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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers in need of serious help with Grub and Linux, Windows XP Post 77489 by Aco on Saturday 9th of July 2005 03:07:23 AM
Old 07-09-2005
That is the crazyest thing I have ever heard...

Anyway, screw Fedora Core and go with something else such as Gentoo, Slackware, maybe even FreeBSD (UNIX). Also, if these are too advance for you then try Mandrake Linux or Suse. They are a lot like Fedora code but just look different. Smilie
 

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SMOLTSENDPROFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual					       SMOLTSENDPROFILE(1)

NAME
smoltSendProfie - Submit Smolt hardware profile to server SYNOPSIS
smoltSendProfile [options] DESCRIPTION
smoltSendProfile program submits the hardware profile of the current machine to the Smoon server. Smolt is a cross-desktop hardware report- ing tool for GNU/Linux based systems. OPTIONS -p, --printOnly Display information only; do not send -a, --autoSend Don't prompt to send; just send -r, --retry Continue to send until success -c, --checkin Automated check-in, suitable for cron-jobs -S, --scanOnly Only scan this machine for known hardware errata; do not send profile --submitOnly Do not scan this machine for known hardware errata; only submit profile -b, --bodhi Submit this profile to Bodhi as well, for Fedora Developmnent -n, --newPublicUUID Request a new public UUID -s SMOON_URL, --server=SMOON_URL Specify the URL of the server -u USERAGENT, --useragent=USERAGENT, --user_agent=USERAGENT Specify HTTP user agent (default "smolt/0.97") -t TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT Specify HTTP timeout in seconds (default 60.0 seconds) --uuidFile=UUIDFILE Specify which UUID to use; useful for debugging and testing --username=USERNAME Fedora Account System registration username --password=PASSWORD Fedora Account System registration password (will prompt if not specified) -d, --debug Enable debug information --version Show program's version number and exit -h, --help Show this help message and exit SEE ALSO
smoltDeleteProfile(1), smoltGui(1). AUTHOR
smoltSendProfile was written by Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@redhat.com> and others. This manual page was written by Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). February 27 2008 SMOLTSENDPROFILE(1)
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