Re: [CentOS] Question about storage for virtualisation

2012-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 15:48 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 01.07.2012 07:40, schrieb Les Mikesell: [distinction between /bin and /usr/bin] The concept really comes from the original unix, which back in the day, often had really tiny boot disks and might mount everything else over the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 i386 DVD

2011-10-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 02:48 -0700, John Doe wrote: From: William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either CentOS 6 or Windows. As stated in the release notes, you need

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 i386 DVD

2011-10-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 06:47 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 02:48 -0700, John Doe wrote: From: William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either

[CentOS] CentOS 6.0 i386 DVD

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
Anybody have tricks to write the i386 ISO image to DVD? I've tried DVD+-RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R in both Windows 7 (two different writers) and rebooted into CentOS 6 (x86_64) and tried cdrecord (now called wodim). On wodim I've tried overburn, reducing speeds, etc. All give the same results: the

[CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
Well, after much trial and tribulation I got to the point I could nfs mount the CentOS 6.0 i386 iso image and try an install. So I stuck in the net install CD (latest from CentOS), mounted the nfs iso image and gave it several shots. It goes swimmingly until I click write disks. Then there's a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I tried, based on *old* memories, adding kernel arguments of noapic and nolapic (IIRC). Still no joy. snip Amazing what brainstorms hit after you click send. Unfortunately, the thoughts didn't help. I tried again using

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
a manual formatting and layout won't add a lot to what I've tried already. - Rilindo Foster snip sig stuff Thanks for the suggestion! Bill On Oct 16, 2011, at 2:46 PM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote

Re: [CentOS] How many L1/L2 my cpu have ?

2011-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 12:25 +0200, clibup clibup wrote: Hi Could anybody explain me how to check how many L1/L2 cache my cpu have. I'm using CentOS 5.6 On my workstation, type 4 is cpu, 7 is cache. W/no params list everything. # dmidecode --type 4,7 snip Bill

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

2010-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:23 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: snip I recommend to replace that disc ASAP. When they start having to reallocate more sectors, they are in a pending complete failure state. I second that. I had a SATA drive that showed a few bad sectors in 2008 sometime. I got the

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

2010-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:27 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce

Re: [CentOS] Kernel error - help please

2010-02-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 09:50 -0500, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Just received this error from logwatch: - Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present [c0405a89] error_code+0x39/0x40 ...: 2 Time(s) -- Kernel End

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:26 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: snip So, I am left still seeking answers to my original questions. 1. Is it possible to mount the selinux filesystem twice on the same host having different roots? Mount --bind *before* the chroot environment is entered should do the

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-02-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 09:47 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 11:44 +, Andrew wrote: But this is disappointing because I want my PC to be completely functional and skype is part of that requirement - so

Re: [CentOS] partitioning order and IO performance

2009-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 09:37 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: snip I think you might be confusing CAV with CLV of optical drives. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Angular_Velocity -Ross That was my thought. However, I think most are missing the boat on this. I have always looked at the

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

2009-12-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip We have been searching the internet since Tuesday. We have already tried installing a video card, that didn't work. The beeps at start up indicate to check the video ram. It will boot and run if

Re: [CentOS] Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it

2009-11-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:56 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a process: mydemon:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mydemon /dev/null 21 So, I would comment out that entry and reload

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote: snip I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use... On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it

Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

2009-10-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:20 -0400, ken wrote: snip cat /boot/grub/menu.lst ... title CentOS (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus ro root=/dev/mapper/luks-3d723b4f-0184-438d-9cb9-9ebff16e683a rhgb quiet initrd

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 00:54 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: snip Also: man -K PEERDNS But that's generally a slow and last ditch effort even after google:) It also never helped with this string but its useful to know. And don't forget to run makewhatis occasionally (if not automatically

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:00 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: snip No I definitely mean't sdparm, it's available from RPMForge and it's different from hdparm. [stew...@# ~]$ whatis sdparm sdparm (8) - access SCSI modes pages; read VPD pages; send simple SCSI commands

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 18:25 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: snip From those results, it doesn't look like your problem is a power issue. _Unless_ the drive itself has a fault. But that doesn't sound like the case, as it's fine on your other box. Maybe a problem with your USB port that you

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip It may not be the USB drive. I have one that daoe the same, usually only after long periods oh high (in)activity. On another node, no problems ever using that same drive. On the system

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:27 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/16/2009 10:38 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, William Warren wrote: right now they don't HAVE to disclose as they do not have any kind of US based npo that would force them to do so.

