Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> > Corporate greed will always trump idealistic pursuits. I'm still pondering how Sun's demise fits into this picture > As soon as a product has enough momentum there will be patent fights, > copyright fights, licensing and revocation o

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > >> Yes, the breakage came from having someone who didn't understand the >> needs define that policy. > > I think part of the problem is that Linux+SELinux is a _different platform_ > to Linux without SELinux. If you look at it as _one_ new

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >>> >>> But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should only be allowed to use languages that wor

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> >>> But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you >>> should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and >>> OS's so as to never be locked int

Re: [CentOS] blue screen instead of login screen

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:57:58 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > I installed Centos 6.2/i386 on a machine last night with a 1920x1080 monitor. > The installer ran in graphical mode and looked fine. After the install was > finished I rebooted and ran through the "firstboot" stuff (set up user, etc) > with no

Re: [CentOS] CentOS post acknowledgement

H... well THAT doesn't seem right - getting 2 post acknowledgements to a single message. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB install annoyances

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 17:53 [UTC -5], Darr247 spake thusly: > I did not see that synopsis in your original post (and I'm not sure I > could figure out what commands you used by that). > The only 2 replies to this thread I saw in digest 84 issue 9 were to > John Doe. > > Anyway, this is wha

Re: [CentOS] USB install annoyances

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 17:53 [UTC -5], Darr247 spake thusly: > I did not see that synopsis in your original post (and I'm not sure I > could figure out what commands you used by that). > The only 2 replies to this thread I saw in digest 84 issue 9 were to > John Doe. > > Anyway, this is wha

Re: [CentOS] OT: simple server room temp monitor

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > I would not have it doing the alerting. > > I'd have something poll it and graph the temp so you can see a good graph > of room temp over time. > > And have that same something do the alerting. > > But do your servers have sensors too?  You real

Re: [CentOS] OT: simple server room temp monitor

I would not have it doing the alerting. I'd have something poll it and graph the temp so you can see a good graph of room temp over time. And have that same something do the alerting. But do your servers have sensors too? You really need to monitor those as well because there can be a huge diff

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > >> But you'd be wrong on all counts.  I'd argue the opposite - that you >> should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and >> OS's so as to never be locked into a monopolistic single vendor. > > You mean like Oracle? N

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >>> It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially >>> registered in a DNS server.  For example if you have a Playstation 3, >>> or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it will use >>> DHCP to get an addr

Re: [CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm > curious what was changed in order to accomplish this. It's probably the PowerTop work, primarily done to get better battery life on laptops by throttling the CPU down when it's idle: http://www.less

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 1/11/2012 6:10 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > On 01/11/2012 06:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially >> registered in a DNS server. For example if you have a Playstation 3, >> or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it

[CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

Hello guys, Did anyone noticed how green CentOS 6 is compared to the previous release? I've been running a couple of "CentOS 6" VMs (on our vSphere environment) for the last couple of weeks and noticed a BIG difference when it comes to CPU usage when the VM is completely idle. I would like to s

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 01/11/2012 06:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially > registered in a DNS server. For example if you have a Playstation 3, > or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it will use > DHCP to get an address. But then sup

Re: [CentOS] Building REDHAT Desktop Virtualization Solution With Centos

On 01/11/2012 06:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/11/2012 05:11 AM, Arif Tuhin wrote: >> Redhat offers a desktop virtualization solution using "kvm,qemu,libvirt and >> spice" which is directed at centralized server hosting virtual desktops and >> thin clients connecting to it. >> >> All the re

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.7, I10 video, 1920x1080 monitor

On 01/10/2012 11:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:50:36 -0500 > Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> Are you sure that your video card can support your desired resolution? > > I am now. > > After much fiddling around trying this and that I gave up and booted off of a > Centos 6.2 install disk,

Re: [CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

On 01/11/2012 06:09 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > If you're not sure of the names of the rpms that yum installed, > read /var/log/yum.log to find out. CentOS 6.x has "yum history", '"yum history 185", "yum history info 185" ... -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe G

Re: [CentOS] Clustering solutions - mail, www, storage.

