Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if the kernel was

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:16 -0500, Robert wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: snip Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this. ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 May 9 2008 /boot/grub

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
snip Since *lots* of other folks have also upgraded w/NP, one makes a first assumption that something must be slightly different on your node. s/your/Kai's/ #? snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Update

2009-04-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 13:04 +0200, jarmo wrote: Oh here's some more output... yum update glibc\* yum update When I did my update I just did yum update glibc # No * and all worked well. An rpm -q --last shows glibc-common-2.5-34 Wed 01 Apr 2009 04:16:25 PM EDT along with a bunch

Re: [CentOS] hwclock and util-linux on 5.3

2009-04-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:05 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: I am getting this error: hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=16: Device or resource busy. No usable clock interface found. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Re: [CentOS] can't make - SOLVED

2009-04-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 16:57 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net wrote: I asked about 'make' as $ (I recall someone stating on a maillist that $ could 'make', but # had to 'make install'). Seems that's wrong; I had to be root to make.

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:14 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: From: centos4b...@triad.rr.com snip headers On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos desktop. When i go to the adobe site, I

Re: [CentOS] warning for nis users and 5.3 upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:04 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: i think that previous versions did this as well, but for sure the newest ypserv in 5.3 replaces /var/yp/Makefile with a new copy. needless to say if you've made any changes to that file, you will not be happy. we had a couple hours of

Re: [CentOS] warning for nis users and 5.3 upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:40 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Folks, be sure to do an updatedb and then locate rpmsave and rpmnew after upgrading the system. Then you can make sure your local changes get propagated into the updated system. If the case is a file gets overwritten, and not a

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:14 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: snip Hi there, there's really some traffic going on torrent-wise: [View: main] CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD done 3787,1 MB Rate: 928,2 / 0,0 KB Uploaded: 142450,0 MB [View: main] CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD done 4346,3 MB

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a peer? yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting DC's - which normally have good connectivity. One on

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:41 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote: If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. Happy sharing! So what is everyone using for their torrent? What

Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: However, I don't believe it needs to be made available by http, CentOS would probably be in GPL compliance if they distributed it on IBM punch cards to those who requested it. FLOPPY DISKS! FOR A

Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:21 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: John Doe wrote: From: Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de John Doe wrote: Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms included)? Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...

[CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby
For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if you have a fat pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. I have a chubby pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly earlier today. If your

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 20:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: snip need it, seemingly) and hardly anybody documents (try to find a man- page for a hw-driver...) A driver without a man page is more useful than no driver at all... And a lot more exciting and dangerous too.

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Flash Install Woes

2009-03-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 09:23 -0500, Chuck wrote: I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install. From rpm install: Running firefox as root -- I have verified there is a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins that points to the actual plugin located in

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:01 -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: Well said! I tremendously appreciate the effort the development team puts in and am not complaining one bit about how long things take. They take what they take and that is fine by me. Please do not let the negative

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 06:30 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: As a step to reducing the pressure and dissatisfaction of Are We There Yet? (When will xxx be released?), a simple publication of a projected time

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 17:49 +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: John Doe wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: [...] The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) [...]

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:56 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip It's been a long time since I dinked with this stuff, but... IIRC, there's several levels of strip. One strips everything, save for s/save/safe/ # RATS! standalone binaries (not dependent on run-time linking

Re: [CentOS] question about top output

2009-03-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 23:22 +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) wrote: ... From what I can see, this one node is running slow. I don't have any MCE entries or anything to indicate a hardware fault, it just started running slow one day, and I when I was investigating saw

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

2009-03-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 13:08 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip John: Then I believe the most important data we have are what you found a few nights ago, and the traceroute Per did from Sweden this morning (USA time) that died within the LayeredTech DC. Lanny Adding to the data, from here in

Re: [CentOS] Firefox seg faults

2009-03-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: snip Update: removed firefox and flash via yumex. removed the ~/.mozilla folder completely and started afresh. re-installed firefox - i386 version on a x86_64 system as this seem to be the safest and it works fine at home. all appears

Re: [CentOS] Firefox seg faults

2009-03-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: snip P.S. $ rpm -qa|grep fire firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.centos.i386 -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2009-03-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 14:51 -0400, James Pifer wrote: The masquerading options are for a different purpose. I'm glad you got it sorted out. Although I'm able to send mail to most people without a problem using smarthost, I still have a few that bounce back with errors like: Your

Re: [CentOS] Disk usage for small files in ext3 in CentOS 5

2009-03-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:29 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hello, I noticed something unusual today. If I du a small file (couple of bytes) in CentOS 5, it tells me the file is using 8kb, while I was expecting 4kb which is the block size I'm using. I tried this on several CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install

2009-03-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. See below - it's really hard to find.

