Enabling LDAP authentication should take you about 2 minutes, unless you type with just 2 fingers. Then maybe 3 or 4. …If you don’t allow anonymous connections to your ldap, give it a user/password combination that has enough privs to do the lookups, or just use your master account if you’re just testing or don’t really care. … Now tell it what parts of your webserver you want to protect and how. You can specify any string you’d like for the realm. Here I require an LDAP user account name and password just to get to the wiki main page, and only admin can see the server-config page… Restart lighttpd and you’re done.

This howto will get bugzilla with ALL of the optional modules installed on Fedora 10. If you just want a barebones bugzilla up and running, you might want to read the whole thing and then just look for the required parts. Otherwise, you can follow me through the install and end up with all the bells and whistles.

The checksetup.pl script will tell you what you’re missing and what you need to install to get bugzilla up and running. But the problem is it pushes you to use perl’s package management to build the perl modules which may or may not work. I think it’s best to use YUM to install and manage all of your packages and not to mix and match both. This will help to avoid conflicting packages and seemingly random complaints of a package missing when it’s not.

I can’t find any installation procedures or prebuilt rpm’s for Fedora 10, so i’m going to make my own, so here goes. … whole lotta stuff here … And finally, start opennms.

How to install Qingy on Fedora. This will work on Fedora 8, Fedora 9, or Fedora 10. It’s all the same, so this will apply to all Fedora versions with directfb and directfb-devel in the repository. If you don’t find them in the repos, just build them from source too.

Use cryptsetup to setup dm-crypt managed device-mapper mappings. This method will allow you to use an encrypted mapping to transparently read and write encrypted data so that you and your applications don’t even need to worry about handling any encryption at all; it will just work, trust me. If you need to save data that’s already on the device, then copy it somewhere else, encrypt the drive, and copy it all back after encrypting.

Fedora 8 has just reached the end of support. If you insist on doing a yum upgrade instead of just saving your home partition and reinstalling the rest, here’s how to do the upgrade. It might help if you keep your fingers crossed while doing all the typing.
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When you get to the first prompt when installing, instead of just letting the default continue by itself, type linux selinux=0 reiserfs

This is how-to-Install 3D desktop effects on a vanilla Fedora 10 installation (I tried this on a freshly installed Fedora 10, installed from DVD). Basically all you need to do is get 3d hardware acceleration enabled for your video card and then install the fusion-icon package and reboot. In the past this was easier said than done.

You want to install a special version of openssl that’s not the latest release, but some other app requires that specific one — how do you do it?
Lets assume you don’t have the right repository installed, and you need to set that up first.  If you’re looking for some package …

Got a process that you want to restart in a script but it doesn’t respond nicely?  Use the sleep command in your script and check its status after you start, stop, or kill it.  After incrementally backing off a few times, waiting longer and longer, I give up and exit …