Just a quick post to say that I am moving to the US in a couple of weeks, and taking a new position there. Not sure how many details can be divulged, but hopefully will post some more later.
Though there will definitely be no posts for a at least a month.
I moved my primary workstation back to Ubuntu for some testing I was doing, and only later wondered about installing the rhc client for openshift.
Happily, it is a painless gem install. See: http://www.stylesen.org/openshift_client_tools_installation_debianubuntu
Really more out of curiosity than need I have migrated my WordPress instance to Openshift (Freeshift).
There are lots of how-tos already available. The deployment was very quick, and painless. While I do not feel the need to copy the howto verbatim I will include a couple of things unique to WordPress and Openshift. Continue reading
Fedora support MTP, but the Nexus 7 is not recognised.
But it is fairly straight forward to get ADB, if your using the Developer Tools, and MTP mounting working.
# Google Nexus 7 16 Gb
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e41", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # MTP media (multimedia device)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e42", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # MTP media with USB debug on(multimedia device)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e43", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # PTP media (camera)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e44", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # PTP media with USB debug on (camera)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e40", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # Bootloader
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="d001", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # Recovery
# MTP Support
ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e41", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"
ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e42", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"
# systemctl restart udev.service
# yum install mtpfs libmtp
Done.
You should now be able to mount your device:
$ mtpfs /home/user/some_mount_point
The existing help I have found on MTP failed to include both Product IDs. Meaning if USB debugging was enabled on the device libmtp would not recognise your device.
Just playing with Corosync so I thought I would include a simple howto. For examples sake, we will setup an OpenVPN server with a fail-over.
I set this up on 2 KVM guests using the default network configuration. In the examples I will use the ip addresses of my guests, change them to match your setup.
SSSD from the Fedora Project provides NSS and PAM mechanisms for cached network credentials (Notebook users can still login when disconnected). SSSD is available in the main repos for both Fedora and Ubuntu.
The following sssd.conf worked for our environment. (Making it work with FreeIPA or Open LDAP and Kerberos is far less fiddly).
[sssd] domains = MYDOMAIN services = nss, pam config_file_version = 2 sbus_timeout = 30 [pam] offline_credentials_expiration = 0 [domain/MYDOMAIN] description = MYDOMAIN AD Server #debug_level = 9 enumerate = true ldap_referrals = false min_id = 1000 access_provider = permit id_provider = ldap chpass_provider = krb5 ldap_uri = ldap://my.ldap.server ldap_search_base = dc=my,dc=ad,dc=domain ldap_id_use_start_tls = False # TLS/SSL is supported # If you do not have anonymous binds enabled # User that can read from AD, any normal user should work. Update as necessary ldap_default_bind_dn = user@my.ad.domain # Leave this as password ldap_default_authtok_type = password # The ldap users actual password, update as necessary ldap_default_authtok = password # This is the important stuff for making AD LDAP work ldap_schema = rfc2307bis ldap_user_principal = userPrincipalName ldap_user_fullname = displayName ldap_user_name = sAMAccountName ldap_user_object_class = user ldap_user_home_directory = unixHomeDirectory ldap_user_shell = loginShell ldap_user_principal = userPrincipalName ldap_group_object_class = group ldap_force_upper_case_realm = True # I love this setting override_homedir = /home/%u # kerberos config auth_provider = krb5 krb5_server = dc.my.ad.domain krb5_realm = MY.AD.DOMAIN # This will probably not work for changing passwords krb5_changepw_principle = kadmin/changepw krb5_ccachedir = /tmp krb5_ccname_template = FILE:%d/krb5cc_%U_XXXXXX krb5_auth_timeout = 15 cache_credentials = True
It’s a common linux problem and I only post about it for my own reference, but reboot hangs with Fedora 16/17 and my Dell Latitude E6220.
To fix add the grub option:
"reboot=pci"
The correct way to do this is to edit /etc/default/grub and then issue:
grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Ever since working with Debian I have wondered why more Linux distros don’t ship with exim on as the default mail client.
“exim -bt email@address” is reason enough
It is simpler to setup and easier to administer. If you want your fedora machine to send local email via Gmail, here is a guide.
One point to add, if you want root mail delivered somewhere, edit /etc/aliases and set an alias for root. Don’t forget to run “newaliases” when your done.
This took me a while to find. But if you are using the opens source radeon X drivers, sound will not work via a hdmi interface.
It is pretty simple though, you just need a boot option:
radeon.audio=1
If this is passed in via grub at boot time, audio will work.
Footnote 9 on this page: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
For various reasons I use Thunderbird as my calendaring app. One of Gnome-shells most obvious features is it’s clock applet front and centre on the screen, with it’s built in calendar. It pulls this information from Evolution.
This config change will get the applet to launch Thunderbird (or any other app), but it will still not populate the calendar with entries from Thunderbird. But this single line, will mean that Thunderbird launches when you click on the in-built calendar.
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.office.calendar exec 'thunderbird'
To populate the calendar widget there is an extension for Thunderbird called: Evolution Mirror which should populate the evolution db with your Thunderbird data. You will need to install a couple of additional packages to make it work, in F16:
$ sudo yum install gnome-python2-extras gnome-python2-evolution