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I am having a look at an old server that is running Fedora Core 6.
Is it possible to upgrade it to the latest Fedora? Should we do that?
I see instructions going from 6 to 7 , 7 to 8, etc... but it seems like the pain of going that route will be similar...
Started by Chris Kimpton on
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The latest fedora is fedora 11 and lot of things would have changed from Fedora 6 to Fedora 11 including
Location of some config files Format of config files Default set of tools which get....
Re-install would be better option.
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Relating to my question on upgrading a Fedora Core 6 machine , in the interim, before the upgrade is completed (which may take some time, given its not my machine, etc etc), are there any Fedora utils for identifying packages with security risks, like...
Started by Chris Kimpton on
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Even if there were other people looking at the packages, it probably would not:
Make it to the distro's update repo... .
I would recommend upgrading ...
Are you planning to update FC6 to a newer version or just patch it? FC6 is no longer actively supported .
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I have a very annoying problem with fedora core 8. I am not able to install git it gives this error every time I do a yum install git-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package git
There seems to be no way of resolving this dependency...
Started by GeekTantra on
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Are you unable.
Trying to install newer packages such as Git on such an old version of Fedora Core.
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I have a new Fedora Core 8 image I am using (I am doing this on the EC2 -- Amazon Web Services).
The image has Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.2
When I try to update Ruby using yum or gem using 'gem update --system' it tells me there is no update. Howevewr, I know...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Version 8 was released November 8, 2007; two years still unanswered too, so for the sake... .
However, you should consider upgrading to a newer Fedora.
If you're using the RPMs, then you're probably locked into a specific version from Fedora.
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Hi Folks,
For someone with so much Java experience, boy do I feel clueless - thanks in advance for your help in my grocking the present (Feb, 2010) JSP environment.
Here's what I am hoping to learn:
Do I understand correctly that most people use Apache...
Started by Richard T on
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Is there an RPM package for Fedora Core so I don't have to build one myself? Or, does Fedora Core's package installer do a good job on this one from source ....
Of serving JSP directly but requires a server (like Tomcat)?
yes .
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We have a java application running under fedora core 5. the jdk version is 1.5. after installed the chinses/TrueType under the /usr/share/fonts the firefox can display chinese pages but the java application display nothing for those chinese unicode (\...
Started by 5YrsLaterDBA on
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If you can't hardcode ....
You have to make sure you use the Chinese font to display the text .
What Java application? You'd have to tell that application to use whatever font you have in mind, using whatever configuration method the application provides .
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I have a P4 system that I installed Fedora 11 on. It will not boot without a monitor attached. The monitor can be off (not even have power plugged in), but must be attached. Without a monitor the hard disk thrashes around a bit like it's starting up services...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
To start so try these steps:
Connect monitor Boot into Fedora and login When at prompt try.
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I am a Linux noob, so I try to get apache and PHP running for my websites, then I leave my Linux server alone, and it just works, no complaints.
However, this time, I am working with a Network Solutions VPS, and it has no utilites pre-installed like yum...
Started by cinqoTimo on
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And installing with rpm -Uvh *.rpm
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/.
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I have recently taken over for another system admin on a project and am in the process of figuring out what we have on our servers before rebuilding things the way they need to be. I have one Dell server running Fedora Core 8. I am unable to connect to...
Started by trobrock on
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Is the other Sysadmin available? Did he leave under less than amicable circumstances... .
Check the ethernet card itself.
Does it have a link on eth0? What does ethtool eth0 say?
Well I'd run an:
ifconfig -a route -v
Check dmesg and logs for related info .
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I have just installed VMWare Server 2.0 on a fresh Fedora Core 8 install. The ports for the web access console of VMWare are 8222 and 8333 (like the defaults).
When I try a remote http access to myserver:8222 it fails. But when I run
/sbin/service iptables...
Started by Joannes Vermorel on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
A good debugging tool is to add a LOG just before your rules to verify:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT # Custom... .
Your rules for VMware need to come before the REJECT entry; otherwise they'll never be reached .
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