Re: [CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix

2012-07-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote on 07/20/2012 03:12 PM: One issue I see here is that the original howto was written for CentOS-5 with dovecot 1.x. The OP here is clearly using CentOS-6, which uses dovecot 2.x and no surprises for guessing that there are a few incompatibilities between the config files for

Re: [CentOS-docs] centos guide

2012-06-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Wolf Bronski wrote on 06/15/2012 08:55 PM: hello, my name is RichardKennesson I wrote a guide in LaTeX about how to get Redmine up and running with mercurial. I plan on adding Git and SVN to the guide. I would like to share it with the community so that they can critique it and test it.

Re: [CentOS] compiling python

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rita wrote on 05/25/2012 06:29 AM: Hello, I would like to compile python 2.7.3 for centos and was wondering if there were any instructions I should follow. I would like to keep the standard python the way it is. I would like to compile to /opt. Any tips or ideas would be much appreciated.

Re: [CentOS] support for Broadcom BCM4313

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Philippe Naudin wrote on 05/25/2012 08:39 AM: Hello, The support for Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless is native in the kernel since 2.6.37 (module brcm80211, renamed brcmsmac since 2.6.39). But is it backported to some kernel available for CentOS ? Thanks, Check

Re: [CentOS] support for Broadcom BCM4313

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Earl Ramirez wrote on 05/25/2012 09:37 AM: Philippe, You can try ELRepo, I believe that they have the drivers for boderdom, they also have kernel 3.3.x, please read their note about using kernel 3.3.x. I have tried it and I did not have any issues with it. http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bowie Bailey wrote on 05/25/2012 01:00 PM: Is Fedora Project EPEL? Yes. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaushal Shriyan wrote on 05/23/2012 09:22 PM: Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand when i install CentOS 5.8 on a fresh server, what are the available repositories by default and if i need any packages which are not there in the default repos, Do i need to enable third party

[CentOS] OT: Re: Any documents for python-kerberos package??

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gelen James wrote on 05/22/2012 05:45 PM: Hi all, I'm in a project to program Kerberos with Python. You will have a much better chance of getting an answer if you do not hijack threads - in this case [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8 - by replying to an unrelated message. This messes

Re: [CentOS] google.repo

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
fred smith wrote on 05/24/2012 07:27 PM: Where do you find a Chrome package that works on Centos? Google seems to provide only Fedora, not Centos, binaries. All I can find for Centos is Chromium. # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo google-chrome list available Loaded plugins:

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Issue

2012-05-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rhugga Harper wrote on 05/17/2012 03:58 PM: I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit Have you tried installing the current/supported CentOS-5 release 5.8? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS-docs] Correction to HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey

2012-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 05/11/2012 11:18 PM: At number 14, the example partition should be /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda2, and whatever device corresponds to the second USB partition should be the first USB partition. I got confused between the installation boot and the ISO image devices. In

Re: [CentOS-docs] Correction to HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey

2012-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 05/01/2012 10:07 PM: There are a few more points that should be added. They should all appear after the end of the current list. I finally got around to this. Please review the resulting changes, and thanks again for the valuable advice. Phil

Re: [CentOS] when is the o.s. considered to be at a certain minor version? Or, is it safe to apply only certain package updates from the next release version?

2012-05-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 05/10/2012 05:56 PM: I do not agree with minor versions are only snapshots in time when install media is re-generated. I should have left only part of the sentence I disagree with. What's not to agree with in that? It may be incomplete, but not incorrect. Would

Re: [CentOS-docs] Correction to HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey

2012-05-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 05/01/2012 10:07 PM: On Sunday 29 April 2012, Alan Bartletta...@elrepo.org wrote: Thank you, Yves. I've taken care of both of those points. Would you like to check that it now reads correctly, please? There are a few more points that should be added. They should

Re: [CentOS] Cisco AnyConnect on 6.2 32-bit?

