Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager constantly overwriting /etc/resolve.conf - how to disable?

2009-11-29 Thread Tosh
On 29/11/09 22:43, Rob Kampen wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I have a CentOS 5.4 server-only installation, i.e. no X installed, and for some odd reason /etc/resolve.conf gets overwritten by NetworkManager on a constant basis. I haven't been able to track down how often, but I think it's

Re: [CentOS] OT: rebuild kmod rpm package from src.rpm

2009-06-11 Thread Tosh
carlopmart wrote: Hi all, I would like to rebuild a kmod.src.rpm package for a specific kernel. When I try to do it, this message appears: Building target platforms: i686 Building for target i686 error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-xen-devel-i686 = 2.6.18-98.el5 is

Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative

2009-06-11 Thread Tosh
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative Would any of you

Re: [CentOS] RealTek 8168B (Rev 02) Issue

2009-06-09 Thread Tosh
Ben Mohilef wrote: It is an D945GCLF2 with a 330. use the r8169 driver That driver has issues with the counters, resolved with the ElRepo and Realtek drivers. Ifconfig shows no dropped packets with the latter two drivers. website, it has been working fine, and I regularly check my tcpdump,

Re: [CentOS] RealTek 8168B (Rev 02) Issue

2009-06-08 Thread Tosh
Ben Mohilef wrote: The 8168B (02) NIC works well except that it does not go into promiscuous mode despite advertising itself in that mode after being so directed with ifconfig. Unfortunately, the little box is destined to be an IDS monitor, so that function is essential. The board is an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Pulse - The Bi-weekly CentOS Newsletter #0901

2009-06-04 Thread Tosh
Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dag Wieersd...@centos.org wrote: I am pleased to announce the first edition of the bi-weekly CentOS newsletter which we dubbed CentOS Pulse. snip Dag: I read the first issue. Great idea! Please post

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-28 Thread Tosh
JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:03 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: I am experiencing the same issue with random reboots after a 5.3 upgrade. Sometimes it will go for days without rebooting then today it has rebooted 6 times at random times. I have modified grub.conf to go back to

Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

2009-05-25 Thread Tosh
Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi Bill, On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? Something I totally left out in my last email - atleast 2 people have reported success using C5 on Atom. I've looked at one of the original intel reference platform

Re: [CentOS] The law difference between country

2009-04-18 Thread Tosh
Hidetsugu Hiraki wrote: Dear Madam or Sir, I live in Japan. So I must comply with the nation's law. When I install software for Linux, is there any easy way to know whether the the installation and use of the software is legal or not? Please teach me. Hiraki

Re: [CentOS] Repo for Abiword

2009-04-14 Thread Tosh
cen...@911networks.com wrote: Hi, I need to run Abiword on CentOS 5.3, any repository? If you want to add my repo for all dependencies the install package is here : http://rpm.toshaan.be/repos/el5/x86_64/trpms-1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm I am scheduled to migrate in early July no a new

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?

2009-04-07 Thread Tosh
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Tosh: execute the command on the drive /dev/sdc, not the mounted partition When I do extlinux /dev/sdc, I get the Usage screen. The same thing happens if I do extlinux /dev/sdc1 The only way I could figure was to run extlinux on the mounted partition. Any ideas

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?

2009-04-04 Thread Tosh
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Tosh: 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit I did this. 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 I formatted it using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?

2009-04-03 Thread Tosh
32bit 64bit to install my systems There is one problem, if you want to use kickstart, it will want the mounted iso files, have not yet figured a way to get around this or to get some command to mount the images somewhere Regards, Tosh. -- Toshaan toshli...@gmail.com - http://www.toshaan.be

Re: [CentOS] installing from pen drive?

