[CentOS-docs] Emulate a fixed IP address using MAC address with DHCP

2011-01-19 Thread Phil Schaffner
Per Alan's suggestion: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/EmulateFixedAddressByDHCP Comments please. Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Emulate a fixed IP address using MAC address with DHCP

2011-01-19 Thread Mats Karlsson
Nice Tips! A comment about dhcp server info. To get the dhcp lease info from a dhclient, that info is stored in dhclient.leases. The router/dhcp server info described in section Home router with DHCP and DNS could be made more generic by changing the heading and the context. Heading example

Re: [CentOS-virt] cluster of virtual machines using libvirt/kvm + Gluster

2011-01-19 Thread iarly selbir
debug I get using virt-install instead virt-manager [root@kvmsrv001 ~]# virt-install -d --prompt Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:59:59 DEBUGRequesting libvirt URI default Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:59:59 DEBUGReceived libvirt URI 'qemu:///system' Would you like to use KVM acceleration? (yes or no) yes Wed,

Re: [CentOS-virt] cluster of virtual machines using libvirt/kvm + Gluster

2011-01-19 Thread compdoc
I once tried moving my qcow2 VM guest files to a zfs-fuse volume, and the VMs refused to boot after. They only ran while on ext3 or ext4. Although I wasn't trying at that time, I understand that in order migrate VMs between servers, you need a shared file system. Maybe NFS is the answer?

Re: [CentOS-virt] cluster of virtual machines using libvirt/kvm + Gluster

2011-01-19 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 01/19/2011 05:48 PM, compdoc wrote: I once tried moving my qcow2 VM guest files to a zfs-fuse volume, and the VMs refused to boot after. They only ran while on ext3 or ext4. I saw something similar when I put some images on an NTFS volume. This worked under Fedora 11 but when I switched to

Re: [CentOS] Printer Configuration Centos 5

2011-01-19 Thread Eric Viseur
Well, we'll need a little more details in order to help you. Are you trying to install a Windows-shared printer on a Linux box, or a Linux-shared printer on a Windows box ? If the printer is shared using Linux, are you using CUPS ? 2011/1/19 Im Corp - Xcelris im.c...@xcelrislabs.com As i am

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus John R Pierce spake: On 01/18/11 10:51 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: Wrong on the demise of the Sparc. Oracle just posted a massively record breaking TPC-C benchmark using their new Sparc T3 servers, something like 30 MILLION TPM. Oracle has very publically committed to keeping SPARC

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com i have currently started to deploy code into our production environment from the the dev environment, we deploy code on to the production from the svn , ( i do a svn export ) , some times not code is checked into the svn and it does not throw

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Not aimed at John in particular ... Please, folks, you really don't need to add extra noise. That thread is already unnecessarily noisy. Thanks. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You should better ask this on an SVN list. Thanks. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 19 January 2011 06:09, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way i can verify or write a script to check each file that is in the SVN  is same as that in the dev environment . find . -type f | grep -v .svn | xargs md5sum then diff the output from each server. -- Hakan

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 19 January 2011 06:09, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way i can verify or write a script to check each file that is in the SVN  is same as that in the dev environment . find . -type f | grep -v .svn | xargs md5sum Obviously the above will compare the export vs.

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Parshwa, On 16 January 2011 20:45, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote: Another option, if you are concerned about the short life cycle of Fedora, would be to look at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The 'LTS' means Long Term Support and will be supported for a fairly long time. 10.04 was released last

[CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread S Mathias
Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ 2) Did anyone audited the HTTPS Everywhere code? 3) Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:29 PM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ 2) Did anyone audited the HTTPS

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: Ubuntu LTS has a 3 year life cycle overall for desktops, 5 year for servers. Ubuntu and Fedora have a new release approx every 6 months but their end of life is 18 months. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS and

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 03:29 -0800, S Mathias wrote: Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ No clue. 2) Did anyone audited the HTTPS Everywhere

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq/ answers this. 2) Did anyone audited the HTTPS Everywhere code?

