Re: [CentOS] No /etc/yum/repos.d after new install of 5.2

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Akemi Yagi wrote: > > It's /etc/yum.repos.d :-D > > Mark, I suggest you go to bed, get some sleep before doing more work > in front of the computer. :-P Great minds think alike! :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] No /etc/yum/repos.d after new install of 5.2

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
MHR wrote: > Since I was in the unenviable position of completely reinstalling my > system today, I started out from the 5.2 Final DVD and then ran yum > update to get the 79 (?) packages (and another 14 after that). I > noticed something I found rather odd. > > There is no /etc/yum/repos.d direc

Re: [CentOS] Yum errors trying to install yum-priorities

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
MHR wrote: > What does this mean (CentOS 5.2, all the latest updates, for which yum > worked just fine): > > yum install yum-priorities ... > Trying other mirror. > (1/1): yum-priorities-1.1 100% |=| 11 kB00:00 > ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/centos/5.2/os/i386/CentOS/yu

Re: [CentOS] init script question

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Davide Cittaro wrote: > Ok, another one: the process I would like to start is not a daemon > itself. If I start it with "daemon" function it remains in foreground. > Ok, I can play with '&' but is there a init function to start in > background a process? You just hijacked your own thread. B

Re: [CentOS] init script question

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jacques B. wrote: ... > > Do you mean like $0? That gives you the current script name. Or better yet basename $0 if you want the name of the script and not the full path. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
dnk wrote: > yehaw??? > > Compile it is then! > > d > > > > On 11-Dec-08, at 10:53 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> Phil Schaffner wrote: >>> By the time you satisfied all the dependencies I expect you'd have >>> something closer to r

Re: [CentOS] wine 1.1.10 rpm for centos

2008-12-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
dnk wrote: > has anyone come across a wine 1.1.10 RPM? Searching all the usual > places. Even Fedora 10 updates is only at 1.1.9 - seems unlikely. One could try to build the rawhide version: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/wine-1.1.10-1.fc11.src

Re: [CentOS] rrdtool rpm and yum question

2008-12-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
chloe K wrote: > Hi > > How can I install rrdtool rpm? lt seems that this is only available in > fedora Chloe, As Kai Schaetzl said, rpmforge. For help on configuring that repo see: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge > How can I know what is this execution file

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: ssh forwarding as putty in window

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
chloe K wrote: > Thank you > > I check in rpmfind.net > > it is only available on fedora. > > how can I install it in centos? Chloe, How about rpmbuild --rebuild \ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/source/SRPMS/gstm-1.2-6.fc7.src.rpm See the Wiki for

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
William L. Maltby wrote: ... > Random thought: caused by the link clicked? Try this one for me? Weak > possibility, but I thought no use in "ass-u-me"ing. > > http://links.seekingalpha.com/links/34878/83/105705/1184 Same result - works fine for me without Firefox running. >> I have no plugins.da

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
William L. Maltby wrote: > Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a > problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a > causal relationship. > > Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't > tested with Evolution yet.) I c

Re: [CentOS] Migration from VMWare to HP Blade

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Matthew Walster wrote: ... When I get around to testing this (preferably when it's not a peak hour!) I'll come back and let you guys know if it worked, know if there's a place I can document it? It can't just be us two that have had this issue. You can reply to the list with SOLVED added to t

Re: [CentOS] I need help with CentOS installation on a Core 2 Duo Laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hi, I tried this option "linux acpi=off pci=nommconf" as well but the problem is when I use this I can install the OS but when try to boot on to the OS it's hang up on the boot up progress bar screen of the CentOS and I can't do any thing. So I checked it with the te

Re: [CentOS] kmod-kvm

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jamie Wilch wrote: I use qemu-kvm on a Centos 5.2 server to run Windows XP virtually. Usually a new kmod-kvm packages is released shortly after a kernel update, and yum updates them both very nicely. However, two new kernel updates have been released now without a kmod-kvm update. Does anyone k

Re: [CentOS] Samba Source

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Vandaman wrote: ... Someone else can chime in on the samba-vscan but on building rpms as non-root see http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ or closer to home http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] is udev necessary?

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rudi Ahlers wrote: ... I have managed to kill udev on start-up (with CTRL + C), and then it boots up. Try mkinitrd for the current hardware configuration. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] HW issue during instalaltion

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Philip Manuel wrote: We tend to use CentOS for our desktops as well, hence the request to this mailing list. We do not wish to have Ubuntu installed. Same here; however, on a similar-but-different Shuttle box I bought for my son recently the only Linux I could get to install was the Ubuntu I

Re: [CentOS] Is there in CentOS 5 Compiz?