2012-04-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Robbins wrote on 04/22/2012 05:53 PM: Do you really need it? I much prefer vpnc. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/vpnc.html The Cisco client has always (in my less than humble opinion), been pretty bad. I remember one wouldn't work on any smp, another wouldn't work on 64

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jason Pyeron wrote on 04/22/2012 03:54 PM: It seems that the live cd for 5 is no longer in existence. Is this an oversight or by design? http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.6 Not sure why, but 5.6 was the last CentOS-5 LiveCD built. The ISOs are still on

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency

2012-04-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 04/22/2012 05:51 PM: On 04/22/2012 04:40 PM, Steven Buehler wrote: Did you try typing the following into google and then grabing one of the source rpms listed? linux source spice-server-devel -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rafał Radecki wrote on 04/12/2012 03:07 AM: Hi All. I had today a problem with my mail server (2.6.18-274.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 13:37:35 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux, CentOS release 5.7 (Final)). On my Cacti graphs I see that there has been much I/O write on the disks and then

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 x86_64 mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Michael McNulty wrote on 04/11/2012 10:40 PM: Will mtrr failing result in stability or performance loss? Is there any performance loss disabling memory remap in bios other than losing 600k? thx Is this happening because the chipset only supports 8gb of memory and therefore mtrr cannot

Re: [CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rafał Radecki wrote on 04/12/2012 10:32 AM: The system was not rebooted, it just was not responsive (ssh) and has a gap in logfiles for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes it started responding. Then I'd try the smartctl suggestion from mark. Please do not top-post. Phil

[CentOS] Nvidia security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0946)

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Not strictly a CentOS issue, but users of the Nvidia drivers should be aware of this. See their announcement[1] for details. Users of the the manufacturer's driver, or the ELRepo kmod-nvidia driver[2] should update ASAP to the new version. Phil [1]

Re: [CentOS] Build one VM with two 5.7 DVD iso

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Vinay Nagrik wrote on 04/10/2012 12:36 PM: How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs. In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia Phil

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote on 04/07/2012 05:51 AM: Any ideas how I can probe/list devices within grub shell? I've done the stupid method of root(hd0,x) all the way up to root(hd8,3) without luck. Have you tried the grub find command? find /grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 etc.

Re: [CentOS] Apparent Bug In Gnome Games

2012-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 04/07/2012 08:59 PM: Hey Y'all Can someone suggest the appropriate place to report a bug in a Gnome game? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:27 AM: Then, how can I obtain these uuids?? blkid Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to restrict reboot/poweroff from non-admins?

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timo Neuvonen wrote on 03/28/2012 09:17 AM: I just noticed that CentOS (6.2) by default allows any user to reboot/poweroff system without any admin rights, or without any further questions, if using commands 'reboot' or 'poweroff'. But 'shutdown' still requires admin rights. What is the

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:53 AM: On 03/28/2012 03:51 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:27 AM: Then, how can I obtain these uuids?? blkid Phil Doesn't works neither: [root@newc6srv init.d]# blkid /dev/sdb1 [root@newc6srv init.d] What does blkid

Re: [CentOS] How to restrict reboot/poweroff from non-admins?

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Johnny Hughes wrote on 03/28/2012 10:26 AM: On 03/28/2012 09:03 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Timo Neuvonen wrote on 03/28/2012 09:17 AM: I just noticed that CentOS (6.2) by default allows any user to reboot/poweroff system without any admin rights, or without any further questions, if using

Re: [CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

2012-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
admin lewis wrote on 03/26/2012 05:45 PM: Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? thanks That seems too good to be true, so it probably is. :) Have a look at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel Or perhaps http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml Someone

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lars Hecking wrote on 03/26/2012 01:00 PM: No replacement needed. Or at least go back to the pre-6 situation and not stuff it down our throats as a mandatory requirement. Just because NetworkManager is the default does not mean it is mandatory. You are free to yum remove NetworkManager

Re: [CentOS-docs] edit permissions on personal page

2012-03-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Christoph Galuschka wrote on 03/23/2012 03:37 PM: Hi, could you guys please grant me edit permissions on my personal page wiki.centos.org/christophgaluschka Cristoph, Your proper WikiName should be ChristophGaluschka and it is also considered proper to introduce yourself to the list and to

Re: [CentOS-docs] edit permissions on personal page

2012-03-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Christoph Galuschka wrote on 03/25/2012 07:11 AM: Okay: My name is Christoph Galuschka. I'm from Austria (Innsbruck to me more precise). I know CentOS since around 2007 ( in the form of the basic OS which was provided with Skyrix's Instant OGo Enterprise Server). I'm using CentOS at home and

