Re: [CentOS] Is there any benefit to using NetworkManager on a server with a static IP?

2014-03-26 Thread ken
On 03/25/2014 11:35 PM Christopher Jacoby wrote: I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get a simple two NIC bond to work. Got really odd behavior from service network restart, then finally decided to disable NetworkManager. Voila! Bonding and the network service script starts

[CentOS] Canon PIXMA mg5420 or HP Photo Smart 7520

2014-09-08 Thread ken
In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering either the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520. There are Linux drivers for the Photosmart which are supposed to handle both the printer and the scanner. But in my research I haven't found (yet) anyone who's

[CentOS] Buggy power [was: Re: Canon PIXMA mg5420 or HP Photo Smart 7520]

2014-09-11 Thread ken
On 09/10/2014 08:46 AM Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering either the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520. Besides the Linux support there is one other thing to consider. The HP Photosmart 7520 was designed never to

Re: [CentOS] Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-09-18 Thread ken
On 09/17/2014 09:54 PM Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 07:49:32PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a curious problem with an old WRT54GL router, which I use as a WiFi access point on my LAN: Internet-ADSL modem-CentOS-7 computer-WRT54GL router Don't you mean: Internet-ADSL

Re: [CentOS] Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-09-19 Thread ken
On 09/19/2014 06:37 AM Timothy Murphy wrote: ken wrote: Just wondering if you've ever done a firmware update? sometimes even the manufacturer will issue a bug fix firmware update, shocking as that may seem! :) I'd agree with this, especially considering heartbleed. And for-profit companies

[CentOS] yum update success+failure

2014-09-30 Thread ken
Just doing yum update on two machines (and only two), both centos 5.10, one of them updated something like 22 packages, the other just 4. Packages which were updated on the first, but didn't get updated on the second machine include: gcc, httpd, kernel-2.6.18-398.el5, and probably a couple

Re: [CentOS] yum update success+failure

2014-09-30 Thread ken
On 09/30/2014 12:00 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Tue, September 30, 2014 9:07 am, ken wrote: Just doing yum update on two machines (and only two), both centos 5.10, one of them updated something like 22 packages, the other just 4. Packages which were updated on the first, but didn't get

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-02 Thread ken
On 10/02/2014 07:02 AM isdtor wrote: Thinkpad T series, and fully agree with Devin. Rock-solid, and pretty much all the pieces work - even Optimus. Still, CentOS would never be my first choice for a personal laptop ... Why not? (Not disagreeing, not either agreeing. Just wondering about

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/04/2014 07:19 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: Many curse AMD video chips (for laptop) in this thread. Are these only shared memory chips that people have reason not to like? Or real discrete AMD (former ATI) chips are bad on laptops as well? If there are any. (Are there any with their own

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 04:02 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built since the late '90s have had video

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-05 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 04:58 AM ken wrote: On 10/05/2014 04:02 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 10/5/2014 12:48 AM, ken wrote: I sincerely *hope* that it isn't some kind of trend that video cards are using shared memory instead of dedicated memory on the card itself. All machines I've bought or built

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-06 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 07:34 AM jwyeth.a...@gmail.com wrote: ... Ken, please provide links to prove your claims that SRAM is still being used as opposed to asking for links for the opposition. I see no proof that SRAM is still used at all except for in Xbox One and CPU's L3 cache, etc. I also see

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop:: video cards

2014-10-07 Thread ken
On 10/05/2014 12:32 PM John R Pierce wrote: the DDR3 on a Intel i5-4570 (random upper midrange cpu I picked) has 25.6GB/sec memory bandwidth. a typical 1920x1080 display is 2Mpixels, at 24 bit/pixel and 60Hz LCD refresh rate, thats 360MB/sec to refresh the display. almost *nothing*

Re: [CentOS] Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-10-07 Thread ken
On 10/07/2014 08:52 AM Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:27:18PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Chris wrote: How did you reboot the router, as a matter of interest. Is there any of doing this from an ethernet-connected computer? Well, I think it wasn't the genuine firmware, but

