[CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Digimer wrote: That was hardly called for. If you find a post off topic or uninteresting, just delete it. Either no one will reply or, if there is interest in the question, others will and the question will be decided to have value. wrong Seemingly you feel it is proper

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 16:26 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: How was Russ's reply rude? He actually took the time to explain things... and remained civil doing it. Can we discontinue this and return to tranquillity please ? Paul. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: Poettering says in his blog that you can have /usr on a separate partition if you mount it in the initramfs. With dracut, it means using --add fstab-sys (or adding fstab-sys to the /etc/dracut.conf modules list) and creating an /etc/fstab.sys with a /usr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R - elists
Can we discontinue this and return to tranquillity please ? Paul. Paul, with all humility due respect, if I was given authority within CentOS and on this list, you would be one of the first we would discipline... - rh ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-02 Thread Devin Reade
You've already received some good responses so I won't rehash a lot of what was said. However here are few more comments without a lot of backing detail (but it should give you enough info to google for detail): 1. Despite the RedHat link someone provided, I think the advice of putting almost

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: Can we discontinue this and return to tranquillity please ? Paul. Paul, with all humility due respect, if I was given authority within CentOS and on this list, you would be one of the first we would

[CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: - rh Russ why don't you just discipline everyone? Cause no-one can stick to CentOS-only conversations in your righteous eyes. Rudi, I know it is confusing to you , as Robert

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 14:34 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: - rh Russ why don't you just discipline everyone? Cause no-one can stick to CentOS-only conversations in your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 12:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote: You've already received some good responses so I won't rehash a lot of what was said. However here are few more comments without a lot of backing detail (but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 11:27 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: Poettering says in his blog that you can have /usr on a separate partition if you mount it in the initramfs. With

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-09-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Does rpm -qi autofs show nothing? If so, I'm a tad surprised, since that takes care of not only nfs but also CD/DVDs and USB keys. I don't believe that's true. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread ken
On 08/31/2011 09:21 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Good Evening All, I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. Now I know there are a lot of different ways to partition the system and different opinions depending on the use of the server. I currently have a quad core intel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, ken wrote: In the absence of actual evidence to the contrary, I'd go with the recommendations in the docs regarding swap. Personally, I think that advice needs updating for machines with large amounts of memory to include an upper bound. In general use I'm not sure I can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Thursday, September 01, 2011 03:21:25 AM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Good Evening All, I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. Now I know there are a lot of different ways to partition the system and different opinions depending on the use of the server. I currently have a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:07:01 PM Always Learning wrote: I assume your machine is a single user machine. If so, I would suggest He stated clearly in his request that this was for a server, by definition a multi-user machine (each server process should, after all, run as a unique user)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:07:01 PM Always Learning wrote: I assume your machine is a single user machine. If so, I would suggest He stated clearly in his request that this was for a server, by definition a multi-user

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: just goes to show how well people actually read anything on the internet these days. and then they can't understand why the original poster gets irritated when he's told to use a hammer to hit the nail into the wall, when asked what color

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: just goes to show how well people actually read anything on the internet these days. and then they can't understand why the original poster gets irritated when he's told to use a hammer to hit the nail into the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend it is part of my article, which you can read at http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc These days, our default here at work is: /boot is 200M (we'll probably

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:22:42 +, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and settings-system.desktop. The DNS response is always:No such name. Do tell! These

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend it is part of my article, which you can read at http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc These days, our default here at work is: /boot is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread John Doe
From: Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/01/2011 12:20 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:21:25 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I was recently told that this is an old style of partitioning and is not used in modern day Linux distributions. The only thing old-style I saw in your list was the separate /usr partition. I like having separate /var,

[CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
In KDE 4, I click: Kickoff System Settings Network Connectivity Network Settings Network Settings I get a popup informing me that my system is not supported. (This did not happen before.) I am offered choices. I choose RedHat 6.0 (Is this wrong? I also tried RedHat 9.0.). I select

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: In KDE 4, I click: Kickoff System Settings Network Connectivity Network Settings Network Settings I get a popup informing me that my system is not supported. (This did not happen before.) I am offered choices. I choose RedHat 6.0 (Is this wrong? I also

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap =  1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr =

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:03:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: Michael D. Berger wrote: In KDE 4, I click: Kickoff System Settings Network Connectivity Network Settings Network Settings I get a popup informing me that my system is not supported. (This did not happen

