Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:59:12PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > >> >> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message > >> >> "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. > >> >> Possibly the worst error message anywhere? > >> > > >> > thats an

Re: [CentOS] favorite cheap VPS services

2015-01-16 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On 01/15/2015 06:24 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > So I was wondering.. what are some really cheap VPS services > that you like to use for one off projects like this and why. > I'm looking for dirt cheap as possible. You can check the offers that show up on LowEndTalk: http://www.lowendtalk.com/

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-02 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
1. use Fedora Live instead of CentOS for boot test, then install CentOS and replace the kernel with ELRepo kernel-ml. This is usually newer even than Fedora's, thus presumably with much better support for new HW than stock CentOS. Of course, the risk here is that CentOS would not inst

Re: [CentOS] USB-3.0 on C6.5 ??

2014-05-24 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:52:11PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:19:49AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 05/22/2014 09:09 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > Just wondering if there are any known issues with USB 3.0 storage devices > > > in Centos 6.5?? > > > > > > I just got on

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-23 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:55:45PM +0200, Jitse Klomp wrote: On 10/23/2013 04:44 AM, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel > do you use on your CentOS machines? Not which version of > the CentOS kernel, but which repository. Stock on serv

Re: [CentOS] LVM RAID0 and SSD discards/TRIM

2013-08-20 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:20:01PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 19.08.2013 20:28, Joakim Ziegler wrote: > > I'm trying to work out the kinks of a proprietary, old, and clunky > > application that runs on CentOS. One of its main problems is that it > > writes image sequences extremely n

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software

2013-08-17 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:25:40PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/16/2013 08:07 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > On 08/16/2013 10:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> SUSE does not release their enterprise sources and there > >> is no SLES clone because of it. > > I can't believe I never thought abo

Re: [CentOS] Back-up connection

2013-08-16 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:33:01PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Some weeks ago, I asked if anyone had set up a backup scheme for a remote > server. > By backup here, I mean an alternative arrangement that can be called upon > if eg the DSL connection to the remote machine fails. > > I received

Re: [CentOS] convert webpage to image

2013-08-14 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 03:38:33PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But what if the size of the website is larger than the screen > size? I assume the OP wants to "see" the whole website in a > single picture, and the website might span more than a single > visible screen (and require scrolling to

Re: [CentOS] Skype For CentOS 6.4

2013-06-16 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 05:00:16PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 06/16/2013 03:46 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:35:58 -0400 > > Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > >> Hey all. Does anyone know if there is a newer version of Skype than > >> skype-2.1.0.81 available for CentOS 32 bit?

Re: [CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-11 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
Can this plugin help? https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch06s25.html Mihai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos6 - Xfce - howto add usb automount

2011-11-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 06:59:41AM +0100, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > *thunar-volman is installed by default, so does not seem to automount > usb in CentOs6 I think it's activated by thunar, thus thunar should be started. > The good thing is, when installing Nautilus, the usb now also automounts >

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-16 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:39:28AM -0800, Drew wrote: > > Agreed! The cramped screen space (I run dual vid cards in sli with 4 > > monitors with development apps spread all over them!), sluggish response > > (open what I have running on my work station and any laptop goes into > > crawl mode), hea

Re: [CentOS] Centos6 - Xfce - howto add usb automount

2011-11-15 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:29:08PM +0100, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > Op 15-11-11 16:11, Johan Vermeulen schreef: > > dear all, > > > > I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast, > > even on al 512Mb machine. > > > > But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount o

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:26:17AM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > Are only the nVidia chipsets + *proprietary* nVidia drivers?  And only > > Evolution and Gnome-Panel?  And is it 32-bit AND 64-bit or only 32-bit > > (or only 64-bit)? >

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:45:46PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:56 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > > I confirm that the update crashes gnome-panel. The panel bars > > are displayed void of contents upon login. > > The gnome panel cras

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-18 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:40:53AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Leonard den Ottolander > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Reading > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939&forum=37 I > > noticed a warning about an upcoming bugged update > > xorg-

Re: [CentOS] Unicode in C++

2011-02-23 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:46:24PM +, Michael D. Berger wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:53:20 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > > Michael D. Berger wrote: > >> On my CentOS box, in C++ programs, is there a way to print Unicode > >> characters? > > > > google knows... > > I haven't foun

Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

2010-12-21 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:40:42PM +0200, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > original data: > > 01,01368,2010-12-02,09:07:00,Pass > 01,01368,2010-12-02,10:54:00,Pass > 01,01368,2010-12-02,13:07:04,Pass > 01,01368,2010-12-02,18:54:01,Pass > 01,01368,2010-12-03,09:02:00,Pass > 01,01368,2010-12-03,13:53:00,Pass

