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Tip: Fedora 14 and Dropbox

The current version of Dropbox does not behave nicely on Fedora 14 – the Dropbox update daemon attempts to execute code from stack. This is prohibited by SELinux (and rightly so).

There is a workaround (taken from the Dropbox Support forum):

/usr/bin/execstack -c ~/.dropbox-dist/_ctypes.so

Let’s hope that Dropbox releases a proper fix for this problem soon.

May 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Work | Comments are closed

Tip: Configuring network aliases with NetworkManager on Fedora 14

Linux supports the concept of “network aliases”; a NIC with more than one IP-address.

Previously, with networking managed by /etc/init.d/network, you would create a configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0) holding the IP-address information for alias “0” of network interface “eth0“.

With NetworkManager, things become more complicated for non-trivial network configurations. The primary interface settings are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 as usual:

DEVICE=”eth0″
NM_CONTROLLED=”yes”
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=00:04:23:C0:FF:EE
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DEFROUTE=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NAME=”System eth0″
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-deadbeefc0ffee

Based on a comment by Cristiano, I added a script to NetworkManager that would take care of configuring any [...]

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April 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Work | Comments are closed