Re: [CentOS] x25 line xterm

2011-02-04 Thread Todd Denniston
edHat there was an editable > option to change the number of displayable > lines as is done in putty. > > > Any suggestions? > > --Hal. > find the info in man about size. man xterm /geometry /geometry and /geometry /geometry -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Todd Denniston
LY forced with the USB to not be a module and let the other modules be provided by the contents of the original initrd. secondary trick, change all the "%define build*"s in the spec file that you don't need to 0. it speeds up the build a lot. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, N

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread Todd Denniston
an. /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron /etc/anacrontab /etc/updatedb.conf ls /etc/cron.* -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

2011-01-06 Thread Todd Denniston
h broken proxies truncating DVDs that are 4GB like happened with CentOS 5.5. Added bonus... unlike bittorent, no ISPs block or mess with jigdo's traffic. Granted, I don't know how much of the community would make use of them and they take some cpu+labor time to generate. -- Todd D

Re: [CentOS] pcscd

2010-11-29 Thread Todd Denniston
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 11/29/2010 05:20 PM: > Todd Denniston wrote: >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 11/22/2010 02:21 PM: >>> Anyone working with/using it? One thing that's driving me nuts is that >>> it keeps spitting garbage into the logs (card absent or mute!!!

Re: [CentOS] pcscd

2010-11-29 Thread Todd Denniston
hich is where the fellow who maintains pcsc hangs out and he may have some incantation for you. http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle Hope this helps. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Har

Re: [CentOS] How to stop automount

2010-11-17 Thread Todd Denniston
brings up a window titled "Removable Drives and Media Preferences" and un-check the "Mount removable media when inserted" and the "Burn a CD or DVD when a blank disk is inserted" so that I can work with rewritable CD/DVD media the way I want. -- Todd Denniston Crane Divisio

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Todd Denniston
sh/id_rsa.priv is readable only by the user. assumption 4: someone has not configured the other machine to disallow keyed login (nuts, but could happen. PubkeyAuthentication no?). have you done `ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa.priv` before you ssh? what does ssh-add -L and ssh-add -l give? -- Todd Denn

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Todd Denniston
\ date ; hwclock --show ; date 4) run hwclock --systohc; \ date -u ; hwclock --show --utc; date -u ; \ date ; hwclock --show ; date 5) wait 23 more minutes 6) run date -u ; hwclock --show --utc; date -u ; \ date ; hwclock --show ; date if at 3 and 6 the utc versions of date and hwclock are in sync, then

Re: [CentOS] RPM/YUM on CentOS 5.4 issue - multiple versions of the same package installed

2010-11-15 Thread Todd Denniston
nstalling one >> package will remove the previous verison. Is there any way to prevent >> this issue? >> >> We're using CentOS 5.4 on x86_64 >> > Any suggestion, guys? > > Thanks > > Gabriel > The fedora folks have a pretty thorough how to: htt

Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes

2010-11-03 Thread Todd Denniston
eplacement hassle now? Only YOU (and the data owner) know the risk trade-off levels you have to consider. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] grub irritants

2010-11-01 Thread Todd Denniston
g kernel ]. And I have never had a problem getting rid of rhgb, which I do on all most all machines I admin. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-25 Thread Todd Denniston
Gordon Messmer wrote, On 10/24/2010 04:20 PM: > On 10/22/2010 01:08 PM, Todd Denniston wrote: > ... >> 5) root_squash is in play > ... >> 2) Open up the _read_ perms on authorized_keys >> 3a) IIRC you _may_ also have to open up the _read_ perms on ~/.ssh >> 3b) II

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Todd Denniston
you _may_ also have to open up the _read_ perms on ~/.ssh 3b) IIRC you _may_ also have to open up the exec perms on ~/.ssh If you have to do one of 3a or 3b, try each individually and only give as much as you have to. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfa

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-19 Thread Todd Denniston
ODBC" http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?65,148441,148441 * OK, I often come at problems from a different direction. * -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-18 Thread Todd Denniston
t to remote host: Connection timed out > ✈dcl:~$ > > are you coming to it from a 178.63.65.* or from a private IP (even if through a NAT)? i.e. could there be one of those router things that does not pass private IP traffic on through between you and it? :) Grasping at a straw tha

