Re: [CentOS] program to hide X11 windows

2009-09-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
show only the presentation. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where to download rpm packages for centos?

2009-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Peng Yu a écrit : > > Our system > administrator doesn't update the system because of the excuse of > keeping the machine stable. Does he also avoid to take showers in order to stay clean? :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Jim Perrin a écrit : > > 2. Are you hosting static content or dynamic pages? Both and neither :o) I'm a system administrator for a series of public libraries here, and hosting several dynamic sites on a dedicated server (running CentOS). I'm just in one of my documentation phases, where I hav

Re: [CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : > > apache:apache - at least that is the UID/GID the webserver runs under. > Thanks very much... and thumbs up to one of the authors. I really like the book. Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

[CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently sinking my teeth into the fine "Definitive Guide to CentOS". Right now I'm reading the chapter about Apache. One thing puzzles me: no mention is made of web page permissions. Let's say I'm using Apache's default configuration for setting up the most simple no-frills web serve

Re: [CentOS] Command line tool to display number of pages in a PostScript document?

2009-09-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : > > One quick and dirty method will be to count the word "showpage' that > is not commented out. But this may not give you an accurate number of > pages (some aliases might be used). I found a neat solution, finally. My initial document is a PDF, so here goes: $ pdfinfo f

[CentOS] Command line tool to display number of pages in a PostScript document?

2009-09-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm looking for a way to get the number of pages contained in a PostScript document, so I can use it in a script. Any suggestions? Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Forum or mailing list for Bash-related questions?

2009-09-05 Thread Niki Kovacs
Johnny Hughes a écrit : > > Not sure about a mailing list or group ... but I thought I would post > this resource. It is where I go when I want to find bash info: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ This is the other resource I'm using besides the book. But I'm specifically looking for a place

[CentOS] OT: Forum or mailing list for Bash-related questions?

2009-09-05 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The subject says it all. After a few years of writing scripts the quick and dirty way, I've decided to take the plunge and learn Bash correctly, using the O'Reilly Bash Cookbook. I'm currently looking for the right place to ask questions, but curiously enough, Google searches about "bash f

Re: [CentOS] Compiz window manager?

2009-08-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Toralf Lund a écrit : > Has anyone here tried the Compiz window manager under CentOS 5? I just > thought I might give it a go, but when I executed "compiz --replace", I > got a segfault. This was using the version from the CentOS yum > repositories, and logged in to the GNOME desktop. My graphic

Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board

2009-08-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
u derog) state of mind in which one is not concerned by the immediate wishes or needs of Ian Murray". Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board

2009-08-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ian Murray a écrit : > Niki, > > I am perfectly comfortable with my email client and I prefer top posting > because I don't like wading through constantly re-quoted stuff I already > read. I will on occasion interleave and bottom post if it serves my > purpose, though. If you don't like it, don

Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board

2009-08-12 Thread Niki Kovacs
lain. Guess it's never too late to learn how to do things correctly. Most folks know how to use their email client in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Integrate shell scripts into Nautilus ?

2009-08-10 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to integrate a handful of shell scripts into my Nautilus file browser, for example to be able to resize a selection of images with one click via ImageMagick, or convert videos easily. After a bit of Googling, I found out that folks seem to do this by placing scripts into ~/.gnome2

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Christoph Maser a écrit : > > Just a random guess. Do you have right openoffice.org-langpack > installed? Yes. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-week course for Writer and Calc. A

Re: [CentOS] Recent HPLIP: where's that doc?

2009-07-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > > But I can't seem to find that page anymore. Anyone remembers it? I'll answer that myself, since I just found it. You just have to jump through several burning loops on the website in order to access it: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/instal

[CentOS] Recent HPLIP: where's that doc?

2009-07-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
some RHEL5 RPMS on that site. But I can't seem to find that page anymore. Anyone remembers it? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-20 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : > > Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH I just gave it a try: works like a charm. Thanks! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

[CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-20 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook" and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wo

Re: [CentOS] Add instantly active local user accounts *with* password using useradd -p option ?

2009-07-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sander Snel a écrit : > # for user in user1 user2 user3 ; do useradd $user ; echo "password" | > passwd --stdin $user ; done > > cant make it any simpler Indeed. Thanks very much! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

[CentOS] Add instantly active local user accounts *with* password using useradd -p option ?

