Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-04-05 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:25 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: I could do the nvidia install it is pretty simple. I'm just not clear on the Updating deal the guy on the regular list was talking about this week.

Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-04-05 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:25 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: Sure we could do that no problem. OK I think maybe what I am thinking of is writing it in text. Then we can collaberate on it then add the

Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 17:41 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:25 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: An

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 02:11 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Hi List, I've just drafted a FAQ/mini-HOWTO on becoming root as this is a topic I see come up time and time again. Perhaps someone with a reasonable understanding could check it for technical correctness, and if anyone would like to

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0206 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 cups - security update

2008-04-05 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0206 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0206.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0206 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 cups - security update

2008-04-05 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0206 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0206.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.c4.6.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0206 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) cups - security update

2008-04-05 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0206 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0206.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm

Re: [CentOS] how to check the version of centos

2008-04-05 Thread dnk
Glad it helped! d On 3-Apr-08, at 11:47 PM, Mail Administrator wrote: Thanks DNK, u r absolutely right the cat /etc/redhat-release does not reflect the version correctly but the rpm -q centos-release does it perfectly thnksss n really apprecite cheers regards simon I seem to

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
Rudi Ahlers wrote: snip Probably because rpm -e {package name} and yum remove {package name} does different things. I'd suggest run yum remove openoffice.org-core yum clean all They don't really do different things to the rpm database. yum erase/remove will ALSO solve for and remove

Re: [CentOS] how to check the version of centos

2008-04-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
Greg Bailey wrote: Mail Administrator wrote: Thanks guys for the quick reply btw cat /etc/redhat-release gives me CentOS release 5 (Final) so as per the FAQ guess its uptodate thnks again regards simon Interesting that this seems to deviate from upstream. Checking an updated Red

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I thought yum had a different cache / database of what is installed? Yum keeps a cache and database of what's in the repositories, so it can search more easily when you're looking to install something from the

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Jim Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I thought yum had a different cache / database of what is installed? Yum keeps a cache and database of what's in the repositories, so it can search more easily when you're looking to install

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3

2008-04-05 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but then Fred's machine shouldn't have tried to update openoffice? Nope. This is the problem with using 'epoch' values in rpm. He's installed version 2.whatever via rpm from openoffice.org. CentOS contains openoffice

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 16:49 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: Alan, I knew of the Dell article, as I have all of those saved for reference. [1] I was just wondering if you knew of any that were for someone knew to Linux. You know the Microsoft type tutorials that have screenshot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2

2008-04-05 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Travis Fraser wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 08:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: If I read correctly - the 5.2 release will have xen 3.0 Does that mean I will be able to run vista as guest operating system? I seem to remember reading that vista could be run under xen 3.0

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 05 April 2008 18:18:47 John wrote: Ned, do I hear someone volunteering to write a new Wiki section? (I don't think a *separate* Wiki for the new users, be they M$ Windoze departees or not, is a good idea.) Perhaps this discussion should be continued on the CentOS-docs list?

[CentOS] ATI Radeon 2600HD + CentOS 5.1 x86_64 = Deadlock

2008-04-05 Thread James A. Peltier
Anyone on the list using an ATI Radeon 2600HD on a x86_64 machine? I have 3 new Dell Precision T3400 workstations with them in it and the moment it tries to fire up X using the proprietory driver it completely deadlocks. I'm looking for help from the community to track this problem.

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 19:17 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2008 18:18:47 John wrote: Ned, do I hear someone volunteering to write a new Wiki section? (I don't think a *separate* Wiki for the new users, be they M$ Windoze departees or not, is a good idea.) Perhaps this

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 20:02 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 05/04/2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the command line, if you saved the commands - or got them from an instructional listing in the first place, you just paste the same set of commands into a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2

2008-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: If I read correctly - the 5.2 release will have xen 3.0 Does that mean I will be able to run vista as guest operating system? I seem to remember reading that vista could be run under xen 3.0 I have found instructions for installing XP under xen 3.0 in Debian, so I'm

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that are more suitable for laptops home use) and that it, CentOS,

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
John wrote: One things GUIs can do is present a bunch of pre-set defaults or pick up the current settings so you only have to change a few particular items, and they can check the ranges and syntax of the entries before trying to apply them. Webmin does a fair job on this considering the

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John wrote: One things GUIs can do is present a bunch of pre-set defaults or pick up the current settings so you only have to change a few particular items, and they can check the ranges and syntax of the entries before trying to