Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:19 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: So far I've come across a project called Gallery2, that seems to do what I want. Downside is that no rpm-packages are available with yum with this one. FYI, gallery2 is available in EPEL for EL-5. gallery2 requires PHP, a SQL database, and a lot of server side support. IIRC, the original poster said he had none of those. It's doable, but will require some work and time. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:12 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options FYI, gallery2 is available in EPEL for EL-5. I used the info available at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-fedora-centos-linux-enable-epel-repo/ to add the EPEL-repo. r...@kadath ~ [0 jobs]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kernel-module, priorities, protectbase, tsflags, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: mirrors.se.eu.kernel.org * rpmforge: apt.sw.be * contrib: mirror.ii.uib.no * base: mirror.ii.uib.no * updates: mirror.ii.uib.no * addons: mirror.ii.uib.no * extras: mirror.ii.uib.no repo id repo namestatus addons CentOS-5 - Addonsenabled : 0 base CentOS-5 - Base enabled : 2,508 contrib CentOS-5 - Contrib enabled : 0 epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - enabled : 4,377 extras CentOS-5 - Extrasenabled : 311 rpmforge Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - da enabled : 8,852 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled : 311 repolist: 16,359 r...@kadath ~ [0 jobs]# r...@kadath ~ [0 jobs]# yum install *gallery* Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kernel-module, priorities, protectbase, tsflags, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: mirrors.se.eu.kernel.org * rpmforge: apt.sw.be * contrib: mirror.ii.uib.no * base: mirror.ii.uib.no * updates: mirror.ii.uib.no * addons: mirror.ii.uib.no * extras: mirror.ii.uib.no 0 packages excluded due to repository protections Reading version lock configuration Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package *gallery* available. Nothing to do r...@kadath ~ [0 jobs]# You sure about Gallery2 being available in EPEL5? Or did you literally mean EPEL5 and not EPEL5.3? 8-} -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:26 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options FYI, gallery2 is available in EPEL for EL-5. I used the info available at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-fedora-centos-linux-enable-epel-repo/ to add the EPEL-repo. Replying to myself... Googled some and found that Gallery2 is most probably in the Fedora development repo. Now to find how I add this repo to CentOS.. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Fortran90 and 77 on CentOS
Hi all, Is anybody here using Fortran90 and Fortran77 on their CentOS-machine(s)? If so, did you get that from a repo or something? One of our PhD-students needs a software that requires the Fortran compilers mentioned in order to make the sources for our i7-machines. The Fortran stuff that is available to me is from the standard CentOS repos, as well as Rpmforge and EPEL repos, from which I got gcc43-fortran and some more dependencies and and such. But as far as I can tell, this is not going to work. This is all new territory to me, to have to compile stuff... Please let me know if this is off-topic and should be taken elsewhere. Thanks for any information. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: Enterprise Linux for the people. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fortran90 and 77 on CentOS
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Marcelo M. Garcia Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fortran90 and 77 on CentOS Is anybody here using Fortran90 and Fortran77 on their CentOS-machine(s)? If so, did you get that from a repo or something? One of our PhD-students needs a software that requires the Fortran compilers mentioned in order to make the sources for our i7-machines. Intel has non-commercial software download with FORTRAN, C/C++, MKL, etc: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/non-commercial-software-download/ Yupp, thanks. Just ran into it like 10 seconds ago. 8-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: Ray Leventhal [mailto:cen...@swhi.net] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Sorry for the late post on this thread, but there's free client called 'Jalbum' [1] that may well do the trick for you. Many skins, some simple, some not..an integrated ftp client for uploading to your web server, and nothing else but your photos needed. There's also a pre-built rpm which I've used without issue on CentOS 4.7 and higher (client machines). I'm hosting more than a few of these albums on my CentOS 5.3 server. No problem. I'm still interested in what options I have for photo albums. Checked the site ou linked too, but I don't get it. Would my pics be hosted on my own server or on jalbum.net á la Picasa? I can't tell from the tour on the jalbum web site. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of luc...@lastdot.org Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options jalbum is a hog with large collections.. performance must be 5-6x less than that of picasa on my computer (amd athlon x2, 1 gb ram, sata drive, centos 5 32bit, around 8000 hires pictures).. That bad?? Guess my Amd Duron/750 and 384MB ram is a no-go then... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options [Solved]
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:50 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options [Solved] Anyway, I installed Gallery2 yesterday evening and finished up way late. It works sort of. I feel I need to read up on security best-practices with regard to mysql and also how to deny folder listings. As it is now I think mysql is seriously insecure for world access, and the folder listing shows the gallery2 contents to the world. I'll look into it this weekend. If mysql and the gallery soft ware are on the same server, then you don't need to open up mysql to the world. The gallery software should be able to access the DB over the localhost address, and you could firewall off outside access to mysql. Yupp, that's what I did. I had some other problems with a folder listing being visible for some reason on someurl.com/gallery2, so I ended up installing Gallery1 instead, but this one couldn't process any pictures because it though Image Magick and/or Netpbm wasn't installed (it was...), but the folder listings weren't there at least. I'll probably end up installing Gallery2 anyway. Need to read up on mysql and apache some more though, it might be a good idea anyway. The whole thing is resting right now. 8-) Thanks for the hint though. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bart Schaefer Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Sorin Srbusorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bart Schaefer Does anyone know of something REALLY simple? As in, using nothing but a directory hierarchy, CSS, and possibly some Javascript? Vi and some manual coding? ;-) Yeah, if I had time ... You and me both. ;-) Seriously, if you just want to have them available, just drop the files in a folder and allow directory listing on that folder. That's *almost* what I want, except I want the directory listing to show the actual images instead of just links to the images. Like thumbnails then. Isn't there some addon to Apache that might do that? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options [Solved]
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Seems like I also did not mention it must be free, as in not costing anything. 8-) Though I dream of a six-disk NAS filled with 1TB-drives... 8-/ The point of these devices is that the cost ends up being negative compared to running stuff on a full-featured computer powered up all the time. Plus, they integrate the media server, so upnp/DLNA clients like the PS3/Xbox360 and an increasing number of network-connected TV's can view the same pictures with their built in protocol without yet another setup. That might be interesting if you have all that flashy TV:s and stuff. My computer-based PVR, running WinXP works fine, as does my Xboxes. Anyway, I installed Gallery2 yesterday evening and finished up way late. It works sort of. I feel I need to read up on security best-practices with regard to mysql and also how to deny folder listings. As it is now I think mysql is seriously insecure for world access, and the folder listing shows the gallery2 contents to the world. I'll look into it this weekend. Thanks all who suggested and hinted me! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bailey Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options What web photo gallery software do you guys use? My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. I've used PHPix2 for quite a long time now. I like it because there's no requirement for SQL and you can basically upload the original images straight from the camera to a directory tree. PHPix2 then lets the user view pictures in a variety of resolutions, with forward/previous thumbnails, album descriptions, etc. It's easy to maintain backup copies because it's just a regular directory tree. Downside is it hasn't been updated in awhile, but it may fit your needs... More at: http://phpix2.sourceforge.net Nice! As it happens I had some problems with mysql last night. Didn't have time to look into what the problem was really, but if there is a solution w/o a db I'm certainly interested. Thanks! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:17 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Sorin Srbu wrote: What web photo gallery software do you guys use? I like http://drupal.org It is an open source content management system. You could use one of the gallery modules that best suits your needs. In addition, the system is flexible and will allow you to do all sorts of other things (blogs, share content, to do lists, project management, etc). Here is a search of the modules with photo and album: http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/photo%20album?filters=type%3Apro ject _project The web server in question is rather underpowered (it's a Duron 750 with 384MB RAM). I doubt a CMS would run well on such a machine. Thanks for the hint though. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Sorin Srbu wrote: My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. I like gallery v1 myself and have used it for years. I tried gallery v2 but it was too complicated to use(and hated the themes it came with I just wanted something plain), I just wanted something simple. It doesn't use a (SQL) DB, it does do auto resizing of pictures when you upload them. Interesting. The pics, are they kept in a straight up folder-structure or something? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:08 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from yum. Errr, yum doesn't know about anything but rpms. Yupp, that's what I was trying to say but failed. 8-} I prefer either a rpm-package to install from or something available via yum. Gallery2 is a tar.gz-packagge. If you want something even easier for personal use there are inexpensive network file server appliances with built in media and web services so you just dump stuff in a mounted directory and it's available. For example: http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS209j/index.php Seems like I also did not mention it must be free, as in not costing anything. 8-) Though I dream of a six-disk NAS filled with 1TB-drives... 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bart Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:59 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. I like gallery v1 myself and have used it for years. I tried gallery v2 but it was too complicated to use(and hated the themes it came with I just wanted something plain), I just wanted something simple. It doesn't use a (SQL) DB, it does do auto resizing of pictures when you upload them. Does anyone know of something REALLY simple? As in, using nothing but a directory hierarchy, CSS, and possibly some Javascript? I don't want a web-browser upload interface, I don't want server-side image resizing or rotating, and I don't want to care what server-side software is available (particularly not a database). I just want to drop some images on dumb web host and be able to look at them without having to explicitly follow a separate URL for every image -- or drop a couple of extra files in a directory full of images on my disk and hit a file:// URL to see them all. Vi and some manual coding? ;-) Seriously, if you just want to have them available, just drop the files in a folder and allow directory listing on that folder. See http://home-skynet.servehttp.com/images/privata_bilder/VFR-Forum/Muffler if that is what you mean? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:38 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options I don't see why anybody on this mailing-list should be incapable of mastering this task. You just upload the unpacked gallery2 directory to your webspace, create a db and a corresponding user with phpmyadmin and enter those details into gallery2's installer. Well, using and configuring a database is not something you learn while you go, at least not me. That alone is my main problem with db-driven galleries. Also, since this gallery will be exposed to the world, the db will need some tweaking as well, so as to not be open to anybody. FWIW, I've now more or less committed on Gallery2 and intend to sort mysql out, only it takes time, even years until I can handle my own there. There is a learning curve to put it mildly. 8-} -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:23 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful With risk of splitting hairs, I'd rather use the phrasing Community support is available... instead of Volunteer support Again, it's the touchy feely stuff that makes or breaks. IHMO, Volunteer support is what is generally available on this list, and similar fora for free. Many of the contributors to this list also provide commercial support, development, and consulting services. Oh, didn't know that... Maybe this info should be on the mentioned page as well! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Web photo gallery options
Hi all, I'm looking for a web photo gallery for my personal web server at home. Till now I've done the galleries manually from Adobe Photoshop Elements, but I feel that is a dead end, kinda', besides the fact that the galleries created are rather static. I'd like an easier way to do this, eg uploading images in folders directly to the gallery and it will take care of what needs to be done automagically, like resizing etc. So far I've come across a project called Gallery2, that seems to do what I want. Downside is that no rpm-packages are available with yum with this one. What web photo gallery software do you guys use? My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. Thanks. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # I did the thing that I do when I want to do the thing, and then it like did something and it won't do the thing! Yeah, there was like an error message, but I didn't read it... -User smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options What web photo gallery software do you guys use? My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the gallery standpoint. Hi Sorin, Gallery2, Coppermine, 4Images Gallery, etc are all good galleries to use. And installation is very, very simple. upload the files to your websever, add a MySQL database, and run the installation.php script - very easy. I doubt if you'll get a website gallery that is packged in an rpm though. It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from yum. Doing a yum list *gallery doesn't give me anything available from the Centos and rpmforge repos. Just thought I'd make it simple for myself. 8-) 4Images I believe is commercial payware, so it's not interesting for me. Coppermine I haven't heard of before, but will check up on. Otherwise, Gallery it is. Thank you for your suggestions! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:36 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options What web photo gallery software do you guys use? In the past I have made galleries with konqueror - not on centos, but with kde3, so I'm guessing that it works on centos. I'm not at a centos desktop at the moment, so I can't check, but it should be a menu entry in konqueror. It is, however, creating a static gallery. It wouldn't be so easy for others to add photos, so may not meet your needs. Konqueror?? That's a new one. Will check it up. Depending on what it can do it might do the trick. I don't really need others to add photos, just me. 8-) That doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be simple to do it. Tedious uploads and such only means I won't use the software in the long run. 8-/ Thanks for the Konqueror hint! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of luc...@lastdot.org Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options What web photo gallery software do you guys use? Picasa3 can sync local albums to its web service. I'm quite happy with it (although I'd prefer some open source replacement.. but there's none as of yet), give it a try. I've actually looked at Picasa already, and it looks nice and all, but I feel I'd like a local gallery that *I* can control. As you say, open source is preferable. Still, if I fail finding something suitable I'll go for Picasa or something like it off-site. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Konqueror?? That's a new one. Will check it up. Depending on what it can do it might do the trick. I creates an html page, so you'd have the choice of rebuilding with the additional photos or simply editing the html i there were not too many. HTH Ah, got it. It's more like Photoshop Elements I mentioned earlier, only it's moved to linux, instead of doing on Windows first then transferring. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options It doesn't have to be available in a rpm-package, just available from yum. Errr, yum doesn't know about anything but rpms. Yupp, that's what I was trying to say but failed. 8-} I prefer either a rpm-package to install from or something available via yum. Gallery2 is a tar.gz-packagge. Doing a yum list *gallery doesn't give me anything available from the Centos and rpmforge repos. Just thought I'd make it simple for myself. 8-) 4Images I believe is commercial payware, so it's not interesting for me. Coppermine I haven't heard of before, but will check up on. Otherwise, Gallery it is. The home page is here: http://gallery.menalto.com/ Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful And there is always the issue that if Red Hat sees Centos as competition in the supported OS business, they will make the cloning and updates more difficult. I personally ignore that risk for now. 8-) Has there been an indication they might do so lately? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Semcheski Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Geoff Galitzge...@galitz.org wrote: I (amicably) object to the currently unavailable phrase. As has been mentioned support is available. I would suggest the following change: Currently the Centos Project cannot endorse any specific support offering and does not directly offer commercial support. Support is available from third party consultants and firms. Volunteer support is available via IRC (channel #centos), Centos mailing lists and the Centos forums. - I think the response from Geoff below is excellent. Its honest, to the point, and understandable. With risk of splitting hairs, I'd rather use the phrasing Community support is available... instead of Volunteer support Again, it's the touchy feely stuff that makes or breaks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:57 AM To: CentOS discussion list Subject: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this 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. the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse. however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on red hat. for most of their clients (who are fairly sizable) who will want official support, RHEL will be the obvious choice and the software company will advertise that RHEL is what they support. the SW company will be happy, the clients will be happy, and red hat will be happy. on the other hand, if there is the occasional client who is perhaps not as large, or doesn't have a budget for RHEL, centos will be the obvious option if they're prepared to do their own support. that scenario will, i'm guessing, not be that common so red hat has nothing to worry about it in terms of cutting into their revenue stream in any significant way. and, finally, for any client that chooses centos, that will represent a possible support contract for independent linux consultants. sound about right? Yes, to me it does. FWIW, we've gone the same way. Us being a not as large client. 8-) We've basically been a RHEL-shop mostly until I took over the linux-adminning and had to ask for money to renew the RHEL entitlements. The support that is included there I've used once, and ever since resorted to general web searches, forums and mailing lists like this one and to finally settled for CentOS, except for a handful of RHEL machines we still keep because of software legacy. We're a university department with two sub-departments that I admin. I'm also the entire IT-department(...)=meaning doing our own support. As support goes, I've yet to call RHEL for support again. I'm happy to say that the help and hints I've gotten from members on this list alone is worth a helluva' lot than a cursory look would tell. Very high signal-to-noise ratio that is. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Galitz Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:16 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful FWIW, I think we should lighten up on the original poster. He asked a simple question, he got an answer. There's no need to beat up on each other... it is not constructive. I second that; I've seen too many elitistic linux lists and forums, that scared more people away than actually got the help they wanted. Let's not make the CentOS list one of those. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Wifi connection finally solved
After a year or so of trying to get wifi-cards of various brands and chipsets to work, today it finally happened! I got my 3com 3CRPAG175 to jump to it and connect to the department WPA2 AP! I wouldn't have done it without your help. Thanks all! One question though, should it really take upwards of a minute or so till the NetworkManager says it's now connected?? -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: Enterprise Linux for the rest of us. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:15 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop Kai Schaetzl wrote: I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided? The mail system centos@centos.org: mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org I haven't the faintest idea *why* those happen. Especially as the mails in question do make it through to the list (and I never got one of those, so I cannot really look at all the headers). There is a user centos on that machine, but as aliases local users in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas. I got those denied messages as well from this list, but always thought it was a side-effect of our university's gray-listing scheme or some such. Seems I was not the only one with (slight) problems. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:23 AM To: centOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto [...] yum install nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 [...] Which versions of RH or FC correspond reasonably well to my version of centos? uname -a Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I use CentOS 5.3 i386/x86_64 flavours If I were you I'd look more into dkms and the dkms-nvidia-packages. Those are more current, than the driver package in nvidia-x11*. Or if all else fails, why not get the proprietary Nvidia drivers? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:43 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto Which versions of RH or FC correspond reasonably well to my version of centos? uname -a Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I use CentOS 5.3 i386/x86_64 flavours A typo erased part of the question (and more googling erased some of the need for it). I was originally asking what howtos to look at, since I couldn't find centos howtos. then I found wiki.centos.org. Is it really of no interest to anyone else which rev of RH corresponds to which rev of fedora and centos? RHEL corresponds pretty well with CentOS, ie RHEL 5.3 is CentOS 5.3 basically. Who cares about Fedora anymore when there's CentOS? ;-) Or if all else fails, why not get the proprietary Nvidia drivers? Well, all else did not fail. And they want me to run a script that does I don't know what, outside the record-keeping that goes with yum/rpm. Also, nvidia's web page made it sound like I was in for an editing session on xorg.conf, which is beyond me. Maybe I misunderstood. The script with the proprietary Nvidia driver package is rock-solid AFAICT, never had any problem with it. We used that on this department until I heard about dkms and the dkms-Nvidia-package. No more need, ever, to rerun the driver install, as is usually the case with the proprietary driver and a kernel update. Dkms does all that for you. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Evolution Question?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:40 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Evolution Question? I have a CentOS 5.3 Desktop and use Evolution to read mailing lists . When i move from one read letter to another(either deleting or clicking next the Message pane flickers. How can i stop this because it is hard on my eyes when i have a few emails to read? Increase the scan frequency of your monitor maybe? I've seen this in lists generally with thousands of entries and the gfx-card can't keep up. Most often upping the scan frequency solved this issue. I've also seen this on computers that are a bit, ummm, underpowered. ;-) If you have an Nvidia gfx-card, try installing the proprietary drivers, or (recommended) dkms and the dkms-Nvidia*-package. YMMV. Thanks for the reply. My card is a GeForce FX5200 is there an easy way to set it up as there seem to be a few options? Not sure how to increase scan frequency? is it dangerous? Did you install either the dkms-Nvidia-package or the proprietary Nvidia driver package? Shouldn't matter anyway, as both install a Nvidia X Server settings-applet. With this you can change resolutions, scan frequencies and whatnot. Dangerous? Well, yes. If you set too high a frequency you might damage the monitor. For flatscreens the most common frequency is 50 (older standard IIRC) or 60Hz (most common nowadays). CRT's can vary between 60 to 120Hz. Most common AFAICT is the 75-85Hz range. Your flickering thing might also be because of a too high set screen resolution. Start with 1024x768 and 75ish Hz and go up stepwise. See if it gets better. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Evolution Question?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:41 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Evolution Question? I have a CentOS 5.3 Desktop and use Evolution to read mailing lists . When i move from one read letter to another(either deleting or clicking next the Message pane flickers. How can i stop this because it is hard on my eyes when i have a few emails to read? Increase the scan frequency of your monitor maybe? I've seen this in lists generally with thousands of entries and the gfx-card can't keep up. Most often upping the scan frequency solved this issue. I've also seen this on computers that are a bit, ummm, underpowered. ;-) If you have an Nvidia gfx-card, try installing the proprietary drivers, or (recommended) dkms and the dkms-Nvidia*-package. YMMV. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative
Hi all, I have this tabletpc one of my bosses insisted on buying. The machine runs Windows Vista TabletPC Edition. As it happens I have a thousand and one problems with this POS operating system... I think the hardware is fine though, so it's not that. Would any of you guys know of some kind of linux-based alternative, preferrably available on or for CentOS, that can do the same hand-writing-on-screen-tricks as Vista Tablet does? Please excuse this off-topic post, but the frustration with Vista runs high over here right now. 8-/ Mail me privately if you feel this shouldn't be discussed on-list but want to hint me anyway. Thanks. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # Geeky it-haiku #09: Wasting time/Is fun while others/Slave away. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative Would any of you guys know of some kind of linux-based alternative, preferrably available on or for CentOS, that can do the same hand-writing-on-screen-tricks as Vista Tablet does? cellwriter and xournal are what I've been using for a few years now on my tc4400, no idea what the windows s/w does, but these two do all that I need with the tablet Windows Tablet allows for using handwriting on screen and entering it more or less automatically to eg Word. Thanks for the hints, I'll those up. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tosh Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:47 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative The mentioned software by Karanbir : cellwriter, write letter by letter and convert this to text (like the old palm input) That sounds about right. You get a textbox to write in and it will dump the input to whatever editor you set? xournal, is a good replacement for onenote, but doesn't have the conversion handwriting to text Don't know about Onenote. Is that part of the text input in Vista Tablet or something? one more thing, if you install CentOS, you will need to add your stylus manually to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, for more info go to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wacom_Serial_Tablet_PC_Stylus worked for my Toshiba Portégé M400 Nice! This is a Fujitsu Lifebook T-series. But there is a sticker on it saying Penabled Wacom. It's probably the same thing as on your Toshiba. Thanks! I'll mention this to the boss and see if he's all in or not... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum update error this morning
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:22 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum update error this morning I did a yum clean all as well, but it didn't help. Uninstalling the file package, as mentioned in my previous mail, resolved the issue for me. YMMV of course. The issue with the file package was a completely different one than the issue with the unsubscriptable object - although yum clean metadata has solved that one for most people as well. I did a yum update and got the update list, then installed the packages one by one. When I got to file, I got the problem described previously. Removing file package solved it for me. YMMV as said before. What was the problem with file package anyway?? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that? I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly. Look in your /var/log/messages file. There will be some mention of 'failed to load firmware' associated with the driver load. You need to have a partitular file living in /lib/firmware/ -- the name is wired into the driver. The SMC Ez Connect card needed something called isl3890. I don't remember where I got this. My Intel card needed ipw2100-1.3*, this I got off a site after googling for 'firmware ipw2100' (or something like that). Getting the Intel was easy -- there is a web site with all of the info needed. Getting the prism firware was a bit of a hassle. You might have to unpack a file from the CD that came with the WiFi card -- this means you need some Windows tool to unpack/install it someplace and then copy the magic file from where the Windows installer/unpacker puts it to your Linux box and make sure it has the proper name. It is important to get the correct version for your card. So Intel seems to be the way to go if you want to make wifi relatively painless to install and get working on linux? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rob Kampen Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? I have installed and used CentOS on laptops just fine. The last two even had the internal wireless work without effort. You may need to do some work to get the wireless functioning okay - NetworkManager seems to help if you use both wired and wireless. [...] I'd just try it and see, one can always grab another distro if CentOS is really too difficult to get functioning. IIRC, the farthest I've come is to get the OS to see the card, this was CentOS 5.2 with some non-standard repos enabled (madwifi, dkms other stuff). Connecting to my network using WPA2 and having the wifi NIC getting an ip from dhcp-server are other issues. I can't really say I know what I'm doing when it comes to wifi on linux, unfortunately. 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 6:35 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com 3CRWE154G72. --- What do you mean a few years old? I have 2 Dell Latitude LS's that work work fine out of the box with CentOS 4.7 and 5.3. They barely meet the i686 cutoff date. Not sure how old it is either. I got it from wife's work, as they were to throw it away; ...not fast enough I salvaged it, and it seems to work fine with Windows. It wasn't my intention to keep Windows on it though. Anyway, I'd say it's somewhere between 3-5 years old. It's a cheapo plasticky Dell with an Intel P3/1600 and 256-512MB RAM, no built-in wifi, which places it in approx 2005, give or take a few years up or down. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Probably not the best distro for Laptops, but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. So what's considered to be the best choice for laptops? I understand mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general consensus at least? Unfortunately I haven't had too good an experience with CentOS out-of the-box-installs with respect to wifi-NICs on laptops, but that's also the only thing I've been having problems with OTOH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Probably not the best distro for Laptops, but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. So what's considered to be the best choice for laptops? I understand mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general consensus at least? ^ Not likely on this list. More likely, a preponderance, maybe even a majority, but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. BTW, general is redundant with consensus. I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com 3CRWE154G72. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:52 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter) on my IBM Thinkpad X31 worked mostly out-of-the-box. I just needed to download the firmware and I was up. So did the SMC Ez Connect PCMCIA card I used on my previos laptop (I think it was a prism54 flavor), also once I snarfed the proper firmware for it. I think the prism-variety you mention is what's used with the wifi-NIC on a desktop I have, that I wanted to run MythTV on but haven't had any luck with yet. The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an option? The last time this topic was raised, opinions were all over the place. If you google for laptop and Centos together with site:centos (maybe a few more words to narrow the search, like distro, preferred, etc.) in the google advanced search area (it has a specific box for the site so you can just enter centos there if you choose to do so) you'll probably find the previous thread fairly quickly. Gotcha', thanks for the hint. I'll do that. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:20 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. Go for it! Did the same thing for my mother a few years ago. She had WinXP running in Workgroup mode. Somehow she'd managed to aquire a rootkit on her computer. After a few hours trying to get rid of it, I gave up, took her computer home to my place and installed Fedora Core 5. She's now at CentOS 5.3 and happily surfing along. She's most happy with Evolution, it works very well with for her. Rather than do auto updates (sometimes there are conflicts or other issues needing *intellegent* intervention -- the recent update from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 required that glibc be updated before the rest of the updates for example), maybe you should schedule a regular visit to this fellow. I second that. That's how I solved updates for the beloved mother, by enabling yum-updatesd. Yum-cron and yum-updateobboot are both disabled, but may be useful for simple systems. Minor version updates I do manually for her, and since I visit her every once in a while I also check up her computer. For the last three or four years CentOS has been doing very well for her. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:22 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: Anne Wilson Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. yum-updatesd Isn't that only the notifier thing in the panel? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:28 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Possibly the best way is for the updates to be setup to run automatically and in the rare (but possible) event that something goes awry, then the user call for on site help, to straighten it out. The majority of the updates work properly, without any intervention, but once in awhile Or uif the router supports that function, set up a port forwarding rule to allow ssh connections from a particular ip (yours), which you can use to remote update the machine. That's what I used for my mother for years, never had any problems, that is until her D-link router gave up, and I bought her a new low budget router that turned out not to support port forwarding... Of course, should stuff go totally pear-shaped while updating remotely, you're pretty much SOL anyway, and a personal visit in person is needed. It works if you're living in the same town or out-of-town, but close-ish. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Kennedy Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:34 AM To: centos@centos.org Cc: Anne Wilson Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree with the other posts. I don't think it is the right distro for non techies. I set up my in-laws with Linux Mint (running KDE, of course) and they could even handle installing the codecs and other non OSS stuff. Mint is a nice distro based on Ubuntu. Nonsense! Just use the Redmond theme with gnome, and the user'll be non the wiser. It's much less scarier that way, from the end-user's perspective. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP Note that it is also possible to set up VMware and perhaps virtualbox to be able to boot the alternate OS as a virtual machine so you can run both at once if you like. If you don't have the enterprise-licensed version of windows you might need to run it as the host, though. Otherwise it will want to be re-licensed every time you switch between virtual and physical boots and it sees different hardware. With Vmware you have to install the (free) server version to do the setup, although you can later remove it and use the player version at runtime if you prefer. Thanks for the hint, but it won't work for us, we need the stand-alone machines for a course-lab. Each student working at one machine kind of scenario, though the idea is interesting in order to eliminate dual-booting. Always booting linux and having Windows running in Xen or something at the same time sound appealing actually. I'll see if this is feasible with the course-admins. Anyway, we have volume licenses for Windows, so no need for re-activation or anything. Update: Just spoke to the course-admin a quickie. He saw no reason to not run Windows virtual machines on a linux box. I'll look into this after the course is over. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP * Install a new hd and jumper it as primary master. Linux hd should consequently be set as primary slave. Install WinXP. I've ghosted the I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put the linux disk on that channel, rather than primary channel. The flat cables won't reach. 8-} -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:32 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put the linux disk on that channel, rather than primary channel. The flat cables won't reach. 8-} *chuckle* Yeah, I know it sounds pretty daft to fail on such a lo-tech issue... But there it is. ;-) I can't tell you how many times I've found myself in that situation... *after* I installed the drive and *then* tried to attach the cables. This was back when a whole bunch of screws were involved. When the cables were only 40 conductor I bought a whole roll and a bunch of connectors and made my own as needed. Now that stuff is 80 wires, I don't do that. Since I use full towers, this was a problem. I searched on-line and found some quality extended ones, but they were fairly expensive. For your use, they may not be worth it. Or budgets may intrude, etc. Nah, not worth all the extra trouble to optimise with different channels, better cables and whatnot, the performance isn't a problem anyway. My main concern, and goal, is general stability. Anyway, glad your setup is working now. Well, my new run through the documented procedures totally failed for some reason... I need to retrace the steps I took and see where it went wrong and why. 8-/ I'm reghosting as I write this. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:48 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP Thanks for the confirmation all. I'll try switching the master/slave settings. Luckily I'm still at the testing phase, to see how things'll go smoothest, before I go live so to speak. First test machine finished after some serious tinkering, will probably need to do another test install according to the documentation I made during the testing. The machine now boots both CentOS and WinXP and all seems fine. Below are the steps I took: * Disconnect linux hd. * Install a new hd and jumper it as primary master. Linux hd should consequently be set as primary slave. Install WinXP. I've ghosted the Workgroup install with g4u, so next deployment should be fairly quick. Also wrote zeroes to all empty areas on the Windows hd to save space at ghosting. * Connect linux hd. * Boot from cd1 with appropriate CentOS release and run linux rescue. * At prompt, run grub-install --recheck /dev/hda. * At prompt run grub. * Enter root (hd1,0). This'll install grub to second hd on MBR, the one with CentOS on it, if my information is correct. * Enter setup (hd1). * Enter quit and reboot. * Boot CentOS and check /etc/grub.conf. * Boot Windows and check whatever needs to be checked. * Done. The nice thing here is that I can use the same IP for both installs. Being continually low on available IP's for this department, this is super! Thanks all for hints and help! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP The most curious thing happened now, I get a blank screen after the Windows installer screen saying something about Setting up install procedure... just at the beginning. That is to say, this happens only if the hd with CentOS is connected to power. If I disconnect the power connector to the CentOS drive, the Windows installer happily goes on. Is this to be expected, that Windows won't install if it sees a hd with another OS as master? It's a known issue - I've seen it affecting other distro's (Fedora in my case). It's a Windows XP thing, not specific to the distro, and only affects WinXP afaik (doesn't affect Win2K, couldn't care less about Vista). I first came across it trying to install WinXP on a system that had previously had Fedora on it and the installer hangs at a black screen. The solution is to do as you've done and disconnect the drive. In the OP's case, this would mean making the disk with Linux installed the 'slave' (/dev/hdb) and the new disk (for MS-Windows) the 'master' (/dev/hda). The OP would then have to boot up with a rescue disk to fix the /etc/fstab file (unless it uses labeled file systems) and re-install the boot loader. Thanks for the confirmation all. I'll try switching the master/slave settings. Luckily I'm still at the testing phase, to see how things'll go smoothest, before I go live so to speak. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:24 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question I wanted to do a netinstall of the 5.3 release, and the source that I had in mind was either an ftp or http site. When going through this procedure, am I going to download the .iso images from one of the mirror sites or is/are there a directory(ies) at another site(s) that I should specify as the source of the files? Thanks. Is this what you're looking for? http://www.chrisgountanis.com/technical/45-centos-netinstall.html -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
Hi all, You know how I asked about procedures to build a dual-boot system with CentOS and WinXP a while ago? Well, I I've begun with a test machine. What I had from start was a working CentOS 5.3 32b system. What I did was to just add another empty drive configured as slave and then boot from the Windows install cd. The most curious thing happened now, I get a blank screen after the Windows installer screen saying something about Setting up install procedure... just at the beginning. That is to say, this happens only if the hd with CentOS is connected to power. If I disconnect the power connector to the CentOS drive, the Windows installer happily goes on. Is this to be expected, that Windows won't install if it sees a hd with another OS as master? Thanks for any hints. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # This label is not a significant source of information. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:37 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem The monitor is OK as it's attached via a KVM switch to another machine - also with an nVidia card - and it displays perfectly on that. Sometime the OS can't read the monitor properly and doesn't set it up accordingly. Try connecting the monitor directly to your KVM-switch and let the OS rescan it. After, connect it back to the switch. Or just force the correct resolution. HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed It's either Aopen or Asus. Can't tell just yet, there's a course going on now on the computers. 8-) Would you mind elaborating on the killing part? - If the board is an ASUS Press F8 during POST. That will then give you a Selection of Devices. Didn't follow your train of thought before. I do now. Thanks for clarifying. 8-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:39 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? Thanks for any pointers. Just one question for you.. What brand of mother board do you have? There is a better way than trying to kill an OS via Grub or any boot loader via software. It's either Aopen or Asus. Can't tell just yet, there's a course going on now on the computers. 8-) Would you mind elaborating on the killing part? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:33 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:40 +0200: Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! You want to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, nothing else ! I've got to read properly... Thx for the headsup. Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition (so that C: is the where it should be on 1st hd/1st partition). Doesn't matter. Apparantely Windows can bork up after a while if the system files aren't on C:. I was thinking the Windows installer will see the linux partitions and try to name them C: and D: etc, thus Windows will be installed on E: or F:, which might not go down well with some programs. Would I be better off disconnecting the drive containing CentOS and reconnect it when I'm done installing Windows. Then boot with CentOS rescue and reinstall grub to the Windows-hd MBR? Why? If you want to put them on separate *hardware* then you don't have to reinstall anything. Just make sure that the CentOS drive is the first boot drive. Windows drive numbering, see above. This way Windows doesn't see linux at all. Can't tell for sure though. I might work anyway. Will have to try out first. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Guy Boisvert Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed As for Winblows, it always wipes the boot record and replace with its own crap. No problem, let Winblows install itself and after everything is done, just re-install GAG, configure the menu items and you're all set. Isn't reinstalling GAG the same thing as reinstalling grub. What's the incentive so to speak? Is GAG so much better, or just easier to work with than grub? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:16 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and mistype or something. Or are both things different sides of the same coin kinda' thing? I think I prefer the grub-install way because it's easier to remember what you have to do and harder to mistype. Using dd works 100%, though, if done correctly. Even if there is something wrong with grub-install or grub in the live disk, dd is hardly affected. But, as I said, if you use two disks and pull the first out you do not have to reinstall/restore the MBR anyway. Gotcha'. Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:31 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed install windows xp then install easyBCD and make the dual boot work without changing any file on any OS. Of course you change files. But it works as well, yes, just checked it out. I wasn't aware of this, although I have EasyBCD already installed on my Windows 7 netbook. However, if you do it this way you have to rely on the BCD boot loader and the Vista partition. I would recommend it if you use the Linux OS only irregularly. If it is your main system using only the Linux-native boot loader surely is recommended. I'm not sure, but I think you will also need to have grub installed to the Linux partition. So, if you installed it on the MBR it may fail to boot. I'm not sure what the plans are for these course-computers. I know though that linux will be used most of the time though, if irregularly. Maybe grub is better anyway. At least I'm more familiar with than the other bootloaders, sort of.. 8-} smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of David G. Miller Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:33 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Windows (just like DOS) assigns drive letters to partitions in drive number order starting with the primary partitions and then moving on to the extended partitions. The bottom line is that you want the first Windows partition on the non-CentOS drive to get assigned drive letter C: when Windows boots. As long as Windows doesn't recognize the partition type (e.g., ext3), no drive letter gets assigned. Nice, I think this made my day! 8-D Thanks. Wasn't sure how the drive lettering happens with the Windows installer. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:06 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed There is a web page on the CentOS Wiki about how to reinstall GRUB, if it gets trashed or is overridden when installing another OS.Lanny Didn't see the forest for all the trees... Will check the wiki too. Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:18 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers I've never seen this problem at all - running AMD 64x2 7750, 4Gb memory with GEForce 7200gs card, nvidia driver nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf.x86_64 (from rpmforge - duh). I've used a 19 CRT, 17 1280x1024 flat panel and, currently, 22 1680x1050 flat panel (Emprex - cheap, but works great). I tried the LG nvidia driver last year some time, but I decided I'd rather have the rpmforge working dkms driver than the LG, even though it's a beta driver. When I upgraded to 5.3, that was the first time the driver was actually rebuilt for the kernel since 5.0. I've mainly seen the lines on my test machines, that more or less get wiped once or twice a week anyway. Those computers have a Geforce 6200-card, and the Amd Classic/XP 2000+ cpu. With Intel I've only seen this happen on a fairly new i7 and a flashy Geforce XGL 260 IIRC, this was solved with installing the newest proprietary driver (v180.44) from Nvidia. These latter machines are only five, so a manual install is doable. It's the other older ones we have for the course lab that I'd like to use with dkms. For most part it works though, and works well. I might just let the problem machines be and use the working ones primarily. The number of students taking this course yearly varies wildly anyway. Sometimes we have computers to spare, sometimes not... I'll just leave it for now. Thanks for your feedback. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:52 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers No none of that is hardware issues. It is issues with the Nvidia Driver it self. Some or all of those issues can be solved by Downgrading the driver it self. All this is in the documentation and are known problems on both Linux and Windows. I've tried a few different versions of the proprietary driver with no effect. IIRC even the nv driver gives me these problems. Oh, well, I'll try some more versions. Maybe I'm lucky. ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
Hi all, I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_first.htm?page=1 and it seems straight forward enough, although the description is for Ubuntu. The problem as I see it, is that the how-to differs from how CentOS looks in /etc/grub.conf and the boot-loader in Ubuntu with respect to making grub work again after the Windows install. I found Tldp.org mentioning dual-boot plenty, but most or all articles listed are using lilo as a boot-loader, which seems a bit obsolete and besides I can't quite translate the instructions from lilo to grub. 8-/ Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? Thanks for any pointers. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: When you need Enterprise uptime, without Enterprise pricing. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:09 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_fir st.htm?page=1 and it seems straight forward enough, although the description is for Ubuntu. The problem as I see it, is that the how-to differs from how CentOS looks in /etc/grub.conf and the boot-loader in Ubuntu with respect to making grub work again after the Windows install. Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition (so that C: is the where it should be on 1st hd/1st partition). Would I be better off disconnecting the drive containing CentOS and reconnect it when I'm done installing Windows. Then boot with CentOS rescue and reinstall grub to the Windows-hd MBR? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Guy Boisvert Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:45 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed As for Winblows, it always wipes the boot record and replace with its own crap. No problem, let Winblows install itself and after everything is done, just re-install GAG, configure the menu items and you're all set. I've had nothing but good results with dual-boot *if* Windows is installed first and then add linux. The other way around is a first for me. Thanks for your inputs, Kai and Guy! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:32 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if you mistype, though. Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and mistype or something. Or are both things different sides of the same coin kinda' thing? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen artefacts. Go figure... What the artifacts? I switched to the DKMS module in rpmforge and am running an AMD CPU. Only think I've noticed is a weird issue with the cursor in thunderbird, I don't know if that is nvidia related or not though. It is annoying and I don't recall it being there before I updated the driver. Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I move the mouse pointer over the menu entry. The lines tend to go away for a short while if I log off and log on again. Weird thing is that the lines are always diagonal and tend to always originate from the upper left corner of whatever window. This is with gnome mind you, and *supposedly* this one is the most stable of all the desktop environments. Haven't tried with KDE and xfce. Can't tell for sure if it's gnome or the Nvidia drivers specifically, but I'm leaning towards the drivers. It's not a hardware issue, as I've run rhel3 on the same machines w/o any artifacts. The hardware's two-three year old Asus mobo with a single-core AMD x64 and a rather feisty Nvidia Quadra gfx card. Don't have the exact details right now, but it should give a hint or two. All the P4-machines, as well as the i7-boxes, seem to work fine with dkms. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alfred von Campe Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead. I put whatever version of the driver I want to deploy (currently NVIDIA- Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run) in a network accessible location and create a link named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest to it. The script then handles the rest. You still need to be root to do this, right? Seems nifty in any case. Thanks! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: I got the DKMS-system working and now have the Nvidia-drivers v173.08 installed (using rpmforge as suggested previously). Unfortunately this particular driver version gives me screen artifacts so as to make the screen more or less unreadable. You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a template. Here is some help; http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896 http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-ler.pdf http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can some sense of the instructions. 8-) Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen artefacts. Go figure... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers My question is who updates those drivers, as the v173.08 Nvidia drivers are now almost a year old? Would there be any other good repo with more current drivers suitable for use with DKMS and CentOS? You might want to ask for a newer version on the rpmforge mailing list: http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest I've been lurking there for a while, working up the nerve to ask. 8-} You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a template. Here is some help; There is a CentOS wiki how to build kernel modules (see section 2 for DKMS): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules Thanks. I'll look into this one as well. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Raid1 on CentOS 5.x 64bit
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:23 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Raid1 on CentOS 5.x 64bit Matt wrote: Does anyone know of a howto on setting up raid1 on CentOS 5.x 64 bit? hmmm, the same way as for i386 ? ... You can do that during setup (with anaconda) You can also do that after machine is installed, but that's a bit tricky I found the below guide to be very helpful. http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch26_:_Linux _Software_RAID YMMV though, as this is focused on software-raids. Hardware raids are usually simpler to setup with the raid-card's built-in software at boot. HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders What can we do in order to better, faster, more visibly communicate the fact that 5.3 is the new target most people should be focusing on. Make the announcement stand out more on centos.org maybe? Like a big banner just under the Home/Donate/Information etc-menu. That is to say, just a short blurb about the new release and a bigger font making use of a bold typeface when typing new centos 5.3 release and linking to the actual announcement further below. In fact, IMHO, I think the release announcement should be nearer or in the top of the page, or at least in the uppermost left column. Most read from left to right and start from the top. 8-} While he first page is very informational, it's not a wonder of readability. No offence to the webmaster(s). HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:41 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders What happens to their 5.2 the first time they use yum? Some people don't update after install. Some people don't know they *should* update after install the first they do. Some firewall the whole thing and don't let anything in, or let just the local network in. Some don't update because certification issues. The spectrum is very wide indeed. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps. geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine running with a 50kbyte/sec uplink ca (thats about 500kbps)... if I raise the cap much higher, it seriously throttles my home network (6Mbps in, 700k out)... I know, I know, I should implement some form of QoS or packet prioritization at my firewall. Every little stream helps when using bittorrent, even at 50kbps upstream, so keep seeding! ;-) I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't seed at home anymore for some reason... 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! If your torrent has distributed hash table [DHT] capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. So what is everyone using for their torrent? What is the best? Ask ten people and you get ten answers. 8-) Me, I prefer Azureus. In Sweden p2p has gotten a bad name (Pirate Bay anyone?). People flinch when I say I fileshare at work... Seems like all p2p is bad p2p here, which might explain why my ISP did something with the p2p-protocol. 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't seed at home anymore for some reason... 8-/ Mine limits me to 40k up - leave it running long enough though, and it is easy to give back several times what you took. As far as home networks, I found that when I was running NAT on Linux (RH8 through FC2 days) - bt really screwed up my home network. However, when using hardware routers, even the cheap consumer kind (Linksys) the home network is fine. I think bt is very hard on software routing. I use Smoothwall as a router/firewall appliance at home. It has worked fine before. Besides, I seed from Windows XP at home. Before, while seeding worked at home, I capped at approx 50kbps using Smoothie 's QoS-features and it worked like a charm. But yes, bt *is* giving me grief at work where I'm trying to set up a CentOS 5.3 seeding machine with iptables. The university helpdesk told me they use tcp established-filters for inside machines going out and blocks most everything from incoming. The normal way I guess. And it does work from Windows, but linux - no... 8-/ I've used the below as a base for setting this up, but I'm not there quite yet. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-open-bittorrent-tcp-ports-6881- to-6889.html -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Schoeler Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 just installed their NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2 driver. I had it running on my CentOS 5.2 x64 machine, and I'm happily surprised that it builds and runs okay on 5.3 also. Me too, but why shouldn't it? We've rarely had any problems with Nvidia's proprietary drivers with CentOS, or RHEL for that matter. YMMV of course, just curious on what kind of problems you've had? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:26 AM To: CentOS General List Subject: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if you have a fat pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. I have a chubby pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly earlier today. If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. Sharing as fast as I can, never seen this kind of activity before, it's like a shark feeding frenzy... The CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD torrent I'm seeding says the share ratio is 40928, and rapidly increasing. That can't possibly be right, can it?? Have to cap the upload speed to 25kBps during work hours, or my computer would be unusable. Maybe I should move this seeding to a CentOS-machine instead... DHT is enabled over here as well. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 7:29 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 I suppose I should move to the new way that relinks it automagically when new kernel is released, I don't know - I'm fine with the kernel version specific kmod- way. Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:47 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! For those who are insatiably curious, http://torrent.centos.org:6969/ It gets really interesting at certain times. According to wifey, I'm one of those insatiably curious ones. ;-) Anyway, that's a lot of data being shuffled! You don't see that kind of TB-amounts everyday, at least I don't. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 I suppose I should move to the new way that relinks it automagically when new kernel is released, I don't know - I'm fine with the kernel version specific kmod- way. Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me. I don't know too much about it - but I believe it is what some of the 3rd party repos have moved do. Ok, google it is, but what do I search for? I really am clueless as to what this thing is... Automagic doesn't quite feel like what I want to search for. automatic kernel link graphics driver or some such? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Huff Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me. it's very useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support $ man dkms $ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nvidia-x11-drv $ sudo reboot ... profit! once you have done this, DKMS will rebuild the nvidia driver module for you the first time you boot a new kernel. provided the module builds without problems, you won't have to think about it any more. Nice, thanks! I'll try this out on a machine. On a related sidetrack; is there any difference between the proprietary Nvidia-drivers and the ones from eg rpmforge? Specifically, we use the proprietary Nvidia drivers on our dozen or so course computers because they support stereo-3D. When our former *nix-admin set this up years ago, there weren't anything else to use than the proprietary drivers. Hence my question. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! Sorin Srbu wrote: According to wifey, I'm one of those insatiably curious ones. ;-) Anyway, that's a lot of data being shuffled! You don't see that kind of TB-amounts everyday, at least I don't. here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps. That's dedication... I decap my bt-client after work hours (from 1700hrs to 0700 weekdays, and full speed continuesly over the weekends). I wonder if the ridiculously high 40k-share ratio Azureus reports here has something to do with this. Hmm... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 Sorin Srbu wrote: On a related sidetrack; is there any difference between the proprietary Nvidia-drivers and the ones from eg rpmforge?Specifically, we use the proprietary Nvidia drivers on our dozen or so course computers because they support stereo-3D. When our former *nix-admin set this up years ago, there weren't anything else to use than the proprietary drivers. Hence my question. the rpmforge driver *is* the proprietary nvidia driver. It's just nicely packaged in an rpm, with dkms for rebuilding when you get a new kernel. It's also not the latest version, which may or may not be a problem for you. It's working well enough for a lot of people, but YMMV. Thx, I'm trouble-shooting now. Dkms autoinstaller something-or-other didn't go down too well. Looks promising though. 