Re: [CentOS] Configure WiFi at install on CentOS Stream 9

2024-01-09 Thread Greg Bailey
On 1/9/24 04:30, Tony Molloy wrote: I've tried installing onto a spare laptop and it gives a choice of ethernet or WiFi for network connections. I choose WiFi and it allows me to configure the WiFi. It detects the network and the IP-address. However when I reboot the laptop there is no WiFi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream 8 dnf fails

2022-02-14 Thread Greg Bailey
On 2/14/22 08:08, Bill Gee wrote: Ah, additional details. Thanks! The download is started. Running REALLY slow (like 24kb per second!) but it is running. I am not in a big hurry. I'm also trying to upgrade my CentOS Stream 8 system, and am getting super slow download speeds when the

Re: [CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111

2021-11-18 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/18/21 10:10, Frank Cox wrote: I updated my main computer to Centos 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start. >From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop

Re: [CentOS] MATE 1.20 test build for CentOS 7 available

2021-08-27 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/27/21 1:50 PM, wwp wrote: Hello Greg, On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 09:06:23 -0700 Greg Bailey wrote: There's been discussions in the past about updating MATE RPMs in EPEL-7: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260 https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173154.html

Re: [CentOS] Password manager for the command line ?

2020-11-23 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/23/20 1:24 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, On my workstation and my laptop I'm using KeePassXC to store login credentials for my websites. The database is stored in my OwnCloud share, so it's synchronized between my two computers. Ideally I'd like to have something similar for my servers,

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/1/20 6:56 AM, david wrote: At 02:54 AM 8/1/2020, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi Johnny, thank you very much for clarification. You said that in the centos infrastructure only one server got the problem. What are the conditions that permit the breakage? There is a particular configuration

Re: [CentOS] UEFI boot blank screen post update

2020-07-30 Thread Greg Bailey
On 7/30/20 7:43 PM, Anshu Prateek wrote: Hi folks, I am able to install workstation successfully on a dedicated SSD w/ GPT partition w/ UEFI boot using the latest `CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dvd1.iso` from a bootable pen drive. The motherboard is ASRock x570 Gaming 4 (

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Greg Bailey
On 6/17/20 10:38 AM, Michael Kofler wrote: Hi, I am the author of said blog article. FIRST: It was never my intention to criticize the CentOS team. I appreciate the hard work you are doing. If my blog text (which is in German langugage) gave a wrong impression, I apologize. SECOND: I LOVE

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues

2020-05-23 Thread Greg Bailey
On 5/22/20 12:28 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, CentOS 6 has Thunderbird 68.8.0 CentOS 8 has Thunderbird 68.7.0 When I rsync my .thunderbird folder from my CentOS 6 machine to my CentOS 8 machine and start Thunderbird it says: "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your

Re: [CentOS] How to get CentOS 8 on AWS

2020-05-13 Thread Greg Bailey
On 5/12/20 6:50 PM, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 8:02 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2020, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: Hi, I am user of CentOS 8. When can we expect an image on AWS? I am just learning AWS and would like to use CentOS 8 for that. I can't speak to

Re: [CentOS] Weird bug in 389 Directory Server : no spaces in admin console (CentOS 7)

2020-04-26 Thread Greg Bailey
Hi Niki, Not familiar with 389-ds, but I'm curious if the admin console where the spaces are missing is a Java application.  If so, I encountered similar problems to an unrelated application I use (an older version of Moneydance) when there was an upgrade to OpenJDK. If I use:

[CentOS] MATE 1.20 test build for CentOS 7 available

2019-10-07 Thread Greg Bailey
Hi everyone, There's been discussions in the past about updating MATE RPMs in EPEL-7: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260 https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173154.html (and lots of others...) As a proof-of-concept, I've written some scripts that clone

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-08-07 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/7/19 8:02 AM, isdtor wrote: isdtor writes: Can I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7?? No, definitely not. I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fan either. Gnome-2.x wasn't broken, didn't need to be thrown away and replaced

Re: [CentOS] PHP 7.3 and IUS repo

2019-05-22 Thread Greg Bailey
On 5/22/19 6:47 AM, SternData wrote: Does anyone know if PHP 7.3 is coming to the IUS repo soon? I'd rather upgrade from 7.2 than tear out IUS and replace with Remi. Looks like: https://github.com/iusrepo/wishlist/issues/219#issuecomment-488876644 might be relevant?  I recall seeing

