Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

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

Re: [CentOS] md5sum from nautilus

2009-02-23 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:41:46 +0800 Fajar Priyanto took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Hi, > Is there any nautilus extension that allow us to do md5sum? > It would be nice to be able to do that from nautilus. > Thank you. You may want to look here: http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/cat-fileproc.

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-24 Thread Alex White
your own voice as well. When you run the skype test call you should bear better results. HTH Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] command line configuration of DSL access

2008-07-12 Thread Alex White
ote of the various references it makes. HTH Alex White ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-03 Thread Alex White
re I'd really appreciate a link or something just for my own knowledge down the road. Sincerely, Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-07-02 Thread Alex White
hce wrote: I'm certainly not expert on this, but I can think of a few things to examine that might give a clue. That makes you and me both. First, under 5.1, do an lsmod and note the driver(s) loaded for the audio. Might want to examine the modprobe.conf file too. Please see following res

Re: [CentOS] Want to _prevent_ upgrade to centos 5.2

2008-07-01 Thread Alex White
es. This has been discussed here before. The minor number could be compared to a service pack from the Windows world. Depending on one's environment, one may not want to necessarily throw the latest service packs into production right away either. HTH Alex White -- [EMA

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild of kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL failure

2008-07-01 Thread Alex White
Jim Perrin wrote: I don't think he did it intentionally, so how's about we all forgive and forget, or turn the other cheek, or whatever else you wish to do just this once. YES I realize the humor involved in me being the voice of compassion and reason here, so stuff it. :-P Oh and I was total

Re: [CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

2008-06-30 Thread Alex White
problem save for one user using Ubuntu (I didn't spend that much time looking, sorry) who only got sound out of one speaker. A Fedora review of sorts listed the chipset as just working, but I believe that was for Fedora 8. HTH Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is

Re: [CentOS] Minimized Firefox is not visible on panel in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-29 Thread Alex White
want the list on and then choose Add to panel. You'll get a list of items to add the one you're looking for is Window List. You can also try Window Selector I think it is. It's slightly different but same principle. Sincerely, Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison

Re: [CentOS] PPPoE client help

2008-05-28 Thread Alex White
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Please point me in the right direction My ISP is giving me an IPv6 prefix, but to get that I have to: The current Speedstream ADSL router will be configured as a bridge. I will have to set up a Linux (read Centos, I hope) router that will connect ethernet to the S

Re: [CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-22 Thread Alex White
.nx directory, but I am not sure where it's kept. C:\documents and settings\user\.nx maybe. That is where it resides on my windows install at work on XP. I may or may not have changed the directory so you might have to look around a bit. HTH Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a pris

Re: [CentOS] Re:Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-20 Thread Alex White
ity to write to his/her home directory properly? You could be getting stuck on the splash screen because the user can't write any data for the initialization. Sincerely, Alex White ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-20 Thread Alex White
ting to via the nomachine client? Also, the Nomachine client provides some logging of its own as well. You may want to check for any error or permissions related information in the client's directory. That may point you in the right direction. Sincerely, Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Open extra ports on firewall?

2008-03-14 Thread Alex White
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:08 +0100 Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Hi, > > I'm using the preconfigured firewall that comes with CentOS 5. I > configure it with system-config-securitylevel-tui, close all > ports except SSH, and then open only the ones I need.

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-07 Thread Alex White
ode instead of disabled? I would highly suggest running it in permissive mode, and then taking care of little problems that arise when you start applications up. I ran into this same issue that you have been having with OpenOffice, as I run selinux in Enforcing mode. Selinux doesn't complai

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-07 Thread Alex White
t you may want to install the setroubleshoot package from yum and view what it is complaining about exactly. It will also give you suggestions on how to fix the selinux complaints. HTH Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release _

Re: [CentOS] /var/www/html group & owner

2008-03-04 Thread Alex White
ble to traverse the directories and read them; thus, serve them up without a problem. So long as apache has permission to read the contents (correct permissions) you do not have to change the user/group to be specific to apache. I would refrain from making anything writable (unless necessar)

Re: [CentOS] disable SELinux

2008-03-04 Thread Alex White
would be excellent to know what that error is. Are you seeing any errors in the /var/log/httpd/error_log or in /var/log/messages? I'd think though that it's just iptables blocking the port. Sincerely, Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] disable SELinux

2008-03-04 Thread Alex White
setenforce Are you sure you really want to turn off selinux? If you reboot, unless you change /etc/sysconfig/selinux, your machine will have selinux re-enabled. Sincerely, Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:58:27 -0800 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > On Feb 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote: > > > > > > The default

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Alex White
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:40:32 -0500 "Paul A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Thanks Alex. > > I'm assuming that if another security exploit is found that the > openssl version number who change on the repo correct, if not how > would yum know to update? > > Thanks, Paul

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Alex White
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:49:10 -0500 "Paul A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Hi, > > I was compiling a new version of bind on my centos 4.6 server and > I discovered that the openssl version > (openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1) has several exploits associated > with it. I was

Re: [CentOS] NoMachine NX Server

2008-01-30 Thread Alex White
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:15:04 +0700 Sobari Tanuwijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Hi, > Is there anybody ever have an experience install NoMachine NX > Server on centos? Is there anything need to get special attention? > Thanks in advance > > -- Tanu -- I've seen no

Re: [CentOS] Re: question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

2008-01-28 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:57:44 -0600 Robert Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > The shell does not apply aliases to commands executed from > scripts. I knew that...after testing it an hour ago. In the corner of my mind somewhere I knew that as I have scripted in a limi

Re: [CentOS] question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

2008-01-28 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alias foo=bar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ foo > bash: bar: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ "foo" > bash: foo: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ \f

Re: [CentOS] question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

2008-01-28 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Curious question that is directly related to this. This did work on my system; however, I'm not sure if this is something one wants to be doing. If one were to type literally: "cp" -fr somedir

[CentOS] Possibly OT: FreeNX and Gnome Language

2008-01-19 Thread Alex White
If this is too far off topic please let me know and I'll send this to the Gnome list or something. Today I recently had a thai friend want to experience linux. Their limitation is language of course. I set up an account for my friend and had them log in after changing through GDM their language pr

Re: [CentOS] Openoffice.org Gimp

2008-01-17 Thread Alex White
ly want the updated versions, you can yum remove openoffice and install the rpms from OpenOffice.Org with minimal hassle if any at all. I did not have problems with the packages from OO.O; YMMV of course. I am not sure for GIMP; however, sorry. I don't use it very often. HTH Alex White -- [

Re: [CentOS] build rpm from source code

2008-01-17 Thread Alex White
&& make && make install sorts. The above link is from rpm.org and may or may not be what you're looking for. HTH Alex White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is a prison, death is a release ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sound conversion assistance

2008-01-16 Thread Alex White
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:30:23 -0500 fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > OK, I downloaded a batch of ".rm" audio files from the net. I can > play them with mplayer or realplayer, but how can I convert them > to something else, e.g. mp3, etc.? So far haven't unearthed

Re: [CentOS] Re: openoffice

2007-07-27 Thread Alex White
upgrade'? > > > --beast It won't mess up the whole thing if you exclude openoffice in your yum configuration. Yum will happily ignore openoffice from that point forward. HTH, Alex White ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos