Re: [CentOS-docs] Skype's no-redistribution policy

2012-06-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 06/23/2012 02:36 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: However, Microsoft claims to prohibit redistribution of Skype (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/terms/tou/ , subsection 4.2). Is this different from their previous policy ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ |

Re: [CentOS-docs] Skype's no-redistribution policy

2012-06-23 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 06/23/2012 02:47 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, On 06/23/2012 02:36 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: However, Microsoft claims to prohibit redistribution of Skype (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/terms/tou/ , subsection 4.2). Is this different from their previous policy ? I've read all

Re: [CentOS-docs] Skype's no-redistribution policy

2012-06-23 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 23 June 2012, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Is this different from their previous policy ? The wording was the same on 23 June 2011, according to http://web.archive.org/ The reference to the RPM package was only recently added to the Wiki, if that's what you mean.

[CentOS] RAID?

2012-06-23 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All I want to install an application on my centos server asking if my server supports RAID . How can I check if my server supports RAID ? Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID?

2012-06-23 Thread Digimer
On 06/23/2012 02:09 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I want to install an application on my centos server asking if my server supports RAID . How can I check if my server supports RAID ? Thank you Hardware RAID? Ask the company you bought it from. Software RAID? If you have two or more

Re: [CentOS] RAID?

2012-06-23 Thread hadi motamedi
On 6/23/12, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 06/23/2012 02:09 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I want to install an application on my centos server asking if my server supports RAID . How can I check if my server supports RAID ? Thank you Hardware RAID? Ask the company you bought it

[CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Eric Kom
Good day, Please am new on CentOS, may you help me with the upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2 using? Thanks a lot -- -- You Truly Eric Kom System Administrator - Metropolitan College _ / You are scrupulously honest, frank, and \ | straightforward. Therefore you

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Chris
2012/6/23 Eric Kom eric...@metropolitanstaff.co.za: Good day, Please am new on CentOS, may you help me with the upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2 using? Upgrade from 5.x to 6.x is not supported by CentOS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Eric Kom
On 23/06/2012 10:37, Chris wrote: 2012/6/23 Eric Kom eric...@metropolitanstaff.co.za: Good day, Please am new on CentOS, may you help me with the upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2 using? Upgrade from 5.x to 6.x is not supported by CentOS. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] reinventing the wheel? page checker

2012-06-23 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/2012 04:38 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bob Hoffman wrote: On 6/22/2012 9:50 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bob Hoffman wrote: On 6/21/2012 12:44 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Bob Hoffman wrote: From: Bob

Re: [CentOS] Resizing est4 filesystem while mounted

2012-06-23 Thread Markus Falb
On 19.6.2012 06:25, Robert Nichols wrote: On 06/18/2012 03:09 PM, Jeff Boyce wrote: Well, I have never seen a reference to resize4fs before (and yes my FS is ext4). It is not on my Centos 6.2 system, and doing a little searching through repositories for that specifically, or e4fsprogs, and I

[CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
My box did upgrade itself automatically from the initial 5.5 DVD installation to 5.7 How can I tell if my box has been automatically upgraded from 5.7 to 5.8 please? I see the CentOS-CR.repo is still in my /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Is that repo responsible for doing the automatic upgrades

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts Sent: den 23 juni 2012 14:08 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8 My box did upgrade itself automatically from the initial 5.5 DVD

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org From: Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8 -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Eric, On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 09:52 +0200, Eric Kom wrote: Please am new on CentOS, may you help me with the upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2 using? http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html Red Hat does not support in-place

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- How can I tell if my box has been automatically upgraded from 5.7 to 5.8 please? # cat /etc/redhat-release OK thanks for that. So it looks like I'm on 5.8 already. [root@karsites ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.8 (Final) Yupp! You're

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org From: Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8 -Original Message- How can I tell if my box has been automatically upgraded from 5.7 to 5.8 please? # cat

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Markus Falb
On 23.6.2012 14:18, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts Sent: den 23 juni 2012 14:08 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8 My box did upgrade itself

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Tom Brown
Upgrade from 5.x to 6.x is not supported by CentOS. ___ which was not strictly the question that was asked though was it. its not supported or recommended but it is possible. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Markus Falb wrote: $ rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release centos-release-5-8.el5.centos $ rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-8.el5.centos $ rpm -q --qf %{version}\n centos-release 5 $ rpm -q --qf %{release}\n centos-release 8.el5.centos I don't know if it is more sane

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/23/2012 08:45 AM Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hello Eric, On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 09:52 +0200, Eric Kom wrote: Please am new on CentOS, may you help me with the upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2 using?

Re: [CentOS] RAID?

2012-06-23 Thread Digimer
On 06/23/2012 02:27 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: On 6/23/12, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 06/23/2012 02:09 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I want to install an application on my centos server asking if my server supports RAID . How can I check if my server supports RAID ? Thank you

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip* From prior experience I've found major upgrades easier if, in the current setup, instead of having just one volume/partition and so everything under root (/), there are separate partitions or volumes for (at least) /home and /var because redhat (and so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:12:58 Nate Duehr did opine: On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: As for partiality, no way, synaptic, adapted for rpms is by far the best package manager I've used in the last 5 years since I bailed on fedora at about 6 or so. Understand that

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/23/2012 12:42 PM Keith Roberts wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip* ... redhat (and so too centos) has always recognized that those partitions contain data and will ask if I want to leave them as they are or, instead, overwrite them. If you currently have just one

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip* I've been caught out before when installing Linux with existing data on several partitions, and had my partitions and data trashed. My work around is to only let the installer use / tmp and swap. That way it cannot touch my partitions with data on them.

[CentOS] Media check on Centos 6.2 DVD1 i386

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
I've downloaded and md5sum checked the Centos 6.2 DVD1 and burnt it to a DVD. Should there be an option to check the DVD media from the grub boot menu please? Keith --- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net

Re: [CentOS] Media check on Centos 6.2 DVD1 i386

2012-06-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 06/23/2012 05:39 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: I've downloaded and md5sum checked the Centos 6.2 DVD1 and burnt it to a DVD. Should there be an option to check the DVD media from the grub boot menu please? Keith --- Websites:

Re: [CentOS] Media check on Centos 6.2 DVD1 i386

2012-06-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote: *snip* Yes there is an option to check the media when you boot it up. Just follow the prompts. OK, thank you for that Mark - got it now. I had to boot from the DVD and check it on another machine. It passes OK. Keith

[CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets; This centos6.2 system seems to have python-2.6.6, but that is turning into a huge problem because I now have a backlog of about 40 packages that will not upgrade because they all need python 2.4. That, and importing gpg keys doesn't seem to be helping in that regard. But first, how to

[CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/23/2012 05:36 PM Keith Roberts wrote: IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the Gparted Live CD to do any partition work. I don't use LVM