[CentOS] Encrypted remote backup?

2010-08-08 Thread Michael A. Peters
Can anyone recommend a commercial off site remote backup service with a client (preferably FOSS) for CentOS 5, preferably that allows encryption of the data being backed up? Small scale, I'm primarily looking to just back up my mail folder on my server. I've been backing it up to local hd via

[CentOS] spamassassin needs updating?

2010-06-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
The spamassassin on my server is 3.2.5 and is stock CentOS 5.x. I do apply updates regularly. Most of my legitimate contacts are either whitelisted or sorted into folders before spamassassin sees them, but I have noticed an increasing amount of legitimate mail marked as spam. One issue seems to

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
david walcroft wrote: > I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. > > Thanks david This is how I burn linux ISO's, rarely resul

Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. >> >> I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.c

Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Hello, > > I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. > > I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472253 > > I can try the suggeste

[CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Hello, I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472253 I can try the suggested patch myself, but is this the kind of thing that maybe could be patch

Re: [CentOS] USB GPS

2010-02-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
John R Pierce wrote: > Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> Anyone ever used the iGPS-500 under CentOS 5? Any recommendations on a >>> USB-based GPS that "just works"? >>> >> I use the Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx on CentOS. >> This is a very good device (but more for "offroad" activities). >> > > there's t

Re: [CentOS] USB GPS

2010-02-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Anyone ever used the iGPS-500 under CentOS 5? Any recommendations on a > USB-based GPS that "just works"? > I do not have personal experience but I hear the Garmin models work well. I have a serial port Garmin model that works well with gpsbabel, and I believe the setup

Re: [CentOS] Installing an SSL Cert

2010-01-28 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ml wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:38:00 -0800: > >> Where can I find instructions on how to install the certificate? > > Exactly where you buy it. Please don't abuse this list as support for > everything. > > Kai > In fairness, when I bought my cert from godaddy, their lin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

2010-01-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit >> FireFox? The SUN 1.6 JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm) does NOT >> include the Java web browser plugin library. >> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm does not have one >> either. Should I in

Re: [CentOS] movie software

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > Any open source software can open quick time? > > and can covert from quick to other movie also? > > Thank you ffmpeg2theora does a good job at converting the h.264 that modern quicktime uses into Ogg Theora. VLC does a good job at playing just about any format. Yo

Re: [CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
MHR wrote: > I read in another forum that CentOS has problems with Firewire drives, > something along the lines of whenever a new kernel is booted, the > drives are gone. > > Can anyone elaborate on that? I don't use Firewire drives (at all, > yet), but information about this would be nice to hav

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Brian wrote: >> checking for GLIB - version>= 2.16.0... no >> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... >> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file >> config.log for the >> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrec

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
ken wrote: > > > So how are people getting totem to play movies? > > tia. > > I hope no one crucifies me for suggesting closed source, but I got tired of the issues with gstreamer-plugins-whatever and just purchased the fluendo codec pack. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-

Re: [CentOS] OT TTW Email Interface

2010-01-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > I don't know what these things are called so that I can look for an OS > solution. I want to install an email server interface like Hotmail where > people can check their email TTW. What is this called? Any recommendations? > TIA, > Susan I set up an imap server (dovecot

Re: [CentOS] how to send mail from console

2010-01-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Here is what I use: > > mail -s "My email subject" m...@domain.com <$myfile > > On some (older?) systems the command is email instead of mail. Check > man mail > > Regards, > Jussi mail is the standard unix command. Has been as long as I can remember, and I believe it

Re: [CentOS] [story] Thank goodness for links and caching DNS

2010-01-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Thursday 14 January 2010 12:52:15 Michael A. Peters wrote: >> This is the second time in the last 6 months that all three of my ISP's >> nameservers have gone down, > > You can also use Google's free Caching Nameservers (a recent offering

