[CentOS] OFF-TOPIC: Job opening in Marin County, California

2008-05-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
I'm feeling rather sheepish about adding to topic drift, but like Jim last week, I'm looking for a developer to work on either/both front-/back-end components of our LAMP (with P as in Perl) application. Compared to Jim, I can probably promise a little less abuse but just as many hours and as

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Carol Anne Ogdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the entire USENET and eMail list thing utterly antediluvian, and wicked hard to use. Often, I can only barely remember that *maybe* something relevant was discussed months ago, but is now relevant to my current

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Carol Anne Ogdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les Mikesell questioned, ...who would go there to post any answers? The answer is the same people who share here...and probably many more who find this sparse medium harder to navigate. I, for one, would be unlikely to

Re: [CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using x86_64, you should have no real problem with xfs on top of LVM, because the x86_64 kernel uses 8K stacks instead. Also, keep in mind that grub in centos doesn't play well with partitions larger than 2TB, so

[CentOS] Recommend an Amazon EC2 AMI for CentOS?

2008-06-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
I see one mention in the forums of someone using the CentOS5Web AMI, but I can't find anything about its provenance. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've fixed it by uploading a pdf instead of the original jpg, but I'd dearly like to know why firefox thought it should be scaled like that. Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work better on PDAs

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work better on PDAs and other small-screen devices. Firefox3 introduced automatic image scaling Before someone else corrects me: Yes, I just realized

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 - 5.2 Upgrade oddity

2008-06-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:56 AM, James B. Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yum upgrade -y yada yada yada then lots of errors like: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:173: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined I got the same thing, was going to write it up later tonight. Seems

Re: [CentOS] bcm43xx CentOS5

2008-07-17 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Michael Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have a BCM4306 pcmcia card (one of the later revisions) that i use to connect to my wpa2 wireless network. Wireless now works but is *real slow* just for internet access (like minutes for pages to load).

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

2008-07-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up - is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this? I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large resolutions. I had to switch to

Re: [CentOS] {SOLVED}Re: Yum Updates dependencies missing (rpmforge)

2010-12-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: From the time the problem began, it had to do with Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.68 is needed by package cinelerra-2.1-0.15.20070108.el5.rf.i386 (installed) However, cinelerra was *never* one of the

Re: [CentOS] How to strip out the title bar from xterm windows on CentOS 5 GNOME?

2010-12-17 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.  Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop.  Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace? The presence and appearance of title

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: All the recipes work perfectly - it's just those that fall off the end. For some reason it overrides the DEFAULT setting in procmailrc. I'm seeing messages from you about this on the procmail list as well so pardon

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote: LASTFOLDER is informational, procmail sets it immediately before delivering to that folder; if you see LASTFOLDER in your logs, the only way the message

Re: [CentOS] Problems with motherboard support? INTEL DP43BF

2010-12-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:04 AM, robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Everything runs fine but within less than 2 days of uptime the machine simply freezes (black console no connectivity).  This has happened more than one time so I'm considering to be a problem. What kind of CPU is

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:19 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: - begin snippet - while ($in) {    s/(\w*\W)/\L$1/g;         # Downcase XXX in XXX.    s/\/(\w*\W)/\/\L$1/g;     # Downcase XXX in /XXX. chomp; # Always remove the newline unless (/html/) { # Not on first

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
(Drat, keyboard glitch caused that to be sent before I was finished.) On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:19 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: - begin snippet - while ($in) {    s/(\w*\W)/\L$1/g;         # Downcase XXX in XXX.    s/\/(\w*\W)/\/\L$1/g;     # Downcase XXX in /XXX.

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
Oops again, typo:      s/^(^[])/\n$1/; Should be s/^([^])/\n$1/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:44 -0300 Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: How about running your app under 'screen', then fire up a second gnome-terminal and attach to it with 'screen -x'. Zoom in as desired with regular control-+

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: But the request was for something that would retain the same screen dimensions while changing the lines/columns. Actually I believe the request is for something that will retain the same lines/columns while varying the font

Re: [CentOS] yum difference

2011-01-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, derleader mail derlea...@abv.bg wrote: Yes it's free webmail. I don't understand what is broken in my web client? It doesn't appear to know how to create the special In-Reply-To: and/or References: headers that sophisticated email clients use to track

Re: [CentOS] dirty screen

2011-01-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Is there a command that marks the screen as dirty and hopefully redraws it? Look at the manual for the xrefresh command. Also check the documentation for your window manager or desktop (probably metacity) -- there may be

