Re: [CentOS-docs] www.centos.org/docs/ content

2009-06-21 Thread Mats Karlsson
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 17:41, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 15:36 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: One thing that might be required to be done - right away, is the need for a script that could parse the content, modify it for url rewriting and edit the footers /

[CentOS-docs] Request for Wiki edit permission - booting into kickstart from all-in-one USB flash drive

2009-06-21 Thread hansbkk
I'm currently testing a process very similar to that found here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey And would like to update that doc with my observations once confirmed. Preliminary notes (not all relevant to that specific WikiPage - suggestions for where to put the non-kickstart

Re: [CentOS-es] Como puedo habilitar el puerto imap?

2009-06-21 Thread Damaso Payares
Revisa esta configuración para IMAP, en Editar- Preferencias- Cuentas de Correo- Recepción de Correos: Tipo de Servidor: IMAP Servidor: imap.gmail.com Usuario: nombre.usuario Usar conexion segura: Cifrado SSL Saludos. El sáb, 20-06-2009 a las 10:02 -0500, german suarez escribió: Cordial

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about portsentry at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1580 and can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80573 Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
2009/6/21 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh connection to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are two harddiscs on it. One stores the system (/ filesystem) and the other should be used to help restore the system in case of first

[CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the Support - Commercial Support page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm

[CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Samir RHAOUSSI
Hello, I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help? -- Samir RHAOUSSI ENIM 2009 - Génie

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual content, or the link should be dropped entirely. or something. That page does

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:49:09 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh connection to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are two harddiscs on it. One stores the system (/ filesystem) and the other should be used to help

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!) And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution... Voilà,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual content, or the link should

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Samir RHAOUSSI
thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment. thanks for all of you for help :) 2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux bernard.lheur...@bbsoft4.org Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but it *is* something that is being worked on. i realize that page

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Don't forget that everytime you will upgrade your kernel or change kernel version, you will have to re-run this command to ensure the display and network settings, for the network if you don't do that you run in 100MBs mode but after the install of the VMware module in

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
i'm not the right person for that as i am utterly clueless about what possibilities you're exploring at the moment. that has to be done by someone at centos who's involved in it. More to the point, what is in the works? I certainly provide Centos support to my customers who have Centos.

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Dag Wieersd...@centos.org wrote: VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can be written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list: open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking.

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Aggarwal
i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge of this, I would say that you are not very serious and ignore your request. Neil

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge of this, I would say that you are not very

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 10:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them.

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Klinosky
Neil Aggarwal wrote: i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge of this, I would say that you are not very serious and ignore

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Rafał Radecki
I think about using dd instead of dump? Is this an acceptable idea? 2009/6/21 Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:49:09 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh connection to a CentOS

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

2009-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking. http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/ Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008. I don't remember if he announced it at some point. The last version there is dated Oct 2008. I tried to build

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread David G . Miller
Bob Hoffman b...@... writes: So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:      This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies.  from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Javor Nikolov
Without snapshots there is some risk to get inconsistent set of files when you make a backup of live file system. In general this is a problem but I'm not sure about your case. Actually there is another solution to this problem shutdown the system and take the backup using bootable CD/DVD (or

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/21/2009 03:31 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i *cannot* suggest what content should go on that commercial support page since i have *no idea* what avenues the centos developers are currently exploring. Well, thats an easy one to answer. One of the major reasons I spend days and nights

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Jacques B.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Joseph L. Casalejcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Very carefully... Lol, you missed the point. It's impossible. I was bluntly suggesting the reply was not applicable nor on topic to the op's post. Port scanning and packet sniffing have nothing to do with each

[CentOS] show a directory content in the same window

2009-06-21 Thread Samir RHAOUSSI
Hello , my problem is that every time i open a directory it's opened in a new window... how to navigate in my directories in the same window? that's i'm new with centos :) thank you for your help -- Samir RHAOUSSI ENIM 2009 - Génie Informatique ___

Re: [CentOS] show a directory content in the same window

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:54:56 + Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: my problem is that every time i open a directory it's opened in a new window... how to navigate in my directories in the same window? I assume this is a question about Gnome Nautilus. Open Nautilus (click on your home directory icon on

