RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creating a partition > and having it mounted in fstab by volume label and see if it appears > twice. Not quite the same, but I'v

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:15 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean regardless of if desktop is started up? In that case, it sounds > > like System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:15 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean regardless of if desktop is started up? In that case, it sounds > > like System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:50 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the "misc" is getting automounted, that would be a problem. But > > wasn't the "noauto" option tried

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:25 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:34 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, William L. Maltby > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > &g

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, > ATAPI > CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, > UDMA(100) > [EMAIL PR

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:34 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:03 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > > > > Must be something like that - if I su and umount it, both ic

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:22 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 27 April 2008, "John" wrote: > > Mike Peterson has the same problem on an HP box. Mine is a Dell > Dimension 4300. I believe the DVD reader was not installed in the > factory and that I installed it, later, but, I'm not positive about >

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:03 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Ross S. W. Walker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Boot and root should be ok, but misc is probably causing problems with file > > managers querying fstab and hal. > > > > -Ross > > > > Must be something like th

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:52 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I see that you have solved. If for some reason you wish to keep both > > definitions (there may be reasons), just add "noau

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:06 -0700, MHR wrote: > I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this interesting > situation. > > I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted > in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange. > > One is that the secon

Re: [CentOS] network Interface

2008-04-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:19 +0530, gopinath wrote: > When i run a mii-tool > > it displays no MII transcievers present !!! > > if i run ifconfig it displays the eth0 its ip and Hwaddress > > if i ping to the eth0 ip it pings. > > if i ping to some other ip on Lan no response is coming. >

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:41 +0200, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: > > P.S.: Yes, I do love top-posting if it helps (before some taliban says > something to me, the list is to help people. I hope not to be > unpolite) > I'm not taliban, nor intolerant. But Have you thought about what you just

Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:06 -0400: > > > As to loss, maybe yes. When you allocate using multipliers, (10GB, > > 100MB, etc.) the bytes per cylinder is used as a divisor. This *may* > > leave

Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk > output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks > are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean? IIRC, it means that the

Re: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:27 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Every time a "new" user logs into a development box (which does not use nfs > for the home dirs) the get could not chdir to their home dir. They call me > with the error and I do a: > > cp -a /etc/skel/ ~USER && chown USER.users -R ~USER/ >

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:56 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi People, > > The Linux Environment I am responsible for is using ssh key pairs to > allow access to a number or accounts on a number Linux Servers. I > currently have the opportunity to re-design some of this. So I would > like to tap

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not complete

2008-04-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 20:55 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was doing a yum update today. > It downloaded all the packages. > was doing the next part and my remote connection was lost. > so ssh session was killed. > > When I logged back in I am not sure if the update is done or not. I > presume not.

Re: [CentOS] Centos issues

2008-04-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 20:03 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:56 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > >> > > > > Geez folks! Let's have a little thicker skin. Nothing wrong, IMO, with > > what

Re: [CentOS] Centos issues

2008-04-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:56 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, hamood Iqbal wrote: > > > > > > > but if i cant solve it i will switch back to suse. > > Did you consider it to be unfriendly to compare one project with another > and threaten to go back if you don't get an answer. >

Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

2008-04-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 08:47 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, just use it. > > This implies that "snapshot" is a bit of a misnomer for what LVM > creates, because you can modify both the "snapshot" and the "real > ph

Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

2008-04-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:04 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > IIRC, you don't have a real snapshot on the LV ATM. The snapshot LV only > > contains files that were chang(ed/ing) while the snapshot volume was > > "attached" during the

Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

2008-04-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 01:59 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > So how does one accomplish this if say the snap is now deemed the copy of > > interest? I am hoping dd is not the only answer:) > > > > well, just use it. > > Also, your work flow is broken if your historic s

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 02:02 +0300, Linux wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Benjamin Karhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ] Every 59 minutes (maybe every hour) it reboots without any logs, > > ] without any traces and unfortunately with breaking software raid. > > ] After reboot dmesg do

Re: [CentOS] More info for -perm 2 ?

2008-04-09 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 07:49 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Is there any more exhaustive explanation on this command? > find / -type f -perm -2. > Someone said that it means to find all files which have 'other' write access. > > From the man page it only says: > -perm mode > File’s permi

Re: [CentOS] java-1.6.0-openjdk packages for testing

2008-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:35 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:18 AM, William L. Maltby > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Johnny, > >>> > >>> Thought I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:38 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed > sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. > > Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it > failed although

[CentOS] java-1.6.0-openjdk packages for testing

2008-04-04 Thread William L. Maltby
Johnny, Thought I'd try these out for you. Looks like a prerequisite is missing? yum --enablerepo=c5-testing install java-1.6.0-openjdk\* 330 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with sel

Re: [CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-31 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is > > not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*.

