Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you have your own mirror, the easiest way would be to get those bz32 kernels in your repo. Johnny Hughes or other CentOS devs need to chime in here about the plan for those kernels, but my (wild) guess is that those kernels stay there until

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 17, 2008, at 14:02, Akemi Yagi wrote: Any chance this will happen before next Wednesday? That's when I'm planning to start my upgrades... I doubt it, but you never know because this is up to our upstream vendor. I was thinking about a new centosplus kernel before next week -- is

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart syntax for CentOS upgrade

2008-04-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 28, 2008, at 18:37, Tom Lanyon wrote: This worked fine for me on a 4.6 kickstart I did recently. I can't remember whether I tried it on 5.x or not, sorry. bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda part /boot --onpart=sda1 --fstype=ext3 part swap --onpart=sda2 --fstype=swap volgroup vg

[CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition resides on, the system

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and Ill post an update. TGIF! Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-07 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. First, thanks for the detailed list, Ross. It was very helpful. I was able to rename both the VG and the

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 11, 2008, at 9:06, Akemi Yagi wrote The centosplus kernel update that just came out (2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.centos.plus) does have vesafb support enabled. Thank you, Johnny, for the work. :-) It finally trickled down to my mirror, and a quick install this morning shows that is indeed

[CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've finally made the switch to CentOS 5.1 (I had been running 4.6). So far, so good, but I do have a few issues. First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by the package ckermit in

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 9:50, Steve Huff wrote: This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). I first

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 10:58, Alfred von Campe wrote: In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. I was able to compile the latest Kermit

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 20:12, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: I don't know why you need kermit, but for serial-based terminal/console access, minicom may do what you want. I use it to access Unix/Linux hosts through the serial console and for network switches and routers as well. It works OK for that.

[CentOS] Strange NTP problem

2008-05-20 Thread Alfred von Campe
I have 30 identical Lenovo desktop systems running CentOS 5.1. On one of those systems the clock is running slow (5+ minutes from yesterday to this morning and another minute since this morning) despite the fact that NTP is running on all of them and they all have the exact same

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

2008-05-20 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 20, 2008, at 16:56, Paul Heinlein wrote: A slew of 5 min/24 hrs should be in the range of fixable. If the NTP daemon was doing its job :-). This is very suspect. Are there any SELinux or other log messages suggesting that ntpd isn't able to write to its drift file? Your local

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

2008-05-21 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 21, 2008, at 0:55, Paul Heinlein wrote: Yeah, with an offset of 54 seconds, it's a bad system. :-) Try this (assuming 10.101.32.104 is your preferred local NTP server): service ntpd stop echo 10.101.32.104 /etc/ntp/step-tickers service ntpd start Adding a server to the

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

2008-05-22 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm still having this issue. Here is another update. I noticed that the drift file for the system with the problem contained 0.000. On most other systems this contains a positive number (and on two a negative number). I deleted the drift file, resynch'ed the time with ntpdate hostname,

Re: [CentOS] kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 centosplus?

2008-05-28 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 28, 2008, at 14:08, Johnny Hughes wrote: We are currently using the builders to build centos-5.2 ... I can try to get the that kernel in, but we should very soon thereafter have the 5.2 one, so it might be better for you just to wait. Does the 5.2 kernel include the NFS patch (RH

[CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
Ever since I upgraded all my systems to CentOS 5.1 I have been getting reports from users about all their windows disappearing. A little digging revealed that they meant all gnome-terminal windows. Since there is only one gnome-terminal process by default for all your open terminal

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 29, 2008, at 14:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: How did you upgrade? Fresh install via kickstart. I reformatted the root and /boot partitions, but left one user partition untouched. Is it possible that you have older (possibly orphaned) binaries still installed from the upgrade

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

2008-05-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 29, 2008, at 20:58, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: strace seems fine, just use some options to enhance the output you get: -s 1024: take 1024 bytes for every string. This wouldn't have cut that one short -tt: if you want timestamps -f: to follow forked processes Great suggestion. I

[CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've previously reported

Re: [CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 29, 2008, at 20:58, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: strace seems fine, just use some options to enhance the output you get: -s 1024: take 1024 bytes for every string. This wouldn't have cut that one short -tt: if you want timestamps -f: to follow forked processes I started strace with

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 4, 2008, at 16:59, William L. Maltby wrote: As to your specific problem, since hardware is not common among the users reporting problems, I suspect that the only commonality is the configuration *beginning* with the automated install. My thought is there is some flaw in it that becomes

