[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jason Pyeron wrote: As I have said before, I have experience in this matter and we have a current relationship with tucows. Would the team like our help? We can't and won't unless asked. The letter was done in the fashion it was in sorrow, and not in anger, as my blog

[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-29 Thread R P Herrold
indicated and of record at the customary keyservers See: http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2008/08/gnupg-few-minutes-on-using-detached-and.html user: R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com 1024-bit DSA key, ID 9B649644, created 2003-02-09 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux

[CentOS-virt] How to pass messages from dom0 to domU??

2009-07-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Christopher G. Stach II wrote: - David Knierim dknie...@gmail.com wrote: I am adding code to my installation on dom0 (running CentOS 5.3) to monitor for hardware faults. If there is an issue, I want to propagate the status to all of the domUs (running CentOS 4.x

[CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Scott Silva wrote: You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you could easily loopback mount the cd images and get a proper directory structure. A little massaging is needed and simple image loopback mounts seem 'touchy' in practice as outlined in the

[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: In all fairness to all the rebels, if somebody from the Cento's team would have responded in a timely matter to the original yes/no question of this thread, ... and an allegedly 'yes or no' question can take three and a half 24 line screens to

[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement like ...latest release has many up-to-date desktop packages... ummm -- it is of course true that changes happen; rebasings do as well; and the CentOS project [and the upstream] document

[CentOS] Anaconda-runtime and busybox-anaconda src rpms

2009-07-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Chadley Wilson wrote: I was a bit quick on the assumption there, I was looking specifically for the anaconda-runtime src. But now I see that there isn't specifically a source for the anaconda-runtime, the source for the rpm is anaconda, is that correct? If you examine a

[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Rather than dumping *even more work* on the core CentOS project (who are already clearly struggling to provide even the core distro at present), ... It may be clear to Ned, but is not the case. I wish people not in the know would not purport to

[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: But I *do* have a problem with RPM Fusion and Karanbir's repo, because they keep packages in testing even if nothing happens (they could stay there until 2014, right?). oh _+please+_ troll elsewhere .. no-one forces you to use any third

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

2009-06-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, 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? the former. I covered the matter and a workaround within RPM in a series of blog

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote: I assume you mean this? http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html That is an assumption you make, all right --- that page does not state it is exhaustive, however ... What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that defines what

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote: I don't want to cause any trouble here, but what does this have to do with generating advisory information that is provided by the vendor? ... if you won't acknowledge the landmines, you get blown up, eventually, I hear I believe this

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? Strange :) not at all -- have used it for years; did a LUG presentation as well. It can live well in the inittab and run as a daemon process for very rapid prototyping.

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: /bin/sh in my script's shebang ;) -- Russ herrold ___

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: /bin/sh in my script's shebang ;) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

[CentOS-docs] New Wiki Page

2009-05-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 9 May 2009, David Dreggors wrote: Oh I have exhausted all those means. I even went into the alsa site looking for answers. I have seen many *similar* issues and have tried a few of the fixes (mostly modprobe.conf options). None have worked. I have a page on the CentOS forums for

[CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Phil Schaffner wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ned Slider wrote: unknown prior wrote ... There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about performance most of the time being slightly better versus

[CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: I personally cannot agree on that. Syncing /boot 'manually' adds much more complexibility, unless you add scripts that automate the process. Setup: /etc/yum.conf contains a: exclude=kernel\* /etc/yum-kernel.conf does not Actions:

[CentOS-docs] Proposal: Java HowTo Section

2009-04-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Sean Gilligan wrote: Russ Herrold added the special note on OpenJDK, hopefully he will chime in. Sean, I think you are on the right track; I would refactor the java articles into a couple of them in a sub-tree, with a chooser at the head, probably forming on pre/post

[CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, pjwelsh wrote: On 04/30/2009 10:22 AM, R P Herrold wrote: ... To respond to 'the consensus ... overwhelmingly' remark, the mice also overwhelmingly voted to bell the cat. Counting noses does not make a bad answer more correct; using raid rather than flat RO /boot

[CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ned Slider wrote: There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about performance most of the time being slightly better versus stability in the event of device failure. I can't think of a good argument for not having

[CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, nate wrote: It's more about the repositories themselves, the QA behind them, the integration of packages. A single unified source for patches, security fixes etc. From Debian 5.0 (lenny): Total package names: 29647 (1186k) Normal packages: 22400 Pure virtual

[CentOS] xen and hwclock

2009-04-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ugo Bellavance wrote: Mintairov Mihail a écrit : Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest environment. # hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. No usable clock interface

[CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, fred smith wrote: Downloading Packages: (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB05:41 http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download Trying other

[CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Blake Hudson wrote: Any reason these bad mirrors are not pulled out of the rotation? I had no idea that a single old mirror would stop yum in its tracks. They are. The offending mirror was identified as stale by the mirrorlist system, and has aged out at this point

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

2009-04-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing. I took it for granted that CentOS would be

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I confirm this is present in 5.3 where /home is an NFS mount, and that I missed it in testing. A workaround is:

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4. I had no problems whatsoever.

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I just kicked everyone off, killed all apps with open file descriptors on /home, umounted /home, upgraded the rpm, then re-mounted /home. That worked just fine. I confer 42 geek points on Paul -- hope that's enough to buy armor to protect him from the

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Olaf Mueller wrote: Paul Heinlein wrote: I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. No problem here, /home is exported as nfs4 with sec=kerb5. As noted later, the problem is

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Hywel Richards wrote: I've got 7 machines here with NFSed /home (and the same problem with the filesystem rpm). Should I implement the workaround suggested by Russ for each machine, or will a fixed rpm come along eventually? (I'm not impatient!) Thank you for the

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

2009-04-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: My guess is a scriptlet is failing - quite possibly because an SELinux chcon command fails in those conditions. They probably need to change the chcon portion of the scriptlet to add a ||: after the command so it doesn't bomb out. Guessing is fun

[CentOS-docs] centos 5.3 release notes in colloquial Arabic

2009-03-31 Thread R P Herrold
I have been working with a new translator for the project and particularly the wiki (whom I have known for perhaps 18 months), and he has put up a test translation for the centos 5.3 release notes at: http://www.msamir.net/centos-release-notes/ I have encouraged him to subscribe here,

[CentOS-docs] paging GlennMatthys

2009-03-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, RedShift wrote: Hello, Glenn Matthys, answering your page... ;) taking my particular queston to a PM -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

[CentOS] OT: centos.org web site not responding

2009-03-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: The web site for CentOS is not responding. I can ping it OK, but the web site is not responding to http requests from my browser. If the webmaster should happen to read this... working fine here, and from two other test locations -- it might make more

[CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)

2009-03-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: If you think respins containing Centos branding are wrong, make it easy to to the right thing. Thanks for offering to have me do work for something I don't consider a core (or really, a desireable) goal, Les --- I can always count on you to ask others

[CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)

2009-03-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:31:08 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I am also not sure if I need to update any of the files the installer uses to install the system -- is it enough to just drop the alternitive mkinitrd rpm? Do I need to

[CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Robert Heller wrote: How big and what engine is the db to be secured? every 5mins Backing up that often doesn't make sense to me. If you need to have it that frequently you better go for a slave or write to two backends. I have to wonder when I see these kind of

[CentOS-docs] I want to contribute to the wiki

2009-02-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: moreni...@cdsl.cl wrote: Well Ralph, anyway, If I paste the 20 pages on the wiki, I will have the problem with the licence. I want to be free to licence my documentation with GFDL or another that could be enought free for me. And put pressure for

[CentOS-docs] I want to contribute to the wiki

2009-02-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, moreni...@cdsl.cl wrote: here. And after have explained what and where I want to contribute, I was almost forced to re-licence or change the licence of my documentation (and you didn't think that someone could want to keep his freedom and publish his documentation with

[CentOS] Question about Shell Script.

