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Fedora Core 5 yum.conf

Leave a Comment / Fedora, Linux, Snippets / By mcutler

Just a quick snippet of my /etc/yum.conf file which includes the ATrpms and FreshRpms repositories. [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 metadata_expire=1800 [atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable [freshrpms] name=Fedora Linux $releasever – $basearch – freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

Trac – Emptying a Wiki database

1 Comment / Fedora, Linux, Snippets, Trac / By mcutler

A quick bit of shell magic to empty a Trac wiki database in a freshly installed Trac environment. In this example /var/www/html/trac is assumed to be the Trac environment you created with trac-admin. $ for page in `trac-admin /var/www/html/trac wiki list | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | grep “^[A-Z]” | grep -v “Title”`; do trac-admin …

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Fedora Core 5 on VMWare 5.5

68 Comments / Fedora, Linux / By mcutler

Fedora Core 5 was released yesterday, I attempted to upgrade my existing Fedora Core 4 installation in VMWare Workstation 5.5.0 and encountered a problem. Fedora isn’t automatically detecting the VMWare SCSI device, it presents a warning that there were no hard drives were detected. I found you can resolve this by manually adding the BusLogic …

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Update: TI 7×21 FlashMedia/SD Host Controller (104C:8033 & 104C:8034)

2 Comments / AMD64, Hardware, Linux, Uncategorised / By mcutler

Bit of an update, my previous post is now getting a significant amount of traffic; in fact it’s my hottest post yet! Progress over at http://tifmxx.berlios.de/ – I downloaded the latest revision of this driver and it appears to be going through re-structuring, still not-functional I am afraid. However, a month since contacting TI I …

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Using sshdfilter to secure an SSH server

Leave a Comment / Internet, Linux, Security, Tools / By mcutler

Since moving my OpenSSH server down to its standard port number I have been hit daily by service scanning software and brute force password attacks. Gerry pointed out that sshdfilter can help. sshdfilter blocks the frequent brute force attacks on ssh daemons, it does this by directly reading the sshd logging output and generating iptables …

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Brute force password attacks on Linux over SSH

4 Comments / Internet, Linux, Security / By mcutler

This is one of the main reasons I hate running SSH on the standard port numbers, every day I get log-alerts like these. As per usual I notify the originating ISP, at least I have an email template for it. Failed logins from these: invalid user abdul (password) from 203.98.XXX.XXX: 2 Time(s) invalid user abort …

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Sitecom CN-502 USB Bluetooth Dongle works on Linux

Leave a Comment / AMD64, Hardware, Linux / By mcutler

To my absolute surprise, the Sitecom CN-502 USB Bluetooth Dongle works perfectly with out-of-the-box Fedora Core 4 x86_64. The lsusb output shows it’s a Cambridge Silicon Radio chip (0a12:0001) which is very widely used and well supported. I bought this thing some time ago because of its protruding aerial; my original intention was to dismantle …

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TI 7×21 FlashMedia/SD Host Controller (104C:8033 & 104C:8034)

2 Comments / AMD64, Hardware, Linux / By mcutler

Update: TI 7×21 FlashMedia/SD Host Controller (104C:8033 & 104C:8034) The Compaq R4100 series of laptops feature a 6-in-1 memory card reader based on the widely used Texas Instruments 7×21 chips. Although TI provides Windows drivers there is very little information available to assist in development of a free Linux device driver for it. It appears …

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Broadcom BCM4318 PCI id 14E4:4318 Wireless Adapter

2 Comments / AMD64, Hardware, Linux / By mcutler

In my previous post I mentioned that I got the wireless adapter in my Compaq R4100 series laptop working with ndiswrapper. It appears this was a total fluke, others have had to add “noapic” kernel parameters to get it working correctly. I found if I set this kernel parameter the wireless adapter wouldn’t work at …

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Fedora Core 4 x86_64 Linux on Compaq R4000 Laptop

4 Comments / AMD64, Hardware, Linux / By mcutler

The majority of the hardware worked out of the box, the WXGA (1280 x 800) screen needs to be manually frigged into the X configuration. Only the wireless adapter and the memory-card reader are unsupported by the base install. I got the wireless adapter (Broadcom BCM4318 PCI id 14E4:4318) working using ndiswrapper 1.8 from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net, …

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