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/19/2011 03:29 AM, S Mathias wrote: Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq/ 2) Did anyone

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:33:56PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Maybe cause it's not part of CentOS, or even Linux? Just a guess? What has that to do with the OP's questions? No firefox add-on fits that criteria but yet I suspect everyone is using one or more.

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread John Doe
From: S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ maybe because they did not choose to put it there...? maybe they

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Btw, this is the complete error. Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel:  [c044d886] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69 Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel:  [c044da73] note_interrupt+0x1af/0x1e8 Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: 

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote: I personally would recommend Ubuntu LTS for family members. CentOS is geared for technical people. Oh I see. But at least work could be done in Fedora too like without going into the technical details at least multimedia

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: i  have currently started to deploy code into our production environment from the the dev environment, we deploy code on to the production  from the svn , ( i do a svn export ) , some times not  code is checked

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote: I personally would recommend Ubuntu LTS for family members. CentOS is geared for technical people. snip Ubuntu's focus is usability - that is, making the distribution easy to install and use. Fedora

Re: [CentOS] not able to check in all code into svn which creates problem in deployment

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: i  have currently started to deploy code into our production environment from the the dev environment, we deploy code on to the production  from the svn , ( i do a svn export ) , some times

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately the same set of upstream packages, though, so it is possible to make them all do the same things with

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Christopher R Webber
I find that in places where I don¹t have latest and greatest hardware, CEntOS makes a much better Desktop OS than Ubuntu. If all I am doing is running a web browser for the most part, I use CEntOS. -- cwebber On 1/19/11 7:13 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Christopher R Webber christopher.web...@ucr.edu wrote: I find that in places where I don¹t have latest and greatest hardware, CEntOS makes a much better Desktop OS than Ubuntu. If all I am doing is running a web browser for the most part, I use CEntOS. Means

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:13:41 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately the same

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Dear Parshwa, I tend to agree with you in some of your points. I migrated my systems from ubuntu to centos and I could not be more happy. off course I have been force to learn the new places where things are the redhat way but not problem since the usual tools continue to exist in both platforms.

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/19/2011 9:13 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately the same set of upstream packages, though, so it is possible

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Lisandro Grullon
As Rober puts it, sometimes is better to keep Things...stable and reliable rather than in the bleeding edge... makes perfect sense. Robert Heller 01/19/11 10:43 AM At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:13:41 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] When are Logwatch errors really errors

2011-01-19 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Hi jason, Thank you for pointing this out. I am running 5.5 in 5 new boxes suddenly the boxes would start randomly rebooting. Checking the logs point out to smartd in all the boxes. I should all of them out except one. In that one I disable and shutdown smartd and the machine has been running

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: That's not true for desktop applications and environments. If you don't have something current you are missing the improvements that many thousands of man-hours of work have made. But I guess that's the bit I don't /always/ buy into. In the

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: And for every bit of juiciness you think you're getting with an upgrade, you're getting the disruption of a reinstall or an upgrade, and seemingly for everything that's improved there's a bug or a quirk to match.  I

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/19/2011 9:13 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately the same set of upstream packages,

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: [c044d886] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69 Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: [c044da73] note_interrupt+0x1af/0x1e8 Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: [c044d081]

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) I spoke too soon, the problem wasn't fixed but I found the cause of the issue. The above error occurs when you unplug the video cable from the onboard video. As our machines

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Jan 16 07:03:23 server kernel: irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) I spoke too soon, the problem wasn't fixed but I found the cause of the issue. The above error occurs when you unplug the video cable from the onboard video. As our machines

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/19/2011 10:43 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The difference is that open source server software has been 'feature complete' for ages and the standards processes that change client/server interactions are very, very slow - so outdated versions of server software is not a problem as long as

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/19 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com On 1/19/2011 10:43 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The difference is that open source server software has been 'feature complete' for ages and the standards processes that change client/server interactions are very, very slow - so outdated

