Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:03 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > (potentially) lost on an existing file system. It's best utility is at > > FS creation and check time. It also ha

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 06:36 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > > So again my question is: > > can I use dd to "test" the disk? what about > > > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda bs=512 > > > > Is this safe on a full running system? Has t

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:43 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > William L. Maltby ha scritto: > > > > Yep. Only a few copies of the superblock and the i-node tables are > > written by the file system make process. That's why it's important for > > files s

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:32 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: > > > > >So there are new packages anyway in spite of the other bits. > > Hi all, have I missed something or is there a CentOS update for 5x but none > for 4x ? I've made sure my mirror is synced and looked around at a few > others but can't

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:05 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:46 AM, William L. Maltby > > >> Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I > >> determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel > >>

Re: [CentOS] LVM not removing LV

2008-08-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 06:46 -0700, Mag Gam wrote: > There are too many mount points. Close to 120. I am fairly certain > this volume is not mouted. I did a grep -i lvname /proc/mounts May be your problem? $ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 /dev /dev tm

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 20:00 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the > name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository. > Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I > determine whether or not the CP

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:33 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > ?? Uncertain about "spares has been exhausted". > > I don't recall where I read it, and I suppose it may be > misinformation, but it made sense at the time. The idea is > the

Re: [CentOS] Various OpenGL apps crashing in CentOS 5?

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:55 +0200, Rubin wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm experiencing odd behaviour with various OpenGL apps I'm (trying to) > use. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60s with the Intel GMA chipset, the 945GM > to be precise. I have glxinfo/glxgears working normally, disabled > composite in xorg

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:07 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > nate ha scritto: > > > For what I understand Offline uncorrectable means that the sector would be > relocated the next time it is accessed for writing... so it is on a "wait for > relocation" status. If my memory is still good (I don't

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 08:59 -0700, nate wrote: > Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > > I have few disk that have offline uncorrectables sectors; > > Ideally it should be done using the manufacturer's tools, Second that! > and really any disk that has even one bad sector that the OS > can see should not b

Re: [CentOS] General Linux query

2008-08-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:43 +0530, lingu wrote: > HI, > > This is more general linux related topic , i want to know few > basic things. > > 1) How file systeem get corrupted on linux? > > 2) why,when and how fsck to be run without lossing data? > > 3) Is there is any other tool other t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Where is cached memory going?

2008-08-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:06 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > that time, DASD became the lazy acronym used extensively to cover any of > the then-extant direct-access devices (drums, cylinders, "disks" - > euphemistically mounted in "pizza ovens (2314/19 IIRC). Hmm

Re: [CentOS] Re: Where is cached memory going?

2008-08-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:50 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Tue, August 19, 2008 11:43, Scott Silva wrote: > > > (I just dated myself with the DASD comment) Quit that! Get a girl friend or something! ;-) > > And branded. > > I don't recall that anybody referred to "DASD" connected to ou

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > MHR wrote: > >> > >> Vi is not the world's best editor > > > > Heh, understatement of the century. > > It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]

2008-08-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> > > > >> Vi or vim. I think Em

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?) [Going OT]

2008-08-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb > C++Lanny If you have C experience, it'll be quick once you get your head around constructors, destructors, inheritance, templates (I never did enough of

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:40 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 > > Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Should I try to learn > >> vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head [SOLVED]

2008-08-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote: > SYNOPSIS: In case you missed or lost the start of this thread, I was setting up two displays, one per video card, on my CentOS 4.6. This was testing before applying the same setup to my 5.2 system, upon which I run an application critical to me. T

RE: [CentOS] Command line partition manipulation

2008-08-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 15:10 +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Plant, Dean wrote: > >> Is there a way to use a non-interactive command to create the new 2nd > >> partition in the free space? Yes. > > > > parted works well for such situations, and if python is your thing, > >

Re: [CentOS] I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:03 +0200, Michel van Deventer wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:36 -0500, Bob Smither wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The > > unit has a USB CD that can _not_ be used as a boot device (the Sony one

