[CentOS] Re: fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread Robert Nichols
Kai Schaetzl wrote: What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean? Those blocks are 1024 bytes each, so you'll see that + when

[CentOS] Re: yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
Michael Simpson wrote: do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in which case there would be a line like default=1 in grub.conf changing this to default=0 might bring up the new kernel on reboot i have an old

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

2008-05-11 Thread Robert Nichols
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

[CentOS] Finding module name for SCSI host adapter for a given SCSI target

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Given a path to a SCSI device, e.g. DEV=/dev/st1, I need to find the name of the kernel module for the SCSI host adapter that controls that target. The objective is to be able to unload and reload the kernel module when the drive gets into a state that requires a SCSI bus reset for recovery.

[CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Robert Nichols
Nigel Kendrick wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies Nigel Kendrick wrote: So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else?

[CentOS] Total lockup caused by Shift-{print screen}

2008-07-08 Thread Robert Nichols
I just had the misfortune to press Shift-{print screen} accidentally while in a Gnome desktop, and the result was a completely unresponsive system where the only recovery was a power switch initiated shutdown. Further investigation shows the runaway creation of gnome-screenshot processes. System

[CentOS] Re: Total lockup caused by Shift-{print screen}

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: System is CentOS 5.2 fully updated on an Intel i686. Suggestions about what component should receive the bugzilla report are welcome. Are you able to recreate it? It happened to me once, I've never seen the issue again after that. Ralph 100

[CentOS] Re: Total lockup caused by Shift-{print screen}

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols wrote: I just had the misfortune to press Shift-{print screen} accidentally while in a Gnome desktop, and the result was a completely unresponsive system where the only recovery was a power switch initiated shutdown. Further investigation shows the runaway creation of gnome

[CentOS] Re: Iptables not blocking UDP port 53

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Nichols
Sean Carolan wrote: I'm attempting to block access to port 53 from internet hosts for an internal server. This device is behind a gateway router so all traffic appears to come from source ip 10.100.1.1. Here are my (non-working) iptables rules: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.100.1.1 -m tcp -p

[CentOS] Re: Iptables not blocking UDP port 53

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Nichols
Sean Carolan wrote: Does the count field from iptables -vnL RH-Firewall-1-INPUT show your REJECT rules being hit? Yes, the rule gets hit and it returns an answer to the DNS query anyway. I saw it increment from 10 to 11 when I ran the query: 11 692 REJECT udp -- * *

[CentOS] Re: Documentation file for ifcfg options

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Sometime in the past two weeks, Some kind person pointed me to a GREAT document file that explained all those commands you find in the ifcfg-* files and the network file (and others, I believe). It was a great help to me, and now I need it again, and I did not write

[CentOS] Re: Support policy CentOS 5

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Nichols
Patrick Derwael wrote: you'll find the end-of-life information of the centos releases at: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=(end+of+life)#head-fe8a0be91ee 3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d that FAQ page may also answer other questions you may have, (e.g., the relationship between rhel

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/07/2010 05:11 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Daniel J Walsh wrote: I wrote this paper to try to explain what SELinux tends to complain about. http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/Presentations/selinux_four_things.pdf I am having difficulty with the pdf file - both adobe and kpdf

Re: [CentOS] logrotate.d - reload vs restart

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/27/2010 12:01 PM, Frank Cox wrote: Looking at some of the stuff in /etc/logrotate.d, I see entries like this in some of the configuration files: postrotate /sbin/service privoxy reload 2 /dev/null || true From the commandline, that doesn't work: # /sbin/service privoxy

Re: [CentOS] logrotate.d - reload vs restart

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/28/2010 10:13 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: [SNIP] You're not failing to understand anything. The init.d/privoxy script you have is broken. While https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597732 was reported against a different problem, the corrected initscript it contains should fix

Re: [CentOS] logrotate.d - reload vs restart

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/28/2010 10:49 AM, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:13:45 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: It might be worthwhile to report a new bug against privoxy since the failure to do a reload after logrotate is a more serious problem than the one reported in #597732. This is privoxy rpm

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/26/2011 04:31 AM, James Bensley wrote: On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Grimanrafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod0750/directory And see what happens. Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then worked this out shortly after :)

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/27/2011 01:39 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Also, there's a stack of reasons that DSA is preferred to RSA for SSH keys these days. When you generate your private keys, use ssh-keygen -t dsa, not rsa. Care to elaborate on that? Searching, I find mostly a stack of reasons for preferring

