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Booting the Fedora installer with PXE

Posted on 2008/02/02 by Richard

Launching the Fedora installer over the network, as well as having a local mirror of the Fedora repository, means you don’t need to burn a CD or DVD. It’s a convenient way of trying out a new distro. I’ve done … Continue reading →

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Pre-queue content-filter connection overload

Posted on 2007/08/24 by Richard

Ever since updating my gateway to Fedora 7, I’ve been getting messages like this in my daily Logwatch: 84   *Warning: Pre-queue content-filter connection overload Worrying that I might be losing mail, I looked at the logwatch script for postfix in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/postfix, … Continue reading →

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Read only and read/write NFS mounts on Fedora

Posted on 2007/02/24 by Richard

I share several directories from my Debian server to other machines on the network using NFS. On one of these machines, which runs Fedora Core, some of the directories are mounted read-only, whereas others are mounted read/write. After upgrading to … Continue reading →

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RealPlayer on Fedora Core 6

Posted on 2006/10/27 by Richard

So you’ve installed Fedora Core 6, and the RealPlayer RPM from here. You go to Applications → Sound & Video → RealPlayer 10, and… nothing happens. Open up a terminal. Try to run RealPlayer from there. Chances are you’ll see … Continue reading →

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Mail bounced by Postfix

Posted on 2006/09/23 by Richard

Until a few weeks ago my mail server (Postfix running on Fedora Core 5) was having difficulty keeping up with spam. I was finding lots of bounce errors in the mail log, like this one: Sep 23 12:32:15 fc5test postfix/local[9084]: … Continue reading →

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