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Lamar, Excellent email. Thank you so much you have been very informative!!! On 9/1/2011 11:29 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:21:25 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I was recently told that this is an old style of partitioning and is not used in modern day Linux

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
John Doe, Thanks, This is a good read and makes me feel better about splitting partitions. On 9/1/2011 11:17 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Vomackajuvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread John Hinton
On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Mattersimon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: from http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html Do not place /usr on a separate partition If /usr is on a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:03:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: Michael D. Berger wrote: In KDE 4, I click: Kickoff System Settings Network Connectivity Network Settings Network Settings I get a popup informing me that my system is not supported.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:33:16 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [...] ACK! Hedwig is about 10 years old. History: RH 1,2,3,4,5 (where I started using RH), 5.2,6 (Hedwig),7,7.1,7.2,7.3,8,9 (Shrike), RHEL1?2?,RHEL 3,RHEL 4, RHEL 5, and just this year, RHEL 6. Something's wrong with

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:33:16 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [...] ACK! Hedwig is about 10 years old. History: RH 1,2,3,4,5 (where I started using RH), 5.2,6 (Hedwig),7,7.1,7.2,7.3,8,9 (Shrike), RHEL1?2?,RHEL 3,RHEL 4, RHEL 5, and just this year, RHEL 6.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton webmas...@ew3d.com wrote: On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Mattersimon.mat...@invoca.ch  wrote: from

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:03:35 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: Michael D. Berger wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:33:16 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [...] ACK! Hedwig is about 10 years old. History: RH 1,2,3,4,5 (where I started using RH), 5.2,6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 packages

2011-09-01 Thread Mailing Lists
digiKam is found, I had epel, rpm forge, and base CentOS repos... others not by default, maybe if you search http://rpm.pbone.net/ On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:30 PM, CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi all; does anyone know if the following packages are available (via yum) for CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6, KDE 4: canot manage network

2011-09-01 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:04:14 +, Michael D. Berger wrote: [...] It is a laptop. I have not been able to get it to work on the command line. Perhaps it would help if I remove NetworkManager? Also, there is probably not enough in my ifcfg-wlan0. I can see what is my ifcfg-eth0, but what

[CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and settings-system.desktop. The DNS response is always:No such name. Do tell! These appear especially when I click on things on the KDE menus. On my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and settings-system.desktop. The DNS response is always:No such name. Do tell! These appear

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:09 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and settings-system.desktop. The DNS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:09 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:19:05 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: Michael D. Berger wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:09 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical

[CentOS] CentOS 6 packages

2011-08-31 Thread CS DBA
Hi all; does anyone know if the following packages are available (via yum) for CentOS 6 and if so which repo they come from? Thanks in advance... kmymoney darktable digiKam -- - Kevin Kempter - Constent State A PostgreSQL

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 packages

2011-08-31 Thread b.j. mcclure
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:30 -0600, CS DBA wrote: Hi all; does anyone know if the following packages are available (via yum) for CentOS 6 and if so which repo they come from? Thanks in advance... kmymoney darktable digiKam You might try #yum --enablerepo=reponame search kmymoney

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

2011-08-31 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:22:42 +, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example: settings-personal.desktop and settings-system.desktop. The DNS response is always:No such name. Do tell! These

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 packages

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Bailey
On 8/31/2011 3:30 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi all; does anyone know if the following packages are available (via yum) for CentOS 6 and if so which repo they come from? Thanks in advance... kmymoney darktable digiKam You could try the search page at: http://pkgs.org/search/ I didn't get

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good Evening All, I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. Now I know there are a lot of different ways to partition the system and different opinions depending on the use of the server. I currently have a quad core intel system running 8GB of RAM with 1 TB hard drive

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
*Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*. Good Evening All, I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. Now I know there are a lot of different ways to partition the system and different opinions depending on the use of the server. I currently have a quad

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:28 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: *Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*. Good Evening All, Bon soir. Both version of your email were received in Europe. On the subject of SWAP, I'm working on a standalone server with 8 GB RAM and a AMD

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I have heard the suggestion of not using SWAP which is fine. My curiosity on the SWAP subject is now what happens if all memory is used or an application has a memory leak. Does the server crash if there is no SWAP and all available RAM is used? Will SWAP cause

