Re: [CentOS] After performing a reboot in VM (Virtualbox), log user on gnome not display the desktop.

2013-01-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-01-08, Rudinei Dias rudinei.d...@gmail.com wrote: After performing a reboot in VM (Virtualbox) which had been stopped, the User logs in but does not display the desktop leaving only the background image. The services are all active, can access and use the VM via ssh, but the Desktop

Re: [CentOS] Updating gtk2

2013-01-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-01-18, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:55:15 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: (...) Do I really need gtk2 running on a server anyway? Only if: 1) runlevel is 5 (for the GUI login) or you log into the console and then use

Re: [CentOS] GUI volume control/mixer in C6??

2013-02-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-02-24, Fred fred.fre...@gmail.com wrote: Just bringing up a Centos-6 (x86_64, FWIW) and I can't find the mixer app... on my C5 box(es), double click on the speaker icon in the top panel and I get a mixer app appears on the screen. My new C6 box doesn't do that. I've installed all the

Re: [CentOS] GUI volume control/mixer in C6??

2013-02-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
For a system running pulseaudio, the closest equivalent I can think of is pavucontrol. But CentOS doesn't ship it. I just use alsamixer. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.comwrote: On 2013-02-24, Fred fred.fre...@gmail.com wrote: Just bringing up a Centos-6

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

2013-03-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-03-13, Emmett Culley emm...@webengineer.com wrote: (...) So let's start again. Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init not tainted: 2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 After yum upgrade --enablerepo=epel on two of five machines, one of which is the host

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

2013-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-03-13, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: (...) On 03/13/2013 04:19 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2013-03-13, Emmett Culley emm...@webengineer.com wrote: (...) So let's start again. Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init not tainted: 2.6.32

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

2013-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-03-13, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: (...) On 03/13/2013 05:17 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/13/2013 04:19 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2013-03-13, Emmett Culley emm...@webengineer.com wrote: (...) So let's start again. Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

2013-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-03-14, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: (...) Maybe ... try this (everything done as root): Boot on a kernel that works and do this: 1. Backup you current initrd: cp -a /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64.img /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64.img.bak OK.

Re: [CentOS] lastlog oddity

2013-12-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-12-04, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is very odd. I updated a user's workstation yesterday. This morning, I ran lastlog | grep -v Never, and it shows only another admin and myself, and that's from days ago, but not the user. It shows her as Never logged in. Meanwhile,

Re: [CentOS] making a script into a service

2013-12-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2013-12-09, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Fabrizio Di Carlo dicarlo.fabri...@gmail.com wrote: Try to use this http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/ it allows you start/stop/restart the script using the

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-09, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: (...) You want to talk about leaky code? Look how corporate mail proxies work to enable them to read encrypted emails. Simple lying about certs. That sounds worrying. Could you elaborate, or provide a citation? -- Liam

Re: [CentOS] I am unable to find my windows share in ~/.gvfs

2014-01-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-27, anant.saras...@techblue.co.uk anant.saras...@techblue.co.uk wrote: Hello All, I am facing a strange issue, I use eclipse and I was using Ubuntu earlier, Now I am trying with Centos. As in my Ubuntu i Can find my share in ~/.gvfs. but now I am unable to locate the same in

Re: [CentOS] off NM problem [low priority]

2014-01-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-25, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Centos 6.5, I use NM to bring up the VPN to my office, and to disconnect from it. every now and then I screw up and disconnect the LAN itself instead of the VPN. once I do that, even after reconnecting to the LAN I'm hosed.

Re: [CentOS] yum update tries and fails to install libreswan

2014-02-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-02-05, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On 6.5, I've got openswan installed, but yum update is wanting to install libreswan. If libreswan is intended to replace openswan, wouldn't the appropriate yum transactions have been created to remove opnswan first? I'm stumped.

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port SOLVED

2014-07-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-07-09, Mike McCarthy, W1NR sy...@w1nr.net wrote: After installing the correct utilities and setting the port with semanage, it now works. Thanks to all for this one. Looks like I got some real work to do moving from 6 to 7 and understanding the massive management changes that were

Re: [CentOS] syslog-ng 2.1.4 - file sources are read only when reload or restart is performed?

