Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2013-05-15 17:44, Matt wrote: I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script.pl) wait_random 10 -

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Files

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2012-06-20 02:11, Diego Sanchez wrote: find /whe/re -mtime +2 -exec echo {} \; If you get Argument list too long error, you can use find . -name * -print | xargs rm Be very careful using that line! If you have files or directories with whitespace or other special items in the name it

Re: [CentOS] Having less languages in Firefox (hunspell dictionaries provide too many locales)

2011-11-21 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-11-21 13:43, Mathieu Baudier wrote: Hello, on CentOS 6, I am routinely writing mails in English, German and French and using the related hunspell dictionaries for the spelling in Firefox (I'm using Google Apps). This works fine but the problem is that languages are added for all

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-11-10 17:07, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 11/10/2011 04:30 PM, Scott Robbins piše: Well, Fedora is going to systemd, which seems more designed for desktop/laptop users, where speed of a boot seems to be the most important goal, so I suspect RH will get there too. systemd will be

Re: [CentOS] replace multiple string

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-09-23 19:47, madu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I would like to use a bash script that searches files and subdirectories name in a directory /var/ww/html/web for a specific string, and when it finds the search string, replaces the string (old1) with new string (new1), and so on old2 with

Re: [CentOS] disk duplication question

2011-09-09 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-09-09 14:22, Jerry Geis wrote: I have need to duplicate centos 6 on 133 computers. I purchased a disk duplicator make my master and the duplicator does 11 at a time. All is good so far... When I take a duplicated disk and stick it in the new box which is different than the

Re: [CentOS] grabbing ip address from kickstart pre

2011-08-15 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-15 09:06, Keith Roberts wrote: Is there some way to find out exactly what tools are available for use in the %pre section please? http://linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel6/rhel_6_installation/rhel_6_installation_s1-redhat-config-kickstart-prescript.html /THomas

Re: [CentOS] grabbing ip address from kickstart pre

2011-08-14 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-13 04:26, Jerry Geis wrote: I can get the kickstart command line with /proc/cmdline it looks something like x ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg xx in the %pre sections of my ks.cfg I was wanting to extract the IP from the ks= part. I was going to utilize the tr command but

Re: [CentOS] {Disarmed} Kickstart installation error

2011-08-14 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-14 19:49, Anshul Chauhan wrote: Hi, I’m trying kickstart on CentOS : class pxeclients { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = PXEClient; next-server 192.168.0.1; filename linux-install/pxelinux.0; } *FTP server showing ks file accessable by ananomous

Re: [CentOS] compiling buoh comic reader for C-6

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-06 04:01, fred smith wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to build the buoh comic reader for centos 6 and my head is getting tired of repeated forceful contact with the wall. : The configure script refuses to deal with libsoup-2.4. so I look at what pkgconfig thinks the installed libsoup

Re: [CentOS] compiling buoh comic reader for C-6

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-06 04:01, fred smith wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to build the buoh comic reader for centos 6 and my head is getting tired of repeated forceful contact with the wall. The configure script refuses to deal with libsoup-2.4. so I look at what pkgconfig thinks the installed libsoup is,

Re: [CentOS] disable control alt delete in gnome

2011-08-05 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-08-05 16:30, Jerry Geis wrote: have you tried gconf-editor. it works on centos 5. or you can try to edit the keyboard shortcut in system preferences keyboard shortcuts Janez, I have looked at gconf-editor and cant find it. Is this what you are looking for? Key:

Re: [CentOS] perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.35-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge: dependency problem

2011-07-31 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-07-31 19:51, Dirk wrote: Hi folks, I hope this is the right mailing list to ask since on the repoforge website there is no list or contact information. Try http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo /Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.35-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge: dependency problem

2011-07-31 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-07-31 19:51, Dirk wrote: I have a problem with updating the perl-Nagios-Plugin package. I have installed perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.33-1.el6.rf.noarch, and running yum update leads to: Error: Package: perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.35-1.el6.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Requires:

[CentOS] Problem with /etc/security/console.perms.d/51-local.perms

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas Johansson
I'm having trouble to get rules in /etc/security/console.perms.d to work properly. I have found no clue reading forums. The same problem appear also in Scientific Linux6 and Fedora13/14. The rule i add works fine on centos 5. hostname:/etc/security/console.perms.d# ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-07-25 22:37, Jerry Geis wrote: prefdm is respawning too fast Most likely Xorg is crashing. You are in runlevel 5, therefor prefdm continues to try and respawn. Check the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and then correct what's wrong. Could be dr5iver issue.

Re: [CentOS] problems with burning i386 centos 6 dvd

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-07-11 22:47, Gary Gatling wrote: Hey guys, Thanks a lot for the CentOS 6 distro. I am having trouble burning the i386 dvds. I tried on a RHEL 6 deskop and also a CentOS 5 laptop. The command I am running on both systems is this: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z

Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5

2009-03-09 Thread Thomas Johansson
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

2009-02-28 Thread Thomas Johansson
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Hi My problem is related to clientless authentication

[CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Johansson
Hi My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are evaluating if it's worth the trouble on centos. Uppgrading cups is not a problem That i have already solved. Further research also states that kerberos have to be version 1.6.3. This is a big problem. Neither centos 4

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Johansson
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Hi My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are evaluating if it's worth the trouble on centos. Uppgrading cups is not a problem That i have already solved

Re: [CentOS] Trouble using date function in centos

2008-10-05 Thread Thomas Johansson
Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:48:28PM +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: Is there someone that can explain why I get incorrect results on centos 4.6 and 4.7 but not on centos 5.2?? test000:/% date -d 2008-10-25 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 test000:/% date -d 2008-10-26 +1 days

[CentOS] Trouble using date function in centos

2008-10-04 Thread Thomas Johansson
Is there someone that can explain why I get incorrect results on centos 4.6 and 4.7 but not on centos 5.2?? The date 2008-10-26 +1 days should results in 2008-10-27 On centos 4.6 -- test000:/% date -d 2008-10-25 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 test000:/% date -d 2008-10-26 +1 days

[CentOS] Help using ed [OT]

2008-08-31 Thread Thomas Johansson
Hi Perhaps omeone might answer this tricky problem. I can do this other ways, but i really want to understand how to solve it using ed. I have one solution using g/re/s/re//txt/ , but I want to understand how or if i can solve it using the ed (.)a command. A script i have parse several

Re: [CentOS] another sed question...

2008-05-30 Thread Thomas Johansson
Craig White wrote: Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file) *** from --- !ruby/object:Right attributes: name: Personnel Admin action: index id: 1 controller: assessments --- !ruby/object:Right attributes: name: Personnel Admin action: find id: 2

Re: [CentOS] another sed question...

2008-05-30 Thread Thomas Johansson
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 20:26 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: Craig White wrote: Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file) *** from --- !ruby/object:Right attributes: name: Personnel Admin action: index id: 1 controller: assessments --- !ruby

Re: [CentOS] sed

2008-05-23 Thread Thomas Johansson
Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:02:29PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:41:19AM -0700, Scott McClanahan wrote: 1.1.1.1foo 10.10.10.10bar bar2 100.100.100.100foobar foobar2 foobar3 == After == 1.1.1.1