Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment

2009-11-15 Thread ken
On 11/15/2009 02:22 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:50:30PM -0500, ken wrote: The problem is that $LINENO is evaluated in the function definition, and not when called. So I'm thinking to change $LINENO in the function No it's not. Variables are _not_ evaluated when

Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment

2009-11-16 Thread ken
On 11/15/2009 06:32 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:21:40PM -0500, ken wrote: echo This is line ${BASH_LINENO[0]} $@ That's all I needed. Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] hard drive errors

2009-11-24 Thread ken
over time, then you have a sign of a failing drive and obviously would want to replace it ASAP. hth, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] audio recorder compatibility

2011-04-12 Thread ken
I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. As a confirmed Linux guy, I'd want to offload the audio files in some format that

Re: [CentOS] How to copy a system?

2011-05-05 Thread ken
identical. That's generally the default anyway. Final tip (I think): For me, my machine A and machine B were the same machine... so of course the hardware was absolutely identical. Using dd might not work if the hardware on A and B are too different from one another. hth, ken -- Truth

Re: [CentOS] How to copy a system?

2011-05-05 Thread ken
On 05/05/2011 10:41 AM Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 05 May 2011 10:10:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 05/05/2011 08:01 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-16 Thread ken
I haven't had this many errors doing a make in a long, long, long, long time... maybe never. (I'm saying that I'm guessing here) It could be that you were in the wrong directory when you ran make or, more likely, you skipped a command (perhaps .configure) that should have been run before

[CentOS] OT: wifi, phone, power in India and Malaysia

2011-05-24 Thread ken
A not so technical friend in India is shopping for a laptop. He often travels and stays months in Malaysia and so needs to be able to use the laptop there as well. He typically connects to the internet via wifi, but sometimes must use a telephone line (yes, with a modem). And of course there

[CentOS] [Thread Cop] [was: Re: OT: wifi, phone, power in India and Malaysia]

2011-05-24 Thread ken
On 05/24/2011 06:17 AM John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:48:16AM -0400, ken wrote: While I commend you on the use of the OT tag in the message's Subject... Thank you. I didn't see a single item that was even remotely on-topic for this list. Which is why

Re: [CentOS] OT: wifi, phone, power in India and Malaysia

2011-05-24 Thread ken
On 05/24/2011 10:38 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/24/2011 03:29 PM, Richard Mollel wrote: Similarly, will the modem work in both countries? see above... i dont think thats true. There are plenty of places I've travelled to where the modem in my laptop ( this was 2002 - 2004 ) didnt work.

Re: [CentOS] What is someone trying to do?

2011-06-12 Thread ken
On 06/11/2011 10:42 PM st...@echo.id.au wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:14:36PM -0700, Jason wrote: Hi All, My Logwatch was very long today with 404 requests to the Apache server. I dont understand what the person was trying to do by what they were attempting to access. Can anyone explain

Re: [CentOS] What is someone trying to do?

2011-06-12 Thread ken
On 06/12/2011 10:21 AM Barry Brimer wrote: So my guess is they're fuzzing/scanning for potential weaknesses in jQuery... For those managing web sites it would be good to acquire such scripts and run them in pre-production as system tests. So where do we get scripts such as the one run

[CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

2011-06-29 Thread ken
Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of mirrors more than a dozen times. Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I upgraded just yesterday without a problem on

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

2011-06-29 Thread ken
On 06/29/2011 02:06 PM Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out I'm getting this on every

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

2011-06-29 Thread ken
On 06/29/2011 03:42 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ken wrote: Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... nothing blocking it. So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

2011-06-29 Thread ken
On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ken wrote: Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... nothing blocking it. So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed on the problem machine. But it's been working

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info

2011-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/29/2011 07:58 AM ken wrote: Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of mirrors more than a dozen times. Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info

2011-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/30/2011 11:21 AM John Doe wrote: From: ken geb...@mousecar.com So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors. I was able to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop downloading around 1M. Then I tried ftp... same deal. This might be the reason

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info

2011-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/30/2011 11:40 AM ken wrote: On 06/30/2011 11:21 AM John Doe wrote: From: ken geb...@mousecar.com So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors. I was able to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop downloading around 1M. Then I tried ftp... same

[CentOS] network hang [was: Re: yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info]

2011-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/30/2011 11:57 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ken wrote: # wget http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm --2011-06-30 11:35:44-- http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm

Re: [CentOS] network hang [was: Re: yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info]

2011-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/30/2011 01:29 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: snip So, shifting into work-around mode... I used wget to download glibc-common (the troublesome file) to another machine. No problem. Then I scp'd it to the problem machine-- again no problem-- and successfully installed

Re: [CentOS] C6: Suspend on laptop close doesn't work

2011-07-13 Thread ken
the problem. hth, ken -- When a society comes together and makes decisions in harmony, when it respects its most noble traditions, cares for its most vulnerable members, treats its forests and lands with respect, then it will prosper and not decline. --Buddha, Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Re: [CentOS] Recommended mailing list manager for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-20 Thread ken
On 07/19/2011 09:32 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/19/11 8:19 PM, David Lemcoe wrote: Mailman is probably what you want to use, because anyone who subscribes to any amount of mailing lists knows exactly how to use Mailman and it's features. One feature you are likely to miss, though, is a

Re: [CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple factors

2011-07-28 Thread ken
with the email reader and version you're using. (Of course this is far from a rigorous test, but it's the best I can do at the moment.) Thanks, ken -- When a society comes together and makes decisions in harmony, when it respects its most noble traditions, cares for its most vulnerable members, treats its

Re: [CentOS] dual sound

2011-07-30 Thread ken
On 07/29/2011 02:21 PM Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:05:27AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/29/11 10:56 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, my new workstation has an internal speaker, as well as the jacks for external. I want beeps, if necessary, but I can't figure out

Re: [CentOS] centos speech to text?

2011-08-02 Thread ken
On 08/02/2011 04:32 AM hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my centos 5.6 , the KMouth is functioning for 'text to speech' facility. Can you please let me know if we have 'speech to text' facility for centos? Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] centos speech to text?

2011-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2011 12:39 PM hadi motamedi wrote: On 8/2/11, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 08/02/2011 04:32 AM hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my centos 5.6 , the KMouth is functioning for 'text to speech' facility. Can you please let me know if we have 'speech to text' facility for centos

[CentOS] change LUKS filesystem password

2011-08-11 Thread ken
How do you change the LUKS filesystem password? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Web Site centos.org is down

2011-08-17 Thread ken
On 08/17/2011 01:53 PM Digimer wrote: On 08/17/2011 01:51 PM, Always Learning wrote: Can not http, ping or traceroute centos.org, www.centos.org or 72.232.194.162 (the IP address for both) Tried from two places in England on different unrelated networks. Loading fine in Canada. Yet

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-23 Thread ken
On 08/23/2011 10:37 PM Drew wrote: What determines if it's a 64 bit machine? Dual core? Dual core = 2 CPUs effectively. Quad core = 4 CPUs on the same piece of Silicon 64 bit = more advance instruction set which replaces all the older 32 bit instruction set CPUs. 64 bit is more modern than

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread ken
On 08/24/2011 01:59 AM John R Pierce wrote: On 08/23/11 9:21 PM, ken wrote: I haven't looked up and compared the lists of instructions on 32- vs. 64-bit CPUs, but generally the bigger processors have more, and more sophisticated, instructions. This means, e.g., that instead of taking 20

Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread ken
On 08/25/2011 08:47 AM Timothy Murphy wrote: I don't think that is necessary; this newsgroup does not seem to me to be over-loaded with OT material, or indeed with material of any kind. Splitting it would just be a nuisance, in my case at least. Surely it is easy enough to avoid reading an

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up

2011-08-26 Thread ken
On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like

[CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-28 Thread ken
When I downloaded the iso for 6.0 install, K3b said the iso wouldn't fit on the blank DVD. So I downloaded and burned the LiveDVD. When I boot it, I get the blue splash screen (it says CentOS... Community Enterprise OS on the bottom, logo to the right), but nothing else comes up. Hitting

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-28 Thread ken
On 08/28/2011 09:15 PM Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 08/28/2011 09:06 PM, ken wrote: When I downloaded the iso for 6.0 install, K3b said the iso wouldn't fit on the blank DVD. Hi, From the 6.0 Release Notes here: The i386 DVD is just a bit too large to fit on normal single layer DVD+R media

