Re: [CentOS] OT: General Help in chroot build environment

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 13:59 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > running kernel. From within the chroot build environment, I run a #uname -r > and see it displays exactly > that, and not the build environments expected 2.6.21.1 that it has in the > /source/kernel-2.6.21.1/linux-2.6.21.1 > dir. I

Re: [CentOS] Can't run a bash script from USB drive

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:47 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MHR, this has been asked already yesterday. *Please* do read other posts! > > > > Strange - I read everything posted in this list. I don't always > understand everything, b

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Yes, dd is actually pretty slow in wall clock time. Where it wins is in > human time since you just type a short command line and go away, and it > duplicates any setup work you've done in addition too installing the > packages. But

RE: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:29 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > > Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > > > I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) > > partition. fdisk > > > > > claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's > > > only > > > > > 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do someth

RE: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:09 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. > > > fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's > only > > > 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? > > > > If th

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 05:22 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > because it is hardware aware (forgive the alliteration) and so only s/hardware/file system/ # I *knew* I needed coffee first.

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:41 +1000, hce wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:57 -0500, Alex White wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > > /proc delivers the *tr

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? I've seen many posts on this list that recommend Clonezilla for this sort of thing. You run off CD and it is said to be faster than DD because it is hardware awa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 vs. Intel 82801 AC'97 Audio

2008-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:22 -0700, MHR wrote: > I have installed 5.2 on my work desktop and everything works perfectly > EXCEPT the sound device. Here is the relevant lspci line: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Control

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:14 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > > Just some guesses here . . . > > Maybe something's buggered in /etc/yum.repos.d. Try comparing the broken > with the working. If the broken still looks right, try making a backup > of the broken & copy in the working - there may be some

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 10:18 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > After this, I'll pop in Mark Knoppfler's "Shangri-La" and diff the two > files. > OK. I've attached a diff and sdiff output. Used together, fast identification of what changed from idle to pla

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:57 -0500, Alex White wrote: > > Not entirely sure what one would glean from /proc other than that > the card is present and drivers are loaded for it. There's lengthy > output for my sound device. I won't paste all of it, but everything > is located in /proc/asound. M

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:44 +1000, hce wrote: > Thanks both Alex and Willam. > > > # lspci -v # Snipped non-related stuff out > > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) > >Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. Unkno

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 10:22 +1000, hce wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:36 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:52 +1000, hce wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William L. Maltby > >> <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [CentOS] Floorsweepers (Was: Rebuild of kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL failure)

2008-07-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:40 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > >Jim Perrin > >Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:02 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Floorsweepers (Was: Rebuild of kernel 2.

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:52 +1000, hce wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:51 -0500, Alex White wrote: > > hce wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:51 -0500, Alex White wrote: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed CentOS 5.2 to a laptop Acer 5920 for dual boot, the > > audio works in Window Vista, but does not work in CentOS 5.2. Does > > CentOS 5.2 support following audio chip or not? > > > > Audio device: In

Re: [CentOS] Pidgin problem on 5.2

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:50 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:39AM -0700, Rodney Myers wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:16 AM, fred smith wrote: > > > > >On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > > >wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400,

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:42 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:08 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Michael: I thought the job of Marketing people (or so they > would like

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:14 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:09:17 -0400: > > > IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining the effects. The rpmnew is > > provided specifically because replacing the previous one may be highly > &g

Re: [CentOS] Moving logical volumes

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 08:16 +0200, Frank Büttner wrote: > William L. Maltby schrieb: > > > Yes vgmerge, can do the job. > Thanks. NP. Just as an FYI, at command line, do lvm. Then type help. That gives a nice little "index" to available commands. Then, at command

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Michael: I thought the job of Marketing people (or so they would like > to think) is to give the Engineering staff a set of specs, a budget

Re: [CentOS] Moving logical volumes

2008-06-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 09:13 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Frank Büttner wrote: > > John R Pierce schrieb: > >> assuming this logical volume containss extfs, dump(8) it on one, > >> restore(8) it on the other. this can be combined with a pipe, > >> like # dump 0 -f - /dev/volgroup/logvol |

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:57 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > The upgrade to 5.2 creates /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew. I see that > /etc/pam.d/system-auth actually is a symlink to system-auth-ac. > Is it recommended to replace that symlink with the rpmnew file? IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining

Re: [CentOS] Moving logical volumes

2008-06-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:33 +0200, Frank Büttner wrote: > John R Pierce schrieb: > > assuming this logical volume containss extfs, dump(8) it on one, > > restore(8) it on the other. this can be combined with a pipe, like > > # dump 0 -f - /dev/volgroup/logvol | (cd /dest; restore -rf - ) >

RE: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:26 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >If I send him a message directly, and put him in the CC line too, will it > >start a loop of auto-replies...? > >How about I set up an account somewhere (gmail..), turn on a vacation > >message , and then send hi

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure [SOLVED]

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > >> # yum update > >> > >> > >> Resolving Dependencies > >> --> Running transaction check > >> ---> Package java-1.4.2-gcj-co

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> > > > >> = > >> # yum list jpackage-utils.noarch &

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:03 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Hmmm, > > > > I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I > > can't remember doing anything to this. > >

RE: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Bowden <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM: > > > Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down > > loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I > > archive them

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Hmmm, > > I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I > can't remember doing anything to this. > # yum update > > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction

Re: [CentOS] Minimized Firefox is not visible on panel in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:14 +1000, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I opened a Firefox on Desktop, but when I clicked Minimize Window > button, the Firefox disappeared and there was no icon on the panel, I > simply could not find it any more (it did not close), this was the > same for the terminal as well .

[CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
Hmmm, I seemed to have created a misalignmnet somewhere along the line. I can't remember doing anything to this. But at one time I did try to test the java open source. Posted my results to the list, got no response, abandoned all hope and went on my merry way. I don't know if this is related. I

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:48:48 -0400: > > > 2. yum upgrade # not update > > that's supposed to be the same. IIRC, that's true if default config file wasn't modified with certain pa

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > fabian dacunha wrote: > > i jus wanted to know if i could SAFELY apply the updates since its a live > > server running our companys primary DNS and mail server In case you missed it, there was a recommended "two step" and parameter recomme

Re: Force reinstallation of packages Was: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
WARNING! Due to my background, I don't often read man pages like I used to. So there may be some inaccuracies or ambiguities below. On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:58 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > Sorry. Stupid question again: and if I find inconsistencies, then the Keep in mind that *some* inc

Re: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 23:53 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > LM> I'd be concerned about the initial filesystem error perhaps > LM> being hardware related. You might try a 'cat /dev/sda > LM> >/dev/null' to force a full disk read, then 'smartctl -a > LM> /dev/sda' to see if t

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Well, as you gradually update packages, if you update everything, you > will be on 5.2. If you only update a few packages that you feel are > n

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > i've generally used dump(8) and restore(8) to image ext2/3FS > this can even be used to do an incremental dump although I rarely do that. > > while i've never tried this, in theory, if you're using LVM, you can > snapshot a

Re: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:27 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > Is there a way to say: "Hey RPM, have a look whether really the files > in your database are on the disk)" ? Use rpm's verify option. I forget the exact syntax: I'm sorry to have to sentence you to the rpm manpage dungeon. :-( >

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:05 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > And a third item for the list: > After just rebooting a few times trying various tactics for solving > the first problem above (without success, BTW) when I booted it last > time the GUI desktop comes up with empty panels. The panels are t

Re: [CentOS] What torrent are y'all using?

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:08 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > > I grabbed the torrent off of one of the iso mirrors, but it is coming > > down so slow - I have to wonder if the torrent file is the incorrect one > > for the bad file mentioned on the list earlier. > > You sh

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:39 +0200, Michel van Deventer wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded 4 machines (all virtual) without any problems from 5.1 to > 5.2, tonight I'll upgrade the host machine but I do not expect any > problems. > I'm only cautious to upgrade my old webserver which is a dual PIII and >

Re: [CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:54 +0100, Michael Simpson wrote: > On 6/25/08, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > might the default upload/download rate limits be bringing you down ? iirc, > > almost all BT clients have so

Re: [CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > After reviewing the man pages again (the upmteenth time), no help. > > might the default upload/download rate limits be bringing you down ? > iirc, almost all BT clients have so

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:09 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 6/23/08, Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Orlando, FL. The move from Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 should be a big > improvement for those of us who are Desktop users. Be aware that the FF beta version RH released will not successfu

Re: [CentOS] Changing the symbolic link for /Centos/5

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 03:48 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I do not know the command line for symbolic links. I created the > > symbolic link of /Centos/5 to /Centos/5.1 in Nautilus which does not > > have a method of changing a symbolic link. Only deleting it and >

Re: [CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 00:16 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > AND HURRY UP! My new "fat" pipe (potential 1.25MB/sec) has finally edged > > up to 85.5KB/sec. I need the help folks! ;-) > > > > Is that for uplink or downlink ? if

