Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:36 -0800, MHR wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Mhr wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:11 -0800: I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I

Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread William L. Maltby
snip Having read the rest of the posts, maybe you can recover the critical pieces by going to the bill site again. Most that I use allow a payment history display. If what you're looking for is a saved confirmation of you activity, maybe that will do. Many of those I use show the post date and

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:44 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: I am trying to get the x86_64 isos of CentOS-5.2. I wish to use bittorrent. The last time that I did this I required the bittorent package from Dag's repository. I have configured /etc/yum.repos.d/DagWieers.repo thus: [dag]

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:07 -0800, MHR wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I am trying to get the x86_64 isos of CentOS-5.2. I wish to use bittorrent. The last time that I did this I required the bittorent package from Dag's repository.

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:23 -0800, MHR wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, William L. Maltby snip Note that the protect=0 is needed for priorities to work. This is only true if you have both the yum-protectbase and yum-priorities plugins installed, in which case you should remove

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 01:34 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: find . -exec grep -q $1 '{}' \; -print ./found_files I think you can have only one action (either -exec or -print), but not sure about it. Anyway, my first instinct when things are Ought

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

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: SYNOPSIS: Bug between Firefox and gnome-default-applications-properties somewhere. When FF is set to check to see if it is the default browser and it is not and the user selects Yes to make it the default, FF writes

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

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 16:49 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-22, 23:49 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: I presume this completes the triage process? Now, who reports I hope this bug is publicly visible https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471193 It is. otherwise just yes, IMHO

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 22:58 +0100, Mariusz wrote: Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhel-4 on centos5? I've never used it anywhere. But I learned from watching the list to google first.

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 23:23 +0100, Mariusz wrote: i checked google.. but i found only on centos 4, my question was: on centos 5, so please don't be malicious ;) I didn't hink I was being malicious. I looked again and found lots of combinations of CentOS 5 and tripwire. Most would not have

Re: [CentOS] [OT SOLVED... sort of] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
. On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: SYNOPSIS: Bug between Firefox and gnome-default-applications-properties somewhere. When FF is set to check to see if it is the default browser

Re: [CentOS] no sound after hibernation

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:41 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: I am not getting any sound after hibernating snip Have you tried running gnome-volume-control and checking if anything is muted? Right-click the volume control icon. -- Bill ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:56 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-22, 00:11 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: He had tried vesa in a parameter to system-config-display, as suggested by Alan, and it hadn't worked. So I figured try something that _ought_ to work on stuff even 10 years old

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

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: snip Matej, Last we communicated on this, no resolution yet. I've done all the things you suggested and I now believe a bug in either FF or T'bird. Thread starts here http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/068837.html

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

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
this completes the triage process? Now, who reports and where? :-) Bill On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:43 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-22, 17:58 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: Other folks chimed in at various points, so you might want to take a gander at those too. I think I saw couple

[CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 22:48 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit : If you get to single-user with a boot (adding the 1 in grub edit mode), alternate consoles will have some stuff of possible value. CTRL-ALT-Fx (where the Fx is function key F1

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 00:33 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-21, 22:38 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: Note that I changed vesa to vga since the card mentions only vga. Forget about VGA, it is really obsolete now -- all graphic cards you are likely to encounter in the wild are VESA

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 18:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: snip Try running: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem. snip it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK.

[CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
Ran yum update this A.M. Got this. Is it a problem for rpmforge, CentOS or just me? Maybe not a problem at all? /etc/ld.so.conf.d files are box stock, so there were no clues there. TIA for any insight. === Running Transaction Updating :

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:43 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:05, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link This message is not generated by yum, but by ldconfig (as the message itself

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:42 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:05 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: Ran yum update this A.M. Got this. Is it a problem for rpmforge, CentOS or just me? Maybe not a problem at all? Bill: I have PUP running

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:51 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:46 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, snip One of the steps ldconfig does is creating symbolic links for libraries, using the name that is hard-coded inside the library. I'm going to test

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0500: What key combination would get me going or to a shell? Probably none. If it doesn't react to

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:02 -0800, MHR wrote: snip Thanks I needed that! You know that one Aw Shit wipes out 1000 'Atta Boys. Now I have one in the bank - 999 to go! ;-) So, like an idiot, after I had everything back up and running, I tried it again. It _couldn't_ happen twice.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA On my 5.2

Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:48 +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: Can't you just add an entry to /etc/inittab? This worked well for me On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Greg Bailey gbai...@lxpro.com wrote: Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific process is alive

