Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-16 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:44:46 +0100 "Helmut Drodofsky" wrote: > Hallo, Hi, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Can't you use Xen or KVM ? That way, you,ll have an up

[CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-16 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
Hallo, actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD - Not recognized by 5.2 Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Update kernel? Update Modules? What Module? Thanks for help Helmut ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support.

2010-12-16 Thread Lisandro Grullon
The centos has support for this controller by default, I just had to do some tweaking in the actual controller in order to see the virtual console. I think it was my mistake all along to get this thing going, my box is flying using Vmware ESX 4.1, the nxt step is to configure centos, redhat, window

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-16 Thread Michael R. Dilworth
I'm sorry (I know don't feed the trolls), but recently there have been quite a few remarks resembling this. Also, I'm beginning to believe the remark made earlier by ???, which roughly stated "Each time a new release is due, the flame wars erupt". Just what part of "CentOS is a Mirror or Redhat

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Sean wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Sean > Subject: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents > > Hello Producers > > "Longevity of Support" is an attractive drawcard for CentOS if it means > the exact opposite of Fedora's "short support cycle" that does not > provide upda

[CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-16 Thread Sean
Hello Producers "Longevity of Support" is an attractive drawcard for CentOS if it means the exact opposite of Fedora's "short support cycle" that does not provide updating of infrastructural libraries for very long, libraries which newer versions of applications (like Firefox, Thunderbird, Oper

Re: [CentOS] MySQL repositores

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Ruslan Sivak wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Ruslan Sivak Subject: [CentOS] MySQL repositores -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any repositories for CentOS 5.5 that keep the latest MySQL versions? After enabling everything I can think off (CentOS

Re: [CentOS] MySQL repositores

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Ruslan Sivak > Subject: [CentOS] MySQL repositores > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any repositories for CentOS 5.5 that keep the latest MySQL > versions? > > After enabling everything I can

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:26:19 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list > > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > > > Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > >> Hello Nico, > >>

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:21 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > One possibility: suppose someone cracks in as the user that owns those > directories. They could then install whatever they want in there... and > the next time you built and installed something, it could carry their > payloa

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Akemi Yagi > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> Is there a tutorial on how to create your own third party >> repository for Centos please?

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Bowie Bailey Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD On 12/16/2010 3:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08

Re: [CentOS] MySQL repositores

2010-12-16 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/12/16 Ruslan Sivak : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any repositories for CentOS 5.5 that keep the latest MySQL > versions? > > After enabling everything I can think off (CentOS, rpmforge, epel), I'm > still only seeing 5.0.77-4.el5_5.4. > > 5.5 came out yesterd

[CentOS] MySQL repositores

2010-12-16 Thread Ruslan Sivak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any repositories for CentOS 5.5 that keep the latest MySQL versions? After enabling everything I can think off (CentOS, rpmforge, epel), I'm still only seeing 5.0.77-4.el5_5.4. 5.5 came out yesterday and 5.1 has been around for a while. I

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> Hello Nico, >> >> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:20 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread m . roth
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Nico, > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:20 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander >> > /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build >> > as a normal user (and you should!) you should fix

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:17:22AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > The man page for lastb says if you just complete delete /var/log/btmp > the system shouldn't recreate it on its own. And if, for some reason, the system _does_ try to recreate then you could use mknod to make it a device node that

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:34:33 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 12/16/2010 3:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander > > wrote: > >> Hello Keith, > >> > >> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > >>> [rpmbuil...@karsit

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nico, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:20 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander > > /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build > > as a normal user (and you should!) you should fix the ownership of those > > directories

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/16/2010 3:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander > wrote: >> Hello Keith, >> >> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: >>> [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm >>> error: cannot write to %sourcedir /us

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Keith, > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: >> [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm >> error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > > /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 02:03:23 pm mcclnx mcc wrote: > if disk large than 2TB, "fdisk" will not work correctly. For GPT, use gdisk as a substitute for fdisk. gdisk 0.6.10 is available for CentOS 4 and 5 in the RPMforge third-party repository. The version in Fedora 14 is 0.6.13, for com

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/16/2010 11:14 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Joe Pruett wrote: >> a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 >> perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't >> care about failed logins and have limited space on some

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Joe Pruett wrote: > a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 > perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't > care about failed logins and have limited space on some servers, so i > symlinked /var/log/btmp to /dev/nu

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x64 bit issues on sun blade X6270 SERVER MODULE

2010-12-16 Thread m . roth
sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: > here in the readme it does mention 64 bit What does it say about 64 bit systems? As I said, it sounds like you've got the driver in the wrong directory. You might check for the driver in the 32-bit directory, and what does file say about it? You REALLY, REALLY nee

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread mcclnx mcc
if disk large than 2TB, "fdisk" will not work correctly. --- 10/12/16 (四),Drew 寫道: > 寄件者: Drew > 主旨: Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration" > 收件者: "CentOS mailing list" > 日期: 2010年12月16日,四,下午12:10 > > fdisk /dev/sde > > > > Hit p to see the list of partitions.  Press d to > del

