Re: [CentOS-docs] Images don't resolve on ArtWork/Logo

2009-09-29 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alain Reguera Delgado aregu...@allmail.net wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:23 +0100, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: ... The only *official* artwork is whats on mirror.centos.org - and to be honest, i dont think we have either the sources for that

Re: [CentOS-docs] Images don't resolve on ArtWork/Logo

2009-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/29/2009 04:49 PM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: I could organize what I have somewhere on our wiki for others to check and improve, if you are interested on it. That is a really good idea. I think a lot of stuff is already there in the artwork trac but needs a visual interface. Go for

Re: [CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening, Please note that the style used within the customization we provide is not yet final. To give an example of how the upcoming websites might look like, I have uploaded some screenshots to the Draft page: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/WebEnvironment/Draft based on the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-29 Thread Alain Reguera Delgado
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:03 +0200, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: ... Do you want to talk about how the new web site should look (then this is the correct list) or do you want to talk about the technicialities behind that (then centos-devel should be the audience to address)?

[CentOS-docs] Tutorials for Dell Vostro and personal page

2009-09-29 Thread Gytis Repečka
Hello, CentOS contributors, I am almost ready to submit CentOS guidelines for Dell Vostro 1400. Currently I've got WLAN and video drivers installation guides in English which also will be available in Lithuanian. More comming up soon. Before posting them, I'd like to fill my personal wiki page

[CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: Please note that the style used within the customization we provide is not yet final. To give an example of how the upcoming websites might look like, I have uploaded some screenshots to the Draft page:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos virsh - add a physical device

2009-09-29 Thread Tait Clarridge
Native config: cat win2k8.cfg name = win2k8-hvm uuid = c53ac13f-d32f-9934-8c0b-a8728fb52f19 maxmem = 1024 memory = 1024 vcpus = 1 builder = hvm kernel = /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader boot = c If you want it to boot from anything in the CDROM device, change this to read: boot = dc

Re: [CentOS-es] centos-5.4

2009-09-29 Thread Solucions Informatiques JM, S.L.
¿¿Hay fecha de lanzamiento oficial o se realizará sobre la marcha?? -- Un Saludo Juan M.G.V. Solucions Informatiques JM, S.L. i...@redesjm.com tie...@tiendajm.com i...@manualeslinux.com http://www.redesjm.com http://www.tiendajm.com http://www.manualeslinux.com Fax: 96 112 82 30 Linux User

Re: [CentOS-es] caracteristicas Servidor Web.

2009-09-29 Thread Gustavo E
Rodrigo Leal Astorga wrote: Hola lista que tal. Le solicito su ayuda, necesito presentar una solución para implementar un server web para 3 usuarios en el área de educción, la idea es que sea un server para realizar consultas y mostrar información a los usuarios

Re: [CentOS-es] caracteristicas Servidor Web.

2009-09-29 Thread Rodrigo Leal Astorga
La idea es un server que aguante en el caso que los 3 usuarios realizen consultas en simultaneo, ahora si no se puede un server, ver con cuantos server necesito para este requerimiento. En cuanto a la aplicacion si pienso que con php y mysql andaria bien o no?.. Saludos. Rodrigo

Re: [CentOS-es] caracteristicas Servidor Web.

2009-09-29 Thread Juan Pablo Botero
Para este caso, recomendaria un servidor liviano cono lighttpd o cherokee. 2009/9/29 Rodrigo Leal Astorga rl...@quintec.cl La idea es un server que aguante en el caso que los 3 usuarios realizen consultas en simultaneo, ahora si no se puede un server, ver con cuantos server necesito para

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Marcelo M. Garcia Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:08 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Sorry, but Fedora is no longer a good desktop choice. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. Just

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chan Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:35 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Ubuntu for desktop is really a give and take. You get some

