[CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

2015-10-19 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

2015-10-19 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no > apparent issues. > > I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp > installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum. > If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum

[CentOS] Why are hplip and hpijs always so back dated?

2014-04-30 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
My fully patched CentOS 6.5 system uses: hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 My wife's printer becomes supported at 3.13.somethingOrOther and the current release is 3.14.something. Why are we so far behind? I realize that I can

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-04-22 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
And, would you care strongly if it went away (or would you just migrate to something else)? I would care strongly as I use it at home to limit inbound ssh to just the IP addresses of my work machine. Setting up IPtables is more complicated which can be read as easier to get it wrong.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS 6

2014-02-26 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
First, CentOS does exactly what RHEL does, so this is not really a CentOS question. The tradeoff is that Ubuntu doesn't go to the effort to ensure that for 7+ years you can do updates and not have anything that was previously working break because a change from the update. RHEL/CentOS

[CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS 6

2014-02-25 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I recently built a CentOS 6 system as my main machine at home. With a bit of help from members of this list, it is now working better than the machine it replaced (RIP). The new machine works so well, that I would like to convert some CentOS 5 machines to CentOS6. I did some research on the web

Re: [CentOS] Dug myself into a hole

2014-02-20 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dug myself into a hole Bob S Disable the offending repositories and then run yum distro-sync Louis One more relevant note on this thread. The yum distro-sync' works well. I discovered the priorities plug-in in the CentOS wiki.

Re: [CentOS] Strange Samba Issue

2014-02-17 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Another possibility is selinux. I just build a CentOS 6 machine. When I tried mapping a drive, I kept getting permission denied. When I got into the /tmp directory, I was able to create files from Windows via Samba and see those files but ones created on the folder either did not show up or were

[CentOS] Dug myself into a hole

2014-02-17 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I just build a CentOS 6 machine to replace my old machine which broke to where I could not fix it. In attempting to get the applications running which had worked on the old machine, I did updates from several repos such as rpmforge, atrpms, livna, epel, etc. Some of the attempts ended going down

Re: [CentOS] Unresolved references in libnetsnmpagent.so

2013-10-07 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
http://www.mail-archive.com/net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14531.html Thank you. The command net-snmp-config --agent-libs referenced in the above message did the trick. This is definitely worth writing down as it is not obvious to the casual observer (to quote an old professor)

[CentOS] Unresolved references in libnetsnmpagent.so

2013-10-06 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Hi, I am running an up to date centos5.9 system. The package, net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-20.el5 Contains among oteher things: /usr/lib/libnetsnmpagent.so When I link with this library (-lnetsnmpagent), I get a bunch of unresolved references.: My Google searches has not given me hints to where

RE: [CentOS] A quick question about ./configure

2007-09-27 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
./configure -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory One cause for this sort of misleading error can be found in the first line of the configure script. It will normally be #! where is the path to some interpreter. Often /bin/bash. If the target of that path is not found,

RE: [CentOS] Checking badblocks using KS

2007-07-18 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Hi All, Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.? One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while using RH 7.2. This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in CentOS. Is there an