Re: [CentOS] Re: empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Trainor
Shawn Everett wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2007, beast wrote: On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan wrote: I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. This i

[CentOS] [solved] Re: empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread beast
On 26/06/07 20:02 -0700, Shawn Everett wrote: Is it possible you broke your syslog.conf file? You could always try reinstalling the file from the RPM. Yes. Aparently its because of this entry: *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;spampd.none-/var/log/messages I should use local5.n

Re: [CentOS] Re: empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Shawn Everett
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, beast wrote: > On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan wrote: > >>> I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always > >>> empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write > >>> the log. > >> > >> Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. > >

[CentOS] Re: empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread beast
On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan wrote: I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. This is the production machine and has been runing for years, s

[CentOS] Re: empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread beast
On 26/06/07 13:40 +0100, Andy Green wrote: beast wrote: I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Other (syslog) log files are fine, only messages. /etc/syslog.conf: # Log anything (except mail)

Re: [CentOS] Need to do some careful moving...

2007-06-26 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 26, 2007, at 21:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I built this new Centos 5 drive, I copied over much of my old data using cp, and did not use the -preserve option. Ouch. I need those file create dates so that documents and such sort properly, historically. I recovered much of my

[CentOS] Need to do some careful moving...

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I built this new Centos 5 drive, I copied over much of my old data using cp, and did not use the -preserve option. Ouch. I need those file create dates so that documents and such sort properly, historically. I recovered much of my stuff from a tar built back in mid-May (but I missed tha

Re: [CentOS] In the market for a new (old) laptop

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Johnny Tan wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Don't know what it will be, but I am not suppose to swap its drives out and I continue to use this HP Compaq nc4010 as my Linux workhorse. Robert: I'm also looking for an ultralight notebook to bring to datacenters with me. The nc4010 sounds pretty go

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 & USB Kickstart?

2007-06-26 Thread Yiorgos Stamoulis
Jiann-Ming Su wrote: Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb drivers for kickstart installations? I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the exact same boot options with Ce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 on Dell Latitude D620, Docking Station & Dual Monitors???

2007-06-26 Thread Matt Shields
Yup, I'm using the nvidia driver. On 6/26/07, Barry Brimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got a Dell Latitude D620, dell docking station and a Dell 2007WFP > (20" widescreen lcd). With XP I had the laptop screen and the lcd > working as dual screens

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 on Dell Latitude D620, Docking Station & Dual Monitors???

2007-06-26 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got a Dell Latitude D620, dell docking station and a Dell 2007WFP > (20" widescreen lcd). With XP I had the laptop screen and the lcd > working as dual screens. But for the life of me I cannot get CentOS5 > to work with dual screens. Anyone have

[CentOS] CentOS5 on Dell Latitude D620, Docking Station & Dual Monitors???

2007-06-26 Thread Matt Shields
I've got a Dell Latitude D620, dell docking station and a Dell 2007WFP (20" widescreen lcd). With XP I had the laptop screen and the lcd working as dual screens. But for the life of me I cannot get CentOS5 to work with dual screens. Anyone have this working? I would greatly appreciate any assi

[CentOS] Re: TinyCA2 on rpmforge EL4 but not EL5

2007-06-26 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I want to install TinyCA2 on my Centos5 setup. > > I had a real learning experience the last time around (last year, July) and in > the end, I got the repo down from Dag's site and was cool. > > Now I am on Centos 5 and no TinyCA2. > > Can I just d

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Andrew Allen wrote: Thanks again, but I can't find anything about power management under Preferences, System Settings or System Tools anywhere on the gnome desktop - so it's still a mystery I'm afraid. I am not at my home office, but my quarterly visit to my division's office. Thus I only ha

Re: [CentOS] In the market for a new (old) laptop

2007-06-26 Thread Johnny Tan
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Don't know what it will be, but I am not suppose to swap its drives out and I continue to use this HP Compaq nc4010 as my Linux workhorse. Robert: I'm also looking for an ultralight notebook to bring to datacenters with me. The nc4010 sounds pretty good (just looked it

Re: [CentOS] Troubles with CentOS5 and 3ware RAID controller

2007-06-26 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Luc de Louw wrote: > Folks, > > Since approx. a half year I have run two servers with CentOS4, all was > running very stable. > > Then I upgraded to CentOS5 (fresh install). The servers are running > quite unstable since the upgrade. The system is freezing after short > upt

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-26 Thread Jean Figarella
Brian Mathis wrote: On 6/26/07, Jean Figarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. >> Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing >> improved here and wait

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On 6/26/07, Jean Figarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. >> Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing >> improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I ha

