Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Right now I only have to do this for VMWare's drivers, I >build custom RPMs of the drivers and the tools and push >them out when I push out a new kernel so I don't need to >worry about this kind of thing. That's a cool idea... Care to share those two spec files? :) jlc ___

Re: [CentOS] SELinux resource hog

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Craig White wrote: > did you 'relabel' the entire filesystem? - that's pretty much necessary > if you've been running the system without having SELinux running, at > least in permissive mode. SELinux had been running in permissive. I did not disable during install

Re: [CentOS] SELinux resource hog

2009-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:00 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Spinning off from the other thread about SELinux, I just tried to > re-enable SELinux on my personal server hosting just email and forum > for a small local community. > > Average load for this Intel Core 2 Duo box with 2GB of ram (usua

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:03 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > vi /etc/init.d > > > > cahnge the number 5 to 3 > > > > reboot > > > > fix driver > > > > change the 3 to 5 > > > > reboot > > > > enjoy > > > Ed, > > I was hoping to find an "automated" solution. > > Some way to execute the compile

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread nate
Jerry Geis wrote: > I was hoping to find an "automated" solution. For these sorts of things, I compile the driver on a test system and push it out simultaneously with the new kernel. Right now I only have to do this for VMWare's drivers, I build custom RPMs of the drivers and the tools and push

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Jerry Geis
> > vi /etc/init.d > > cahnge the number 5 to 3 > > reboot > > fix driver > > change the 3 to 5 > > reboot > > enjoy > Ed, I was hoping to find an "automated" solution. Some way to execute the compile before X is started. I am already detecting a kernel change and recompiles selected needed m

[CentOS] SELinux resource hog

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Spinning off from the other thread about SELinux, I just tried to re-enable SELinux on my personal server hosting just email and forum for a small local community. Average load for this Intel Core 2 Duo box with 2GB of ram (usually with some 1GB free) was generally below 0.4 for the last 24hrs, av

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > Real world example -> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9176 > > SELinux stopped a mambo exploit from compromising the system. For LAMP > systems, selinux and mod_security are pretty much a requirement for a > secure setup. Thanks for the link

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Jim Wildman wrote: > There are VERY definitive benefits to running SELinux.  The best > description I've found is that it is like an iron cage on the inside of > a window.  Even if something gets past the glass, its still inside a > window.  I've had SELinux stop ex

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Ed Donahue
oops vi /etc.inittab init.d is a directory On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ed Donahue wrote: > vi /etc/init.d > > cahnge the number 5 to 3 > > reboot > > fix driver > > change the 3 to 5 > > reboot > > enjoy > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> hi all >> >> is there a way/me

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Ed Donahue
vi /etc/init.d cahnge the number 5 to 3 reboot fix driver change the 3 to 5 reboot enjoy On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > hi all > > is there a way/method to compile an X11 driver at boot before X starts??? > > Seems like the ATI catalyst driver (after a kernel change) do

[CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-05 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all is there a way/method to compile an X11 driver at boot before X starts??? Seems like the ATI catalyst driver (after a kernel change) does not start correctly and locks up the box I need to recompile the driver after udev and before X. How is this done? Jerry _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 06.03.2009 um 00:58 schrieb Joshua Baker-LePain: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 at 12:55am, Rainer Duffner wrote > >> Am 05.03.2009 um 23:06 schrieb Nigel Kendrick: >> >>> Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe >>> for an >>> IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread nate
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 at 12:55am, Rainer Duffner wrote > >> Am 05.03.2009 um 23:06 schrieb Nigel Kendrick: >> >>> Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an >>> IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? >> >> If you can afford an IA64-bo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 at 12:55am, Rainer Duffner wrote > Am 05.03.2009 um 23:06 schrieb Nigel Kendrick: > >> Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an >> IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? > > If you can afford an IA64-box, you can also afford the RHEL lic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 05.03.2009 um 23:06 schrieb Nigel Kendrick: Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? Thanks Nigel Kendrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:34 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-5-2009 2:06 PM Nigel Kendrick spake the following: > > Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an > > IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? > > > There has not been a lot of support for other arc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-5-2009 2:06 PM Nigel Kendrick spake the following: > Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an > IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? > There has not been a lot of support for other arches besides x86-64 and i386 up to now. Not sure if it is the hard

[CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

2009-03-05 Thread Nigel Kendrick
Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? Thanks Nigel Kendrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Just my noob opinion, that if there's no practical and definitive > benefit from enabling SELinux, for the time being until it is matured, > the best thing to do is just set it to off. Otherwise, it just > generally causes trouble and run

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-5-2009 12:03 PM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Scott Silva > wrote: > >> Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only >> way >> to have the best control. > > That's generally how I try to do things, except sometimes h

Re: [CentOS] 32 or 64 bit (4 gb ram)

2009-03-05 Thread German Andres Pulido
> there still doesnt seem to be a 64bit java plugin > Wrong. There _is_ an official java plugin for 64 bits linux. It's a new feature in JRE 6u12. Check www.java.com Regards. German ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Jim Wildman
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Just my noob opinion, that if there's no practical and definitive > benefit from enabling SELinux, for the time being until it is matured, > the best thing to do is just set it to off. Otherwise, it just > generally causes trouble and runs up tons of

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only way > to have the best control. That's generally how I try to do things, except sometimes hand "written" doesn't work the way I expect it to. Then I'd like to have a GU

