Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-30 Thread Mail Administrator
Thnaks john, u gave me a grt idea .. the second one seems quite interestin but i do have to get additional HDD and mirror my existing server which has jus one disk thnks and regards simon > John R Pierce wrote: >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> The easiest way to make that happen is to use a produ

[CentOS] World Writable Files

2008-03-30 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm curious. Why are so many system-generated files world-writable? On my Mandriva laptop, every day I get warnings that world-writable files are found in /tmp, /far/lib/ /var/run/ and /var/spool, and every day msec reports that it has changed the mode of several files in /var/log/. Why are t

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-30 Thread Tony Molloy
On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:54:38 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My > user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing > for things backing up os and configs. > > Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 29/03/2008, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that sounds like the same error at all, my screen switches > off and depending on what is going on doesn't switch back on right away > (like that one time when some process didn't start up and I had to ssh > in to poke it) >

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-30 Thread Morten Nilsen
Alan Bartlett wrote: Then surely it comes down to an issue with either *your* video controller card or monitor. Please now try the obvious, follow scientific procedures and swap them out, one at a time. Clearly, it is a hardware problem and nothing to do with CentOS - unless you can convince m

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30/03/2008, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will first have to find a new vga card to try that.. > But I do know it isn't the monitor, as the three other boxes connected > to it never show this sort of behaviour.. > > I have found a way to provoke the flashes, by the way; > simply

[CentOS] Stange eth-device

2008-03-30 Thread jarmo
Anyone else seen this eth-device and what brings it up? [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ifconfig __tmp1192348344 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:AB:DD:2E:D1 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2094689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12

2008-03-30 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reac

Re: [CentOS] virtualbox on centos5.1 PAE

2008-03-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
Stephen Harris wrote: Quad core duo 2.4Ghz (Q6600) Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5PAE #1 SMP 4Gb RAM VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_rhel5-1.i586.rpm The package installed OK. I did KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5-i686 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup and the module compiles AOK. BUT... at modprobe

Re: [CentOS] virtualbox on centos5.1 PAE

2008-03-30 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:07:51AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > >Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5PAE #1 SMP > >KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5-i686 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup > > vboxdrv: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module > > > >Am I doing something st

[CentOS] Xen 3.2 x64 rpms?

2008-03-30 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all Does anyone know where I can get Xen 3.2 x64 rpm's? I see there are Xen 3.2 rpm's on the Xen downloads page for CentOS 5, but they're 32bit -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other t

[CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How does one do this? Also, is it possible an rpm installed by rpm and not yum does not indicate what it provides to yum when yum queries needed dependencies for another package? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How does one do this? > > Also, is it possible an rpm installed by rpm and not yum does not indicate > what it provides to yum when yum queries needed dependencies for another > package? > > Thanks! > jlc Not su

RE: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Not sure what you are aiming to do, but you can find all non-CentOS >packages by the command on this wiki: > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-0424f619b79e293fc743a39795b9805f1f73d249 > >Akemi Thats exactly what I need, is there a simple way to pipe the output into rpm or yum

Re: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:44:19AM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >Not sure what you are aiming to do, but you can find all non-CentOS > >packages by the command on this wiki: > > > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-0424f619b79e293fc743a39795b9805f1f73d249 > > > >Akemi > > Tha

RE: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>xargs is your friend. :-) Very nice! So how do I pass just the first string into it? The output is seperated by spaces,,, Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30/03/2008, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >xargs is your friend. :-) > > Very nice! So how do I pass just the first string into it? The output is > seperated by spaces,,, awk is also your friend. | awk '{ print $1 }' Alan. ___ Ce

RE: [CentOS] Remove all 3rd party rpms

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>awk is also your friend. > > | awk '{ print $1 }' > >Alan. Thanks everyone! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Help in troubleshoot cause of high kernel activity

2008-03-30 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well .. top says you have 4 processes running ... if that is consistent > (4 processes always in a run state) then you should be able to determine > the running processes with the command: > > ps -ef r > > (I think) > > I

Re: [CentOS] Xen 3.2 x64 rpms?

2008-03-30 Thread Tom Brown
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all Does anyone know where I can get Xen 3.2 x64 rpm's? I see there are Xen 3.2 rpm's on the Xen downloads page for CentOS 5, but they're 32bit please see my response to you on the kickstart list and also the responses on the Xen list _

Re: [CentOS] Sound card problem

2008-03-30 Thread David G. Miller
"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 21:57 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > I came into an Abit AX8 motherboard and single core AMD Athlon 64 FX. I > did a quick install of CentOS 5.0 on it to make sure everything worked > and then returned the hard disk and cas

Re: [CentOS] Stange eth-device

2008-03-30 Thread Adam Breaux
It's a normal eth device without a corresponding ifcfg-ethX config...for example, if you have 4 nics and delete the automatically created ifcfg-eth2 and ifcfg-eth3, when you reboot, you'll likely see this sort of thing. On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:25 AM, jarmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone el

[CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-30 Thread William L. Maltby
Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems? BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the la

Re: [CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:34 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is > not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else > seeing any problems? > > BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in

[CentOS] Create Install DVD with updates

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The wiki explains how to create a dvd with the updates previously downloaded, but how does one integrate these into a freshly authored DVD? Is such a task possible? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

2008-03-30 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is > not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else > seeing any problems? I've had FF running on my CentOS 4 desktop for a li

[CentOS] alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-30 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I need to compile alsa-project 1.0.16 on the latest centos 5.1 kernel. I am getting this error. What to do... ? CC [M] /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/sound_oss.o CC [M] /home/silentm/MessageNet/alsa-project/alsa-driver-1.0.16/acore/info_oss.o In file in

Re: [CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

2008-03-30 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to build a dedicated MythTV box using CentOS5. I need a > lightweight desktop environment, something extremely simple that does > not use much memory. Gnome and KDE use way too much memory and are too > complex for w

Re: [CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

2008-03-30 Thread Garrick Staples
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:01:32PM -0300, Marcelo Roccasalva alleged: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to build a dedicated MythTV box using CentOS5. I need a > > lightweight desktop environment, something extremely simple that does > > not use

[CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an app I suspect is not working right as certain rpm's are a higher version then it recommends. If I have used a 3rd party to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? Thanks! jlc