[CentOS] What commands are available in recovery mode?

2010-12-29 Thread Mark
I have a CentOS VM that I messed up and it now can't find /home (because it's gone), so it comes up in recovery mode. What can I do in recovery mode? It won't let me modify any files, which makes it hard to fix the fstab, so ...??? ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-30 Thread Mark
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: I'm a little concerned about the number of schoolbook questions showing on this list, recently.  However... I have to wonder why we are doing this fellow's homework for him at all. These are fairly basic exercises in

Re: [CentOS] set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-01 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:46 AM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: I use the KB SSL Enforcer https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof?hl=en This is a Chrome extension. Last I checked, Chrome is unavailable for CentOS because it requires a newer gtk+

Re: [CentOS] variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:27 PM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: $ ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print length}') )); echo $a $ASDF$(for i in {1..$a}; do printf .; done) 65 hello. $ Why doesn't it print: 65

Re: [CentOS] why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: (...) WHY? (...) Why you post the same message on different mailing lists? Here at Ubuntu users

Re: [CentOS] recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-05 Thread Mark
directory structure that have the same name? If so, find $1 -name $2 -ls would give you all files of the same name. If, instead, you only needed to know how many of each, you could find $1 -name $2 | wc -l Mark, don't waste your time on this twit - he cross posts to multiple lists, usually asking

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?        Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS.  So... how it this        not about CentOS? If that's true

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions.  Was it        100% germane to this list?  No, perhaps not. The problem is that none of his questions is ever 100% germane to the various lists to which he

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Mark mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions.  Was it        100% germane to this list?  No, perhaps not. The problem is that none

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        I have after you pointed out he's a leech (my wording, not        yours) above and I was reminded of his past antics here.  Again        my apologies to you and the list for mentally blocking him out        and

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: 2011/1/22 Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com: Again, please go somewhere else if you want to discuss general topics. I subscribed to this list because of Centos-related issues, not because I want to discuss pro's and con's of

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/22/2011 10:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? I am sure there is a more relevant list you could take something of

Re: [CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:40:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello list!  I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. [root@LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 reboot   system boot  

Re: [CentOS] putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:47 AM, kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages:

Re: [CentOS] NOD32 on Linux

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:57 AM, kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: Anyone using it? http://beta.eset.com/linux What are the experiences? Does it slows down the pc? Do we need it? Perhaps you don't understand what CentOS mailing list is - hint: it is not a general Linux discussion list.

Re: [CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Unless the hardware clock was off for some reason (dead/weak BIOS battery?).  If you are running ntpd, it will sync up pretty quick, but if the clock is wrong at boot time, that is what will be recorded in the last

Re: [CentOS] putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/23/11 12:55 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Markmhullr...@gmail.com  wrote: Can you tell us why you cross posted this to the Ubuntu mailing list? Are you just fishing for answers for your

Re: [CentOS] putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Mailing List mail_l...@woh.rr.com wrote: On 1/23/2011 6:00 PM, Mark wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com  wrote: On 01/23/11 12:55 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Markmhullr...@gmail.com    wrote

Re: [CentOS] ethernet configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Ritika Garg ritikagar...@gmail.com wrote: I gave '/sbin/ifconfig | grep HWaddr' to get the MAC address but its not returning anything. Have you just tried running ifconfig? You may need to specify about which interface you are inquiring, or use '-a' to get

Re: [CentOS] Why one shouldn't cross post [was: putting /tmp to memory]

2011-01-24 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: : So what if it's a homework assignment. Or if it's someone who's new to Linux or PC's in general and actually don't know what you've learned in the past 86years. Is it really that much trouble to help him, instead of

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: : * These notes brought to you in behalf of the Professional Organization of English Majors, who want to remind you that it's == it is, and is not the possessive whatchamacallit, its, as in it's got a shoe on its foot. So, it is got a

Re: [CentOS] How to set GNOME-panel to several columns if needed?

2011-02-03 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:37 AM, kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: http://i.imgur.com/rUKeu.png how could i configure the GNOME-panel to have several columns [if there are many applications]? ~~like this: http://i.imgur.com/ElgAA.jpg Have you considered getting help from a GNOME forum?

