Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Torkil Zachariassen >Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:39 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3 > >On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 docs

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:33:04AM -0400, Ron Loftin wrote: > > First off, I'm glad that 5.4 is now available, and a big "Thank you" to > the development team for all of their hard work. > > I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to be accessible on the > CentOS Web site, but some of them se

[CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: > I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, Just in case it is not clear to you. cpanel is NOT Centos. It is a very badly modified version of Centos and we have nothing to do with it. Please take any issues you have with it back to Cpanel. >

Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

On 10/21/2009 10:21 PM Philip Gwyn wrote: > On 20-Oct-2009 Michael Schumacher wrote: >>> I've got a production system running CentOS 4 that was rock solid >>> until I upgraded from 2.6.9-55 to 2.6.9-78.0.13 (now running >>> 2.6.9-89.0.11). The system now crashes intermittently after a few >>> week

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

On 10/22/2009 04:06 AM RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > Hello all, > > i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my > existing Centos server to a more powerful box. > i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. > > can anyone please guide me in the right direc

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

Wait a minute, didn't someone just try and offer their help to the community; Where in their email did they mention cpanel? 2009/10/22 Christopher Chan > DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: > > I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, > > Just in case it is not clear to you. cp

[CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

I am looking for yum-priorities or any info on any changes here for CentOS 5.4. There is also a forum post for this here: Is this missing on purpose? Function merged with another yum package? Or is it just missing as an o

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:06 -0700 > "AY" == Akemi Yagi wrote: AY> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider AY> wrote: >> I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the >> /home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use the kmod-xfs >> from

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Morten Torstensen spake: | I am looking for yum-priorities or any info on any changes here for | CentOS 5.4. There is also a forum post for this here: | | | Is this missi

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

Hello, thanks for your prompt reply.. i was leaving that option as a last resort... the problem is that this machine is a production machine so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or else ill have permission denied errors... any other way? i;ll start the procce

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

We use Norton Ghost all the time. You sometimes have to jiggle drivers after it comes up - I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader :-) On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:06 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > Hello all, > > i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my > existing Cento

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Morten Torstensen >Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:37 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4? > >Is this missing on purpose? Function merged with a

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

Timo Schoeler a écrit : > > I don't see it (any more!) running 5.3... But need it desperately. > It got forgotten, obviously. But in the meantime, you can do this: # wget -c http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-priorities-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh yum-pri

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Niki Kovacs spake: | Timo Schoeler a écrit : | |> I don't see it (any more!) running 5.3... But need it desperately. |> | | It got forgotten, obviously. Hm. | But in the meantime, you can do this: | | # wget -c | http://mirror.centos.org/centos-

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

So can I just copy the RPM from my 5.3 to my 5.4 and all will be good? No need to makerepo or anything? [r...@alan centos]# find . -name yum-prio\* ./5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-priorities-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm ./5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-priorities-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm Just copy

[CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

[r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.* 19G 5.3 14G 5.4 -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

An upgrade should do fine, I think... the yum versions in 5.3 and 5.4 looks to be the same, so nothing would be uninstalled afaik. Looks to me that you will only see this when you do a fresh install of 5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

5.3/updates? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.* > 19G     5.3 > 14G     5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

On Thursday 22 October 2009 13:04:05 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf > > >Of Morten Torstensen > >Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:37 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: [CentOS] Missing yum

Re: [CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

Ah, OK, this makes sense now [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.3/* 64K 5.3/addons 2.2G5.3/centosplus 84K 5.3/contrib 526M5.3/extras 60K 5.3/fasttrack 11G 5.3/os 5.4G5.3/updates [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.4/* 84K 5.4/addons 2.2G5.4/centosplus 84K 5.4/contrib 526

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

> 1. backing up my mysql databases  is it enough to cp /var/lib/mysql and > /user/lib/mysql or i have to export them? and if thats the case how can i > export? For MySQL backups I use the mysqldump utility, which dumps the data as pure SQL. This may not be the best option if you have a huge amount

[CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Hi, Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some home-made shortcuts, like here for example : http://www.microlinux.fr/configurations.html The shortcut on the lower left corner of the screen launches

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Tony Molloy >Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:32 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4? > >The problem is not with updated systems but with newl

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts > that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some > home-made shortcuts, like here for example [...] > To configure the shortcuts themselves, I just edit a .desktop file by >

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 docs

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 00:33 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > > > First off, I'm glad that 5.4 is now available, and a big "Thank you" to > > the development team for all of their hard work. > > > > I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts >> that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some >> home-made shortcuts, like here for example  [...] >> To configur

Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:20 -0400, ken wrote: > > cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > ... > title CentOS (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus) > root (hd0,2) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus ro > root=/dev/mapper/luks-3d723b4f-0184-438d-9cb9-9ebff16e683a rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.

