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Hi Gurus, I have fedora4 system shared by many users loging in to the same guest account, I have a problem with them leaving thier flash drives still mounted for the next user, Is there a way to automatically umount all the devices such as /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, /dev/sdc1 and so on.... Please...

Hi Gurus, Is it possible to preset a time for shutdown on xp pro, if yes please let me know the commands procedure Many Thanks

Sorry Yes the path is from home ~/folder/*, please note that it works from an ssh session to the machine but I want it to work under gnome session. Any ideas how I can get the gnome to read .bash_logout file or is there another file that gnome looks at when logging out?

Hi gurus, I want to remove/empty files from a folder in my home when logging out using gnome, I added rm -rf /folder/* in the .bash_logout but it has no effect. Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks mrballcb sudo works OK!

Hi gurus, Is it possible to change the default scheduling policies to SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR instead of default (SCHED_OTHER) On Fedora4 linux only users with superuser privileges can use the scheduling policies SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR. While the default policy (SCHED_OTHER), which is available...

Hi Gurus, I am complete novice to ldap, I am trying to connect a fedora4 client to a LDAP server of which I have the ip address. Which I entered in the LDAP Server along with the domain name for the server in LDAP Search Base DN option. I get the following message when I try start the LDAP in...

Many Thanks BobMFDC, I would look for similar here in UK!

Hi Gurus, We need advise in selection of a server, We are thinking of building a linux (redhat/fedora) file server serving about 100 machines with about 300 users accounts that can backup and have hot plugable scsi raid array etc we need to have an idea on the specs that would be required to...

Hi Gurus, We need advise in selection of a server, We are thinking of building a linux file server serving about 100 machines with about 300 users accounts that can backup and have hot plugable scsi raid array etc we need to have an idea on the specs that would be required to serv all the users...

Dear Gurus, The problem is that in Office programme word when I "save as" it just hangs up and gives message "save as" is not responding and on selecting "End Task" from Task Manager it closes the word programme and I end up losing my data. Note I have kept the office updated with sp3 and no...

Hi zeland, Here is what I get for dmesg | grep -i usb [root@cybermax root]# dmesg | grep -i usb usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0854000, IRQ 5 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller...

Hi Zeland/Bamber Here is what I get from fdisk -l root]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1...

Hi Bamber, Thanks for your time. I tried by doing all as above ie adding the entry in /etc/fstab and chmod 777 /mnt/usb, but I get the following message after trying to mount:- $ mount /mnt/usb mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device please note the usb flash drive works fine on...

Hi zeland, But I Can't do it on fedora 3 running 2.6.9-1.667 kernel either? I can mount as root by hand but not as normal user? ideally I would like it to mount automatically for all the users? any ideas? Thanks for your help