Re: [CentOS-docs] freeNX page additional note

2008-06-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Scott Robbins wrote: Assuming Ralph does give me temporary edit permission, should I put the problem and solution in, or simply put a link to the post? There are no temporary edit permissions. You gave us your hand, so now we take the complete body. Go ahead, Ralph pgpMLjyjwkDpq.pgp

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

[CentOS-docs] wiki contribution

2008-06-27 Thread John Dell
Hi, I wanted to add a few notes in the wiki on the fastestmirror plugin on how you can add exclude info in the fastestmirror.conf file. This became important because amazingly ucalgary.ca shows up as a fastestmirror for servers I have in both Nevada and New York. However, the mirror is horribly

[CentOS-docs] Re: wiki contribution

2008-06-27 Thread John Dell
Bah, forgot my wiki username: JohnDell On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:51 AM, John Dell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wanted to add a few notes in the wiki on the fastestmirror plugin on how you can add exclude info in the fastestmirror.conf file. This became important because amazingly

Re: [CentOS-docs] freeNX page additional note

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:35:15AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:48:34AM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: Assuming Ralph does give me temporary edit permission, should I put the problem and solution in, or simply put a link to the post?

Re: [CentOS-docs] freeNX page additional note

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:50:07PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: I have made the addition. I put in miscellaneous rather than trouble shooting, as it's a relatively rare scenario. Thanks. It would have helped to give the URL. Sorry. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX Also, I note there is

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0529 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 net-snmp - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0529 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0529.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: net-snmp-5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3.x86_64.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3.x86_64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0529 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 net-snmp - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0529 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0529.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: net-snmp-5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3.i386.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0522 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 perl - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0522 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.x86_64.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.x86_64.rpm src:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0522 Important CentOS 4 i386 perl - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0522 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.i386.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.i386.rpm src:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0503 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xorg-x11 - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0503 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0503.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0503 Important CentOS 4 i386 xorg-x11 - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0503 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0503.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0538 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0538 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0538.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0538 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0538 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0538.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0537 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org2 - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0537 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0537.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: openoffice.org2-base-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-calc-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0508 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.i586.rpm kernel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.i686.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0508 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap

2008-06-27 Thread Carlos Moreira
Julio Cesar Aponte Castro escribió: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:35 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos-es@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap 2008/6/26 Ing. Ernesto Pérez

RE: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap

2008-06-27 Thread Julio Cesar Aponte Castro
Saludos Hoy en dia la RAM es barata, las velocidades de la CPU han crecido tanto que se recomienda tener raid por software que por hardware (para las controladoras baratas por supuesto). Sin embargo, las velocidades de i/o en los discos no han crecido al mismo ritmo. No todos tenemos discos

[CentOS-es] Fwd: centos + tarjeta ralink + wpa2psk aes

2008-06-27 Thread feddds
bueno, en realidad ahora no anda ni con la red desprotegida...aca copio el error... ra0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver ! RT61: RfIcType= 3 ra0: no IPv6 routers present ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex

Re: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap

2008-06-27 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
la verdad), pero como mismo consumio la ram, va a consumir la swap y no es lo mismo, trabajar en ram, que estar haciendo swap de 1gb en el disco duro. Los i/o wait times te matan el tiempo de la cpu. Al final terminas sufriendo de cualquier manera (venga ese sysadmin appreciation day!). ese es

Re: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap

2008-06-27 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
O. T. Suarez wrote: Hola: en realidad no es no ponerle swap al servidor si no tratar de no usarla nunca teniendo la suficiente ram . Ahi es donde me pierdo. Existe alguna forma de definirle al sistema que no utilize swap? Nunca he trabajado con suficiente RAM la verdad (mas de 4GB),

Re: [CentOS-es] aumentar swap

2008-06-27 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez wrote: la verdad), pero como mismo consumio la ram, va a consumir la swap y no es lo mismo, trabajar en ram, que estar haciendo swap de 1gb en el disco duro. Los i/o wait times te matan el tiempo de la cpu. Al final terminas sufriendo de cualquier manera (venga ese

[CentOS] missing depdency: drbd = 8.0.12 is needed by package kmod-drbd-xen

2008-06-27 Thread Amos Shapira
When I execute yum upgrade on both CentOS 5.0 Xen DomU and CentTOS 5.1 Xen Dom0 I get: -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: drbd = 8.0.12 is needed by package kmod-drbd-xen yum list drbd\* gives: Available Packages drbd.x86_64

RE: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William L. Maltby scribbled on Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:49 PM: an update of a live server without adequate testing and/or fallback plan is akin to unassisted suicide. It won't be your foot you shot yourself in if something goes drastically wrong. LOL! Clear and to the point. Good one!

