Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: I would like to contribute for Tips Tricks section with a small automated script to install webmin repository data and webmin itself from here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20223forum=38post_id=76546#forumpost76546 Okay, go ahead with

[CentOS-docs] Typo on TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page

2009-05-13 Thread Timothy Lee
Dear all, On the TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page, the first sentence under Download ISO section should be changed from: The first thing you will need is once if the ISO's from the CentOS mirrors. to: The first thing you will need is one of the ISO's from the CentOS

Re: [CentOS-docs] Typo on TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Timothy Lee wrote: The first thing you will need is one of the ISO's from the CentOS While I was at it, I corrected all ISO's in that text. http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif! Ralph pgpMv2fDr4EPV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Typo on TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page

2009-05-13 Thread Ned Slider
Timothy Lee wrote: Dear all, On the TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall wiki page, the first sentence under Download ISO section should be changed from: The first thing you will need is once if the ISO's from the CentOS mirrors. to: The first thing you will need is one of

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
Created a draft. Any comments? Also how Do I create textual links to wiki pages? [[TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo WebMinRepo Description]] and [[TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo|WebMinRepo Description]] don't work. 2009/5/13 Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de: Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: Created a draft. Any comments? Please don't top-post. Would also be good to do a new post with a descriptive title like: Subject: Draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page That would better capture attention than one buried in a long thread. Will have a look at

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: Created a draft. Any comments? Also how Do I create textual links to wiki pages? [[TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo WebMinRepo Description]] and [[TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo|WebMinRepo Description]] don't work. What exactly are you trying to do? Ralph

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ed Heron wrote: ... I think so. I use rsync to synchronize samba shares and web sites between servers so I've gotten used to using it for other things. It also looks more like a copy, which might be easier to understand for those less familiar. I was considering adding the tar option.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: ... And also I would like to contribute automated RPM forge repository installation script: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20222forum=38post_id=76525#forumpost76525 after it will be checked by forum users and found

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:20:07AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Ed Heron wrote: ... Thanks. Writing documentation is always a balancing act between not putting enough detail in because it seems intuitive to the person who does it every day and putting too much in with the effect of it

[CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ... Change: Webmin is a web-based interface ... to: [http://www.webmin.com/index.html WebMin] is a web-based interface

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:02:00AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: Often, I find the difference between BSD docs and Linux docs, the difference between something written for the busy sysadmin and something written for the hobbyist who has all day to go searching around for the missing pieces.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Phil Schaffner wrote: Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ... Just brief look at the page, can do with some grammar checks I think. Also, 1) Have we

Re: [CentOS-docs] OT: Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Robbins wrote: ... Again, it was a generalization--there are plenty of excellent Linux man pages and obscure BSD man pages. ... and virtually all of them are better than MS pages that all too frequently end up by advising the admin looking for answers: Ask your administrator. :-P Phil

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ... Just brief look at the page, can do with some grammar checks I

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Phil Schaffner wrote: The best way to do that is probably to get the release version of the page linked in and announce it on the forum. Sounds good. [Aside: Should there be some kind of release announcement system/list for Wiki articles and other documentation?] A 'whats new' section in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: [Aside: Should there be some kind of release announcement system/list for Wiki articles and other documentation?] A 'whats new' section in a block, on the right side of the home-page, perhaps push the screenshot up, and put this box in under

Re: [CentOS-docs] OT: Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: ... Again, it was a generalization--there are plenty of excellent Linux man pages and obscure BSD man pages. ... and virtually all of them are better than MS pages that all too frequently end up by

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: [Aside: Should there be some kind of release announcement system/list for Wiki articles and other documentation?] A 'whats new' section in a block, on the right side of the home-page, perhaps push the screenshot up,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Check http://wiki.centos.org/RalphAngenendt/recent Looks good to me, I wonder if its possible to somehow only list pages which have some criteria. So as to not list pages that are considered 'under construction' or temp pages that people might create in their

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Check http://wiki.centos.org/RalphAngenendt/recent Looks good to me, I wonder if its possible to somehow only list pages which have some criteria. So as to not list pages that are considered 'under construction' The macro does not read the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
Applied your fixes, thanks a lot! 2009/5/13 Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov: Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ... Change: Webmin is a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:20 AM It just works. I habitually use rsync for incremental updates across directories or systems, but tar is often more robust for this type of job, just because of things like needing to remember to use -H. Both rsync and cpio will work if

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ed Heron wrote: From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:20 AM It just works. I habitually use rsync for incremental updates across directories or systems, but tar is often more robust for this type of job, just because of things like needing to remember to use -H. Both rsync

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:42 AM What happens when you set --xattrs in rsync, too? Their manual page does not mention SELinux, though. That's the X that I added to the rsync command. It does not successfully copy SELinux attributes. That's why I had to set the relabel

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:29 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? Strange :) not at all -- have used it for years; did a LUG presentation as well. It can live well in the inittab and

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-13 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:28 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: I hate Webmin period. I like the scripted install though. Period? What period? Education period? :) I think that depends on the admin. Some like GUI tools, some don't. If I can do something faster with GUI, I'll do that with GUI.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

2009-05-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph. Also I wonder why you don't just offer a signed RPM package with the repo description or alternatively just a repo file for download. Maybe you could get in contact with Jamie Cameron to do so. Implicitly the CentOS project watched and approves the content in the wiki (compare

Re: [CentOS-es] Superado el límite de fichero.

2009-05-13 Thread Monica BM
Pues vas a tener razón...por que lo estoy haciendo sobre la partición windows...jajajajaja que despiste tengo a veces, pues nada luego cuando pueda lo pruebo!! muchisimas gracias!!! - Mensaje original De: Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com Para:

Re: [CentOS-es] Mejor alternativa para virtualizació n Xen o OpenVZ

2009-05-13 Thread Sergio
Perdona mi ignorancia, pero que diferencia existe entre instalar el XenServer e instalar el paquete xen-3.1.1.tar.gz (http://www.xen.org/download/) A lo mejor he dicho una barbaridad…… ;) Más porque he visto este video de funcionamiento del XenServer y es igual al VMWare ESXi con la

Re: [CentOS-es] Mejor alternativa para virtualizació n Xen o OpenVZ

2009-05-13 Thread Victor Padro
2009/5/13 Sergio listas-li...@cherrytel.com Perdona mi ignorancia, pero que diferencia existe entre instalar el XenServer e instalar el paquete xen-3.1.1.tar.gz ( http://www.xen.org/download/) A lo mejor he dicho una barbaridad…… ;) Más porque he visto este video de funcionamiento del

[CentOS-es] SMTP Gateway

2009-05-13 Thread Victor Ramirez
Hola buenos dias, Necesito nuevamente de su apoyo sobre una consulta, en mi trabajo manejamos un servidor smtp gateway para el envio de correos y la aplicacion se llama Mail Marsahall no se si alguien la conoce esta aplicacion es pagada pero debido a cuestiones presupuestales y por que yo lo

Re: [CentOS-es] SMTP Gateway

2009-05-13 Thread Sebastián Veloso Varas
Hola Victor, Yo he implementado MailScanner (Antispam + Antivirus) + Mailwatch (visor y logueo web de correos) y anda bastante bien. Puedes tener una estadistica de quien envia/recibe, cuarentena, listas negras/blancas, manejo de colas,etc. Saludos, Sebastian Veloso El 13 de mayo de 2009

Re: [CentOS-es] SMTP Gateway

2009-05-13 Thread Sebastián Veloso Varas
Victor, Habia mencionado MailScanner y no Mailcleaner /o habrá sido un error involuntario ;)/. Respecto a si necesitas q sea SMTP gateway, si es posible, pero deberas hacer unas modificaciones a Postfix o Sendmail para configurarlo como reenviador y saneador. Using Postfix for Secure SMTP

[CentOS-es] Propuestas para tema de tesis

2009-05-13 Thread Jorge Herrera
Estoy cursando el último semestre de la carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica, y desearía conocer algunas propuestas de que necesidades existen entorno al campo de las redes relacionado con GNU-LINUX para plantear mi tema de tesis. Cualquier idea será bienvenida. Gracias por su colaboración. Att.

[CentOS-es] Sobre particiones EXT4

2009-05-13 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Hola lista, tengo un problema que considero urgente. Me habia instalado en la PC de mi trabajo Fedora11 Preview, y convertí la particion /home a ext4, y luego puse todos mis datos en ella, ahora cuando instalo centos 5.3 nuevamente, me indican que use ext4dev, pero cuando lo intento

Re: [CentOS-es] Propuestas para tema de tesis

2009-05-13 Thread Raul Eduardo Arboleda Zapata
Pues cuando yo estube en las mismas que tu hace algun tiempo, se me ocurrieron varias. La que desarrolle fue el montaje de un servidor con correo, control de salida e ingreso a internet, Impresion, firewall basico, proxy, etc. Otro que me pidieron fue firewall con deteccion de inrusos. Este

Re: [CentOS-es] Propuestas para tema de tesis

2009-05-13 Thread Victor Padro
2009/5/13 Jorge Herrera jorge20...@yahoo.es Estoy cursando el último semestre de la carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica, y desearía conocer algunas propuestas de que necesidades existen entorno al campo de las redes relacionado con GNU-LINUX para plantear mi tema de tesis. Cualquier idea será