Re: [CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:34 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is > not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else > seeing any problems? > > BTW, running the recent Java console from sun th

[CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-30 Thread William L. Maltby
Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems? BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the la

Re: [CentOS] Sound card problem

2008-03-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 21:57 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > I came into an Abit AX8 motherboard and single core AMD Athlon 64 FX. I > did a quick install of CentOS 5.0 on it to make sure everything worked > and then returned the hard disk and case to the original owner. After > getting a new c

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:50 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote > >> > I used to use the separate /boot partition, but quit when the 1024 sector > problem was solved, mostly

Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted by 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5

2008-03-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:31 +, Andrew Hearn wrote: > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > Andrew Hearn wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a machine that seemed to reboot by itself yesterday, in > >> /var/log/messages I only see: > >> > >> Mar 25 14:26:45 asterisk shutdown[19256]: shutting down for system r

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:21 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > >> mouss wrote: > >>> Dan Bongert wrote: > >>>> Hello all: > >>>> > >>>> > &g

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > mouss wrote: > > Dan Bongert wrote: > >> Hello all: > >> > >> > Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' > command will fail too: > > thoth(118) /tmp> w >16:06:51 up 5:34, 1 user, load average: 0.9

Re: [CentOS] Regd: Info about supported Printer for CentOS and RHEL

2008-03-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 17:39 +0530, Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > >I am searched net info about CentOS and RHEL Supported Printer > Details and i am not able to find out the Supported printer details from > net. >Please can any one send me the supported printer details document or link Gen

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:49 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:41 PM -0400 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume > > first, then import i

Re: [CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

2008-03-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 13:47 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Joseph L. Casale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So now - more of a "yum" question - what can I put in some > file to prevent yum from trying to upgrade drbd8 to drbd82 for > now? >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:09 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:31 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> > > > > P.S. It's the xulrunner @ 57MB that looks like the killer. FF is only > > 11MB. Looks like thi

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:07 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > William L. Maltby a écrit : > > > > > It looks like it will take about 13 hours to download. I'm afraid I > > would soak up your outgoing bandwidth. If I don't hear from you in an > > hour or so, I&

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:31 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > P.S. It's the xulrunner @ 57MB that looks like the killer. FF is only 11MB. Looks like things have sped up. 10MB done already in 11 minutes. I'll keep an eye on it. -- Bill _

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:31 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 08:06 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:16 AM, William L. Maltby > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 08:06 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:16 AM, William L. Maltby > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:10 +0100, Niki Kov

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 08:06 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:16 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:10 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > William L. Maltby a écrit : > > > > > > &

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:10 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > William L. Maltby a écrit : > > > > > I tried to get and test this for you, and me. Can't access the repo. > > > > # uname -a > > Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP We

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

2008-03-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:11 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Niki Kovacs a écrit : > >> > > I gave it a go anyway, and the result is very convincing. > > I forgot: if anyone wants to try out Firefox 3.0beta without the hassle > of building/adapting it for CentOS, feel free to use the RPM from my > r

Re: [CentOS] Gnash 0.8.2 rpm for CentOS 4?

2008-03-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:23 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a Gnash rpm available for CentOS 4? > > I have tried compiling it myself but run into dependency problems. > I looked here > > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/gnash/ > > but there is only 0.8.2 for el5

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

2008-03-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:57 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 00:18 +0530, Truejack wrote: > > We have a 1TB disk in one of our machines that needs to be moved to a > > new server. > > > > How can I do that without losing any of the data? > > Shut down the first machin

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 05:36 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > ... > > > I use Adobe's acroread. Works very well. But don't get the 8.* series - > > > it's broken

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 install via PXE Failure

2008-03-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 16:32 +1100, James Gray wrote: > James > -- > Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches? > A: A nervous wreck I had to say thank you for that one! Made me laugh out loud at 05:40 with only one cup of coffee ingested. -- Bill __

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > ... > > I use Adobe's acroread. Works very well. But don't get the 8.* series - > > it's broken in printer interface and is a little bloated do to a not yet > > really usef

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:24 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? > Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails > it KILLS my X11 session. > > If I am at my desktop it works fine. > > xpdf used to work fine on 4.X -

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors.

2008-03-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 05:33 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > On 12 March 2008, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com wrote: > > > > &

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors.

2008-03-13 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On 12 March 2008, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com wrote: > > > > >I just tried again and got the same errors as in my original post. I&#x

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors.

