Re: [CentOS] BIND server getting DDOS

2022-08-02 Thread Spoto, Ron
Maybe try Fail2Ban on your server? -Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 2:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [External] [CentOS] BIND server getting DDOS I just, maybe, figured out why I have been having problems with my CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

2020-12-16 Thread Ron Yorston
h ended up the same as Simon's apart from whitespace and formatting. It's been deployed on a CentOS 6 system that can't be upgraded yet due to... reasons. Seems to work in the limited testing I've done. Cheers, Ron ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] Off Topic bash question

2020-07-23 Thread Ron Loftin
riend" that some people seem to be forgetting these days. Just my $0.02 (US) worth. > Jerry > _______ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread Ron Loftin
e years - > > no issues.  As has been said below, you do have to download and > > install > > the driver but the process hasn't been problematic.  Having said > > that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done > > rather > > plain printing.

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread Ron Loftin
rivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers.  I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to. As always, YMMV. -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.r

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread Ron Loftin
ng trouble to > > handle installing bootloader and creating initramfs for C7 system. > > Does anyone know a good document source that details those > > procedure? > > Thank you, > > > > Xinhuan Zheng > > ______

Re: [CentOS] persistent generic device for tape changer

2019-02-07 Thread Ron Loftin
elmut Drodofsky wrote: > Hello Ron, > > sounds good. I have 2 tape changer. I persume, udev creates the same > link for both. > > Can I modify > SYMLINK+="changer-$env{ID_SERIAL}" > > The serial should be unique. > > Viele Grüße > Helmut Drodofsk

Re: [CentOS] persistent generic device for tape changer

2019-02-07 Thread Ron Loftin
k to the /dev/sg device that will be consistent every time the system is booted. > > -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] named Update Problem

2015-09-08 Thread Ron Loftin
nd works with no issues after an upgrade. On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:40 +0200, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: > Hello, > > Am Montag, 7. September 2015, 09:10:03 schrieb Ron Loftin: > > Try reconfiguring your setup so that the DNSSEC files live > > in /var/named/data instead of /

Re: [CentOS] named Update Problem

2015-09-07 Thread Ron Loftin
to write his secure files. > > Is there a way to fix this > > Thanks, -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager with dhcpd running on same machine

2015-08-28 Thread Ron Yorston
dnsmasq, which is used by virt-manager: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7884 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154953 The workaround mentioned in the bug reports is to downgrade dnsmasq to the version from CentOS 6.5. Ron ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

2015-04-01 Thread Ron Yorston
ed by their arguments. >It is what we are using in the future. I suggest you become familiar >with it. You can call it what you like. I'll still call it CentOS 7.1. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-3 - can't drag menu items out

2015-02-10 Thread Ron Yorston
the website. Frippery Panel Favorites displays icons in the top bar for applications that have been configured as favourites in the overview screen. It works in standard GNOME Shell and in classic mode. I find it much less distracting than having to sw

[CentOS] CentOS 6.6 and webcams

2015-01-29 Thread Ron Yorston
duler (Gustavo Duarte) [1162072 1145805] The related CentOS bug report is here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7815 Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-12-12 Thread Ron Yorston
?id=7815 I know all that: it was covered in the thread last month, where I promised to report any progress on the Red Hat bug. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-12-12 Thread Ron Yorston
y're doing. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-11-03 Thread Ron Yorston
Akemi Yagi wrote: >Perhaps, Ron can update the RH bugzilla with this info so that the >upstream kernel gets fixed. I've added a reference to the CentOS bug in RH bugzilla. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Webcam problem

2014-11-02 Thread Ron Yorston
can someone file >a bug report? thanks I'm seeing the same problem on three different machines. The last kernel that works is 2.6.32-431.23.3. I've raised a bug report with Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158988 Ron _

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Ron Loftin
tos/blob/master/6.x/firewall/firewall-lan.sh > > Cheers, > > Niki Of course, if you are interested in something that will help you to organize your rules, there is always Shorewall ( Shoreline Firewall ) which I have used for years and found very effective and time-saving. &g

