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

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > 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

RE: [CentOS] Huge mailq

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:34 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq > > On Monday 25 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote: > > Hmm...it will still

[CentOS] backup to disk

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 would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially wel

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

On 31/03/2008, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS - sorry if this shows up twice...I posted on 29 March, but never > saw it on the list :) It did arrive on the list. :-D Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

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

Mail Administrator wrote: 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 This was my procedure to mirror an existing single IDE disk RH4 system. YMMV. No guarantees. Not

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:35:08 -0600: > If I have used a 3rd party what is that? > to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? downgrade to what? I may be wrong but it sounds like you want

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Kai Schaetzl wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:35:08 -0600: If I have used a 3rd party what is that? to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need? downgrade to what? I ma

RE: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

>Kai, correct me if I'm wrong, but one is allowed to use other programs >not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm >is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's >his choice? > Well, I have rpmforge enabled for example, and I installed an ap

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Kai, correct me if I'm wrong, but one is allowed to use other programs not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's his choice? Well, I have rpmforge enabled for exa

RE: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

>Does the current installed version give a problem? > >Using something like rpmforge to install an rpm ( I presume you used yum >or something?) I think the only way is to remove it, and then manually >install the correct one. The command would be something like rpm -ivh >http://rmpforge-website/rpm

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does the current installed version give a problem? Using something like rpmforge to install an rpm ( I presume you used yum or something?) I think the only way is to remove it, and then manually install the correct one. The command would be something like rpm -ivh http://

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

That is what I suspect. I presume I have to block it from being upgraded after as well. How can I force the new app back in without worrying about this dependency? to prevent a package from being updated or installed from a certain repo you'd add exclude=package_name to the yum confi

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

Jerry Geis wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: > In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use rpm), install the older version via yum (if available from rpmforge) and then exclude it (and probably all related

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:36:48 +0200: > Kai, correct me if I'm wrong Just read again what I wrote ;-) And read it in the context of the provided information. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Kai Schaetzl wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use rpm), install the older version via yum (if available from rpmforge) and then exclud

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

On 31/03/2008, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But, can one install a specific version of a package from the yum command? Yes. Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Barry Brimer 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. Have you looked at rsnapshot ?? Hi Barry, Thanks for t

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Ned Slider wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: 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. In a mixed Linux/Windows environment, I deployed a Linux backup serve

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the reply and link. I'm looking this over right now. If you look to use rsnapshot, there's a guide on the CentOS wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RsnapshotBackups Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:38 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:42:24 -0600: > > > > > >> In that scenario, how does one force a downgrade? > >> > > > > On first thought: Force an uninstall via yum (if yum won't do it, use > > r

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

Jerry Geis wrote: >/ 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/Mess

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm considering doing a local

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm consi

[CentOS] corrupted disk/drive issue...

ok... my bad. there is an additional step that has to be done tha t i left out. my apologies. once you've found that you do have the lvms with the: lvm pvscan lvm vgscan lvm lvscan cmds... the lvm(s) might be in an inactive state. if you do a "ls /dev" and you see that you have "/dev/VolGroup0

[CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was t

[CentOS] Local Mirror of Extras and Dev

I setup a local mirror of base and updates, can I simply rsync the hierarchy of extras and dev the same way without issue? I see the repo for these follows a slightly different setup than updates for example. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:12 +0200: > But, can one install a specific version of a package from the yum command? Sure. You do a find and then get all available packages. Then you pick the one you want. You need to use it's "long name" then, of course. There might be a new prob

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

on 3-31-2008 6:30 AM Toby Bluhm spake the following: Mail Administrator wrote: 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 This was my procedure to mirror an existing

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

Sam Beam wrote: Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpm

[CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 *> test -e /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 begin:vcard fn:Tim Alberts n

[CentOS] my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

My test server was in very eavy load, running kolab's components: postfix, cyrus-imap and openldap A second test machine was sending, and reading emails as fast as it can. The CPU was never idle ! I left the server at about 17H30 and at 22H I find it "uncommitted" (difficult to work when the partit

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote: > Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that > doesn't exist? > > *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* > cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory > *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* > 1 > *> test -e /h

[CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

I went to the basement to check the "console" : I got this EXT3-fs error (device md1): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #2483 009: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=211961333, rec_len=5205, name_len=231 Abordinf journal on device /dev/md1 journal commit IO error ext3_abot called.