Re: [CentOS] Isolinux disk error 20; AX=4280, drive EF

2008-08-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:50 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: > Hello William; > > Are you thinking BIOS update for the motherboard or for the DVD > drive, or both? The motherboard has Intel's latest and greatest. The Both. On CD and DVD drives, I've always checked for updated BIOSs. > DVD drive I

Re: [CentOS] Isolinux disk error 20; AX=4280, drive EF

2008-08-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 08:41 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: > Thanks Dag. I'm wondering if I'll have a similar problem with a multi CD > > mention. The large DVD ISO image is not recognizable by the system. At > the time the system was put together, there were no DVD ISO images, just > CD. The DVD

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:13 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Mufit Eribol wrote: > > I see in your other post that you need to do some studying. *After* umount of /mnt/raid, there is *no* device on /mnt/raid anymore. In my original reply, I presumed (shame on me) that you would correctly try to fsck the

Re: [CentOS] out of memory

2008-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > but on July 27 - the day I updated - no users in office - same time > period, the kbswpfree starting swinging wildly. > > But sar doesn't tell me which program is leaking memory but perhaps it > was just the update without reboot that wa

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:08 +0300, Mufit Eribol wrote: > Hi, > > My Centos 5.2 server (5.1 suffered the same problem as well) has a > logical volume on a RAID 10 array (4 SATA harddisks on a Highpoint > RR2310 controller). /etc/fstab has an entry for this array as below > /dev/raid_vg0/raid_lv0

Re: [CentOS] out of memory

2008-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: > P.S. And running sar. Use a short sample interval is you suspect a rapidly inflating hog. If the hog is only slowly "bloating", a slow sample rate will do. If it's a "memory leak", I can't recall (been years... no, decades since I dinked w

Re: [CentOS] out of memory

2008-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > I suppose I could run some type of cron script that does something > like... > > top -n 1 -b >> /tmp/top.log > > so if it happens again, I get a memory snapshot history...is there a > better idea? If you have the sar packages installed

Re: [CentOS] Re: Will CentOS 6's upstream be based on Fedora 10?

2008-07-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 16:09 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > > Cutting edge is sort of the middle. On both sides you have bleeding edge and > Enterprise stable. Then on the bottom you have stale and locked And in the middle of the two cutting edges is raw meat. It's not the edges that are bleeding,

Re: [CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen

2008-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:58 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then > > possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which > > works for

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 04:32 +0200, Michael Kress wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you > > can install them for the main kernel. > > > Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff. > At least I know now

Re: [CentOS] Extended characters not working on CentOS

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:49 -0700, MHR wrote: > A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page > www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the > page. > > Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky > 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:54 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was born and raised in California, where Scott and Mark are, but > > this waving the chicken over my head, when working on a PC, is new to > > me. :-) Having l

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:05 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > Hi folks, > > is it possible to restrict the rights of a user to only do few, defined > actions, e.g. only look up cpu and memory usage, but not walk around in the > file system, not see any other hardware details, run any binaries/scri

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're > > supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer > > enough. > >

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then > swap until the box crashes/freezes? If the process is started from bash, whther by hand or script, I would think that bash's "ulimit" builtin would give what you need? "

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:38 +0200, Jens Larsson wrote: > > > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for > > > root is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a > > > relatively stable system/user base/file/system usage. > > > I gather this can't be done aft

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 -0400: > > > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for root > > is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a relatively >

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:09 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote: > > Can anyone help make sense of this? This is an ext3 partition. It's > > only showing 403GB out of 426GB used, but then it says only 632MB > > available? Where'd the extra ~25GB go? > > Those are the ~ 5% which

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:43 -0700, Chris Payne wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:03:16AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Q1: Anyone have a two video card CentOS 4.6 setup working? > > > During testing with various cards (Matrox, ATI Radeon, nVidia) I do recall >

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-May/080915.html > > > > > Oh, my word - how many mont

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:13 -0500, Alex wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:54:05 -0400 > "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > and scribbled: > > > > I'll ask a friend of mine that runs dual head on a linux box what > he's

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:07 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:02:07PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > > running with a set command in it by doing this: > > > > $ screen -dm $command > > > > However, it

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:45 -0400, Glenn wrote: > At 11:13 AM 7/22/2008, you wrote: > >On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 > >"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > >and scribbled: > > > > > I need to start running a dual

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:13 -0500, Alex wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 > "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > and scribbled: > > > I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:55 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > >> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these > >> permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than > >> root/sudo to change them? > >> > > > > Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, t

[CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. Eventual target is CentOS 5.x. Decided to test first on my 4.6 setup (eventually it will achieve 5.x). Both machines are fully up to date. The test machine is 4.6, 2 radeon video cards. Searched the web, CentOS site, even bugzilla. This bu

Re: [CentOS] ps to pdf

2008-07-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:38 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 at 9:35am, Craig White wrote > > > I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to > > file' to 'pdf' > > > > I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the > > file

Re: [CentOS] Re: configuration request

2008-07-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 08:45 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > the machine down there, I actually had maybe 2 hours, or the time it > took to install CentOS on the drive and get the FS set up for the task. > Only later did I learn there was a problem remote rebooting. Ahhh. That prompts a possi

Re: [CentOS] Yum strangeness

2008-07-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:55 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > > > > Which is the "safest" setup for priorities? > > > > base, update and extras: priority=1 > > ATrpms (which should not replace _any_ base package): priority=10 > > rpmforge (which could have some base packag

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Guy Boisvert schrieb: > >> > > This list is not too busy - it's still a bearable volume. But I admit > > I don't read everything. > > > I actually got kicked off a local Linux list for asking something > similar,

Re: [CentOS] Yum strangeness

2008-07-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 09:17 -0500, Jeff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was about to do an update on my server, but looking at what the output > > was and here's the output from the beginning with other parts left off. I >

Re: [CentOS] Problems with building an rpm

2008-07-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 06:45 -0600, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I am S thankful. > > You will definitely get a line of recognition for my IETF presentation > on SIP over HIP over Teredo in two weeks! I should not have been sooo Lobby your management to make a contribution or provide som

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stopping a server not controled by service

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:36 -0600, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > >> > >> How would I get lock files? > > > > You create lock files as a simple way to not run a process more than > > one at a time. > > I was asking how I make/control a lock file when the rpm provides a > binary run module and th

Re: [CentOS] can I host a Ubuntu / Gentoo repository on a CentOS server?

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 21:49 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > - Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > > > > That totally depends on the mirrors you are hosting, how their > metadata > > is generated, etc. > > > > But the process to mirror them should just be to rsync some files > into > > a

Re: [CentOS] Stopping a server not controled by service

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:33 -0600, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Miredo is run as a server from the command line: > > /usr/sbin/miredo > > The man page says the signal SIGTERM stops the server. > > How do I send SIGTERM to the server? Or SIGHUP, as I want to make a > change to the config file. k

Re: [CentOS] Bug-buddy and bug reports for GNOME 2.16...

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:57 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am currently using thunderbird for my e-mail ... but I have setup a test > > evolution instance and it is not failing here when I exit. > > > > But there is not a wh

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:41 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > I have it working, with one glitch (cannot get to the IPCop web > interface from my Desktop) in the Backup IPCop box. Did you remember to use the alternate port? E.g on my local net https://homegroanfirewall:445/cgi-bin/index.cgi I

Re: [CentOS] background process

2008-07-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:34 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > Sorry for such lame question but .. > > When i am connected to server using SSH . How can i fetch process to > background and close ssh session and not kill that process? And how > can i later connect to server and fetch process from backg

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 21:41 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > It wasn't a bad thing to do. IMO the bad thing to do was for someone to > > "rebuke" you in such a "short" manner when you had made the list aware > > of your

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 11:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/13/08, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> again. Lanny > > > > FYI: When you have a large thing to post publicly there are sites such > > as http://pastebin.com/ and others. Googling w

Re: [CentOS] yum remove from stdout

2008-07-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 11:21 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Kenneth Burgener wrote: > > On 7/13/2008 8:50 AM, David Hláčik wrote: > >> Hello, little tricky question : > >> > >> i have a file of packages for removal , which looks like that : > >> > >> atk libart_lgpl libXfixes audiofile libXcurso