2009-01-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: This is wrong, should be [ $NUMBEROFPRO -gt 150 ] instead. or for those who are used to being burned: [ 0$NUMBEROFPRO -gt 150 ] -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, nate wrote: I would not use CentOS at all if for anything else than Oracle won't support it. Oracle linux is a clone of RHEL and I believe is pretty cheap, otherwise RHEL 5 Advanced. ummm .. a recent UBL was a rebuild of CentOS SRPMs - Rhss herrold

[CentOS-docs] adding stuff to wiki

2009-01-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, pjwelsh wrote: On 01/13/2009 03:48 PM, R P Herrold wrote: 1. Don't 2. Package it Option 3: *HOPE/PRAY* epel, rpmforge, DAG or rpmfusion has it (or a src.rpm) I dread, almost more than anything, trying to figure out how to get some perl modules packaged

[CentOS-docs] adding stuff to wiki

2009-01-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, jk...@kinz.org wrote: As a result, the Perl community attitude towards CentOS/RHEL is disdainful to the point of contempt. At least for the portion of the community I contacted about the issue. If a 'unknown' person wants posting authorization, I think it is probably a

[CentOS-docs] adding stuff to wiki

2009-01-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, jk...@kinz.org wrote: First items i want to add to the wiki are: #1 - some notes about how to use Perl and cpan on Centos proabbly in section 16 on the how to page. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos Two possible entries come to mind as welcome in a CentOS context:

[CentOS] non-restraint; was: CentOS 4 update backlog

2009-01-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Vandaman wrote: There are security updates upstream for CentOS (4 and 5) and it looks like the CentOS 5 ones have been rebuilt and rolled out. How come the CentOS 4 branch lags behind, or are the CentOS 5 devs different from the CentOS 4 devs? If more volunteers are

[CentOS] CentOS 4 update backlog

2009-01-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Vandaman wrote: R P Herrold wrote: ... you do NOT file bugs in the bug tracker to make formal your concern. I made last month about security updates missing for almost a month. no bug - no issue. Members of the CentOS community should, in a free world be able

[CentOS] restraint; was: Update to Centos 5 anaconda kickstart %post bug?[SOLVED]

2009-01-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Warren, Eucke wrote: ... To suggest a shaming only makes the Centos community look bad as it would be done so without understanding the entire environment and situation. Thank you for the restrained reply, Eucke Wearing my '@centos.org' hat, let me add that I strongly

[CentOS] Update to Centos 5 anaconda kickstart %post bug?

2009-01-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Scott Silva wrote: on 1-8-2009 1:28 PM Warren, Eucke spake the following: Is there a process for finding status updates to open bugs within Centos? -- view it in a web browser, and optionally 'monitor' it so emails of updated state are received -- offer to buy support

[CentOS] Scriptable way to edit yum .repo files?

2009-01-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Amos Shapira wrote: I found Perl's Conf::INI module but it expects comments beginning with ;, not #. and | sed -e 's...@^#@;@g' cannot cure that bad habit on generated files or an input stream? [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ cat - END | sed -e 's...@^#@;@g' one two#two

Re: [CentOS-docs] centos-doc] Contributing on CentOS Wiki

2009-01-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Vitor Afonso Strabello wrote: Can I post a link to the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor about it also? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0397.html Counsel

[CentOS-docs] Contributing on CentOS Wiki

2009-01-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: Counsel for the PNAELV expressly asked that CentOS NOT 'deep link' into their site. Do we have the complete text available ? yes -- I

[CentOS] Off-distro content; was: Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-12-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-04, 00:42 GMT, Christopher Chan wrote: What would you pick? Learn a few new commands/configuration files or have to prep up a new desktop rollout every six months? 12 -- Fedora 8 is still pretty good and only now you would have to switch to

[CentOS] OT - Automated rpm builds

2008-11-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Tom Brown wrote: Currently devs check code into perforce and we have to checkout package update repo deploy I know this could be scripted but are there any tools out there that can take code from a repository and build rpm's in a continuous integration type manner? I

[CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: The sheer existence of this stale content on the wiki today, makes me and other people think that the idea of moving content isn't going to work at all. It's too short sighted, ill-conceived and badly implemented. yup, probably won't work well, [GI

[CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

2008-10-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? [EMAIL

[CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Spike Turner wrote: R P Herrold wrote: You know after all this time the CentOS frontpage is still showing out of date info. Please remind me of your bug number filed on this. I have read all new filings to date and must have missed it. -- Russ herrold

[CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Spike Turner wrote: totalitarian republic of CentOS. I believe an announcement All sources used by CentOS are freely available under a distributable license, as are those for patched RPMs consistent with its GPL obligation when _distributing_ the product of another;

[CentOS] Threads end; get over it: was: new list proposal

2008-10-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Scott Silva wrote: This thread has got to have beaten the CentOS record for most posts about nothing! Or the longest off-topic thread about off-topic threads! or a sad demonstation by people who know better ignoring Godwin's Law If people are unwilling to follow long

[CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, John R Pierce wrote: I'd have to suggest that the 'default' list (eg this one) should be the most general and beginner oriented, and any new additional lists should be the ones with the narrower focus (centos-tech, for instance, or centos-sysadmin). in my experience with

[CentOS-docs] Review and maintenance of the JavaOnCentOS article.

2008-10-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: I always welcome people who wish to help make our wiki better and up-to-date. The java page is referenced quite often not only in the forums but in all other channels. You might want to coordinate with MikaelFridh whose name appears as the maintainer

[CentOS-docs] Review and maintenance of the JavaOnCentOS article.

2008-10-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: I have been wondering on this subject. Why not make the menu (info and other options) available to people who do not have edit rights? dunno for sure -- preventing 'lowhanging fruit' automated webbish spamming comes to mind -- Russ herrold

[CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki/web changes

2008-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Marcus Moeller wrote: ... If you want me to say we should replace the Website by the Wiki, I will :) I agree on that. There is nearly nothing that couldn't be done in the wiki (but the forums and the mirrorlist). Even the news could be part of the wiki if they are

[CentOS-docs] policy w.r.t Testing repo details on wiki articles

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Do we have a policy w.r.t adding details about packages in the testing repo on the wiki ? (sad but true mode answer) add a ! and tell them in a red box: 1. chime in as to results 2. do not rely on systematic security AT ALL on these

[CentOS] 4.7 update issues?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, RobertH wrote: Any 4.7 update issues or horror stories yet? Part of the QA which I mentioned earlier in the week was looking for problems. This late in point respins of the 4 series, however, nothing major comes to mind from the looking we did during that testing.

[CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Shad L. Lords wrote: James Pearson wrote: I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs There are actually quite a few missing sources:

[CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, John R Pierce wrote: RobertH wrote: Marcus, Exactly, I have often wondered upstream does it that way so that I always have to go fix the /etc/hosts file after every CentOS install. Since functionally, it is wrong. indeed, having the hostname bound to the loopback

[CentOS-virt] redhat's Qumranet acquisition

2008-09-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Todd Deshane wrote: My experience has primarly been with Xen. I have helped a company successfully deploy Xen on CentOS. They had a really nice cobbler setup and were able to leverage it nicely to make the transition to virtuals easy. They found our running xen book

[CentOS] Alarming (?) smartd reports

2008-09-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar messages on this laptop. Acer accepted liability and replaced the disk. I'm pretty sure the Seagate warranty is no longer in force - most of them are a year. you

[CentOS-virt] redhat's Qumranet acquisition

2008-09-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: My boss seems most interested in a paid XenSource enterprise solution, which apparently runs on CentOS? You can't even do a snapshot in xensource yet. umm ... xm save (domain-id) (state-file) ... misc copy actions xm restore

[CentOS] Re: Centos 4.7 delay more than mirror issue?

