Re: [CentOS-docs] Contributing Wiki article on tmpfs

2009-10-16 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Jasper Siepkes jas...@siepkes.nl wrote: Yeah thats the background info I meant. Then go ahead: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TmpOnTmpfs I'll link to it when it is ready. Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permission

2009-10-16 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: Please grant edit permission to my account, JerryAmundson. Initially, I'll change my personal page. Later, I can expand into areas that need changes made, especially if they involve aspects of CentOS I use daily - xen,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permission

2009-10-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: Please grant edit permission to my account, JerryAmundson. Initially, I'll change my personal page. Later, I can expand into areas that need changes made, especially if they

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permission

2009-10-16 Thread Jerry Amundson
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: What is it with all those personal pages? Not wanting to turn you off (you are getting one, no problem), but why does everybody

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permission

2009-10-16 Thread Jerry Amundson
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know the contribute page says so, I'd like to know if there is a personal need to get one. I now I see the template page you give us - that is *awesome*!! Yes, every new contributor should definitely start

Re: [CentOS-docs] New release of the Newsletter

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on 10/14/2009 09:51 PM: Hey And it is this time of the month again when we are about to release a new Newsletter (#0906). Please could people start checking spelling and contribute their parts. The deadline is the 19th of Oct as we don't want to release on a

Re: [CentOS-docs] New release of the Newsletter

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 00:29 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Am 16.10.09 22:48, schrieb Phil Schaffner: Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on 10/14/2009 09:51 PM: If someone is interested in helping please contact me. Seems to be too well protected. I guess that's why ... see above :) Well, if

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1501 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1501 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1503 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: gpdf-2.8.2-7.7.2.el4_8.5.src.rpm i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1503 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: gpdf-2.8.2-7.7.2.el4_8.5.src.rpm x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1512 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: kdegraphics-3.3.1-15.el4_8.2.src.rpm i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics Update

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1512 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: kdegraphics-3.3.1-15.el4_8.2.src.rpm x86_64:

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Sergey Smirnov
Hi, maybe Gentoo Linux will be up on this server. my buddy has successfully ran it on Sun Blade 1000, but there is a UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs ( UltraSPARC IIIi on the SF240). I think OpenSolaris will be better there ;) really have fun :) On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:44 PM, ML

Re: [CentOS] continuing issues with %post

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 04:17 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: Hello, I'm trying to do an unattended CentOS 5.3 install. For the most part it's working. As of right now i'm statically assigning the machine an IP which i believe will allow %post to resolve names? I also like knowing where

Re: [CentOS] post install freezes

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 19:37 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: Hello, I'm doing an unattended CentOS 5.3 install in a virtual machine vmware. I'm redirecting output to a serial console because production boxes won't have monitors. I'm getting to the point of doing the post installation then

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 22:02 +0200 schrieb Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho: Mathieu Baudier wrote: I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS? That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have a look at

Re: [CentOS] continuing issues with %post

2009-10-16 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 10/15/2009 04:17 AM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I'm trying to do an unattended CentOS 5.3 install. For the most part it's working. As of right now i'm statically assigning the machine an IP which i believe will allow %post to resolve names? I also like knowing where the box will show up.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Wilson
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: http://dev.centos.org/centos/buildsys/ There really doesn't look like there's a lot of packages there. Why haven't we tried to set up Koji? (If the answer's not enough time, or not-enough knowledge, I'm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:17 -0400, Jim Wildman wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: Could someone describe to me what the rush is? I mean what drives the need that you need to have it _right now_ ? There is always the risk that a critical security vulnerability will be

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with Debian on Sparc, and NetBSD. S. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus nate spake: | Yves Bellefeuille wrote: | If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was | made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that | the entire file would be available as soon as possible after

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | | Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, | postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? | | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/10/09 08:06, Ian Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: http://dev.centos.org/centos/buildsys/ There really doesn't look like there's a lot of packages there. Why haven't we tried to set up Koji? (If the answer's

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
2009/10/16 Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | | Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, | postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? |

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Blackwell
Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Traut
nate schrieb: Yves Bellefeuille wrote: If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the release. Could the same be done this time?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread John Doe
From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:57:42 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: When someone asked “When will **CentOS 5.4 come out??** The answer is, “When it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/10/09 09:38, Ian Blackwell wrote: Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No, that's the post # in the thread, of which

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Blackwell
Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/10/09 09:38, Ian Blackwell wrote: Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No, that's the

[CentOS] routing using iproute2 nexthop

2009-10-16 Thread Bazy
Hello Everyone, I configured a server for a friend's Internet cafe. He has 2 ISPs. Here is what I did: ## NAT -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.128 -o eth2 -j SNAT --to-source 82.77.148.83 -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.128 -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 83.103.190.175 ## Removing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do you prefer

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/centos/5.3/os/SRPMS/ There are SRPM's there. If that's what you mean. I believe CentOS still uses Plague (internally) I found this mail on the dev mailing list: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 5 build scripts

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Niki Kovacs schrieb: Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Majian
First I'd like to make sure I am not complaining about this delay between the RHEL and CentOS releases per se. I did not help in any way to make it happen faster and usually I don't mind having a three weeks gap between them. But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: It's good to have a fixed date to work towards. Otherwise, you get feature-creep, where more and more stuff goes into the release but never stabilizes. I don't think feature-creep is an issue in CentOS. I think the

Re: [CentOS] RAM errors after kernel-update

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi everybody, thanks for your immediate response. I will replace the board, but I am wondering what the error message actually means? Oct 16 14:07:36 xenserver1 kernel: EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 1 labels -: NON-FATAL recoverable (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=0 Buffer ID = 0 RDWR=Read

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/16/2009 05:25 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Niki Kovacs schrieb: Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/15/2009 07:12 AM, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, mbneto mbn...@gmail.com mailto:mbn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Majian wrote on 10/16/2009 06:57 AM: ... But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates from RHEL since the RHEL 5.3 release and there is no word on when it will be released or why is it taking so long. So hope it would release soon ~~~ The -164 kernel has been in updates

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Soon means soon ... we have to get the tree stable on many servers before we can make it available. This stuff takes time. I think this is the major source of this latest flurry about the release date. The twitter posting from KB said soon and then things went quiet for 2 days without any

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Toby Bluhm
You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked, keystrokes typed, bathroom

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked, keystrokes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:13:21 -0400 Toby Bluhm t...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread John Plemons
You know if this was a new X-Box, or PlayStation, we might be sleeping in a tent next to the front of the store selling them wait for the store to be open. Or sleeping in line at the New Opening Release of Star Wars 12 Return of the O/S... We are all a little bit of a geek and this stuff

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:28:11 +0100 Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.gar...@googlemail.com wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Berger
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: Someone is obviously sarcasm-challenged today. But there is a middle ground for people who would like a best-effort idea of what to expect. and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer -- Russ herrold

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/10/09 14:13, Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: Someone is obviously sarcasm-challenged today. But there is a middle ground for people who would like a best-effort idea of what to expect. and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5

2009-10-16 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Toby Bluhm
Look, it's not me that wants it. It's . . . it's the servers, OKAY? I think they've got a jones on for 5.4. I walk past the cpu room and hear trashing and growling. I look inside and it's all quiet and normal and all that - but I *know* something is going on in there. They're emanating a

[CentOS] so when's 5.4 going to be out? :-)

2009-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and

[CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I looked in rpmforge but

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: R P Herrold wrote: and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer It's also the sort of thing people in a community try to do for each other without needing legal terms for enforcement. You raise a new

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
John R Pierce wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I looked in rpmforge but didn't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer It's also the sort of thing people in a community try to do for each other without needing legal terms for enforcement. You raise a new argument, an orthogonal strawman, as is your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Soon means soon ... we have to get the tree stable on many servers before we can make it available.  This stuff takes time. Take all the time you need, as always. We all appreciate the great work you folks do, and if

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 10/15/2009 02:23 PM: from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a public revision control system? I'm not sure that I understand. Is

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: No one questions your effort on the technical side - or has a right to. Why is it so hard to share what is going on? I began publishing the pre-centos cAos (or fedora.us) buildsystem in February 2002 under the GPL (then v2) and updated it from time

[CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x Thanks Marcelo

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I do it all the time, a couple of (Xen) VMs packed

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread nate
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I do this all the time, and have been for years, no

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. It's actually recommended to do it that way. :-) --

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcelo M. Garcia a écrit : Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:42 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
Ross Walker wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:42 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I

[CentOS] Totem needs plug-ins

2009-10-16 Thread ken
Just tried to play a movie/DVD and Totem (what automatically popped up when I inserted the DVD) said it needed plug-ins... it didn't say which plug-ins. The website listed in the help page no longer exists. I have four of the gstreamer packages and libdvdcss installed, but I guess there's

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
i use the atrpm iscsitarget for a long time now in high traffic setups. it performs very well, and is rock solid. no problems until now. go for it :) but disabling the atrpms repo after installing the iscsitarget wouldnt be a bad idea. i wont go with userspace solutions like tgt, my benchmarks

[CentOS] allowing users to issue the shutdown command

2009-10-16 Thread Buz Davis
I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts root and buz. I would like to be able to issue shutdown from the account buz, and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry buz (without any quotes). I still get the error message only root can do this (or something similar)

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: i use the atrpm iscsitarget for a long time now in high traffic setups. it performs very well, and is rock solid. no problems until now. go for it :) but disabling the atrpms repo after installing the iscsitarget wouldnt be a bad idea. i wont go with userspace

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the shutdown command

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Buz Davis wrote: I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts root and buz. I would like to be able to issue shutdown from the account buz, and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry buz (without any quotes). I still get the error message only root can do this

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony Kamau
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:01 -0700, nate wrote: Could someone describe to me what the rush is? I mean what drives the need that you need to have it _right now_ ? Me I always like to wait at least a week or two to see if others run into issues, and wait for the mirrors to become less clogged.

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the shutdown command

2009-10-16 Thread Robert
Buz Davis wrote: I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts root and buz. I would like to be able to issue shutdown from the account buz, and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry buz (without any quotes). I still get the error message only root can do

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the shutdown command

2009-10-16 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Buz Davis buzda...@earthlink.net wrote: I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts root and buz.  I would like to be able to issue shutdown from the account buz, and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry  buz (without any quotes).

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Berger
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the release. Could

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:24 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: i use the atrpm iscsitarget for a long time now in high traffic setups. it performs very well, and is rock solid. no problems until now. go for it :) but disabling the atrpms repo after

[CentOS] Calling all Hackers

2009-10-16 Thread DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase)
Hey guys. I have a server that is owned by me and can confirm through servint that it is owned by me. I would like to do a penetration test and of course to allow you to upload files on the server and kind of trash it to the point where it is always restarting and running out of memory etc etc.