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:58:41 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Without snapshots there is some risk to get inconsistent set of files when you make a backup of live file system. In general this is a problem but I'm not sure about your case. Actually there is another

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:06:35 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I think about using dd instead of dump? Is this an acceptable idea? *NO!*. dd is NOT a proper backup tool... I don't know where the idea that it is comes from (probably some really old UNIX sys admin book

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: snip I wouould say that you are not very serious and ignore your request. wow, neil ... misunderstand much? i didn't ask for something to be changed so much as i *suggested* a change that might have benefit for

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread William Warren
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but it *is* something that is being

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Aggarwal
+1 on this. -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Spiro Harvey Sent: Sunday,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: Karanbir, what about putting up something along the lines of: Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a volunteer run effort. from a promotional

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, William Warren wrote: if you are going to be the consultant and you are recommending Centos then you are definitely a good person to make a suggestion as to what should go in there. Take a whack at it. again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be looking at in terms of support channels. lets assume for a minute, that there is no real 'endorsement' or

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Spiro Harvey
from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the word difficulty. all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a What? You'd prefer we lie to people? If we don't tell people that it's a community run

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be looking at in terms of support channels. lets assume for a

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the word difficulty. all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a What? You'd prefer we lie to people? ok,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Spiro Harvey
Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i can say that *i* could try to handle it, but a suitably large company won't find that acceptable. they'll probably want something more substantial in the way of support. A suitably large company can afford RHEL. CentOS and RHEL are the same,

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be looking at in terms of support

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:39:05 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be looking at in terms

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:49:45 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: the second (separate) issue is: where does one get centos support? Way back when, I remember reading something that said words to the effect of If you can carry your own water, Linux is free. The reverse is also true. and i

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the word difficulty. all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a number of ways to admit that centos has no

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

2009-06-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 18:02, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: ./configure errors out with this message: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.4.0... no Do you have the gtk2-devel package installed? You need it to build something that uses GTK+ 2.10... HTH, Filipe

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread William Warren
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the word difficulty. all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a What? You'd

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Karanbir: Therefore, for me - the 'official' support process must also do everything to encourage these small players and bring them up into a stream where they find a sustainable business model around CentOS Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a consultants

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Spiro Harvey
Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote: Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a consultants directory. That will give consulting companies (Like mine) a place to list themselves as providing CentOS support. This can be a very fine line to walk. A list of

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:46:13 +1200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote: Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a consultants directory. That will give consulting companies (Like mine) a place to list themselves

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:37:14 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 18:02, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: ./configure errors out with this message: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.4.0... no Do you have the gtk2-devel package installed? You need it to build

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:59:44 -0700 (PDT) nate wrote: Look at the config.log you could be missing some packages. I suspect it's a naming issue, where configure is looking for GTK+-2 but Centos has GTK2. I posted the error message in my initial query here; this is the relevant section of

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-21 Thread Chadley Wilson
I do apologize for the email disclaimer, it is automatically added to the bottom of our mails by our server. I cannot avoid it so please do not worry about it. The fact That I have sent email to a mailing group address authorizes the group to read it. So I don't understand why we always have to

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-21 Thread Chadley Wilson
[CW] Does anyone here know where on the install disc the initrd-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img is located? Is it in an rpm? which one? the one in /boot/... it's generated at install time by the anaconda installer, from the kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.$arch.rpm and mkinitrd So you will need the

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-21 Thread Chadley Wilson
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: 20 June 2009 12:46 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD snip [CW] My Apologies, I forgot to mention that I am not

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-21 Thread Chadley Wilson
The initrd's are created as part of the post section of the kernel RPM. If you can get your driver into the kernel rpm it should get into the initrd. [CW] Hi Scott, thanks for the response, so you are saying that if I get the kernel source rpm, then compile the driver and build a new kernel

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: talk to someone with a marketing background. seriously. all you need to do is admit that there's no support, but word it carefully so that it doesn't seem like a big deal. just give people the warm fuzzies.

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

2009-06-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 00:28, Frank Coxthea...@sasktel.net wrote: configure:4752: gcc -o conftest -g -O2    conftest.c -lexpat -lz   5 conftest.c:16:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory gtk2-devel contains /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h. For that to work, you have to use

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be looking at in terms of support channels. You ARE the right person, as you want

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:26:42 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: $ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include