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-18 Thread Todd Denniston
case you were not aware of it, you could run NTP on one of them using local clock if you don't have a good trust able time server available for some reason. Also making your DHCP machines NTP peers would be good too. Or are you talking about some other type of time? -- Todd Denniston Crane

Re: [CentOS] Radeon HD 4550 driver

2010-10-08 Thread Todd Denniston
then I can't find a way to post eyes> > > Thanks, James. > > mark >> - Original Message - >> | Upgraded the kernel to the latest, then tried to rebuild the >> | proprietary >> | Catalyst driver for a Radeon HD 4550 on a Dell Optip

Re: [CentOS] metafont on CentOS 5?

2010-09-08 Thread Todd Denniston
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote, On 09/08/2010 07:05 AM: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Todd Denniston wrote: >> >>> is there an available package for CentOS5 which provides the metafont >>> command, or a replacement? What is the name and which repo? please. >> The c

[CentOS] metafont on CentOS 5?

2010-09-07 Thread Todd Denniston
not seem to be available. tetex provides the /usr/share/texmf/metafont directory structure, but not a */bin/metafont... Thanks. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-03 Thread Todd Denniston
and try it, just to have that reassuring feeling of having seen it in action myself, as so far I have only come to that point where the NEXT update would be the one which got me. :) -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing t

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-02 Thread Todd Denniston
s which can conspire to cause reboot trouble (with the kernel) with long uptimes 1) automatic updates by yum-updatesd 2) small (only 3) installonly_limit If you are not careful, the last known working kernel is gone when you go to reboot. :( I usually am mindful of both of these settings. -- Todd D

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Todd Denniston
the display from lshw > > Oh, and I *do* have to do at DOD full sanitization: I work at a US gov't > agency, and the machine's being surplused > > mark > Suggestion, check with your local DRMO (or whatever they are calling themselves now) representative a

Re: [CentOS] System beeps in kernel 2.6.18-194

2010-08-25 Thread Todd Denniston
nel-`uname -r` kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5xen seems to have the same info to me. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Todd Denniston
_64 (of course this is without trimming the 450MB that repomanage --nocheck -k1 -o i386/ might tell you about if the mirror is maintained with out rsync) current epel 3.7Gi386 4.2Gx86_64 -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-17 Thread Todd Denniston
Jason Pyeron wrote, On 08/12/2010 09:27 AM: > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Todd Denniston >> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:07 >> Jason Pyeron wrote, On 08/12/2010 08:01 AM: >> Assumption: the time servers that you are following >&

Re: [CentOS] tar - ssh - standard out

2010-08-12 Thread Todd Denniston
a slow link it could >> make a substantial difference. > > Just add gzip (or bzip2) to the pipeline: > > program | bzip2 | ssh -q remote-host 'bunzip2 | remote-program' > > or even easier (though maybe not as good a compression as bzip would get if dealing with t

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Todd Denniston
uld be that you don't get any local clock loops in the setup because you have a defined leader, but if even the defined leader is lost the other machines should do a stable drift. suggestion 2: 65, 66 & 67 should ALL peer with one another for added stability in the time farm. suggestion 3:

Re: [CentOS] Scripting for Centos security advisory database

2010-08-11 Thread Todd Denniston
VEs: see URL, yes or empty (unless fills a CentOS tracker item too). Description : Upstream details URL from announce msg. Files: Well, what did the build from SRPM produce for this arch? Over all at least have it so yum update-minimal would work, and full details elsewhere? -- Tod

Re: [CentOS] sshd bug?