Re: [CentOS] Opera browser on CentOS

2019-05-20 Thread Greg Bailey
On 5/20/19 6:22 AM, H wrote: Is anyone running the Opera browser on Centos 7 or 6? While not available in a yum-repository, it seems to be available as a snap-package. Not familiar with those yet but curious if the browser is worthwhile to run. I have generally found Firefox less

Re: [CentOS] Problems compiling kernel module

2018-12-05 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/05/2018 07:46 AM, Klaus Kolle wrote: Hi I just upgraded a virtual Centos from 7.5 to 7.6 and now the VirtualBox Extensions won't compile with the kernel. I looked into the log file and found that I should try to execute: make oldconfig && make prepare but I get this result:

Re: [CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

2018-12-03 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/03/2018 04:00 AM, isdtor wrote: Hi, OT for this list, but maybe I can get some pointers - how hard is it to get some packages updated in EPEL? The project web site sends you from link to link, and the ML web interface is horrible. No interest here to become a package maintainer or

[CentOS] Why the new centos-release update?

2018-08-03 Thread Greg Bailey
Just curious about this after seeing the following output of a typical "yum upgrade": Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-5.1804.el7.centos.2 will be updated ---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-5.1804.1.el7.centos will be an update

Re: [CentOS] Gtkcdlabel + cdlabelgen on CentOS 7 ?

2018-01-03 Thread Greg Bailey
On 01/03/2018 02:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 03/01/2018 à 00:45, Frank Cox a écrit : I guess the next step would be to either find and install the missing fonts, or re-write template.ps to use the fonts that you have available. I did some more research, and it looks like the problem is NOT

Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI

2016-09-30 Thread Greg Bailey
On 09/29/2016 11:21 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bailey Sent: den 30 september 2016 04:26 To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI Only addi

Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI

2016-09-29 Thread Greg Bailey
On 09/29/2016 06:41 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:25:54PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey All, I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. I'm not interested in dealing with Gnome 3. I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of Gnome 2. it appears that Mate is

Re: [CentOS] Yum update issues

2016-03-19 Thread Greg Bailey
On 03/16/2016 12:31 AM, John Cenile wrote: Hello all, When running yum update on a few of our servers, we get the following errors: [snip] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 470, in callback self._scriptStop(bytes,

Re: [CentOS] Utility to zero unused blocks on disk

2016-02-08 Thread Greg Bailey
On 02/08/2016 03:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Wes James wrote: Is there a utility to zero unused blocks on a disk? CentOS 6.7/Ext4 I saw zerofree, but I’m not sure it would work on Ext4 or even work on this version of CentOS. I don't understand the point of doing this. Wes didn't say

Re: [CentOS] Systemd and systemd-sysv-generator

2015-12-29 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/29/2015 10:13 AM, Mike - st257 wrote: Hello CentOS List, I have a server that has SysV script supplied by a hardware manufacturer, which is not functioning properly. From my reading, systemd-sysv-generator should handle them (like it did for Dell OpenManage software which supplied SysV

Re: [CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

2015-12-03 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/03/2015 04:26 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 03.12.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Greg Lindahl : On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:28:10AM +0100, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 03.12.2015 um 11:08 schrieb Greg Lindahl : I wanted to help you by making sure that you were on the most

Re: [CentOS-virt] Trouble installing KVM

2015-09-21 Thread Greg Bailey
Hi Paul, KVM is only available on 64 bit builds of CentOS 6: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/chap-Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide-System_Requirements.html

Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 10 tech preview build 10130

2015-06-29 Thread Greg Bailey
On 06/29/2015 01:27 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hi Everyone, Has anyone managed to install Windows 10 tech preview build 10130 as a KVM on a CentOS 6 host? I'm having problems that I haven't been able to get past. I can get the CD to boot and the install process to begin, but Windows keeps

Re: [CentOS] selinux --disabled in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

2015-05-26 Thread Greg Bailey
On 05/26/2015 04:04 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/26/2015 01:36 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: Which manual? This could actually be the root of the issue. https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7910 This is indeed the issue, and it is an upstream (Red Hat) bug .. but I am not sure they are going

