[CentOS] upgrade to 5.2 now have gam_server how to turn it off

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry Geis
After upgrading to 5.2 I now have gam_server running. How do I turn it off? nothing with gam in /etc/init.d Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: command for brand of monitor

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry Geis
/ Is there a linux command that would tell me what model of monitor is // presently attached to my computer? // Thought about automating different setups based on the monitor // connected. X config files basically. // // Could be done with different kickstart files - but would like to not go

[CentOS] Re: kickstart and lang

2008-07-01 Thread Jerry Geis
lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 Thanks I added the langsupport line this morning and tried it. It no longer stops at that screen. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] kickstart and lang

2008-06-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a line like: lang en_US.UTF-8 in my kickstart file. However it stops on that screen to prompt me. Everything else works fine... I am using centos 4.6. Is this line no longer correct? I am sure I got it from a anaconda file to start with. Jerry

[CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry Geis
Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. What is the yum install name to get it on the machine? I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the DVD? Thanks, great effort CentOS Team. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry, I have no clue about your question. However, I have several AMD K6 chips (pentium-equivalent) lying around should you trip over a motherboard that'll run them. That would solve your 486 problem, I think, so let me know if such a chip would help you out. Fred - thanks for the offer -

[CentOS] centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a method to get a 586 (i586 text) install to a 486 level? I am looking for information guidance on this. I have looked into using debian/386 which stinks in my opinion, slackware doesnt quite have it either. So I am wishing/hoping there is a NOT TO painful way to get a 586 install to

[CentOS] question about expert install for 4.6

2008-06-19 Thread Jerry Geis
At the boot: install prompt for 4.6 there is a i586 option. there is also an expert option. If you use expert mode can you also specify i586 somehow? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] linux rescue on usb thumbdrive

2008-06-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I believe the same issue I see with running linux rescue on a USB drive is the same issue I am having why the thumb drive wont boot. When installing I have to use expert mode I just cant install directly as the USB disk is not seen. What happens extra in expert mode? some delay somewhere???

[CentOS] Re: linux rescue on usb thumbdrive

2008-06-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I am hoping this does the trick wow has this been a long process. http://fungliding.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_fungliding_archive.html Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] custom kernel cant find label /

2008-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I installed centos 4.6 on a USB thumbdrive. It installed and booted after install. I then put a custom kernel on, build it as I should, on rebooting and selecting my kernel to load from grub I it starts up and all and the last error I get is: label / not found. What went wrong?

[CentOS] Re: custom kernel cant find label /

2008-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I installed centos 4.6 on a USB thumbdrive. It installed and booted after install. I then put a custom kernel on, build it as I should, on rebooting and selecting my kernel to load from grub I it starts up and all and the last error I get is: label / not found

[CentOS] Re: custom kernel cant find label /

2008-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I installed centos 4.6 on a USB thumbdrive. // It installed and booted after install. // // I then put a custom kernel on, build it as I should, // on rebooting and selecting my kernel to load from grub I it starts up // and all // and the last error I get is: // // label

[CentOS] Re: howto use kvm-amd on centos 5.1

2008-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos wrote: / Jerry Geis wrote: // // What went wrong? // // Also, I can see you are still doing your old ask on the list rather than // actually work out what the problem

[CentOS] booting usb stick

2008-06-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have been trying to get a usb stick 8G to boot centos. I am as far a it boots and hangs at Switching to new root. I take the same USB stick and put it another PC and it boots fine. What might I look for as to why the machine hangs at switching to new root? Of course the machines are

[CentOS] Re: booting usb stick

2008-06-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:38 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi all, // // I have been trying to get a usb stick 8G to boot centos. // I am as far a it boots and hangs at Switching to new root. // // I take the same USB stick and put it another PC and it boots fine. // // What might I look

[CentOS] which centos for 486

2008-06-16 Thread Jerry Geis
What version of centos supported the i386 and i486 at install time? perhaps even a version that ran with math emulation? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] getting device to boot from thumb drive

2008-06-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I have created a custom kernel as I needed to add floating point emulation to the kernel. I used the command below to create my initrd: mkinitrd --preload=ohci-hcd --preload=uhci-hcd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ext3 --preload=jbd --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod --preload=ata_piix

[CentOS] Re: getting device to boot from thumb drive

2008-06-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: I have created a custom kernel as I needed to add floating point emulation to the kernel. I used the command below to create my initrd: mkinitrd --preload=ohci-hcd --preload=uhci-hcd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ext3 --preload=jbd --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod

[CentOS] what modules are needed in initrd to boot from USB thumb drive

2008-06-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi, What modules are needed in my mkinird command with --preload to boot from usb thumbdrive? THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] enter run level

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a centos 4 x86_64 machine that has been working fine. It has software RAID-1. Now when it boots I get the GRUB screen, I get the very first screen about loading Init then I get a prompt about: Enter Run Level: When I enter 3 nothing happens... This is obviously not a normal boot

[CentOS] Re: enter run level

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: I have a centos 4 x86_64 machine that has been working fine. It has software RAID-1. Now when it boots I get the GRUB screen, I get the very first screen about loading Init then I get a prompt about: Enter Run Level: When I enter 3 nothing happens... This is obviously

[CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. How can I grab my QEMU installed centos 4 image and put it on the ext3 /dev/sdc2 partition on my thumbdrive? THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... // three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. / I think it's a bad idea to put a swap partition on a flash drive... or is that obsolete knowledge? Its there by habit - and I hope I dont need it. Just investigating

[CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing. Is there

[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote: / I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT // machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - // ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: // // VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root

[CentOS] using /dev/hda system to build initrd for /dev/sda system

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I think I have booting issues for my custom kernel on centos 4. the sda system cannot find the disk. I used a qemu image to build a centos 4 MATH_EMULATION kernel. This system has /dev/hda. The system I am putting the vmlinuz and initrd files on is a /dev/sda system. I dont think the initrd

[CentOS] centos 4 on ebox 2300sx

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, I am attempting to install centos 4.4 on an ebox 2300sx. I start with i586 text everything starts up and then I get: No coprocessor found and no math emulation present. How do I get math emulation? THanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Re: centos 4 on ebox 2300sx

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:43 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: / I am attempting to install centos 4.4 on an ebox 2300sx. // I start with i586 text everything starts up and then I get: // No coprocessor found and no math emulation present. // // How do I get math emulation? / You build a kernel

[CentOS] Re: isolinux on a pendrive from disk 1

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi // // I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386, // copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux // -sf /dev/sdc1 // on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot. // // Is there a step(s) I am missing

[CentOS] Re: isolinux on a pendrive from disk 1

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi // // I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386, // copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux // -sf /dev/sdc1 // on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot. // // Is there a step(s

[CentOS] Re: isolinux on a pendrive from disk 1

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi // // I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386, // copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux // -sf /dev/sdc1 // on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot

[CentOS] kernel compile for i586

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I created a i586 install image with qemu. I downloaded the SRPMS package for the kernel and installed it. I cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -bp --target i586 kernelXXX.spec I does a bunch of things but it did not build a new kernel and put it in /boot I think I am missing a command to

[CentOS] Re: kernel compile for i586

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
nate wrote: / Jerry Geis wrote: // I created a i586 install image with qemu. // I downloaded the SRPMS package for the kernel and installed it. // I cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS // rpmbuild -bp --target i586 kernelXXX.spec // I does a bunch of things but it did not build a new kernel and put

[CentOS] centos RS232 to IP port program

2008-06-04 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, Is there a method in centos where a program can be started that listens on a given IP port and when something connects it will transfer data from the RS232 port to the IP port. reads and writes of course. Trying not to reinvent the wheel if I dont have to... Thanks, Jerry

[CentOS] servercd i386 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though. Can someone point me to it. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. // Not finding it though. // // Can someone point me to it. Thanks, // // Jerry / There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here: http

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. // This unit has a vortex86 CPU. // When installing the unit finds the USB cdrom I type linux text and it // starts // vlinuz... // init // Screen goes black and the unit reboots. / Sounds like an i586 CPU which

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: / // I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. /http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ? you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... is the cpu i686 compatible? Tru Tru, yes this is the box I

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / // On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: // / // I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. // /http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ? // // you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... // is the cpu i686 compatible

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
now do: i586 text mem=128 when I do i586 text mem=128 it says cant find kernel so I do linux i586 text mem=128 and I get the same behavior Loading vmlinuz Loading initrd and reboot. Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? Jerry

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / // now do: // // i586 text mem=128 // // // when I do i586 text mem=128 it says cant find kernel // so I do linux i586 text mem=128 and I get the same behavior // Loading vmlinuz // Loading initrd // and reboot. // // Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet

[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: / // now do: // // i586 text mem=128 // // // when I do i586 text mem=128 it says cant find kernel // so I do linux i586 text mem=128 and I get the same behavior // Loading vmlinuz // Loading initrd // and reboot. // // Am I not correctly specifying

