Re: [CentOS] parallel bash scripts

2012-03-28 Thread Ali Corbin
I solved a similar problem by installing gnu parallel on my system. It did everything that I wanted, and better than I would have coded. Ali On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Check out the redirection at the end of each command. 12 redirects the standard

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - problem with kernel/process: task blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-04-11 Thread Ali Corbin
We've been having the same problem on centos 5.8, with a 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 kernel. It locked up twice and became unresponsive and had to be rebooted. After it came back up we discovered a number of instances of the 'task blocked' message - happening several times a day. We reflashed the raid

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Ali Corbin
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.comwrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:52:18 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: My previous box, Fedora 7 used Xorg but I can't find the Xorg.conf file for 6.3. All I've found so far is an empty directory. It's set automatically based

Re: [CentOS] Yum update without internet connection

2012-11-19 Thread Ali Corbin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.comwrote: I usually use a Desktop option when installing a new machine. This gives me all I need for an X session and then I add other packages or grouplists on an as-needed basis. I'm putting together a couple of machines

Re: [CentOS] NTOP 5.0.2 el6 src rpm

2012-12-06 Thread Ali Corbin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: Hello, Anybody have the above. I haven't been able to locate it via google, Thanks, -- Stephen Clark http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Neither rpmfind nor pbone show a 5.0-2 that was built for el6.

Re: [CentOS] How to extract one file from rpm using yum?

2013-02-01 Thread Ali Corbin
The command line way of getting 1 file out of a rpm is to rpm2cpio. rpm2cpio rpmfilename filename.cpio Now you have a cpio archive which you can use to get files out of. Or: rpm2cpio rpmfilename | cpio -idv And one more: To extract a single file from a package rpm2cpio

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-07-18 Thread Ali Corbin
When that happened to me it was because I'd gotten paranoid and put a password on my phone. Which then, as a security measure, refused to mount itself on my PC. Ali On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Rock rocksock...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:55:47 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:

Re: [CentOS] attempting to create directory /root/perl5

2014-07-28 Thread Ali Corbin
I'm not seeing that on my system. Assuming that your bash rpm verifies (meaning that nothing has modified the bash startup scripts), my best guess would be that some package has dropped a file into /etc/profile.d that creates the directory. Finding that file would be a first step on figuring out

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and android connectivity (Nook)

2014-07-29 Thread Ali Corbin
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:38 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, I got my wife a Nook for her b'day. I just plugged it into my system, CentOS 6.5, and what I see is /media/NOOK, and it shows 257k or so - yes, k, not m or g. It's *not* seeing any directories, etc, and the small thing I'm guessing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and android connectivity (Nook)

2014-07-30 Thread Ali Corbin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote: Ali Corbin wrote: I gave up on mtp after a while and now just adb push the files over. It's not as user friendly, but it's a whole lot quicker. How exactly do you do this? -- Timothy Murphy I installed the android

Re: [CentOS] AWOL rpm

2015-03-24 Thread Ali Corbin
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:56:29AM -0700, Ali Corbin wrote: This morning I was showing a co-worker how to upgrade glibc. And he found that yum wouldn't give him glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.i386.rpm. So I browsed

[CentOS] AWOL rpm

2015-03-24 Thread Ali Corbin
About a month ago I did an upgrade of glibc on one of our test centos5 systems. And yum happily gave me about 8 packages, including both bitted-nesses of glibc-common. This morning I was showing a co-worker how to upgrade glibc. And he found that yum wouldn't give him