[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: started holding my breath when RHEL 6 Beta was released, and my face is not blue any more but totally black :-) Yowzer -- Zombies!!! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Radu Gheorghiu wrote: The main fear the developers have is that somebody could steal their work and come up with another RHEL clone easily if they release their build system scripts. I think this is obvious by now. 'obvious' to you or not, such is not the case with

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: But, yes, there are a few missing srpms even as of now ... bug number please -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:41 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: But, yes, there are a few missing srpms even as of now ... bug number please Jeff_S knows. He filed a bunch at upstream bugzilla

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many changes of how thing work. In local testing built from the anaconda and related sources that will become CentOS 6, the offer to upgrade an existing install is made during a

[CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
quick answer: even paranoids have enemies On Sun, 8 May 2011, Jason wrote: So I turned on Apache ReWrite and I created a file and I put in rules like: (just a small subset) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/php(.*) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmy(.*) [NC,OR] .snip 2. I know

[CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: herrold: I'll try to blog about it, but once one knows the 'secret' it is not all that hard to predict -- This unit has three NICs (two onboard of the same type and an addon) which do NOT 'wander around' through reboots But can you swap the disk into

[CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I do not have personal experience with CentOS, but I have seen different X86-PC MB's on embedded units/routers recognizing LAN and Wireless NIC's differently ones from PCI1 to PCI5, others from PCI5 to PCI1, one MB even without any order at all.

[CentOS-docs] FOG on CentOS Wiki contribution suggestion?

2011-05-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Am 29.04.11 18:32, schrieb Alex Goffe: Ok, changes made! If you could move it that would be great. Okay, done. Could you please explain in the document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Fog why you are truning off iptables? My thought, reading the

[CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

2011-05-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote: Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to building the entire distribution? I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find such

[CentOS] mod_ssl?

2011-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: I just noticed that the mod_ssl package was missing on a 5.x machine that I thought was approximately like several other that have it - and don't remember doing anything different. Is there some yum group that would install httpd without including it?

[CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

2011-04-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Thanks for pointing out that it really is abnormal because it takes about 2 hours for virt-install to create a 190G disk for me. As you are having issues with the install, I might suggest creating a more modest sized disk image, at least

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Does anyone have the .iso image of virt-p2v? It is not available anymore through that link. The source is available, but building it requires a *lot* of packages, some of which seem to be hard to find. I have a copy in my archive, but how about

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: RJ's website says he is (was?) in the process of rewriting virt-p2v. I have a copy in my archive, but how about contacting Richard Jones, and asking him for an update or replacement? I'll shuttle it out into public bandwidth and advice you privately

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: But Johnny's postings seem pretty insistent on never releasing the actual scripts in a form that can be used elsewhere or by anyone outside the project, so maybe a more productive approach would be some way of oh horse puckey, troll -- it is just

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/12/2011 12:51 PM, R P Herrold wrote: off the top of my head, here is the meta-code Would you really repeat those steps by hand if someone gave you a new server to add to what you use? Maybe things are worse than I'd guessed. You did

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Brian Mathis wrote: packages, etc... but how? From the tone of the messages it seems like it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for zero in this context as we are talking about things that take place in public. Those things need to go into

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: I also don't see what the size of my (past) contributions to CentOS has to do with this whole discussion. I would much rather discuss why the QA process needs to be closed, why you think opening up the process will not help fix issues faster (while

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look like rank amateurs. It is _so_ easy to tell others what they should or should not do.

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: day (and I mean every complainant every day) and saying SL is better, raising blood pressure to devs (which is why they are loosing their temper), but keeps bashers wanting CentOS over the SL? I do not get it Actually I just finished an email to

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended outcome. Off topic here as to what RHEL and its vendor should or should not do, Les. And 'self-hosting' has NEVER been a goal of the

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ian Murray wrote: hair is best cut. My bakery has refused to sell me sliced bread because it was too hot to slice... however, they kindly explained when I should come back if I wished such that the bread would suitably be ready. No drama. and so we should tell people:

[CentOS-docs] The Wiki Donate Page.

