Re: [CentOS-docs] proposal TipsAndTricks/EditorDefaultNano

2010-12-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ed.  On my systems, I set nano to be the default editor.  Is this something that can be done with some sort of configuration script?  I don't find anything like system-switch-mail for editors.  I do it in my kickstart files, but it can easily be done from a command line.  Since nano is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Automated listing of translations on each wiki page

2010-11-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, On 10/22/2010 05:08 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/19/2010 07:46 AM, Timothy Lee wrote: I sincerely hope that the patch can be applied to the official CentOS wiki, thereby making all translated pages a lot more more accessible to the public. I need to sync up with Ralph and get

Re: [CentOS-docs] Automated listing of translations on each wiki page

2010-11-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Timothy, On 11/23/2010 06:00 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Am 22.11.10 22:25, schrieb Marcus Moeller: Dear Ralph, http://wiki.dev.centos.org/  to your liking? I like it :) Looks fine so far. Only the CSS of the top menu is a bit broken. Where exactly? I ripped out an ad which crept

Re: [CentOS-docs] ArtWork edit

2010-06-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. Your wish is noted; I figure leaving markers is a ready test if the author (or another with edits) was interested enough to follow the page, and to read their email, and to address it I see people following me all the time with wiki edits and read the diffs.  I note your

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter release nearly ready

2010-05-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Didi, So the Newsletter is finally pretty much finished. Could everybody please just read through it again and make some adjustments. Further how are the translations getting on? Unfortunately I either speak Chinese or Spanish so could I get a heads up on status? Further I am looking

Re: [CentOS-docs] USB Key Setup

2010-04-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Scott. Assuming one puts an ISO on it, as opposed to selecting the top part of the menu and downloading, (which I haven't tried), it should boot. However, after a certain point, I think after creating partitions, it dies, saying it can't find the installation media--that is probably

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter status

2010-04-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Didi. thus Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann spake: Hey So the final touches should be applied to the Newsletter soon. How are people progressing? We have one agreed in IRC meeting that we should meet up on a regular basis to work out newsletter stuff. This did not ever happen, till then. Could

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter status

2010-04-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Alan, So the final touches should be applied to the Newsletter soon. How are people progressing? Just to let the Newsletter Team know -- Aeh, you are part of the 'Newsletter Team' ;) I intend to make a start on giving the latest version its pre-release polish later today. Just go

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter status

2010-04-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, I've heard about, in the past, web based software that helps people get articles together and then go through a process to be published. Are we at a stage where investigating something of this nature might be beneficial ? welcome to googledocs :)) Google wave?  I have invites, I think.

[CentOS] nscd does not resolve groups

2010-04-21 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have set up nscd on my CentOS 5 box with nss_ldap. getent shows all LDAP groups correctly but 'id' only shows the users primary group. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Two things...

2010-03-26 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/3/25 R P Herrold herr...@centos.org: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Marcus Moeller wrote: Offered my help on that a lot of times and not willing to do so in the future. Either decide wheter you want to spread the work, or not. If not, just live with the regressions that actually only ONE person

Re: [CentOS-docs] Two things...

2010-03-25 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. Hmm . . . yes. We remember that Ralph wa looking into such matters -- http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2010-February/003841.html #define  PRESENT 1 int Ralph = 0, Russ = 0, KB = 0; if ((Ralph == PRESENT) || (Russ == PRESENT) || (KB == PRESENT)) { I am around

[CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Christoph, is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind. And also to this list ?-) Marcus

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/3/8 Marcus Moeller m...@marcus-moeller.de: Hi Christoph, is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind. And also

Re: [CentOS] New Posters

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. [1] http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Style/Promo/Posters I have reworked the page for poster mockups and just added one: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Poster Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] pam_mount

2010-02-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I am a bit confused about the usage of pam_mount. Here is my /etc/pam.d/system-auth: authrequired pam_env.so authrequired pam_mount.so authsufficientpam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass authrequisite pam_succeed_if.so uid = 500 quiet auth