2008-09-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Scott Silva wrote: on 9-10-2008 1:02 AM Josh Donovan spake the following: Hi folks, Normally people ask when is CentOS 4.7 coming and they are told when it is ready. Dag posted on his blog about it going to testing in July while it was supposed to be syncing to the

[CentOS] Compromised

2008-09-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Miark wrote: My wife's office server was compromised today. It appears they ssh'ed in through ehh? exposed to the public internet? oh my ;) account pcguest which was set up for Samba. (I don't remember setting up that account, but maybe I did.) ssh will of course

[CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd wrote: A final point I'll note is that this is a CentOS list, aimed at helping people with CentOS. It's not a place to spam with ads for your website unless they are CentOS specific. * cough *nor even then --- We encounter this in

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Paul wrote: Hmmm, Processor Technologies used to have a voice coil actuated dual drive that shared it between both drives IIRC. Interesting drive with a motorized eject, thing is you had to wait for the disk to complete eject before you grabbed it, if you grabbed it before

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Robert wrote: We might be entering first liar don't have a chance territory here. Do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot? sadly, yes I was in the last Ramac 305 class ever held, on lunch break and had watched the motorcade pass from a lunchroom window.

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM, R P Herrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you win ;) -- I don't want to be older, and in my head, I'm still in my twenties. Face it. Your golden buckeye card has a registration number of 1. you cannot escape this fact

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em up). Although I'm seriously considering ditching the 386SX with Win 3.11. Don't find any three words: Processor Tech Sol -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: three words: Processor Tech Sol -- Russ herrold Ahh, I was waiting for you to show up. OK, everyone, if you are trying to show your age, stop now -- because no one can win orc_orc (Russ, our CentOS dev). Actually from slightly before that era, I

[CentOS] A couple of minutes on GnuPG and signing files

2008-08-22 Thread R P Herrold
PROTECTED] .gnupg]$ gpg --clearsign import-key-howto.txt You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: R P Herrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024-bit DSA key, ID 9B649644, created 2003-02-09 File`import-key-howto.txt.asc' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y [EMAIL PROTECTED] .gnupg]$ 10

[CentOS] A couple of minutes on GnuPG and signing files

2008-08-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, R P Herrold wrote: ... Hopefully this attched writeup will transit the CentOS mailing list manager intact. I also include it inline below, but this may mangle the signature. 'attached' of course -- part of the 'orc_orc' spelling authenticity test. ;) Following up

[CentOS] ks

2008-08-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I have the following in it: clearpart --all which is OK if I am installing over a previous installation. But for new machines it does not seem to recognize the clearpart or it is not enough because I am still prompted whether I want to

[CentOS] RPM Uninstall

2008-08-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Matt wrote: I am wanting to uninstall an rpm off my CentOS 4.6 box. Namely caching-nameserver. Is there anywhere I can look at the uninstall script to see what it all does on its way out? Run as an unpriv'd user: rpm -q --scripts caching-nameserver will show

[CentOS] Yum

2008-08-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: When i install CentOS, it doesn't install yum package. How i do it? when i haven't yum, it is like that i haven't apt-get. Please help me you appeared in the IRC channel earlier today, and were told that the fork you are runing -- a

[CentOS-docs] Re: Create page about rebuilding SRPMS and preparing RPM environment

2008-07-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Russ. I wonder what in the world, which is material, you think is ** not ** covereed between the Ed Bailey, and the Eric Foster-Johnson, the GuruLabs resources (each down those links). I am speaking about the CentOS Wiki and nothing more. I

[CentOS-docs] Re: Create page about rebuilding SRPMS and preparing RPM environment

2008-07-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Alan Bartlett wrote: Have you replied to Russ Herrold's comment? Perhaps I missed it. No, but others did and I agree with their comments. I think it would have been polite of you to have responded to Russ' comments. (Speaking as an Englishman.) Polite to one side, as

