I think it’s safe to say, if you can’t get something to work then the manual is rubbish or the user is stupid, with setting up snmp v3 on linux, the user is me, so the fault is probably lies there.

SNMPv3 moves away from the community string idea from older version, and into a username & password combo. The correct tool for creating users is snmpusm, but no matter how many times I read the man page I can’t work it out. I get that you copy a user from the initial user, but how do you create the initial user ? If I try on my box I just get an “snmp timeout” error.

…and their server is down…..

Fedora Project
We are working hard to bring fedora.redhat.com back up to its fully operational state.

DOH !

Oh well I haven’t got time to install it now anyway, I’ll wait for the “Zod” frenzy to finish I think

This has been on my to do list for a while… I have finally converted my little reporsitory of rpm’s into a proper yum repo !

The old xfce repo has been mergered into a new Whitebox repo, which in fact can be used for CentOS, WBEL or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

A new fedora repo exists as well, those with a keen eye will see new rpm sections for FC5 64_86 (my new pc!).

All packages will be signed with my gpg key, and config files can be found here:

There are loads of posts on this and they all miss out a couple of pieces of information

How ?
Well I downloaded the latest firefox from fedora’s update page , then I ran: (as root)

then from the directory I downloaded firefox to:

What happens Next ?
The first time I ran it, I got a pop up complaining about an install.rdf, I ignored this, and firefox loaded fine, but without any of my extensions in my profile. I then closed firefox, and the second time it ran by extension loaded ….. finally I noticed that the beagle index extension wasn’t loaded, so within firefox, I did a file open

News on digg shows that FC5 Test2 is out !!.

Now I don’t usually care about test releases - FC is unstable enough - but what is cool is the screen shots with the new FC artwork & logo’s, tiz very nice

The release notes: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test2-latest-en/ have loads of information if you need it, notice that the fedora website is now supporting the new logo as well - little things eh !

I’ve put up with this error message for some time now:

I run a firefox on gnome on fedora core, installation on my laptop. No matter how much googleing I did, I could not work out which part of the puzzle was at fault.

Well, today I sussed it, if I visit feed:myfeed the feed opens in google reader

I’m in the process of trying to get working on Fedora Core 4 in the usual chase the dependency scenario you can easily get into I needed to build an wxPython package.

I hope these are of use:

• wxPython-common-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm
• wxPython2.6-devel-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm
• wxPython2.6-gtk2-unicode-2.6.1.0-1_py2.4.i386.rpm

So I’ve been clearing out some stuff and I found another thing of use.

When I had a Sony Vaio, I remember the most annoying thing to get working was X11, specifically finding the right Fedora Core xorg.conf. I’ve uploaded my working xorg.conf here , now if you’re a really newbie and need some steps read-on, else you’re probably done

Firstly, if you boot the PCG-C1F from the CD-ROM, and just hit enter at the install prompt, anaconda will try and start X, and when it does it can’t set the resolution right. So, the best thing to do is install in text mode. Text mode is started at the install prompt with:

A while ago I put some effort into getting SSL support working with XMMS on Fedora Core 3, unfortunatley I didn’t get very far

Ages a go Dustin Kirkland was kind enough to help me out (he wrote an SSL patch for XMMS), but I never got a change to finish, Since this message has been flagged for follow up for soooooo long now, I thought it only fair to share what Dustin sent me, when (& if) I get this finished I’ll publish an rpm good luck !

ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve needed to rebuild an rpm, I guess it just goes to show what a good job those repo-boys are doing !

Well I’ve just noticed Solaris 10 is available and I needed a download manager. Normally the built in download manager in firefox will do, but today I wanted to be able to control the speed at which I downloaded … et voila d4x, an rpm hasn’t been build since fc2 so I built one.

Here’s a screen shot to keep you interested !

Download d4x

Found something cool today, a GUI for cisco’s LINUX vpn client.

I’ve tested it & it works as expected, check out the screenshot.

Gnome VPN Dialer Home Page

I’ve been trying to get beagle working on my FC3 machine for a while now, but without much success . I have two fc3 machines at my disposal , what I ended up with was one where the beagle daemon would load & index data, but the best (search) gui didn’t work - So I couldn’t easily search what I had indexed - and on the other the best gui worked, but the daemon wouldn’t start - DOH , a gui but nothing to search !

I’m forever looking for ways to make things easier for myself

Today I came across gnome-blog it’s a small gnome applet that allows you to post direct from your desktop, Infact that’s exactly how this was written ! (h)

The default FC3 rpm on seths website didn’t install for me, it complained about a python(abi) dependancy - which I just couldn’t find - I did however find this similar rpm which I installed before installing gnome-blog, so if you have problems installing my rpm, then this may help. ( http://dl.atrpms.net/~/pythonabi-2.3.4-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm )

Hardware stuff, especially laptops is usually window$/manufacturer specifc so getting some of it work work can be a bit of a pain. In FC1 low batteries & standby is handled by APM, in FC2 upwards APM is replaced with ACPI & this is a quick text on getting going.

There are two folders & a service :

• /etc/acpi/actions
• /etc/acpi/events
• /etc/init.d/acpid

The service , I think runs in the background monitoring the hardware, you can then put events into /etc/acpi/events and get things to happen when the deamon spots them .

grr… I need to vent some frustration… if you don’t know what the beagle is you should check their website:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/

In a nutshell it’s a cutting egde gnome search tool, and everything I’ve read about it is really positive, the problem is there doesn’t seem to be many Fedora Users using it, so there isn’t much documentation on getting it working… I was thinking about doing my own, but I’ve messed about with my laptop so much, that even if i do get it to work I’ll have forgotten what I’ve done !