Re: [CentOS] pam_mount

2010-02-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. I am a bit confused about the usage of pam_mount. Here is my /etc/pam.d/system-auth: auth        required      pam_env.so auth        required      pam_mount.so add use_first_pass to this?? In auth stage the pam_mount requests it's passwd from stdin and passes it to the other

Re: [CentOS-docs] page for translators

2010-02-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ernesto, I already have the Postfix how to translated. And started working in Postfix Restrictions, actually I'm working on this translations in my private wiki hosted in other place, waiting for the talk with Alain Regurea and others to take place, but I can start moving that

Re: [CentOS-docs] How-to for NVIDIA driver on Xen Dom0

2010-02-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Cris. I'd like to author a Wiki how-to article for running the NVIDIA drivers on a Xen Dom0 machine. This is useful if you wish to run Xen-based VMs on your desktop system, but also take full advantage of the graphics card. Lots of outdated, overly complicated, or incomplete info

Re: [CentOS-docs] page for translators

2010-02-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. Yes , i'm talking about the anaconda slides if I write the translation in Unicode, it will be a problem? No, this should work. You can just render the images afterwards to see if they look fine. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list

Re: [CentOS-docs] page for translators

2010-02-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Karan, is there a page I could point potential translators at ? There have been a few people who have shown interest in helping with some languages that we do not have translations for at the moment, including russian, gujrati, greek and turkish. Is there a page on the wiki that we could

Re: [CentOS-docs] page for translators

2010-02-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Alan. So yes, it does have something to do with the *proposed* advice to be offered to potential translators. Translators should, IMO, be asked if they would be able to maintain synchronism with the English pages. Without wishing to labour the point, Timothy Lee provides a shining

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter

2010-01-11 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan. its been a while since the last newsletter. Whats the future there ? I am quite busy atm, but I guess we could hack one together after FOSDEM. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk or Puppet?

2009-11-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. At that point I pass it over to puppet personally.  Used to use cfengine, but there are aspects I prefer when it comes to puppet; your mileage may of course vary. well, refer back to my initial email on the subject. Its how you split state and policy - puppet isnt all that great at state

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk or Puppet?

2009-11-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan, I am personally not that big fan of Puppet, as things are getting quite complex in large scenarios and as Puppet does not scale well (this has been improved in the latest version if you are using passenger instead of webrick). Puppet is actually easier to scale beyond a few

Re: [CentOS-docs] Spacewalk Client Tools from Stahnma

2009-11-03 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Patrice. I updated to howto to avoid the use of the Stahnma repository. However, the rhel-instnum package is not availablie in EPEL or the Spacewalk official repository. Is this package still required in Spacewalk version 0.6? Yes, you are still in need of rhel-instnum on a CentOS box.

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Mark, ... So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. We are using Spacewalk to manage /etc/sysconfig/iptables files. The

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan. ... So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. We are using Spacewalk to manage /etc/sysconfig/iptables files. The

Re: [CentOS] iptables -d fqdn instead of IP

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again.  and I have some examples from my own personal experience. So I don't  believe that you can say there is a best method, for all situations. Yes I can.  Host information can be spoofed.  So can IP Addresses.  Here is the point you are missing, if he is going to connect to your

Re: [CentOS] combining iptables parameters

2009-10-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear James. is there a way to combine iptables parameters like: iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -p TCP -d $IP1 -d $IP2 ? I should have better written something like: -A OUTPUT -p UDP OR -p TCP -d $IP1 OR -d $IP2 as that's what I was looking for. Sorry. Best Regards Marcus

[CentOS] combining iptables parameters

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, is there a way to combine iptables parameters like: iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -p TCP -d $IP1 -d $IP2 ? Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] combining iptables parameters

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ryan. is there a way to combine iptables parameters like: iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -p TCP -d $IP1 -d $IP2 ? Each of those parameters is called a match, in IPTables-speak. You can specify multiple matches in one rule, but all matches are combined with an implicit logical AND. There

