Re: [CentOS] OOM condition with file-4.17-9.0.1.el5

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:30 +0200, John wrote: Hello all, We just encountered several serious Out of Memory Problems caused by the file 4.17-9.0.1.EL5 utility on our mail Gateway. CentOS 5.1 kept it self alive by killing it parent process Amavisd-new. Manually restarting Amavisd-new and

Re: [CentOS] upgrade Fedora - Centos

2008-06-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:20 +0300, Sergej Kandyla wrote: Hi all, Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ? Thanks in advice! I would expect a migration similar to that described under Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 on

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

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked to put a club's membership form on their web, but firefox displays it as scaled to 23% and it prints at that scale. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks Anne, Don't know, but it might help to know what format you are using

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:40 +0200, Alwin Roosen wrote: Hi, Is there someone on this mailing list who could/want help me figure out this issue? We do not know where to look to solve this. ... I would be very surprised if this is hardware related. A google on Machine Check Exception

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 08:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm working on upgrading my Xen Domain0 to CentOs 5.2. However, yum update gives me a package conflict on perl: ... Using a x86_64 install btw. Anyone seen this one?? Please don't hijack threads with a Reply when starting

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 21:46 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: Dear All, I am curently running a CENTOS server with the following setup CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen on an i686 Stating the obvious, you are WAY behind on updates, including many security patches.

Re: [CentOS] USB Drive is detected and but the device /dev/sda1 is not initialized

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:55 +0530, Balaji wrote: Dear All, I have using CentOS 4.4 and My PC USB Drive is detected and but the device /dev/sda1 is not initialized and i have executed the ... I am not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. What does fdisk

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Markandeya wrote on 12/24/2010 07:57 AM: ... do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, you lose the whole volume? Can anyone confirm this? Yes. 2: can you add(extend) a physical hdd with data to a LV without losing the data? No. 3: can you remove one hdd to

Re: [CentOS] what happened to the status

2011-01-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jerry Geis wrote on 01/04/2011 09:21 AM: Hey - back to work today and just noticed the last status update for release 6 ( http://twitter.com/centos ) was way back on Dec 1. Closest I have seen to a later status update is at http://twitter.com/kbsingh Everyone have a Great New Year! :)

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
Larry Vaden wrote on 01/30/2011 08:41 PM: ... With apologies for replying to my own post, the final solution (possibly regarded as draconian and puerile by others) which seemed to work to return to a consistent state was to download Oracle R5U6 and invoke 'rpm -ivh' following some rpm which

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timothy Murphy wrote on 03/28/2011 07:24 PM: However, when I go towww.centos.org and click on Downloads=Mirrors=CentOS-5 ISOs=x86_64 Go to Downloads / Mirrors / Mirror List And look at the column headed Direct DVD Downloads. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: Hi CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently been fixed. ... I realise this description is kind of a tangle

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. (Why not, as a matter of interest?) Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 02:27 PM: None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as the server. Agreed. In my mind that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
William Hooper wrote on 04/08/2011 03:50 PM: Forgive me if I've missed it mentioned, but it looks like the option is only being removed from the LiveCD. Using the netinstall.iso is still available and would be a more efficient way of doing network installs anyway (9.5M vs 685M). Precisely.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: Why force people to burn two disks when they would only need one? You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot of time answering the newbies on the forum

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: .. What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at the end of the install, usef-2 or whatever to get to another screen, then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or not, but mount your /boot on

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote on 04/08/2011 02:32 PM: I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I get to the point of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and also make sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I click on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:56 PM: In a standard install? I'll look, but don't remember that option. It is present, but easy to overlook. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: ... The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669963 You

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 05:33 PM: Is there some way for yum to know about that? Only if it errors out on a bad package. There have been (to my knowledge) two different types of errors. One was a truncated package on the mirrors that was damaged in transit from the build system. The

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mister IT Guru wrote on 04/09/2011 06:36 AM: ... Any ideas? Anyone want to comment? The Wiki could use a lot of work in many areas including this one; however, Wiki discussions should be conducted on centos-docs. Please post there. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer with the ext4 option and anaconda will be able to format ext4, or at least that works in 5.5. Works just as well on 5.6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dag Wieers wrote on 04/11/2011 07:03 PM: ... Anyone from the QA team interested to share some information on what happened during QA ? A very limited group did a lot of work on QA and missed some issues that might have been caught by a more open process. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are

