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

2010-12-13 Thread cornel panceac
2010/12/13 Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com Hi folks I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it because it is too complicated for my

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

2010-12-14 Thread cornel panceac
2010/12/15 cpol...@surewest.net cornel panceac wrote: my first language was pascal. if i'd had the opportunity, i'd start with c. herbert schildt's teach yourself c was great for me. I think C is an excellent place to begin. But try K R (ISBN-10 0131103628) which is the classic

Re: [CentOS] how to install Linux on an IBM xserver 335 server without graphics card?

2010-12-19 Thread cornel panceac
2010/12/19 Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Hi All, I recently got some IBM Xseries 335 servers 2nd hand, and noticed they don't have any graphics card. Some google searched indicate they only have an uplink port,

Re: [CentOS] What commands are available in recovery mode?

2010-12-29 Thread cornel panceac
2010/12/30 Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com On Wed, Dec 29, 2010, Mark wrote: I have a CentOS VM that I messed up and it now can't find /home (because it's gone), so it comes up in recovery mode. Would a manual fsck help fix this? What can I do in recovery mode? It won't let me modify

Re: [CentOS] drivers

2011-01-02 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/3 mahmoud mansy jecko...@gmail.com hey guys, wanna know where to find my graphics card driver for centos5.5 coz the 5.4 support it and xserver start automaticly but the 5.5 doesnot start and tried to reconfigure the xorg.conf but it doesnot work too. and i noticed that the hardware

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/19 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com On 1/19/2011 10:43 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The difference is that open source server software has been 'feature complete' for ages and the standards processes that change client/server interactions are very, very slow - so outdated

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/22 S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/22 Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com $ du -sh * | sort -n 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.xz (both -9,-9e) 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 37M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz 39M

Re: [CentOS] OT - simple CAD program to design electronic circuits with

2011-02-07 Thread cornel panceac
On 02/07/2011 10:37 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: I'll check out the suggest CAD packaages and get back to the list with my findings. have you seen this? http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Is there a Centos 3 around ?

2011-02-07 Thread cornel panceac
2011/2/7 Nicolas Ross rossnick-li...@cybercat.ca mds5um has been tempered with also... It return those expected values, but a md5sum programm I took elsewhere was returning another value... not all md5sum programs are the same, check several programs before deciding what's next.

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread cornel panceac
2011/2/8 Xinhuan Zheng xzh...@christianbook.com Hi, I am recovering a CentOS 5.4 system. I’ve copied all partitions into the recovery system. I’ve installed grub boot loader. However, the original system is using /dev/sdb1 for root (/), while the recovery system is using LVM

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-20 Thread cornel panceac
2011/2/20 Sean s...@orcon.net.nz James B. Byrne wrote: But, our future financial support for CentOS is contingent upon dealing with an independent legal entity that conforms with national and international tax laws and corporate reporting requirements. A new model (appropriate to

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

2011-03-23 Thread cornel panceac
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. so i believe the real question is: how can we

Re: [CentOS] My server reboots every hour! Help please!

2009-07-15 Thread cornel panceac
2009/7/15 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: I have a machine here that resets itself every one hour (without my intention, of course): # cat

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

2009-08-05 Thread cornel panceac
2009/8/5 Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Blake Hudsonbl...@ispn.net wrote: How old is your laptop? This may be a case of expectations not meeting reality. As the Wiki article linked previously mentions, LiION batteries deteriorate over time and with use

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-09 Thread cornel panceac
2009/8/9 Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I did understand it the first time, but thanks again for the further clarification. This kinda illustrates my point. Couldn't you have a different repo with these updates

Re: [CentOS] error --- any idea ?? Kernel: Additional sense: Invalid command operation code

2009-08-10 Thread cornel panceac
2009/8/10 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com Hi All My system is CentOS release 4.4 (Final) and for the last few days my system si getting rebooted ... i really cant find out any reason why ... but on the messages found in the var/log/ ...here is what i got . Aug 10 04:31:34 spam2

