Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS website/blog localization support for IT (italian...) language
Hi all, still again here... I'm doing some working to start the Italian translation job (build a glossary and share some good rules to approach translation task) I've analyzed the wiki software (MoinMoin) and found it extremely useful and simple and I'm trying to get in touch with the it-translator-team of that platform. I've two questions : 1) Can you share the usage/mostly accessed page on the wiki (to choose where to start from the translating job and also to check how many pages are served from the /it/ sub roots) 2) Is there/can we access an svn/git repository to save/backup the translated page (both shared with another language translator team or specific to our use) and also ... Exactly what's https://planet.centos.org? It seems to be a historical overview of what's happened in the CentOS community from the beginning of 2017 until today ... Can I also translate this? Perhaps starting from the beginning of 2019 posts... I noted this page seems to be served and managed from a different platform (http://www.planetplanet.org/) Again Happy hacking a tutti! Fleur PS: Even any references, errors and related lessons learned by other translators can help, so ... don't hesitate to give me suggestions and useful tips ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-docs] CentOS website/blog localization support for IT (italian...) language
Hi guys, greetings from Italy. My name is Andrea Flori and I work in an IT company who give Linux support to his customers I am somehow involved with CentOS in the last 3 years (both for private/personal use and work) and I think that time is arrived to give some contribution to the project. In the last 3 years, I am somehow involved with CentOS (both for private/personal use and work) and I think that's time is arrived to give some contribution to the project. I haven't a super technician skill so I think that the best support I can give now is to help translate the CentOS website/blog to Italian. So why not to start from a good basepoint like this -> "Contribute to the Wiki"? [ https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute ] And of course also the related ones ... Like this : https://wiki.centos.org/ToDo https://wiki.centos.org/Donate https://wiki.centos.org/Promote https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Wiki/Editing https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/Contributing https://centos.org/download/ Some translations, harder and complex, will come after a first training period if I'll be able to survive to the extra job that this task requires :-) I'm talking about : - https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ - https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream - https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos - https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks Some questions : - There's some Italian guy on this list? Who wants to help me in this job? - There's already some translation job started but not finished to reuse / from which start from? - What's the relationship (from the translation point of view) of the website, the blog and the mailing-list? Blog and Website are on the same web publishing platform? - There's some dictionary with shared and clear key words? (Like using "host" for "server", etc.) ? - There're some guidelines about how to do the translation task? I can't access this link... what's wrong? What's the purpose of this page? [ https://wiki.centos.org/UserPreferences ] Happy hacking a tutti ! [ happy hacking to everybody ] Andrea Flori aka Fleur PS : I'll in Bruxelles next January @ FOSDEM 2020, so I'll try to meet you at Dojo on Friday, 31-JAN (I'll arrive in the morning at the airport, before midday on the Marriot hotel) ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region
Johnny Hughes wrote: What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it passes a list of high bandwidth machines. I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I can get a better result. I reported a problem like this much earlier. I am in Hong Kong. Mirror selects .TW sites for me. BUT, although .TW is close the actual data transfer between there and here is very slow. I learned almost 20 years ago not to do transfers from there. I excluded all .TW sites in the .CONF file. This wasn't working so good. I noticed that almost all of the sites listed were .EDU.TW so I changed my exclusion to just the .EDU.TW sites. I now live with this exclusion. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
John R Pierce wrote: all the BackUPs I've ever seen have been simple relay switched units. when the power is on, you're getting unfiltered power (except for a MOV based surge protector), when the power is out, it switches to the modified square wave inverter output. John, There are units that change the AC to DC. The DC then charges the batteries and gets changed back to AC for the equipment. These units are very expensive though. The relay switching types, like you mentioned, have response delays. They can let transients through. These transients can cause weird PC problems. I know, I have one of these and still a lot of transients get through to my equipment. My local service is very unreliable. The power company uses a funny set of definitions about transients so that they can claim their power is good. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CGI configuration - second post