2010-08-11 Thread Todd Denniston
or concern (even if it is too late, for you now), is if that box is serving NIS/LDAP to an older sunos/solaris/[other old Unix] system (how IT would be up to to date security wise is another question), then you may have a problem if the sun has not been updated to handle MD5 pa

Re: [CentOS] yum-fastestmirror inconsistent exclude behavior

2010-08-06 Thread Todd Denniston
epositories available after exclusions reaches 0, the first [0 index] mirror passed to you is used anyway instead of reporting no mirrors available and exiting. see fastestmirror.py lines 194-216. [hoping my reading is not too far off :] -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Cente

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-05 Thread Todd Denniston
JohnS wrote, On 08/05/2010 11:24 AM: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:04 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: >> You speak of transactions in a way that makes me think you are dealing with >> databases. >> If this is the case, then I suggest you take a few searches over to the drbd >&

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-05 Thread Todd Denniston
erstands the transactions. ** http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/ -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-04 Thread Todd Denniston
hink. If Gluster is doing the mirror of "Server1 md0 to Server2..." by itself, then yes adding DRBD to it would be a bit overkill, as I would be having DRBD setup to do something similar. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-04 Thread Todd Denniston
es above that someone would want to look at. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-08-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Ron Blizzard wrote, On 07/30/2010 05:16 PM: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Todd Denniston > wrote: > >> Best use for LVM I have seen... >> Reducing the number of times you need to enter the LUKS pass phrase to once >> per boot, i.e., one LUKS >> containing

Re: [CentOS] Announce list digest ??

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Denniston
indicate the primary/secondary yum *mirrors* were ready to be pulled from. Now I miss it. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Denniston
as an independent /home, /etc/crypttab can be used (with appropriately constructed and protected cryptpassphrase files). -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___

Re: [CentOS] ip address from range script

2010-07-29 Thread Todd Denniston
l you want. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-December/087863.html and (If I read correctly) it is available in EPEL http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-December/087866.html -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Te

Re: [CentOS] wget and resulting filenames with mirror option

2010-07-28 Thread Todd Denniston
rror ---cut-dirs=2 -no-host-directories \ http://example.com/subdir1/subdir2/fileiwant -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-19 Thread Todd Denniston
you distinguish between the different hosts. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Todd Denniston
___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] free

2010-07-14 Thread Todd Denniston
ate that. ***I don't remember which is the correct term to search. but this link has two sets of source to show the difference: http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessi

Re: [CentOS] Project Management Solutions

2010-07-12 Thread Todd Denniston
l database. see planner -> Help -> Configuring a Planner database Used in a non Group way, I have found Planner to be an adequate replacement for Project. it looks like there have been some SQL fixes since the version included with CentOS 5.X http://live.gnome.org/Planner -- Todd Dennis

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread Todd Denniston
with MIN_SPEED= -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Todd Denniston
com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user [2] http://www.drbd.org/docs/applications/ http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/ch-gfs.html#s-gfs-primer http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/ch-ocfs2.html#s-ocfs2-primer -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Todd Denniston
ixed but not in the same way, i.e., contact upstream and ask if the reasons for the patches has gone away so you don't need to patch for it anymore? Would the upstream be interested in integrating the patches, or similar functionality changes, for you? Would the upstream be interested in inte

Re: [CentOS] how to install ip6tables?

2010-06-01 Thread Todd Denniston
es? rpm -e a package? chkconfig ip6tables off? My starting point for understanding this problem would be***: /sbin/chkconfig --list |grep tables rpm -qa iptables\* yum info iptables\* *** of course you'll understand the appropriate man pages before executing what some random

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-06-01 Thread Todd Denniston
Not saying there is not a problem, but perhaps there is a problem in a deeper place that needs reported to the appropriate folks. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Todd Denniston
ll it not to install grub and then do a > grub-install from a rescue prompt afterwards? > painful, but possible. Hopefully enough clues to be helpful. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Pow

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4 - it's that fine SELinux

2010-05-25 Thread Todd Denniston
planations (at least to my opinion). If you get an answer that helps, please drop a URL pointer line back on this thread. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-25 Thread Todd Denniston
to keep the SE permissions intact as you copy/edit the file. i.e. you may need to: A) restorecon /etc/init.d/smb and any other samba files that you have copied/edited. B) look in one of the /var/log/ files for selinux messages when you are starting samba. Good luc

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Todd Denniston
Weiner, Michael wrote, On 05/24/2010 11:38 AM: > Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:15 AM > >> BTW had your support contract ran out with Dell/RH? > > We do have support on the box, but don't purchase a RHEL license and we > run CentOS instead > >> y

