Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 virt-manager

2019-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ated. The RHEL 8 web console is intended to become its replacement in a subsequent release. It is, therefore, recommended that you get familiar with the web console for managing virtualization in a GUI." rday -- Robert

[CentOS] moving from centos 8 to stream? (and possibly back again?)

2019-10-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it's just too progressive for me, can i dial it back to "regular" centos down the road? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://cra

Re: [CentOS] [LEARNING OUTCOME] Wi-Fi WPA Hacking Tool is Totally Useless on New Wireless Routers

2018-03-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Hi, > > I am sharing my learning outcomes. > > Recently I downloaded Kali Linux 64-bit Version 2018.1 and ran it on > my HP laptop with the integrated Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 > Wireless Network Card. ... snip ... you

[CentOS] yum list "available" versus "updates", and centosplus versioning

2018-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
quite possibly more a yum question than a centos question, but i'm a bit confused about the difference between listing "available" packages versus "updates" packages. short example -- listing what the yum man page suggests should be "available" for installation, restricting myself to

Re: [CentOS] why does "rescue" mode bring me to runlevel 5 (multi-user target)?

2018-03-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > finishing a week of teaching a comptia linux+ class off of centos > > 7.4 and wanted to demo how to boot to "rescue" mode, so i rebooted, > > selected "rescue" m

[CentOS] why does "rescue" mode bring me to runlevel 5 (multi-user target)?

2018-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
dumb question? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

Re: [CentOS] How to update modules in iniramfs fastly

2018-02-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, wuzhouhui wrote: > > -Original Messages- > > From: "Steven Tardy" > > Sent Time: 2018-02-26 10:48:48 (Monday) > > To: "CentOS mailing list" > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to update modules in iniramfs fastly > > > > On

Re: [CentOS] what is the centos/elrepo policy toward LTS kernels?

2018-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day > <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > > i'm sure there's a simple answer to this -- i already understand > > that newer kernels than the ones shipped with the official

[CentOS] what is the centos/elrepo policy toward LTS kernels?

2018-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, was it not? so why is a 4.14 "lt" kernel not available in that repository? i am obviously unclear on the policy used to determine which kernel versions end up in that repository. rday -- ======== Robert

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > >oh, i appreciate the need for caution; on the other hand, it > > always struck me that the training room is the *ideal* place for > > students to experiment with things they're too nervous or

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > finally, any concerns i should have about upgrading the kernel from > > 3.10 to 4.14 or 4.15, as explained in a number of places like this: > > > > https://www.tecmint.com/install-upgrade-kernel-version-in-centos-7/ > > > > i simply prefer to

[CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
again, some fairly trivial(?) questions about working with centos 7.4, given my time immersed in fedora so i want to make sure i'm not carrying over any bad habits. first, is there anything untoward in updating an installed version of centos 7.4 with a simple "yum update"? i'm well aware of

[CentOS] is the centos wiki "Additional Resources/Repositories" page reasonably up to date?

2018-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(apologies for what will be some upcoming trivial questions, but i'm jumping back into centos after years and years of living with fedora, so i'm feeling fairly comfortable, just the occasional centos-specific question.) is the wiki repos page fairly up to date?

[CentOS] are there reference lists/cheat sheets for categorized commands?

2018-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
an entire chapter, are there any official centos/rhel reference sheets like that? if not, i can just write my own and post them at my wiki. thanks for any pointers. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a git cloned kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a git cloned kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a git cloned kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
news. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly well). In my opinion, in most cases there is no particularly

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, John R. Dennison wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:56:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: my plan is to install yum-utils to get yumdownloader, add the repo file suggested above, then have students: Are these students paying for whatever training you

[CentOS-docs] but what if i don't care about centos 4?