[CentOS] Unexplained size difference with CentOS 7 (1503) -01 install media

2015-04-01 Thread Greg Bailey
In the process of updating my copy of the CentOS 7 (1503) -01 install media, I notice that it's ~70MB larger than the image that it's replacing: $ rsync mirrors.kernel.org::centos/7.1.1503/isos/x86_64/*DVD*.iso -rw-r--r-- 4310695936 2015/03/31 17:05:50 CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

2015-03-31 Thread Greg Bailey
On 03/31/2015 09:53 AM, Ryan Qian wrote: As a CentOs newbie, I'm not sure, will we still have CentOS 7.1 which derive from RHEL 7.1? or this is the new naming conversion for CentOS 7. Thanks! -Ryan That was going to be my question as well. According to

Re: [CentOS] headless VirtualBox on Centos

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Bailey
On 03/26/2015 07:33 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I am wondering if there is a set of scripts/utilities for automatically starting and running headless (no X11) VM's using VirtualBox omn a CentOS 6 server. VNC/RDP access to the VM's would be fine. Any help much appreciated.

Re: [CentOS] Ignorant question on SSL certs

2015-03-03 Thread Greg Bailey
On 03/03/2015 08:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Jason Pyeron wrote: I'm getting endless complaints about my dovecot cert, Exact message please? The certificate does not apply to the given host The certificate is not signed by any trusted certificate authority Do I really have to use a

Re: [CentOS] Package group X Window System has disappeared

2015-02-27 Thread Greg Bailey
On 02/27/2015 02:54 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach: 1. Install minimal system. 2. yum groupinstall X Window System 3. yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts 4. Install

Re: [CentOS] Customising a CentOS 6.6 installation disk

2015-01-08 Thread Greg Bailey
On 01/08/2015 11:18 AM, James Bishop wrote: I apologise if this is not the appropriate list for the following issue, but... Is it possible to upgrade the Linux kernel on a kickstart CD? I've changed the vmlinuz and initrd.img files in the isolinux directory from the distro's ISO image; so

Re: [CentOS] Creating a USB bootable modified netinstall ISO image

2014-12-03 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/03/2014 09:51 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: I’ve been creating slightly modified CentOS netinstall ISO images using the following steps: Copy contents of CentOS netinstall ISO image to a temporary directory Edit isolunux/isolinux.cfg file Create new ISO image using the following command:

Re: [CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

2014-11-07 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/07/2014 01:20 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 11/06/2014 02:30 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Robert Arkiletian rob...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Leon Fauster

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2014-08-25 Thread Greg Bailey
On 08/25/2014 03:52 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm trying to clarify the various ways in which I could set up Postfix + Dovecot + SpamAssassin under CentOS-7, and I'd welcome any comments on the following remarks. As far as I can see there are 3 standard ways of setting this up: 1. Use

Re: [CentOS] Virtualbox on CentOS 7

2014-07-12 Thread Greg Bailey
On 07/12/2014 12:02 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 07:55:52PM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hi there, because I just noticed that there is still no RPM package for RHEL 7/ CentOS 7 for Virtualbox what is the safest and cleanest way to install Virtualbox on CentOS 7?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 fresh install, public ssh keys cannot authenticate

2014-05-09 Thread Greg Bailey
On 05/09/2014 03:34 PM, Dan Bikle wrote: Dear List, I cannot get public ssh keys to work in a fresh install of centos6.5 [snip] Steps to reproduce this bug: [snip] do this: cat ~dan/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~dan/.ssh/authorized_keys I think you're missing: chmod 600 ~dan/.ssh/authorized_keys

Re: [CentOS] package conflict with libmodplug in rpmforge and epel

2014-04-17 Thread Greg Bailey
On 04/17/2014 09:10 AM, Chris wrote: On 04/16/2014 07:27 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: I will take that a step further. Do not use repoforge / rpmforge at all. There are still major issues with updates from that repo. As in what updates?. Where do you get packages for multimedia, especially

Re: [CentOS] The repodata directory is currently broken on several, if not all, mirrors for the 6.5 iso files

2014-03-29 Thread Greg Bailey
On 03/29/2014 02:01 AM, jshie...@hostgator.com wrote: The repodata directory on all 6.5 isos that I have sampled have an issue where the file names don't have extensions resulting in a yum repo error on installation just after disk partitioning. This error prompts you with the choice

[CentOS] Does LibreOffice need to be patched to remove upstream supplied by text?