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:15 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 09/16/2009 06:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: If we were having wild beer parties every week . *WHAT* beer parties ? Where ? When ? will there be food as well ? You missed the last one. Johnny spent the last dollar and is now

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 13:42 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:35 AM, David Suhendrik da...@pnyet.web.id wrote: =D, Someone make me confused, and just a make sure here... I'm so sorry for this... I was worried too, on the day I first saw the message. But I found (on

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.4 is out!

2009-09-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:05 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Obligatory: When will Centos 5.4 be ready? /me goes down into reinforced concrete bunker and locks all hatches and doors. /me overflies with F-117 and drops latest 9,000 lb bunker-buster. ;-)) snip sig stuff -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: what is the best way to delete so many queue files?

2009-09-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 09:12 +0200, frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote: snip You probably want to do find /var/spool/clientmqueue -type f -exec rm -f {} \+ Or the variant ... -execdir command {} + might be preferable. It claims to avoid potential race conditions and warns about $PATH

Re: [CentOS] kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 update breaks AMD onboard sound

2009-08-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 20:06 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MHR wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Mike A. Harrismhar...@mharris.ca wrote: The new kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 kernel breaks audio support on my onboard audio on an AMD

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird installed for python dependency?

2009-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:56 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: snip There is a version of yum in the testing repo that we are working with that seems to fix many of these cache/spool issues. The version is: yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm I just installed it, but everything's up-to-date.

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

2009-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 01:30 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: snip OK, never mind. I've got jre-1.6.0_05-fcs installed again now, and all is well. Now I remember what happened. Back on Aug. 8, yum was acting all wonky and insisted that the java-1.6.0-openjdk update conflicted with the jre

Re: [CentOS] Bash Help

2009-08-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:55 +0100, James Bensley wrote: I can't think of the exact syntax at the minute but something like; if $# = 4 then for i = 1 to ($# - 4) echo arg number $i is $expr($i) next fi $ echo $* 1 2 3 4 $ \ while [ $1 != '' ] ; do echo $1 shift done 1

Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board

2009-08-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:11 +, Ian Murray wrote: actually, enforcing community norms in public is useful Belittlment and patronisation is a community norm? snip It normally is not offered as belittlement and Patronisation nor taken as such. It is normally offered as generous

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 14:04 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: snip As for getting more people to use CentOS, I don't think squabbling on a public mail list is exactly the best way to do that. OTOH, one man's squabbling is another's open discourse, depending on attitudes, presentation, etc. That's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:31 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: snip Yep, I think it is because people often want to travel straight from A to Z without having to go through B, C, D, etc. Another subset of people, the talkers want to dictate to the doers how things should be done, often without

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 18:28 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: snip Sorry Alan, but with the greatest respect I believe it important that these types of discussions are allowed to happen openly within the community. This thread was started on a community mailing list by a member of that community

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 15:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Robertlist...@abbacomm.net wrote: snip please stop poking the bears... ;- it isn't productive and many of you that are critical of CentOS and the people running it should just move on and go away

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 16:14 -0700, Robert wrote: This presents a ripe opportunity for a perception of unwarranted criticism, whining by someone who paid nothing, lack of appreciation for all the *free* hard work we do, etc. snip sig stuff -- Bill Bill, Good

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 19:37 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip I only have one question that I want to add to this gawd-awful thread now. Who is the project serving? The core themselves or a community of users as well? If that is effectively and accurately

Re: [CentOS] firewall question

2009-08-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:19 -0700, Linux Advocate wrote: - Original Message From: William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com snip BTW, Scott and other IPCop users, there is a new version of IPCop coming out. It's in testing now: That's good to hear. I was afraid

Re: [CentOS] firewall question

2009-08-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Or IPcop? http://www.ipcop.org/ BTW, Scott and other IPCop users, there is a new version of IPCop coming out. It's in testing now: That's good to hear. I was afraid the project was dead. It had been so long since a release.

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 15:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: snip The idea of a minimal installation is interesting. Could this be done snip Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com In spite of the fact that all thse ideas for what the new CentOS org could or would do, they really don't

Re: [CentOS] out of memory

2009-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jerry Geis wrote on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:30:05 -0400: Any thoughts? Doesn't top help in finding out what's eating your RAM? Sometimes, use of the SAR system is better. Kai -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:36 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: snip Jim, you're spot-on with all that you posted. Since some don't seem to understand what I think you're leading to, I thought I would chime in. It's not that we OWE the community anything. It's that we should do it because it's how we

Re: [CentOS] etc passwd and groups file

2009-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:13 -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I need to maintain a same user/group list on multiples systems. Can we just copy the same passwd and groups file on all machines? Don't forget about /etc/shadow. If we create a new user on one system then I will need to copy

Re: [CentOS] install DVD mounted -noexec by default == bad interpreter permission denied