[CentOS] [story] Thank goodness for links and caching DNS

2010-01-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Right in the middle of doing something important on my Ubuntu box, the web quit working. However, I could get to sites in my /etc/hosts file. Sure enough, all three of my ISPs nameservers were down. I'm not a DNS guy, but on my CentOS boxes I always installed a caching DNS out of the box since

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ It won't allow you

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Back to laptop question - I have always preferred the Thinkpad T20 > series should read "T Series" - T20 is quite deprecated now ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/8/2010 3:06 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: >>> Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and >>> so on. >>> >>> Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Heller wrote: > > Just about all of the low-end Dell boxes (laptops or desktops) tend to > be low-quality boxes -- you gets what you pay for. Higher end Dells > seem to be OK (eg 'Workstations', servers, etc.). In October I found a discard Dell Optiplex GX50 - older low-end dell. Found

Re: [CentOS] FireWire in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> If the current firewire kernel driver in CentOS does not work for you, >> take a look at: >> >> http://blog.toracat.org/2008/12/getting-kino-to-work-on-centos-5/ >> >> that I wrote some time ago when I tri

Re: [CentOS] FireWire in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
Akemi Yagi wrote: > > If the current firewire kernel driver in CentOS does not work for you, > take a look at: > > http://blog.toracat.org/2008/12/getting-kino-to-work-on-centos-5/ > > that I wrote some time ago when I tried to get my camcorder to work. > > Hope this helps, Thanks! __

[CentOS] FireWire in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
I am being given a digital camcorder. It uses Mini DV tapes and either connects via typical RCA cables (IE to a tv) or via FireWire. I don't have the brand on hand, but I was told it can be ripped to DV like any standard FireWire camcorder (I believe dvgrab will be sufficient). I just installe

Re: [CentOS] Gallery2 under CentOS-5.3

2009-07-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I asked about 18 months ago if gallery2 was available > in any of the CentOS repositories, > and it seemed that at that time it was not. > However, there was some talk of putting it in epel or epel-testing. > But I looked just now, and did not find it there. > > I actually

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Mike A. Harris wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Blizzard wrote: > > (followup on original post from previous reply) > >> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most >> part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes >> tha

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > > My suspicion is that it has to do with the language packs, since the > same src.rpm built w/o disabling language packs doesn't crash in CentOS > 5.3 on either arch. I feel like such a dope. I forgot to run createrepo on my private i386 repo so w

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Nichols wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Ron Blizzard wrote: >>> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most >>> part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes >>> that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. >>> >>> It happened to me twice on eBay (on

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > >>> I'm writing for a couple reasons. >>> >>> I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have >>> experienced it or can replicate it. >> Confirmed - also i386 mharri

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: >> I'm writing for a couple reasons. >> >> I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have >> experienced it or can replicate it. > > Confirmed - also i386 mharris packaging. update - it didn't actually bring

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ron Blizzard wrote: > I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many ti

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

2009-07-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ron Blizzard wrote: > I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many ti

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Dmitry a écrit : >> Hi. >> >> Could you please give me advice about issue described below. >> >> My friends have to use a PC with old hardware for a few months. They've >> got 128MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive; Pentium 3 processor. >> >> At the moment they have windows xp running

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> How it interacts with epel I don't really care about, but it should not >> update vendor packages, and anything that requires an updated vendor >> package will be broken on yum configurations that protect the base in

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:08:08 -0600 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:05:58 -0700 >> Gary Greene wrote: >> >>> . With sudo, >>> you get a record of what command was executed with superuser rights by whom >>> at whenever given hour. >> sudo bash > > W

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Warren Young wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> I still don't understand how using sudo instead of su makes it more secure. > > Let's start with the simple case where only one person needs superuser > type privileges on a given machine. What, then, is the diffe

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: >> Buildlogs are available from: >> >> http://packages.sw.be/comix/_buildlogs/ >> >> I hope you come back and tell me what was your problem. > > I have to be back on my continent before addressing this issue. > So far, I can see that the build of Comix seems to hav

