Re: [CentOS] gtk3 update causing havoc

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:04:14 -0500 Paul Johnson wrote: > The bad problem I see now is that Emacs and Chromium-browser, which > rely on gtk3 don't work properly anymore. In Emacs, the symptom is > that the ribbon of buttons under the pull down menu will no longer > show. In Chromium, the

Re: [CentOS] Apache Compression

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:41:51 -0500 Matt wrote: > I have a centos 7 install with apache running. How do I get apache to > use gzip compression on html and text based content? I don't know how definitive it is, but this is what I use here: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text

Re: [CentOS] Notice: Check your tuned settings for a performance boost.

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:00:38 -0500 Jon Pruente wrote: > Does virt-what give you any output? [root@mutt frankcox]# virt-what [root@mutt frankcox]# -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Notice: Check your tuned settings for a performance boost.

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:04:58 -0700 Jim Perrin wrote: > Yes. This command will drop an 'active-profile' file in /etc/tuned that > will be used and survive reboots, kernel updates, etc. [root@mutt frankcox]# tuned-adm active Current active profile: virtual-guest ??? This is my main desktop

Re: [CentOS] Block internet access for some users on the LAN ?

2017-09-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:05:24 -0700 Kenneth Porter wrote: > > all it takes is one kid, who then shares his 'trick' with other kids, and > > blam. > > Hire that kid to be head of security. :D Only if he has a degree in music composition. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:40:52 + Richard wrote: > The mate-gtk2/3 issue effects windows/menus/scrollbars and the like, > not the login screen. See: > > > > for that issue. I switched to the Adwaita theme, as suggested there.

Re: [CentOS] Cups driver

2017-09-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:19:10 -0400 H wrote: > I recently bought a Brother HL-L2360DW printer, a BW printer, and I was > hoping the printer properties settings GUI could be used to adjust how colors > are printed. That would probably be easier to do with some sort of a pre-processor before you

[CentOS] zenity issue with latest Centos 7 update

2017-09-15 Thread Frank Cox
zenity --width 800 --entry The window width comes out at 800 as expected, but the bar to type your entry into extends only about 1/4 of the way across the window, instead of all the way across like it did before I did the v1708 update. I'm using Centos 7 with Mate. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~

Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

2017-01-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:51:08 -0500 Jerry Geis wrote: > However if I run the command using a shell script on a machine its not > working. > So in my script I have: > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > /usr/bin/import -silent -window root screen.png Does the machine you're running the shell script on have an

Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

2017-01-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:45:46 -0500 fred roller wrote: > > -window root > > > Just curious, are you running as root? In that context -window root means the root window, i.e. your desktop. Nothing to do with the root user. See this for clarification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window

Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

2017-01-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:18:42 -0500 Jerry Geis wrote: Centos 7/Mate import -silent -window root screen.png I got a screenshot showing my current desktop. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Ghostscript update?

2017-01-10 Thread Frank Cox
Has the issue with the last ghostscript update been resolved? I temporarily added ghostcript to the excludes line in my yum.conf to prevent problems and haven't seen any more mention of it here. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Reliable way of having both LAN and WIFI on headless box

2017-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 16:05:16 + Gary Stainburn wrote: > However, the WIFI > link is unreliable. Sometimes it doesn't activate, or after a while > de-activates. Sometimes it doesn't even appear in nmtui to enable me to > activate it. That sounds like a weak signal from your wifi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage

2017-01-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:17:15 -0500 TE Dukes wrote: > I was looking at the QNAP 451+ I have a Qnap 251 that works fine as a nfs backup server. I figure that it probably uses less power than something I put together myself. I just use it as a nfs server. It can do a ton of other stuff that I

[CentOS] C7 Mate - files suddenly moved back onto desktop

2016-12-25 Thread Frank Cox
My wife sometimes puts files on her desktop to work with them, then cut-and-pastes the file to put it into a folder when she's done. This morning she has seven files on her desktop that she has worked on over the course of the past week. They have suddenly, overnight, moved out of the folders

Re: [CentOS] OT - hardware - firmware update .iso to flash drive?

