no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html
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defensive rhetoric, is not the way to do it. it just
looks bad.
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available
> from some mirrors.
i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find it.
i'm almost tempted to ask, "any idea on when 5.4 will be available?",
but i just *know* that w
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote:
>
> > I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available
> > from some mirrors.
>
> i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find
> it.
one has claimed he's done it by (gack! choke!) installing
the fedora package. that just creeps me out. in any case, what would
be the proper solution under centos? is there a "rawhide"/dev
equivalent for centos? thanks.
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> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package
> > that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment,
> > AFAICT, the latest "poppler-utils"
does that sound about right?
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to whether centos is just not bothering to rebrand
the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info from red hat.
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n red hat/centos wouldn't be as useful as learning
KVM.
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, b.j. mcclure wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:31 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be
> > used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W
> > woul
etween the command above and "find
> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?
the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for
every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run.
beyond that, the effect should be the same.
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle
> > enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm
> > curious -- has anyone here used both cento
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> >
> > someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called
> > "oracle enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL,
> > so i'
fy, you're saying that KVM requires H/W virtualization
support, either VT-x or AMD-V, yes? because at this point, i don't
think that really qualifies as "special hardware" anymore, it's pretty
common.
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 at 12:00pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote
>
> > it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption
> > so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS
> > considered to be t
search zrm
i see only "MySQL-zrm.noarch". anyone know why the centos repo would
only know about one of those packages? i suspect that, to be safe, i
should download the ones from the zmanda site.
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han rpm if is the case?
yum is simply a layer built on top of rpm. it's nice if you can do
everything you want with yum, but it doesn't hurt to learn the basics
of rpm anyway.
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spect there are yum alternatives for some of these but here's
some stuff i like:
$ rpm -qa # list all installed packages
$ rpm -qR# list dependencies of package
$ rpm -ql# display list of files in package
$ rpm -qf # what package is fr
l 5.1 an option? (i realize that mysql 5.1 is *not*
officially supported in centos 5.4.)
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ve this client any warm fuzzies. from a
promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual
content, or the link should be dropped entirely. or something.
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > This Section or Page is coming soon.
> >
> > that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a
> > promotion perspective, either that page should get some
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is
> >> *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but
> >> it *is* something that is
ler words?
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p.s. this was my first interaction with the general centos community
and, if this is the level of wilful obduracy i can expect to run into,
it's probably going to be the last.
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just give people the warm
fuzzies. that's all they're looking for.
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in terms of support from the community
or from commercial entities, i simply don't know.
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos
> > developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the
> > developers might be looking at in term
use centos.org. ask for their honest opinion. and
take it from there.
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Bent Terp wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> talk to someone with a marketing background. seriously. all you
> need to do is admit that there's no support, but word it carefully so
> that it doe
ideration, they will
undoubtedly go to centos.org and poke around, and i want them to be
happy with what they read there, and not be scared off. and maybe,
out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll donate to centos because
they like it so *everybody* wins.
does that clear things up a bit
e smaller ones would be happy with
centos. as a guess, i'd suspect that what would happen would be a
nice gain for red hat, with a much smaller additional win for centos
-- small enough that it probably wouldn't even show up on RH's radar.
but, again, i'm just guessing.
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eople
have been pointing out to me. that still means the "commercial
support" page should be clarified to make that obvious in some way.
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d about right?
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if
> > i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and,
> > yes, it does make sense.
>
> Th
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just don't want to teach off of 5.3, only to find out later that
they've been keeping up to date and 5.5 would have been a more
appropriate choice. thanks for any tips.
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but everything i've read
suggests that red hat is concentrating on kvm for virt. thoughts on
that? i have the freedom to replace the xen section with one covering
kvm instead.
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> On 08/09/2010 07:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course
> > i'm teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question,
> > possibly technical, possib
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 08:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> how much of this courseware is open source licensed ? Would you be
> >> willing to contribute some /all of it towards the CentOS wiki / docs
> >> effort ?
> >
>
i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular
and significant part of their sys admin?
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something LVM-related.)
i'm open to suggestions. thanks.
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p.s. obviuosly, i'd love to hear that someone else has already done
this and it worked just fine.
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system is currently acl-enabled? and is the mount man page
simply incomplete in that respect? thanks.
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and i'm going to guess that that's a kernel config option
that's selected on a per-filesystem type basis. thanks.
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kernel. other ideas?
thanks.
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 03:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > other ideas?
>
> LTSP
an intriguing idea, but that might be a bit ambitious and might also
cut into future marketing. one of my plans is that, after this
week-long cour
hts?
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Michel van Deventer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 03:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> > other ideas?
> >>
> Maybe a crash course in troubleshooting using the rescue CD ?
>
> I don't k
_for_secure_connections_(TLS/SSL/SFTP)
would that not address that issue? i'm not arguing against secure
communications, only that that manual page so cavalierly dismisses
vsftpd when it seems clear that you *can* configure vsftpd to be
secure.