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:19 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Can you please let me know how can try for Internet connection sharing such that my centos machine can see internet with minor modifications done? I believe Steve Barnes has the right answer -- you need to

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-19 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 6/19/07, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wrt a firefox 2 (or thunderbird) install ... they are fairly trivial to do with the binaries produced by Mozilla.org. Just as a point of interest -- we have one person here who installed FF2 from the those tarballs on her CentOS 4 machine, and

[CentOS] Seeking pointers to info about LVM migration and performance

2007-07-06 Thread Bart Schaefer
We have a large MySQL database currently running on a CentOS 3.x server with an external SCSI RAID device. This is currently an ext2 filesystem because it was migrated once previously from an even older RedHat system. We need to add storage capacity to this database and prepare for additional

Re: [CentOS] Seeking pointers to info about LVM migration and performance

2007-07-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 7/6/07, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umount /dev/sdb1 tunefs -j /dev/sdb1 vi /etc/fstab(and, change ext2 to ext3 on the mount line for this filesystem) mount /dev/sdb1 and voila, its EXT3 now, with journalling. Thanks, John, but is that really the whole answer? Once it's

Re: [CentOS] Seeking pointers to info about LVM migration and performance

2007-07-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 7/7/07, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: - What kind of performance can we expect from an LVM group as compared to mounting the RAID array directly? OK, the answer to this question is ... RAID and LVM can be used together, or individually. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] Seeking pointers to info about LVM migration and performance

2007-07-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 7/8/07, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well ... if you are using hardware RAID, then striping LVM will likely not give you any benefit speed wise. (Unless multiple controllers are used and read/write can be done in parallel). The speed benefit happens if LVM can stripe the sectors

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5: Automounted USB disks eventually stop appearing on desktop

2007-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights. When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the desktop. I can right-click on this icon to eject the filesystem, etc. Eventually,

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

2007-08-31 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 8/31/07, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The are all SATA drives (2 HDDs and 2 optical drives). But because there are two controllers, one of the HDDs shows up as /dev/hda and the other as /dev/sda. If it's showing up as /dev/hda, it's probably being accessed in legacy IDE

[CentOS] CentOS 5 - base kernel vs. centosplus for XFS

2007-09-06 Thread Bart Schaefer
I notice that the same versions of kmod-xfs and xfsprogs etc. are in both the extras and centosplus repositories for centos5. Is there any particular reason to use the centosplus kernel if what I'm primarily interested in is XFS filesystem support? I presume that if I am using the plus kernel,

[CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
We have a single 3GHz P4 box w/2GB RAM running CentOS 3.8, acting as a gateway, which serves multiple IP address, having one virtual interface for each IP, e.g., eth0:1, eth0:2, etc. These interfaces/IPs are on the public internet. Each of these IP addresses is the NAT address for a different

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/8/07, Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked speed and duplex settings? All NICs on all machines involved report exactly the same: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok We've also checked ifconfig on all interfaces, and no errors, dropped packets, overruns, nor

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/9/07, Robert - elists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What switch is it? LinkSys Etherfast, a couple of years old now (I'd have to go to our colocation site to look in the cabinet to get the exact model). it's a plain dumb switch, no management interface. Evidentally, there much be a switch on

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/8/07, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the Internet interface reached it's max capacity? No. Or are you saying that LAN-to-LAN traffic maxs out at 10Mbps, it is a little vague. LAN-to-gateway traffic (e.g., a test FTP of a large file from the gateway to a machine on one

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/9/07, Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the speed of the link between you and the ISP? 100Mb/s. Do they have other customer sites that are set up the same way as yours that get significantly better performance? They don't have any other sites set up this way to compare.

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/9/07, Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is time for some kernel networking tuning. Add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf Thanks, will try. Question: Why does ip_local_port_range matter? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/9/07, David Hrbác( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how many connections are on the router (/proc/net/ip_conntrack) ? This is way off-peak time for us (middle of Sunday night PDT) so I suspect looking at this right now is not very useful, but: # cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l 15140 # cat

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/9/07, David Hrbác( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart Schaefer napsal(a): This is way off-peak time for us (middle of Sunday night PDT) so I suspect looking at this right now is not very useful, but: Please do report during peak and net issue time. We're having a spike right now. Doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/10/07, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/10/07, Guy Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On top of that, i'd say that a PC, with whatever processor you could put, is able to service a certain amount of interrupts / second. # cat /proc/interrupts Ok, so obviously just