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I need to setup a load of user accounts on a series of machines, for testing purposes. I'm using a script to do this, but the only problem I have so far: I have to activate them all manually by doing passwd user1, passwd user2, passwd user3, etcetera. The useradd man page mentions a -p opt

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sander Snel a écrit : > The tool you need is nfs-utils, if you do a > # rpm -qi --provides nfs-utils > you will get output of which software it provides, and some info about > the package. > Most of the nfs service is handled by the kernel: > "Summary : NFS utlilities and supporting clients an

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : > > There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client mount. Set > up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 192.168.0.3) > > /whatever/where-ever/ 192.168.0.3(rw) > > Start the nfs service. Create a mount point on the client > > "mkdir /mn

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
o a écrit : > Hi, > > I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree Did that program also write your address header ? :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > > # chown jcpascot:agents /home/pub/jcpascot/ > # chown nkovacs:agents /home/pub/nkovacs > # chmod 0750 /home/pub/* Small mistake. This last line should go chmod 2750, so every file created in that directory will have the same group (

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : > > http://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/?s=2 First of all, thanks for the instant replies. I took a peek at ACLs and how they work. But then, being a fervent adept of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle (I started out with Slackware some eight years ago),

[CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I have to solve an apparently simple permission problem, and I don't know if it's the sunny weather or birdsong, well... I just can't figure it out. Here goes. I have a bunch of users in a public library. Some are "administrators": they handle the library, write the docs for everyone, etc.

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Carlos Santana a écrit : > Thanks Niki. > > More specifically it hangs after: > Downloading Packages: > Running rpm_check_debug > Running Transaction Test > > If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message: > [r...@localhost ~]# yum clean all > Existing lock /var/run/yu

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Carlos Santana a écrit : > Howdy, > > The yum install hangs in between. This happened few days as > well, but just after doing Ctrl+C it reported error with mirror and > switched to another one. Today, however, it is not responding to > Ctrl+C and kill or kill -9 command is also not working. Any

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
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 on it, but it's very slow

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > Yeah, unfortunatelly I don't know either. Never used systems for such > thing, it's probably a udev issue. Easy solution is to chown user > /dev/dsp and then add this command to rc.local. OK, I followed your quick & dirty hack. I have to be root to set the volume l

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > > ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ? On my laptop: [kikino...@lifebook ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 4 jui 6 07:32 /dev/audio crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 3 jui 6 07:32 /dev/dsp And on the jukebox: [kikino...@jukebox ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp

[CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, and vo

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thanks everybody for the detailed hints and answers, on the list as well as offlist. I got myself a second "sandbox" PC today, and I just installed two vanilla CentOS 5.3 systems on them. It'll be much easier to figure out the innards of NFS without the constantly nagging fear of breaking some

[CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
--- Begin Message --- Frank Cox a écrit : There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client mount. Set up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 192.168.0.3) /whatever/where-ever/ 192.168.0.3(rw) Start the nfs service. Create a mount point on the client "mk

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > > It is in the man page which is astonishing to me. > Neither 'man nfs' nor 'man exports' specify any version. But I tried again to mount the NFS share, this time by specifying a filesystem, like this: # mount -t nfs4 raymonde:/data /home/shares Here's what I got this time:

[CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've never been using NFS before, but I'm going to need it. I gathered some documentation (Deployment Guide, RHEL 5 Unleashed, general NFS docs) and I have a few machines to experiment with. After about two hours of reading and experimenting, I must admit the documentation is confusing, to

Re: [CentOS] Replicate desktop configuration for other users using /etc/skel

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > yum install Sabayon.i386 This looks exactly like the tool I need. But isn't the project abandoned? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Replicate desktop configuration for other users using /etc/skel

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Eduardo Grosclaude a écrit : > > You could create a new dummy user, customize her desktop as you wish > and then look for the dot-g* hidden directories in her home. > Directories called .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome2_private and such > are candidates. Some apps will use .local or .config also. >

[CentOS] Replicate desktop configuration for other users using /etc/skel

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The subject says it all. I'd like to copy my own custom desktop configuration for other users on the machine without having to go manually through the hassle. Here's a non-exhaustive list of what I usually tweak : * Theme + icons * background image * panel * screensaver * Nautilus behaviou

