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= Installation Video =
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhXt8PnmAxQ Fedora 12 Installation]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RLz6Zx6O8 Fedora 13 Installation]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNGmftpLjic Fedora 14 Installation]
= F12 Live CD update Tracker =
The following table shows the number of packages available for update on a given date on a Live Fedora 12 system.
{|width="100%" border="1" cellspacing|- style="2width: 100%;color: white; background-color: #7430c2; font-weight: bold"! | Date!! || No. of Packages !! || Size!! || Time(min.)
|-
|November 25, 2009
|5
|-
|}
* add/remove software package
* other administrative tasks
* reading system log files
=== Monitoring System Main Log File ===
Most system daemons write log messages to the main system log file at /var/log/messages. As a system administrator, you can view any new log messages written to the file in real time using the following command line in a terminal window:
[root@localhost ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Mass Storage
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: USB2.0
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 1C7FED06
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 13 11:59:01 localhost kernel: scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 Flash Disk 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 1998848 512-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/976 MiB)
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 13 11:59:06 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: sdc: unknown partition table
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on sdc, internal journal
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Jan 13 11:59:07 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
The above messages were generated when a user plugged in an USB Flash drive to the system. In this example, the system assgined the device name [sdc] to identify the Flash drive.
== Mail Package ==
Fedora 12 Live DVD does not install the malix package by default.
To install the mailx package (so that user can use the mail command to read their local mailmails), follow the follwing steps:
[root@localhost mail]# yum install mailx
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
* No packet will be forwarded.
* All outgoing packets is are allowed.
=== Flush out firewall rules in the Filter table ===
=== Starting Apache Server ===
* For Fedora 14 and older
[root@localhost ~]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]# * For Fedora 15 and newer [root@localhost ~]# systemctl start httpd.service [root@localhost ~]#
=== To access your Apache Web Server running on the Live DVD ===
* Type the url "http://localhost" into the address box and press ENTER
* Type the url "http://localhost/manual" to access the Apache manual
= Applications =
* [[OPS235 SSH]]
* [[OPS235 MySQL]]
= Reporting Problems about your Fedora Installation =
Please read the [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html bug report guide line] to collect as much information as possible when reporting your Fedora problem to your professor.
= Miscellaneous Topics =
