Re: [CentOS] Missing update / update announcement

2008-04-23 Thread Ned Slider
Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, the C5 updates to openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.4.26 are available on the mirrors, but no announcement has come through the centos-announce mailing list yet. I'm sure they will Also, upstream has released gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5_1.1 and

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Becker Cope wrote: Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution for

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's easy to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow

Re: [CentOS] problem installation of mplayer

2008-04-30 Thread Ned Slider
MHR wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mamun wrote: Guys, I already installed CentOs,but can anyone give a sample of repo files and priorities.conf file. As for this 2 files i am unable to install mplayer. See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories

[CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday, and no packages were installed. Obviously the entries are old. I was wondering if anyone could offer an explanation?

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ned Slider Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:27 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). - yum Begin Packages Installed: lzo.i386 1.08-4.2.el5.rf

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday, and no packages were

Re: [CentOS] Re: Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Nichols wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday

Re: [CentOS] where is centos live cd?

2008-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: David Hláčik wrote: Thanks i firured it out , sorry for stupid silly question, but why project pages are not working? D. David, the machines that host projects.centos.org were moved a few days back, and were not totally back into production as yet. It should all be

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
Clint Dilks wrote: Hi People, I know this may seem off topic, but I thought for those of us who might have Debian users generating key pairs that they put on CentOS systems people should be aware that everybody who generated a public/private keypair or an SSL cert request on Debian or

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Daniel de Kok wrote: Furthermore, all DSA keys ever used on affected Debian systems for signing or authentication purposes should be considered compromised; the Digital Signature Algorithm relies on a secret random value used during signature generation. Take care, Daniel SANS have more on

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Juan C. Valido wrote: Well, I guess everyone's experience is different, I've got 2 GA-P35-DS3 with Core 2 duos and a GA-MA770-GS3 with a Phenom 9600 and I love them. I've never had a problem with a Gigabyte Motherboard. Some people love Asus and I've had several go bad on me, you figure. On

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Tan wrote: I saw this in Logwatch today for one of my servers: - yum Begin Packages Installed: samba-common.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 samba.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 Packages Erased: samba-common samba

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Tan wrote: Ned Slider wrote: and the cause is likely similar. Checking /var/log/yum.log for entries 1 year ago should confirm this. Ned/Alan: You guys hit it on the head. Thanks. I wasn't aware of this little oddity. Thanks, johnn You're welcome

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny Tan wrote: I saw this in Logwatch today for one of my servers: Checking /var/log/yum.log for entries 1 year ago should confirm this. As this bit me once and I've just seen two people

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting

2008-05-21 Thread Ned Slider
William L. Maltby wrote: But keep in mind you were only a virtual ass. Not really one. And the person who labeled you as an ass may have been, in fact, the ass. Regardless, his was only a virtual opinion. And unless you have a personal relationship and really care what he felt... So that

Re: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-24 Thread Ned Slider
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008 10:25:41 Robert Spangler wrote: On Friday 23 May 2008 21:31, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Actually I have written a small tutorial on iptables, but I haven't translated it into english. I'll let you know when it's done. Hopefully it will be useful for

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 i386 on a 1GIG flash

2008-05-28 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size. however, I am getting blocked at

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel and ipsec

2008-05-28 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Pruett wrote: i had previously been having issues with automount being slow with this new kernel and i tracked it down to dns delays which were being caused by ipsec not working. i have spent a few hours poking around and ipsec seems quite broken with this new kernel. esp packets go in

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: Good morning, I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12 screen). The bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with little memory? Ideally, I

Re: [CentOS] servercd i386 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though. Can someone point me to it. Thanks, Jerry There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: When it's ready. Suits me - I have a different question (and it's

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Pruett wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is already solved on another thread ... but for closure on this one, there is a known bug here with that kernel and ipsec: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 that bug entry does say to use the upstream bug for info about

Re: [CentOS] Hardened ver of CentOS?

2008-06-02 Thread Ned Slider
Rogelio wrote: John R Pierce wrote: CentOS /is/ a distro, there is only one centos 'distribution'. centos configured with selinux enabled, appropriate firewall rules, and the minimum number of services required for your application should be fairly 'hardened' as-is. Understood. I

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert - elists wrote: Using XEN or Vmware or Both? Thanks! - rh I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: $ rpm -q VMware-server

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: Ned: I was very interested to read that you've run VMWare Server on systems with only 512 MB of RAM. I haven't tried it, because the box I can use only has 512 MB of RAM. Yes, assuming you give 256MB to a single VM guest and allow the CentOS host 256MB, you'll get

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help Required!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-14 Thread Ned Slider
D Steward wrote: Hi, others have by now addressed your issue, so I'll now have my say. Please in future, use a better title than the one you have chosen - it will help others who are searching for a solution to problems similar to what you were having. You are lucky this mailing list is so

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-23 Thread Ned Slider
Gary Richardson wrote: Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. Yes, Clonezilla is a LiveCD which you boot from to clone the disk so your machine will be offline during this process.