Re: [CentOS] Remote identity management

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : > I really liked "LDAP for Rocket Scientists": > > http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ > >> * fun to read > > Well. It wraps itself around LDAP. For that it is astonishingly funny. > But do not expect too much :) > Well, the beginning looks very promising, thanks

Re: [CentOS] Remote identity management

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > Thanks! I'll keep that information "in a corner of my head", as the > French say. I just skimmed through the online docs, which require "a > knowledge of LDAP". That's not the case for me, so I'll have a go at > experime

Re: [CentOS] Remote identity management

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sander Snel a écrit : > there is a repo with the enterprise ipa for centos 5 available > > http://www.math.ias.edu/PU_IAS/RHEIPA/5.2/ > > or follow the instructions how to build it yourself from howtoforge > > http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5 Thanks! I'll keep t

[CentOS] Remote identity management

2009-07-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
U/Linux (better: 100% CentOS). So my first question is: which solution is the "best" for such a configuration ? By "best" I mean some compromise between "easy" and "reliable". Any suggestions ? Niki Kovacs ___ C

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

2009-07-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Lanny Marcus a écrit : > Looks like for the moment, > KompoZer is the easiest thing for me to use on Linux. It lacks a lot > of stuff I'm used to in M$ FrontPage It took my 15-year-old nephew about two rainy afternoons to learn XHTML and CSS. All those WYSIWYG tools will allow you to make websit

Re: [CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Tom Brown a écrit : > what does you named.conf look like? i am guessing you have it set to > only listen on localhost > > make sure you have a line similar to > > listen-on port 53 { 192.168.10.1; }; > > and bounce named I just got it to work. In fact, I deleted the stock caching-nameserver

Re: [CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Tom Brown a écrit : > > 53 udp and tcp ? No, that's not it. I disabled the (internal) firewall just for testing's sake, and still nothing. I can only use Bind on localhost (e. g. on the machine where I installed it), but not from any other machine on the network. _

[CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The subject says it all. On my "server" machine in the local LAN (192.168.1.252 in a 192.168.1.0/24 network), I setup Bind. I installed the 'caching-nameserver' package, which provides a set of configuration files for Bind so it can be used as a caching nameserver out of the box. On the se

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
David Hrbác a écrit : > > Niki, > that's starting the flame. Compare to PLD linux... more than 1 > RPMs... Well, no flame intended. So let me just add this. I'm a happy RPMForge repo user. No other third-party repos. I've learned how to circumvent the odd quirks in the repo (like: how do

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : > (And I won't mention the quality of Ubuntu's packages.) > As for TUV, they decided they can only support ~2.5k packages, > regardless of the fact that they're the #1 Linux company. How many employees does Canonical have? AFAIK, it all started with a group of 30

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

2009-06-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
nux.fr/documentation.html If you really don't want to use Vim, I'd recommend Bluefish. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Set hostname via DHCP ?

2009-06-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > > If I take a look at /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth0.leases (on the > client), here's a summary of the lease: > > lease { >interface "eth0"; >fixed-address 192.168.1.2; >option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; >opti

Re: [CentOS] Set hostname via DHCP ?

2009-06-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rob Townley a écrit : > # i do NOT have any kind of use-host-decl-names on; entry. Do you use > dnsmasq or dhcpd? I'm using DHCPD. I took two spare machines this morning and played around with them to make some tests. Here's what I got. a) Server-side, static IP configuration of course, here's

[CentOS] Set hostname via DHCP ?

2009-06-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
om the DHCP server? During the initial install, I assigned hostnames manually to every machine. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux based on CentOS 5.3 (french)

2009-06-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The last six months, I've been busy writing "Linux aux petits oignons", a general introduction to GNU/Linux. The book is aimed at the beginner (or intermediate) reader, though : 1) it's *not* based on Ubuntu, but on CentOS 5.3 2) it doesn't shy away from explaining basic UNIX concepts 3) it

Re: [CentOS] Basic setup for vsftpd ?