This is my second request for help with this problem. I have followed the suggestions given the first time and made some progress but I still have one final problem/question. I have two CGI scripts that don't work. One is the standard Set-Cookie, examples can be found all over the net, that sets a cookie and prints Your cookie name is set. The other is an automatic installation script that comes from commerce-cgi.com and is for installing their CGI shopping cart. Both of these scripts are now located in /var/www/cgi-bin/ and the folder and the scripts are set to apache:apache 755. BTW a setting of root:root also fails exactly the same way. If I run either of these scripts from a browser using www.domain.com it fails. If I run it from a browser using www.domain.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi or www.domain.com/cgi-bin/techtest.cgi it works. I have tried using a one line index.shtml file with that one line being either !--#include virtual=/cgi-bin/install.cgi-- or !--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/install.cgi-- and they both fail. They do find and execute the script. The set cookie script prints the Your cookie name is set. message OK but the cookie is not sent to the browser. The install script loads the first HTML page ok but does not load the second page. I had a friend-of-a-friend IT guy that I trust look at everything. He hasn't found anything obvious. If he tries to run either of these scripts from his computer, it works OK. Can someone here help me understand why this is happening? Mel PS posts in other online places (as suggested here) did not get any replies. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: CGI configuration - second post
Ralph Angenendt wrote: And next time you ask something please include *error* messages. Ralph, Sorry. I should have said that there is nothing in the error log. I have entries in the access log but not the error log. I had one before but I did a complete format and re-install and it is gone. Let me also say that SELinux is OFF. ScriptAlias is set and I believe it is correct. I have gone over httpd.conf carefully and had someone else look at it. The obvious things seem to be OK. I did go back and verify one thing, when the IT guy was testing and it worked for him, he was using www.domain.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi and not just www.domain.com. That also failed for him. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie Hello World problem SOLVED
Lanny Marcus wrote: Try http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ Thanks. I have gone and posted there. To comment on some other suggestions I received here: Setting the folder to apache did not fix the problem. SELinux has not been run on this system. I had noticed some funny things with setting permissions using the GUI. I went back and made sure I did them over again from the command line. It still fails. I believe that Exec is set right in options. Many things work ok. Only some things don't ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie Hello World problem SOLVED
Lanny Marcus wrote: I began with Assembly Language, Machine Language and Fortran. This sounds like me (except for the Fortran bit). I even think that COBOL is new fangled stuff. This senior citizen doesn't mind being called a newbie. I have made some progress but am still frustrated. I took the suggestions made here. I put the CGI stuff in var/www/cgi-bin/. I double checked my permissions and http.conf file but I can run CGI routines mostly OK but I cannot set a cookie. I am using one of the simple set cookie routines from the net. It does everything but actually write the cookie. Other sites are storing cookies so I know the browsers (IE and FF) accept them. I can run routines that print all the ENV variables OK. I can use the random number function to set the cookie value OK. Just no cookie. The only error in the error log file comes from mod_mime_magic and seems to be there even for routines that just read cookies. I have other things not working such as installing the commerce cgi shopping cart using the automatic install program they provide. I get the first page OK but when I click on continue it just refreshes the page. It should POST a form with a name that is tested for with an IF. The new name should cause a jump to a subroutine that loads a new page. The name is blank so the IF falls through and reloads the same page. The browser knows that form data has been sent because a page refresh warns me that the form data is stale and must be resent. Where do I go next? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie Hello World problem SOLVED
John wrote: One last thing is how are you running the cgi-bin contents? Through Apache, Mod-CGI, Fast-CGI or Mod Pythons CGI? Apache needs to be the folder owner witch I take it, it is from you saying it does work on a few things? John, Thanks. I have the apache (http.conf) file directory options set with Exec for CGI. Apache is not currently the folder owner; root is. I will change the folder ownership as you suggested and test again. It works on many things and only fails on a few. Set cookie seemed to be the simplist and most straight forward to fix; so, I chose it to work with first. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Tech wrote on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:01:26 +0800: Oh, it does print Hello World OK but it also prints the Content line as text rather than using it as a directive. This is not a setup problem and not a CentOS problem. Your script is probably wrong in some code. I assume with Content line you might mean an HTTP header. There is no such header (there are headers starting with this string, though). I think your question is better suited for a Perl or CGI programming newsgroup. Kai Hi, Thanks for your reply. By Content line I meant this line: print Content-type: text/html\n\n; I have tried many scripts, they all do this. I have problems with JavaScript too so I am not sure yet about this just being a Perl or CGI problem. I might even have multiple problems. I can see the possibility of permission problems, Perl problems, CGI problems, and/or browser problems. I am running the latest released version of all including IE and Firefox. All I do know is what all the examples that show this as working don't work. I have the book, CGI Programing 101, and can't get its examples to work. It is very frustrating. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
Steve Huff wrote: it would be easier to troubleshoot this problem if you were to post links to the following: * your Perl script * the Apache access and error logs showing what happens when you try to hit the CGI from a browser * the relevant Apache configs (vhost, .htaccess, whatever) -steve Steve, Thanks for the reply. Instead of links I will post the code as it is very short. This is what the browser displays all on one line exactly as shown: Content-type: text/html Hello, world! Here is the index.html file: html HEADTITLETech/TITLE META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 /head body p!--#exec cmd=perl ./cgi-bin/hello.cgi--/p /body /html Here is the hello.cgi file: #!/bin/perl print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print Hello, world!\n; Here are the lines from the access log: 220.241.99.252 - - [29/Sep/2008:23:22:22 +0800] GET / HTTP/1.1 200 189 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0 The error log has no lines for this access. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
nate wrote: Do you have server side includes turned on in apache? (in the Directory section typically) Are your includes configured with the NoExec option? Hi Nate, Don't think so. I have +Includes and ExecCGI in directory options. NoExec does not appear anywhere in HTTP.conf or in perl.conf Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
Stephen Harris wrote: Right. The O/P is confusing his weasels. He's writing a CGI script but using an _include_ script. Two totally different things. Stephen, Thank you. I appreciate your time and patience. I now know what to go find to fix this. I was trying to do this the same way I installed the common visitor counter which worked. Thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
nate wrote: Have you tried variations on the path? e.g if your executing a shell I don't think ./cgi-bin/ would be a valid path, it would be relative to the file system itself. Example from my personal web site: !--#include virtual=/cgi-bin/multimon-new.cgi -- Nate, The ./cgi-bin/ is under public_html. It is set in http.conf as a CGI directory. The files are found OK. But, as mentioned, I have been confusing the proverbial apples and oranges. I will put my CGI tutorial books away and learn how to call CGI and JavaScripts from HTML to right way. Thanks again. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?
nate wrote: Try calling the cgi directly like my example instead of executing perl in a shell. Will do. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Probably a bad set-up but which one?
I am having a problem that I assume is a set-up problem but I don't know which area to look at to fix it. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. I can't get the simple Perl Hello World script to work. Oh, it does print Hello World OK but it also prints the Content line as text rather than using it as a directive. Two different servers (both CentOs 5) and both IE and Firefox are doing the same thing. I first tried a JavaScript program (free online shopping cart) and it wouldn't work properly. So, I changed to CGI and can't get it working OK either. What does work: CGI/Perl visitor count program. Count.log and main.log exist and get updated and display the updated count in the browser OK. What doesn't work: content line is seen as text. I can't create a file using CGI. I can append to one but I can't create one. I have tried a CGI shopping cart (Commerce) which has an install script. It displays the first page OK but when I click on Continue I get the same page again. The script says clicking on Continue should submit a form (Post) with a name of step2. An IF statement should see that name and go to the step2 subroutine. It doesn't. It falls through to the ELSE and displays the same page. A Print command shows the name is blank after the click. The browser knows about the form because a refresh tells me about the stale form data. I have the AddHandler lines and the ExCGI option in my http config. I have checked that all spelling and cases are OK. Carp Fatal to Browser is not showing any errors. Server error log doesn't seem unhappy either. I have done some searching in news groups and Deja, ooops sorry, Google and didn't find anything that helped. Where do I look next? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91 kb 1:20 kernel-devel died after 52:01 At this point several mirrors were tried finally a fast one was found and things went quickly and smoothly. Almost one hour and only 1.7 of 4.8 m was downloaded This is typical for me getting data from .tw sites. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload
Karanbir Singh wrote: You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little while to work out whats going on. Perhaps also reduce the maxhostfileage value to have fastestmirror speed check each mirror more often. There is also always the option of only using mirrors you know work well. To do that, comment out the mirrorlist= lines from /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and replace them with baseurl=url to mirror. You can have multiple mirrors listed there. man yum.conf for more info on that. Thanks. I have already set enable=0. That helps. I will try your other suggestions. I suspect this is something unique. Initial transfers are fast but then things get very slow. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload
I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense geographically but not in terms of bandwidth. Although Taiwan is very close, it is almost the slowest connection I can make. Some .jp sites are good but I find .sg or the US is usually best. This morning I tried to update to the new kernel (92.1.6). My system seemed to die during the download. After some investigation, I found that Yum et al is being defaulted to .tw sites. (base, updates, add ons all go to .tw.) I have now been sitting at base primary.xml.gz for over 15 minutes and am only about 50% done. Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: USB Wireless device for CentOS?
MHR wrote: I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) I have a tp-link tl-wn322g. The folks at tp-link were very easy to contact and helpful. They provided me the driver for it by e-mail Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