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-26 Thread Jean Figarella
Jim Perrin wrote: On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I have not even had a chance to look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new

Re: [CentOS] ext3 and acls

2007-06-26 Thread Jean Figarella
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a centos5 box with raided ext3 partitions mp* devices. I'm wondering if ext3 supports acls out of the box or if there's something i have to do to enable them? Thanks. Dave. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Thanks again, but I can't find anything about power management under Preferences, System Settings or System Tools anywhere on the gnome desktop - so it's still a mystery I'm afraid. Andy On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > oops. > > I think I was looking in the wrong pla

Re: [CentOS] TinyCA2 on rpmforge EL4 but not EL5

2007-06-26 Thread Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela
You probably can without trouble, as TinyCA2 is written in perl and package is architecture independent. You might also want to rebuild the package for your system (CentOS 5), just download the source package for the software (http://tinyca.sm-zone.net/tinyca2-0.7.5-0.src.rpm) and use rpmbuild:

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
oops. I think I was looking in the wrong place. Check out your power management preferences. Is it set to always show the icon? Andrew Allen wrote: Thanks, but how do I install the battery app on the gnome panel? I see that battery.ko is in lib/modules//acpi (together with lots of .png

[CentOS] TinyCA2 on rpmforge EL4 but not EL5

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I want to install TinyCA2 on my Centos5 setup. I had a real learning experience the last time around (last year, July) and in the end, I got the repo down from Dag's site and was cool. Now I am on Centos 5 and no TinyCA2. Can I just download the EL4 rpm from: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Thanks, but how do I install the battery app on the gnome panel? I see that battery.ko is in lib/modules//acpi (together with lots of .png images in other folders) but how do I get it working on the gnome panel? Do I have to yum install acpi or what? Thanks, Andy On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:43 -

[CentOS] vncviewer package wit hcentos 5

2007-06-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I have xkeybindings running just fine on centos 5. I have vncviewer running in full screen mode showing another PC. When vncviewer is running is running it seems to override my xkeybindings. Is there a way to tell vncviewer to not bind to any keys?? The only keys I am binding is on the Keypad

[CentOS] Troubles with CentOS5 and 3ware RAID controller

2007-06-26 Thread Luc de Louw
Folks, Since approx. a half year I have run two servers with CentOS4, all was running very stable. Then I upgraded to CentOS5 (fresh install). The servers are running quite unstable since the upgrade. The system is freezing after short uptime. I suspect the driver for the 3ware controller, becau

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Andrew Allen wrote: I've got CentOS 4.4 installed on 3 machines - two laptops and a PC. Only one, a HP Omnibook 900, shows the graphical battery status indicator (in the bottom right of the screen), but the other laptop (a new Dell Inspiron 1501) doesn't show it. Furthermore, the command /usr/bin

Re: [CentOS] Wireless networking in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 19:32 +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: > Trying to set up wireless networking with CentOS 4.4 on a (new Dell) > laptop and have looked at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2- > ipw2200.shtml > and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? > topic_id=2532&forum=30 > regardi

[CentOS] Wireless networking in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Trying to set up wireless networking with CentOS 4.4 on a (new Dell) laptop and have looked at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2- ipw2200.shtml and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? topic_id=2532&forum=30 regarding use of ipw2200, which is included in the kernel. The problem is

[CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
I've got CentOS 4.4 installed on 3 machines - two laptops and a PC. Only one, a HP Omnibook 900, shows the graphical battery status indicator (in the bottom right of the screen), but the other laptop (a new Dell Inspiron 1501) doesn't show it. Furthermore, the command /usr/bin/apm gets the response

Working! Re: [CentOS] Getting JPilot working

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Don't know why.. But it worked finally. Hopefully it will keep on working. Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am trying to get JPilot working. I have configed gnome-pilot-applet, but it is not talking to the USB connected Treo650. My Treo has my name as the user, so from the applet, I see also

Re: [CentOS] In the market for a new (old) laptop

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Changes at my day job (we have a big merger being finalized), has me in the market for a new laptop. I use and enjoy an older HP nc8000. Solid laptop IMHO, but doesn't quite meet your requirements. :) I'm curious if you found anything though? Thursday, I am swinging

[CentOS] Getting JPilot working

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am trying to get JPilot working. I have configed gnome-pilot-applet, but it is not talking to the USB connected Treo650. My Treo has my name as the user, so from the applet, I see also a userid (my UID on this system it seems). I try to put that on the Treo and nothing happens. I have en

Re: [CentOS] In the market for a new (old) laptop

2007-06-26 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> Changes at my day job (we have a big merger being finalized), has me in > the market for a new laptop. I use and enjoy an older HP nc8000. Solid laptop IMHO, but doesn't quite meet your requirements. :) I'm curious if you found anything though? Ray ___

Re: [CentOS] logwatch reports not benig emailed

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:22 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: I can send mail on the command line, and I get it at my email address, delivered to the internal mail server: great! But, every night when logwatch runs, the damned reports never ma

[CentOS] CentOS5: Eclipse error!

