mattias wrote:
And this list are not only for problems
(snip)
Mattias wrote on Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:19:17 +0200:
I will run centos from usb like you can with e.g ubuntu
A usb pendrive
And what is the problem? This information is all available on the net.
Kai
Correct, Mattias. But,
Damien Hull wrote:
It's been a while since I've used CentOS. I'm doing a test install for
a server setup. I unchecked desktop and checked server.
What does server give me?
Click on 'details' (iirc) - it'll list all the options.
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Larry Vaden wrote:
I have always hoped to find someone who was involved with COBOL back
in the days to ask this question of:
What influence did Commander Grace Hopper have on COBOL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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kellyremo wrote:
Gamin? can you give a link? Google doesn't bring up relevant links
regarding it :O
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=enq=gaminbtnG=Search
Note bene ^
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Keith Roberts wrote:
Is there an electronic circuit design CAD package available
for Centos 5.5 please?
http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/
I haven't used it yet, so I don't really know what it's like.
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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I'm setting up a computer that will run 'CentOS 6 server'.
Sure about that? This is your first experience with CentOS/RHEL?
It'll run zoneminder (to create a dvr for video surveillance). I've been
using Cent5.3 (non-server) since it was released, and I used Fedora
before
Hello.
I'm setting up a computer that will run 'CentOS 6 server'. The MB is an
Asus with a hw raid controller (Promise PDC-20276), which I want to use
in RAID-1 mode. I noted (from a MB website) that it also needs a driver
- which is probably why it's called a 'fakeraid'.
So, I've been trying
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Always Learning wrote:
...
Blush, blush access is on a non-standard port and then restricted
to a few IP addresses. I don't want my servers taken over by others.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. Are you familiar with nmap?
If port scanning is a concern,
Parshwa Murdia wrote:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:03 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com
mailto:pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
the LiveCD does not have the installer, its more of a demo.
But then what's the utility of that live CD?
It's meant to be used to test if the distro likes your
topeak wrote:
yesterday, i resolved the issue.
type about:plugins in url box, then there is a link to firefox plugin
document.
at first, i used firefix-3.6. the java plugin always did not work.
later, i changed the jdk version. it still not work.
last, i changed to used firefox-3.5,
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
2. We are not here to do your job for you. If you think we should, perhaps
you
should pay us. Before asking us, have you:
a) read the documentation (RTFM)?
b) checked the CentOS wiki for howtos and FAQs?
i) http://centos.org, and click on
Giulio Troccoli wrote:
I hope someone can help me because I have spent a week on this and
still I can't make it to work.
I have a CentOS 5.5 server and I am trying to set it up so that upon
login the gnome default keyring is unlocked. I don't have a desktop
as users will login using ssh
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
2010/7/10 Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net:
Hi,
I have to install a small network in a school in a nearby village. The
network will be Linux-only, one server and fifteen desktops. Here's the
idea.
1) Authentication should be managed centrally on the server.
2)
Robert Heller wrote:
You just need to do 'yum install gcc gcc-c++ binutils glibc-devel'.
That seems to have done the trick. I do get compile errors, but I think
there's a problem with the code.
Thank you.
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Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
Depending on the requirements of the source code you are trying to
compile you might have to fetch some development packages for various
libraries, for example if it uses ncurses, you will want ncurses-devel
package.
This problem seems (to my semi-newby brain) to be
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
You need to install an additional -devel packages.
Given a list of 10 choices, that would've been at the bottom. I _never_
would have guessed!
yum provides */Xlib.h
Thank you for today's linux lesson. I'm just delving into compiling
programs.
Les Mikesell wrote:
You can get a
bunch of them at once if you pick the development-related groups during an
install or you can do a 'yum grouplist', then 'yum groupinstall ...' for the
ones you are likely to need.
Benjamin suggested that also.
But, I don't really want tons of extra
Hello.
I tried to compile a program (plugger), but I don't have *any* sort of
compiler installed. This is on Cent5.3.
So, I used Package Manager, concentrating on gcc. But, it seems that I
have a choice, thus:
gcc-4.1.2-46.el5.i386
gcc-4.1.2-46.el5_4.1.i386
gcc-4.1.2-46.el5_4.2.i386
Mathieu Baudier wrote:
Note: If you want to use their online offer, then you need the Java
browser plugin because they use applets, ...