2009-06-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Filipe Brandenburger a écrit : > > userlist_enable = YES > userlist_deny = NO > userlist_file = /etc/vsftpd.user_list > > And then: > > # echo install >/etc/vsftpd.user_list > > That way only "install" will be able to log in to the FTP server. Thanks very much ! Niki

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > Yup. > If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see > where the throughput is best. > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html Interesting thread. Guess I'll give it a few spins with different blocksizes (

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > > Ever booted a live-CD? > It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the > CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't > recognize the controllers). The question was not about the LiveCD, but more about the use of dd. So,

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Kevin Krieser a écrit : > > I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I > wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out before > would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for > later. Otherwise, you end up with a lot of unused

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : > > Niki, > > I suggest you look at partimage. > G4U seems similar, but partimage doesn't write free blocks to the > images, so you don't get these huge files. > It's worked well for me. > It's in rpmforge. Thanks for the suggestion. I just took a look at it. But

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > Ideally, the zero'ing of the disk should take place before the OS is > installed, via a boot-cd and using dd with the disk-device itself Erm... how exactly would you go about that? Let's say I want to do that with a Knoppix boot CD, and the only hard disk I have on t

[CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning application sending disk images to an FTP server. The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and then stores it remotely. Due to this approach, it's more or less filesystem-independent. The drawback

[CentOS] Basic setup for vsftpd ?

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
ore like contradictory. One detail: this isn't a publicly accessible machine, e. g. it's not out there on the wild internet, only on the LAN, so there's no special security considerations. Any suggestions ? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
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 name so > it doesn't con

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ladislav Bodnar a écrit : > > Hey, didn't you abandon Linux and switch to Windows not long ago? I remember > you making a big deal out of this on your blog. Or did you change your mind > again? Was the Windows world that bad? To err is human. Béranger is looking for perfection in an imperfect

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

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm >> considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. >> >> General question: 1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this >> pa

[CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this package? To do so, I'd use an SRPM from Fedora. 2) What could I possible "break" on a vanilla CentOS install by doing this? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs _

Re: [CentOS] CUPS oddity

2009-04-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Laurent Wandrebeck a écrit : >> >> Can anybody explain this strange behaviour to me? > localhost is a non routable address: 127.0.0.1. > So it won't answer on the public ip address if you don't add it yourself. Thanks! Got it! Niki ___ CentOS mailing l

[CentOS] CUPS oddity

2009-04-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've been setting up a few printer servers with CUPS. Our public libraries here all run 100% Linux (CentOS 5), so what I do is simply install the printer on one of the machines (with a static IP) and then configure CUPS so it can act as a printer server for Linux clients. It took me some t

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Heller a écrit : > > An audio CD is not like a data CD. It does not have a 'file system'. > It is a collection of data tracks, containing cdda files. > Yeah, I know. But then, AFAIK, dd is supposed to handle these "binary sausages" as well. Meaning: take that input (whatever it is) and

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
John Doe a écrit : > > Couldn't it be the copy protection...? In theory, dd should also take care of copying the copy protection, isn't it? :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Michael A. Peters a écrit : >> >> 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file? > > I've found it works much better if you are root. > I tried both, and see: cdrecord complains about not being able to set certain priorities while being run as user, which induces a high ris

[CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-12 Thread Niki Kovacs
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. 1) Am I supposed to be root to use

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

2009-04-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
costs only around 25 euros a month. Looks pretty much unbeatable. cheers, Niki Kovacs PS: I'm running a database server for eleven small public libraries on it... plus my private webradio to fill some extra unused bandwidth: http://91.121.7.181:8000/radionovak.ogg :o) ___

Re: [CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux, based on CentOS 5.x

2009-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Heller a écrit : > At Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:40 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical >> introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. >> This is the first of two volumes, it's writ

[CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux, based on CentOS 5.x

2009-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
e any comments, suggestions, if you want to point out the odd typo or mistake, feel free to do so. I can take them into account until maybe the end of next week, before the folks in the layout department do their job. One last thing: since this is not the final version, please

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
John Doe a écrit : > If you can hear sound in other applications, maybe try to remove the > .macromedia Oh yes! Thanks very much for the suggestion! It worked, and now I have sound again! Cheers! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Max Hetrick a écrit : > Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> I recently had a power failure, and since that, apparently the only >> problem I have is: flash videos in Firefox have no more sound. I tried >> to reinstall both firefox and flash-plugin, but to no avail. > > Is it

[CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I recently had a power failure, and since that, apparently the only problem I have is: flash videos in Firefox have no more sound. I tried to reinstall both firefox and flash-plugin, but to no avail. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat réagit à la crise économiqu e (oops)

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : >> >> J'ai toujours eu un faible pour Red Hat, mais là, je les apprécie >> carrément. Comme quoi l'esprit de partage ne s'arrête pas au code source. > > Mind your language, Kiddo! > Ooops. Sorry, this wasn't meant to go on this ML, but to my local LUG here in France,

[CentOS] Red Hat réagit à la crise économiqu e

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
L'entreprise Red Hat réagit à la crise... en supprimant une énorme fête d'entreprise. Au lieu de cela, ils ont décidé de donner l'argent à l'équivalent américain des Restos du Coeur, soit quelque 800.000 repas: http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1314667.html J'ai toujours eu un faible p

Re: [CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > Hi, > > Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login > (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): > > $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. > It should not be writable for ot

[CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. Now I had a look at t

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
7;s not hard to guess what the command line bits mean: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=40 Knowing how to handle RPM can also come in quite useful sometimes: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=39 Cheers, Niki Kovacs _

Re: [CentOS] adduser vs. useradd

2008-11-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thomas Iverson a écrit : Hi there , you are almost right adduser is only a symbol-link of the useradd in CentOS , for my explanation , it may be security-related you know , to use useradd , you can also specify the home dir,group and so on , but script codes have danger adduser under some distros

[CentOS] adduser vs. useradd

2008-11-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : Niki Kovacs wrote: Well, great to hear it works for you. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea how to make the outgoing sound work here. Googling only shows that the problem seems rather widespread. It-works-here doesn't help me very much. h

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rob Townley a écrit : Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking outgoing sound? Funny, I never gave that a thought. Any idea which port I would have to open? Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Lanny Marcus a écrit : Niki: Welcome to the club! This is something I have tried to get working, on my CentOS 5 (32 bit) desktop. William was very kind and he volunteered to help, but I have other projects, with higher priorities, ahead of this one now. Great to know that one of the previous res

[CentOS] Correctly setting up sound with Intel High Definition ICH7

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Earlier this day I started a thread about Skype not working with outgoing sound. Now I wonder if it's not a problem with my soundcard. I had a vague suspicion about this, but since it's way off the original topic, I decided to start a new thread about this. Here's what the soundcard look

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : having just got off a 40 min long skype call with some guys on the other side of the pond, one bit of feedback I can give you is that skype ( from their rpm ) on centos-5 does work ! Well, great to hear it works for you. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest i

[CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thom Paine a écrit : I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. I do a lot of sandbox testing, and VirtualBox is just great for the job! Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing lis

[CentOS] Installer stopped short

2008-10-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just tried to install a CentOS 5 desktop on very recent hardware, an Acer desktop machine. The installer stopped short very early. I gave Ubuntu 8.04 a shot, and it installed without a problem. Now what can I do about this? Is there a way to use some "enhanced" kernel (like the centos.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : ftp.redhat.com - get + rebuild their .src.rpm, that wont have any centos patches in there :D Of course! (Slap my forehead) Thanks! N ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Spike Turner a écrit : - desktop-backgrounds-basic.noarch - desktop-backgrounds-extra.noarch would give you a decent variety? Reminds me of that Gary Larson joke: - Hi, I'd like vanilla icecream. - Wouldn't you rather have wood / liver / corn? So let me insist: I want *that*

[CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I know I know: upstream minus artwork. Nevertheless, I admit I'd like to simply use the RHEL background wallpaper for my desktop. Something like: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/images/rhel4/44-Desktop.jpg Can't seem to find these (4 and 5). Any idea? Cheers, Niki

[CentOS] Simple audio recording app?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to get my microphone to work (mainly to use it with Skype). I've just been looking for a simple audio recording app, as I vaguely remember having seen such a thing before, only I can't seem to find it anymore. I'm using the default GNOME desktop with the latest CentOS 5. Any sug

Re: [CentOS] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
are there or what licence information would we need to include for our customers? Yes, you are allowed to do that. And if your business runs well, consider a donation to CentOS. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

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