Re: [CentOS] Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Mark
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard CentOS install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx 1) Which is it? Are you running CentOS or

Re: [CentOS] Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Mark
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: : Please use plain text in this mailing list.  My mail tool defaults to html when answering html, and that defaults to top-posting (and in fact disables interleaved or bottom posting unless I force the reply

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ian Murray murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: There is no reason for  any individual to have a computer in his home. Google thinks the same, don't they? Yes, let's blame cloud computing on Google ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread Mark
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com wrote: People usually suspend their laptop, so that they can continue their work when they open the laptop. OK! Two choices [GNOME]: 1 - Menu - Shut Down - Suspend in this case, the gnome-screensaver locks the PC. but

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread Mark
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 2/14/2011 1:50 PM Morten P.D. Stevens spake the following: 2011/2/14 robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com: Hi, Despite the mailing list and twitter I did not find any updated info on either versions regarding the current

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-16 Thread Mark
This whole discussion is off-topic and getting to be really annoying. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:08 AM, erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com wrote: I just can find any solution... Please help! thanks.. What OS are you running? What hardware? Details might help (since you cross-posted this to more than one OS group...).

Re: [CentOS] Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Mark
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com wrote: Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING

[CentOS] Installation failure

2011-03-10 Thread Mark
I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it, but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either enter (graphics isntall) or linux textenter, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off. It's

Re: [CentOS] Installation failure

2011-03-10 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2011/3/11 Mark mhullr...@gmail.com: I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it, is it really working? check for broken memory chips and so.. The memory was working perfectly before I put

Re: [CentOS] Installation failure

2011-03-10 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Chris Weisiger cweisi...@bellsouth.net wrote: Try checking the power supply, swap in another one  from a different pc. Yeah, I figured that out about half an hour ago and got it going. Shoulda thought of that up front. Interestingly, I have a power supply

[CentOS] Mark Killingback is out of the office.

2011-12-08 Thread mark
I will be out of the office starting 08/12/2011 and will not return until 14/12/2011. If you require urgent assistance please contact 01603 630684. a href=http://www.pacificgroup.co.uk;http://www.pacificgroup.co.uk /a Tel: 01603 630684 Fax: 01603 617930 This email is subject to our email

Re: [CentOS] swap labeling annoyance

2012-01-06 Thread mark
the swap using just the block device as reference? Can't do that: e2label is *only* for an ext2/3/4 partition, and won't work with swap (or at least it didn't when I tried it last year). mkswap -L label /dev/sdx mark - -- random .sig, honest! A horned and tusked purple thing went

Re: [CentOS] swap labeling annoyance

2012-01-06 Thread mark
almost no blades). mark -- A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys. I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-08 Thread mark
to fire up an R job, and uses *all* of them Plus, we're running out of UPSs to stick them on to, and sockets to reach mark gotta build that last one of the cluster today -- ...I'm not sure I want lords or gods fixing the world. Because I thnk they'd fix it for them

[CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
Folks, I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's getting it from? mark

Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote: I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's

Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote: Enviado desde mi iPhone El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió: R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote: I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that gdm

Re: [CentOS] Testing and using a microphone

2009-09-20 Thread mark
Niki Kovacs wrote: What's the most simple way to check if my microphone works on a plain CentOS 5.3 desktop? Is there a simple way, for example, to record voice into a simple .wav file? audacity. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] how to implement java in firefox ?

2009-09-23 Thread mark
*it* needed it as well. mark -- Giving government power and money and allowing the private outlay of money for campaign advertising is like having teenagers, and not giving them sex ed access to birth control. - whitroth ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] how to implement java in firefox ?

2009-09-24 Thread mark
, so if you install the curl rpm (both, if you're running 64-bit), it'll work. mark -- Giving government power and money and allowing the private outlay of money for campaign advertising is like having teenagers, and not giving them sex ed access to birth control. - whitroth

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-26 Thread mark
Niki Kovacs wrote: Les Mikesell a écrit : snip Here's an example. I have a directory java/, with the latest java from sun.com, plus the following script: snip I've just become familiar with alternatives, and now wonder why no one created that a decade ago. mark -- The very powerful

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-26 Thread mark
Les Mikesell wrote: mark wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Les Mikesell a écrit : snip Here's an example. I have a directory java/, with the latest java from sun.com, plus the following script: snip I've just become familiar with alternatives, and now wonder why no one created that a decade