[CentOS] iptables -d fqdn instead of IP

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, does it work to define iptables rules with a fqdn as destination instead of an IP address? Or is it useful to resolve the name first using e.g. nslookup, writing the result to a variable which is then used within the -d statement? Best Regards Marcus

Re: [CentOS] combining iptables parameters

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ryan.  iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -d $IP1-j DROP  iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -d $IP1 -j DROP  iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP -d $IP2 -j DROP  iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -d $IP2 -j DROP That's what I am doing atm. Thanks for the update. BTW, if you have some complex chain of action logic

Re: [CentOS-docs] New release of the Newsletter

2009-10-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Didi. The ACL policy should be that: Before release only members of the NewsletterGroup and Admins can view and edit. But this is for all versions, the ACLs are in the template #acl AdminGroup,NewsletterGroup:admin,read,write,revert,delete All: Is this syntax correct for this purpose?

Re: [CentOS-docs] New release of the Newsletter

2009-10-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, I also get the not allowed message, yet I had submitted and proofed article to the 0906 page earlier in the week. I had also reviewed some of Didi's and Phil's content as well. Strange thing is that I don't see records of any newletter updates in the Changelog (?).  Any ideas? Hmm,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permission

2009-10-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: Please grant edit permission to my account, JerryAmundson. Initially, I'll change my personal page. Later, I can expand into areas that need changes made, especially if they

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf()  function in /sbin/dhclient-script. btw. a more common way would be to create a /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks with the following content: make_resolv_conf(){ : } Best Regards Marcus

Re: [CentOS] Is fr.centos.org dead ?

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Niki. What's wrong with fr.centos.org? Any news? Site's been dead for quite some time now. I think, yes. There was a hardware failure on the server, and no restorable backup available. We hope to get the new forums (based on the updated WebInfrastructure) up soon. Best Regards Marcus

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. Why not granting Edit rights (and I mean full Edit Group Access) to anyone who has already contributed good stuff. Then there should be something like a Wiki Admin group which will track changes and correct them || start discussion on the MLs if necessary. because creating a

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS-devel] WebsiteV2

2009-10-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Will. I have created the account on the wiki as WillFitch. Welcome on board. First, you could try to improve the CSS Layout according to the complaints that have been made. You will find the latest version at the bottom of this page:

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ, Seriously, to me, I've been thinking about it the source of my concern for the last couple of weeks, and the tension comes down to 'core' v 'adjunct' and has a reasonably simple resolution -- split the two, and put all non-core material in a 'projects.centos.org' sub domain That

Re: [CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. Please note that the style used within the customization we provide is not yet final. To give an example of how the upcoming websites might look like, I have uploaded some screenshots to the Draft page: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/WebEnvironment/Draft yuck -- too much

Re: [CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening, Please note that the style used within the customization we provide is not yet final. To give an example of how the upcoming websites might look like, I have uploaded some screenshots to the Draft page: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/WebEnvironment/Draft based on the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Images don't resolve on ArtWork/Logo

2009-09-25 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. do the artwork src.rpm's have something that would be usable ? :) Not really. Guess it's time to bring projects back up :) As the projects are back online you can now access the necessary files again: https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/trunk/Logos/ Please also take a look at:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Images don't resolve on ArtWork/Logo

2009-09-25 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/9/25 Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Marcus Moeller m...@marcus-moeller.de wrote: The Mockups from Gideon de Kok are unofficial and not part of the official CentOS Artwork (yet?). I guess you never looked at CentOS 4 or older CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS-docs] Images don't resolve on ArtWork/Logo

2009-09-23 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Didi. While trying to get some svg files of the CentOS logo I found that [1] can't load the images. The urls are : http://gideon.nyarna.com/artwork/centos-new-2.png http://gideon.nyarna.com/artwork/centos-logo-3.png

Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter proof reading

2009-09-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, I can give it a read tonight when I get home Heading towards release. Only minor changes will be accepted as of now. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

[CentOS-docs] Status Update: WebsiteVer2

2009-09-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, as most of you may have noticed, Alain and I am working towards the new web environment setup. Therefore we have already created a new wiki category where we are trying to outline our vision of a CentOS 'Web Style' and how it could be applied to the applications we are using (or planning

