[CentOS] kickstart and remote logging

Hi, does anaconda C4/5 support remote logging during the install? (logging --host=ip) Thanks, David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

On Thursday 06 March 2008 01:57:24 Alex wrote: > I was able to go to www.webmin.com and download the rpm file and install > I am using centos 5 I also was not able to install using yum but this > worked for me You needed 'yum localinstall' and the full path to the stored rpm. Just for another ti

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 4:35pm, Robert Moskowitz wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On F7, I did the whole config manually (I don't use any DE, so I tend to have to do things this way) -- including editing /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 to have the correct ESSID an

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3

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[CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

Hi, I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? Thanks, Ugo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

Hiep Nguyen wrote: > what about openssl. > > yum search openssl and found a lot, but > > yum install openssl, nothing install. > > is it possible to install openssl using yum??? Yes. And it probably already is installed. How about reading some documentation? should ke

Re: [CentOS] 5.0 -> 5.1

Ashley M. Kirchner escribió: Jim Perrin wrote: If you've been running yum update, you're already at 5.1. You may just need to reboot to load the new kernel. Nope, I don't run yum. I do manual updates. So I've rsynced the updates to a local drives, and then ran rpm against them. There's

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ross Cavanagh wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, how do i install webmin using yum? i tried: yum search webmin, but not found. it must be on a different repos. what repos do i need to add to see this package. thanks t. hiep wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/weba

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008/3/6, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Hi Ugo > I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or > HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? > Self-teaching in a home lab? > > Thanks, > > Ugo I recommend you installing OpenSolari

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:00:00PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > what about openssl. > > > > yum search openssl and found a lot, but > > > > yum install openssl, nothing install. > > > > is it possible to install openssl using yum??? > > Yes. > > And it probably already is installed.

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and remote logging

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:55:41AM +0100, David Hrbá? enlightened us: > does anaconda C4/5 support remote logging during the install? (logging > --host=ip) I believe 5 does, but 4 does not. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

I recommend you installing OpenSolaris in a virtual or physical machine and build a labor environment. Yes. Buy study guides for Solaris certified System, Network and Security Administrator (for Solaris 10 boxes). OpenSolaris is released under an OSI approved license and pretty innovative.

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

Ralph Angenendt wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: what about openssl. yum search openssl and found a lot, but yum install openssl, nothing install. is it possible to install openssl using yum??? Yes. And it probably already is installed. How about reading some documentation?

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:00:00PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: what about openssl. yum search openssl and found a lot, but yum install openssl, nothing install. is it possible to install openssl using yum??? Yes. And it probably already is

Re: [CentOS] 5.0 -> 5.1

Martin Marques wrote: If you've been running yum update, you're already at 5.1. You may just need to reboot to load the new kernel. Nope, I don't run yum. I do manual updates. So I've rsynced the updates to a local drives, and then ran rpm against them. There's something about runnin

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and remote logging

Matt Hyclak napsal(a): I believe 5 does, but 4 does not. Matt I do believe so. :o( I need it for C4. David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

Christopher Chan wrote: I recommend you installing OpenSolaris in a virtual or physical machine and build a labor environment. Yes. Buy study guides for Solaris certified System, Network and Security Administrator (for Solaris 10 boxes). OpenSolaris is released under an OSI approved licens

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? in addition to the other suggestions, i recommend a copy of Evi Nemeth's "U

[CentOS] /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible

Hi Centos Users I try to compile SNMPPD (SNMP Proxy Daemon) on Centos 5.1 x86_64 with latest patches. Dependencies (like libsplit, net-snmp-libs, net-snmp-devel, net-snmp-libs) are installed, both 32 and 64 Bit. # rpmbuild -tb snmppd-0.5.2.tar.gz [...] Making all in snmppd make[2]: Entering direc

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 04:47 -0800, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ross Cavanagh wrote: > > > Hiep Nguyen wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> how do i install webmin using yum? > >> > >> i tried: yum search webmin, but not found. > >> > >> it must be on a different repos. what repos do i nee

Re: [CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Oh, great, any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX) If I were you, I would forget about AIX at least at the beginning until you are solid with Solaris and HP-UX. Yes, it has good market share, but it is too different from everything els

[CentOS] Keeping machines online

I am using centos 5.1. I want to keep my machines always powered on. Some machines (important ones) are UPS'd. I have also set in the BIOS (gigabyte motherboard) the power options that after power loss should do a full on. The other day we had just a momentary power drop. the UPS machines had no

Re: [CentOS] Keeping machines online

Need to do that in the BIOS BIOS setting for Power and set it to wake on LAN or there could be other options. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using centos 5.1. I want to keep my machines always powered on. > Some machines (important ones) are UPS'd.