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Geoff Galitz
1) Ubuntu really needs more frequent total updates (it is not a long-term stable release). The Ubuntu system that was on the local library's server was unable to get updates (apt-get would fail -- I ended up manually downloading packages and installing by hand (using raw dpkg commands --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chan Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:40 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Geoff Galitz a écrit : Ubuntu has the LTS releases, which are long term stable releases. They are supported for five years after release. Ubuntu Long Term Support is three years for desktops and five for servers. In the last LTS version (8.04), half of the audio apps had no sound for a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Christopher Chan a écrit : Bah, sudo -i for the equivalent of su -. Or try this: $ sudo -s ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Inquiry:Problem with nmap

2009-09-29 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I solve my problem with nmap , as described below : My CentOS server can ping the network element , but when I try to scan its open ports to see which ones are open at now the nmap cannot distinguish them and returned as they are being

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Problem with nmap

2009-09-29 Thread Bastian Ballmann
Hi, turn off your firewall? Than nmap shows open instead of filtered ;) greets basti hadi motamedi schrieb: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I solve my problem with nmap , as described below : My CentOS server can ping the network element , but when I try to

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Problem with nmap

2009-09-29 Thread hadi motamedi
Thank you for your reply . But still it cannot get through : #nmap -sS -p 20-80 172.18.0.1 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0 Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 91 seconds Can

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:08:38 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? if so what are some good ones to use? There are no 'viruses' (in the MS-Windows sense) for Linux *in the wild*. There are rootkits and from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:21:08 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: 1) Ubuntu really needs more frequent total updates (it is not a long-term stable release). The Ubuntu system that was on the local library's server was unable to get updates (apt-get would fail -- I

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Problem with nmap

2009-09-29 Thread Bastian Ballmann
hadi motamedi schrieb: Thank you for your reply . But still it cannot get through : #nmap -sS -p 20-80 172.18.0.1 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0 I dont know

Re: [CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?

2009-09-29 Thread mbneto
Hi, No unfortunately no messages at all. I get no errors in dmesg nor /var/log/messages. Regards. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:39 PM, David Tauriainen david.tauriai...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is running centos 5.3 x86_64 that until last week was running fine. With no error

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Problem with nmap

2009-09-29 Thread hadi motamedi
Thank you for your reply . Sorry that I was not exact on my previous message . Actually , my CentOS host is @172.18.98.1 and the network element is @ 172.18.0.1 . To this end , my host can ping the network element but when I try to scan its ports to see which one is open the nmap cannot

Re: [CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?

2009-09-29 Thread mbneto
Hi John, Yes I am running nfs4 (NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory). I'll try to boot with the previous kernel but the bugs mentioned reports problems while using the nfs. In my case I get no error messages from nfs as I can mount/read/write from the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Christopher Chan wrote: Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Sorin Srbu wrote: Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. Not using, but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Sorin Srbu wrote: I there are too many updates, and sometimes they crash something. I remember while using Fedora 10, after disappointment with F9, after an update, the sound stopped to work. I didn't like the idea of Thunderbird beta in F 12. Also, the external drives are mounted using the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/27/2009 02:57 PM, Drew wrote: That's the rule of thumb I see applied to what goes in /srv. In a LAMP box for example I'd expect to see the website(and site logs), database files, and POP3/IMAP spools stored in srv directories. Machine specific data like system logs and email processing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/29/2009 09:21 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: Ubuntu has the LTS releases, which are long term stable releases. They are supported for five years after release. you might want to look into exactly what is ubuntu-support and how that compares with what you get with CentOS. Its not nearly the same

[CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank . Brodbeck
Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? TIA, Frank.

