Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert P. J. Day wrote on 10/10/2010 05:56 PM: ... > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls > > seems just a touch on the hysterical side. i don't disagree that > installing packages from the source rpm is probably a questionable > idea. but that doesn't justify simply not expla

Re: [CentOS] sudo 1.6.9 versus sudo 1.7.2 behavioral differences with umask settings

2010-10-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
David Goldsmith wrote on 10/08/2010 09:09 AM: ... > Since the sudo 1.6.9 systems don't like seeing that line in their config > file, I either need to get all the systems upgraded to 1.7.2 or modify > Puppet to push different versions of the /etc/sudoers depending on what > version of sudo is instal

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
James Bensley wrote on 10/07/2010 01:08 PM: > I'm not agreeing with this survey, *but*, there are several times more > users already registered here? http://counter.li.org/ I'm not either, but there is a major difference between Linux users and Linux desktop users. I have been both for many year

Re: [CentOS] help with spec file

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Tim Dunphy wrote on 10/02/2010 10:32 PM: ... > I have come up with a spec file for the current version that _mostly_ works... Might want to compare your effort to one known to work (from a google on - subtitleeditor "src.rpm"): ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/13/SRPMS/subtitleeditor-0

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: ... > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm > not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS > server for file backup) but is this a com

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on 10/03/2010 01:16 AM: > Hi. I just noticed I had a CentOS 5.3 system that I updated to CentOS > 5.5 a few days ago, > and I just ran "yum -y update" again to get the latest kernel, and I > just noticed it still has the old 2.6.18-128 kernel instead of the new > 2.6.18-1

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote: > At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't > even debug it! > > Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it? Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start of the boot to get a

Re: [CentOS] Remove all packages from specific repository

2010-09-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Morten P.D. Stevens wrote on 09/17/2010 09:55 AM: > Hi Phil, > > This command is great to list (and remove) all packages from EPEL repository. You're welcome. Guess you managed to ignore the extraneous Xoops code tags from the forum copy/paste. :-) Phil

Re: [CentOS] selinux with samba

2010-09-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Geert Batsleer wrote on 09/17/2010 09:14 AM: > I'm having problems setting up a samba server with sellinux in centos > 5.6 (x64). > > My samba config works flawlessly when selinux is disabled but fails to > access shares when selinux is enabled. Wich command makes it possible > to run samba wi

Re: [CentOS] Remove all packages from specific repository

2010-09-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Morten P.D. Stevens wrote on 09/17/2010 07:06 AM: > What's the best way to remove all amavisd-new packages (and it's dependencies) from EPEL repo and reinstall it from rpmforge repo? To see what repos you have installed packages from: [code] rpm -qa --qf "%{VENDOR} \n" | sort | uniq [/code] The

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R Pierce wrote on 09/14/2010 09:27 AM: > On 09/14/10 6:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> rsync -HPavxz --exclude /mnt /. /mnt/. >> >> > > how does rsync handle links? not symlinks, but actual file links? From "man rsync": -H, --hard-linkspreserve hard links Phil __

Re: [CentOS] Help! Help ! i done centos upgrade

2010-09-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ernatalo su Gmail wrote on 09/13/2010 06:30 AM: > Hi to all, > i have a server with Centos 5.5 - 64 bit and i done 3 maounths ago > filesystem update from ext3 to ext4. > All things worked fine behind today. > Today i done centos upgrade and now i'heve only GRUB Prompt. > > Can you help me me to

Re: [CentOS] The screenSaver is blocked in my centos5.3

2010-08-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
ganu MailList wrote on 08/23/2010 12:36 PM: > When I open the screensaver windows in the kde, I find that it is blocked . > I switch to the gnome, it is the same. Is it some rpm that I do not > install it? Are you trying to run as root? That is not recommended, and IIRC the screensaver ref

Re: [CentOS] pup problem

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
Charles Campbell wrote on 06/02/2010 10:02 AM: ... > Is there a log somewhere of what was updated (I didn't see it in > /var/log/messages) and can I force pup to do the update manually? /var/log/yum.log > Any other suggestions for getting things back to normal? yum update __

Re: [CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert Heller wrote on 05/28/2010 11:58 AM: ... > For now, I am just going to exclude device-mapper and net-snmp-libs > until I hear that the metadata has been checked / fixed. Just did a successful update including: device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5_5.2 net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1 I think it's jus