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-11 Thread mark
that that's going away. Anyway, I wasn't, but I ran adsl-setup, then adsl-connect, and I was in business. mark -- ...As I got about three steps past, he registered. Long brown hair like a hippie. Big full beard too. Broad shoulders and sensative features. Work shirt, jeans, and beat-up boots

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-11 Thread mark
Kemp, Larry wrote: That will work great. One box...two NICS, running ipchains. If you are snip Um, did you meant iptables? ipchains is a tiny bit dated mark -- ...As I got about three steps past, he registered. Long brown hair like a hippie. Big full beard too. Broad shoulders

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-11 Thread mark
, or Spain, or Taiwan... but then, we are a well-known site. mark, supporting the NIH -- The Pluto Files, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Pluto shall rise again! - whitroth ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-11 Thread mark
just how *long* it will take to bring new systems online if there's a fire, or flood, or hurricane, or twister Then bring up the age of the servers and maintenance. As part of the plan, of course, spec out replacement hardware, and any performance increases it would bring mark

Re: [CentOS] Rendering farm?

2009-10-12 Thread mark
Warren, It's not anything I had ever looked into, or needed, but thanks for the view into the heavy duty rendering field. mark Warren Young wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I received at least one email suggesting a Windows-based rendering farm - likely to consist of a few rack

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-12 Thread mark
it for anything important until it hit 1.0.1, and the bugs they missed are fixed snip mark -- Profit-making is a technique for encouraging human enterprise, not an end in itself. p17, Have I Ever Lied To You Before?, Jerry Goodis, 1972 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread mark
issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. You want to look at VMware's Best Practices for timekeeping. It says to use Linux's NTP, *not* VMware tools. mark - CS. --- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the following in Grub to help keep the clock from

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread mark
for a month. mark -- Love doesn't conquer everything, any more than love cleans the toilet - Garrison Kielor, Prairie Home Companion, 6/8/09 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread mark
we'll be using the DVD for a while mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Have you noticed that, when we were young, we were told that everybody else is doing it was a really

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-24 Thread mark
David Suhendrik wrote: Still waiting for DVD 5.4 64 bit There's a couple of mirrors that have it. I looked through several .edu site - I think RIT had one. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Turning off X-Windows

2009-10-24 Thread mark
ML wrote: Hi All, How does one best turn of X-Windows? I dont need it, ssh works just fine for me. Not sure what you mean. You could edit /etc/inittab, and have your system run at runlevel 3, rather than 5. Or you could uninstall Xorg. mark

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread mark
will scan your system with something like nmap, and find whatever port you've opened for it. Btw, you *have* made sure that only protocol 2 is enabled for ssh, right? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread mark
One more thing - you might want to look at authfail. After a number of attempts to log in, it will add firewall rules to block that IP address. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread mark
accordingly. So I added Port 2977 Under Host * So I have: Host * Port 2977 I rebooted and I get a connection refused now when I try to connect. I am doing: ssh -p 2977 u...@ip I must have missed something. Check your firewall rules. mark

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs, rpm hangs

2009-10-27 Thread mark
ringing and bells flashing. First question: if you have more than one xterm up, can you do other things while yum or rpm are hanging? If so... I'd run chkrootkit. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

2009-10-30 Thread mark
Hi, Per Qvindesland wrote: What is the model number? A 1300 something, but I solved it - the hard reset. mark Regards Per Qvindesland At Thursday, 29-10-2009 on 20:27 Robert wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

2009-10-30 Thread mark
systems. I was assuming that they, like the other systems, were 5.3, and didn't check. AFAIK, I was upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-10-31 Thread mark
but there is no /etc/sysconfig/iptables on my CentOS server . Can you please let me know what is wrong my case ? Get out of the gui. Open a shell window. Edit the file in your favorite text editor. mark -- And no, AFAIK, Perl doesn't have spherical trig functions built in, but it has lots

Re: [CentOS] Driver compilation howto.

2009-10-31 Thread mark
provide a link to an appropriate howto? One question: why 4.4? RHEL 4.6 was out and in use were I was working in '06, on their distro CDs. mark -- When was the pleistocene? Around 1.8 million years ago, til about 10K years ago. What era are we in now? Trouble

Re: [CentOS] Driver compilation howto.

