[CentOS-docs] Improving the PageRank of individual wiki pages

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Let me first stress that the success of the wiki is tight to how many users find it as a resource. And that users will only find the wiki for their problems if it has a higher PageRank. (I am using PageRank as an example, other search engines would do better if we can implement some

[CentOS-docs] Improving the website and forums

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Something that is not helping us with Google is the prefix www.centos.org - to every page of the website (including the forums). It is annoying in the sense that it pushes the important keywords to the end of the title and sometimes out of view of regular users (yes, Google search resuls

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

2009-01-03 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Akemi, www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Wireless ... 14.7. Establishing a Wireless Connection www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Intel ... My advise: - Get rid of the www.centos.org - prefix for all pages Not sure how to achieve this,

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

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:45 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, Something that is not helping us with Google is the prefix www.centos.org - to every page of the website (including the forums). It is annoying in the sense that it pushes the important keywords to the end of the title and

Re: [CentOS-docs] Improving the PageRank of individual wiki pages

2009-01-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Dag Wieers wrote: - Easier to register We have discussed this before, what is the current status ? Quite ready. We have people who want to be on the Editorial Team, there will be an alias for them on the mail server. The registration page has to be changed (a preview of that has been

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

2009-01-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Dag Wieers wrote: www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Wireless ... 14.7. Establishing a Wireless Connection - Get rid of the www.centos.org - prefix for all pages - Get rid of the Forums - prefix for the forums - Get rid of the Networking Support prefix for

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

2009-01-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google). http://wiki.centos.org/TitleIndex is there. No idea if that is what Google accepts as a sitemap. Also each page upon creation needs a way to

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

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google). http://wiki.centos.org/TitleIndex is there. No idea if that is what Google accepts

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

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com wrote: www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Wireless ... 14.7. Establishing a Wireless Connection www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Intel ... My

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

2009-01-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google). http://wiki.centos.org/TitleIndex is there. No idea if that is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contributing on CentOS Wiki

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Vitor Afonso Strabello wrote: Can I post a link to the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor about it also? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0397.html Counsel for the PNAELV expressly asked that CentOS NOT 'deep

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

2009-01-03 Thread David Hrbáč
Dag Wieers napsal(a): Well, I disagree that this is useful for every individual page. The centos.org in the URL as well as in Google search result pretty much proves the point, we don't need it again in the page title (and certainly NOT at the beginning of the title). Dag's pretty right.

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

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google). http://wiki.centos.org/TitleIndex is there. No idea if that is what Google accepts as a sitemap.

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

2009-01-03 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 01/03/2009 10:17 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google).

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

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 21:17 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google).

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

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
See my post on that On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:34 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 01/03/2009 10:17 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that

[CentOS-docs] Getting rid of the How_Do_I_Become_a_CentOS_developer page

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, I removed the above page before, but I saw Russ added it again. Let me explain why I think that page needs to die. It offers little insight to how one can become a developer. What is a CentOS developer ? That's the first confusing part. The page answers the question with a: show

[CentOS-docs] Invalid SyntaxReference page in the wiki

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Something which bothered me a few times in the past, the SyntaxReference link when you are editing a page points to: centoswiki/SyntaxReference That page did not exist, luckily it suggested the real location: SyntaxReference so it was not a real problem. But it may confuse other people in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Invalid SyntaxReference page in the wiki

2009-01-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, Something which bothered me a few times in the past, the SyntaxReference link when you are editing a page points to: centoswiki/SyntaxReference That page did not exist, luckily it suggested the real location:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Getting rid of the How_Do_I_Become_a_CentOS_developer page

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:51 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, I removed the above page before, but I saw Russ added it again. Let me explain why I think that page needs to die. It offers little insight to how one can become a developer. What is a CentOS developer ? That's the first

Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Marcus Moeller wrote: This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. hmm, is it possible to at least take the screenshot as a *non*

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

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google).

[CentOS-docs] Another attempt for a Team page

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi all, I've updated our Team page a bit, added a table for everyone already there. Now I still don't like the fact that we have the distinction between the Core members (whatever that means) and the others. Some have a @centos.org email address, we could use that as a distinction ? I do

Re: [CentOS-docs] Another attempt for a Team page

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: My goals with a page like this are: - Put a name behind the nick, or a nick behind the name. For those that want it, put a face behind name/nick. Make the community about people so people can easier associate. Not everyone is accustomed to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Another attempt for a Team page

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: My goals with a page like this are: - Put a name behind the nick, or a nick behind the name. For those that want it, put a face behind name/nick. Make the community about people so people can easier

Re: [CentOS-docs] Getting rid of the How_Do_I_Become_a_CentOS_developer page

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 00:11 +, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 03/01/2009, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:51 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: snip The above page already caused some confusion in an interview about Fedora,

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

2009-01-03 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 01:14 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 19:41 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly help with the google searches

[CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread David Hrbáč
Hi, RH devel kernels from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ built against Centos tree are available here: http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/x86_64/repodata/ http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/i386/repodata/ Regards, David Hrbáč

