Friendship Blossoms

Each feels a need to be alone-and clandestinely hide away,
from the trials of our daily walk-and the nettles of each day.
But there's a need, yet deeper still, a very human element;
a need for love, for warmth and strength, a sharing of content.
God planted those first seeds of love, in the vale of Eden, there ...
I think some seeds lay dormant, 'til he molded friends to share.
That day the seeds awakened, took root, and sprouted high ...
as the friendships blossomed-God looked down through His sky,

As He looked, He whispered soft, "tis good-this blossom fair"
He stooped and picked a friendship flower and blew it on the air.
Like dandelions, they scattered, and where'ere a seed touched down
eventually, a friendship grew, in that garden of renown.
He intends for us to spread the seeds
and send them winging on the breeze ...
to fertile soil in someone's heart ... and to blossom ... He is pleased.
If we took the time each day, with care, to plant a seed ...
imagine all the friendship flowers would blossom and would lead ...
To more seedlings being planted ...
in more hearts, friendship would be;
then hate and greed would vanish, for all eternity.
It truly is a gift from God, to have a friend to share,
the glories of the moments ... as well as all our cares.

by Dot Chadwick (written in 1967)

The Bottom Line

I'm at the bottom line of all my needs
I'm blowing at the end of my reed
All of my wants have past away
now all I want is LOVE!
Now tell me when I'm in a situation
or a problem bigger than that
I'll turn my ways around
You help me I help you
We all stick together
at the bottom line!

by Kara.

For more of Kara's poems ... visit Kara's Colors

selecting duplicate rows

Ever wondered how to select only rows that have some duplicate from a field? Well, here is one way that worked pretty well:

select duplicate_column from table_with_duplicates where
(
   select count(a.duplicate_column) from table_with_duplicates a
   where a.duplicate_column = table_with_duplicates.duplicate_column
) > 1
group by duplicate_column

Hope that helps someone.

Baptism and Summer fun ...

We found a turtle ...What are you talking about?
Under a shroom ...
Grin :-)
Not ashamed.
Snack time ...
Getting ready ...
Baptized ...
Getting ready ...
Baptized ...
On the slide ...
Woah! ... (click to enlarge)

Fedora Rawhide ... cannot login. Symptoms and solution.

Here is what was happening, and how I fixed it. First of all, I had to reboot into "linux single" just so that I could get to root and read the log files. If you do not know what "linux single" is, email me, and I'll let you know.

Anyway, whenever I tried to login using the normal gdm interface, these messages appeared in /var/log/secure:

Jul 9 09:03:10 lost pam: gdm-fingerprint[930]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_fprintd.so): /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jul 9 09:03:10 lost pam: gdm-fingerprint[930]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so
Jul 9 09:03:21 lost pam: gdm-password[991]: gkr-pam: couldn't run gnome-keyring-daemon: Permission denied
Jul 9 09:03:21 lost pam: gdm-password[929]: gkr-pam: gnome-keyring-daemon didn't start properly properly
Jul 9 09:03:21 lost pam: gdm-password[929]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user geek by (uid=0)
Jul 9 09:03:22 lost pam: gdm-password[929]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user geek

Then when I tried to login using the console, these messages appeared in /var/log/secure:

Jul 9 09:03:30 lost login: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_fprintd.so): /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jul 9 09:03:30 lost login: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so
Jul 9 09:03:34 lost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Jul 9 09:03:34 lost login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty2
Jul 9 09:03:34 lost login: pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user root

Well this made sense after seeing the following:

[root@lost ~]# ls -l /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 2009-07-09 10:59 /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so -> pam_fprintd.so.0.0.0
[root@lost ~]# ls -l /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so.0.0.0
ls: cannot access /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so.0.0.0: No such file or directory

I'm not sure why the package called fprintd-pam.i586 installs a file that links to "No such file or directory". But removing fprintd-pam.i586 and gdm-fingerprint did not help.

The quickest solution for this issue was to disable selinux. Surely there is a better solution. If you know what that is, let us know.