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-28 Thread ken
On 08/28/2011 09:17 PM Always Learning wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:06 -0400, ken wrote: When I downloaded the iso for 6.0 install, K3b said the iso wouldn't fit on the blank DVD. I remember reading that there are two main DVD formats + and -. One has (more?) error correction than

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-29 Thread ken
On 08/28/2011 11:37 PM Always Learning wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 22:33 -0400, ken wrote: On 08/28/2011 09:17 PM Always Learning wrote: Broadly speaking it's a pentium i686, but without pae. The fact that this machine is excluded from RH/CentOS doesn't bode well for Linux. The i686

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-29 Thread ken
On 08/28/2011 11:38 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 08/28/11 7:33 PM, ken wrote: Recently someone wrote that PAE related to i386 but was not required for x64. What CPU type is your target machine ? Broadly speaking it's a pentium i686, but without pae. The fact that this machine is excluded from

Re: [CentOS] Update to CentOS 6.0 without CD/DVD reader

2011-08-29 Thread ken
On 08/29/2011 06:36 AM Timothy Murphy wrote: Always Learning wrote: I've had a disaster on my home network server; the partition table on the disk containing / has become corrupted, and testdisk has not enabled me to recover the table. If anyone can help with this I should be grateful.

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-30 Thread ken
On 08/30/2011 04:32 AM John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/29/11 3:20 AM, ken wrote: You can continue to run EL 5 on it for years to come. Or choose any number of other Linux distributions which target down rev hardware. Or just do what I did. Put an EL5

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-30 Thread ken
On 08/30/2011 08:48 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 08/29/2011 02:22 AM, ken wrote: From the 6.0 Release Notes here: The i386 DVD is just a bit too large to fit on normal single layer DVD+R media. It can be burnt successfully on DVD-R or dual-layer media. Thanks, Jorge. That's what I suspected

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

2011-08-30 Thread ken
On 08/30/2011 10:10 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: hi Ken, On 08/30/2011 03:04 PM, ken wrote: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15 would be one place. But, given the way search engines might index pages, people could bypass that page and land directly on the mirrors page

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] please help

2011-09-02 Thread ken
to create web sites. Best to all, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mod_security

2009-12-16 Thread ken
On 12/15/2009 09:03 PM Thomas Dukes wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:13 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] mod_security On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at

[CentOS] unverified files in 5.4

2009-12-17 Thread ken
Hey, Gang! To ensure that a file hasn't been corrupted or tampered with, you can use rpm to verify the package it came from. Well, I found this: rpm -Vv util-linux /usr/bin/cal S.?./usr/bin/chfn /usr/bin/chrt S.?./usr/bin/chsh Does anyone else

Re: [CentOS] unverified files in 5.4

2009-12-20 Thread ken
On 12/18/2009 10:53 AM Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009, ken wrote: Hey, Gang! To ensure that a file hasn't been corrupted or tampered with, you can use rpm to verify the package it came from. Well, I found this: rpm -Vv util-linux /usr/bin/cal S

[CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-02 Thread ken
Last week I bought a couple books, not ebooks. I considered buying the ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it. I'd much prefer to read ebooks on the Linux (CentOS) machine I'm already using. Also, I'd like to be able to programmatically convert the ebook into a

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-02 Thread ken
Nietzsche On 01/02/2010 12:45 PM Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 07:44 -0500, ken wrote: I considered buying the ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it. http://www.fbreader.org/ I use this all the time and am very happy

Re: [CentOS] reading -- and editing -- ebooks

2010-01-03 Thread ken
the dependencies for the latest version of calibre, I see that centos (v.5.4 updated just moments ago) doesn't provide all of what's needed. If you're running calibre on centos 5.4, which version? Thanks again for the info. ken On 01/02/2010 03:40 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread ken
On 01/07/2010 02:14 PM Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:37:46 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have a defective HP-Compaq nx9420 and so I am looking to replace it. I have pretty much decided to buy no further MicroSoft based products and would very much

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread ken
to permissive, you've, in effect, turned it off. SElinux will still provide messages about infractions, but won't prevent things from running... i.e., it is no longer guarding your system. hth, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of the problem to the package

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 12:47 PM ken wrote: When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of the problem

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 01:53 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 24.01.2010 18:47, schrieb ken: When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. After reading docs and trying various

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:59 PM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ken wrote: snip Then I found and read http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=showredirect=Repositories. as stated on that page, mixing 3rd party repos does not always work so well. Your problem is an example

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:07 PM MHR wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: So how are people getting totem to play movies? I've never been able to get totem to work at all on any of my CentOS machines. There's some magic involved that I don't know. I use xine

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 04:10 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 24.01.2010 21:49, schrieb ken: [ ... ] Thanks for your replies. What you say above sounds plausible because I have libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5 installed, but gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is looking for libdvdread.so.3

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-03-01 Thread ken
On 02/28/2010 05:25 PM Michael Klinosky wrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: ... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever.

