RE: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-03-31 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:20 -0400: I think you are mixing the versions up or made a typo, yes, I meant to write Xen 3.2. My configs still have xenbr0 listed, but the scripts will take any xenbr* and convert it to eth* if it exists and is

Re: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:21:10 -0400: Why not try tcpdump on the bridge interface and see if you can see the DHCPOFFER/DHCPACK and what MACs it used. I hoped to avoid doing something I do only every few years ;-) I'm quite familiar with using Wireshark/Etheral on

[CentOS-es] Ayuda para migrar a centos5

2008-03-31 Thread Yusdel Reyes oliva (Administrador Nodo TinoLT)
Saludos colegas, tengo montado un centos 4.2 final y quisiera actualizarlo a la vercion 5, que debo de hacer para actualizarlo y que no sufran daños las configuraciones anteriores.. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org

[CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an app I suspect is not working right as certain rpm's are a higher version then it recommends. If I have used a 3rd party to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? Thanks! jlc

Re: [CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any

RE: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:34 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq On Monday 25 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmm...it will still build. To

[CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 31/03/2008, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS - sorry if this shows up twice...I posted on 29 March, but never saw it on the list :) It did arrive on the list. :-D Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-31 Thread Toby Bluhm
Mail Administrator wrote: Thnaks john, u gave me a grt idea .. the second one seems quite interestin but i do have to get additional HDD and mirror my existing server which has jus one disk This was my procedure to mirror an existing single IDE disk RH4 system. YMMV. No guarantees. Not

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:35:08 -0600: If I have used a 3rd party what is that? to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? downgrade to what? I may be wrong but it sounds like you want

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:35:08 -0600: If I have used a 3rd party what is that? to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? downgrade to what? I

RE: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Kai, correct me if I'm wrong, but one is allowed to use other programs not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's his choice? Well, I have rpmforge enabled for example, and I installed an

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Kai, correct me if I'm wrong, but one is allowed to use other programs not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's his choice? Well, I have rpmforge enabled for

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does the current installed version give a problem? Using something like rpmforge to install an rpm ( I presume you used yum or something?) I think the only way is to remove it, and then manually install the correct one. The command would be something like rpm -ivh

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Brown
That is what I suspect. I presume I have to block it from being upgraded after as well. How can I force the new app back in without worrying about this dependency? to prevent a package from being updated or installed from a certain repo you'd add exclude=package_name to the yum

Re: [CentOS] alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-31 Thread James Pearson
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I need to compile alsa-project 1.0.16 on the latest centos 5.1 kernel. I am getting this error. What to do... ? CC [M] /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/sound_oss.o CC [M]

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use rpm), install the older version via yum (if available from rpmforge) and then exclude it (and probably all related

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:36:48 +0200: Kai, correct me if I'm wrong Just read again what I wrote ;-) And read it in the context of the provided information. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use rpm), install the older version via yum (if available from rpmforge) and then

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 31/03/2008, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, can one install a specific version of a package from the yum command? Yes. Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Barry Brimer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. snip Have you looked at rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org ?? Hi Barry, Thanks

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ned Slider wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. snip In a mixed Linux/Windows environment, I deployed a Linux backup

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: Thanks for the reply and link. I'm looking this over right now. If you look to use rsnapshot, there's a guide on the CentOS wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RsnapshotBackups Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Taylor
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:38 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use rpm), install the

[CentOS] Re: alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-31 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi all, // // I need to compile alsa-project 1.0.16 on the latest centos 5.1 kernel. // I am getting this error. What to do... ? // // CC // [M] // /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/sound_oss.o // CC // [M] //

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Ray Leventhal wrote: Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm considering doing a local

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm

[CentOS] corrupted disk/drive issue...

2008-03-31 Thread bruce
ok... my bad. there is an additional step that has to be done tha t i left out. my apologies. once you've found that you do have the lvms with the: lvm pvscan lvm vgscan lvm lvscan cmds... the lvm(s) might be in an inactive state. if you do a ls /dev and you see that you have /dev/VolGroup00

[CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was

[CentOS] Local Mirror of Extras and Dev

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I setup a local mirror of base and updates, can I simply rsync the hierarchy of extras and dev the same way without issue? I see the repo for these follows a slightly different setup than updates for example. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:12 +0200: But, can one install a specific version of a package from the yum command? Sure. You do a find and then get all available packages. Then you pick the one you want. You need to use it's long name then, of course. There might be a new

[CentOS] Re: how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-31 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-31-2008 6:30 AM Toby Bluhm spake the following: Mail Administrator wrote: Thnaks john, u gave me a grt idea .. the second one seems quite interestin but i do have to get additional HDD and mirror my existing server which has jus one disk This was my procedure to mirror an existing

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the

[CentOS] my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

2008-03-31 Thread Alain Spineux
My test server was in very eavy load, running kolab's components: postfix, cyrus-imap and openldap A second test machine was sending, and reading emails as fast as it can. The CPU was never idle ! I left the server at about 17H30 and at 22H I find it uncommitted (difficult to work when the

[CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

2008-03-31 Thread Alain Spineux
I went to the basement to check the console : I got this EXT3-fs error (device md1): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #2483 009: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=211961333, rec_len=5205, name_len=231 Abordinf journal on device /dev/md1 journal commit IO error ext3_abot called.

RE: [CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

2008-03-31 Thread Damien Solodow
Aka you had a hardware problem and it tried to save the filesystem from corruption. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Spineux Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Alberts
Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? * cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory * test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?*

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? * cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory * test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 * test -e /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Garrick Staples
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:43:28PM -0400, Marko A. Jennings alleged: On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? * cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:37:01PM -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? * cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory * test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 * test -e

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Alberts
Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. begin:vcard fn:Tim Alberts n:Alberts;Tim org:Measurement Systems International;Engineering adr:Suite

[CentOS] mysql data

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? Thanks in advance -Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

2008-03-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ray Leventhal wrote: HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? depends on where you set it up to store those things. a cursory google for mysql

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Shields
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? Thanks in advance -Ray If

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

2008-03-31 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: | Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead use the

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Alberts
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tim Alberts wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. ___

[CentOS] Thunar and smb

2008-03-31 Thread Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano
Hello people, A few days ago I had installed XFCE4.4.2 from de extras repositories of CentOS everything is ok but the fact that I can't access the smb network I have on my work place, What can I do to get access, Any ideas Thanks -- Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! Glad you got it working. For reference: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms but I confess to not really understanding how it works, just that it does! for the record, here is what I did since I

[CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

2008-03-31 Thread John J. Lee
Dear, I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes. When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly. They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like Fater error: failed to load file name.png : version error for each icon. If I log in as

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:13:26PM -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. No. Complain to person who _did_ it.

[CentOS] RAID1 migration - /dev/md1 is not there

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
I am trying to convert an existing IDE one-disk system to RAID1 using the general strategy found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003813.html But I am stuck on one thing - when I went to create the second md device with mdadm, # mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1

Re: [CentOS] RAID1 migration - /dev/md1 is not there

2008-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Beam wrote: I am trying to convert an existing IDE one-disk system to RAID1 using the general strategy found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003813.html But I am stuck on one thing - when I went to create the second md device with mdadm, # mdadm --create

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Morten Nilsen
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Relax man, didn't you see the smiley face ? Hey man, would you please trim replies in the future.. Five miles of quoted text is actually worse than html mail ;) -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable? Actually I am not 100%

[CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

2008-03-31 Thread Primorec
Hi All, Short description of the problem: - I would like to install the complete 'xfce' desktop on CentOS5.x I've tried: yum groupinstall xfce yum groupinstall xfce4 yum groupinstall xfce* yum groupinstall xfce4* yum groupinstall xfce4.2 yum groupinstall xfce4.1 yum groupinstall xfce4.3 yum