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 17:23 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/12/08, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > [240kB png] > > DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN. > >You just sent out ~1GB of data. > > As of now (as that already happened last week), the maximum message size > >

Re: [CentOS] looking for motherboard / temp / hdd monitor, other than lmsensors

2008-07-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 13:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all > > What other good temp / motherboard / fan speed / HDD / etc monitor can I > use on CentOS 5.1 (or even 5.2 - still need to upgrade)? I know > lmsensors works ok'ish, but it doesn't pickup my Gigabyte motherboard > properly. I d

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 09:05 +0930, Ian Blackwell wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > >>> > >> Question: Awhile ago, I got into the configuration settings for our > >> ZTE ADSL Modem. > >> For the change to me having my own Caching DNS Server, in the settings > >> for the ADSL modem at this time, using

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:12 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/11/08, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/11/08, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> I cannot dig +trace from my Desktop, as me or as root and I also > >

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 16:15 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/11/08, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > My wife is using her Desktop box (compaq1300) on MS Windows at this > time. I can dig but I cannot dig + trace to her box: That makes sen

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 06:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/11/08, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I cannot dig +trace from my Desktop, as me or as root and I also > cannot dig +trace from the ipcop box as of this time. Must be either firewall

Re: [CentOS] Understanding iptables

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 13:43 +1200, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd wrote: > > what are you talking about? I'm writing a Tor wrapper that funnels all > my http requests thru gopher for extra security. It's called Gor. And > I'm writing it in GW-BASIC! > > we don't need no steenkin new fangl

Re: [CentOS] Understanding iptables

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 21:29 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > P.S.: Once again: although it's great that you are digging into the > problem, using iptables, and learning a lot on the process, you should > *REALLY* consider ditching rsh/rlogin and sticking to SSH. I would > consider using rs

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 20:07 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/10/08, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Still not able to SSH into the IPCop box. Something wrong in the > syntax I tried or SSH didn't get turned on in the IPCop box, via the > web interface, as I thought? The sshd is

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/10/08, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I will try to SSH into the ipcop box. I've never tried to SSH into it. > I've always looked at it via the web interface. Be aware that port 222, no 22, is used for slightly increa

Re: [CentOS] Understanding iptables

2008-07-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:40 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Barry Brimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > >> system-config-securitylevel-tui to open up ports 513 and 514, but that > >> doesn't seem to do the job, either. > > > > I cou

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 7/10/08, Victor Padro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a Desktop user and Linux newbie. If I could use CentOS (which can > do almost anything, if one knows how to do it), to replace our IPCop > box, all I need it to do is: (a) Router

Re: [CentOS] How can I automate random bytes generation for CENTOS 5.2?

2008-07-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:56 +0300, Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: > Hi; > > I want to automatize random bytes generation for gpg. Cause it takes > too much time for creating a key. > What should I do? > > I have Centos5.2+Atmail e-mail server. > > Thanks a lot... "man sslrand"? > HTH -- Bill ___

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:32 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > CD is playing alright. Volume Control Panel mute, volume, balance all > > work. In *my* original thread (not the one from ech - Jim?), I couldn't > > even open the Volume Cont... crap th

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:20 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:25 -0700, nate wrote: > > > Well, that was involved partly. The other user owned all the > devices /dev/{gpmctl,mixer,audio,adsp,snd} *and* floppies, HD, > nvidia, ... > > So I ran

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:25 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > I'll see if I can ID a plugin in the next pass. > > The plugins themselves won't show up, in my case it just said firefox > was using it. And I recall getting audio from fla

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:17 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > That returned nothing. So I ran it w/o the dsp and manually extracted > > anything interesting. Got just these, which look normal. > > How about lsof | grep /dev/snd In my visual, I was on

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:13 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > > any sound played a