Re: [CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:58 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. > > What is the yum install name to get it on the machine? I use the rtorrent from rpmforge. Enable that repo and then yum install rtorrent. It's a lean, mean CLI machine! :-) AND HUR

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:25 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 6/23/08, Miguel Medalha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As Miguel wrote, a HUGE THANK YOU, to everyone who has been working on > this for us! Your time and your dedication are deeply appreciated by > the CentOS community! And I can't wa

RE: [CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies

2008-06-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:21 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of William L. Maltby > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:54 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > > Nigel Kendrick wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] random file

2008-06-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:14 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > even seeking thru it requires a sequential scan, right? If Linux FS systems work like real *IX, it depends. The underlying C/system calls should be smart enough to calculate an offset that traverses inode information to cause a direct access see

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 > > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 > > Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 > > Bank 5: f2

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:54 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Ralph Angenendt > > > > Nigel Kendrick wrote: > >> > You've tried replacing the drive, and the disk works in your

RE: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of William L. Maltby > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > Hi - daft one for Fri

Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: > > I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - > the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). > > On both servers, the mount command just do

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:14 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > You can't beat dd for getting everything exactly the same regardless of > > what you changed - or just splitting the mirrors and letting each sync > > to new partners but then you have to reinstall grub. I p

Re: [CentOS] Reg. setting Domain name on Cento 5 pc

2008-06-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:39 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Pls edit this > > /etc/sysconfig/network I would think that running system-config-network, system-config-network-cmd, system-config-network-gui, or system-config-network-tui would be the way to go. But I haven't run these manually fo

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:22 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > > > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look t

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

2008-06-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:29 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Matt Hyclak wrote: > > > If it were me, I would download the latest yum+dependencies and > > install them > > via rpm before trying to debug an old yum. > > > Good suggestion. Upgraded yum, sqlite, and python.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Copying files from specific date.

2008-06-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 15:43 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > >> > >> I know this has never been brought up before, certainly not in the > >> last month or so, but this list has some conventions: > >> > >> 1) Trim your replies > >> 2) Bottom post > >> > > > > I thought I heard

Re: [CentOS] new install of 5.1 with KVM-over-IP - can't installwith GUI - need assistance

2008-06-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 00:50 +0300, Alon wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > I can't use kickstart as I have diff configs for each server. > The servers are rented out to my clients as dedicated servers. > Each client has his own needs, so not much that I can do about this. > Also, different servers with diff

Re: [CentOS] Live CD?

2008-06-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:50 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:12 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > TDK, Memorex, Imation, Verbatim, I don't believe ANY of those actually make > > their own disks. My TDK's have a media code of "CMC MAG. AM3", which is, I > > believe,

Re: [CentOS] kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:01 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > This is open source etiquette. It differs from business etiquette > where you are more than welcoem to berate and yell and holler about > things because you're paying someone a lot of money. Respectfully, when I was doing this profess

Re: [CentOS] rpm -q versus what's installed

2008-06-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 23:27 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > I am trying to install Oracle client 10g (10.2.0) on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 > system. > > 'rpm -q make gcc glibc etc' reveals some packages as "not installed", yet > a yum install consistently returns Nothing to do. Yum list > available

Re: [CentOS] Re: 5.1 Anaconda Install Error SOLVED

2008-06-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:56 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: > > With PATA the device ID is based on location. Hdb is the primary slave > > (slave on first port). There doesn't have to be a hda. > > I thought the point of master/slave in the IDE world was that the master was > ac

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:51 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > Processing a huge number of dependancies (very likely going from > > 4.3->4.6) will use huge amounts. I would first upgrade yum itself > > (IIRC, > >

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:23 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > Got a box running 4.3 x86 and we're trying up get it updated to 4.6, > but yum is consuming all available memory (1GB) and swap (2GB), and > then the oom starts killing processes. > > I've disabled all the optional repositories, done yum

Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD?

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:13 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I usually burn critical CD's at lower speeds. It seems that they have a more > > reliable image when the laser gets to spend a little more time on the > > tracks. > > > >

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:14 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > I would suspect the hardware or some configuration issues. But these > issues started cropping up after I upgraded our existing systems to > CentOS 5.1. The "upgrade" was a complete reinstall via a kickstart > script (I reform

Re: [CentOS] Burning DVD with upgrade of cdrtools for cdrecord

2008-06-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Dexter Stowers wrote: > I am having problems burning DVD's from commandline. I was wondering > if anyone else has had any luck using cdrecord-2.01 and cdrtools that > is supposed to add DVD support? Thanks! Well, I *think* I used it to burn my current 5.x DVD, bu

Re: [CentOS] Updates in same major version number ?