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

Les Mikesell wrote: > > I think it is kind of dumb that an explict "yum install " gives the > same "nothing to do" response and doesn't distinguish between "" is > already installed" and " doesn't exist, you probably misspelled it". True ... Cheers, Ralph pgpR7Q9oU0eAt.pgp Descri

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

I'm a big proponent of self teaching. In the IT field, it's usually hard to get an employer to pay for training, so if one isn't willing to self teach, it's hard to advance. Use user reviews on Amazon to get feedback on what books are good for learning a specific operating system. There's no s

Re: [CentOS] Keeping machines online

Jerry Geis wrote: I am using centos 5.1. I want to keep my machines always powered on. Some machines (important ones) are UPS'd. I have also set in the BIOS (gigabyte motherboard) the power options that after power loss should do a full on. The other day we had just a momentary power drop. the

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

Steve Huff wrote: On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? in addition to the other suggestions, i recommend a copy

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

Peter Arremann wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: Oh, great, any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX) If I were you, I would forget about AIX at least at the beginning until you are solid with Solaris and HP-UX. Yes, it has good market share, but it is too diffe

Re: [CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Ok, what about opensolaris? Is OpenSolaris is the development branch of Solaris. Things like Project Indiana make it look a lot less like Solaris 9 and before do. Everything that is in Solaris 10 is in OpenSolaris plus a lot more - new package m

Re: [CentOS] install webmin

Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:00:00PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: what about openssl. yum search openssl and found a lot, but yum install openssl, nothing install. is it possible to install openssl using yum??? Yes. And it probably already is installed. How about

[CentOS] xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis for Freemind?

I am working on installing Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) on my new notebook. And it is not working... I downloaded all the rpms and put them into my local repo, enabled the jpackages repos then, well here is what is happening: yum install freemind* jca

Re: [CentOS] /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:48:04PM +0100, Simon Jolle alleged: > Hi Centos Users > > I try to compile SNMPPD (SNMP Proxy Daemon) on Centos 5.1 x86_64 with > latest patches. Dependencies (like libsplit, net-snmp-libs, > net-snmp-devel, net-snmp-libs) are installed, both 32 and 64 Bit. > > # rpmbui

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX -- The Rosetta Stone for UNIX

> Hi, > > I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or > HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? > Self-teaching in a home lab? Hello, here's an interesting resource, though more on the "surviving guide" side ;-) http://www.bhami.com/rosetta

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? note that those three are /completely/ different from each other, especialyl when it comes to admin

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX -- The Rosetta Stone for UNIX

--- Vincent Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering what would be the best way to > learn AIX, Solaris, or > > HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? > Books? Courses? > > Self-teaching in a home lab? > > Hello, > > here's an interesting resource, though

[CentOS] Re: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible

on 3-6-2008 6:48 AM Simon Jolle spake the following: Hi Centos Users I try to compile SNMPPD (SNMP Proxy Daemon) on Centos 5.1 x86_64 with latest patches. Dependencies (like libsplit, net-snmp-libs, net-snmp-devel, net-snmp-libs) are installed, both 32 and 64 Bit. Try and remove the 32 bit libs

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog repo?

I'm pretty keen on trying out rsyslog. So I added Karanbir's repo... or I tried. I still can't find rsyslog. fwiw, I poked around http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/stable/x86_64/RPMS/ and I couldn't find _any_ rpms. Is it me or is the repo offline? [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]# cat kbs.repo

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog repo?

Milton Calnek wrote: I'm pretty keen on trying out rsyslog. So I added Karanbir's repo... or I tried. I still can't find rsyslog. fwiw, I poked around http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/stable/x86_64/RPMS/ and I couldn't find _any_ rpms. As mentioned, it's in testing, not stable: http://centos

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog repo?