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-25 Thread Ron Yorston
ticking with Firefox 24. On Fedora I've switched to Midori. I don't want 'tabs on top' and over the past several releases the Firefox developers have been making it more and more difficult to configure that. It used to be the default but now it requires a third-party extens

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-03 Thread Ron Loftin
; /media. > >> The latter dirs are common to be under control by some "processes". > >> > > Also try to use /bin/umount instead of just umount. That way you prevent > > a potential alias for "umount" from running instead of the actu

Re: [CentOS] Crash and automatical reboot when using the NVIDIA card

2013-11-15 Thread Ron Young
single problem since. YMMV Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps. Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps. +++ *Kosh*: The

[CentOS] heavy IO load when working with sparse files (centos 6.4)

2013-09-02 Thread Ron E
Dear List, We have noticed a variety of reproducible conditions working with sparse files on multiple servers under load with CentOS 6.4. The short story is that processes that read / write sparse files with large "holes" can generate an IO storm. Oddly, this only happens with holes and not

Re: [CentOS] postfix as default MTA

2013-07-09 Thread Ron Loftin
eds. From what I've read over the past several years, it really boils down to personal preference rather than any great difference in functionality. > Devin > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] yum configuration

2013-03-29 Thread Ron Loftin
se file > Repo: CS-base > Matched from: > Other : redhat-release > > centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64 : CentOS release file > Repo: installed > Matched from: > Other : Provides-match: redhat-release > > So the installed package is versio

Re: [CentOS] Is it fine to upgrade to Centos 6 rpms, being at centos 5.8

2013-03-21 Thread Ron Colvin
Without going to 5.9 you will have unpatched vulnerabilities. With all the applicable patches for EL5 you should not have any vulnerabilities due to in-channel software from CentOS. That does not mean the vulnerability scanner won't find false positives, the key is to get the CVE number of the

Re: [CentOS] How to re-enable Adobe Flash in Firefox

2013-02-23 Thread Ron Loftin
nd some other browsers ) will look. Create a symlink in that directory as root pointing to your flash plugin and restart Firefox. That's what works for me. > DaveM > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS

Re: [CentOS] DNS search in anaconda

2013-02-15 Thread Ron Loftin
nname}.org" >> /etc/resolv.conf where $sitedomainname is the specific domain name for each site. -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] DNS search in anaconda

2013-02-15 Thread Ron Loftin
that it's available to the system for running "post" scripts. > cheers > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Ron Loftin relof...@tw

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Ron Yorston
og out from a persistent session there's an annoying delay until the login screen reappears. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] clock sync/drift

2013-01-22 Thread Ron Loftin
or "hwclock" and it will tell all. > > Anyone else dealt with anything similar? > > Thanks! > Matt > _______ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2013:0106 CentOS 5 qperf Update

2013-01-16 Thread Ron Young
Wow Johnny! Are you rewriting the entire OS? ;>) Thanks for all you do!! I have never had a smoother running OS than CentOS 5.8!!! Ron Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little t

Re: [CentOS] How to configure sendmail

2012-12-02 Thread Ron Loftin
refinements and tuning done a couple of days later. If you're just starting in the mail server area, it's tough to beat Postfix for ease of configuration. > Cheers, > > Phil... > > ___ > CentO

Re: [CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x

2012-08-17 Thread Ron Loftin
id "crazy" double auto-indent... > > And it turns off syntax highlighting too. > > But I have no auto-comment in either modes... > > That's interesting - I don't think I've ever changed any defaults. > I'm using the text mode version in a gnome-termina

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-09 Thread Ron Loftin
to what is causing this. > > > > Any assistance is appreciated! Thanks! > > > Since you say "servers" do you have one that you can bring more current then > 5.3 to see if there was a kernel patch or something that fixed this? Between > 5.3 and C

Re: [CentOS] Extracting the window (titlebar) name from a bash script?

2012-07-21 Thread Ron Yorston
and PIDs. It's in EPEL for CentOS 6, though not 5. It probably wouldn't be too hard to build for CentOS 5 if you needed it there. Ron ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Ron Loftin
d options are doing for you ( or TO you ) and tailor your selection(s) to meet YOUR specific needs. In the case of using Postfix to filter mail to reduce the inbound spam to an old, feature-poor mail server, it took some research and some experimenting with different recommendations to achieve the solution that met the needs of a particular user community. Like I said, this is just my $0.02 (US) worth. Enjoy. ;^> -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

2011-12-14 Thread Ron Young
nothing really foss except the odbc driver managers. Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps. Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Ron Young
Oops! My apologies for the thread hijacking. Thanks for the reminder Phil. I was mentally keyed to the samba issues and ignored the C6 and AD issues. In my case there is no AD domain involved and samba is already at the 3x level. Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Ron Young
added a couple of entries to the smb.conf that were suggested and restarted smb but no joy. Anyone have pointers that may get me going again? Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-31 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, William Warren > I think many of us would like to see releases in a timely manner. > Centos is now months behind in nearly every version with the onset of > cent6.  I've started moving boxes to ubuntu due to this increasing > delay.  The security of many machines is

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 23:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > On 29/10/11 23:04, Ned Slider wrote: > > On 29/10/11 18:41, Ron Loftin wrote: > >> > >> This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any > >> useful information. > >> >

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 20:17 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 10/29/2011 07:41 PM, Ron Loftin piše: > > > > This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any > > useful information. > > > > I have an "older" laptop tha

[CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ron Loftin
and didn't see them there. Suggestions and pointers are welcome, and thanks in advance. -- Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread Ron Young
How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban ( http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD? Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > And how exactly would you do that if the installation just can't proceed if > it detects you do not have a PAE processor? Here's a "work-around" method posted at Scientific Linux to install version 6 on a non-PAE computer. I'm pretty sure it c

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and > WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6  YR OLD LAPTOP???   Get over > it.  Either run what works on it, or get suitable hardware to run what > you need. He's not t

Re: [CentOS] centos x11

2011-07-13 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Craig White wrote: > the reason that you don't want an xorg.conf file is that multiple users can > have different display settings instead of being locked in by an overall > configuration file. Okay. But I've always left my root account at default video setting

Re: [CentOS] centos x11

2011-07-13 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Based on my experience on RHEL Beta1, "Xorg --configure" will create > xorg.conf which you can then tweak and use. On older Intel graphics chip > I had to use "nomodeset" kernel option to have normal picture. > > New Xorg tries to rea

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:44 -0700, david wrote: >> Folks >> >> The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a >> CD reader. >> >> Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere?  Earlier >> versions had them.

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/12/11 11:53 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark  wrote: >> >>> >  With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a  standard >>> > atapi >>

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a  standard atapi > 5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive. If he's talking about a standard Optiplex GX240, it takes a regular IDE DVD drive which is almost a throw-away item these

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: > I wish I could, but this machine can boot only from a CD, a diskette > or a HardDrive.  USB is not an option. > > Am I stuck on Centos 5.x forever, or will the multi-CD images appear > eventually? The CentOS 6 announcement says that a Live CD (whic

Re: [CentOS] Congratulations to the Centos Team for the hard work on Centos 6

2011-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Philip L Pinto wrote: > > I just wanted to say Congratulations and thank you to the Centos Team for > all of the work on Centos 6 - I know the last few months have not been easy > - but the real benefit will be that Centos 6 will be as good and as stable > as Cent

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > The reference to 'porn' was meant to be a light hearted reference to 'your > personal stuff', as opposed to 'your work stuff'. Okay, you've made good points. Sorry about over-reacting. I'll eventually learn that a CentOS desktop is the exce

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 10/07/2011 10:40, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Giles Coochey  wrote: >> >> Can your company afford to be without your apps and data for a couple of >> weeks, while some ha

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > Actually, I think first major Cloud player to be majorly hacked will be a > double whammy to kill off the 'cloud' mentality: > > At least the following two will occur: > > * Everyone will question the security and privacy of their data in th

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > That is exactly why I intend to create "Desktop" version, regular CentOS > with additional repositories and virtual package(s) pulling necessary > real packages. If launched from main menu it could be done as an add-on > package enhanc

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Always Learning wrote: > I used Ami Pro 3 (from 1993) until I totally switched to Centos last > year. I liked Word Pro (never went as far back as Ami Pro) because it was "cleaner" than Office or WordPerfect. At first I tried WordStar for Windows, but it really w

