Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. Try moving the network card to a new

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 12:31 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Is there not a free alternative to Adobe's flash plugin please? I haven't tried them myself, but I think both Gnash and Lightspark aim to be open source replacements for Adobe Flash. I think one of them even works well enough to play YouTube

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Beattie
On 8/28/2012 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I like to use freenx to host the desktop and the NX client to display it. That should work regardless of whether the desktop is a VM or not and regardless of the OS or location of the display - and it wouldn't surprise me if it performs better than

Re: [CentOS] yum vs. freenx

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Beattie
On 12/19/2012 4:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: need yet another way to connect - I'm looking for something to either improve my memory (unlikely...) or to keep the freenx package update from breaking the connection in progress when I forget and run it there. How about a shell alias for yum which

Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-22 Thread Chris Beattie
On 11/21/2013 11:40 AM, Darr247 wrote: On 2013-11-21 @14:41 zulu, Wes James scribed: It is with the script on this page: http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ Be aware some on this list consider that script criminal. At what point does it become less hassle to spin up a virtual machine with a

Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-22 Thread Chris Beattie
On 11/22/2013 11:29 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an enterprise environment where that sort of thing just isn't allowed. A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others'

Re: [CentOS] Normalizing WAV files

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Beattie
On 4/20/2014 8:40 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Does anyone know of a tool in CentOS 6 that can normalize a directory full of WAV files that I can install without hosing up my system? My go-to tool for batch processing audio files is sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/). I have it installed on a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 - AD authentication

2014-07-25 Thread Chris Beattie
On 7/25/2014 10:34 AM, Nux! wrote: This is very simple in the new CentOS 7: realm join –client-software=sssd example.com -U mydomainadmin I just tried it, and it really is MUCH simpler than it used to be. I had to install realmd first, which actually told me what other packages I'd need

[CentOS] Spacewalk? Local repo? Cache?

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Beattie
I have a mix of CentOS 5, 6, and now 7 servers at work. There are enough of them now that it is starting to make sense for them to get updates from an internal source. I've seen RHN Satellite in years past. It looks like it may be a way to allow Windows admins here (familiar with WSUS) to

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk? Local repo? Cache?

2014-09-30 Thread Chris Beattie
On 9/29/2014 1:59 PM, Chris Beattie wrote: How do you all keep a dozen or more Linux boxes updated? I just wanted to say thank you to everyone at once for the advice. It's much appreciated. I also wanted to apologize in advance to those who were injured by the legal text at the end of my

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk? Local repo? Cache?

2014-09-30 Thread Chris Beattie
On 9/30/2014 3:14 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I hope you got a chuckle out of my final disclaimer - the quote from my ...late... wife. It's a good one. I had to go back and take a second look because I stopped reading at the double dashes, heh heh. I don't know how the footer disappeared

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-08 Thread Chris Beattie
On 10/7/2014 10:24 AM, ken wrote: The calculations John makes are valid as far as they go, valid for a screen with no applications/windows visible on it. Every time a window ... In brief, a lot has to happen in addition to the simple rastorization of the screen that John describes, and so a

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Beattie
On 10/13/2014 7:17 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Yes but you have to be physically close to the main cpu. What about distractions from other people sitting right next to you? Playing music, etc. That's not all that different from modern cube farms. You learn to tolerate or ignore other people, or

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Beattie
On Mon, October 13, 2014 1:50 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: Being able to grab your existing desktop remotely with all open windows and long-running programs intact is a big plus, though - and you get that for free with NX or x2go. Can you connect remotely to your VM host some other way if you

Re: [CentOS] automated smtp server check

2014-11-05 Thread Chris Beattie
On 11/4/2014 2:36 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I would like to set up a cron job to automatically check whether my mailserver and webserver are up, and tell me if they're not. This script tells me if my webserver is up: ... How can I do the something similar with my mailserver? How about a cron

Re: [CentOS] outside ssh connection from two different ISP's

2014-11-11 Thread Chris Beattie
On 11/11/2014 2:27 PM, Steve Clark wrote: Buy second NIC and then the original script Jack Baily provided would work. I'm outside my area of expertise here, but is there a reason you couldn't fake a second network card by assigning two IP addresses to the one interface? I recall that the OP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 will not run pre-installation script

2015-02-10 Thread Chris Beattie
On 2/9/2015 9:15 PM, g wrote: On 02/09/2015 05:10 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: That's my plan too. I figure that I'll try it when it gets to 7.3. i thought it was better to use the even number revisions. I think the even numbers advice only applies to Star Trek movies. CentOS 7.3 will be

Re: [CentOS] Nagios, getting started

2015-06-22 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/22/2015 6:04 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: What advantages does the RH/CentOS world have (if any?) over the ubuntu LTS world? I can't think of any compelling reason to run Nagios on RHEL/CentOS if the rest of your shop is Ubuntu. If everyone there is familiar with Ubuntu, it'll be easier for

Re: [CentOS] C7 and /etc/sysconfig/network

2015-08-26 Thread Chris Beattie
On 8/25/2015 11:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Does Centos 7 use /etc/sysconfig/network or is this replaced by some systemctl set of commands. I let Network Manager control the interfaces on my two or three C7 boxes. I used nmtui to set the hostname, and MAC and IP addresses (the MAC

Re: [CentOS] HFSPlus Question

2016-06-08 Thread Chris Beattie
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Albert McCann > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 9:06 PM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: Re: [CentOS] HFSPlus Question > > I'm still dealing with food poisoning I came down with after

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

2016-02-02 Thread Chris Beattie
On 2/2/2016 12:02 PM, H wrote: > What do people use as a programming editor on CentOS 6? My first > impression of kate was favorable, not only did it support the usual > programming and scripting languages but also markdown which I have I used gedit and Windows' Notepad for a long time until I

Re: [CentOS] delete directories with find and exclude other directories

2016-02-03 Thread Chris Beattie
On 2/3/2016 12:37 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > I'm attempting to delete some directories and I want to be able to exclude > a directory called 'logs' from being deleted. Since you can't have a file and a directory named "logs" in the same directory at the same time (that I know of), you could turn on

Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??

2016-03-11 Thread Chris Beattie
On 3/11/2016 2:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial >> >> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to find the >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them. > > So what's the easy way? > > Switch to Ubuntu or something?

[CentOS] list_add corruption problem

2017-08-01 Thread Chris Beattie
Howdy, I've got a CentOS 7 VM that occasionally becomes unresponsive. There's a "list_add corruption" entry in /var/log/messages, included below. This is on VMware. We have lots of other VMs which are running just fine. Only a few are CentOS 7 VMs, though, so I can't rule out some kind of

Re: [CentOS] Not Able to Configure Nagios Server 4.3.4 in Centos 7

2017-10-24 Thread Chris Beattie
> As per the installation instructions I ran the commands in the concerned > folders of ./configure , make , make install for both the core and the Nagios > plugins. > > I am not able to figure out the issue behind that it is not working It did got > installed using yum which was a previous 4.3.2

Re: [CentOS] Not Able to Configure Nagios Server 4.3.4 in Centos 7

2017-10-26 Thread Chris Beattie
> Actually the case is that the compiling process and make all, make install > processes didn't report any errors but when I trying to access or start the > service Nagios it gives me an error stating it's unable to find that service. > > This happens with me when I try to manually install the

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Chris Beattie
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS On Behalf Of Fred Smith > I have, as I said, several other machines to upgrade, too, some of them ... > a couple of VMs (in virtualbox) and at work several other VMS as well as ... > I'd appreciate any advice I can get on how to get these systems