[CentOS] Playing with php 5.3.0

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Even though I do not recommend it for production yet, I packaged and am playing with php 5.3.0 - src.rpm at http://www.clfsrpm.net/php53/ (needed epel to build) Other than the suhosin loadable module messing up pear's ability to do anything, initial tests show it working fairly well. Looks li

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-07-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Sander Snel wrote: > >> 10. use sudo instead of su - > > How does that help? I still don't understand how using sudo instead of su makes it more secure. If the user does not have the root password that the only danger to su - is brute force

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > As I said, and as everyone on this list knows: > KB is not a person to talk with. Usually, KB would > throw offensive assertion to people. No matter > what KB would say, and no matter how important is > KB to the CentOS project, a quick search through > the cen

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > >> If a SRPMS builds under CentOS 5.0 and it doesn't >> under 5.3,then this package is broekn. >> >> Ok, you're making it yourself very hard now, but I >> will accept scripts/tools that can verify this. >> I don't think any other repository is >> even doing th

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-06-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sander Snel wrote: > 10. use sudo instead of su - How does that help? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:52 -0700 > Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> Are they any utilities, other than installing Fedora 11 and setting the >> macros described in that thread and rebuilding the src.rpm, to resolve >> the issue? > > What a

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors > when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting > repeated bad downloads? > ___ > CentOS mailing list > C

[CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting repeated bad downloads? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

[CentOS] Another Postfix (or procmail ??) question

2009-06-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
Is there a simple way to strip out what I assume is a header that asks for a receipt that the message was delivered? I never like to send such receipts, and they are annoying. It mostly happens on a couple lists I'm on (not this one) - I don't just want it for myself, I may be setting up a list

Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

2009-06-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
John R Pierce wrote: > > The problem with that approach is that its global to the server.I > dislike putting filtering rules like that in the system, and prefer to > do them on a per user basis, hence my postmailrc suggestion (except I > don't know if CentOS uses postmail as the delivery a

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] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tim Ke wrote: > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? If you need newer than php 5.1.x you can start with the current Fedora src.rpm - all the build dependencies are in EPEL. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Matt Harrington wrote: > I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting > service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian. Any pointers? Linode offers you a xen virtual host - you can pick any distro you want, including CentOS, and you get root. About $20 a month.

[CentOS] XSS (was Re: Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....)

2009-06-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Since each install uses the same pages basically, it is easy for a autobot > to find them all and zero day your forums, xss your whatever, and so on. > > Dang scary to leave JS on at alleven though you basically have too. Mozilla is beginning to address this issue wi

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

2009-06-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Maco: > >> i have other mandriva boxes and they all are ok. i m just so >> surprised that a centos box got compromised. > > If you are not doing anything silly in your server > configuration, this is not a CentOS issue. > > Anything *can* be hacked. It just so happens >

Re: [CentOS] Harware vs Kernel RAID (was Re: External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?)

2009-06-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > > I'd recommend looking at backuppc instead of amanda if you mostly want > on-line storage. Its storage scheme will hold a much longer history in > the same amount of space and it has a handy web interface for browsing > and restores. I'd rather have something that has

Re: [CentOS] Harware vs Kernel RAID (was Re: External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?)

2009-06-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/01/2009 07:52 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> I've read a lot of different reports that suggest at this point in time, >> kernel software raid is in most cases better than controller raid. > > There are certainly a lot of people who fee

Re: [CentOS] Why yum-cron is only at x86_64 system?

2009-06-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
MontyRee wrote: > Hello, all. > > > I have operated centos 4.x and 5.x system. > > for 4.x system, I auto update using yum and for 5.x system, using > yum-cron. > > but I can't find any yum-cron package (i386) like below. > > # yum search yum-cron(at i686, centox 5.3) > > Warning: No matches

[CentOS] Harware vs Kernel RAID (was Re: External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?)

2009-06-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
-=- starting as new thread as it is off topic from controller thread -=- Ross Walker wrote: > > The real key is the controller though. Get one that can do hardware > RAID1/10, 5/50, 6/60, if it can do both SATA and SAS even better and > get a battery backed write-back cache, the bigger the be

Re: [CentOS] Changing a user's shell on CentOS Directory Server?