Re: [CentOS-docs] requesting edit perms for nagios

2012-03-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Corey Henderson wrote on 03/20/2012 02:13 PM: Hello, My wiki username: cormander URL requesting perms for: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios Thanks Corey, Your WikiName should be something like CoreyHenderson, and it is good form to introduce yourself, describe your qualifications,

Re: [CentOS] Filing a bug for clamav

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote on 02/17/2012 07:40 PM: yum list installed | grep clamav # yum --showduplicates --noplugins --enablerepo atrpms,epel,rpmforge list clamav ... Available Packages clamav.x86_64 0.96.1-1.el5.rf rpmforge clamav.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem?

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bart Schaefer wrote on 02/15/2012 05:00 PM: Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening, so I'm trying again. No clues? Try it on a freshly created account. If it works, then it's something you did to your account. If it does not then it is a system-level bug or

Re: [CentOS] Create Virtual Machine via HTTP or FTP

2012-02-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
cbul...@gmail.com wrote on 02/09/2012 12:05 AM: I used a DVD. The command was: cp -ar/path/DVD/. /var/www/html/inst DVD1 or LiveDVD? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are themselves treated as single drives to be combined into a single RAID 1. Phil

Re: [CentOS] upgrade centos 5 to 6

2012-02-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
fakessh @ wrote on 02/03/2012 05:43 PM: but possible or I may strongly advises against I would strongly advise against blindly overwriting /var and /etc (or anything else, with the possible exception of /home) from a CentOS-6 install with CentOS-5 versions. Compare the files and make changes

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove lvs associated with deleted vm guests

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Pardon the top-post and cross-post, but this apparently should have gone to centos-v...@centos.org Phil chris procter wrote on 01/27/2012 03:29 PM: Hi, Its ages since I came across this problem so my memory is a little hazey but something is obviously holding on to the lv so you'll need to

Re: [CentOS] Installing CENTOS 6.1 to Intel notebook

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Wilkinson wrote on 01/28/2012 07:58 PM: ... but wonder if anyone knows if this problem (of graphical install freezing) has been fixed in CENTOS 6.2 Why not try it and see. Obsolete releases should not be installed anyway. , or (if not) if RedHat is aware of it. Don't see it in the

Re: [CentOS] Advise on recovering 2TB RAID1

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 01/28/2012 09:49 PM: ... But I see this: DESCRIPTION sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and - very dangerous - repartition a device. Since the device is new

Re: [CentOS] Machine becoming irresponsive

2012-01-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dotan Cohen wrote on 01/23/2012 08:39 AM: There is a CentOS 5.2 machine ... I'd have a look at why an apparently Internet-facing server is 5 point releases, plus a lot of subsequent errata, behind the current 5.7 release level; and what resultant vulnerabilities might have been exploited.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6 KDE: Desktop Activity type: desktop only

2012-01-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
wwp wrote on 01/20/2012 09:56 AM: Hello there, I'm looking at different desktop activity types (in Desktop Settings), and on my CentOS 6, I only have desktop. No folderview, for instance. Does anybody know how to install/enable other types? I have Desktop (default) and Folder View. How did

Re: [CentOS] NOUVEAU driver video acceleration

2012-01-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 01/15/2012 09:57 PM: I enabled both epel and rpmforge. Neither of the above. You need http://elrepo.org. # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo\* list \*nvidia\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached

[CentOS-docs] CentOS as a Guest OS in VirtualBox

2012-01-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
New DRAFT page - comments are invited. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/VirtualBox/CentOSguest Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS] is centos bugzilla borked?

