Re: [CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down

2009-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 31 July 2009 00:35:03 Clint Dilks wrote: > This normally happens when you have a service wanting to keep a > connection open to a Terminal. Eg to display output from standard out, > or standard error. Are you by chance starting any services manually > when you see this happen ? Not at

[CentOS] X Crashing on 64 Bit CentOS

2009-07-30 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, I have a user who is regularly having X Crash. This seemed to happen once a month but has increased to once or twice a week. It doesn't seem to be application specific. The only information about whats causing the crash is from the X log. But this doesn't really give much to go o

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:36 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > Jim, you're spot-on with all that you posted. Since some don't seem to understand what I think you're leading to, I thought I would chime in. > It's not that we OWE the community anything. It's that we should do it > because it's how we wan

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> Why ... we are under no obligation to tell people how how we spend >>> monies. There are costs that are incurred for any organization. We are >>> probably going t

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 30.07.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: > >>> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private >> >> That posting states: >> I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range >> per month but real figures are only known

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis (FUD)

2009-07-30 Thread Michael R. Dilworth
This is becoming FUD. Obviously the CentOS Distro is not going to go away. There seems to be some issues between the Founders/Volunteers. However, if you read the messages and the responses, it is very apparent CentOS will continue. At a new domain or the original. Based on the simple fact that

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Why ... we are under no obligation to tell people how how we spend >> monies.  There are costs that are incurred for any organization.  We are >> probably going to disclose how monies are

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> "Don't cry over spit milk" >> > > I won't, especially when someone else spat it. > > Want to buy an 'l'? > > scnr, > > Ralph > ROTFLMAO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Jim: > We're not under any obligation to tell people how the money gets > spent, but doing so certainly goes a long way building good will. In > my opinion, a simple 'We got X monies in donations which were used to > purchase dedicated hosting, bandwidth, and various novelties for booth > and show

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Johnny: > we are under no obligation to tell people how how > we spend monies This project asks for donations from the public. Implied in that request is that the money will be used to move the project forward and maybe reward the workers for their contributions. This situation seems like the m

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> The problem is this situation is erroding the trust >> in this project. This goes back to my original post in this thread about transparency in the project. I don't see it as erroding the trust, but it's not building any good will either.

Re: [CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down

2009-07-30 Thread Clint Dilks
Anne Wilson wrote: > Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the gui > I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply dropped > me back to my local konsole. Lately, though, the shutdown seems to hang, and > I have to close the session. Any t

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley: >> Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am >> concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were >> installed as dependencies.  All of the

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/30/2009 11:27 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: >> Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically >> headless non-gui systems? >> Any explanation? > > We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update > installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> Rip-off is a harsh word. > > Maybe, but it seems to accurately describe the > situation as it is coming out. This is potentially true, that some of the developers, who would use the money in question to attend meetings or obtain hardware or software (since we have never be

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley: >> Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically >> headless non-gui systems? >> Any explanation? > > We observed something similar. On some systems automatic u

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley: > Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am > concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were > installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging > related except cyrus-sasl.

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:08 +0200 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: > > Rip-off is a harsh word. > > Maybe, but it seems to accurately describe the > situation as it is coming out. > > > "Don't cry over spit milk" > > The problem is this situation is erroding the trust > in this project. > > To me, the

[CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Townley
Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging related except cyrus-sasl. Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386 Jul 30 17:0

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Rip-off is a harsh word. Maybe, but it seems to accurately describe the situation as it is coming out. > "Don't cry over spit milk" The problem is this situation is erroding the trust in this project. To me, the larger problem is the fact that the rest of the team kept it under wraps for

Re: [CentOS] Is the Centos code safe?

2009-07-30 Thread jkinz
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:27:27PM -0400, Phil Pinto wrote: > Just a couple of questions - are the code distribution methods locked > down to prevent malicious tampering from someone who may be interested > in selling access to millions of computer systems? Centos is very > pervasive in hostin

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Spiro Harvey
"Bob Hoffman" wrote: > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and > left all the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. PANIC No he hasn't left them all high and dry. By the sound of it, none of the devs have *ever* seen any cash. They're all paying fo

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Rainer Duffner wrote: > "Don't cry over spit milk" I won't, especially when someone else spat it. Want to buy an 'l'? scnr, Ralph pgpK4fRuvw3OQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 30.07.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: >> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private > > That posting states: > I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range > per month but real figures are only known by one person. > > For at least three years peopl

Re: [CentOS] Bacula Instalation - Dependencies problems

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Schwarz
John Doe schrieb: > There is BAT that is more advanced, but never tried it. > http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=bat Current bat will not work with CentOS's QT 4.2. fs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:32:39PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Can someone confirm this? Isn't that part of what this is all about? Lack of dilligence on financial disclosure? If anyone was able to confirm or deny the cited amount, or hell, *any* amount, wouldn't thi

Re: [CentOS] sendmail slow to response

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Boyd
On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:22 PM, fabian wrote: > all this had been workin grt until recently some users complined that > MSOutlook or Outlook expreess is very slow (a simple text mail > remains 2 > to 3 minutes in outbox) and then sent Make sure that any DNSBLs that you have configured are actual

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private That posting states: I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range per month but real figures are only known by one person. For at least three years people were donating money and sponsors were paying for web

Re: [CentOS] Is the Centos code safe?