Re: [CentOS] APIC error on Intel Atom CPU, CentOS 5.x

2010-03-16 Thread ken
On 03/16/2010 07:17 AM Timo Schoeler wrote: thus JohnS spake: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 09:53 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: For me it dies on any kind of traffic, not just rsync. I even saw this fetching ISOs using FTP. The machine just died (network-wise; I don't have console on this machine in

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Small touch screens that works with CentOS

2010-03-19 Thread ken
You could screw an OpenMoko phone to the wall. It has, not just a Linux-compatible screen, but the whole Linux OS on it. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ On

[CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-29 Thread ken
When I do yum update gmime gmime-sharp I get: ... -- Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed)

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 12:47 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: On 29 March 2010 13:21, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: When I do yum update gmime gmime-sharp I get: ... -- Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 04:51 PM Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 03/30/2010 06:34 PM, ken wrote: I've done a 'yum clean' and then run 'yum update' and get the same result as above. My hunch is that the problem is particular to these two packages (gmime and gmime-sharp)... because I've had repeated problems

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 09:05 PM William Hooper wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Without the full yum output it is a bit hard to be sure (you might want to paste the full output to pastebin.centos.org, but it looks like: --- Package gmime.i386 0:2.2.25-1.el5

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 09:56 PM Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 03/31/2010 08:13 AM, ken wrote: -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos for package: gmime-sharp --- Package gmime.i386 0:2.2.25-1.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution gmime-sharp

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/31/2010 08:18 AM William Hooper wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:30 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Available Packages gmime.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 epel gmime-devel.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 epel The newer version of gmime is coming from

[CentOS] 'p' in boot selector going into single-user

2010-04-12 Thread ken
On boot, when I hit the F12 key to bring up the boot menu, the screen displays the various kernels and other boot options. In the text below this menu it says I can hit 'p' to bring up a menu with other options. I've done this with the last two boot-ups and no other menu or options appear. Is

[CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-13 Thread ken
Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-13 Thread ken
On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? Apparently iTunes installs and runs on wine. I'm gonna try that. Stay tuned (but not necessarily iTuned). yuk yuk yuk

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-14 Thread ken
On 04/13/2010 05:26 PM ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? Apparently iTunes installs and runs on wine. I'm gonna try that. Stay tuned Well, I got wine installed

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-14 Thread ken
Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ On 04/14/2010 03:48 PM Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:36 -0400, ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:26 PM ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS?? [Solved]

2010-04-19 Thread ken
the media on an ipod. Works. Be mindfull of the fact that it needs to reformat something on your device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(software) On 14 April 2010 22:07, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS?? [Solved]

2010-04-20 Thread ken
On 04/19/2010 09:00 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: In reality, what you are asking for seems superfluous... you just keep a bookmark of some podcast url and when you go there, it starts playing the stream, you never have to actually store the podcast (and then have to manage

Re: [CentOS] gcc?

2010-05-03 Thread ken
On 05/03/2010 08:48 AM Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Massey, Ricky ricky.mas...@lmco.com wrote: Try kdevelop. Will second this... It comes with project templates for anything from a simple shell helloworld to full blown GUI apps. Nobody's mentioned glade2-- or as its

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of vi vs. emacs)

2010-05-03 Thread ken
, Pali, Japanese, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Russian alphabets, emacs is what works for me. And for other reasons too. Different (key) strokes, ken -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of vi vs. emacs)

2010-05-03 Thread ken
On 05/03/2010 12:18 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ken wrote: Of course, the one *I* want is brief. I think $$ome editor$ still advertise brief emulation mode. *How* many keystrokes is it to do column copy in emacs? It's a *programmable* editor... so you could do it with one keystroke

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-21 Thread ken
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:06PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching nameserver package installed. My ISP's nameservers are there. It must have something