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 12 March 2008, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com wrote: > > >I just tried again and got the same errors as in my original post. I'll > >run a verify on my system and see if something got corrup

Re: [CentOS] Gnome desktop, workspaces and windows

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:59 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > > Questions: > > What key combination places the window with focus into another workspace? > > What key combination or other method moves it back into the primary workspace? I use -- > > Why did hiding all windows empty the alternate

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:55 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 12 March 2008, "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Evo update on my 4.x worked just fine. 5.0 generated a bunch of > > > parsing > > > errors preceded and followed

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors.

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:15 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Evo update on my 4.x worked just fine. 5.0 generated a bunch of parsing > > errors preceded and followed by a couple of I/O errors that appear > > related to an

[CentOS] CentOS 5 Evolution Update errors.

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Maltby
Folks, Evo update on my 4.x worked just fine. 5.0 generated a bunch of parsing errors preceded and followed by a couple of I/O errors that appear related to an unavailable URL. I first figured corruption on my node, so I yum erased evo, its - connector and -webcal units. The data-server removal l

Re: [CentOS] Automatically send CTRL-D

2008-03-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:01 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:35:19PM +, Mário Gamito alleged: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the little bit off-topic. > > > > I have a script that has to performe a hash over a password. > > Problem is that sha512sum expects CTRL-D to be p

Re: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux andkernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:48 -0500, S Roderick wrote: > I was hoping that either via kernel capabilities or SE Linux that we > could avoid this. Both seem to offer exactly the feature we want, > opening raw sockets from unprivileged accounts. But it's really > unclear from all the doc's online

Re: [CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

2008-03-08 Thread William L. Maltby
It's Saturday A.M, so please forgive me. On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:54 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If /proc/cmdline looks like > > > > option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... > > >

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

2008-03-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:00 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Frank Cox a écrit : > > > > That's highly unusual, because I have never seen that error caused by > > anything > > other than selinux. > > > Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure > places in opt/, and not inc

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

2008-03-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:00 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Frank Cox a écrit : > > > Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and > then enter your root password) and type: > > # find / -name 'swriter' Suggestion for future faster "finds": After installing/removing compone

RE: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

2008-03-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Carl wrote: > Heard someone mention free beer, had to participate. > > CentOS, we find RedHat's bugs > > CentOS, the OS that makes sense. Consistently Excellent No-cost Terrific Open Source (CENTOS) > -- Bill __

Re: [CentOS] PnP OS

2008-03-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 17:22 -0600, Matt wrote: > Simple question. In the motherboard bios should PnP OS be enabled or > disable on motherboard running Centos 4.x? Mine is enabled. > > Matt > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] Re: about mono

2008-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 15:03 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-1-2008 1:50 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following: > > On 03/01/2008 08:11 PM, Roilan Cardoso Sýnchez wrote: > >> Hello Friens > >> > Although I dislike hijacked threads myself, it would be so much more helpful > and friendlier to n

Re: [CentOS] perl error on CentOS

2008-02-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:38 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rogelio wrote: > > I notice that a lot of my questions stem from a misunderstanding of how RPMs > > work, as well as how YUM uses RPMs. Can anyone provide me some useful > > links? I google for info, but just seem to get little bits of k

Re: [CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

2008-02-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:51 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > > I am trying to grab the mac address for eth0 on centos 5.1 with > > > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 5 and I dont get anything. > > > > What am I not doing right? > > > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 give

Re: [CentOS] Find user accounts with uid > 500

2008-02-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:48 +, Jim Wight wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 04:27 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 02:56 -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > I'm doing an audit of some Linux machines, and h

Re: [CentOS] Find user accounts with uid > 500

2008-02-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 02:56 -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm doing an audit of some Linux machines, and have used this awk > one-liner to find accounts with uid > 499: > > awk -F: '{if ($3 > 499) print $0}' < /etc/passwd > > It works great if you run it on a host directly, but if I t

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0161 Important CentOS 5 i386 cups - security update

2008-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:54 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0161 > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: > > i386: > cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > >> > > If you use cpio, it can handle the hard links intelligently, IIRC. That > > may make this more feasible. Plus you can specify such things as depth > > to the fi

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I recently set up a new system to run backuppc on centOS 5 with the > archive stored on a raid1 of 750 gig SATA drives created with 3 members > with one specified as "missing". Once a week I add the 3rd partition, > let it sync, then remo

Re: [CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers

2008-02-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:53 -0600, Dan Carl wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > In that case, it sounds like you need a local staging that can be > > quickly done before starting upload sync. Then the u

Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:51 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 06:25 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together. Me. But I

Re: [CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers

2008-02-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:38 -0600, Dan Carl wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:33 PM > Subject: RE: [CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers > > > > Dan Carl wrote: > > > > - Do you know what sort of bandwidth you

Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008

Re: [CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers

2008-02-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:36 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dan Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just ran a test from one local box the another on a 100Mbit link and the > > fastest transfer OI got was 10MBytes/second but most were between > > 1MBytes/second and 4MByte

Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > # CentOS-Base.repo > # > # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for > Cent

[CentOS] Centos Guys: Any estimate of recent torrent savings?