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-05-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jozsi Vadkan wrote on 05/21/2010 12:29 PM: > I've got two pendrives. > > I want to install a Debian on them. RAID1. This is the CentOS list. ... > I already tried: > grub-install /dev/sdc <-that's the pendrive name [bios -> hard drive > emulation=hard drive, not auto] > > or: > # grub > find /b

Re: [CentOS] Useful NFS hint

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Stephen Harris wrote on 05/17/2010 12:15 PM: > Don't do NFS localhost mounts from fstab Why would you want to do localhost: NFS mounts anyway? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] update of rpm directory

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Adrian Sevcenco wrote on 05/13/2010 08:49 AM: > Hi! I have an directory full with rpms that are installed on some > machines.. what is the best way to update those rpms to the latest > version? are there more optimal approaches then searching for each rpm > names in an update repo and download one

Re: [CentOS] REMOVE NAME FROM YOUR EMAIL LIST

2010-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jim Perrin wrote on 05/12/2010 07:13 AM: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Thom Paine wrote: >> LOL, so who is checking his email? > > > Not really something to laugh about if it's true. > > >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Bob Taylor wrote: >>> BOB TAYLOR HAS DIED PLEASE REMOVE HIS NAME

Re: [CentOS] Simplifying making a USB install key

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/30/2010 11:03 AM: > Ok, where/how do I submit this to the CentOS project? > > Here's a complete script - anyone, *please* feel free to test it, and let > me know if I've missed anything. Variation on your theme. Uses ext2 and extlinux with no FAT partition. Remov

Re: [CentOS] Installing a CentOS based distro with Raid driver - Citrix XenServer

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Georghy wrote on 05/03/2010 03:31 AM: > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to install a XenServer on a server (ref:S5000PAL) > http://www.intel.com/products/server/motherboards/s5000pal/s5000pal-overview.htm May be a "Fake RAID" rather than true hardware raid. See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareR

Re: [CentOS] Simplifying making a USB install key

2010-04-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/30/2010 11:03 AM: > Ok, where/how do I submit this to the CentOS project? http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute If you don't want to jump through the hoops required to become a Wiki author, let me know and I'll be glad to add it with attribution to http://wiki.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] need help: about remove space

2010-04-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
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Re: [CentOS] USB keys

2010-04-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
john maclean wrote on 04/24/2010 04:27 AM: ... > The last time I installed from a USB key all I did was:- > > wget http://mirrors.dedipower.com/centos/5.4/os/i386/images/diskboot.img > dd if=/path/to/diskboot.img of=/path/to/usb.key That only gets you a bootable USB key, but without the packages.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

2010-04-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 21:19 +0100, Lucian wrote: ... > You should still be able to "experience" it a virtual machine; at > least this is how I did it and it worked great. > Maybe you should submit a bug report at redhat regarding your install issues. Works pretty well on VirtualBox 3.1.6 on CentO

Re: [CentOS] USB keys

2010-04-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/23/2010 03:49 PM: > Well, we wanted to put an install on a USB key. Neither I nor the other > admin was amused by the singing and dancing that the wiki offers - and > just *why* is it that syslinux is broken? Sorry you were unamused. Song and dance has never been my f

Re: [CentOS] Problem in gdb

2010-02-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Balaji wrote on 02/16/2010 12:32 AM: > Dear All, > > We are running RHEL4 Update 4 AS IA-64 on a HP rx6600. > > We are running programs compiled in RHEL4 Update 4 AS in i386 > architecture using the emul library(Intel IA-32 Execution Layer ) Begs the questions: Why such an obsolete version? Why

Re: [CentOS] C5 updates?

2009-12-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gilbert Sebenste wrote on 12/17/2009 12:00 PM: ... > Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but that should be for version > updates. So far, I have had no problems doing the updates available, > including glibc. A minor version bump is just a large set of updates, and many people did the 5.

Re: [CentOS] C5 updates?

2009-12-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 12/16/2009 04:33 PM: ... > all pending c5 updates are now syncing to the mirrors, wait for the > announcements soon ! As the updates include glibc and kernel, it it correct that the best practice for updating would be as follows? yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum upda

Re: [CentOS] A problem about upgrade centos5.2

2009-11-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
王行焘 wrote on 11/24/2009 03:09 AM: > hi, > i made a mistake that i used centos5.4 i686 to upgrade the centos 5.2 > x86_64,which runs on a server whose cpu is Xeon.The server seems to need > CentOS X86_64 version. Should i use the CentOS 5.4 X86_64 disk to > upgrade the CentOS 5.4 i 686? > Ps.I u

Re: [CentOS] For building my local repo, how large is 5.4 update?