2011-12-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
fred smith wrote on 12/25/2011 05:33 PM: I managed to get an account set up on the centos bugzilla, after futzing with it for a half hour, but for the life of me I cannot get to the page where I would enter a new one. my browser just says transferring data from bugs.centos.org and sits there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 and VirtualBox 4.1.8

2011-12-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote on 12/22/2011 03:14 PM: Had to increase the memory size, so it would go into a graphics install. This caused it to prompt me for the type of Linux installation and provide network (interface) information. Wouldn't do this in text mode. Upstream has severely

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ron Young wrote on 11/17/2011 01:11 PM: I just installed win 7 pro @home in order to be more compatible with my new @work environment. I am likewise having a problem with samba shares. The samba shares are on a C5.7 server and were readily available from the same machine running XP for the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote on 11/17/2011 01:18 PM: Have you replaced samba packages with samba3x packages? P.S. Just noticed I am an accessory to a thread hijacking. This thread is about CentOS-6. Sorry. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

2011-11-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alan McKay wrote on 11/14/2011 09:56 PM: Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither is perfect. That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 (and so long ago at that)? At

Re: [CentOS-docs] Grub Installation for CentOS 5 and 6

2011-09-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 09/24/2011 11:48 PM: On Sunday 18 September 2011 11:42, Phil Schaffner wrote: I'd put it the HowTos section (This page contains some longer HowTos for achieving different tasks on CentOS systems.), and insert cross-links with the old TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB page

Re: [CentOS] Ekiga - camera

2011-09-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Always Learning wrote on 09/21/2011 02:33 PM: ... I'm on 5.7 But the OP is on 6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS-docs] Grub Installation for CentOS 5 and 6

2011-09-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 09/19/2011 09:03 PM: On Sunday 18 September 2011 11:42, Phil Schaffner wrote: ... [[TableOfContents([1])]] The Table of Contents syntax is mentioned but not really explained at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Wiki/Editing and http://wiki.centos.org/SyntaxReference

Re: [CentOS-docs] New Grub Installation How-To

2011-09-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 09/06/2011 07:54 PM: Did you try http://wiki.centos.org/YvesBellefeuille and then create, or template it, from there? You are not allowed to edit this page. (Actually I got Vous n'êtes pas autorisé à modifier cette page.) Yves Ralph or someone else with the

Re: [CentOS-docs] New Grub Installation How-To

2011-09-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote on 09/06/2011 09:36 AM: Your first step should be to create a Wiki account and a WikiName (YvesBellefeuille would be appropriate) and request creation of your home page Oops - I see you have already done that. Please skip to the following... ... , where you could

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-08-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Manuel Wolfshant wrote on 08/15/2011 12:53 PM: On 08/15/2011 06:42 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: ... I'd go for a separate page for HowTos/JavaDevelopmentKit but could be persuaded otherwise. Then maybe a single Howto/Java page, with separate links to JRE and JDK ? Makes sense, and I would

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-08-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Manuel Wolfshant wrote on 08/18/2011 08:26 AM: On 08/18/2011 03:21 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: ... 1. What else besides links goes on the higher-level page? Explanation on the intent of the page 2. What should be preserved, if anything, from the current page? maybe the how to create your own

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Manuel Wolfshant wrote on 08/11/2011 08:29 PM: Hi all According to a report made in #centos, the procedure described at http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-sun-oracle-java-jdk-jre-7-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ works OK for jdk 1.7 It looks pretty similar to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Skype on CentOS 6

2011-08-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Yves Bellefeuille wrote on 08/10/2011 09:30 PM: Hi: I've finished the changes about installing Skype on CentOS 6. Thanks. (Except that I still think that this information should be moved in the list of HowTos from section 17, Misc., to section 18, Non CentOS Applications.) Yves, I think

Re: [CentOS-docs] New draft article: HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix

2011-07-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote on 07/22/2011 09:44 AM: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix Have at it. :-) The page having had some attention by Alan, and another revision or two, the DRAFT status is being removed and a link being added to HowTos/MigrationGuide. Phil

[CentOS-docs] New draft article: HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix

2011-07-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix Have at it. :-) Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Drew wrote on 07/21/2011 11:09 AM: From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking up on that. So, erasing the RAID signatures with dd in

Re: [CentOS-virt] My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card

2011-06-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
liming wu wrote on 06/12/2011 09:05 PM: Now i have done something for that.I installed nidswrapper using the driver in WinXP. Given that the link Akemi provided mentioned John Linville I'd try the latest Linville kernel rather than the Windows driver.

