Re: [CentOS] Need help configuring wireless NIC

2012-03-26 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, 27. March 2012. 10.02.25 Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Yesterday I managed to find a driver for my USB wireless dongle, and it is > > now correctly recognized by the kernel. However, I don't know how to > > configure it. > How did you i

Re: [CentOS] INSTALLING UPDATES-PROXY PROBLEM

2012-03-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/26/12 11:05 PM, arun kumar wrote: > I have centos 6.0 in my system and i want to update packages, so i tried > the yum commands for checking and installing updates, but my proxy is > objecting and i got the following error > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit > Loading mirror

[CentOS] INSTALLING UPDATES-PROXY PROBLEM

2012-03-26 Thread arun kumar
Dear all I have centos 6.0 in my system and i want to update packages, so i tried the yum commands for checking and installing updates, but my proxy is objecting and i got the following error Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not re

Re: [CentOS] Need help configuring wireless NIC

2012-03-26 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Hi everyone! :-) > > Yesterday I managed to find a driver for my USB wireless dongle, and it is now > correctly recognized by the kernel. However, I don't know how to configure it. How did you install the driver that you found? What is

Re: [CentOS] 5.8, t-bird 10 and firefox 10

2012-03-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 26/03/12 22:24, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Here's a problem I have at home - I updated to 5.8, have t-bird 10 and ff > 10; I run icewm. However, I cannot get a link in an email to open in my > browser. Anyone else see this? > Any clues from running: gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/h

Re: [CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

2012-03-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/26/2012 04:45 PM, admin lewis wrote: > Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? > thanks > luigi What are you trying to accomplish. If you install the SRPM, the go the the SPEC directory, you can run the command: rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec Then you can go

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lars Hecking wrote on 03/26/2012 01:00 PM: > > No replacement needed. Or at least go back to the pre-6 situation and not > stuff it down our throats as a mandatory requirement. > Just because NetworkManager is the default does not mean it is mandatory. You are free to "yum remove NetworkManag

Re: [CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

2012-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
admin lewis wrote on 03/26/2012 05:45 PM: > Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? > thanks That seems too good to be true, so it probably is. :) Have a look at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel Or perhaps http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml Someone

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/26/12 2:20 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Yeah... but parted is user hostile. A co-worker and I, both of whom don't > need GUIs, use gparted. However, that doesn't tell me where it's aligning > things. I don't think its any more user hostile than fdisk is, just perhaps less familiar. --

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/26/12 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> So, here's the answer: we have these Caviar Green 2tb drives (the thread >> I found had either a 1tb, or 1.5tb), (and no, we are*NOT* going to buy >> Caviar Green for servers ever again). The big thing is that they use 4k >> se

Re: [CentOS] 5.8, t-bird 10 and firefox 10

2012-03-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/26/2012 04:24 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Here's a problem I have at home - I updated to 5.8, have t-bird 10 and ff > 10; I run icewm. However, I cannot get a link in an email to open in my > browser. Anyone else see this? > You should be able to set that in Edit => Preferences => Attachme

[CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

2012-03-26 Thread admin lewis
Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? thanks luigi -- Linux Server, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server, Exchange 2007 http://predellino.blogspot.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] 5.8, t-bird 10 and firefox 10

2012-03-26 Thread m . roth
Here's a problem I have at home - I updated to 5.8, have t-bird 10 and ff 10; I run icewm. However, I cannot get a link in an email to open in my browser. Anyone else see this? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread m . roth
Scott Silva wrote: > on 3/26/2012 1:49 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the > following: >> Next trick: hdparm. I want to disable, or at least shove way up, the >> spindown timeout on these drives, which, depending on the thread you >> read, is 6 or 8 seconds. hdparm should let me do that... but before I

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/26/2012 1:49 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: > I believe I've posted before about one of the speed issues we were having, > of backups taking many, many hours that should *not* take that long. > > My manager and I finally nailed it down to the h/d itself. Identical > boxes, and he tr

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/26/12 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, here's the answer: we have these Caviar Green 2tb drives (the thread I > found had either a 1tb, or 1.5tb), (and no, we are*NOT* going to buy > Caviar Green for servers ever again). The big thing is that they use 4k > sectors,*not* 512 bytes. Fol

[CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread m . roth
I believe I've posted before about one of the speed issues we were having, of backups taking many, many hours that should *not* take that long. My manager and I finally nailed it down to the h/d itself. Identical boxes, and he tried a backup of one system which took under two hours, while the same

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/26/12 10:00 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: >> No replacement needed. Or at least go back to the pre-6 situation and >> not stuff it down our throats as a mandatory requirement. > > wireless sure needs it to work decently, without it, its a kludge of a > kludge. That's fine.

Re: [CentOS] Dell Online Diagnostics for Centos 6.2

2012-03-26 Thread Trevor Cooper
On 03/22/2012 01:08 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Why are so many people top posting today? > Perhaps, because the most common mail client(s) in the world (Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft OWA, Apple Mail.app, http://www.campaignmonitor.com/stats/email-clients/) default to top-posting. People don't tr

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/26/12 10:00 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: > No replacement needed. Or at least go back to the pre-6 situation and not > stuff it down our throats as a mandatory requirement. wireless sure needs it to work decently, without it, its a kludge of a kludge. -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread Lars Hecking
John R Pierce writes: > On 03/26/12 9:01 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: > > They should also realise that they don't like NetworkManager and get rid > > of it. > > and replace it with what? No replacement needed. Or at least go back to the pre-6 situation and not stuff it down our throats as a ma

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/26/12 9:01 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: > They should also realise that they don't like NetworkManager and get rid > of it. and replace it with what? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast _

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-26 Thread Lars Hecking
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu writes: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 13:08 -0700, Nataraj wrote: > > Furthermore RedHat has decided that they don't like > > Upstart and they are going to yet another replacement for upstart in > > future releases (sorry, I don't remember the name of it). They should also realise

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Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-26 Thread Bent Terp
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:05 PM, wrote: > In short, either partition the drive, or rebuild the drive with a GPT. > Yes, I'm back :-D Finally had a chance to try this out, and it works totally on my Fedora16 laptop. But not on the EL6.2 server Mar 26 16:36:00 gpfsnode8 kernel: usb 1-1: new

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
by the way. i use gnome-rdp. It does the same thing. It's not as pretty as remmina, but it is installable on c6. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/26/2012 07:50 AM, sebastian wrote: > > The freerdp.i686, > > freerdp-devel.i686, freerdp-libs.i686 and freerdp-plugins.i6

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > One possibility I've considered is to have a UPS stop the machine, > and then use Wake-on-LAN to start it again. > But to date I haven't been able to get Wake-on-LAN to work > on my HP PowerServer, though it is supposed to be an option. I s

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/26/2012 07:50 AM, sebastian wrote: > The freerdp.i686, > freerdp-devel.i686, freerdp-libs.i686 and freerdp-plugins.i686 from epel > are allready installed, but the lib's are missing... > > > Am 26.03.2012 14:24, schrieb John Doe: >> From: sebastian >> >>> yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
I looked at remmina and it looks like a nice piece of software. However, it has bad dependency problems. The libraries it requires are provided in the freerdp-libs package from epel. But the lib's are named differently. The names are libfreerdp-kbd.so libfreerdp-chanman.so and so on. It seems that

Re: [CentOS] process accounting on 5.7

2012-03-26 Thread John Doe
From: Alan McKay > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:11 AM, John Doe wrote: >>From a quick look, it does not seem to have a user entry in the > stats... > UID and GID are there > Anyone else have anything on this? Indeed, I looked too fast and missed the IDs... So, why not just something like this: du

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread sebastian
The freerdp.i686, freerdp-devel.i686, freerdp-libs.i686 and freerdp-plugins.i686 from epel are allready installed, but the lib's are missing... Am 26.03.2012 14:24, schrieb John Doe: > From: sebastian > >> yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm >> ... >> --> Processing Depen

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread sebastian
freerdp-libs.i686 and freerdp-plugins.i686 from epel are allready installed. Am 26.03.2012 14:24, schrieb John Doe: > From: sebastian > >> yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm >> ... >> --> Processing Dependency: libfreerdp.so.0 for package: > freerdp seems to be in epel..

