Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Feizhou
Les Mikesell wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide this. But people may want _both_ the stable pa

Re: [CentOS] Linux File System w/case-insensitivity

2007-08-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Akemi Yagi wrote: > For the case sensitibity, use of cifs would be better. You indicated > some sort of a password problem. How about this article? It says > "sent by Ralph Angenendt" (yes, a main CentOS member). > > http://www.x-tend.be/~fred/howtos/samba3.html#13 Strange how stuff always com

[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:17:00PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > >You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast > >than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a > >single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot prov

[CentOS] Re: Lost file associations, too - urgent

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 18:48 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I just returned from a week's vacation and brought my CentOS 5.0 > system back up, updated it, and somehow it has lost all the .doc file > associations. These used to be associated with the OpenOffice writer, > but that's now gone. ACt

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5

2007-08-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 7/31/07, Indunil Jayasooriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running CentOS5 . Yum pkg was installed by deault fresh installation. > > pls see below for installed yum pkgs. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa |grep yum > yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2 > yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2 > >

Re: [CentOS] Me llega mucho spammmmm

2007-08-01 Thread gjgowey
Depends where you want to stop it. You can get an appliance that will filter your mail and not have the spam filtering affect your machine. You can stop it at the MTA level using something like spam assassin. Or you could get a client with built in antispam features like Thunderbird. Sent fr

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1

2007-08-01 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Ham Radio s/w and CentOS? {including Echolink}

2007-08-01 Thread Mailing LIsts
On 31 July 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I am going to present Linux to my ham radio club at some point in the > next few months, and wanted to collect info on ham radio software, > including options for echolink. Not sure about echolink. > Also, anyone know of a live-on-CD/DVD CentOS distributio

[CentOS] Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

2007-08-01 Thread Balaji
Hi All, Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.? One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while using RH 7.2. This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in CentOS. Is there an alternate (correct) syntax or

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Feizhou wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide this. But people may want _bot

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5

2007-08-01 Thread Mailing LIsts
On 01 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pls note that I need to download and install all the upfdates > automaticallyas I have installed > yum-protectbase. On this URL: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories it says: > Note: You should seriously consider using the Prio

RE: [CentOS] Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

2007-08-01 Thread Drew Weaver
We have all of the disk tools (seatools, etc) on the same PXE loader that we use to do our kickstarts, so we simply use the disktools from the manufacturer to test the drives before kickstarting a system. If you tell me what manufacturer's HDs you use I can email you a .img file for their parti

[CentOS] centOS query

2007-08-01 Thread simon
Dear All I have jus migrated to centos 5 and jus wondering why n where this problem could be server A which is running for the past 2 years used as my primary dns and mail server redhat linux 8 sendmail ver-8.12.5-7 bind ver -9.2.1-9 since the server is old and is prone to all security problem

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: > Feizhou wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > > > > You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast > > > > than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a > > > > single repository (w

RE: [CentOS] Ham Radio s/w and CentOS? {including Echolink}

2007-08-01 Thread Aron . Darling
www.ac6v.com Has tons of software and other great HAM information. I currently run QSSTV on my Linux laptop along with some other Linux goodies. I have not looked into echolink but am sure the code is out there somewhere. 73s, Aron kg6ejp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

[CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Silva
Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 7/31/2007 6:19 PM: > For some reason, when I try to print any graphic PDF (or a PS file made > from said graphic), it kills my Minolta 1100 laser printer, and I have > to cancel the job, disable the printer and turn the printer off and on > as many times as

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread John Plemons
Have you checked for driver up dates for the printer?? Could be the issue... john Scott Silva wrote: Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 7/31/2007 6:19 PM: For some reason, when I try to print any graphic PDF (or a PS file made from said graphic), it kills my Minolta 1

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread John Plemons
One other thing, printer settings, and also is it only with this PDF file, or all?? If it is just this PDF then it could be a bad conversion... john Scott Silva wrote: Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 7/31/2007 6:19 PM: For some reason, when I try to print any graphic P

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Dag Wieers wrote: I cannot see how it is possible to install both the stable package and current package. How many kernel packages do you have installed? All it takes is to not write the same-named file in the same place as the other package. In some cases there are practical problems where a

