Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On 12/13/2011 07:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 12/13/2011 06:47 PM, Anne Wilson piše: To avoid similar problems in the future, can you give me some guidelines for priority settings? It seems I got it wrong somewhere:-) Thanks It is not wise to have third-party repositories

Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On 12/15/2011 04:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: You can keep all desired repositories enabled as long as you have yum-plugin-priorities installed and keep third-party repositories with lesser priority (larger number). Like base=1, epel=2, repoforge=3, rpmfusion-* =3, etc. Here is

Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On 12/15/2011 04:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Here is how I decided to setup third party repositories: http://rpms.plnet.rs/CentDOS.repo There are few changes needed like torakat repo with now centosplus kernels. Can you explain, please, about those exclude=*releases statements? What

Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On 12/12/2011 07:44 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 12/12/11 18:47, Anne Wilson wrote: For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it out have failed, so I need help, please. The current

[CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package

[CentOS] If you are using CentOS 6 and KDE....

2011-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
The desktop will look strange and behave differently. If you need any help in getting used to it, either join the kde user list, https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde , the kde forum, http://forum.kde.org/ , or mail me personally. Once again I will turn off receipt from this list. The

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

2011-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. The session you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop

2011-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. The reason is that Desktop is quite simply a directory - remember how it fits into the file system

Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 John R Pierce wrote: On 08/25/11 9:46 AM, R P Herrold wrote: yeah -- just like there is presently any self control being shown by certain serial offenders here. We could set it up, but the people who need to use it wont't sadly, we'd see the same crap

Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 John Doe wrote: From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net Keith Roberts wrote: Could we have a centos-offtopic list please, so anything that would be considered OT can be posted there? I don't think that is necessary; this newsgroup does not seem to me to

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On 22 August 2011 19:45, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Anne alternatives --config mta Switch to Postfix. Validate by alternatives --display mta then remove Sendmail if you do not use it. Thanks - that's what I was looking for. alternatives --display mta mta - status is

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On 23 August 2011 07:47, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On 22 August 2011 19:45, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Anne alternatives --config mta Switch to Postfix. Validate by alternatives --display mta then remove Sendmail if you do not use it. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On 22 August 2011 20:50, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: One of the first things I do after the installation of a system is a yum install postfix followed by a yum remove sendmail. No need to deal with alternatives if you don't intend to deal with sendmail anyway. I removed

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On 23 August 2011 10:46, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: In article cajfu-f7ncz+iamxzg5rq0vzaelctbcncnfysyykaapxw5ce...@mail.gmail.com, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On 22 August 2011 20:50, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: One of the first

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2011 Les Mikesell wrote: On 8/23/11 3:51 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, xxx.lan, xxx.org This morning I restored the old main.cf, which uses the old network settings of xxx.net. Now mail is being received

[CentOS] Missing UIDs

2011-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
From time to time I'm seeing this message: I couldn't find the numerical IDs of these users: abrt nslcd pulse rtkit saslauth tcpdump usbmuxd In most cases this is caused by inconsistencies in the user or group database, e.g. between the files /etc/passwd, /etc/group and their respective shadow

[CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
Although I have the alias defined in /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/aliases, I'm not receiving root mail. Following the previous thread about unreceived logwatch mail, I tested with a manual run of logwatch, and found that my ISP is rejecting the mail because it is seeing an envelope carrying

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 Aug 2011 12:49:21 Anne Wilson wrote: Although I have the alias defined in /etc/aliases and /etc/postfix/aliases, I'm not receiving root mail. Following the previous thread about unreceived logwatch mail, I tested with a manual run of logwatch, and found that my ISP is rejecting

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 Aug 2011 13:12:54 Always Learning wrote: Once your email is out on the Internet is needs a genuine Internet email address. xxx.lan is known only to your internal system and it is not an Internet email address. Exactly - and my problem is knowing where it is getting this from.

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On 22/08/2011, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:12:54PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: a...@.org: host mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98] said: If you're running postfix, you might want to also edit

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms - SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:39:12 Anne Wilson wrote: I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since the update I've not been

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:05:51 Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:45:17 John Hodrien wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had missed some steps, and you were right

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 17:58:13 John Hodrien wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either

[CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since the update I've not been able to do that. On watching the messages during a

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the habit of mounting data partitions on my

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf on both systems (the same for both). That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 December 2010 18:11:00 Beartooth wrote: We have a couple of external USB hard drives, and one at least has a partition backing up her specific machine. I'll try to think up a good name (or get her to!) and see if I can change that partition to that. The

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 December 2010 18:40:43 Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote: LASTFOLDER is informational, procmail sets it immediately before delivering to that folder

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:35:33 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: All the recipes work perfectly - it's just those that fall off the end. For some reason it overrides the DEFAULT setting in procmailrc. I'm seeing

[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:39:56 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be Delivered

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 18:35:29 Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: # /etc/procmailrc DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things you'd recommend to place there? That's all I put in there. It may

Re: [CentOS] nfs4 help needed

2010-05-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 02 May 2010 21:09:46 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple

Re: [CentOS] nfs4 help needed

2010-05-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 02 May 2010 21:09:46 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple

[CentOS] nfs4 help needed

2010-04-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Fedora 13 is using nfs4, and there is a problem in opening files requiring OpenOffice if accessed over an nfs3 mount, so it's time to change. I found a couple of tutorials, and got it *almost* working correctly. This is where I need help. Logwatch tells me /nfs4exports/Data1 and /Data1 have

Re: [CentOS] creating a local repo

2010-04-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 25 April 2010 12:27:20 john maclean wrote: Your dns isn't working for you:) rsync -avrt --exclude=debug/ rsync://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/5/updates/ updates/ Solved. Wrong syntax and a firewall in the way. More details would help anyone searching the archives :-) Anne

[CentOS] Can no longer print

2010-04-23 Thread Anne Wilson
My server has CentOS 5.4. I had hplip-2.7.12 installed and running, as earlier versions didn't work with my printers, and was able to print to a networked printer. As far as I'm aware, that's the version that was still running last time I printed. Recently I decided to add a local USB

Re: [CentOS] Can no longer print

2010-04-23 Thread Anne Wilson
Reply to All / Reply to List On Friday 23 April 2010 18:30:40 MHR wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Running 'hp-check -t' tells me that libcrypto is a required dependency and I don't have it. 'rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto' says

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 07 January 2010 11:49:32 Karanbir Singh wrote: Actually, the only way to totally block spam is to setup a rotational moderation team and moderate everything. Dont think I need to go into the issues that would come with that setup. Besides which, more spam comes from threads like

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and HPLIP-3.9.12

2010-01-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:23:09 gene.po...@macys.com wrote: I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet attached. It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 x86_64

[CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I accepted the removal, then re-installed gwenview and digikam, which, of course,

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:57:30 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 10:41 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: assumed that it would bring in the best-match version, and continued. This morning, seeing that more updates were announced, I ran update again. To my surprise, exiv2 was skipped

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:06:54 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:00 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* exiv2-devel.i386 0.19-1.el5.rf rpmforge rpmforge.repo is enabled, but is priority 5 - could

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:10:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:06 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* erm, i said 'list' but meant 'update'. you want to yum -d9 update exiv\* Oops - so the output I already posted is irrelevant. The

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:10:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:06 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: yum clean metadata; yum repolist ; yum -d9 list exi\* erm, i said 'list' but meant 'update'. you want to yum -d9 update exiv\* I should also add that I use skip-broken routinely, and I

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 15:04:27 Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/05/2010 02:49 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Oops - so the output I already posted is irrelevant. The new output is at http://filebin.ca/swaoqf/centos2.txt This looks like a repo problem, you should report it to the rpmforge-users

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 16:38:01 Rob Kampen wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one else

[CentOS] Security advice, please

2009-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
I run chkrootkit daily. For the first time I've got reports of a problem - Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1008) The page http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/checking-bindshell-infected- ports-1008/ suggests that this might be a false positive, so I ran 'netstat - tanup' but unlike

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2009-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 December 2009 16:55:04 nate wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: do the trick, and I simply didn't know what else to try. In case I meet this again, can you please advise me? Are you doing anything with NFS? If not then turn off the nfs service, and the rpc services [r...@dc1

Re: [CentOS] Missing package

2009-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 23:42:30 ken wrote: On 10/28/2009 08:39 AM Anne Wilson wrote: The big update caused one of the rare re-starts on my mail server, so I saw the startup messages that I had forgotten about. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: [3424]: warning: python-dbus not installed

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

2009-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 October 2009 18:35:56 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP, laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that it wants a password, no user

[CentOS] Missing package

2009-10-28 Thread Anne Wilson
The big update caused one of the rare re-starts on my mail server, so I saw the startup messages that I had forgotten about. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: [3424]: warning: python-dbus not installed. Oct 28 10:50:04 borg2 python: hp-systray[3424]: warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. Oct 28

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 20:03:04 Curt Mills wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:50:37 Ron Loftin wrote: My image of the low-tech user is the one who surfs the Web, reads and writes e-mail, and does the odd letter or maybe even a spreadsheet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 25 September 2009 17:02:24 Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so

[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:31:55 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:11 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:55:15 Niki Kovacs wrote: Anne Wilson a écrit : I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. I'm running a small computer business in South France, installing desktops and servers for professionals like small companies. I have almost

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:23:59 Phil Schaffner wrote: Anne Wilson wrote on 09/24/2009 07:54 AM: On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: ... I think if the worst comes to the worst it would be possible to install a FC6 package. Pbone says there is a package

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:34:24 Sorin Srbu wrote: Just to be clear, my there might be some repo(s) for this one was meant as Fedora generally speaking not, FC6 specifically. 8-) OK - I tend to think of FC6 because it's the nearest, I think, to CentOS 5.x. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:27:16 Timothy Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:37:54 Sorin Srbu wrote: I'm guessing maintenance cycles. Anne? My mother runs CentOS on her computer at home. My wife does it on a portable she lugs around on meetings. Why shouldn't CentOS be suitable for home users? CentOS's maintenance cycle alone got me