On Jan 10, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi all. > > I am currently working for a hosting provider in a 100+ linux hosts' > environment. We have www, mail HA solutions, as storage we mainly use > NFS at the moment. We are also using DRBD, Heartbeat, Corosync. > > I am now gathering i

Re: [CentOS] Write to USB pendrives horribly slow

On 01/11/2012 07:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > wwp wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:31:43 +0100 Ljubomir Ljubojevic > wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 08:45 AM, wwp wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:57:14 -0800 (PST) John Doe >>> wrote: > From: wwp > >> I wonder if some mount options aren't

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda "vaulting" what I need for archiving data?

--On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 03:40:20 PM -0500 Alan McKay wrote: > Well, the scientists are talking longer than 7 years so HDs just are not > going to cut it Regarding the use of hard drives, you might want to have a look at this: At a

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you > should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and > OS's so as to never be locked into a monopolistic single vendor. You mean like Oracle? -Ross _

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:49:29PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > SELinux does not 'go out of its way' to 'break' anything; rather, > > SELinux enforces a deny by default 'need to access' policy. > > Yes, the breakage came from having someone w

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Yes, the breakage came from having someone who didn't understand the >> needs define that policy. > > 'Going out of its way to break' something means knowing what is needed for > something to work, and intentionally preventing it from workin

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

>> OK ... then it ought to move (probably) :) > > Se my post on repoforge users list. > http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/022634.html > There's no one to move the package but Dag. Per your suggestion, I filed a bug report on this, although that tracker seems like a lo

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 11/01/12 11:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe... lets > media boxes find media servers, and such.if you were to serve up > streaming media on a home network, it would be a useful thing to have. > otherwise? meh. I use AVAHI for

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 02:49:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > SELinux does not 'go out of its way' to 'break' anything; rather, SELinux > > enforces a deny by default 'need to access' policy. > Yes, the breakage came from having someone w

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:42:08 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:38:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > >> But the hardest part is that these things are application specific and > >> there is no standardization for loca

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 01/11/12 6:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially > registered in a DNS server. For example if you have a Playstation 3, > or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it will use > DHCP to get an address. But then suppose

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda "vaulting" what I need for archiving data?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >> For one thing, I think you seriously need to look at backup up to offline >> hard drives, instead of tapes. Unless you really want/need to archive the >> tapes for seven years > > > Well, the scientists are talking longer than 7 years so HDs

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012/1/11 夜神　岩男 : > >> Yes, the breakage came from having someone who didn't understand the >> needs define that policy. > > I think you are misunderstanding how SELinux policies are formed and how > they work. Its a *lot* less complicated and mysterious than you're > making it sound. For most appl

Re: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

Aha, I forgot about /etc/yum.conf and found an erroneous entry there that has fixed my problem! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

[CentOS] blue screen instead of login screen

I installed Centos 6.2/i386 on a machine last night with a 1920x1080 monitor. The installer ran in graphical mode and looked fine. After the install was finished I rebooted and ran through the "firstboot" stuff (set up user, etc) with no problem and, again, it looked good. After that, when I shou

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda "vaulting" what I need for archiving data?

> > For one thing, I think you seriously need to look at backup up to offline > hard drives, instead of tapes. Unless you really want/need to archive the > tapes for seven years Well, the scientists are talking longer than 7 years so HDs just are not going to cut it > We back up to backup serve

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 01/12/2012 04:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:22:05 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't >>> appreciate it when a distribution goes out of its way to arbitrar

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

Dne 11.1.2012 17:12, email builder napsal(a): > I'm on a 32 bit machine, not sure if that makes a difference. > What I do know is this: > > > > yum update > > == > Package Arch V

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda "vaulting" what I need for archiving data?

Hey, Alan, Alan McKay wrote: > gtar on the back end, which is how I ended up at Amanda. In looking > through some of the initial configuration how-tos it seemed as though this > was massively over-complex for my application. But then I hit upon > "vaulting" > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

Dne 11.1.2012 17:22, Johnny Hughes napsal(a): > OK ... then it ought to move (probably) :) Se my post on repoforge users list. http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/022634.html There's no one to move the package but Dag. DH ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2012 02:50 PM, 夜神　岩男 wrote: > On 01/12/2012 03:48 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> In Fedora we currently dontaudit this leak. >> >> audit2allow -i /tmp/t >> >> >> #= httpd_sys_script_t == # This avc >> has a dont

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

On 01/12/2012 03:48 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > In Fedora we currently dontaudit this leak. > > audit2allow -i /tmp/t > > > #= httpd_sys_script_t == > # This avc has a dontaudit rule in the current policy > > allow httpd_sys_script_t httpd_t:udp_socket { read write };

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:22:05 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't >> appreciate it when a distribution goes out of its way to arbitrarily >> modify and break what application develope

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

On 01/12/2012 03:18 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Is this really supposed to get easier over time? :) Now my audit.log > file shows that SELinux is blocking my cgi script, index.cgi (which is > what's actually served when the user visits the front page of one of our > proxy sites like sugarsurfer.

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2012 01:18 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Is this really supposed to get easier over time? :) Now my > audit.log file shows that SELinux is blocking my cgi script, > index.cgi (which is what's actually served when the user visits the > front p

[CentOS] Is Amanda "vaulting" what I need for archiving data?

Hi folks, I've got a bit of a different scenario than I imagine most, and have spent the last 60 or 90 minutes searching Amanda list archives and googling, but did not come up with anything much. Then I went browsing around the Amanda website and found "vaulting" and was wondering whether this w

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:22:05 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't > appreciate it when a distribution goes out of its way to arbitrarily > modify and break what application developers spent years designing and > writing. SELinux does not

Re: [CentOS] gabber/jabber for centos 5.7?

On 01/11/2012 08:35 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:52 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 06:45 AM, ken wrote: >>> I used to use jabber for chats. But I don't find it in centos 5.7 >>> anymore. Is it still around? Or has something else taken its place? >>> >>> What do peo

Re: [CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Brian Mathis > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan >> wrote: >> >> Yum only downloads and installs RPM files, so in general you will use >> the rpm comm

Re: [CentOS] Write to USB pendrives horribly slow

Blah, blah, blah, Being blocked again, still appears to be based on new content vs. included content. Which makes it very annoying when I want to include context for my response. blah, blah, blah, new content. Hi, wwp, wwp wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:31:43 +0100 Ljubomir Lj

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Still not a great analogy, though, since the Pinto (and the Corvair) were > oriented towards the normal user; Fedora is more of a 'concept car' thing. I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't appreciate it when a distri

Re: [CentOS] with Centos6 i cant Partition on 3TB Disks, problem

Hi, Marko, Marko Weber wrote: > > i try to install Centos 6 on a Server with 2x 3TB Disks. > When anaconda is showing up the disk partitioner i cant > do more then 3 "normal Partitions" or more then 3 "Raid Partitions". > > Even when u choose that each partition is 200mb, u cant do more then > 3 "

[CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

Is this really supposed to get easier over time? :) Now my audit.log file shows that SELinux is blocking my cgi script, index.cgi (which is what's actually served when the user visits the front page of one of our proxy sites like sugarsurfer.com) from having '"read write" to socket (httpd_t)'.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Postfix - forward through SMTP smarthost with SMTP-AUTH [RESOLVED]

On 11/01/2012 17:36, Giles Coochey wrote: On 11/01/2012 10:33, Benjamin Hackl wrote: $ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf myorigin=yourdomain.com relayhost=your.smarthost.com smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes ## you probably want to limit how postfix authenticates # smtp_sasl_security_options=noanonymous # smtp_