2013-12-23 Thread Greg Bailey
I just noticed that if I click Help / About in LibreOffice Writer (and likely other LibreOffice apps), I see: This release was supplied by Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2000 - 2013 LibreOffice contributors and/or their affiliates LibreOffice was based on OpenOffice.org I know several packages are

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/26/2013 4:38 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a bunch of deployed machines running that OS. (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get un-deployed until

Re: [CentOS] Dual Boot Windows 8 CentOS 6.4

2013-09-20 Thread Greg Bailey
On 9/20/2013 2:39 AM, amit joshi wrote: Hi, I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on

Re: [CentOS] postfix as default MTA

2013-07-10 Thread Greg Bailey
On 07/10/2013 09:37 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: For a contrary opinion, while sendmail.cf is difficult to follow, I've never found sendmail.mc too difficult. However, I'm finding postfix very difficult to configure with spamassassin. Postfix/dovecot works well enough, but the recommended

Re: [CentOS] Libcurl.so.3: wherefore art thou?

2013-05-24 Thread Greg Bailey
On 5/24/2013 5:31 PM, Steve Clark wrote: When I run into this problem - a lot of times you can simply create a link from lib.so.4 to lib.so.3. Most libs are backward compatible. Probably safer, though, to extract it from:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS source rpm repository setup

2013-05-21 Thread Greg Bailey
On 05/21/2013 09:00 AM, Markus Falb wrote: On 21.Mai.2013, at 15:53, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi. I thought I might set up my CentOS 6 system with a source rpm repository config, so that I'll be able to download srpm files via yumdownloader --source or similar. … The question is, what I

Re: [CentOS] Local Privilege Escalation

2013-05-14 Thread Greg Bailey
On 05/14/2013 10:07 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Is this 6.4 only or does it work on 5.9 also? According to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792 Statement: This issue does not affect the kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 because we did not backport

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-24 Thread Greg Bailey
On 04/24/2013 07:50 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: Dear All, I'm currently troubleshooting NetworkManger scripts. I see a difference in machine A : drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 apr 24 16:33 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 jan 9 12:13 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 175 jan 9 12:13 00-netreport

[CentOS] opennx wants to replace nxclient on all my CentOS 6 servers

2012-11-30 Thread Greg Bailey
Looks like opennx appeared in the extras repository some time recently. Because the extras repository is enabled by default, all of the servers where I have nxclient installed are showing opennx as available which will obsolete nxclient. I went ahead and upgraded on my laptop but the

Re: [CentOS] opennx wants to replace nxclient on all my CentOS 6 servers

2012-11-30 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/30/2012 09:26 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:17 AM, Greg Bailey wrote: Looks like opennx appeared in the extras repository some time recently. Because the extras repository is enabled by default, all of the servers where I have nxclient installed are showing opennx

Re: [CentOS] OpenLDAP on CentOS 6.3

2012-10-19 Thread Greg Bailey
On 10/19/2012 11:28 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Keith Keller Sent: October 16, 2012 22:33 On 2012-10-17, Patrick Listscentos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On the mailing list it was recommended by several subscribers to upgrade to the latest openldap release (2.4.33) due to the many

Re: [CentOS] nfs4 idmapd.conf user mapping

2012-10-10 Thread Greg Bailey
On 10/10/2012 02:58 PM, Paul B Schroeder wrote: On my CentOS 6.3 machine, in /etc/idmapd.conf I've updated the [Mapping] section of the config file: Nobody-User = paulbsch Nobody-Group = paulbsch But the mapping is not working. Files still show up as being owned by nobody. On my Fedora

Re: [CentOS] projects.centos.org - certificate has expired

2012-08-21 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/21/2012 7:39 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de Just FYI I guess, you could also run your own CA and sign stuff yourself. After all, your RPMs are also self-signed ;-) But that means the browsers will complain until each user permanently adds this