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/10/07, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wireshark can process and display packet capture files from tcpdump -w capture a few megabytes of packets on the appropriate interface of the firewall, then transfer them to a workstation with Wireshark for analysis. OK, I've got some output

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about putting the file contents on pastebin and posting the link? Unfortunately there's customer data in there that I'm not at liberty to make public. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel like learning sed ;) I suspect I've been scripting sed since you were about 7 years old. :-) I don't think even recent GNU sed is going to handle tcpdump output very well. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )

2007-09-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/13/07, John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh I did not know rack mounted machines could be so noise. A few years ago we picked up a secondhand rack-mount server to use as a test platform. It had dual NICs, and as part of the testbed we were setting up, we needed to give each IP address a

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Rajeev R Veedu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. We recently installed CentOS 5 on a pair of machines with 2.5TB RAIDs and the only way we could

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant sector size there, not block. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition or not on C5

2007-09-25 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/25/07, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have installed C5 with/without a /boot partition, but having a /boot seems to be the safer bet. If / is LVM a /boot is required as GRUB doesn't seem to be able to deal with LVM My one experience with installing CentOS 5 with / on a USB drive

Re: [CentOS] Waking up X

2007-09-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/26/07, semi linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing CentOS 5 (again)... and I'm having trouble with my X config (I _think_). If I 'startx' then switch to a console (using CTRL+ALT+F*) and then back to X (CTRL+ALT+F7), 1/2 the time it comes back, the other half I get a

Re: [CentOS] too many links error when creating directories

2007-09-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/27/07, chitgoks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john yeah. a few images per directory (for now, maybe in the future more images). the directory name would point to the username. The traditional way to deal with this would be to split up the usernames alphabetically, e.g., make subdirectories of

[CentOS] Slightly OT: Building latest ImageMagick on CentOS 3

2007-10-06 Thread Bart Schaefer
I grabbed the latest ImageMagick.src.rpm (version 6.3.6, I believe) from imagemagic.org and verified that I can compile it by hand on CentOS 3. I then commented out all the BuildPrereq and BuildRequires lines and verified that rpmbuild -bc ImageMagick.spec behaved sensibly. However, when I try

Re: [CentOS] Strange sound/browser problem on Centos5

2007-10-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 10/8/07, fred smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when listening to nrk p2 (http://www.nrk.no/p2/) using Firefox, and when the small window for the player gets obscured by another window the sound stops playing. You don't say what application is used for the player but I believe this is an

Re: [CentOS] How to know when files have finished FTPing?

2007-11-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 11, 2007 3:34 PM, Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use proftpd it will upload the file under .in.filename and once the transfer has completed, the file is renamed to filename And of course you can ask the client to do this manually if the FTP server doesn't support doing it

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 12, 2007 9:58 PM, Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I go back to my CentOS SeaMonkey and clear the cache and the history. I'm not sure what else to do, though, because that didn't solve the problem, and Firefox is as slow as my SeaMonkey. Any suggestions? Are there

Re: [CentOS] Need advice on storage

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 13, 2007 8:03 AM, Ken Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used both the Promise UltraTrak SX8000 (8-disk RAID50) and UltraTrak SX4000 (4-disk Raid10). Performance was adequate, but I was using Dell PERC2/3 RAID cards. In testing, a plain-jane Adaptec SCSI card coupled with software

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 20, 2007 9:19 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create (at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and a larger

Re: [CentOS] CentOS /boot kernel files removed after rpm upgrades

2007-11-25 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 25, 2007 3:16 PM, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran a yum update on a centos 5 machine. [...] I checked /boot and it is now empty. Start by checking /var/cache/yum to see if the RPMs for your most recently installed kernel are still there. If they are, use rpm -ivh --oldpackage

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 28, 2007 7:23 AM, David G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now everything (sort of) just works (TM). I say sort of because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every time I've tried the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP. I've had a similar experience with my HP. Did

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - where to go from here?