Re: [CentOS] bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On 12/11/2010 03:41 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:34:25AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: > You might just have to hard-code the sequence: > >for i in 0 1 4 5 8 9; do This outputs: for i in $(seq 0 4 16); do seq $i 1 $i+1; done 0 1 4 5 8 9

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-08 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:15:50PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: > > > >> Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL > >> rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox > >> interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless t

Re: [CentOS] Retrieving POP mail from server to server

2010-08-13 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:57:22AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > And yes I'd suggest fetchmail scripted to do this (given it is a one > off) so long as the email service your system is going to provide will > be storing in whatever the local user storage that fetchmail will be > dumping into... or

Re: [CentOS] vim and backup files

2010-05-04 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:23:42PM +0200, Dominik Zyla wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:34:11PM -0700, el...@spinics.net wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:22:13 -0700, Kwan Lowe > > wrote: > > > > > Check filesystems for space? Temp dir? Maybe try cleaning out your > > > .vimrc to see if so

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-07 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:47:10AM +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >If you could explain a bit more in detail it would be a lot clearer on > >what you really want. The drawback is if you cron job it on every node > >you must have a precise time server for ntp on the local subnet or your > >effec

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-07 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 03:57:14AM +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone know how to submit jobs to at or anything else that allows jobs > submitted to a queue to be executed consecutively? > > I have a series of servers that submits a job via an ssh background > job but I can only have one exe

Re: [CentOS] bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-21 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:24:34PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Vadkan Jozsef > wrote: > > > > What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] > > what was logged on the logger? > > I need to ban the ip on the router pc. > > http://www.fail2b

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:34:34AM -0400, Susan Day wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Simon Billis wrote: > > > > Why? > > > > That is a good question - I "guess" that google's email system thinks > > you're > > sending them spam. If you want your mail to be accepted you may need to > >

Re: [CentOS] Rescuing svn repo from *IDIOTS*

2009-11-13 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:55:24PM +, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > A moron has checked in a DVD iso into subversion. > > How can I undo the damage, and make the repo a sensible size again? I fully understand the grief. Out of the top of my head you can use 'snvadmin dump' to get an (even l

Re: [CentOS] Where to download rpm packages for centos?

2009-09-16 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:33:12PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote: > For example, I am looking for imlib-config. Do you know > where I can download its source package. You can try general purpose RPM finders, like: http://rpm.pbone.net/ for both binary and source search and download. Try your luck b

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-03 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 06:37:17AM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > no, trolling works much better on high volume lists > > like this one. > > I officially declare that whoever uses the word "troll" > is underbrained (aka stupid moron). The verb "to troll" > was invented by some ***arrogan

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-01 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:43:41PM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > I Can not speak for others, but the only time i have > > seen Karanbir be stern with anyone is when they do > > deserve it. > > Well, I've read him saying in various ways and on > several occasions something that would eq

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:51:54PM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > led to the great compiler we have today.  The same > > would hold for any large project (the kernel, firefox, etc.) > > And... are you happy with the quality of the huge $h1t which > is Firefox? Because I am not. Firefox

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-29 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:57:09PM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > I am sorry to decline your offer: I don't need access to a > 8,000-package repo, for later I could be accused of some > breakage I might have not caused. Unless RF starts from zero > (that is, by tossing whatever does not bu

Re: [CentOS] iptables local forwarding

2008-10-23 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:25:40AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Robert Spangler wrote: >> On Thursday 23 October 2008 09:53, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> >>> > Try adding it manually to the iptables config. >>> > >>> > # vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables >>> > >>> > And then restart ip

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-08-25 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:14:19PM +0800, Ian jonhson wrote: > My jobs need to recompile the kernel codes, but I don't know > how to yum the kernel source codes. This should download the .src RPM in the current dir: yumdownloader --source kernel yum-utils should be installed first. Mihai _

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > > An intuitive interface shortens the learning curve. > > An efficient interface becomes a concern after that. vi came > > to serve in an enviro

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > MHR wrote: >> >> Vi is not the world's best editor > > Heh, understatement of the century. > It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with > the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/he

Re: [CentOS] sed

2008-05-23 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:41:19AM -0700, Scott McClanahan wrote: > Not specific to CentOS but I know you guys would be really helpful anyhow. > Basically, I have a file which has been editted in the past very similarly to > the hosts file only now I want to use it as a hosts file and need to run

Re: [CentOS] Locating the broken links

2008-01-27 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Is there any command that I can use to find the broken links that point to > non-existent files? cleanlinks from the imake package may help. Mihai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.