Re: [CentOS] NOW: Firefox 3.0 and GNOME crash when trying to view SME Server documentation WAS: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 06:39 -0400, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > Jul 8 21:17:05 dell2400 restorecond: Will not restore a file with > more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) No such file or directory > > > > The above MIGHT be related to your other thread ... if there is an issue > with the

Re: [CentOS] NOW: Firefox 3.0 and GNOME crash when trying to view SME Server documentation WAS: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 06:56 -0400, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > OK, I can verify that for me (CentOS-5.2 updated, > Firefox-3.0-2.el5.centos) this link: > > http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Booklet > > Causes X to crash. > > >> I can replicate it every ti

Re: [CentOS] UTF-8 support in PCRE

2008-07-08 Thread William L. Maltby
I tried to resist, but ... On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 18:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:59:51 -0400: > > > What should I do instead, if I can't return to insanity? What convinces you that you ever left it? Insane folks don't know they're insane. > > go forwa

Re: [CentOS] rsh problems in CentOS 5.2 (was "cvs command failure on 5.2")

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:28 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I figure you've probably checked this already, but is rcpwrappers > > installed? > > No, not on either system (wha

Re: [CentOS] rsh problems in CentOS 5.2 (was "cvs command failure on 5.2")

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:59 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:45:25PM -0700, MHR wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lane]$ rsh khan ls > > poll: protocol failure in circuit setup > > Are you sure there are no firewalls in place that could be blocking access? > Note that "rsh

Re: [CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:13 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > > any sound played a

Re: [CentOS] Best Java code for Centos 5.2s Firefox 3

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Anyway, so here comes the upgrade to firefox 3. On my test system, Java > was working with 1.5, and now it is not. So I anticipate the same event > here. I need these Java apps working, so before I upgrade, I would like > to kn

[CentOS] Flaky desktop audio behavior.

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Might have some kind of bug here. I want to know if anybody else is seeing this. It's happened twice now, so I should be able to repeat it. $ rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos On my desktop, I "su -" to another user. Then "nohup thunderbird", it gets the mail and plays the annou

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 23:46 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >If it won't "wok", you'l have to "cook" up something. :-) YUK, YUK! > > Now that's ironic (you'l):P Yeah, but not as good since it doesn't lend itself easily to "punning". > -- Bill ___

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

2008-07-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:48 +1000, hce wrote: > On 7/4/08, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:41 +1000, hce wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM, William L. Maltby > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 18:41 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > You can actually do that by using "chroot" from a rescue CD. I usually > want to do that on my systems, when I clone from a machine with > hardware RAID to a machine on which I will use software RAID. After > copying the image (u

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 11:04 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:36 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > If it's a boot drive, remember to rebuild your initrd and modify the > >> > init file t

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 06:36 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Still in the top level working directory () > >find | cpio -oac | gzip --best > > Just checked. "find *" is what you want. Also, there are a couple ignorelocking failures and a mkrootdev. Chang

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 06:52 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > The problem would be if yum checks it's db to see if it has previously > installed /usr/bin/false and find that it hasn't. In that case it won't wok. If it won't "wok", you'l have to "cook" up something. :-) YUK, YUK! > -- Bill ___

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:58 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > >> > >> > > > > > >> Now actually, I would have perfered renaming the LV

Re: Internet Networking Down (Was FW: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS5.2 (Akemi))

2008-07-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:37 +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." Except in the U.S. where a combination of stupid policies, unreasonable consumer expectations, spineless politicians, and $4+ a gallon (GASP!) gasoline is

Re: [CentOS] cvs command failure on 5.2

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:32 -0700, MHR wrote: > > What command tells me which distro I'm on? I forget) # rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos # lsb_release -a LSB Version::core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Descrip

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Now actually, I would have perfered renaming the LVM partition and its > internal ext3 partitions. I even had a naming convention laid out if I > had do this via Install instead. If it's a boot drive, remember to rebuild your ini

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> > >> > > > > > >> Yes, dd is actually pretty slow in wall clock time. Wher

Re: [CentOS] Can't run a bash script from USB drive

2008-07-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 13:15 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:54 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > For a sample, search for your name & 2008 and July. NADA! > > > > Well, at least THAT part works properly

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