2016-12-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:18:46 -0500 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Ah! Thanks. Still, any idea if it'll just boot (it's a Dell R720)? Have you considered trying? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] PulseAudio is streaming with an excessive latency.

2016-12-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:40:33 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Is it telling me something I should worry about? You have never installed anything from nux before and it wants to give you the gpg key for that repo. That's normal behaviour. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] libgme drive-by exploit.

2016-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:12:31 -0500 Lamar Owen wrote: > While this is tailored to Fedora 25 (with Chrome) and Ubuntu 16.04, in > checking my CentOS 7 system I find that it is not vulnerable simply > because it doesn't have the libgme used by gstreamer-plugins-bad to make > it work. rpm -q

Re: [CentOS] OT: Blank mails from this list

2016-12-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:03:53 + Sorin Srbu wrote: I haven't seen what you describe myself. > I use Outlook 2013 32b on Win7 x64. > Our work mail server at work is Exchange. Does Outlook 2013 allow you to "View Message Source"? If so, see what's actually there. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real

Re: [CentOS] 7.3 sources ???

2016-12-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:36:03 -0800 Alice Wonder wrote: > Looking at http://vault.centos.org/ and not seeing them. 7.3 is current, so check your friendly local mirror. The same place you download your updated from. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing centos 6.8

2016-12-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 12:46:11 -0700 Emma M Birath wrote: > > I proceeded to set up a new VM, selecting Linux / RedHat 64 bit. I > > selected the DVD1 iso file above as "IDE Primary Master" and the DVD2 > > as "IDE Secondary Master". I have personally always had the best luck by installing the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, PS-2 moose

2016-12-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 12:28:45 -0500 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > (so *please* don't tell me to tell him to get a new mouse). If it's not recognized for some reason, then the solution is to get him a new mouse. I know that's not what you want to hear, but there are numerous multi-button mice

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 23:33:56 -0600 Dipal Bhatt wrote: > But, yes, there's > no way to update the 6.3 to 6.8 as I repeatedly mentioned which is the only > requirement/constraint. It occurs to me to ask what you consider to be version 6.3. If you update any of the rpms to the 6.8 version you are

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 22:33:22 -0600 Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Simply updating these packages on 6.3, would there be any issues w/o > updating rest of the packages from 6.3 to 6.8? I suppose you could try it and see what happens. That comes with a two-part warranty: If it breaks, you own both

Re: [CentOS] Need help getting two NICs to work on CentOS 7

2016-11-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 02:00:24 -0500 Sean Son wrote: > When I ping the VM, the first NIC's IP is > not pingable at all, but the second NIC's IP is pingable. How do I > configure the networking so that both IPs are pingable and the VM is > reachable via both IPs? The last time I did that I did it

Re: [CentOS] fprintd needed?

2016-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:36:00 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Without a fingerprint device, is this software needed. I have removed it on all of my systems and never noticed any issues. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] CentOS repo issue

2016-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:48:35 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Could not resolve host DNS lookups are working? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Download Centos 7.2 64 bit

2016-11-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:15:59 +0530 JEYARAJ wrote: How to download the Centos 7.2 64 bit.. > > If you see anyone please send me the link. Urgent. https://www.centos.org/download/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Stupid vim question

2016-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:39:03 -0700 Alice Wonder wrote: > How do I get it to stop doing that? http://superuser.com/questions/278442/how-to-make-vim-not-fold-everything-automatically -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild question

2016-10-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:07:43 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm trying to build it in /root/rpmbuild. Don't do that. Install rpmdevtools so you build it under your home directory and avoid blowing up your system if there's an error. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] Database Modeling Tools

2016-10-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:03:41 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > Modeling is a database design > tool, typically letting you design your table relations via a GUI tool, Gosh, I never knew such things existed. I guess I've never done anything sufficiently complex that I would need a tool like that.