2008-11-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Why would CentOS have better HW support? centosplus? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] linux rescue - complete list of utilities and commands?

2008-11-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: On this URL: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-rescuemode-boot.html there is a description of "linux rescue" which includes the following: From the prompt, you can run many useful commands, such as: ssh, scp, and ping if the network is sta

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Brent L. Bates wrote: Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for the information, I can not find it. I've done some

Re: [CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that f

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Vandaman wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: Hmm, then I am probably confusing it with some other tool I tried to package coming from SuSE. I do have a SPEC file on my buildsystem, but it does not work. I will investigate when I find the time. Hwinfo is SUSE specific. Debian page says :- Debian --

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: [snip] I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real "root" privileges with them. Often "su -" in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil begin:vcard fn:Philip Schaffner n:Schaffner;Philip org:NASA Langley Research Center;Electro

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 00:24:05 Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. I tried, but hwinfo is very SuSE specific. Dag, I used hwinfo years ago on Mandrake/Mandri

Re: [CentOS] cant boot after installation of centos 5

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Muhammad Alif Mohd Latif wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems with the installation of CentOS 5 for i386 to my Dell Percision T4500 Workstation. 5? 5.1? 5.2? The installation run just fine. The installation DVD had been tested before installation. After installation, the installer ask me to

Re: [CentOS] SATA errors on CentOS 5.2

2008-11-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
MHR wrote: Good info here: http://www.seagate.com/ww//index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SATA_Troubleshooter_-_BIOS_Configuration&vgnextoid=83744a3cdde5c010VgnVCM10dd04090aRCRD I got a 404 on that one. A character 'v' got lost in translation. For posterity, the correct URL is http://www.seagat

Re: [CentOS] Yum loses memory when kernel is upgraded

2008-11-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jussi Hirvi wrote: Jim Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (4.11.2008 15:23): You (and your /etc/redhat-release) say 5.2, but your kernel says 5.1 (5.2 shipped with 2.6.18-92) Hm, ok. "yum update kernel" did not see anything to update (that's just because the present problem: kernel was

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) > > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to > > be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Akemi Yagi wrote: ... For a CentOS VMware pre-built image, look no further ... http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ Akemi, Did not know about those, and can't find any links from the CentOS home page or the Wiki. Am I missing something, or are these TODO items for Johnny and the docs team?

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Thom Paine wrote: 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. Yes. My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. We need to have an ldap

Re: [CentOS] Re: no network kernel boot option

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jerry Geis wrote: ... Thanks I was aware of those. however I was looking for a method on the kernel boot line (as in I am installing and I dont want the network driver to load). I can accomplish this with noprobe but then everything is gone. There are individual items like nousb nopcmcia and

Re: [CentOS] A few general questions

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM, kevin kempter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The macbook is ok but it just doesn't cut it per productivity so I've ordered another laptop (a 64bit laptop with 8G of memory expandable to 16G and 2 internal 320G 7200rpm drives) I'll be loading Li

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dag Wieers wrote: ... Hmm, I am pretty sure at some point in the past registering to RHN was free without entitlements. That is how I have delegated systems and entitlements to other people within RPMforge. Maybe it is different now. I will have to find out and document on the Wiki in detai

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote: At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution? s/on/one/ - before someone else jumps on me :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 9:35pm, Phil Schaffner wrote At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D The GRUB shell is quiet

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Monty Shinn wrote: ... Phil, Thanks for your input. I did find the location of the grub install modification. Strange thing is, when I restarted the install, grub defaulted to the MBR of /dev/sdb. I did not change any hardware or bios settings in between attempts. I have no idea why the c

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Monty Shinn wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:59 -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. Any reason not to use 5.2? Will save a lot of

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:31 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: > dear All. > > Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly > > as i said b4 Correct English really would not take that much more effort as compared to texting shortcuts, and would make it more likely that you might

Re: [CentOS] Re: install 5.2 on new dv7z hp laptop

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:40 -0700, MHR wrote: > Heck, it's bad enough I talk to myself audibly Well, my grandma used to say it's OK to talk to yourself, but if you start answering yourself you're in trouble. Following this theory, you're OK, but I don't know about Jerry! :-) Phil P.S. - In

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:59 -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: > Greetings. > > I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server > has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. Any reason not to use 5.2? Will save a lot of updates, and perhaps some headaches. > I

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > That's why you punch sequence numbers in the > last 8 columns. :-) ... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, but remember to number by some integer >> 1 or you had to redo the whole remainder of the deck to i

Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: > Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole > fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much > bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big > event way back when. Then Fortr

