Re: systemd autofs
2011/6/1 Neal Becker > I tried out > > systemd-analyze blame > > and found that > 3084ms cups.service > 1354ms autofs.service > > I hardly need autofs, and not for boot. Is there some way to tell systemd > autofs is not a dependency of anything else? > systemctl disable autofs.service or link it to /dev/null in /etc/systemd/system/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: systemd autofs
2011/6/3 Neal Becker > Jan Willies wrote: > > > 2011/6/1 Neal Becker > > > >> I tried out > >> > >> systemd-analyze blame > >> > >> and found that > >> 3084ms cups.service > >> 1354ms autofs.service > >> > >> I hardly need autofs, and not for boot. Is there some way to tell > systemd > >> autofs is not a dependency of anything else? > >> > > > > systemctl disable autofs.service > > > > or link it to /dev/null in /etc/systemd/system/ > > I don't want to disable it - I do use it. I just don't need it at boot, > and > don't want it slowing down boot. > Read more about it here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: systemd, complex?
2011/6/15 Ed Greshko > I must admit that I've not spent much time to digest what advantages > there are to moving to systemd. However, it does seem to be quite a > complex system with, as of yet, hard to locate documentation. I've also > not had to debug any start up failures...but wanted to learn more about > systemctl. > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-docs.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Custom init scripts and systemd
2011/9/13 Alex Thomas > Hello I use an older Thinkpad R32 as my primary linux machine. I use it > primarily for web / email / chat while working or gaming on main machine. > Since it did not come with an internal wifi card, I have to use the pc card > port. This has always been interesting because if I did not have an > explicit pccard eject script on run on shutdown it would reboot instead of > power off. What is the correct way to do this with systemd? > Make the unit-file WantedBy=shutdown.target. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?
2011/3/8 Fernando Cassia : > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM, wrote: >> Why not a virtual machine with pci-delegation? > > I'm not following how that would work... > > The idea is to have the ancient scanner with automatic document > feeder, inside a cabinet, connected through scsi to the 486sx, and SSH > from my current destop to the 486sx, and initiate a scan... > > The cabinet is already wired with Ethernet... > > I don have any SCSI adapters on my system nor I want to buy any (or > firewire-scsi or USB-scsi adapters for that matter). If I can make it > work with what I have (486sx laptop sitting on a shelf), and > pcmcia-scsi adapter, that'd be better. :) You could try OpenWrt. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: ecryptfs and password
2011/4/25 ssc1478 > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Searle > wrote: > > Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler > scrawled: > > > >> putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available > (which > >> reduces the effectiveness of encrypting to begin with). > >> > >> However ... crypttab has allowance of putting the passphrase into a > file. By > >> doing so, and then chown root:root combined with chmod 400, only the > root user > >> has availability of the passphrase. This allows the partition to be > persistently > >> mounted at boot time w/o directly compromising the passphrase. > >> > >> Should someone crack the root account, you probably have more serious > problems > >> than worrying about the encrypted password... > > > > I see encryption's value aparticularly tparticularly defending against > > data loss because the computer has been stolen, where it could then be > > booted at run level 1. And possibly against access by an intruder into > > the building. > > > > So not sure what value there is in setting up the encryption password in > > /etc/crypttab - or have I misunderstood something? > > > > Steve > > This is exactly why I encrypt the home directory - to defend against > theft. But entering the passphrase at every boot each time is not all > that friendly. I have the same setup - but I let GDM autologin into Gnome. So, on a cold-boot, I still have to enter just one password. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.
2011/5/24 Rahul Sundaram > On 05/24/2011 08:57 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > What? Are you saying that KVM support is out of the PAE 32bit kernel? > Because > > libvirt, virt-manager, etc, are definitely shown as available packages. > As far > > as limitations and performance go, unless you have applications which > push the > > 4GB memory limit of PAE, you will be essentially the same in either case, > but > > will have a harder time finding third party applications for 64 bit. > > I was talking *only* about RHEL support but here are the details if you > want to know > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/virtualization_support.html SPICE is only available for x86_64 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin >New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting >from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer the way. > >I should do ln -s ... > >That told me the file already existed so I deleted it and ran >the command again with the appropriate changes. > >Now I can no longer boot. I get the blue screen with the egg in >the center which grows slowly to perhaps 90% and the process >stops. Now I can't boot so I can't repair things. Do I need to >reinstall F-15? > Your can boot with systemd.unit=emergency.target and fix it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin > On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: > > 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin > > > >New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab > > setting > >from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer > > the way. > > > >I should do ln -s ... > > > >That told me the file already existed so I deleted it and ran > >the command again with the appropriate changes. > > > >Now I can no longer boot. I get the blue screen with the egg > in > >the center which grows slowly to perhaps 90% and the process > >stops. Now I can't boot so I can't repair things. Do I need to > >reinstall F-15? > > > > > > Your can boot with systemd.unit=emergency.target and fix it. > > Where do I put that command, in the grub screen I assume but where? > In the kernel-line, where you did put '3'. '3' should translate to 'systemd.unit=multi-user.target', see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/25 Jan Willies > 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin > >> On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: >> > 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin >> > >> >New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab >> > setting >> >from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer >> > the way. >> > >> >I should do ln -s ... >> > >> >That told me the file already existed so I deleted it and ran >> >the command again with the appropriate changes. >> > >> >Now I can no longer boot. I get the blue screen with the egg >> in >> >the center which grows slowly to perhaps 90% and the