Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sorry for the top post. Your mailer breaking references and thus destroying threading for others is worse than top posting >:) Cheers, Ralph pgpzENf9mbwtx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
Doug Tucker wrote: Tru, I work at a university. They don't provide enough money for test environments :). Just kinda odd, last time kernel update, gfs updated at the same time so all was well. But twice now kernel has upgraded with no GFS so it went bye-bye. Is the GFS being installed, compi

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
Linux wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Tru Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:40:22AM +0300, Linux wrote: > What a coincidence. That is the 1st time I live such a thing. Well, > show me a way to prove. /var/log/messages ? Only a small part of it. > This log

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Really? I thought Outlook does a pretty good job on references. Maybe it's the BB :-( I really need RIM to update their mailer app on the BB to allow threading and preserve references... Is that so hard RIM?! Is it? -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread js
Hello All; Maybe, because XFS seems to be important, is it possible to build xfs right after the kernel src build? Is this far more longer than only build the kernel? Ok nobody pay you to do Centos, ok. Centos is a very good project, but i think it's not really constructive to say "ok, pay

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 11, 2008, at 9:06, Akemi Yagi wrote The centosplus kernel update that just came out (2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.centos.plus) does have vesafb support enabled. Thank you, Johnny, for the work. :-) It finally trickled down to my mirror, and a quick install this morning shows that is indeed fixe

[CentOS] NFS subdirectory on client is out of sync

2008-05-14 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Today a user asked me whether a file on one host can be different on another host. I was busy composing an answer to tell that the /home space on all clients are mounted using NFS from the file server. Any host will therefor see the same file. The user pointed me to his file and I copied this f

[CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've finally made the switch to CentOS 5.1 (I had been running 4.6). So far, so good, but I do have a few issues. First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by the package ckermit in t

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Martyn Drake
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe, because XFS seems to be important, is it possible to build xfs right > after the kernel src build? > > Is this far more longer than only build the kernel? Assuming that you've set it up as a module rather than actually compi

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Huff
On May 14, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: Second (and this is probably OT), I use the binary nVidia driver and the keyboard and mouse sharing utility Synergy (http:// synergy2.sourceforge.net, a fantastic utility without which I would be so much less productive). Since upgrading

[CentOS] Printing: network host busy

2008-05-14 Thread centos
H, I have 5.1. The other day I was printing and the job crashed. I cleaned the /var/spool/cups, but I am still getting the: network 192.168.2.10 host is busy, will retry in 30sec It's a dlink print server, that has worked very well for the last 3 years. I have restarted but the print server and

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Martyn Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe, because XFS seems to be important, is it possible to build xfs > right > > after the kernel src build? > > > > Is this far more longer than on

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Martyn Drake
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making kernel modules is a bit more involved than that. Please see: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules > > if you really feel like building modules yourself. You're quite right. You can tell I do it of

[CentOS] Max thin client sessions/gdm limit?

2008-05-14 Thread Ryan Faussett
Greetings, I've been subscribed to this list for some time and I'd like to start off by thanking everyone who helps out on it. This is my first post to it, so please be gentle :-) I have several offices set up with RedHat and CentOS terminal servers. We are using CentOS 4.6 and RedHat 4.6 o

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:10 AM, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe, because XFS seems to be important, is it possible to build xfs > right after the kernel src build? > > Is this far more longer than only build the kernel? > > Ok nobody pay you to do Centos, ok. > Centos is a very good projec

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
I intend to do that. Kernel's removed from automatic updates. We'll agree to disagree about the importance of not breaking an officially supported kernel filesystem on an automated upgrade because only a "few" of us are affected. Keep in mind this is not an unsupported XFS that someone hijacked

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 9:50, Steve Huff wrote: This may well be an upstream issue; I have recently begun to encounter the same problem on a RHEL 5.1 workstation, using Synergy and nVidia binary packages from rpmforge (synergy-1.3.1-2.el5.rf, nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf). I first star

Re: [CentOS] Max thin client sessions/gdm limit?

2008-05-14 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/14 Ryan Faussett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Everything has been working quite well for some time. However now I seem to > have hit a 50 thin client/gdm session limit. I've tested this several times > by powering off all of our thin clients and restarting the terminal server, > then powering up e

Re: [CentOS] Max thin client sessions/gdm limit?