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 23:13 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: > perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/" *.html Won't recurse down the directory tree, but I guess the OP didn't actually ask for that. Could substitute the perl commad for sed in the earlier example. Many ways to skin the cat (all equally odious to the c

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i -e 's/old/new/g' {} \;

Re: [CentOS] scp and key login

2008-10-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:37 -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote: ... > As far as I know that's right. Though it can be scripted into your > login. Been doing it so long I can't remember whom to credit, but I use the following snippet added to the end of ~/.bash_profile: #***

Re: [CentOS] USB Drive is detected and but the device "/dev/sda1" is not initialized

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:55 +0530, Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > > I have using CentOS 4.4 and My PC USB Drive is detected and > but the device "/dev/sda1" is not initialized and i have executed the ... > I am not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. What does

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 21:46 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: > Dear All, > > I am curently running a CENTOS server with the following setup > > CentOS release 5 (Final) > Kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen on an i686 Stating the obvious, you are WAY behind on updates, including many security patches. > bin

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 08:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on upgrading my Xen Domain0 to CentOs 5.2. However, yum update > gives me a package conflict on perl: ... > Using a x86_64 install btw. > > Anyone seen this one?? Please don't hijack threads with a "Reply" when s

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:40 +0200, Alwin Roosen wrote: > Hi, > > > Is there someone on this mailing list who could/want help me figure out > this issue? We do not know where to look to solve this. ... > I would be very surprised if this is hardware related. A google on "Machine Check Exception

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have been asked to put a club's membership form on their web, but firefox > displays it as scaled to 23% and it prints at that scale. Can anyone tell me > why? Thanks > Anne, Don't know, but it might help to know what format you are us

Re: [CentOS] upgrade Fedora -> Centos

2008-06-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:20 +0300, Sergej Kandyla wrote: > Hi all, > > > Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote > serv) ? > > Thanks in advice! I would expect a migration similar to that described under "Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5" on http://wiki.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] OOM condition with file-4.17-9.0.1.el5

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:30 +0200, John wrote: > Hello all, > > We just encountered several serious Out of Memory Problems caused by the > file 4.17-9.0.1.EL5 utility on our mail Gateway. CentOS 5.1 kept it self > alive by killing it parent process Amavisd-new. Manually restarting > Amavisd-new

Re: [CentOS] GSL version >= 1.8 CentOS 4.x ?

2008-01-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 18:32 +, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! Is there a version of gsl library >= 1.8 available for centos 4.x? > If indeed there is none (as i founded nothing so far) has someone some > idea how should i make the rpm from src.rpm ? A google on gsl-1.8 el4 turns up some

OT: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5]

2007-11-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:01 -0800, Robert - elists wrote: > > > > I think it's just too new and shiny. ccache is installed by default with > > Fedora 8. > > > > Wow, fedora 8? > > Where have I been? > > Sheesh, most of us are still dealing with considering centos 5 migrations > from rock soli

Re: [CentOS] Good evening to all

2007-11-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 18:21 +0530, Silambarasan.R wrote: > > Hi.. > > Could u help me to re-install the centos 4 without affecting existing > data...? is it possible? if so pl let me know... http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You did not give enough information to get good advic

Re: [CentOS] rpm / yum / repo wranging tools?

2007-11-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 05:19 -0800, Rogelio wrote: > I'm inheriting dozens of CentOS servers and am looking for various > tools to help me wrangle the rpm / yum / repo madness. > > Any tools you might suggest for me to look into would be greatly appreciated! mrepo? You need to better describe wha

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:12 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: ... > > All of your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! I am > > beginning to *hate* MS Windows, but there are still a few things we > > use it for. Lanny Ditto. > There isn't really anything wrong wit

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-11-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 02:22 +0800, adrian kok wrote: > Hi all > > how can I have script to rename the following > directory pattern from > > > > from > > dir-192.168.30.0 > dir-192.168.30.144 > dir-192.168.30.184 > > > To: > > > dir-10.0.30.0 > dir-10.0.30.144 > dir-10.0.30.184

Re: [CentOS] migration from RHELv5 to CentOS-5

2007-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:46 -0700, Craig White wrote: ... > > OK - here's my methodology for upgrading in case it helps someone > > cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release-saved > rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes \ > redhat-releaserpm \ Shouldn't that just be "redhat-release"? > yum-

Re: [CentOS] Ghostview

2007-10-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:42 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find good ol' fashion gv? It seems the > only ghostview is kghostview or evince. EPEL has it. See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories to enable. Phil ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] C5 i386 DVD boot problems

