Re: [CentOS-docs] iptables article for Wiki

2007-09-13 Thread Ned Slider
Dear list, A draft of the IPTables HOWTO is now up at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables At this stage I would very much appreciate any comments/corrections. Also, if anyone would like to build on this to take it further, feel free to do so - I feel I've covered the basics but

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-14 Thread Ned Slider
Cool - I wasn't aware you could do that - thanks for the tip! Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: List, Whilst I'm in the mood for contributing stuff, here's another little howto I wrote on securing SSH that has proved popular in the past: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Thank you Ralph. In the absence of any further comments/corrections on: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables I'm happy for you to go ahead and live link it in the Wiki at your discretion. Oh, I already did so - see the HowTos page

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
Fabian Arrotin wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Thank you Ralph. In the absence of any further comments/corrections on: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables I'm happy for you to go ahead and live link it in the Wiki at your discretion. Cheers, snip

Re: [CentOS-docs] Traduccion de Securing SSH

2007-11-24 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I apologize for my level of ignorance in foreign (to me) languages, but any chance someone can give me the general gist of Manuel's message. Thanks in advance. I think it was in spanish, it had a rar file as an attachment - why ever

[CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-17 Thread Ned Slider
Hi Guys, Are you interested in a brief guide on how to set up postgrey (anti-spam greylisting) with postfix? I set it up today and it took me a while to get it working as the config is slightly different from that on many of the googled guides (many are debian/ubuntu based). The darn config

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-23 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Anyway, if you can point me in the right direction, I'm happy to try and can amend the article if you think it's better that way (maybe you could also explain why unix sockets are preferable to a network socket - security maybe

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-24 Thread Ned Slider
Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: On 12/17/07, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, ... Could we add the following image: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postgrey?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=postgrey-en.png I found the article very clear and easy to read. I would like to thank you

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2008-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Of course ... it is into a table, in order to center it on the page. Feel free to move its position. Thanks Alain - looks great! ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Reporting for Duty.

2008-01-20 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 8:15 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the Wiki :) Dr Alan J Bartlett wrote: In the nicest possible way, Community members Akemi and Ned (aka toracat and NedSlider) have been twisting my arm to get me to agree to join the Wiki editors

Re: [CentOS-docs] Re: rpm for r8168

2008-02-08 Thread Ned Slider
Or could you also provide the instructions that will help newbies install this driver? There was someone who was looking for the driver for this particular card. He could not understand the wiki and therefore was asking if there is some easier method. Well, IF a link to the rpm would be

[CentOS-docs] SASL and SSL/TLS guide for postfix/dovecot

2008-03-18 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, Following on in my ever expanding series of postfix/dovecot guides, I've created a page and started a SASL and SSL/TLS guide for postfix/dovecot: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_sasl The SASL section is pretty much complete but I am yet to start the SSL/TLS section (hope to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Postfix + CyrusImapd + SALS

2008-03-20 Thread Ned Slider
Hi Alain, LOL, great timing! As we speak I am working on a guide for SASL with ssl/tls but using dovecot's SASL implementation rather than Cyrus SASL as I used dovecot for imap/pop3 in my original postfix guide rather than Cyrusimapd. See here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_sasl

[CentOS-docs] Wiki content policy?

2008-03-24 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I have a general question about the CentOS Wiki policy that's probably best addressed here. Akemi and I were recently discussing (read Akemi was twisting my arm!!) the possibility of doing a Wiki article on SSL (what are SSL certificates, certificate generation, becoming your own

Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-04-05 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:25 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: Sure we could do that no problem. OK I think maybe what I am thinking of is writing it in text. Then we can collaberate on it then add

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-06 Thread Ned Slider
Alan Bartlett wrote: As someone who was used to all users having the same search-path (I'm going back 25 or so years), when I first came across the use of a separate path for the super-user I asked the question Why?. I have long since answered that question and support the concept. (An aside,

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for this on the Wiki? I think TipsAndTricks is appropriate for that, maybe under Admin Tricks and shell one-liners? I don't see it under HowTo ... su or su - but the above

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
John wrote: Ralph, Akemi, and Ned http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics That will be the Link. Thanks John. I should be able to have a bash at the RPMForge/dkms method in about a week (unless someone beats me to it!). Ned ___

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: Ralph, Akemi, and Ned http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics That will be the Link. Thanks John. I should be able to have a bash at the RPMForge/dkms method in about a week