2014-07-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-07-17, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 7/17/2014 6:19 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: The problem is that changes in /logs/stdout.log are only visible in /var/log/20140717/stdout when I perform /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload or restart. I tried several settings of flush_*,

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Hi, After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in about:plugins. The openjdk Java packages as

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-19, Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: Asma rabe asma.r...@gmail.com writes: If i should install both java 1.6 and 1.7 , how to do that ? I don't know whether you *should* do it, not knowing much about your setup, but assuming CentOS 7, I think you can install both the

Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS 6.5

2014-08-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-19, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Or yum install http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.nux.i586.rpm -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro I upgraded to your shiny new Skype a few days ago. Thanks for your

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-18, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Hi, After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-19, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 8/19/2014 12:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Yes, I think pretty much everything in recent Linux distributions is aimed at making it more single-user and PC-like instead of a unix server. Following Apple's lead, I guess. But even a single

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-04, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best defence against attack directed at that

Re: [CentOS] google talk plugin for google hangout not loading

2014-11-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-31, Mark LaPierre marklap...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, I found another issue with 6.6 that was working with 6.5. Error: Package: google-talkplugin-5.38.5.0-1.i386 (/google-talkplugin_current_i386) Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15) The latest Google Talk plugin

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: So, 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. 2. I then installed epel-release. 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. 4. I then ran yum update -y. 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). 6. I then ran yum groups install X Window System 7.

Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?

2014-12-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-12-11, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Niki Kovacs Sent: den 11 december 2014 08:55 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6? I just spent a

Re: [CentOS] sound oddity on C6

2014-12-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-12-28, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: I just encountered an oddity... it may have been this way for millennia :) but somehow I've never noticed it before... say I'm using X (which is pretty normal these days) and I have VLC playing a radio station. I do CTRL-ALT-Fx

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-04, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Wed, February 4, 2015 10:18 am, Keith Keller wrote: On 2015-02-04, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: [SNIP] (Users with sudo can still get a root shell, but that's not the same as logging in as root.) I thought

Re: [CentOS] IP forwarding

2015-01-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-22, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Recently, someone or something has been turning off IP forwarding on my CentOS server: -- [tim@william NumberTheory]$ sudo sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 [tim@william NumberTheory]$ sudo

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

2015-01-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-06, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS david.somers-har...@mail.rakuten.com wrote: 1. Blatant screen scraping is a violation of the terms of service for RHN .. so where is a SOURCE of information for something like this: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2024.html If you

Re: [CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

2015-01-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-10, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.01.2015 um 01:56 schrieb Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:12:14AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Have you tried different window manager themes? Some of them have larger grab areas. Which

Re: [CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

2015-01-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-10, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 01:12:27PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-01-10, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.01.2015 um 01:56 schrieb Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:12

Re: [CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

2015-01-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-09, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: --- SNIP --- trying to grab the edge of a window feels like the grabbable region is only one pixel (or maybe one mickey) wide and it's still hard nto place the pointer right on it. I may be getting old, but I don't have any

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

2015-01-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --MBFscW2dH0g022mxj8O937qiaWFFIRB5O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/06/2015 04:25 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-01-06, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS david.somers-har

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-13, Jason Woods de...@jasonwoods.me.uk wrote: On 13 Mar 2015, at 18:13, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 03/13/2015 01:06 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: ken wrote on 3/13/2015 11:36 AM: # rpm -q sendmail logwatch sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 logwatch-7.3-10.el5 One host sends just

Re: [CentOS] Netflix

2015-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-27, Bob Hepple bob.hep...@gmail.com wrote: Now that netflix is in Australia, I wouldn't mind giving it a burl. It's working fine on my fedora-21 lappy with chrome-40 but not on our centos-6 mythtv setup even with chrome-41. I understand the difference might be the version of NSS -

Re: [CentOS] Netflix

2015-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-27, Bob Hepple bob.hep...@gmail.com wrote: Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole@... writes: I doubt it. As you say, the NSS version is the blocker. Maybe that number will get bumped in a future 6.x release. Maybe. Centos-7 would probably do the job but this machine is 32-bit so it's

Re: [CentOS] Find installed yum groups?

2015-04-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-27, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: --SNIP-- And I guess the other piece of this would be finding individual packages that are not encompassed by the groups - or pulled in by dependencies.Is there some database-like approach to take the full list of packages, then

Re: [CentOS] nm-applet, wirless, and CentOS 6

2015-05-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-13, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: I have a strange problem and I know I am doing things way outside of the box. First of all I don't like Gnome or really any of the mess-windows flavored desktop systems and no, I don't like the MacOSX flavored desktop systems (like

Re: [CentOS] Missing Java packages for java-1.6.0-openjdk under CentOS 5

2015-05-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-18, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: When I compile some Java code I am getting this sort of error: package org.apache.http.annotation does not exist I am presuming that I am missing a Jar file in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64. The core JAR files are placed

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Peter Lawler cen...@bleeter.id.au wrote: [OT ALERT] On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I should use for plural as it is Latin word) I believe this 'rule' in English is misunderstood by many and as a general

