Re: [CentOS] [CentOS Stream 8] Update of IPA server broken - bind-dyndb-ldap needs to be rebuilt?

2022-02-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> > Fixed: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051108 > > Caused by a rebase of bind, but the new idm:DL1 module lagged behind a > little bit. Was fixed with the push about 9 hours ago. > Many thanks for your quick answer! I confirm that all CentOS Stream 8 IPA servers were then update

[CentOS] [CentOS Stream 8] Update of IPA server broken - bind-dyndb-ldap needs to be rebuilt?

2022-02-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, We are testing an IPA/IDM infrastructure which is a mix of RHEL 8 and CentOS Stream 8 environments. The configuration has been completed since last summer, and it is working fine between updates. Currently, the CentOS Stream 8 IPA servers cannot upgrade. I put the whole error message below

Re: [CentOS] 389-ds packages less up-to-date on CentOS Stream 8 than RHEL8

2022-01-13 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> > No idea why the other is not released to c8s, I will ask. > Thank you! We will test when we see the CentOS Stream updates coming, and we will let you know if we notice anything special. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] 389-ds packages less up-to-date on CentOS Stream 8 than RHEL8

2022-01-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, as described here [1] we were having issues with LDAP dirsrv 389-ds in our environment where we use a mix on CentOS Stream 8 and RHEL 8 deployments. I have been surprised to notice that RHEL packages actually seems to be more up-to-date than CentOS Stream ones, while we are working for our

Re: [CentOS] Last 389-ds update on CentOS 8 Stream seems to be broken

2021-11-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
standalone dirsrv (that is, without an IPA server). On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:02 PM Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > after updating 389-ds (LDAP dirsrv) on CentOS 8 Stream, this service does > not start anymore: > > $ sudo journalctl -u dirsrv@* | less > > Nov 20 18:27

[CentOS] Last 389-ds update on CentOS 8 Stream seems to be broken

2021-11-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, after updating 389-ds (LDAP dirsrv) on CentOS 8 Stream, this service does not start anymore: $ sudo journalctl -u dirsrv@* | less Nov 20 18:27:31 systemd[1]: Starting 389 Directory Server argeo Nov 20 18:27:31 ns-slapd[1951]: [20/Nov/2021:18:27:31.980124142 +0100] - ERR - symload_repo

[CentOS] World clocks on CentOS 8?

2021-04-26 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I am using CentOS 8 Streams + GNOME, and I cannot find the world clocks anymore (in order to add various cities and their current time). It used to be under the calendar, when one clicks on the time on the top bar. I cannot launch 'gnome-clocks' from the command line, and package search (w

[CentOS] Permission denied when updating CentOS 8 Streams

2021-02-19 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, On a remote server (in an IPv6-only infrastructure) I am getting the following error when trying to update CentOS 8 Streams x86_64: $ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8 CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:16 E

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> > This is aarch64: > > https://people.centos.org/pgreco/CentOS-Userland-8-stream-aarch64-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4/ > Great! I had missed this one. Thank you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> It's also worth noting that there is a CentOS 8 SD Card image for > Raspberry Pi 4. That's what I used. It was dirt simple to "install"- > simply dd the image file to an actual SD card, put it in the RasPi, > and go! (Allthough in my case, I made some modifications to the > Do you mean an ima

[CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, given the recent change in direction of CentOS, what will become of the AltArch repositories? (like CentOS 7 aarch64 and the related kernel repositories) I have been experimenting (with some success) with running a regular CentOS 8 aarch64 (ARM 64 bits) on a Raspberry PI 4 (with 4GB RAM),

[CentOS] Installing Maven with OpenJDK 11, without pulling OpenJDK 1.8

2019-11-22 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I am trying to create a container image which will build Java software with Maven and Java 11 (rather focussing on CentOS 8 here). When installing 'maven' with yum, 'java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel' is installed as a dependency. If one then installs 'java-11-openjdk-devel', and use the update-alt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2013-03-24 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new > Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted > to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most > significant improvement. > > As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, a

[CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I am using an up to date CentOS 6 x86_64 laptop (Thinkpad X220t) and after struggling a bit I could install it a few months ago with a pure EFI boot. However, I am not really satisfied with such things as stability, power consumption, etc. and now that I have a little more time I want to i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> These could be bad options for a number of users and since it's set at >> kernel boot time how can you override it once the OS has booted? Can you >> disable this without altering boot parameters and rebooting? If the answer >> is yes than a tuned configuration should be created or altered

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-04 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> You could also consider just sticking to tuned and then having a look at the > power management options as provided there. tuned-adm list will show you > some predefined power management options which *can* be tweaked. I have made many tests with tuned and written small scripts to switch from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 >> i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 > > Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. > Would that make the notebook slower? I did not notice any change in performance so far. (Tested with parallelized, offline, Java build and unit tests)

[CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add

[CentOS] Feedback for CentOS 6 on a recent Thinkpad X220 Tablet?

2012-05-31 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I'm considering buying a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 *Tablet*. Does anybody run CentOS 6 on it? Is the multitouch working? Thanks in advance for any hint, Mathieu PS: I have checked thinkwiki.org already ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Having less languages in Firefox (hunspell dictionaries provide too many locales)

2011-11-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Also, does removing language from Add-ons in Firefox help? You should be > able to disable/deinstall any installed language. No, only "English (GB)" shows up in the Firefox Addons (this is my locale) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] Having less languages in Firefox (hunspell dictionaries provide too many locales)

2011-11-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Most of the dictionaries are symlinks from other basefiles. I have used > these lines in my postinstall to remove dictionaries > > echo "Remove excessive spell checking lists" > cd /usr/share/myspell > find . -type l -exec rm {} \; > \rm -f de_AT.* de_CH.* en_CA.* ko_KR.* > > That will give you a

Re: [CentOS] Having less languages in Firefox (hunspell dictionaries provide too many locales)

2011-11-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> You are talking to the wrong people ... we build it exactly like it is > built for upstream.  It works just like in the RHEL sources, so that is > how it is supposed to work. I'm aware of that, I'm just asking if somebody knows a workaround or a way to hack this away. (I'm already thinking of o

[CentOS] Having less languages in Firefox (hunspell dictionaries provide too many locales)

2011-11-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, on CentOS 6, I am routinely writing mails in English, German and French and using the related hunspell dictionaries for the spelling in Firefox (I'm using Google Apps). This works fine but the problem is that languages are added for all the possible locales (English US, UK, Philippines, Bo

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level > compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific > Linux is covering that niche, and has their 6.1 out. In which concrete use cases is 100% binary compatibility important? _

[CentOS] Rsync CR repo for CentOS 6? was [CentOS-announce] CentOS-6.0 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64

2011-09-26 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> - Baseurl for the CR repo is set to only use centos.org internal >  machines, this is to reduce the amount of time we need to spend in >  seeding and then managing external mirrors. Is it possible to synchronize locally the CR repo? We usually synchronize all repositories in our internal networ

Re: [CentOS] Video capture on CentOS (6)

2011-09-26 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Could anybody recommend a not-too-expensive video capture cards (PCI, > USB, fireWire, ...) which would be well supported (drivers easily > available in base, ElRepo, or not too complicated to build). Answering my own question for future reference: the GRABBY video capture card by TERRATEC worke

Re: [CentOS] centos product specification

2011-09-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> ill bet you would take in a boatload of money re: donations to censor and/or > kick "a.l. paul" off the lists Yes, maybe it is time that this person is moderated away? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] centos-release 5.7 srpm where?

2011-09-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Are you able to find what you are looking for in Vault/5.7 ? Yes: http://vault.centos.org/5.7/os/SRPMS/ > ( more details on what the thinking behind this is, coming shortly ) I'm curious. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

[CentOS] Video capture on CentOS (6)

2011-09-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I need to do some analog video capture and I was wondering what is the status of this in CentOS 6. The last information I could find was here (obviously for CentOS 5): http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-September/082521.html Could anybody recommend a not-too-expensive video cap

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Step-1, get the major security stuff into 6.0/cr/. Sounds good! Thanks for the update. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentoOS 6 x86_64 Updates

2011-09-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> is it correct that there were for a long time no more updates for CentOS 6 > x86_64? My understanding is that updates are on hold until the (imminent) release of CentOS 6.1. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] Timeframe for httpd update (CVE-2011-3192)

2011-09-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> It's in the cr repo. I must admit that I had completely missed the introduction of the CR repository: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR Great idea, thanks. Mathieu ___

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 updates?

2011-08-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I haven't seen -any- updates to centos 6 since July 10th?!?    is 6.1 > holding this up? >From the devel mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-August/008071.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

[CentOS] [SOLVED] RAID5 suddenly broken

2011-08-18 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> [root@livecd ~]# mdadm --misc -E /dev/md0 > mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md0. > [root@livecd ~]# mdadm --misc -Q /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: is an md device which is not active > /dev/md0: No md super block found, not an md component. > [root@livecd ~]# mdadm --misc -D /dev/md0 > mdadm: md d

[CentOS] RAID5 suddenly broken

2011-08-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I have a RAID5 array on my CentOS 5.6 x86_64 workstation which "suddenly" failed to work (actually after the system could not resume from a suspend). I had recently issues after moving the workstation to another office, where one of the disks got accidently unplugged. But the RAID was work

Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Yes, RedHat deserves the credit for denying access to the binaries of open > source work, even to the community responsible for it even existing. Since I just made a point about the upstream projects, let me respectfully disagree with your statement : free software is about freedom not free lunc

Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> If you want to get into the nitty gritty of it, the ONLY group of > people who deserve ANY credit at all are the Redhat folks. So saying a > product that is released off Redhat's coattails is competing with > another product that is ALSO running off Redhat's coattails is absurd. Maybe a little t

Re: [CentOS] ApacheDS vs OpenLDAP

2011-05-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Wondering if any of you have thoughts/experiences with ApacheDS? Since we develop mostly Java application we use it for development and testing: developers don't have to install an OS dependent LDAP implementation (especially the poor souls working on Windows). In production we use openldap fro

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until > CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Apparently they did admit and it does change: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31347&forum=53 ___

Re: [CentOS] Changing default paper size to A4 on CentOS 5 (Kyocera FS1920 printer)

2011-05-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> # en_GB should print in A4 by default > export LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF_8" That did the trick! (evince + Firefox) Merci beaucoup, Mathieu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Changing default paper size to A4 on CentOS 5 (Kyocera FS1920 printer)

2011-05-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I have a Kyocera FS1920 network printer, and I run an up-to-date CentOS 5.6 x86_64 workstation. When I try to print with evince or Firefox the default paper size is always set to US Letter whereas the printer use A4. I have searched and other people seem to have the problem, but the only

Re: [CentOS] User accounts management for small office

2011-04-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> Linux user account, and also manually change the Samba user account. >> Manually updating the password in three different locations is a minor >> headache that I would like to correct.  I have been researching and > > You *could* do it with openldap, with the WinDoze boxen authenticating > thro

Re: [CentOS] rpm libuser-devel is not signed

2011-04-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Not updating is entirely sensible and sounds like the best default position. > Installing a package you'd expect to be signed when it isn't signed should > ring alarm bells. I agree that my first answer was probably wrong, even with all disclaimers and warnings. I thought of a technical way (--

Re: [CentOS] rpm libuser-devel is not signed

2011-04-21 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>>> Other workarounds for this particular issue have just been suggested here: >>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/110547.html >>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/110551.html > > I find it strange that people are making such recommendations. A non > verifyabl

Re: [CentOS] rpm libuser-devel is not signed

2011-04-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> 'yum update' runs into the following error message. >> >> Package libuser-devel-0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm is not signed > > I got this too, there's two ways around it: > > 1) Wait until the package is signed and then update. > > 2) Run: yum update --nogpgcheck Other workarounds for this parti

Re: [CentOS] yum update after fresh 5.6 install fails

2011-04-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>    Package libuser-0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm is not signed You could use --nogpgcheck but this is really weird that some packages are not signed. It may mean that the package is not from the trusted source, so you should not use --nogpgcheck on a "serious" environment. __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> The attitudes against any user who has a question about releases > significantly undermines the project and is a slap in the face to "any" user? Or users who keep repeating again and again the same boring old stuff? I think that we now all know what to expect and what not to expect from CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! Thanks a lot! (especially for focusing on 5.6 before 6.0) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> 5.6 was also very late in appearing? That said, from what I think I'm > hearing, 5.6 will have user selectable versions of some software... PHP > for one? I've never known of a release with this type of situation. As There was already such situations. postgresql84 was introduced in CentOS 5.5 fo

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Anyway, listmaster, I vote to kick him off the list. As others have already pointed out, by definition of the CentOS project this list is very vulnerable to trolling around releases of new versions. A troll (maybe not the right term, but that's what comes to my mind) just has to come and ask TH

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death

2011-02-17 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I've been running our apps as purely as I can (java -cp > /path/to/libs/* path.to.the.App) and they're still being send SIGHUP > signals for reasons I can't understand. So, to sum you have tried: - with various classloading approaches - various JVMs - on various systems I must say that I'm real

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and above all well compatible with CentOS. Hibernate / suspend feature are important to me, because

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death

2011-02-14 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> When I package a "Runnable JAR" using the Eclipse Export wizard, in > the manifest file, the main-class is given as > org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader, which I presume > is a little bit of code to redirect the main method to the main method > of my actual application. This is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death

2011-02-14 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I added in as many try...catch blocks as I could and got no useful > output, but it occurred to me that the Eclipse loader is adding in > another level of code between my application and the kernel. Can you please give more details about this "additional" code? How did you find out? Do you mean

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 + firefox 3.6 and 64bit javaplugin (1.6u23)

2011-02-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Looks like firefox is 32bit version, not 64bit version, but 32bit java > 1.6.u23 still fails. Where did you install Java from? The Java browser plugin is not available in teh OpenJDK shipped with CentOS 5.5. You need to install the JRE from Sun. In this page: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaO

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> physical instances.   EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. Could you please elaborate a bit? What do you think should be left on the physical servers? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes > up from the screensaver.  This can be disabled by each user, but how > can I disable this system-wide?  Many of my users forget to do this, > which results in workstations being locked up. Instead of removing the lock on yo

Re: [CentOS] Recompiling source rpms for i386, i686 and x86_64 on the same box?

2011-01-13 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> For the 3 arches you want they could all be done under mock in a x86_64 > environment. Under Indeed, I build 32 and 64 bits RPMS on an x86_64 CentOS 5.5 with mock. In order to deal with the multi arch, I call mock as follow: setarch $ARCH mock --arch=$ARCH -r --debug $SRPM Note that I pass t

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Hey I've been watching the thread on and off. How large in the file system > you are trying to share? What will it / they be used? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/thread.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/104184.html

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-25 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> certificate for each client, and reduces certificate administration to a > SINGLE > httpd.conf entry. (if your application is structured thusly) Can you then use only one single SSL port for all subdomains? I am using wildcard certificates as well, but I'm still allocating a separate port per

Re: [CentOS] google chrome "big brother"

2010-12-19 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> am i right, or i'm missing something? > > You are right. Google Chrome OS is Open Source. But with "Google > Chrome OS" you can do exactly nothing, because there are no > applications (even basic UNIX tools are not available). The My understanding is that Chrome OS is based on Chromium OS, whic

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> And your point is? I consider the fact that *every* *single* *time* tomcat > crashes ("you cannot have null pointer exceptions in java", the books all > said), the stack trace is 150 or 200 calls deep. Show me something written > in C, or C++, or perl, or php, or... that's that bad. - copy the s

Re: [CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

2010-12-14 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> And also take into consideration that RHEL6 is shipped with approx. > 2.000 packages.  And there are over 10.000 packages available for > Fedora.  Such a limited package scope is needed to be able to provide > stability.  And this stability is why so many loves to run > RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinu

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> What programming language should I learn? It depends what you want to do. - build quickly applications, reusing existing components and understanding a lot of the Linux ecosystem => Python - process quickly huge amount of text files => Practical Exrtaction and Reporting Language (aka. PERL, ye

Re: [CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

2010-12-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have the following situation. I tried to promote CentOS to local bank. They > have now a couple of Gentoo-based systems and I tried to explain them that > CentOS is much better option for enterprises. We deployed a CentOS based virtualized appliance for a (non-critical) application developed

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> > I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly. >>  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart >>  html crap. > > +1 Unfair: the 'text' formatting mode from GMail is very standard compliant, trimming the lines etc. Maybe one should just

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> /me does not care. Not sure about other folks though...do them a service :-p In theory, a lot of residential routers (not provided by the ISP) will allow to set the sent MAC address via their web interface. And on a full fledged Linux OS: ifconfig ethX hw ether MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS (or something l

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> >     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? > > Heh, if they want to micromanage... This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address of your single PC (which, by the way,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 with MediaWiki

2010-12-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Also, there will soon be a MediaWiki 1.16 package in EPEL[1].  There is Good news! Actually my dependencies were probably from EPEL in that case, not RPMForge. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 with MediaWiki

2010-12-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I'm trying to install MediaWiki, and asks that package as a dependency. Which version of MediaWiki are you trying to install? I could recently repackage a Fedora RPM of v1.15.4, using dependencies provided by the RPMForge repo. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] New list ?

2010-11-24 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> My personal opinion is that it's not a big deal.  As with other mailing lists, > stuff I'm not interested in I simply ignore. +1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> What type of RAM modules are you looking for? I'm never quite sure how to find out. I know that there was a pretty descriptive label on one of them (with 200 MHz or something) and that's how I could find a similar one. Let me open them and find out and I'll contact you offlist. They would be mu

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> it, turn it off, and maybe uninstall. If these are PoS boxen, do you need > X windows? Do you need Gnome or KDE as windonw managers (look at smaller > ones - I use IceWM at home, < 600k, yes, k, not M; the other admin here > likes xfce)? I have the CentOS Extras XFCE on one of them (for which I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find the right RAM for it... I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR each, plenty of connectors, very well built) based

[CentOS] Eclipse Helios on CentOS 5.5 (was Websites Up!)

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Then I hope to finish my tutorial on installing Eclipse > Helios for Centos 5.5 Is there anything special to be done? I just unzipped the SR1 distribution for RCP/RAP developers linux-gtk-x86_64 and it works without problem on an up to date CentOS 5.5 x86_64. (to be more precise: I install it a

[CentOS] Best practices for the maximal length of user names

2010-11-13 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, are there any best practices for the length of user names? I tend to limit them to 8 characters and to follow the pattern 'first letter of the first name'+'first 7 letters of the last name' (e.g. mbaudier). But people are sometimes frustrated with having their last name truncated and I wo

Re: [CentOS] Network card not working after update to 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5

2010-11-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> the network card of my workstation stopped working after I updated the > kernel to 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 . Just to follow up on this: I actually dual boot with Ubuntu on this workstation (mostly for digital processing, where recent FLOSS software are needed), and Ubuntu network access also broke

Re: [CentOS] obtaining non-packaged software

2010-11-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> RPMForge has a lot of packages (but be careful!).  rpmbone has more. > > Careful about what? Third-party repos sometimes conflict. For example if you activate both EPEL and RPMForge fully, it is very likely that your perl-* packages will be a complete mess. That's why I personally followed the

Re: [CentOS] obtaining non-packaged software

2010-11-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> In particular I had never heard of RPMForge, I will check it. Also check ElRepo for up to date drivers (e.g. NVIDIA): http://elrepo.org More generally the CentOS wiki is a very helpful resource, e.g.: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories __

Re: [CentOS] obtaining non-packaged software

2010-11-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and > I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a > slower-moving distro. I followed the same path a few years ago, and I'm very happy with it. So, welcome! > CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages tha

[CentOS] Network card not working after update to 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5

2010-10-28 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, the network card of my workstation stopped working after I updated the kernel to 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 . I don't see any specific error messages when booting, and the related interface is shown as up by ifconfig with its (static) IP address properly set. But I cannot reach any other computer

Re: [CentOS] temp dir, httpd and selinux

2010-10-25 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> How should i do ? You probably need to use chcon to change the SELinux context of the temp directory to httpd_sys_content_t (or something like httpd__script_rw_t). In order to troubleshoot: - switch SELinux to permissive mode - perform your actions (they should now work, and the SELinux issues

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? Because the one in CentOS will, out of the box, pull out and properly configure the CentOS buildsys package, which itself is a meta-package whose dependencies are the minimal set required to create a chroot build environment: ht

Re: [CentOS] ldif invalid per syntax

2010-10-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have added the corresponding posix accounts in LDAP I wish to use: Here is a LDIF snippet that works for users authenticated via LDAP: dn: uid=myuser,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectCl

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> More people should be doing this kind of stuff.  The world needs more > open source developers.  Looking at existing code is a great tool for > learning. +1 As Karanbir put it in his interview in Distrowatch a few months ago, CentOS is not only great as a stable and predictable server distrib,