8-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! Sorin Srbu wrote: That's dedication... I decap my bt-client after work hours (from 1700hrs to 0700 weekdays, and full speed continuesly over the weekends). I wonder if the ridiculously high 40k-share ratio Azureus reports here has something to do with this. Hmm... the machines seeding at those high 100mbps rates are all hosted in DC's with good peerings all around - and we've spoken with the hosting companies about what these machines are doing! Guess everybody was really tweaked to get the stuff really fast. ;-D Nice go though. I got my copies pretty fast too. It was well worth the wait. ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gilbert Sebenste Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: On one mirror that I tried, at least. So, is it live yet? :-) Almost. Another several more hours before they all sync, and then we're good to go. Really?? Excellent, you rock guys! BTW, how does this work? If I want to go from 5.2 to 5.3, can I just type yum upgrade? If so, what /etc/yum.repos.d entry has to be active for that? Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 5.3): yum update Major version upgrades (eg 5.9 6.0): save conf-files, /home etc first, then complete reinstall with new release. Yum should take care of that for you. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:57 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors Sorin Srbu wrote: Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 5.3): yum update Not sure it matters but I usually do yum update yum rpm yum clean all yum update I heard elsewhere that there can be problems if you do not update glibc before updating the rest of the OS. I heard that after two of my boxes were already updated the above way and they didn't experience any issues, so maybe it was bogus, but it certainly can't hurt to do yum update glibc first. remote server, be sure to do it inside of screen. I was a bit hasty there and didn't note the glibc needed to be updated first. On another note, on a few of my systems, yum didn't pick up the new packages unless I did a yum clean all first. Yum upgrade or yum update? What's the take on that one here on the list? Both seem to work. Superficially I don't see anything fishy doing either. Is it one of those zen-things the linux-community seems to be so much into? ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
Hi, Is the tracker for the 5.3-release working properly? The only torrent I see actually downloading is CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-1to6. The other three for the i386 DVD and ditto for x86_64 (cd+dvd) are just sitting there. The availability and the number of connected peers in the swarm for each torrent is rather high though. Do torrent downloads work from a single tracker at centos.org, or are those individual trackers depending on what mirror you download the torrent-file from? I've seen this behavior ever since CentOS v5.0. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The enterprise OS with no borders ! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:23 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Is the tracker for the 5.3-release working properly? The only torrent I see actually downloading is CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-1to6. The other three for the i386 DVD and ditto for x86_64 (cd+dvd) are just sitting there. The availability and the number of connected peers in the swarm for each torrent is rather high though. I just started the two DVD torrents, x86_64 and i386, using the links in the announcement email from this evening, and both are running along as fast as my wires will run. both of these two appear to be using http://torrent.centos.org:6969/announce as their primary tracker, and both [DHT], local peer discovery and peer exchange protocols are happy too. I've bandwidth limited my torrent to 400kbyte/s in, 50kbyte/s out and I'm sseeing just about exactly that (my ADSL is good for peak 500-600kbyte/sec in and 70kbyte/sec out, so if I don't restrict it, the torrent activity just about shuts down my network) Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... Anyway, I've contacted the university-wide helpdesk for a possible solution. Thanks for the feedback! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:32 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... Maybe this would help: http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#ports It does somewhat, thx. I just now noticed that the Openoffice3 and a CenOS 5.2 torrent seed/upload started again. So it seems both upload and download is actually working as it should. The question still stands on why only the one 5.3 download works though. It *might* be the thing that John R Pierce said previously about some torrent-clients nedding and using one torrent per port only. In my case that'd be port 80 I guess. If so, that's a problem with my Azureus-client and probably not something that should be discussed on this list, unless the moderators agree this is relevant in sharing the new CentOS-releases over bittorrent. 8-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Neuvonen Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade In turn, I can see the release announcement, but no packages :-( A few more hours won't hurt me, but I'd be curious to know if I can force yum to use certain mirror that seem to be in sync. I'm located in Finland, and the two local mirros have ages of 1.8 and 1.9 days now: http://mirror-status.centos.org/ However, I can see plenty of other mirrors in nearby countries that are 3-4 hours old only. Did you try a yum clean all? It might also help using that yum fastest mirror plugin too. YMMV. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Thanks to CentOS-devs
I've now upgraded a server and a handful of clients with CentOS 5.2 i386. All is spiffy and works really good! Like the new theme too. Thanks guys, good work! It was well worth the wait. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: It's all about the community. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:23 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Sorin Srbu wrote: Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... Anyway, I've contacted the university-wide helpdesk for a possible solution. Torrent clients perform best if they can use a port which is reachable from outside. it can be any port whatsoever, as the port your client is using is announced via the trackers. some torrent clients seem to require a different port for each torrent, while others can handle multiple torrents concurrently with a single port. my favorite client is the MS Windows only uTorrent, 2nd favorite is the portable java based Azureus. I've enabled http-seeding on port 80. Don't know for sure if this works and/or helpt anything, but since this port is probably the only one open to the outside at our university it might work. For incoming connections my client is set to the random port number 21815 which is likely blocked and outside of my permission to allow open. I use Azureus in WinXP for practical reasons, FWIW. Torrents are for me something of a hocus-pocus thing. Either it works or not... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Solved
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:03 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? I just now noticed that the Openoffice3 and a CenOS 5.2 torrent seed/upload started again. So it seems both upload and download is actually working as it should. The question still stands on why only the one 5.3 download works though. It *might* be the thing that John R Pierce said previously about some torrent-clients nedding and using one torrent per port only. In my case that'd be port 80 I guess. If so, that's a problem with my Azureus-client and probably not something that should be discussed on this list, unless the moderators agree this is relevant in sharing the new CentOS-releases over bittorrent. 8-) Problem seems to have been solved. I downloaded the 32/64b dvd and cd isos using ftp and added them to my bt-client. Now it's uploading like crazy. All is fine. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mike A. Harris Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:31 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors I did the update by yum -y update and for whatever reasons did not run into any issues with glibc. I just read about the problem for the first time in this thread. Looks like it hits some people and not others perhaps. I haven't noticed any issues so far at least. I've now updated a machine with CentOS v5.3 x86_64. On this first test, the glibc didn't update at all and threw up an dependency error. Running yum update; no yum clean all run first, upgraded everything with no errors. Go figure. I'll try another 64b-machine and see if it reproduces. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Christian Wahlgren Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:37 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors 2009/4/1 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se: I've now updated a machine with CentOS v5.3 x86_64. On this first test, the glibc didn't update at all and threw up an dependency error. Running yum update; no yum clean all run first, upgraded everything with no errors. Go figure. I had the same problem with dependencies. I had to do # yum update glibc glibc-devel But when I looked in the Release Notes for CentOS-5.3, it doesn't mention yum update glibc at all, so maybe that upstream bug has been solved for CentOS-5.3? Maybe, dunno'. At least it works with yum update. I could reproduce this on all x64-machines I've got here. I don't see any problems though. All seems to work fine. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