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh kbsi...@centos.org wrote: Barry Brimer wrote: chkconfig yum on service yum start yum-cron ? yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ??? Just run a yum available for all my repos. No

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:46 -0800, MHR wrote: snip [mrich...@swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:11 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, December 9, 2008 4:54 pm, William L. Maltby wrote: sni Just an FYI: since I hadn't checked recently, I did an open file in FF and picked a local PDF. All work. I could read it, save copy, etc. snip -- All of my

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:29 -0500, John wrote: snip All of my settings look good in FF. Adobe plugin is enabled. Under apps I have tried setting it to always ask, adobe, and the default evince. If I open a local pdf in FF this will open. However if I attempt to open off of the internet

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:30 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: snip Ok. I can open PDFs from the web. We use squirrelmail for email and when trying to open a pdf within email I only get the save option. Sorry for the confusion I just assumed it was like this out on the internet as well. NP. Glad you

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 20:16 -0500, Max Hetrick wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Actually, I can play Flash videos alright. Only they have no sound. Other apps like mplayer or xmms do have sound. Which leaves me clueless. I was just thinking maybe there was something wrong with flash plugin

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:01 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox but firefox will only let me save the file. Under applications I have tried using the doc reader and adobe to associate

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:55 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, December 9, 2008 3:49 pm, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:01 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:46 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip With all this, when I click on a PDF, all works as expected. Can you provide the link you're having problems with? Most of my downloads are at a site that starts the process with a jave application, so I don't often just click

Re: [CentOS] Running on 8G CF card

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:07 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Rick wrote: snip dmesg isn't a file, its a program thats dumping the kernel message buffer. how do you live 'tail' it? # dmesg|tail -f usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at :00:00.0.

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 18:55 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and handles hard-links efficiently. I'm

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 22:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command You probably mean telinit 3 and telinit 5. Yep. My fingers (or brain) slurred that one! :-( But we are talking

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

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Same _bad_ behavior occurs on first attempt after doing below! Details below. On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: I was able to _start_ a comparison process

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:21 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. yum update will do it for you. Normally, you will

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

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:42 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I ran an rpm --verify, as root. I didn't see anything that _I_ could relate to the problem, but my insight is limited here. I do note that some errors have crept in over time that I will now need to pursue. Started checking

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Matt wrote: I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if snip no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually recommend

[CentOS] Prelink woes: libs not found that are (apparently) present.

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Pursuing some rpm verify errors exposed while investigating my T'bird/FF problem, a prelink -am gives this, and other, error. prelink: /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin: Could not find one of the dependencies Ran # ldd /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin|grep 'not found'

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar

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

2008-12-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. What is the output of the command mozilla-plugin-config -l # mozilla-plugin-config -l -bash: mozilla-plugin-config

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

2008-12-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 09:56 -0500, Germán Andrés Pulido F. wrote: I have seen this exact same behavior under Fedora 9. it seems the bug is with firefox for some reason. It will happens when clicking over a link opens firefox. If firefox is already open, it works OK. I've found no solution

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:07 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship. Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't

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

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

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:35 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship. Running a Thunderbird mail client (could

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:09 +0300, A. Kirillov wrote: Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship. Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:48 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-05, 13:22 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: Got second cup of coffee downed and went to see if the bug was known here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific\ order=relevance+descbug_status

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Timeout problem

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:02 -0600, Mark Snyder wrote: snip Thanks for the suggestions so far, but so far nothing has helped. Did you ever try the removal of the splashimage thingy I noticed? I had quickly perused info grub and could not find that documented therein. Mark snip -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 14:53 -0500, Andrew Hull wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a location using a CentOS 5 server that's multihomed running Asterisk and iptables for internal web access. Recently some sales people got busted surfing some explicit content so the owner wants

Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:35 -0500, Andrew Hull wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip I'm not sure if the latest has all the features OP is seeking, but I've been using IPCop for ages with NP snip Hi Bill, I've never used IPCop (opting for m0n0wall instead), but I was under

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:16 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:48 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: snip need m ore copy portion Strange. I am a bug triager of (among others) all gecko-related bugs in the RH bugzilla, and I cannot recall to hear about a bug like

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:41 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Matěj et al, I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. Details follow. But first, one more piece of background. In response to the previous thread I mentioned, I had saved a copy of the pluginreg.dat

Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:47 -0800, MHR wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On top of all that, I'm relatively inexperienced at that stuff and am not sure what all is meant by a content filter. From my ignorant POV, being able to stop

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

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:41 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Geez Louise! Went back to the original problem desktop. Did a find plug\* -ls in the .mozilla directory. The current pluginreg.dat was 65 bytes. Fired up FF from the desktop, went to T'bird, clicked the link. Went to tools-add

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Timeout problem

2008-12-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:44 -0600, Mark Snyder wrote: I recently installed CentOS 5.1 on a DL71 ASI notebook. After my yum update the timeout parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf file has no effect. It sits at the grub screen forever unless I press the enter key to select a kernel, at

Re: [CentOS] My God, it is full of stars

2008-12-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:07:08 +0100: What is? The new CentOS mail server is, which coincidentally also hosts the mailing lists you are reading right now. I recognized the switch must have been happened once I

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:50 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:15 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: snip Hi again all, There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of battery backup didn't last long enough to cover,

Re: [CentOS] Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?

2008-11-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:14 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: From a different list: JRE from SUN is getting depracated: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html; Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most

Re: [CentOS] Correctly setting up sound with Intel High Definition ICH7

2008-11-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 21:51 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, Earlier this day I started a thread about Skype not working with outgoing sound. Now I wonder if it's not a problem with my soundcard. I had a vague suspicion about this, but since it's way off the original topic, I decided to

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:45 -0600, Alex White wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:02:21 +0100 Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Rob Townley a écrit : Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking outgoing sound? Funny, I never gave

[CentOS] kbs-CentOS-Testing gnucash: status for CentOS 5?

2008-11-22 Thread William L. Maltby
I decided I would like to try GnuCash on my 5.x desktop system. I did an available list and got this gnucash.i3862.2.4-1.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi gnucash-docs.noarch 2.2.0-2.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi Did a yum --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing install gnucash\* That

Re: [CentOS] kbs-CentOS-Testing gnucash: status for CentOS 5?

2008-11-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 15:17 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: I figured I had forgot to install the gpg key, so I did that. Well, now I have to instances of that key. When I try to remove one copy, # rpm -e gpg-pubkey-3e13cf5b-422eea1c error

Re: [CentOS] how can I stress a server?

2008-11-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:38 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: snip I'm sitting with a very expensive paper weight right now, and I don't know what todo. The same websites are running very well on a machine with a Gigabyte G31MX-S motherboard + 4GB DDRII 800 RAM + C2D 6750 CPU. This is what baffles

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-11-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 00:54 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote: snip I don't know if this applies to the specific OP issue, but a recent thread here http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2008-November/002056.html touches on similar issues. I post because I thought it might be generally useful to

Re: [CentOS] Timeout for a script

2008-11-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 05:37 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:54 +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: How could I make a script time out after nn minutes, if it's not finished by then? snip Do man bash and search for trap. For those not familiar, it can be a little confusing

Re: [CentOS] Timeout for a script

2008-11-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:54 +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: How could I make a script time out after nn minutes, if it's not finished by then? The practical context: I have a dozen or so of backup scripts in a directory daily, and they are run by cron like this: 0 23 * * 1-6 run-parts

Re: [CentOS] can I use 2 HDD's with the same LVM labels at the same time?

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 23:51 -0800, nate wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Basically, most HDD's are setup the same, but I want to add another HDD to the same server, and use data on both HDD's. So, do I rename System with vgrename then? If your wanting to add a new disk to the same volume

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Problem with widescreen display

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:20 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008 22:08, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Basically, what I did was to run system-config-display to reconfigure for the new monitor and resolution. All goes well, but after X restarts, I see a strange picture: the

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:11 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 19:56:52 Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 19:45:32 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told

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

2008-11-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:59:02PM +, Ned Slider wrote: Hi all, One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS and everything that

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

2008-11-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:25 -0500, Steve Tindall wrote: snip When looking for a reference to post in response to a question, I often find it hard to locate questions in the FAQs that I know exist, but sometimes that's because of the web vs. wiki FAQs issue (i.e., I'm looking in the wrong

[CentOS] A broader CentOS information sharing issue? [ Was What's an Enterprise class OS ]

2008-11-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 08:55 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: snip Many of you on this mailing list may still remember the longish thread regarding the writing of a HowTo rpmbuild article. At that time, I quoted several forum posts to demonstrate the fact that we repeatedly *type* the same answer

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:30 -0800, John Thomas wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 automatically starts with a gdm greeter. I would like Ctrl-Alt-F8 to be the same, but I cannot figure it out. Would you offer some tips? The purpose is to allow others to simply switch over and log into a machine

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:59 -0800, John Thomas wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip I am running 5.x. I will test and if it works put it to run at boot. It won't. Check out /etc/inittab. Near the end is prefdm. That checks for preferences and starts it up. My 5.x has no xdm on it. I presume

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?]