[CentOS] rpmbuild date shift

2009-05-13 Thread David Hrbáč
Hi, I'd like to ask if anyone's experiencing date shift with rpmbuild/mock on C5. I see +1 day date shift within changelog. Checked with mock-0.9.14-3.el5.hrb and mock-0.6.13-1.el5_2.3. Regards, David Hrbáč Source rpm: [mockbu...@builder2 ~]$ rpm -qp --changelog repoview-0.6.4-1.el4.hrb.src.rpm |

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

2009-05-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:19 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: IMO, yes (maybe). When the Initial install is done, I think there is some stuff that is needed in the initrd to find the disk so root can be mounted. I'm not sure which initrd

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:50 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: nate wrote: Scott Silva wrote: But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able to, if you only have read access to the directory

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild date shift

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask if anyone's experiencing date shift with rpmbuild/mock on C5. I see +1 day date shift within changelog. Checked with mock-0.9.14-3.el5.hrb and mock-0.6.13-1.el5_2.3. Yes, I'm seeing that too: [angen...@shutdown rpms]$rpm -qp --changelog

[CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-13 Thread James Bensley
Hey Listee's I am trying to write a shell script to sort and compare my blacklist for squidGuard with the nightly updates that come down in a tar ball. It should be rather simple but I'm not to grate at this. The script is to run nightly, it will download the latest blacklist tarball, un tar it

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild date shift

2009-05-13 Thread David Hrbáč
Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): Yes, I'm seeing that too: Even if that is changed to UTC, it still is May 13th (and it doesn't explain why subsequent changelog entries are one day off, too. Ralph Thanks Ralph. Yes, it has nothing to do with time zone. I'm not sure if I've seen it before last

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to downgrade to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a

[CentOS] [Fwd: Re: How to generate a .template and .jigdo from an iso image?]

2009-05-13 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi Ralph I received this e-mail from Fedora Infrastructure list. My problem at that moment was a proper syntax for the jigdo-file command. Using the their script as reference, I made a simpler one to test the command[1]. And it's working: newt (Linux) $pwd; ls -l *.jigdo *.template

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: How to generate a .template and .jigdo from an iso image?]

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Ralph ... I don't know if there is a better way to test, but what I did was to create a centos.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d[2]. Then in the machine called prost, issued the command: [r...@prost ~]# jigdo-lite http://newt/centos/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.jigdo The

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
xfs kmod's for centos-5 have so far been done within the centos loop, but this is interesting - looks like 5.4 might have a tech-preview for xfs included in. FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support from Redhat in the near future as they recently hired

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: How to generate a .template and .jigdo from an iso image?]

2009-05-13 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Phil Schaffner wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Ralph ... I don't know if there is a better way to test, but what I did was to create a centos.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d[2]. Then in the machine called prost, issued the command: [r...@prost ~]# jigdo-lite

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread mcclnx mcc
we plan to count how many files belong to that group. For example HR or Finance. --- 09/5/12 (二),Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com 寫道: 寄件者: Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com 主旨: Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup? 收件者: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread mcclnx mcc
I don't think that is true: (my login ID are member of DBA and OINSTALL group) $ ls -al total 13936 drwxrwxrwt 8 root root4096 May 13 04:02 . drwxr-xr-x 32 root root4096 Feb 11 15:36 .. -rwxrwxr-- 1 oracle dba9 May 11 20:50 aabb $ chgrp oinstall aabb chgrp:

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread mcclnx mcc
I don't think that is true: (my login ID are member of DBA and OINSTALL group) $ ls -al total 13936 drwxrwxrwt 8 root root4096 May 13 04:02 . drwxr-xr-x 32 root root4096 Feb 11 15:36 .. -rwxrwxr-- 1 oracle dba9 May 11 20:50 aabb $ chgrp oinstall aabb chgrp:

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread John R Pierce
mcclnx mcc wrote: we plan to count how many files belong to that group. For example HR or Finance. not sure why you need to change the file's group to do this. for g in hr finance; do echo $(find . -type f -group $g |wc -l) files in group $g done

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Scott Silva wrote: But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect not. nope. [pie...@ test]$ grep

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread Les Mikesell
mcclnx mcc wrote: I don't think that is true: (my login ID are member of DBA and OINSTALL group) $ ls -al total 13936 drwxrwxrwt 8 root root4096 May 13 04:02 . drwxr-xr-x 32 root root4096 Feb 11 15:36 .. -rwxrwxr-- 1 oracle dba9 May 11 20:50 aabb