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Thommen
frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote: Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Drew
Will the software be used in a commercial environment?  If not, then you could use AVG from Grisoft:-    http://free.avg.com/download I've used it for a couple of years now and haven't had any problems. Come to think of it, it hasn't found any viruses either!?!?!  Perhaps I've been lucky,

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I also have CentOS at home. There are quirks, though: for example, I tried to run kaffeine last night, and it couldn't find libkaffeinepart.so. I tried adding /opt/kde3/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to LOAD_LIBwhatever, and even did an ldconfig, and it *still* can't find

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread cornel panceac
2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Thommen
I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer

Re: [CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, 2009/9/28 Alberto García Gómez albe...@ipimtzcm.rimed.cu: Here is my problem [r...@shannon CGPMcAfee]# ./updateDatFiles CGPMcAfee DAT files update program version 2.2 Local avvDAT version is 5726 Connecting to 'update.nai.com' [72.247.238.178:80] via HTTP protocol...  *** failed to

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Eric Clark eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com wrote: Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? if so what are some good ones to use? In many companies that have compliance requirements, all servers are required to have antivirus. The argument that

[CentOS] Antwort: Re: Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank . Brodbeck
Frank Thommen frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de schrieb am 29.09.2009 16:11:05: I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote on 09/29/2009 09:12 AM: Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ned Slider wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: 2. I use backup mx's, my current solution probably could work in this scenario but the support mechanism behind it is *very* weak and I can't get a perfect setup working. Spam hits the primary for a domain, gets

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 09/27/2009 02:57 PM, Drew wrote: That's the rule of thumb I see applied to what goes in /srv. In a LAMP box for example I'd expect to see the website(and site logs), database files, and POP3/IMAP spools stored in srv directories. Machine specific data like system logs

[CentOS] freenx disconnects?

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
My NX/freenx connections have recently started to drop more or less randomly after several hours. Reconnection works with everything still running. I don't think anything has changed other than CentOS updates. Is anyone else seeing this? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

[CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I have multiple print jobs in the queue, there is a delay of about 15 seconds

[CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the system inaccessible. All process are halted. First, I don't understand what is wrong with the script Secondly, I'm surprised that Linux allows this to run unchecked to the detriment of the entire system. SCRIPT

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bo Lynch
On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I have multiple print

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bo Lynch
On Tue, September 29, 2009 11:05 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Alan Sparks
Perhaps I'm missing it, but where are your definitions of DIRNAME and BASENAME? Without them, you're probably re-executing the script in the bactick references. Basically a fork-bomb. -Alan Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I also have CentOS at home. There are quirks, though: for example, I tried to run kaffeine last night, and it couldn't find libkaffeinepart.so. I tried adding /opt/kde3/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to LOAD_LIBwhatever, and even did an ldconfig, and it *still* can't find

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
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[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
I currently have about eight servers running a mixture of CentOS x86_64 v5.2 and v5.3 but none with the very latest updates. They all obtain their authentication information over LDAP and to avoid the starting message bus hang problem[1], nscd is set to soft failure. However, yesterday I set up

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 11:05 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the system inaccessible. All process are halted. First, I don't understand what is wrong with the script Secondly, I'm surprised that Linux allows this to run unchecked to the detriment of

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread nate
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the system inaccessible. All process are halted. You can probably drastically simplify your script by using ncftpput http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpput.html nate

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Kampen
ML wrote: Hi All, If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... Thoughts? -ML ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread John R Pierce
ML wrote: Hi All, If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? if you set it up as a mdraid mirror without the mirror, yes. ___

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the system inaccessible. All process are halted. You can probably drastically simplify your script by using ncftpput http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpput.html

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Dan Burkland
I experienced the same problem and found a solution. In your /etc/ldap.conf file (which I had the ldap.conf in /etc/openldap symlinked to), add the following line to the bottom of the file: nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,haldaemon,dbus,ldap,sshd (any other group that is locally stored and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Niki Kovacs wrote: Geoff Galitz a écrit : Ubuntu has the LTS releases, which are long term stable releases. They are supported for five years after release. Ubuntu Long Term Support is three years for desktops and five for servers. In the last LTS version (8.04), half of the