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-16 Thread cornel panceac
2009/9/16 Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote: hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges. it

Re: [CentOS] Receive, process and send email

2009-09-21 Thread cornel panceac
2009/9/21 Alan Hodgson ahodg...@simkin.ca On Sunday 20 September 2009, CSB kj...@xnet.co.nz wrote: We wish to do the following: 1. receive an email with an attachment 2. process the email body to get some information from it 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread cornel panceac
Yes - and for those suggesting ubuntu as better for a non-technical user I think the real question is whether the user will do any of their own changes (like adding new programs) and updates. If they do, ubuntu is probably a good choice. If they will ask you to do it for them, then it would

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread cornel panceac
2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread cornel panceac
2009/10/9 vijay shanker vijaydshan...@gmail.com Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered

Re: [CentOS] Rythmbox and MP3

2009-10-11 Thread cornel panceac
2009/10/11 Robert Spangler mli...@zoominternet.net On Sunday 11 October 2009 01:22, Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get the 2 in the Subject line to work? I have read a lot about adding this or that repo but still no joy as usually deps are missing. :(

[CentOS] can't update python ?...@#@?

2009-10-12 Thread cornel panceac
is this a known issue? # yum update py\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: download.srv.ro * updates: download.srv.ro * addons: download.srv.ro * extras: download.srv.ro Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process

Re: [CentOS] can't update python ?...@#@?

2009-10-12 Thread cornel panceac
Try running yum clean all and then try it again. However, you need to careful since none of your repositories appear to be bona fida CentOS repositories (just by looking at the name.) A slightly different version of python may create havoc when trying to upgrade other packages with

Re: [CentOS] can't update python ?...@#@?

2009-10-12 Thread cornel panceac
2009/10/12 cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com Try running yum clean all and then try it again. However, you need to careful since none of your repositories appear to be bona fida CentOS repositories (just by looking at the name.) A slightly different version of python may create

Re: [CentOS] can't update python ?...@#@?

2009-10-12 Thread cornel panceac
2009/10/12 cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com 2009/10/12 cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com Try running yum clean all and then try it again. However, you need to careful since none of your repositories appear to be bona fida CentOS repositories (just by looking at the name

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread cornel panceac
You're forgetting: Sneakers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/ One of my favorites. +1 -- Linux counter #213090 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread cornel panceac
2009/11/2 ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com I am playing around with Zimbra. For the install, I selected the Fedora 11 version for x64. I am running: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I install I get an error: This platform is

Re: [CentOS] Microsoft .mdb files in Open office

2009-11-23 Thread cornel panceac
2009/11/23 linux-crazy hichee...@gmail.com Hi, Is there is anyway to Open Microsoft .mdb files in open office on Centos 5.3 ? Thanks linux _ try mdbtools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/files/ -- Linux counter #213090 ___

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-22 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/23 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com A 'vetting' and reputation system was proposed in some early design documents for fedora.us, but that project lacked the mass to make it work; cAos tried a variation of this, and encountered a problem with its v.2 when a novice packager

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/23 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com On Mon, 23 May 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: This seems to me to be an unnecessarily agressive response to what appeared to me a rational question from Les Mikesell. But I don't think the fact that a service is free entitles its proponents to be

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/23 Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com On 05/23/2011 09:08 AM, cornel panceac wrote: regarding the fact we are not contributing as much as we want to the project, i'm afraid is basicaly a documentation problem. i'd personally like to do something to help, but i don't have the required

Re: [CentOS] Good network printer/scanner for Centos/Linux

2011-05-26 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/26 Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com On Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:43 PM +0300 Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: - Linux, Windows and OSX support on printer and also on scanner. The scanner part is tough. I'd love to see some good support for Epson. I've got a Perfection

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 5.5] Program/method to test integrity of the system/packages