[CentOS] Re: OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Martyn Hare wrote: Yes but Linus could be guest speaker at LinuxChix, Bill has to pay for his women ;-) hey now -- she worked in tech too -- a product manager for MSFT's 'Bob' product (clippy on steroids) ... oh, hmmm, so he _did_ indirectly pay for ... Never mind --

[CentOS-docs] Create page about rebuilding SRPMS and preparing RPM environment

2008-07-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: As discussed on the centos-users list, I would like to create some pages on the CentOS Wiki with instructions on how to set up your environment to build RPMs and how to rebuild RPMs. ummm ... it exists several places .. also, out pointers at:

[CentOS] Java Setup

2008-07-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: I have been following the instructions here http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS but trying to modify them for jdk-6u7-linux-amd64.rpm but there doesn't see to be a compatible java-1.6.0-sun-compat-*.rpm.Does one exist ? What's wrong with

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Miguel Medalha wrote: Let me be the first (maybe): CentOS 5.2 is here (at least): http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.2/ ummm ... PLEASE -- no unofficial announcements as there are some last minute tweaks still in process. as Hughesjr pointed out in one channel:

[CentOS] is CentOS an LSB certified product?

2008-06-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Nicholas wrote: Would anyone know if CentOS 4 and 5 is LSB certified? We have been offered a pass through the process by the LSB, but there has not been demand for it. I have not found any info on RH being LSB certified either. Is RH also LSB certified? One assumes

[CentOS-docs] Some ideas about FrontPage reorganization

2008-05-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Niels de Vos wrote: Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Take a look at: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/WikiDesign/FrontPageStructure I see a boring balanced two equal column block design; from a matter of page layout, the old inverted L has disappeared from the net (think

[CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: I'm not sure I've ever seen the words 'easy' and 'pine' used in the same sentence before. Pine has to have the most counterintuitive interface known to man. I usually hold the shift key down while using the down-arrow to move over the parts to

[CentOS] irc cloak

2008-05-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 7 May 2008, James Bunnell wrote: What are the requirements to get a Centos IRC cloak in freenode? Thanks in advance. As of the last discussion by the centos group of developers, IRC cloaks were not something that was going to be generally 'purchasable' by way of a donation, as if

[CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: What we need is a case that's been taken to court and a verdict given. :) umm -- Istrongly disagree. There are services sold by people called 'lawyers' whom sell authoritative analysis, guidance, and answers they'll stand behind as a professional

[CentOS] pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

2008-03-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: I can run 'latex document.tex' ok: the resulting .dvi looks nice in xdvi. When running 'dvips -o document.dvi', I get a .ps file that I can view OK in Evince. But when I run 'pdflatex document.tex', the fonts in the resulting PDF are all ragged and

[CentOS] XFCE, was: pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

2008-03-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: R P Herrold a écrit : known issue; using a similar creation chain, see the xpdf (left) and Evince (right) rendering of the same file: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291595 Curiously enough, the problem disappears when I just leave out

[CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.8-1

2008-03-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Don't know if you really want theses updates, but here we have some significant changes that I would like to put in your consideration. Sincerely, I get tiered of writing changes into a readme file ... so I took some screenshots for you. If

[CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

2008-03-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: * CentOS: Only two typos in the default install, in more than 4 years. One each by hughesjr and orc_orc We've been training Evolution, to get the count up. - R ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Support Tools

2008-02-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thorsten Kampe wrote: does something like the SUSE/Novell ntsutils (previously called supportconfig) or Microsoft's MPS Reports exist for CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux? I mean a program that reads and exports various configurations and parameters to facilitate

[CentOS] Support Tools

2008-02-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: There's sosreport in centos 5.1, formerly sysreport in previous ... beat me by 36 sec. on the post -- but I _did_ explain details on why the other two platforms vary ;) - R ___ CentOS mailing list

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