Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen vs. iSCSI

2009-06-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: In the DomU, I'll see a lock-up, and then filesystem errors. e.g.: Installing : kernel [ ] 1/33EXT3-fs error (device xvda1) in ext3_ordered_writepage: IO failure In the Dom0, I'll see:

[CentOS-es] Helppp!!!!!!!!

2009-06-15 Thread jorgito
Buenas tardes soy nuvo en esto y he estado experimentando un poco pero me faltan algunos detalles y uno de ellos es como lograr que una maquina windows vea a traves de una red una maquina linux si tenemos en cuenta que no hay dominio existente solo un grupo de trabajo. gracias ante

Re: [CentOS-es] Helppp!!!!!!!!

2009-06-15 Thread Ricardo Martinez
Hola Jorgito, lo primero que necesitamos saber, es que entiendes por vea imagino que te refieres a algún tipo de servicio de compartición de archivos. Para ello existe SAMBA http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_%28programa%29 Si lo que quieres es dejar los archivos en el servidor linux, y que los

Re: [CentOS-es] Helppp!!!!!!!!

2009-06-15 Thread gadicav
jorgito escribió: Buenas tardes soy nuvo en esto y he estado experimentando un poco pero me faltan algunos detalles y uno de ellos es como lograr que una maquina windows vea a traves de una red una maquina linux si tenemos en cuenta que no hay dominio existente solo un grupo de trabajo.

Re: [CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

2009-06-15 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tru Huynh t...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:16:42AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: Here is the updated version: http://centos.toracat.org/kmods/CentOS-4/xfs/SRPMS/ Please discard

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Peter Hopfgartner
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi, I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. I already know PHP, but realize it's not quite suited for this kind of

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +0200: I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, being a scripting language, and not a compiled language. It's not slow at all. I have written such an interface 5 or more years ago for our needs and it's split in

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-15 Thread John Doe
From: MHR mhullr...@gmail.com I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with the U3 software (for Windoze) on a CD partition and considerably less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the

[CentOS] scsi_id doesn't returns any result

2009-06-15 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to assign persistent names to some scsi disks on one host (CentOS 5.3 fully patched), but I can't because scsi_id doesn't returns any results. For example: [r...@c5srv01 etc]# scsi_id -u -g -s /block/sda [r...@c5srv01 etc]# scsi_id -u -g -s /block/sdb [r...@c5srv01 etc]#

[CentOS] Fonts missing in KDE/vnc

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, sorry if this question gets duplicated, I can't seem to get e-mails to the list. I've installed vnc-server and kde-desktop but there appear to be no fonts available. All the text is little boxes. What else do I need to install to get the fonts? thanks

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
I just got back from a datacenter where I installed a new server running CentOS 5.3. I set up a software raid with md0 being /. (Only one mount, didn't split anything up.) I just discovered that instead of raid 1, it did raid 0... Not exactly what I wanted! Probably missed that little

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:16 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: Python has become quite common for sysadmin stuff. Indeed, a lot of RedHat/Fedora (e.g. anaconda, the installer) and Ubuntu tools are really Python scripts. The code is quite readable and usually, there are Python bindings for

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
David G. Mackay wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:16 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: Python has become quite common for sysadmin stuff. Indeed, a lot of RedHat/Fedora (e.g. anaconda, the installer) and Ubuntu tools are really Python scripts. The code is quite readable and usually, there are

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/14/2009 07:00 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. If you are targetting CentOS and/or Linux only - doing

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Pat and Lori Boyer
I currently use ruby for a lot of my sysadmin tasks. I think python and ruby are the best choices now - I've tried both languages and found them both easy to work with. I chose ruby because it felt more comfortable to be somehow. For most people, the choice between the 2 languages will come down

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 7

2009-06-15 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +0200: I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, being a scripting language, and not a compiled language. It's not slow at all. I have

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
Rudi Ahlers wrote: What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it? um, thats somewhat mixed up. user - browser - apache - php that interprets your script - OS function with a native

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Greene
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:54 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: Given that large numbers of java people are jumping ship into the ruby camp, I dont know how much of that is really true anymore. With Red Hat's history of shipping 'something like java' that doesn't really execute java code, that doesn't seem too surprising. And

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:23:42 +0200: Well, it's my understanding that compiled languages perform much better than scripting languages for this kind of operating, due to the fact that the script runs on top of the scripting engine, which in turn runs on top of the web server.

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 06/14/2009 07:00 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Gary Greeneggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: If you're looking for shear speed, C++. However if you're looking for ease of programming paradigm with OO ideas, etc, then Ruby or Python. If however you want a middle ground, go Perl. It is fairly fast (faster than

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it? um, thats somewhat mixed up.     user - browser -

[CentOS] hostname changes

2009-06-15 Thread Carlos Santana
Howdy, How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? Thanks, CS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] hostname changes

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Carlos Santananeu...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? Thanks, CS.

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 19:45 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
Rudi Ahlers wrote: But would PHP be able to perform all tasks that PERL / C++ can? I don't see why not.Many of the existing control panels are written in PHP. PHP can manipulate files, execute system commands, and so forth. PEAR http://pear.php.net/packages.php includes a vast

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Thanx Gary, this is a quick analasys of what I'm looking for, and helps a lot :) I have done some PERL coding on websites before, but very little, yet it was very easy to pickup with my PHP skills. As a front-end, I would consider Ruby, and / or AJAX. Could these

Re: [CentOS] hostname changes

2009-06-15 Thread Carlos Santana
All right.. So the /etc/sysconfig/network is the right place for changing hostname. The change in /etc/hosts is to map new hostname with IP address. Thanks, CS. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Carlos

[CentOS] kickstart not install evolution

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry Geis
I wish to NOT install evolution during my kickstart process... In the %packages section I put a line -evolution but it still installed evolution. How can I keep evolution from being installed in the kickstart process? jerry -- snippit of kickstart --- %packages @base-x

Re: [CentOS] hostname changes

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? /etc/hosts has nothing to do with the hostname this is just a way to resolve a name to an IP where DNS is not available or some other

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/15/2009 06:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: More and more of the companies that I know about ( specially the really smart ones ) are either already on ruby for a significant portion of their work, or are in the process of moving. A guy using it here seems to have some version dependencies

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/15/2009 06:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Would you expect ruby to be able to scale up to projects like OpenNMS, Alfresco, or what Pentaho does? I would, easily. It all depends on what sort of resources you have at hand and what its going to cost you. atleast 4 of the top 10 most-traffic

Re: [CentOS] kickstart not install evolution

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
I wish to NOT install evolution during my kickstart process... In the %packages section I put a line -evolution but it still installed evolution. How can I keep evolution from being installed in the kickstart process? find out what package is requiring it and remove that also -

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Apples and oranges...  Ajax is mostly javascript running on the browser side and can work with any interactive web server, where ruby and perl are scripting languages that work on the server side.  If you want speed,

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/15/2009 06:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: More and more of the companies that I know about ( specially the really smart ones ) are either already on ruby for a significant portion of their work, or are in the process of moving. A guy using it here seems to have some

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/15/2009 06:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Would you expect ruby to be able to scale up to projects like OpenNMS, Alfresco, or what Pentaho does? I would, easily. It all depends on what sort of resources you have at hand and what its going to cost you. atleast 4 of

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that are very unhappy with the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have on them. Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not consider backwards compatibility to be

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:12 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/15/2009 03:22 PM, David G. Mackay wrote: Python will let you develop programs very quickly, the first time. The problem is that you'll have to go back and redo the code when a different version of python is released. There

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
David G. Mackay wrote: Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that are very unhappy with the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have on them. Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not consider backwards compatibility to be important. This shouldn't have

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread lincohn john
Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! Lincong --- On Mon, 6/15/09, David G. Mackay macka...@bellsouth.net wrote: From: David G. Mackay macka...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks To: CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
lincohn john wrote: Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! for server-side administration web console development ?? ouch. writing clean portable C++ is very painful and requires extensive testing on each targetted platform. writing multithreaded C++ programs

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:30 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: David G. Mackay wrote: Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that are very unhappy with the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have on them. Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not consider

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:35 -0700, lincohn john wrote: Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! Lincong This is a personal opinion, but C++ seems to be an exercise in masochism. C is basically a high level assembly language. Neither are all that portable. Granted, for sheer

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
David G. Mackay wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:35 -0700, lincohn john wrote: Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! Lincong This is a personal opinion, but C++ seems to be an exercise in masochism. C is basically a high level assembly language. Neither are

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David G. Mackaymacka...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:35 -0700, lincohn john wrote: Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance ! Lincong This is a personal opinion, but C++ seems to be an exercise in masochism.  C is basically a

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
David G. Mackay wrote: Google? ;) How do you tell google to _not_ give you text matches that are really not about downloadable code modules in the language you want this week? Well, I try to make my searches specific to what I'm looking for. The more key words that I can throw at it,

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Apples and oranges... Ajax is mostly javascript running on the browser side and can work with any interactive web server, where ruby and perl are scripting languages that work on the server side. If

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-15 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Sure.  I'll try it as a small attachment here.  It that doesn't work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where I can upload it.  I don't have anything like that set up just now. Got it - thanks.

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/15/2009 08:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I meant scale in terms of program size and complexity. You can hook a web interface to a database in about any language and crank things through as fast as the database can respond - especially if you load-balance across a bunch of servers. But how

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
snip B .Can i conclude that the attacker came through the horde framework ( cmdshell.php) ? The horde framework was installed from the centos repo.!!! I don't think the horde set on CentOS is very current. I just used the tarball from the horde website, and I keep it current.

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-13-2009 7:56 AM Bob Puff spake the following: Hello, I just got back from a datacenter where I installed a new server running CentOS 5.3. I set up a software raid with md0 being /. (Only one mount, didn't split anything up.) I just discovered that instead of raid 1, it did raid

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
snip I was going to suggest that you just have them burn a CD with CentOS 5.3 on it...all you really need is CD1 if you do a bare bones install using a KVM over IP. We do it for our colos if they ask. Cant see why your hosting provider wouldnt, all they are out is the cost of the CD, and

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-13-2009 8:30 AM Bob Puff spake the following: you'd need a remote console of some sort on that box. many brand name servers have these, HP calls it iLO, Dell calls it DRAC, etc. these have their own ethernet port, which has to be connected to the network and configured. you'd also

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-15 Thread Robert
Robert Nichols wrote: Robert wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force way.) and then repartition and

[CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

2009-06-15 Thread Dave
I had some trouble setting up dual monitors on centos with an nvidia card. I managed to track stuff down, so I thought I'd make it public on the list. I have an nvidia quadro nvs 290 in a Dell, recently installed centos5. Same stuff should apply for other nvidia cards. I needed

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-15 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
I have been looking at the security advisories provided here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ It appears that there is not a 1:1 correlation between advisories listed here and advisories listed by Red Hat: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata Is there a specific reason for this?

Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

2009-06-15 Thread Dave
p.s. I logged out after installing the nvidia drivers, and used applicationsSystem toolsnvidia X server settings to get dual monitor working. The panel autodetectedd my monitors fine. I clicke 'x server display configuration' and then 'configure'. choices are 'disabled', 'separate x screen', and

Re: [CentOS] FYI: solution Re: mock %post(pam) failure

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Evans
Farkas' solution is exactly right. I have been banging my head against this problem for a while now and it wasn't until I finally paced myself and read carefully through the entire thread that I found this solution. Here is the procedure spelled out a bit more precisely. Get the CentOS 5.2

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
My apologies for posting an already solved problem, but dont know if its my ignorance that is not getting me to my desired results.trying to mount an external usb hard drive(ntfs) in my system. In my CentOS box, I tried to install dkms, dkms-fuse, fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g as follows(including

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Justin Bull
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Sagar Koiralasagar.koir...@gmail.com wrote: My apologies for posting an already solved problem, but dont know if its my ignorance that is not getting me to my desired results.trying to mount an external usb hard drive(ntfs) in my system. As far as I know

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
Thank you for your reply. I tried to give the mount command but got back some errors, here is the detail [r...@production mnt]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive FATAL: Module fuse not found. Error reading bootsector: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error NTFS

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
And yes, this is the line from /etc/fstab file: /dev/sdb1 /media/Expansion_Drive ntfs pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Sagar Koirala sagar.koir...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you for your reply. I tried to

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 22:52, Sagar Koiralasagar.koir...@gmail.com wrote: [r...@production mnt]# rpm -qa|grep kernel|sort kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL kernel-2.6.9-34.EL kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
Now, I am getting the error messages as follows: FATAL: Module fuse not found. ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root Thanks for any help. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Sagar Koirala sagar.koir...@gmail.comwrote: And yes, this is the line from /etc/fstab file:

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 23:20, Sagar Koiralasagar.koir...@gmail.com wrote: ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root Well, did you try running that? What are the results? Please do not top post, and trim your replies to the list. See Guidelines for CentOS Mailing

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Albertfor...@stalowka.info wrote: Hi, If I now installed centos 5.3 and for 6 month I buying support from RHEL    I can change 5.3 to rhel 5.3? It's possible? f...@ll Yes. If you get the release rpm files correct and fix your repositories, it will be OK.

Re: [CentOS] problem mounting ntfs device in centos

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
I did yum update kernel-smp and rebooted the machine, and blops.the drive opened! Thanks for your help! On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 23:20, Sagar Koiralasagar.koir...@gmail.com wrote: ntfs-3g-mount: fuse

Re: [CentOS] authentication loosely tied to active directory?

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ross Walkerrswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best authentication scheme when you are dealing with an active directory that someone else controls?  I've been using pam configured for smb

Re: [CentOS] problem mounting ntfs device in centos

2009-06-15 Thread Sagar Koirala
I don't believe there are people like me :), doing things first and then reading pre-requirements later. Sincere thanks for your help that came through all the top-posted replies !! :) Cheers! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: operating systems, servers like Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, things like Java JVM innards, those are written in C/C++ Mostly, yes. There is some assembly in most OSs. And, they're mostly in C. If you have to sink to C++ to get your

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
At the risk of adding more wood to this fire... On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:04, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not consider backwards compatibility to be important. Not true. There is a 2to3 program bundled with Python 3

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: If we had the processing power (and all the incredibly cheap HW that exists today), in the 80's, I wouldn't have had to write such efficient assembly language code... Much easier today, with cheap RAM, etc. C++ for an old timer, takes

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 23:27, Paul Johnsonpauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. If you get the release rpm files correct and fix your repositories, it will be OK. [...] Instead of listening to people tell you they don't think it can be done, you should just try to make it work and see! You

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread David G. Mackay
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: David G. Mackay wrote: Well, I try to make my searches specific to what I'm looking for. The more key words that I can throw at it, the less extraneous cruft comes up. That doesn't mesh very well with finding stuff that you don't

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-15 Thread Philip Manuel
Just in case you want the steps:- Steps to convert a CentOS5 system to RHEL5 SYSTEM=hostname ARCH=i386|x86_64 ssh $SYSTEM rpm -e --nodeps centos-release rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release rpm -ivh rhn-setup-0.4.19-17.el5.noarch.rpm rhn-client-tools-0.4.19-17.el5.noarch.rpm

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: If you really need Red Hat, you should do a clean install. Period. ++ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: At the risk of adding more wood to this fire... On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:04, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not consider backwards compatibility to be important. Not true. There is a 2to3