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:14 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory

Re: [CentOS] Question about priorities

2009-03-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:02 +, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi When adding priority to a repo, like rpmforge or epel, is it better to give the same priority or can give different priority to different repos, ranking them? The purpose if priorities is to do exactly that: prevent

Re: [CentOS] Should I be worried?

2009-03-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:38 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: When doing my updates, I got this message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. 13.EL;49a Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server that sits in the corner and does it's

Re: [CentOS] Should I be worried?

2009-03-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:48 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: Bill - I did remove some of the older files (only a few) and there was then enough room to unpack the update. Is there some basic guideline on how many to remove? I suspect you have a minor mess-up in /etc/yum.conf (man yum.conf). IIRC,

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

2009-03-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 18:41 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do a simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the box after 2 minutes! Plug the PC into a stable power source, let

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

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote: Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: rpm -q synaptics 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? If not, is this laptop connected to the

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

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Sorry, I meant to change this before I sent it. The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, s/three/four/ s/Input/Command, input/ If you're not familiar with regex, the above may be meaningless to you

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

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip CRAP! Forget my other post too. Just replace interactive with command and we should be good. The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, replace and interactive. Default on startup is interactive. From

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 02:07 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:46 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We use Multitech modems exclusively, having tried many different manufacturer's modems over the years, they have consistently proved reliable

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:10:12 +0100: How can I use google to find things I am looking for? What is a google? To us uninitiated, it _must_ be somewhat like a dongle, no? Kai -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] simple if statement

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:14 +, Tom Brown wrote: Hi Below if $remaining is empty i want the if to finish - what is it i need to put in SOMETHING? if [ $remaining = ] ; then SOMETHING ; else kill -9 $remaining fi if [ -n $remaining ] ; then kill

Re: [CentOS] simple if statement

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
snip # Initialize remaing list and then set $remaining # If empty $1 is null while [ -n $1 ] ; do echo $1 # remove this kill -9 $ s/\$/$1/ # OOPS! shift done $ remaining=9997 9998 $ while [ -n $1 ] ; do echo $1 shift done 9997 9998 thanks?

Re: [CentOS] simple if statement

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:42 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Kevin Krieser wrote: You don't really need to prepend the x if the $remaining is in quotes, do you? If you didn't use quotes, then you could end up with a error if $remaining isn't set. Probably. It's just something I'm used

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:51 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37:00 William L. Maltby wrote: Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:57 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 2-27-2009 3:33 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:10:12 +0100: How can I use google to find things I am looking for? What

Re: [CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi gurus I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed - no

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:14 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: snip There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either that is wrong, or communication is failing. I've been told to try minicom

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:34 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip As to the OP original question, check BIOS settings and make sure your serial is enabled. Set it to COM 3 and IRQ 4 should work. This would s/COM 3/COM 1/ # Drat! More JAVA, more JAVA! equate to 0 in an *IX system. Look

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 12:31 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:34, William L. Maltby wrote: snip As to the OP original question, check BIOS settings and make sure your serial is enabled. Set it to COM 3 and IRQ 4 should work. This would equate to 0 in an *IX system

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:46 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: snip We use Multitech modems exclusively, having tried many different manufacturer's modems over the years, they have consistently proved reliable, and rarely give problems. The MT5634ZBA has +1 Having used many brands, Multitech has

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:55 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:02 -0500, fred smith wrote: snip Let me just throw out one caveat here: Many UPSes that use a serial port don't really utilize it to transfer serial data, but rather just raise/lower some of the signal lines to let the software on the host know something has

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:29 -0600, Robert wrote: snip breakout box. Lacking one of those, you might find the statserial program to be of some use in figuring out what the control lines are doing. # yum --enablerepo=dag install statserial will install it. It has a short man page. Run

Re: [CentOS] dell poweredge 860

2009-02-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:56 -0800, nate wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any issues with a dell poweredge 860? I have one and the NMI number is getting high. I have a digium card in the box and the NMI grows with or without the card in the box. Is it causing