2008-05-14 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/14 Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [SNIP] >> screen, large X cursor -- gray screen of death?) and then it just sits >> there. The GDM login/greeter is never presented. > > Edit /etc/X11/gdm.conf (my be located at some other path as I am using > debian+kde right now) and increase the number

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Sergio Belkin
2008/5/13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> Even so, thanks for your comments, I'd like more experiences about >> monitoring systems. Again of topic, I want to avoid Nagios because it >> looks like over complex but if someone has an actual experience >> demostrating the opposite, I

Re: [CentOS] Printing: network host busy

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:17 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H, > > I have 5.1. The other day I was printing and the job crashed. I cleaned > the /var/spool/cups, but I am still getting the: > > network 192.168.2.10 host is busy, will retry in 30sec > > It's a dlink print server, that has worked

[CentOS] tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread CentOS List
Hi, I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? Thanks Regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to do that. Kernel's removed from automatic updates. > There you go. > We'll agree to disagree about the importance of not breaking an > officially supported kernel filesystem on an automated upgrade because > only

Re: [CentOS] tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:54 AM, CentOS List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and > burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? > > Thanks > > Regards > > Am I the only one who finds it disturb

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Sergio Belkin wrote: OK, you won :) I'm going to test nagios. I am using centos 5.1 x86_64. Do I lose much if I use rpm from rpmforge (version 2.9)? I'm using the x86_64 version of nagios-2.11-1.el5.rf from rpmforge on our nagios server. Works like a charm. -- Paul Hei

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:07 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I intend to do that. Kernel's removed from automatic updates. > > > There you go. > > > We'll agree to disagree about the importance of not breaking an > > officially suppor

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 10:58, Alfred von Campe wrote: In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. I was able to compile the latest Kermit fro

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread John R Pierce
Doug Tucker wrote: My whole issue is around GFS, which is officially supported (someone else hijacked this thread with XFS which got more attention), and in my statement I said: "Keep in mind this is not an unsupported XFS that someone hijacked my thread with." So I'm agreeing that XFS should ne

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:07 -0700, MHR wrote: >> 1) You're top posting - please stop it. In this email list, we bottom >> post as a matter of policy and courtesy. It's not that hard > > I'm sorry, that last sentence wa

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:38 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:07 -0700, MHR wrote: > >> 1) You're top posting - please stop it. In this email list, we bottom > >> post as a matter of policy and courtesy. It's

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread John R Pierce
Doug Tucker wrote: Do you honestly, like having to scroll down with the rolly thing on your mouse 9 times to get to the reply only to find it is not something you cared to read? I say toss it at the top in my face where I can ignore it with less effort. the other key part of bottom posting

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:37 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Doug Tucker wrote: > > My whole issue is around GFS, which is officially supported (someone > > else hijacked this thread with XFS which got more attention), and in my > > statement I said: "Keep in mind this is not an unsupported XFS that >

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 13:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Doug Tucker wrote: > > Do you honestly, like having to scroll down with the rolly thing on your > > mouse 9 times to get to the reply only to find it is not something you > > cared to read? I say toss it at the top in my face where I can ig

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Humor turned off for a minute, completely and honestly, can someone > explain to me *why* this is the etiquette here? In every fashion, I > find it sooo much harder to follow. Does it date back to some dead text > based ma

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "It's not that hard" would have gotten you b**ch slapped even with a > smile on your face in person. Just stick to polite, it's not that > hard :D. > snicker > Bad thing about email, it's hard to grasp tongue in cheek

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Nelson
On May 14, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Doug Tucker wrote: Humor turned off for a minute, completely and honestly, can someone explain to me *why* this is the etiquette here? In every fashion, I find it sooo much harder to follow. Does it date back to some dead text based mail client that actually mad

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a matter of agreeing to disagree on the release of a kernel and > a supported file system. If you had read my thread and subsequent > paragraph you're taking issue with properly, you would have gotten that. > My who

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
> This is linked from the CentOS FAQ: > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > > Akemi LOL! This is just TOO good. 1. Because it is proper Usenet Etiquette. ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... 2.We use a good news reader

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread John R Pierce
Linux wrote: People who prepare and maintain a distro have (and should have) many concerns in mind. Security is one of them and integrity is another. But in this situation, integrity is simply ignored (on the behalf of GFS situation because I backed down from my XFS related complains) Disabling