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:01, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: nope. [pie...@ test]$ grep pierce /etc/group postgres:x:26:pierce pierce:x:503: [pie...@ test]$ touch x [pie...@  test]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x  2 pierce pierce 4096 May 13 07:58 . drwxr-xr-x 37

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
When we migrated from HPUX to Redhat we noticed this. I opened a case and we determined that you could not do this with the standard chgrp or chown commands if you are not root. The reason I was given is to keep people from getting around the disk quota stuff. A listing in one of the redhat

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread John R Pierce
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:01, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: nope. [pie...@ test]$ grep pierce /etc/group postgres:x:26:pierce pierce:x:503: [pie...@ test]$ touch x [pie...@ test]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pierce pierce

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:18, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: [pie...@ test]$ grep pierce /etc/group postgres:x:26:pierce pierce:x:503: It would work if user pierce belonged to group postgres. Um, I do, I showed that up there. I was both owner of

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild date shift

2009-05-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
David Hrbáč wrote: Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): Yes, I'm seeing that too: Even if that is changed to UTC, it still is May 13th (and it doesn't explain why subsequent changelog entries are one day off, too. Ralph Thanks Ralph. Yes, it has nothing to do with time zone. I'm not sure

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009-05-13 Thread John R Pierce
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Did you just add yourself to that group? The processes you run will not know you are a member of that group until you logout and login again (open new SSH session, etc.). When you issue the id command (with no parameters), does it include the postgres group?

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild date shift

2009-05-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask if anyone's experiencing date shift with rpmbuild/mock on C5. I see +1 day date shift within changelog. Checked with mock-0.9.14-3.el5.hrb and mock-0.6.13-1.el5_2.3. I just randomly picked up a few pkgs that have come through the buildsystem on centos,

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-13-2009 6:35 AM Max Hetrick spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to downgrade to what

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-12-2009 10:02 PM Nguyen Hai Chau spake the following: Thanks to Joseph and Nate for helpful answers. A stupid question: I do not receive your mails although already subsribed to this list. I read your answers on mail archive. I set up my account to receive email from list but it seems

[CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-13 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- 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

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-13 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 16:24 -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- 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

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-13 Thread Tim Shubitz
On May 13, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- 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

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-13 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- Yes, I read that section. What I am asking is the following: When entering the information into the fields, the URL for one of the mirror sites would be on the first line. When I went to several of the mirror sites, the iso images were there, but there were no directories listed

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-13 Thread Tim Shubitz
On May 13, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- Yes, I read that section. What I am asking is the following: When entering the information into the fields, the URL for one of the mirror sites would be on the first line. When I went to several of the mirror sites, the

[CentOS] File compare word by word

2009-05-13 Thread MHR
Is there a utility that compares files word by word, instead of whole lines or single bytes? I found that I can simulate this by replacing all the spaces in a file with linefeeds, then 'diff -B' the results, but that's kind of awkward and hard to read when differences that matter come up. (For

[CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
Does anyone have remote desktop connectivity working in CentOS 5.3? I'm using the Gnome desktop and have configured the Remote Deskop Preferences to Allow other users to view your desktop and Allow other users to control your desktop. The configuration dialog box says that Users can view

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread James Pearson
Geoff Galitz wrote: FWIW, at FOSDEM 2009 Ted T'so said that he anticipated official XFS support from Redhat in the near future as they recently hired some experienced XFS engineers. It was not an official announcement of any kind, he was just speculating during a presentation on ext4.

Re: [CentOS] File compare word by word

2009-05-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 18:02, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a utility that compares files word by word, instead of whole lines or single bytes? It is not exactly what you are looking for, but have you tried vimdiff? If lines differ, it will highlight the words that are different

Re: [CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Berger
You can try the quick how-to I posted here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-October/045424.html I've had some issues with the display showing corrupted data depending on the X server being used. SVGA always seems to work, the latest Intel one seems fine also. Regards, Paul Berger

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-13 Thread Spiro Harvey
to run nightly, it will download the latest blacklist tarball, un tar it and then add any new entries to the existing black list. The if you're already going to the effort of downloading the entire blacklist every night, why not dump the old database, and just insert the newly downloaded one?

Re: [CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: The configuration dialog box says that Users can view your desktop using this command: vncviewer HOSTNAME.domain.com:0.  However, when I try to connect to it from another host, I always get a Connection reset by peer

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-13 Thread James Bensley
if you're already going to the effort of downloading the entire blacklist every night, why not dump the old database, and just insert the newly downloaded one? Because we also add our own entries to the current blacklist so we are just adding any new entries from the nightly updates of our