Re: [CentOS] Correctly setting up sound with Intel High Definition ICH7

2008-11-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 21:51 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Earlier this day I started a thread about Skype not working with > outgoing sound. Now I wonder if it's not a problem with my soundcard. I > had a vague suspicion about this, but since it's way off the original > topic, I decided

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

2008-11-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:45 -0600, Alex White wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:02:21 +0100 > Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and > scribbled: > > > Rob Townley a écrit : > > >> > > > > > > Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking > > > outgoing sound? > >

Re: [CentOS] Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?

2008-11-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:14 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > From a different list: > > "JRE from SUN is getting depracated: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html"; > > > Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? > > I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 install

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:50 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which > is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. > > I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. > The sy

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:15 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > > Hi again all, > > There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, > I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of > battery backup didn't last long enough to cov

Re: [CentOS] My God, it is full of stars

2008-12-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:07:08 +0100: > > > What is? The new CentOS mail server is, which coincidentally also hosts > > the mailing lists you are reading right now. > > I recognized the switch must have been happened on

Re: [CentOS] My God, it is full of stars

2008-12-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:15 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 12-2-2008 9:42 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: > >> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >>> I recognize

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Timeout problem

2008-12-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:44 -0600, Mark Snyder wrote: > I recently installed CentOS 5.1 on a DL71 ASI notebook. > > After my yum update the timeout parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf file > has no effect. It sits at the grub screen forever unless I press the > enter key to select a kernel, at

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:07 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a > problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a > causal relationship. > > Running a Thunderbird mail client (coul

[CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship. Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't tested with Evolution yet.) I click a link that opens the browser. B

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:35 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a > > problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a > > causal relationship. > >

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:09 +0300, A. Kirillov wrote: > > Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a > > problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a > > causal relationship. > > > > Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? H

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:48 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-05, 13:22 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Got second cup of coffee downed and went to see if the bug was > > known here > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific\ > > &

Re: [CentOS] GRUB Timeout problem

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:02 -0600, Mark Snyder wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions so far, but so far nothing has helped. Did you ever try the removal of the splashimage thingy I noticed? I had quickly perused "info grub" and could not find that documented therein. > > Mark > -- Bill __

Re: [CentOS] Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 14:53 -0500, Andrew Hull wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > I have a location using a CentOS 5 server that's multihomed running > > Asterisk and iptables for internal web access. > > > > Recently some sales people got busted surfing some explicit content so the > > owner

Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:35 -0500, Andrew Hull wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if the latest has all the features OP is seeking, but I've > > been using IPCop for ages with NP > Hi Bill, > I've never used IPCop (opting

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:16 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:48 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > > Strange. I am a bug triager of (among others) all gecko-related > > bugs in the RH bugzilla, and I cannot recall to hear about a bug > > like

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:41 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Matěj et al, > > I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. Details > follow. But first, one more piece of background. In response to the > previous thread I mentioned, I had saved a copy of

Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:47 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On top of all that, I'm relatively inexperienced at that stuff and am > > not sure what all is meant by a content filter. From

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:41 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > Geez Louise! Went back to the original problem desktop. Did a find plug\* -ls in the .mozilla directory. The current pluginreg.dat was 65 bytes. Fired up FF from the desktop, went to T'bird, clicked the link. Went to tools-

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. > > What is the output of the command > > mozilla-plugin-config -l > # mozilla-plugin-conf

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 09:56 -0500, "Germán Andrés Pulido F." wrote: > I have seen this exact same behavior under Fedora 9. it seems the bug is > with firefox for some reason. It will happens when clicking over a link > opens firefox. If firefox is already open, it works OK. I've found no > solu

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Same _bad_ behavior occurs on first attempt after doing below! Details below. On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > > On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > >> I was able to _start_

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:21 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > > use Yum. Any help would be great. > > "yum update" will do it for you. Normally, you

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:42 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > I ran an rpm --verify, as root. I didn't see anything that _I_ could > relate to the problem, but my insight is limited here. I do note that > some errors have crept in over time that I will now need to pursue.

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Matt wrote: > >>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact > >>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if > >>> > no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually > r

[CentOS] Prelink woes: libs not found that are (apparently) present.