2011-04-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote: As I've finally got around to mentioning the above, I look west to the US of A, wave at the ORC and ask if Russ would please make an appropriate adjustment. I am not the project's attorney and disclaim any such role ---start

[CentOS-docs] Contributing to Wiki

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote: I think he did too, but I can't access or edit it. You are not allowed to view this page. I've just checked and see that there is a typo on the acl line. Unfortunately I can't correct it . . . umm -- E_NEED_CONTEXT ;) What page URL and perhaps a

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: OK guys. Why don't you fork the CentOS project and build your own??? Why don't ANYBODY fork CentOS project? What are you/they waiting for? Whining is easy, build something on your own. Too strongly stated. I am aware of at least two private

[CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X packages OK, Y packages failed? This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's builders by me and another.

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Building the kernel shouldn't be an issue - but look at the SL notes on the srpms that don't build with the listed dependencies as shipped - and they aren't being picky about the library linkages matching the RH binaries like CentOS is. If the

[CentOS] how can we help? was: Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, cornel panceac wrote: 2011/3/23 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com This comes and goes, and really there is no substitute for actually 'doing' rather than talking in the cloister as i see it, the problem is while the users expectation has grown, the work became harder

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: It is just hard for an outsider to reconcile the statements about the build process not needing any changes or more resources with the lack of a target time. Or that binary compatibility is the critical thing with the distribution becoming

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Drew wrote: Most likely because of relative cost and/or perceived value of SLES vs RHEL? Novell is essentially offering to help you while you switch existing kit over to SLES. If you're already paying for a RHEL subscription, Novell's offer may have a lower cost or offer

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: There are significant components of the upstream 5.6 release which are stuck behind the CentOS 5.6 release process, but are now incorporated in EPEL 5 components. Sad that -- that the dependent partial Red Hat adjunct project is not compatible

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Александр Кириллов wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2011-03-18-how-to-lose-a-client_N.htm CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is owed. If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are wanted or needed, PLEASE

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Александр Кириллов wrote: TANSTAAFL ... long overdue free lunch I get it -- you dont (or choose not to) understand the written word -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: True. You cannot have multiple PTR records for an IP. I did not mean to suggest that you could. Not saying you are wrong here, but have you an RFC reference to this effect? We previously held this belief from our prior practice, but cannot find a

[CentOS] Watching a directory

2011-03-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: Would anyone have thoughts? don't reinvent the wheel inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS-docs] Homepage request

2011-03-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote: Ralph -- Where are you? Please remember that there are certain things only you can do . . . well, not exactly .. the page and acl for GaoHu is now present http://wiki.centos.org/GaoHu and he should be able to edit it -- Russ herrold

[CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

2011-03-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, robert mena wrote: yeah but he wants to hear from the horse's mouth Who knows what the guy really said when a reporter quotes something The 'pull quotes' attributed to me (the horse in question) by the Reg are accurate and carry good context Anyone who follows

[CentOS] bind 9.7.3 and libp11 engine_pkcs11 of fedoca core 14

2011-03-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, fakessh @ wrote: I installed the packages and libp11 engine_pkcs11 to allow me to recover the rpm of bind depositing unofficial CentALT. is the only way to properly recompile the source rpm this in order to to safety the last holes in bind there is a fake bind that runs a

[CentOS] CentOS 5 Security Updates

2011-02-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Cal Webster wrote: java-1.6.0-sun non FOSS, non-source provided, no? This is in an addon channel in RHEL, and so far as I know we have never shipped such Of the others the wireshark update is a periodic update of some edge case dissectors [these developers are quite

[CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advis ory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Larry Vaden wrote: Please take off the blinders and realize there are lots of folks (some x% of a million or more) on this list who compile from current source in order to minimize their risks and are therefore the subject audience. and it is on topic in this venue, just

[CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread R P Herrold
The question was: On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 22:53 -0800, S Mathias wrote: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 # Set up SSL protection on your website. is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? and one reply asseted: On Wed,

[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: # rpm --import Fedora6-GPG-public-key.asc and then that objection will be silenced Thanks Russ. That has cured the problem. Do I need the .gpg subdirectory in my rpmbuilder homedir? no - that was created by GnuPG for maintaining a keystore,

[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: gpg --import-key yourkey.asc Thanks for your reply Tim. It still does not work though. [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ gpg --import Fedora6-GPG-public-key.asc [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ rpm -K qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm:

[CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, A T Williams wrote: *But* I am the primary developer of a large Python application http://www.ohloh.net/p/coils [113K lines and growing] and it *is( an interesting trendlines there [soft economy, or loss of interest in FOSS oritented languages, I wonder] -- I tinkered

[CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Have a look at Lua (www.lua.org). Imo it's quite readable and less snip Don't. I have literally never heard of it before, and I at least have heard of everything else folks have mentioned. Learn something that there's a *large* base of folks who

[CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Warren Young wrote: On 12/9/2010 2:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Also, Apple dictates style; to a lesser degree, so does M$. There's no dictated style guide for Linux. That's outdated thinking. Apple's acquired some infamy among its fanboy How about this long since OT

[CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: ... troubleshoot any problem that SELinux might cause with any app, ... would you like a fixed price on that quote as well? - R ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Help with yum and cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

2010-11-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, James B. Byrne wrote: make. Everything built without error. I then ran checkinstall ... checkinstall is a third party solution and does not keep up too well Running Transaction Installing : ruby-1.8.7 1/1 Error unpacking rpm package

[CentOS] Centos 5.5 - php53 and mhash

2010-11-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: you should ask that on the ius repo mailinglist (if theres one..) I'm using repo from http://dl.iuscommunity.org/ and I want use php5.3 there is such: List-Subscribe: https://launchpad.net/~ius-community List-Unsubscribe:

[CentOS] Latex - was Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Robert Heller wrote: 160 lines of largely untrimmed quoted cr*p You know better, Robert and by your action you say you just don't care. This kind of behaviour is the best way I can think of to drive people away from reading the list My prior working rule on this list

[CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:57:58PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote: John R. Dennison wrote: I think it's a fair bet to say it will be at least 4-6 weeks out. When it comes, will I be able to upgrade by sudo yum update? Probably a casual one off user

[CentOS] Oracle charging for InnoDB support in MySQL : what is going to change for us?

2010-11-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Wonder if it's that they charge for support, from them, on InnoDB, not for the engine itself. I mean, it was GPL'd what, five or more years ago. As to already fielded sources under the GPL, they will persist under the GPL, or course BUT ... you

[CentOS] Running a DNS signed zone on Centos 5.5

2010-11-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Since we now have .com signed I want to get my domain signed as well, but I see that Centos 5.5 is running BIND 9.3.6 and a thread on the BIND list recommends against running a DNSSEC master zone on anything less than 9.6 and you really should be on

[CentOS] Running a DNS signed zone on Centos 5.5

2010-11-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The[y] just announced customer only RHEL 5.6 beta notes: bind 9.7 - improved DNSsec support So is there a Centos 5.6 beta with bind 9.7 or should I switch to FC13/14? :) I inadvertently sent that under a @centos.org email address - that

[CentOS] orphan inodes deleted issue

2010-11-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, David S. wrote: No one know about this issue? :D On 11/05/2010 01:11 AM, David S. wrote: EXT3-fs: md1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 2010087 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 259361 ext3_orphan_cleanup:

[CentOS] You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.028stab062.3PAE kernel installed.

2010-10-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Thuo Wilson and John Dennison wrote: It's not a matter so much of where to get the sources as it is that since it is an OpenVZ container you don't have direct access to the hardware, nor the ability to load kernel modules as the kernel is

[CentOS] RM Help

2010-10-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Matt wrote: Is there a way to tell rm -f to only remove a file if its owned by say mail? find . -user $USERMATCH-name $FILENAME \ -a -exec rm -f {} \; or such ... -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Sendmail - block mail based on recipient address?

2010-10-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Sean Carolan wrote: Maybe someone can help me sort this out. I want to block outbound mail from my network based upon the recipient address. Internal servers should still be allowed to send emails, but not to a few specific addresses. I've tried creating some rules in

[CentOS] Dell E6410

2010-10-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Bo Lynch wrote: Just recently bought a Dell E6410 with a Intel® HD Graphics with ExpressCard with I7-640m processor. Having some issues getting a graphical env to work. By just the looks of lspci X is wanting to use the VGA Compatable controller: Intel Corp Core Processor

[CentOS] Dell E6410

2010-10-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, R P Herrold wrote: where bug number include: 004363 and 640421 and 639146 comment 4 -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 hangs on Acer Veriton X498G

2010-10-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Paul Ortega wrote: I have installed CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5PAE) on a number of Acer Veriton X498G desktop computers. They seem to randomly hang when nobody is logged in at the console, i.e. I notice a hanged computer but have not heard complaints about computers

[CentOS] missing dependency for package

2010-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Ski Dawg wrote: from that repository, it is missing the dependency, perl-mime-construct, which I am not able to find packaged anywhere. I see it in F 13 and RawHide, but it in turn needs: perl(Proc::WaitStat) [which was in RHL 6.2 ;) and is back in F13 ]; which in turn

[CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Ausmus, Matt wrote: Yeah, this issue’s been brought up in the past. One of the maintainer of FC 13 made the srpm available (I believe he prepped the spec file) for RHEL/CentOS 5 for dhcpd 4.1. We started looking at it and the problems are the dependencies and the

[CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: Done! I then restarted postfix and there seem to be no new errors in the logs. However, I still cannot telnet into port 25: ✈dcl:~$ telnet mail.sharingcenter.eu 25 Trying 178.63.65.136... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

[CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2010-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Bob Beers wrote: I'm trying to create an asterisk 1.8 rpm with SRTP. I found mention of a libsrtp rpm, http://qutecom.ipex.cz/RPMS/srtp-1.4.4-1.i386.rpm first google hit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509619 I seem to remember another packaging of

[CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2010-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Bob Beers wrote: following on myself 'find' indicates it is also carried in FreeSwitch /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/freeswitch-20101012/libs/srtp /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/freeswitch-20101012/libs/srtp/srtp-1.42.pc

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Patrick Lists wrote: Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? Afaict the mock version in the CentOS repo is 0.6.13 which was released years ago and the one in EPEL is 1.0.7 which is current. ehh?? mock-1.1.5-1orc.src.rpm from upstream Raw Hide

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Patrick Lists wrote: On 10/11/2010 05:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: The mock inplementaion is a moving target --- I do not know the particulars of why the other party recommmended using THE ONE CENTOS BUILT ON for CentOS, but ... Sorry but I don't get it. Are you saying

[CentOS-docs] suggestion for HOWTO: bonding multiple NICs

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Why the F*** does everybody think he has to do his own docs page instead of working with CentOS to have that documentation in one place? *SIGH* Probably the same reason that some in CentOS feel a need to maintain a local wiki chock full of

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: so, these days, is that the canonical way to download source rpms? I am substantially certain we have a wiki article on mirroring, and certainly I've written about mirroring over and over again from many approaches [my most recent blog post,

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, R P Herrold wrote: WHAT? you don't want to handle that load RIGHT NOT and for s/OT/OW/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the source. Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools No Matches found As I recall,

[CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: As Russ has said, they are not. More context (said in our back archive, but recapped recently [and it should have crossed http://planet.centos.org/ when I issued this update] at http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/08/chickens-coming-home-to-roost.html

[CentOS] Zoneminder

2010-10-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: ehh -- The version in RawHide will build and run under C5, with some tedious gathering and packaging of buildchain work [herr...@centos-5 zoneminder]$ rpm -q zoneminder zoneminder-1.24.2-5orc [herr...@centos-5 zoneminder]$ ls *src.rpm | grep orc

[CentOS-docs] update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

2010-10-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i asked for those rights once and was told i wasn't getting them. so i'm just posting suggestions. ehh? Where? Not that I see, cruising this, but I may be missing something http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2010-September/thread.html

[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread R P Herrold
;) I'll try to remember to write this up more formally. Hope this helps -- end == .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- Copyright (C) 2010 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com My words are not deathless prose, but they are mine

[CentOS] Zoneminder

2010-09-21 Thread R P Herrold
On 22/09/10 11:39 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: I have zoneminder 1.24.4 running under 5.5. The docs/support sucks. There is one comment you need to add to ./configure to get it to compile. It took me months to figure it out and find it on the zoneminder website. ehh -- The version in RawHide

[CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time you build something yourself you are taking

[CentOS] Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux Was: Re: looking for cool

2010-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit On 64 bit, the [manual] install was as simply

[CentOS] https

2010-09-16 Thread R P Herrold
the certificate chain in your local browser. This chain is present in Windows 7 Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari 16. All done -- end == .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- Copyright (C) 2010 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com My words are not deathless

[CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: So, I'm quite keen on finding out what is it that is causing the breakage for you Karanbir, in the middle of the thread from the archive: James B. Byrne at Mon Sep 13 12:59:25 EDT 2010 Did that via webmin's command interface and nothing changed

[CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: Could you offer a precise command for copying the system from / to /mnt/hd , say? Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example? I've not updated this in years nor for a 2.6 kernel and grub, but the process is basically unchanged:

[CentOS-docs] doco bug as to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread R P Herrold
and AJB kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm [I see AlanBartlett as the last editor on that page] I have installed the given ajb source rpm kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm, and verified that it is intact: [herr...@kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ rpm -Vp