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/31/2011 01:32 PM, Cameron Kerr wrote: On 1/02/2011, at 7:19 AM, Paul Heinleinheinl...@madboa.com wrote: Lots of good advice snipped 12. Tell your users emphatically that they should use $HOME anywhere they're tempted to hardwire their home directory path into a script. :-)

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/07/2011 08:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: That said, it can be problematic when you ping $HOSTNAME and get a valid 127.0.0.1 response, and haven't actually tested your external port. It also requires thought for configuring SSH and SNMP and NFS to allow localhost access. When you ping

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/05/2011 08:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: What the hell is so special about CentOS 6? For me, that would be kernel version 2.6.32. I have hardware and software that needs a kernel a lot newer than the 2.6.18 kernel in CentOS 5.6. I would dearly love to get off the Fedora roller coaster.

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/11/2011 05:53 AM, Tom Brown wrote: I'm hazarding a guess here - that the os/{i386,x86_64}/CentOS/*.rpm's that have 'centos' in the name have had changes made for CentOS. The others have not and the sources are available from upstream at eg

Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/11/2011 11:04 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed.

[CentOS] Re: new CentOS 5 install, 'Network is unreachable'

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup phase, selinux is set to permissive. Setting up on a different

[CentOS] Re: Opposite of cp -u

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the copy. I did not catch this, and deleted the source. So I 'lived' with it and have since changed many files. Well,

[CentOS] Re: Opposite of cp -u

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Nichols
Stephen Harris wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:27:20PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: for F in * do cmp $F /new/directory/$F touch -r $F /new/directory/$F done That will compare all the files and adjust the timestamp on the files that are still the same as those on the backup

[CentOS] Re: too many links error when creating directories

2007-09-27 Thread Robert Nichols
chitgoks wrote: hi , our centos os has an ext3 file system. and i cant create any more directories, it gives me a too many links error, even when doing a manual mkdir. is there any workaround for this? without changing it to a different file system like reiserFS? we dont have a reiserfs module

[CentOS] Re: FW: Logwatch for XXXXXXX.kd4efm.org (Linux)

2007-10-26 Thread Robert Nichols
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH / WQFK-894 wrote: WARNING: Kernel Errors Present end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 2 Time(s) You tried to read or write to a floppy and it kind of failed... I see that error being logged every time a new kernel is

Re: [CentOS] PDF Reader/Editor for CentOS 5.7 (32 bit)?

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 10:58 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: Adobe Reader I would gladly install, if I knew the proper yum command. I have the Adobe Repository installed, but so far, no joy, getting yum to install it. :-) With the Adobe repository installed, yum search adobereader should give you a list of

Re: [CentOS] selinux policy remnant according to /bin/ls on CentOS 6.0 box

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 12:48 PM, Jon Detert wrote: I installed CentOS 6.0 on 2 different x86_64 boxen. Both originally had selinux installed and enabled. I never touched selinux other than to remove as much of it as I could via rpm -e. As far as I can tell, here are the remaining packages that

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 02:49 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Al Sparks wrote: Some observations. When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration. I do static IP addresses, not DHCP. I ended up manually

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/20/2011 04:43 PM, Craig White wrote: Operation of the firstboot script depends on having a GUI installed. It doesn't get executed if you installed just the base system. actually, I haven't installed RHEL or CentOS v 6.x at all - just going on recollection but even if it boots

Re: [CentOS] Strangely slow disk

2011-12-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/04/2011 01:08 PM, fred smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 10:24:00PM +0800, Ho Chaw Ming wrote: Check your bios, and make sure that you did not have IDE mode enabled and AHCI is selected . Also, is this one of the Green series of WD disks? Those have a 4KB sector size, not the

[CentOS] Re: DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Nichols
Josh Donovan wrote: --- On Thu, 11/9/08, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, 11 September, 2008, 5:48 PM That doesn't matter. For the

[CentOS] Re: DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Nichols
Josh Donovan wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: When I asked about a similar problem a while back, the SELinux folks told me that bind-chroot was not supported under SELinux because SELinux already provides better protection. That is wrong. Every release of Fedora comes out and people ask how

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

2008-10-17 Thread Robert Nichols
Les Mikesell wrote: thad wrote: it should be: for i in `ls /var/amavis/tmp` do rm $i done These shouldn't make any difference. The limit is on the size of the expanded shell command line. Really? $ M=0; N=0; for W in `find /usr -xdev 2/dev/null`; do M=$(($M+1)); N=$(($N+${#W}+1));