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Todd Denniston
t the $HOME directory stuff off that I failed to copy off > before removing the disk? > > > > Thanks in advance > > Michael > -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-21 Thread Todd Denniston
nt-eth#.conf when it builds the file. Can you tell I ran into this problem recently? :{ -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked

2010-05-20 Thread Todd Denniston
ng Fedora 1 machines with DRBD as an NFS server). man fuser "-m ... All processes accessing files on that file system are listed. ..." man lsof -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 ISO size vs RHEL

2010-05-19 Thread Todd Denniston
Karanbir Singh wrote, On 05/19/2010 01:11 PM: > On 05/19/2010 05:15 PM, Todd Denniston wrote: >>> We use CentOS and RHEL, the 5.5 RHEL ISO for x86_64 is 3.7GB (**), the >>> CentOS one >>> is 4602MB (***) split over two DVDs. Is this reasonable and correct? >&g

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 ISO size vs RHEL

2010-05-19 Thread Todd Denniston
VD-1of2.iso + CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso > (according to ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64 ) perhaps the following will help in understanding. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25548&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=29 -- Todd Denniston Crane

Re: [CentOS] disable autofs timeout

2010-05-11 Thread Todd Denniston
what applications are you having autocompletion issues with? I have been using autofs for ~15 years and have only had issues with soft mounting causing data corruption. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] dhclient.conf being ignored!

2010-05-04 Thread Todd Denniston
s to be failing on how to build dhclient-enter-hooks for the purpose (if that would even help). anyone got better suggestions than: a) mod /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth to build /etc/dhclient-$(DEVICE).conf combining the options I want. b) brute forcing things with `chattr +i /etc/ntp.

Re: [CentOS] Software Protection on centos

2010-05-03 Thread Todd Denniston
ps use TrueCrypt there if you KNOW they are out to get you. TrueCrypt is also useful if you need to share a partition with certain Non-Unix operating systems. You do need to select the LUKS encryption when you do the CentOS install. -- Todd Denniston C

Re: [CentOS] need help: about remove space

2010-04-30 Thread Todd Denniston
ight try : > cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' | wc -l > > or if you want the names into a second file : > cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' > fileB > > Regards, > > Michel Or if you don't mind loosing replicates: cat bigfile |s

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-20 Thread Todd Denniston
s. > > Thanks david As stated earlier: The following links may be of some use for an attempt at "blanking" the disk before reuse. DVD+RW http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html#AEN25355 Of course the source of growisofs may be of use http://fy.cha

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread Todd Denniston
like, from my quick read, DVD-RW may need an explicit blank before reuse Of course the source of growisofs may be of use http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighte

Re: [CentOS] ssh-agent

2010-04-06 Thread Todd Denniston
; mark > from my other email... 12) ... i.e. understand /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common kicks it off for you. ... in runlevel 5, not sure if it does so in any other runlevel. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ssh-agent

2010-04-06 Thread Todd Denniston
ur CentOS box is setup the way I think it is. i.e. understand /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common kicks it off for you. 13) we should see a delta in the agent PID from report 1 to report 2. 14) we should see only one agent in both reports. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ssh-agent

2010-04-06 Thread Todd Denniston
the appropriate variables in the environment. I don't think I had to do anything special at install time to have gdm kick that off as I log in. This instance does end with the end of my sessions. Hope that helps. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division,

Re: [CentOS] fsck problems

2010-03-23 Thread Todd Denniston
. considering "Checking root filesystem" is where the error shows up, I would be a) reading `man rpm` and b) running some variation of for i in `all the packages installed`; \ do \ echo "looking at $i"; \ rpm -V $i;\ done > howbadismysystem.txt 2>&1 or rpm -Va > confusin

Re: [CentOS] fsck problems

2010-03-22 Thread Todd Denniston
gt; >>> Not yet ~ >> why not? >> >> try reading the bottom of this page: >> http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 >> >> it's publicly readable, unlike your link. >> -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Wa

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Todd Denniston
better applications than top for seeing where the processors are spending their time, but my brain is mush for remembering them right now. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technolog

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

2010-02-01 Thread Todd Denniston
-count-links /* du -shxc --apparent-size /* du -shxc --count-links --apparent-size /* -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] APC Smart-ups "status codes" (slightly OT)

2010-02-01 Thread Todd Denniston
o seem to indicate that you may be down to either soft or manual runtime calibration: http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#battery-replacement http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#battery-installation http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#soft-runtime-calibration http://www.apcup

[CentOS] Help finding the X man page.