[CentOS] Re: centOS query

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Silva
simon spake the following on 8/1/2007 7:10 AM: > Dear All > > I have jus migrated to centos 5 and jus wondering why n where this problem > could be > > > server A which is running for the past 2 years used as my primary dns and > mail server > > redhat linux 8 > sendmail ver-8.12.5-7 > bind ver

[CentOS] Partnership with CentOS for commercial support

2007-08-01 Thread 김정규
Hello, My name is Jeongkyu Kim and I am working for Korea Linux Center, mid-size Korean company specialized in developing Linux server & desktop distributions from 2002. Our main focus of sales is public sector such as government agencies and public schools. Recently, we made a decision that furt

RE: [CentOS] Partnership with CentOS for commercial support

2007-08-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You can find out about the project and it's members at www.centos.org. I believe Lance Davis is the project leader, it's a non-affiliated project dedicated to providing an exact duplicate of the upstream vendor's enterprise product. Best thing your company can do to ensure it's success and lo

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
See that link (http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos) at the bottom of these emails? Click on it and follow the instructions. -matt On 8/1/07, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > cd any one plss let me know how to subscribe to sendmail mailing lists.. > > i am not able t

[CentOS] CentOS things to mod for VMware server

2007-08-01 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server. Anything I should consider before doing so? (e.g. stuff to disable, kernel tweaks, etc) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread simon
Dear All, cd any one plss let me know how to subscribe to sendmail mailing lists.. i am not able to do it apprecite n thanks regards simon -- Network Administrator ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS things to mod for VMware server

2007-08-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On 8/1/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server. > Anything I should consider before doing so? See http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 There's some good info in there. Beyond that, disable/remove stuff you're not using. Keep your virtual

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Bergman
Matt Shields wrote: See that link (http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos) at the bottom of these emails? Click on it and follow the instructions. Assuming that what simon is asking is how to interact with the sendmail mailing list, here is the google groups gateway to the newsgrou

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Bergman
Matt Shields wrote: Oops, used to seeing "how do I unsubscribe" and fired off a response. My apologies. I figured. ;-) Simon. Please tell us if we have not answered your question. We will help you get where you want to go. :-) -Steve ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
Oops, used to seeing "how do I unsubscribe" and fired off a response. My apologies. -matt On 8/1/07, Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: > > See that link (http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos) at the > > bottom of these emails? Click on it and follow the in

[CentOS] thnaks for ur replis guys

2007-08-01 Thread simon
dear Guys, i do said at the start for my apology.. i am already subcribe to centOS mailing list ... hence i cd post to centos mailing list.. i asked my apology since i pst a query about how to SUBSCRIBE TO SENDMAIL USERS MAILING LIST... can anybody pls help me regards simon >

[CentOS] Re: need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Silva
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams spake the following on 8/1/2007 12:33 PM: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:21 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: >> Simon. Please tell us if we have not answered your question. We will >> help you get where you want to go. :-) > > Uh, guys... he's asking how to subscribe. Which means

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:21 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > Simon. Please tell us if we have not answered your question. We will > help you get where you want to go. :-) Uh, guys... he's asking how to subscribe. Which means he's not already subscribed. Which means he's not seeing your responses.

Re: [CentOS] need help.. n do apolosize

2007-08-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 8/1/07, Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: > > See that link (http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos) at the > > bottom of these emails? Click on it and follow the instructions. > > > > > Assuming that what simon is asking is how to interact with the sendmai

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:04 PM +0200 Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the kernel there is a lot of specialized logic to make it work. Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but again that requires sp

RE: [CentOS] thnaks for ur replis guys -- sendmail list

2007-08-01 Thread James D. Parra
Hello Simon, I hope you'll find what you need here; http://www.sendmail.org/misc/email-addresses.php James PS. Sorry for top posting. -Original Message- From: simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] thnaks for

[CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5?

2007-08-01 Thread Michael St. Laurent
Is there not a separate SMP kernel for multi-processor systems in CentOS-5? I don't see one in the repository. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5?

