[CentOS] Beginner - need suggestion to improve BACKUP script

2008-12-26 Thread partha chowdhury
hallo list, I have recently started to learn shell scripting. Now i am trying to write a script to backup /etc and /var to my home dir in a separate folder and then backup the home dir to usb drive using rsync. My goal is when i will run the script it will output status to st

Re: [CentOS] Something to test in php 5.2

2008-12-26 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 03:10 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Since people are testing php 5.2 in the CentOS repo - here's a bug I > found in my own build of 5.2 that probably is a general php bug - but is > worth testing on the CentOS testing packages. > > If using imagefttext with a Postscript

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-26 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le vendredi 26 décembre 2008, Matej Cepl a écrit : > On 2008-12-24, 14:00 GMT, Alain PORTAL wrote: > > More info in the updated bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D477708#c5 > > Thanks Alain, this looks really pretty bad. Bug updated and > maintainer asked to take a look at it.

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-24, 01:22 GMT, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: >> On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: >>> find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files >> >> I think you can have only one action (either -exec or -print), >> but not sure about it. An

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-24, 14:00 GMT, Alain PORTAL wrote: > More info in the updated bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D477708#c5 Thanks Alain, this looks really pretty bad. Bug updated and maintainer asked to take a look at it. Matěj ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Error in Dependency Resolution

2008-12-26 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 13:14 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > And this is the same way you done this? > > > > johnStanley > > > > I used the method described in the forum to install audacity-nonfree > (except that for the 32 bit version, there were a coup

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-26 Thread Warren Young
jk...@kinz.org wrote: > You are visiting the Otis Public Library in Norwich CT. They have Linux > based public workstations (w/Internet access). > (http://www.otislibrarynorwich.org/index.htm) Do you trust the library, all of their employees, and every person who has ever used the computer you

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2008 21:18:27 Warren Young wrote: > The other portable is a little Asus Eee 701, reformatted to run Ubuntu > Eee.  (Since renamed Easy Peasy...wince...)  I haven't yet got it doing > full disk encryption, so I password-protect its ssh key. Since I can't encrypt the whole disk

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread MHR
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM, MHR wrote: > > It also does not hurt at least to try to be polite about it. Rude, or > even flat (i.e., those open to interpretation as rude), comments don't > help. Trust me on this one - I know (perhaps you've seen this from > me?), and I've been posting on mai

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-26 Thread Warren Young
jk...@kinz.org wrote: > > Hi Warren, Nice explanation. Thanks! > I would like to ask what you > recommend people do if they want to be able to ssh in from > anywhere on the internet. Say they are going to be traveling and > they know they will have to login from machines they have no > control

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread MHR
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Robert wrote: > Vandaman wrote: >> Bob Taylor wrote: >> >>> Guys, you're on a two way street. Having said that, it >>> happens you're >>> both right and you're both wrong. >> >> I post on several mailing lists and have never seen any jackass >> become abusive beca

Re: [CentOS] yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Error in Dependency Resolution

2008-12-26 Thread MHR
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM, JohnS wrote: > > And this is the same way you done this? > > johnStanley > I used the method described in the forum to install audacity-nonfree (except that for the 32 bit version, there were a couple of libraries I needed to add - libsample and its -devel, which

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread Robert
Vandaman wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: > > >> Guys, you're on a two way street. Having said that, it >> happens you're >> both right and you're both wrong. >> >> > > I post on several mailing lists and have never seen any jackass > become abusive because he does not want to follow the guidelin

Re: [CentOS] yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Error in Dependency Resolution

2008-12-26 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 11:53 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM, JohnS wrote: > > ]# yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge > > > > Was this not going to be fixed for dep resolution. I'm not on the > > rpmforge list and remember this issue from a while ago. > We just had

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread Vandaman
Bob Taylor wrote: > Guys, you're on a two way street. Having said that, it > happens you're > both right and you're both wrong. > I post on several mailing lists and have never seen any jackass become abusive because he does not want to follow the guidelines of that mailing list. Have you seen a

Re: [CentOS] yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Error in Dependency Resolution

2008-12-26 Thread MHR
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM, JohnS wrote: > ]# yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge > > Was this not going to be fixed for dep resolution. I'm not on the > rpmforge list and remember this issue from a while ago. > We just had this discussion earlier this week - see http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread Bob Taylor
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 18:46 -0500, Mark A. Lewis wrote: > Top-posting this just to get your panties in an even bigger knot. > > Come on dude, go have a beer or something and stop being a prick. > > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On

[CentOS] yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Error in Dependency Resolution

2008-12-26 Thread JohnS
]# yum install audacity --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Was this not going to be fixed for dep resolution. I'm not on the rpmforge list and remember this issue from a while ago. 14:02:18 : Error in Dependency Resolution 14:02:18 : Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0 is needed by package audacit

Re: [CentOS] Fasttrack Repo on CentOS 4

2008-12-26 Thread Vandaman
Johnny Hughes wrote: > As I have stated before, CentOS does not maintain the > fastrack repo for > all the versions we release. IN fact ... it is only > maintained (to the > best of my knowledge) by me on CentOS-4 i386 and x86_64. > > Fast track is something that was added later by upstream > .

Re: [CentOS] Fasttrack Repo on CentOS 4

2008-12-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
Vandaman wrote: > A quick question on the fasttrack repo which is now > up to date with upstream. Why is the fasttrack repo not > in the main CentOS-Base.repo file but contrib which has never > had anything is included in the main CentOS-Base.repo file? > As I have stated before, CentOS does not

[CentOS] Question on USB to CF device

2008-12-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I have this USB to CF device I tried to plug in today. Below is dmesg output when I plug it in. I was hoping it would look just like a USB thumbdrive. Is there something special I would have to do to be able to read the USB to CF device? Looks like its trying to make it /dev/sdd but I continue

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd question and sendmail

2008-12-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Swilting wrote on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:58:05 +0100: > I have to try to change the option pam present in the file > > in plain login > > but after impossible to restart This is wrong. You probably edited MECH= This sets the method for checking the password not the SASL encryption method. You p

[CentOS] Something to test in php 5.2

2008-12-26 Thread Michael A. Peters
Since people are testing php 5.2 in the CentOS repo - here's a bug I found in my own build of 5.2 that probably is a general php bug - but is worth testing on the CentOS testing packages. If using imagefttext with a Postscript type 1 font - $lstring="©" . date("Y") . " My Real Name"; or $lstr

[CentOS] saslauthd question and sendmail

2008-12-26 Thread swilting
the commande [root @ r13 *** ~] # sasl2-shared-mechlist Available mechanisms: GSSAPI, ANONYMOUS CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM Library media: EXTERNAL, NTLM, PLAIN, LOGIN, DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, ANONYMOUS, GSSAPI [root @ r13151 ~] # indicates the presence of all options the custome