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:06:31 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > I was thinking more of Ford getting people to forget about the Pinto - > which I think they have done fairly successfully although it may just > have to do with aging memory. Let's see, that was around 1980. > Maybe I'll try Fedora a

Re: [CentOS] Write to USB pendrives horribly slow

Hello Ljubomir, On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:31:43 +0100 Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/11/2012 08:45 AM, wwp wrote: > > Hello John, > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:57:14 -0800 (PST) John Doe wrote: > > > >> From: wwp > >> > >>> I wonder if some mount options aren't wrong with USB pendrives,

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012/1/11 夜神　岩男 : > >>> That is not the way it works. SELinux Reference policy is a database >>> of rules that govern the default ways application run. >> >> Yes, but it is application developers that know what their >> applications need to do. Is there a way for them to express that? > > This ge

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Postfix - forward through SMTP smarthost with SMTP-AUTH

On 11/01/2012 10:33, Benjamin Hackl wrote: $ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf myorigin=yourdomain.com relayhost=your.smarthost.com smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes ## you probably want to limit how postfix authenticates # smtp_sasl_security_options=noanonymous # smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter=login smtp_sasl_passw

Re: [CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

Greetings, On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: > > Yum only downloads and installs RPM files, so in general you will use > the rpm command to get the details of the packages you installed. > > You can see all th

Re: [CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I have helped host a few applications such as GLPI, OCSInventory, etc > etc. using the tarball method and untarring them in /var/www/htom > directory. > > I have never done them though using yum. > > I was trying to in

Re: [CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:28:18 +0530 Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Now where do these stuff get installed? they are not under /var/www/html rpm -ql nameofrpm If you're not sure of the names of the rpms that yum installed, read /var/log/yum.log to find out. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digita

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:47:44 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'll have to disagree, Lamar. There *are* large distros: RH & its >> derivatives, SuSE, and Debian & its derivatives (i.e., Ubuntu), and though >> there are kit distros (fedo

[CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

Greetings, I have helped host a few applications such as GLPI, OCSInventory, etc etc. using the tarball method and untarring them in /var/www/htom directory. I have never done them though using yum. I was trying to install Trac, Bugzilla etc using yum install method on a Centos 6.2 box. Somehow

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:47:44 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'll have to disagree, Lamar. There *are* large distros: RH & its > derivatives, SuSE, and Debian & its derivatives (i.e., Ubuntu), and though > there are kit distros (fedora?), they're more like the Big Three > automakers of the

[CentOS] with Centos6 i cant Partition on 3TB Disks, problem

Hello List, i try to install Centos 6 on a Server with 2x 3TB Disks. When anaconda is showing up the disk partitioner i cant do more then 3 "normal Partitions" or more then 3 "Raid Partitions". Even when u choose that each partition is 200mb, u cant do more then 3 "normal" or "raid" partitions.

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:38:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> But the hardest part is that these things are application specific and >> there is no standardization for locations where applications do >> things.  In fact, distributions intentio

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

On 01/11/2012 09:59 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 08:42 AM, email builder wrote: >>> And then there's the problem Nicolas is pointing out, which seems >>> to be part of my problem. If such conflicting packages are supposed >>> to be in rfx but are not.

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

  >> And then there's the problem Nicolas is pointing out, which seems >> to be part of my problem.  If such conflicting packages are supposed >> to be in rfx but are not.    Maybe Daniel could move it, which >> would definitely help my yum to stop complaining > > It is now part of R

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/11/2012 08:42 AM, email builder wrote: >> And then there's the problem Nicolas is pointing out, which seems >> to be part of my problem. If such conflicting packages are supposed >> to be in rfx but are not.Maybe Daniel could move it, which >> would definitely

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:38:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> But the hardest part is that these things are application specific and >> there is no standardization for locations where applications do >> things. In fact, distributions intentionally move those locations >> arou