Re: [CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 (6. Changes) 2009/10/22 Alan McKay : > [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.* > 19G     5.3 > 14G     5.4 > > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” >         - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > ___

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis schrieb: >> My guess would be a resolving problem also. >> Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. >> Check your /etc/hosts file >> Dan >> > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. > > the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the >

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > > thanks for your prompt reply.. > i was leaving that option as a last resort... > the problem is that this machine is a production machine > so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or > else ill have permission denied errors... > > any other

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:06 -0700 >> "AY" == Akemi Yagi wrote: > >AY> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider >AY> wrote: > >>> I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the >>> /home-partiti

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ross Walker spake: | On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: | |>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:06 -0700 |>> "AY" == Akemi Yagi wrote: |>AY> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider |>AY> wrote: |> |>>> I

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:04 AM, James Bensley wrote: > Wait a minute, didn't someone just try and offer their help to the > community; > Where in their email did they mention cpanel? > > 2009/10/22 Christopher Chan >> >> DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: >> > I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, a

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts > that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some > home-made shortcuts, like here for example : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/configurations.html >

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > Christoph Maser schrieb: >> Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 >>> I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? >> Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already?

[CentOS] Missing virtio-win in CentOS 5.4

Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers. -> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html Is this a CentOS or Upstream Pr

Re: [CentOS] Missing virtio-win in CentOS 5.4

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote: > Hello, > I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the > "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers. > Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd imagine they are not freely dist

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

James Bensley wrote: > Wait a minute, didn't someone just try and offer their help to the > community; > Where in their email did they mention cpanel? > Sorry, got mixed up. I thought he was talking about what he was doing for his company. Just kind of wary of people who go: Calling all Hacker

[CentOS] Coincidence ? Well.... maybe

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/win7_launch/ After you read the article, check out the comment about the timing of the CentOS 5.4 release and draw your own conclusions. ;> -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFr

Re: [CentOS] Missing virtio-win in CentOS 5.4

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote: >> Hello, >> I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the >> "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers. >> > > Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd >

[CentOS] CentOS-5.3 yum-priorites

I visited http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities which tells me to install the package yum-priorities available from extras. I try this and it fails. # yum install yum-priorities Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.csclub.uwa

[CentOS] CentOS-5.3 yum-priorites

I visited http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities which tells me to install the package yum-priorities available from extras. I try this and it fails. # yum install yum-priorities Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.csclub.uwa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.3 yum-priorites

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus James B. Byrne spake: > I visited http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > which tells me to install the package yum-priorities available from > extras. I try this and it fails. > > # yum install yum-priorities > Loaded plugins:

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-requ..

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher > Sorry, got mixed up. I thought he was talking about what he was doing > for his company. Just kind of wary of people who go: Calling all Hackers > but they actually mean Calling all Crackers Now what are you on about, are you posting to the wrong thread

[CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

Hello all, To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. Ignoring the peer pressure, even though it was out a little later than you (and many of us) wanted, you got it RIGHT. *That* is what was important. I yu

[CentOS] LDAP server, too many open files

I've setup an LDAP server with a slave server on Centos 5.3 X86_64, replication works, most of the time client logins work fine but I'm starting to get a error I can't seem to eliminate, it's starting to cause login failures for users and I think it's causing other application failures when

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6

centos-announce-requ...@centos.org wrote: > +++ > Upgrading from CentOS-5.3 ( or CentOS-5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2 ): > > If you are already running CentOS-5.3 or an older CentOS-5 distro, all > you need to do is update your machine via yum by running : > > 'yum update' > This seems t

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

James Bensley wrote: > 2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher > > >> Sorry, got mixed up. I thought he was talking about what he was doing >> for his company. Just kind of wary of people who go: Calling all Hackers >> but they actually mean Calling all Crackers >> > > > Now what are you o

Re: [CentOS] LDAP server, too many open files

Jacob Bresciani wrote: > I've setup an LDAP server with a slave server on Centos 5.3 X86_64, > replication works, most of the time client logins work fine but I'm > starting to get a error I can't seem to eliminate, it's starting to > cause login failures for users and I think it's causing ot

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

roland, what i recently did was use this info and modified the backup-servers script slightly http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml it was really simple to move a live centos4 from one machine to another after admin down services that would allow data to change on the final rsync pass.