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread Nataraj
On 12/16/2010 09:10 AM, Drew wrote: >> fdisk /dev/sde >> >> Hit p to see the list of partitions. Press d to delete a partition. Press >> n for a new partition. > Or you can just use t to change the filesystem type. > Your disk has a gpt partition on it. Was it previously installed on an Apple

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x64 bit issues on sun blade X6270 SERVER MODULE

2010-12-16 Thread m . roth
sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: > I did run system-config-network and selected the card as ast-ASpeedTech > chipsets since my lspci says i have a > 20:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics > Family (rev 10) > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" > dlopen:

[CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Pruett
a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't care about failed logins and have limited space on some servers, so i symlinked /var/log/btmp to /dev/null. the initscripts package does a chmod 600 /var

[CentOS] centos 5.5 x64 bit issues on sun blade X6270 SERVER MODULE

2010-12-16 Thread sylvan . dcunha
Dear All, I have managed perfectly fine to install centos 5.5 x64 on a new sun blade x6270 server module .i had to install in text mode since GUI install mode was not working Actually this machine is going to replace my current working very low hardware server the server is used as my pri

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail Replay problem

2010-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/16/10 2:56 AM, sync wrote: > Hi , guys : > > > I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my condition: > > I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed CentOS 5.5 > x86 64, > and I want to set up the sendmail replay. > > > That is to say . If my linux

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Is there a tutorial on how to create your own third party > repository for Centos please? > > That's something I've been meaning to do for a long time. > > Now I have cloud hosting, the download bandwidth and usage > is no longer an issue.

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Akemi Yagi > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >> I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos >> wiki. > > I assume you ar

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Robert Heller wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Robert Heller > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> Hello Keith, >> >> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts w

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread mcclnx mcc
Sorry . This way NOT work due to disk large than 2TB. That is reason I use "parted" instead of "fdisk". # fdisk /dev/sde WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sde'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 382536. T

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail Replay problem

2010-12-16 Thread Dan Carl
On 12/16/2010 2:56 AM, sync wrote: > Hi , guys : > > > I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my > condition: > > I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed > CentOS 5.5 x86 64, > and I want to set up the sendmail replay. > > > That is to say . If my

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread Drew
> fdisk /dev/sde > > Hit p to see the list of partitions.  Press d to delete a partition.  Press n > for a new partition. Or you can just use t to change the filesystem type. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg > Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems > > Johan Scheepers wrote: >> good day, >> >> I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the >> follow

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hello Keith, > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > > [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm > > error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > > /usr/src/redhat and sub d

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment > I was refering to this Centos wiki article: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source > > The second part. > > I'll read up

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems

2010-12-16 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Johan Scheepers wrote: > good day, > > I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the > following sites..: > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS > > Then last..: > > [r...@johan ~]# yum in

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Akemi Yagi > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >> I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos >> wiki. > > I assume you ar

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Leonard den Ottolander > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > Hello Keith, > > (Oops, send out the previous mail before it was finished.) OK! > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith R

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > > I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos > wiki. I assume you are referring to this wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment If not, I strongly recommend reading it through. Up front it warns you t

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread Tommy E Craddock Jr
Hello, I use fdisk. fdisk /dev/sde Hit p to see the list of partitions. Press d to delete a partition. Press n for a new partition. Hope that helps. Tommy On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:12 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have CENTOS 5.5 on X86. I tried to create a "raw partition" (NOT FS) on

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:11:17 am Keith Roberts wrote: > I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos > wiki. > > These won't cause conflicts at all with each other? Don't know for sure, but in the case of RPMs I've built on CentOS 4 and 5 in the past they coexisted ok.

[CentOS] use parted to create "raw paration"????

2010-12-16 Thread mcclnx mcc
we have CENTOS 5.5 on X86. I tried to create a "raw partition" (NOT FS) on a disk and it continue to show "ext3". How can I get ride of it? === procedures= # parted /dev/sde GNU Parted 1.8.1 Using /dev/sde Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Lamar Owen wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Lamar Owen > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:08:12 am Keith Roberts wrote: >> Is there a package I need to install and run to set >> things up corectly? > [snip]

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:08:12 am Keith Roberts wrote: > Is there a package I need to install and run to set > things up corectly? [snip] > So what build dir shall I go for? See the Fedora packaging guidelines, and install 'fedora-packager' from EPEL to get the tools that help you set u

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, (Oops, send out the previous mail before it was finished.) On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm > error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.roo

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm > error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build as a normal user (and you should!) y

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Philix T A [philixli...@gmail.com] wrote 2) Dont create RAID for swap and / root partition (Not Advisable) I would avoid putting / or /swap on RAID0 partitions, but RAID1 should not only not be a problem, it should be encouraged as a method of recuperating from a spindle failure.