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, J Martin Rushton martinrushto...@btinternet.com wrote: On 17/04/15 16:04, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person

[CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the project, testing, helping out community. Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
not at a CentOS 6 machine right now so I can't confirm one way or the other. On 04/08/2015 06:36 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:36 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Jonathan Billings billi...@negate.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the other day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a CentOS 6.6 machine. The purpose

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down

2015-04-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-09, Ole Holm Nielsen ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk wrote: After we upgraded our CentOS 7.0 desktops to CentOS 7.1, a critical error in the graphical login screen has appeared on all 7.1 machines: We have 100+ users defined in /etc/passwd, and a list of names is presented on the

Re: [CentOS] ssh -X versus -Y

2015-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-26, Stuart Barkley stua...@4gh.net wrote: [...] The documentation of the practical differences between -X and -Y is pretty obscure (mostly defering to the X Security extension documentation). I would like to see better clarification of the differences. One practical difference I

Re: [CentOS] centos 7.1 and compiz

2015-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-27, Wes James compte...@me.com wrote: On Jun 27, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Wes James compte...@me.com wrote: I have compiz installed on centos 6.6, and I’ve been testing 7.1, but I can't find any info on installing compiz on 7.1. Is there any info for this or is it not supported yet?

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-22, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? As others have said, it depends on your circumstances and what you want to achieve.

Re: [CentOS] ssh -X versus -Y

2015-07-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-05, Gordon Messmer gordon.mess...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/05/2015 04:51 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: One practical difference I have seen is the improved performance of -Y over -X. I have long attributed that to the relaxation of security controls in the former case. When and how did

Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS

2015-08-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-08-06, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 05/08/15 08:06 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote: I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support video. At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions on CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some

Re: [CentOS] C6.6 Gnome panel problem

2015-07-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-26, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: On 07/27/2015 05:34 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I usually keep the panels on my Centos 6.6 (Gnome) so they auto-hide, but t'other day I wanted to keep the top panel visible for a while to make the clock visible for doing some rough

Re: [CentOS] Using gpg to encrypt a URL line on CentOS 6 additional information

2015-07-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-07-11, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: +1. also, it'd probably be good to state what you're trying to accomplish rather than if you can throw a technology at vague something or another. I think you'd find gpg's password input cumbersome for symmetric keys, the output too long

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

2016-02-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-02-27, Frank Cox wrote: > 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

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-25, Always Learning wrote: [...] > As a C5 Gnome 2 user I dread G3 when I move my desktop to C6. Mate seems > an alternative. Anyone know more about the G2 folk ? C6 features G2. Nothing to dread. -- Liam ___

Re: [CentOS] Restoring session status

2016-02-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-02-18, H wrote: > I am running CentOS 6.6 on both a couple of servers and on a laptop. > When I let the laptop sleep, window states and positions are restored > correctly when I awaken it. However, when I shut down the laptop, > later turn it on and log in, none of

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

2016-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-07, ken wrote: > Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, > gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or > otherwise obscured? > > tia Since gnome-panel and 'flashback' mode have been removed from GNOME 3,

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

2016-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-08, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote: > On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-03-07, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote: >>> Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, >>> gnome-applets being one of

Re: [CentOS] Free Redhat Linux (rhel) version 7.2

2016-04-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-04, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I read that Redhat was offering their Linux free, and downloaded the > ISO, though I haven't run it. > > What do CentOS users think of Redhat's offer? I think it's an excellent opportunity for developers, and for the simply curious. >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Flash

2016-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-26, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 04/26/2016 12:03 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote: >> Hello every one I installed the official flash plugin from adobe >> >> About Plugins tells me: >> >> Datei: libflashplayer.so Pfad: >> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Re: [CentOS] what does firefox have against sans-serif

2016-04-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-21, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I've been struggling to get Firefox to render text in a sans-serif > font. So far, I've only been able to do that by setting the default > font as sans-serif. DejaVu Sans Mono and DajaVu Sans are the only > other listed

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade path from CentOS 7 to future versions

2016-05-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > 1. Debian (and clones): you keep the components of the system pretty > much on the level of latest release of each of components. Therefore > "upgrade" to new release of the system is pretty close to just a > regular routine

Re: [CentOS] C7 Desktop background

2016-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-15, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi Just stumbled into a problem with my recent new build C7 work > station. Fully updated, gnome desktop, all was working well until I > had a play with Tweak Tool, I wanted to try some other themes for > window layouts as the default

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade path from CentOS 7 to future versions

2016-05-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 3:57 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev >> <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >>> >>> 1. Debian (and clones): you keep the components of t

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability

2016-05-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-07, Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2016-05-06, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> >> wrote: >>> Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might >>> not

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability

2016-05-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-06, Nux! wrote: > Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might > not like the old ffmpeg I ship. > > There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to > upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can >

Re: [CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

2016-08-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-11, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Dear Experts, > > Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command > line on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot of webpage? > > We have a signage (xibo) and whoever creates/changes content, likes to > add

Re: [CentOS] Is "xman" available in any CentOS 6.x repo?