2010-10-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not fair to short-change centos 4 -- i just have no interest in it. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be better if that were rewritten in terms of using ssh-copy-id, just to be simpler and less error-prone. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Ned Slider wrote: On 07/10/10 12:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is given as: Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install

Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is given as: Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install

[CentOS-docs] a general suggestion for all of the doc pages

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Phil Schaffner wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote on 10/07/2010 07:51 AM: ... ok, since i don't have edit access to the wiki, do i simply post proposed changes to this list in terms of precisely what text should be replaced by newer text? Perhaps it is time to remedy

Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Phil Schaffner wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote on 10/07/2010 07:51 AM: ... ok, since i don't have edit access to the wiki, do i simply post proposed changes to this list in terms of precisely what text should be replaced by newer text? Perhaps it is time to remedy

[CentOS-docs] suggestion for HOWTO: bonding multiple NICs

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/ i could even add that as a lab for future classes, where i simply add two USB network adapters to the student's machine and make it an exercise to set up bonding across them. just a thought. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, R P Herrold wrote: heh -- as Robert P. J. Day is [and was, and for a long time has been at least reputationally ;) ] known to me for a long time, we've spoken, etc I am quite sure I would have remembered a flat turndown if I had seen it But the issue is: global edit

[CentOS] does ssh-copy-id not use id_rsa.pub file by default?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that that file is the default, but it's obvious i still need to type its name. am i missing something? is the man page wrong? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [CentOS] does ssh-copy-id not use id_rsa.pub file by default?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote: From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used My man page says: ~/.ssh/identity.pub... argh ... sorry, i was logged into the wrong system

Re: [CentOS] does ssh-copy-id not use id_rsa.pub file by default?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:23:55 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote: From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca If the -i option is given then the identity file

[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they were closing for the evening. thoughts? any advice humongously appreciated. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo

Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure

[CentOS] couple questions about initrd.img

2010-09-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS-docs] Updates for Tips and Tricks/YUM and RPM page

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on 5.5. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS-docs] why the weird avoidance of the name red hat?

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, but not all the time? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS-docs] any chance of getting edit permission on the wiki?

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS-docs] possible additional comment regarding newer PHP

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
repo isn't official, it's accepted by numerous developers as a reliable source of newer PHP packages (5.3.3), so it seems that could be added with the appropriate disclaimer. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] does having a centos wiki acct grant edit access?

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
* --enablerepo rpmforge list available no? but even if i got edit access, i'd still be happier if someone eventually checked out any changes i made to validate them. whatever works best. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [CentOS] does having a centos wiki acct grant edit access?

2010-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS] Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux!!!

2010-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16997/oracle_rips_red_hat_and_sort_of_launches_a_new_linux oracle: just another centos wanna-be? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [CentOS] Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux!!!

2010-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16997/oracle_rips_red_hat_and_sort_of_launches_a_new_linux oracle: just another centos wanna-be? Um, this is news? I thought Oracle pushed Unbreakable Linux out the door at *least

Re: [CentOS] Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for OracleLinux!!!

2010-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of the hard drive. -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: p.s.  one stupendously trivial idea i had was to give each student a cheap USB drive and use that as the vehicle for playing with filesystem utilities

[CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 03:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: other ideas? LTSP an intriguing idea, but that might be a bit ambitious and might also cut into future marketing. one of my plans is that, after this week-long course is over, i want

[CentOS] should vsftpd be disabled in favour of sftp for security reasons?

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Michel van Deventer wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 03:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: other ideas? Maybe a crash course in troubleshooting using the rescue CD ? I don't know exactly which subjects are covered in your course ? Can you be more precise

Re: [CentOS] should vsftpd be disabled in favour of sftp for security reasons?

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
page so cavalierly dismisses vsftpd when it seems clear that you *can* configure vsftpd to be secure. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
useful in the context of setting up a server. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in an hour or so of shell scripting, just enough to whet their appetites and make them want an actual course. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive

[CentOS] can i run NFS *exclusively* off of v4?

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit

Re: [CentOS] can i run NFS *exclusively* off of v4?

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only* version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that i was missing required functionality

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and building new packages to be installed on mission-critical servers. there are certainly enough existing packages at trustworthy repos that i don't need to go beyond that. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] how to show that a filesystem is ACL-enabled?

2010-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
simply incomplete in that respect? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http

Re: [CentOS] how to show that a filesystem is ACL-enabled?

2010-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS] why does automounting removable media always have options nodev, noexec, nosuid?

