unix extensions = no

To fix this (based on Fedora Core 5) I made the following modifications to these files:

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo

[core]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo

[extras]
enabled=0

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

[updates]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/

Now when I execute “yum update” I get the last set of updates to be released for that particular version of Fedora and likewise I can use yum to also install new software packages.

I found the quickest way to resolve this was to convert all of my existing WMF file into the PICT file format.  Using one of my Linux servers I ran the following shell command against my picture library:

find /home/user/clipart/ *.WMF -print0 | while IFS= read -rd $'\0' f;
do echo "[$f]";
convert "$f" "$f.pict";
rm -f "$f";
done

This creates a list of files who’s file-name ends with WMF.  We then loop through each of these file-names converting each and saving it with a .pict file extension.  The IFS= read -rd parameters are absolutely necessary should your WMF files contain spaces.

# yum install ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-irb rubygems

Next, update the GEM repository by running

# gem update

Followed by…

# gem install -y rails --include-dependencies

yum install mod_fcgid

Add the following virtual host config to your apache config file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
ServerName rails
DocumentRoot /path/application/public/
ErrorLog /path/application/log/apache.log

<Directory /path/application/public/>
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

1. Set up your CA (you only have to do this once)
   ON THE LINUX BOX…
   • Create a private key
     

     openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024

     (You’ll need to supply a passphrase. DON’T FORGET THIS!!)

   • Set this to read-only for root access only
     

     chmod 400 CA.key

   • Create the CA certificate
     

     openssl req -new -key CA.key -x509 -days 1095 -out CA.crt

     (Provide appropriate responses to the prompts…for Common Name, you might want to use something like “OurCompany CA”)

   • Country Name: GB
   • State or Province Name: Newcastle
   • Locality Name: Gateshead
   • Organization Name: Your company name
   • Organizational Unit Name: OI
   • Common Nmae: www.yourwebsite-address.com
   • Email Address: your-admin-email@address.com
   • Set the certificate to read-only for root access only
     

     chmod 400 CA.crt

2. Obtain a CSR
   ON THE IIS BOX…
   • Open the Internet Manager
   • Select the site for which you want to create a key
   • Right-click and choose Properties
   • Select the “Directory Security” tab
   • Click the “Server Certificate” button
   • Follow the prompts to create a CSR
   • Save your CSR, then transfer it to the Linux box for further processing. (For the following steps, we’ll refer to your CSR as “new.csr”)
3. Sign the CSR
   ON THE LINUX BOX…
   • Sign the CSR (all of this on one line)
     

     openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in new.csr -CA CA.crt
     -CAkey CA.key -CAcreateserial -out new.crt

   • Transfer the new.crt file back to the IIS box
4. Install self-signed certificate
   ON THE IIS BOX…
   • Open the Internet Manager
   • Select the site to install the key
   • Right-click and choose properties
   • Select the “Directory Security” tab
   • Click the “Server Certificate” button
   • Specify that you want to complete the pending request
   • Select the .crt file that you just transferred

(run the following commands as root)

Convert the MP3 files to the WAV file format
for i in `ls *.mp3`; do lame --decode $i ; done

Before you can burn the WAV files to disc you should know the bus address it is connected to (as far as the operating system is concerned). To find this out, just run the following command:
cdrecord --scanbus

Look for the comma separated address of your cd-writer in the output and substitute the comma separated address e.g. 1,0,0 with the one shown in the dev parameter in the command line below:

Burn the WAV files to disc
cdrecord -dao -pad -audio -speed=4 -v dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 *.wav

After a short while you should end up with an audio CD you can play in a standard CD player.

In this example, I’m converting one of the Fedora Core 4 installation discs which I’ve already burnt to disc, back into an ISO image called fc4_disc1.iso.

(Run as root)
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=fc4_disc1.iso bs=2048 count=`isosize -d 2048 /dev/cdrom`

Note: The single quotes used on the count parameter are not those typically found on the same key as the @ symbol. The quote in use here can be found to the left of the number 1 button on your keyboard.