2008-05-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 23:54 +0200, Emmanuel Fournier wrote: > May be already asked, sorry so ! > > But what is the best method when updating between > 4.4 and 4.5 > or > 4.4 and 4.6 > or > 5.0 and 5.1 > > Is it ok to update only with 'yum update' cmd, with no risk ? Yes. It is the standard way

Re: [CentOS] FireFox

2008-05-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:09 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 > >>>>> "WLM" == William L Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WLM> I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 i386 on a 1GIG flash

2008-05-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > however, I am getting blocked at the install page about not enough room > to install. > All I have selected is the base package. nothing else. > > Is there a way to install "less thank" base... I tried to option off > items in the base p

Re: [CentOS] FireFox

2008-05-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 12:53 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Robert Spangler wrote: > > > I have a Firefox3 beta3 rpm for CentOS-4 that works in parallel with the > distro firefox. once Firefox3 is released upstream I will get that built > for CentOS-4 and put that in the CentOS Plus repo. JIC yo

Re: [CentOS] FireFox

2008-05-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:19 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo? > > > > You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - they're > pretty good about compat

Re: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:24 -0400, sbeam wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 13:16, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > Some Tyan boards are known as being very picky with RAM. If you want to > > avoid problems, you should really stick to the types listed in Tyan's > > memory compatibility list. > > hmm. well t

RE: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 18:33 -0400, Gregg McClintic wrote: > To be honest I have no idea what is needed by the kernel for the bios to > beable to check that the os is responding correctly. I enabled it on a test > server and had the same issue on a default 4.6 cent install. I could have the > nam

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:18 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > > > For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less > > than 24 hours ago. > > I was just curious, I was not "demanding it right now" or anything like > that. > > Sorry if my inquiry seemed inconsiderate.

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:26 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working > > with > > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? It really depends on tw

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:57 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > But keep in mind you were only a "virtual ass". Not really one. And the > > person who labeled you as an ass may have been, in fact, the ass. > > Regardless, his was onl

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
Sorry to jump in here, but combination of humorous and serious thoughts crossed my mind. And maybe these thoughts will allay future threads of this nature. On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:28 -0500, Doug Tucker wrote: > > (Me, too, of course!) > > > > mhr > > MHR, > > This is true, and you and I prove

Re: [CentOS] clustered mail server?

2008-05-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 23:50 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: > > > >> Besides, as John already pointed out, emails in the spools can hang > >> around for days. I believe most MTA's only discard completely after > >> 7days of non delivery. > > > > That default setting is no

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 20:55 -0400, Matt Shields wrote: > > I think the thing that's annoying about top posting is explained with > this example (grabbed from a Boston Linux & Unix Group signature). > I'll have to admit when I'm not thinking about it, there have been a > few times where I've top p

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-14-2008 7:31 PM CentOS List spake the following: > > > >> > > No. I am on a few lists and each list with a different email address so > > that I can sort them out correctly. If you people don’t wish to help out, > > its fine, just ign

Re: [CentOS] Re: Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?

2008-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Re: Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?

2008-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All I can see with google is sfdnwin.exe for Window$ only > > > > > > > Okay, I found dfu

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?

2008-05-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: > Hello! > > I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of > its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear > something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: > > You will need to make a list of all partitions. Not sure what the best way > to do this would be. Probably fdisk. Run fdisk, then type "p" (for > printing the partition table), th

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:28 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > > > > > Oh, I forgot, as Bill pointed out... > > 12) remake the initrd > - mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) In the output from the gzip -dc |

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:04 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I > picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently > stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried > the former to rename the l

Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:41 -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save > things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are > interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. > > The tress containing the things

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:38 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Brett Serkez wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. > > > Any recommendations? > > > > You'll need to break out

Re: [CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:45 -0400, Matty wrote: > Howdy, > > Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were > integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm > query output and bugs.centos.org, but wasn't able to locate a > changelog for the latest kernel up

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 29 April 2008, "John" wrote: > > I ran "yum update". The box is now 100% up to date. The problem did not go > away. > On CentOS 5, the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader can mount a CD, without > any problem. However, it sees a DVD as blank.

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creati

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creati

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creati

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:18 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > > 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

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