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-12 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote: I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products. One of our third party applications (SlickEdit) has been having its share of issues. We finally had an error message (Xlib: resource ID allocation space exhausted)

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Effects -- questions/issues

2008-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:39, fred smith wrote: Enabling from the gnome menu doesn't exactly work compltely, one needs to google around a bit to find out the remaining magic incantations to make it fully work. So, I've done that and it's working. Can you enlighten the rest of us? That is,

[CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Alfred von Campe
I have a stock CentOS 5 system as far as email (sendmail) is concerned that is on our corporate LAN. I am not trying to set up a mail server; I merely want our CentOS systems to be able to send out emails. This works as long as the recipient's domain is our local domain. Any email send

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Alfred von Campe
Thanks for all the quick responses. Enabling SMART_HOST as well as masquerading did the trick. I also had to install the sendmail-cf RPM, but everything appears to be working now. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mkdep vs. makedepend

2008-07-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jul 4, 2008, at 17:50, MHR wrote: One of my assignments is to bring this up to CentOS, but on my first effort, I ran into this interesting feature. The original build process (FC1) uses mkdep to generate the dependency files that are subsequently used by the makes to build the app. mkdep

Re: [CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen

2008-07-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jul 29, 2008, at 23:55, MHR wrote: Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not be able to use it Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which works for me

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 3, 2011, at 17:50, Les Mikesell wrote: I almost never log in directly at a linux console anymore and if I need to do something from home or remotely, I just pick the session that was my last desktop at work. I didn't know you could do this with NX. I've been using VNC to connect to

Re: [CentOS] Re: Gnome Terminal and xterm problems

2007-07-12 Thread Alfred von Campe
I should add that the hang occurs after an unknown amount of time. Are we talking days, hours, or minutes here? I use ssh all the time to log into the systems I manage, but they are all on the LAN. I often log into my home CentOS system, and keep the connection up for an entire work day

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-22 Thread Alfred von Campe
/dev/hda is being controlled by a controller that mimics an IDE drive and is being accessed through the kernel's ide layer. /dev/ sda is being controlled by a libata-supported controller and is being accessed through the kernel's scsi stack with libata. As far as I know, all drives (2 hard

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-23 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:08, Lamar Owen wrote: Many motherboards that have more than two SATA connectors put two on the SouthBridge's IDE-type controller, and the others on 'something else'. Usually, the 'something else' shows as a SCSI controller in Linux. How many SATA connectors are

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-23 Thread Alfred von Campe
Ok, run a 'lspci' and see if it lists two controllers. Yup, it does: # lspci | fgrep IDE 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)

Re: [CentOS] What is eating my memory?

2007-08-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
I install centos 5 on a HD while it is in a Compaq with 256Mb memory. After install, i am in graphics mode (Gnome) and top reports not quite all 256Mb used. Then I move the HD to a decTOP with 512Mb memory. I am running non- graphics (init 3). I ssh into the unit and top reports not

[CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5

2007-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
I recently moved my CentOS 4.5 disk from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M52 (3.2 GHz Pentium 4) to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 (3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo). I had to install the SMP kernel, but other than that everything just worked. I did have an issue with accidentally initializing my /boot partition, but

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5

2007-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:20, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: See if the drive supports DMA and 32-bit IO and if it does set it with hdparm (put in the hdparm.conf to do so across reboots). I guess that is what I am asking. How do I do set the appropriate parameters with hdparm? And look into

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5 [solved]

2007-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
Yes, I was going to say this too, make sure the SATA settings in the BIOS are all set to SATA operation and not legacy, then you should see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and all DMA, IO size, NCQ and multiple sector settings will be properly negotiated at start-up. I bit the bullet and rebooted my

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5 [solved]

2007-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
Well most desktop motherboards these days provide for 2 SATA devices and 2 emulated PATA devices. Though the emulated PATA devices will probably end up using PIO instead of DMA for transfers which is slow and processor intensive, so these are usually reserved for optical drives, which are slow.

