[CentOS] ethernet configuration

2011-01-21 Thread Ritika Garg
I pressed the tab "probe" by mistake near "bind to MAC address" in system->administration->network->edit->hardware device. After this the MAC address disappeared. Internet is not working. Shall I write the MAC address and activate again? ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-21 Thread Bob Hepple
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:40:34 -0800 John R Pierce wrote: > is there a good howto somewhere on how to manually setup wireless > connections without NetworkManager ? > > wifi requires a lot of juju to be setup just so. > This works for me (actually on fedora-13, but centos-5 should be similar, m

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair > bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wireless management or > modem connections, but I find it safer to to rip it *out* on CentOS 4 > and CentOS 5, and urge turning it off b

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/13/2011 08:26 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> Can anyone tell me why I am seeing these error message? >> Specifically, why is TYPE=Bridge giving Unknown connection type >> 'Bridge'? > > I don't believe NetworkManager supports bridges.  If

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Benjamin, On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:35 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > I would suggest "Damn Small Linux". It seems taylor made for stuff like this. The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstrea

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 6:26 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > But definitely this router can do 10Mbit/s without sweating. If you > had trouble doing 10Mbit/s then you had other problems. I was trying to route between two 100Mbit ethernets and seeing ~10Mbit, maybe a little more, when there was traffic going bot

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > ... > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > cpu MHz : 451.031 > ... > > Yer not the only one. this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also > DNS and DHCP, and is quite reasonably hardened. yes, ipchai

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 1:07 PM, mattias wrote: > ok part of the etiquette of bottom posting is to trim the superfluous parts of teh original message, including signatures, and just quote the part you are replying to. but you seem to revel in being a twit, and are going on my auto-delete list real soon n

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:57:32PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/21/11 12:11 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > >>> I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g arou

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Cia Watson
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:26 -0500 Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > ... > > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > > cpu MHz : 451.031 > > ... > I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Lars Hecking
> *NEVER DO THIS*. > > Always, always, always start your development as a normal user, not as > root, and use a .rpmmacros that acts accordingly. For example, for > user "nkadel", in "/home/nkadel/.rpmmcros", I have > > %_topdir /home/nkadel/rpm > > And I set up a subdirectories there as necess

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: > >> ### [100%] >> error: unpacking of archive failed on file >> /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: >> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch >> >> Is the SRPM corrupted? I've pulled a

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a lot of power and get something more speedy at the same time. It's a custom-labelled Portwell NAD-2050; if you can find one they're neat. Lot less than 70 watts; closer to 10 o

[CentOS] [OT] old kit uses, and security stuff (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:11 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I have a friend with several RISC 6000's, and of course his MicroVAX. You > had a PDP-8? When I was taking an o/s class in the mid-eighties, I was on > a PDP-11/780. *Nice* machine, running RSTS, I think it was. Hmm, I wondernop

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > >> We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. >> >> Host / initiator systems are a number of

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:43 -0700: > Well. no, not well. Think a moment when someone tells you something. CentOS 4 does *not* contain php 5. You installed PHP 5 from another repo, likely from centosplus. Maybe you have more repos enabled. Nobody knows because you didn't

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:38:43PM -0700, Terry Hickey wrote: > > > Well. > # php -v > PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jul 31 2008 00:08:07) > Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group > Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies > > rpm -qa |grep php > php-cli-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10 > php-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to > admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to > admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius wrote: > We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. > > Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 > boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays. > > CentOS is not a

[CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius
We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays. CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful advice

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Lars Hecking wrote: >> ### [100%] >> error: unpacking of archive failed on file >> /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: >> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch [...] > Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into >

[CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread mattias
I solved it I installed the openvz kernel without openvz utilites And now vmware works ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Terry Hickey
- Original Message - From: "Kai Schaetzl" To: Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency > Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:45:46 -0700: > >> I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS >> release 4.8 to get rid of

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Benjamin Smith
I would suggest "Damn Small Linux". It seems taylor made for stuff like this. On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:28:26 am Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > ... > > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > > cpu MHz :

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:45:46 -0700: > I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS > release 4.8 to get rid of a script error: 4.8 doesn't have 5.1.6, it has php 4. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread mattias
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of aurfal...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote: > 5.5 > But that has worked b

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-21 Thread David Sommerseth
On 19/01/11 12:41, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: [...snip...] > >> 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent? > > It's not yet a 1.0 release; this may have something to do with > it. The version number doesn't need to say any

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote: > 5.5 > But that has worked before > A intel card > > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] > On Behalf > Of Alexander Dalloz > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM > To: CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
mattias wrote: > 5.5 > But that has worked before > A intel card > a) stop top posting. b) there are no twits here. Try writing complete sentences, not 140 char twits. c) Twiting is a *great* way to i) irritate me, and ii) lead me to utterly ignore your questions, and not even try to help.

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 12:11 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: >>> I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7 >>> years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine wa

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread mattias
5.5 But that has worked before A intel card -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattia

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias: > Bad > Because > My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded > If I try a no xen kernel > The dhclient reply > No link check your cable > But all cables are connected Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)? Which release of

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:40:17PM +0100, mattias wrote: > Bad > Because > My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded > If I try a no xen kernel > The dhclient reply > No link check your cable > But all cables are connected > > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 21.01.2011 22:31, schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote: > >> Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine? Not meant to be nitpicking, but VMware is a company and not any specific application or software solution. And you can get very different virtualizat

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread mattias
Bad Because My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no xen kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are connected -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of aurfal...@gmail.com Sent: F

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:28PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: > >> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > >> ... > >> model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > >> cpu MHz : 451.031 > >> ... > > > > Being that it's Friday

Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote: > Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine? No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no VMPlayer, etc... - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Lars Hecking
> ### [100%] > error: unpacking of archive failed on file > /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: > cpio: MD5 sum mismatch > > Is the SRPM corrupted? I've pulled a few from other places for > other versions (like Fedora)

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Jay Leafey wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812 >> >> Mike > > As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods > in the newer versions of RPM. If you want to install package bui

[CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Terry Hickey
Problem: I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS release 4.8 to get rid of a script error: "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function dom_import_simplexml" while running yum update php I get the following --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dep

[CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread mattias
Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab >> >> * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target > > That will run your rsync at *every minute* of 10pm! Clea

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Don Krause wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and al

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Jay Leafey wrote: > aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> No hard links, some sym links. >> But I see what you are saying. >> Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab >> * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target >> - aurf > > So you want rsync to run ev

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7 > > years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting > > spinning up hard disks and stuff.

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Keith Keller
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab > > * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target That will run your rsync at *every minute* of 10pm! Clearly not what you want. Try 0 22 * * * root rsync --delet

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Don Krause
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. >>> >>> However on one particular new 5.5 box

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Jay Leafey
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: No hard links, some sym links. But I see what you are saying. Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target - aurf So you want rsync to run every minute in the 10 PM hour? I think that first "*" needs to

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. >> >> However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, >> the machine ends up with over 20 rs

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 1:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Yup. That's what most of us jump up and down about, when a user says "it's > Broke!!!", when they mean something went wrong in a package. And by *now*, > I meant that he's working on a project hot and heavy, and will for a week > or two or more, and

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 1/21/2011 2:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. >> >> However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, >> the machine ends up with over 20 rs

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Jay Leafey
Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [...] $ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: NOKEY, key ID fd431d51 Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812 Mike As I un

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. > > However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, > the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and > eventually the machin

Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > $ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm > warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: > NOKEY, key ID fd431d51 Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812 Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){prin

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 2:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. > > However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, > the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and > eventually the ma

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:40 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/21/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and > > run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-) > Except for things with specialized hardware adap

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > RH 7.3 was my 'run forever' version - using the update stream from > freshrpms while it lasted. I had one run of 4+ years of uptime, > interrupted by a server room move, then about that long again before > office changes made it obsolete. It was nice

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo >> ... >> model name : Pentium III (Katmai) >> cpu MHz : 451.031 >> ... > > Being that it's Friday > (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU > fr

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:13:54 pm John R Pierce wrote: > The > P3-450 running my network now draws about 70 watts average per my > Kill-A-Watt, which really isn't that bad. Kaill-a-watts are great little devices If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a lot of

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I > could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on > them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them They > are Agilent ATMProbes

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Lamar Owen wrote: >> > On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* >> >> NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder e

[CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Mike McCarty
I want to install smarmontools v 5.40, and so I pulled the SRPM for 5.39 so I could patch and install... $ wget -Nc ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm However, the install of the source fails. $ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.3

[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and eventually the machine dies. But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 proc

[CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > ... > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > cpu MHz : 451.031 > ... Being that it's Friday (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU frequency apparently!): [root@loc

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7 > years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting > spinning up hard disks and stuff. wrt54's (I have a wrt54gs v1.0 doing my wireless) are awfully slow