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Pursuing some rpm verify errors exposed while investigating my T'bird/FF problem, a prelink -am gives this, and other, error. prelink: /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin: Could not find one of the dependencies Ran # ldd /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin|grep 'not found'

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you > > want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the > > above dump/restore set I

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 18:55 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it > > leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and >

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 22:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command > > You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". Yep. My fingers (or brai

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 20:16 -0500, Max Hetrick wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > Actually, I can play Flash videos alright. Only they have no sound. > > Other apps like mplayer or xmms do have sound. Which leaves me clueless. > > I was just thinking maybe there was something wrong with flash pl

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:01 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: > I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have > the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox but firefox will only > let me save the file. Under applications I have tried using the doc reader > and adobe to associa

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:55 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: > On Tue, December 9, 2008 3:49 pm, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:01 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: > >> I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have > >>

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:46 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > With all this, when I click on a PDF, all works as expected. Can you > provide the link you're having problems with? Most of my downloads are > at a site that starts the process with a jave application, so I d

Re: [CentOS] Running on 8G CF card

2008-12-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:07 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Rick wrote: > > > dmesg isn't a file, its a program thats dumping the kernel message > buffer. how do you live 'tail' it? # dmesg|tail -f usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at :00:00.0.

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:11 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: > > On Tue, December 9, 2008 4:54 pm, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > Just an FYI: since I hadn't checked recently, I did an open file in FF > > and picked a local PDF. All wo

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:29 -0500, John wrote: > > > All of my settings look good in FF. Adobe plugin is enabled. Under apps I > > have tried setting it to always ask, adobe, and the default evince. If I > > open a local pdf in FF this will open. However if I attempt to open off of > > the intern

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:30 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: > > Ok. I can open PDFs from the web. We use squirrelmail for email and when > trying to open a pdf within email I only get the save option. Sorry for > the confusion I just assumed it was like this out on the internet as well. NP. Glad you got

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:24 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using > mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of > Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum > Repository installed. I downloade

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I > >> see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest

Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:48 +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: > Can't you just add an entry to /etc/inittab? > > This worked well for me > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Greg Bailey wrote: > >> Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific > >> process is alive and re-s

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Barry Brimer wrote: > >> chkconfig yum on > >> service yum start > > > > yum-cron ? > > yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ??? Just run a yum available for all my repos. No yum-cron

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:46 -0800, MHR wrote: > > [mrich...@swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost >

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: > I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few > subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run > rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. > > Thanks to all, esp. Bill for mentioning rpc - that was the clue for m

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:02 -0800, MHR wrote: > > > Thanks I needed that! You know that one "Aw Shit" wipes out 1000 "'Atta > > Boys". Now I have one in the bank - 999 to go! ;-) > > > > So, like an idiot, after I had everything back up and running, I tried > it again. It _couldn't_ happen tw

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0500: > >> What key > >> combination would get me going or to a shell? > > > > Probably none. If it doesn't react to CTRL-ALT-DEL it's

[CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
Ran yum update this A.M. Got this. Is it a problem for rpmforge, CentOS or just me? Maybe not a problem at all? /etc/ld.so.conf.d files are "box stock", so there were no clues there. TIA for any insight. === Running Transaction Updating : c

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:43 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:05, William L. Maltby > wrote: > > /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link > > This message is not generated by "yum", but by "ldconfi

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:46 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 14:20, William L. Maltby > wrote: > > Since I know nothing of the scripts (python?) > > Usually they're Bourne shell script. > > You can see the scripts used by

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:42 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:05 AM, William L. Maltby > wrote: > > Ran yum update this A.M. Got this. Is it a problem for rpmforge, CentOS > > or just me? Maybe not a problem at all? > > Bill: I have PUP running

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:51 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:46 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > >> One of the steps "ldconfig" does is creating symbolic links for > > >> libraries, using

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 18:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > Try running: > >/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > > and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem. > > > it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > >> I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) > > > > No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :) > > I've never used EPEL, so i

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:11 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > My backup box is an old 200MHz Pentium w/96MB. Maybe there is a local > dealer or private party that has a good old one you can pick up $Cheap. > > When I'm using the old backup with IPCop, I see no perf

[CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 22:48 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: > Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit : > > > If you get to single-user with a boot (adding the " 1" in grub edit > > mode), alternate consoles will have some stuff of possible value. > >

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 00:33 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-21, 22:38 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Note that I changed "vesa" to "vga" since the card mentions > > only vga. > > Forget about VGA, it is really obsolete now -- all graphic cards

Re: [CentOS] no sound after hibernation

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:41 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: > I am not getting any sound after hibernating > Have you tried running gnome-volume-control and checking if anything is muted? Right-click the volume control icon. -- Bill ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:56 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-22, 00:11 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > He had tried vesa in a parameter to system-config-display, as > > suggested by Alan, and it hadn't worked. So I figured try > > something that _ought_ to work