Re: [CentOS] openoffice

2012-05-09 Thread Greg Bailey
On 05/09/2012 04:31 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Does anyone have an idea about if upstream will be moving to Apache openoffice or libreoffice - or just stay at the current openoffice and patch security items? Red Hat Enterprise LInux 6.3 Beta appears to have LibreOffice 3.4.5.2 on it. -Greg

Re: [CentOS] Upstream 6.2

2011-12-06 Thread Greg Bailey
On 12/06/2011 08:08 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: As much as I hate to be the bearer of news, I saw over 400 updates this morning on my upstream 6.1 box checking the upstream website, yeah, EL6.2 is out, at least for updates. I didn't see ISO's in my subscribed channel yet, though. I figured

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 packages

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/31/2011 3:30 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi all; does anyone know if the following packages are available (via yum) for CentOS 6 and if so which repo they come from? Thanks in advance... kmymoney darktable digiKam You could try the search page at: http://pkgs.org/search/ I didn't get

Re: [CentOS] rpm and /etc/cron.daily/rpm

2011-08-29 Thread Greg Bailey
On 08/29/2011 08:54 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The rpm package used to provide /etc/cron.daily/rpm /etc/logrotate.d/rpm I see /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.log and rpm.daily, which looks like they're intended for that purpose. Anyone have any idea why they're not in cron.daily and logrotate.d?

[CentOS] Will QA web site have CentOS 6.1 status?

2011-07-19 Thread Greg Bailey
The QA web site at http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/blog was really helpful for those of us who were curious as to how CentOS 6.0 was coming along. However, there doesn't seem to be much information as to how CentOS 6.1 is going from either the QA web site, the forums (Announcements), or

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 updated packages - what about subversion?

2011-04-08 Thread Greg Bailey
I see the following in the CentOS 5.6 Release Notes: 6.3. Packages that have been upgraded in 5.6 since the 5.5 release * python-2.4.3-27.el5_5.3 Wouldn't subversion also be listed? CentOS 5.5 has subversion-1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 CentOS 5.6 has subversion-1.6.11-7.el5 Is this list

Re: [CentOS] Admin stuff

2011-03-21 Thread Greg Bailey
On 3/21/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Is there something odd going on? The question about the errors in mcelog just showed up *again*, and it's the original that I answered this morning. The question about something - was it the md? - original seems as though it's shown up more than

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Greg Bailey
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 when it is released? Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm particularly looking forward to

Re: [CentOS] Snag installing CentOS in a VirtualBox VM

2010-11-17 Thread Greg Bailey
Mark wrote: I spent most of the evening trying to boot a new install of CentOS in a VirtualBox VM. The VM recognizes the install DVD, runs it, asks for me to boot it and I type in return (or any number of other combinations, all of which fail in exactly the same way) and it continues to

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-11-08 Thread Greg Bailey
David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 17.9.2010 22:16, Tom Bishop napsal(a): Benn playing with the beta's and have looked around for a potential release date...Does anyone know what the likely date is??? Thanks

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-07 Thread Greg Bailey
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List. doing my weekly updates with yum last night installed kernel.x86_64 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.centos.plus and flash-plugin.i386 10.1.102.64-release now today as I go to watch a movie from hulu.com it crashes the flash-plugin whenever I try to go full screen.

Re: [CentOS] Update to base release

2010-09-07 Thread Greg Bailey
John Kennedy wrote: Hello All, We have some machines running CentOS 4 Update 4 (4.4). We want to update these boxes to the stock CentOS 4 Update 8 (4.8). We have the 4.8 iso images. Is it possible to use up2date and have it use the 4.8 mounted iso images on a remote (install) server as the

Re: [CentOS] free ftp server

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Bailey
MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Hi, I'm looking a linux freeware for sharing file with a web browser interface - protect file by password, send link to download by email Something like the following service: https://www.yousendit.com/

Re: [CentOS] Filter web content in a LAN ?

2010-03-09 Thread Greg Bailey
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Greg Bailey
Les Mikesell wrote: I have to agree that ESXi is better, but I've had VMware server running for years (mostly 1.x versions on CentOS 3.x, but also some CentOS 5.x and VMware 2.x) with no surprises other than jumpy clocks. The servers have sometimes been shut down for power work but I've

Re: [CentOS] Seamonkey (Mozilla) web browser for CentOS 5.4?

