[CentOS-docs] notify emails from wiki.centos.org

2015-07-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Karanbir Singh wrote: making a few edits i just noticed that a lot of emails get sent out on every edit on wiki.c.o - this isnt a problem as such, but i wonder if its better for more people to use an rss feed ? I read each commit and have for many years, as an anti-spam

[CentOS-docs] CentOS 7 compose process

2014-10-30 Thread R P Herrold
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[CentOS-virt] vTPM manager for Xen

2014-09-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Jordan wrote: http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/vtpm.txt What I cannot find is the vTPM manager that distributes vTpms to domains. The other places to read are: 1. the primary site at Berlios (this has of course gone dark)

[CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread R P Herrold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: snip What's all this about SIGs, contributors, and committers? The CentOS Wiki didn't use to work that way. This is part of a piece I sent this to Karsten

[CentOS-virt] Hot adding USB devices to guests at a fixed address

2013-11-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Stephen Harris wrote: I have a device I want a guest to see. I've configured the following: And then in udev: % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-owon.rules ACTION==add, \ SUBSYSTEM==usb, \ SYSFS{idVendor}==5345, \ SYSFS{idProduct}==1234, \

[CentOS-virt] Traffic Accounting KVM vs Xen

2013-08-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Robert Dinse wrote: I am getting to where we want to offer virtual servers for lease but to do so we need some method of measuring and/or limiting traffic to individual guests. I am wondering what others are using for this purpose? I know that you can look

[CentOS-docs] BenHosmer's node.js proposal; was: Wiki Contribution Request

2013-02-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Ben Hosmer wrote: Username: BenHosmer Title: Building an RPM from Scratch Placement: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Rpm I went through the process of building and documenting how to build an RPM from scratch using node.js as an example. I'd like to

[CentOS-docs] Not Installing Properly

2013-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, sumit gupta wrote: I tried installing Cent-OS 6.3 in my laptop. Its not getting installed normally, i've to install it using basic graphics drivers. post installation my laptop is running hot and when i am trying to install ATI graphix card drivers,its getting stuck at

[CentOS-docs] Translation of centos-art.sh script (Round 2)

2012-09-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Russ, the texinfo-tex, gettext, vim-enhanced and sudo packages were already added to prepare functionality so they should be installed once the prepare functionality completes its duty. thank you -- setting up a fresh test box - Russ herrold

[CentOS-docs] Translation of centos-art.sh script (Round 2)

2012-09-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Christoph Galuschka wrote: already added to prepare functionality so they should be installed once the prepare functionality completes its duty. working from the outlines at: https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork - and -

[CentOS-docs] strange error noise ...

2012-09-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: echo $MESSAGE /dev/stderr Yes. These are error messages. Where else does they should go to but the standard error output? Isn't it the usual way of printing error messages? no: echo $MESSAGE 12 is the usual way, so

[CentOS-docs] Details on centos-art.sh required packages

2012-09-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Could you move the following information 'remove' perhaps? The centos-art.sh preparation process is being documented at `trunk/Manuals/Tcar-ug' directory, specifically in the `trunk/Manuals/Tcar-ug/Scripts/Bash/prepare.docbook' file. I lack

[CentOS-docs] following the artwork thread, there appears to be an error at step 4.2 of the wiki article

2012-09-10 Thread R P Herrold
at: wiki.centos.org/ArtWork I set up a machine to test at step: 4.2, it states: 4.2. Configure Your Workstation ... To download your working copy execute the following command: svn co https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork ~/ This command will create your working copy inside

[CentOS-docs] actually, getting a hang there ...

