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Getting rid of SELinux labels

Even if I’m using Fedora, I’m not very fond of SELinux. I find the policies to be way too complicated to customize, and it seems one just have to cope with the policies made by the distributor, and...

Quick and effective way to disable the PC speaker

Well, I don’t like when my PC goes beep-beep at 2 a.m. and everybody is sleeping! So I’ve found a radical way to disable it: simply forbidding Linux to load the PC speaker kernel module. Edit /etc...

Kernel 2.6.18 linux/config.h problem

If you want to compile a kernel module with the new 2.6.18 kernel, you may encounter this error message: ... linux/config.h: No such file or directory This may happen even if you have your kerne...

Upgrade from FC5 to FC6

This day has finally come! Fedora Core 6, codenamed Zod, is out. If you have Fedora Core 5 already installed, you may want to upgrade. I’ll not tell you here what’s new and everyhing, you can find...

Search the PATH for any missing libraries

The following command will search for all the binaries located in your $PATH and tell you if any program is missing some shared libraries (.so) to be able to run correctly. I often use it after a d...