2010-01-27 Thread Greg Bailey
Robert Heller wrote: Does the Seamonkey (Mozilla) web browser exist for CentOS 5.4? It seems to be missing from the standard repository. Seamonkey 1.0.9 is included with CentOS 4.X, but CentOS 5 builds never had any seamonkey RPMs, as upstream packaged Firefox and Thunderbird instead.

Re: [CentOS] Automatically check into SVN?

2010-01-25 Thread Greg Bailey
Mr Gabriel wrote: I would like to automatically check in a directory to SVN, to maintain the changes that area made to those txt files over time. These files are configuration files, and it would be good to be able to revert back by simply checking out the older versions. But I would to

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Bailey
Paul Johnson wrote: I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before Centos 5.4 was released. The last update set that applied to 5.3,in other words. But I can't figure how to get that, because Centos servers just have the current updates under a folder marked 5. If I try

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Bailey
Carlos Santana wrote: Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping

Re: [CentOS] A bit more on the Firefox 3.5.issue

2009-08-12 Thread Greg Bailey
David G. Miller wrote: Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@... writes: I hadn't logged into Fedora for about ten days -- which was the last time I updated it. I updated it again today and it already had 315 Megs of updates. I think Fedora is a good distribution, but I don't think I would want that kind

Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options

2009-06-24 Thread Greg Bailey
Sorin Srbu wrote: What web photo gallery software do you guys use? My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Greg Bailey
Michael A. Peters wrote: Are they any utilities, other than installing Fedora 11 and setting the macros described in that thread and rebuilding the src.rpm, to resolve the issue? Using rpm itself doesn't seem to work (bad checksum), but the rpm2cpio utility seems to work OK: To extract

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-18 Thread Greg Bailey
Scott Silva wrote: on 5-18-2009 3:18 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists-XASut8F7j/3ytjvyw6y...@public.gmane.org wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Disabling Spamassassin on outbound email

2009-05-11 Thread Greg Bailey
John Hinton wrote: Does anybody have a good method for disabling SA checks on outbound email under sendmail running the spamass milter? Some of our Vhost accounts are getting flagged as spam on the way out due to being on a dirty ISP network. John Hinton I got around this by

Re: [CentOS] Dev Tools

2009-05-04 Thread Greg Bailey
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, Cent OS 5.3. I need to install the gcc toolchain, but what yum packages is this? I need to compile ProFTPD, etc, etc. I tried yum install gcc, what else? -Jason You could use yum grouplist to show available groups: yum grouplist Then, use

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread Greg Bailey
Friedrich Clausen wrote: Hello All, At my $WORK we have lots of in-house applications used to support the services we offer to customers and we deploy these to servers as RPMS. This works well for us except we have thousands of obsolete packages in our Yum repository that need to be cleaned

Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

2008-12-10 Thread Greg Bailey
Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific process is alive and re-spawn it (or just run a configured command) when it dies? I know how to script things so a parent will watch its child, but was wondering whether there is something more

Re: [CentOS] Xen-Version in CentOS 5.3?

2008-12-03 Thread Greg Bailey
Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I tried to find out what xen version upstream intends to use in 5.3, but did not find anything. So now I hope that there is some secret knowledge among the CentOS people you could share? :-) Any hint or link would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Dirk

Re: [CentOS] Can expect do this?

2008-11-11 Thread Greg Bailey
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to scp some files from machine1 to machine2. But, I'm in an environment where PubKeyAuthentication is not allowed in ssh :( So, I'm confused how to automate it as cronjob. However, I read somewhere that we can write a little bash script that will utilize

Re: [CentOS] Re: i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Greg Bailey
Scott Silva wrote: on 9-16-2008 8:21 AM Joe Pruett spake the following: i (and others) have missed messages on centos-devel as well. did other people not see the 4.7 announcement message? i'm wondering if the centos list server is having some kind of issue. I didn't see one either. Maybe

Re: [CentOS] apache

2008-08-26 Thread Greg Bailey
Jim Perrin wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mad Unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did the following, created a startup script [EMAIL PROTECTED] script]$ cat start_apache.sh #!/bin/bash ORACLE_BASE=/u01/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/10g ORACLE_SID=king LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