2011-05-31 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/31 giggzounet giggzou...@gmail.com Hi, we have a cluster. The master has CentOS 5.5 on it. At the moment it crashes randomly...perhaps a hardware problem...no idea. But to eliminate a software problem I would like to test the integrity of the system or of the installed package. Is it

Re: [CentOS] C6 LiveCD top 5 apps

2011-06-11 Thread cornel panceac
2011/6/11 n...@li.nux.ro Regarding http://twitter.com/CentOS/statuses/79336297579282432 I don't have a twitter account so I'm spamming the list since it looks on topic :) I'd like to see on the LiveCD the following: 1. latest dd_rescue 2. latest gparted 3. ntfs-3g 4. screen 5. mc How

Re: [CentOS] Samsung M800

2009-12-01 Thread cornel panceac
2009/12/1 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net I have a Samsung M800 phone that I had (wrongly) assumed would show up as a USB drive on Linux so I can transfer files to it and so on. Instead, it appears to present itself as a modem. Is there any way to make it appear as a usb drive? my (motorola

Re: [CentOS] Samsung M800

2009-12-01 Thread cornel panceac
can you use bluetooth for that? -- Linux counter #213090 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread cornel panceac
2009/12/7 Brent L. Bates blba...@vigyan.com XFS is the most stable file system I've seen or used. I've seen it survive power failures and disk problems with out a problem. It is the ONLY file system I trust. It is stable, reliable, dependable, and practically bullet proof. I've been

Re: [CentOS] Old hd, new machine

2009-12-16 Thread cornel panceac
2009/12/16 Michel van Deventer mic...@van.deventer.cx Hi, What should I do to make an existing CentOS (5.4) disc boot up on a new computer? you may be required to rebuild initrd -- Linux counter #213090 ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] I had a 5.4 installation crash and generate a log file - where do I send it?

2009-12-25 Thread cornel panceac
2009/12/25 Jeff Silverman j.silver...@f5.com People, While installing 5.4, I ran into an unhandled exception. It generated a log file, which I saved successfully. Unfortunately, I neglected to write down where to send the log file. Where does it go? i'd try: /root on installed file

Re: [CentOS] No you have new mail message on login

2010-03-30 Thread cornel panceac
2010/3/30 Ian Masters i...@acces.co.jp To answer my own mail ... I've never had to do this before but this is what did the trick to show mail on login and ssh login: /etc/pam.d/login - add the following line: sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard /etc/pam.d/sshd - add the

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread cornel panceac
2010/4/2 Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this useful link on usage of proxy. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environment-variable/ or even better: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-yum-proxy-server.html

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-21 Thread cornel panceac
2010/4/21 Jure Pečar pega...@nerv.eu.org On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:19:14 +0300 Radu Radutiu rradu...@gmail.com wrote: I thought you might be interested :) Any hint where ISOs are? ;) redhat network? see obtaining rhel in docs -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-21 Thread cornel panceac
Which Fedora release is closest in terms of compiler and library versions? I would need to start porting some software over to be ready by the time rhel6 ships. F12 AFAIK. i can see that the installer comes from f13. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 beta manuals online

2010-04-22 Thread cornel panceac
Yes, RHEL6 installer was branched from Fedora 13 installer in January 2010. -- Pasi thank you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/16 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers. How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system? That would really help me in my

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault when updating to CentOS v5.5

2010-05-17 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/17 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Hi all, I'm getting a segmentation fault with yum when I try to update a CentOS v5.4 install to v5.5. try updating only some of the packages. if there's one package which can not be updated with yum, rpm -Uvh -- Among the maxims on Lord

Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-19 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/20 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org cornel, that worked perfectly, thanks for the tip welcome :) -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master Ittei commented, Matters of small concern should be treated

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-05-22 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/22 Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com yes, i tried to install it to hd1,0 too. do you have /boot on both drives? -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master Ittei commented, Matters of small concern