Re: [CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Thorpe wrote on 06/14/2011 08:20 AM: ... That's exactly what I was trying to do. Error: Missing Dependency: openwsman-server= 2.2.3 is needed by package srvadmin-itunnelprovider-6.5.0-1.151.1.el5.x86_64 (dell-omsa-specific) It seems to be in the Dell repo:

Re: [CentOS-virt] My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card

2011-06-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM: i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware. You would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if you were not using a seriously obsolete release. The current and only supported release is

[CentOS-docs] New page: HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment Did not make it DRAFT as it has evolved from old pages, has been well tested, and is near perfect. :-) Constructive criticism is, as usual, solicited and welcomed. Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing

Re: [CentOS-docs] New page: HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alan Bartlett wrote on 06/03/2011 03:32 PM: One comment. I thought linkage of the libjavaplugin_jni.so file is redundant? May be superstitious behavior on my part. I saw it recommended somewhere to use both and have followed that, but it seems to work fine without the libjavaplugin_jni.so

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gordon Messmer wrote on 05/23/2011 11:41 AM: What was it about Patrice's work that you found unsatisfactory? I don't think anyone found Patrice's work unsatisfactory. He just stated that he did not have much time to work on the CentOS-6 LiveCD/DVD and asked for someone else to take the lead.

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lamar Owen wrote on 05/21/2011 04:25 PM: early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content that a locally installed 'ftpd' and not the CentOS vsftpd was being used Looking... don't see that. Perhaps I'm just missing it. Same here. The OP only replied once, and had the same

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 09:25 AM: I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this. I just noticed that my /var/log/xferlog file is huge. There are no files in /etc/logrotate.d/ for xferlog. This is what leads me to believe that it isnot rotating. Or perhaps I do not have it set

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Centos endorsed 3rd part repo

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Roberts wrote on 05/20/2011 10:57 AM: OK. I am listening to all your comments. My repo would be using dependencies probably from the other centos repos, like ATrpms, remi, EPEL, et al. If they needed any that is. In my experience packages that need dependencies from more than one 3rd

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 11:16 AM: I have the same: If the size of the logs is problematic perhaps you need to rotate more frequently, perhaps daily rather than weekly, and specify compress for old logs. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 05/20/2011 11:35 AM: ... And find out why they disappeared. No indication anything disappeared the way I read it. There was nothing explicitly there for xferlog because it is in /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 76, Issue 20

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ian Murray wrote on 05/20/2011 05:13 PM: p.s. yes, the thread is broken. Am using digest. Digest I understand, but consider it evil as it breaks threading, and it is IMHO more trouble than it is worth. Please do expend the effort to fix the Subject. Is that also a hanging offense? :-) I

Re: [CentOS] OpenVAS Vulnerability

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaushal Shriyan wrote on 05/20/2011 09:17 PM: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32319 CVE : CVE-2008-5161 BID : 32319 That appears to be a very old bug: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-5161.html Phil ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/12/2011 10:15 AM: Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to suggestions Keep up the great work - Thanks +1 ++1 Please trim your posts. 60+ included lines and 2k characters for

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/11/2011 04:12 PM: ... Thanks, but I am already using that kernel. I want to get a vanilla kernel.org 2.6.32.xx kernel running on 6.0. In fact following AY directions I was able to rebuild the srpms for kernel-2.6.32-71.29.2, but again that is not the generic kernel

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 05/11/2011 04:59 PM: nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Apparently they did admit and it does change:

Re: [CentOS] Typing startx gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gilbert Sebenste wrote on 05/07/2011 11:57 AM: ... I get a ton of stuff before this, but just info messages. Where should I start looking to fix this problem? I use the Redhat experimental kernels at http://epople.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/. Running CentOS 5.6, fully patched as of this morning

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dave Stevens wrote on 05/05/2011 07:11 PM: Thank you. How can I find out who the guys are? Go to https://www.centos.org/ and look under Information on the menu bar. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Silva wrote on 05/05/2011 05:03 PM: Here is a bit of why the donation button went away (It was back in 2009 or so)... Old news, that does not explain why monetary donations are still not being accepted. Phil P.S. I do wish people would trim their quotes. :-)

Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R. Dennison wrote on 05/03/2011 04:12 AM: ... Having a single location would be a great boon and would allow us to point people to one official location when the inevitable questions on releases come up. I will leave it to core team members to comment on how official it is, but the

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 05/02/2011 12:39 PM: Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? FAQ #22: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Phil