2009-06-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009, Matt Harrington wrote: >> Should unprivileged users be able to change their shell with lchsh on >> 5.3 and, if it matters, CentOS Directory Server? lchsh seems to >> require more open permissions than those which come with a default >> installation: >

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > nate a écrit : >> Try it out and see what happens.. since the version change seems >> pretty minor I wouldn't expect too much breakage .. Though to be >> on the safe side it's probably good to install it to another >> directory(/usr/local or something) and change the package na

Re: [CentOS] problem with centos upgrade

2009-05-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
John R Pierce wrote: > fabian dacunha wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine >> >> but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl >> errors and it terminates >> >> OS is centos 5 (final) >> >> the part of errors reported >>

Re: [CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

2009-05-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: >> >>> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working >>> any clues? >> For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros >

Re: [CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

2009-05-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: > >> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working >> any clues? > > For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros > support, the elrepo repository is tesing new backported ath5k drivers

Re: [CentOS] USB issues

2009-05-22 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jerry Geis wrote: > 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: Att

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-22 Thread Michael A. Peters
JohnS wrote: > > My sejustion is unplug everything hooked to it but the power and network > cabling. Open it up while it is running, and shake the cables lightly > ( don't jerk on them). External disk array, unplug it also. USB floppies > and cd drives unplug emmm all. > > Is it under a heavy l

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

2009-05-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
sbeam wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009 19:46, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: >> Is there a repository that has php version 5.2 or greater available for use >> with the Centos 5.3 distribution? >> This includes the development libraries package. Thanks. > > Just finished compiling php 5.2.9 from the sprms

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jason Aubrey wrote: > I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all > the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. > I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it > were represented in an official way. > > In case people aren't aware,

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is >>> running web, e-mail, ssh, ftp, mysql, coldfusion and

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Beartooth wrote: > > I try never to install Ffx anywhere without NoScript, Adblock, > and several more. I do not use Adblock because I am a member of an online community that specifically forbids blocking of advertisements, their primary revenue source. An exception is made for noscrip

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>Some one on a local LUG, wh

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine >> with all the same e

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Robert Nichols > wrote: > >> My problem with NoScript is that there is virtually no site that I visit >> that does not require scripting to function properly. I think there is a mis-understanding of how noscript works. By default it blocks

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> Noscript will give you an idea of just how many sites run a script of some >> kind. You will see a large part of sites just look different when the scripts >> don't run, and some don't function at all. Not that it is a

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: > My belief is that this is not possible, but there are many extremely > knowledgeable people participating on this list and I would like to > know if it is in fact possible. I am running CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) fully > updated. Browser is Mozilla Firefox v.3.0.7. > > I believe bot

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Scott Silva >> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM >> To: centos@centos.org >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers >> >> on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM So

[CentOS] yum clean all

2009-04-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
There seems to be a lot of this needed lately. I suspect the issue is 5.2 -> 5.3 transition. Putting something like this in /etc/cron.daily/ when near a major update *might* make the transition times between point releases easier - #!/bin/bash RANGE=120 number=$RANDOM let "number %= $RANGE" del

Re: [CentOS] Repo for Abiword

2009-04-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
cen...@911networks.com wrote: > Hi, > > I need to run Abiword on CentOS 5.3, any repository? > EPEL has 2.6.4 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the > relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook". Unfortunately, > some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work the > same way on a standard CentOS 5 install. > >

Re: [CentOS] Mock Questions

2009-04-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Just started using mock to rebuild some srpms. I have two I want to > rebuild, problem is the first creates a dep that is required by the second. > > Is there an automated way to populate an additional repo/cache that mock > would look at when building the second so I cou

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: wifi card shows in device manager , but cant configure wifi

2009-04-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
sumit agarwal wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *sumit agarwal* > > Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:00 AM > Subject: wifi card shows in device manager , but cant configure wifi > To: centos@centos.org > > >