2009-10-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 21:08 -0700, ML wrote: > Hi Robert, > > > I have run a local repo for Centos updates for some time. > > You actually bring up a good item here. I am starting to learn more > and deploy CentOS. I should run a local repo too, save bandwidth, etc. > > Do you have a tutorial

Re: [CentOS] Madwifi drivers afeter 2.6.18-128.

2009-10-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:11 -0200, Alessandro Ren wrote: > I have a atheros wiifi card on my Centos 5 that I use as a access > point using hostapd. I noticed that after the upgrade to kernel > 2.6.18-128 or above, the atheros driver comes with the kernel, ath5k, > and it does´t let hostpad o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 10/15/2009 02:23 PM: > from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? >> Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every >> revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a >> public revision control system? >> > > I'm not sure that I understa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - "debate"

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Majian wrote on 10/16/2009 06:57 AM: ... > But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates > from RHEL since the RHEL 5.3 release and there is no word on when it will be > released or why is it taking so long. > > So hope it would release soon ~~~ The -164 kernel has been in upd

Re: [CentOS] openjdk

2009-10-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 10/15/2009 05:01 PM: > Hey, folks, > > yum is telling me that I need to update openjdk on several servers. > HOWEVER, they've all got openjdk-plugin installed, and yum doesn't want > to update, and tells me there's no openjdk-plugin package to install, at > least for 5.

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Carlos Santana wrote on 10/14/2009 12:13 PM: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: ... >> I hope you have seen my earlier posts in this thread. If you are not >> running the latest kernel (-164), you want to give it a try because it >> has patches developed by VMWare engineers for

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote on 09/29/2009 09:12 AM: > Hi, > > I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > well without me doing som

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 32-bit and xen 3.4.0

2009-09-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:02 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Try posting on the xen list for a better answer. What xen list would that be? http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt deals with Xen and other methods of virtualization. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Anne Wilson wrote on 09/24/2009 07:54 AM: > On Thursday 24 September 2009 12:38:12 Sorin Srbu wrote: ... > I think if the worst comes to the worst it would be possible to install a FC6 > package. Pbone says there is a package for FC6, and also offers an rpm from > sourceforge. That may be a pos

Re: [CentOS] Problem with raid0

2009-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
ju...@mail.com wrote on 09/24/2009 07:01 AM: > Hey! I have big problem with my centos 5.1. I have two hard discs 500gig > and 40gig and those are in RAID0. I would like to remowe the small 40gig > hd and put new 500gig hd and i don't wan't raid0 anymore. That's quite an odd asymmetric RAID setup

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 'prerelease-access' - is there such a thing?

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Peter l Jakobi wrote: > Hi, > > excluding the Frankengrade from CENTOS5.3 to upstream RHEL5.4, is > there are procedure / repository access / nightly builds / ... to what > will be CENTOS 5.4? > > URLs? Howtos? Discussion threads or notes? > > I checked help, wiki and forums and google, b

Re: [CentOS] Noob Question: Uninstalling Firefox rpm's

2009-08-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Chuck wrote: ... > > Just curious, why are the 2 identically named packages? Is this just an > oversight/bug on CentOS's part or does it serve some purpose? As pointed out elsewhere, it is likely that you are on x86_64 and have both i386 and x86_64 packages installed. This may be a "misfeature

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

2009-06-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
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? rpm -ivh --nomd5 packagename.src.rpm Phil ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for installing CentOS 5 via USB?

2009-06-19 Thread Phil Schaffner
John Doe wrote: > From: Phil Schaffner ... > Hum, my bad... I am myself using a kickstart file and I forgot I had to use > the following line in it (and I use HP raid controlers): ... > And, to be honest, I should not really get credit for this; I found most of > the info on the

Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

2009-06-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Carlos Santana wrote: ... > However, the kernel is 2.6.18-92.el5. The mismatch in kernel and > kernel-headers is confusing me. Any insights? You are not the first to be confused by that - it is almost a FAQ on the forum; however it is the expected behavior - yum will install the latest version o

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for installing CentOS 5 via USB?