Re: [CentOS-docs] Becomming a CentOS contributor

2009-09-20 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Gytis, My name is Gytis Repecka, I am a Lithuanian computer specialist. My acquaintance with CentOS started not so long ago: even though I managed some web servers running Red Hat-based OS for several years, only couple months ago I've set up CentOS on my desktop, later - on a laptop.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, It is perfectly reasonable that I argue to strive to make fewer forks and less content in the CentOS wiki under that rubric, as success means the future's primary source doco is better for _all_ FOSS approaches I think it's not that easy to handle. Let's take a look at another

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. Would this do as a rule? If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if it was asked on irc or the mailing list, then it can go on the wiki (sendmail, apache, postfix, samba, whatever comes with the Centos distro). If it won't be 'supported' then minimal

[CentOS-docs] Wiki SEO

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, have you already generated/submitted a sitemap for moin? Also Thomas Waldmann suggested to place a prominent link to 'TitleIndex'. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki SEO

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Ralph, Also Thomas Waldmann suggested to place a prominent link to 'TitleIndex'. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. That probably has to be visible, does it? I think so :) Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki SEO

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. Also Thomas Waldmann suggested to place a prominent link to 'TitleIndex'. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. That probably has to be visible, does it? I think so :) I have noticed that it's possible to define the following meta tags manually: #language Set page language and direction. #language

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup and entire machine??

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear John, I want to mirror a Centos box, not having done this before, I'm looking for guidance. What is the best way to perform this task, I have a running webserver, a single external IP address to the website, and wanted to protect myself should the server go down. My though would be a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I know that the nagios docs suck, and actually everything around nagios. But what does that have to do with centos? And why don't you contribute to the nagios docs? The nagios-wiki (http://wkiki.nagios.org) is totally orphaned also! I personally agree on that. We have similar issues

Re: [CentOS-docs] Spacewalk documentation

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Patrice. We have similar issues with the Spacewalk documentation (another thread :?). It would be great to have something like an installation guide covering the CentOS specific aspects and links to the upstream docs. For Spacewalk e.g., I have started to improve the 'official'

Re: [CentOS-docs] Spacewalk documentation

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/9/17 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 09/17/2009 02:22 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote: Atm. I am working on another task (documenting re-build procedure) isnt that just a case of running revisor over the tree ? Of course some tasks could be handled with revisor, but not everything I am

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan. For Spacewalk e.g., I have started to improve the 'official' upstream docs a bit (which are already quite good), instead of re-generating content. Btw, there is also an effort underway to have a centos specific spacewalk repo hosted on centos.org to make life even easier. At

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/9/16 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 09/16/2009 06:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: If we were having wild beer parties every week . *WHAT* beer parties ? Where ? When ? will there be food as well ? They are all located in Texas, so we have to cover traveling costs first :) Best

Re: [CentOS-docs] Magazine's that carry CentOS on the cover mounts

2009-08-24 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan, On 08/24/2009 03:36 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote: I would suggest to add it to /Media/Sightings or to add a category like /Media/Magazines. ok, i dont mind either. But some sort of reasoning as to why you consider those places to be better would be good. The reason is simple (and I

[CentOS] Kernel NULL pointer vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team have recently found a Linux kernel vulnerability which affects all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels since 2001 on all architectures. Please read the announcement on LWM: http://lwn.net/Articles/347006/ for further information about the

Re: [CentOS] Kernel NULL pointer vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. alias net-pf-24 # PPPoE Sorry, typo in pf-24. grep -q '^alias net-pf-3 off' /etc/modprobe.conf || \ echo 'alias net-pf-3 off' /etc/modprobe.conf grep -q '^alias net-pf-4 off' /etc/modprobe.conf || \ echo 'alias net-pf-4 off' /etc/modprobe.conf grep -q '^alias net-pf-5 off'