2007-06-26 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
Hello, We had a CentOS5 server with Eclipse on it, one of our programmers tried to update the Eclipse install (within eclipse) and after a problem on the update it stop working. I tried removing the Eclipse RPMs and eclipse directories, and reinstalling it with yum. Now we had this error,

Re: [CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/26/07, beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Is this an actual 4.0 system, or have you stayed current on updates? Run 'cat /etc/redhat-release' to verify

Re: [CentOS] logwatch reports not benig emailed

2007-06-26 Thread Radu Radutiu
Have you run system-switch-mail and selected postfix? Is postfix service running? Logwatch is sending mail ok to another mail server on my install of CentOS 5 with postfix. The only change I made was to add the line MailTo = desired email address to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf. Radu On 6/

Re: [CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Seán O Sullivan
>> I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 >> bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. >> > > Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. > > Secondly, is /tmp mounted with noexec option? forgot to add, check /var/log/messages.* for current sy

Re: [CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Seán O Sullivan
> I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 > bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. > Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. Secondly, is /tmp mounted with noexec option? Seán ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Andy Green
beast wrote: > I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 > bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. > > Other (syslog) log files are fine, only messages. > > /etc/syslog.conf: > # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. > # Do

[CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread beast
I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Other (syslog) log files are fine, only messages. /etc/syslog.conf: # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authenticati

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd problem

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/26/07, Tony Molloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this a permissions problem or does vsftpd not allow separate filesystems to be seen. Have you looked in the log files for errors? Are you using selinux? If you're using selinux, you'll have to adjust the contexts so that vsftpd has access t

Re: [CentOS] logwatch reports not benig emailed

2007-06-26 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:22 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > I can send mail on the command line, and I get it at my email address, > delivered to the internal mail server: great! But, every night when > logwatch runs, the damned reports never make it to my mailbox. What's > worse is that I c

[CentOS] 2007 New Zealand Open Source Awards

2007-06-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
Anyone using CentOS to do open source things in New Zealand? If so ... nominate yourself here for the 2007 New Zealand Open Source Awards. The best I can tell ... New Zealanders are the organizations / people they want for nominees. The CentOS Project has no (to my knowledge) developers in New Z

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 28, Issue 17

2007-06-26 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reac

[CentOS] Re: logwatch reports not benig emailed

2007-06-26 Thread Boris Folgmann
Hi, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu schrieb/wrote: Does anyone have any ideas? I must be missing something obvious. Did you already compare /etc/crontab on your CentOS 4.5 servers with the 5.0 ones? E.g. there is a MAILTO variable and other stuff that could be wrong. cu, boris __

[CentOS] Vsftpd problem

2007-06-26 Thread Tony Molloy
Hi all, I have a filesystem which I need to make available through ftp ( vsftpd ). I have this as separate filesystem as it needs to be available through apache and NFS also. It's our local mirror. I've set up vsftpd and put a test directory in /var/ftp/pub and it works. However I can't see

Re: [CentOS] bind on centos 5

2007-06-26 Thread maina
--- Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thom Paine wrote: > > I'm having a little trouble to get this working on > my box. > > > > I have two domains I need to host on my machine. I > have named > > starting, but I'm having trouble getting it to do > the lookups for the > > two domai

Re: [CentOS] rpmrebuild or rpmbuild question

2007-06-26 Thread centos
Thank you Carlos, RPM spec file was the solution that I was looking for. Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela wrote: You could use the PHP SPEC file to build your own rpm with your own options, this way you can keep the version changes of the package within th package manager (RPM). On 6/25/07,

Re: [CentOS] bind on centos 5

2007-06-26 Thread maina
Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thom Paine wrote: > I'm having a little trouble to get this working on my box. > > I have two domains I need to host on my machine. I have named > starting, but I'm having trouble getting it to do the lookups for the > two domains. The caching-nameserv

[CentOS] Centos 5.0 x86-64 install crashes with Realtek 8111B Ethrenet

2007-06-26 Thread Richard Chapman
While installing Centos 5.0 x86-64 on a Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 motherboard which has Realtek 8111B Ethernet chip - Anaconda crashes. I select the option to use the Centos online repository for extra packages - I am asked to enter IP address etc. The drop box to select the Ethernet interface is bla