Re: [CentOS] [FZH] 关于如何得到最新的Fedora 13 命令

2010-06-04 Thread cornel panceac
This is not the fedora mailing list... And where did you get the --releasever option from? JD it is in yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch and probably some older versions. -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6b2 Release

2010-07-01 Thread cornel panceac
The official Redhat mirror is very slow at the moment. Here is a faster mirror from my company for the x86-64 version: http://download2.imt-systems.com/rhel6b2/ there are also torrents available: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06160 -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-06 Thread cornel panceac
Similar content is now broken up into separate .conf files in directory /etc/modprobe.d so that individual packages can now have sole ownership of a file rather than trying to pack all their parameters into a single, hard to maintain file. in what order are the files processed? -- Among

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-06 Thread cornel panceac
In alphabetical order. -- Dominik Zyla thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD on USB won't boot

2010-07-28 Thread cornel panceac
| Any idea? Any hint 4 me? try unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master Ittei commented, Matters of small concern should be treated seriously. (Ghost Dog : The Way

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Label Printer Recommendations

2010-08-28 Thread cornel panceac
2010/8/28 Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Label Printer Recommendations

2010-08-28 Thread cornel panceac
2010/8/28 Chris Geldenhuis chris.gel...@iafrica.com Read the printer's manual and work out the character strings required to genarate the label size, coding etc that you require and then code a program or script to produce that. I do not have the manual with me at present so cannot be more

[CentOS] exclude mirror

2010-09-21 Thread cornel panceac
how can i exclude certain mirrors from yum in centos 5? -- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master Ittei commented, Matters of small concern should be treated seriously. (Ghost Dog : The Way of The Samurai)

Re: [CentOS] exclude mirror

2010-09-22 Thread cornel panceac
2010/9/22 Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au On 22/09/10 15:56, Joseph L. Casale wrote: how can i exclude certain mirrors from yum in centos 5? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yum+exclude+mirrorsl=1 +1 thank you very much ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] exclude mirror

2010-09-22 Thread cornel panceac
2010/9/22 cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com 2010/9/22 Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au On 22/09/10 15:56, Joseph L. Casale wrote: how can i exclude certain mirrors from yum in centos 5? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yum+exclude+mirrorsl=1 +1 thank you very much unfortunately

Re: [CentOS] exclude mirror

2010-09-22 Thread cornel panceac
2010/9/22 Tru Huynh t...@centos.org On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0300, cornel panceac wrote: at next run, yum tries mirrors.uav.ro first, and fails, as usual. what do you mean by that? yum uses a mirror that is on the exclude list. or, i don't understand that exclude list

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread cornel panceac
what happens with selinux disabled? -- When one door is closed, another is open. (Robert Nesta Marley) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread cornel panceac
is there a client-server application which does kvm over network connections? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread cornel panceac
Try searching for kvm over ip -- you'll find a number of devices not much more expensive than that adapter, which are KVMs with their own network interfaces. Which means you don't even need to be physically plugged in to use them, though I believe you *could* be if security concerns mean

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-18 Thread cornel panceac
Yes, those error were before I removed sendmail from the default config. Even though it seems to be answering on post 25 now, mail sent to an account there from Gmail are not being received. No errors in the logs. -- Dotan Cohen stupid's question: what happens if you disable selinux?

Re: [CentOS] RHEL Released

2010-11-10 Thread cornel panceac
2010/11/10 William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com It's on their website right now. good, thank you. now let's wait for the scientific/centos releases. -- When one door is closed, another is open. (Robert Nesta Marley) ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

2010-11-11 Thread cornel panceac
2010/11/11 Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears to be successful, but the system will not

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread cornel panceac
2010/11/23 David G. Mackay macka...@bellsouth.net I've just filed bug 0004634. Grub won't install onto my pata drive now that I have a sata drive installed. This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm guessing that I can always install Fedora on hda, which should