2012-09-10 Thread R P Herrold
$ bash -x ~/artwork/trunk/Scripts/Bash/centos-art.sh prepare ... ++ echo prepare + ARG=prepare + ARGUMENTS=' '\''prepare'\''' + [[ ! -n prepare ]] + [[ ! prepare =~ \^\[\[:alpha:]] ]] + exec /home/artwork/artwork/trunk/Scripts/Bash/centos-art.sh help ... just hangs

[CentOS-docs] CentOS Wiki Howto documentation contribution

2012-08-16 Thread R P Herrold
Luc Lalonde wrote: I would like to add an article to your documentation wiki: - CentOS 6 as a Time Machine server for Mountain Lion (Howtos, Misc, Time Machine Server) Here's my wiki informations: Username: LucLalonde Hi, Luc, I have set up a blank 'homepage', with the appropriate ACL

[CentOS-docs] Centos Wiki HomePage Access Part Duex

2012-07-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Alan Bartlett wrote: Sorry Bob, I have obviously failed. We really need Ralph, the wiki-Meister, to correctly set the ACL for that page. or to take look at a ACL on a homepage and to replicate it's ACL model Robert, I had added: #acl RobertLightfoot:read,write,revert

[CentOS-docs] HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey was: Wiki improvement

2012-07-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Ron Arts wrote: I found an error on the page http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey, and I wanted to fix it, but appararently I need to follow this procedure. The error is you need 20mb on the USB VFAT partition in stead of 10mb for the latest CentOS 5.x

[CentOS-docs] rename of EOL page needed

2012-03-02 Thread R P Herrold
I've updated: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EOLC3 which, of course no longer applies to just one major release I am unfamiliar with the process of pushing through a rename of a page, but I see copies of change notices with Ralph doing it from time to tome. May I request an assist here

[CentOS-docs] rename of EOL page needed

2012-03-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Akemi Yagi wrote: Perhaps, More Actions dropdown menu = select Rename Page ? heh ... done - R ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill ... following on myself, I

[CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Craig White wrote: I just can't embrace installing an OS whose security updates have ... Then please leave -- your sustained venom and bile are not needed, wanted, nor useful here, let alone remotely on topic -- Russ herrold

[CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Christopher Chan wrote: Oh, things have improved have they? Last I tried, you could not get d-i Please take this elsewhere -- it has nothing to do with centos -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 23:49 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: Then please leave -- your sustained venom and bile are not needed, wanted, nor useful here, let alone remotely on topic what venom? what bile? For the record, I wasn't the one who brought up

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: I don't care in general, but dislike hypocrisy. If you are going to claim to be open source, it should work to rebuild. les ... go rent a forum of your own -- this has no centos aspect any more -- Russ herrold

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Gary Greene wrote: Trust me ... the Linux Foundation thinks it is OK, so we are SOL. I'd rather get the opinion of the FSF (those whom wrote the license) instead of LF, as they don't matter as much, really. Feel free to approach whoever you wish on your own account

[CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 - 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

2011-10-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Johnny Tan wrote: Like recent Ubuntus, C6 uses upstart in place of traditional Sys V init. Likely, you will want this in /etc/init/ -- note!, not the same as /etc/init.d/ I don't know WHAT you are looking at, if anything, but it is not a CentOS 6 install; 'upstart' is a

[CentOS] Wiki CR Repo Link Defective

2011-09-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote: ok, not my best bug report. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5136 but I guess it will serve as a placeholder for clarifications. you know, if there is not a report, there is not a bug ;) I've addressed the documentation issue already facing end

[CentOS] Wiki CR Repo Link Defective

2011-09-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote: On 09/21/11 8:42 PM, Always Learning wrote: 5.7 has been released, obsoleting the 5.6/cr/ John or Always I am in a low bandwidth environment, and so cannot do this myself Plesae file a bug at: http://bugs.centos.org/ so that the release process

[CentOS] Wiki CR Repo Link Defective

2011-09-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote: What state should it be in? should that file be referenced as http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-release-cr.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm ? or should there be a new

[CentOS] Refocusing the list; was: centos product specification

2011-09-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: I am unaware of ever making those comments ! Check your file copy of your email to me of 25 Aug. I won't engage in a battle of semantics with an anonymous troll To all: As a matter of logistics, we are putting some new permissions in place to

[CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: However, you can file a bug report against the website. What is the point in 'complaining' by filing a BUG report when it is conspicuously evident the existing web person(s) can not cope because they have insufficient time or have died or have

[CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: Can't see any new web site on the latter URL. I'm not a Flash user by choice. Perhaps the Centos web site should be simple, practical, helpful in preference to emulating the very latest presentation gimmicks ? A larger font size will be useful for

[CentOS] ICMPv6 messages of type RS

2011-09-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: as described by CISCO in http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_7-2/ipv6_autoconfig.html a router has to send ICMPv6 messages of type RS to the all-router multicast group: ff02::1 and ff02::2 for stateless

[CentOS-docs] Contribute page

2011-09-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Jerry Amundson wrote: The last sentence of http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute indicates a RHEL Beta is available, but this is not the case, currently. Maybe a more generic statement, and not specific to release number, could be in place here? If such a link to upstream can

[CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone know what version of XEN works fine with CentOS 6? I installed XEN on a CentOS 6 server, as per these instructions: http://www.crc.id.au/xen-on-rhel6-scientific-linux-6-centos-6-howto/ and this issue about a third party writeup is not asked

[CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Digimer wrote: That was hardly called for. If you find a post off topic or uninteresting, just delete it. Either no one will reply or, if there is interest in the question, others will and the question will be decided to have value. wrong Seemingly you feel it is proper

[CentOS] Selinux extra packages and compiled apps

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, John Doe wrote: I am in the process of trying (and convincing my colleagues) to learn/setup selinux as we switch to 6.0... Quick question: do I really need to install the setools/setroubleshoot packages or can I live without them?  They want to install 80 packages (gnome

[CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: - rh Russ why don't you just discipline everyone? Cause no-one can stick to CentOS-only conversations in your righteous eyes. Rudi, I know it is confusing to you , as Robert

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

2011-08-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Always Learning wrote: Brilliant job creation scheme to increase State and Federal tax yields. 'Always' -- if you are going to post cr*p, at least have the courtesy to not CROSS post to Red Hat lists and here -- Russ herrold

[CentOS] centos] rpm and /etc/cron.daily/rpm

2011-08-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Russ, my fault - I'd crossposted to here and the general RH list. Dunno if I should consider filing this as a bug or not with upstream. yes but, no ... your content was not wild-ass OT political - R ___

[CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: I think the centos-offtopic list should also be centos related, but not so strict postings as the current list is. yeah -- just like there is presently any self control being shown by certain serial offenders here. We could set it up, but the

[CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: Surely it is easy enough to avoid reading an article labelled OT? sure -- one person SHOULD be able to burden tens of thousands to clean up after them repeatedly - R ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: And if anything drove posters away from here it was certain people telling them their input wasn't wanted. you are right, Lesthere is no purpose to participating further here -- Russ herrp;d ___ CentOS

[CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Looked over there. Any idea why they rebranded? Total WAG: to offer deb file downloads?! later by Tom H, not willing to accept that his remarks were out of scope: It was a WAG! :) no -- it was

[CentOS-docs] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaRuntimeEnvironment

2011-08-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Makes sense, and I would propose that would replace the current content on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS My thoughts exactly ! I am missing something ... a review of google inlinks indicates this page is widely referenced by third

[CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: how do you supply the ks.cfg file when you're PXE booting and have no CD or floppy? ummm ... with DHCP, handing out the correct boot vmlinuz image under PXE for the MAC address in question, and kernel command line arguments, one of which is the

[CentOS] e-mail serving

2011-08-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 11:03 -0700, Todd wrote: indeed no, but I want to work on some pattern matching, analysis for a piece of software I have wanted to write for years.. Lots of success and good luck. Do let us know how it goes. umm -- high

[CentOS] RedHat to CentOS packages

2011-08-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Ned Slider wrote: But as outlined in that thread it is not always easy (or indeed possible) to establish which upstream source a given CentOS modified package is built from. A more reliable method would be to check the changelog. A most reliable mechanism would be to