Re: [CentOS-virt] VMs won't power on

2008-08-07 Thread Greg Bailey
Richard Fairfield wrote: Hello – I have installed the VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm package on a CentOS 5.1 system. I then ran the vmware-config.pl program. I chose mostly default answer, except that I did not choose the NAT option; I saw no errors. I used the VMware Server Console

Re: [CentOS] SLightly OT - Seamonkey still crashes at random

2008-08-01 Thread Greg Bailey
MHR wrote: I've noticed recently that even my 32-bit, formally release SM v 1.1.11 still crashes at random. It used to happen when I tried to access certain interesting websites (no, not THOSE, Yahoo moderation pages), but today it crashed when I was managing my bookmarks and tried to move on

Re: [CentOS] libstdc++.so.5 for xten voip phone

2008-07-30 Thread Greg Bailey
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Which rpm has libstdc++.so.5? $ rpm --whatprovides /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -q compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 There's many ways to do this, but yum install compat-libstdc++ should be all you need. xten works fine for me (at least on CentOS 4 and 5) -Greg

Re: [CentOS] libstdc++.so.5 for xten voip phone

2008-07-30 Thread Greg Bailey
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Greg Bailey wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Which rpm has libstdc++.so.5? $ rpm --whatprovides /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -q compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 There's many ways to do this, but yum install compat-libstdc++ should be all you need. xten works fine for me

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS 6's upstream be based on Fedora 10?

2008-07-30 Thread Greg Bailey
nate wrote: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hi All, The subject says it all. I'm asking because I've found Fedora 9 to be It will be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. nate Just saw this article, which seems relevant to the topic at hand:

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS irst tim root mmory or rsh krnl...

2008-07-08 Thread Greg Bailey
mcclnx mcc wrote: I installed Centos 5.2 on DELL 2650 server (fresh install). After installed finish, I reboot server and get following messages and server hang: /Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range/ /Redhat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting/ Anyone

Re: [CentOS] Running shell scripts from external media

2008-07-03 Thread Greg Bailey
James B. Byrne wrote: Problem: As 'root', when running a script resident on the external drive mounted at /media/disk I receive the following error: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Usually, I've found this is because the file is stored with DOS style line endings. Maybe you

[CentOS] How/when to file bugs on upstream bugzilla?

2008-06-27 Thread Greg Bailey
I've hit a bug since upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2 that involves the screen blanking when I shut the lid on a Dell Latitude D820 notebook. It doesn't come back on correctly when I open the lid, and instead crashes X. I've filed a bug on bugs.centos.org that describes the problem (#2910), and was

Re: [CentOS] Commandline utility to edit ID3 tags?

2008-03-27 Thread Greg Bailey
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm running a webradio on our brandnew CentOS 5.1 database server. (The main purpose of this radio is fun, sure, but it's also a bit like a canary in a coalmine...) It's based on Icecast, MPD and NCMPC and works great. I'm configuring the server remotely via SSH, no X.

Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted by 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5

2008-03-26 Thread Greg Bailey
Andrew Hearn wrote: Hello, I have a machine that seemed to reboot by itself yesterday, in /var/log/messages I only see: Mar 25 14:26:45 asterisk shutdown[19256]: shutting down for system reboot When I type: last reboot I see: reboot system boot 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 Tue Mar 25 14:28

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Greg Bailey
Benjamin Franz wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 /etc/redhat-release file

2007-12-03 Thread Greg Bailey
Just noticed on a freshly updated CentOS 5.1 system: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final) # rpm -qi centos-release Name: centos-release Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5 Vendor: CentOS Release :

Re: [CentOS] OT: virtual server hosting recomendation

2007-11-27 Thread Greg Bailey
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, we are in need of a new (virtual) server based in US. Any hosting recommendation? Thanks, David Hrbáč I've had excellent results with Server Axis ( http://serveraxis.com ). 5 IPs and plenty of disk space for $35/month. -Greg

Re: [CentOS] Re: Opposite of cp -u

2007-08-06 Thread Greg Bailey
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Silva wrote: Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 8/6/2007 2:40 PM: I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the copy. I did not catch this, and deleted the