2010-09-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've read suggests that red hat is concentrating on kvm for virt. thoughts on that? i have the freedom to replace the xen section with one covering kvm instead. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 08/09/2010 07:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course i'm teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question, possibly technical, possibly more policy. how much

Re: [CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 08/09/2010 08:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: how much of this courseware is open source licensed ? Would you be willing to contribute some /all of it towards the CentOS wiki / docs effort ? sorry, it's not my C/W, it's being licensed

[CentOS] what people really mean when they say they're running 5.3?

2010-08-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, only to find out later that they've been keeping up to date and 5.5 would have been a more appropriate choice. thanks for any tips. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

[CentOS] [OT] introductory online kernel programming course

2010-06-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to follow me on twitter. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses: http://crashcourse.ca

Re: [CentOS] [OT] introductory online kernel programming course

2010-06-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/12/2010 10:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: yes, it's OT but just in case folks here know someone who might be interested, i'm writing and publishing a course to introduce people to the joys of linux kernel programming: please leave

[CentOS] how to build a centos kernel?

2010-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to the canonical web page that has the directions? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Dominik Zyla wrote: Anyone knows which kernel version will RHEL-6 use? based on the contents of my ISO image, 2.6.32. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/redhat/rhel-6-beta if you choose to skip registration, you get: 550 Failed to change directory. or am i missing something? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  still a few bugs in the system or something.  from here: https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/rhel-6-beta if you choose to skip registration, you get:  550

[CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for that repo, which makes me nervous. more to the point, are there any serious issues involving bumping up php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything else where it is? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] another small glitch regarding 3rd party repos -- samba sernet link broken

2010-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
somewhat. also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of today, samba 3.5.0 is out: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.5.0/ i'm sure someone else will look into that. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] [OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?

2010-02-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS] recommendations for SMS/EMS/MMS software simulation?

2010-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
network, i would be a deliriously happy puppy. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page

[CentOS] how to push the bounds and get newer packages for centos 5.4?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
development system so i have the freedom to customize it to some extent if newer packages are called for. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting

[CentOS] [OT?] diffs between mysql 5.0 and 5.1, and upgrading to mysql 5.1?

2010-02-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
an option? (i realize that mysql 5.1 is *not* officially supported in centos 5.4.) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
? yum is simply a layer built on top of rpm. it's nice if you can do everything you want with yum, but it doesn't hurt to learn the basics of rpm anyway. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
pkgname # display list of files in package $ rpm -qf filename # what package is filename from? and many others. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

[CentOS] where is MySQL-zrm-client rpm package?

2010-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
search zrm i see only MySQL-zrm.noarch. anyone know why the centos repo would only know about one of those packages? i suspect that, to be safe, i should download the ones from the zmanda site. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[CentOS] dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 at 12:00pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Jim Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called oracle enterprise linux which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm curious -- has anyone here used

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
variation will invoke a new rm command for every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run. beyond that, the effect should be the same. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo

[CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Fabian Arrotin wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called oracle enterprise linux which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be any differences

[CentOS] centos courseware?

2010-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[CentOS] followup to request for centos C/W

2010-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hat/centos wouldn't be as useful as learning KVM. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page

Re: [CentOS] centos courseware?

2010-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, b.j. mcclure wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:31 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W would, of course, be ideal, but if you have

[CentOS] why no centos 5.3 or 5.4 online manuals?

2010-01-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
centos is just not bothering to rebrand the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info from red hat. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting

[CentOS] centos vs rhel vs scientific linux

2009-12-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS] proper protocol for installing a *really* new package?

2009-12-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it by (gack! choke!) installing the fedora package. that just creeps me out. in any case, what would be the proper solution under centos? is there a rawhide/dev equivalent for centos? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [CentOS] proper protocol for installing a *really* new package?

2009-12-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT, the latest poppler-utils package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the source

[CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from some mirrors. i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find it. i'm almost tempted to ask, any idea on when 5.4 will be available?, but i just *know* that

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from some mirrors. i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find it. i'm almost tempted to ask, any idea on when

[CentOS] so when's 5.4 going to be out? :-)

2009-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training

[CentOS] fully open source ECM? yup.

2009-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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