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > Do I need to start over with a clean install again, and how do I avoid this > problem the next time I try to run updates after the install? Just my noob opinion, that if there's no practical and definitive benefit from enabling SELinux, for

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-23-2009 10:53 AM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: > Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime > inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes > forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various > policies. So far, the easie

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a "secondary DNS server" pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Alexander Farber
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > You can specify multiple forwarders if you have more than one server > already set up the way you want.  Named will find one that works and > cache the results locally for its time to live.  Once you have a couple > of robust boxes configured i

Re: [CentOS] HPLIP 3.9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Roger Wells
Thanks Anne, I look forward to what you com up with. roger Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:26:21 Roger Wells wrote: > >>> As I wrote elsewhere, it doesn't need to be so bleeding edge. I have a >>> stock 5.2 install. My Photosmart 7180 was not supported. I downloaded >>> th

Re: [CentOS] HPLIP 3.9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:26:21 Roger Wells wrote: > > As I wrote elsewhere, it doesn't need to be so bleeding edge.  I have a > > stock 5.2 install.  My Photosmart 7180 was not supported.  I downloaded > > the relevant .ppd and pointed CUPS and hplip to it, and printing worked > > after that. >

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1

2009-03-05 Thread centos-announce-request
ze: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/attachments/20090305/302b356b/attachment-0001.bin -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:32:57 +0100 From: Tru Huynh Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2009-03-05 09:21, Ondrej Filip wrote: >> Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? >> >> Hope it's not dummy question. >> Ondrej: Please don't top-post. >> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:35 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, O

Re: [CentOS] Errors using custom install disk

2009-03-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Kennedy wrote: > I am trying to make a custom install CD for CentOS 5.2. I am building > the iso in a VirtualBox image and testing the iso in another VirtualBox > image so I don't keep wasting CD's. Why are you rebuilding the installer ? why not just use the CentOS installer and use your ow

Re: [CentOS] Yum security plugin

2009-03-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
David Hrbáč wrote: > there's nothing to patch unless we provide some info on packages that we > can extract from and finally build updateinfo.xml.gz. So as the majority > of CentOS community knows nothing about how packages are produced and > how CESA are produced, we do not have CESA RRS feed, we

Re: [CentOS] Should I be worried?

2009-03-05 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Arturo Fatturi wrote: > Friends of CentOs mailing list. > > I need some advice from you. > > The xfce 4 panel disapear. In fact I can acess all of xfce (by clicking > with mouse) but if I minimize the window it disapear. I make a uninstall > and reinstall from yum. Nothing change. you could

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a "secondary DNS server" pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. > The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP, DFS, Exchange. > The CentOS part: NIS passwords + also a DNS server. > > So currently we have to update the Linux DNS server > zone infos b

Re: [CentOS] Yum security plugin

2009-03-05 Thread David Hrbáč
Karanbir Singh napsal(a): > > yum security does not work on CentOS, has been said quite a few times > already. > > patches welcome. > Karanbir, there's nothing to patch unless we provide some info on packages that we can extract from and finally build updateinfo.xml.gz. So as the majority of C

Re: [CentOS] Should I be worried?

2009-03-05 Thread Arturo Fatturi
Friends of CentOs mailing list. I need some advice from you. The xfce 4 panel disapear. In fact I can acess all of xfce (by clicking with mouse) but if I minimize the window it disapear. I make a uninstall and reinstall from yum. Nothing change. Best wishes. Arturo Brazil, South ___

Re: [CentOS] HPLIP 3.9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Roger Wells
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:00:53 Roger Wells wrote: > >> thanks for the reply. >> I had no trouble on RHEL4 installing a version of HPLIP that supported >> my printers (LJ 4350n & Photosmart C6180) >> These are not new printers. I really think that CentOS 5.2 could be a

Re: [CentOS] HPLIP 3.9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:00:53 Roger Wells wrote: > thanks for the reply. > I had no trouble on RHEL4 installing a version of HPLIP that supported > my printers (LJ 4350n & Photosmart C6180) > These are not new printers. I really think that CentOS 5.2 could be a > little more bleeding edge. >

Re: [CentOS] HPLIP 3.9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Roger Wells
thanks for the reply. I had no trouble on RHEL4 installing a version of HPLIP that supported my printers (LJ 4350n & Photosmart C6180) These are not new printers. I really think that CentOS 5.2 could be a little more bleeding edge. Mark Pryor wrote: > > > --- On Wed, 3/4/09, Roger Wells wrote:

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a "secondary DNS server" pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Brian McKerr
I found this useful... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd316373.aspx On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. > The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP, DFS, Exchange. > The Cent

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2009-03-05 09:21, Ondrej Filip wrote: > Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? > > Hope it's not dummy question. > > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:35 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: >>> I asked on Saturday and I didn't get

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:21 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: > Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? > > Hope it's not dummy question. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 See the section entitled: "CentOS : Community ENTerprise Operating System" so if RH

[CentOS] How to setup a "secondary DNS server" pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP, DFS, Exchange. The CentOS part: NIS passwords + also a DNS server. So currently we have to update the Linux DNS server zone infos by hand: I export a text file from Window

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ondrej Filip
Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? Hope it's not dummy question. On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:35 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: >> I asked on Saturday and I didn't get reply. I'm trying again. >> >> I'm porting one pro

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: > I asked on Saturday and I didn't get reply. I'm trying again. > > I'm porting one project to centos where we use gnet and gio libraries. Will > be these libraries part of centos in future? I'm not sure what relationship > is between these li