2010-01-11 Thread Todd Denniston
ue-by-four available? [1] http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/X.7.html -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

[CentOS] Cent5 SELinux impacts on home exports when restoring from older systems are?

2009-12-08 Thread Todd Denniston
-selinux.html of mild use. Thanks for any advise/informative URLs. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Todd Denniston
autofs list thread will point to something for Eric: subject: "[autofs] ldap and reloading" http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/autofs/2009-June/005775.html http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/autofs/2009-June/005779.html BTW the 'how to' debug Autofs is at: http://people.redha

Re: [CentOS] High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?

2009-11-20 Thread Todd Denniston
Benjamin Smith wrote, On 11/18/2009 06:11 PM: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:37:24 Todd Denniston wrote: >> Benjamin Smith wrote, On 11/17/2009 01:46 PM: >>> See comments below... >>> >>> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:52:01 Todd Denniston wrote: >>>&

Re: [CentOS] High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?

2009-11-17 Thread Todd Denniston
Benjamin Smith wrote, On 11/17/2009 01:46 PM: > See comments below... > > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:52:01 Todd Denniston wrote: >> Benjamin Smith wrote, On 11/16/2009 10:56 PM: >>> I have a 1TB USB drive plugged into a USB2 port that I use to back up the >>

Re: [CentOS] High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?

2009-11-17 Thread Todd Denniston
d reduce the processor list #to just 3 or 4 instead of both. #3 don't update atime # (should at worst be a minor thing, and you say that # the usb mounted file system is responsive, # but perhaps it would help some.) mount -oremount,noatime /media/backups/ I have not had the taskset of the

Re: [CentOS] 2 TB limit on USB drive

2009-11-16 Thread Todd Denniston
USB disk and the ability to submit bugs on a subscription to that prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. (or see if a proven change could be put in a CentOS plus kernel[module]) -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Tech

Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment

2009-11-16 Thread Todd Denniston
bash . ./func-file MyLN=$LINENO Line ... it should be $LINENO LineO ... it should be $LINENO - -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 with Rage

2009-11-09 Thread Todd Denniston
ardware with some live CD's and BZ the results. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00106.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532842 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493441 I would have piled on, with info from a live CD, but my bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] mock, extras vs epel

2009-11-03 Thread Todd Denniston
7;s feedback. Off to try mock out and see if I do or don't like it. :) And do a little thinking on the relevance of using the distro version of mock. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technol

[CentOS] mock, extras vs epel

2009-11-02 Thread Todd Denniston
with the extras version instead? Or even reasons other than the shiny version number on the epel one to go with it? Is the extras version the version used by the upstream provider and thus the CentOS team keeps it around to do the matching builds? Thanks for the clarifications. -- Todd

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Denniston
worked well enough to use xemacs and >> mozilla across. Also when > > Man, talk about a time traveller! How'd you get a copy of firefox back to > when we only had Netscape? Your right, I started with Mosaic & an "andrew" mail/message program,

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Denniston
covered `ssh -C` (in combination with X or Y), to host the apps back. There was still a little lag but overall it was _much_ snappier. I have yet to use X across a vnc or with freenx so I can't comment on how they compare to `ssh -C`. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Wa

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue

2009-10-21 Thread Todd Denniston
expedient alternatively if the problem is not really the shell length, then yum localupdate /install or yum localupdate /install/* might work. https://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=118#comment90 http://fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-140404.html -- Todd Denniston Cra

Re: [CentOS] Segmentation fault

2009-09-18 Thread Todd Denniston
[I have seen a library get munged on first install, and a reinstall would fix it, but if the upgrade used the same version of the lib, it would not fix it.] Just another guess, what processor do you have? How close to being full is the disk after the 5.X install? -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Nava