Re: [CentOS] LDAP server, too many open files

Thanks, I've put in that change, I'll get the dev's to abuse things for a while and we'll see if that's it. quick tests by me look promising :) Jacob Bresciani On 2009-10-22, at 9:23 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Jacob Bresciani wrote: >> I've setup an LDAP server with

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

I know too that yum - -security doesnt work on CentOS, so there is no way to install JUST security-updates ?? Best regards SLCC From: centos-requ...@centos.org To: centos@centos.org Date: 22/10/2009 11:04 a.m. Subject: CentOS Digest, Vol 57, Issue 22 Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org Me

[CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

Hi List, What's the best way to create a VPN (IPSec) client-to-site under CentOS 5.4? Thanks in advance. -- João Salvatti Graduated in Computer Science Federal University of Para - UFPA - Brazil E-Mail: salva...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

João Salvatti wrote: > Hi List, > > What's the best way to create a VPN (IPSec) client-to-site under CentOS 5.4? > the best way is to use ssl-vpn rather than ipsec, via OpenVPN. Its a breeze to install and configure compared to most any other VPN, quite easy for the server to push routing r

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello all, > > To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in > a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. > Ignoring the peer pressure, even though it was out a little later > than you (and many of us) wan

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

>the best way is to use ssl-vpn rather than ipsec, via OpenVPN. Its a >breeze to install and configure compared to most any other VPN, quite >easy for the server to push routing rules to the clients, etc. I'll second the OpenVPN reco, I just migrated off a Cisco PIX to this and it is the most con

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have openssl as a dependancy. http://www.openswan.org -geoff -- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim, DE http://www.galitz.org

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

Agreed! http://theweekendhaslanded.org/ 2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher > James Bensley wrote: > > 2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher > > > > > > >> Sorry, got mixed up. I thought he was talking about what he was doing > >> for his company. Just kind of wary of people who go: Calling

[CentOS] Sudo command

Hello guys; I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 But i know i am using right password to root. Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

Geoff Galitz wrote: > > Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is > quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have > openssl as a dependancy. > > http://www.openswan.org On the other hand, if you don't have a strict requirement for IPsec, it is m

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in >> a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. >> Ignoring the peer pressure, even though it was out a little later >

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

vijay shanker wrote: > Hello guys; > > I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 > > But i know i am using right password to root. > > Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. > You really need to configure /etc/sudoers, if you have not already. -Alan __

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:48 -0700, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is > quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have > openssl as a dependancy. > > http://www.openswan.org > I second this. IPSec also has anoth

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

use your user password for sudo not root's password. sudo su - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

> Geoff Galitz wrote: >> >> Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is >> quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have >> openssl as a dependancy. >> >> http://www.openswan.org > > On the other hand, if you don't have a strict requirement for IPse

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009/10/22 vijay shanker : > I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 What are you trying to achieve? Perhaps su is the command you need? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009/10/22 Jay : > sudo su - sudo -s is so much neater! :) Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> the best way is to use ssl-vpn rather than ipsec, via OpenVPN. >> Its a breeze to install and configure compared to most any other >> VPN, quite easy for the server to push routing rules to the >> clients, etc. > > I'll second the OpenVPN reco, I

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

Thanks for all. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> the best way is to use ssl-vpn rather than ipsec, via OpenVPN. >>> Its a breeze to install and configure compared to most any other >>> VPN, quite easy for the server to push

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

Damn. Forget i even asked. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, James Bensley wrote: > Agreed! > http://theweekendhaslanded.org/ > > > 2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher > >> James Bensley wrote: >> > 2009/10/22 Chan Chung Hang Christopher < >> christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> >> > >> > >> >

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

Acronis, with a little SALT and PEPPER may do the trick. However after running acronis you would have to do an OS Repair. Sorry, that is for windows. CentOS on the other hand should be able to CLUSTER. Why not try to cluster it instead On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:30 AM, R-Elists wrote: > rol