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 16:45 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > >> Glad to see you've got your tin hat on.  Any more conspiracy theories >> you'd like to share? > > Those with functioning brains should be able to realise the consequences > of

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:45 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 10:36:02PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: >> >> You will probably find that all USA anti-virus products have included a >> backdoor for at least the last ~15 years or longer.  Uncle Sam wants to >> see inside your com

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Well, larger and lager fear of malware, trojans and regular viruses is > excellent motivator. Especially when you add need to pay for good AV/IS > solution. My country men are poor and paying even 20 EUR per year for > good AV/IS softwa

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:21 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > While that might be true, the reality of the situation is different. > Until you can provide a seamless drop-in replacement for Windows that > does not require a change in work-flow habits learned over the course > of, for some, many years

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Always Learning wrote: > The truth is my mp3 playing ability was installed about a year ago when > I was first introduced to Centos and I experienced a very rapid and > steep learning curve (which I successfully overcame as usual). I do not > know where the mp3 pla

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Experience 44 years - it makes me seem old :-( as computer programmer > and the usual collection of other computer posts/tasks/assignments I > truly believe with Centos and Gnome 90% of "ordinary" M$ Windoze users > have what they need.  If

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: PLEASE STOP.  WE DO NOT NEED THIS AGAIN, ESPECIALLY SO CLOSE TO RELEASE. Except it won't end with the release of 6.0. The same people will immediately go into whining about the release of 6.1. It's FUD -- for what purpose, I don't know. -- Ron

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Steven Crothers wrote: > Thankfully some good things have come of this complete disaster that is > CentOS 6. > * Scientific Linux 6 > * Oracle Enterprise 6 (Which is free to download folks) > * Clear-OS Core (Which is ran by a professional organization instead of a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > I do not in any way believe your claims of an hour-long install process, > even if done manually by walking through anaconda screen by screen. I've had a couple network installs take a long time (Desktop installs not Servers) but that wa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: >> Okay, thanks. Good to know. I forget what "kludging" process I had to >> go through to get Mint to boot into text, I think I disabled the X >> server somehow.  But even when I got to text mode,  t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> >> Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line. > > To boot into "everything but X", you can append "text" to the kern

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > ElRepo has kernel modules already compiled: > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia so I guess it should be OK. Playing > around with recompiling nVidia drivers was a real pain in a Bookmarked. Thanks. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Since Pentium Pro, only old 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M lack > PAE support. This laptop is a Latitude D400, which I think were made in 2005. It definitely doesn't have PAE support. I discovered that when I tried to test Red

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Tom H wrote: > I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't > become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for > Ubuntu. I don't have to generalize, I go to the forums and see all the issues -- often the same issues I'm havi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Do you have something other than an intel wifi chip? No, not any more. I had a Broadcom card, but an older laptop we gave away needed a WiFi card, so I invested $12 into an Intel card on eBay and installed the Broadcom card in the "old" lapt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > And by the way - if you need to run something yourself just to be able > to support someone else you can usually do it under vmware player, > virtualbox, etc.  It's easier than fighting with real hardware and > shutting down whatever else you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > By > the way, my install was originally a 9.x LTS, upgraded to a 10.x over > the network while running under vmware and I installed it in the first > place because Centos didn't include a driver for the wifi and ubuntu > 'just worked'. Oppo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, wrote: > Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried > to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if > she just restored XP. Wouldn't recognize her USB keyboard, didn't get the > graphics card and monitor r

Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM, wrote: > I'm having some problems with the way the conversation is going. RedHat > *was* a company; to me, the RHEL was aimed as a wedge, to get into > corporate America. For that matter, who started offering their distro of > RHEL around then? Why, the same compa

Re: [CentOS] ClearOS rebuild

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > That's not what I said. I said Red Hat's redistribution restriction > created the need for Ubunutu.  And that the community that is now > dependent on RH-rebuilds might be better served by a distribution that > does not restrict redistribution

Re: [CentOS] PHP Source

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Young
Thanks Ljubomir, Just what I needed! I did not realize that source files would be in rpm files and named src instead of *source* or in a source directory. Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts

[CentOS] PHP Source

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Young
in several places but not the source files. Thanks in advance. Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps. Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > The choices are clear, however: > > 1) Stick w/CentOS, get a high quality, highly compatible release at > little/no cost, with an uncertain release date. I would say the "uncertain release date" is pretty much moot now, as CentOS has reac

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Brian Mathis > People don't complain just for the fun of it (if that's the world you > live in, I feel sorry for you), they complain because something is > bothering them.  In this case, it is the very real and measurable > delays in releases that seem to be gettin

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:25 PM, wrote: > On May 16, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM,   wrote: >>> Same weekly/bi-monthly BS. >>> >>> YAA >>> >>> It always circles back to a#$holes and

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM, wrote: > Same weekly/bi-monthly BS. > > YAA > > It always circles back to a#$holes and elbows. This is the main reason I want CentOS 6 to come out. I'm hoping for a lull in the whining. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6 ___

Re: [CentOS] Perhaps an interesting development....

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > Well, not to take away too much from the tinderbox, but I'd like to point > everyone's attention to: > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsofts-open-source-love-expands-centos-li > > Headline: > "Microsoft's open source love-in exp

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Brian Mathis > The constant "drip drip drip", as you put it, is generated from the > disrespect shown to the users, not the other way around.  Anyone who > asks how much longer or how they can help is immediately slapped down > and told to go away. Bullcrap. I've

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Craig White wrote: >> can't say that in all the years I've been using FOSS/Linux that I've ever >> seen the maintainers have such open disdain for their users. Clearly they >> have gotten a massive code base for free and though the cost of assembling >> it into

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Radu Gheorghiu wrote: > The main "fear" the developers have is that somebody could steal their > work and come up with > another RHEL clone easily if they release their build system & scripts. > I think this is obvious by now. > It is also pretty obvious that the

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Brian Mathis > These kind of ass-kissing posts are even worse than the flame wars. > The flame wars at least usually start with some sort of reasonable > criticism of the project, and have the *potential* to result in a > discussion that ultimately improves the pro

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > No, but I'm not the only member of the public.  And your suggestion of > starting by reproducing someone else's work from scratch instead of > building on it would be like Linus telling everyone to just write their > own unix-like kernel befo

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Janne TH. Nyman wrote: > Who cares? I find it amazing that these guys still keep on building and > providing considering how their "users" treat them. > > Team CentOS, keep your heads up. For me, you are still the best thing > that happened since sliced bread. > >

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Yes, but whatever can't be automated here should benefit from doing the > trial-and-error in parallel.   And the potential improvements might come > in the automation process as much as the grunge work - you can't really > predict how an open

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

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> The ZERO release is always going to take longer than the others. > > Past numbers debunks this myth: > >     CentOS 4.0 took 23 days > >     CentOS 5.0 took 28 days > >     CentOS 6.0 is not released

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

2011-05-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Look at wikipedia's page describing CentOS.  They include a column for > the delay between the upstream release and CentOS's.  For the 5 series, > it looks like: > > Release Delay > 5       28d > 5.1     25d > 5.2     34d > 5.3     69d > 5.

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

2011-05-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > No, I'm not.  Neither I nor Dag, as far as I saw, brought SL into the > conversation at all.  The question is not whether CentOS can build > releases in less time than SL, or even a reasonable amount of time.  The > question that Dag posed w

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

2011-05-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/12/2011 02:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> But at that time there should only be one point release on the table, >> instead of two point releases and one major release. Is everyone >> forgetting that 4.9, 5.6 and 6.

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

2011-05-13 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Craig White wrote: >> Lastly, Johnny has made clear that this is not supposed to be an SL >> discussion list but curiously enough, SL is invoked by those who want to use >> SL to justify the alacrity of the CentOS 6.0 release. As was pointed out, >> though the

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

2011-05-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Do you expect the C6.0 -> C6.1 differenc

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

2011-05-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury wrote: >> >> > >> > Do you expect the C6.0 -> C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less >> > complex than the C5.5 -> C5.6 differences ? >> > >> > And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would >> > take no more than 1 mont

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