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/19/2011 10:43 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The difference is that open source server software has been 'feature complete' for ages and the standards processes that change client/server interactions are very, very slow - so outdated versions of server software is not a

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:35:18 pm Drew Weaver wrote: The kernel boots fine, and everything works ok until you unplug the monitor from the DVI port on the motherboard. When you unplug the monitor, that IRQ/ACPI message is displayed, and it screws up the USB and the e1000 card in

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:55:19 pm Les Mikesell wrote: And remember that firefox/openoffice are rare exceptions in RHEL/Centos in that they have had major-version updates since the distro release, even though they still are far behind 'current' now. How is Firefox 3.6.13 not current

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:35:18 pm Drew Weaver wrote: The kernel boots fine, and everything works ok until you unplug the monitor from the DVI port on the motherboard. When you unplug the monitor, that IRQ/ACPI message is displayed, and it screws up the USB and the e1000 card in

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
Hi, I have downloaded the following version: CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso from the mirror: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/ What I want to ask is that 'Release2' is the complete OS and after installation we can use 'yum update'. So at first, is it enough (as I am not going

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Lisandro Grullon lgrul...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote: Dear Parshwa, I tend to agree with you in some of your points. I migrated my systems from ubuntu to centos and I could not be more happy. off course I have been force to learn the new places where things are

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS? John -- A man or woman is

Re: [CentOS] how to convert 7 cd iso images into one dvd image?

2011-01-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Nataraj wrote: There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp without any errors. wget Mike -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/19/2011 12:03 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: You are biased by having learned to live with the restrictions of old So, what I like how something works is all old cruft, and I should get with the program, and not have opinions on what I want and how I want it to work? That's not the point.

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread nux
Parshwa Murdia writes: Hi, I have downloaded the following version: CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso from the mirror: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/ What I want to ask is that 'Release2' is the complete OS and after installation we can use 'yum update'. So at

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Sean
Maybe ask what sort of cellphones your family use. If they use and are happy with old bw text ones (like me), then by all means pursue the Linux quest. But if they are up-to-the-minute snappy ones, or if they hang out for the latest, you are probably buying into headaches. Remember, Linux is

[CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have seen over the past few months subjects on RHEL 6 and RHEL 5.6 Are these two different builds for Centos to chase or one in the same? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I have seen over the past few months subjects on RHEL 6 and RHEL 5.6 Are these two different builds for Centos to chase or one in the same? Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL

[CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Bob Eastbrook
By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, which results in workstations being locked up. Bob

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL 5.6 is the current version of RHEL5. Which has a little bit of new functionality, notably bind and php stuff. I need the newer Ruby, so

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, which results in workstations

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver.  This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/19/2011 12:03 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: You are biased by having learned to live with the restrictions of old So, what I like how something works is all old cruft, and I should get with the program, and not have opinions on what I want and how I want it to work?

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Why don't you download the DVD, it give you much more than disc 1. Parshwa Murdia 01/19/11 1:41 PM Hi, I have downloaded the following version: CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso from the mirror: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/ What I want to ask is that 'Release2' is the

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 9:49pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver.  This can be

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Sean Hart
On 1/19/11 11:49 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Digimer
On 01/19/2011 02:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have seen over the past few months subjects on RHEL 6 and RHEL 5.6 Are these two different builds for Centos to chase or one in the same? There are substantial differences. 5.6 is the latest update to the 5-series where 6.0 is a fully updated

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/19/11 11:53 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Why don't you download the DVD, it give you much more than disc 1. Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com 01/19/11 1:41 PM Hi, I have downloaded the following version: CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso from the mirror:

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Sean Hart wrote: On 1/19/11 11:49 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:18:37PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Sean Hart wrote: On 1/19/11 11:49 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I believe that CTRL-ALT-Bksp will restart X, not the computer. On restart of X you should be welcomed with the login screen. Note that in later versions of X,

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Keith Keller
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:18:37PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in with. I'm having trouble understanding the problem... or is it that many of the users *never* log out? The locked screensaver will be killed along with the