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

On 01/11/2012 08:42 AM, email builder wrote: Well, kind of. If you review this thread, you'll see that the the fix was to stop using the RepoForge package for perl-NetAddr-IP so that it wasn't mixed with CentOS packages for perl-Net-DNS and perl-IO-Socket-INET6. Maybe

Re: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

> > You mean in the terminal on solexa-db you just issued the yum install > in, you can issue as the next command > wget http://fedora.mirror.nexicom.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml > and it gets the xml file? Yup, exactly > As a quick temporary fix/test I would comment mirrorlist and u

Re: [CentOS] Write to USB pendrives horribly slow

On 01/11/2012 08:45 AM, wwp wrote: > Hello John, > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:57:14 -0800 (PST) John Doe wrote: > >> From: wwp >> >>> I wonder if some mount options aren't wrong with USB pendrives, see: >>>/dev/sdd1 on /media/monolith type vfat >>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,shortname=mix

Re: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Alan McKay > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:36 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me? > > This is very strange - has been happening the l

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:38:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > But the hardest part is that these things are application specific and > there is no standardization for locations where applications do > things. In fact, distributions intentionally move those locations > around in their packaging.

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

> And then there's the problem Nicolas is pointing out, which seems > to be part of my problem.  If such conflicting packages are supposed > to be in rfx but are not.    Maybe Daniel could move it, which > would definitely help my yum to stop complaining David not Daniel.  My apologies m

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

>>> Well, kind of.  If you review this thread, you'll see that the the >>> fix >>> was to stop using the RepoForge package for perl-NetAddr-IP so that it >>> wasn't mixed with CentOS packages for perl-Net-DNS and >>> perl-IO-Socket-INET6. Maybe your position is that you won't fix >>> perl-N

[CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

This is very strange - has been happening the last few days. I just upgraded this system from 5.3 to 5.7 on Monday and the problem started some time after that (but not immediately because I know I used yum Monday evening after the upgrade) I get the following error from yum, but it goes away if

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 1/11/2012 5:32 AM, 夜神　岩男 wrote: > On 01/11/2012 07:19 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > >> Well there is already a beginner-friendly introduction: >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux >> The problem I had with it is that there are several statements that are >> unclear, missing, or just wrong. T

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >> its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe...  lets >> media boxes find media servers, and such.    if you were to serve up >> streaming media on a home network, it would be a useful thing to have.

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

John R Pierce wrote: > its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe... lets > media boxes find media servers, and such.if you were to serve up > streaming media on a home network, it would be a useful thing to have. > otherwise? meh. Could you give a concrete example of suc

Re: [CentOS] gabber/jabber for centos 5.7?

On 01/11/2012 01:52 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/11/2012 06:45 AM, ken wrote: >> I used to use jabber for chats. But I don't find it in centos 5.7 >> anymore. Is it still around? Or has something else taken its place? >> >> What do people using 5.7 use these days? >> Is there anything which

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 01/11/2012 07:19 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Well there is already a beginner-friendly introduction: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux > The problem I had with it is that there are several statements that are > unclear, missing, or just wrong. That's not necessarily the fault of the > a

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

Timothy Murphy wrote: > William Warren wrote: > Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases. > >>> But what applications use mdns? >>> >>> As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd. >>> Is it only used within local LANs? >>> Is it used, for example, by CUPS t

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

William Warren wrote: >>> Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases. >> But what applications use mdns? >> >> As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd. >> Is it only used within local LANs? >> Is it used, for example, by CUPS to identify printers? >> When, if e

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/11/2012 04:42 AM, David Hrbáč wrote: >> Dne 11.1.2012 1:13, email builder napsal(a): >>> Well, kind of. If you review this thread, you'll see that the the fix >>> was to stop using the RepoForge package for perl-NetAddr-IP so that it >>> wasn't mixed with CentOS packag

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 01/11/2012 03:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> That is not the way it works. SELinux Reference policy is a database >> of rules that govern the default ways application run. > > Yes, but it is application developers that know what thei

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

On 01/10/2012 12:55 PM, Gene Poole wrote: > We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new > servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1. So that everything > is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've > searched the CentOS wiki,

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 01/11/2012 11:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> That is not the way it works. SELinux Reference policy is a database >> of rules that govern the default ways application run. > > Yes, but it is application developers that know what thei

Re: [CentOS] gabber/jabber for centos 5.7?