2009-07-30 Thread Phil Pinto
Just a couple of questions - are the code distribution methods locked down to prevent malicious tampering from someone who may be interested in selling access to millions of computer systems? Centos is very pervasive in hosting companies around the world. Has Lances access been restricted,

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Alex White
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:31:21 +0200 Kai Schaetzl took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > applause and kudos to the team! I won't say more, a lot has been > said already. I just hope that everything can be sorted out in a > manner that doesn't crash too many porcelain and makes all > involved parties

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
applause and kudos to the team! I won't say more, a lot has been said already. I just hope that everything can be sorted out in a manner that doesn't crash too many porcelain and makes all involved parties comfortable in the end. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive I

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: > > However, the one thing that most people seem to be moving on already is > the assumption that CentOS is about to go away - which isnt correct at > all. For the users, we will make sure that there is as little an impact > as possible. As a user, I've appreciated the lon

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:29:14PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> > Actually, the most simple explanation would be that he got terribly ill >> > or even dead. >> >> This has been completely ruled o

Re: [CentOS] Any more details on Lance? (just curious; no pressure)

2009-07-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:53:03PM -0700, MHR wrote: > A friend of mine sent me this link: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL > > I went to the main page and read the letter and the "Facts." Are > there any more details, mainly along the li

Re: [CentOS] Any more details on Lance? (just curious; no pressure)

2009-07-30 Thread donavan nelson
MHR wrote: > A friend of mine sent me this link: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL > > I went to the main page and read the letter and the "Facts." Are > there any more details, mainly along the lines of CentOS sticking > around - I know y

[CentOS] Any more details on Lance? (just curious; no pressure)

2009-07-30 Thread MHR
A friend of mine sent me this link: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL I went to the main page and read the letter and the "Facts." Are there any more details, mainly along the lines of CentOS sticking around - I know you folks all work really

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:29:14PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Actually, the most simple explanation would be that he got terribly ill > > or even dead. > > This has been completely ruled out. We wouldn't have written an open > letter, then. Ok, best of luck

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >> Benjamin Franz wrote: >> >>> Ned Slider wrote: >>> The "fix" has been available for a long time: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html >>> I'm not sure that is the 'fix'. My systems were completely up-to-

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
> > Where are these rpms available from? They don't seem to be available as > normal updates (eg yum update bind...). > > they are - # yum clean all # yum update bind ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:43:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I have a CentOS 4 system running BIND and I am wondering: > > > > Are there now BIND updates for CentOS 4? Will CentOS 4.8 include > > updates for BIND? How close is the 4.8 release -- Days, Weeks, Months? > > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > > They all wo

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Connie, On 07/30/2009 07:56 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: >>> Yes, but the goals are rather different. > > Not really. Both rebuild RHEL releases. Scientific Linux adds a few > things and changes a few things. We also make Scientific Linux Fermi > which takes Scientific Linux and adds a few things

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > Connie Sieh wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Hoffman wrote: >> >> >>> Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online >>> I am worried. >>> And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all >>> th

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the >>> workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? >> >> Yes, but the goals are rather different. > > I thought both had u

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Jim Wildman
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Tom Brown wrote: > people should worry less If they would carefully read and consider, then they could worry less.. -- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE j...@rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in e

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Vaclav Mocek
Connie Sieh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Hoffman wrote: > > >> Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online >> I am worried. >> And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all >> the hard working devs high and dry..well that is sca

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the >> workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? > > Yes, but the goals are rather different. I thought both had upstream compatibility as the main goal - and both s

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Connie Sieh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Hoffman wrote: > > If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the > > conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. > > There are other RHEL rebuild projects out there. Yeah, plus: We don't intend to fall, just cleaning

Re: [CentOS] files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner

2009-07-30 Thread Alan Sparks
Blackburn, Marvin wrote: > > We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server. A file is created > on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available > on the client. > > We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3. Is there > anything we can do from the client sid

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the >>> workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? >> >> Yes, but the goals ar