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: If there is something in the conf file that needs to change (that worked in 5.1 and does not in 5.2) let us know and we can add it to the release notes and/or wiki. It was in the listening section as follows: # A space separated list of IP or host

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original to [*] allowed me to connect. I then

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original

Re: [CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is my first major version update after using a local repo. It seems that before I can yum update I have to fetch the complete new 5.2 base? Is this correct? When I run yum update it now fails with various strange dependency errors although all the updates are synced.

Re: [CentOS] spam filtering with centos 5.2

2008-06-29 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: In the past I've used a combination of spamhaus combined RBL's and Spamassassin with Mailscanner as my spam recipe, but this stopped working very well for me well over a year ago. As many of the users of the couple small/personal mail servers I run are NOT technical

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group writable, however when I

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with

Re: [CentOS] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, but there is no executable that I can locate, and wireshark in not in the gnome panel. So I looked at a system were I had installed

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Les Bell wrote: David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
Marc-Andre Levesque wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? Cheers Tony This

Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Hughes wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: List, I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with a solution. Thanks, Greg Ennis Updating: perl

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I've been playing and comparing frequency scaling between AMD and Intel CPUs yesterday and there seem to be great differences between AMD and Intel and some gotchas. This is all on CentOS 5.2 with latest Xen kernels (which are supposed to be powersaving-enabled since 5.2).

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ned Slider wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:09:39 +0100: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15484forum=37 Thanks for the URL, see below! Bottom line - the power saving between having frequency scaling enabled or not was surprisingly small (only 2-3W

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: S.Tindall wrote on Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:47:06 -0400: The cpuspeed changelog may be relevant: [quote] * Thu Mar 06 2008 Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Disable freq scaling by default on AMD rev F and earlier cpus when running xen, due to clock instability (#435321)

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:20 +0200: I disagree about the reason. I think they are actually not so efficient. At least not if I compare to a low-voltage CPU. Just checked how much that AMD 4850e CPU drains under various conditions. There are *huge*

Re: [CentOS] rebuilding the kernel.

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
Yahia Tachwali wrote: Hello folks, I am trying to add HDLC module support in the menuconfig. However, I am facing difficulties in rebuilding the kernel and modules. My main objective is to get the HDLC supported in kernel 2.6.9. I have a CentOS 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9.42. I need help in

Re: [CentOS] Good reference for dkms?

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
MHR wrote: Or is there a really good primer on dkms that tells what to put where and how to create a proper dkms.conf file (and where)? Did you read the Wiki? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0

Re: [CentOS] Good reference for dkms?

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: MHR wrote: Or is there a really good primer on dkms that tells what to put where and how to create a proper dkms.conf file (and where)? Did you read the Wiki? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0 And one

Re: [CentOS] WUBI like process for CentOS ?

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Sven wrote: On 8/12/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi Karanbir [...] Now the question: is there anyway to get something similar for CentOS ? or is there a process that someone might follow to achieve the same or similar result ? I am just curious. What is the use case

Re: [CentOS] WUBI like process for CentOS ?

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Sven wrote: On 8/12/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the question: is there anyway to get something similar for CentOS ? or is there a process that someone might follow to achieve the same or similar result ? I am just curious. What

Re: [CentOS] mystery process unit

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
sbeam wrote: Maybe enabling selinux but leaving httpd opened up would be appropriate for the time being. Is that possible or advisable? audit2allow wants to allow a lot of things. Try toggling the httpd_disable_trans boolean: setsebool -P httpd_disable_trans on That should disable

Re: [CentOS] file manager over ssh

2008-08-17 Thread Ned Slider
Linux Man wrote: Hello. I need to copy several file from one PC to another over Internet, both using CentOS. What file manager that works over console do you recommend me? Thanks at all Best Regards If the client is running X, then konqueror using the fish protocol (fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/)

Re: [CentOS] WNA1100 Netgear Wireless USB

2010-12-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/12/10 18:22, r...@saf.com wrote: Any chance this wireless USB can be made to work on 32 bit CentOS 5.5? [r...@young ~]# /sbin/lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:0108 Dell Computer Corp. [r...@young ~]#

Re: [CentOS] Total Number of conecctions

2010-12-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/12/10 20:57, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: I have the need to know how many connection the server has, i run this command but i don't know how to sum all the results and get a final number. any ideas? netstat -an | grep -E 'tcp|udp' | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/01/11 07:23, Ron Blizzard wrote: Stupid question (I'm guessing). I'm currently tri-booting (or would like to be) VectorLinux 6 Deluxe, CentOS 5.5 and an evaluation copy of Red Hat 6. I'm using CentOS's grub. VectorLinux and CentOS boot fine, but Red Hat won't load. I think I read

Re: [CentOS] Grub upgrade for CentOS 5.5?