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interested in what others have found as being really, really useful in
the context of setting up a server.
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ourse dealing with networking/remote
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#x27;s propensity to find errors mid-run
> (and worse, mid-some-other-script because you had to embed it).
i will probably throw in an hour or so of shell scripting, just
enough to whet their appetites and make them want an actual course.
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install
> > things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org
> > on extra repos. any there
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only*
> version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised
> to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that
> i was m
lve
possibly violating corporate IT policy by downloading and building new
packages to be installed on mission-critical servers. there are
certainly enough existing packages at trustworthy repos that i don't
need to go beyond that.
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
>
> > p.s. one stupendously trivial idea i had was to give each student
> > a cheap USB drive and use that as the vehicle for playing with
> > filesystem util
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16997/oracle_rips_red_hat_and_sort_of_launches_a_new_linux
oracle: just another centos wanna-be?
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > http://blogs.computerworld.com/16997/oracle_rips_red_hat_and_sort_of_launches_a_new_linux
> >
> > oracle: just another centos wanna-be?
> >
> Um, this is news? I thought Oracle
#x27;t
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d actually be:
yum --disablerepo "*" --enablerepo "rpmforge" list available
no? but even if i got edit access, i'd still be happier if someone
eventually checked out any changes i made to validate them. whatever
works best.
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to notice the above and ask
about it, so i might as well have an answer. thanks.
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able to configure the wireless interface for
that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they
were closing for the evening.
thoughts? any advice humongously appreciated.
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
>
> > however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read
> > online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to
> > use wpa_supplicant
that? the man page clearly states that that file is
the default, but it's obvious i still need to type its name. am i
missing something? is the man page wrong?
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote:
> From: Robert P. J. Day
>
> > If the -i option is given then the identity file
> >(defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used
>
> My man page says: "~/.ssh/identity.pub"...
argh ... sorry, i was
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:23:55 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote:
> >
> > > From: Robert P. J. Day
> > >
> > > > If the -i option is
ve access to my test system again.
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s something i can handle later.
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f RHEL 6, so it's not really
news.
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file
> > according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly
> > well).
>
> In my opinion
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:56:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > my plan is to install yum-utils to get yumdownloader, add the repo
> > file suggested above, then have students:
>
> Are these students payin
ion is purely an internal development system so i have the
freedom to customize it to some extent if newer packages are called
for. thanks.
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imulate all of this on a local network, i
would be a deliriously happy puppy. thanks.
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choice for that? the centos wiki recommends "extreme
caution" for that repo, which makes me nervous.
more to the point, are there any serious issues involving bumping up
php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything
else where it is?
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also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of
today, samba 3.5.0 is out:
http://news.samba.org/releases/3.5.0/
i'm sure someone else will look into that. :-)
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the system or something. from here:
https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/rhel-6-beta
if you choose to "skip registration", you get:
"550 Failed to change directory."
or am i missing something?
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
>
> > still a few bugs in the system or something. from here:
> >
> > https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/rhel-6-beta
> >
> > if you choose to &quo
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Dominik Zyla wrote:
> Anyone knows which kernel version will RHEL-6 use?
based on the contents of my ISO image, 2.6.32.
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/12/2010 10:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >yes, it's OT but just in case folks here know someone who might be
> > interested, i'm writing and publishing a course to introduce people to
> >
than scatter all of that over an entire chapter, are there
any official centos/rhel reference sheets like that? if not, i can
just write my own and post them at my wiki. thanks for any pointers.
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(apologies for what will be some upcoming trivial questions, but i'm
jumping back into centos after years and years of living with fedora,
so i'm feeling fairly comfortable, just the occasional centos-specific
question.)
is the wiki repos page fairly up to date?
https://wiki.centos.org/Addit
again, some fairly trivial(?) questions about working with centos
7.4, given my time immersed in fedora so i want to make sure i'm not
carrying over any bad habits.
first, is there anything untoward in updating an installed version
of centos 7.4 with a simple "yum update"? i'm well aware of k
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> >
> > finally, any concerns i should have about upgrading the kernel from
> > 3.10 to 4.14 or 4.15, as explained in a number of places like this:
> >
> > https://www.tecmint.com/install-upgrade-kernel-version-in-centos-7/
> >
> > i simply prefer to ru
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
> >oh, i appreciate the need for caution; on the other hand, it
> > always struck me that the training room is the *ideal* place for
> > students to experiment with things they're too nervo
S kernel was
4.14, was it not? so why is a 4.14 "lt" kernel not available in that
repository?
i am obviously unclear on the policy used to determine which kernel
versions end up in that repository.
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> >
> > i'm sure there's a simple answer to this -- i already understand
> > that newer kernels than the ones shipped with the official release
> > aren
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, wuzhouhui wrote:
> > -Original Messages-
> > From: "Steven Tardy"
> > Sent Time: 2018-02-26 10:48:48 (Monday)
> > To: "CentOS mailing list"
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to update modules in iniramfs fastly
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 8:29 PM wuzhouhui
>
dumb
question?
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