You might be wondering on what are we going to discuss in this article as it is most likely the case that you are seeing the error for the first time. But I found it very interesting, especially the whole debugging process I followed to figure out the actual root cause triggering above error. Going forward there are few software and command-line utilities that I mention to explain the context in detail. I have managed to provide hyperlinks to manual pages or websites for those utilities/terminologies I find may be useful for readers to go through and familiarize themselves with more insights.
Tag: fedora
Get yourself acquainted with mock to build rpm
Package management is one the key areas in the world of GNU/Linux system administration. Not only for system administrators but also for normal linux users it is an inevitable part that they need to be aware of in their day to day job. Even though hundreds of linux distros exist around us, number package management systems are very limited (in numbers). dpkg used by Debian with .deb format, RPM created by Red Hat with .rpm format, pacman used in Arch linux, portage by Gentoo etc are some of the popular ones among them. Considering the most used RPM and DEB packages, they both have proven to work flawless. It’s just a matter of personal taste to select one from the other. Here we discuss on how to build RPM based packages for different distros which makes you of .rpm to install softwares. Here is how a rpm package would like:
<name>-<version>-<release>.<architecture>.rpm
such as:
samba-4.2.3-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm
where <name> is samba, <version> is 4.2.3, <release> is 1.fc23 and <architecture> is x86_64. <release> part is often a combination of a positive integer with a distribution tag appended at its end. See here for more details.
Set up internet connection using PPPoE on Fedora
I don’t know how many of you have heard about this term called “PPPoE” which stands for Point-to-Point-Protocol over Ethernet. Even though this article is not intended to explain in detail about this protocol, in order to have a general understanding let’s go through the common concepts of PPP and PPPoE briefly.
PPPoE as a derivate of PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link protocol used to establish a direct connection between two nodes. It can provide connection authentication, transmission encryption and compression. PPP is also used over internet access connections. Two derivatives of PPP, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) and Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) are most commonly used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to establish a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) internet service connection with customers. The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames inside ethernet frames.
Establish a PPPoE connection
This would normally require a authenticated DSL connection via phone line, trunk line, optical fibre etc. So I would assume that you have Read More »
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