2009-10-31 Thread mark
Rafa³ Radecki wrote: 2009/10/31 mark m.r...@5-cent.us Rafa³ Radecki wrote: I currently have to add some drivers during the installation process for CentOS 4.4 (I mus use this release). As I've heard I need first to compilethe drivers under the same kernel which will be used during install

Re: [CentOS] Driver compilation howto.

2009-10-31 Thread mark
Keith Keller wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote: Rafa³ Radecki wrote: snip Some vendors claim that updating your distro will void your warranty/ support contract. I had one vendor which claimed that updating the kernel to patch a serious security hole would void our

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread mark
with it for an hour or two) as though I can build scripts for it to run, to install, upgrade, etc, remote systems. mark -- Frodo: (Gollum) deserves death! Gandalf: ...I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do

Re: [CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-03 Thread mark
. If it was I would imagine you should still be able to direct console in. Do you have smartmontools installed and running? I just was reading about that, and it can *cause* lockups and crashes. Check the WARNING file in the distro. mark -- Right, breathing is addictive, as shown by the withdrawal

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk or Puppet?

2009-11-03 Thread mark
to maintain both a Satellite/Spacewalk install *and* cobbler if I didn't have to. cobbler is *required* by Spacewalk, and is installed with it. mark -- I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread mark
with it are *not* ready for prime time, and user-surly, to say the least. It works, though. Mark, I too have experienced this PAIN!!! However I never quite got it done, always seemed real close but not quite. Did you document?? I am now trying the RH / Fedora DS - no problem getting it installed

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread mark
be cool. I just need centralised account and password managment, which is not at all the same thing Yep, LDAP will do that - that's what I installed it for. mark -- Corrupt the language and society will follow. - George Orwell. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Mainboard type?

2009-11-07 Thread mark
please let me know where such an info can be checked via /proc folder ? Let me thank you in advance lshw. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SELinux is preventing httpd from loading /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp5.so

2009-11-07 Thread mark
/libphp5.so which requires text relocation. For complete SELinux messages. run Realertrag -l 077ac3bc-5f20-4954-99c3-a754f9cd7df2 I've done: sealert -l 077ac3bc-5f20-4954-99c3-a754f9cd7df2 but It does not make any change. Did you even bother to read what sealert told you to do? mark

Re: [CentOS] Centos HP Pavilion box

2009-11-07 Thread mark
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: Has anyone put Centos 5.4 (or ant version on aHP Pavilion box? I'm having some problems. For example, I can't get my Dell E198WFPV 1440x900 monitor to work correctly. What's the video card? mark ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread mark
did that and the following two solutions with no luck: echo 0 /selinux/enforce What do you mean by 'rebooted apache'? You have to reboot the whole machine to change selinlux settings. No, you don't. Either the echo, or the setenforce command will change it. mark -- An answer

Re: [CentOS] Centos HP Pavilion box

2009-11-08 Thread mark
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:08 -0500, mark wrote: Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: Has anyone put Centos 5.4 (or ant version on aHP Pavilion box? I'm having some problems. For example, I can't get my Dell E198WFPV 1440x900 monitor to work correctly. What's the video

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-08 Thread mark
will happen if the file is copied in Dos format to Linux. ah, yes, python, where whitespace is a syntax element And, IIRC, spaces and tabs are two *different* elements. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-08 Thread mark
that this thing runs fine on another server. Is the other server running Linux or Windows? (Or something else?) I've not been following this thread closely - can you run python -c script.py on the machine you're having trouble on? mark -- Nonfeasance The omission or failure

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread mark
either. Any pointers as to what I'm missing? Really stupid question: did you try running system-config-sound, and making sure that system volume wasn't on mute? mark -- Mr. Chairman, vows of chastity break far more easily than condoms do

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread mark
on the new Intranet is making use of this IP address . Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I check if any IP conflict occured ? Why not ask the System Administrator if this IP is available? Alternatively, ping 172.18.209.1 mark -- They that can give up essential liberty

Re: [CentOS] About the tar extract signal directory~~

2009-11-11 Thread mark
foo.tar.bz2 after changing directory to bar tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.gz snip mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 32bit development on x86-64