Re: [CentOS] Database Modeling Tools

2016-10-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:38:32 -0400 H wrote: > I am looking for an open-source database modeling tool, ideally to run under > both CentOS and Windows. I have not used any such tool before so I would like > to solicit suggestions. I don't know what the difference is between database modelling and

Re: [CentOS] Sound problem, possibly Mate Volume Control

2016-10-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:49:53 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > Any clues? Is it possible that the Connector setting under the Output tab is wrong? The volume control might be controlling the volume on an unused output. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install extras "centos-release-scl" "epel-release"

2016-10-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:09:21 -0400 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > What am I missing? Probably the fact that both of those repos are available for x86_64 only. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI

2016-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:52:22 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > > It's called "Disks" and is in the menu Applications - Utilities. > > yes, I have that too, and it works. But I don't know if it is a Mate > utility, or a Gnome utility. it isn't obvious to me. You can load it from the command line as

Re: [CentOS] Using keepass on Centos 6

2016-09-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:30:43 -0400 H wrote: > what other password managers are people using, if any? I personally use revelation. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME settings

2016-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 19:57:01 +0100 Liam O'Toole wrote: > In the case of RHEL 5 and 6 the former way is recommended[1]. I don't > know whether that advice has changed with RHEL 7. hostnamectl set-hostname whateveryourhostnameshouldbe -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: files now owned by nobody:nobody

2016-08-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:59:31 -0400 Pat Haley wrote: > We noticed that all the files were owned by nobody Here are my notes for dealing with this issue: If all users come up as nobody on a nfs mount: Add nfs server name to the Domain = line in /etc/idmapd.conf on both the server and the

Re: [CentOS] Fail on start x server

2016-08-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:19:25 + Edwin Agudelo wrote: > Good Day. > > I install workstation, development station. What happens if you boot the Live Image from CD or USB? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded

2016-08-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:13:51 +0100 isdtor wrote: > Nux! writes: > > Hm, this is bad. I was relying on this feature heavily. > > Let's see if there is a fix. I don't imagine RH will care about this on > > EL6, but maybe MATE guys could help. > > The code for the respective applets is quite

Re: [CentOS] how to find recently installed font packages

2016-08-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:47:06 -0500 geo.inbox.ignored wrote: > how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to make note > of what i was adding? /var/log/yum.log -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Sound failure in CentOS 6.8

2016-08-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:55:50 -0700 j_post wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2016 13:50:25 Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:39:29 -0700 > > > > j_post wrote: > > > Sound stopped working on my CentOS 6.8 system several months ago. > > > > alsamixer

Re: [CentOS] Sound failure in CentOS 6.8

2016-08-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:39:29 -0700 j_post wrote: > Sound stopped working on my CentOS 6.8 system several months ago. alsamixer may tell you something useful. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Canon scanner LiDE 220

2016-08-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:58:54 +0100 J Martin Rushton wrote: > I tried a "brute-force" Fedora install, but the > dependency hell soon persuaded me of the error of my ways! Compile the Fedora source rpm on your Centos system and see what happens. Don't just blindly install the Fedora binary. --

Re: [CentOS] Canon scanner LiDE 220

2016-08-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 21:17:58 +0100 J Martin Rushton wrote: > This scanner is supported according to the SANE page, but doesn't work > on my up-to-date C7 system (updated 20 minutes ago). The Canon web site > is as expected - as useful as a chocolate tea pot. > > Has anyone managed to get this

Re: [CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

2016-08-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:19:15 -0500 (CDT) Valeri Galtsev wrote: > This involves a person sitting with open web browser and clicking mouse. I > need to do it for a few webpages once a day, as they change daily. I > prefer to once spend time on making cron job, and forget about it forever. > Hence I

Re: [CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

2016-08-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:46:42 -0500 (CDT) Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command line > on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot of webpage? wget? httrack? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Single source repo, producing packages for CentOS 6 and 7, how?

2016-08-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:31:17 -0400 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > How are you guys managing this? I mean, I would like to have 1 single > source and 1 SPEC file for both CentOS 6 and 7, but no need to systemd > service files on 6 / no need to upstart job files on 7.