2007-11-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 30, 2007 10:07 AM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote: Reboot with memtest86 (should be on the centos install media) and look for test failures. That was it! Replaced the failing memory, now OpenVPN has been up for ~16 hours. Glad to hear it. I

Re: [CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

2011-09-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote:     #!/bin/bash     whois -h whois.arin.net n + $1 Any particular reason you used a bash script as opposed to an alias in your bash config? My understanding of aliases is I can not include additional parameters

Re: [CentOS] replace multiple string

2011-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:47 AM, madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use a bash script that searches files and subdirectories name in a directory /var/ww/html/web for a specific string, and when it finds the search string, replaces the string (old1) with new string

Re: [CentOS] Pipes (fifos) not working in concurrently

2011-11-25 Thread Bart Schaefer
This really belongs on a shell list rather than the centos list, but: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Timothy Madden terminato...@gmail.com wrote: So I create 20 pipes in my script with `mkfifo´ and connect the read end of each one to a new wget process for that fifo. The write end of each

Re: [CentOS] Pipes (fifos) not working in concurrently

2011-11-25 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com wrote: Next you create wget #2, which (because it was forked from the parent shell) shares all the file descriptors that the shell had open to wget #1, e.g., including the input to the fifo.  Repeat for all the rest

Re: [CentOS] How can rpm %{SUMMARY} not be consistent?

2011-11-29 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane todd.dennis...@navy.mil wrote: Why does a number in a text string change based on LANG? There's a separate dictionary of translated text strings (called a catalog) for each language. Those translations are looked up

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and screenshot of website

2012-01-05 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Jani Ollikainen jani.ollikai...@mmd.net wrote: I'm just wondering what has been RedHat's idea of not supporting python with mozembed nor webkit and is there alternative that I don't know about. But based on first answers, maybe not. This is very likely why

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen

2012-01-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker than the rest of the desktop background.  It's easier to show than to

Re: [CentOS] Problem with procmail

2012-01-25 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wednesday, January 25, 2012, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I'm trying to setup email on a new server running CentOS-6.2 (x86_64), but for some reason email is going to /var/spool/mail/ despite the fact that my .procmailrc starts ---

[CentOS] Fwd: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem?

2012-02-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening, so I'm trying again. No clues? -- Forwarded message -- From: Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM Subject: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media

Re: [CentOS] Re: (Global/Any) setting for show hidden files? - SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8-26-2008 4:16 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: by changing the Subject line, and not retaining the reply-to context in the mailheaders, you end up creating a new thread each time. so can you not do that please ?

[CentOS] Kernel panic installing CentOS 5.2 in Parallels on iMac

2008-09-04 Thread Bart Schaefer
I'm unable to get much past the boot: prompt in the installer. The panic appears to be in powernowk8_init which according to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html has a recently-fixed null-pointer dereference. That errata is from August 4; the latest CentOS install ISOs are from June.

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic installing CentOS 5.2 in Parallels on iMac

2008-09-06 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The powernowk8 bug is in the CentOS-5.2 isos but apparently not in previous versions. So, one way to get around the problem is to use CentOS-5.1 install media and then update the kernel to the latest version which is free of

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:50 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: $ find / -iname *.jpg -or *.JPG Minor points that probably have no effect unless there's a *.jpg file in the current directory: use single, not double

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Chris Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Vandaman wrote: 1. Go to the eircom page or type abuse at eircom in google to get the web form. The form looks like it goes direct to their tech support, they responded very fast. Yes, but the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Fong Vang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying that the CentOS 4.x system is married with the 2.6.9 kernel? Maybe the packaging of the kernel RPM is different between 4.x and 5.x, but why would a 5.x kernel not work on a 4.x system, especially considering

[CentOS] Firefox3 for CentOS4 -- dependency on evolution28 packages?

2008-10-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
I'd been putting off installing the FX3 packages because of some extensions I use that don't have upgrades. [*] However, when FX1.5 crashed on me today I decided to finally go ahead. Fired up yum and I'm told I have to install a slew of evolution28 library packages in order to install the

Re: [CentOS] Firefox3 for CentOS4 -- dependency on evolution28 packages?

2008-10-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart: What version of CentOS are you running on that box? CentOS 4.7. Are you using GNOME? Yes. It appears that all the evolution28-* packages on which there is a dependency are related to the rendering engine (-pango,

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

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

Re: [CentOS] cpan2rpm

2008-10-26 Thread Bart Schaefer
This is a bit off-topic, but: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you use --no-depchk with this tool, does this actually turn off the dependency check in the final rpm as well? Reading docs about this I am not sure and I just installed an rpm

Re: [CentOS] mysql 4 5 export import issue

2008-10-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in other news, you dont need to dump + reload when you move from mysql-4 to mysql-5, just service mysqld stop; yum update mysql\*; /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade ; service mysqld start Theoretically true, but if you ask MySQL.com

[CentOS] Obtaining a newer Broadcomm (bcm43xx) driver for CentOS 5

2009-01-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP laptop -- in fact, the exact laptop described here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series Ever since I switched from SHARED to OPEN authentication (and hence from using ndiswrapper to the bcm43xx