2009-06-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
John Doe wrote: ... > Here's how I did my USB key (minus the kickstart part) but you need a linux > (in a VM or from the live CD)... > And you will have to change devices names! Cool! Any problems with the bug mentioned in the release notes about /boot being written to a USB key, or does that o

Re: [CentOS] - Make an automatic install bootable CD

2009-06-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kévin COUSIN wrote: ... > Oops, I forgot this file, but I don't know what is it, and how to create it... I'd like to know how to create it, but I have gotten it to work in the past by copying the one from CD#1 or DVD installation media. Phil ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 CentOS 5.3 Users - Library Issue

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Justin Bull wrote: ... > 23a0 T xmlXPathContextSetCache Tried on 3 non-cPanel/WHM systems and got the above response on all. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Brian Mathis wrote: ... > You didn't say which virtual network this machine is connected to, but > you probably want to use the NAT network and allow the VM to receive > the DNS server configuration via DHCP. Can't say for sure without trying it, but it seems to me that getting a config via DHCP

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alfred von Campe wrote: ... > I guess I should have mentioned that my user wants to access the > files in the CentOS VM from a Samba share on the PC, so turning off > the network is not really an option. I will ask him to try it to see > if that resolves the issue. But ideally, we want to g

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alfred von Campe wrote: > I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. > Everything works fine when connected to the network. However, > removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes > minutes to complete. For instance, starting a new Terminal wind

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-06-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
David McGuffey wrote: > I'm migrating my son's Dell laptop from Vista to CentOS 5.3. He came > back from each of his first two years of college loaded with virii and > trojans. This year he said "Dad, can you give me Linux?" Wish I could get mine around to that point. Re-installing Windows gets

Re: [CentOS] LZMA for CentOS 5.3 repository or source or rpm

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rob Townley wrote: > i need lzma compression for CloneZilla, but have not found it in any > CentOS repository. The Finnish website was down and when up, it does > not do much english. RPMforge has it. Please read http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and note the warnings and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Albert wrote: ... > Thx for the answered, but the centos have commercial support like RHEL? CentOS itself is a volunteer non-commercial effort. If you want a paid-support OS RHEL is highly recommended, and CentOS would not exist without them. There are also companies that offer commercial supp

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Tom Diehl wrote: ... > No. The versions for Centos are always higher then RHEL. Therefore unless > the updates RHEL versions happen to be greater then the existing centos > versions you will never get the updates. I'd think that it would be technically possible to migrate a CentOS system to RHEL

Re: [CentOS] libwpd/libwpd-devel deps screwed?

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > Oh, sorry, fixed it with > > rpm -iv --force libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm > rpm -iv --nodeps libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm That's pretty ugly. :-) Is this perchance a multi-arch system? On x86_64: [r...@wx1 ~]# rpm -q libwpd-devel package libwpd-devel is not i

Re: [CentOS] Dell Poweredge R300

2009-06-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 16:21 +0800, Nicholas wrote: > Hi all, > > Just found out that the Poweredge R300 cant even load the CentOS 5.2 > 64bit installer. Had to revert to Ubuntu. Seems its a driver problem. > > Pity, but does this kind of case apply to many other servers? Have you tried 5.3? P

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 02:43 +0800, Tim Ke wrote: > I am on an old version of Cent OS, and not able to use yum to update > the packages. Any way to build php-cgi executable from the php source > code? You should be able to "yum update" on any currently-supported CentOS version. Could this be the

Re: [CentOS] Hi ALL!!!

2009-06-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Tim Nelson wrote: > - "Andrey Garkin" wrote: >> I have a one problem with Raid controller Tekram TR-822... I'm ... > Remove the RAID configuration from the card's "BIOS" and just run > them as standard SATA volumes. Then, use software raid to accomplish > your mirror. The 'fake-raid' junk will

Re: [CentOS] No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support !

2009-06-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
madunix wrote: > installed wine through the repo > > [r...@linux11 ~]# rpm -aq | grep -i wine > wine-cms-1.0.1-1.el5 ... > > to build the wine i used the repo of epel and rpmforge ... EPEL does not play nicely with RPMforge, and you seem to have both enabled with no yum-priorities plugin. Plea

Re: [CentOS] turnoff monitor centos4.4 issue

2009-06-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
karthikeyan subbannan wrote: > hi all, >In centos 4.4 turnoff monitor is not working.Dpms is enable > and also change the dpms setting it working but not functioning. >I am using kde3.3 desktop.How to slove thispls help me. First thing to try would be to update to CentOS

Re: [CentOS] No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support !

2009-05-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
madunix wrote: > [r...@linux11 ~]# rpm -aq | grep -i mesa-libGL > mesa-libGL-6.5.1-7.7.el5 > mesa-libGLU-6.5.1-7.7.el5 > > should I update it? No - those are the current CentOS 5 versions. You apparently have some other issues. The glxinfo error is strange, but may/may-not be relevant. The

Re: [CentOS] No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support !

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
madunix wrote: > am getting the following > > [r...@linux11 ~]# glxinfo | grep direct > Error: unable to open display (null) > [r...@linux11 ~]# uname -a > SMP Thu May 7 11:51:15 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [r...@linux11 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 5.3 (Final) > > on

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dianne Yumul wrote: ... > Would you have any suggestions on how I would test the RAID 1 > configuration? (Sorry if you already saw the question on the previous > posts) Dianne, If you feel you must test the functionality of the ability of the RAID1 to recover from a failed drive, the power d

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: How to generate a .template and .jigdo from an iso image?]

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > Hi Ralph ... > > I don't know if there is a better way to test, but what I did was to > create a centos.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d[2]. Then in the machine called > prost, issued the command: > [r...@prost ~]# jigdo-lite http://newt/centos/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.jigdo

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Al Sparks wrote: ... > After I posted this, I mounted the CD-ROM and the file was also > missing. I "mount" the CD on a Windows XP machine, and the file shows > up. Was it a multi-session CD? IIRC there can be differences between Windows and Linux on handling multi-session. Phil __

Re: [CentOS] [OT] rsa host key change

2009-04-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bill Campbell wrote: ... > That would make me very suspicious that the box had been cracked, > and that a foreign sshd had been substituted for the real one. > > rpm -V is your friend. Also rkhunter and chkrootkit. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] question on compiling a driver early on at boot

2009-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jerry Geis wrote: > I have noticed in /etc/inittab it calls /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and in > there ANYTHING with a .modules > name in the /etc/sysconfig/modules directory is executed. > > Would this be a place to put a driver.modules file and recompile my > driver BEFORE entering the next run level

Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

2009-03-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:20 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > I need to install asciidoc on my build machine. There is a version > for CentOS-5 available at dags rpm site. I have a repository > configured for dag like so: ... > Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to > inc

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the "CentOS" mailing list (Digest mode)

2009-03-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:38 -0700, MHR wrote: > And your point was . . . ? Well, now we all know his password and can unsubscribe him if we don't like him. :-P Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
RedShift wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> Hello >> >> >> Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable >> arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical >> partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, >> you take those two disks and put them i

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their > radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > station. If the destination was closer

Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install [SOLVED]

2009-03-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Michael Peterson wrote: ... > I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ > CDRW drive. > > The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. > I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. > > The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install

Re: [CentOS] freeradius version

2009-03-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:13 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> If there are a few people doing this already - why does one of you not >> step up and offer to maintain / manage this package in centosplus ? >> Thats what the plus repo is there for, isnt it :) >> >> Maybe

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:09 AM, madunix wrote: >> Am trying to update my wine i get the following .. >> [] download]# yum update wine* >> Loading "priorities" plugin >> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin >> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile >> * epel: ftp.nluug.nl >>

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > My thoughts exactly > > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Noob Centos Admin > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:00 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > > There were some unusual situations with core developers this time > around. > > > This is something that we should address don't you think? Well, Karanbir has already weighed in on the thread. If he needs help I'm sure he knows where to ask. > Some add

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > Since the release of CentOS 5.3 is imminent(?) I'd like to ask a > question regarding why did it took so long to be released and, more > important, suggest some actions in order to reduce this time if I can > assume what caused this delay. > > First I'd like to make sur

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 09:16 -0400, Richard Karhuse wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rick wrote: > > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 > > GB ... > Forth, what (precisely) CentOS kernel are you booting?? Does it > support greater than 4 GB of RAM?? Lots

Re: [CentOS] I have a test system that hangs hard...