Re: [CentOS] Reconfiguring gnome desktop

2007-09-19 Thread Alfred von Campe
Please - how do I reconfigure my gnome desktop (CentOS 4.4) to get back my application icons and workspaces? Something's changed in the settings so that there are no workspaces shown in the panel and applications disappear off the screen when applications (eg Evolution, Mozilla etc) are

Re: [CentOS] command to show virtual X screens

2007-09-24 Thread Alfred von Campe
Ok - I didnt realize it was called workspace, but yes that is it. But - what I want is a command line program that I can execute to show workspace 3. The sometime later execute a command line program to show workspace 1. Sorry, I don't know about a command line option for this (and the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-24 Thread Alfred von Campe
Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The yum update seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with the word GRUB in the upper left hand corner. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 install CD into rescue

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Alfred von Campe
Out of interest, is this something that is always required when upgrading Grub? i.e. should one always manually run grub-install /dev/XXX after doing so? No, it shouldn't. But in my case, I didn't upgrade grub. I simply did a yum update which installed, among other things, a new

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Alfred von Campe
Anyways, my suggestion is to check all the drives in your system for said files as mentioned. If they are there, but not where grub is looking for you may have to make changes. My system started its life with one drive and CentOS 4.3, and has been yum updated and is now at CentOS 4.5. I

Re: [CentOS] excluding directories in rsync

2007-10-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
I am trying to exclude a directory (and all file and sub-directories under that directory) when using rsync. I have spent two days on google, but everything that I can find there involves excluding individual files, not an entire directory. Have you tried a simple rsync --exclude remove_dir

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

2007-10-10 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:09, Dag Wieers wrote: There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not sure if it is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and therefor I didn't make the proper sysv script etc...) On a somewhat related note, what is the

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

2007-10-10 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 10, 2007, at 14:18, Brian Mathis wrote: CentOS has Desktop Sharing built in. Look for it in one of the settings/preferences menus. Enable desktop sharing, and then you can use VNC as a remote client. Wow, that was easy! I thought I was going to have to jump through a bunch of

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-10-26 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:28, Tom Brown wrote: I am sure the answer here is really easy but i am stuck! Getting the quoting right for remote commands in the shell is never an easy thing :-). # mount | grep data | awk '{print$1,$2,$3}' gives me the info i require locally, however i need to

Re: [CentOS] Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: Being aware of the security implications, do you have perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed? I meant I was aware of the implications of running setuid scripts. I was not aware that CentOS' upstream provider had packaged suidperl separately.

[CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

2011-09-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
Most of my desktops are still running CentOS5, but I have installed CentOS6 on a few of them. The users on those desktops are reporting that DNS lookups are slow, and from my brief tests, that does appear to be the case. After some googling, I found a suggestion to disable IPv6, but that

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

2011-09-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:29, John Hodrien wrote: You probably want to do an strace -f host blah rather than a basic strace, or I think you'll lose what's going on. Good point. Using -f doesn't show a 3+ second gap, but I still have no idea why it's slow (3-5 seconds) compared to CentOS5, or why

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

2011-09-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Sep 27, 2011, at 13:53, Frank Cox wrote: Why do you think dnscache won't help? Caching is not restricted to your local domain. I guess I forgot to mention that only the first query is slow. If you repeat the query, the response is fast, so it's already being cached somewhere. I always

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6 [not really -- SOLVED]

2011-09-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Sep 27, 2011, at 14:02, Les Mikesell wrote: The usual reason for a delay is that you have more than one nameserver specified in resolv.conf and the first one tried is down or unreachable so you time out and retry. Bingo! Thanks Les. All systems use DHCP which updates the resolv.conf

[CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
I installed CentOS 6 on a Dell Optiplex 790 with a StarTech.com dual serial port card, and the serial ports aren't being recognized. According to dmesg, only the built-in serial port is being recognized: # dmesg | fgrep ttyS serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
Thanks for all the pointers. I've downloaded the driver sources and compiled/installed them, and the serial ports appear to be available upon reboot (according to dmesg). I'll look into building it with DKMS to make it easier to support with future updates. Thanks again, Alfred

Re: [CentOS] how to find...

2012-03-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 4, 2012, at 21:55, fred smith wrote: it's already installed (via yum install xiphos) and I need to know which repository it actually came from. I think it came from Centos, but dont' know how to be sure. yum list installed merely shows it as installed,but doesn't list the repo from

[CentOS] Strategy for using CentOS on laptops in an NIS environment

2008-08-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
We use NIS (ypbind) and Kerberos at work for all our Linux and Unix systems. Home directories are mounted via autofs from an NIS map. Everything works just fine as long as all network resources are available (however, things turn ugly when the NIS servers are not reachable). Some users

Re: [CentOS] Gnome Desktop Questions?

2008-09-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Sep 5, 2008, at 11:41, James B. Byrne wrote: Can somebody tell me how to get these minor, but for me very desirable, changes made to the second system? The only difference between the two systems that I can recall is that one (the first) was upgraded from 4.6 while the second (the

[CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

2008-10-15 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things that used to work then

Re: [CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

2008-10-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
Yesterday I wrote: I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things

Re: [CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

2008-10-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
The easy way to do this would be to open an issue report at bugs.centos.org/ and someone can work with you to verify the bug exists. Done: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3200 Thanks, Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Is anyone using Review Board on CentOS 5?

