Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bowie Bailey wrote on 05/25/2012 01:00 PM: > Is "Fedora Project" EPEL? Yes. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] support for Broadcom BCM4313

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Earl Ramirez wrote on 05/25/2012 09:37 AM: > > Philippe, > > You can try ELRepo, I believe that they have the drivers for boderdom, they > also have kernel 3.3.x, please read their note about using kernel 3.3.x. I > have tried it and I did not have any issues with it. > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/ker

Re: [CentOS] support for Broadcom BCM4313

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Philippe Naudin wrote on 05/25/2012 08:39 AM: > Hello, > > The support for Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless is > native in the kernel since 2.6.37 (module brcm80211, renamed brcmsmac > since 2.6.39). > > But is it backported to some kernel available for CentOS ? > > Thanks, > Chec

Re: [CentOS] compiling python

2012-05-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rita wrote on 05/25/2012 06:29 AM: > Hello, > > I would like to compile python 2.7.3 for centos and was wondering if there > were any instructions I should follow. I would like to keep the standard > python the way it is. I would like to compile to /opt. Any tips or ideas > would be much appreciate

Re: [CentOS] google.repo

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
fred smith wrote on 05/24/2012 07:27 PM: > Where do you find a Chrome package that works on Centos? Google seems > to provide only Fedora, not Centos, binaries. All I can find for > Centos is Chromium. # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo google-chrome list available Loaded plugins: fastestmirr

[CentOS] OT: Re: Any documents for python-kerberos package??

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gelen James wrote on 05/22/2012 05:45 PM: > > Hi all, > > I'm in a project to program Kerberos with Python. You will have a much better chance of getting an answer if you do not hijack threads - in this case "[CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8" - by replying to an unrelated message. This mes

Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

2012-05-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaushal Shriyan wrote on 05/23/2012 09:22 PM: > Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand when i install CentOS > 5.8 on a fresh server, what are the available repositories by default and > if i need any packages which are not there in the default repos, Do i need > to enable third part

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Issue

2012-05-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rhugga Harper wrote on 05/17/2012 03:58 PM: > I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit Have you tried installing the current/supported CentOS-5 release 5.8? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] when is the o.s. considered to be at a certain minor version? Or, is it safe to apply only certain package updates from the next release version?

2012-05-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 05/10/2012 05:56 PM: > I do not agree with "minor versions are only snapshots in time when > install media is re-generated". I should have left only part of the > sentence I disagree with. What's not to agree with in that? It may be incomplete, but not incorrect. W

Re: [CentOS] Cisco AnyConnect on 6.2 32-bit?

2012-04-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Robbins wrote on 04/22/2012 05:53 PM: > Do you really need it? I much prefer vpnc. > > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/vpnc.html > > The Cisco client has always (in my less than humble opinion), been > pretty bad. I remember one wouldn't work on any smp, another wouldn't > work

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency

2012-04-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 04/22/2012 05:51 PM: > On 04/22/2012 04:40 PM, Steven Buehler wrote: >> Did you try typing the following into google and then grabing one of the >> source rpms listed? >> linux source spice-server-devel >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jason Pyeron wrote on 04/22/2012 03:54 PM: > It seems that the live cd for 5 is no longer in existence. Is this an > oversight > or by design? > > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.6 Not sure why, but 5.6 was the last CentOS-5 LiveCD built. The ISOs are still on http://v

[CentOS] Nvidia security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0946)

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Not strictly a CentOS issue, but users of the Nvidia drivers should be aware of this. See their announcement[1] for details. Users of the the manufacturer's driver, or the ELRepo kmod-nvidia driver[2] should update ASAP to the new version. Phil [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.p

Re: [CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rafał Radecki wrote on 04/12/2012 10:32 AM: > The system was not rebooted, it just was not responsive (ssh) and has a gap > in logfiles for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes it started responding. Then I'd try the smartctl suggestion from mark. Please do not top-post. Phil __

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 x86_64 "mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value"