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
>> >> >> If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the >> conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. >> > > There are other RHEL rebuild projects out there. > > why is everyone getting so jumpy - its only a domain name thats at stake, he's been AWOL fo

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the >>   workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? > > Yes, but the goals are rather different. What is the most significant difference i

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Monty Shinn wrote: >> >>> To those that have been able to donate money, I would like to say thank >>> you. The project is still alive, so the money must have been used to >>> some extent to support the project

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > > They all worked so ha

Re: [CentOS] kvm in Centos 5.3

2009-07-30 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 18:56 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > see around (it's there since 06.28): > http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt/RPMS/libvirt-0.6.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm FYI: when I try to install libvirt from your repo, libvirt in the CentOS base and updates repos keep repl

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
> I have a CentOS 4 system running BIND and I am wondering: > > Are there now BIND updates for CentOS 4? Will CentOS 4.8 include > updates for BIND? How close is the 4.8 release -- Days, Weeks, Months? > > # rpm -qa | grep bind bind-libs-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4 bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4 bind-utils-9.2.

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread adunlop
Lots of speculation where little is known. It'd be best to let the team do their thing and not stress. Flooding their channels with concern only makes their jobs harder. It'd be best to hang back, wait to see what happens, and then jump at any opportunity to help when *requested* by the

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > I have a CentOS 4 system running BIND and I am wondering: > > Are there now BIND updates for CentOS 4? Will CentOS 4.8 include > updates for BIND? How close is the 4.8 release -- Days, Weeks, Months? Seems like I saw mention of th

[CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Robert Heller
I have a CentOS 4 system running BIND and I am wondering: Are there now BIND updates for CentOS 4? Will CentOS 4.8 include updates for BIND? How close is the 4.8 release -- Days, Weeks, Months? -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroa

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the > > workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? > > Yes, but the goals are rather different. It'd almost be nice to go un

[CentOS] files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner

2009-07-30 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server. A file is created on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available on the client. We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3. Is there anything we can do from the client side to see the file more quickly. The fi

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Actually, the most simple explanation would be that he got terribly ill > or even dead. This has been completely ruled out. We wouldn't have written an open letter, then. Ralph pgpES2JJQhFQr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Les Mikesell wrote: > Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the > workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? Yes, but the goals are rather different. Ralph pgpGqE5S0SfEQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: [snip] > I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System > Administration but cannot seem to get my dirsrv based LDAP to function. > I do understand that ds uses LDIF files to store and set things up, but seem > unable to

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Ned Slider wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> Ned Slider wrote: >> >>> The "fix" has been available for a long time: >>> >>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html >>> >> I'm not sure that is the 'fix'. My systems were completely up-to-date as >> of last week so I sho

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >>> >>> >> The "fix" has been available for a long time: >> >> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html >> > > I'm not sure that is the 'fix'. My systems were completely up-to-date as > of last week so I should not have had a problem with

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > You seem to be reading something (into, maybe

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Ned Slider wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> Bob Hoffman wrote: >> >>> Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to >>> update. >>> Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. >>> >>> The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> >> I'm getting dependency issues on the python update itself: >> >> >> I'm getting a missing dependency of /usr/lib64/python2.4 on the python >> update. :( > >        This h

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob Hoffman wrote: >> Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to >> update. >> Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. >> >> The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a >> few thousand fedora and

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Monty Shinn wrote: > >> To those that have been able to donate money, I would like to say thank >> you. The project is still alive, so the money must have been used to >> some extent to support the project. > > An accounting would answer that question, w

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Don't panic. I am sure the situation is less worrisome than you are making it. So much that, according to the letter and other e-mails, the guy disappeared about a year ago, and for this whole time the project went on, many new versions were released, updates kept showing up as usual. As I see,

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
> > The letter was done in the fashion it was in sorrow, and not > in anger, as my blog post noted. We remain hopeful that > lance will step up to doing the right thing vis-a-vis the > project as to the mentioned items. > > -- Russ herrold Russ, of course... :-( there is no doubt in my

Re: [CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread James Chamberlain
On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi, > I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto > documents for establishing an LDAP server. > RH and CentOS provide -ds-base and related rpms and I like > what I see and read about the product. > I found the wiki article on i

[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jason Pyeron wrote: > As I have said before, I have experience in this matter and we have a current > relationship with tucows. Would the team like our help? We can't and won't > unless asked. The letter was done in the fashion it was in sorrow, and not in anger, as my blog

[CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Hoffman
Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online I am worried. And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now. If centos fal

[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Timo Schoeler wrote: > BTW: cent-os.org was just being registered: The signers of the letter have the needed domain trifecta's locked up already. -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Monty Shinn wrote: > To those that have been able to donate money, I would like to say thank > you. The project is still alive, so the money must have been used to > some extent to support the project. An accounting would answer that question, wouldn't it? As the advertisem