On 01/11/2012 06:45 AM, ken wrote: > I used to use jabber for chats. But I don't find it in centos 5.7 > anymore. Is it still around? Or has something else taken its place? > > What do people using 5.7 use these days? > Is there anything which handles MSN? > > tia. Pidgin is the IM client inclu

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

On 01/11/2012 04:42 AM, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 11.1.2012 1:13, email builder napsal(a): >> Well, kind of. If you review this thread, you'll see that the the fix >> was to stop using the RepoForge package for perl-NetAddr-IP so that it >> wasn't mixed with CentOS packages for perl-Net-DNS and >>

[CentOS] gabber/jabber for centos 5.7?

I used to use jabber for chats. But I don't find it in centos 5.7 anymore. Is it still around? Or has something else taken its place? What do people using 5.7 use these days? Is there anything which handles MSN? tia. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 01/11/12 3:47 AM, William Warren wrote: > multicast dns. How it applies to cent though i don't know at this instant. its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe... lets media boxes find media servers, and such.if you were to serve up streaming media on a home network, i

Re: [CentOS] Building REDHAT Desktop Virtualization Solution With Centos

On 01/11/2012 05:11 AM, Arif Tuhin wrote: > Redhat offers a desktop virtualization solution using "kvm,qemu,libvirt and > spice" which is directed at centralized server hosting virtual desktops and > thin clients connecting to it. > > All the relevant software are open source. So it should be pos

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 1/11/2012 6:42 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rilindo Foster wrote: > >>> So I looked up avahi on the web, but as far as I could see >>> it is not doing anything essential; >>> so I was wondering if stopping avahi-daemon would have any bad effect? >> Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable i

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

Rilindo Foster wrote: >> So I looked up avahi on the web, but as far as I could see >> it is not doing anything essential; >> so I was wondering if stopping avahi-daemon would have any bad effect? > Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases. But what applications use mdns?

[CentOS] Building REDHAT Desktop Virtualization Solution With Centos

Redhat offers a desktop virtualization solution using "kvm,qemu,libvirt and spice" which is directed at centralized server hosting virtual desktops and thin clients connecting to it. All the relevant software are open source. So it should be possible to achieve the same feat with CentOS. Anyon

Re: [CentOS] sa-update error with perl

Dne 11.1.2012 1:13, email builder napsal(a): > Well, kind of. If you review this thread, you'll see that the the fix > was to stop using the RepoForge package for perl-NetAddr-IP so that it > wasn't mixed with CentOS packages for perl-Net-DNS and > perl-IO-Socket-INET6. Maybe your position is that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Postfix - forward through SMTP smarthost with SMTP-AUTH

Dear Giles, I think you're searching for this. $ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf myorigin=yourdomain.com relayhost=your.smarthost.com smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes ## you probably want to limit how postfix authenticates # smtp_sasl_security_options=noanonymous # smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter=login smtp_sasl_p

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

On 1/10/2012 12:52 PM, 夜神　岩男 wrote: > On 01/11/2012 05:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Daniel J Walsh >>wrote: >>> Now if only more people used RHEL we could further enhance >>> the product

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Postfix - forward through SMTP smarthost with SMTP-AUTH

On Wed, January 11, 2012 10:09, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/11/12 12:50 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: >> I don't really have the enerygy to do that, thanks anyway. I'll >> uninstall postfix and use sendmail. Just thought maybe there was a >> quick way to keep the default MTA on the system. > > the firs

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