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:10:54 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:27 PM snip box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:29:18 cornel panceac wrote: Yes - and for those suggesting ubuntu as better for a non-technical user I think the real question is whether the user will do any of their own changes (like adding new programs) and updates. If they do, ubuntu is probably a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:50:37 Ron Loftin wrote: My image of the low-tech user is the one who surfs the Web, reads and writes e-mail, and does the odd letter or maybe even a spreadsheet in some office tool, along with maybe some simple games. My experience with this category of user

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:50:52 Joseph L. Casale wrote: My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580. I print to my HP all-in-one via wireless,

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:34:19 John R Pierce wrote: get an ethernet printer, sheesh. It's not always that simple. Sometimes an extra cable connection is just not an option. My HP7180 works perfectly by wireless, including scanning. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote: hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:47 cornel panceac wrote: 2009/9/16 Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote: hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non

[CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

2009-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
I'd like to understand better the sysadmin aspects of running a wiki. I don't have, and don't intend to at this stage, a web server, but I do have spare capacity on my LAN server box, where I'd like to install MediaWiki. I found this article:

Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

2009-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 September 2009 14:34:00 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:15, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup. html Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions

Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

2009-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 September 2009 15:36:55 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi Anne, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:14, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: installing mediawiki under /var/www/etc will keep it in the sandboxed area - correct? What do you mean by sandbox? I mean the ability

Re: [CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

2009-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 September 2009 17:42:32 Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a typical firewalled LAN with private addresses, just run the wiki there instead of on a machine that can be accessed from the internet and you won't have to worry about it. Wiki's are most useful if you can make them

Re: [CentOS] IMAP servers and Sent/Junk folders

2009-08-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:45:21 Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009, Eugene Vilensky wrote: Hi, my users were recently moved from a uw-imap on HPUX to dovecot on EL5. Their sent items and folders went from a ~/Sent mbox file (when

[CentOS] Crontab Nobody

2009-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root, perms 600. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from

Re: [CentOS] Crontab Nobody

2009-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 August 2009 10:16:46 Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Anne Wilson: I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I

[CentOS] Firewall and nfs mounts

2009-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
Which ports need to be open on a nfs mount server? And does the client need anything opening? I tried setting 2049 udp and tcp, using system-config-securitylevel, but it doesn't seem to save the settings. First, am I trying the correct ports? Second, what am I missing in making the changes

Re: [CentOS] Firewall and nfs mounts

2009-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 August 2009 14:05:20 Barry Brimer wrote: Which ports need to be open on a nfs mount server? And does the client need anything opening? http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3259 Thanks for the link. I used system-config-securitylevel to activate the firewall. Since I had

[CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:31, lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:26 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:46:25 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I have - [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:55:27 lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:31, lostson wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:26 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:48:50 Michael Klinosky wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:08:39 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:46:25 Ralph Angenendt wrote: Please stop being so helpless, this isn't OS X or Windows: yum search flash yum list \*flash\*

Re: [CentOS] Music while you work - or not

2009-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:28:27 Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I asked a simple question. If you didn't know the answer you should not have replied. Fortunately there are others more helpful than you. Oh well - I

Re: [CentOS] logwatch not mailing [Nearly SOLVED]

2009-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 August 2009 17:29:09 Ray Leventhal wrote: So while I now understand that they've been running on schedule and why I've not been seeing them...I still am in a bit of a quandry as I would *like* to receive them. Should Mailscanner's threshold be addressed or is there something I'm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:34:55 lostson wrote: long snip We need to stand up and ask - How may I help ? What do you need to get this done. Ask yourself what talents do you have that you can offer the project. There are many ways to do this and you can find them here

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10

2009-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 August 2009 22:39:21 Ed Warner wrote: I tried your suggestions without success. ip-up.local is executable in a bash console and if I do so, I get this message: iptables v1.3.5: invalid mask '255' specified Try 'iptables -h' for more information. A subent mask of 255? In my

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

2009-08-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 18:38:12 Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Blake Hudsonbl...@ispn.net wrote: How old is your laptop? This may be a case of expectations not meeting reality. As the Wiki article linked previously mentions, LiION batteries deteriorate over time and

Re: [CentOS] [Q} how can O.S. predicate a disk going to failure??

2009-08-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:48:03 Kwan Lowe wrote: 2009/8/4 mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw: [snip] my questions are: 1. is this disk really degrade or not? 2. how O.S. can predicate disk going to failure? 3. do I need replace this disk now? I understand that the drive

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Acer Laptop

2009-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 31 July 2009 13:05:52 Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:14 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have very basic question: I have downloaded *CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD* from CentOS website. Now I need to install it on my Acer Laptop permanently not as a

[CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the gui I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply dropped me back to my local konsole. Lately, though, the shutdown seems to hang, and I have to close the session. Any thoughts? Anne -- New to

Re: [CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 July 2009 14:54:04 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:42, Anne Wilsoncannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the gui I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply

[CentOS] NUT problem

2009-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
A little while ago I changed my UPS to Leibert and installed NUT. Everything worked as expected. Today I tried to use the MultiLink Viewer icon from the desktop, but it simply accepted the root password without apparently doing anything. I can run the viewer directly (as root) from a file

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