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 6:28 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers my servers generally have 2 disks mirrored for the OS, then 2 or more disks in a raid for the application

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
John, The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is a physical mount? If I were to set hard limits by setting each volume on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:41 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Also, any help you can give me regarding a partition map would be great. I'm probably different to many of the others who seem to have fixed ideas. I'm relatively new to Linux but not to computers. I assume your machine is a single

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:51 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all remaining space on the drive You can just allocate the drive and Centos will

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 7:07 PM, Always Learning wrote: I assume Which part of LAMP server didn't you read? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 7:07 PM, Always Learning wrote: I assume Which part of LAMP server didn't you read? I read none of it. Why ask such time-wasting questions ? Go and have a cup of tea, pull-out your network card and settle down for the night

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all remaining space on the drive Having /usr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 7:43 PM, Always Learning wrote: I read none of it. figures. the original post asked... 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers and you take off on a tangent about multiple small

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 6:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is a physical mount? shrinking file

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Ken godee
The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is a physical mount? If I were to set hard limits by setting each volume on EXT4

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Matter
On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all remaining space on the drive Having /usr

[CentOS] CentOS 6 IPv6: neighbor and restart network

2011-08-30 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
Hallo, for using the ipv6 neighbor functions, I have to execute commands like ip -6 neigh add proxy 2001::211:d8ff:fe97:3273 dev eth0 to publish the ip of computers in the subnet. To execute them on reboot, I have included these commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Also after each restart of the

[CentOS] CentOS 6: bootup display

2011-08-29 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my old CentOS 5, when it boots up (to level 3) it displays a line for each of the things it is starting as it does it. I found that quite useful. On my new CentOS 6, while it is booting up, it displays a useless CentOS trademark picture. Is there a way to get the old kind of display in CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: bootup display

2011-08-29 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: On my old CentOS 5, when it boots up (to level 3) it displays a line for each of the things it is starting as it does it. I found that quite useful. On my new CentOS 6, while it is booting up, it displays a useless CentOS trademark picture. Is there a way to get the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: bootup display

2011-08-29 Thread David
At 11:52 AM 8/29/2011, you wrote: On my old CentOS 5, when it boots up (to level 3) it displays a line for each of the things it is starting as it does it. I found that quite useful. On my new CentOS 6, while it is booting up, it displays a useless CentOS trademark picture. Is there a way to get

[CentOS] CentOS 6: wpa_supplicant, unexpected behavior

2011-08-29 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my CentOS 6: chkconfig --list wpa_supplicant shows off at all levels, which is confirmed by examination of: /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant but ps -ef shows the process running. Furthermore, repeated cd /etc/init.d/ ./wpa_supplicant stop appears to succeed, but the process continues to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: wpa_supplicant, unexpected behavior

2011-08-29 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:35:18PM +, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my CentOS 6: chkconfig --list wpa_supplicant shows off at all levels, which is confirmed by examination of: /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant but ps -ef shows the process running. Furthermore, repeated cd /etc/init.d/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: wpa_supplicant, unexpected behavior

2011-08-29 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:36:13 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:35:18PM +, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my CentOS 6: chkconfig --list wpa_supplicant shows off at all levels, which is confirmed by examination of: /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant but ps -ef shows the

[CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop

2011-08-26 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. How can I make it work? Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop

2011-08-26 Thread nux
Michael D. Berger writes: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. How can I make it work? Mike, The difference between KDe 3.5 and KDE 4 that ships with Centos 6.0 is quite huge and a LOT

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

2011-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. The session you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop

2011-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. The reason is that Desktop is quite simply a directory - remember how it fits into the file system

[CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my newly installed CentOS 6 I am running KDE (I think; I selected it in the setup, but how would I know?). It has three default icons: Computer; Root's Home; Trash. I do not see them in /root/Desktop. How can I remove them? Thanks, Mike. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com On my newly installed CentOS 6 I am running KDE (I think; I selected it in the setup, but how would I know?). Only God would know... It has three default icons: Computer; Root's Home; Trash.  I do not see them in /root/Desktop. How can I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:16 -0700, John Doe wrote: From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com On my newly installed CentOS 6 I am running KDE (I think; I selected it in the setup, but how would I know?). Only God would know... It has three default icons: Computer; Root's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com I solved the problem with:   yum remove nautilus But now, when I put a directory in /root/Desktop, it does not appear on the desktop. I am now looking for a another file manager -- perhaps the one used in my older CentOS. Since you seem to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:57:50 -0700, John Doe wrote: [...] Since you seem to be using Gnome and not KDE, you can google for gnome hide dekstop icons, and the first answer will tell you how to hide those system icons (gconf-editor). But first reinstall nautilus. JD With the help of: ps

[CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. Thanks for your suggestions. Mike.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

2011-08-25 Thread m . roth
Michael D. Berger wrote: On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. Thanks for your suggestions. KDE has

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com Subject: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum

[CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE: panel appearance

2011-08-25 Thread Michael D. Berger
On CentOS 6.0 KDE is there a way to change the Panel appearance (color, pattern, etc.)? Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 updates?

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

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 updates?

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 11:07 +0200, Mathieu Baudier wrote: I haven't seen -any- updates to centos 6 since July 10th?!?is 6.1 holding this up? From the devel mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-August/008071.html Time for upgrading 5.6. I wonder how

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and IPv6 neighbor proxy

2011-08-18 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
To route a subnet in ipv6 there are two possibilities: - add route commands for the subnet in each computer - or use neighbor proxy in the router server I prefer neighbor proxy. So I have to activate neighbor proxy in the router: sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp=1 and I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and IPv6 neighbor proxy

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Clark
On 08/18/2011 11:10 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: To route a subnet in ipv6 there are two possibilities: -add route commands for the subnet in each computer -or use neighbor proxy in the router server I prefer neighbor proxy. So I have to activate neighbor proxy in the router: sysctl -w

[CentOS] centos 6 updates?

2011-08-17 Thread John R Pierce
I haven't seen -any- updates to centos 6 since July 10th?!?is 6.1 holding this up? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] centos 6 and XFS

2011-08-11 Thread John R Pierce
What do I need to enable XFS support in CentOS 6? is there a CentOS Plus kernel yet that enables this ? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and XFS

2011-08-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/11/2011 06:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: What do I need to enable XFS support in CentOS 6? is there a CentOS Plus kernel yet that enables this ? xfs is available in the stock distro - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and XFS

2011-08-11 Thread Morten Stevens
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:17:50 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 08/11/2011 06:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: What do I need to enable XFS support in CentOS 6? is there a CentOS Plus kernel yet that enables this ? xfs is available in the stock distro Only for the x86_64 kernel. Best regards,

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and XFS

2011-08-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/11/11 10:23 AM, Morten Stevens wrote: xfs is available in the stock distro Only for the x86_64 kernel. ah. i needed to install xfsprogs and xfsdump to get mkfs.xfs. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and XFS

2011-08-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and XFS On 08/11/11 10:23 AM, Morten Stevens wrote: xfs is available in the stock distro Only for the x86_64 kernel. ah. i needed to install xfsprogs

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread John Doe
From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel. but it did not modify the grub.conf file. Is this the new behavior or...? Have you moved grub.conf at all - like to a different boot partition, or changed any symlinks to grub.conf? I did not move

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, John Doe wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf... From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel. but it did not modify

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I did not move anything; it is a brand new install... The only thing that might be out of ordinary is that the yum update is made from a kickstart chrooted post script... You don't need to do that. Add the updates repo as a 'repo' line in the ks, it will install anything new at once saving time

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread John Doe
From: Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com You don't need to do that. Add the updates repo as a 'repo' line in the ks, it will install anything new at once saving time and cruft. The thing is that I setup the kickstart with the target network configured (which will not work in our

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, John Doe wrote: *snip* I do *everything* in the chrooted post, so that I can just shutdown after install and the server is ready to be plugged. It used to work fine with 5.x... Everything also seems to work fine for 6.x, except for grubby. I caught a Grubby fatal error :

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Brimer
Whenever there's a kernel update on my system, the new kernel packages are installed, and the grub.conf file does not get updated. Which is THE WAY I want it to be. I never did like the way grub.conf got updated behind my back, so to speak, after a kernel update. Now I don't need to worry

[CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-05 Thread John Doe
Hey, I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel.    ...    Installed:     kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 but it did not modify the grub.conf file.   #boot=/dev/sda   default=0   timeout=5   splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz  

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-05 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, John Doe wrote: To: Cent O Smailinglist centos@centos.org From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf... Hey, I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel.    ...    Installed:     kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6  kernel

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