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird and Firefox

2009-02-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:38 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: I have two CentOS plus x86_64 workstations that as far as possible I am trying to keep the same. One for home, one for my office. I have the 32 bit Firefox installed along with a number of plugins and have just found that firefox no

Re: [CentOS] Checking for changes

2009-02-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 14:49 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is there anything I can use to take an inventory of the filesystem before and after some process to see what's changed? OOPS! My first reply ignored the fact you wanted an inventory. I presume you mean a snapshot that you can use for a

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:02 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: 5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0 http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html states

Re: [CentOS] USB Memory Key not recognized

2009-02-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:31 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: Based on another message respecting power to the USB key I inserted it into a port located at the back of the host and it was recognized immediately. I have no idea why it is not picked up when placed into on of the front panel usb

Re: [CentOS] chkconfig path

2009-02-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 23:14 +, Didi wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Geert Batsleer batsl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to install FOG (an opensource ghostlike backup/rollout server) on a centos 5 box but at the end of the isntaller script it can't find chckconfig

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:22 -0500, Mail List wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:28 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:46 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days You'll probably get a better response, as well

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than here. you mean the list you can't find since the rpmforge website is apparently down

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 08:00 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than here. you mean

Re: [CentOS] Sound with headphones on: Streamaudio perfect but youtube and system-config-soundcard silent

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 21:13 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: This afternoon, I bought a pair of ear plugs (the large flat kind that hook onto my ears). Plugged them in to test and they work perfectly. I'm listening to

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 08:43 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I didn't mean to stir up a ruckus Not your fault at all. I know that Dag often monitors this list and on occasions when he can't/doesn't get stuff resolved at the rpmforge site

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Sound with headphones on: Streamaudio perfect but youtube and system-config-soundcard silent

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 09:52 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Bill: After I powered the box down and let it sit for awhile and then powered back up, I was able to hear the audio coming from youtube.com without any problem, as well as audio from streamaudio.com Never was able to hear the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:46 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days Is it me or is there a problem with the repository You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:39 +0200, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Here's my /boot/grub/grub.conf content: grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:17 +0200, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi William I didn't trun acpi back on (it's a sure way to freeze the computer). I did however find out that Linux ignores the RAID1 that is set by the SIL SATA card I have installed :-( See my last post (just a few minutes ago) with

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:19 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009 09:49:46 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:15 AM To: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question

2009-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:23 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: If I use system-config-display or system-config-display --reconfig although I get a message that I need to log out of GNOME, to have the new file written, for new Display Resolution, logging out or restarting the box does not result in

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question [SOLVED]

2009-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: If I use system-config-display or system-config-display --reconfig although I get a message that I need to log out of GNOME, to have the new file written,

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question [SOLVED]

2009-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:47 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: If I use

Re: [CentOS] Question about Shell Script.

2009-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:56 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 13:59, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: or for those who are used to being burned: [ 0$NUMBEROFPRO -gt 150 ] Still going to explode if $NUMBEROFPRO contains spaces. Putting in double quotes

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 00:33 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or can you get update RPMs? Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type yum upgrade and you

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:43 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Oh boy! You've heard rumors that the BIOS manufacturers are going to begin supporting file-system-specific layouts? I find that hard to swallow. Well, in theory we don't need BIOS support. The BIOS

Re: [CentOS] Problem compiling cairo-dock under CentOS 5.2

2009-01-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:14 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: snip To partially answer my own question, it appears that g_timeout_add_seconds was introduced in glib2 library, starting from version 2.14, while my current CentOS installation has version 2.12.3-2. Now, it turns out that glib2

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:43 +, Miguel Medalha wrote: snip (...) think your real problem lies in your processing software in the file ordering. I would have a really good look at the software doing it. The problem lies in EXT3. I discovered that if I mv the files to another

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

2009-01-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:06 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Miguel Medalha wrote: I hope someone familiar with the way Linux processes files can enlighten me on the following: ... On the Windows server, Distiller processes the files by filename order: M09010901A001C.ps

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:46 -0600, Tim Nelson wrote: Greetings list- I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the second. Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a special application that requires finer granularity. I know I know...

