[CentOS-docs] policy w.r.t Testing repo details on wiki articles

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Do we have a policy w.r.t adding details about packages in the testing repo on the wiki ? (sad but true mode answer) add a ! and tell them in a red box: 1. chime in as to results 2. do not rely on systematic security AT ALL on these

Re: [CentOS-docs] policy w.r.t Testing repo details on wiki articles

2008-09-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:53 PM, R P Herrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Do we have a policy w.r.t adding details about packages in the testing repo on the wiki ? (sad but true mode answer) add a ! and tell them in a red box: 1. chime in as to

[CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.7 is released for i386 and x86_64

2008-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.7 for i386 and x86_64. It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent, see this link to download ISOs: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.7/isos/ This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U7

[CentOS-es] help

2008-09-13 Thread Richard Tonato
Saludos, favor su ayuda Soy un novato, instale trixbox un un maquina hp pavilion pc, 3800+ 64 con tarjeta de red integrada, tengo dos problemas: 1.- configuro la tarjeta de red y cuando apago la maquina se borra la configuración, en virtual machine no sucede 2.-necesita configurar lineas sip

[CentOS-es] liberado centos-4.7

2008-09-13 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
Hola, ha salido un nuevo respin de CentOS-4, la versión CentOS-4.7 A continuación copia del mail enviado por CentOS: El equipo de desarrollo de CentOS se complace en anunciar la salida de la versión de CentOS 4.7 para i386 y x86_64. Está disponible en todos los mirrors de CentOS.org y via

[CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported network card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the install. For now I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn localhost.localdomain Q: how would I change this to something like

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread kapil singh
Hello, you can do it from here. go through System Network Hosts edit host name from here. all things you have done till now are correct. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
kapil singh wrote: Hello, you can do it from here. go through System Network Hosts edit host name from here. or, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and set HOSTNAME=whateverfqdn.com since I never even start any GUI on my servers, I find this much more useful.

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Niki. 2) add a line to /etc/hosts like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero ::1 localhost6.localdomain6

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : 2) add a line to /etc/hosts like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero ::1

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.localcalimero When I do this, I get the following result (after rebooting): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname calimero.local [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.localcalimero I slightly altered it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Luke S Crawford wrote: considering just how many people use greylisting, this is likely a bad idea.Greylisting works by rejecting the first message from a new server with a 4xx (temporary) error code. If the server tries again immediately or never tries again, it's probably a spammer.

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Niki. It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.local calimero I slightly altered it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail.

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread admin
It's worth checking that /etc/sysconfig/network also has whatever hostname you wish to use configured in it. To effect changes, it may be necessary to restart the network: service network restart Mick Niki Kovacs wrote: Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1

Re: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote: This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf Extra: send a mail or add to log file Isn't that overkill for an enterprise distro? Subscribing to the relevant mailing list should

[CentOS] Newbies to CentOS List

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts * Mailing List Etiquette * How To Ask Questions The Smart Way * Quoting Style * Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting 1. Please turn off HTML in your e-mail client for these mailing lists. We have several subscribers who read the list with text

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:50 -0700, MHR wrote: I have a specific method of using my five GNOME workspaces to perform certain categories of tasks when I log in on a machine, so I just had a thought. Is there a way to specify, say from a login script, for an application to start up in a

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 06:51 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:50 -0700, MHR wrote: I have a specific method of using my five GNOME workspaces to perform certain categories of tasks when I log in on a machine, so I just had a thought. Is there a way to

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 01:10 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I'm digging all over the place for this one. Has anyone a clue?? When I use: yum whatprovides /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers it

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
William L. Maltby wrote: I just did a google (highly recommended for all initial thoughts :-) for gnome startup scripts. With a little refinement, it looks very promising. What was wrong with the answer in the mail you replied to, but which you completely edited out? Ralph

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4

2008-09-13 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 13:37 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: I just did a google (highly recommended for all initial thoughts :-) for gnome startup scripts. With a little refinement, it looks very promising. What was wrong with the answer in the mail you replied

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread nate
William L. Maltby wrote: HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # I've masked out MAC address for this post Out of curiosity why ? You are aware that someone knowing your MAC address outside your local network is fairly useless right? I just find it funny how people tend to mask MAC/IP/host/domain names.

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 11:31 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.local calimero When I do this, I get the following result (after rebooting): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Re: [CentOS] Problem to run 4 virtual machines at a time.

2008-09-13 Thread nate
mallikarjun gudisagar wrote: Hi all I have installed vyatta system, (vyatta-livecd-vc4-alpha2.iso ) on top of Centos5. What is vyatta system? From a search the closest I can find is some sort of software that provides routing functionality http://www.vyatta.com/index.php Is that it ? My

[CentOS] Problem to run 4 virtual machines at a time.