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Michael McNulty wrote on 04/11/2012 10:40 PM: > Will mtrr failing result in stability or performance loss? Is there any > performance loss disabling memory remap in bios other than losing 600k? thx > > Is this happening because the chipset only supports 8gb of memory and > therefore mtrr cannot

Re: [CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rafał Radecki wrote on 04/12/2012 03:07 AM: > Hi All. > > I had today a problem with my mail server (2.6.18-274.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue > Nov 29 13:37:35 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux, CentOS release 5.7 > (Final)). On my Cacti graphs I see that there has been much I/O write on > the disks and then

Re: [CentOS] Build one VM with two 5.7 DVD iso

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Vinay Nagrik wrote on 04/10/2012 12:36 PM: > How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs. > In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia Phil

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote on 04/07/2012 05:51 AM: > > Any ideas how I can probe/list devices within grub shell? I've done > the stupid method of root(hd0,x) all the way up to root(hd8,3) without > luck. > Have you tried the grub "find" command? find /grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 etc. http://

Re: [CentOS] Apparent Bug In Gnome Games

2012-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 04/07/2012 08:59 PM: > Hey Y'all > > Can someone suggest the appropriate place to report a bug in a Gnome game? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] How to restrict reboot/poweroff from non-admins?

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Johnny Hughes wrote on 03/28/2012 10:26 AM: > On 03/28/2012 09:03 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >> Timo Neuvonen wrote on 03/28/2012 09:17 AM: >>> I just noticed that CentOS (6.2) by default allows any user to >>> reboot/poweroff system without any admin rights, or withou

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:53 AM: > On 03/28/2012 03:51 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >> carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:27 AM: >>> Then, how can I obtain these uuids?? >> blkid >> >> Phil > Doesn't works neither: > > [root@newc6srv init.d]# b

Re: [CentOS] How to restrict reboot/poweroff from non-admins?

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timo Neuvonen wrote on 03/28/2012 09:17 AM: > I just noticed that CentOS (6.2) by default allows any user to > reboot/poweroff system without any admin rights, or without any further > questions, if using commands 'reboot' or 'poweroff'. But 'shutdown' still > requires admin rights. > > What is the

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
carlopmart wrote on 03/28/2012 09:27 AM: > Then, how can I obtain these uuids?? blkid Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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] Fwd: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem?

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Bart Schaefer wrote on 02/15/2012 05:00 PM: > Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening, > so I'm trying again. No clues? Try it on a freshly created account. If it works, then it's something you did to your account. If it does not then it is a system-level bug or set

Re: [CentOS] Filing a bug for clamav

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote on 02/17/2012 07:40 PM: > "yum list installed | grep clamav" # yum --showduplicates --noplugins --enablerepo atrpms,epel,rpmforge list clamav ... Available Packages clamav.x86_64 0.96.1-1.el5.rf rpmforge clamav.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Create Virtual Machine via HTTP or FTP

2012-02-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
cbul...@gmail.com wrote on 02/09/2012 12:05 AM: > I used a DVD. > The command was: > cp -ar/path/DVD/. /var/www/html/inst DVD1 or LiveDVD? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: > What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are themselves treated as single drives to be combined into a single RAID 1. Phil _

Re: [CentOS] upgrade centos 5 to 6

2012-02-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
fakessh @ wrote on 02/03/2012 05:43 PM: > but possible > or I may strongly advises against I would strongly advise against blindly overwriting /var and /etc (or anything else, with the possible exception of /home) from a CentOS-6 install with CentOS-5 versions. Compare the files and make changes

Re: [CentOS] Advise on recovering 2TB RAID1

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 01/28/2012 09:49 PM: > ... > But I see this: > > DESCRIPTION > sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, > list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and > - very dangerous - repartition a > device. Since the device

Re: [CentOS] Installing CENTOS 6.1 to Intel notebook

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Wilkinson wrote on 01/28/2012 07:58 PM: > ... > but wonder if anyone knows if this problem (of graphical > install freezing) has been fixed in CENTOS 6.2 Why not try it and see. Obsolete releases should not be installed anyway. > , or (if not) if RedHat is aware of it. Don't see it in the

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove lvs associated with deleted vm guests

2012-01-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Pardon the top-post and cross-post, but this apparently should have gone to centos-v...@centos.org Phil chris procter wrote on 01/27/2012 03:29 PM: > Hi, > > Its ages since I came across this problem so my memory is a little hazey but > something is obviously holding on to the lv so you'll need

Re: [CentOS] Machine becoming irresponsive

2012-01-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dotan Cohen wrote on 01/23/2012 08:39 AM: > There is a CentOS 5.2 machine ... I'd have a look at why an apparently Internet-facing server is 5 point releases, plus a lot of subsequent errata, behind the current 5.7 release level; and what resultant vulnerabilities might have been exploited. Phi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6 KDE: Desktop Activity type: desktop only

2012-01-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
wwp wrote on 01/20/2012 09:56 AM: > Hello there, > > > I'm looking at different desktop activity types (in Desktop Settings), > and on my CentOS 6, I only have "desktop". No folderview, for instance. > > Does anybody know how to install/enable other types? I have Desktop (default) and Folder View.

Re: [CentOS] NOUVEAU driver video acceleration

2012-01-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mark LaPierre wrote on 01/15/2012 09:57 PM: > I enabled both epel and rpmforge. Neither of the above. You need http://elrepo.org. # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo\* list \*nvidia\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [CentOS] is centos bugzilla borked?

2011-12-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
fred smith wrote on 12/25/2011 05:33 PM: > I managed to get an account set up on the centos bugzilla, after futzing > with it for a half hour, but for the life of me I cannot get to the > page where I would enter a new one. my browser just says "transferring > data from bugs.centos.org" and sits th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 and VirtualBox 4.1.8

2011-12-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote on 12/22/2011 03:14 PM: > Had to increase the memory size, so it would go into a graphics install. > This caused it to prompt me for the type of Linux installation and > provide network (interface) information. > > Wouldn't do this in text mode. Upstream has severely lobot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote on 11/17/2011 01:18 PM: > Have you replaced samba packages with samba3x packages? P.S. Just noticed I am an accessory to a thread hijacking. This thread is about CentOS-6. Sorry. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 smb authentication?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ron Young wrote on 11/17/2011 01:11 PM: > I just installed win 7 pro @home in order to be more compatible with > my new @work environment. I am likewise having a problem with samba > shares. The samba shares are on a C5.7 server and were readily > available from the same machine running XP for th

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

2011-11-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alan McKay wrote on 11/14/2011 09:56 PM: >> Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility >> and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither >> is perfect. > That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 > (and so long ago at that

Re: [CentOS] Ekiga - camera

2011-09-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Always Learning wrote on 09/21/2011 02:33 PM: ... > I'm on 5.7 But the OP is on 6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Drew wrote on 07/21/2011 11:09 AM: >> From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures > on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see > fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking > up on that. So, erasing the RAID signatures with "

Re: [CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Thorpe wrote on 06/14/2011 08:20 AM: ... > That's exactly what I was trying to do. > Error: Missing Dependency: openwsman-server>= 2.2.3 is needed by > package srvadmin-itunnelprovider-6.5.0-1.151.1.el5.x86_64 > (dell-omsa-specific) It seems to be in the Dell repo: http://linux.dell.com/rep

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gordon Messmer wrote on 05/23/2011 11:41 AM: > What was it about Patrice's work > that you found unsatisfactory? I don't think anyone found Patrice's work unsatisfactory. He just stated that he did not have much time to work on the CentOS-6 LiveCD/DVD and asked for someone else to take the lead

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lamar Owen wrote on 05/21/2011 04:25 PM: >> early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content that >> > a locally installed 'ftpd' and not the CentOS vsftpd was >> > being used > Looking... don't see that. Perhaps I'm just missing it. Same here. The OP only replied once, and had the sam

