Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] "Open Source Development + Tools" - Book/Resource?

2010-09-27 Thread Jim Davis
There's a review just now on Slashdot of a book that covers autoconf and friends -- it sounds like it would cover at least some of what you're after. There's an older O'Reilly book on Make that might be helpful too. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Jim Davis
Did you check the devices.map file? Last time I got to do the GRUB jig-o-despair was after adding disks to an array controller somehow turned /dev/sda into /dev/sdc... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

[CentOS] Thin client system for X applications?

2010-06-01 Thread Jim Davis
We're looking for what, years ago, I'd describe a s a X terminal -- something small, simple (and ideally cheap) that a user could display X applications on. I guess they're now called thin clients, but they now seem geared as seats on the web, and for this application we would need to be able disp

Re: [CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

2010-05-15 Thread Jim Davis
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Colin Coles wrote: > Hi, >  I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers? When I ran into a similar pr

[CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-15 Thread Jim Davis
We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it

Re: [CentOS] Network tuning for working with very old Solaris

2010-03-27 Thread Jim Davis
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Wade Hampton wrote: > G'day. > > I am trying to get a very old Solaris 5.7 server to ftp data to my > updated CentOS 5.4 server but the Solaris box keeps losing > networking after sending some data.  I can't ping the Solaris box > from any of the servers on my net

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up the boot partition

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Davis
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Todd Cary wrote: > Is there an easy way to remove unwanted files in the boot partition? If you install the yum-utils rpm (run "yum install yum-utils" as root) then you could use the package-cleanup command with the --old-kernels flag. _