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

2008-10-18 Thread Robert Nichols
Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: These shouldn't make any difference. The limit is on the size of the expanded shell command line. Really? $ M=0; N=0; for W in `find /usr -xdev 2/dev/null`; do M=$(($M+1)); N=$(($N+${#W}+1)); done; echo $M $N 156304 7677373 vs. $ /bin/echo

[CentOS] Re: Question re RHEL 5.3

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: The one problem I've seen and posted here was w.r.t. smartd error reports showing 2^32 - 1 errors on one of the disks (probably my system disk) every few minutes. I thought this was more than just a bit suspicious, since there are only 4,687,500,000 sectors on a 300GB disk, and the

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Timeout problem

2008-12-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Mark Snyder wrote: I recently installed CentOS 5.1 on a DL71 ASI notebook. After my yum update the timeout parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf file has no effect. It sits at the grub screen forever unless I press the enter key to select a kernel, at which point it will boot. Any help or

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit machine (at work). I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs. So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b. It hung

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question.

2009-01-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Brian wrote: I've did some googling and have not came up with and answer yet. Is there a list of packages that after update require a reboot, other then kernel? That is a difficult question, and the answer depends on how certain you need to be that no running process is still using the

Re: [CentOS] Update to Centos 5 anaconda kickstart %post bug?

2009-01-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Scott Silva wrote: I thought the gaming industry used the IBM midrange equipment almost exclusively, or maybe that is only on their backend systems that actually control the machines. FWIW, after a brief power failure at a local casino, I saw a Linux boot sequence being displayed on the

Re: [CentOS] Completeley disabling SELinux?

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Nichols
nate wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: packages I make sure are not installed via kickstart: CentOS 4.x libselinux libselinux-devel libsepol selinux-policy-targeted CentOS 5.x libselinux libselinux-devel libselinux-python libsemanage libsepol libsepol-devel selinux-policy

Re: [CentOS] Completeley disabling SELinux?

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Nichols
nate wrote: I can certainly see value in SELinux in some environments, I have yet to operate one where it would provide value to me. I find that SELinux runs in enforcing mode quite unobtrusively on my laptop, where I'm running a pretty much out-of-the-box Fedora 10. On my CentOS 5 desktop,

Re: [CentOS] file: /etc/sysconfig/clock

2009-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
chloe K wrote: I modify this file /etc/sysconfig/clock How can I restart the service to have update clock? Just run system-config-date, which can also be invoked from the menu: System - Administration - Date Time If you've already modified /etc/sysconfig/clock manually, just

Re: [CentOS] Flash Drive problem?

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Nichols
Ron Blizzard wrote: 1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc That indicates that you unplugged the drive without first unmounting it, which is very likely to cause exactly the problem you are seeing. -- Bob Nichols

Re: [CentOS] Flash Drive problem?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Nichols
Ron Blizzard wrote: One thing that is odd -- sometimes when I unmount the flash drive, I get a notice on the bottom of the screen that says 1) Wait until the files are written to the flash and 2) It is now safe to remove the flash drive. But I only get these notices some of the time -- maybe

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-12 Thread Robert Nichols
John R Pierce wrote: Ron Blizzard wrote: I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Ross Walker wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopherchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Question now is, was the first sector of partition 1 damaged (was it 63 or 64 sectors dd'd)? If so it will require a more tricky procedure to fix. No, the ext2 file

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopherchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Question now is, was the first sector of partition 1 damaged

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Ross Walker wrote: Since you don't know if LVM has a recovery path how can you imply it doesn't? I've seen plenty of evidence that tools for LVM recovery are lacking. I see postings from people asking about recovery of damaged LVM volumes and not getting any reasonable answers about how to

Re: [CentOS] replacing permissions on uploaded windows files

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Nichols
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a CentOS box and users are putting Windows long files on it, files with and - in their filenames. I'm trying to adjust the permissions as well as user and group membership and i'd like the changes to be sticky. On the tld i've set permissions of 2755 and

[CentOS] Need Java plugin for Firefox in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-23 Thread Robert Nichols
Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a suitable plugin. I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the following

Re: [CentOS] Need Java plugin for Firefox in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Nichols
In a highly frustrated moment I wrote: Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a suitable plugin. I'm running a fully

Re: [CentOS] ls -l output

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Jacob Bresciani wrote: OK, this should be an easy fix but I can't find it, and it's strictly a cosmetic's issue. on our older Gentoo systems if you do an ls -a it orders the results with all the . files ordered alphabetically then all the non-hidden files alphabetically. it also sorts