Re: [CentOS] OpenVAS Vulnerability

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaushal Shriyan wrote on 05/20/2011 09:17 PM: > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32319 > CVE : CVE-2008-5161 > BID : 32319 That appears to be a very old bug: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-5161.html Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 76, Issue 20

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ian Murray wrote on 05/20/2011 05:13 PM: > p.s. yes, the thread is broken. Am using digest. Digest I understand, but consider it evil as it breaks threading, and it is IMHO more trouble than it is worth. Please do expend the effort to fix the Subject. Is that also a hanging offense? :-) I ver

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 05/20/2011 11:35 AM: ... > And find out why they disappeared. No indication anything disappeared the way I read it. There was nothing explicitly there for xferlog because it is in /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 11:16 AM: > I have the same: If the size of the logs is problematic perhaps you need to rotate more frequently, perhaps daily rather than weekly, and specify compress for old logs. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Centos endorsed 3rd part repo

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Roberts wrote on 05/20/2011 10:57 AM: > OK. I am listening to all your comments. My repo would be > using dependencies probably from the other centos repos, > like ATrpms, remi, EPEL, et al. If they needed any that is. In my experience packages that need dependencies from more than one 3rd

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 09:25 AM: > > I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this. I just noticed that my > /var/log/xferlog file is huge. There are no files in /etc/logrotate.d/ > for xferlog. This is what leads me to believe that it isnot rotating. Or > perhaps I do not have it s

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/12/2011 10:15 AM: >> Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very >> much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to suggestions >> Keep up the great work - Thanks > +1 ++1 Please trim your posts. 60+ included lines and >> 2k character

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 05/11/2011 04:59 PM: >> nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until >> CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. > > Apparently they did admit and it does change: > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/11/2011 04:12 PM: ... > Thanks, but I am already using that kernel. I want to get a vanilla > kernel.org 2.6.32.xx kernel running > on 6.0. > > In fact following AY directions I was able to rebuild the srpms for > kernel-2.6.32-71.29.2, but again that > is not the generic ke

Re: [CentOS] Typing "startx" gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gilbert Sebenste wrote on 05/07/2011 11:57 AM: ... > I get a ton of stuff before this, but just info messages. Where should I > start looking to fix this problem? I use the Redhat experimental kernels > at http://epople.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/. Running CentOS 5.6, > fully patched as of this morning

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dave Stevens wrote on 05/05/2011 07:11 PM: > Thank you. How can I find out who the guys are? Go to https://www.centos.org/ and look under "Information" on the menu bar. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Silva wrote on 05/05/2011 05:03 PM: > Here is a bit of why the donation button went away (It was back in 2009 or > so)... Old news, that does not explain why monetary donations are still not being accepted. Phil P.S. I do wish people would trim their quotes. :-) _

Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R. Dennison wrote on 05/03/2011 04:12 AM: ... > Having a single location would be a great boon and would allow us to > point people to one "official" location when the inevitable questions on > releases come up. I will leave it to core team members to comment on how "official" it is, but the

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 05/02/2011 12:39 PM: > Hi all, > Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 > How do I remove those 32bit packages? FAQ #22: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Phil __

Re: [CentOS] how to access lvm inside lvm

2011-04-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Peter Peltonen wrote on 04/30/2011 03:51 AM: > ... I just clicked my way through the CentOS installation like I > usually do, and that meant using LVM. And I don't think you are even > given an option to define the default vg name during the installation? If you want to use the default setup but h

Re: [CentOS] INN removed from CentOS 6

2011-04-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert Nichols wrote on 04/27/2011 01:46 PM: ... > Quickest solution is to grab the SRPM from Fedora 13 and build it on > your RHEL 6 machine. I just tried that on Scientific Linux 6.0, and > "rpmbuild -ba" built everything just fine with no changes whatsoever. Ditto, except I used rpmbuild --re

Re: [CentOS] How to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux5.5

2011-04-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank Chang wrote on 04/21/2011 05:36 PM: > Simon Matter and Ned Slider, Thank you for your answers. This afternoon > , I installed binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5. Then , I installed all > the QT packages except for the two QT client packages. > When I ran ./configure --with-kernel-support on t

