Re: [CentOS] compare directories

2008-10-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:53 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, I have two mirrors. I need to compare files and directories on both mirrors and as a result print list of those which are missing on mirror 2 What i did find /data find.mirror1 find /data find.mirror2 Now i

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:14 +0100, Obantec Support wrote: - Original Message - From: William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip hdr stuff That makes me think OP did a yum install mysql instead of a yum group install. Per the output in my previous post, default packages

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 14:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:33:23 -0400: Hmm. I wonder then if that is a bug in CentOS. Since the default shown from the earlier posts indicates that several other pieces, including the server daemon, should come

Re: [CentOS] command line escaping a dash

2008-10-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: I cannot figure this out... I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash... # chown Administrator \-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more

Re: [CentOS] command line escaping a dash

2008-10-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:22 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip In most cases, putting a single '-' signals the last flag and says Rats! As Hakan said, '--' snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:01 +0100, Obantec Support wrote: snip Hi i tried /etc/init.d/rc.d/mysqld start mysqld does not exist on the server. I suspect there are some docs on your system that describe what's needed. I don't use it for anything not part of the normal system install, so I

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:38 +0100, Duncan wrote: Obantec Support wrote: rpm -qa | grep mysql mysql-5.0.45-7.el5 is installed Yum install mysql-server That makes me think OP did a yum install mysql instead of a yum group install. Per the output in my previous post, default packages

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 20:25 +0100, Duncan wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:38 +0100, Duncan wrote: Obantec Support wrote: rpm -qa | grep mysql mysql-5.0.45-7.el5 is installed Yum install mysql-server That makes me think OP did

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

2008-10-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 23:52 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: These shouldn't make any difference. The limit is on the size of the expanded shell command line. Really? $ M=0; N=0; for W in `find /usr -xdev 2/dev/null`; do M=$(($M+1)); N=$(($N+${#W}+1)); done;

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

2008-10-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 06:00 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip The longest command line in this case is find /usr -xdev', 15 characters. Find sees only 10 characters. Uh, +1 for the \0 that terminates each parameter? Need more java here. snip -- Bill

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

2008-10-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 06:00 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Ok. 3rd cup of coffee has made its way into various of my systems. A minor correction (but important for us pedantic typers) is below. main(argc, *argv[]) /* could be **argv instead */ main(int argc, char *argv

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 22:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Also, all comments are welcome! If there is a general feeling that

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:47 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: sbeam wrote: does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I snip Sorry to hear this, but I use Firefox 3.0.2 daily and

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum

2008-10-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 04:04 -0700, Spike Turner wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Since CentOS has not announced them yet, I would guess that is the case. There would also be a small delay while the mirrors get synchronized. This appears to be the upstream details on the kernel

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum

2008-10-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 12:12 -0700, Spike Turner wrote: I don't know if those are new kernels in - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/?C=M;O=D The ones dated 10/8 are new. My up-to-date 4.7 still has the ...1.EL kernel build. but as yum cannot see them is it because the

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 16:22 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 ModelNameLCD Panel 1024x768 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync31.5 - 48.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
Please, take the time to intersperse your replies. Top-posting makes it harder to follow. On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:39 -0700, Fong Vang wrote: So you're saying that the CentOS 4.x system is married with the 2.6.9 kernel? No. Maybe the packaging of the kernel RPM is different between 4.x and

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 08:32 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 October 2008 21:33:09 Vandaman wrote: snip On some mailing lists, long time users are put off by the flood of posts by newbies who don't even conform to the list guidelines. Some pay back by not replying to those in

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:27 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Then we must agree to differ. I consider it thoughtful to tell them once what is expected of them - and politely, which is not always the case on this or any other list I've read. Of course if they persist in breaking the

Re: [CentOS] Trouble using date function in centos

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 21:48 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: snip On centos 4.6 -- test000:/% date -d 2008-10-25 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 test000:/% date -d 2008-10-26 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 test000:/% uname -a Linux test000... 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 16

Re: [CentOS] Trouble using date function in centos

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 16:26 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip On centos 4.7 -- test001:/% date -d 2008-10-25 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 test001:/% date -d 2008-10-26 +1 days +%Y-%m-%d 2008-10-26 I just typed the above in on the console on my 4.7 node. WFM

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:04 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option files containing ... (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just

RE: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:43 -0400, Mark A. Lewis wrote: snippity, snippity - irrelevant text, not irrelevant attitude issues The spirit of the RFC is that you could send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get in touch with someone. When the RFC was written, the idea that someone will monitor this

RE: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:42 -0400, Mark A. Lewis wrote: Well, there are ways and there are ways. An e-mail that allows a single reply to confirm an abuse report (avoiding spurious reports/spams) could be sent to the original reporter. Have a single change needed, varied with an arbitrary

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:23 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: snip Personally I have no problem with the occassional OT thread, and think that, within reason, they can make a list more ``friendly'' and less intimidating to newbies. Amen brother! I also prefer more general lists to those that

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:21 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 10-3-2008 2:48 PM Fong Vang spake the following: Has anyone tried to install a CentOS 5.x kernel on a CentOS 4.x system? Is this doable? Im aware of the dependencies but I'm curious if anyone has done this successfully.

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display snip Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 ModelNameLCD Panel 1024x768 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't know how or why. I think all I can conclude is that they are gone for good. Last gasp:

Re: [CentOS] mount UFS partition on CentOS 5.

2008-09-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:05 -0400, Daniel Bruno wrote: Hi Dears, I am having trouble mounting a partition with UFS file system (FreeBSD), I am trying to build with the following commands: mount-r-t-o ufs ufstype = ufs2 / dev/hdb1 / part mount-r-t-o ufs ufstype = 44bsd / dev/hdb1 / part

Re: [CentOS] Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:20 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: Thanks for both of your responses. Sorry for the non-threaded post, but I'm e-mailing from somewhere else. snip @ William L. Maltby I have looked everywhere on the drive using programs such as 'find'. I have ran: $ find

Re: [CentOS] SIze of reformatted USB drive

2008-09-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 07:50 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Yes, for the reasons the others posted. However, if you know the profile of what you'll have on there, a substantial amount of space can be recovered by 1) make sure you have large block size and 2

Re: [CentOS] SIze of reformatted USB drive

2008-09-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:31 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3. While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not note the exact capacity). I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 Now it is reported (oh, this is with

Re: [CentOS] Re: Problem with booting/grub (?)

2008-09-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:06 -0700, MHR wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub boot code is in the mbr so it loads. If it can't find the stage 2 it usually quietly dies. I believe it has to load stage 1 to have enough code to actually give error

Re: [CentOS] Re: Install X from DVD

2008-09-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 09:43 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: snip Sorry, I wasnt getting the first time. I never had the edit the repo yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media That lets you do a temporary override. Man yum is suggested. files before and change enabled=1 for the Media

Re: [CentOS] Strange browser displays with 5.x on Dell GX-260

2008-09-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:47 -0400, Dick Roth wrote: snip This was a clean install, however I kept my /home directory intact. The rest of the partitions were reformatted. Try resetting all your preferences? Maybe a major format change in the control files under .mozilla directories?

Re: [CentOS] Re: i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:53 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 9-16-2008 8:21 AM Joe Pruett spake the following: i (and others) have missed messages on centos-devel as well. did other people not see the 4.7 announcement message? i'm wondering if the centos list server is having some kind of

Re: [CentOS] Re: i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:46 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Thinking about it, I tend too watch for the point releases in there own s/there/their/ announcements. Bad habit I guess. snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:04 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip Sorry... Bad day ... Short fuse... Insert virtual slappings below... *thwup**thwup**thwup**thwup**thwup* Feather pillow used as slapper of choice! snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Local yum repository