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Ross Walker a écrit : > > Look under /usr/share/(apps,applications,...) there should be a > directory called Desktop that is used for both KDE and Gnome, part of > the freedesktop initiative (like LSB for Linux GUIs). > > # find /usr/share -t d -name Desktop -print > Yeah I know these. Now

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Lucian @ lastdot.org a écrit : >>> >>> Now I vaguely remember that a standard openSUSE install has something >>> like persistent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or something >>> like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? >>> > You could make those desktop files immutable. >

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Benjamin Franz a écrit : > > Some Googling suggests that the 'sabayon' app is what you want. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199027 > I already have user profiles (with .gconf copied recursively to /etc/skel before adding users). Sabayon is just a GUI way to achieve this. But th

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 docs

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 00:33 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> > I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to be accessible on the >> > CentOS Web site, but some of them seem to have some issues.  In the >> > "Technical Notes", everything after t

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/10/22 Jay : >> sudo su - > > sudo -s is so much neater! :) > But it is yet another unnecessary special case to remember. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

RoLaNd RoLaNd a écrit : > Hello all, > > i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my > existing Centos server to a more powerful box. If I had to clone a machine, I would. 1) Use G4U (Ghost 4 Unix) 2) Boot PartedMagic on the target machine and perform and eventual disk

[CentOS] CentOS-5.4 Update?

hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory. While the update packages all downloaded without problem the update process itself stalled at several points. By stalled I mean that at some point the entire process stopped for hou

[CentOS] dependency problem with php-pgsql

Hi: I'm running into a dependency problem when I try to install the php-pgsql package on CentOS 5.4 64bit. I have php 5.2.9 and when I try to do a yum install php-pgsql I get the following dep errors: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pgsql.x86_64 0:5.1.6-23.2.

[CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote: > hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo > > I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was > not satisfactory. > ... > I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first > I would like to get the default to display.

[CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote: > hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo > > I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was > not satisfactory. > ... > I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first > I would like to get the default to display.

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Niki Kovacs wrote: > Lucian @ lastdot.org a écrit : > Now I vaguely remember that a standard openSUSE install has something like persistent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or something like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? >> You could make those

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:06 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > Hello all, > > i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my > existing Centos server to a more powerful box. > i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. You used the CloneZilla Live CD? CloneZ

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Lucian @ lastdot.org a écrit : Now I vaguely remember that a standard openSUSE install has something like persistent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or something like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ?

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: > Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in >>> a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. >>> Ignor

[CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? [amc...@alan ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan,

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Hello guys; > > I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 > > But i know i am using right password to root. > > Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. You don't use root's password,

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: > >> Paul Heinlein wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in a small o

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

Lucian @ lastdot.org a écrit : > Yeah, Niki. You're very sharp today :) > chattr +i *.desktop Oh yeah! I didn't know the 'chattr' command. Thanks very much ! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

James B. Byrne wrote: > On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote: >> hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo >> >> I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was >> not satisfactory. >> > ... >> I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first >> I would lik

[CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for each upgrade, I was cur

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Ross Walker a écrit : > >> >> Look under /usr/share/(apps,applications,...) there should be a >> directory called Desktop that is used for both KDE and Gnome, part of >> the freedesktop initiative (like LSB for Linux GUIs). >> >> # find /usr/share

[CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

Hi All, I upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 today on a vpn gateway using openswan. After the upgrade the vpn stopped working. From what I could tell the new version of openswan uses NSS. I tried following the instructions in this thead https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508107 without success.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

Jonathan Moore wrote: Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

Hi guys, Thanks What i am trying to achieve is; when executing # sudo make install Password:* this password entered is root password. it gives is error Sorry, try again. but when i do a su - and then gave the same root password. I am able to switch account to user. --- Am am try

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

vijay shanker wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thanks > > What i am trying to achieve is; when executing > > # sudo make install > Password:* > > this password entered is root password. sudo expeccts your USER password, not the root password. the whole idea is the admin doesn't ened to give out t

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

Goood John, But you please also clarify what does sudo means; if it expects my own password then why not i can execute these command without giving "sudo" as prefix. If i am a genuine sudoer then can i edit files on which only root has execution rights. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:18:56 +0530 vijay shanker wrote: > if it expects my own password then why not i can execute these command > without giving "sudo" as prefix. Because sudo is the program that gives you the rights to execute certain commands as root without actually being the root user. If y

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