Re: [Gimp-user] You can follow the Discourse server in Thunderbird using RSS

2022-10-25 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
inority. Let them use Gopher. I'm not saying, don't try to do it. I'm saying that my estimate of the possibility of success is very low. Cliff -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kob

Re: [Gimp-user] Affinity is an alternative

2022-10-24 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Slow startup time and possible problem with DBus instance lock on Linux

2022-06-23 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Update blocked by trend micro

2021-11-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-27 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
er 2021 21:23:50 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > The 'text problem' has been discussed many times, and the root cause > > is people not understanding how the tools works. I did (for my own > > satisfaction) quite a lot of fiddling with the tool + its options, and &

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-22 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
t works *for me*." If it appeared to be confronting, I apologise. That wasn't my intent. Incidentally, I appear to have replied to all. My mistake, sorry. Cliff On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:52 PM Simon Budig wrote: > Hi all. > > Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list (gimp-user-list@gnome.org) wrote: >

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-22 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
ober 2021 21:23:50 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > > > The 'text problem' has been discussed many times, and the root cause > > > is people not understanding how the tools works. I did (for my own > > > satisfaction) quite a lot of fiddling with the to

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-19 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2021-10-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Debian 11, updated, Gimp 2.10.22 - bad clone tool

2021-10-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Recurring mouse problem in GIMP 2.8.22

2021-07-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:48 PM Techno wrote: > On 2021-07-15 22:44, Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > Although you say this only happens in GIMP, I would expect to have seen > > many more complaints in the community if it was a GIMP (only) problem. I > > would n

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Buttons are blurry

2021-07-15 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Recurring mouse problem in GIMP 2.8.22

2021-07-15 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-25 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box

2021-02-11 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

2020-12-07 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

2020-12-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Image Compression

2020-12-02 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.10 .xcf files can't open in GIMP 2.8

2020-12-02 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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2020-11-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
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Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-05 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2020 21:23:35 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list > wrote: > > > Hm, how many text layers do you have? > > > > If I create a text layer I can create it with the particular font and > > font size. When I create another te

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Installing Gimp 2.10.18 on Mac OS using macports

2020-05-07 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Execution error for procedure 'gimp-file-save': Unknown file type

2020-04-30 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Execution error for procedure 'gimp-file-save': Unknown file type

2020-04-30 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
id you look at the script to see why it is behaving as it does? Cheers, Cliff -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kobo : https://www.kobo.com/search?query=Cliff+Pratt ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp version

2020-04-19 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
pr 3, 2020 at 4:24 AM Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list < > gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >> On the desktop? That's probably not the best place. Unless that is a >> mac-ism that I don't understand. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Cliff >> >> On Fr

Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
be plugins that don't get updated, of course. There's nothing that the GIMP people can do about that. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:53 PM Cliff Pratt wrote: > What distro are you using? python2.7 and the rest are available on Debian > 10. I think it is an issue for the distro cre

Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
-cairo is not installed. > python-gtk2 depends on python-gobject-2 (>= 2.21.3); however: > Package python-gobject-2 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing package python-gtk2 (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were e

Re: [Gimp-user] Start Up for 2.8

2019-11-20 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Shotwell] Freezes after a while

2019-06-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via shotwell-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-24 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
There's a few reasons that I can think of. A different set of maintainers and developers, maybe. Separation into a separate package also means that the python package can be updated without waiting for a Gimp update. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 9:33 PM Ofnuts wrote: > On 3/20/19

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
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Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Is it saying it can't find "python"? Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:40 AM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I have recently installed Debian testing LXQt, and it's version of GIMP is > 2.10.8. > I was using Lubuntu Next 17.10 LXQt, with GIMP version

Re: [Shotwell] Reset library.

2018-06-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
Hi, [I apologise if this starts a new thread. I received it in a digest, but I know of no way of replying to a message in a digest. I've not used mailing lists much.] Thanks for that. I didn't know of the GSettings connection. I'll have a look at that. I've commented below. Hi, > > > I saved

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
and if that means some downtime, then the users in general would not be put out, if their expectations had not been raised to expect no downtime. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Wed, October 29, 2014 6:32 pm, Cliff Pratt wrote: On Thu

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were hatchlings. At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and powered up at 7am on Monday! Can you imagine that these days? We soon went to 24x7, but the reason was not because the users wanted it. It was because

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:21 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 10/30/2014 1:07 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote: I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were hatchlings. At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and powered up at 7am on Monday

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Wed, October 29, 2014 4:02 pm, Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:44:42 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: ... Basically, if one thinks he knows more than system vendor, he is just schizophrenic. And we,

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget that the time taken to build the file list is a function of the number of files present, and not their size. If you have many millions of small files, it will indeed take a very long time. Over

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Keith Keller wrote: I suspect that sshfs's relatively poor performance is having an impact on your transfer. I have a 30TB filesystem which I rsync over an OpenVPN link, and building the file list

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
Bare bones is fine, but you miss out on the tools which may make your life easier. As an example you can configure a DB (PostgreSQL, mySQL, whatever) using the command, but it is frequently more time-cost effective to use a tool. Things like SSH used to be optional at one time. Now it is in every

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leit...@gmail.com wrote: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd No, do you dig a new foundation for your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 docs, tutorials, etc...