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Oops! Sent this to myself by mistake. ---BeginMessage--- On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:15 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip You'll probably need to read the info or man pages for that (if any: otherwise various local *docs* directories or the Xorg website or google will be needed) and set up

RE: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 16:32 -0500, David Ross wrote: snip There many factors which impact database i/o performance. You are comparing two probably dissimilar i/o paths. Configuration differences (disk, controller, connection, kernel parameters) may be part of the problem. Physical vs.

RE: [CentOS] mock

2008-11-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:38 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] mock Hi, On Wed,

RE: [CentOS] mock

2008-11-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:38 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: snip Yes it does. You could have found that out with yum yourself. ]$ yum list available yourself\* Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, : fedorakmod, kernel-module, priorities,

RE: [CentOS] mock

2008-11-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:57 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby snip From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger snip Yes it does

Re: [CentOS] pup update for mplayer: missing dependency libizo.so.1

2008-11-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:52 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: I am updating my daughters CentOS 5.2 box. When pup was Resolving Dependencies, I got an error for mplayer: Missing dependency. libizo.so.1 is needed by package mplayer. Questions: (a) Where do I get that file? (b) How do I install it?

Re: [CentOS] Closing a multi-session disk

2008-11-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:27 +, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a disk which is not being recognised for reading, and I suspect that it may be a multi-session disk which has not been closed. K3b seems to agree with me, since it lists it as an appendable data cd. However, I can't find any

Re: [CentOS] Problem with widescreen display

2008-11-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 22:08 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I have a dual boot CentOS 5.2 / FC4 machine, and recently I have bought a new widescreen tft monitor. I used to use a plain 4:3 crt, and after plugging the 16:9 tft naturally X needed reconfiguring. This was easy in FC4, and seemed

Re: [CentOS] Re: Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: In older BSD systems (eg around SunOS 4 times or before) swap space was utilised oddly; all memory was allocated from swap, so you needed _at least_ physmem of swap just to use all your real memory! So if you

Re: [CentOS] Question re RHEL 5.3

2008-10-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 17:59 -0700, MHR wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only issue I've ever seen has been with the on-board fakeraid stuff more and more vendors seem to be adding. I've been using SATA disks with centos since the early 4.x

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:31 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution? s/on/one/ - before someone else jumps on me :-) He-he! So you meant Who's

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

2008-10-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 20:51 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:40 -0700, MHR wrote: Heck, it's bad enough I talk to myself audibly Well, my grandma used to say it's OK to talk to yourself, but if you start answering yourself you're in trouble. Following this theory,

RE: [CentOS] Re: [OT] Contents of CentOS digest...

2008-10-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:16 +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote: William L. Maltby scribbled on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:13 PM: Geez! You guys hammer on others all the time, but then you forget to edit the subject line when replying to digests, as requested by TPB. TPB?? The Pirate Bay? Arrrgh

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:15 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: snip Reduce the filesystem to 78G or 79G with resize2fs, then reduce the LV to 80G, then grow the ext3 filesystem again to fill all the LV. This should make it safer when cutting the LV. That's what I always do. It eliminates

[CentOS] OT - Please don't feed the Troll(s)

2008-10-29 Thread William L. Maltby
Folks, I fully understand the emotional need to respond to one who throws around terms like Communist, Tyrannical, etc. even if ostensibly framed as a rhetorical question. Certain terms and phrases are by nature pejorative and I;m sure the OP knew this when he entered his post. My feeling was

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:21 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ian Masters wrote: which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. All this raised a question in my mind.

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:21 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ian Masters wrote: which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all. ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. Although I disagree, some on this list

Re: [CentOS] Simple audio recording app?

2008-10-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to get my microphone to work (mainly to use it with Skype). I've just been looking for a simple audio recording app, as I vaguely remember having seen such

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

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote: snip Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades involved fork lifts. I tried to stay out of this thread, I really did. But the forklift

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

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, K, M) s/M/not M/ -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: snip It did the job too. It was several years before we upgraded to a S360/50 with 512K (IIRC). And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50. The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of 20 jobs

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