2007-10-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:13 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I tried to boot from two different CentOS 5 DVDs, both pass the checksum > test, and both give me the same error on a Dell laptop from either GUI or > text install modes: > > invalid compressed format (err=2) > VFS: Cannot open root devic

Re: [CentOS] Trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting

2007-10-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 22:13 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting on > CentOS release 4.5 (Final) and Fedora Core 6. Can anyone point me to > some documentation that will help with this ? > > The specific situation is that we

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition or not on C5

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:13 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: > Do you have multiple disk ? > Can you search on all your disk for grub's files ? > > On 9/25/07, mark pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello, > > > > the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was > > written int

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:08 +0930, Michael Kratz wrote: > On 25/09/2007, at 6:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > > > Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: > >>> Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the > >>> -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run j

RE: [CentOS] xorg-x11

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 08:28 -0400, Barton Callender wrote: ... > Ok, I'm using centos 5, thats why i dont see those > files. I dont have a spec file to change. I'm trying > to rebuild rpm's using the source rpms. If you have SRPMS you have a spec

Re: [CentOS] Error trying to install Ktorrent

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:59 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:12 -0400, Dago Pacheco wrote: > > Hi... I was trying to install Ktorrent in my centos 4 x64 (i use kde) > > and when I typed './configure' i get this error message: > > > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>=

Re: [CentOS] searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:01 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement > > > > "apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh > > webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl" >

Re: [CentOS] Problems building LPRng src RPM

2007-09-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:16 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > James A. Peltier wrote: > ... > > It looked like it went through the ./configure portion OK. Any ideas? > > Has someone else gotta LPRng to work on CentOS 5? > > > > Yes. With difficulty. :-) > > This problem is fixed by: > > 1. installi

Re: [CentOS] Server Virtualization

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:20 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: > Hello, > > I work for a school in a New Zealand university and we are wanting to > implement Server Virtualization for both CentOS and Windows systems. So > I thought I would ask here what experience people have had with this and > what i

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-devel] Areca RAID drivers

2007-09-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 23:32 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > Phil Schaffner wrote: > > Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers > > would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. > > The only src.rpm I could turn

Re: [CentOS] Boot problem with CENTOS 5

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:46 -0700, chuck wrote: > I had everything up and running. All of the help thus far was > excellent. Thanks! > > I then did the updates that the OS prompted to do and selected reboot > now once they completed. > > Now when the server reboots after the bios info I get t

Re: [CentOS] package manager

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:49 -0700, Dan Dansereau wrote: > How do I force the package manager to re-install a package? > > > > Such as Development - > Development Tools -> G77 > > > > Or the entire Development tools package? > > The G77 Is missing – and when I ask it to install – it states

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade WBEL4 to CentOS4?

2007-09-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 01:03 -0400, Eric B. wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a couple of servers that are running WBEL4 that I would like to > upgrade to CentOS4. I noticed that there is a FAQ which explains how to > upgrade WBEL3 to CentOS3, but haven't found anything similar for WBEL4. > > Are the i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 or 5.0

2007-09-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:15 -0300, Centos wrote: > Hello > > I am downloading Centos, but I don't know What is the difference between > Centos 5 and Centos 5.0 None, currently. 5 is a link pointing to the latest 5.x release, and until 5.1 hits the streets, "max[x] = 0". > also as far as I reme

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in

2007-09-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 31 August 2007, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Message: 21 > > > > > As discussed recently on-list, VMware CPU requirements to support > > > virtualization are not nearly so ri

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Virtualization SIG created

2007-09-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > The CentOS team is pleased to announce the creation of its first Special > Interest Group (SIG): the Virtualization SIG. A SIG is a smaller group > within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in > order to either create

Re: [CentOS] Re: Migration question?

2007-08-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:41 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... > > also, now that you have done this - would you like to write a wiki page > for everyone else who comes along with the same issue ? we have a > moderately active wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/ and there is a howto > contribute page

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in

2007-08-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 30 August 2007, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message: 57 > > > > And, learning how to remove/replace > > a defective drive is something I should do. > > VMWare is a good way to experiment with things like that. > > Scott:

Re: [CentOS] timeout when accessing atrpms repo

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:09 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:20 -0400, Dave wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using centos5 and i just started noticing a timeout msg when > > running > > a yum update. It occurs with the atrpms repo, has a

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:21 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and > data > are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates > options. Seems like a reasonable hypothesis. How hard would it be to test it by synchronizing

Re: [CentOS] NFS Question and answers

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:38 +0530, Rohit Rai wrote: > HI! Friends, > > in followup to my last article regarding my experiences with setting > up CentOS, > taking the advice from Phil, I have written an article dealing with > NFS setup. > > Please visit it at > http://mytechrantings.blogspot.c