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems

2010-12-16 Thread lhecking
> [r...@johan ~]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav > lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 > flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly > gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime IIRC the gstreamer-plugins-* are not dependencies of mplayer. Lea

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Leonard den Ottolander > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > Hello Keith, > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:25 +, Keith Roberts wrote: >> What's that all about - user mockbuild? >> >> Is t

[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems

2010-12-16 Thread Johan Scheepers
good day, I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the following sites..: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS Then last..: [r...@johan ~]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay lib

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:25 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > What's that all about - user mockbuild? > > Is that a user created by one of the rpm builder scripts? No, it's the user that mock uses for its builds. Most if not all upstream rpms are built using mock and so are the CentOS r

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support.

2010-12-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: > thus Lisandro Grullon spake: > > Thank u timo, > > I will test this further when I get home. I have been having nightmares > > getting this card working from an OS iso, it appears that the card is very > > new and the drivers have n

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm [r...@karsites sox]# [r...@karsites sox]# rpm -iv sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm sox-12.18.1-1 warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root What's that all about - user mockbuild? Is that a user created by one of the rpm bui

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
Moved from a previous thread :) On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, John Hodrien wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: John Hodrien > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> Thanks for all the responses! >> >> I've read MaximumRPM from: >>

[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
I have been following the MaximumRPM guide from here: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/index.html and it seems a bit dated, but still very good (if fact the best all round documentation I have found so far) on using RPM package manager, and how to build rpm packages. The guide tells me to u

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > Thanks for all the responses! > > I've read MaximumRPM from: > > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/index.html > > Which helped me a great deal. > > I'll start a new thread regarding using RPM to build > packages. You'll find MaximumRPM will have taugh

Re: [CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Heitmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is there such a thing yet? No. @kbsingh and @centos on Twitter don't mention a finished centos6, let alone a livecd. Gruß/Regards, Daniel Heitmann XMPP: maledic...@jabber.ccc.de (OTR-preferred) | GnuPG-ID: B251006E Blog: https://blog.horrendum.d

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, John Hodrien wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: John Hodrien > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> I know about audacity, but I want a command line tool that >> will work overnight, on a batch of

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, John Hodrien wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: John Hodrien > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> If a package is installed, eg sox, the repo it came from is >> no longer showing. It just says 'i

Re: [CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso

2010-12-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, ken wrote: > To: CentOS Mailing List > From: ken > Subject: [CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso > > Just did a few searches, trying to find a redhat or centos 6.x livecd > iso, preferably an i686... but no joy. Maybe google's web crawlers > haven't found the page yet. Anybody

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/16/2010 2:15 AM, Philix T A wrote: > 1) RAID 1 is good for reading while writing is a overhead for the disk > and may hit the performance Unless you are doing something (such as video editing) that relies on ultra-fast hard drive access, you will probably never notice the difference. With h

Re: [CentOS] Remote firefox configuration

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I am open to any suggestions. :-) I suggest you simply modified the user's prefs.js in their profile in ~/.mozilla. // 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session // The behavior of opti

[CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso

2010-12-16 Thread ken
Just did a few searches, trying to find a redhat or centos 6.x livecd iso, preferably an i686... but no joy. Maybe google's web crawlers haven't found the page yet. Anybody here know where to find it? tia, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Replacing disk in RAID array with bigger disk?

2010-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
yes, thanks, I will need to do a little reading. I just wanted to assure that I'm on the right track and it's feasible. Chance has it that I found two more unused disks of the same manufacture yesterday, so I will be replacing with the same size today, anyway. But I know for next time ... Kai

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail Replay problem

2010-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I assume you want to *forward* mail. As you seem to have no knowledge about sendmail at all I suggest you install Webmin and administer your mail addresses from there. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Philix T A wrote: > 2) Dont create RAID for swap and / root partition (Not Advisable) Any rationale for this bad advice? > 3) Swap Size size should be 2X the size of the Physical memory For a desktop, maybe. > 6) My experience had always shown if your apps

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Philix T A wrote: > 1) RAID 1 is good for reading while writing is a overhead for the disk and > may hit the performance Write overhead is minimal, since you're just writing out the same data twice to two equal performance drives (typically). I'd really not worry about the p

Re: [CentOS] Google Picasa / GNOME / how to launch application?

2010-12-16 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > I had installed Picasa,apparently properly, but am unable to launch > the application. In the GNOME Desktop menu, Applications > Graphics > > Picasa > Picasa it does not launch. Reinstalled it and the same issue. > > Reinstalling: >  picasa  

[CentOS] Sendmail Replay problem

2010-12-16 Thread sync
Hi , guys : I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my condition: I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed CentOS 5.5 x86 64, and I want to set up the sendmail replay. That is to say . If my linux account called test and his mail address is t...@