no, there is no difference to running the bundled RPM version of the JRE/JKD from the exact same JRE/JDK, from the same manufacturer, for the same version, for the [...]

Im pretty new to SSH, Linux AND Amazon EC2, but from my understanding this should be very simple. What am I missing here? I am unable to connect to my EC2 instance I have a local machine running Fedora 15 with minimal modifications. I am connecting to an AWS EC2 instance through the terminal using a .pem file. I believe I have all settings configured properly on amazons interface: enabling neccessary permissions and setting up [...]

I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace’s wifi devices. After installing some software and reconnecting my Ethernet elsewhere, my “em1″ device is no longer present and wirelessly connected devices can no longer reach the internet. The software I recently installed is: pptp, pptpd, and updated some fedora libraries. I have also recently [...]

I want to allow users to control the em1 device in Linux: When I run this command: ifdown em1 em1 is the embedded ethernet card 1, I want the user to be able to turn off the ethernet card. On Fedora 17, I get this error message: Users cannot control this device I want a certain user to be able to run a certain command on Linux without giving rights to other users. What is [...]

When trying to boot into the latest Fedora 17 cd via PXE, I am presented with the following error: PXE dracut: fatal: no or empty root= argument So, I added a root= line to my fedora menu entry (shown below), but receive the following error: dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Fedora.menu LABEL 1 MENU LABEL fedora 17 (32-bit) KERNEL fedora/17/i386/vmlinuz0 APPEND method=nfs:192.168.1.101:/srv/install/fedora/17/i386/ lang=us keymap=us ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth1 noipv6 root=/dev/ram0 [...]

Hi I am new to Fedora/Centos/RHEL. I am confused about NetworkManager and network service in these Linux OS. May I know what is the relation between NetworkManager and network service? If I am using NetworkManager, do i need to turn off network service? Similarly, if I am using network service, do I need to turn off NetworkManager? Will they conflict with each other if I use both application at the same time? Asked by Patrick [...]

We manufacture a linux appliance for data centers, and all are running fedora installed from the same kickstart process. There are different hardware versions, some with IDE hard drives and some SCSI, so the filesystems may be at /dev/sdaN or /dev/hdaN. We have a web interface into these appliances that show disk usage, which is generated using “df | grep /dev/*da”. This generally works for both hardware versions, giving an output like follows: /dev/sda2 5952284 [...]

From what I understand, the noarch suffix means that it’s architecture independent and should work universally. If this is the case, why should I install architecture-specific packages at all? Why not just go straight for the noarch? Are there optimizations in the x86 or x64 binaries that aren’t found in the noarch binaries? What’s best for high performance applications? Folding@Home does this with their controller: Asked by Aaron In this case the noarch “binary” is [...]