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse rpms

2016-08-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:30:33 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Of course, the next question is: Is it possible to install Eclipse in a > way that doesn't require users to run "scl enable devtoolset-4 bash" in > a terminal? Option 1: Write a little bash script that contains that command. Name it

Re: [CentOS] how to build rpm

2016-07-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:12:51 +0800 (CST) qw wrote: > For software development, projects are built through makefile. After > building, I can run binary program. rpm is more convenient. Is there some > tool that can build rpm? There are numerous articles that can be found through google that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7 Screen black after boot

2016-07-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:16:23 +1000 Venkata Balaji N wrote: > i left the system locked overnight. What are you using to lock the screen? Some of the screensavers can be bad news on certain video cards (as I've learned the hard way) and can cause just exactly that to happen. In that case, the

Re: [CentOS] netbook screen suddenly goes black

2016-06-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:10:24 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > I'm running an up to date Centos-7 on my Acer Aspire One netbook. have > been for, well, ever since C7 was released. I'm typing this on my Acer Aspire One netbook running Centos 7. > What happens is that suddenly while working away on the

Re: [CentOS] Today's firefox update

2016-06-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 07:32:19 +0100 Ned Slider wrote: > > Johnny's announcement refers to: > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el5.centos.src.rpm > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm > > > > The linked rhel webpage refers to: > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm > >

[CentOS] Today's firefox update

2016-06-16 Thread Frank Cox
Johnny's announcement refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm The linked rhel webpage refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm These do not appear to be

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: > Yes, but doesn't help ... > the same before ... > > by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, > and that the "timeout"-mirrors from US are the fastest; yum -disableplugin=fastestmirror nowseewhathappens. -- MELVILLE

Re: [CentOS] firewall-config not functional

2016-06-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:20:23 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Um, huh? ssh server;service network restart is certainly faster than a > reboot. By what magical incantation will you ssh into a server with no current network connection? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, nfsdcltrack

2016-06-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:17:28 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > nfsdcltrack[39406]: sqlite_insert_client: insert > statement prepare failed: table clients has 2 columns but 3 values were > supplied > > Anyone got any ideas as to a) why this is happening, and b) what I can do > about it?

Re: [CentOS] vnc on C7

2016-06-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:04:28 -0400 Jerry Geis wrote: > I am using the MATE desktop if that makes a difference. Here are my notes for getting vnc to work on Centos 7 with mate: VNCSERVER SETUP To start vncserver: systemctl start vncserver@1:service to kill and restart the vnc server as a user:

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM requirement for CentOS 6.x graphic installer?

2016-06-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:36:51 +0200 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS > 6.x graphic installer? https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, container question

2016-05-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 May 2016 14:43:31 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Isn't VB a VM? Yes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, container question

2016-05-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 May 2016 10:51:57 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >We would like to run a container on a server, the reason being the COST > of a Sybase license (it's by core), and what we can afford is a 4-core > license. Now, the server's a nice Dell w/ 32 cores, so, ideally, what > we want to do

Re: [CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 May 2016 13:32:36 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > ( rpm -qa --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n' | sort | diff --old-line-format='install % > L' --new-line-format='remove %L' -unchanged-line-format='' list.txt - ; echo > run ) | yum shell This looks pretty much like what I had in mind. Great!

Re: [CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:17:10 +0100 James Hogarth wrote: > Well if you're planning on doing a yum update anyway just cat rpmlist | > xargs yum -y install That wouldn't remove the unneeded packages on the second system. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 May 2016 09:30:54 +0100 James Hogarth wrote: > And of course as will be pointed out by many the only right answer is yum > update anyway given cherry picking updates is not supported. The objective is not to cherry pick updates, but rather to install a second system with packages

[CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Frank Cox
Given a list of rpms on one system (rpm -qa > list.txt), is there a one-shot command that I can run on another system to remove all of the rpms not listed and add any that are on the list and not present on the second system? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] google cloud compute with PEM file

2016-05-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 May 2016 14:34:03 -0600 Dustin Kempter wrote: > Enter passphrase for key '/home/test1/my-key.txt': Since your private key is encrypted, have you entered the passphrase for the private key when asked at this point in the login? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] google cloud compute with PEM file

2016-05-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:59:18 -0600 Dustin Kempter wrote: > Is there something I missed? ssh -v serveryouwanttoconnectto That will tell you what the problem is. If you don't understand the output, post it here. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Re Centos 7.2 Repos