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread John Doe
From: sebastian > yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm > ... > --> Processing Dependency: libfreerdp.so.0 for package: freerdp seems to be in epel... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Markus Falb
On 26.3.2012 13:35, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Touch wood, I've found filesystem corruption seems to have become > a thing of the past. > I assume this is something to do with journaling. > My laptop (Fedora-16/KDE) freezes about once a week. > I'm not sure why, it doesn't seem to be associated with

Re: [CentOS] Dell Online Diagnostics for Centos 6.2

2012-03-26 Thread John Doe
From: "Turnbough, Bradley E." > Has anyone successfully installed and ran the Dell Online Diagnostics for > Centos > 6.2?  RHEL 6 is a listed as a supported OS, but it appears the install.sh > shell > script says it is unsupported. If it is like some hp utilities, maybe just try to modify th

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread sebastian
yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Local Package Process Examining remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm: remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686 Marking remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm t

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Another approach is to buy a remote power switch. > With it, basically you can remotely "power cycle" the server :) > It will solve any hang problem just as if you are there :) I have actually tried this. I bought a very cheap ($20) device from China which is supposed to s

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > An advice among all others: > - When the machine gets stable, disable FS checks (in fstab, I dont > remember what field to set to 0) > - Setup the filesystem not to ask for check every N mounts (tune2fs) Thanks for your response. Touch wood, I've found filesystem

Re: [CentOS] command problem

2012-03-26 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 03/26/2012 01:06 PM, Tom Grace wrote: > On 26/03/12 12:02, Paolo De Michele wrote: >> I am having problems with commands via Terminal after the upgrade to >> centos to release 5.8 >> How come I did not recognized the ifconfig, route? > It looks like /sbin and /usr/sbin aren't in your path any

Re: [CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
you could try *yum localinstall remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm* and yum will take care of the dependencies if they are in your repos. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, sebastian wrote: > I have a CentOS 6.2 Desktop-Version (my Laptop). I have install remmina > via rpm and want now i

Re: [CentOS] command problem

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Grace
On 26/03/12 12:02, Paolo De Michele wrote: > I am having problems with commands via Terminal after the upgrade to > centos to release 5.8 > How come I did not recognized the ifconfig, route? It looks like /sbin and /usr/sbin aren't in your path any more. You could try either running export PATH="$P

[CentOS] command problem

2012-03-26 Thread Paolo De Michele
Hi all, I am having problems with commands via Terminal after the upgrade to centos to release 5.8 How come I did not recognized the ifconfig, route? below is an excerpt: # ifconfig bash: ifconfig: command not found # route bash: route: command not found the kernel version: # uname -a Linux lo

[CentOS] lib-problem

2012-03-26 Thread sebastian
I have a CentOS 6.2 Desktop-Version (my Laptop). I have install remmina via rpm and want now install a plugin (rpd). I have download the pluging from: http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/russian-fedora-free-i386/remmina-plugins-rdp-0.9.2-5.el6.R.i686.rpm.html But now my system is missing 3 libraries

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/24/2012 02:33 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Any suggestions, advice or experience of this problem gratefully received. An advice among all others: - When the machine gets stable, disable FS checks (in fstab, I dont remember what field to set to 0) - Setup the filesystem not to ask for check e

Re: [CentOS] Reason for high load on CentOS

2012-03-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/26/2012 01:00 PM, Markus Falb wrote: >> The load average has relationship with I/O. > Not necessarily. Agreed. > I would define load as the number of processes who are waiting to get > cpu time. I should have said "statistically, I have noticed..." I missed precision. -- RMA. __

Re: [CentOS] Reason for high load on CentOS

2012-03-26 Thread Markus Falb
On 26.3.2012 07:07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 03/26/2012 07:31 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Are there tools or utilities to understand about the reason behind high load on CentOS Linux. Please help me understand with examples. > The load average has relationship with I/O. N

Re: [CentOS] Reason for high load on CentOS

2012-03-26 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
Hi Kaushal, in addition to the solution provider by Mihamina to monitor the load average on your server, "htop" on CentOS can be more clear for you to read the output as well. install rpmforge repo yum insall htop, type htop when done. look ay load average figure. then find out the cause. Thank

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > William Warren wrote: > >> in the apc software(or nut worst case) you'll be able to specify that >> after x minutes it will shutdown.  Better to have a clean shutdown and >> have to hit the power button than a dirty one and risk corrupting y

Re: [CentOS] A problem with power outages

2012-03-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
William Warren wrote: > in the apc software(or nut worst case) you'll be able to specify that > after x minutes it will shutdown. Better to have a clean shutdown and > have to hit the power button than a dirty one and risk corrupting your > filesystem. Unfortunately I won't be there to "hit the

[CentOS] keyboard and mouse not working on vnc when vmware tools installed

2012-03-26 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
I had some trouble with centos 6 installed on ESXi 5. Vnc didn't work properly until i removed the file /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop. I found the solution in this thread on vmware forums: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/326868 The same solution applies to xrdp since it uses vnc.