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Peter l Jakobi
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I set the printer type as raw and then restarted cups just to make sure the change was active. No effect. Still have the delays. Avoid cups for a quick test: 2 ways: 1) get the lprng rpm and extract lpr and lpq to a directory,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:20 -0500, Dan Burkland wrote: I experienced the same problem and found a solution. In your /etc/ldap.conf file (which I had the ldap.conf in /etc/openldap symlinked to), add the following line to the bottom of the file: nss_initgroups_ignoreusers

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/29 Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org: I experienced the same problem and found a solution. In your /etc/ldap.conf file (which I had the ldap.conf in /etc/openldap symlinked to), add the following line to the bottom of the file: Due to the ssh problems, I can't check the actual machine at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/29 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: having these lines in /etc/ldap.conf has helped me a lot... timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft My timelimits are still at the default of 120. However, the machine was bounced for me this morning and is apparently still stuck on

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the system inaccessible. All process are halted. You can probably drastically simplify your script by using ncftpput http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpput.html and simplify it even more using scp,

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
ML wrote: If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... Thoughts? Partition the disk into one partition of type 'FD' (raid

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert
ML wrote: Hi All, If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... Thoughts? -ML Step by step instructions at

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Peter l Jakobi wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I set the printer type as raw and then restarted cups just to make sure the change was active. No effect. Still have the delays. Avoid cups for a quick test: 2 ways: 1) get the lprng rpm and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Drew
Not likely...  Storage paths are all arbitrary and if a standard has to make up a new location that breaks existing concepts they've already done something wrong. Times change. What worked well on Unix 20-30 years ago isn't necessarily the best way of doing things today. Websites for example

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Matt wrote: Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? On a whim, I installed it on my home mail/web/* server. It was due for an upgrade anyway. So far, so good. Running a boatload of services (low load though), no crashes, solid. The Ubuntu experience is the same.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Geoff Galitz wrote: Perhaps it is getting trendy to beat up on non-Centos distros here on the Centos list? Well, it's the group bias. I keep an eye on a Kawasaki forum, and they have a knack for doing a lot of Suzuki bashing. I'm, like, WTF, they're all awesome sportbikes! :-) Same here.

[CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread DTS Corp
Am pretty new to CentOS and linux. I am trying to be able to share network drives and connect to a windows workgroup with CentOS. Machines are as follows. Workgroup has been changed from WorkGroup or MSHome to my own setting All of the client machines are formatted with NTFS Windows XP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Karanbir Singh wrote: you might want to look into exactly what is ubuntu-support and how that compares with what you get with CentOS. Its not nearly the same thing. To an extent that LTS is mostly considered a nonstarter in most very small business. Specially where the client is in a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: Not likely... Storage paths are all arbitrary and if a standard has to make up a new location that breaks existing concepts they've already done something wrong. Times change. What worked well on Unix 20-30 years ago isn't necessarily the best way of doing things today.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Florin Andrei wrote: Well, it's the group bias. I keep an eye on a Kawasaki forum, and they have a knack for doing a lot of Suzuki bashing. I'm, like, WTF, they're all awesome sportbikes! :-) Same here. In the end, Linux is the same, just different flavors for different tastes.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Florin Andrei wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: you might want to look into exactly what is ubuntu-support and how that compares with what you get with CentOS. Its not nearly the same thing. To an extent that LTS is mostly considered a nonstarter in most very small business. Specially where

Re: [CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 28.09.09 23:49, schrieb Alberto García Gómez: Here is my problem [r...@shannon CGPMcAfee]# ./updateDatFiles CGPMcAfee DAT files update program version 2.2 Local avvDAT version is 5726 Connecting to 'update.nai.com' [72.247.238.178:80] via HTTP protocol... *** failed to connect: socket