Re: [CentOS] Obtaining a newer Broadcomm (bcm43xx) driver for CentOS 5

2009-01-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP Err, typo, that should say 2009-01-06. D'oh. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). One thing that's frequently missed is that the client SSH configuration might require that the

Re: [CentOS] Interupted Internet Service

2009-08-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ed Warneredwarne...@yahoo.com wrote: Everytime I see this in the logs my internet access stops for about 5 minutes. Nothing else follows in the logs. I have DSL. Any ideas? Aug 15 17:14:56 bonsai gconfd (root-6095): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 6095 user

Re: [CentOS] advice needed about 554 Too many recipients

2009-08-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Rudi Ahlersrudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: A client of ours just requested to increase the max_recipients in Exim to 300, since he keeps getting 554 Too many recipients error when sending a marketing email from MS Outlook. I would like to know, what are the

Re: [CentOS] Compiz window manager?

2009-08-19 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Toralf Lundtoralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: I forgot to mention that I have two monitors and use TwinView, though - perhaps the problem is related to that. Maybe I'll try with a single-screen setup later... There is a maximum framebuffer size with which compiz will

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Migration from Linux 7.2 to CentOS 5

2009-09-12 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of major benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) as we are going to migrate to it ? The major benefits of upgrading, as

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

2009-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: yes, it appears down from here in Omaha on cox.net.  Tried to also use that website that tests whether a 3rd party machine is up but it is NOT   http://downformeoreveryone.com/  because that is now a porn site! It's

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time.  After some period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos properly and I get long

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading Centos 5.3 - 5.4

2009-10-26 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Rohan Gilchrist ro...@gilchrist.me wrote: Still the same problems I'm afraid. I read the release notes and followed them to the letter. I'm now seeing: Finished Dependency Resolution lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems  -- Missing

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading Centos 5.3 - 5.4

2009-10-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
The mirrors that are being selected for you must not be fully up to date. I don't know why that would be the case, but from a not-yet-updated (actually still 5.2) system I get: Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge:

Re: [CentOS] format level 3 prompt

2009-11-18 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: what do you get with these: echo $PROMPT_COMMAND echo $PS1 Isn't Mike (the OP) asking about PS3 rather than PS1 ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Internet problem

2009-01-31 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:29 AM, kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks ! I am facing the following problems with internet on my acer aspire 2920 laptop running centos 5.2 ; whenever I launch mozilla firefox 3 beta 5 it takes at least one and a half hours Run a ping to some

[CentOS] Recover rpm DB corrupted by disk failure?

2009-02-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
Over the weekend my workstation (still on CentOS 3) started showing SMART errors, so we shut it down and moved everything onto a new drive. On reboot, the RPM database reports as corrupted and rpm --rebuilddb segmentation faults. Is there any reasonable way to recover from this, short of a

Re: [CentOS] Recover rpm DB corrupted by disk failure?

2009-02-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: You may be able to get things going again with the bdb recover script, /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover. I think this should be a berkeley DB recovery routine that is specific to the version being used by rpm. There doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Recover rpm DB corrupted by disk failure?

2009-02-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Check the contents of /var/log/rpmpkgs (and .1 .2 etc). Get all packages listed there into a single directory. cd to that directory and issue the command: rpm -ivh --noscripts --notriggers --justdb *.rpm to restore your

Re: [CentOS] Recover rpm DB corrupted by disk failure?

2009-02-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Check the contents of /var/log/rpmpkgs (and .1 .2 etc). Get all packages listed there into a single directory. cd to that directory and issue the command: rpm -ivh --noscripts --notriggers --justdb *.rpm to restore your

[CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot floppy. Any suggestions?

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-02 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 Sorry, thinko. I did of course mean HP. What are you planning to do with it? Give it to a child. (I still think the pop-out mouse on that Omnibook is far

Re: [CentOS] Wine

2009-03-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: I think CentOS and rpmforge do not have wine There are wine RPMs at http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/ -- but for some reason yum list wine is not finding it on the CentOS5 system to which I have

Re: [CentOS] Wine

2009-03-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Bart Schaefer wrote: There are wine RPMs at http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/ -- but for some reason yum list wine is not finding it on the CentOS5 system to which I have access, even

Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount VNC

2009-03-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Frank Thommen frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de wrote: I assume that with console you mean X11/desktop manager.  In this case Gnome or KDE handle the mounting of removable devices for you.  The automounter hasn't anything to do with it. Consequently the other

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