[CentOS] high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-08-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:54 AM -0300 Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote: The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests) I've only been watching this thread

[CentOS] Good for a chuckle

2011-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
I see in my overnight email spool: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726872 I am amused because this kind of request comes up time and time again with respect the package management system It is technically _possible_ to attain this kind of rollbacks, in some tightly controlled

[CentOS] HOWTO install CentOS 6 on low memory computer or virtual machine (even 192MB RAM)

2011-07-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: I've managed to install CentOS 6 on a 192MB virtual machine using LiveCD install-to-disk graphical method. snip rework of Anaconda, Live CD discussions I think you are over-thnking this. Anaconda is overkill if all you want to do is blow images

[CentOS] Gimp PDF plugin - Centos 5

2011-07-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Frank Cox wrote: Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure that this used to work. just a stab in the dark here -- upstream issued an update to poppler / evince that obsoleted xpdf

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Craig White wrote: you made a vacuous argument. Hunh. You are ** still ** trolling here [arguing against package management] and on this thread [C 6 matters], Craig? I thot back on June 13 you said here: easier just to give up - I moved my new servers to ubuntu - no

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: The specific example of zoneminder is particularly insidious. On our zoneminder systems, even point updates to certain libraries has created problems. A good, modern, package of zoneminder in a repo somewhere would save a lot of grief in that

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Marc Deop wrote: It's more than twice as fast than the previous sh script. In part this is /bin/sh v /bin/bash and using 'bashisms' matter, but yes, I did not seek to optimize a teaching throwaway 1- m5sum the file we need ... actually the NAME of the file, to make it

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work than doing a source install

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position might

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the process), they could certainly make it a

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, yonatan pingle wrote: the coder is not tech savvy as one might expect, so it's really hard for me to explain the issue of having lots of files in one folder to the site owner or to the coder. I do not expect coders to remain 'not tech savvy' If the coder is not willing

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Always Learning wrote: If the pictures are named sequentially, why not store then at a 100 per directory structure something like this /pix/0/00/pix1.jpg /pix/0/26/pix02614.jpg /pix/6/72/pix67255.jpg Go read Knuth One does not do that because then one is

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: By using a hash, we remove those constraints, and also gain the virtuous effect for free of self-organizing a relatively level dispersion of files to the destination directories Not followed the whole thread, but a SQL database index of the actual

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't work either. A low skill user was never able to go from 2.1 to 3, nor 3 to 4, nor 4 to 5, and an a minimally skilled will not be able to go from 5 to 6. This is the policy of the

Re: [CentOS] centos] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: When I say non-rpm, I mean source packages I compiled such as zoneminder. CentOS ships no non-RPM packaged packages -- look to whoever put those packages on your box without using the packaging system if you feel the need to blame someone [clean up

[CentOS-docs] C6 needs a FAQ entry for GUI setup ( tweaking xorg.conf )

2011-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: As some of you probably already know, since RHEL 6 xorg.conf does not exist any more by default. it is not created by default any more, but is honored if present is my understanding, as for multi-head, and for solving tricky scan problems

[CentOS] CentOS 6 system-config-bind missing?

2011-07-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Emmett Culley wrote: No, it isn't. At least it isn't trivial for those of us that only occasionally need to modify their DNS server(s). I had a few gripes about system-config-bind, but on the whole it did make it easy for me to manage our DNS servers without having

[CentOS] CentOS 6 system-config-bind missing?