Re: [CentOS] Remote backup of server

2009-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
happymaster23 wrote: Hello, I want mount directory of one server to another over internet. I was looking to NFS4, but there are no security mechanisms. I need encrypted connection using private key (something like SFTP). Or - if there is in CentOS repo (or EPEL) package, that can mount

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Nichols
Ryan Pugatch wrote: Hi all, Curious issue.. looking in to how much disk space is being used on a machine (CentOS 5.3). When I compare the output of du vs df, I am seeing a 12GB difference with du saying 8G used and df saying 20G used. # du -hcx / 8.0Gtotal # df -h / Filesystem

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Nichols
Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? Where is this document? Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. On the centos.org homepage

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Nichols
David Suhendrik wrote: Still waiting for DVD 5.4 64 bit Have you been looking, or just expecting a DVD to show up in your mailbox?? Go to the CentOS homepage, http://www.centos.org/ . At the top of the page you'll see CentOS Download Information. Click on CentOS-5 ISOs, then on x86_64. Many

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Nichols
Rod Rook wrote: Having used Fedora 8 and 10 for a long time and Fedora 11 for a few months and never experienced this in these distros, I can say this bug occurs only in old versions of Red Had distros like CentOS. Now that I know this is a bug, I will move on hoping that others will solve

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-08 Thread Robert Nichols
Timothy Murphy wrote: My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. Is this just /var/log/messages ? The only System Event Log I know of is part of the BIOS. If

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Nichols
ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I've added the following and it still isn't working iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8443 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.2:8443 iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.0.1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8443 -j ACCEPT I've enabled forwarding -

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Nichols
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi Ward, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 20:27, ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I add that and telnet to the port on BOX A and get Trying 192.168.0.1... telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.1: Connection refused I can telnet to that port on BOX B and get a

Re: [CentOS] cups hp-toolbox

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Nichols
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 16:12:04 Roger Wells wrote: Thanks for responding. I guess I would be a little surprised to expect a regression like that. After all both CUPS and hp-toolbox are installed in CentOS 5.2 right out of the box. I also have an HP C6180 and I think that

Re: [CentOS] cups hp-toolbox

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Nichols
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 19:39:00 Robert Nichols wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: It sounds to me as though this is an hplip problem. The version in CentOS is not the latest, and doesn't support recent printers out-of-the-box. ISTR that I had to grab the relevant ppd file from

[CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22: Version of fwcutter that generate files for the bcm43xx driver in CentOS 5 don't recognize

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:48 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Rick wrote: In article 12768.4492654682$1236586...@news.gmane.org, Sorin Srbu centos@centos.org wrote: If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks in bank 1 and 3 and the

Re: [CentOS] Disk usage for small files in ext3 in CentOS 5

2009-03-11 Thread Robert Nichols
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hello, I noticed something unusual today. If I du a small file (couple of bytes) in CentOS 5, it tells me the file is using 8kb, while I was expecting 4kb which is the block size I'm using. I tried this on several CentOS 5 machines, both x86_64 and i386:

Re: [CentOS] Disk usage for small files in ext3 in CentOS 5

2009-03-11 Thread Robert Nichols
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Found it! It's not related to CentOS 4 or 5 (I found a C4 machine in which small files took 8kb of diskspace and a C5 machine in which small files took 4kb). It's related to SELinux being enabled or not. Casually most of my C4 machines had SELinux disabled and most

Re: [CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: cannot find libjpeg support

2009-03-16 Thread Robert Nichols
Anne Wilson wrote: I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Robert Nichols
Frank Thommen wrote: nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc. So I'm one from the minority then :-). CentOS 5 is running on (almost) all servers and (really) all

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-29 Thread Robert Nichols
Les Mikesell wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 months? Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ... The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point of enterprise

Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

2009-04-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I don't know if I really like this background though it is kind of neat. Where do I find the app to change this? Right-click on the desktop, select Change Desktop Background from the menu. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address.

Re: [CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting

2009-04-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Brett Serkez wrote: I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Mike A. Harris wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses. ;o) Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. But

Re: [CentOS] re-install package

2009-04-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Joseph L. Casale wrote: You can remove them with rpm -e pkgnames --nodeps and then reinstall them with yum. I had to do this recently with some strangeness that was goign on with kpartx and device-mapper-multipath of al things. # rpm -i --replacepkgs rpm-file is possibly safer in some

Re: [CentOS] Threading and CentOS mailing list digest

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Nichols
David G. Miller wrote: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: What is happening is I get the CentOS mailing list in digest form. That is, I get one e-mail each day with all of the previous day's posts. If I notice a topic that I feel I can contribute to, I cut and paste an

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Nichols
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: snip Noscript will give you an idea of just how many sites run a script of some kind. You will see a large part of sites just look different when the scripts don't run, and some don't function at all.

