Re: [CentOS] question on CPU

>> > I am now running stock centos 5.5 x86_64. > > jerry > Sorry 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] question on CPU

Jerry Geis wrote: > lists-centos wrote: >> Original Message >> >>> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:38:34 AM -0400 >>> From: Jerry Geis >>> >>>> On 05/27/2010 03:47 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >>>>

Re: [CentOS] question on CPU

lists-centos wrote: > Original Message > >> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:38:34 AM -0400 >> From: Jerry Geis >> >>> On 05/27/2010 03:47 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> >>>> / I have centos 5.4 on an

Re: [CentOS] question on CPU

> > On 05/27/2010 03:47 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > >/ I have centos 5.4 on an HP laptop, as below the /proc/cpuinfo shows Dual > />/ core, > />/ however, there is only 1 processor listed in /proc/cpuinfo. > />/ > />/ Is the OS only using a single core? > / &g

[CentOS] question on CPU

I have centos 5.4 on an HP laptop, as below the /proc/cpuinfo shows Dual core, however, there is only 1 processor listed in /proc/cpuinfo. Is the OS only using a single core? jerry -- processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 17 model : 3 model name

Re: [CentOS] yum install

> > A similar problem was reported recently on the yum list and turned out > to be one of the xml libs replaced by a non-distribution openoffice > install. Does 'rpm -Vv libxml2' show anything missing or broken? > rpm -Vv libxml2 S.5./usr/bin/xmlcatalog S.5./usr/bin/xmllint

[CentOS] yum install

I have centos 5.4 and trying the command "yum install yum-utils", it gives me an error. I tried the "yum clean all" and the did the command again with same message. I only have [base] and [updates] in the repo. yum install yum-utils Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cach

Re: [CentOS] route question

> > I searched for "Destination nat" just to make sure I did not miss > something and it looks like what I have above. > > Thanks, > > jerry > Ok - I found out how to enable iptables logging. I can see a connection from 98.X on port 25 going to .58 as desired. Then we can see that the return is

[CentOS] sendmail many emails

I was getting MANY emails from XXX.hinet.net - kind of filled my mqueue directory. I stopped sendmail. removed all the files in mqueue, added to sendmail access a REJECT for hinet.net This certainly seems to help - but is that the correct way to take care of this sort of thing? Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] route question

> > This sounds more like a destination NAT issue then a routing issue. > > If I'm correct you have a server behind eth0 that handles traffic > forwarded to it from either eth1 or eth2. So if someone types in the > IP address of eth2 (or eth1) in their browser they'll get your server > behind eth0.

Re: [CentOS] route question

> > What exactly does not work? Connecting to what destination IP? Your > default route is pointing out eth2. So any traffic to a non-directly > connected network will go out eth2. (without some additional static > routes) What are you trying to accomplish? > I am attempting to have one

Re: [CentOS] route question

>/ /Traffic will already route out the appropriate interface for a directly connected network. So packets to an IP on the 74.223.8.176/28 subnet should route out eth1 and packets to the 24.123.23.168/29 network will route out eth2. Are you trying to route other subnets within the 74.X.X.

Re: [CentOS] route question

> > GATEWAY=74.223.8.177 on /etc/sysconfig/network file ? > Actually I have that in the ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-eth2. And this is hte route I get. DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=YES BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=74.223.8.179 NETMASK=255.255.255.240 GATEWAY=74.223.8.177 DEVICE=eth2 ONBOOT=Yes BOOTPROTO=static IPA

[CentOS] route question

My current route for a box shows this: route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 24.123.23.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 00 eth2 74.223.8.1760.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0

Re: [CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

> > You need to make source routing on 74.223.8.176 and eth1. Please, read > this: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html > > -- > Dominik Zyla I read through the document. I dont see what I have done wrong still. Do my routing rules not look correct from my previous post? Sorry I am n

[CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

I have a centos box with 3 nics. eth0 is internal, eth1 is T1 data and eth2 is cable data. Everything is working on eth2 cable. External NAT is working just fine for eth2. However external address 74.x.x.x on eth1 is not working. Below is my iptables information. I setup eth1 same as eth2 just a

Re: [CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

Thanks for the "-t nat" suggetion. How does someone debug iptables? Seems like the local eth0 is working , eth2 is working but connections on eth1 dont seem to go anywhere. How can I tell what is happening for eth1 and iptables? Thanks, Jerry ___ Cent

[CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

I am trying to setup some rules on a box with 3 nic cards. Two internet connections and one office connection. eth0 is office eth1 is internet T1 eth2 is internet Cable when I do "iptables -F" then iptables -L everything is gone as it should be. Then I do iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d

[CentOS] question on sendmail.mc file

I tried to set in sendmail.mc file at the LAST line define(`LUSER_RELAY', `local:unknownuser') dnl I did service sendmail restart and got an error on a completely different line. - as a thought I deleted that line and put it on line 2 of the sendmail.mc file. re-ran service sendmail restart and n

[CentOS] setting up 3 network cards

I am attempting to put 3 network cards in one box, running centos 64 5.4 network cards are forcedeth (motherboard), e1000e and r8169. I have ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-eth2 all configured up. All looks fine. eth0 is my internal network (forcedeth) eth1 is Cable modem eth2 is T1 data Once

[CentOS] lokkit

I have used lokkit to setup iptables ( I have a big script that does this) basically just ports I want with "--port=https:tcp" etc... I wish to allow igmp and add igmp to the lokkit command line? How do I do that? I can add this to /etc/sysconfig/iptables: iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i et

[CentOS] ooimpress in show only mode

hi all. Look at ooimpress on centos 5 x86_64. been trying to find a way to get it to just show a power point and not show the editor screen. tried: ooimpress -show pp.ppt ooimpress -invisible -show pp.ppt ooimpress -headless -show pp.ppt and others I always get the editor window. Did some goo

Re: [CentOS] grub.conf and /proc/cmdline

Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and > dmesg | more > do not show the pci=nomsi. > > How can this be? there are no strange characters after quiet and > before pci=nomsi. > It was edited with vi. > > What can I do

[CentOS] grub.conf and /proc/cmdline

I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and dmesg | more do not show the pci=nomsi. How can this be? there are no strange characters after quiet and before pci=nomsi. It was edited with vi. What can I do to get this parameter in my kernel boot line. Jerry --

Re: [CentOS] question on kvm

Jerry Geis wrote: > I had used and old kvm-87 on centos 5.4 x86_64 > > I was wanting ot update that and use the newer qemu-kvm-0.12.3 > I downloaded that and everything was good there - but the kernel > modules are not included. > > So I downloaded (or started to downloa

[CentOS] question on kvm

I had used and old kvm-87 on centos 5.4 x86_64 I was wanting ot update that and use the newer qemu-kvm-0.12.3 I downloaded that and everything was good there - but the kernel modules are not included. So I downloaded (or started to download) kvm-kvod something... but there is nothing there for

Re: [CentOS] updated some packages now some windows hang after open or close

Jerry Geis wrote: > I had a need on a centos 5.4 x86_64 box to try and run with a later > totem. > I desired to do this by source. > > After installing the packages below my system comes up, I thought > everything was good. > thunderbird comes up firefox comes up. totem w

[CentOS] updated some packages now some windows hang after open or close

I had a need on a centos 5.4 x86_64 box to try and run with a later totem. I desired to do this by source. After installing the packages below my system comes up, I thought everything was good. thunderbird comes up firefox comes up. totem works however there seems to be an issue with cl

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

> > >>/ date | mail -v -v -v -v geisj at pagestation.com > >> > />/ geisj at pagestation.com... > > />>/ Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 devcentos5x64.msgnet.com > />>/ ESMTP Sendmail 8.

[CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From: SIZE=56 auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. Neither email server is busy. Nothing is waiting. the DNS on

Re: [CentOS] perl question

> > Ouch dude, you just broke your server. Try to yum update anything perl > related in the future:) > > >/What else do I need? > / > First, install SMPP, not SNMP? > > Second, use a repo, use span2rpm... Then force the rpm in I guess to bring > the rpm db > into a blissfully ignorant, but happy s

[CentOS] perl question

I am trying to run a perl script that said it needs Net::SMPP I ran this: your_host]# *perl -MCPAN -e shell* cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76) ReadLine support enabled cpan> *install Net::SNMP seemed to work. no errors reported. however when I run perl I still get th

[CentOS] question on virtual desktops

centos has the 4 virtual desktops by default. if I have a terminal window open in desktop 1 is there a command I can execute (type in) to switch to desktop 2? The mouse will not be attached at this point and I want to switch views using a command line. How do I do that? Thanks, Jerry ___

[CentOS] 5.2 to 5.4

I am trying to update x86_64 from 5.2 to 5.4 I am trying to update glibc first (before yum -y upgrade) with the command yum update glibc glib-devel glibc-headers gives me the following: package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.5-24.el5._2.2 this, is not available package glibc-devel needs gl

Re: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

MAIL_HUB does the trick - thanks that was what I was looking for. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

the message. > > - Rick > > Original Message > >> Date: Friday, January 01, 2010 02:27:12 PM -0500 >> From: Jerry Geis >> To: CentOS ML >> Subject: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more >> > servers

[CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

Hi all, I had one server running centos 4.7 i686 everything was fine with incoming mail. I now added two more servers centos 5.4 x86_64 and gave them machine names all part of the same domain as machine 1. I noticed that incoming emails are being round robined to all three machines. At this

[CentOS] trying to get lm_sensorts to work

hi all, I am trying to get lm_sensors to work. did the yum install lm_sensors service lm_sensors start sensor -s and it says no sensors found. did lsmod | grep it87 and it87 57061 0 hwmon_vid 35905 1 it87 hwmon 36553 1 it87 i2c_isa

[CentOS] donations

The donation page does not seem up to date: *Monetary* CentOS is currently reviewing our cash donation program. If you are looking to make a cash dontation to the CentOS Project, please check back here after August 15th, 2009. I sent an email to the webmaster but did not get a reply. I thoug

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

> > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > performance penalty > if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that would be grea

[CentOS] 486 custom kernel

Hi all, Is it possible to take the 686 CentOS 5, install that in virtual machine, install a custom kernel that is the 486 flavor, take that image and put it on a 8G CF card - insert that into a small form factor 486 class machine and have that work? I am hoping the extra instructions in a 686 (M

[CentOS] where is tunctl

I am following directions in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM#head-c02a0b33e7949b0bc3b151ac6e0bdfb91b6bbd1c it says do yum install bridge-utils - works fine, they yum install tunctl does not find anything. yum provides "*/tunctl" does not find anything I am using 5.4 x86_64. Is this howto out o

[CentOS] kernel panic on 4.8 i686

I am getting the following kernel panic: 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL #1 Tue Nov 3 17:15:02 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This system has ran fine for 2 years+. Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Call Trace: Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [] wake_up_page+0x9/0x29 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [] do_no_page+0x37d/0x3f4 Nov

Re: [CentOS] loading a program in memory for faster startup

> more /etc/readahead.d/impress.later > /usr/bin/soffice > /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin I created the above file /etc/readahead.d/impress.later Put in it the two lines above. The /etc/init.d/readahead_later script takes any file name *.later so I made a new file instead of editing /e

[CentOS] loading a program in memory for faster startup

After searching for a way to load a program in memory for fast start time I found preload.sourceforge.net I then kept looking and found CentOS 5 has readahead_early and readahead_later. I have (2) questions. 1) the /etc/readahead.d/default.later file has firefox 1.5 preloads mentioned. That se