Re: [CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread Vnpenguin
2009/1/3 David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz: Hi, RH devel kernels from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ built against Centos tree are available here: http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/x86_64/repodata/ http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/i386/repodata/ Is this safe

[CentOS] Unable install ffmpeg

2009-01-03 Thread Anto Marky
Hi, I installed ffmpeg using yum, and then tried to convert a asx video to flv it says unable to find encoder x264, eventhough it is installed and I am able to view it when I check ffmpeg --help.Can anyone tell me how to fix this issue? Thanks and Regards Marky

Re: [CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread Vandaman
Vnpenguin wrote: Is this safe to use ? You are not obliged to use them. If you are happy with the CentOS or CentOSplus Kernel then you do not need to install those. There are rare occasions when people have issues, they file against upstream bugzilla and a test kernel is recommended. It

Re: [CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: Vnpenguin wrote: Is this safe to use ? You are not obliged to use them. If you are happy with the CentOS or CentOSplus Kernel then you do not need to install those. There are rare occasions when people have issues, they file against upstream bugzilla and a test

Re: [CentOS] Unable install ffmpeg

2009-01-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Anto Marky markycen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed ffmpeg using yum, and then tried to convert a asx video to flv it says unable to find encoder x264, eventhough it is installed and I am able to view it when I check ffmpeg --help.Can anyone tell me how to

[CentOS] kcapid heavy cpu usage

2009-01-03 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, We are running java application on centos4 update 5 64 bit on sun blade x6250 hardware.But for the last couple of days we observed that kacpid daemon eating more cpu.Attached the top output below.Can any one suggest me how to fix the same since it is my critical production i need your

Re: [CentOS] Crash with qemu: 5.2 host and 5.2 guest

2009-01-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Michael Kress wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a CentOS 5.2 guest with virt-manager/qemu on a CentOS 5.2 system (X86_x64, 3ware 9650SE, 2 x Intel VT capable xeon cpus, 8 GB) Unfortunately I'm getting a crash in the guest install process. (see crash text below). Other systems are installing

[CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread Mehdi Sarmadi
Hello I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be automatically up, sym53c8xx

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 03.01.2009 um 20:54 schrieb Mehdi Sarmadi: Hello I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. Tried hp_rescan ? Maybe it's

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread John R Pierce
Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be automatically up, sym53c8xx for LSI SCSI interface st for tape and /proc/scsi/scsi should contain information about tape drive, e.g. SCSI ID. However none of them happened in my case! (document: UP LTO Ultrium 2-3 -

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:24 +0330, Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. Hi, We used to run tape

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing -

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of

Re: [CentOS] Crash with qemu: 5.2 host and 5.2 guest

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Kress
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Here's what I already tried, all without success: * installed a minimal 5.1 * updated the 5.1 with yum update That should work. Only the 5.2 install kernel has those issues, current kernels (should) work. Unfortuantely that _doesn't_ work with a

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into that

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: snip I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into that last

[CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Carolan
Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-03 Thread John R Pierce
Sean Carolan wrote: Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash. um, you download from a webserver, and upload to one. wget or curl can be used

Re: [CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 04.01.2009 um 01:13 schrieb John R Pierce: Sean Carolan wrote: Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash. um, you download from a webserver,

Re: [CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Vandaman wrote: Vnpenguin wrote: Is this safe to use ? You are not obliged to use them. If you are happy with the CentOS or CentOSplus Kernel then you do not need to install those. There are rare occasions when people have issues, they file against upstream bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-03 Thread Sean Carolan
I think he wants to have a shell-script that can process upload-file- forms, displayed in browsers. AFAIK, the general rule is: don't do that (CGI programming with shell- scripts). Use something else (PHP as CGI, if you don't want to have mod_php). Good to know, thanks for the info. I

Re: [CentOS] Unable install ffmpeg

2009-01-03 Thread Anto Marky
Thank you for your reply. Marky On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Anto Marky markycen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed ffmpeg using yum, and then tried to convert a asx video to flv it says unable to find encoder

[CentOS] General Error in Firefox (CentOS 5.2) Video

2009-01-03 Thread clemens
This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some files transfer, and then I get the message General Error in the video window. I ASSUME some additional software needs to be downloaded, but what from where? When running on that Other OS, a message

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread Mehdi Sarmadi
Dear All thanks for the replies Rainer That's a tape not a SAN, and there is no fiberchannel. Just an SCSI tape attached to outside ports of an LSI SCSI adapter(a pci card). Does that something to do with hp_rescan utility? Isn't hp_rescan only for Emulex HBAs? If not, Where could I find the rpm

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-03 Thread John R Pierce
Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: I don't think that SCSI ports outside(behind) the server chasis be for smart arrays? Are you sure? its your server, I'm not familiar with that model, but your LSPCI lists one dual port 53C1030 SCSI card, and 2 64xx SmartArray RAID cards. you might have to open up