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 live-cd install -

2009-08-11 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Bob, All I want is something that doesn't reach end of life so rapidly for this application. I should have checked more carefully. I will try Scientific Linux which is supposed to install from the cd. Thanks for the help. Patrice has created an installable 5.2 LiveCD, containing an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, Well, I know I have benefited from the discussion because I understand the challenges that face the CentOS team with regards to security updates whilst they are rebuilding a point release. As has been pointed out to me, we're between a rock and a hard-place and it isn't just a simple

Re: [CentOS] How to Contribute to CentOS was: CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. You don't like reputational vetting and a meritocracy, or how it is run by the people in charge who have as one goal: not distributing malware.  I get it.  Thank you. Hey Russ, it's open source. You can just review the spec and comment it until it's ready for release. Source

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ, Don't misunderstand.  I think you have done and are doing a great job but some things are out of any single person's control.  All I'm suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy answer to the question of what if those things happen to a few of you.  I think it is a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Andrew.  (like the Contrib repo) are getting a bit clearer so I guess we are on the right track. Contib repo !!! What Contrib repo ? The last time i tried to contribute i was told to head on to Fedora or rpmforge. The Contrib repository has been re-invented in CentOS 5.3 but it's still

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Johnny, Well, if something is going to be released as part of CentOS (contrib repo or not), then it is going to be correct and it is going to be vetted by someone that I PERSONALLY trust ... or it is going to be personally tested by me prior to release.  Otherwise, it is not going to be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/8/7 R P Herrold herr...@centos.org: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: Then you should not perhaps not call it 'Contrib' repository if no one that you do not personally know can add content to it. You don't like reputational vetting and a meritocracy, or how it is run

Re: [CentOS-docs] Pulse content

2009-08-06 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Didi, As the Newsletter was started we had the plan of having IRC meetings and some sort of organisation on a regular basis. I would be happy to organize something like this. Further I will write up some guidelines for the Newsletter Team. I would have already shedule the meeting but I

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-06 Thread Marcus Moeller
new maintainers. Best Regards Marcus Moeller ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-06 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Kai, I think the community would benefit from opening a new mailing list for these issues. There's already a promo list, but a discussion like this doesn't really fit on it. I also think it doesn't fit here. So, I think everyone interested about CentOS management should be able to do so

Re: [CentOS-docs] Pulse content

2009-08-05 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. I was contacted out of band, assumed it was authorized, and so responded with content and figured out how to add a picture Preview will be accessible to everybody in the Admin or Newsletter group. I added the missing ACL earlier today, from the template page -- the draft was

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, My 'dream' OS has always been one where the base install was extremely minimal - just enough to install the rest over the network.  Then there would be a way that anyone could 'publish' their installed list of repositories and packages and anyone else could duplicate that machine's setup

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????

2009-07-21 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. 2009/7/20 David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz: Karanbir Singh napsal(a): yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process with the next point release ( 5.4 ). Karanbir, glad to hear

Re: [CentOS-docs] writing an article in the wiki about how to make a livecd with centos

2009-07-19 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Romuald For my work, ihad to make a customized livecd based on a centos 5.3. After looking in a long time on the web i only found short articles in english on centos forum and wiki, users ar often send on fedora's website to have answers. There are already several resources available at

Re: [CentOS-docs] Introduction to be able to contribute to the wiki

2009-07-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan, I run a bunch of cobbler instances and have been working with the source code for that with plenty of patches. I'd be glad to help anyone along with a page on that if they want. Also, there are quite a few roles were 'koan' might be deployed to work with cobbler, a sub page, or

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have been using RPMforge much longer than EPEL and only have a few packages from EPEL on my 5.3 (32 bit) desktop. When I added the EPEL Repository to Priorities, the number of packages excluded went from approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that had I not given EPEL a very low

[CentOS-docs] Pulse #0902

2009-06-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have started working on the next Pulse issue #0902 and therefor copied the template to the Editing section. I would like to contribute the following articles: A short introduction of the Artwork SIG Getting started with Multimedia on CentOS Also I would suggest to create a monthly