2016-05-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 16 May 2016 23:05:37 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > I am having a terrible time installing multi media tools > like smplayer (which requires mplayer), which is not avaiable > from the centos repos. > I have installed epel.repo which containa the epel-release repo info > for yum Have you also

Re: [CentOS] C7 Desktop background

2016-05-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:29:52 +1200 Rob Kampen wrote: > Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged > out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background > that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all the > open windows. It's a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and 4K display

2016-05-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 5 May 2016 19:05:00 +0100 (BST) Nux! wrote: > I believe there is no support for 4K in MATE yet My monitor runs at 2560x1440 with Centos 7 and Mate. I have to use the displayport connection between the computer and the monitor to make it work, though. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D

Re: [CentOS] C6 Firefox 45.1 segmentation faults

2016-05-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2 May 2016 20:44:25 +0100 (BST) Nux! wrote: > This consistently crashes it, for testing: > http://dl.nux.ro/video/Organshiftpregnancy.mp4 On a fully updated Centos 7 installation, firefox tells me "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt." VLC plays the video, but there is no

Re: [CentOS] new firefox upgrade, then crash

2016-04-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:11:51 -0400 ken wrote: > Earlier today I upgrade firefox, closed the old version, opened the new, > and first it froze-- displayed a message about a script running and > asking me if I wanted to stop it; I said no to let it run-- then it > crashed and disappeared. And

Re: [CentOS] where, if at all, is my virtual printer output?

2016-04-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:57:31 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Now there are two virtual printers, > one named Cups-PDF Out of the box, cups-pdf creates a pdf and puts it on your desktop. You can configure that with /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema

Re: [CentOS] meminfo

2016-04-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:26:21 -0700 Hadi Motamedi wrote: > Can you please let me know how can I check for the instantaneous > occupied amount of my RAM the similar way the task manager shows it on > my Win server ? vmstat -s -S M | grep mem -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

2016-04-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 12:08:45 +0800 Chandran Manikandan wrote: > Should i need to run above command in home directory or root. The command that he gave you will work from any directory. The / means start from the root directory so where you are when you run it is irrelevant. -- MELVILLE

Re: [CentOS] Centos7: Mount problem (Unit mnt-bk\x2dbenvet\x2d01.mount is bound to inactive unit dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-bk\x2dbenvet\x2d01.device. Stopping, too.

2016-04-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 01:58:42 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > Please, someone can help me to resolve this systemd issue? systemctl reset-failed -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Yum update issues

2016-03-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:31:59 +1100 John Cenile wrote: > When running yum update on a few of our servers, we get the following > errors: It appears that you're not running Centos, but rather Cloudlinux. Have you checked with their technical support? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:52:12 -0600 (CST) Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left, > > some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and I > > forget what else. > > In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you

Re: [CentOS] no gnome-applets in C7.2

2016-03-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:16:55 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: > No, many before you have similarly bemoaned the changes made during the > transition from GNOME 2 to 3. You can also look at Mate, which is basically Gnome 2 (what you have on Centos 6 and earlier) but updated to work on Centos 7.

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of geany editor

2016-03-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 21:14:01 +0100 H wrote: > Frank, I am working on trying to get the geany plugin library to work > but have run into a problem because the file geany.pc is not found. My > understanding from the geany list is that it should have been installed. > > It does not seem to have

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of geany editor

2016-03-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 21:14:01 +0100 H wrote: > Frank, I am working on trying to get the geany plugin library to work > but have run into a problem because the file geany.pc is not found. My > understanding from the geany list is that it should have been installed. > > It does not seem to have

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

2016-02-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:30:44 +0100 H wrote: > I initially downloaded geany 1.24 from the EPEL repository but now > wanted to install the plugin package which is not in EPEL. I visited > your webpage , downloaded the Centos 6 x86_64 version of both geany 1.26 > and the and lib-geany, which I

Re: [CentOS] Changing default file type in Centos 6

2016-02-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 16:33:00 -0500 H wrote: > No, that I already did. I am talking about the file type when you open a > graphical directory window. I'm missing something here. Do you mean that you want to change icon that shows up in a Nautilus window for a particular filetype? -- MELVILLE