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

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/11/2011 06:58 PM: On 4/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote: ... It's laborious, it's repetitive, it's boring, sometimes it's time-consuming but it's really NOT difficult. That depends on where and whether you can find the component(s) that were missing or the wrong

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

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R. Dennison wrote on 04/11/2011 07:48 PM: Your constant drive-by snipes don't do much to give the devs additional motivation to correct any of the issues that are present. I don't think anyone with the constant presence Dag has exhibited can be characterized as a

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

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/11/2011 12:20 PM: ... No, re-read what I said. Ownership in the distro is quite a different ballgame from userend support. Yes, but it seems to be rather closely held. The main support *I* need is timely updates and releases. The aim is to solve problems on a much

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

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/12/2011 07:43 AM: Quite a large part of the functional tests can be automated - specially if there are going to be 100's of people offering them up. Wihtout a doubt we need more of those. Agree - whatever can be automated should be. It is the predictive part I was

Re: [CentOS] Got no login screen with the new 5.6 kernel

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Stanley A. Klein wrote on 04/12/2011 01:55 PM: I did the 5.6 update yesterday. When I started the machine today, I did not get a login screen -- it was just a blank screen with no cursor or anything. I shut down, restarted and when grub came up selected the previous kernel. The system came

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

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/12/2011 04:07 PM: suspect this is, at least in some part, down to the fact that we don't have a wiki or a web page that could perhaps accumulate some/much of whats been said already and point people at that - so if they are new to the process, they have a single

Re: [CentOS] Rip quality(DVDRiP) movies on CENTOS

2007-07-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:39 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: Hi,, I have installed xine in order to watch movies. I have some Rip quality(DVDRiP) movies. When I watch these, I can see the movie. But, Not clear. vision is bad. Do you know why? How to solve this? pls see below for the

Re: Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 02 August 2007, Indunil Jayasooriya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Why should I remove ProtectBase ? Whithout removing ProtectBase, Is it NOT proper to install Priorities? I believe it is one or the other. If you decide to change

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:24 -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I know). Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are some

Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5

2007-08-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Fabian, There seem to be a number of different ways of installing the ipw2200 firmware and as I've said already I've tried puttting the .fw files into the firmware directory - why doesn't this work? What is actually the

Re: [CentOS] Can't get ipw2200 to work in CentOS 5 on Dell laptop

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed ipw2200-firmware-3.0-3.nodist.rf from RPMForge using yum OK. I've loaded the ipw modules with /sbin/modprobe ipw2200 and then /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw which gives: ipw2200 136873 0 ieee80211

Re: [CentOS] Can't get ipw2200 to work in CentOS 5 on Dell laptop

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 14:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again Phil, I've added alias eth1 ipw2200 to /etc/modprobe.conf, but I still can't get it to a) recognize eth1 and/or b) to list the Intel Coporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG adapter, so I can't confiure eth1. I'm obviously missing

Re: [CentOS] Can't get ipw2200 to work in CentOS 5 on Dell laptop

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 03:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again Phil for all your help, It's now on the hardware tab OK and says ipw2200 eth1 ethernet configured! However, what I just don't understand (and sorry if I'm being dumb!) is why the new adapter just doesn't show up in the

Re: [CentOS] Can't get ipw2200 to work in CentOS 5 on Dell laptop

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Andy, On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:14 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message: - From: Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:10:05 -0400 you also need to add the adapter in system-config-network with New on the Devices tab

Re: [CentOS] mod_mono on centos5?

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:32 -0400, Dave wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. To be honest i really don't want to torture myself with this, my network switch is giving me enough grief right now, but i don't have a choice. I've got the rpmforge repo enabled, but a yum install isn't giving

Re: [CentOS] Adding Things to Rescue Mode

2007-08-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:31 -0400, Brent L. Bates wrote: I'd like to add a few things to rescue mode. I'm tired of having to use a floppy with hardware drivers when ever I need to go into rescue mode and there are a few other utilities that I'd like to add as well. How would I go about