2008-09-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 01:51 +0530, saurabh wrote: Hi All, i have a local repository configured for 'yum',which have files copied over from the RHEL DVD,It was configured initially,as i was facing some issues with my NIC which was not supported on 2.6.18 so had to upgrade to 2.6.26. Now

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 06:51 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:50 -0700, MHR wrote: I have a specific method of using my five GNOME workspaces to perform certain categories of tasks when I log in on a machine, so I just had a thought. Is there a way to

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 01:10 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I'm digging all over the place for this one. Has anyone a clue?? When I use: yum whatprovides /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers it

Re: [CentOS] Startup programs in specific workspaces

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 13:37 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: I just did a google (highly recommended for all initial thoughts :-) for gnome startup scripts. With a little refinement, it looks very promising. What was wrong with the answer in the mail you replied

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 11:31 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.local calimero When I do this, I get the following result (after rebooting): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 05:06 -0700, nate wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # I've masked out MAC address for this post Out of curiosity why ? You are aware that someone knowing your MAC address outside your local network is fairly useless right? Yes. I just do

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 18:27 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: kapil singh kushwah wrote: CentOS, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. That was actually very funny. How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like a great idea, but commercial.

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 19:56 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: That was actually very funny. How so? CNBC had one of the principals on the other day. It sounds like a great idea, but commercial. I considered the post to be the equivalent of spam. Well

Re: [CentOS] Alarming (?) smartd reports

2008-09-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:03 -0700, MHR wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:14 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download the manufacturer's tools and run a diagnostics on it, it will tell you the truth about what's going on. I wouldn't trust any generic OS tools over the manufacturer's

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:13 -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ric Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique formula for where things are put

Re: [CentOS] open(/dev/pts/0): No such file or directory

2008-09-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:44 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: snip Ah! I down-graded the kernel as it played merry hell with my nVidia stock driver. I'll try upgrading it again. The driver re-compiled just fine, but I was suffering some lockups. Down-grading fixed that. Ric Have you tried the driver

Re: [CentOS] USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 16:44 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm backing up to a NTFS partition on an external USB drive with dump. I'm seeing failures in /var/log/messages reading sector 0xFFF that cause the verify pass to fail. Are there any known problems in the USB driver? Kernel via

Re: [CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:12 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip snip Sometimes a few of the PATA to USB interfaces do some strange things to I/O streams. I have a drive that would consistently lock my old XP workstations USB interfaces, but works fine on the new one. Although I don't *think*

Re: [CentOS] Re: kickstart debug

2008-09-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:38 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: How do you go about debugging the kickstart file? By trying stuff, reading documentation or doing research. You know, community is about give and take and not only taking. I've yet to see *ONE* answer from

Re: [CentOS] Re: kickstart debug

2008-09-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTH (?) Jeeze, Bill, do you have to be such an a$$-kisser? (KIDDING! RBFG and all that) *chuckling and all that* It's a hangover from my professional

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:51 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: In addition, if you use kmail highlighting the section that you want to reply to will give you a clean start with only the appropriate bit copied, like this :-) It doesn't work if you need to intersperse many comments, but where

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

2008-09-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:34 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: snip May I suggest that, if you really want to learn how a Linux system gets put together, and works, then get a copy of Linux from Scratch and build your own? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Well

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

2008-09-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:54 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:29PM +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: ... Thx, I need more feed back like this so I can add more value to the blog. Sadaruwan, please TRIM your replies! In fact, the first thing in your blog might be a

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:28 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Joseph L. Casale ha scritto: Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of such a process from bogging down a server to severely. As I was told few days ago you

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

2008-09-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:26 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently. I remember when 1 GB *hard* drives didn't exist! I

Re: [CentOS] Help using ed [OT]

2008-09-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:45 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: Hi Perhaps omeone might answer this tricky problem. I can do this other ways, but i really want to understand how to solve it using ed. I have one solution using g/re/s/re//txt/ , but I want to understand how or if i can solve

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-09-01 Thread William L. Maltby
Eww! Loongg lines! :-) On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 04:05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is when you put your reply on top of the original message, the way I'm doing. Apparently some people prefer that for some reason which dates back to the days of newsgroups. Some

Re: [CentOS] Help using ed [OT]

2008-09-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 10:26 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:45 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: Hi Perhaps omeone might answer this tricky problem. I can do this other ways, but i really want to understand how

Re: [CentOS] LVM and hotswap (USB/iSCSI) devices?