Re: [CentOS] Off topic - was: Re: Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-10-07 Thread ken
On 10/07/2014 01:40 PM Tom Bishop wrote: As another suggestion, you could try installing the Tomato firmware rather than dd-wrt. I used to run dd-wrt (on a v1.2 WRT-54GS) and had similar stability issues; I've personally found Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) to be more stable. - --

[CentOS] get /full/path/filename.ext from filename.ext

2014-12-09 Thread ken
This should be simple, but it's not, unless I'm forgetting something. Writing a script, an arg is a filename. So fname=$1 But I want that expanded to include the full path and filename, not just what is given as the arg on the command line. E.g., if the user's cwd is /home/joe/a/b/c/ and

Re: [CentOS] get /full/path/filename.ext from filename.ext

2014-12-10 Thread ken
On 12/09/2014 08:11 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:57:03PM -0500, ken wrote: You'd think this functionality would be included already in one or another linux utility. It's kinda like the complement to the 'basename' utility. I've looked into the dark corners of ls

Re: [CentOS] get /full/path/filename.ext from filename.ext

2014-12-11 Thread ken
with the same name but different paths. Also, it takes quite a while for the data used by those utilities to update, much too long for an interactive script. On 12/9/2014 2:57 PM, ken wrote: This should be simple, but it's not, unless I'm forgetting something. Writing a script, an arg

[CentOS] Error: libusb-1.0.so.0 is needed....

2014-12-14 Thread ken
Trying to install Canon printer driver package (rpm), I get a dependency error: libusb-1.0.so.0 is needed The version currently installed on my 5.9 system is libusb-0.1.12-6.el5 and, AFAIK (per yum), no upgrade to that is available. So question: Do higher centos versions have

Re: [CentOS] Error: libusb-1.0.so.0 is needed....

2014-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/14/2014 07:58 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 07:22:01PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 12/14/14 07:29, ken wrote: uname -r; rpm -q libusb CentOS 6.6 says: [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ uname -r; rpm -q libusb 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.i686 libusb-0.1.12-23.el6.i686 CentOS 5 has

[CentOS] where to get python-dbus?

2014-12-30 Thread ken
When trying to use some third-party software (from HP written in python), it says python-dbus not installed. Yet, there's $ rpm -q dbus-python dbus-python-0.70-9.el5_4 Are there really two such distinct libraries...? or is this a coding error? (Obviously I'm no python coder.) $ cat

Re: [CentOS] Apache and SSLv3

2015-01-26 Thread Ken
I'm configuring apache with https and I've a question about sslv3 deactivation. Running openssl ciphers -v I get a list of cypher suite of openssl like: ECDH-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH/RSA Au=ECDH Enc=AESGCM(128) Mac=AEAD . SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3

Re: [CentOS] additional network config

2015-01-05 Thread ken
On 01/04/2015 01:44 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 04.01.2015 um 19:32 schrieb ken geb...@mousecar.com: A system whose network routing table looks like this (abbreviated): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0

[CentOS] additional network config

2015-01-04 Thread ken
A system whose network routing table looks like this (abbreviated): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-17 Thread ken
like to know where/how logwatch is getting the number for Bytes Transferred; it doesn't seem to correspond to anything. So, unless I'm missing something, that's two problems. Does anyone see any others...? or have a plausible explanation for these inconsistencies? tia. Ken, the bytes transferred

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-13 Thread ken
On 03/13/2015 01:06 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: ken wrote on 3/13/2015 11:36 AM: # rpm -q sendmail logwatch sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 logwatch-7.3-10.el5 One host sends just one email per day, the daily logwatch report. Here's /var/log/maillog entries from yesterday (hostnames are changed to make

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-13 Thread ken
On 03/13/2015 02:29 PM, Jason Woods wrote: On 13 Mar 2015, at 18:13, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 03/13/2015 01:06 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: ken wrote on 3/13/2015 11:36 AM: # rpm -q sendmail logwatch sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 logwatch-7.3-10.el5 One host sends just one email per day

[CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-13 Thread ken
# rpm -q sendmail logwatch sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 logwatch-7.3-10.el5 One host sends just one email per day, the daily logwatch report. Here's /var/log/maillog entries from yesterday (hostnames are changed to make designations in this conversation more intuitive): Mar 12 04:02:18 srchost