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

2011-04-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Leonard den Ottolander wrote on 04/17/2011 01:37 PM: >...It's a general request that if people are aware of > breakage in upcoming updates to report it to this list. Agree. I would advocate posting it to this list and making it part of the Announcement post as well. This issue was discussed on

Re: [CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Nicolas Ross wrote on 04/16/2011 02:25 PM: > It's not that urgent, it's just that yum sees that the update from the > regular repository, and I ended up with no external drive to my backup > storage server and it took a while to figure it out... You might want to add an "exclude=kernel*" in [upda

Re: [CentOS] php53 and MSSQL

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
John Beranek wrote on 04/15/2011 07:45 AM: > On 15/04/11 12:23, John Beranek wrote: >> [Reposted now I've joined the list, so I hopefully don't get moderated out] >> >> Hi, >> >> I've upgraded lots of machines to 5.6 (thanks!) and there was one >> particular machine that I'd also like to upgrade to

Re: [CentOS] php53 and mcrypt

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rainer Traut wrote on 04/15/2011 07:55 AM: ... > Yeah, I had the same problem with missing php_mcrypt. ;) > I did a full rebuild of php53 with patched spec so that it produces > php53_mcrypt but that is not very elegant. > The more elegant way to do it is to make an rpm for only the missing > modul

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/13/2011 07:22 PM: ... > I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win > 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can > decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid. http://wiki.c

Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project.

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Brunner, Brian T. wrote on 04/13/2011 04:21 PM: > And this thread is all about something that doesn't exist, and nobody is > trying to make exist. It's about the web-footed boogeyman in the closet > that nobody living at the home ever alleged was there. It may be that no such project exists today

Re: [CentOS] status of 5.6 updates

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 04/13/2011 05:20 PM: > You should try to search the mailing list first, then ask redundant > question. This was answered in last 24-48h. And today on IRC we find: 15:36 <@z00dax> cap_: we will be all caught up with updates today > Do to the bandwidth constrictions,

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/13/2011 02:22 PM: > I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win > 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can > decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5Conve

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Johnny Hughes wrote on 04/13/2011 12:55 PM: > CentOS is ... right now ... deployed on 29% of web > servers on the Internet that use Linux. That 28.9% is down from the high of 33.5% in Oct. 2010 or a 13.8% decrease. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux Phil

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Thorpe wrote on 04/13/2011 11:22 AM: ... > It's probably something simple I'm missing. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/13/2011 06:54 AM: > They are definitely in there, just slow. Must be vanishingly slow. :-) Just checked half a dozen tier 1 mirrors and none has src.rpm files in .../5.6/os/SRPMS/ There are some in 5.6/updates/SRPMS/. Phil

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/11/2011 06:58 AM: > Also, the first batch of srpms is now on the seed machine, should start > going public in about 8 - 12 hours ( this is [a-l]*.src.rpm ). More like 72 hours and still no 5.6/os/SRPMS/ in evidence. Did the valve not get turned on? Phil ___

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/12/2011 04:07 PM: > suspect this is, at least in some part, down to the fact that we don't > have a wiki or a web page that could perhaps accumulate some/much of > whats been said already and point people at that - so if they are new to > the process, they have a single r

Re: [CentOS] Got no login screen with the new 5.6 kernel

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Stanley A. Klein wrote on 04/12/2011 01:55 PM: > I did the 5.6 update yesterday. When I started the machine today, I did > not get a login screen -- it was just a blank screen with no cursor or > anything. I shut down, restarted and when grub came up selected the > previous kernel. The system ca

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/12/2011 07:43 AM: > Quite a large part of the functional tests can be automated - specially > if there are going to be 100's of people offering them up. Wihtout a > doubt we need more of those. Agree - whatever can be automated should be. It is the predictive part I w

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote on 04/11/2011 12:20 PM: ... > No, re-read what I said. Ownership in the distro is quite a different > ballgame from userend support. Yes, but it seems to be rather closely held. >> The main support *I* need is timely updates and releases. > > The aim is to solve problems on a