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Nelson
On May 14, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Doug Tucker wrote: ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... Usenet is almost dead but e-mail lists abound (you are using one). Same concepts. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
Doug Tucker wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:37 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Doug Tucker wrote: My whole issue is around GFS, which is officially supported (someone else hijacked this thread with XFS which got more attention), and in my statement I said: "Keep in mind this is not an unsupported X

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
Doug Tucker wrote: This is linked from the CentOS FAQ: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Akemi LOL! This is just TOO good. 1. Because it is proper Usenet Etiquette. ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... 2.We use a good

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:50 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, what is WITH all these lame gmail addresses? linuxlist ? centoslist > ?? Do I call you Mr Linux, or Mr List ? Nothing to do with gmail. About calling me, it's a nice thing but probably not needed. And I also kn

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK ... you are officially an ass .. I will no longer reply to your mails or > help you in any way. Yes. When I signed on with CentOS it was explicitly written into my requirements that *I* be the only 'official' ass. Yes

[CentOS] Re: broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2008 1:48 PM Doug Tucker spake the following: This is linked from the CentOS FAQ: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Akemi LOL! This is just TOO good. 1. Because it is proper Usenet Etiquette. ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:53:05 -0400: > I thought Outlook does a pretty good job on references. It's okay if used standalone. You may have lost references because of the way you are connected to Exchange. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Inte

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread jleaver+centos
Yes. When I signed on with CentOS it was explicitly written into my requirements that *I* be the only 'official' ass. Yes, a non-compete clause is involved, so can all just STEP OFF! :-P Haha, thanks for the humorous remark! It has been said that "If you get too serious, you'll spoil a

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:56 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: > On May 14, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Doug Tucker wrote: > > > ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last > > month...user base is over 4000... > Usenet is almost dead but e-mail lists abound (you are using one). Same concept

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
> All I am saying is that GFS (and any other ADDED repo besides Base or > Updates) will get updates ... however they are not normally going to be > as fast as the Base and Updates repos. That is just how it goes. I can totally live with that, I was just b**ching about RH's approach. I'm not exp

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
> OK ... you are officially an ass .. I will no longer reply to your mails > or help you in any way. Wow. My apologies, I thought that was actually a productive reply, not even sure how you got offended, but I will apologize anyway, I don't intend to ever offend anyone. ___

RE: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Doug Tucker > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:49 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:56 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: > > On May 14, 2008, at

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread John R Pierce
Doug Tucker wrote: I know, but my point was, since we all use email to read email lists, let's get off the old usenet etiquette, and use email etiquette, which you will find yourself in the very minute minority that replies bottom post. Not on this or most any other technical list, with th

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Doug Tucker
> I imagine that most of the folks subscribed are System Administrators, > Engineers and Architects. I'd also leap to the unproven assumption that > the majority are overworked, underpaid, stressed, and stuff like that. > If that doesn't make for a bunch of terse, grumpy, and otherwise > fr

[CentOS] Re: A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2008 12:34 PM Alfred von Campe spake the following: On May 14, 2008, at 10:58, Alfred von Campe wrote: In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communi

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Doug Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed to all, and I was just having some fun and trying to bring some > humor to everyone's day. Thanks for having a sense of humor, I'll > respectfully bow out now. > There you go, man Keep as cool as you can Face piles

[CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2008 11:16 AM MHR spake the following: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:54 AM, CentOS List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? Thanks Regards Am

[CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-14 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, I know this may seem off topic, but I thought for those of us who might have Debian users generating key pairs that they put on CentOS systems people should be aware that everybody who generated a public/private keypair or an SSL cert request on Debian or Ubuntu from 2006 on is vul

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through > newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. > > So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few > lists! I'm just

[CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2008 2:48 PM Doug Tucker spake the following: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:56 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Doug Tucker wrote: ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... Usenet is almost dead but e-mail lists

[CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2008 3:20 PM MHR spake the following: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Scott Silva wrote: People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a fe

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know that the more stupid the rant, or more embarrassing, the higher it > goes in the page rank! ;-P > "I'm the top!" ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Jason Pyeron wrote: ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... Usenet is almost dead but e-mail lists abound (you are using one). Same concepts. I know, but my point was, since we all use email to read email lists, let's get off the old u

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
Clint Dilks wrote: Hi People, I know this may seem off topic, but I thought for those of us who might have Debian users generating key pairs that they put on CentOS systems people should be aware that everybody who generated a public/private keypair or an SSL cert request on Debian or Ubuntu

RE: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Pyeron
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RE: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-14 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > > > I just wish I could configure my outlook ... > > Configure it? Don't you know how to move the cursor? The point is that > you are supposed to delete

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I can not find kermit (or ckermit) in any of the repos (base, extras, > centosplus, rpmforge). On my 4.6 systems, /usr/bin/kermit was provided by > the package ckermit in the base repo. That package appears

Re: [CentOS] Max thin client sessions/gdm limit?