[CentOS] Blowfish issues with somewhat big files

2010-07-29 Thread R P Herrold
On largish files, on a CentOS 5, 64 bit arch, openssl seems to work fine here [herr...@centos-5 SRPMS]$ time openssl bf -in \ freeswitch-0.0.20100729.git-1.src.rpm -out \ freeswitch-0.0.20100729.git-1.src.rpm.bf enter bf-cbc encryption password: Verifying - enter bf-cbc

[CentOS] wget and resulting filenames with mirror option

2010-07-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Anyone know a way around this? I am using the mirror option so I don't have to keep track of what to get making it simple. my apology in advance for suggesting another tool, but, there you are ... use lftp for mirroring? wget can do mirroring but

[CentOS] wget and resulting filenames with mirror option

2010-07-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: my apology in advance for suggesting another tool, but, there you are ... What about rsync ? That requires co-operation from the remote end to set up an anonymous rsync server .. doable, but as I understood the scope of work, not within it -- Russ

[CentOS] wget and resulting filenames with mirror option

2010-07-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: That requires co-operation from the remote end to set up an anonymous rsync server .. doable, but as I understood the scope of work, not within it Well, doesn't need to be anon, but none the less I am SOL wrt to ftp or rsync as none of these

[CentOS] www.centos.org - SSL Cert Expired - CSS fubar'd

2010-07-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, didi wrote: http://projects.centos.org/ is still out of date. :) projects.centos.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on 07/17/2010 01:23 AM. It is quite unclear to me WHY a redirect into the wiki runs out from a SSL startpoint, but ...

[CentOS] freetype bytecode interpreter

2010-07-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Frank Cox wrote: It may yet be too early to get a definite answer about this, but I'm wondering what the status of the formerly patented bytecode interpreter in freetype will be in RHEL/Centos 6 and possibly future updates to RHEL/Centos 5. CentOS just rebuilds sources

[CentOS] freetype bytecode interpreter

2010-07-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 06:24 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: While this may induce a reluctance to change matters too much, a closer to the 'leaf node' package such as freetype may be 'doable' if you ask, and as I recall, RFE it in their Bugzilla; Upon

[CentOS] freetype bytecode interpreter

2010-07-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/20/2010 10:26 AM, R P Herrold wrote: Reading that and the companion mentioned in the last comment, my takeaway is that fonts in fedora are (or were) bad [I trust m miller's judgment here, and have for a long time, as he is a thoughtful

[CentOS] www.centos.org - SSL Cert Expired - CSS fubar'd

2010-07-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Mike Putnam wrote: I hadn't seen mention of it on the mailing list yet so I thought I'd post it. We are aware of the matter and needed for the weekday to start to get to computers holding the needed (and protected) access credentials. As the issue was not disabling

[CentOS] Disks for virtualization

2010-07-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Much the easiest to manage is just having the virtual machine use a file in dom0 as its disk. Without pre-allocating, this lets me over-commit somewhat to cover unknown future needs, for example. One sees this a lot in the writeups; one assumes

[CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be fully powered off for the entry to be effectively changed - some BIOSes evidently are flakey about it. Now *there's* something I wouldn't have thought of trying on my own. Okay, I can

[CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: continues to issue them while it remains in support, particularly for the PowerEdge series This is a brand-new R310, received from Dell and installed this week. Which doesn't mean it's for sure at the latest BIOS level of course. * chuckle *

[CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Whit Blauvelt wrote: This is an implicit contract that runs across all open source software projects. implicit contract ? You know 'Whit' -- you deserve congratulations You were just promoted into the 'hot air windbag' 'internet lawyer' 'I am entitled to it, just

[CentOS] Smallest install?

2010-07-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is there any way of doing an even smaller install? Run a pre 5 series install and it is straightforward

[CentOS] Smallest install?

2010-07-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:33:57PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: There are lower thresholds one cannot go below and still stay wih current updates. My article on 'tiny centos' provides 'slimming scripts' to trim away coherent sets to taste while still

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Y'know, I sorta like that idea - say, a script or program that you can hand it info, such as if you've just built PHP the way I mentioned, and have it be added to the rpmdb. That would also let you know if you did a yum updgrade, and if a newer

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: R P Herrold wrote: and this random guessing and recordatation to pollute the RPM database varies from ** and ** is better than using a package built from a pre-defined recipe driven by a .spec file, just how? Well, when it insists on building

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