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Max Hetrick wrote: the zealots Nah, it's just the way the human mind works, according to its current blueprint. It can be pretty awesome in what it can do sometimes, but it does have obvious fundamental flaws too. You and I have biases too, but nobody is aware of their own. :) -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
DTS Corp wrote: Am pretty new to CentOS and linux. I am trying to be able to share network drives and connect to a windows workgroup with CentOS. Machines are as follows. Workgroup has been changed from WorkGroup or MSHome to my own setting All of the client machines are formatted with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread DTS Corp
What I am trying to do is allow filesharing from linux to windows and windows back to linux. Samba I think would work best for this, however I have no clue as to what I am doing at the moment with getting them to work. I just need a little pointing in the right direction. On Tue, 2009-09-29 at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, DTS Corp eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com wrote: What I am trying to do is allow filesharing from linux to windows and windows back to linux. Samba I think would work best for this, however I have no clue as to what I am doing at the moment with getting them to

[CentOS] What is this

2009-09-29 Thread DTS Corp
I was working in terminal and then found this on the desktop when I do an ls [r...@dtslinux Desktop]# ls bar-003ada89db.desktop hadjaha-00c578ceaf.desktop bar-004892226f.desktop hammer-0011bbeb3d.desktop blah-0055ff1151.desktop hammer-00d190a421.desktop blah-009c014480.desktop

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Akemi Yagi wrote: This CentOS wiki article will help: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares Akemi And http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-samba.html Ryan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Drew
The argument you're expressing, as I see it, is that there is really no difference whether or not the files are stored in /var or /srv because in the end they're bits on a disk so where in the file system they end up doesn't matter. /var was chosen years ago by Unix admins so why change it to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread John R Pierce
DTS Corp wrote: What I am trying to do is allow filesharing from linux to windows and windows back to linux. may I suggest that a network of more than 1-2 computers should have a single file server that has all the shares, and all the other computers should connect to it, so all the

Re: [CentOS] What is this

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:29:16 -0500 DTS Corp wrote: I was working in terminal and then found this on the desktop when I do an ls [r...@dtslinux Desktop]# ls bar-003ada89db.desktop hadjaha-00c578ceaf.desktop Were you logging into X as root? That's generally a bad thing, and isn't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, keep in mind that it took many years for Red Hat to get it right (or what they think is right) and when they did, they stopped distributing the binaries for free.  Ubuntu should be getting pretty close to having

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed it on a dual-booted

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread John R Pierce
Ron Blizzard wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: The argument you're expressing, as I see it, is that there is really no difference whether or not the files are stored in /var or /srv because in the end they're bits on a disk so where in the file system they end up doesn't matter. /var was chosen years ago by Unix admins so why

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Alan McKay
I've been generally unhappy with my CentOS desktop both at home and at work, when it comes to thinks like sound and video. I'd recommend going with Fedora Core, to be honest. Much as I love CentOS on my servers. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: someone suggested Avira Free last time I cleaned my wife's laptop (she got a koobface virus via facebook with about 8 trojan sidekicks and some kinda ddnsfilter too)... seems pretty good, and it found some bits of the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Ron Blizzard wrote: I've been generally unhappy with my CentOS desktop both at home and at work, when it comes to thinks like sound and video. I'd recommend going with Fedora Core, to be honest. Much as I love CentOS on my servers. I like stability over cutting edge, so CentOS (with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: I like stability over cutting edge, so CentOS (with multimedia from RPMForge) What are the details on MM from RPMForge? If I could get my MM working I'd be happy. I like stability too, which is why I use it on my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 15:38 -0400, Alan McKay wrote: I've been generally unhappy with my CentOS desktop both at home and at work, when it comes to thinks like sound and video. I'd recommend going with Fedora Core, to be honest. Much as I love CentOS on my servers. This is more a reply

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Alan McKay
I am not an Ubuntu basher, but I felt it was babying me a little too much. Hmmm, maybe that's what I should put on my wife's laptop :-) I already know Linux very well - been a UNIX geek for over 20 years, and Linux geek for getting on 10 now. And I still get frustrated with how difficult it

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