Re: [CentOS] Laptop with CentOS only support

2015-04-16 Thread ken
Looking for my next linux laptop too, I'm loving this thread. A tangential yet very much related question: In the past when I've purchased a computer and put linux on it, I always had to keep Windows on it (dual-boot) in case there was a probable hardware problem and I had to walk through

Re: [CentOS] suspend / hibernate via lid / button doesn't work

2015-04-13 Thread ken
rather than hibernate. If there were system commands which were persistent over all distros and versions, then maybe they could offer these two mention options (with explanations of each). Yes, that would be an improvement. Best, ken On 04/13/2015 10:38 AM, Damjan Zemljič wrote: Hi Ken, I

[CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
For some reason the tech support people at Hewlett-Packard don't know what the default password is to access their printer's embedded web server (EWS). I got it myself from the installation manual six months ago and immediately set my own password which I have used since then, so I no longer

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 02:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:30:00PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 12:43 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:31:34AM -0400, ken wrote: For some reason the tech support people at Hewlett-Packard don't know what the default password

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 03:57 PM, Tim wrote: The manual doesn't say anything about a user or password. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03026243.pdf Search for EWS. I don't know this model but it can't be that hard. Yeah, as said in my original post, I have googled for the answer... and

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 04:49 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Mon, June 22, 2015 3:27 pm, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 04:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:48:46 -0400 ken wrote: 3) password is BLANK Did you try typing the word BLANK into that field? Yep. That's not it either. I missed

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 04:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:48:46 -0400 ken wrote: 3) password is BLANK Did you try typing the word BLANK into that field? Yep. That's not it either. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 04:07 PM, Tim wrote: Have you tried Franks suggestion? As implausible as it was, yes, I tried it anyway. No, typing BLANK didn't work for a password. I also found this for a full reset:

[CentOS] WORKAROUND: Re: OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 04:27 PM, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 04:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:48:46 -0400 ken wrote: 3) password is BLANK Did you try typing the word BLANK into that field? Yep. That's not it either. When prompted for username and password, neither entering

Re: [CentOS] [OFF-LIST] Re: OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/23/2015 11:49 AM, g wrote: hello Ken, am i correct to presume that you are getting the Bcc: of my post to the fedora list? g, I'm already subscribed to that list, so you needn't bcc me. I've read your post there. Thanks for that. Very considerate of you. The main issue, getting

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 05:45 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:22 -0400, ken wrote: snip True, I didn't mention that the manual's gone missing. But I thought that fact would be obvious and not in need of explaining. This may be silly too, but is the manual availble on-line, say

[CentOS] POSTMORTEM: Re: OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/23/2015 03:52 PM, g wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:14 PM, ken wrote: On 06/23/2015 11:49 AM, g wrote: hello Ken, am i correct to presume that you are getting the Bcc: of my post to the fedora list? g, I'm already subscribed to that list, so you needn't bcc me. I've read your post

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 05:14 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:52:17PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 02:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:30:00PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 12:43 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:31:34AM -0400, ken wrote

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 12:49 PM, Darr247 wrote: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=officejet+8620+manual I concur - I don't believe there is a password on the EWS. Well, the EWS screen disagrees with that: A box pops up title Authentication Required and with two empty fields waiting for data, labeled User Name

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 12:43 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:31:34AM -0400, ken wrote: For some reason the tech support people at Hewlett-Packard don't know what the default password is to access their printer's embedded web server (EWS). I got it myself from the installation manual

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-22 Thread ken
. The password was short, like 5 or 6 characters, but definitely not blank. I tried all of the above anyway. No go. On 06/22/2015 03:22 PM, Tim wrote: Hey Ken, give this a try: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Install-Setup/How-do-we-reset-the-EWS-embedded-web-server-on-our-8500-Pro

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 06:51 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:22 -0400, ken wrote: True, I didn't mention that the manual's gone missing. But I thought that fact would be obvious and not in need of explaining. As soon as I get a new product, I get a PDF version of the manual

Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/22/2015 09:49 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 06/22/15 17:22, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 05:14 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:52:17PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 02:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:30:00PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 12:43 PM

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread ken
On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, whereas Fedora does. Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support dual-boot. -- Jonathan Billings Since Linux

[CentOS] dual-booting - Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread ken
On 07/02/2015 11:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot

[CentOS] MHTL + legal - dual-booting - Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-03 Thread ken
On 07/03/2015 02:51 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Wow. So many _passionate_ words. Still have no idea what Chris is really going on about. Yeah, it's one of those threads with more heat than light. I believe that Chris wants (among many other things) is a CentOS which will automatically resize

Re: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server

2015-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/29/2015 10:43 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, June 29, 2015 02:14, Sorin Srbu wrote: OS 6? Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument behind using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff. Maintenance. A consistent set of expectations does

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-21 Thread ken
that they are playable on standalone players. Kind Regards Chris On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken Sent: den 20 augusti 2015 19:27 To: CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:35 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Second, it [Blu-ray] has dmr crap in it that might require binary only spyware to work. DVD-Video has them too, the only difference is that the crypto in the DRM for DVD is terribly broken. Broken in the sense that data is corrupted or in

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm

[CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
have the memory to encode hi def in reasonable amount of time. How much memory do you think would be needed to do that? Unless you want to rip movies, which may violate certain laws in certain geographical locations, there's not any point that I can see. On 08/20/2015 03:53 AM, ken wrote: One

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-11-01 Thread ken
On 10/30/2015 09:01 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: So I guess the strange IP address probably comes from some Lite-On device somewhere in my house - maybe on the server itself, an HP MicroServer. There are so many possible electronic culprits today. You should be able to use

[CentOS] Installing mSATA Solid State Drive in Dell Precision M3800

2015-11-02 Thread ken
I'm considering getting a Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation, would want to install my own mSATA SSD in it. Does anyone here have one of these machines? If so, is an SSD a user-installable component? And if so again, how much needs to be taken apart? Thanks much.

[CentOS] recommended methods/software for videocasting

2015-10-08 Thread ken
An acquaintance is considering videocasting speakers at a conference and using a Twitter product called Periscope. I'd like to recommend an open source solution. While I've never offered videos over the web, I have made audios available, and all it entailed was placing the file on the

[CentOS] lunar notation in crontab

2015-12-06 Thread ken
Crontab offers many refined facilities for Western calendaring, but none for traditional Eastern-- lunar-- designations. So for example, if one wants specify regular occurring events on full moons or on new moons, there is no way to do this. Emacs (a text processor!?) accomplishes this. The

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/14/2015 06:32 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/14/2015 04:53 PM, ken wrote: On 12/14/2015 05:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:16:42 -0500 ken wrote: How? I downloaded two (larger) of the three Centos 7 ISOs I could find... the only ones I could find. (I listed on names

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 01:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:15 AM, ken wrote: It's good to that. I've just tried that seven times (three different flashdrives 'dd' using different USB ports, then created one CD) and the media test failed each time. I wish those downloads listed cksums

[CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-13 Thread ken
The big picture is I'm wanting to boot centos 7 and install kvm. So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. I've tried to

[CentOS] [SOLVED... prolly] Re: "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-17 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 09:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote: This one works: http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64/ I know because I/ve used it for net installs twice in the last week or two, most recently a Thursday of last week. >Believe me, I wish it did work. I've been at this stupid

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-17 Thread ken
On 12/16/2015 01:13 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:09 PM, ken wrote: To be fair, an accurate description of what you're doing would be worthwhile, too. What I described was plenty enough for anyone who's been through the netinstall configuration before. There's no point

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED... prolly] Re: "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-17 Thread ken
On 12/17/2015 10:21 AM, Fred Smith wrote: During installation CTRL-ALT-F2, I believe, wikll give you a console at which you can verify the networking configuration. To be honest, I can never remember which of the screens accessible by ctrl-alt-fX is the right one, but I think it's f2, and its

[CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
Trying to specify the "installation source" in the configuration of netinstall for centos 7 (7.1). Three places on the web said mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/ But that configuration page probes, then it says, "Error setting up base repository". What's the magic needed? Also, if