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* > >> NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but > fin

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 12:22 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I'll let the following speak for itself. Read it carefully. It's from a > running machine. > # cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo) > # uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown >

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:29:14AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) > Yer not the only one. this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7 years ago when I realised just how much energy that

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* >> NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found >> the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-et

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/21/11 10:22 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > I'll let the following speak for itself. Read it carefully. It's from > a running machine. > # cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo) > # uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown > # da

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia > drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found > the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add > the HWADD

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On 1/21/11, JohnS wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> This is on software which ran as POS stuff. > > > hmm... how about a vlock -a (or inverse thereof) wrapper? We wanted to log the user out of the POS applicati

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 08:45 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > I imagine that, if the OP's posting habits continue, the decision to > leave the list may be made for him. I am not normally one for removing > people from lists, but the OP is really getting intolerable. +1 Regards, Leonard. -- mount -

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote: >> The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same >> pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 >> RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way >> very long a

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote: > The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same > pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 > RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way > very long and quickly got to the

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Keith Keller
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10:28AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 1/21/2011 4:14 AM, S Mathias wrote: > > my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set > > imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? > > I'm not going to tell you to go away as some others

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/21/2011 9:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> 4) Ask the question in the right place. This list is great and has lots >> of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions. Your >> question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 9:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > 4) Ask the question in the right place. This list is great and has lots > of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions. Your > question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked in an > Imagemagick forum. Off-topic questio

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:55:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using > > RH would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of > > binaries to the community that had contribut

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Hanby
5.6 also now officially supports ext4 and adds quota support for ext4. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Porter Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:46 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is there a diffe

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/2011 8:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > fedora "become" > crazy, Mike? The beginning of '06, when I went to SuSE, I already knew > that it was bleeding edge, and that wasn't just my opinion, but the > opinion of a number of folks I know, whose technical expertise I respect, > including som

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 4:14 AM, S Mathias wrote: > my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set > imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? I'm not going to tell you to go away as some others have done, but I will give you a few tips that will help you get more a

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using > RH would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of > binaries to the community that had contributed their code base. But I was > too lazy to do that myself and CentOS lets me

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:09:37 am Parshwa Murdia wrote: > What made me > think for this comparison was the simple question why did Fermi Labs > and CERN chose SL and developing but they didn't go for other distros, > keeping in mind always that all the distros have their own pros and > cons b

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/21/11 12:09 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> As Les said, it depends by what you consider to be 'better.' I consider >> them to be roughly equivalent, with SL having some advantages (mostly of >> perception in my dayjob, for instance) and

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 05:53:14 pm Ross Walker wrote: > I haven't heard of someone lifting a latent oil print > and creating a fake out of that. I'm sure with enough ingenuity it can > be done. Let me repeat: that is exactly what MythBusters did in the episode I referenced, 'Crime and My

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 22:26:08 Bob Eastbrook wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, wrote: > > But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in > > with. I'm having trouble understanding the problem... or is it that many > > of the users *never* log out? > > Yes, users

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Please leave this list, thanks. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >> I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils. >> But that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have >> it, and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few >> packages there. Any

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread S Mathias
Google will provide an answer, if someone asks it, and then someone answers it. If someone answers the question on a mailing list, then it wont be asked again on the list, because people could google for it. and mr. let me tell you: you're an idiot. --- On Fri, 1/21/11, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-21 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils. > But that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have > it, and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few > packages there. Anyone have an idea which

[CentOS] oprofile problem in centos with custom kernel

2011-01-21 Thread Yannis Klonatos
Hi! I am trying to profile my custom 2.6.37 linux kernel with oprofile in centos 5.5, and i have encountered the following problem. (Before everyone starts shouting, I know that custom kernels are not supported by centos team, however I really need to run a modified version, due to a

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Please do not abuse this list for your daily tinky-winky support needs!!! This list is not a replacement for using your brain. Thank you! Google or the search engine of your choice is your friend. I used "imagemagick set tmp dir" and the very first hit seems to contain the correct answer alread

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my >recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except for the first couple when I was learning without it... __

[CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread S Mathias
my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? thank you! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/20/2011 07:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have > access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you > should add a repo line in your ks and "install" updates from the start. > It's faster/cleaner and just p

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 1/21/11, JohnS wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> >> This is on software which ran as POS stuff. > hmm... how about a vlock -a (or inverse thereof) wrapper? Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS mailing list