2008-05-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 21:40:06 Ryan Faussett wrote: > Everything has been working quite well for some time. However now I seem to > have hit a 50 thin client/gdm session limit. I've tested this several times > by powering off all of our thin clients and restarting the terminal server, > then pow

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Thomas Harold
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc. We just finished setting up Nagios at our office. It's not that b

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 15 May 2008 05:50:02 MHR wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know that the more stupid the rant, or more embarrassing, the higher > > it goes in the page rank! ;-P > > "I'm the top!" Googling my own name 'Fajar Priyanto Linux' return

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Googling my own name 'Fajar Priyanto Linux' returns 12,300 hits from Google. > Maybe someday we can compile a top-ten list for this? :) Oh hell no. If we go down that road we're doing it RIGHT, with a winner-take-all br

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: (Nagios)

2008-05-14 Thread Thomas Harold
Sergio Belkin wrote: 2008/5/13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: OK, you won :) I'm going to test nagios. I am using centos 5.1 x86_64. Do I lose much if I use rpm from rpmforge (version 2.9)? We're running version 2.11 at the office (on CentOS 5.1 x86_64). I've looked at some of the things in 3.0, bu

Re: [CentOS] Re: A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 18:05, Scott Silva wrote: CentOS usually creates whatever upstream gives out. You would have to see why RedHat stopped putting it in, or see if you can convince CentOS developers to add it to centosplus. I understand the relationship with the upstream provider. I was

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Googling my own name 'Fajar Priyanto Linux' returns 12,300 hits from Google. > Maybe someday we can compile a top-ten list for this? :) How about a bottom list? I only have 77, and a lot of them are from ten years ago.

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2008, at 20:12, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: I don't know why you need kermit, but for serial-based terminal/console access, minicom may do what you want. I use it to access Unix/Linux hosts through the serial console and for network switches and routers as well. It works OK for that.

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread David Williams
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Googling my own name 'Fajar Priyanto Linux' returns 12,300 hits from > Google. > > Maybe someday we can compile a top-ten list for this? :) > > How

RE: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread CentOS List
> People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through > newsgroup postings or harvest their address > for spam. > So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few lists! > Makes me look real bad, doesn't it? No. I am on a few lists and each list with

[CentOS] missing from Centos51 src tree: ".../drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile"

2008-05-14 Thread snowcrash+centos
i'm attempting to rebuild centos51 kernel-xen. (fwiw, because pciback has NOT been compiled into the kernel, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2767) after, yum install kernel-devel kernel-xen-devel and usual, ln -s /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m` /usr/src/linux

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:31:09 CentOS List wrote: > No. I am on a few lists and each list with a different email address so > that I can sort them out correctly. If you people don’t wish to help out, > its fine, just ignore my mails. It will be nice to stop making fun of me. Looks like this week

Re: [CentOS] tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread Nick Fenwick
CentOS List wrote: I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running

RE: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-14 Thread CentOS List
>> No. I am on a few lists and each list with a different email address >> so that I can sort them out correctly. If you people don’t wish to >> help out, its fine, just ignore my mails. It will be nice to stop making fun >> of me. > Looks like this week has been a rough one for many people. >

[CentOS] Tape operation

2008-05-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, My only encounter with tape-backup was with Windows 2000. With it, when we backup things using windows' backup tool, it will create a 'catalog', then the catalog contains all the backup operations we do based on date. So, with this we can "append" many backups into one tape. Next time we

Re: [CentOS] Tape operation

2008-05-14 Thread John R Pierce
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, My only encounter with tape-backup was with Windows 2000. With it, when we backup things using windows' backup tool, it will create a 'catalog', then the catalog contains all the backup operations we do based on date. So, with this we can "append" many backups int