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 5 server setup walkthrough

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 12:02 +0530, Rohit Rai wrote: I have just finished setting up and configuring a server running CentOS 5 with 2 Xen VMs. This article describes my journey through this, including the problems I faced and there solutions. It documents the installation of CentOS 5, from a

Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Recovery

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:32 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: On 8/15/07, Centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello our external scsi drive is detached, so it is not showing up in fdisk -l however it shows up mounted in /etc/mtab is there any command that I can run to detect and re attach the

Re: [CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote: On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get loaded on start. Thanks for the hint. Where linuxrc located? i already searched initrd image and can not found it. Looks like the script

Re: [CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

2007-08-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:02 +0700, beast wrote: On 15/08/07 17:38 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote: On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get loaded on start. Thanks for the hint

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP

2007-08-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:18 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbie question, I've been searching the CentOS site and googled, but I couldn't find an answer (probably my bad). I want to install CentOS 4.5, but I'm having troubles with my CD reader. How can I install it from

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP / STRANGE THING

2007-08-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:45 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, No need to install, download a freedos iso (www.freedos.org), write the standard distro to a floppy and use loadlin. Ok, I've installed FreeDOS and can access CentOS CDs. What about loadlin ? I just read in your previous

Re: [CentOS] Install on a usb flash drive

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 13:14 -0500, Scott Moseman wrote: An interesting idea. How would the install work? If you boot from DVD with the USB drive installed, will it see the drive and make it an option for the install destination? Tried this a while back with an earlier release of CentOS4 and

Re: [CentOS] using centos for linux appliance

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:18 -0700, Venkat Subbiah wrote: Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance. Please also think about starting a thread with a new message, not by replying to an existing one an hijacking the original thread (CentOS/RH 5 Samba as PDC+NIS w/o LDAP? in this

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use a mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. That retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The checksum fails, it

[CentOS] Blackberry Bounces [was Fwd: Delivery Status Notification(Failure)]

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Forwarded Message From: Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:31:18 -0400 On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200

Re: [CentOS] timeout when accessing atrpms repo

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:20 -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm using centos5 and i just started noticing a timeout msg when running a yum update. It occurs with the atrpms repo, has anyone else seen this? Thanks. Yes - going into the 2nd day now. Axel said on the ATrpms-users list on Monday

Re: [CentOS] My server won't boot (grub looping - stage2)

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:05 -0400, mbneto wrote: Hi, I can't boot. It simply does not show me the menu of kernels to choose. When the problem first manisfested itselfFirst I was getting that loop regarding the 'loading stage2'. After I tried that grub-install I simply get an infinite

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:21 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and data are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates options. Seems like a reasonable hypothesis. How hard would it be to test it by synchronizing

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in

2007-08-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 30 August 2007, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 57 snip And, learning how to remove/replace a defective drive is something I should do. VMWare is a good way to experiment with things like that. Scott: Thank you

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Virtualization SIG created

2007-09-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: The CentOS team is pleased to announce the creation of its first Special Interest Group (SIG): the Virtualization SIG. A SIG is a smaller group within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in order to either create

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in

2007-09-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 31 August 2007, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 21 snip As discussed recently on-list, VMware CPU requirements to support virtualization are not nearly so rigorous as for Xen. You are probably OK with VMware

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 or 5.0

2007-09-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:15 -0300, Centos wrote: Hello I am downloading Centos, but I don't know What is the difference between Centos 5 and Centos 5.0 None, currently. 5 is a link pointing to the latest 5.x release, and until 5.1 hits the streets, max[x] = 0. also as far as I remember

Re: [CentOS] package manager

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:49 -0700, Dan Dansereau wrote: How do I force the package manager to re-install a package? Such as Development - Development Tools - G77 Or the entire Development tools package? The G77 Is missing – and when I ask it to install – it states that is

Re: [CentOS] Boot problem with CENTOS 5

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:46 -0700, chuck wrote: I had everything up and running. All of the help thus far was excellent. Thanks! I then did the updates that the OS prompted to do and selected reboot now once they completed. Now when the server reboots after the bios info I get the

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-devel] Areca RAID drivers

2007-09-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 23:32 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, Phil Schaffner wrote: Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I

Re: [CentOS] Server Virtualization

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:20 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: Hello, I work for a school in a New Zealand university and we are wanting to implement Server Virtualization for both CentOS and Windows systems. So I thought I would ask here what experience people have had with this and what issues