2008-09-13 Thread mallikarjun gudisagar
Hi all I have installed vyatta system, (vyatta-livecd-vc4-alpha2.iso ) on top of Centos5. Our system requirement is, * Centos 5.1 (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen ) * 2 Gb RAM, * x86_64 And cpu information is as follow, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id :

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 05:06 -0700, nate wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # I've masked out MAC address for this post Out of curiosity why ? You are aware that someone knowing your MAC address outside your local network is fairly useless right? Yes. I just do it

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Niki Kovacs wrote: I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported network card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the install. For now I have this: See http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html and look at the section titled Changing

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Josh Donovan a écrit : See http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html and look at the section titled Changing the host name: Conclusion of this thread: looks like there are two different schools for configuring the hostname.

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : From Slackwares /etc/hosts: ... # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. ... I'm familiar with that one. Been a

[CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?

2008-09-13 Thread James Pearson
I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs Does anyone know where they are? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
admin wrote: It's worth checking that /etc/sysconfig/network also has whatever hostname you wish to use configured in it. To effect changes, it may be necessary to restart the network: service network restart no need to restart, just run the hostname command to set your system hostname.

[CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread kapil singh kushwah
LinkedIn CentOS, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - kapil singh Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/353388492/o9No2YYU/ -- What is LinkedIn? Get answers: Your network is full of industry experts

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
2008/9/13 Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marcus Moeller a écrit : From Slackwares /etc/hosts: ... # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
mouss wrote: admin wrote: It's worth checking that /etc/sysconfig/network also has whatever hostname you wish to use configured in it. To effect changes, it may be necessary to restart the network: service network restart no need to restart, just run the hostname command to set your

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:42 AM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mouss wrote: admin wrote: service network restart no need to restart, just run the hostname command to set your system hostname. caveat though: the hostname command won't affect already running services if they rely on the

Re: [CentOS] Problem to run 4 virtual machines at a time.

2008-09-13 Thread Wilson Lee
nate wrote: What is vyatta system? From a search the closest I can find is some sort of software that provides routing functionality http://www.vyatta.com/index.php Is that it ? Correct. Vyatta is an open source full-featured router/firewall/vpn solution based on Debian. It can be installed

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 07:27 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 01:10 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I'm digging all over the place for this one. Has anyone a clue?? When

RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread RobertH
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.local calimero Best Regards Marcus Marcus, Per man hostname FILES /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network NOTE Note that hostname doesnât change anything permanently. After reboot original names from /etc/hosts are

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
kapil singh kushwah wrote: CentOS, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. That was actually very funny. Ralph pgpcpmgU5MgKQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?

2008-09-13 Thread Shad L. Lords
James Pearson wrote: I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs There are actually quite a few missing sources: From centosplus:

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Robert. Per man hostname FILES /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network NOTE Note that hostname doesnât change anything permanently. After reboot original names from /etc/hosts are used again. That's clear. Do you really think one should tie the hostname to the loopback

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Ric Moore wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 07:27 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 01:10 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I'm digging all over the place for this one. Has anyone a

RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread RobertH
Marcus, Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install. Since functionally, it is wrong. - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
RobertH wrote: Marcus, Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install. Since functionally, it is wrong. indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback interface seems to break a bunch of our java

RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread RobertH
John R Pierce wrote: indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback interface seems to break a bunch of our java stuff too.first thing we've always had to do after a CentOS/RHEL install is change /etc/hosts, and put the hostname on its own line with the static IP, or leave it out

Re: [CentOS] 4.7 update issues?

2008-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
RobertH wrote: Greets, Thank you to all the CentOS team and supporters. :-) Just wondering though... Any 4.7 update issues or horror stories yet? indeed, specifically, did those issues with the broken kernel update get sorted out? ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. Hit that nail on the head and exactly what I was describing. Thing is, why does upstream and/or other distros do that? What is the reasoning? The reason for setting a hostname on loopback is simple. Major distributions want to brand their installs even if the box has not

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 18:27 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: kapil singh kushwah wrote: CentOS, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. That was actually very funny. How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like a great idea, but commercial.

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
William L. Maltby wrote: That was actually very funny. How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like a great idea, but commercial. I considered the post to be the equivalent of spam. Well, a mailing list as a contact in one of those social networks doesn't really

RE: [CentOS] 4.7 update issues?

2008-09-13 Thread RobertH
indeed, specifically, did those issues with the broken kernel update get sorted out? I dunno about any kernel issues on mirrors or syncing or whatever... After a quick backup set check, I bit the bullet on one of our main CentOS 4.6 i386 production boxes and did a full update to CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 19:56 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: That was actually very funny. How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like a great idea, but commercial. I considered the post to be the equivalent of spam. Well, a

[CentOS] script for updating from 4.6 to 5.2 i386

2008-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a script available for upgrade from 4 to 5? I have tried it on one TEST computer following what I thought were the instructions and after the update I still had 2.6.9 kernel not the 2.6.18. I looked in grub.conf and there were no 2.6.18 kernels. Just wonder if someone has automated

[CentOS] 4.7 update issues?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, RobertH wrote: Any 4.7 update issues or horror stories yet? Part of the QA which I mentioned earlier in the week was looking for problems. This late in point respins of the 4 series, however, nothing major comes to mind from the looking we did during that testing.

