Re: [CentOS] backup script

Hi, Try the ff: On 1/25/11 4:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running > on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different > directory > I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) > tar -cvzf /tmp/w

Re: [CentOS] backup script

You could create a script and have a variable date --date="5 days ago" append to your tar file and after that, combine it with if syntax. If match, then rm. HTH On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running >

Re: [CentOS] backup script

Am thinking to have this in my script #!/bin/bash tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes older then 5 days crontab it 30 6 * * * /mypath/myscript On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Nelson wrote: > You

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

mahmoud mansy wrote: > and the main problem is that i wanna take the RHCE and the best > suggested OS is centos not fedora and i wanna run it on my laptop > which i tried to do so with the centos 5.5 but there was so many > miisings like the wireless card driverr and the display card drivers as me

[CentOS] kernel security issues+

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[CentOS] kernel security issues

Hi, after watching the security alerts for the centos kernel I've the impression that altought they are fixed fastly there are more alerts than for the vanilla one of the same version. Question: Are those alerts mostly specifically centos related or do they also affect the vanilla sources? --

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 02:24 -0800, Dave wrote: > Question: Are those alerts mostly specifically centos related or do they > also affect the vanilla sources? Yes and No. It is dependent on where you are getting the source security updates from. Some times it can come down all the way from kernel

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

> Yes and No. It is dependent on where you are getting the source > security updates from. Some times it can come down all the way from > kernel.org > rh >CentOS. Then at times the security problem never > effects kernel.org kernel. There can be issues into play that upstream > introduced into

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On 01/25/2011 10:24 AM, Dave wrote: > after watching the security alerts for the centos kernel I've the > impression that altought they are fixed fastly there are more alerts > than for the vanilla one of the same version. vanilla one for the same version isnt really that actively maintained is i

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:34 +, "Karanbir Singh" wrote: > On 01/25/2011 10:24 AM, Dave wrote: > > after watching the security alerts for the centos kernel I've the > > impression that altought they are fixed fastly there are more alerts > > than for the vanilla one of the same version. > > vani

Re: [CentOS] tar-ing subdirectories separately

Hello Nico, On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 19:21 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander > > $ find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cz {} -f {}.tgz \; > Ahh-ahh-ahh! You forgot some subdirectories, especially generated from > projects served to

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On 01/25/2011 02:24 AM, Dave wrote: > Question: Are those alerts mostly specifically centos related or do they > also affect the vanilla sources? I don't recall having ever seen a security problem in the RHEL/CentOS kernel that didn't affect the upstream sources. There's no need to rely on impre

Re: [CentOS] backup script

On 25/01/11 21:56, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > Am thinking to have this in my script > > #!/bin/bash > tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* > find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes > older then 5 days That should do in your case. Though, in

Re: [CentOS] backup script

From: "madu...@gmail.com" > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running > on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different > directory > I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) > tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

On 01/25/2011 12:59 PM, Dave wrote: >> vanilla one for the same version isnt really that actively maintained is >> it ? Also, the EL kernels contain a fair bit of backports which makes >> things a bit more interesting. > > Not sure. That's why I'm asking for. > eg 2.6.32>> 2.6.32.28 (longterm) > a

[CentOS] mysqld status discrepancy

Bug, explainable, or expected?? Checking the status of mysqld as root, then as a regular user: # /etc/init.d/mysqld status mysqld (pid 4806) is running... $ /etc/init.d/mysqld status mysqld dead but subsys locked ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] mysqld status discrepancy

On 01/25/2011 09:19 AM, ken wrote: > Bug, explainable, or expected?? Checking the status of mysqld as root, > then as a regular user: > > # /etc/init.d/mysqld status > mysqld (pid 4806) is running... > > $ /etc/init.d/mysqld status > mysqld dead but subsys locked > As expected. The PID file for M

[CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. His super-duper new laptop arrived. Acer, AMD 4 core, fast etc. but not as nice looking as my im

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 01/25/2011 09:49 AM, Always Learning wrote: > I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically > extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on > his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. [...] For a new laptop your best hope for a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote: > After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the > neighbourhood but could not connect to my own hub using WPA2. > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > produced technical details of local hubs - but still could not connect. > NetworkManager sometimes froze. > > Spent m

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically > extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on > his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. > > His super-duper new laptop a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Mark wrote:- > About 5 years ago, I had to install a wireless card in my tower, and it's > an ATH9xx, I *think* - I can check this evening, if that's relevant. I was > running SuSE, and had to find drivers from madwifi. A few minutes of > googling found... >

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:49:39 + CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically > extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on > his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. > > His super-duper

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Jerry Franz wrote: > For a new laptop your best hope for a successful native install is > probably Ubuntu 10.10. Laptops in particular are difficult platforms for > hardware support and CentOS5 is not 'cutting edge'. If you want CentOS > on it to work well, you will probably need to wait for C

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote: > Mark wrote:- > >> About 5 years ago, I had to install a wireless card in my tower, and >> it's an ATH9xx, I *think* - I can check this evening, if that's relevant. I >> was running SuSE, and had to find drivers from madwifi. A few minutes of >> googling found... >>

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Brian Mathis wrote: > CentOS is great for servers, I agree. I have 2 VPS and two desktop servers on it. > but absolutely not for a new person > you're trying to get to try Linux. This approach actually hurts Linux > since people think "oh I tried Linux and it sucked". The only thing that 'su

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 1/25/2011 12:18 PM, Always Learning wrote: > >> An alternative I've used is to install VMware Workstation on top of >> Windows and install Linux into a VM. Running fullscreen the practical >> difference is nil. Then you by and large get the laptop hardware support >> gratis from the windows laye

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote: > Thanks for the Ubuntu recommendation. I tend to buy the DVD's and > install from them. I have VBox running Win98SE on a Centos desktop > because I want to run software and applications from 1992 (my own DOS > Cobol database) which also runs in DosBox, 1993 (my customised A

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Mark Roth wrote: > You do understand the relationship of CentOS to RHEL, right? Right :-) Once upon a time Red Hat was free. Then they decided to exist purely on support fees. Meanwhile a bunch of supporters invented a downstream variant called Centos. They worked very hard to remove all the Re

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User community (Wife and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. For the new people to Linux I've noted that NT admins can very easily install ubuntu and get it running (for awhile). From what I remember it had a Windozie feel. Com

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

For years, I've been using Fedora Core for my desktop/laptop systems and CentOS for my servers. It's a good balance, because upgrading Fedora Core takes about an hour or so, plus a day or two of occasional interruptions to shake out various drivers and stuff. Also, I don't have to keep two diffe

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote: > Mark Roth wrote: > >> You do understand the relationship of CentOS to RHEL, right? > > Right :-) > > Once upon a time Red Hat was free. Then they decided to exist purely on Actually, you were supposed to buy the CDs, which I did (I really suppose I can get rid of my 5.2, 6

[CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

We have several "csh" batch scripts using "#!/bin/csh -v". It work fine, before Centos 5.5. After cenos 5.5, it will NOT execute and only list history. Anyone know why? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Benjamin Smith wrote: > On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their > own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and /boot, > and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered it a few times between hard Yep. ALWAYS have /home on its own partition

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

On 26/01/11 08:48, mcclnx mcc wrote: > We have several "csh" batch scripts using "#!/bin/csh -v". It work fine, > before Centos 5.5. After cenos 5.5, it will NOT execute and only list > history. Any particular error message that is generated? ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K > disaster > > Always Learning wrote: > >> After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the >> neighbo

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

mcclnx mcc wrote: > We have several "csh" batch scripts using "#!/bin/csh -v". It work fine, > before Centos 5.5. After cenos 5.5, it will NOT execute and only list > history. > > Anyone know why? Check the tsch logs. Try some tests - I forget what we used here, but they broke tcsh's globbing ab

Re: [CentOS] adding raid1 to running system

Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:53:45 -0600 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >>> I have followed the procedure on the Centos page: >>> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID >> Is there a how too for CentOS 4.x? > > It shouldn't be much different than the 5.x howto.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gene Brandt wrote: > > Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User community (Wife > and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. For the new people to > Linux I've noted that NT admins can very easily install ubuntu and get it > runn

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Where did I say that! "From what I remember it had a Windozie feel" In MY opinion ( only an opinion) Winblows will never be stable. -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:45:44 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Always Learning wrote: > > Mark Roth wrote: > > > >> You do understand the relationship of CentOS to RHEL, right? > > > > Right :-) > > > > Once upon a time Red Hat was free. Then they decided to exist purely on > > Actually, yo

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Any version of Windows is stable - its only when ppl start adding the pretty butterfly screen savers, or open email attachments that things go wrong. It is very vulnerable, especially IE, but with a little education, preventive steps, and decent backups, the majority of businesses in the world tha

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Gene Brandt wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:04 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gene Brandt >> wrote: >> > >> > Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User >> community (Wife and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. >> For the new peo

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

compdoc wrote: > Any version of Windows is stable - its only when ppl start adding the > pretty > butterfly screen savers, or open email attachments that things go wrong. > > It is very vulnerable, especially IE, but with a little education, > preventive steps, and decent backups, the majority of b

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 01/25/2011 03:04 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > I need to call you on this one. "Windozie" (implying some kind of > decent user interface) and "stability" are not mutually exclusive, as > your comment suggests. In the old days you may have had to choose, > but that's long past. Windows 7 is very

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Windows CAN be plenty stable... I used a very stable windows box just like this one this morning! http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991001 On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:23 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > compdoc wrote: >> Any version of Windows is stable - its only when ppl start adding the >>

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

I do IT for local businesses in Denver. I build workstations and servers, do hardware upgrades, networking, VPNs, firewalls, virtual machines - anything a business might need. Windows and linux. Any tech worth his salt will have learned how windows works and how to repair it. It is possible to rep

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:21:35 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've got 7 on my work laptop, and my lady's got Vista at home. I *despise* > both of them: they do their best to hide what you need to do, if it's > anything other than looking at pictures, playing music, email, and web. > And, IMO,

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Max Hetrick wrote: On 01/25/2011 03:04 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I need to call you on this one. "Windozie" (implying some kind of decent user interface) and "stability" are not mutually exclusive, as your comment suggests. In the old days you may have had to choose, but that's long past. W

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, wrote: : > * These notes brought to you in behalf of the Professional Organization of > English Majors, who want to remind you that it's == it is, and is not the > possessive whatchamacallit, "its", as in it's got a shoe on its foot. > So, "it is got a shoe on i

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, wrote: > : >> * These notes brought to you in behalf of the Professional Organization >> of English Majors, who want to remind you that it's == it is, and is not >> the possessive whatchamacallit, "its", as in it's got a shoe on its foot. >> > So, "

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

compdoc wrote: > My first 'real' computer was a Fat Mac, so I still love a good GUI. And > Windows has a nice GUI. Windows was ok. Oh, sorry, Windows 3.x. One reason I dispise Window (post 3.x) is the incredibly stupid design decision to put the GUI into ring 0. Something goes wrong with the GUI,

[CentOS] mail problems after setting up lynx for https with c_rehash

Hi List, I am not sure it's related but after I ran c_rehash over my ssl certificate directory I am having email delay problems. 1. my thunderbird client now regularly times out and tells me the smtp server is not available - a retry always works - this never occurred before. I do use TLS for t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 1/25/2011 2:49 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > So what happens when one does the monthly tuesday patches for windoze > and your security door controller running on SQLserver (micro$oft) > fails. Back out all the patches - inform micro$oft - wait - wait some > more - never get a response - call the sec

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Les Mikesell wrote: >> Running XP as a server??? << There are lots of bloatware Windows products which use MS SQL server as an embedded database, Les. My personal favourite was the software for a TV tuner card (Pinnacle) which used SQL Server to store its program schedule. Bloatware of the firs

Re: [CentOS] mail problems after setting up lynx for https with c_rehash

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:12 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: > running centos 5.5 on 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 I'm running 5.5 but with 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 (64 bit). -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:01 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > processing power of a mid-nineties Cray supercomputer... and they run like > an 8088 (ok, maybe an 80286), just for all the eye candy: style, not > content. Give me the good old 6502 any day and its mainframe predecessor with a 36 bit

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Les Bell wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>> > Running XP as a server??? > << > There are lots of bloatware Windows products which use MS SQL server as an > embedded database, Les. My personal favourite was the software for a TV > tuner card (Pinnacle) which used SQL Server to store its program sched

[CentOS] kickstart and grub parameters

Hey list, I recently started working with kickstart. It is awesome! I really had no idea how easy it would be to use. I do have one strange issue, that's really not that important, but that I'd like to figure out. I like to watch all the kernel boot messages go by in text mode by default, and

