[CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait > > for 3.0? > > Sorry to jump in, but where is that you saw Red Hat saying "there is > nothing _improved_ in FF2"?! I suppose RHEL5 doesn't have FF2 because

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there >> rpms? I did not find anything over at ATrpms. > > There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean > rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?

[CentOS] Re: Trying to understand Suspend 2

2007-06-15 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am trying to understand Suspend 2 and what I have to do to get it > working in Centos 5. There is quite a bit for it at ATrpms: > > http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/hibernate-suspend2/ > http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/kernel-sus

[CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build. > > So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. > > Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing > improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I have

[CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I am going to build an email server on Centos for a small, private group of users and I just want to encrypt all communications between that server and the (remote) email clients of those users (or they browsers, when they use webmail). Client certificates are not necessary, at least now.

[CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? thanks T. Hiep ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait for 3.0? Sorry to jump in, but where is that you saw Red Hat saying "there is nothing _improved_ in FF2"?! When I was googling for any rpms, I found a number of threads on the subject. It COULD

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> I have found this to be a frustrating 'option' Even when I > shutdown FF2 cleanly, when I start it (even after rebooting > the system), it trys to resume my sessions... Tools -> Options -> Main -> Startup. Under "When Firefox starts", change from "Show my windows and tabs from last time" t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Axel Thimm wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build. So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait for 3.0? (

Re: [CentOS] Re: Trying to understand Suspend 2

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
OK. some follow-on questions. Axel Thimm wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am trying to understand Suspend 2 and what I have to do to get it working in Centos 5. There is quite a bit for it at ATrpms: http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/hibernate-suspe

Re: [CentOS] Unable to Compile a LAN Card Driver on Centos4.4

2007-06-15 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> mach_mpspec.h: No such file or directory Shouldn't the Makefile have added something like this? CFLAGS += -I$(KSRC)/include/asm-i386/mach-generic But as long as it's 8139-based, shouldn't it be supported out of the box? R-C Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving

Re: [CentOS] Unable to Compile a LAN Card Driver on Centos4.4

2007-06-15 Thread Joebstl Thomas
As the readme states the driver is for 2.4/2.5 and not for 2.6 kernels. It is a 8139 - but not a rEAltek one but a rSltek one - whatever company that might be. Google finds a few kernel patches/drivers for that card but before going that road I'd shell out another 4$ for a real rEAltek 8139...

Re: [CentOS] Unable to Compile a LAN Card Driver on Centos4.4

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
ankush grover wrote: Hi Friends, I recently purchased a LAN Card and the LAN Card CD contains drivers for Linux. But when I am trying to compile the driver on Centos4.4 I am getting below errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sc92031]# make * sc92031.o built for 2.6.9-42.EL S

RE: [CentOS] BQ/CentOS port forwarding

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Veale
Thanks Robert, I have a Terminal Services Server that will be behind the inside interface, I need to forward hits on port 3389 eth1 to an IP address behind eth0. Richard Veale -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Th

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Marco Fioretti wrote: Hello, I am going to build an email server on Centos for a small, private group of users and I just want to encrypt all communications between that server and the (remote) email clients of those users (or they browsers, when they use webmail). Clien

[CentOS] Re: installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? thanks T. Hiep $ rpm -qi centos-release Name : centos-release Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5 Vendor: CentOS Release : 0.0.el5.

[CentOS] autofs/mount error

2007-06-15 Thread joseph tacuyan
Howdy, Perhaps somebody here has a clue, i got this error via autofs mount and manual mounting as root: automount[30856]: >> mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak been looking on google and seen this thread http://toasters.mathworks.com/toasters/7215.html but unf

[CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
Since CentOS 4 turned out to be short on supporting my sound card, I picked up a the DVD for 5. I have been running 4 on this PC fine though. The install hangs in "Checking dependencies in packages selected for installation..." with the bar at 3/4 or so. I thought this was because I took the offe

Re: [CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread centos . users
On Friday 15 June 2007 12:55, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos > installed? One way would be to check the creation time of the install.log or upgrade.log in /root (providing you haven't deleted them). ls -lc --time-style=full-iso /root/*.l

Re: [CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 12:55, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? One way would be to check the creation time of the install.log or upgrade.log in /root (providing you haven't deleted

Re: [CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: On 6/15/07, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? rpm -qa --last | tail -n 1 This will give you the first package installed and the time it was installed, which should be th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/15/07, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The install hangs in "Checking dependencies in packages selected for > installation..." with the bar at 3/4 or so. I thought this was because > I took the offer to upgrade my CentOS 4 installation, but it hangs at > the same spot for