[CentOS] centos 5.1 i386 on a 1GIG flash

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size. however, I am getting blocked at the install page

[CentOS] USB modem on centos

2008-05-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I am playing with a USR (us robotics) USB modem model 5637. in the past I used internal modems and had no issues. One this unit I plugged it in, dmesg says its recogized. I did ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/ttyS4 this works. I then did cu -l /dev/ttyS4 type AT and I get OK... looking good. When I ATDT

[CentOS] kickstart question with 2 network cards

2008-05-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using kickstart to automate installs. working nicely. I now have a box with 2 NIC cards and I am getting prompted for which nick to use. I have a line like: network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname tmp.msgnet.com in my kickstart. This line does not seem to be enough to say

[CentOS] has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, when I do a grep JERRY *.h nothing is returned which is what I expect. This is in my source directory... when I do a grep JERRY * every file is returned an a line printed even though there is no JERRY on the line. Then if I do a grep JERRY *.c just the 4 lines that have JERRY are

[CentOS] Re: has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi all, // // when I do a grep JERRY *.h nothing is returned which is what I expect. // This is in my source directory... // when I do a grep JERRY * every file is returned an a line printed even // though there is no JERRY on the line. // Then if I do a grep JERRY *.c

[CentOS] Re: has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
/ I tried rm *f and it is not removing it. No what? /rm -- -f THanks that removed the file and grep now has the correct behavior. Somehow the VIM start screen is in the -f file... Not sure how that happened but glad its gone. Have a great day all! Jerry

[CentOS] phenom anyone B3 stepping of course

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I was considering getting a Phenom 2.4G and B3 stepping (cheap $219). I was wondering if anyone has been using it with centos 5.1 x86_64 and found them stable now. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Jerry Geis
I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps

[CentOS] kickstart question

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a couple lines like: part / --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=1 --asprimary --grow in my kickstart file. Is there a way to have 1 kickstart file that

[CentOS] Re: kickstart question

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry Geis
/ I have a couple lines like: // // part / --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary // part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary // part /home --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=1 --asprimary --grow // // in my kickstart file. // // Is there a way to have 1

[CentOS] xinetd question

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using centos 5.1 x86_64 I am wanting to restart xinetd when I do service xinetd restart it says xinetd unrecognized service when I do /etc/init.d/xinetd restart I get no such file or directory. How does one restart xinetd? THanks, Jerry ___

[CentOS] Re: xinetd question

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: I am using centos 5.1 x86_64 I am wanting to restart xinetd when I do service xinetd restart it says xinetd unrecognized service when I do /etc/init.d/xinetd restart I get no such file or directory. How does one restart xinetd? THanks, Jerry Sorry - I got it. I first

[CentOS] alias for network on centos 4

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I was playing with network alias on centos 4 - i386. When I activated the alias ifconfig showed the correct eth1:0 information However I was not able to ping the address Tried service network stop and start still not able to ping the address. After rebooting everything seems to be normal

[CentOS] howto use kvm-amd on centos 5.1

2008-04-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip. I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running

[CentOS] logging items to the console using centos 5.1

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I need to (occasionally) automatically drop out of X11 mode, recompile something, and then reboot. I can drop out of X11 with init 3, works fine. I use chvt 1 to ensure I am on virtual terminal 1 My recompile and reboot also work. The piece that doesnt work is: make | tee $LOGFILE I was

[CentOS] yum update did not complete

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I was doing a yum update today. It downloaded all the packages. was doing the next part and my remote connection was lost. so ssh session was killed. When I logged back in I am not sure if the update is done or not. I presume not. I presume it died with my remote session. I do a yum update

[CentOS] question on RAID performance

2008-04-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I was wonder what experiences there are out there with using RAID-X for performance increases. I do use RAID-1 (2 disks) but am interested in attemtps to gain higher R/W performance. Do the RAID-5's etc give noticeable performace increases? A significant help for me was using ccache

[CentOS] Re: Xorg crashes centos 5.1

2008-04-08 Thread Jerry Geis
What binary drivers do you have and where did you get them from and what version are they? Give us the output of lspci -v. as in the line containing your type of video card. I downloaded this directly from the nvidia site. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run 02:00.0 VGA compatible

[CentOS] New phenom quad core and centos 5.1

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Any one here tried the phenom (B3 stepping) and centos 5.1? Any issues? I would presume there are no issues, but thought I'd ask before moving on. I am considering getting a Phenom 9850. Wish the clock speed was higher at this point. Jerry ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Xorg crashes centos 5.1

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry Geis
From dmesg after the crash. Xorg[12774] general protection rip:2b3daaff218b rsp:7fff01440950 error:0 Anyone experiencing X11 crashes? I have an amd 6400+ centos 5.1 x86_64. This typically happens when I VNC in from home into my machine at work. My machine has nvidia card and I do run the

[CentOS] rtc issue

2008-04-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have installed centos 5.1 x86_64. 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Everything seems to be working fine except that the rtc module is not working. cat /proc/interrupts shows: CPU0 CPU1 0:129 0XT-PIC-XTtimer 1: 330797 0

[CentOS] centos 5.1 x86_64 and ztdummy

2008-04-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Anyone out there using Centos 5.1 asterisk (ztdummy) x86_64, 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel? I seem to be having problems with simple playback on asterisk(). If I do the normal service zaptel start (my configs have 0 hardware cards for asterisk) ztdummy is loaded and when doing a playback() I

[CentOS] Re: alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-31 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hi all, // // I need to compile alsa-project 1.0.16 on the latest centos 5.1 kernel. // I am getting this error. What to do... ? // // CC // [M] // /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/sound_oss.o // CC // [M] // /home/silentm/MessageNet

[CentOS] alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-30 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I need to compile alsa-project 1.0.16 on the latest centos 5.1 kernel. I am getting this error. What to do... ? CC [M] /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/sound_oss.o CC [M] /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/info_oss.o In file

[CentOS] questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=raid --onpart=sda1

[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry Geis
part of my kickstart file is now: clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=raid --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=swap --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part --ondisk=sda raid.02

[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: part of my kickstart file is now: clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=raid --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=swap --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part

[CentOS] Question on mail

2008-03-27 Thread Jerry Geis
All of a sudden I am getting this error this morning. -- 553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://ordb.org/lookup/?host=mp;{client_addr} 501 5.6.0 Data format error Content-Type: message/delivery-status Action: failed Status: 5.3.0 Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553

[CentOS] Way to not page swap programs

2008-03-19 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to tell linux dont ever swap out my program... Like perhaps a list of programs (some setup file) that if any program in my file listing is running dont consider the program when looking for something to swap out? Does anything like that exist? Thanks, Jerry

[CentOS] kvm_amd and centos 5.2

2008-03-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Will the kvm_amd kernel module be in CentOS 5.2? Presently I run 2.6.24 on one machine so I get kvm_amd. It would be great if it is included. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] ld-linux segfault

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry Geis
Any one seen ld-linux segfault? I just noticed this in the log file today. eth0: link down. eth0: link up. ld-linux-x86-64[32199]: segfault at 34e908ff18 rip b985 rsp 7fffdf3baf00 error 4 ld-linux-x86-64[32200]: segfault at 34e908ff18 rip b985 rsp 7fffe65c5c40 error 4

[CentOS] shell script question

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, If I have a shell script on 5.1 that has 2 commands in the script... command1 command2 and command1 runs until it is kill'ed by some other process. Sometimes command2 runs and sometimes it doesnt (this is what it seems like). How can I be ensured that command2 will always run after

[CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry Geis
is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails it KILLS my X11 session. If I am at my desktop it works fine. xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. Is there an alternative? Thanks,

[CentOS] Question on SATA DVD using centos 5.1

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry Geis
On my machine I have SATA0: HD SATA1: HD these two drives are set as RAID1 SATA2: HD extra SATA3: DVD SATA4: external USB disk Snip from dmesg shows the ATAPI device being detected. ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xe400 irq 10 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60

[CentOS] vnc stops working

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am running straight centos 5.1. I have had the X screen die on me a couple times I found this in the log file. Xorg[3380]: segfault at 30c rip 3943610c52 rsp 7fff1c125370 error 4 npviewer.bin[14084]: segfault at f67ba030 rip 468373a0 rsp ff92d608 error 4 Any suggestions on

[CentOS] Re: kickstart post section

2008-03-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a way in the %post section of install to continue to have the VT3 logging but also log that to a file. Somehow using tee perhaps? I have found --log=/tmp/post-install.log but then that shows nothing on VT3. I would like to have both if possible. Log to VT

[CentOS] Re: kickstart post section

2008-03-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a way in the %post section of install to continue to have the VT3 logging but also log that to a file. Somehow using tee perhaps? I have found --log=/tmp/post-install.log but then that shows nothing on VT3. I would like to have both if possible

[CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

2008-03-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing. If /proc/cmdline looks like option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline. THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] kickstart post section