[CentOS] ata errors from dmesg

dmesg is reporting ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/10 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/14/00 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound } My HD disk is on /dev/sda1 so I presume this is errors from the CDROM. Is there a command I can use to not do anything

[CentOS] /etc/aliases file wildcard

I have been trying to find out if the /etc/aliases file can accept wildcards in the user name I was hoping that a line like or similiar: machine*: myaccount would take any name matching machine* and forward onto the myaccount mailbox. man aliases didnt really help me nor did I find anything el

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Brent L. Bates wrote: > It is not odd. You just refuse to listen to those trying to help. How > many times do they have to say `Check your DNS'? > > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it has a line like this: > > hosts:files dns > > `files' comes FIRST and `dns'

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > >/ > />>/ That's a few DNS timeouts. > />>/ > />>>/ / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. > />>/ />/ > />>/ />/ Very odd, any thoughts? > />>/ / > />>/ Are you mailing to localhost? > />>/ > />/ I tried: > />/ mail panel > />/ mail panel at localhost

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > Jerry Geis wrote: > >>/ My guess would be a resolving problem also. > />>/ Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > />>/ Check your /etc/hosts file > />>/ Dan > />>/ > />/ My /etc/hosts file is only has the "names

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > My guess would be a resolving problem also. > Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > Check your /etc/hosts file > Dan > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the command line is done. Again, t

[CentOS] sendmail question

Hi all, I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the QUEUE=10s

[CentOS] question on 5.4

Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70% the slow down. I t

Re: [CentOS] network not starting and maybe other services in a virtual machine

Jerry Geis wrote: > Its like the /etc/rc script isnt running. Who or what starts that up? > If I run it manually "sh rc" then everything starts up. > > Where is that? > > jerry > actually - after comparing the inittab file with a good one on my server it was corrupt

Re: [CentOS] network not starting and maybe other services in a virtual machine

Its like the /etc/rc script isnt running. Who or what starts that up? If I run it manually "sh rc" then everything starts up. Where is that? jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] network not starting and maybe other services in a virtual machine

I am installing centos 5.3 i386 in a virtual machine. I am using kvm-87 (which I use for other images just fine). The box installed fine, it boots up I can login but NONE of the services are starting . When watching the boot up process it goes from the "Welcome to CentOS 5.3 " directly to mou

Re: [CentOS] program to hide X11 windows

> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jerry Geis <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > > >/ > > />/ > Don't know if that's what you're looking for, but when you edit a > />/ > presentation with Impress, pr

Re: [CentOS] program to hide X11 windows

> > Don't know if that's what you're looking for, but when you edit a > presentation with Impress, press F5 to show only the presentation. > > Cheers, > > Niki Kovacs > Niki, no-one is there to press F5. Its a controlled display. Thanks for the suggestion though. Jerry ___

[CentOS] program to hide X11 windows

hi all I am looking for a program that will "hide" a window when it opens under X11. There is a program called devilspie but it requires gnome-panel to be running to work. On some of my workstations I dont have gnome-panel running. So I was wondering if there is a program like devilspie that d

Re: [CentOS] generate core dump for process

> > # ulimit -c unlimited > # myprog arg1 arg2 arg3 > > Is it possible that your program is overriding rlimit definitions? > Does "strings myprog | grep rlimit" return anything? > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:52, Jerry Geis <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] generate core dump for process

I need to not handle SIGSEGV in my program - then it generates a core file. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] generate core dump for process

> > You need to run "ulimit -c unlimited" with the user and at the session > where you start the process. "ulimit" settings are inherited by > processes started by that session, it's not like a system setting or > something like that. > > You must also make sure that the user that is running the pr

[CentOS] generate core dump for process

Hi all. I ran "ulimit -c unlimited" as root on my machine (centos 5.3 x86_64) when I run the process it is getting SIGSEGV but not creating a core dump? What else do I need to do to get a core dump file when I run "gdb myprocess" the SIGSEGV does not happen. Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] help with bonobo

> > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM > > Do step 1 (or drop it into /etc/rpm/macros.local so it applies to all users) > > then remove the i386 versions of those packages (they should now be > visible as libbonoboui-2.16.0-1.fc6.i386 etc). > > Jim, I removed the (2) packages that w

Re: [CentOS] help with bonobo

> > On that output, not so much. The output directly below it is a bit > more helpful. Your system seems to think that /usr/lib/bonobo/servers > doesn't exist. You could check to see if it is actually there. It > could also be some multi-arch related issue, since you mention x86_64 > and that's the

Re: [CentOS] help with bonobo

> > You consider providing a bit more detail as to what you were doing > when you got that message, whether it happens every time, if it > appears to be related to something specific (every time I start > firefox, I get X), any packages you've changed from the default, etc. > . > > What you've give

[CentOS] help with bonobo

This morning I am getting a message on my screen that: There was a problem registering the panel with the bonobo-activation server error code is 1 It further suggests run bonobo-slay to perhaps take care of the situation. When I run bonobo-slay it says: bonobo-slay Can not open directory /usr

Re: [CentOS] self signing certificates

> > If you are simply using certs for > encryption and not for authentication then this practice probably > can be safely dispensed with. If you ARE using certs for > authentication then this provision is absolutely required. James, Correct I am really just using cert or https for encryption not

Re: [CentOS] self signing certificates

> > If you are in a windows domain you can distribute the public > certificate of your "signing authority" using active directory. This > will prevent IE from showing the untrusted warning. Otherwise you can > install the public certificate into the users web browser and any > certs you sign will

[CentOS] self signing certificates

hi all, I have gone through the process of self signing certificates. Aside from the pop-ups about not trusted etc... everything appears to work. For "internal" applications what do people/places do? It would be nice to be seamless and have the "your not trusted" window pop-up. Yet this is not a

[CentOS] rpm question

When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave them installed) but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things the packages are not installed? Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next

[CentOS] traceenable for httpd

On centos 5.3 x86_64 I can add "traceenable off" to httpd.conf and that works well. however this doesnt seem to work for centos 4.7 i686. Is there a similiar named option on 4.7? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

[CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] firewall setup for nfs

> > Hi, > > you also need to add portmapper ( port 110 ) and lock the following ports > preventing portmapper to assign random ports > > Uncomment the following in /etc/sysconfig/nfs and make sure the portmapper > is restarted. > > RQUOTAD_PORT=875 > LOCKD_TCPPORT=32803 > LOCKD_UDPPORT=32769 > MOU

[CentOS] firewall setup for nfs

Below is my firewall rules for iptables. everything is working fine except for NFS I cannot mount my drive. If I turn off iptables I can mount. Looking at this : http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-nfs.html Important In order for NFS to work with a default install

Re: [CentOS] firewall question

> > Hi Jerry, > > according your rules you have opened all incoming traffic to interface > eth0 and eth1. > I think that is the issue. Try to remove or modify them -- > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT > Thanks that does do it... I was using

[CentOS] firewall question

My firewall config is below... I am trying to figure out why another machine has access to port 5038 on my machine based on these firewall rules. I thought the reject at the bottom would take care of all other ports? It does not. I have restarted with "server iptables restart" and same thing. I

[CentOS] out of memory

I am getting this message quite often lately. Centos 5.3, AMD dual core 5050e system x64 1 GIG ram, 4 GIG swap I dont have that much running that the kernel should be cutting out my processes. Any thoughts? Jerry emTotal: 766264 kB MemFree:583984 kB Buffers:

[CentOS] passing alias addresses

hi all, When using the alias address scheme, like eth1:0 on a machine ... things are working. When that interface is disabled on box A and becomes active on box B what should Box B do to correctly update the ARP tables external to box B so the external world knows how to get to the new destination

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

> > >/ > />/ Hi all, > />/ > />/ I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > />/ > />/ > />/ When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > />/ my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > />/ takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc...