2009-03-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 13:46 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have a test system: Centos 5.2 on an OQO, that has been hanging > hard. I have to unplug it and pull the battery so I can then cold start it. > > This last time all I did was open a terminal window and SU to root, then > start the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:34 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-5-2009 2:06 PM Nigel Kendrick spake the following: > > Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an > > IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? > > > There has not been a lot of support for other arc

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2009-03-05 09:21, Ondrej Filip wrote: >> Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? >> >> Hope it's not dummy question. >> Ondrej: Please don't top-post. >> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:35 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, O

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
Chuck Campbell wrote: > I did a complete clean install of CentOS 5 from CD yesterday. > I took the default selinux configuration. > > After that I ran yum update and found 600 plus updates and installs. That's a lot of updates. Do you really mean CentOS 5 rather than 5.2? > I let it go to do th

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert Nichols wrote: > Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running > on CentOS 5? ... > I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might > include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary > version of the new kernel (2.6.18-132), and it still has the > old bcm43xx.ko driver.

Re: [CentOS] Additional CDs Installation in kick start

2009-03-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > > Currently i have using CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Linux. First thing you should do would be to use the current CentOS-4 release, 4.7. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] OOo 3 installation

2009-03-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:22 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried installing OOo 3.x on an updated Centos 5 desktop (stock OOo > 2.x was there), It had the following problems: > > 1. Installation of JRE 1.6.0 step failed citing dependency issues > (relating to JRE 1.4 being

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 15:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus > > wrote: ... > > I would like to "roll my own" RPM for the WinPower UPS monitoring > > software. Never done this before. I have the Win

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:23 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: ... > I have some Fedora install disks (if they'd be of any help) - but not > a > rescue CD. It seems like CentOS doesn't have a rescue CD - would > Fedora's help? The CentOS install disk IS the rescue CD - try install CD #1 (or the DVD

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-27-2009 3:33 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: >> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:10:12 +0100: >>> How can I use google to find things I am looking for? >>> What is a google? >> To us unin

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-02-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: ... > (b) If I need to download the tar.gz file and install from that, it > looks from their documentation that they install into > /opt/MonitorSoftware Is it better to install into /usr/local or > into /opt? What is the recommendation for a CentOS box, when > installing non

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it. > Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to > testing the connection, which failed. > > There is just one serial connector on the c

Re: [CentOS] RHSA-2009:0264-9 Kernel Security Update

2009-02-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Tru Huynh wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:53:28PM -0500, Mark Adams wrote: >> Does this RHEL 5 security update not apply to CentOS 5? >> >> I've been waiting for a new kernel to be released by the CentOS team, but >> it's apparently not coming? >> > it will come as update of the 5.3 release. G

Re: [CentOS] Gpg-agent will not start

2009-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:25:07 Steve Huff wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> What am I missing? >> ask yum: >> >> [sh...@srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent >> ... >> gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage >> > yu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3

2009-02-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-6-2009 7:17 AM Mark Weaver spake the following: >> Gregor Gr�ner wrote: >>> Hi Ray, >>> >>> on the URL http://twitter.com/centos you can get some status updates about >>> centos 5.3 from a centos developer, otherwise wait and see. >>> >>> best regards >>> Gregor Gruener >

Re: [CentOS] Areca 1220 kernel lockups

2009-01-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
William Taylor wrote: > Has anyone experienced any problems with Areca raid cards specifically > the 1220 causing kernels to lock up? > We are running 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen on 64bit. We have "areca_cli rsf > info" run once an hour from cron to check > for raid raid issues. Having this running

Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
MHR wrote: > I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF > executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file > into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one > before mv filename filename.bck mkdir filename Phil _

Re: [CentOS] Source for Kernel

2008-12-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R Pierce wrote: > clem...@dwf.com wrote: >> OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting. >> I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel, >> or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org. >> >> I was pointed to the wiki, which MENTIONED a Source RPM, but did

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed problems with 5.2 and 2.6.18-92.1.18 kernel revision

2008-12-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 08:06 +0100, ArcosCom Linux User wrote: ... > Sorry for my poor english: What is the meaning of "top post"? (spanish > speaker here). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style There's probably a comparable es... page. Just google 'netiquette top-post' (no quotes) for much

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: ... > Thanks for that information. It happened again, awhile ago. I was > using Gmail online, with Firefox, as I'm now doing, and the mouse just > became inactive. I had to kill the power again, which is a horribly > inelegant way to get out of that. Lanny, Have you tried to s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Bug Reporting Policy

2008-12-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Hywel Richards wrote: > It looks like maybe I was right to be confused as to where to report > bugs as now there are two different answers. > > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Hywel Richards wrote: >> >>> Is there some policy as to what to do and where to report the bug? >>> >> report it on bugs

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