Yup. I figured that out during work today. That's the one I want.
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I've been at this for a couple hours now, and I'm still lost. Making a
long story really short - where is java supposed to be installed?
(/usr/local? I don't have a /usr/java.)
*Some* details:
I figured that I just needed the plugin. Well, apparently there isn't
one (not separate, on
Agile Aspect wrote:
The JAVA_HOME here is Sun's JDK:
ln -s $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/plugins/libnpjp2.so
...
I'll try this!
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Mathieu Baudier wrote:
Package Manager reports (with a green checkmark) that I have java-1.6.0
installed on my machine (running Cent 5.3), but it seems to not be
running. I used http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml and got
Something is wrong. Java is not working.
This page tell you
Mathieu Baudier wrote:
Can you send the output of:
$ java -version
[myko...@sr1220 ~]$ java -version
java version 1.6.0
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)
Which application do you want to run?
Sweet Home 3D - a CAD-style house
I wrote:
Which application do you want to run?
Sweet Home 3D - a CAD-style house layout program.
http://sweethome3d.eu/index.jsp
I neglected to mention what prompted my inquiry!
I got ver 1.7 of that program (from a software site, and it was bundled
with a JRE). Using the program, I
Hello.
Package Manager reports (with a green checkmark) that I have java-1.6.0
installed on my machine (running Cent 5.3), but it seems to not be
running. I used http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml and got
Something is wrong. Java is not working.
Perhaps I'm confused on which program I
Craig White wrote:
PPD was linked for you up thread.
Yes - and I stated that I couldn't find any ppd files (and I listed the
sites that I checked). Perhaps I somehow completely missed them?
I suppose that if you wanted intelligent assistance, you would post the
contents of
I can't get my HP DeskJet D2345 (USB) to work on my CentOS 5.3 machine.
It'll work on another machine (with Fedora 7).
I compared the installation details (in CUPS http://localhost:631) -
seems that Cent does not have the driver. On the F7 machine, the device
is D2345 (HP D2300 series) and the
B.J. McClure wrote:
Try the ppd file here:
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-DeskJet_D2300
Apparently, you can't download just a ppd file. :/ It seems like I'd
have to download the whole hplip package (basically upgrade).
The F7 box (where the printer works) has version 1.7.4
MHR wrote:
Is there some special reason you don't update to 5.4 and see if that
helps? If it's just your home machine, that shouldn't be too much of
a stretch
I didn't really think about updating; 5.3 works OK. Well, that is,
unless 5.4 would fix this.
Or did you misstate your CentOS
Max Hetrick wrote:
The Logitech QuickCam Pro just plugs and plays too.
I'm interested in setting up a webcam, but have _zero_ experience. (I'm
just continuing this thread - I hope that I'm not hijacking it!)
Does 'plug and play' here mean that I wouldn't need extra software to
stream the
I installed CentOS 5.3 on a desktop box, and I'm having a problem with
the splash screen resolution (during bootup).
I suppose that it somehow got configged when I set the GUI's screen (I
run in level 5). I think that, in finding the highest res for the GUI, I
went past the monitor's capability.
ken wrote:
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line --
BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix.
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
Great work, Michael! Where did you insert/type in
Eero Volotinen wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4
(kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on
it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off.
However, under CentOS
Simon Billis wrote:
Hi Folks,
Can you point me in the direction of searchable archives for the list? I'm
obviously missing something. I would like to be able to search the archives
before asking my question.
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general
or
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well
over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just
fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the
point of actually powering down, but just sit at
I'm teaching myself about ethernet cards, and found a TLDP page. I have
CentOS 5.3.
In this section:http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4
in the 'Driver as module' subsection, regarding PCI cards, it states
that there should be a directory /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
and use it to boot the other machine. Then decide what exactly you want to do
with it, look for some tutorials/instructions/HOWTOs on the net, and start
experimenting by trying to crack your target machine. Learn as you go by
reading the logs on both machines and all
Anne Wilson wrote:
Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is
not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me
that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think,
but what? Currently I have
ls
Rob Kampen wrote:
I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well.
Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was
running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release.
The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel
and
fred smith wrote:
Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and
it's stumping me why that would be. Example:
on the old box, the shutdown dialog offers restart, cancel, shutdown,
and also standby and hibernate. and the standby and hibernate options
work, too.
Neil Aggarwal wrote:
i'm not the right person for that
This is strange. You asked for something to be changed.
The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now
you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge
of this, I would say that you are not very serious
and ignore
I saved pictures on an SD card with my Nokia phone (1 GB). Now, I'm
trying to use the card on my Acer Aspire 3680 (laptop) running 5.3 and
gnome.
Popping the card in (until it clicks) evokes nothing from the system log
or dmesg, and I don't see anything relevant in /dev. (What is the device
nate wrote:
You can try to find the drivers yourself and compile them from
source but I think for you is probably more trouble than it's
worth given my impression of your linux experience.
Ok - the curious / adventurous part of me wants to know if that's all
I'd have to do. Not that I'm
Akemi Yagi wrote:
You might want to try the kernel drivers Alan Bartlett built about
half an hour ago and released from the ELRepo site ( http://elrepo.org
). The details are in this CentOS forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flattopic_id=14578forum=39
I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive,
the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used
gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in):
Apr 12 16:43:25 ga7zx kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and
nate wrote:
Sounds like a kernel panic of some kind, either hook up a serial
console to the system and watch the console from another
machine or switch back to a normal terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1) and
plug it in and see what you get.
Serial console is best as you can easily copy/paste the crash
I'm curious why CentOS contradicts its own (or, actually RH's) netfilter
default policy.
On http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables , at the end of
section 1, it's stated that (generally) the default policy for INPUT is
to DROP. So, why is it set to ACCEPT?
Btw, Fedora is also this way.
Hello.
I just fresh-installed 5.3 onto my laptop, and I have a problem trying
to get wifi working. Be aware that I have 5.2 on it, and did the same
process, and it worked great!
I'm using http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WirelessAR5007EG -- as
I did for 5.2. The problem arises in section
Jim Perrin wrote:
Your build error is for 2.6.18-128, but your kernel-devel is for
-128.1.6. Mostly, your problems should be solved if you run a 'yum
update' and reboot. This will ensure that you've got the updated
kernel (you probably already do, but a yum update will make sure) and
that
Jim Perrin wrote:
Have I made this clearer, or completely lost you?
Definitely helped! Basically, try it as user; if it doesn't work, then
go root.
I understand that some (most?) programs don't need to fiddle with the OS
to such a level - they can be made by a user.
Hello.
I'm using my laptop (an Acer Aspire 3680, with built-in Atheros wifi). I
installed 5.2 on it, and it's working nicely. But, I have an issue with
the keyring. I should mention that this is my *first* experience with
keyrings.
When I set up the wifi, it stated basically that nm-applet
Hello.
I have 5.2 running nicely on my Aspire laptop. It has a 'mousepad'
(which I don't like), so I put a usb mouse on it.
It works properly, but I (apparently) can't change the motion (in
Preferences Mouse, Motion tab). Any setting for the Acceleration and
Sensitivity don't affect the
I should mention that I'm a total newbie with keyrings! I tried
searching for help sites - found 1, but I still have a problem. If there
is a website (or sites) that explain this, please post it (them)!
Ok, so I have a laptop with wifi, running CentOS 5.2. When I boot it, it
finds the nearby
Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error,
and X refuses to start).
I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't
want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru every
group and sub-group to de-select most - that was a big
Kwan Lowe wrote:
Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed:
rpm -q synaptics
'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)?
If not, is this laptop connected to the Internet? If so, you can do:
yum -y install synaptics
This will
Bart Schaefer wrote:
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it
going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some
then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI,
I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot
Michael A. Peters wrote:
5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in
awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0
http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html
states 'firefox-3.0-0.beta5.6.el5'.
Are you saying that yum will bump it to at
What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)?
Do the repositories have decoders and such?
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Hello.
I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't
like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the
latest greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing.
But, I have some questions. I found 2 centos websites (primary and
wiki), and checked
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