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Way to go, Ned. Akemi You're too kind! Question: I already have the RPMForge/dkms driver installed on all my machine(s). How do I best disable/remove the drivers to simulate a fresh install for the purpose of taking notes. I can't remember if I had to configure

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: 2008/4/6, Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps a mention of sudo and sudoers could also be made? And consolehelper for GUI users. Regards, Rafal Hi Rafał, I've had a quick look at consolehelper, and I'm still not sure I fully understand how it works, at least

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: There is a gnomesu (http://xsu.sourceforge.net/) project. Is this included on a standard CentOS gnome install? I don't think so - yum cannot find it. OK, thanks, I might have to fire up gnome and have a browse through the menus to see if there's anything similar

Re: [CentOS-docs] Postfix pages

2008-04-10 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Crider wrote: First I would like to thank everybody who has contributed to the Postfix pages so far. I recently undertook replacing our existing mail server (which used the CentOS 4 howto at hughesjr.com) with a new machine running CentOS 5 in Xen. The machine is actually running two

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-17 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: 2008/4/8, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rafał Ślubowski wrote: I've mentioned consolehelper just because I think I can write such section. Of course it should be proofreaded because of my English. Brilliant. I'm more than happy to proof read if you would be so kind

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-18 Thread Ned Slider
Nils Ratusznik wrote: Akemi Yagi a écrit : Excellent! Guess Alan can polish it up if needed :-D Akemi Your help is also welcome ;) Here is what I wrote. I wrote it without wiki syntax so someone will surely polish it up. Regards, Nils Thanks Nils :) I'm happy to get it on to the

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-19 Thread Ned Slider
Nils Ratusznik wrote: Akemi Yagi a écrit : Excellent! Guess Alan can polish it up if needed :-D Akemi Your help is also welcome ;) Here is what I wrote. I wrote it without wiki syntax so someone will surely polish it up. Regards, Nils Hi Nils, Your sudo content has now been posted

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 04/20/2008 01:51 PM, Nils Ratusznik wrote: - About the NOPASSWD version of the quick and dirty setup : I'm not against it if there is a big fat warning sign attached. I am against it. Those who do not need the warning sign already know the message we try to send

Re: [CentOS-docs] Guide to Using KVM

2008-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Hi all, Our CentOS Forum contributor, scottro, has written a guide to using KVM with CentOS-5.1 and made it available at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/centoskvm.html He is offering it for us to put on the CentOS wiki. I would be happy to wikify it and welcome any

[CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-26 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing this up for the Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member WhatsHisName - thanks!). I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so

Re: [CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-28 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome. I'd be happy to proof-read

Re: [CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I've finished the main parts that I intended to cover now, just the introduction to write plus a bit more on testing at the end, and apply a bit of spit and polish: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_amavisd Okay, I changed two small bits about

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: Jim Perrin mentioned a job opening on the CentOS list yesterday. I'd like to do the same, but I'm leery of contributing to topic drift. Is there any interest in creating a job-board section of some kind on the wiki? Anyone have experience with

Re: [CentOS-docs] FAQs

2008-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: Hi all, Akemi and I have recently been drafting a few posts for a new forum subsection (Readme First FAQs) to aid new forums members in getting help. Apologies, for those that have no idea what I'm talking about because they can't see it, I'll get a temp copy up

Re: [CentOS-docs] FAQs

2008-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned, Ned Slider wrote: Presumably it would be preferable if there was just one, and as the main site FAQs seem old, plus Akemi and I both have edit rights to the Wiki, we would propose to add missing content contained in the main site FAQs onto the Wiki page

Re: [CentOS-docs] Searching the wiki

2008-05-24 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: I guess the default really should be text search for most users. If I can make the mistake anyone can, right ? :) Agreed. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] I want to add a tip.

