[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 ed - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/ed-0.2-33.30E.1.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ed - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/ed-0.2-36.c4.1.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ruby - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0897 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/irb-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0896 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) ruby - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0896 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0896.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/irb-1.6.8-13.el3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/ruby-1.6.8-13.el3.s390.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ed - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/ed-0.2-36.c4.1.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/ed-0.2-36.c4.1.s390x.rpm -- Pasi

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0896 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 ruby - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0896 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0896.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/irb-1.6.8-13.el3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/ruby-1.6.8-13.el3.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ruby - security update

2008-10-24 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0897 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/irb-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.s390.rpm

Re: [CentOS-es] Nagios

2008-10-24 Thread Alejandro
Luis, Tengo bastante experiencia con nagios. Si lo vas a instalar sobre un Centos, NO te aconsejo usar el RPM porque te instala todo en distintos Paths y luego si queres usar Plugins, o addons todo es un poco mas dificil. Para la instalacion segui esta guia:

Re: [CentOS-es] Nagios

2008-10-24 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
Alejandro wrote: Luis, Tengo bastante experiencia con nagios. Si lo vas a instalar sobre un Centos, NO te aconsejo usar el RPM porque te instala todo en distintos Paths y luego si queres usar Plugins, o addons todo es un poco mas dificil. Yo por el contrario lo uso con rpm y me es muy

Re: [CentOS-es] Nagios

2008-10-24 Thread Luis Nuñez
algunos paso a seguir para su instalacion Saludos 2008/10/24 Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alejandro wrote: Luis, Tengo bastante experiencia con nagios. Si lo vas a instalar sobre un Centos, NO te aconsejo usar el RPM porque te instala todo en distintos Paths y luego

Re: [CentOS-es] Nagios

2008-10-24 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
Luis Nuñez wrote: algunos paso a seguir para su instalacion claro, pero recuerda no hacer top posting: 1- instalar el repo de epel: http://www.ecualug.org/?q=2008/05/14/comos/instalando_repo_de_epel_en_nuestro_centos 2- instalar nagios y nagios plugins: yum install nagios nagios-plugins* aqui

Re: [CentOS-es] Error en system-config-samba no muestra la información después de cerrarse

2008-10-24 Thread Mario Ganga
2008/10/23 Jorge García [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/10/23 Mario Ganga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: m..me huele a un problemas de permisos, del smb.conf, por que si mal no entiendo, haces los cambios en el system-config-samba aparecen una vez cerrado el system-config-samba desaparece lo

[CentOS-es] epel o rpmforge+karan ?

2008-10-24 Thread BlackHand
Salu2 Amigos Quisiera hacer una consulta a manera de encuesta aqui en la lista y es sobre el uso de repositorios adicionales a los q usamos comunmente en la distribucion. yo desde q comenze a usar CentOS (desde el Release de la version 4 tanto de RHEL y CentOS) comenze a complementarlo siempre

Re: [CentOS-es] Error en system-config-samba no muestra la información después de cerrarse

2008-10-24 Thread Jorge García
Saludos Mario, estuve buscando y encontré un bug en bugzilla de Fedora (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=132084) que dice que en el proximo paquete se corregia, viendo las versiones que ellos mencionan contra el que viene en centos pues el de centos es mayor, lo que hice ahorita es

[CentOS-es] lista negra

2008-10-24 Thread Wilder Deza
Hola, a todos disculpen pero hay algun lugar en donde pueda saber si estoy en una lista negra. -- * * ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es

Re: [CentOS-es] epel o rpmforge+karan ?