2008-02-22 Thread William L. Maltby
Just wondering if the community has any stats available from the tracker showing savings from torrent (up|down)loads. I'm seeing *lots* of activity on the live CD. Between that and the two CentOS releases I'm sharing (4 DVD & 1-4, 5 DVD & 1-6) my current session has sent out about 20.3GB. Since I

Re: [CentOS] How to mount 'virtual' file systems /proc and /sys ??

2008-02-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:45 -0800, nate wrote: > Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > > > Please help. > > > > Looking at my BIND init scripts it calls this: > mount --bind /proc ${ROOTDIR}/proc >/dev/null > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# mount | grep proc > /dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw) > none on

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap failed to bind to LDAP server 127.0.0.1

2008-02-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:09 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > Hi All: > > Over the weekend I install all the outstanding updates for our > CentOS 4 based server. Since I had been holding off on these until > I had addressed some disk space issues there were a large number > (300+). I know my bad!

Re: [CentOS] acroread 8 on CentOS-4 (was for SL4)

2008-02-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:27 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 6:06 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AR 8.1.1 would not print landscape graphic pdfs (on my machine, > anyway) properly at all. It also had scaling problems (would not > scale images to fit the printer). > > Does any

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS5 installation crashes

2008-02-15 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:49 +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will > > finally boot from LVM. > that did the trick! thanks for the tip. There is no warning dialogue > to tell you this during the install. Another thing I

Re: [CentOS] Screen blacks b/w window changes

2008-02-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 15:08 -0500, Chris McDonald wrote: > Is there a setting that can be changed that keeps the screen from going > black when changing between? I presume you mean switching between a virtual console and an X session, or between multiple X sessions. AFAIK, it can't be prevented b

Re: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 08:44 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2/14/2008 2:25 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: > > > > If grub had a "one time" next boot like LILO, I'd have some more > > thoughts, but <*sigh*> > > > I have been hoping f

Re: [CentOS] ccache on CentOS?

2008-02-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:17 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Before using CentOS, I've spent a few years with Slackware. This > distribution doesn't come with many packages, so I had the habit of > building a lot of stuff myself. One of the first things I installed was > ccache, a compiler c

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I > would call obvious as causing an issue.. > > - > # gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more > 6097 blocks > bin > ... > sys >

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:24 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >But I really have a hunch that it is just a lot of I/O wait time due to > >either metadata maintenance and checkpointing and/or I/O failures, which > >have very long timeouts before failure is recognized and *then* > >alternate block ass

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 20:41 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >You could "nice" it. "man nice". Since there is likely to be a lot of > >I/O happening, it may not help much. > > Ok, here's a noob question :) - What process would I nice? If you run pvmove from the command line, "nice -20 pvmove" for

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:57 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv whose > pe's are being migrated is continuously being written (slowly) to. I finally thought about that last line. Makes since because meta-data tracking must be done as va

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
Sorry 'bout that previous one. Wrong key combo hit! On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:57 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Not that I am aware of. Keep in mind that a *lot* of work is being done. You could "nice" it. "man nice". Since there is like

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:57 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Man doesn't show > any documented switches for priority scheduling. > Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv whose pe's are > being migrated is continuously

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:15 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I am still running CentOS 4.6 on our production systems, but I am > starting to plan the upgrade to CentOS 5.1. I have one test system > running 5.1 that is the exact same hardware configuration as my 4.6 > test system. One of our

Re: [CentOS] New Adobe Reader works on CentOS-4.x, speech synthesis reader & more.

2008-02-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:21 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:32 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Just and FYI. > > > > In RPM form, works on 4.x and I will try on 5.x too. Speech is tacky, > > but if I can get something but the Gnome Fes

Re: [CentOS] Changing ext3 Partition Size

2008-02-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:17 -0600, Scott Moseman wrote: > I have an ext3 partition from our SAN. The size was increased. > I am attempting to re-size this specific ext3 partition, obviously. > > I unmount the partition, run fdisk, change the cyls, and save... > > WARNING: Re-reading the partitio

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:53 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > frankly3d-centos wrote: > > Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) > > > > loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. > > > > > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 > > inet addr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:20 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 6:08 AM, frankly3d-centos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) > > > > loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. > > > > > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:6

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