2009-04-03 Thread Tosh
sumit agarwal wrote: hi I have downloaded 7 iso files onto a dvd for 5.2 x64 . can i install them using a pendrive or i need to make 7 cds out of them? Many thanks, Sumit

Re: [CentOS] installing centos from usb

2009-04-01 Thread Tosh
Mark Porter wrote: Jerry, To use kickstart off usb, we just use linux ks=hd:sde1:/ourkickstart.cfg (Of course, the e will change depending on your drives, on our 10-drive systems it is linux ks=hd:sdk1:/ourkickstart.cfg) And it works great. We have NOT yet had any success with putting

Re: [CentOS] OOo 3 installation

2009-03-02 Thread Tosh
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, I tried installing OOo 3.x on an updated Centos 5 desktop (stock OOo 2.x was there), It had the following problems: 1. Installation of JRE 1.6.0 step failed citing dependency issues (relating to JRE 1.4 being required by OOo 2.x and the such) 2.

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails

2009-02-08 Thread Tosh
Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a system that I'm trying to run `yum update` on. It fails with the following error: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/xdelta.1.gz from install of

Re: [CentOS] Internet problem

2009-02-01 Thread Tosh
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: I am facing the following problems with internet on my acer aspire 2920 laptop running centos 5.2 ; whenever I launch mozilla firefox 3 beta 5 it takes at least one and a half hours just to load the homepage http://www.google.com/ig which in my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 PPC

2009-01-31 Thread Tosh
dnk wrote: There has been some discussion about PPC on this list, and I was looking at the CentOS homepage, and it states that support for the PPC architecture is in progress. Is there actually a V5 (CentOS) PPC download? I have been looking for it on the site without luck. For example

Re: [CentOS] Installing kernel RHEL-5.3 on CentOS 5.2 (x86_64)

2009-01-14 Thread Tosh
nate wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi I tried to install the kernel Red Hat 5.3 x86_64 (2.6.18-128.el5.x86_64) with the command: rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.x86_64.rpm but there is problem with dependecy: ecryptfs-util 44. How to solve problems with depencies when installing a

Re: [CentOS] Creating an iso image of a audio CD with K3B

2009-01-14 Thread Tosh
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Could it be this simple? Robert Moskowitz wrote: Can you do this? I have not found the options to get this to happen. So far I have seen how to read the Audio CD and make a directory of WAV files with a control file for later burning to CD, but I want an iso image

Re: [CentOS] ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO for CentOS?

2009-01-13 Thread Tosh
Chris Boyd wrote: I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these? I run a

Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter

2009-01-11 Thread Tosh
Robert Moskowitz wrote: What is there available for Centos? Now that Audacity is no longer available to us... Which version of CentOS are you running? (version and architecture please) I have audacity working perfectly, I do compile it myself, but can make it available in an rpm package

Re: [CentOS] OT - Consumer MOBO + CPU - CentOS 5 - Xen

2009-01-06 Thread Tosh
Rainer Duffner wrote: Tom Brown schrieb: Hi I want to consolidate some machines at home and so i wonder does anyone have any recommendations for a good consumer rather than server mobo+cpu combination that would be able to run paravirt and fullvirt quests ? Probably depends on how much

Re: [CentOS] HAL Daemon failure on boot up

2008-12-21 Thread Tosh
Dick Roth wrote: I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available. Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks for listening, Dick some more information would be

Re: [CentOS] Any Alternative for X window System

2008-12-08 Thread Tosh
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 00:20, karthikeyan subbannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one problem in centos4.4. You can update to 4.7 and see if that fixes it. If it's a problem in X, it might have been fixed between 4.4 and 4.7, although I would say it's

Re: [CentOS] Web Filter

2008-12-07 Thread Tosh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I've also been using Untangle (untangle.com) and just love it. This machine is nearly stock with all the nat/firewall done in a simple hand written script, it also serves as an Asterisk PBX so I couldnt use an appliance. I'm not sure if the latest has all the

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Tosh
Darrell Betts wrote: I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap

Re: [CentOS] Sound problem in Dell inspiron 1525

2008-12-03 Thread Tosh
Ern jura wrote: After installing CentOS 5.2 on my Dell inspiron 1525 laptop, the sound was inactive, I then installed Alsa-Driver, Alsa-utils, Alsa-plugins and Alsa-libs the ATrpms site. The speakers then work fine, but when I plug in headphones, the sound begins to fade out and eventually