Re: [CentOS] how to change fsize to unlimited..

2010-01-24 Thread Ceg Ryan
try "ulimit -f unlimited" on every start up or use "unlimited" instead of "-1" on the limits.conf On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Yan Yu wrote: > Dear centos experts, >I am wondering is there a way for me to change ulimit fsize > parameter? I am trying to change it to unlimited, so > I add

Re: [CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

2010-01-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote: >> I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my >> pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but >> that's one option to try. > > Thanks, but I don't like P

Re: [CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

2010-01-24 Thread Eric Feldhusen
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote: >> I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my >> pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but >> that's one option to try. > > Thanks, but I don't like PPTP for a variety of reaso

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-24 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: > Noob Centos Admin wrote: >> I'm trying to optimize some database app running on a CentOS server >> and wanted to confirm some things about the disk/file caching >> mechanism. > > If you want a fast database forget about file system caching, > use Direct I/O and put your memory to bet

Re: [CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Eric Feldhusen wrote: >I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my >pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but >that's one option to try. Thanks, but I don't like PPTP for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it's

Re: [CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

2010-01-24 Thread Eric Feldhusen
I know my iPhone is able to connect to the PPTP VPN running on my pfsense firewall. I haven't looked for a PPTP package for Centos, but that's one option to try. Eric Feldhusen On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > I am looking at options for VPN connections from iPhones and

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 01:09 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > e.g. the table may currently have rows with 20 fields and total > 1KB/row, but very often say only 5/20 fields are used in actual > processing. Reading x rows from this table may access x inodes which > would not fit into the cache/mem

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Brian
On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > glib is set up so that you can install parallel versions. > > Get the src.rpm from a newer distro, change the name to > compat-glib2 and tweak the spec file to build with the changed name > and add > > Provides: glib2 = %{version} > > (and

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Brian
On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Brian wrote: >> checking for GLIB - version>= 2.16.0... no >> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... >> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file >> config.log for the >> *** exact error that occured. This

Re: [CentOS] Gmail problem

2010-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 19:38 +0800, Majian wrote: > Hi,all : > > > There is gmail drive for windows platform where the person can access > his gmail storage space as a drive. > > Do we have something similar on Linux? > Means is there any software that will allow the person to 'mount' the > gma

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Brian wrote: >> checking for GLIB - version>= 2.16.0... no >> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... >> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file >> config.log for the >> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrec

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:10 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 24.01.2010 21:49, schrieb ken: > > [ ... ] > >> Thanks for your replies. What you say above sounds plausible because I >> have libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5 installed, but >> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is looking for >> libdvdrea

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Brian wrote: > checking for GLIB - version>= 2.16.0... no > *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file > config.log for the > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly > installed. > configure: error

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ken wrote: > On 01/24/2010 04:59 PM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> ken wrote: >> >>> Then I found and read >>> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories. >> >> as stated on that page, mixing 3rd party repos does not always work so >> well. Your pro

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
ken wrote: > > > So how are people getting totem to play movies? > > tia. > > I hope no one crucifies me for suggesting closed source, but I got tired of the issues with gstreamer-plugins-whatever and just purchased the fluendo codec pack. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:07 PM MHR wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM, ken wrote: >> So how are people getting totem to play movies? >> > > I've never been able to get totem to work at all on any of my CentOS > machines. There's some magic involved that I don't know. > > I use xine and mplayer, a

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 18:01 -0500, Brian wrote: > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.16.0... no > *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file > config.log for the > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is inco

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:59 PM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > ken wrote: > >> Then I found and read >> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories. > > as stated on that page, mixing 3rd party repos does not always work so > well. Your problem is an example o

[CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Brian
I am trying to build streamripper from source, I don't see rpms available for it. I have all the parts of yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' in place. rpm shows that a 2.5.* is in use # rpm -q glibc glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3 Any attempt do get past the ./configure for streamripper fails chec

[CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Campbell
I am looking at options for VPN connections from iPhones and iPod Touches to CentOS systems. We use OpenVPN for connections with Windows, Mac OS X, and other Linux systems, but there don't appear to be any OpenVPN clients for iPhones (presumably because there are no tun/tap interfaces available ye

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.01.2010 21:49, schrieb ken: [ ... ] > Thanks for your replies. What you say above sounds plausible because I > have libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5 installed, but > gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is looking for > libdvdread.so.3. > > Per your recommendation, I searched the centos

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM, ken wrote: > > So how are people getting totem to play movies? > I've never been able to get totem to work at all on any of my CentOS machines. There's some magic involved that I don't know. I use xine and mplayer, and they handle most everything, thought xine i

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ken wrote: > Then I found and read > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories. as stated on that page, mixing 3rd party repos does not always work so well. Your problem is an example of what can go wrong. > > Moreover, after erasing my installed

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 01:53 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 24.01.2010 18:47, schrieb ken: >> When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the >> message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this >> stream, but not installed." >> >> After reading docs and tryin

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.01.2010 19:55, schrieb Alexander Dalloz: > Am 24.01.2010 19:36, schrieb ken: > > [ ... ] > >> Also: >> >> # rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly >> package gstreamer-plugins-ugly is not installed >> # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly >> ... >> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386 from rp

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.01.2010 19:36, schrieb ken: [ ... ] > Also: > > # rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly > package gstreamer-plugins-ugly is not installed > # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly > ... > gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has > depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency:

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.01.2010 18:47, schrieb ken: > > When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the > message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this > stream, but not installed." > > After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of > the

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 12:47 PM ken wrote: > When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the > message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this > stream, but not installed." > > After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of > the pr

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-24 Thread nate
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > I'm trying to optimize some database app running on a CentOS server > and wanted to confirm some things about the disk/file caching > mechanism. If you want a fast database forget about file system caching, use Direct I/O and put your memory to better use - application l

[CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed." After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of the problem to the package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.

[CentOS] how to change fsize to unlimited..

2010-01-24 Thread Yan Yu
Dear centos experts, I am wondering is there a way for me to change ulimit fsize parameter? I am trying to change it to unlimited, so I added the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf - - fsize -1 but it does not work, and a reboot will reset the content of limits.conf. thanks, ya

[CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-24 Thread Noob Centos Admin
I'm trying to optimize some database app running on a CentOS server and wanted to confirm some things about the disk/file caching mechanism. >From what I've read, Linux has a Virtual Filesystem layer that sits between the physical file system and everything else. So no matter what FS is used, appl

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 mysql build

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > I wanted to enable blackhole  and CSV engine in the mysql server > so downloaded the SRPM from Centos Site, setup the rpmbuild envronment > with mighty help from the our own Russ's Owlriver website and tried > building it

Re: [CentOS] 32 bit Full Virtualized DomU on 64 Dom0

2010-01-24 Thread Sergio Belkin
2010/1/23 Rudi Ahlers : > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I need to virtualize a physical machine (Debian Etch 32 bit) to run on >> Centos 5.4 64 bit. Can I do that? I mean can a full virtualized DomU >> 32 bit run on a 64 bit Dom0. >> >> Thanks in advance

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 mysql build

2010-01-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/1/24 Rajagopal Swaminathan : > Greetings, > I wanted to enable blackhole  and CSV engine in the mysql server > so downloaded the SRPM from Centos Site, setup the rpmbuild envronment > with mighty help from the our own Russ's Owlriver website and tried > building it. I have a 5.2 centos box on

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 mysql build

2010-01-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I wanted to enable blackhole and CSV engine in the mysql server so downloaded the SRPM from Centos Site, setup the rpmbuild envronment with mighty help from the our own Russ's Owlriver website and tried building it. I have a 5.2 centos box on which I need to enable this so took the 5.2

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > >  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called > > "oracle enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, > > so i'm curious -- has anyone here used both centos a