2016-08-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-11, Kay Schenk wrote: > I know it's old but I miss "xman" in CentOS 6. :( I would have expected it to be provided by the package xorg-x11-apps, but that is not the case. A compile-time option, perhaps? -- Liam ___

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate *.desktop entries for GNOME in /usr/share/applications

2016-08-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-13, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Today I noticed something strange. There seem to be a series of > duplicate desktop menu entries in /usr/share/applications. > > Example: gedit.desktop and org.gnome.gedit.desktop > > Other example: nautilus.desktop and

Re: [CentOS] XRDB not in our centos6.8 build

2016-08-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-10, Dan Hyatt wrote: > > I am a bit baffled on this. > > We recently rebuilt all our servers to CentOS release 6.8 (Final) > from a prior 6.x centos release. We ran into a couple of problems > such as Java not working (just had to yum install java). It was >

Re: [CentOS] Custom desktop menu entries: weird behavior with menu categories

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-15, Johnny Hughes wrote: [...] > The best thing to do is to keep a copy of all of your modified .desktop > files somewhere else and you can copy them back in if necessary after an > update. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes The OP could place the modified .desktop files

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, flash-plugin crashing - anyone have a clue?

2017-02-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-02-01, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: [...] > I just tried, both on 6.8 and 7.3, and yum tells me "nothing to do", so I > can't downgrade. By the way, googling, I find it's been filed as a bug > with upstream: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411972 > >

Re: [CentOS] hacking grub to control number of retained kernels.

2016-09-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-03, Fred Smith wrote: > I've recently had this problem on two C7 systems, wherein when doing > "yum update", I get a warning about /boot being low on space. > > both systems were installed using the partition size recommended by > Anaconda, right now "df

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

2016-09-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-03, Walter H. wrote: > Hello, > > I found different ways to define the hostname ... > > this > HOSTNAME=3D"host.domain.tld" > > or this: > HOSTNAME=3D"host" > DOMAIN=3D"domain.tld" > > what is the correct way? > > Thanks, > Walter In the case of RHEL 5 and

Re: [CentOS] DNF update

2016-09-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-07, Lamar Owen wrote: [...] > And if anyone were to think that the Debian-style 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > is the cure-all, there is a thread in the owncloud user mailing list > that you may want to read, about an admin who locked up (and ended up > losing) his

Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI

2016-10-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-04, Frank Saporito wrote: > I looked at Mate Desktop for a CentOS 7 and recall having a problem: > Disk Utility was not avail. I find Disk Utility very handy for > managing RAID. > > Does anyone know if the good ole Gnome 3 Disk Utility has a Mate >

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization Networking

2016-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-03, TE Dukes wrote: > > >> -Original Message- From: >> centos-boun...@centos.org >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Michael Cole Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 9:41 PM To: >> centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] >>

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization Networking

2016-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-03, TE Dukes <tdu...@palmettoshopper.com> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- From: >> centos-boun...@centos.org >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Liam O'Toole Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 9:19 AM To: >> centos@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Disable hybernate/suspend in CentOS 7

2016-10-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-13, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, October 13, 2016 11:55 am, Mike - st257 wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Experts, >>> >>> Could someone point me in the right direction: how can

Re: [CentOS] Skype for Centos Desktop

2016-11-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-17, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin wrote: > Hi all. > > I search info in the web about how to install skype on centos 6.5, but > just exists info about skype with architecture to 32 bit. > > someone can me explicain, how to install skype for 64 bit architecture >

Re: [CentOS] Disable gnome-initial-setup

2016-12-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-13, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Prior to 7.3, I could disable the post-first-boot GNOME initial setup > window by turning off the "initial-setup-graphical" systemd service. > That service no longer exists, so I no longer know how to disable the > setup window. I

Re: [CentOS] Bottom panel on new C7.3

2016-12-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-13, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All, > > I run these commands for previous 7.2 to hide the bottom panel. > gconftool-2 -t int --list-type int --set > /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/auto_hide_size 0 gconftool-2 -t > bool --list-type bool --set >

Re: [CentOS] Bottom panel on new C7.3

2016-12-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-14, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi Liam, > > Your correct. I copied pasted too fast. The OLD gconftool-2 is for the > older CentOS 6 version of things. The command for CentOS 7 is this: > > dbus-send --print-reply --session --type=method_call > --dest=org.gnome.Shell

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: environment variables and cronjobs ...