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:07 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard s...@wa4phy.net wrote: After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a back function on

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox (Solved)

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:09 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: Problem solved! Apparently, something got trashed in the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory(s). After deleting the .mozilla dir, restarted FF and all works as advertized now. Glad to hear that! Y'know those 'ritas are corrupting influences,

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS 5 support USB 1 ?

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:34 -0700, Russell Bell wrote: We upgraded our Internet server to CentOS 5 from RedHat 4. Now we can't use the USB port. dmesg returns: usbcore: deregistering driver usb-storage Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB

Re: [CentOS] Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:25 -0800, MHR wrote: snip Well, there goes the neighborhood No more fun aloud here! What's wrong with silent fun? ;-) In fact, from my experience on this list, some fun would be much more appreciated if it were silent, but not all of course. snicker mhr

Re: [CentOS] acroread = resource hog

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 00:58 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote: Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? Not here. I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources. I don't see it here. Maybe I need to look next time even though I see no

Re: [CentOS] Bugs in yum update

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:00 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:18:37 +, Tony Mountifield wrote: [...] This suggests that yum is not flushing output, possibly because it doesn't think it's stdio is on a tty. 1. Were you running yum update locally on the

Re: [CentOS] Bugs in yum update

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:40 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:36:03AM -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: When you redirected stderr, with 21 (btw, is shorthand for that) is a csh-ism and also in bash. It's not correct in other sh-like shells, so don't use it if you

Re: [CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:04 -0800, nate wrote: snip Second question - A newly installed server consisting of CentOS 5.2, straight off the DVD, I invoke a command by hand, realize I want to kill it soon after (logged in as root). I issue ps auwx|grep name_of_command, get the PID, and

Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 08:37 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: snip audacity is ready for prime time. Anyone know of any other packages that are dependent on wxGTK and need the most recent version? I don't use audicity or much that's not box stock, but maybe this helps? $ rpm -q --whatrequires

Re: [CentOS] Top and Iostat

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:43 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Matt wrote: Is there anyway to tell with top or iostat which process is hogging all the disk I/O? snip IMHO, The best way is to install and use the System Activity Reporting (SAR) system. It's native, available, as detailed or general

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:55 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: List, After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a back function on any pages or tabs. Also, I get some kind of strange message Assertion Failed

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

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:36 -0500, Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:32 pm, R P Herrold wrote: snip How about just NOT popping off with whatever little thought wanders into your head for two days running? Amen! s/!/ Brother/ snip sig stuff -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:46 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:27 -0600, Robert wrote: snip My Firefox is running just fine, too, Lanny. Seems like I recall the O.P. having problems with cross-pollinated repositories some time ago. A Firefox update history might be helpful: [r...@mavis log]# grep -i firefox*

Re: [CentOS] Top and Iostat

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 23:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:40 -0500: The best way is to install and use the System Activity Reporting (SAR) system. AFAIK, it won't show any file-specific stuff. It's been so long, I don't remember now. But I

Re: [CentOS] Creating an iso image of a audio CD with K3B

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:48 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Jay Leafey wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Can you do this? I have not found the options to get this to happen. So far I have seen how to read the Audio CD and make a directory of WAV files with a control file for later

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:23 +0100, Friedrich Clausen wrote: Hello All, At my $WORK we have lots of in-house applications used to support the services we offer to customers and we deploy these to servers as RPMS. This works well for us except we have thousands of obsolete packages in our

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation [SOLVED].

2009-01-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 19:00 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 14:22, Alain PORTAL a écrit : Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 13:47, William L. Maltby a écrit : Have you run a memtest86(?). memtest86 found several errors during test #5. No more time today to test

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation [SOLVED].

2009-01-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: Le mardi 06 janvier 2009, William L. Maltby a écrit : I'm glad it worked out. I took the liberty of adding [SOLVED] to the subject line to help others that may have a similar problem in the future. Oups! Sorry, I should have to do

Re: [CentOS] Log File Reviewing

2009-01-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:40 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: to match one or more, use + instead of *. * matches 0 or more, + matches 1 or more. Thanks! snip So gawk does all that sed does and more? I suppose I can start with Tons. You can write fairly complex programs with (g)awk. It

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:36 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:53, Lanny Marcus a écrit : As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you download the Live CD for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it doesn't run on the Live CD, it probably

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:27 -0800, MHR wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing - it seems to work

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:09 -0800, MHR wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: As to the in use part, I'll make a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess). With a normal desktop, when you insert a CD/DVD that has something recognizable

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