2009-11-11 Thread mark
be to set -L to 64-bit or 32-bit libraries. Oh, one more thing: is performance a Big Thing? If that isn't priority #1, you might turn off optimization 3? 4? which unrolls loops, etc. mark -- Stock traders are a superstitious and cowardly lot, to paraphrase the Batman

Re: [CentOS] software installation - good practice

2009-11-11 Thread mark
the source either somewhere under my home directory or on my snip What's become common is /opt/src. My boss, closer to older style, has me using /usr/local/opt. mark -- Profit-making is a technique for encouraging human enterprise, not an end in itself. p17, Have I Ever Lied To You Before

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread mark
are *NOT* paid support staff for this list, we're a community sharing knowledge. I read man pages, read scripts, ask others at work, and google for hours before posting questions here. mark -- When asked why the Constitution makes no mention whatever of God, Alexander Hamilton was reported to have

Re: [CentOS] pan news reader

2009-11-16 Thread mark
. I'm using 0.133 from rpmforge. Seems to work fine. I just installed it. It runs. I don't want to use it, because I *always* type in my password, and do not want it stored... and pam will not let me do that, AFAIK. mark -- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom

Re: [CentOS] install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???

2009-11-25 Thread mark
for maximum compatibility. Sure it does. For example, what's the alleged speed of the writer... and what's the alleged speed of the DVD itself? I made a coaster or two, just in the last year (don't burn a lot of CD's or DVD's), and once I slowed down the writer, it came out fine. mark

Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-26 Thread mark
CentOS on an old door-stopper I had handy; a P3/500 with barely 500MB RAM. Barely, he says. Barely mark, remembering the hot new -30MB- h/d his bosses gave him in '89 as a holiday present

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread mark
, either. mark -- Morality is alright, but what about dividends? -- Kaiser Willhem II ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-28 Thread mark
AIDE before I started, and it gave a *humongous* number of warnings. OSSEC is bad enough, when I do a yum update, for example. mark -- This country has medicalized social problems. Instead of being concerned about widescale unemployment, underemployment, and job outsourcing, people act

[CentOS] hardware issues under 5.6

2011-05-08 Thread mark
? three machines, that's somewhere between coincidence and enemy action. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system

2011-07-08 Thread Mark
It is safer than cross-posting to multiple OS discussion lists On Jul 6, 2011 10:32 PM, Sherin George l...@sheringeorge.co.cc wrote: Hi, Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system Basically, this is a command to disable fsck based on reboot count last fsck

Re: [CentOS] high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-24 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote: The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale

[CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
I finally was able to create a VM in which to load and play with CentOS 6, and the first time I went to update the kernel I ran into this: Downloading Packages: kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.rpm | 22 MB 01:11 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test

[CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all done automatically with almost no input required from me. The problem with this is that the /boot partition was too small (under 50MB) and I couldn't update

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
On Jul 26, 2011 9:09 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Google first result: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246#c2 never ever rpm -U a kernel

Re: [CentOS] drop manitu.net

2011-08-11 Thread mark
? about 15? years ago. It is now a world-wide pest. Ah, yes. I think you're thinking of the Green Card Scam, from Cantor and Siegal. Yes, I was on usenet then There's no such thing as community, this is just a marketing opportunity. mark -- If wealth == power and if power corrupts

Re: [CentOS] drop manitu.net

2011-08-11 Thread mark
Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 21:36 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Waste of time and resources. Learn how to properly handle email and none of this nonsense is necessary. Properly handling emails means, to me, not being too reliant on others whose faults and omissions could

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - changing display settings

2009-12-02 Thread mark
remain unchanged! Any help appreciated, What runlevel is the system at - 3, or 5? If 3, log out and log back in. If 5, as someone said, you can always do a ctrl-alt-bkspc. Hmmm, wonder if init 3 would work mark -- Headlines: two-thirds of Americans are overweight! I have heard it said

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

2009-12-03 Thread mark
} ' | grep -v ^0 | wc -l Use one command at a time to see how they work with each other (you might have to modify the grep a bit)... *sigh* Drive me crazy, why use multiple commands? awk -F 'BEGIN { FS = ,; }{if ( $3 !~ /^0 ) { count++; }} END { print count }' filename mark why, yes

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