2009-07-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 23:15 -1000, Dave wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:20 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: snip You could have probably run the script using: sh /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install No, I had tried that before I figured

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:11 +0200, Andrea Dell'Amico wrote: Hello, I have a couple of Dell 2950 III, both of them with CentOS 5.3, Xen, drbd 8.2 and cluster suite. Hardware: 32DB RAM, RAID 5 with 6 SAS disks (one hot spare) on a PERC/6 controller. I configured DRBD to use the main network

Re: [CentOS] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:37 +0200, RedShift wrote: snip Hi It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then. Just to confirm,

Re: [CentOS] Glibcxx_3.4.9 not found

2009-07-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:24 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: 2009/7/20 Chris Heaton ch...@heatonweb.me.uk: Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3. 64 bit version. I have tried updating the OS but every time I run an application I need it reports that Glibcxx_3.4.9 is missing. I tried to do a search for

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:39 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). One thing that's frequently missed is

Re: [CentOS] Add instantly active local user accounts *with* password using useradd -p option ?

2009-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:32 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I need to setup a load of user accounts on a series of machines, for testing purposes. I'm using a script to do this, but the only problem I have so far: I have to activate them all manually by doing passwd user1, passwd user2,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 10:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them.

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 19:45 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 00:19 -0700, Linux Advocate wrote: snip Note that /dev/shm is a tempfs file system. It will be dynamically populated. I would expect the attack vector still resides on your system somewhere else. i m looking for it bro...the machine is disconnected frm the

Re: [CentOS] grep/sed help

2009-06-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 18:18 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am rsyncing and remotely doing some work based on a logfile from a windows box from a centos backup server. I get the output from a vss snapshot that has a section like this: * SNAPSHOT ID = {639ef5df-c933-4496-878a-ed57b9d52876}

Re: [CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:29 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: Hi I need some logic to work out a value for me - this value is _always_ the 3rd last field in a string seperated by '.' but the string could be 5 or 6 fields long, e.g foo.bar.VALUE.baz.lala foor.bar.gigi.VALUE.baz.lala I need

Re: [CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 08:01 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip 2. Inside that, use the set command to change the field separator to . snip Correction: IFS (the Interfield Separator) is just another variable. Just regular assignment will set it. -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 11:06 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I just thought of this too. There are two IDs tracked by the system. Effective (EUID) and the real ID (UID). If the process has changed UID, by either suid bit or by program call (I think it has to start as root

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 06:29 -0700, Linux Advocate wrote: snip i tried googling for 'centos apache atack but did not get anything substantial. i tried locating a binary file called ' atack' but got nothing. Just an FYI to all those who may not know: $ cat test.c #include stdlib.h #include

Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

2009-06-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 14:50 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:37:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: snip rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug ... (Make *sure* you are not actually running any of these kernels!). Note: yum clean old-kernels keeps the

Re: [CentOS] Problem with Logitech wireless keyboard EX110

2009-05-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 23:52 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009, MHR wrote: snip Surprise: the new keyboard has exactly the same problem - no response from the number pad. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. The num lock and the Enter key both work, but the 5 key

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DR

2009-05-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:46 +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: Scott McClanahan smcclana...@forterrainc.com wrote: I remember a thread many months ago where someone asked about a disaster recovery template or guide and several people on this list linked some really good content. I can't seem to

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DR

2009-05-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:20 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip There's no search functionality I can see on that site, but if you go to Google, and punch in your search query followed by: On the main centos page, there's a search in the menu bar. But I don't know which components

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

2009-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 23:39 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: 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,

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 10:56 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby snip Not likely on this list. More likely, a preponderance, maybe even a majority, but I wouldn't

Re: [CentOS] Fixing to bite the dust?

2009-05-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 20:18 -0400, sam wrote: I dunno Nate, It started all this extraenous logging stuff after kicking memory from a paltry 256m up to 2 Gigs. The system has on occasion crashed with little else in the log files that would indicate any kind of other hardware problem,

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:07 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: It would have been helpful, if the error message told you which system software. :-) The Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.2 seems to have been problematic for some people on this list. When you did the Upgrade, did

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:52 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby snip I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put the linux disk on that channel

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 acpid Update

2009-05-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:50 -0400, Karanbir Singh wrote: CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0474 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0457.html When I check this, it seems to be the wrong url. Points to the libwmf one? snip -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:00 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: snip * Install a new hd and jumper it as primary master. Linux hd should consequently be set as primary slave. Install WinXP. I've ghosted the I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put the linux disk on that

Re: [CentOS] fsck file system is mounted

2009-05-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 11:51 -0700, 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

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

2009-05-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:19 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: IMO, yes (maybe). When the Initial install is done, I think there is some stuff that is needed in the initrd to find the disk so root can be mounted. I'm not sure which initrd