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
John R. Dennison wrote on 04/11/2011 07:48 PM: > Your constant drive-by snipes don't do much to give the devs > additional motivation to correct any of the issues that are > present. I don't think anyone with the constant presence Dag has exhibited can be characterized as a driv

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/11/2011 06:58 PM: > On 4/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote: ... >> It's laborious, it's repetitive, it's boring, >> sometimes it's time-consuming but it's really NOT difficult. > > That depends on where and whether you can find the component(s) that > were missing or the wr

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Dag Wieers wrote on 04/11/2011 07:03 PM: ... > Anyone from the QA team interested to share some information on what > happened during QA ? A very limited group did a lot of work on QA and missed some issues that might have been caught by a more open process. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: > Just boot the installer with the "ext4" option and anaconda will be able > to format ext4, or at least that works in 5.5. Works just as well on 5.6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mister IT Guru wrote on 04/09/2011 06:36 AM: ... > Any ideas? Anyone want to comment? The Wiki could use a lot of work in many areas including this one; however, Wiki discussions should be conducted on centos-docs. Please post there. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 05:33 PM: > Is there some way for yum to know about that? Only if it errors out on a bad package. There have been (to my knowledge) two different types of errors. One was a truncated package on the mirrors that was damaged in transit from the build system. The

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: ... > The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my > web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since > this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669963 You

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:56 PM: > In a standard install? I'll look, but don't remember that option. It is present, but easy to overlook. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote on 04/08/2011 02:32 PM: > I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When > I get to the point > of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and > also make > sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I clic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: .. > What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at > the end of the install, use or whatever to get to another screen, > then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or > not, but mount your /boot on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: > Why force people to burn two disks when they > would only need one? You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot of time answering the newbies on the foru

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
William Hooper wrote on 04/08/2011 03:50 PM: > Forgive me if I've missed it mentioned, but it looks like the option > is only being removed from the LiveCD. Using the netinstall.iso is > still available and would be a more efficient way of doing network > installs anyway (9.5M vs 685M). Precisely

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 02:27 PM: > None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - > which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices > unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as > the server. Agreed. In my mind tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: > Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. > (Why not, as a matter of interest?) Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having i

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: > Hi > > CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently been fixed. ... > I realise this description is kind of a tangle

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timothy Murphy wrote on 03/28/2011 07:24 PM: > However, when I go towww.centos.org and click on > Downloads=>Mirrors=>CentOS-5 ISOs=>x86_64 Go to Downloads / Mirrors / Mirror List And look at the column headed "Direct DVD Downloads". Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
Larry Vaden wrote on 01/30/2011 08:41 PM: ... > With apologies for replying to my own post, the final solution > (possibly regarded as draconian and puerile by others) which seemed to > work to return to a consistent state was to download Oracle R5U6 and > invoke 'rpm -ivh' following some rpm which

Re: [CentOS] what happened to the status

2011-01-04 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jerry Geis wrote on 01/04/2011 09:21 AM: > Hey - back to work today and just noticed the last status update for > release 6 ( http://twitter.com/centos ) was way back on Dec 1. Closest I have seen to a later status update is at http://twitter.com/kbsingh > Everyone have a Great New Year! :)

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Markandeya wrote on 12/24/2010 07:57 AM: ... > "do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, > you lose the whole volume?" > > Can anyone confirm this? Yes. > 2: can you add(extend) a physical hdd with data to a LV without losing the > data? No. > 3: can you remove on

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ryan Manikowski wrote on 10/11/2010 07:49 PM: ... > One method to obscure the presence of the ssh daemon would be to use > port knocking: > > http://dotancohen.com/howto/portknocking.html Somehow I suspect the OP may have seen that one. :-D Phil ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Keller wrote on 10/12/2010 06:35 PM: > Somewhat related to this, does anybody know (or have links to) what > work, if any, is happening with the yum security plugin? The only > information I could find was some posts from Karanbir from last year, > basically saying it was a low priority beca

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