2008-12-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm trying to install Review Board (http://review-board.org) with python-setup tools and sudo easy_install ReviewBoard, but this fails as follows: easy_install ReviewBoard Searching for ReviewBoard Best match: ReviewBoard 0.9.dev-20081202 Processing ReviewBoard-0.9.dev_20081202-py2.4.egg

[CentOS] Issue with package-cleanup --oldkernels with PAE kernel

2009-01-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm not sure if this is a bug, known issue, feature, etc. On my CentOS systems with the PAE kernel installed, package-cleanup behaves as follows: # rpm -q kernel package kernel is not installed # rpm -q kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5

[CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
What is the best way to get the RPM described in the following URL installed on CentOS 5.2: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0586.html I have users who can't run cron jobs because their home directories are NFS mounted, and I believe installing this RPM would fix the problem. I

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:49, Ned Slider wrote: I've rebuilt most of the upstream fastrack packages for CentOS-5.2 here: http://centos.toracat.org/ned/CentOS-5/testing/ Usual disclaimers apply - provided as is, and use at your own risk. Great, I grabbed a copy but will probably not

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Vim command (or macro) to replace space under cursor by nbsp; (without deleting the following word)

2009-10-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:34, Niki Kovacs wrote: Here's what the according macro would look like. Pressing F2 would replace the space under the cursor by nbsp; : :map F2 cwnbsp;ESC ... except this also deletes the word after the cursor, which is annoying. Any suggestions ? Have you tried

[CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
I have a file which contains non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accented characters, etc.) both in its filename as well as its content. The only way I have been able to see these characters is inside vim, where they are displayed correctly no matter what I have LANG set to. My default LANG

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:45, Niki Kovacs wrote: The 'file' command displays encoding information. If you have to change the encoding, use 'recode'. Example : Thanks for the quick response, Niki, but I don't need to change the encoding (at least I don't think I do). I just want ls to show me

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:51, Niki Kovacs wrote: [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch Fichier encodé en français [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh [kikino...@babasse:~] $ ls F* W* Fichier encodé en français Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh To be honest, I don't even

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-27 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 27, 2009, at 13:40, Niki Kovacs wrote: I vaguely remember Mac uses UTF-16 as default encoding. This could be the source of your problem. Forget I said anything about the Mac; I'm only using it to write these emails. The file in question was completely created on Linux. The

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-28 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 27, 2009, at 19:28, ken wrote: E.g., create a file with vi with just one German/Greek/French word, say, Έντελέχεια (Entylecheia, an ancient Greek word). If the name of the file is nonenglish, then, after you do your save in vim, run the shell commands touch temp; mv temp

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

2009-10-28 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:59, Mogens Kjaer wrote: If your locale is UTF8, íéèæøå would be multibyte characters. If your characters are one byte only, they are not UTF-8. That was the key: the file was not UTF-8. vim knows how to handle this correctly: Yes, it apparently does. It almost

[CentOS] Intermittent NFS problems with NetApp server

2009-03-11 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been experiencing some intermittent problems accessing at NetApp server via NFS and automount. I'm running CentOS 5.2 (fully updated) on all my servers and workstations. Usually, everything is working just fine, when suddenly we get the following error: /bin/sh:

Re: [CentOS] sorting a file

2009-04-03 Thread Alfred von Campe
I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ? I always solve a problem like this with a small Perl script. It

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead. I put whatever version of the driver I want to deploy (currently NVIDIA- Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run) in a network accessible location and create a link named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest to it. The script then handles the rest. Alfred

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:35, William L. Maltby wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. If the system load is high and memory is short, you may be getting into a swap situation. I suggest trying the test when the system is lightly loaded to see if the results

[CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
Does anyone have remote desktop connectivity working in CentOS 5.3? I'm using the Gnome desktop and have configured the Remote Deskop Preferences to Allow other users to view your desktop and Allow other users to control your desktop. The configuration dialog box says that Users can view

[CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly after the partitions

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
How long does it hang? CentOS 5.x takes much longer to get to the point where it is installing packages than 4.x, probably a good 3-4 minutes more, perhaps longer if your mirror is over a WAN connection, my mirror is on the local LAN and it does take a long time as well though it always

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-15 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote: hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the

[CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. Everything works fine when connected to the network. However, removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes minutes to complete. For instance, starting a new Terminal window takes over 3 minutes. I

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:01, Phil Schaffner wrote: You could do service network stop on the CentOS VM when not on the network, or if you need networking between the VM and the hosts, configure for hostonly networking. I guess I should have mentioned that my user wants to access the files in

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:38, Geoff Galitz wrote: Are you running VMWare Workstation or Server? VMware Workstation. I am running VMWare Workstation under MS Vista with a bunch of Centos guest VMs. I noticed that when my Vista host network connection changes state (becomes unavailable or

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:58, JohnS wrote: Open a terminal window and type cat /etc/hosts and post it. # cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 139.68.198.200

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:03, Brian Mathis wrote: This is a classic sign of DNS query timeouts. When you are connected to the network the system is making DNS queries which respond quickly. When you are not connected, the host makes DNS queries and waits for a response. The timeout is a

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:30, Renato de Oliveira Diogo wrote: The fm1185.bose.com is hostname of the host, correct? Try put: === 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fm1185.bose.com No, it's the name of the Windows XP machine where the VM is running. I always remove the hostname

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:36, JohnS wrote: ::1 line Put it back and have a go at it. I took it out because it was slow. I'll put it back in, but don't think it will make a difference. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Another system with no sound

2011-05-09 Thread Alfred von Campe
I am also having an issue with no sound on some CentOS desktop systems. I manage about 3 dozen desktops. These are all Lenovo ThinkCentre systems of varying vintages, but there are only 2 distinct sound controllers among all of them: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8

Re: [CentOS] Another system with no sound

2011-05-09 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 9, 2011, at 10:30, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Have you compared /etc/modprobe.conf? I had not, but on these two systems they are identical: alias eth0 tg3 alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 remove

[CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate the installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.cfg file generated by the manual install. However, I can't wrap my

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 17:30, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Is you network card even loaded when you type ifconfig -a in the $hell? Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. I'm away from the system now, so I can't post the output if ifconfig now, but basically I did a

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: If you mean during the install, add --activate to your kickstart file's network ... line. That's good to know for the near future when I will be tweaking my existing kickstart files. If you mean after the install, what's the output of chkconfig --list

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: If you mean after the install, what's the output of chkconfig --list NetworkManager, chkconfig --list network, and your NIC's ifcfg-X? I ended up re-installing the system from DVD this morning (don't have my kickstart server set up yet), and this time I

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:58, Lisandro Grullon wrote: In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual card that have the connections That's my point, I only have one NIC (it's a desktop system) yet NM created two config files, one with ONBOOT=no and the other with ONBOOT=yes.

[CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

2011-08-25 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've updated my kickstart configuration files to work with CentOS 6 and am most of the way there integrating a CentOS 6 system into our LDAP/NIS environment. My authconfig line in the kickstart file is as follows: authconfig --enablemd5 --passalgo=sha512 --enablenis --nisdomain=XXX

Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

2011-08-26 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:18, Steven Crothers wrote: Are they logging in locally or via SSH? Locally. Remote logins via ssh work just fine as the home directory is auto-mounted and ssh can find its keys. I think I solved the problem, but am out of the office today to fully test it. It involved

[CentOS] Error installing latest CentOS kernel from %post section of kickstart

2011-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm running the command yum -y update from a script called from the the post section of my kickstart config file, and I get the following error: Installing : kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686 185/378 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template After the

Re: [CentOS] Error installing latest CentOS kernel from %post section of kickstart

2011-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 31, 2011, at 14:58, Ned Slider wrote: Yes, it's a known issue: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2011-January/msg6.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257 Thanks, the workarounds described in the

Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

2011-08-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:26, I wrote: I think I solved the problem, but am out of the office today to fully test it. It involved setting the default realm and adding some encryption types to the /etc/krb5.conf file. What I still don't understand is what has changed in CentOS 6 that causes a

[CentOS] Samba issue accessing shares by IP address

2010-10-12 Thread Alfred von Campe
We have a strange issue with Samba shares on our CentOS 5.5 systems in that we can access the shares by name, but not by IP address. First a little background. Recently, our domain controllers were upgraded and I had to tweak the smb.conf file by changing security from DOMAIN to ADS and

Re: [CentOS] No last command in VIM?

2010-10-21 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Oct 21, 2010, at 13:42, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'll file a bug if needed and someone confirms. It's not a bug: /bin/vi is supplied by the vim-minimal package and /usr/bin/vim is supplied by vim-ehnabced. Just alias vi to vim and you should be all set. Alfred

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