2007-08-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 8/1/07, Michael St. Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there not a separate SMP kernel for multi-processor systems in CentOS-5? > I don't see one in the repository. All CentOS 5 kernels are smp. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:04 PM +0200 Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the kernel there is a lot of specialized logic to make it work. Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 8/1/07, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the printer have enough memory to render a full page at whatever output > resolution you are using? > Ithas 4MB on board memory. The PDFs I have been unable to print range from 1/2MB to 3MB, none larger, but I'm not sure that answers the que

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 8/1/07, John Plemons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One other thing, printer settings, and also is it only with this PDF file, > or all?? If it is just this PDF then it could be a bad conversion... > > john > > > Scott Silva wrote: >Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 7/31/2007 6:1

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:04 PM +0200 Dag Wieers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> For the kernel there is a lot of specialized logic to > >> make it work. > > > > Another example is Fedora's alterna

[CentOS] Re: VMWare hiccup on CentOS 5, 2.6.18-8.1.8

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 18:45 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > For reasons which escape me, my VMWare Server, which was working > perfectly a week ago when I shut down my machine for vacation, no > loner comes up with the formerly working Windows XP system - it just > stays in the small window where

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy Selivanow wrote: Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but again that requires specialized logic. Question: how many levels of symlinks-pointing-to-symlinks does it take to get to the right place? And having su

RE: [CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5?

2007-08-01 Thread Michael St. Laurent
That explains it then, thank you. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] No separate SMP kernel for CentOS-5? On 8/1/07, Michael St. Laurent <[E

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Timothy Selivanow wrote: > >>> Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, > >>> allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but again that requires > >>> specialized logic. > >> Question: how many levels of symlin

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:08PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Question: how many levels of symlinks-pointing-to-symlinks does it take > to get to the right place? And having supplied this number of symlinks, > how can a user choose to execute one version of java while someone else > prefers t

[CentOS] virtual hdd problems when CentOS is guest OS

2007-08-01 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I recently installed VMware on CentOS 4.4 (using the single server CD). I installed VMware fine, and then installed the VMware-mui tools that allow me to use a Windows box to console to the server. From my Windows box, I can create VMs on the fly just fine. Interestingly, I can create virtual Deb

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Feizhou
Les Mikesell wrote: Feizhou wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide this. But

[CentOS] Re: virtual hdd problems when CentOS is guest OS

2007-08-01 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
On 8/1/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly, I can create virtual Debian boxes ok, but I can't > create virtual CentOS boxes. What might I be missing? As soon as I > boot to the iso, it says something about not being able to find the > drive. Interestingly, the way I "f

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:08PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Question: how many levels of symlinks-pointing-to-symlinks does it take to get to the right place? And having supplied this number of symlinks, how can a user choose to execute one version of java while someon

[CentOS] about add/remove software

2007-08-01 Thread beast
In the documentation, it says that add/remove software is use only to install from CD drive[1]. However this program refuse to run when no internet connection, why not just prompt for the installation media? assuming everybody has fast internet connection was too optimistic. 1. So what is the cor

[CentOS] xorg version

2007-08-01 Thread beast
A quick question. how do i know the version of xorg server? rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-server gives 1.1.x which is not correct. --beast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Petr \"Qaxi\" Klíma
Les Mikesell napsal(a): Correct, you would think Fedora took care of this, right ? But there is no interest for Fedora to take care of that because they want to be the only repository. It is not something they have an incentive for to fix. That is exactly the problem. The repotag would be a

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Petr "Qaxi" Klíma wrote: Les Mikesell napsal(a): Correct, you would think Fedora took care of this, right ? But there is no interest for Fedora to take care of that because they want to be the only repository. It is not something they have an incentive for to fix. That is exactly the probl

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Petr \"Qaxi\" Klíma
Diversity adds a lot of value. If EPEL will be only repo nobody on RHEL workstation can see/listen MP3, WMA, DVD playing, because of interesting US software patent and millenium act law. That's not what I meant. Obviously we need additional packages in other repositories and that will be tr

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-08-01 Thread Feizhou
That's not what I meant. Obviously we need additional packages in other repositories and that will be true as long as there is any policy that might exclude any contribution to a centrally managed repository. The question is, why do we need/want different versions of the same-named packages