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > Matej, Last we communicated on this, no resolution yet. I've done all the things you suggested and I now believe a bug in either FF or T'bird. Thread starts here http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/068837.html and yo

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-22 Thread William L. Maltby
that you ever wanted to know follows. I presume this completes the triage process? Now, who reports and where? :-) Bill On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:43 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-22, 17:58 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Other folks chimed in at various points, so you might want to &

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > SYNOPSIS: Bug between Firefox and > >gnome-default-applications-properties > > somewhere. > > When FF is set to check to see if it is the default browser and it is > not and the user selects "Ye

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 16:49 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-22, 23:49 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > I presume this completes the triage process? Now, who reports > > I hope this bug is publicly visible > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471193 It is. &g

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 22:58 +0100, Mariusz wrote: > Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: > http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhel-4 > on centos5? I've never used it anywhere. But I learned from watching the list to google first.

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 23:23 +0100, Mariusz wrote: > i checked google.. but i found only on centos 4, my question was: on centos > 5, so please don't be malicious ;) I didn't hink I was being malicious. I looked again and found lots of combinations of CentOS 5 and tripwire. Most would not have he

Re: [CentOS] [OT SOLVED... sort of] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
uot;Custom" command. On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > SYNOPSIS: Bug between Firefox and > > > >gnome-default-applications-properties > > > > somewhere. > > &

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 01:34 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: > > find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files > > I think you can have only one action (either -exec or -print), > but not sure about it. Anyway, my first instinct when things ar

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:44 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to get the x86_64 isos of CentOS-5.2. I wish to use > bittorrent. The last time that I did this I required the bittorent > package from Dag's repository. I have configured > /etc/yum.repos.d/DagWieers.repo thus: > > [dag] >

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:07 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 AM, James B. Byrne > wrote: > > > > I am trying to get the x86_64 isos of CentOS-5.2. I wish to use > > bittorrent. The last time that I did this I required the bittorent > > package from Dag's repository. > > Try rp

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:23 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, William L. Maltby > > > Note that the "protect=0" is needed for priorities to work. > > > > This is only true if you have both the yum-protectbase and > yum-priorities plugin

Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:36 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kai Schaetzl > wrote: > > Mhr wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:11 -0800: > > > >> I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF > >> executables when they should be directories. How do I change a fi

Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread William L. Maltby
Having read the rest of the posts, maybe you can recover the critical pieces by going to the bill site again. Most that I use allow a payment history display. If what you're looking for is a saved confirmation of you activity, maybe that will do. Many of those I use show the post date and confirm

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:36 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: > Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:53, Lanny Marcus a écrit : > > > As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you > > download the "Live CD" for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it > > doesn't run on the Live CD, it p

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:27 -0800, MHR wrote: > I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under > CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had > some success, in fact most of this usually works. > > I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing - it seems to

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions

2008-12-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:09 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, William L. Maltby > wrote: > > > > As to the "in use" part, I'll make a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess). > > > > With a normal desktop, when you insert a CD/DVD

Re: [CentOS] Log File Reviewing

2009-01-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:40 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >to match one or more, use + instead of *. > > > >* matches 0 or more, + matches 1 or more. > > Thanks! > > So gawk does all that sed does and more? I suppose I can start with Tons. You can write fairly complex programs with (g)awk.

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation [SOLVED].

2009-01-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 19:00 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: > Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 14:22, Alain PORTAL a écrit : > > Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 13:47, William L. Maltby a écrit : > > > Have you run a memtest86(?). > > > > memtest86 found several errors du

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation [SOLVED].

2009-01-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: > Le mardi 06 janvier 2009, William L. Maltby a écrit : > > I'm glad it worked out. I took the liberty of adding [SOLVED] to the > > subject line to help others that may have a similar problem in the > > future.