Re: [CentOS] kvm in Centos 5.3

2009-07-30 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 18:56 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > see around (it's there since 06.28): > http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/virt/RPMS/libvirt-0.6.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm Wow, I'm blind. Thanks. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel > Silva Seabra > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:55 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:51:19AM -0500

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 07/30/2009 07:26 PM, thus Robert spake: > some recent comments & speculation border on slander. > > slander is simply anything that can lower one's view of a person in > another's eye. > > the centos team has already done this, yet may i suggest to all that it > would be best to give Mr Davis

[CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Craig White wrote: > Perhaps you can just say to Lance, thanks and keep whatever money, just > turn over the domain name and then you can get your own paypal & adsense > accounts. * chuckle * I will sell you this toll bridge for a great price -- want to know how much it is

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
some recent comments & speculation border on slander. slander is simply anything that can lower one's view of a person in another's eye. the centos team has already done this, yet may i suggest to all that it would be best to give Mr Davis every possible benefit of the doubt. ...and "no matter

Re: [CentOS] sendmail slow to response

2009-07-30 Thread nate
fabian wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am sorry for the post here but really apprecite if someone could help me > or advise. > actually i just could not subscribe to sendmail mailing list Check your DNS settings, make sure the name server can resolve your address both forward and reverse, that's often

[CentOS] sendmail slow to response

2009-07-30 Thread fabian
Dear All, I am sorry for the post here but really apprecite if someone could help me or advise. actually i just could not subscribe to sendmail mailing list I have the following setup for a long time on a single computer Centos server running as my primary Mail & Dns server CentOS release 5 (F

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
If possible, maintain the centos name. Is there a .os tld? cent.os ? :) Rui On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:57:48PM -0400, John Plemons wrote: > *ReCentOS* would work.. *_Re_*introducing _*CentOS*_ > > john plemons > > > Garry.Dale wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> >

[CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto documents for establishing an LDAP server. RH and CentOS provide -ds-base and related rpms and I like what I see and read about the product. I found the wiki article on installing the rpms and getting it running on a server - so f

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread John Plemons
*ReCentOS* would work.. *_Re_*introducing _*CentOS*_ john plemons Garry.Dale wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: I'd personally like to hear what the community has to say about this, as it's not just an internal matter. Please speak up so that we know where the commu

Re: [CentOS] kvm in Centos 5.3

2009-07-30 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/30/2009 06:26 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:14 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> unfortunately i don't have write access to the howto, but the packages >> in the virt dir of the >> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/ >> have the latest stable kvm and qem

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:51:19AM -0500, Garry.Dale wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > I'd personally like to hear what the community has to say about this, > > as it's not just an internal matter. Please speak up so that we know > > where the community stands on this.

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Garry.Dale
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > I'd personally like to hear what the community has to say about this, > as it's not just an internal matter. Please speak up so that we know > where the community stands on this. I'd rather be wrong, but know how > people feel than take a stand f

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to > update. > Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. > > The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a > few thousand fedora and redhat issues with this pytho

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Hoffman
Sounds to me like Lance, as many in the world, is under heavy financial duress. I would venture to say that sometime in the past he started borrowing some incoming monies. And then eventually got caught up in it and could not face the music. I would say, dev team, time to go to plan b with a new

Re: [CentOS] how to create file system with less bad block??

2009-07-30 Thread John R Pierce
mcclnx mcc wrote: > Thank you for answer. The problem is database report "corrupt block", but we > even don't know which disk have that "corrupt block" since we use 15 disks > Array. > most best practices for raids I've seen suggest using not more than 8 disks in a single RAID 5 or 6... if

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > I'm getting a missing dependency of /usr/lib64/python2.4 on > the python > > update. :( > > This happened on one of two identical (mirror image) servers of > mine. > > "yum clean all && yum update" fixed it. This is all over the net and I can verify that yum clean and

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Bob Hoffman wrote: Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to update. Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a few thousand fedora and redhat issues with this python thing.

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
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Re: [CentOS] kvm in Centos 5.3

2009-07-30 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:14 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > unfortunately i don't have write access to the howto, but the packages > in the virt dir of the > http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/ > have the latest stable kvm and qemu packages and all of it dependencies. > we use it for a

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Hoffman
Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to update. Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a few thousand fedora and redhat issues with this python thing. Strange that it is tr

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-30 Thread John R Pierce
Tony Mountifield wrote: > Ok, I've now checked up and it was the ML110 where I discovered that > behaviour. > The DL360 I worked with was completely different, using a driver called cciss. > CCISS is for smartarray cards, which are typically LSI Logic cards that HP has reprogrammed. these a

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