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > > And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. > I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils > and run yum-recover-transaction to continue. > That's why I use screen for remote updates. __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > Maybe I just haven't installed enough distros, but the times I've installed > CentOS, I've had to remember that by default, iptables is blocking inbound > port 80 requests. This leads me to believe that I have a non-OS firewall > error because I can ping but not http

Re: [CentOS] How do I determine if I have to rebuild rpms for 5.3?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I built rpms for Miredo 1.1.5-1 on Centos 5.2 from the fc8 rpms. > > How do I determine if I have to rebuild it for Centos 5.3? You probably don't. If there was a shared library that version you may need to but then yum would tell you. __

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4 - CentOS 4.7

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tom Brown wrote: >> Sorry. :O. I know I got that Python SOMEWHERE. >> > > lets see how far i get building it from .src.rpm Careful - Red Hat uses python for a lot of stuff so you need to make sure ant 2.4 rpm you build does not conflict with system python. My recommendation would be to compi

Re: [CentOS] system-config-date-tui ??

2009-04-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> ...where is the format for /etc/sysconfig/clock specified? > > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt Ah crap. It's a xen but since the hardware clock doesn't appear to be

[CentOS] system-config-date-tui ??

2009-04-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Remote box keeps reverting the localtime to Eastern (America/New_York). cd /etc rm localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC localtime fixes it - but it seems to revert from time to time, I presume from yum updates (or possibly an init script ??) In /etc/sysconfig there is a config file for it

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >>>> Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >>>>> Useradd newuser : ok >>>>> passwd newuser : ok >>>>> >>

Re: [CentOS] Update

2009-04-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM, jarmo wrote: I found reason, why update wont go. I have installed much newer glibc, than what comes with 5.3. I needed that, bec

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >> Useradd newuser : ok >> passwd newuser : ok >> >> The password is not MD5, only 3DES. > > Again: Have you looked if passwd on your machine is the one from CentOS? > I would suggesting copying the binary to a known clean machine to check t

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Linda Stark wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:28:24 -0600 > > From: thea...@sasktel.net > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on > centos 5.3 desktop machine > > To: centos@centos.org > > CC: nads...@live.com > > > > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:14:53 -0700 > > Li

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Linda Stark wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos > desktop. > > When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, then > install it, and PC says "/tmp/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm is > already installed" - but it's not

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Krieser wrote: > On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > Kernel problems happen. Yes - I've had mixed results with power management with and audio on laptops before in Fedora with kernel updates, but none recently. Going from Fedora 8 to CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Markus Falb wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Backup servers need *maximum* protection too.. > > agreed, but... > maximum protection would mean turning network off. > but that could turn out as a little inconvinience. > > webservers that cant boot without

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very >> smooth. > > I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. > I don't think I have ever had such a simple upgrade of any system. I have - twice befo

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: > John Hinton wrote: > >> Error Downloading Packages: >> kernel - 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686: failure: >> RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No >> more mirrors to try. >> >> Is this just me? I've tried at different times from different machines >> and it s

[CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
I just set up a secure server. Followed the godaddy instructions for key generation/installation - and the server wanted my pass phrase to start. When I started developing I followed instructions for a self signed cert and everything went dandy. Anyway - after a little googling and an uneasy f

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: > > >> I'm in France (Europe), > > > C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not > THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) Where's the Atlantic? Is that up in Canada? ;) ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of John R Pierce >> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> My guess is a scriptlet is failing - quite possibly because an SELinux >> chcon command fails in those conditions. They probably need to change >> the chcon portion of the scriptlet to add a ||:

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tsai Li Ming wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 4-2-2009 2:00 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: >>> On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:40:59 R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: > I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the > filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Spiro Harvey wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:41:33 -0400 > Robert Spangler wrote: >> So what is everyone using for their torrent? >> What is the best? > > amusing. There is no such thing as the "best", only the best fit to your > needs. > > For a start, what front end do you want? gnome, kde, tcl

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