Re: [CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/15/07, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? rpm -qa --last | tail -n 1 This will give you the first package installed and the time it was installed, which should be the date the system was stood up. -- Durin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> The install hangs in "Checking dependencies in packages selected for > installation..." with the bar at 3/4 or so. I thought this was because > I took the offer to upgrade my CentOS 4 installation, but it hangs at > the same spot for a new install, even when I do not tamper with the > selected pa

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 06:32:42 AM -0700, Paul Heinlein > You don't need a CA to create a single self-signed certificate. I see. Actually, this is just one of those things that is not clear at all from the online docs I found. > >1) cd /usr/share/ssl > >2) modify openssl.cnf to have your Common Na

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> Can one ever be patient enough :-) But I had lunch, walked the dog > and left it sitting there for several hours. Took a few minutes to get > to 3/4 or the bar, and then it sat there for hours. Oh my! You have been too patient! (I guess it's the dog.) Have you looked into the consoles 2 to 8, t

[CentOS] re: installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread James B. Byrne
Message: 36 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:55:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CentOS] installed centos date & time To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > hi list, is there a command to find out the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:09:30AM -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > Can one ever be patient enough :-) But I had lunch, walked the dog > > and left it sitting there for several hours. Took a few minutes to get > > to 3/4 or the bar, and then it sat there for hours. > > Oh my! You have been

[CentOS] Re: Trying to understand Suspend 2

2007-06-15 Thread Axel Thimm
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:32AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/hibernate-suspend2/ > >>http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/kernel-suspend2/ > I ASSuME there is nothing there that is RH specific and can be used with > Centos. Afterall, I HAVE been doing this for m

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: 1) Run openssl req \ -x509 -nodes -days 365 \ -subj '/C=US/ST=Oregon/L=Portland/CN=www.madboa.com' \ -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem this would be the one-command version of running CA -newreq -nodes, after placing the right va

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 6/15/07, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The install hangs in "Checking dependencies in packages selected for > installation..." with the bar at 3/4 or so. I thought this was because > I took the offer to upgrade my CentOS 4 in

Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than the user (alpha) on the ps command. The /etc/passwd file shows: theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid: 500 9041 8864 0 11:20 pts/100:00:00 p

[CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-15 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than the user (alpha) on the ps command. The /etc/passwd file shows: theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid: 500 9041 8864 0 11:20 pts/100:00:00 ps -ef Allother act

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/15/07, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh my! You have been too patient! (I guess it's the dog.) Have you looked into the consoles 2 to 8, to see if it's really frozen? I decided to run the text mode installer and that worked fine. And it even installed gnome so I just ha

Re: [CentOS] re: installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Quoting "James B. Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Message: 36 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:55:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CentOS] installed centos date & time To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flow

RE: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-15 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
That's what it was...didn't realize that. Thanks! Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr.Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 > -Original Mes

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:05 -0600, Craig Van Ham wrote: > Why isn’t there a server ISO for Centos 5.0 > > Because this stuff takes time to design and build and I need to do the job I get paid for SINCE noone will donate money to the CentOS Project and I have to eat? > signature.asc Descri

[CentOS] Freemind 0.8 problems on Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just installed my rpms I bulit and scarfted for Freemind 0.8 on Centos 4.x on my Centos 5.0 system. I referenced all the proper 5.0 repos. But No keyboard control (oh, Freemind is a platform independent Java applet). That is , , , etc do NOTHING. The long node format does not displa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread Ken Key
Johnny Hughes wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:05 -0600, Craig Van Ham wrote: Why isn’t there a server ISO for Centos 5.0 Because this stuff takes time to design and build and I need to do the job I get paid for SINCE noone will donate money to the CentOS Project and I have to eat? Hi Joh

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:05 -0600, Craig Van Ham > wrote: > > Why isn’t there a server ISO for Centos 5.0 > > > > > > Because this stuff takes time to design and build > and I need to do the > job I get paid for SINCE noone will donate money t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Trying to understand Suspend 2

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Axel Thimm wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:32AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/hibernate-suspend2/ http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/kernel-suspend2/ Yeah, I gathered something is afoot. I have 2.6.18-8.1.4. But when I included the ATrpms repo, it

[CentOS] Re: installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: rpm -qi centos-release showed dates well beyond when I knew I installed the system. Probably because you "installed" Centos 4.4 as an upgrade. The install timestamp for centos-release would be the time of the upgrade, not the time o