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:23 +0100, Friedrich Clausen wrote: > Hello All, > > At my $WORK we have lots of in-house applications used to support the > services we offer to customers and we deploy these to servers as RPMS. > This works well for us except we have thousands of obsolete packages > in o

Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 08:37 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > > audacity is ready for prime time. Anyone know of any other packages > that are dependent on wxGTK and need the most recent version? I don't use audicity or much that's not "box stock", but maybe this helps? $ rpm -q --whatrequires

Re: [CentOS] Top and Iostat

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:43 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Matt wrote: > > Is there anyway to tell with top or iostat which process is hogging > > all the disk I/O? IMHO, The best way is to install and use the System Activity Reporting (SAR) system. It's native, available, as detailed or general

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:55 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > List, > > After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started > seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a "back" function on any > pages or tabs. Also, I get some kind of strange message > > > "Assertion

Re: [CentOS] non-restraint; was: CentOS 4 update backlog

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:36 -0500, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:32 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > > > How about just NOT popping off with whatever little thought > > wanders into your head for two days running? > > Amen! s/!/ Brother&/ > -- Bill _

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:46 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > It gets as far as telling me: > > Total download size: 207 M > > It doesn't ask if its ok. But > if I type y it reports: >Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: > > Then it does nothing. I can't kill it > with CRTL-C, but

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:27 -0600, Robert wrote: > > My Firefox is running just fine, too, Lanny. Seems like I recall the > O.P. having problems with cross-pollinated repositories some time ago. A > Firefox update history might be helpful: > > [r...@mavis log]# grep -i firefox* /var/lo

Re: [CentOS] Top and Iostat

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 23:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:40 -0500: > > > The best way is to install and use the System Activity Reporting (SAR) > > system. > > AFAIK, it won't show any file-specific stuff. It

Re: [CentOS] Creating an iso image of a audio CD with K3B

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:48 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Jay Leafey wrote: > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Can you do this? I have not found the options to get this to happen. > >> > >> So far I have seen how to read the Audio CD and make a directory of > >> WAV files with a control file fo

Re: [CentOS] Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:25 -0800, MHR wrote: > > Well, there goes the neighborhood > > No more fun aloud here! What's wrong with silent fun? >;-) In fact, from my experience on this list, some fun would be much more appreciated if it were silent, but not all of course. > > > > mhr >

Re: [CentOS] acroread = resource hog

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 00:58 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote: > Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? Not here. > > I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up > my resources. I don't see it here. Maybe I need to look next time even though I see no ad

Re: [CentOS] Bugs in yum update

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:00 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:18:37 +, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > [...] > > > > This suggests that yum is not flushing output, possibly because it > > doesn't think it's stdio is on a tty. > > > > 1. Were you running yum update loc

Re: [CentOS] Bugs in yum update

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:40 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:36:03AM -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > When you redirected stderr, with 2>&1 (btw, &> is shorthand for that) > > &> is a csh-ism and also in bash. It's not correc

Re: [CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:04 -0800, nate wrote: > > > Second question - A newly installed server consisting of CentOS 5.2, > > straight > > off the DVD, I invoke a command by hand, realize I want to kill it soon > > after > > (logged in as root). I issue ps auwx|grep name_of_command, get the PID

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:07 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > > >>After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I >started > >> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a >"back" function on an

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox (Solved)

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:09 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Problem solved! Apparently, something got trashed in the > ~/.mozilla/firefox directory(s). After deleting the .mozilla dir, > restarted FF and all works as advertized now. Glad to hear that! Y'know those 'ritas are corrupting influence

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS 5 support USB 1 ?

2009-01-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:34 -0700, Russell Bell wrote: > We upgraded our Internet server to CentOS 5 from RedHat 4. > Now we can't use the USB port. dmesg returns: > > usbcore: deregistering driver usb-storage > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:46 -0600, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings list- > > I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the second. > Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a special > application that requires finer granularity. > > I know I know

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

2009-01-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:06 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Miguel Medalha wrote: > > I hope someone familiar with the way Linux processes files can enlighten > > me on the following: > > ... > > On the Windows server, Distiller processes the files by filename order: > > > > M09010901A001C.ps > > M

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:43 +, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > > (...) think your real problem lies in your processing software in > > the file ordering. I would have a really good look at the software doing it. > > > > The problem lies in EXT3. I discovered that if I mv the files to another

Re: [CentOS] Problem compiling cairo-dock under CentOS 5.2

2009-01-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:14 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > To partially answer my own question, it appears that g_timeout_add_seconds > was > introduced in glib2 library, starting from version 2.14, while my current > CentOS installation has version 2.12.3-2. Now, it turns out that glib2

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 00:33 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible > > to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or > > can you get update RPMs? > > Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade"

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:28 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: > > Well the only reason /boot isn't possible in LVM is because grub can't > > of yet handle reading LVM volumes. As soon as it can though, there will > > be no need for a separate /boot. > > Then we just need BIOS s

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