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

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Daniel de Kok wrote: 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

RE: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-05-02 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:34 AM To: centos-docs@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List John wrote: Ralph, What's the policy on screenshots on the wiki?

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

2008-05-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ralph Angenendt wrote: On the other hand google is rather fast indexing well known and fast changing pages, so job offers probably will show up in google pretty soonish. But yes, I'd be all in favour for a CentOS-jobs list - which has to be linked to from some prominent places. Too bad that

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

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: But yes, I'd be all in favour for a CentOS-jobs list - which has to be linked to from some prominent places. Too bad that pipermail doesn't offer any rss feeds from mail list archives ... a -jobs list sounds good to me, do you want to bring this

Re: [CentOS-docs] Guide to Using KVM

2008-05-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Daniel de Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, any chance you can go through the article? Upon your approval, we will remove the draft note and publish it. Hope you get to read this

[CentOS-es] Ayuda sobre MySQL

2008-05-02 Thread Juan Carlos GutiƩrrez Villavicencio
Saludos a todos amigos, instale un servidor centos e instele el mysql, este servidor sera accesado desde fuera de mi lan por una aplicacion en .net. dos preguntas: 1. como puedo encriptar los datos al viajar desde la aplicacion cliente a mi servidor. 2. existe algun programa que me permita

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matt Morgan wrote: Let's say we still have a good reason to need python 2.5. Is this going to break a lot of the system-whatever commands? Yes, I'd think so. They are all python-based (as is yum - does that one still work?). Are there any workarounds? Install python-2.5 into /opt or

Re: [CentOS] strip down install

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Jason Pyeron wrote: 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? The package yum-utils has some utilities to manage that - package-cleanup for example can find duplicates or orphaned

[CentOS] serial port in linux

2008-05-02 Thread gopinath
hi, i have centos 4.2. I have install a PCI card having serial port. when the os is booted it detects the new hardware ( serial port) .a device is also created /dev/ttyS0. the port works very goog on the same pc in windows XP. but when i connect any serial device to that port in

Re: [CentOS] serial port in linux

2008-05-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:00 AM, gopinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have centos 4.2. Okay, your first task is to run 'yum update' immediately. CentOS 4.2 is nearly 3 years out of date, and with proper updates would be at 4.6 right now. I have install a PCI card having serial port.

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

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Puzzling, maybe just get a new dvd drive. Probably that's the solution Would be interesting to know if when he accesses Win$ (Double Clicks MyComputer) if the system crashes or when he double clicks on the dvd drive in mycomputer would be a big

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:50:18PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us: 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

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1

2008-05-02 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Barry Brimer
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? Why bother with a hard drive at all? Customize a Live CD/DVD and remove the hard drive alltogether. Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? You'll need to break out your hard drive into multiple partitions, as there are certain portions of the file system that need to

Re: [CentOS] serial port in linux

2008-05-02 Thread Barry Brimer
i have centos 4.2. I have install a PCI card having serial port. when the os is booted it detects the new hardware ( serial port) .a device is also created /dev/ttyS0. the port works very goog on the same pc in windows XP. but when i connect any serial device to that port in linux it

RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 8:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition.

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread gopinath
in the /etc/fstab define ro in the permissions field of the entry where the / partition is defined - Original Message - From: Brett Serkez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

RE: [CentOS] strip down install

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:51 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] strip down install Jason Pyeron wrote: What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded

[CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum update, on my daughters box and mine (Dell

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? You'll need to break

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line Regards, Erek

RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 9:43 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[CentOS] rpm -Va

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
I ran rpm -Va and received almost a thousand bad entries on a clean install of 5.1 after doing some 'rpm -e' ... S.5. /usr/sbin/ypserv_test S.5. /usr/sbin/ypset S.5. /usr/sbin/yptest S.5. /sbin/rngd S.5. /usr/bin/rngtest S.5. /lib/security/pam_ccreds.so

Re: [CentOS] rpm -Va

2008-05-02 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:28 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: Hmmm? Is there an actual question or are you just marveling over how tres cool rpm is? Anyways. Did you ever interrupt a prelink session on that machine? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Check

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:38 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? You'll need to break out your hard

RE: [CentOS] rpm -Va

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:01 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpm -Va On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:28 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: Hmmm? Is there an actual

[CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread David Mackintosh
Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing the things they want to archive are specified like so: /path/path/path/A/04??

RE: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mackintosh Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things

Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread MHR
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing

AW: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread Marc Rebischke
Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing the things they want to archive are specified like so: /path/path/path/A/04??

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Forums

2008-05-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
2008/4/21 Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have CentOS Forums here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/ Akemi Yagi (toracat on IRC) and Fabian Arrotin (arrfab on IRC) are the Forum Moderators. There are a lot of posts there that I find helpful when doing web searches ... but we

[CentOS] Slightly OT? - How do I set up Win98 to access a printer on my CentOS box?

2008-05-02 Thread MHR
I have a WinXP guest under VMWare on my CentOS 5.1 host and it can access the CentOS printer(s) just fine. However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the

[CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Jerry Geis
I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps

Re: [CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:47:11PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm rpm -i --nodeps --force That's not going to work, because you're missing needed deps. Nodeps doesn't actually do any magic -- it just

Re: [CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import

[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. I looked at the specs for 5 on the upstream vendor's website,

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 2 May 2008 at 2:36pm, Monty Shinn wrote I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. I looked at the specs for 5

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems.

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly related to x86_64 vs i386 stuff, but in the end to avoid continued troubleshooting we just

Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:41 -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing the things they

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:40:21PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly

RE: [CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Pyeron
Step 1, undo what has been done and never use a force or nodeps! Step 2, upgrade up2date to centos 3 (more on this when I find our notes) Step 3, update all packages which are not customized. Step 4, baby steps on customized configs/packages. ( you will need a lot of compat rpms to work with.)

[CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition resides on, the system

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:04 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Alfred von Campe wrote: I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT? - How do I set up Win98 to access a printer on my CentOS box?

2008-05-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the network...? Any suggestions? Possibly name resolution issues on the Win98 box? Can you resolve a ping using the

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and Ill post an update. TGIF! Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and Ill post an update. Sounds good, I verified uname doesn't work under rescue and there are a couple other

Re: AW: RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Torsten Luettgert
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 19:22 +0200, Marc Rebischke wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? I built a diskless, CD-based firewall some time ago which works fine. Of course you still need some writable directories, i.e. /var/run,

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? Here is a slide deck from a presentation Rick Troth has done on read only root file systems.

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Florin Andrei
Monty Shinn wrote: I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. If ext3 isn't an option, has anyone used the

[CentOS] USB Wireless NIC

2008-05-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works under CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Pryor
--- Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works under CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception? Of course, you will need to do an ndiswrapper install. I've succeeded with the Netgear wg111t usb wifi, but only with a 32 bit kernel. Check the

RE: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC

2008-05-02 Thread bruce
hey... cant's speak for centos... but i'm running fedora 8 on a toshiba laptop, running x86_64 and i'm using madwifi, with a usb linksys wifi and it works like a champ. i'm not using netmanager, or ndiswrapper.. just madwifi, and the regular net system/configuration app... peace!

RE: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Pryor
--- bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey... cant's speak for centos... but i'm running fedora 8 on a toshiba laptop, running x86_64 and i'm using madwifi, with a usb linksys wifi and it works like a champ. Interesting that you omit the model number. Is it the Linksys WUSB54GSC, or

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:19 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's

[CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS

2008-05-02 Thread Rogelio
Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It requires Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos