Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:06 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: John wrote: UserName: JohnStanley You have access to pages below (and including) http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList now. Cheers, Ralph Ralph, What's the policy on screenshots on the wiki?

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: John wrote: Matt has offered to help us setup and then maintain the cobbler packages ( along with the couple of deps that it needs ). So expect some action on that front in the next few days. It will need to still go via the whole testing - stable route, but I will do my

[CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
Jim Perrin mentioned a job opening on the CentOS list yesterday. I'd like to do the same, but I'm leery of contributing to topic drift. Is there any interest in creating a job-board section of some kind on the wiki? Anyone have experience with unusual problems that such a section might cause?

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: Jim Perrin mentioned a job opening on the CentOS list yesterday. I'd like to do the same, but I'm leery of contributing to topic drift. Is there any interest in creating a job-board section of some kind on the wiki? Anyone have experience with

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
2008/5/1 Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about a section in the forums, then once positions are filled the thread could be removed from public view. It would seem a better option than either mailing lists or the Wiki. I recall jobs being advertised on the fora in the past, IIRC. Alan.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: Todays feedback for cobbler. On a fresh OS install all updates were done first. Don yum install cobbler from testing and I get a makefile problem. Here's the error... Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile from install of python-devel-2.4.3-19.el5

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/1 Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about a section in the forums, then once positions are filled the thread could be removed from public view. It would seem a better option than either mailing lists or the Wiki.

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you dont want job postings to stay online for years do you ? For some reason, I'd still prefer a centos-jobs list. It's simply the geek's medium for communication ;). I like stuff being pushed to my mailbox, rather than

Re: [CentOS-docs] Guide to Using KVM

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: About where to get kvm from... we probably want to mention the extras repo as the primary source and the testing repo for

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:49:08PM +0200, Daniel de Kok enlightened us: you dont want job postings to stay online for years do you ? For some reason, I'd still prefer a centos-jobs list. It's simply the geek's medium for communication ;). I like stuff being pushed to my mailbox, rather than

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0224 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update

2008-05-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0224 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0224.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: f41d7601a1729536c501ea36c0734be8

Re: [CentOS] Boot disk changes from /dev/sda during install to /dev/sdb on first boot

2008-05-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been suggested (in the Dell Linux mailing list) that it is related to the virtual CD device of the DRAC. As far as I know, it is. I recall something about it emulating a usb drive so it could be hot plugged

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs My fstab looks like //share/name/mount/pointsmbfs username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0 or the same using cifs When i try and mount that i get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Ian Blackwell
This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name/mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXX Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root. Regards, Ian

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote: Message: 42 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: 006901c8aa42$1a387450$0700a8c0 at ethan27 Also please post you fstab and mtab files. It may be helpful in pointing out the problem. Also have you run yum update on the machine?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs My fstab looks like //share/name/mount/pointsmbfs

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name/mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXX Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root. i have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have managed to get this working now using smbfs - there were 2 issues it seems 1 - samba-client was not installed, that was an oversight on my behalf 2 - on the RH7.3 box the domain is not needed for the user but on

Re: [CentOS] determining correct size for LV copy operations

2008-05-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John R Pierce wrote on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:56:32 -0700: I'd probably use dump ... | restore ... to copy it, assuming its an e2fs/e3fs on that logical volume. then the volume sizes are immaterial. Well, these are mostly xen volumes with xvda. It's indeed the difference in physical extent.

Re: [CentOS] case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Ruslan Sivak wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a web based product, where you can do some apache

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxs AT googlemail.com wrote: Message: 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip However, if you're using Gnome then please have a look at System -- Preferences -- Removable Drives and Media I know that there is a difference in the automount of a data CD/DVD when

Re: [CentOS] X just died then restarted

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:48 -0400, fred smith wrote: Just had a weird thing happen that I've never encountered before. Running Centos 5.x (updated) on 32-bit (Athlon XP). Was going along in Firefox when suddenly my screen went black and the hard drive light came on mostly steady for

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30/04/2008, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan: Today, I removed the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader, manufactured October 2004, in Japan, from my daughters box. I temporarily hooked it up in my box. The exact same problem! I could not see the contents of a DVD-R, but, I was able to see

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us: everyone--I'm back on the list after some time not managing any Centos machines. It's good to be back. I'm trying to switch a server from sendmail to postfix. It's Centos 4.6. I installed postfix and system-switch-mail.

Re: [CentOS] OFF-TOPIC: Job opportunity in Augusta Georgia

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, Jim Perrin jperrin AT gmail.com wrote: Message: 4 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WAY Off topic here, but if anyone's in the Augusta, Georgia area and wants to work as a web developer(css, html, flash, php, photoshop and the other usual goodies), we've got a job opening. If you

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 snip (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5.or (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 snip (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5.or (b) The DVD/CD reader is

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 01/05/2008, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I don't think no one has thought of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 Make sure

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:43 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 01/05/2008, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I don't think no one has thought of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12

[CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread Matty
Howdy, Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm query output and bugs.centos.org, but wasn't able to locate a changelog for the latest kernel update. Thanks, - Ryan

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote: snip I ran yum update. The box is now 100% up to date. The problem did not go away. On CentOS 5, the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader can mount a CD, without any problem. However, it sees a

Re: [CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:45 -0400, Matty wrote: Howdy, Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm query output and bugs.centos.org, but wasn't able to locate a changelog for the latest kernel update.

Re: [CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:58 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:45 -0400, Matty wrote: Howdy, Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm query output and

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief now is that there is no support to auto

Re:[CentOS] problem installation of mplayer

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, Mamun sharif0 AT iut-dhaka.edu wrote: Message: 55 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:57:47 +0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already installed CentOs,but can anyone give a sample of repo files and priorities.conf file. As for this 2 files i am unable to install mplayer. You might

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this

[CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Kevin Krieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't think of anything I did special other than using force because I hadn't done a Safely Remove device on Windows last time. The 'force' mount option can indeed cause corruption. From the ntfs-3g manual: force Force the mounting even if the

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Morgan
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us: everyone--I'm back on the list after some time not managing any Centos machines. It's good to be back. I'm trying to switch a server from sendmail to

RE: [CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In fact, one can even lose data due to Windows bugs if things are done correctly, Actually, it is incorrect to eject the usb drive through Explorer in Vista if it has the NTFS filesystem:) If you perform the steps required pre-hotfix, your good to go grin jlc

[CentOS] strip down install

2008-05-01 Thread Jason Pyeron
What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded packages? I have tried to graph dependences before and using hunches, is there a better way? -jason -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - -

[CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-01 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - -