Re: [CentOS-docs] Testing Wiki migration - asking for testers

2014-09-03 Thread Carl T. Miller
Fabian Arrotin wrote: Hi nice people interested in CentOS Docs and wiki ! I've installed a test machine (CentOS 6, with selinux in enforcing mode, our standard now everywhere) on which I've installed moinmoin (but same version as the one running now on wiki.centos.org (so

Re: [CentOS-docs] Testing Wiki migration - asking for testers

2014-09-03 Thread Carl T. Miller
Carl T. Miller wrote: I made some updates last night before I knew anything about this, and I was surprised by how slow the system was. It took about a minute after I submitted a new version of a page and it took about 5 minutes to generate the info for the page. Oops, I should have

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-23 Thread Carl T. Miller
wwp wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:44:44 -0700 Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use on your CentOS machines? Not which version of the CentOS kernel, but which repository. Here are some examples I can

Re: [CentOS] htdocs on NFS share / any pitfalls?

2013-10-22 Thread Carl T. Miller
Leon Fauster wrote: i have a new setup where the htdocs directory for the webserver is located on a nfs share. Client has cachefilesd configured. Compared to the old setup (htdocs directory is on the local disk) the performance is not so gratifying. The disk is faster compared to the ethernet

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread Carl T. Miller
Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote: Hello list I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. I wander if its easy or complicated. If somebody have any instructions I'd be very glad! Hi Nikos, There is a very

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-09-30 Thread Carl T. Miller
Phil Dobbin wrote: The other day I burnt a copy of a CentOS 6.4 64 bit netinstall disc, verified the disc which passed about a third of the way through the install it informed me that there was no CD in the drive refused to carry on. So I burnt another the same thing happened. So using

[CentOS] Importing md5 encrypted passwords for el6

2013-09-27 Thread Carl T. Miller
In the process of replacing an el5 server, I have installed el6 and scripted the creation of the users. That worked flawlessly. I then imported all the md5 encrypted passwords, and users cannot log in. I see that the new default encryption is sha512, but I thought that only applied to creating

Re: [CentOS] Importing md5 encrypted passwords for el6

2013-09-27 Thread Carl T. Miller
Carl T. Miller wrote: A couple of hours of reading man pages and Internet searches has left me clueless. Is there a way to keep sha512 as the default and to enable usage of md5 in addition to sha512? Yes, I'm embarrassed. After asking for help, I double-checked the shadow file

Re: [CentOS] Chromium update

2013-09-21 Thread Carl T. Miller
Nux! wrote: On 20.09.2013 18:36, Robert Arkiletian wrote: What about Midori browser? Newer Midori does not build on CentOS due to, you guessed it, too old deps versions. My advice to anyone who needs a good, solid browser is to use the stock one (Firefox ESR) or get the latest Firefox

Re: [CentOS] Run one-time startup script

2013-09-20 Thread Carl T. Miller
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Changes largely involve removing old files and putting new files in place (resolv.conf, hosts, sysconfig/network + network-scripts, firewall, postfix, httpd etc.). The only other change besides replacing files would be changing the IP address in a webcontrol interface in a

Re: [CentOS] Run one-time startup script

2013-09-20 Thread Carl T. Miller
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I have to change IP numbers across a number of virtual and physical machines because of network center move. This has to be done before network startup, of course. I'm thinking about the best method to do this. Where should I include/init this script? Or would it rather

Re: [CentOS] Evergreen ILS on CentOS?

2013-09-16 Thread Carl T. Miller
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I spent a number of hours at one of the local SF clubs turning a desktop into a dual-boot (if they ever need that for anything) CentOS 6.4 system, then trying to install Evergreen, an oss library package. Can you say, dependency hell? Yes, I know what you mean. A

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Carl T. Miller
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'll try following the instructions in that document, as I have had no luck with the documents on www.postfix.org . I have switched over from sendmail to postfix, and the most difficult part was learning how simple it is to configure postfix. Once you get that, a quick

[CentOS] exclude in a repo file

2013-09-03 Thread Carl T. Miller
Hi All, I just discovered that the remi repo has updated versions of firefox. This is good news, but it leads me to a question. Is it possible to exclude all packages except one or two in a repo file? The man page for yum.conf didn't give me any hints. I tried unsuccessfully adding this line:

Re: [CentOS] exclude in a repo file

2013-09-03 Thread Carl T. Miller
John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:05:47AM -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote: Is there a way to set up this repo so that when I run yum upgrade it will only check the firefox and xulrunner packages from the remi repo? Add includepkgs=firefox xulrunner to the repo definition

Re: [CentOS] MIssing bell

2013-09-02 Thread Carl T. Miller
adr...@pa0rda.nl wrote: Hi, Earlier I asked how I could arrange a bell tone on my CentOS box. I have pcspkr loaded, I can play music over my boxes but the system beep or bell is missing. Seeveral people commented on gnome issues, but I'm using only text-mode. Whe I go down with the cursor

Re: [CentOS] redirecting web requests from localhost

2013-08-29 Thread Carl T. Miller
Miguel González wrote: However, the Java application running in the server tries to access some local web content. I have changed the hosts file and some applications (ping, wget) they get the local IP address. However nslookup and maybe our Java application (I didn´t have the programmer

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a tutorial or manpage describing sysctl params

2013-08-24 Thread Carl T. Miller
adr...@pa0rda.nl wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a toturial or manpage describing all the thing that you can set with sysctl on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6. It apperas the the default /etc/sysctl.conf coming with the distribution gives a couple of errors on bridgen. Any hints??? Sure. Hint 1. Find what

Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum update

2013-08-18 Thread Carl T. Miller
Paul Johnson wrote: This is entirely correct. Like many, I have been in dependency hell because of repo mistakes. Please create a more direct way for new users to protect themselves. We used to caution people, but that's insufficient now. It should be in the base install. I'd say it

Re: [CentOS] Back-up connection

2013-08-16 Thread Carl T. Miller
Timothy Murphy wrote: The problem in both places is that the ADSL modem sometimes goes off, and the only way to turn it back on seems to be to disconnect and re-connect the power supply. I had a similar problem with a cable modem. My relatively inexpensive solution was to buy an X-10

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software

2013-08-16 Thread Carl T. Miller
Johnny Hughes wrote: If you are asking for an opinion, I actually agree that they (Red Hat) should also give it away for free. However, nothing requires them to do so. Since they didn't, CentOS was created and fills that niche. Hmm. In my opinion, Red Hat is doing the right thing. I

[CentOS] convert webpage to image

2013-08-14 Thread Carl T. Miller
What is the easiest way to convert a webpage into a jpg or png file? I've seen several programs that can do various conversions, but nothing open source that can do it in a single conversion. Just wondering if anyone on the list has suggestions for something I can put into a script to convert a

Re: [CentOS] convert webpage to image

2013-08-14 Thread Carl T. Miller
Brian Mathis wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Carl T. Miller c...@carltm.com wrote: What is the easiest way to convert a webpage into a jpg or png file? I've seen several programs that can do various conversions, but nothing open source that can do it in a single conversion

Re: [CentOS-docs] Fwd: WpaSupplicant how to

2013-06-06 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 06/06/2013 01:13 AM, Dan King wrote: Anyways, when going through this I was having issues because everything seemed to work but I was never getting an IP address when the system booted up. After lots of looking at this and working at understanding what everything does I found the that

Re: [CentOS-docs] Fwd: WpaSupplicant how to

2013-06-06 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 06/06/2013 05:23 AM, Dan King wrote: As fro my ifcfg file for the interface, the didn't exist before I created while following the how-to. So at first I just had ONBOOT=yes After some googling in attempts to fix my issue I modified it to have: TYPE=Wireless WPA=yes ONBOOT=yes

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart and volume group with a dash in the name

2013-05-02 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 05/02/2013 12:13 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup the provisioning of new OpenStack hypervisors with cinder volumes on them. The problem is that kickstart doesn't allow dashed in volume group names? I tried this: volgroup cinder-volumes --pesize=4096 pv.02 and

Re: [CentOS] How to make a network interface come up automatically on link up?

2013-04-23 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 04/23/2013 05:25 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Joakim Ziegler joa...@terminalmx.com As I'd mentioned before, the problem isn't that the interface doesn't come up on boot, it does, but since it's a point to point interface, when I reboot the computer on the other end, it goes down and doesn't

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor

2013-03-03 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 02/28/2013 08:15 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 03/01/2013 07:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: What I think you're saying is: if you place the cursor at a location that is, e.g., 1.43 seconds into the clip, right-click then drag (in either direction) until you've selected the part you want to cut, that

[CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor

2013-02-28 Thread Carl T. Miller
I want to grab some sound bites out of several mp4 files, so I extracted the audio portion into wav files to make editing easier. After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to work with. Notably I am not able to

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor

2013-02-28 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 02/28/2013 09:38 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +, Nux! wrote: On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to work with. Notably I am

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-13 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 01/12/2013 07:03 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/08/2013 02:36 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote: 1) connect using ssh and stop all services 2) swapoff /dev/sdXX 3) shred -n5 -z -v /dev/sdX I assume that all of the disks are to be shredded. Shredding non-system disks wouldn't be difficult

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-08 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 01/08/2013 05:06 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote: I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have access to that machine. Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination. Besides manually shreding known data files, I am wondering if there is a (free) tool that

[CentOS-virt] mirroring people.centos.org

2013-01-05 Thread Carl T. Miller
Is there an easy way to mirror people.centos.org? I tried rsync people.centos.org:: and it gives some disclaimers followed by a null list of available modules. I've got an ugly workaround using wget, but would prefer to use rsync. c -- Carl T. Miller Systems Engineer c...@carltm.com

Re: [CentOS] Hi

2012-12-31 Thread Carl T. Miller
On 12/31/2012 10:14 AM, Derek Stewart wrote: Just joinedthe mailing list. I am new to Centos, anybody got any tips. Hi Derek, Welcome to the list. My suggestion would be to install centos and start configuring it to do everything you want it to do. It might take some time, so you might want