2008-08-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:19 +0200, Simen Timian Thoresen wrote: Hi list, I'm having one of those 'I'm stupid' -problems with LVM on CentOS 5.2. I've been working with traditional partitions until now, but I've finally been sold on the theoretical benefits of using LVM, but for now I

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

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:57 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 8-28-2008 4:15 PM William L. Maltby spake the following: On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:50 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip I have motherboards in my garage older than you! ;-D PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em up

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

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:27 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: snip I still have a Tandy 4000, 386-16 no cache, that is used occassionally to program EPROMS. This same machine ran Xenix for years before being abused by installing DR-DOS on it. For shame, for shame! You should have known better!

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

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:35 -0700, MHR wrote: snip Well, all I have that foes back that far is a 2nd gen IBM PC (the 64k m/b) that would probably work if I knew where any of my 360k MS-DOS floppies were. I could make some for you. Just need to pop the drive into one of my units. snip

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

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 20:47 -0400, fred smith wrote: snip I've still got the first computer I ever bought (a lot newer than the first one I ever used), a screamin' 10 Mhz XT clone with 8087 too! Last year when I fired it up it still worked, though the hard drive had bitten the dust. And

Re: [CentOS] detecting boot order

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 13:58 -0400, Mark Belanger wrote: Given that I have a machine with possibly multiple disks, each of which is bootable(has an MBR) Is there a command that will query the BIOS and tell me which disk is the default boot disk. BTW - this is x86. The goal is to

Re: [CentOS] detecting boot order

2008-08-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:33 -0400, Mark Belanger wrote: snip So far, the best thing I've seen is sfdisk -l which will show me bootable partitions. In a pinch, I could mount all the bootably parts and scriptify the altering of grub.conf Keep in mind that partitions don't always have to be

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

2008-08-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:17 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote: snip On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:13 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote: From reading your many and interesting posts to this list I realize that we must be contemporaries

Re: [CentOS] buildinstall problems

2008-08-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 13:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I am trying to make a stripped down CentOS 5.2 distro which will all fit on a single CD containing just the base and a few other packages I need. I've not done this, but there have been several threads about this topic.

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

2008-08-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:50 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip I have motherboards in my garage older than you! ;-D PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em up). Although I'm seriously considering ditching the 386SX with Win 3.11. Don't find any reason to fire it up anymore. Hell,

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:00 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hi, Yes I know what your saying ok! I didn't ask him any descent question but I gave a solution based on my experience. So why hell r u guy's coming after me First, don't get offended. If you've been on any/many lists for

Re: [CentOS] Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD

2008-08-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:38 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Hi, I am running Centos 4 (fully updated on this box). I removed the old DVD writer (/dev/hdc) and installed a new LG GH20 Internal Super Multi DVD Rewriter with a SATA interface - this shows up as /dev/scd0. When I insert a

Re: [CentOS] Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD

2008-08-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:33 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:19:01PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I don't have atrpm on my system. You might check there and see if they have later packages. Just be aware that many months ago that repo was less trusted (IIRC

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:38 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: snip Also I finally noticed that badblocs has a non-distructive read-write mode (the man page is outdated and doesn't mention that) which can be used routinely (say once at month) to force a check of the whole disk. From man

Re: [CentOS] (Global/Any) setting for show hidden files? - SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MHR wrote: snip So, to clarify: when an issue is solved, modify the subject: line so to indicate and do NOT start a new thread? Foo - I thought I had it

