[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:1016 CentOS 5 e2fsprogs Update

2012-06-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:1016 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1016.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am, hopefully, awake before I make the final decision. Good night.

Re: [CentOS] PMA attacks

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/19/2012 2:31 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But now I'm seeing the same from Azerbaijan, and France, and elsewhere. Two questions: first, are other folks seeing this? and second, I can't imagine malware this stupid, to keep hitting the same sites over and over when it's not found, rather

[CentOS] RHEL6.3 is on rhn

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Just fyi, since yesterday evening RHEL 6.3 is available on rhn, but I see no announcement yet. [root@rhel6-test ~]# uname -a Linux rhel6-test 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@rhel6-test ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: I'm running Centos 5.7 32 bit with Firefox 10.0.5 ESR Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but the latest version of Adobe flash-plugin 11.2.202 has a bug which causes it to hang and not play SWF files. I've been pulling my hair out

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] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: I finally found the answer here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414 I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183 from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :) I've also added

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 11:39, Rainer Traut wrote: Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: I've also added exclude=flash-plugin to the end of /etc/yum.conf file, to make sure this does not get upgraded again. That's a bad idea. Unpatched critical

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am,

[CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Most of the time I am over my head in trying to troubleshoot problems. However, after reading manuals, man pages, and getting advice from this list I have been able to work my way through difficulties, and at the end, I usually have a better understanding of what 'is going on'. I can

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John Hinton wrote: On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install snip If you are having to fully 'cold boot' the system

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card. snip Several questions: do you

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card.

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card. snip Ah,

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 88, Issue 12

2012-06-20 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and quiet, so you can actually see what's happening. Sounds to me as though it's trying

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: *snip* That's a bad idea. Unpatched critical vulnerabilities in Flash (along with Java) is one of the most likely routes of infection of your machine and not updating it is asking for trouble. In general yes, but afaik flash player 10.3 is still

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. Try moving the network card to a new

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 12:31 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Is there not a free alternative to Adobe's flash plugin please? I haven't tried them myself, but I think both Gnash and Lightspark aim to be open source replacements for Adobe Flash. I think one of them even works well enough to play YouTube

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Arun Khan wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and quiet, snip edit the kernel line in grub, and add rdshell at the

Re: [CentOS] Swap Partition in CentOS 5.8

2012-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jun 18, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Woodchuck wrote: [snipped swap/pagefile list of statements] Thanks to the list for any answers! Nothing in your list was phrased as a question. What are you trying to determine? If the list of statements was accurate? Nate

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/20/2012 11:09 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: That's interesting. Here are the log entries for the previous card as well as the eth4 that is currently installed. # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169) SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:e0:b3:10:f6:81, ATTR{type}==1,

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 8:44 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) pure unmitigated junk. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chris Beattie cbeat...@geninfo.com wrote: On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card.  After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that

[CentOS] CentOS-5.8 - Problem booting remote host

2012-06-20 Thread James B. Byrne
Kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 I recently experienced an odd problem with a host at our warm-site location. The facility we use suffered an hvac failure during elevated ambient temperatures (30C+) on Monday past and the equipment room reportedly cooked for some hours. It was sufficient that our

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.8 - Problem booting remote host

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: Kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 I recently experienced an odd problem with a host at our warm-site location. The facility we use suffered an hvac failure during elevated ambient temperatures (30C+) on Monday past and the equipment room reportedly cooked for some hours. It

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, but this has turned out to be a real pain.

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, but this has turned

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all, newbie to CentOS here. Also newbie to 64 bit installs. Package Manager problem: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st Question: Is there

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on Centos 5.7 32 bit please? I have the latest 32-bit flash-plugin from the Adobe repo installed and running on 64-bit 5.8 (latest) with 32-bit Firefox from the distro (I run 32-bit FF and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:57 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Arun Khan wrote: Reboot the system with disk1 removed, the kernel boots, the 'md' driver  tries to bind sda.  At this point the systems seems to hang for a few seconds and then 'dracut' reports that it cannot find /dev/md_dop1 (the

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on Centos 5.7 32 bit please? I have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st Question: Is there anything that can be done about this? Or is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 17:08:11 Nate Duehr did opine: On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I'm getting close to that in N. Central WV, phone and internet are on the local cable, getting about 385k/sec dl speeds on average.  But I have kept my own email corpus here since 1998, over 7Gb of it now, and old, probably

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gé Weijers
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: I think google/gmail gives you 10 gigs for free these days. Or at the cost of ignoring the ads on the right side if you use the web interface, but you can use imap if you want. Before they offered imap I used to use fetchmail to pull to my

[CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest not going to it without proper measures. it takes you to a record search site. When I look up this number block

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/20/2012 11:21 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote: I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest not going to it without proper measures. it takes you to a record

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 20 June 2012, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ 2927755261 in hexadecimal is AE81FFFD. If you change this to AE.81.FF.FD and convert it back to decimal, you get

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:21:41PM -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest not going to it without proper measures. it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Rob Kampen
On 06/21/2012 04:11 AM, Arun Khan wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khanknu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM,m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and quiet, so you can actually see what's