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty keen on trying out rsyslog. > So I added Karanbir's repo... or I tried. > > I still can't find rsyslog. > fwiw, I poked around http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/stable/x86_64/RPMS/ > and I couldn't find _any

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or > HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? > Self-teaching in a home lab? > I found that the best way for me was

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog repo?

--- Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty keen on trying out rsyslog. > So I added Karanbir's repo... or I tried. > > I still can't find rsyslog. > fwiw, I poked around > http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/stable/x86_64/RPMS/ > and I couldn't find _any_ rpms. > > Is it me or is

[CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. background, I've recovered a few 1000 MP3 files off a dying disk drive for a radio station, some of the other files I recovered had several K byte long b

Re: [CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:47 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something > that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. > > background, I've recovered a few 1000 MP3 files off a dying disk drive > for a radio stati

Re: [CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John R Pierce wrote: > I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something > that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. Peek at checkmate: http://checkmate.linuxonly.nl/ Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

Erek Dyskant wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:47 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. Have a look at mp3val...http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/ perfect

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog repo?

Johnny Tan wrote: I'm definitely all for stable, non-broken software even if it lags behind -- even way behind. in the case of rsyslog, thats not the case :D I had a play with the 3.x tree today, and it *looks* ok to me. So might as well inflict it upon everyone else considering its in the Te

[CentOS] Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only allows hardware striping or mirr

Re: [CentOS] Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major > catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make > the > user who needed some data happy. > > Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only >

[CentOS] Re: Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

on 3-6-2008 3:58 PM Scott R. Ehrlich spake the following: So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say

[CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

Hi, I just ran an install of OpenOffice 2.31 on Centos 5.1 using these instructions - http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/openoffice-fedora/index.html Install seemed to go fine until I finished and then tried to start up K writer and none of the OO apps will start up from the menu. even th

[CentOS] Perl-5.8.8-10 "use overload" backport breaks performance?

Hello, There is text in the documentation of Class::DBIx as follows: There is a problem with slow performance of certain DBIx::Class operations in perl-5.8.8-10 and later on RedHat and related systems, due to a bad backport of a "use overload" related bug. The problem is in the Perl binary itself

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:59:05 -0500 Therese Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install seemed to go fine until I finished and then tried to start up K writer K Writer? That sounds very much like Koffice, which is a completely different program than OpenOffice. You won't be able to use Koffice

[CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:10:48 -0500 > > > >> K Writer? That sounds very much like Koffice, which is a completely >> different >> program than OpenOf

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:13:01 -0500 Therese Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I type in ooffice I get "command not found", and when I type soffice I > > get "no suitable windowing system found, exiting." Disable selinux, as the article tells you to. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sas

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

>>> When I type in ooffice I get "command not found", and when I type soffice I >>> get "no suitable windowing system found, exiting." > > Disable selinux, as the article tells you to. Oh...I must not be seeing that in the article, I searched it and could not find that anywhere - seaarched fo

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:24:29 -0500 Therese Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh...I must not be seeing that in the article, I searched it and could not > find that anywhere - seaarched for disable and selinux. could you please > quote that part or indicate how I would do that? http://sysdig

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

> http://sysdigg.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-disable-selinux-in-centos-5.html OK I just disabled SeLinux and rebooted, still none of the OpenOffice applications will start. _ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need yo

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:49:27 -0500 Therese Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I just disabled SeLinux and rebooted, still none of the OpenOffice > applications will start. What happens when you type "ooffice" or "soffice" at a terminal window prompt? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

> What happens when you type "ooffice" or "soffice" at a terminal window prompt? Same as before - "command not found" and "no suitable windowing system found, exiting." _ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://w

[CentOS] LVM VG disappears after kernel upgrade on 5.1

I finally got 5.1 to boot after install (install couldn't keep the disk IDs from getting crossed up, so at reboot partitions were not where install said they would be). I needed to compile vmware and nvidia modules, but decided to upgrade first. Told yumex to upgrade everything. When I went

Re: [CentOS] LVM VG disappears after kernel upgrade on 5.1

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ted Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally got 5.1 to boot after install (install couldn't keep the disk IDs > from getting crossed up, so at reboot partitions were not where install > said they would be). > > I needed to compile vmware and nvidia modules,

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:03:33 -0500 Therese Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happens when you type "ooffice" or "soffice" at a terminal window > > prompt? > > Same as before - "command not found" and "no suitable windowing system found, > exiting." That's highly unusual, because I ha