2008-10-24 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
BlackHand wrote: Salu2 Amigos Quisiera hacer una consulta a manera de encuesta aqui en la lista y es sobre el uso de repositorios adicionales a los q usamos comunmente en la distribucion. yo estoy dejando de usar rpmforge puesto que ellos están dejando desactualizados muchos paquetes (por

RE: [CentOS-es] lista negra

2008-10-24 Thread Mario Guaquiante
-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3551 (20081024) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32

Re: [CentOS-es] lista negra

2008-10-24 Thread Abelardo Ramírez Ferrer
Puedes entrar en http://www.robtex.com/ y poniendo tu ip te da revisa si estas en lista negra. Además este es un buen sitio para comprobar si está bien to dns reverso. Saludos Abelardo -Original Message- From: Wilder Deza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos-es@centos.org Date: Fri, 24 Oct

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
sbeam wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2008 07:26, Michael Simpson wrote: Ditto here. Have you run an rpm --verify to see if you have corruption problems? Have you mixed installs from (possibly conflicting) repos? I suspect one of those two. Have you checked your hardware (memtest, etc.)? If the

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jussi Hirvi wrote: piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora. This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 14

2008-10-24 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can

Re: [CentOS] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Mark Maskery a écrit : We develop and sell a server based application as an appliance in which, in general, the customer does not have direct access to the operating system. My question is, are we

Re: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?

2008-10-24 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, --On 17. Oktober 2008 10:45:08 -0400 Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:13 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I have lots of messages like these appearing on my local CentOS 5.2 consoles: Oct 17 12:03:29 machine kernel: printk: 1 messages

[CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Semih Gokalp
Hi all CentOS users, I looked /var/log/messages log file and i realize something in messages files like below; --- Oct 24 04:02:42 cube2 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1545 --- sdc is my storage and i switched off storage at 6 PM. and when i checked messages log file,I

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Semih Gokalp wrote: ... -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 15:39 faillog This is a file with holes in it, try du /var/log/faillog to get the size on disk. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27

[CentOS] Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-24 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM configuration. My question: How do I get the installer to let me use DiskDruid to create RAID1 arrays and then use LVM

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:11:29PM +0300, Semih Gokalp enlightened us: yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? It is what is called a sparse

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Semih Gokalp wrote: yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? It is a sparse file. It has holes in it. Only a few blocks are actually allocated. It is not

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks all for help. Thanks again. 2008/10/24 Mogens Kjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Semih Gokalp wrote: yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? It

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Jussi Hirvi wrote: piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora.

[CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
I have an init script that after running, causes my terminal not to log out cleanly. Here's what i mean: # /etc/init.d/script restart this runs fine, returns my shell prompt # exitWhen I enter this command, my shell window just stays stuck and actually won't close down. Anyone know why

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Sean Carolan enlightened us: I have an init script that after running, causes my terminal not to log out cleanly. Here's what i mean: # /etc/init.d/script restart this runs fine, returns my shell prompt # exitWhen I enter this command, my

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:48, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # /etc/init.d/script restart this runs fine, returns my shell prompt # exitWhen I enter this command, my shell window just stays stuck and actually won't close down. Anyone know why this happens? Yes, it's

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
# /etc/init.d/script restart this runs fine, returns my shell prompt # exitWhen I enter this command, my shell window just stays stuck and actually won't close down. Anyone know why this happens? Are you spawning/backgrounding jobs in the script? Here is the script, it is a fairly

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
You might try to change the script in init.d to append /dev/null /dev/null 21 at the line that starts the daemon, this might force it to detach itself from the terminal. This appears to have corrected the issue, thank you very much for the reply. ___

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere (probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for storing the comamndline. There are two possible buffer limits one could

Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?

2008-10-24 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. Oh neat! When did this get added to freenx? I've been wanted to test that out for a long time. Regards, Ranbir

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere (probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for storing the comamndline. There

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Campbell wrote: There are two possible buffer limits one could encounter: tty driver input line buffer (which is not an issue for bash because readline avoids it) and kernel exec space for the arguments plus environment passed to a new process. Only the second one causes the error

[CentOS] Re: OT: Setting a CentOS to gateway a private IP address

2008-10-24 Thread James B. Byrne
The solution to this proved quite simple, once I grasped the fact that all routers on a common network have to route for that network (duhh!!!) as well as any others that they may handle. So the ripd.conf file looks like this: --- ! -*- rip -*- ! ! RIPd configuration file ! hostname

Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. Oh neat! When did this get added to freenx? I've been wanted to test that out for a long time.