Re: [CentOS] Problems building LPRng src RPM

2007-09-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:16 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: ... It looked like it went through the ./configure portion OK. Any ideas? Has someone else gotta LPRng to work on CentOS 5? Yes. With difficulty. :-) This problem is fixed by: 1. installing the LPRng

Re: [CentOS] searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:01 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl yum

Re: [CentOS] Error trying to install Ktorrent

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:59 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:12 -0400, Dago Pacheco wrote: Hi... I was trying to install Ktorrent in my centos 4 x64 (i use kde) and when I typed './configure' i get this error message: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:08 +0930, Michael Kratz wrote: On 25/09/2007, at 6:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The yum update seems to have run just fine (no

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

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:13 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: Do you have multiple disk ? Can you search on all your disk for grub's files ? On 9/25/07, mark pryor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub

Re: [CentOS] C5 i386 DVD boot problems

2007-10-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:13 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I tried to boot from two different CentOS 5 DVDs, both pass the checksum test, and both give me the same error on a Dell laptop from either GUI or text install modes: invalid compressed format (err=2) VFS: Cannot open root device

Re: [CentOS] Ghostview

2007-10-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:42 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: Does anyone know where I can find good ol' fashion gv? It seems the only ghostview is kghostview or evince. EPEL has it. See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories to enable. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] migration from RHELv5 to CentOS-5

2007-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:46 -0700, Craig White wrote: ... OK - here's my methodology for upgrading in case it helps someone cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release-saved rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes \ redhat-releaserpm \ Shouldn't that just be redhat-release?

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-11-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 02:22 +0800, adrian kok wrote: Hi all how can I have script to rename the following directory pattern from from dir-192.168.30.0 dir-192.168.30.144 dir-192.168.30.184 To: dir-10.0.30.0 dir-10.0.30.144 dir-10.0.30.184 If you are just

Re: [CentOS] rpm / yum / repo wranging tools?

2007-11-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 05:19 -0800, Rogelio wrote: I'm inheriting dozens of CentOS servers and am looking for various tools to help me wrangle the rpm / yum / repo madness. Any tools you might suggest for me to look into would be greatly appreciated! mrepo? You need to better describe what

Re: [CentOS] Good evening to all

2007-11-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 18:21 +0530, Silambarasan.R wrote: Hi.. Could u help me to re-install the centos 4 without affecting existing data...? is it possible? if so pl let me know... http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You did not give enough information to get good advice.

Re: [CentOS] Ekiga - camera

2011-09-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Always Learning wrote on 09/21/2011 02:33 PM: ... I'm on 5.7 But the OP is on 6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

2011-11-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alan McKay wrote on 11/14/2011 09:56 PM: Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither is perfect. That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 (and so long ago at that)? At

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ron Young wrote on 11/17/2011 01:11 PM: I just installed win 7 pro @home in order to be more compatible with my new @work environment. I am likewise having a problem with samba shares. The samba shares are on a C5.7 server and were readily available from the same machine running XP for the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote on 11/17/2011 01:18 PM: Have you replaced samba packages with samba3x packages? P.S. Just noticed I am an accessory to a thread hijacking. This thread is about CentOS-6. Sorry. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 and VirtualBox 4.1.8

2011-12-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote on 12/22/2011 03:14 PM: Had to increase the memory size, so it would go into a graphics install. This caused it to prompt me for the type of Linux installation and provide network (interface) information. Wouldn't do this in text mode. Upstream has severely

Re: [CentOS] is centos bugzilla borked?

2011-12-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
fred smith wrote on 12/25/2011 05:33 PM: I managed to get an account set up on the centos bugzilla, after futzing with it for a half hour, but for the life of me I cannot get to the page where I would enter a new one. my browser just says transferring data from bugs.centos.org and sits there

Re: [CentOS] NOUVEAU driver video acceleration

2012-01-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 01/15/2012 09:57 PM: I enabled both epel and rpmforge. Neither of the above. You need http://elrepo.org. # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo\* list \*nvidia\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6 KDE: Desktop Activity type: desktop only

2012-01-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
wwp wrote on 01/20/2012 09:56 AM: Hello there, I'm looking at different desktop activity types (in Desktop Settings), and on my CentOS 6, I only have desktop. No folderview, for instance. Does anybody know how to install/enable other types? I have Desktop (default) and Folder View. How did

Re: [CentOS] Machine becoming irresponsive

2012-01-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dotan Cohen wrote on 01/23/2012 08:39 AM: There is a CentOS 5.2 machine ... I'd have a look at why an apparently Internet-facing server is 5 point releases, plus a lot of subsequent errata, behind the current 5.7 release level; and what resultant vulnerabilities might have been exploited.