2008-05-25 Thread Ned Slider
Florian La Roche wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:19:11PM +0900, TAIRA Hajime wrote: Thanks. I think this step should be a bit more verbose, telling people to replace 'sda' with the actual disk device. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB I added verbose information about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Moin as we know it cannot do that on the account creation page. So there would be two solutions: Allow everyone to edit content everywhere except on especially hidden or protected pages and/or create a new account creation mechanism for moin. Or as

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Regarding this I don't know yet where that mail should be sent. Or do we still want to have people who want to contribute subscribe to this list? Either here (centos-docs) or a dedicated Wiki editorial team ML? As this list already exists, may as well

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: But this would mean that we have to either open up this list for everyone, or take all of the people on the editorial team into the moderators team for this list (which I don't have any problem with), or require people

Re: [CentOS-docs] Article for wiki consideration

2008-06-07 Thread Ned Slider
Alan Bartlett wrote: On 07/06/2008, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 03:15:43PM +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: Still points to the Road Runner site displaying [quote] Sorry, the page you requested was not found. Please go to our web site to find

Re: [CentOS-docs] RTL8111 Wiki Pages

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Kirk Bocek wrote: Howdy, It appears that CentOS 5.2's support for the RTL8111B/C chip is incomplete. The wiki has some blanket statements regarding this support: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000

Re: [CentOS-docs] nspluginwrapper

2008-06-27 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Robbins wrote: As the subject of nspluginwrapper came up recently, it might be worth mentioning that it's not properly documented. The README seems to be the official nspluginwrapper README, which, oddly enough, states that it's used with the command nspluginwrapper However, RedHat

Re: [CentOS-docs] mod_ssl How To Submission

2008-08-07 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: George Ornbo wrote: http://snipurl.com/37hl7 Looks good. If it useful to others I'd like to share this content on the Wiki under How Tos Miscellaneous. My username is GeorgeOrnbo. You should be able to create http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Https which I already

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux but also hopefully a useful reference. Great article. What

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux but also hopefully a useful reference. I'm relatively new

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 08/12/2008 07:12 PM, Ned Slider wrote: Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-17 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux Any suggestions as to where this should be linked under http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos ? I don't see an obvious existing category to add it under. Any thoughts

Re: [CentOS-docs] Samba

2008-08-31 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Will F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fabian, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It always seemed to me that HowTo pages catered to those people who didn't want to read millions of pages of manpages and just wanted things to work now. Turnkey

Re: [CentOS-docs] Samba Docs

2008-10-11 Thread Ned Slider
Spike Turner wrote: Fabian Arrotin wrote: So not related to CentOS ... and on another I've got 3.0.28 (the latest from upstream). The docs look almost the same and the docs refer to security = share. However 3.0.32 comes with a blank smb.conf making it harder to get a secure server

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS on the Aspire One

2008-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Robbins wrote: The Aspire One is one of those netbooks that have become so popular recently. I've installed CentOS on the hard drive model, and have been considering doing a wiki article about it, and probably will unless there are strenuous objections. Go for it Scott. There is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: And even more important: Who wanted to be on the Editorial Team? Being on it means that you are supposed to subscribe to *all* pages on the wiki (meaning that you'll get a changelog diff for all changed pages via mail). And it means that you should at least skim through

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-02 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Also, whilst undergoing this process, would it also be a good time to request and/or formalize a documentation SIG as there doesn't appear to be one at present. Presumably those who

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-03 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: Good Evening. ... Courtesy and to have something within the centos space to point to. Plus: Finding the manuals on upstream *all in one place* (like clustermanagement, virtualization and so on) isn't that easy. I personally welcome that the docs are mirrored on

[CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
Hi all, One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS and everything that involves. I think it would be of benefit to have a one stop page to point users to that explains the concepts and provides the

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:59:02PM +, Ned Slider wrote: Hi all, One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Many of you on this mailing list may still remember the longish thread regarding the writing of a HowTo rpmbuild article. At that time, I quoted several forum posts to demonstrate the fact that we repeatedly *type* the same answer each time a new person asks the same

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Steve Tindall wrote: When looking for a reference to post in response to a question, I often find it hard to locate questions in the FAQs that I know exist, but sometimes that's because of the web vs. wiki FAQs issue (i.e., I'm looking in the wrong one). The problem

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-15 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Thank, Ned. I went ahead and added this to the wiki FAQ with minor modifications: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General (currently the last item) Thanks Akemi :) ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

[CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-01 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, The hardware list page on the Wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList says: I'd like to see this page as an entry point for hardware that does not work with CentOS out of the box or only with some effort. I do not see a need for a list which states all working

Re: [CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-02 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams I dont see the point of 'high end', 'midrange' and 'entry level' sections. If there is any reason for it to be there, some info on howto decide what section each webcam should go

Re: [CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-04 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I hope you'll add your Philips webcam to the list when you get a chance ;) Added info about that. Thanks. However, I completely failed to find a click path from the home page to the webcams page. Is the page hidden away from the world by design

Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage

2008-12-30 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Dag. .. This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. I don't think it's a good idea to put a screenshot on the frontpage

Re: [CentOS-docs] Permission to add an entry to the Webcams page

2009-01-02 Thread Ned Slider
Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Fri, January 2, 2009 5:18 am, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Thu, January 1, 2009 1:00 pm, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Marko A. Jennings wrote: I would like to add an entry for the Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX to this page:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Improving the website and forums

2009-01-05 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Forum moderators would be able to provide more feedback here : how relevant and accurate are most topic's for threads ? If they are bang-on, perhaps it might be a good idea to replace the entire

[CentOS-docs] Nice work Alain

2009-02-09 Thread Ned Slider
Hey Alain, Nice work on the updated admonitions here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Wiki/Editing IMHO they look great, and a nice improvement on the previous set. Thanks for the hard work making our wiki pages look great! Ned ___ CentOS-docs mailing

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki contribs 4 centos

2009-02-13 Thread Ned Slider
Fabian Arrotin wrote: Steffen Mann wrote: Hello Gents, I feel I should do more for the community and contribute writing the occasional wiki article to improof the overall centos experience. Having worked for the upsteam .src provider for nearly 7 years I should be able to do so... Hope

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option

2009-04-04 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Marcus Moeller m...@marcus-moeller.de wrote: Test procedure is: snip - test forum functionality (hope Ned and some of the forum mods will join us then) When participation of the forum mods is needed, I'd be happy to join in. Akemi

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-28 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: Hi Ed. Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk? (Assuming not) Is there a need for such? (Assuming need) I volunteer to produce it. +1 from

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil Nice job Phil :) /remembering my disclaimer/ I'm not a raid/grub expert... Presumably Section two is required because grub is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: ... If you are planning to setup a RAID1, I still wonder why not to place /boot on a raid partition? Section one, point 4 ? ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: Ned Slider wrote:... Would using grub be simpler rather than directly editing /boot/grub/device.map ? Something like... Following on from Section 1, reboot... Stop at the grub menu and enter the c option, which gives you the grub prompt. Then: grub device (hd0

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ed Heron wrote: From: Phil Schaffner, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:36 PM I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread Ned Slider
R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Phil Schaffner wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ned Slider wrote: unknown prior wrote ... There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about performance most of the time being

Re: [CentOS-docs] Potential loss of a wiki contributor.

2009-05-09 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: Also I am very much inclined to ask on the mailinglist and forums that everyone sends in a top-3 or a top-5 of items that the project needs to work on to me and I will compile that into something we could discuss on a CentOS conference or an internal IRL meeting. I

Re: [CentOS-docs] New Wiki Page

2009-05-09 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, R P Herrold wrote: I think you like to complain I for one find that type of attitude offensive and not an appropriate way to talk to contributors on this list, not to mention damaging to the wider project. If you don't understand why, then Dag does a

Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please

2009-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Lalit Dhiri wrote: Good morning, Would anyone with CentOS Wiki experience consider giving feedback on the state of my draft article at? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Dell/XPS_M1530 I will be adding info ref Nvidia graphics card driver, hard drive Load Cycle and hope to have

Re: [CentOS-docs] Typo on TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page

2009-05-13 Thread Ned Slider
Timothy Lee wrote: Dear all, On the TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page, the first sentence under Download ISO section should be changed from: The first thing you will need is once if the ISO's from the CentOS mirrors. to: The first thing you will need is one of

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-22 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: A 'whats new' section in a block, on the right side of the home-page, perhaps push the screenshot up, and put this box in under that ( is one option )

Re: [CentOS-docs] New page InstallFromUSBkey

2009-06-19 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/19/2009 01:56 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: Bingo! The man wins the prize! :-) So is this the time where I send you my account number? Sure, let me supply you my Nigerian e-mail address to send it

Re: [CentOS-docs] About the article OS_Protection by JimPerrin

2009-07-28 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: +1 - discussions should take place on list, not on disparate blogs. +1 for the wiki article... excellent! Ned One other thing... the page appears locked. Despite being a member of the Edit Group, I can't even view revisions :( Please can someone (Ralph??) fix

Re: [CentOS-docs] Well, I wasn't a member of this list until today

2009-07-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: But I guess with Akemi dragging me out over the OS_Protection page, I'm a member now :-P I've got no problem discussing it or other changes here. I set it up on my blog mostly because there wasn't a way to have comments on the page, and I didn't want

