fedora

Possible to assign a new IP address on every http request?

Hi Is it possible for me to change or assign my server a new IP address every time it needs to make a http request with commands such as wget? Thanks all Update The reason for this is exactly what the Tor project is trying to achieve. I do not want to leave a trace of what requests my server makes and I thought constantly changing my...

Trouble running eclipse on Fedora 9, KDE 4.2 (Runs fine in Gnome)

I recently installed KDE4.2 on my Fedora 9 machine, which already had Gnome, and have been trying to run Eclipse 3.3 (Europa, which ships with a Fedora Distro), but without luck. Eclipse runs fine when I use gnome session, however I need to use it in KDE. I am attaching the screen-shot taken after the crash and some information about my...

Faulty fonts on Lazarus

I've recently installed FPC 2.2.2 and Lazarus 0.9.6 on my Acer Aspire One, so I can cross-compile some apps and to my dismay, the fonts for the menus all are little squares. Has anyone had a similar problem with Lazarus on a Fedora Core instalation that could give me some advice? ...

Can a makefile update the calling environment?

Is it possible to update the environment from a makefile? I want to be able to create a target to set the client environment variables for them. Something like this: AXIS2_HOME ?= /usr/local/axis2-1.4.1 JAVA_HOME ?= /usr/java/latest CLASSPATH := foo foo setenv: export AXIS2_HOME export JAVA_HOME export CLASSPATH So that...

Creating core dumps on Linux

Duplicate: generate a core dump in linux I am trying to create a core dump in my "Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)". [root@testserver test_core_dump]# uname -a Linux testserver 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I am following this to create core dumps. The problem is, /proc/sys/kern...

Platform-dependent issue in run-length encoding of bmp files using C

I've written a program which opens a bmp file and treats it as a character file and performs run length encoding on it. It produces a valid compressed encoding file, which I read again to perform the decoding. When i'd made the application i was using Fedora and it ran perfectly fine. Now i'm running it on ubuntu and it refuses to work....

Building Python PIL for JPEG looks okay, but fails the selftest

I'm on Fedora Core 6 (64 bit) after "yum install libjpeg-devel" I have downloaded and built PIL. It gives the message: --- JPEG support ok Looks like JPEG built okay, but when running selftest.py: IOError: decoder jpeg not available Why would it appear to have built correctly, but fail the selftest? ...

boost version in linux distros

Hello! Does anybody know the reason why fedora 10 (quite a modern linux distro I'd say) still shipped with boost version 1.34, while latest release is 1.38 ? ...

grep command to replace multiline text from httpd.conf file on Fedora

Hi, I am a newbie to shell scripting and to Linux environment as well. In my project I am trying to search for following text from the httpd.conf file <Directory '/somedir/someinnerdir'> AllowOverride All </Directory> and then remove this text and again rewrite the same text. The reason to do this rewriting is that the script will b...

Mount LVM overlays/snapshots?

Dear lazyweb, I'm trying to mount a disk image created with the Fedora LiveUSB creator under Ubuntu programmatically, and I'm encountering some issues. From what I've been told, it's very difficult to mount LVM snapshots outside of the host system. I have both the "pristine" image and the persistent snapshot, so I thought that it shou...

Run startupscript on Fedora 8 Core

Hello. I'm using Amazon EC2 with a Fedora 8 Core AMI. I have an EBS volume mounted at /ebsmnt, and a startupscript located at /ebsmnt/startupscript.sh . Currently I have to login to the server, cd to /ebsmnt/ and run the script manually. How can I make Fedora run this script automatically at startup, without any interaction from me? (by ...

Fedora Python Upgrade broke easy_install

Fedora Core 9 includes Python 2.5.1. I can use YUM to get latest and greatest releases. To get ready for 2.6 official testing, I wanted to start with 2.5.4. It appears that there's no Fedora 9 YUM package, because 2.5.4 isn't an official part of FC9. I downloaded 2.5.4, did ./configure; make; make install and wound up with two Python...

How to sync the clocks of multiple Fedora systems

I have a subscription system that allows users to subscribe to things or people they are interested in, and receive notifications when new posts or files or images are submitted. To determine whether something is new, I track their views by tstamp. The problem is that if the webserver and the MySQL database are out of sync, a user could...

Mod_Mono & Apache: Failed to create shared memory segment for backend

Hi I have successfully installed mod_mono 2.4 and httpd on Fedora 11 and got httpd to start. But when I add: <VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80> ServerName mydomain.com ServerAlias www.mydomain.com ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /usr/lib64/xsp/test/ MonoServerPath mydomain.com "/usr/lib64/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2...

Compiling C++ program on Fedora

Hi there I'm having problems compiling an open source C++ project on Fedora. When I download and run the ./configure I eventually end up with.... . . . checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate ./configure: line 15513: AX_CFLAGS_WARN_ALL: command not fou...

Distributing a program in linux without the source

I want to be able to distribute a program in Linux without distributing the source with it. The current solution is distributing a tar.gz with a precompiled binary. What is the easiest way to have this binary be placed in the Applications Menu? Is there a way to do this that is common across most linux distributions, but Ubuntu, Fedora, ...

How can i install mysql workbench in fedora 11.

I download and try to install the rpm package for fedora 10, i also try compiled from source and finally ry to rebuild de rpm pakage from src.rpm package .. and nothing work.. does anyone know how can i install mysql workbench in fedora 11 ? Thanks. ...

What are the pros and cons of using a Mac for web development?

I have been using Fedora Linux for quite some time now for web development (and for other dev stuff as well). But just recently, someone told me that since I'm doing web development, I might as well use a Mac. I feel like Macs are overrated. Why should I (or should I not) use a Mac? ...

Packages in Fedora 11

I'm trying to find a list of the packages that Fedora 11 installs. I guess this is either on the .iso for the install DVD or part of the anaconda package. In particular I'd like a minimal list. I understand that this might not be the right question; it's possible that at install time a minimal Fedora does not install any packages, but j...

Requires GLIBCXX_3.4.9 if I've already installed GLIBCXX_4.1.2?

I'm installing the last version of MediainfoDLL on Fedora 8/9 64bits (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/es/Download/Fedora). I downloaded libmediainfo-0.7.20 and libzen0-0.4.3 files. When I tried to install libzen0 I get this output: # rpm -i libzen0-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_9.rpm warning: libzen0-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_9.rpm: Header V3 DSA...