RE: [CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

Aka you had a hardware problem and it tried to save the filesystem from corruption. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Spineux Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: my centos switched alone it

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?*

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Tim Alberts wrote: Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist? *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 *> test -e /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:43:28PM -0400, Marko A. Jennings alleged: > On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote: > > Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that > > doesn't exist? > > > > *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* > > cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such fil

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:37:01PM -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: > Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that > doesn't exist? > > *> cat /home/talberts/.forward* > cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory > *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* > 1 > *

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. begin:vcard fn:Tim Alberts n:Alberts;Tim org:Measurement Systems International;Engineering adr:Suite 200;;14240

[CentOS] mysql data

HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? Thanks in advance -Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

Ray Leventhal wrote: HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? depends on where you set it up to store those things. a cursory google for mysql config

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI folks, > > Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll > carry on my searching elsewhere. > > Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? > > Thanks in advance > -

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: | Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead use the mysqldu

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] my centos switched alone its root fs to read-only

Alain Spineux wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:43:33 +0200: > EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal > Remounting file read-only CentOS 4? Force a complete filesystem check on that drive. I had this once happen after a kernel upgrade. Everything seemed okay aft

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Tim Alberts wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird. ___ Cen

[CentOS] Thunar and smb

Hello people, A few days ago I had installed XFCE4.4.2 from de extras repositories of CentOS everything is ok but the fact that I can't access the smb network I have on my work place, What can I do to get access, Any ideas Thanks -- "Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

On Monday 31 March 2008 14:02, Ned Slider wrote: > Sam Beam wrote: > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from > > nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the > > atrpms modules? > > Hi Sam, > > I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMF

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

Sam Beam wrote: Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! Glad you got it working. For reference: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms but I confess to not really understanding how it works, just that it does! for the record, here is what I did since I wa

[CentOS] Icon .png file loading error after graphics driver upgrade

Dear, I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes. When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly. They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like "Fater error: failed to load .png : version error" for each icon. If I log in as super u

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:13:26PM -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > > >(BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) > > > > > Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain > to thunderbird. No. Complain to person who _did_ i

[CentOS] RAID1 migration - /dev/md1 is not there

I am trying to convert an existing IDE one-disk system to RAID1 using the general strategy found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003813.html But I am stuck on one thing - when I went to create the second md device with mdadm, # mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --rai

Re: [CentOS] RAID1 migration - /dev/md1 is not there

Sam Beam wrote: I am trying to convert an existing IDE one-disk system to RAID1 using the general strategy found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003813.html But I am stuck on one thing - when I went to create the second md device with mdadm, # mdadm --create /dev/

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: Relax man, didn't you see the smiley face ? Hey man, would you please trim replies in the future.. Five miles of quoted text is actually worse than html mail ;) -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

[CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable? Actually I am not 100% sur

[CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

Hi All, Short description of the problem: - I would like to install the complete 'xfce' desktop on CentOS5.x I've tried: yum groupinstall xfce yum groupinstall xfce4 yum groupinstall xfce* yum groupinstall xfce4* yum groupinstall xfce4.2 yum groupinstall xfce4.1 yum groupinstall xfce4.3 yum group

Re: [CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

Primorec wrote: Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as a 'group' using yum ? yum grouplist also, see... yum groupinfo "some group name" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

RE: [CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

question: Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as a 'group' using yum ? TIA Igor igor try yum grouplist yum groupinfo "whatever group name" for full info maybe try man yum or http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/ http