Re: [CentOS-docs] Well, I wasn't a member of this list until today

2009-07-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jim Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendtra+cen...@br-online.de wrote: I've got no problem discussing it or other changes here. I set it up on my blog mostly because there wasn't a way to have comments on the page, and I didn't want to open the wiki page up to

Re: [CentOS-docs] requesting to become a contributor

2009-08-30 Thread Ned Slider
Richard Bronosky wrote: I had already created that account, but could not do the step of creating the homepage because of permissions. Great. I'm sure Ralph will get you set up in due course :) Also, please would you bottom post replies (rather than top posting) as that is the convention on

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: lostson wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, JohnS wrote: ... [1] http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics JohnStanley I was reading yours over today and yes they are very similar, hopefully i can get edit permissions soon and we can get it all

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:11 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be for those people not running supported kernels

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Chan But before we go on, may I ask what is the purpose of the Centos Wiki? That is a good question. IM not so HO it should contain documentation which gets people going with things on CentOS. Which is a very broad view.

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Ned Slider
Steve Bonds wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner-at-IEEE.org |CentOS| ... wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:25 -0700, Steve Bonds wrote: As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] # the

Re: [CentOS-docs] the iredmail project

2009-12-09 Thread Ned Slider
Hi, I'm not sure why this would be sent directly to me so I'm forwarding it to the CentOS Documentation mailing list as that would seem a more appropriate place. http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 shake chen wrote: hello I am a team member of

Re: [CentOS-docs] Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware install manual

2009-12-13 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/13/2009 01:02 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: Hello (again), I saw I've been granted the rights to edit the page. Thanks Ralph! I'd like to thank all for supporting me on this matter. And yes Ralph, good point about sending from the address I registered with,... never really thought about

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki contribution

2010-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
As this thread is alive again... On 11/30/2009 11:35 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Am 30.11.09 22:49, schrieb R P Herrold: I was considering 'axes' to refactor it along over the weekend Please do consider plain English too, while doing so, as I have no

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki contribution

2010-01-15 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/15/2010 03:32 AM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Ned Slider wrote: Again, I would reiterate Ralph's request for you to use plain English[1] when communicating with this list, especially considering that it's a documentation list. Shall I use crayons as well, to make

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: I dont want to get in the way or be irritating, but if there is an attempt to do something, I dont see any harm in making that into a more useful tool that might benefit a few more people. Which is exactly the point of bringing it to this list for discussion, so

Re: [CentOS-docs] ACL changes...

2010-03-25 Thread Ned Slider
Cris Rhea wrote: I would like to know if there's a more proper way to get stuff done (fixing ACLs and updating Contents/Index pages) than sending to this list. Not that I'm aware of - sending to this list is the way to go :) BTW, nice job on the nvidia/xen page :)

Re: [CentOS-docs] edit by AlanBartlett

2010-07-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/07/10 21:03, Akemi Yagi wrote: So, here comes the positive thinking part: what would have worked better if placing the query within the page did not do the job? 'Asking on this mailing list' comes to my mind. That way, chances of getting attention will be quite good. Posting here will

Re: [CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread Ned Slider
On 07/10/10 12:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is given as: Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install it to the authorized_keys list: $ cat

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/10/10 08:32, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: snip At least the jre package (and I am almost sure jdk too) from Sun comes with the following structure: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 10 01:25 default - /usr/java/latest drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 28 23:34 jre1.6.0_20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/10/10 13:13, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Ned Slider wrote: Are these redistributable? I'm sure they are as Red Hat has Sun's Java packages on it's RHEL Supplementary disk for RHEL5 which it (re)distributes to customers. No, not without exposing oneself to some liability

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

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

[CentOS-docs] Postfix howto update for 6

2011-06-15 Thread Ned Slider
Hi list, As the author of the Postfix howto: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix I'm receiving some feedback that some things have changed in el6 (e.g, dovecot confs). As I don't have any plans to update my mail server to el6 (I intend to run el5 until EOL), does anyone have any interest

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix

2012-07-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/07/12 12:00, Christoph Galuschka wrote: Am 20.07.2012 01:25, schrieb Edward Cavill: Hi in the wiki, using 64 without the trailing M gives an error. code The dovecot configuration file is located at /etc/dovecot.conf. The following lines should be added, edited or uncommented:

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