[CentOS] Local yum repository

2008-09-13 Thread saurabh
Hi All, i have a local repository configured for 'yum',which have files copied over from the RHEL DVD,It was configured initially,as i was facing some issues with my NIC which was not supported on 2.6.18 so had to upgrade to 2.6.26. Now as all is working fine and i'm on net i want to disable

[CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Shad L. Lords wrote: James Pearson wrote: I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs There are actually quite a few missing sources:

[CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, John R Pierce wrote: RobertH wrote: Marcus, Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install. Since functionally, it is wrong. indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2008-09-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Bob Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.. I have centos 5.2 There is a cron file that is commented out to auto update the rules of spamassassin Location: /etc/cron.d/sa-update This file is chmod 600, should it not be 755? All the other crons are 755

Re: [CentOS] script for updating from 4.6 to 5.2 i386

2008-09-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a script available for upgrade from 4 to 5? I have tried it on one TEST computer following what I thought were the instructions and after the update I still had 2.6.9 kernel not the 2.6.18. I looked in grub.conf and

[CentOS] HP Hardware

2008-09-13 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we use HP hardware exclusively. When we build CentOS our Unix SA is running several HP utilities. I am wondering what some of these utilities are, such as cmaidad. Is it possible to to use these HP utilities to monitor for disk crashes (similar to smartd)? Is anyone using native

Re: [CentOS] HP Hardware

2008-09-13 Thread nate
Mag Gam wrote: At my university we use HP hardware exclusively. When we build CentOS our Unix SA is running several HP utilities. I am wondering what some of these utilities are, such as cmaidad. Is it possible to to use these HP utilities to monitor for disk crashes (similar to smartd)? Is

Re: [CentOS] Newbies to CentOS List

2008-09-13 Thread MHR
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Josh Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts * Mailing List Etiquette * How To Ask Questions The Smart Way * Quoting Style * Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting 1. Please turn off HTML in your e-mail client for

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread MHR
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:21 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a google (highly recommended for all initial thoughts :-) for gnome startup scripts. With a little refinement, it looks very promising. Yes, I know - I do that. Your search criteria look far better than

Re: [CentOS] Local yum repository

2008-09-13 Thread Sergey Podushkin
saurabh wrote: Please help me out - Disabling the local Repo just place disabled=1 line in your .repo file for local repository or by - Any method to keep it up to date ,[syncing it with some online repository] copy of DVD doesn't need to be synced, since it doesn't updated at all. If you

Re: [CentOS] Problem to run 4 virtual machines at a time.

2008-09-13 Thread MHR
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Wilson Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. Vyatta is an open source full-featured router/firewall/vpn solution based on Debian. It can be installed on a physical computer or virtualized. Especially in a virtualized environment, Vyatta allows one to easily

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread MHR
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:49 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-ha! I thought of similar, but cruder word. It's too bad we don't have more emoticons (ASCII, of course) that can convey more of the subtleties. Something like (*), maybe? It doesn't quit look right 'cuz the

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't understand why people just don't turn off their mailservers if they don't want mail from others. Most of us have come close.I get north of 500 spams a day unprotected. I've been using the same email since '01. I know many others

RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf Extra: send a mail or add to log file Isn't that overkill for an enterprise distro? Subscribing to the relevant mailing list should help

RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
Change /etc/hosts First of all, leave all the original stuff and do not alter. Underneath the original stuff, just add ipaddress server1.mydomain.com see below Sorry, half asleep ipaddress server1.mydomain.com server1 ___ CentOS mailing

RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero localhost.localdomain localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname calimero.local [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn calimero.local Wouldn't this be more correct? I would suggest not making 'local' part of

RE: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
I really don't understand why people just don't turn off their mailservers if they don't want mail from others. Most of us have come close.I get north of 500 spams a day unprotected. I've been using the same email since '01. I know many others have it worse than I do.

[CentOS] Installing libpng

2008-09-13 Thread Joe Tseng
I've been trying to install perl-Tk and I learned v804.028 uses libpng 1.2.20; CentOS 5.2 still uses 1.2.10. Is there an RPM out there I can use that's 1.2.20? I'm just afraid of compiling from source code and breaking all the apps that depend on what's on the system right now. - Joe

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 11:49 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: It should work if you follow the jpackage instructions for their nosrc rpm where you download the Sun binary and rebuild it into an alternatives-compatible package that also supplies the jvm dependencies for the other jpackage

Re: [CentOS] Installing nVidia driver on remote CentOS 4

2008-09-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 20:40 -0700, Eon Strife wrote: Hi, There's a linux cluster somewhere (using Rocks), and I use remote desktop (nxmachine) to do the work on the frontend of the cluster. The desktop is Gnome. And, I intend to install new nVidia driver, but it requires me to stop the

Re: [CentOS] Local yum repository

2008-09-13 Thread saurabh
Sergey Podushkin wrote: saurabh wrote: Please help me out - Disabling the local Repo just place disabled=1 line in your .repo file for local repository or by - Any method to keep it up to date ,[syncing it with some online repository] copy of DVD doesn't need to be synced, since it