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

Reviving this thread as I've discovered RedHat has officially added (a sane) libsrtp package to fedora and RHEL6. As I'd like to get this onto CentOS5, I've tried to rebuild the source rpm, downloadable here:

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 01:45:34 pm Always Learning wrote: > Give me the good old 6502 any day and its mainframe predecessor with a > 36 bit word which was 4 Ascii or 6 BCD characters. http://www.6502.org/tools/emu/ Done? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 01/25/2011 03:49 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > So what happens when one does the monthly tuesday patches for windoze > and your security door controller running on SQLserver (micro$oft) > fails. Back out all the patches - inform micro$oft - wait - wait some > more - never get a response - call the se

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: > Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL > fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office > and Visual Box. The long term future for these is uncertain. Whaaa...? Facts would s

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and grub parameters

Keith Keller wrote on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:05:01 -0800: > grub's menu.lst sure, you don't mean grub.conf? grub.conf seems to be the "official" conf. menu.lst used to be that in the past and is now only a symlink. If you have both a menu.lst and a grub.conf file that are different ... this would

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and grub parameters

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:31:17AM +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Keith Keller wrote on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:05:01 -0800: > > > grub's menu.lst > > sure, you don't mean grub.conf? grub.conf seems to be the "official" conf. A-ha! Yes, you are indeed correct. I suspect that my kickstart %post sect

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: > > Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL > > fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office > > and Visual Box. Th

Re: [CentOS] unable to check in code to svn when files contain spaces or characters

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:06 AM, wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > i as able to add other files with space using the following command : >> > >> >  svn st |grep ? |cut -c8- |sed 's/ /\\ /g' |xargs svn add >> >> Second, stop playing with xargs in command line handling. It is not your >> fri

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:12 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:49:39 + CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > Anyone any idea what kernel version Centos 6 will have ? > Probably whatever Fedora Core 12 (?) has. Whether this will work on > your friend's laptop is uncertain.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Quoting Always Learning : > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:12 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > > At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:49:39 + CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > Anyone any idea what kernel version Centos 6 will have ? My RHEL 6 machine (fully updated) has kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1. __

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:46 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Always Learning wrote: > > > Thanks for the Ubuntu recommendation. I tend to buy the DVD's and > > install from them. I have VBox running Win98SE on a Centos desktop > > because I want to run software and applications from 1992 (my own

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 05:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/25/2011 2:49 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> >> So what happens when one does the monthly tuesday patches for windoze >> and your security door controller running on SQLserver (micro$oft) >> fails. Back out all the patches - inform micro$

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: >>> Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL >>> fame swallowed Red Hat, li

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On 01/25/11 8:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Cobol was the second language I leaned in 1967 from a hardware > manufacturer's tutor who didn't have a clue. The first was Easycoder (an > assembler type) which I loved. do you mean autocoder? that was the 'assembler' on the IBM 1400 series _

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:41 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > Quoting Always Learning: > >> >> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:12 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: >> >>> At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:49:39 + CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> Anyone any idea what kernel version Centos 6 will have ? > > My RHE

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana! Nope. Not convinced by what I read about them. Still have my unused Open Solaris disks from 2008.05 and my single CD of Red Hat Linux v.6 from 1999. :-) -- With be

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/25/11 8:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > Cobol was the second language I leaned in 1967 from a hardware > > manufacturer's tutor who didn't have a clue. The first was Easycoder (an > > assembler type) which I loved. > do you mean a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:29 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:41 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > > My RHEL 6 machine (fully updated) has kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1. > Alright, that's it, I want Centos 6 now! Me too. Yes please Mr Centos. -- With best regards, Paul. Eng

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:49 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Benjamin Smith wrote: > > > On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their > > own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and > /boot, > > and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 01:37 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana! > > Nope. Not convinced by what I read about them. > > Still have my unused Open Solaris disks from

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote: >> Thanks for the good advice. I wondered why the installer gave those choices. Now it makes sense. All my production data resides on /data and I tend to leave the standard directories alone << Paul, if you want a basic explanation of the rationale behind the Linux Files

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us >Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:00 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - >ATH9K disaster > >About 5 years

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of Brian Mathis >Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:03 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - >ATH9K disaster > >CentOS is great f