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 04:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: centos 7 (7.1). Three places on the web said mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/ oh, the /7/ directory is now 7.2, so you likely should be using the 7.2 netinstall. if you really want 7.1, try... http

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 04:22 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: Trying to specify the "installation source" in the configuration of netinstall for centos 7 (7.1). Three places on the web said mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/ But that configuration p

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 04:28 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: But that configuration page probes, then it says, "Error setting up base repository". I'm not sure why that wouldn't work. I'm pretty sure you need to use a repository whose version match

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 06:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 3:55 PM, ken wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: centos 7 (7.1). Three places on the web said mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/ oh, the /7/ directory is now 7.2, so you likely

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 07:44 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/15/2015 06:21 PM, ken wrote: On 12/15/2015 06:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 3:55 PM, ken wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: centos 7 (7.1). Three places on the web said

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-14 Thread ken
On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk"

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-14 Thread ken
On 12/14/2015 12:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/13/2015 01:48 PM, ken wrote: So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; I'd recommend not doing that. If you're planning to dual-boot, you'll have to reinstall your

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-14 Thread ken
On 12/14/2015 05:08 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:03:26 -0500 ken wrote: Any suggestions as to what to do here? I guess you still haven't tried booting the Live image? Frank, I found another page with long list of them: http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-14 Thread ken
On 12/14/2015 05:08 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:03:26 -0500 ken wrote: Any suggestions as to what to do here? I guess you still haven't tried booting the Live image? How? I downloaded two (larger) of the three Centos 7 ISOs I could find... the only ones I could find. (I

Re: [CentOS] boot thumbdrive with CentOS 7 ISO???

2015-12-14 Thread ken
On 12/14/2015 05:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:16:42 -0500 ken wrote: How? I downloaded two (larger) of the three Centos 7 ISOs I could find... the only ones I could find. (I listed on names of the ISOs in my first post to this thread.) http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-15 Thread ken
On 12/15/2015 07:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 4:21 PM, ken wrote: I don't think so. Go to http://mirror.teklinks.com/centos/7.1.1503/isos/x86_64/ and see what's at that URL. I did try it using in netinstall (just trying *everything* possible), it yielded the same error once

Re: [CentOS] "installation source" specification for netinstall

2015-12-21 Thread ken
On 12/18/2015 08:35 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 15/12/15 23:46, ken wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:22 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/15/2015 12:29 PM, ken wrote: Trying to specify the "installation source" in the configuration of netinstall for centos 7 (7.1). Three places on th

Re: [CentOS] rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-11 Thread ken
On 02/11/2016 01:48 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:39 -0500 ken wrote: Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know where to find it? gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity

Re: [CentOS] remote gnome setup

2016-01-28 Thread ken
On 01/28/2016 09:40 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 03:24:48AM -0500, ken wrote: It's been surprisingly difficult to set up a remote display between two CentOS boxes, one headless running v.5.9 and the other a new laptop running v.7.2. Since the one machine is headless

[CentOS] remote gnome setup

2016-01-28 Thread ken
It's been surprisingly difficult to set up a remote display between two CentOS boxes, one headless running v.5.9 and the other a new laptop running v.7.2. Since the one machine is headless, it should be obvious which is to display the desktop of the other. The two machines are on the same

Re: [CentOS] remote gnome setup

2016-01-28 Thread ken
On 01/28/2016 11:10 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:30:03AM -0500, ken wrote: When someone is sitting at their linux machine which is running gnome, and if that machine is running at 'init 5', and if they aren't yet logged in, they'll have something on their screen

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/23/2016 06:20 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default -

[CentOS] zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-15 Thread ken
On 02/11/2016 07:43 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:55:16 -0500 ken wrote: gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity. That's nutz. From docs I've seen, gmessage is way more flexible and featured. It doesn't appear that way to me, but what do I know. I just use

Re: [CentOS] zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-15 Thread ken
On 02/15/2016 04:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:57:25 -0500 ken wrote: Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created window larger? This property doesn't seem to be configurable in any way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode. http

Re: [CentOS] zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-15 Thread ken
On 02/15/2016 05:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500 ken wrote: Contact zenity devels at https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show=Zenity about this??? Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be, a quick method

[CentOS] rpm containing gmessage???