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I know PPC linux releases could support command-click as right click, so I > can only assume CentOS 5 could as well.  (But I wouldn't know where to > start looking for this information beyond a naive google search.) Yes I used to do so on PPC, but I never got it working on the MacBook Pro + Cent

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> ObOnTopic: does anybody know if CentOS supports the MacBookPro7,1 model > with the funky SATA controller?  It's nontrivial to find any hard > information about even kernel support, much less whether a given distro > has included any of the relevant patches in its kernel.  I don't mind > OS X, but

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> We're just throwing blind assertions at each other, but since I don't > want to go PC shopping just to pursue the argument, let's keep it > theoretical.  Which do you suppose is a harder task: Mac laptops have a big problem: they forgot to put the right mouse button... (and the keyboard layout i

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> The main thing about Linux that is 'hard' is the fact that you have to > use your brain and make choices: Which web browser? Which office suite? > Which email client? Which desktop? Which Linux distro? For lots of > people this is way too much work.  I guess if these people looked at, I think th

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> One possible solution is to have the main LDAP server addressable only > via STARTTLS and a non-SSL, read-only slave on a different host that's > visible only to your LAN. Very interesting. It would also address some concerns I had with all these third-party LDAP plugins having (potential) write

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> You can also use StartTLS over the network and LDAPI (connection over Unix > sockets, which are inherently secure) for apps running on the server. I use > it, both with OpenLDAP and 389 Directory Server (a.k.a. Fedora DS, Red Hat > DS). Unfortunately, I have a whole LAN whose user/group/auth man

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> A quick search will provide plenty of articles about the subject. Thanks, I had actually thought of using a search engine (as somebody put it, part of the fun with configuring OpenLDAP is that you definitely have to). What I cannot find (yet) is whether there is a way to require StartTLS only f

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Are you aware that SSL on port 636 is now considered deprecated in favor of > START_TLS on port 389? No, I'm not (I actually thought that it was the other way round) I found it practical to have a port (389 or equivalent) that I could authorize via iptables only on the local network., and anoth

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Here are the changes I'd review: > >  1. After installing the CA cert, did you create a hash link? E.g., > >     /usr/sbin/cacertdir_rehash /etc/openldap/cacerts > >  2. Make sure you know the difference between /etc/ldap.conf and >     /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. The former is used by nss_ldap, the

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://)

2010-10-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Did you, on the server, change the new, undocumented, /etc/sysconfig/ldap > file's entry for SLAPD_LDAPS and restart the ldap service on the server? This settings was indeed set to no. What is funny though is that I actually can connect to the ldaps port without it (since ldapsearch -x is worki

[CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://)

2010-10-06 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I have a central repository of users/groups based on OpenLDAP which is working on a remote LAN (servers share users credentials and mount their home directories via NFS). They use non-encrypted ldap restricted to the local network. Now, I have a few servers in our local office and I would

Re: [CentOS] upgrade python to python2.6.4 using yum

2010-10-05 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Is there an already available repository to do this.? The EPEL repository has a python26 package that you can install in parallel of base python. You can then also use python-virtualenv (also in EPEL) to add the Python modules you would need: virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python26 /path/to/your/virtua

Re: [CentOS] Bugzilla 3.6.2 + sendmail + SELinux

2010-09-27 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I'm now looking at audit2allow: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux#head-faa96b3fdd922004cdb988c1989e56191c257c01 To follow up on this, audit2allow provided a satisfactory solution (comments on that kind of approach still welcome!): grep sendmail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -m se

Re: [CentOS] Bugzilla 3.6.2 + sendmail + SELinux

2010-09-27 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Out of curiosity, when you read the log, did you attempt the suggestion w/o > success? Not really (yet): - for the first one (./spool), I have not clearly identified (yet) where the file is being created - for the second they talk about creating a policy module, and even though I may have to go

[CentOS] Bugzilla 3.6.2 + sendmail + SELinux

2010-09-26 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I have deployed Bugzilla 3.6.2 on CentOS 5 (with rpmforge perl-* packages) and I have a problem with SELinux preventing mail being sent via sendmail. (see SELinux reports below, especially the second one) When SELinux is in permissive mode, mail sending from Bugzilla is working properly.

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