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

2008-06-27 Thread centos
Removing perl.i386 fixed this... Thanks! - Original Message - From: Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:34:11 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Harry Sukumar wrote: Hi James, Yes I tried to do this on another machine unfortunately this didn't work for me, good you raised this topic On the other machine I edited the visudo User_Alias PROJECT = emma, paddy, sb PROJECT ALL = !/usr/su, !/bin/su, !/usr/bin/passwd I see your

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
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

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joseph L. Casale scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:29 AM: Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? Mel Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Blackwell
Plant, Dean wrote: I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run sudo /bin/bash or any of the other shells to gain root access. Hi Dean, I don't think that's correct. One of the purposes of the sudoers file

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)

2008-06-27 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 19:02:28 fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Robert wrote: Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: 1. shutdown -h now goes all the way down but does not power

[CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
Hi all, I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them. I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread fabian dacunha
Thanks guys for the various suggestions really do apprecite but as u guys say i shd follow .. have a perfect backup system and then do the upgrade really apprecite regards fabian simon I just updated from an i386 CentOS 5 system today, using the reccommendeds steps on my server, and

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: Hi all, I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them. perhaps you should try the geoip project's community options ? -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc:

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
tech wrote: I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. 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

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast updates! 8-D There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, [EMAIL

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Ian Blackwell wrote: Plant, Dean wrote: I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run sudo /bin/bash or any of the other shells to gain root access. Hi Dean, I don't think that's correct. One of the

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Blackwell
Plant, Dean wrote: What I was trying to point out is that if is he is disabling commands like su then they must be enabled somewhere in the groups he is calling and it is good practice to disable all the shells as well. All my sudoers lines that call groups like he was trying to do always have a

RE: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tech scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:57 AM: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. It works in Sweden. In fact the fastest-mirror thing works better now with the v5.2 than ever before. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karanbir Singh scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:27 AM: tech wrote: I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, the latest updates for perl, xorg-x11, net-snmp, openoffice.org for C4 were announced for the ia64 and s390(x) archs, but not for i386 and x86_64 altough they are available on the updates mirrors. Also, what is

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
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

Re: [CentOS] Minimized Firefox is not visible on panel in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:14 +1000, hce wrote: Hi, I opened a Firefox on Desktop, but when I clicked Minimize Window button, the Firefox disappeared and there was no icon on the panel, I simply could not find it any more (it did not close), this was the same for the terminal as well . How

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bernd Bartmann wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, the latest updates for perl, xorg-x11, net-snmp, openoffice.org for C4 were announced for the ia64 and s390(x) archs, but not for i386 and x86_64 altough they are available on the updates

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will get those out soon to ... but I can only work 24 hours a day Thanks! Take your time. I just want to make sure they do not get lost. Best regards, Bernd. ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread John Bowden
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the houses of Parliament with

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 kickstart install from USB Pen failed

2008-06-27 Thread Pierre Reinbold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I usually use DHCP to install CentOS boxes via kickstart. For a first install, I boot the machine on the CentOS first CD, I type linux ks at the prompt and the rest is automatic. I have already use USB pen to boot some servers that don't

Re: [CentOS] Can you install from local updates?

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I normally use http install to access my /centos/ver/os/i386 repo. Is there someway to get the install to include the updates in /centos/ver/updates? It seems such a waste to install rpms that you know are already fixed I do this with a kickstart installation:

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Pyeron wrote on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400: Any ideas what the dangerous inode confusion is about? Is it relevant today? I have no idea. I think the proposed problem is that the client doesn't know that it's traversing filesystems, so, the same inode number on filesystem / and /b

RE: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Bowden scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM: Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? I removed my 5.1 torrents couple of

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:41:56 -0500: but I can only work 24 hours a day then you are still ahead of most of us ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Kai Schaetzl wrote: You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. If the /etc/yum.conf file contains: obsoletes=1 yum update will be the same as yum upgrade. The yum.conf file will have

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. If the /etc/yum.conf file contains: obsoletes=1 yum update will be the same as yum upgrade. The

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
tech wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008 10:51:18 pm Harry Sukumar wrote: Dear All But even after adding him to wheel, sys and adm group he is unable to install using yum Ok, I'm new to CentOS and yum, but it seems to me that installing software would need to have write

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 40, Issue 13

2008-06-27 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Papalagi Pakeha
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Andreas Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Papalagi Pakeha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I have recently migrated my old server from OpenSUSE 10.0 to CentOS 5. Almost everything works great, except for one thing - user

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: Hmmm, I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I can't remember doing anything to this.snip # yum update omit the usual verbosity Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package

RE: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Bowden scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM: Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD

Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Brett Serkez wrote: All, I have a fresh CentOS 5.2 server that I am just starting to customize, it is very close to stock. This morning I ran yum update: = Installing: kernel-xen i686

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:03 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: Hmmm, I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I can't remember doing anything to this.snip # yum update omit the usual verbosity

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Rudi Ahlers wrote: ... Which is why yum upgrade is recommended, yum update may or may not work for everyone, depending on this flag Many have expressed concern because they've used yum update instead of yum upgrade. My point is that it might not be a problem. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer,

Re: [CentOS] Starting a Local CentOS Mirror

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Art Age Software wrote: Hi all, I would like to set up a local CentOS mirror, as suggested by others on this list, to cut down on bandwidth usage, etc. I have read a couple HowTos and it seems pretty straight-forward, but I do have some questions. 1) How should I change my entries in

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip = # yum list jpackage-utils.noarch omit the usual verbosity Installed Packages

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jason Pyeron wrote on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400: Any ideas what the dangerous inode confusion is about? Is it relevant today? I have no idea. I think the proposed problem is that the client doesn't know that it's traversing filesystems, so, the same inode

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread thad
how terribly shocking... I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France because they eat frogs What about those who eat alligators. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Almost one hour and only 1.7 of 4.8 m was downloaded This is typical for me getting data from .tw sites. Then ... find the fastest mirrors and don't use the default. We can't possibly try to program in thnigs like this on our end. The fastestmirror script actually

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure [SOLVED]

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip # yum update omit the usual verbosity Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 set to be updated -- Processing

[CentOS] Headphone on a Acer Extensa 5220

2008-06-27 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello, is there any chance to get a headphone working under a acer extensa 5220 with CenOS 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) installed? Maybe by centosplus or self compiled alsa sources? # rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 alsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5 The sound works great on this notebook and

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:55:58 +0200: The yum.conf file will have this line unless manually removed And you are right, too :-) William mentioned the config file, btw, he just didn't mention the flag. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Andreas Pedersen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Papalagi Pakeha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Andreas Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Papalagi Pakeha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I have recently migrated my old server from OpenSUSE 10.0

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
First, are you running 5.2 or a older version ? If it is a older version, first upgrade to 5.2. Then read http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U2-x86_64-en.html#id2914967 and the section about SHA passwords. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
Just a point of note: When adding the wheel group to the sudoers file via visudo, it does not mean that the users in the wheel group can execute commands directly. It means that they can type: #sudo command options For each enabled command in the sudoers file. Now lets walk through some

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Papalagi Pakeha
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, are you running 5.2 or a older version ? If it is a older version, first upgrade to 5.2. Then read http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U2-x86_64-en.html#id2914967 and the

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:17:22AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: jpyeron ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL ## allows user jpyeron logged in from ALL locations to act as ALL users without Not logged in _from_ all locations; logged in _to_ all machines which have that sudoers file. eg jpyeron A=(root)

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:54:56 -0400: I don't understand your talk about fake directories. They are not fake, they truly exist in the filesystem. They are nevertheless fake. Consider the following: - system A has mount points / and /home - system B nfs mounts / on A without

[CentOS] VNC vs GNOME desktop

2008-06-27 Thread fred smith
I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove the applet from the

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:31 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!! On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:17:22AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: jpyeron ALL=(ALL)

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread jarmo
Mogens Kjaer kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 27. kesäkuuta 2008): Rudi Ahlers wrote: ... Which is why yum upgrade is recommended, yum update may or may not work for everyone, depending on this flag Many have expressed concern because they've used yum update instead of yum

Re: [CentOS] VNC vs GNOME desktop

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
fred smith wrote: I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. - KB ___

[CentOS] 5.1 - 5.2 Upgrade oddity

2008-06-27 Thread James B. Byrne
yum upgrade -y yada yada yada then lots of errors like: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:173: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined and so on until Document is not well-formed XML: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/it/gdm.xml Updating : amtu

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les Mikesell wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate choices. I've been using

Re: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Bowden wrote: Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John We normally drop the torrents from the tracker

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 - 5.2 Upgrade oddity

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
James B. Byrne wrote: yum upgrade -y yada yada yada then lots of errors like: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:173: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined and so on until Document is not well-formed XML: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/it/gdm.xml Updating : amtu

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Hiep Nguyen wrote: Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Sorin Srbu
Ok, any particular reason why not? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:54:56 -0400: I don't understand your talk about fake directories. They are not fake, they truly exist in the filesystem. They are nevertheless fake. Consider the following: - system A has mount points / and /home - system B

[CentOS] 5.1 to 5.2 upgrade - perfectly smoothe

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Alberts
I run 3 servers and I upgraded them from 5.1 to 5.2 this week without even a single glitch. So now that I've been running CentOS for a couple months, I wanted to take a minute to say... Thank you to CentOS, everyone on the list for the occasional technical support (and thanks to the upstream

[CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Grzesiek
Hi, When I boot my dedicated server from netinstall cd, I see: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg System: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz - Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] - Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris This allows you to have one centrally controlled sudoers file but have machine specific privileges. Hmmm, I don't see it in /etc/nsswitch.conf. By central you mean

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Grzesiek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg Another victim of : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:00:45 -0400: Again, it's not fake, it's not artificial. It's both, really. artificial = it doesn't exist before the first nfs mount fake = from the remote machine it's an imitation of the real /home filesystem on the other machine. It looks like /home,

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate choices. Fatestmirror

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Eric DuToit
In a flurry of recycled electrons Plant, Dean wrote: All my sudoers lines that call groups like he was trying to do always have a !SU, !SHELLS to specifically deny root access. Anyway I will shut up now as none of this will help fix his problem. If you ever grant someone ALL commands and

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Grzesiek wrote: Hi, When I boot my dedicated server from netinstall cd, I see: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel,

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel, and then don't install any kernel patches until this one gets

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