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-08-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:10 -0700, MHR wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... if you go for the fuse/dkms route, you will lose the chance to build the module upon kernel update. :-) True - decisions, decisions, Well you can always do

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-08-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:14 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Lanny: that line goes in /etc/fstab Indeed. Thank, Nicolas, for noticing this. I have amended the wiki page to make it clearer. Akemi: If it said to

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:43 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: William L. Maltby ha scritto: Yep. Only a few copies of the superblock and the i-node tables are written by the file system make process. That's why it's important for files systems in critical applications to be created

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 06:36 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: So again my question is: can I use dd to test the disk? what about dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda bs=512 Is this safe on a full running system? Has to be done at

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:03 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip (potentially) lost on an existing file system. It's best utility is at FS creation and check time. It also has use if you can un-mount the FS (ignoring

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:49 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip a BIG bunch Try cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep sse2 I guess I need to finish reading the thread before I reply. ;-D He-he! And don't let things distract you from snipping! ;-) snip With good cheer, -- Bill

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:36 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:43:18PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:03 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip (potentially

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:05 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:46 AM, William L. Maltby snip Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not? I

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:32 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: snip So there are new packages anyway in spite of the other bits. Hi all, have I missed something or is there a CentOS update for 5x but none for 4x ? I've made sure my mirror is synced and looked around at a few others but can't seem

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 20:00 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository. Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I determine whether or not the

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 08:59 -0700, nate wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: I have few disk that have offline uncorrectables sectors; Ideally it should be done using the manufacturer's tools, Second that! and really any disk that has even one bad sector that the OS can see should not be

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:07 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: nate ha scritto: snip For what I understand Offline uncorrectable means that the sector would be relocated the next time it is accessed for writing... so it is on a wait for relocation status. If my memory is still good (I don't

Re: [CentOS] Various OpenGL apps crashing in CentOS 5?

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:55 +0200, Rubin wrote: Hi All, I'm experiencing odd behaviour with various OpenGL apps I'm (trying to) use. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60s with the Intel GMA chipset, the 945GM to be precise. I have glxinfo/glxgears working normally, disabled composite in xorg.conf

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:33 -0700, nate wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: ?? Uncertain about spares has been exhausted. I don't recall where I read it, and I suppose it may be misinformation, but it made sense at the time. The idea is the disks are not made to hold EXACTLY the amount

Re: [CentOS] General Linux query

2008-08-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:43 +0530, lingu wrote: HI, This is more general linux related topic , i want to know few basic things. 1) How file systeem get corrupted on linux? 2) why,when and how fsck to be run without lossing data? 3) Is there is any other tool other than fsck

Re: [CentOS] Re: Where is cached memory going?

2008-08-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:50 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, August 19, 2008 11:43, Scott Silva wrote: (I just dated myself with the DASD comment) Quit that! Get a girl friend or something! ;-) And branded. I don't recall that anybody referred to DASD connected to our IBM

Re: [CentOS] Re: Where is cached memory going?

2008-08-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:06 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip that time, DASD became the lazy acronym used extensively to cover any of the then-extant direct-access devices (drums, cylinders, disks - euphemistically mounted in pizza ovens (2314/19 IIRC). Hmmm... 2311 sticks in my mind too

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: MHR wrote: Vi is not the world's best editor Heh, understatement of the century. It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with the

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]

2008-08-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C++Lanny If you have C experience, it'll be quick once you get your head around constructors, destructors, inheritance, templates (I never did enough

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]

2008-08-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:40 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I try to learn vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to administer

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head [SOLVED]

2008-08-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote: snip SYNOPSIS: In case you missed or lost the start of this thread, I was setting up two displays, one per video card, on my CentOS 4.6. This was testing before applying the same setup to my 5.2 system, upon which I run an application critical to

RE: [CentOS] Command line partition manipulation

2008-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 15:10 +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Plant, Dean wrote: Is there a way to use a non-interactive command to create the new 2nd partition in the free space? Yes. parted works well for such situations, and if python is your thing, pyparted is

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