2011-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/01/11 10:37, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ned Slidern...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: You don't need to upgrade grub, I'm quite happily dual booting rhel6 GA on a CentOS-5 system (using C-5 GRUB). Only thing I did differently is the rhel6 /boot partition is mounted on

Re: [CentOS] hardware problem with 5.6

2011-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 14/01/11 17:22, mahmoud mansy wrote: hey every one i got the centos 5.5 and the following problem occuered: 1- the video display doesnot probe my card right. 2- the wireless card doesnot installed . my laptop is dell studio1569: ( display card is intel hd arrandle , the wireless card

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote: The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia which are kABI-tracking kmod

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/01/11 20:08, Michael D. Berger wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +, Ned Slider wrote: On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote: The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Alternatively, you could use

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

2011-01-19 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/01/11 18:42, John R. Dennison 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? You are kidding, right? I do my accounts on

Re: [CentOS] Unable to connect to wireless network

2011-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
On 04/02/11 22:51, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:45 +0530, Jatin wrote: I just installed the CentOS 5.5 version on my toshiba laptop. I did the configuration that i had for the wireless settings but still i could not connect to my home wireless network. So someone please

Re: [CentOS] Fan speed control on Supermicro X8DAL board with CentOS

2011-02-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/02/11 07:00, Chuck Munro wrote: Hello folks, I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out why the CPU cooling fans run at full speed on my Supermicro X8DAL-3 motherboard. There doesn't seem to be any variable speed (the fans are PWM compatible) ... they either idle at almost

Re: [CentOS] Fan speed control on Supermicro X8DAL board with CentOS

2011-02-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/02/11 17:15, Chuck Munro wrote: On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:09:12 + Ned Slider wrote: On 06/02/11 07:00, Chuck Munro wrote: Hello folks, I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out why the CPU cooling fans run at full speed on my Supermicro X8DAL-3 motherboard. There doesn't

Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

2011-02-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 07/02/11 06:08, Stephen Cox wrote: Is it possible to allow a user to login from an changing hostname like: username@*hoststringfixed.com man sshd_config AllowUsers This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated by spaces. If specified, login is allowed only for

Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

2011-02-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/02/11 18:13, Stephen Cox wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Gordon Messmeryiny...@eburg.com wrote: You'll need to set up DNS properly for this to work. It is mobile Broadband... So that will not be not possible. Is there a reason you have to include the host part? Why can't you

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/02/11 02:05, Larry Vaden wrote: In order to avoid a cross post, the following background quote is from scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov: quote On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahone...@macmahon.me.uk wrote: I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from

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

2011-02-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/02/11 15:12, Larry Vaden wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Johnny Hughesjoh...@centos.org wrote: On 02/18/2011 02:26 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:15:32AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Red Hat still has not put several of the sources in their public tree

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

2011-03-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/03/11 10:07, Rudi Ahlers wrote: This post appeared on another forum: Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing? snip But CentOS founder Russ Herold insists the change is not a big issue. Private local trial builds of the released RHEL 6 sources

Re: [CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote: Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, You will need to install the

Re: [CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote: Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, You

Re: [CentOS] modprobe :: not finding existing .ko

2011-03-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/03/11 16:49, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! I try to load an module that it is found in curent /lib/modules/`uname -r` tree ... root@sevcenco: ~ # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-* -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14296 Mar 16 19:37

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/03/11 15:23, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: There are significant components of the upstream 5.6 release which are stuck behind the CentOS 5.6 release process, but are now incorporated in EPEL 5 components. In particular, the php53 package is now necessary for the drupal6 EPEL components, due

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/03/11 03:41, John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:22:36AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: CentOS 4.8 (95 days late) and CentOS 5.3 (69 days late) have been the worst delays. But now CentOS 5.6 is already at 69 days and CentOS 6.0 is past 133 days delay, an all time record (not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
On 07/04/11 14:41, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/04/11 15:11, Radu Gheorghiu wrote: On 04/07/2011 03:58 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: On 04/07/2011 08:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Please try to maintain some semblance of professionalism when you post to this list. This coming from someone who

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
On 07/04/11 21:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/7/2011 3:04 PM, Ned Slider wrote: CentOS AIMS to be 100% binary compatible and for the most part it is, but I'm tired of seeing this misnomer repeated over and over like some holy grail. Personally I'm with Russ on this one that whilst an admirable