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Sorry, but Outlook 2003 and 2007 are huge improvements over earlier versions - and lacking tight integration between messaging and calendar/scheduling has been one of the places where free software really missed the boat. But then that's partly

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/01/11 18:42, John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS? You are kidding, right? I do my accounts on

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-19 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 17:21 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After verifying that the vm allowed through the DNS ports (53 on UDP/TCP) and still being unable to access, I was

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread b.j. mcclure
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:18:37PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Sean Hart wrote: On 1/19/11 11:49 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I believe that CTRL-ALT-Bksp will restart X, not the computer. On restart of X you should be

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system.   It is purely for demo or diagnostic purposes. But there comes an option Install to Hard-disk after we see the Live CD desktop! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the

[CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils. But that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have it, and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few packages there. Anyone have an idea which of the regular repositories carries

Re: [CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:04:21PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils. But that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have it, and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few packages

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/19/2011 4:00 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system. It is purely for demo or diagnostic purposes. But there comes an option Install to Hard-disk after we see the Live CD

[CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-19 Thread Jason S-M
Hi All I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. Can anyone help me decide where to make this change? -Jason ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/19 Jason S-M slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com: Hi All I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. Can anyone help me decide where to make this change? man

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:00:21 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system.   It is purely for demo or diagnostic purposes. But there comes an option

Re: [CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-19 Thread Jason S-M
I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. Can anyone help me decide where to make this change? man chkconfig chkconfig service_name on I don't follow why what

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2011 11:46 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL 5.6 is the current version of RHEL5. Which has a little bit of new functionality,

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:40:40PM +, Ned Slider wrote: You are kidding, right? No. I do my accounts on CentOS - does that make this a suitable venue to discuss my tax returns? Please conflate more. The SNR of this list is shocking and encouraging the above doesn't

Re: [CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/19 Jason S-M slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com: I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. Can anyone help me decide where to make this change? man chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-19 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 19.01.2011 22:30, schrieb Jason S-M: I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. Can anyone help me decide where to make this change? man chkconfig chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 04:26:57 pm Robert Heller wrote: At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:00:21 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system. It is purely for

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 04:26:57 pm Robert Heller wrote: At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:00:21 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system.

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2011 01:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/19/2011 11:46 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL 5.6 is the current version of RHEL5.

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:07 PM, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: You could also get the DVD: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.torrent This DVD is having KDE or GNOME desktop? As I want KDE one? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace,

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 05:09:25 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yeah - I hate the Fedora way. Why not *ask* where you want to install the liveCD? Why force it into /boot, when until now, *everyone* has kept boot at about 100M or so? The last one I did from LiveCD was prior to the need for a

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 01/19/2011 01:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/19/2011 11:46 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com   wrote: Yes, they are very different.

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2011 02:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Robert Moskowitzr...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 01/19/2011 01:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/19/2011 11:46 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?        Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS.  So... how it this        not about CentOS? If that's

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:44:45PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 05:09:25 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yeah - I hate the Fedora way. Why not *ask* where you want to install the liveCD? Why force it into /boot, when until now, *everyone* has kept boot at about 100M or

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions.  Was it        100% germane to this list?  No, perhaps not. The problem is that none of his questions is ever 100% germane to the various lists to which he

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Mark mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions.  Was it        100% germane to this list?  No, perhaps not. The problem is that none of

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Mark wrote: This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do anyone's homework for them. You can

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/19/2011 1:51 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: That's not the point. You've had years to learn how to make a computer work like a slightly smarter typewriter, and for a long time that was about all they could do and everyone was happy with it. But that's not what someone starting today

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Mark wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions.  Was it        100% germane to this list?  No, perhaps not. The problem is that none of his

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/19/2011 4:42 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: You could also get the DVD: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.torrent This DVD is having KDE or GNOME desktop? As I want KDE one? It should have both and you can custom-select packages during the install or add

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