Re: [CentOS] how to access lvm inside lvm

2011-04-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Peter Peltonen wrote on 04/30/2011 03:51 AM: ... I just clicked my way through the CentOS installation like I usually do, and that meant using LVM. And I don't think you are even given an option to define the default vg name during the installation? If you want to use the default setup but

Re: [CentOS] INN removed from CentOS 6

2011-04-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert Nichols wrote on 04/27/2011 01:46 PM: ... Quickest solution is to grab the SRPM from Fedora 13 and build it on your RHEL 6 machine. I just tried that on Scientific Linux 6.0, and rpmbuild -ba built everything just fine with no changes whatsoever. Ditto, except I used rpmbuild

Re: [CentOS] How to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux5.5

2011-04-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank Chang wrote on 04/21/2011 05:36 PM: Simon Matter and Ned Slider, Thank you for your answers. This afternoon , I installed binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5. Then , I installed all the QT packages except for the two QT client packages. When I ran ./configure --with-kernel-support on the

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Leonard den Ottolander wrote on 04/17/2011 01:37 PM: ...It's a general request that if people are aware of breakage in upcoming updates to report it to this list. Agree. I would advocate posting it to this list and making it part of the Announcement post as well. This issue was discussed on

Re: [CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Nicolas Ross wrote on 04/16/2011 02:25 PM: It's not that urgent, it's just that yum sees that the update from the regular repository, and I ended up with no external drive to my backup storage server and it took a while to figure it out... You might want to add an exclude=kernel* in [updates]

Re: [CentOS] php53 and mcrypt

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rainer Traut wrote on 04/15/2011 07:55 AM: ... Yeah, I had the same problem with missing php_mcrypt. ;) I did a full rebuild of php53 with patched spec so that it produces php53_mcrypt but that is not very elegant. The more elegant way to do it is to make an rpm for only the missing modules

Re: [CentOS] php53 and MSSQL

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
John Beranek wrote on 04/15/2011 07:45 AM: On 15/04/11 12:23, John Beranek wrote: [Reposted now I've joined the list, so I hopefully don't get moderated out] Hi, I've upgraded lots of machines to 5.6 (thanks!) and there was one particular machine that I'd also like to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/11/2011 06:58 AM: Also, the first batch of srpms is now on the seed machine, should start going public in about 8 - 12 hours ( this is [a-l]*.src.rpm ). More like 72 hours and still no 5.6/os/SRPMS/ in evidence. Did the valve not get turned on? Phil

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/13/2011 06:54 AM: They are definitely in there, just slow. Must be vanishingly slow. :-) Just checked half a dozen tier 1 mirrors and none has src.rpm files in .../5.6/os/SRPMS/ There are some in 5.6/updates/SRPMS/. Phil

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Thorpe wrote on 04/13/2011 11:22 AM: ... It's probably something simple I'm missing. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Johnny Hughes wrote on 04/13/2011 12:55 PM: CentOS is ... right now ... deployed on 29% of web servers on the Internet that use Linux. That 28.9% is down from the high of 33.5% in Oct. 2010 or a 13.8% decrease. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux Phil

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/13/2011 02:22 PM: I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid.

Re: [CentOS] status of 5.6 updates

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 04/13/2011 05:20 PM: You should try to search the mailing list first, then ask redundant question. This was answered in last 24-48h. And today on IRC we find: 15:36 @z00dax cap_: we will be all caught up with updates today Do to the bandwidth constrictions,

Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project.

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Brunner, Brian T. wrote on 04/13/2011 04:21 PM: And this thread is all about something that doesn't exist, and nobody is trying to make exist. It's about the web-footed boogeyman in the closet that nobody living at the home ever alleged was there. It may be that no such project exists today,

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/13/2011 07:22 PM: ... I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid.

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/12/2011 07:43 AM: Quite a large part of the functional tests can be automated - specially if there are going to be 100's of people offering them up. Wihtout a doubt we need more of those. Agree - whatever can be automated should be. It is the predictive part I was

Re: [CentOS] Got no login screen with the new 5.6 kernel

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Stanley A. Klein wrote on 04/12/2011 01:55 PM: I did the 5.6 update yesterday. When I started the machine today, I did not get a login screen -- it was just a blank screen with no cursor or anything. I shut down, restarted and when grub came up selected the previous kernel. The system came

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