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Thu, October 9, 2014 10:08 am, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote: On 10/9/2014 12:22 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 10/08/2014 07:50 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Again, this is just $0.02 worth of my own

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
The daemon only handles incoming mail, or in other words waits for incoming connections from other mail servers. Outgoing mail is sent on demand, or in other words a connection is made to a mail server or relay as and when required. Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Always Learning

Re: [CentOS] xfce on CentOS 7: can't lock screen

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
CDE? Shudder!! In spite of the way that modern desktops have turned out I can't imagine anyone using CDE these days. I used to use and loath it on HP/UX back when the Internet was a puppy. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 27

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.net wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 00:03 +0400, Александр Кириллов wrote: You don't really need an active smtp daemon to send email or deliver it locally. $ cat /etc/php.ini | grep sendmail Package(s) sendmail available, but

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2014-09-26, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Fri, September 26, 2014 5:13 pm, John R Pierce wrote: linux apache web servers with the bash exploit are getting owned en masse

Re: [CentOS] RPM install/upgrade problem

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
It may be that you have a bad bash RPM from somewhere. I believe that the cpio command works directly on the package so you could try with cpio on the command line to see if it will open the RPM. I suspect that it won't be able to. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Tony Molloy

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:28 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Sep 2014 05:46, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one. There may be other similar cases. So the best thing is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:39 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: If I

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
through them, so I'd say that the best way to be sure is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that I am assuming that the minimal install contains *some* logging package, and that may possibly be incorrect. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Fair enough I withdraw my comment as irrelevant. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that I am

Re: [CentOS] don't use centos 7 as a developer workstation

2014-08-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: On 08/03/2014 01:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.08.2014 um 13:19 schrieb Farkas Levente: May be it's not clear to everyone.. so this's just a quick notice to everyone. Don't use CentOS 7 as a developer

Re: [CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
rsync breaks silently or sometimes noisily on big directory/file structures. It depends on how the OP's files are distributed. We organised our files in a client/year/month/day and run a number of rsyncs on separate parts of the hierarchy. Older stuff doesn't need to be rsynced but gets backed up

Re: [CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
it would behave with your millions of files) 2. One big rsync 3. Bring it down and copy the few modified files reported by inotify. Or lsyncd? On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: rsync breaks silently or sometimes noisily on big directory

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

2014-06-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
I believe that the whole of the first track on a disk used to be reserved or rather used to contain the MBR only (and anything else needed by the boot loader) and the first filesystem on disk used to start at track 1. Of course, with the larger disks this got more complicated. Cheers, Cliff On

Re: [CentOS] find with exclude directory

2014-05-12 Thread Cliff Pratt
Why not copy the directory elsewhere, then delete the rest and move it back? You'd take a copy of it anyway, if it is important, right? Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. But what if I want to turn that statement into one that will

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

2014-05-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
That file is 'sourced' by other network scripts so doesn't have to be executable, but the contents set environment variables for other scripts. Or so I believe. No doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-02 Thread Cliff Pratt
to avoid tainting the base install? On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that. That way you get the benefits of the latest Perl

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that. That way you get the benefits of the latest Perl and CPAN without it fighting with yum/rpm. Your hashbang line in each Perl script that uses the

Re: [CentOS] has anybody gotten horde working?

2014-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: On 25/03/14 04:05, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Has anybody gotten this working? By the way, this is CentOS 6.5. If you are starting from scratch

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff Pratt wrote: That text format is simple. Too simple. If you have multiple similar sub-sections you have to use some ad-hoc construction. For example if you require sub entries with eg a default sub-section and a per-user sub-section then the simple example doesn't work, or at least

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 22.03.2014 17:46, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I have RHEL 7 Beta installed in dual boot with CentOS 6.x. Since RHEL 7 installed GRUB2, I had problem that RHEL 7 is default boot. My personal solution was to go to

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.netwrote: On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 17:18 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On the other hand, what justifiable reason was there for the massively increased complexity of grub2? And why do all configuration files suddenly

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
*desperately* need to be xml? On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: Because misguided fools believe XML is wundervol and they don't want simplicity of use. On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 13:54 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote: The advantages of XML are that it is a common, mature

Re: [CentOS] weird apache issue

2014-03-07 Thread Cliff Pratt
Does the same issue arise if the restart is split into a stop and start? My thinking is that the stop IS working, but is taking longer than the script expects, so the stop step fails when the program checks the PID to see if it has shutdown properly. Then when the start happens the Apache has not