2011-07-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: around. Russ may be of the opinion that everyone should memorize bazillion-page books of details about each quirky service or hire dunno that those are my words at all The issue was DNS zone files One takes a template, and in the residential user

[CentOS] Clearlooks Bluecurve icons missing from Centos 6

2011-07-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Please post your replies bellow the original text you are replying to for easier read. Has anybody looked is SL dev team created those? Also, has anybody tried to rip out those files from C5 and just repack it? Ljubomir ... PLEASE stop saying

[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? PLEASE stop this noise, just to hear yourself talk, Ljubomir -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS-docs] CentOS 6 (and 5.6) doc on http://www.centos.org/docs

2011-07-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:04:41AM +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: I am more into creating some form of redirect from docs.c.o to upstream's relevant docs. Is this permissible now? Not that I am aware of .. I have invited the upstream to

[CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Mogens Kjaer wrote: The 6.0 folder is not readable for external users until the bitflip occurs. The implicit statement being that a mirror operator could _jump the gun_ on the official release, and 'have 'the release early. Indeed, in the past some (former) mirror

[CentOS] centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

2011-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote: I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6. The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the backlight goes off. I see the windows, buttons, but it's very dark, maybe the backlight switching off.. do a text

[CentOS-virt] New to virtualization - can't use more than one CD when installing a new VM

2011-06-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Steve Campbell wrote: Our company blocks bittorents due to abuse. I believe the DVD ISOs are now taking up two DVDs, so I'm not sure how I'd do this either As I recall, the DVD's were formerly created from a pile of CD The former script that I used was based on one from:

[CentOS] mirroring with lftp

2011-06-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, John R Pierce wrote: does someone have a script for maintaining a repo with lftp they'd like to share? what I saw on the wiki wasn't very helpful. [root@xps400 ~]# grep kernel *conf lftp-centos-4-updates.conf: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4/updates/i386 \

[CentOS] Does anyone using dm-cache?

2011-06-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi, Has, or does, anyone use dm-cache - specifically for caching SAN based storage locally? hmmm From another list Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:38:29 +0200 From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com To: xen-users xen-us...@lists.xensource.com Subject: xen-u]

[CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Alain Péan wrote: I must say that the meaning of your message is not clear for me. What is the difference for you between The sources that will become CentOS 6, and CentOS proper ? What do you have in mind ? Why KVM may be excluded ? for reasons out of scope here, CentOS

[CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Without implying that I can read his mind, I guess he meant People with enough skills will be able to tweak C6 to use xen as Dom0 Wolfie beat me to the post by eight seconds, it seems Yes, it appears that he can read my mind -- Russ herrold

[CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Tom Bishop wrote: Russ if you have time can you elaborate more about why you are continuing to go down the Xen path, I for one would love to hear the why's and what for. I can understand the hardware requirements, and I know xen is generally going to be faster but my

[CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Alain Péan wrote: I must add that, due to the fact Dom0 has been included in recent Kernel 3.0 tree, it will certainly be possible in future releases of RHEL, then CentOS, to choose either Xen or KVM as virtualization solution. perhaps, but this is in part a LKML

[CentOS-docs] OS Hardening typo?

2011-06-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 16 June 2011 08:26, Cody Jackson supertanke...@gmail.com wrote: perl -npe 's/ca::ctrlaltdel:\/sbin\/shutdown/#ca::ctrlaltdel:\/sbin\/shutdown/' -i /etc/inittab I think God kills a kitten whenever perl is invoked when simple sed would do ...

[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Gordon Messmer wrote: Nothing that Red Hat did has increased the burden on CentOS. so says the person who has not done it - the rpm tool changed, adding a non-backward compatible compression scheme. as I blogged about months ago; this has 'flow through' effects as to

[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/14/2011 12:19 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: PLEASE ... let this thread die or take it to a bar somewhere ... it has NOTHING do do with the subject line -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS

[CentOS] apr-util-pgsql

2011-06-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Alexander Farber wrote: does anybody know of a good source for a apr-util-pgsql rpm package for CentOS 5.6 / 64 bit and even more I'm curious why isn't it included but the apr-util-mysql is included... I seem to have one built on a CentOS 5 platform, although I do not

[CentOS] What is someone trying to do?

