Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:37 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 03/04/2010 04:19 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > > I concur. Let us (the CentOS forum community) see how it pans out, > > whilst you keep an eye on it. > > Its interesting that you consider the 'forum community' to not be a part > of the 'C

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/04/2010 04:19 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > I concur. Let us (the CentOS forum community) see how it pans out, > whilst you keep an eye on it. Its interesting that you consider the 'forum community' to not be a part of the 'CentOS community'. Maybe I am missing something, but surely a communi

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote on 03/04/2010 11:21 AM: ... > Which is exactly the point of bringing it to this list for discussion, > so what started life as a (suggestion for a) tool to assist forum > community members/helpers may also be considered by helpers in other > community support channels (i.e, IRC

Re: [CentOS-docs] Closing loop: How-to for NVIDIA driver on Xen Dom0

2010-03-04 Thread Cris Rhea
Ralph's comments: > I am not talking about flakey hardware, I am talking about the first > solutions for running the nividia kernel in a dom0. Those lead to > spontaneous reboots at least twice a day ... > So if you say that it now is working and is stable - I have nothing > against that article

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I dont want to get in the way or be irritating, but if there is an > attempt to do something, I dont see any harm in making that into a more > useful tool that might benefit a few more people. > Which is exactly the point of bringing it to this list for discussion, s

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 4 March 2010 15:51, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I dont want to get in the way or be irritating, I can publicly assure you that you are not. ;-) > but if there is an > attempt to do something, I dont see any harm in making that into a more > useful tool that might benefit a few more people. I co

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/04/2010 03:31 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > Needless to say, what the *forum community* want out of it *has* been > defined and a reference *has* been provided. Where should I look to see this definition ? The forum thread is woolly at best. It seems to start with a 'when I was ... we did ...

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread pjwelsh
On 03/04/2010 09:31 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > ... > It can very easily be GPL'd. I suspect that Phil, PJ and Michael > (pschaff, pjwelsh & michaelnel of the forum community) would be > agreeable. > > Alan. > I (pjwelsh) have no issues with GPL'ing any minor contribution to this script that I m

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 4 March 2010 14:27, Karanbir Singh wrote: > So the issue here is : > - define what we want out of it ( I am not sure this has been defined > anywhere ) The pre-issue to that is a definition of "we", as used by KB, above. Needless to say, what the *forum community* want out of it *has* been d

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread pjwelsh
On 03/04/2010 08:27 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > sos... is the *best* idea here... Honestly, IMHO we are really looking for the proverbial "low hanging fruit" of information. I suspect that not many are willing to dig through the sysreport mountain of information. This forum is not really a one sto

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/04/2010 01:54 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >>> Added an entry to http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General : > Thanks for the comments Russ, but as Karanbir says, sysreport/sos > provides a LOT of information. We were shooting at much smaller targets > with the scripts. I should have mentioned - The

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
R P Herrold wrote on 03/03/2010 04:23 PM: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Phil Schaffner wrote: > >> Added an entry to http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General : >> >> 23. How do I provide appropriate information about my system when asking >> questions? >> >> Comments, corrections, and other (constructive :-) )

Re: [CentOS-docs] Closing loop: How-to for NVIDIA driver on Xen Dom0

2010-03-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Cris Rhea wrote: > Ralph: > >   Is there a solution by now which is stable and does not >   spontaneously reboot your machine when you least expect it? > >   Would that be more of a Tips and Tricks article? Or a longer HowTo? > > --- > While I've certainly had some

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 03/03/2010 09:23 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ rpm -qi sos >> Name        : sos > > the only issue with sos ( son of sysreport! ) is that it provides a lot > of info, including many things that people would consider 'sen

Re: [CentOS-docs] Add pool.ntp.org to TipsAndTricks/Server_Time

2010-03-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > On 02/03/2010 02:12, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >> Centos ships with >> >>      server 0.centos.pool.ntp.org >>      server 1.centos.pool.ntp.org >>      server 2.centos.pool.ntp.org >> > > I just want to add something that people know t

Re: [CentOS-docs] General FAQ addition

2010-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 03/03/2010 09:23 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ rpm -qi sos > Name: sos the only issue with sos ( son of sysreport! ) is that it provides a lot of info, including many things that people would consider 'sensitive' in security and privacy terms. Not sure if I'd wan