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread Jay Leafey
I have a strong aversion to re-inventing the wheel, so I usually use the Makefile provided with the openssl package in RH/CentOS to create self-signed certs. Under CentOS 5 it is located in /etc/pki/tls/certs, under CentOS 4 it is in /usr/share/ssl/certs. First, change your working directory

RE: [CentOS] BQ/CentOS port forwarding

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Veale
I tried to set up IPtables for it using: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 3389 -j DNAT \ --to 10.0.0.100 but the 'to' statement does not seem to work on my CentOS box and every time I do anything to IPtables my DNS blows up. Richard -Original Message- From: [E

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack table filling up, dropping packets

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Calizo
Hi Michelson, I have that problem also on one of my FW box. What i did is i created a cronjob that reload the iptables rule. In this case you dont drop any connections and you dont need to reboot your box. So far its working on our production deployed FW. Note: You need to find out how frequent y

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack table filling up, dropping packets

2007-06-15 Thread Matt Shields
If your server isn't having a problem, then why not bump up the conntrack number? I've bumped mine up to 2097152. I can't remember where, but I remember reading a pdf article on iptables and how many connections a specific server with X amount of CPU's and X amount of memory can handle. [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 hung while "Checking dependencies..."

2007-06-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/15/07, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I decided to run the text mode installer and that worked fine. And it even installed gnome so I just had to modify /etc/inittab While the system has nothing customized on it yet, would there be value in trying something to understand why

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack table filling up, dropping packets

2007-06-15 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On 6/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, my ip_conntrack table is filling up and now my server is dropping packets. I'm running CentOS release 4.4 (Final) on a fairly busy webserver. The table is full of various connections, including a lot of "ESTABLISHED" tcp connections f

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 15:21:31 PM -0500, Jay Leafey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a strong aversion to re-inventing the wheel, Me too, unless when it's a hidden wheel. Fact is, this is the *first* time I hear mention of this approach. See my original comments about SSL being one of the worst

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread P Marvin Eberly
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:13 -0700, Ken Key wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:05 -0600, Craig Van Ham wrote: > >> Why isn’t there a server ISO for Centos 5.0 > >> > >> > > > > Because this stuff takes time to design and build and I need to do the > > job I get paid for S

Re: [CentOS] which commands do you use to SSL certify your own server?

2007-06-15 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
M. Fioretti wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 15:21:31 PM -0500, Jay Leafey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a strong aversion to re-inventing the wheel, Me too, unless when it's a hidden wheel. Fact is, this is the *first* time I hear mention of this approach. See my original comments abo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-15 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Saturday 16 Jun 2007, Ken Key wrote: >     thanks for the reminder - I've been meaning to make a personal > donation.  I just clicked on the US$ donate link on the CentOS.org page > and got from www.paypal.com: > > The CentOS Project > > Return to Merchant > > (Warning-sign) This recipient is cu

[CentOS] Re: [hylafax-users] Having problems running sendfax from a bash script.

2007-06-15 Thread John Warren
I've been working on a way to send faxes from a bash script. It requires changing what parameters are used for each command. I keep having problems with quoted strings passed to the command. I've created a really short test script which fails on my system. commandline="sendfax -f [EMAIL PROT

[CentOS] antivirus

2007-06-15 Thread Wayne
Hey Guys, We have a central server which runs centos, most of the client machines run on windows. Does anybody know of a solution whereby we can manage antivirus for all the clients from the centos server? I know there are management consoles for managing antivirus on windows but we dont want to

[CentOS] Trying to build rpm-package

2007-06-15 Thread jarmo
I have weird problem. I'll try to build rpm-package from Brian Lane's Digitemp. Everything seems to go OK, but. Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50782 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd digitemp-3.5.0 + install -d -m 755 /var/tmp/digitemp-buildroot/usr/local/bin/ + ins

Re: [CentOS] antivirus

2007-06-15 Thread jarmo
Wayne kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 16. kesäkuuta 2007 06:33): > Anybody have any ideas? Or are we just screwed and need to have a windows > server for this? > > Thanks, > Wayne Look: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2688 Jarmo ___

[CentOS] CentOS5: Loss of Prompt & Cursor in Virtual Console Mode

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Thompson
When I log into a virtual console (e.g.,#4) as ordinary user, I initially have a prompt & cursor. I then do several ls -l /home/user-name and several lines of data. If the number of lines is less than it takes to fill the screen, I will retain the prompt & cursor. If the number of lines (result