2011-06-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Mike Williams wrote: Do you edit rewrite rules for every access that would otherwise be a 404 and change it to a 301? If so, what do you redirect them to, and why? Sounds like a lot of work. This was covered by me in a blog post some time ago, as to my approach:

[CentOS] C6 LiveCD top 5 apps

2011-06-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Steven Crothers wrote: You could release your work to something like Github, but I'm sure the CentOS team doesn't want that... ehh? The CentOS team has been quite clear that its product carries the license of the underlying packages, and then GPL for released CentOS

[CentOS] C6 LiveCD top 5 apps

2011-06-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, n...@nux.ro wrote: I'd like to see on the LiveCD the following: 1. latest dd_rescue 2. latest gparted 3. ntfs-3g 4. screen 5. mc CentOS 6 Live CD would composed of packges from the distribution's packages --- 'latest' is not a criteria there; as to something with

[CentOS] revisionist history: was: ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Marko Vojinovic wrote: [Upstream] didn't restrict access, it was only rebranded as another project oh horse puckety The binaries (base and updates) formerly freely available in RHL disappeared behind a license paywall; a new brand that was 'enforceable' emerged [RHL was

[CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Got back and look at the changelogs of the PostgreSQL packages. Give me a hint about what to look for. $ rpm -q --changelog postgresql-libs | grep -i owen Lamar was, during the time of RHL, postgresql's maintainer as to RPM based packaging, and as I

[CentOS] Capturing ftp reponses

2011-06-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp connection? man expect It is usually straightforward to capture a transcript of a session, and then abstract away the needed prompts and responses (The ORA 'Exploring Expect' by Don

[CentOS] scheduling differences between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5?

2011-05-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Mag Gam wrote: I would like to confirm Matt's claim. I too experienced larger latencies with Centos 5.x compared to 4.x. My application is very network sensitive and its easy to prove using lat_tcp. Russ, I am curious about identifying the problem. What tools do you

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Community effort or not, it did once seem like you had goals for timeliness as well. Are you happy with the current situation? If more community participation is off the table, what else could help? Johnny points out that we get crickets at he

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: This seems to me to be an unnecessarily agressive response to what appeared to me a rational question from Les Mikesell. But I don't think the fact that a service is free entitles its proponents to be rude to those using it. You must be new to this

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 22 May 2011, Gordon Messmer wrote: Who said anything about 5.6 breaking the environment? Everyone in the very long thread gave the excuse that it was done concurrent with other releases. customary trolling by Gordon Messmer -- passive agressive, implying an unmet obligation

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 22 May 2011, Steven Crothers wrote: I think you're missing the point, if you read between the lines, the complaint I see is that CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is not community based whatsoever. I don't mind-read as to what a third party meant so well as you, it seems

[CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: Wait a cotton-picking minute. Why is vsftpd writing to /var/log/xferlog in the first place, and not /var/log/vsftpd.log? early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content that a locally installed 'ftpd' and not the CentOS vsftpd was being

[CentOS] scheduling differences between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5?

2011-05-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Matt Garman wrote: We have several latency-sensitive pipeline-style programs that have a measurable performance degredation when run on CentOS 5.x versus CentOS 4.x. By pipeline program, I mean one that has multiple threads. The mutiple threads work on shared data.

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 19 May 2011, carlopmart wrote: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_6_1_Released and look at all the anaconda related, and other fixes, that should have been in a dot zero release ... gee -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: herrold earlier: and look at all the anaconda related, and other fixes, that should have been in a dot zero release ... gee Which means, that RHEL6.0 should have just now come out today; the release called 6.0 was a teaser and a beta of the

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
(possible duplicate -- the first post had some mal-formed headers that the MailMan should have rejected) On Thu, 19 May 2011, Markus Falb wrote: Oh Lord! If everyone would avoid 'dot.zero' products then no bugs would be discovered and no 'dot.one' product would be released. You basically

[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Everyone expected this from Red Hat before the 'EL' versions when publishing a free CD of community work was the way QA was done. (And if you've forgotten, go dig through some changelogs of that era to see just how bad things were and how much we

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