process >> >stops. Now I can't boot so I can't repair things. Do I need >> to >> >reinstall F-15? >> > >> > >> > Your can boot with systemd.unit=emergency.target and fix it. >> >> Where do I put that command, in the grub screen I assume but >> where? >> > > In the kernel-line, where you did put '3'. > Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end of the 'kernel-line' -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin > On 25/05/11 05:48, Jan Willies wrote: > > Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end > > of the 'kernel-line' > > Once I was able to boot F15 again it would produce an error >message instead of starting xfce. Reinstalling is a lot faster >than troubleshooting at this point so I elected to reinstall a >third time and start over. > >That done I am back at the same impasse. It seems to me that I >should not have to jump through all these hoops just to >accomplish what has always been a simple configuration change. I >do not consider this an improvement. > >The starting point, bringing /etc/inittab up in a text editor >produces: > ># inittab is no longer used when using systemd. ># ># ADDING CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM. ># ># Ctrl-Alt-Delete is handled by >/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target ># ># systemd uses 'targets' instead of runlevels. By default, there >are two main targets: ># ># multi-user.target: analogous to runlevel 3 ># graphical.target: analogous to runlevel 5 ># ># To set a default target, run: ># ># ln -s /lib/systemd/system/.target >/etc/systemd/system/default.target ># > >So I Think I have done what it says I should do: > > >[bobg@box6]$ ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target >/etc/systemd/system/default.target >ln: failed to create symbolic link >`/etc/systemd/system/default.target': File exists > >And this is where I got in trouble before. What must I do to fix >this? > You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making any permament change. See the other replies for the symlinking issue. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: > > > > > > You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before > > making any permament change. > > > > See the other replies for the symlinking issue. > > >I can enter "a" at the grub screen and then >"systemd.unit=multi-user.target" and get a text log-in screen. > >Can I put "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" in grub.conf? > You can put it in /boot/grub/menu.lst It should have the same effect as "ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: > > 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > > > > On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: > > > > > > > > > You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target > before > > > making any permament change. > > > > > > See the other replies for the symlinking issue. > > > > > >I can enter "a" at the grub screen and then > >"systemd.unit=multi-user.target" and get a text log-in screen. > > > >Can I put "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" in grub.conf? > > > > > > You can put it in /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > It should have the same effect as "ln -sf > > /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target" > > But where to put it? > >#boot=/dev/sda >default=0 >timeout=10 >splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE ro >root=/dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_box9/lv_root kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_box9/lv_root systemd.unit=multi-user.target (one line) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Set inittab to 3 -
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > On 26/05/11 11:34, Jan Willies wrote: > > 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > > > > On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: > > > 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin > > > > > > On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target > > before > > > > making any permament change. > > > > > > > > See the other replies for the symlinking issue. > > > > > > > > >I can enter "a" at the grub screen and then > > >"systemd.unit=multi-user.target" and get a text > > log-in screen. > > > > > >Can I put "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" in grub.conf? > > > > > > > > > You can put it in /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > > > It should have the same effect as "ln -sf > > > /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target > > /etc/systemd/system/default.target" > > > >But where to put it? > > > >#boot=/dev/sda > >default=0 > >timeout=10 > >splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > >title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE) > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE ro > >root=/dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_box9/lv_root > > > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE > > ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_root > > rd_LVM_LV=vg_box9/lv_root systemd.unit=multi-user.target > > > > (one line) > > > Ok, did that and it works as desired. However when the kernel is >replaced I suspect that will have to be re-entered. But I can >live with that for now. > No need, it should be carried over. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 long boot time
2011/5/27 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak > On 05/26/2011 06:05 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > On a new F15 install replacing F14. The boot process pauses at > > "Start LSB: The cups scheduler" for 60 seconds before going on > > to the text log-in. I don't know what the cups scheduler is or > > what to do with it. > > > > Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this? > > My boot process often pauses at that point, but it isn't because of cups > (even if that is the last message). It's because of the next message. > > Check your boot logs carefully to see what comes after the cups message. > > In my case, it is waiting for a NFSv4 mount to come alive. I am not sure > why that takes so long. > noauto,comment=systemd.automount in /etc/fstab should help see http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/05/12/cute-systemd-trick-of-the-day-auto-mounting-remote-shares/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 connection sharing
2011/5/29 Pasha R > I'm trying to figure out the connection sharing option in F15. I > connect to internet using PPPoE, and, till now, I used "old" network > configuration (and disabled network manager) to setup a static IP > address and PPPoE connection, and then used masquerading to share > connection to other computers on the network. > In F15 I can't find a way to make such configuration and also can't > find an option in NM to enable connection sharing for DSL connection. > Is there anything I'm missing? > http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2011/05/26/share-your-network-with-gnome-3/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: f15 kernel on f14?
2011/6/1 Alex > Hi all, > > Is it possible to use the fc15 kernel on fc14, and if so, how would > you go about doing that? > I'm using the one from koji, works fine. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