2016-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-01, Walter H. wrote: > Hello, > > in > > /etc/cron.d/test > > I've this: > > 50 15 * * * root ( date ; echo "---" ; env ; echo "---" ; set ) >>>/tmp/test.txt > > and I thought I would be shown environment variables which are defined > in > > e.g.

Re: [CentOS] Looking for kernel-3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64.rpm

2016-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-01, Louis Francoeur wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm trying to install my security updates for Centos 7 and i can't > find this kernel. > > > I looked at the following mirror in the updates directory. Am looking > in the right place? > > > CentOS Errata and

Re: [CentOS] firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 crashing... unusable

2016-12-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-19, ken wrote: > Last night installed the latest, firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64. > Fired it up this morning and within the first hour it's crashed three > times. That comes to it being usable for about five minutes before it > crashes. > > Anyone else

Re: [CentOS] Hotel ethernet via nmcli

2017-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-14, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Here I sit in my hotel room with my Cubie armv7 server with Centos7. > > They have an ethernet cable here, so most likely I will not need to > resort to putting a WiFi USB dongle and trying to master nmcli. > > But I have to web

Re: [CentOS] plymouth themes problem

2017-05-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-15, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I was playing with plymouth themes on a c7 box. I found a page on > redhat, in their rhel7 documentation that describes how to change to a > different plymouth screen: > > plymouth-set-default-theme --list to find out

Re: [CentOS] startx on console 2

2017-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-25, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I seem to recall that there is some special option to run X11 on > > > On this ClearOS system, their console sits on the default console. You > have to (etc.) to get a text login. Now that I have Xfce > kind of installed, I want to

Re: [CentOS] Disabling user list in Gnome

2017-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-06-06, Daniel Ruiz Molina wrote: > Hello, > > how can I disable user list that has been logged, at least, one time > into X environment in Gnome running Centos 7? > > Thanks. I think this is what you're looking for:

Re: [CentOS] Strange problem with CentOS 7 and guest additions in VirtualBox

2017-09-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-09-26, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a very weird problem with CentOS as a VirtualBox guest. Let > me explain it step by step. > > tl;dr: I can install VirtualBox Guest Additions and configure a > fullscreen 1280x1024 graphical resolution on a full

Re: [CentOS] X-Window system ?

2017-09-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-09-29, Günther J Niederwimmer wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a big Problem to install a KVM Client with virt-manager, after > Update to CentOS 7.4 it is not more possible to start the virt-manager > :-(. What happens when you start virt-manager from a terminal

Re: [CentOS] anybody else had this problem since the CR updates?

2017-08-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-08-27, Fred Smith wrote: > I'm running Mate on my C7 boxen, a desktop and a netbook.\ > > Mate comes from epel, so it's probably not a CentOS problem, but lemme > ask here in case anybody else has seen it: > > some tools (nm, pavucontrol, and possibly others

Re: [CentOS] Odd C7 userspace issue

2017-10-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-10-18, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've seen this a couple of times, and do not understand what it's > trying to tell me: journal: unable to create file > '/run/user/200236571/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not > work properly. > > Now, it exists, and the

Re: [CentOS] Problem with ssh disconnecting

2018-02-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-02-12, H wrote: > Running CentOS 7 on workstation and having a problem with ssh > disconnects. My ssh_config contains: > > Host * > TCPKeepAlive yes > ServerAliveInterval 30 > ServerAliveCountMax 300 > > and sshd_config on the server contains: > > TCPKeepAlive yes >

Re: [CentOS] libsmbclient conflict problem

2018-02-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-02-06, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > Hi, > > I have a c-6 machine that I noticed the following on: > > (bugs pts10) # package-cleanup --problems Loaded plugins: > fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit Package > system-config-printer-libs-1.1.16-26.el6.x86_64 requires >

Re: [CentOS] libsmbclient conflict problem

2018-02-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-02-11, m...@tdiehl.org <m...@tdiehl.org> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2018-02-06, m...@tdiehl.org >> <m...@tdiehl.org> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a c-6 machine that I noticed the following on: >>

Re: [CentOS] Problem with ssh disconnecting

2018-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-02-13, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: > On 02/12/2018 07:24 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2018-02-12, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: >>> Running CentOS 7 on workstation and having a problem with ssh >>> disconnects. My ssh_config contai

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