Re: [CentOS] gnutls bug

2014-03-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
I have some sympathy for Michael. There are organisations which are so paranoid that they will not allow updates between eg 6.4 and 6.5, either because they insist on rigorous (ie lengthy and time consuming) regression testing of applications or because a third party package vendor specifies a

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.auwrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:20:05PM -0600, Johnny Hughes (joh...@centos.org) wrote: On 02/19/2014 08:29

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
I should read right to the bottom, shouldn't I? Sigh! On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.comwrote: No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst

[GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] could not create lock file postmaster.pid: No such file or directory, but file does exist

2014-02-17 Thread Cliff Pratt
You don't give a lot of information, but try sudo rm postmaster.pid or sudo -u postgres rm postmaster.pid if you are sure that postgres is not running. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Rob Goethals / SNP rob.goeth...@snp.nlwrote: Hi, This is my first post to this list, so

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: On 07 February 2014 @06:45 zulu, Cliff Pratt wrote: Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is because it was there. Because I couldn't find a GUI

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Rejy, for the record, I've downloaded many ISOs and other large files using my browser (Chrome) for many years. While years ago it was problematic to use the browser to download large files, it seems to me that that is not so these days. Of course if you have a very slow or bad connection, it may

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Yep, it works OK for me, but it may not work for the guy down the road. I don't have an issue with that. But for most people it just works fine. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty lmoha...@redhat.comwrote: On 02/06/2014 03:08 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Rejy

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is because it was there. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: Well that didn't take as long as I thought it would... HashCalc does run fine in WINE,

Re: [CentOS] netcdf

2014-01-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:00 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: dip patel wrote: i had used all the resources as below and when i had all the untar in a directories and then ./configure the netcdf file so it fives x lib developer is missing and some x11 library is also missing etc so please

Re: [CentOS] default gw route has gone? SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
It will probably be the same elsewhere, because they are CHEAP. I've used a few NZ Telco supplied routers over the years and a couple of cheap bought ones. All had some issue or the other. Nowadays I put up with or workaround any issues. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob Kampen

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
Can you not set up a test system and try it out? Or, if this is your only system, could you not back it up, and test your suggestions out? The mysql shell is for viewing data in your databases and manipulating the data in required. You can also add tables and things like that. It is a powerful

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS) and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: On 01/09/2014 05:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:55

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
Thanks! I got similar suggestions when I mentioned this at work. I was of course joking about rot13. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 1/9/2014 3:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Grub only needs to know about the filesystems that it uses to boot the system. Mounting of the other file systems including /var is the responsibility of the system that has been booted. I suspect that you have something else wrong if you can't boot with /var/ on ZFS. I may be wrong, but I don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the latest release. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: My understanding was that CentOS was

Re: [CentOS] Log rolling with a daemon

2013-12-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
John's suggestion is still pertinent. You'll need a SIGHUP handler in your script. Logrotate could send the SIGHUP in a postrotate 'script'. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, John R Pierce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
3.9.3 is the kernel number. All Linux distributions use the Linux kernel, so Debian version X and CentOS version Y may use the same kernel as may Ubuntu version Z. There may be a list of CentOS versions and kernel numbers somewhere, but I can't see that it would be of great interest. My Ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
Ah, right. I was assuming (maybe erroneously) that the OP knew what was on his/her system. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: 3.9.3 is the kernel number

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Mike Burger wrote: I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, following the instructions in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. As far as I can see it

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
He's not running the Poisson distro, he's using CentOS! 8-) On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: Quoting Glenn Eychaner geycha...@mac.com: This is brand-new Kingston 1600MHz ECC memory on a workstation/server running at high altitude [snip] Cosmic rays? Do

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
I reattached the targets and reformatted the devices. in dmesg I just see one sdb and one sdc. sda is the internal disk and no more disk devices show up e.g. with fdisk -l. Any more suggestions or thoughts? /Götz Am 26.11.13 23:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: Looks like you have more

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Looks like you have more than one path to the devices. I would expect to see *4* devices. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de wrote: Hi, I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I'm logged in to the target and

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Hey Y'all, Does anyone know

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
unlikely.. not ...likely... Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.comwrote: Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability

Re: [CentOS] file managementttttttttttt

2013-11-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:59 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: On Sun, November 17, 2013 12:55, Michael Hennebry wrote: Last week, I installed CentOS 6 yet again. I took the default desktop: gnome. Whenever I open a directory, I get a new window. That gets rather

Re: [CentOS] Network Problem on New Install of 6.4

2013-10-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Are there any messages in the logs? In particular 'dmesg' messages. (I don't have a CentOS system right here so I can't see which log is appropriate.) Is there a DHCP server on the network? A little more detail on your situation would be handy. Is this a home network with ADSL or similar?

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