[CentOS] slugishness

Hi all, I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc... Is there something I can change so this backup doesnt

[CentOS] change gnome back to default settings

Some how I have changed something such that the command line: gconftool-2 -t string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/images/other.jpg does not change my background any longer. Has someone come across this before? How can I change gnome back to ALL default

[CentOS] usb issue on my motherboard

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[CentOS] kickstart not install evolution

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 @

[CentOS] kickstart question

Hi all, I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard coded /dev/sda. How can I detect what the name of the device is and use /dev/cciss and not /dev/sda? Jerry ___ CentOS mailin

[CentOS] question on whiptail

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[CentOS] script question

I have this line: ALSA=`aplay --version` in a script. when I execute the script I get the message line 187: --version: command not found when I do "aplay --version" on the command line it works just fine. What is happening here, --version is a valid command line option? Thanks, j

[CentOS] yum update error this morning

I am getting the following "yum update" error this morning. C 5.3 x86_64. What shall I do? Jerry --- yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mirror.nac.net * updates: centos.mirror.nac.net * addons: mirrors.unbornmedia.com *

Re: [CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin

On Fri, May 29, 2009, Jerry Geis wrote: >/I think what is happening is UNKOWN keys are continuously getting />/spit out. So error keycodes perhaps stops the autologin process. />/ />/I get many errors about unknown key pressed released for />/e03e, e03f, e014. />/ />/T

Re: [CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin

I think what is happening is UNKOWN keys are continuously getting spit out. So error keycodes perhaps stops the autologin process. I get many errors about unknown key pressed released for e03e, e03f, e014. This is a new HP HDX18 laptop. Thought it was a regular looking keyboard layout. Anyone ra

[CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin

I am running 5.3 on x86_64. I have it set to auto login X11 by editing the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file. Seems like it does NOT always auto login. Seems like maybe 75% of the time it does but then sometimes it doesnt. How can I find out why it doesnt always login? when it doesnt I dont see anything

[CentOS] USB issues

I am using centos5.3 x86_64 on a gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H motherboard. When I insert a USB thumbdrive its detected with dmesg, I mount it and start to copy files. Then I start getting errors: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd sd 7

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

> > >/ I do not have package @mysql in the list - yet after install "rpm -qa | > />/ grep -i mysql" reports mysql loaded. > />/ > />/ how can I stop mysql from loading from anaconda? > / > Type 'yum remove mysql' and see what depends on it. I'd guess something > in the gnome-desktop group is brin

[CentOS] kickstart question

Hi all, My kickstart section for packages is %packages @base-x @dialup @gnome-desktop @base @development-libs @core @x-software-development @mail-server @development-tools @web-server @graphical-internet @sound-and-video @legacy-software-development @editors @smb-server @ftp-server mesa-libGLU-dev

[CentOS] how to find out dependencies

At install I had Gnome and Not KDE. doing rpm -qa | grep qt results in qt-3.3.6-23.el5 qt4-4.2.1-1 How can I find out what package loaded the qt4 and qt? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

[CentOS] list of packages with dual licenses

Hi all, There are many packages in centos. Does there exist a "listing" of packages that have the dual licensing? By dual license I mean packages not just GPL licensing in a commercial setting. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] esata

> > Jerry Geis wrote: > >/ I am trying to get esata working. my lspci is below. > />/ > />/ When I plug in the disk an turn it on - dmesg reports nothing. > />/ Is it supposed to report anything like a usb disk does? > />/ > />/ Is there a module to load

Re: [CentOS] esata

Trying to get my esata working... I ubuntu thread talked about a command scsiadd? yum provides "*/scsiadd" did not result in anything. The esata is on the motherboard. Is there something special I have to do to get esata to come alive? dmesg does not report anything when I turn on my disk. Tha

[CentOS] esata

I am trying to get esata working. my lspci is below. When I plug in the disk an turn it on - dmesg reports nothing. Is it supposed to report anything like a usb disk does? Is there a module to load? My motherboard is GA-MA78GM-US2H. Jerry - 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices

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