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 03:06, Lucian wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jerry Franzjfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 04/07/2011 03:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote: The GPL says they must release source. It doesn't say they have to also release any magic spells they use to compile it. Actually, it *does*. If

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/04/11 11:36, Mister IT Guru wrote: Due to recent list traffic, it seems that we need to have a new todo list! I propose the following 1) Nuke current todo page 2) Create new todo page 3) Clear out ancient todo items a) Get rid of the items that are no longer relevant b)

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 11/04/11 20:16, Digimer wrote: /putting on asbestos pants. each release is more complex than the last. The web of dependency grows, so the reverse-engineering takes longer and longer. This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the processes involved in

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 11/04/11 22:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/11/2011 4:02 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 11/04/11 20:16, Digimer wrote: /putting on asbestos pants. each release is more complex than the last. The web of dependency grows, so the reverse-engineering takes longer and longer. This is just complete

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/04/11 00:03, Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote: This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the processes involved in rebuilding RHEL. CentOS doesn't reverse-engineer anything, they simply rebuild

Re: [CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/16/2011 01:00 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 13:45 +0200, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: The page http://www.centos.org/product.html has product specifications for all centos releases except for centos6. Is there a reason why or did the site maintainers just forget about it.

Re: [CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/17/2011 03:23 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 02:54 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: On 09/16/2011 01:00 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 13:45 +0200, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: The page http://www.centos.org/product.html has product specifications for all centos

Re: [CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/17/2011 03:44 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 03:32 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: As I said above, this isn't something people can volunteer for - only a very select few have the appropriate privileges to perform the task. There are trust issues. However, you can file

Re: [CentOS] missing package openmotif in i386

2011-09-25 Thread Ned Slider
On 25/09/11 10:16, Christian Athon wrote: I can only find openmotif22 in centos 5 i386. x86_64 has a openmotif. A mistake I assume? Christian. Yes, it's a known issue: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5101 Until the devs get around to fixing this, you can copy the missing i386

Re: [CentOS] Virtual RPM howto?

2011-10-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/10/11 11:46, Kenneth Porter wrote: Can someone point me to a howto or an example of a virtual package? xorg-x11-drivers is an example of a virtual package in the distro. It pulls in all the xorg-x11-drv-* packages as dependencies. Take a look at the SRPM. Hope that helps.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6.0 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository

2011-10-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/10/11 14:22, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/08/2011 02:34 PM, Timothy Murphy piše: I don't really understand the function of this repository, or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository? I read the outline at

Re: [CentOS] Using SD-card reader? (Lenovo T61/Richo R5C822 controller/sdhci driver)

2011-10-13 Thread Ned Slider
On 13/10/11 09:35, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi I'm trying to access an SD-card using the built-in reader on a Lenovo T61 Laptop running CentOS 5.7. The unit is recognised by lspci: # lspci [ ... ] 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21) 15:00.3

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 28/10/11 18:31, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: How is, say, being required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing something you have already contracted and paid for? It would surprise me if

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/10/11 18:41, Ron Loftin wrote: This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any useful information. I have an older laptop that is using the Intel 2200 wireless interface. I installed CentOS 5 on it some time ago and everything is fine. When I was reviewing my

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/10/11 23:04, Ned Slider wrote: On 29/10/11 18:41, Ron Loftin wrote: This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any useful information. I have an older laptop that is using the Intel 2200 wireless interface. I installed CentOS 5 on it some time ago

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: David Miller wrote --- You can go with the self support option. Seeing you are willing to go with CentOS as long as there are timely updates. That tells me you dont really care about getting support from the vendor. You can

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/01/2011 09:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: David Miller wrote --- You can go with the self support option. Seeing you are willing to go with CentOS as long as there are timely

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/11/11 05:34, Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/01/2011 09:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: David Miller wrote --- You can go with the self support option. Seeing you are willing to go

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 13:22, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: Hello, I post here because I have an embarassing issue considering the yum version provided with CentOS 5. I am trying to package an application for CentOS. So I wrote my own specfile which is composed of declaration of various packages (main

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 14:40, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: Le 05/11/2011 15:29, Ned Slider a écrit : Please post your spec file to a pastebin for us to see. Hello, Here it is : http://ares.ptitoliv.net/~ptitoliv/fusiondirectory.spec Rather than making the Requires specific to a package: Requires(postun

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 15:29, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: Le 05/11/2011 16:19, Ned Slider a écrit : On 05/11/11 14:40, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: Le 05/11/2011 15:29, Ned Slider a écrit : Please post your spec file to a pastebin for us to see. Hello, Here it is : http://ares.ptitoliv.net/~ptitoliv

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