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-21 Thread ken
On 05/21/2010 09:41 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:06PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching nameserver package installed. My ISP's

Re: [CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

2010-05-30 Thread ken
On 05/28/2010 11:51 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010, Robert Heller wrote: But I get *exactly* the same problem. I had the same problem too... Friday morning, while trying to get myself out of town... so I haven't looked into it much. Just bailed on much of the

[CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs the speed at 600MHz. This processor is capable of 1.5GHz and when

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
On 06/16/2010 03:09 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/16/2010 1:47 PM, ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread ken
On 06/17/2010 04:16 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs

Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread ken
=no NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.0.88 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 You might already have such a file on your system. In fact, you should have one for each NIC... at least. Of course the last variable, GATEWAY, is used to specify the default route. hth, ken -- Find research and analysis on US

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-07 Thread ken
On 07/06/2010 02:54 PM Jerry Geis wrote: I download the RHEL 6b2 and noticed the modprobe.conf was no longer present. I used modprobe.conf to place options for ethernet drivers like which order to install the drivers. e1000e before forcedeth - things like that. Anyway - seems like that

[CentOS] error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host [hostname]

2010-07-15 Thread ken
When launching oowriter and other apps, I get this error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host myh.dom.tld The app -- oowriter or whatever I happen to be invoking-- starts okay. But this error message tells me something's not right. Curiously, the hostname command

Re: [CentOS] disabling touchpad in CentOS 5.5

2010-07-21 Thread ken
On 07/20/2010 11:09 PM Sameer Oak wrote: I've HP 520 laptop. I installed CentOS 5.5 a few days back. The laptop has some weird placing of touchpad that is frustrating me while typing. Please advise me how to disable touchpad on CentOS 5.5. -- Regards, - samoak. Find out what the

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread ken
On 07/22/2010 02:39 PM Hakan Koseoglu wrote: JD, On 22/07/10 10:25, John Doe wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know the cons of running a PAE kernel...? I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain those exta 700MB... You should use 64 bit if possible but

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread ken
On 07/22/2010 05:43 PM JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:33 -0400, ken wrote: On 07/22/2010 02:39 PM Hakan Koseoglu wrote: JD, On 22/07/10 10:25, John Doe wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know the cons of running a PAE kernel...? I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth

[CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-23 Thread ken
One problem I've discovered in cpuspeed is that there are drivers missing: # cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5/kernel/drivers/cpufreq # ll total 72 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14408 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_conservative.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16168 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_ondemand.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root

Re: [CentOS] Small Business support for *nix systems in Spain

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 03:57 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 07/23/10 12:05 PM, Kurt Hansen wrote: Our company has 30 shops that connect to a central server where the point -of-sale software runs, and is currently operating on Unix (it´s an old system we acquired when we bought another company). It seems

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 12:48 PM Rob Kampen wrote: ken wrote: One problem I've discovered in cpuspeed is that there are drivers missing: # cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5/kernel/drivers/cpufreq # ll total 72 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14408 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_conservative.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 08:46 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 25.07.2010 02:01, schrieb ken: Plus, I would think we both should have cpufreq_performance.ko as it's one of the drivers mentioned in the cpuspeed docs and manpage. No, as that is build into the kernel, rather than being build

[CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
Running yum update, yum appears to perform fine and appears to finish but continues to reside in memory: ... Updating : lftp 2/4 Cleanup: lftp 3/4 Cleanup: freetype

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: From: ken geb...@mousecar.com yum-updatesd is not yum. man yum-updateeresd JD Thanks, JD. Sorry, I copy-and-pasted from the wrong machine. Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run yum update, it fails like

[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not* have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work

Re: [CentOS] Stuttering sound

2010-08-10 Thread ken
On 08/10/2010 10:09 AM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:34 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com mailto:jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: -Audacious plays OK but other applications have problems. -For instance, mplayer acts quirky: when I pause a

Re: [CentOS] Stuttering sound

2010-08-10 Thread ken
On 08/10/2010 01:41 PM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 08/10/2010 10:09 AM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Thank you very much, people, my issue was resolved as per https

[CentOS] korganizer missing alarms

2010-08-31 Thread ken
Korganizer has been working fine for years for me. But just recently it's started missing alarms... I mean I set an alarm for an event but the window for it is never popped. I googled around and found that other were having this problem back in 2007 and 2005, but there's no mention of it in

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