2008-03-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way in the %post section of install to continue to have the VT3 logging but also log that to a file. Somehow using tee perhaps? I have found --log=/tmp/post-install.log but then that shows nothing on VT3. I would like to have both if possible. Log to VT and a file. THanks, Jerry

[CentOS] Keeping machines online

2008-03-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using centos 5.1. I want to keep my machines always powered on. Some machines (important ones) are UPS'd. I have also set in the BIOS (gigabyte motherboard) the power options that after power loss should do a full on. The other day we had just a momentary power drop. the UPS machines had

[CentOS] environment variables in kickstart

2008-03-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I have been looking for environment variables for the %post section of kickstart. Namely if I start my kickstart command with linux ks=http://serverip/ks.cfg; is there an environment variable that has serverip that I can use in the %post section? Also is there a way to pass a command line

[CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to grab the mac address for eth0 on centos 5.1 with ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 5 and I dont get anything. What am I not doing right? ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 gives me eth0 but anything else like -f 2, -f 3 etc I get nothing. Jerry

[CentOS] smtp mailer or SMART_HOST in sendmail.mc

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a EASY way to change the SMART_HOST in sendmail.mc. Some command line that does it? Trying to explain to customers editor commands, etc... to edit this file, change the name, make and service sendmail restart is BIG for someone that doesnt know linux... Just wondering if something

[CentOS] auto seek a server

2008-02-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, When putting multiple centos 5.1 boxes on a network (DHCP for network) and 1 centos 5.1 server is there a way that these clients can automatically seek the server. Is there something in centso 5.1 that an inquiry can be sent out that says: Is there a Product XYZ on this network? And

[CentOS] Re: auto seek a server

2008-02-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, When putting multiple centos 5.1 boxes on a network (DHCP for network) and 1 centos 5.1 server is there a way that these clients can automatically seek the server. Is there something in centso 5.1 that an inquiry can be sent out that says: Is there a Product XYZ

[CentOS] Re: auto seek a server

2008-02-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying this command and I am getting an error of INvalid service. avahi-publish-service MyServer _tcp 80 myentry at 192.168.1.8 What is wrong with _tcp? I also tried tcp. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] vncviewer and opening mail attachemtns kills the login

2008-02-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I am running centos 5.1 I routinely vnc in from home (centos 5.1 NVIDA laptop) to work centos 5.1 NVIDIA based station. works fine 95% of the time. However, when I am running thunderbird mail client, and there is PDF attachment, clicking on the attachment it prompts to open with evince and I

[CentOS] xloadimage in centos 5.1

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I have noticed that xloadimage rpm is not in centos 5.1 I use the command xview -identity to get the size of gifs, jpgs, and pngs. xview is part of the xloadimage package. The command file filename also reports sizes for gifs and pngs BUT not for jpgs. Is there an alternative command to use

[CentOS] kickstart post install show in a window

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to get all the commands in the post install section from kickstart to show in a window on the X window screenas they are being executed? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] kiskstart question

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way that using kickstart I can tell it once its done install to go right ahead and do a yum update Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: kickstart question

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a way that using kickstart I can tell it once its done install to go right ahead and do a yum update Thanks, Jerry Ok I found a %post section in kickstart but is it valid to put a yum -y update there? Thanks, jerry

[CentOS] Re: kickstart question

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Ok I found a %post section in kickstart but is it valid to put a yum -y update there? %post export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH echo Yum Update yum -y update yum yum -y update yum clean all - I did make a %post section in my file, added the yum -y update (got a

[CentOS] rsync question

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
I have an external USB that I backup to. Rsync uses a bunch of memory in the process. So I thought I would build the file list and output that to a file then let rsync read the file names from a file list (hopefully not taking TONS of memory)... I do the command: rsync

[CentOS] swapping on centos 5.1

2008-01-31 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I used to use centos 4.5 on an AMD 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Now I use centos 5.1 on AMD 6400+ with 4GIG RAM. The system responsiveness is different between the two. I noticed that centos 5.1 seems to be swapping programs out of memory at times resulting in slowness (perceived by me). I

[CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup;

[CentOS] Question on http stop responding

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a machine centos 5.1 fully up to patch that is on a network that has other machines that takes credit cards. In such an environment I have found that there is something called PCI - Payment Card Industry standards. They are scanning my machine to make sure it is OK to be on this

[CentOS] yum update change kernel auto rebuild drivers centos 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there any formal mechanizism by which after a yum update , and kernel change that drivers can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? Do I need to make my own? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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