Re: [CentOS] regex help

2009-05-12 Thread Robert Nichols
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need a little help, trying to search for a line that begins with /dev and ends with a single digit that I will choose, like 5. I can search for ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern using egrep. If you mean any single digit not

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-12 Thread Robert Nichols
nate wrote: Scott Silva wrote: But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect not. Technically, that's not overwriting. That's

Re: [CentOS] fsck file system is mounted

2009-05-16 Thread Robert Nichols
cen...@911networks.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to run fsck or any other program to check if there is drive problem. I don't want it repaired, now, but maybe later on. I can't shutdown the system and reboot in single user-mode. All suggestions are welcomed. You can run fsck with the

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread Robert Nichols
Lanny Marcus wrote: My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 years The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: Semi-OT? I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with the U3 software (for Windoze) on a CD partition and considerably less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: If you go into fdisk's expert mode and set the geometry to 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize the full 8029470208 bytes. I was able to do that. Then I went back and

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols wrote: MHR wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: If you go into fdisk's expert mode and set the geometry to 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize the full 8029470208 bytes. I was able to do

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: Robert wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force way

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Sure. I'll try it as a small attachment here. It that doesn't work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where I can upload it. I don't have anything like that set up just now.

Re: [CentOS] Attaching LinkSys WRT54GL to CentOS machine

2011-04-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/24/2011 01:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I don't actually think my motives are relevant. In case I didn't described the situation clearly, my CentOS server is connected to an ADSL modem by ethernet (eth0). The modem's IP address is 192.168.1.254 . I have a second NIC on my server (eth1)

Re: [CentOS] iptables

2011-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2011 10:19 AM, mattias wrote: Can anyone see any errors in this scripts Iptables says Invalid target iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o virbr0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i virbr0 -o eth0 -j

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2011 06:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: James Pearson wrote: Could it be that the partition table has become corrupt (e.g. overwritten)? But everything seems to be working perfectly; is that possible if the partition table is corrupt? Yes - the partition table may have been fine

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/27/2011 07:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: James Pearson wrote: Is there a safe way of recovering the partition table? I have a vague idea that copies are kept at various places on the disk? AFAIK, there is only one copy at the start of the disk - however what does /proc/partitions

Re: [CentOS] INN removed from CentOS 6

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/27/2011 08:56 AM, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: I use inn to make internal company announcements and discussions available to remote offices. I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn? http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/apc.html

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/27/2011 01:15 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18:28AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: It would make life so much easier if fdisk would simply accept those same numbers as Kilobytes, but alas it keeps trying to round up to the next cylinder boundary, so you have

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/27/2011 07:08 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: sfdisk has dump mode, and it can also import old dump to new disk. That dump mode doesn't help if the partition table is currently munged, and sfdisk is extraordinarily unforgiving of the tiniest mistake in human-generated

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-23 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/23/2011 01:44 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: But, for paranoia's sake, I would RAID1 the SSD with a second SSD. Quote from http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/newmds-ssdtuning.html : Red Hat also warns that software RAID levels

Re: [CentOS] Getting the return value of the last command run

2011-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/30/2011 10:00 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:55, Bob Beersbob.be...@gmail.com wrote: You can check the return code. $ ls $ echo $? 0 (usually) indicates success. Thank you Bob, that is exactly what I was looking for! And when you have several commands in a

Re: [CentOS] Getting the return value of the last command run

2011-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/30/2011 05:14 PM, fred smith wrote: Yes, all commands return a value UNLESS it was written by one of the idi,... er, misguided programmers who thinks its ok to write (in C): void main (void) { ... exit(); } because, of course, in C main() always returns

Re: [CentOS] how do determine last file system on disk?

2011-06-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/25/2011 06:46 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to determine which file system a disk was formatted with, if fdisk -l doesn't show it? [snip] I need to see what data is on a bunch of disks that I found in storage and would prefer to first check if there's anything

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/02/2011 12:07 PM, Devin Reade wrote: There is one flaw that I know of with APC brand UPSes, although I wouldn't be surprised if other UPSes are similar (since APC has traditionally set the standard in the market): There is a small window between the time that the UPS initiates a

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