Re: [CentOS-docs] Pulse #0902

2009-06-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Dag, I would like to contribute the following articles: A short introduction of the Artwork SIG Getting started with Multimedia on CentOS Remember that the newsletter is not the place to create new content that ought to go somewhere else in the Wiki. We don't want information to be

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi All, Alrighty, you asked you shall receive! Number one a regular user can't copy and paste the above code and execute it unless they become root. 2. I looked at the above code and said there is a better way to do that via using wget http:\\ | rpm -Uvh webmin-release.rpm. 3. There is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear David. Has someone even tried to contact the author if he could provide a repository definition RPM? Now this is a great idea :) Seems silly not to have checked thought of that... doh! Btw., nearly the same process as described on the wiki is shown here:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. I put i there ;) Waiting for someone to approve that article. ;) To me it looks okay, but there were others who voiced opinions ... I would like to see a repository link on the repo page instead of this article. Best Regards Marcus ___

Re: [CentOS-docs] Link to Chinese translation in Wiki frontpage

2009-05-15 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear John. On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:37 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:18 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: JohnS wrote: True also, but is adding code to the wiki the answer every time something new is needed? Maybe Moin is not the right web app. What usually happens every

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph. Also I wonder why you don't just offer a signed RPM package with the repo description or alternatively just a repo file for download. Maybe you could get in contact with Jamie Cameron to do so. Implicitly the CentOS project watched and approves the content in the wiki (compare

Re: [CentOS-docs] Link to Chinese translation in Wiki frontpage

2009-05-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening, True also, but is adding code to the wiki the answer every time something new is needed? Maybe Moin is not the right web app. What usually happens every time just about when you start patching and adding on to apps? Any suggestions from you, then? Which app can be the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ,   There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID.  It's all about performance most of the time being slightly better versus stability in the event of device failure. I can't think of a good argument for not having /boot on the raid1. Then you

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ned, ... That's pretty much what the article started with if you follow the long history of the first thread on the contribution, but the consensus of the people who commented was overwhelmingly in favor of /boot on RAID1,     ... My response was simply in reply to the 'I can't think

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Ned. If you are planning to setup a RAID1, I still wonder why not to place /boot on a raid partition? Section one, point 4 ? Ahh, missed it. Fine. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ed.  Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk?  (Assuming not) Is there a need for such?  (Assuming need) I volunteer to produce it. Maybe you could get in

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Ed. Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk? (Assuming not) Is there a need for such? (Assuming need) I volunteer to produce it. Maybe you could get in contact

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

2009-04-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan, I spend some time to create a more 'classic' CentOS theme. Can we now not just ship that in an artwork update as a second theme for people to use directly from their machines ? Have to talk to Ralph as he is responsible for the packaging process. Best Regards Marcus

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

2009-04-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, I spend some time to create a more 'classic' CentOS theme. Can we now not just ship that in an artwork update as a second theme for people to use directly from their machines ? We have to put the backgrounds somewhere else, as the default-* stuff is already taken by

[CentOS] Chroot Install

2009-04-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Morning, I want to update my CF-Microdrive for my router with CentOS (currently there is Slacky on it). I have attached the microdrive to my notebook using a pcmcia CF adapter. Within my CentOS installation the drive is detected correctly as ide_cf and all partitions are shown. But as the

Re: [CentOS] Chroot Install

2009-04-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Glenn, This may be of interest to you: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/ManualInstall I haven't gotten around to fixing up some of the remarks made by others, but you should get the general idea. Thanks for that. I am going to check and maybe fix some of the topics if it's okay for you.

Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

2009-04-06 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. I spend some time to create a more 'classic' CentOS theme. # Wallpaper You can find the 4:3 wallpaper here: http://www.marcus-moeller.de/share/classic/wallpaper.png Widescreen will follow # GRUB Download the matching GRUB Splash here:

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option

2009-04-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph, On top of my personal list is LDAP integration, as we want to push website v2 a bit. LDAP integration is just a config change, so no big problem. The problem is that website accounts and wiki accounts don't have anything in common. At the moment or in the future? As the aim

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