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Setting a CentOS to gateway a private IP address

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
James B. Byrne wrote: The solution to this proved quite simple, once I grasped the fact that all routers on a common network have to route for that network (duhh!!!) as well as any others that they may handle. So the ripd.conf file looks like this: --- ! -*- rip -*- ! ! RIPd configuration file

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam, Most people responding are probably running the 32bit (i386) version of CentOS. If you are running the x86_64 arch and also running the Mozilla.org firefox then you are PROBABLY doing so via the 32bit

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working that had been written on

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Ed Westphal
MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working that had been

[CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Mad Unix
i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/old/new/g' {} \; Thx. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/old/new/g' {} \; There are several tools that handle this type of things

[CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
Hi, I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have installed a new centos 5.x server. the format of our current emails are [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the new format will be [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have 1600

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
Have you looked at the BlueQuartz project? It is specifically for the Cobalts, and I think is CentOS based. http://bluequartz.org/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Erick Perez wrote: Hi, I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and we are phasing out the sun cube due to

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Erick Perez a écrit : Hi, I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have installed a new centos 5.x server. the format of our current emails are [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the new format will be [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/old/new/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i -e 's/old/new/g' {} \; or

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Pintér Tibor
Phil Schaffner írta: Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/old/new/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i -e

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 23:13 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: perl -pi -e s/foo/bar/ *.html Won't recurse down the directory tree, but I guess the OP didn't actually ask for that. Could substitute the perl commad for sed in the earlier example. Many ways to skin the cat (all equally odious to the cat

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
Hi bill. not sure what you want me to look there. The Cobalt will go away and will probably be used in other task. We are not trying to rescue it. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at the BlueQuartz project? It is specifically for the

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erick Perez a écrit : Hi, I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have installed a new centos 5.x server. the format of our current

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Erick Perez wrote: However, Since both servers will answer to the same domain, i need some guidance as to how to 1- If user hosted on the Sun sendmail Cube sends emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], make the Cube forward/send the email to the Centos machine. 2- If user hosted in centos, sends email to

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Erick Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i read about transport maps in postfix, just tried and worked perfectly. thanks, now i have to figure the sendmail part (i think virtusertable) Do you know how to make the sendmail part? Now that you are bottom posting

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Pintér Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perl -pi -e s/foo/bar/ *.html You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing --

Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big event way back when. Then Fortran

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Pintér Tibor
You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing if you dont, the target changes are applied to the source files. t

[CentOS] Re: ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a bit of time many

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Erick Perez wrote: Hi bill. not sure what you want me to look there. The Cobalt will go away and will probably be used in other task. We are not trying to rescue it. It was just a FYI post as many may not know of Bluequartz. I have a customer who is still running a bunch of

[CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 7:25 AM Alex H. Vandenham spake the following: When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM configuration. My question: How do I get the

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Scott Silva wrote: ... When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were the languages of the future! In a presentation at the 1985 Usenix conference, Rob Pike made a comment that he didn't know what the language for scientific program of the

[CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Peterson
Scott Silva wrote: on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Raymond Lillard
Scott Silva wrote: on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch

Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch from

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: That's why you punch sequence numbers in the last 8 columns. :-) ... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, but remember to number by some integer 1 or you had to redo the whole remainder of the deck to

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: That's why you punch sequence numbers in the last 8 columns. :-) ... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, but remember to number by some integer 1 or you had to

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:15:31PM -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I have been learning and using COBOL since the mid 80's. I use COBOL at the present time for Web Programming also. The COBOL we use runs on UNIX and Linux. I use it in addition to PHP/MySQL for Web Programming. I have looked

Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were the languages of the future! Sheesh! When I learned Fortran IV in 1974, we had the WatFour and WatFive compilers, and were getting ready to