Re: [CentOS] Changing default file type in Centos 6

2016-02-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:38:09 +0100 H wrote: > It turns out my markdown files - extension .md - are of the "Genesis > ROM" file type in Centos 6. Googling did not turn up any obvious places > to change this in Gnome - neither in my local directory or in /etc/gnome. > > Where would I be able to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 SELinux issue

2016-02-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:28:33 -0800 Alice Wonder wrote: > I don't ordinarily run SELinux and do not have it enabled. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/selinux/2012-May/014626.html QUOTE: Turns out you get the "Could not downgrade policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24" error

Re: [CentOS] Alternative IP addresses

2016-02-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:15:43 + Timothy Murphy wrote: > > you could run split DNS, so on your LAN, mydomain.com is 192.168.x.x > > while on the internet, mydomain.com is the actual IP address. > > I'd rather not run a DNS server on my machine. > I tried this some years ago, and ran into

Re: [CentOS] zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500 ken wrote: > Contact zenity devels at > https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show=Zenity > > about this??? Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be, a quick method for gathering input and presenting output from

Re: [CentOS] zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:57:25 -0500 ken wrote: > Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created > window larger? This property doesn't seem to be configurable in any > way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode.

Re: [CentOS] rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:55:16 -0500 ken wrote: > > gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity. > > > > That's nutz. From docs I've seen, gmessage is way more flexible and > featured. It doesn't appear that way to me, but what do I know. I just use zenity for my own bash scripts and

Re: [CentOS] rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:39 -0500 ken wrote: > Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right > repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know > where to find it? gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

2016-02-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:27:36 +0100 H wrote: > By the way, does geany allow you to edit files over an ssh connection > (fish protocol I believe)? Or would I need to first mount the remote > server using sshfs? http://www.geany.org/Documentation/FAQ#QQuestions10 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

2016-02-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:43:50 +0100 H wrote: > > You can find pre-compiled rpms for the latest version of geany for Centos 6 > > and 7 on my website if you want them. (The Centos 6 i386 rpm is two > > versions behind but the x86_64 version is up to date. I don't have easy > > access to an i386

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

2016-02-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:02:40 +0100 H wrote: > What do people use as a programming editor on CentOS 6? I personally use Geany and/or vim, depending on what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. You can find pre-compiled rpms for the latest version of geany for Centos 6 and 7 on my website if you

Re: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

2016-02-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:18:09 + (UTC) Tony Mountifield wrote: > killing the UEFI stuff stops you ever being able to do a re-install on that > box. Is that correct? Apparently so. > Is there no way to do a factory reset of the BIOS? Apparently not. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital

Re: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

2016-02-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:44:48 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > Did someone think running "rm -rf /" is a good idea? Quote from one of the people who commented on that article: QUOTE: You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/ Now, you have a bug in the script and ${DIRECTORY} is not

Re: [CentOS] system refuses to install monit.

2016-01-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:06:37 -0500 Jason Welsh wrote: > did a rpm -i of the file and that seems to install the file.. but why > will it not install with yum? Check /etc/yum.conf. You probably have that listed on an exclude line. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:05:02 -0500 Mark LaPierre wrote: > The main reason I'm still using, nearly obsolete, CentOS 6 is because I > don't want to have to deal with Gnome 3. Install Mate on Centos 7 and you never have to touch Gnome 3. I did, and my desktops don't look or work any different

Re: [CentOS] MATE question

2016-01-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 01:03:12 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > There is one minor nit left, perhaps you can suggest a solution: > the right-click menu on the desktop wallpaper used to have an entry for > "open in terminal" but it now doesn't. Any idea how to re-add it? yum install caja-open-terminal --

Re: [CentOS] MATE question

2016-01-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 22:22:23 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > they all installed fine, but now my desktop has a background, and top > and bottom panels and nothing else. right-click on the desktop produces > no context menu. add caja to startup applications if desktop icons are missing -- MELVILLE

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with MS Outlook winmail.dat on Linux mail server

2015-12-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:48:18 -0600 (CST) Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Does someone do anything on your Linux (or UNIX) mail servers to convert > darn proprietary MS Outlook winmail.dat attachments your users may receive > (occasionally if lucky) into readable e-mail format. I use tnef (from epel) --

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