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove lvs associated with deleted vm guests

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Pardon the top-post and cross-post, but this apparently should have gone to centos-v...@centos.org Phil chris procter wrote on 01/27/2012 03:29 PM: Hi, Its ages since I came across this problem so my memory is a little hazey but something is obviously holding on to the lv so you'll need to

Re: [CentOS] Installing CENTOS 6.1 to Intel notebook

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Wilkinson wrote on 01/28/2012 07:58 PM: ... but wonder if anyone knows if this problem (of graphical install freezing) has been fixed in CENTOS 6.2 Why not try it and see. Obsolete releases should not be installed anyway. , or (if not) if RedHat is aware of it. Don't see it in the

Re: [CentOS] Advise on recovering 2TB RAID1

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 01/28/2012 09:49 PM: ... But I see this: DESCRIPTION sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and - very dangerous - repartition a device. Since the device is new

Re: [CentOS] upgrade centos 5 to 6

2012-02-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
fakessh @ wrote on 02/03/2012 05:43 PM: but possible or I may strongly advises against I would strongly advise against blindly overwriting /var and /etc (or anything else, with the possible exception of /home) from a CentOS-6 install with CentOS-5 versions. Compare the files and make changes

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are themselves treated as single drives to be combined into a single RAID 1. Phil

Re: [CentOS] Create Virtual Machine via HTTP or FTP

2012-02-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
cbul...@gmail.com wrote on 02/09/2012 12:05 AM: I used a DVD. The command was: cp -ar/path/DVD/. /var/www/html/inst DVD1 or LiveDVD? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Filing a bug for clamav

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote on 02/17/2012 07:40 PM: yum list installed | grep clamav # yum --showduplicates --noplugins --enablerepo atrpms,epel,rpmforge list clamav ... Available Packages clamav.x86_64 0.96.1-1.el5.rf rpmforge clamav.x86_64

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

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bart Schaefer wrote on 02/15/2012 05:00 PM: Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening, so I'm trying again. No clues? Try it on a freshly created account. If it works, then it's something you did to your account. If it does not then it is a system-level bug or

Re: [CentOS] scp and key login

2008-10-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:37 -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote: ... As far as I know that's right. Though it can be scripted into your login. Been doing it so long I can't remember whom to credit, but I use the following snippet added to the end of ~/.bash_profile:

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/old/new/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name *.html -exec sed -i -e 's/old/new/g' {} \; or

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 23:13 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: perl -pi -e s/foo/bar/ *.html Won't recurse down the directory tree, but I guess the OP didn't actually ask for that. Could substitute the perl commad for sed in the earlier example. Many ways to skin the cat (all equally odious to the cat

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

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big event way back when. Then Fortran

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

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: That's why you punch sequence numbers in the last 8 columns. :-) ... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, but remember to number by some integer 1 or you had to redo the whole remainder of the deck to

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:59 -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. Any reason not to use 5.2? Will save a lot of updates, and perhaps some headaches. I

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:31 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: dear All. Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly as i said b4 Correct English really would not take that much more effort as compared to texting shortcuts, and would make it more likely that you might get

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Monty Shinn wrote: ... Phil, Thanks for your input. I did find the location of the grub install modification. Strange thing is, when I restarted the install, grub defaulted to the MBR of /dev/sdb. I did not change any hardware or bios settings in between attempts. I have no idea why the

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote: At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution? s/on/one/ - before someone else jumps on me :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 9:35pm, Phil Schaffner wrote At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D The GRUB shell is quiet

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dag Wieers wrote: ... Hmm, I am pretty sure at some point in the past registering to RHN was free without entitlements. That is how I have delegated systems and entitlements to other people within RPMforge. Maybe it is different now. I will have to find out and document on the Wiki in

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