2016-02-11 Thread ken
Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know where to find it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] no gnome-applets in C7.2

2016-03-07 Thread ken
Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or otherwise obscured? tia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] no gnome-applets in C7.2

2016-03-08 Thread ken
On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-03-07, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote: Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or otherwise obscured? tia Since gnome-panel and 'flashback

[CentOS] new firefox upgrade, then crash

2016-04-29 Thread ken
Earlier today I upgrade firefox, closed the old version, opened the new, and first it froze-- displayed a message about a script running and asking me if I wanted to stop it; I said no to let it run-- then it crashed and disappeared. # ps -ef|grep firefox root 3150 4904 0 14:08 pts/2

[CentOS] Firefox crashing

2016-08-12 Thread ken
This morning, the Firefox (45.3.0) installed (upgrade) just a few days ago has crashed already a half dozen times. Anyone else having the same problem? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to set/add environment variables and make file search priority on centos

2016-07-04 Thread ken
On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, qw wrote: Hi, I'm using centos 6.8. In order to build gstreamer 1.8.2, I install some new packages, such as python 2.7 and yasm. And cerbero is the build system for gstreamer, and downloads some new packages from network and build them, such libtool, glib. All new

[CentOS] install of audacity kills audio

2017-02-06 Thread ken
# uname -r 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) Prior to the below the sound/audio on my system worked just fine. Then a yum of install of audacity with dependencies: ... Downloading packages: (1/6): vamp-plugin-sdk-2.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm

[CentOS] 3rd and 4th keys keymapped in Keyboard Layout???

2016-10-09 Thread ken
Looking at the Keyboard Layout in CentOS 7.2, there are a 3rd and 4th characters for many keys. E.g., for 'd' there are the division sign and the degree symbol. I've tried the obvious key combinations-- Alt-d, Alt-Shift-d, etc.-- but no luck. Is there some configuration change I need to

Re: [CentOS] info wanted about meaning of boot messages ...

2016-08-25 Thread ken
On 08/25/2016 12:08 PM, Walter H. wrote: Hello, I've got CentOS 6.8 x64, updated today to the latest by 'yum update' this installed a new kernel: 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64 in /var/log/boot.log I found these 3 lines ... No kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING] Rebuilding

Re: [CentOS] info wanted about meaning of boot messages ...

2016-08-26 Thread ken
On 08/26/2016 12:02 AM, Walter H. wrote: On Thu, August 25, 2016 23:21, ken wrote: On 08/25/2016 02:42 PM, Walter H. wrote: On 25.08.2016 20:24, ken wrote: On 08/25/2016 12:08 PM, Walter H. wrote: Hello, I've got CentOS 6.8 x64, updated today to the latest by 'yum update' this installed

Re: [CentOS] info wanted about meaning of boot messages ...

2016-08-25 Thread ken
On 08/25/2016 02:42 PM, Walter H. wrote: On 25.08.2016 20:24, ken wrote: On 08/25/2016 12:08 PM, Walter H. wrote: Hello, I've got CentOS 6.8 x64, updated today to the latest by 'yum update' this installed a new kernel: 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64 in /var/log/boot.log I found these 3 lines

Re: [CentOS] how to find recently installed font packages

2016-08-25 Thread ken
On 08/25/2016 01:00 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 08/22/2016 08:47 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: greetings. in an attempt to display correct fonts in firefox instead of squares with binary values, i installed wrong fonts and made things worse. how do i find out what fonts are, as i did not think to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-11 Thread ken
On 01/09/2017 01:51 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. Better fight with bits than

Re: [CentOS] firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 crashing... unusable

2016-12-19 Thread ken
On 12/19/2016 11:13 AM, wwp wrote: Hello, On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:04:28 -0500 Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: On 12/19/2016 08:44 AM, ken wrote: Last night installed the latest, firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64. > Fired it up this morning and within the first hour it's cras

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