Re: [CentOS] My server won't boot (grub looping - stage2)

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:05 -0400, mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > I can't boot. It simply does not show me the menu of kernels to > choose. > > When the problem first manisfested itselfFirst I was getting that loop > regarding the 'loading stage2'. > > After I tried that grub-install I simply get an i

Re: [CentOS] timeout when accessing atrpms repo

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:20 -0400, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm using centos5 and i just started noticing a timeout msg when running > a yum update. It occurs with the atrpms repo, has anyone else seen this? > Thanks. Yes - going into the 2nd day now. Axel said on the ATrpms-users list on Mond

Re: [CentOS] Stage2.img

2007-08-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:10 -0700, semi linux wrote: ... snip ... > Not top posting (although I think this a preference more then a rule). > > Let me clarify what I'm asking - What's different about the stage2.img > file distributed with CentOS 5.0? The instructions found on the web > for 'hackin

Re: [CentOS] Blackberry Bounces [was Fwd: Delivery Status Notification(Failure)]

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:10 +0800, Feizhou wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: > > Is everyone else posting to this list getting one of these after > > each-and-every post? If so, someone please un-subscribe this person: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >

[CentOS] Blackberry Bounces [was Fwd: Delivery Status Notification(Failure)]

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
status is > email message attachment > > ---- Forwarded Message > > From: Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors > > Date: Tue, 28 Aug

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of > mirrors. I > don't use "a" mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. > That > retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The > checksum fai

Re: [CentOS] Re: XEN - Guest WINXP

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:01 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > I don't think WinXp will run on processors without virtualization > > support. See http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors > actually, that should read.. > > I don't think XEN can host WinXP on

Re: [CentOS] using centos for linux appliance

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:18 -0700, Venkat Subbiah wrote: > Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance. Please also think about starting a thread with a new message, not by replying to an existing one an hijacking the original thread ("CentOS/RH 5 Samba as PDC+NIS w/o LDAP?" in this

Re: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:30 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Alfred von Campe wrote: > > So I installed a second drive in my system today, and instead of > > typing "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" I did a "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1". > > Fortunately, that was just my /boot partition. I thought I could > just > >

Re: [CentOS] Install on a usb flash drive

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 13:14 -0500, Scott Moseman wrote: > An interesting idea. How would the install work? If you boot from > DVD with the USB drive installed, will it see the drive and make it an > option for the install destination? Tried this a while back with an earlier release of CentOS4 an

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP / STRANGE THING

2007-08-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:45 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > > No need to install, download a freedos iso (www.freedos.org), write > > the standard distro to a floppy and use loadlin. > Ok, I've installed FreeDOS and can access CentOS CDs. > What about loadlin ? > > > > > I just read in your

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP

2007-08-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:18 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the newbie question, I've been searching the CentOS site and > googled, but I couldn't find an answer (probably my bad). > > I want to install CentOS 4.5, but I'm having troubles with my CD reader. > > How can I install

Re: [CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

2007-08-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:02 +0700, beast wrote: > On 15/08/07 17:38 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > >On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote: > >> On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get load

Re: [CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote: > On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get loaded on start. > > Thanks for the hint. Where linuxrc located? i already searched initrd image > and can not found it. Looks like the scr

Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Recovery

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:32 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On 8/15/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > our external scsi drive is detached, so it is not showing up in fdisk -l > > however it shows up mounted in /etc/mtab > > > > is there any command that I can run to detect and re

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 5 server setup walkthrough

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 12:02 +0530, Rohit Rai wrote: > I have just finished setting up and configuring a server running > CentOS 5 with 2 Xen VMs. This article describes my journey through > this, including the problems I faced and there solutions. It documents > the installation of CentOS 5, from a

Re: [CentOS] Adding Things to Rescue Mode

2007-08-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:31 -0400, Brent L. Bates wrote: > I'd like to add a few things to rescue mode. I'm tired of having to use > a floppy with hardware drivers when ever I need to go into rescue mode and > there are a few other utilities that I'd like to add as well. How would I go > abo

Re: [CentOS] mod_mono on centos5?

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:32 -0400, Dave wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. To be honest i really don't want to torture > myself with this, my network switch is giving me enough grief right now, but > i don't have a choice. I've got the rpmforge repo enabled, but a yum install > isn't givi

Re: [CentOS] Can't get ipw2200 to work in CentOS 5 on Dell laptop

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Andy, On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:14 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Original Message: > - > From: Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:10:05 -0400 > > > > you also need to add the adapter in > > > system-config-net

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