Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-04-26 Thread Johan Vermeulen
This time in the "normal" repo or also in testing? Greetings, j. verzonden m.b.v Android vandaar de beknoptheid. Nux! schreef: >On 19.03.2012 11:43, Jake Shipton wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:50:21 + >> n...@li.nux.ro wrote: >> >>> Jake, >>> >>> Sure, 3.5 is on the to do list. >>> I see t

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Lists wrote: > > > Problem isn't so much actual "speed" but causing network monitors to > freak out due to "high" load average > when performing backups. So don't plug the USB into the server. Put them on some other machine and run the backup over the network.

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-26 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Lists wrote: > On 04/20/2012 05:24 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2012 2:42 AM, "Lists" wrote: > >> Problem as follows: > >> > >> 1) Plug in an external USB drive. > >> > >> 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. > >> > >> 3) Copy a few GB of data

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-26 Thread Lists
On 04/20/2012 05:24 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > On Apr 20, 2012 2:42 AM, "Lists" wrote: >> Problem as follows: >> >> 1) Plug in an external USB drive. >> >> 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. >> >> 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. >> >> 4) Watch the load average

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice.org3 Error after Software Update

2012-04-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 04/26/2012 03:46 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 04/26/2012 02:18 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Hey Y'all, >> >> I just installed the updates recommended by Software Update. >> >> Apr 25 19:04:43 Updated: xulrunner-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 >> Apr 25 19:04:53 Updated: firefox-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 >>

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-04-26 Thread Nux!
On 19.03.2012 11:43, Jake Shipton wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:50:21 + > n...@li.nux.ro wrote: > >> Jake, >> >> Sure, 3.5 is on the to do list. >> I see this trend a lot, to make repos out of official rpms (at least >> Ljubomir is also doing it). Maybe it's worth doing this on a bigger >> sc

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice.org3 Error after Software Update (SOLVED)

2012-04-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 04/25/2012 10:18 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > I just installed the updates recommended by Software Update. > > Apr 25 19:04:43 Updated: xulrunner-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 > Apr 25 19:04:53 Updated: firefox-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 > Apr 25 19:05:03 Updated: thunderbird-10.0.4-1.el6.

Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 04/26/2012 05:45 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Shaun >> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:34 >> >> On 26/04/2012 15:58, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> You can't really generalize about that. Yum just does what the >>> dependencies of the rpm packages you install or r

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/24/2012 10:58 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> LXC sounds interesting: are there any yum repositries / RPMs / >> tutorials for CentOS available? > > You dont need rpms: the libvirt directly use the LXC API. > A tutorial: http://goo.gl/kQOxm > there are some limitations with libvirt/lx

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/26/2012 01:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. >> I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. > How's that? What kind of enterprise doesn't have some servers with > nailed down N

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> >> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. >> > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. > >> How's that? > > A distribution being an 'enterprise' distribution does not equate with that > distribution being an (ex

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 02:12:20 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. > > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. > How's that? A distribution being an 'enterprise' distributio

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. > > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. How's that? What kind of enterprise doesn't have some servers with nailed down NICs? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 01:28:04 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:36 AM, James B. Byrne > wrote: > > Now, consider upstream's decision to enable network-manager by default on an > > enterprise distro. THAT I both understand and fundamentally disagree with. > Yes, that's a

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:36 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > I used to think the same thing.  However, on reflection I think that the > decision > to keep the network down until deliberately enabled is a sensible and prudent > security choice.  This leaves up to the operator the decision as to whe

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, April 26, 2012 08:55, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> It has the network stack ... you must configure it during the install. >> >> If you do not configure and enable the ethernet card then it does not >> turn on by default ... but it is in the installer to be able to do: >> >> http://wiki.centos.

Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Shaun wrote: > >> You can't really generalize about that.  Yum just does what the >> dependencies of the rpm packages you install or remove tell it to do. >>  A "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" might bring back >> anything  that is missing. >> > > We

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Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Shaun > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:34 > > On 26/04/2012 15:58, Les Mikesell wrote: > > You can't really generalize about that. Yum just does what the > > dependencies of the rpm packages you install or remove tell > it to do. > > A "yum groupinstall

Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Shaun
On 26/04/2012 15:58, Les Mikesell wrote: > You can't really generalize about that. Yum just does what the > dependencies of the rpm packages you install or remove tell it to do. > A "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" might bring back > anything that is missing. > Well I was kinda e

Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Shaun wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit of a newbie to CentOS though not Linux in general. I come from > an apt-get package management mentality and I've had a few issues where > package management actions haven't quite done what I'd expect. So I'm > guessing it's use

Re: [CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread m . roth
Shaun wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit of a newbie to CentOS though not Linux in general. I come from > an apt-get package management mentality and I've had a few issues where > package management actions haven't quite done what I'd expect. So I'm > guessing it's user error! :) Personally, having st

[CentOS] yum yum or not?

2012-04-26 Thread Shaun
Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie to CentOS though not Linux in general. I come from an apt-get package management mentality and I've had a few issues where package management actions haven't quite done what I'd expect. So I'm guessing it's user error! :) I installed GNOME and then decided that I wan

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/25/2012 01:02 AM, Al Sparks wrote: > > You're right. The stack was there. > > First, I was inaccurate when I said I installed 6.2. I actually installed > 6.0, and later updated via yum. > > Second, yeah I was able to start the network service, so there was a stack. > All I'd get would be

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:02:49PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > > > You're right. The stack was there. > > First, I was inaccurate when I said I installed 6.2.  I actually installed > 6.0, and later updated via yum. > > Second, yeah I was able to start the network service, so there was a stack. 

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice.org3 Error after Software Update

2012-04-26 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/26/2012 02:18 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > I just installed the updates recommended by Software Update. > > Apr 25 19:04:43 Updated: xulrunner-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 > Apr 25 19:04:53 Updated: firefox-10.0.4-1.el6.centos.i686 > Apr 25 19:05:03 Updated: thunderbird-10.0.4-1.el6.

[CentOS] restorecon and sudo

2012-04-26 Thread Philippe Naudin
Hello, On CentOS-6.2, these two commands (on the same machine) give me different results : # restorecon -r /var/www/html/Centos/ # (as root) $ sudo restorecon -r /var/www/html/Centos/ # (as an unprivileged user) /var/www/html/Centos/ is a symlink to /mnt/packages/Centos/ In the first case