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

2009-05-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:50 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: /bin/sh in my script's shebang ;) lrwxrwxrwx 1

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:33 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 18:15 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Ralph was working on this earlier today, however it would be really good to get a copy of someone's /var/cache/yum ( minus the rpm's ) in a tarball, attached to that bugreport - from a time when they can demonstrate

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:06 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: snip As that was a bit too large for the bug tracker: http://people.centos.org/ralph/update.tar.bz2 r...@dryckjom:~# LANG=C yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=update whatprovides /usr/share/magic.mime Loaded plugins:

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:47 -0600, Shad L. Lords wrote: Chris Boyd wrote: So I have an issue with CentOS 5.3 i386, LVM, and SATA. Boot device is a 200GB ATA disk on hda2. I've added a couple of disks with the on-the-mobo SATA controller ports and grown the EXT3 fs with

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:43 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, William L. Maltby wrote: For the OP's situation, might need to search a little further to get to the same results. But I think it's surely something in the initrd, even if the driver is the same

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:32 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip There is another possibility? Grub installs a stage2 (IIRC) file that has specific device in it. That's probably your next point of failure (I don't recall what your original failure mode was). snip P.S. Don't forget to take

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

2009-05-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:24 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, JohnS wrote: snip httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Run a 'yum clean all' and try

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem

2009-05-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:26 +0100, Dick Holland wrote: I have a Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 7300GS on an Intel DG965WHMKR mobo attached to an LG Flatron LG204WT widescreen monitor. I'm driving the monitor at 1680*1050, and the picture is compressed into the right-hand two-thirds of the screen.

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

2009-05-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 23:12 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/11/2009 05:24 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3613 I'll note for the Record that the yum clean all trick worked on 100% of my x86_64 machines, about six in all. Ralph was working on this

Re: [CentOS-docs] computer output blocks on wiki page

2009-04-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:02 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: .. If I'm not mistaken, adding a ?action=raw to the URL will show the raw text regardless of the edit rights. ?? Senility strikes again! Akemi has this knack for coming up with all the things that I should know

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:01 +0800, Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi wrote: Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the

[CentOS] CentOS 4.7 glibc update: not announced?

2009-04-24 Thread William L. Maltby
Quick Q: while running my A.M. update today, I see several updates that I haven't seen announced yet. The one concerning me is glibc. I killed the update since it glibc is so central to a system. Is it safe to install? If so, I presume I'll want to update it first and then the rest of the system?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 glibc update: not announced?

2009-04-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:01 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Quick Q: while running my A.M. update today, I see several updates that I haven't seen announced yet. The one concerning me is glibc. I killed the update since it glibc is so central to a system

Re: [CentOS] Get only script name with shell script

2009-04-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 21:35 +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: Hi all, I wrote shell script and put it under the /usr/local/bin/ directory. I use echo $0 for get script name but it has printed /usr/local/bin/scriptname but i want to only print scriptname How can i do this ? Man basename.

Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

2009-04-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would use oomath to open the file. I could do on the command line oomath file.xls and it open

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:06 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote: snip I know very little about this, but maybe Felipe et al can fill in the holes. I recall times that folks on the list indicated an rpm rebuild db be done. Is that possibly needed here? Did the glibc get updated? If so/not what should be

Re: [CentOS] Local root vulnerability in udev

2009-04-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:53 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: snip I just killed the udevd on my two servers and await the update What are you looking for? Rob: Rick said the

Re: [CentOS] X won't start

2009-04-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote: This machine is running CentOS 5.3, fully updated Linux mavis.localdomain 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux. Video is an ATI Radeon 9000. X froze overnight and attempts to restart it fail. I

Re: [CentOS] X won't start

2009-04-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 14:10 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I'm now expert, but have done some programming in the past. I suspect s/now/no/ # *chagrin* snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

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

2009-04-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:13 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip My experience is that when browsing on any OS and you come across an error message stating that your computer is infected and you need

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 15:46 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Michael A. Peters a écrit : 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file? I've found it works much better if you are root. I tried both, and see: cdrecord complains about not being able to set certain

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:45 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 15:46 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Michael A. Peters a écrit : 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file? I've found it works much better if you are root. I tried

Re: [CentOS] Problem again with shockwave, or flash player (I think)...

2009-04-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 05:37 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: Hi there, OK I thought I had this problem solved last week. Last week with help from this list, we installed the flash player on my Centos 5 desktop machine. But now when I go to cnbc, I am getting that same problem when trying to

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-12 Thread William L. Maltby
] On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook. Unfortunately, some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work the same way on a

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:43 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86 and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf And as I already mentioned in my first posting this

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