RE: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William L. Maltby <> scribbled on Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:49 PM: > an > update of a live server without adequate testing and/or fallback plan is > akin to unassisted suicide. It won't be your foot you shot yourself in > if something goes drastically wrong. LOL! Clear and to the point. Good one!

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

2008-06-27 Thread centos
Removing perl.i386 fixed this... Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Ralph Angenendt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:34:11 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual >bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? > >Mel Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Harry Sukumar wrote: > Hi James, > > Yes I tried to do this on another machine unfortunately this didn't > work for me, good you raised this topic > > On the other machine I edited the visudo > > User_Alias PROJECT = emma, paddy, sb > PROJECT ALL = !/usr/su, !/bin/su, !/usr/bin/passwd > I s

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91 kb 1:20 kerne

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joseph L. Casale <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:29 AM: >> Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual >> bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? >> >> Mel > > Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Blackwell
Plant, Dean wrote: I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run "sudo /bin/bash" or any of the other shells to gain root access. Hi Dean, I don't think that's correct. One of the purposes of the sudoers fil

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)

2008-06-27 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 19:02:28 fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Robert wrote: > > Olaf Mueller wrote: > > >fred smith wrote: > > >>On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > > >>>fred smith wrote: > > 1. "shutdown -h now" goes all the way do

[CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
Hi all, I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them. I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I woul

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread fabian dacunha
Thanks guys for the various suggestions really do apprecite but as u guys say i shd follow .. have a perfect backup system and then do the upgrade really apprecite regards fabian simon > I just updated from an i386 CentOS 5 system today, using the reccommendeds > steps on my server, and

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: Hi all, I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them. perhaps you should try the geoip project's community options ? -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
tech wrote: I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file called fastestmirror.conf - look in there

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast updates! 8-D There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, [EMAIL PRO

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Ian Blackwell wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do >> realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run "sudo >> /bin/bash" or any of the other shells to gain root access. >> > Hi Dean, > > I don't think that's correct. On

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Blackwell
Plant, Dean wrote: What I was trying to point out is that if is he is disabling commands like su then they must be enabled somewhere in the groups he is calling and it is good practice to disable all the shells as well. All my sudoers lines that call groups like he was trying to do always have a

RE: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tech <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:57 AM: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) > > Me thinks that doesn't work. It works in Sweden. In fact the fastest-mirror thing works better now with the v5.2 than ever before. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:27 AM: > tech wrote: >> I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically >> choosing sites for downloading. > > You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not > working well for you. In /etc/yum/plug

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Bernd Bartmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the latest updates for perl, xorg-x11, net-snmp, openoffice.org for C4 >> were announced for the ia64 and s390(x) archs, but not for i386 and >> x86_64 altough they are available on the updates mirrors. >> A

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:28 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast >> updates! 8-D > > There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting > confused with Fedora here ? Umm... I mi

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread tech
Karanbir Singh wrote: You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little w

Re: [CentOS] Minimized Firefox is not visible on panel in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:14 +1000, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I opened a Firefox on Desktop, but when I clicked Minimize Window > button, the Firefox disappeared and there was no icon on the panel, I > simply could not find it any more (it did not close), this was the > same for the terminal as well .

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bernd Bartmann wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, the latest updates for perl, xorg-x11, net-snmp, openoffice.org for C4 were announced for the ia64 and s390(x) archs, but not for i386 and x86_64 altough they are available on the updates mir

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will get those out soon to ... but I can only work 24 hours a day Thanks! Take your time. I just want to make sure they do not get lost. Best regards, Bernd. ___ CentOS maili

[CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread John Bowden
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 kickstart install from USB Pen failed

2008-06-27 Thread Pierre Reinbold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I usually use DHCP to install CentOS boxes via kickstart. For a first install, I boot the machine on the CentOS first CD, I type "linux ks" at the prompt and the rest is automatic. I have already use USB pen to boot some servers that don't ha

Re: [CentOS] Can you install from local updates?

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I normally use http install to access my /centos/ver/os/i386 repo. Is there someway to get the install to include the updates in /centos/ver/updates? It seems such a waste to install rpms that you know are already fixed I do this with a kickstart installation: u

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com _

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Pyeron wrote on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400: > Any ideas what the "dangerous" inode confusion is about? Is it relevant today? I have no idea. I think the proposed problem is that the client doesn't know that it's traversing filesystems, so, the same inode number on filesystem / and /b

RE: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Bowden <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM: > Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down > loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I > archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? I removed my 5.1 torrents coupl

Re: [CentOS] Missing update announcements for C4 i386 / x86_64

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:41:56 -0500: > but I can only work 24 hours a day then you are still ahead of most of us ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ C

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Kai Schaetzl wrote: You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. If the /etc/yum.conf file contains: obsoletes=1 yum update will be the same as yum upgrade. The yum.conf file will have thi

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: You are right, there is a difference: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. If the /etc/yum.conf file contains: obsoletes=1 yum update will be the same as yum upgrade. The yum.co

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
tech wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91

[CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-06-27 Thread Brett Serkez
All, I have a fresh CentOS 5.2 server that I am just starting to customize, it is very close to stock. This morning I ran yum update: = Installing: kernel-xen i686 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 updates

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008 10:51:18 pm Harry Sukumar wrote: Dear All But even after adding him to wheel, sys and adm group he is unable to install using yum Ok, I'm new to CentOS and yum, but it seems to me that installing software would need to have write permissio

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 40, Issue 13

2008-06-27 Thread centos-announce-request
ignature Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/attachments/20080627/e064fd9d/signature-0001.bin -- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:57:43 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0529 Moderate Ce

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Papalagi Pakeha
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Andreas Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Papalagi Pakeha > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I have recently migrated my old server from OpenSUSE 10.0 to CentOS 5. >> Almost everything works great, except for one th

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Hmmm, > > I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I > can't remember doing anything to this. > # yum update > > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.

RE: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Bowden <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM: > > > Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down > > loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I > > archive them

Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Brett Serkez wrote: All, I have a fresh CentOS 5.2 server that I am just starting to customize, it is very close to stock. This morning I ran yum update: = Installing: kernel-xen i686 2.6.18-92.1.6.

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: Hmmm, I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I can't remember doing anything to this. # yum update Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package java-1.4.2-gc

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:03 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Hmmm, > > > > I seemed to have created a misalignment somewhere along the line. I > > can't remember doing anything to this. > > > # yum update > > > > > > Resolving De

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Rudi Ahlers wrote: ... Which is why yum upgrade is recommended, yum update may or may not work for everyone, depending on this flag Many have expressed concern because they've used "yum update" instead of "yum upgrade". My point is that it might not be a problem. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carl

Re: [CentOS] Starting a Local CentOS Mirror

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Art Age Software wrote: Hi all, I would like to set up a local CentOS mirror, as suggested by others on this list, to cut down on bandwidth usage, etc. I have read a couple HowTos and it seems pretty straight-forward, but I do have some questions. 1) How should I change my entries in /etc/yum.r

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> > > > >> = > >> # yum list jpackage-utils.noarch > >> > >> Installed Packages > >> jpackage-utils.noarc

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: Hi all, I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them. I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country.

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jason Pyeron wrote on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400: Any ideas what the "dangerous" inode confusion is about? Is it relevant today? I have no idea. I think the proposed problem is that the client doesn't know that it's traversing filesystems, so, the same inode

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread thad
> how terribly shocking... > I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France because > they eat frogs What about those who eat alligators. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Almost one hour and only 1.7 of 4.8 m was downloaded This is typical for me getting data from .tw sites. Then ... find the fastest mirrors and don't use the default. We can't possibly try to program in thnigs like this on our end. The fastestmirror script actually make

Re: [CentOS] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 update failure [SOLVED]

2008-06-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > >> # yum update > >> > >> > >> Resolving Dependencies > >> --> Running transaction check > >> ---> Package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.i386 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 set to be > >> updated > >> --> Processing Depend

[CentOS] Headphone on a Acer Extensa 5220

2008-06-27 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello, is there any chance to get a headphone working under a acer extensa 5220 with CenOS 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) installed? Maybe by centosplus or self compiled alsa sources? # rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 alsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5 The sound works great on this notebook and

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:55:58 +0200: > The yum.conf file will have this line unless manually removed And you are right, too :-) William mentioned the config file, btw, he just didn't mention the flag. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Ser

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if th

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate choi

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Andreas Pedersen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Andreas Pedersen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Papalagi Pakeha >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi there! >>> >>> I have recently migrated my old serve

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
First, are you running 5.2 or a older version ? If it is a older version, first upgrade to 5.2. Then read http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U2-x86_64-en.html#id2914967 and the section about SHA passwords. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
Just a point of note: When adding the wheel group to the sudoers file via visudo, it does not mean that the users in the wheel group can execute commands directly. It means that they can type: #sudo command options For each enabled command in the sudoers file. Now lets walk through some exam

Re: [CentOS] How to enable SHA1 passwords after migration from OpenSUSE?

2008-06-27 Thread Papalagi Pakeha
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Tim Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, are you running 5.2 or a older version ? If it is a older > version, first upgrade to 5.2. > > Then read > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U2-x86_64-en.html#id2914967 > and the

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:17:22AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > jpyeron ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > ## allows user jpyeron logged in from ALL locations to act as ALL users > without Not logged in _from_ all locations; logged in _to_ all machines which have that sudoers file. eg jpyeron A=(ro

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:54:56 -0400: > I don't understand your talk about "fake" directories. They are not > fake, they truly exist in the filesystem. They are nevertheless fake. Consider the following: - system A has mount points / and /home - system B nfs mounts / on A without n

[CentOS] VNC vs GNOME desktop

2008-06-27 Thread fred smith
I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove the applet from the

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:31 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!! > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:17:22AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > jpyeron

Re: [CentOS] is centos update safe

2008-06-27 Thread jarmo
Mogens Kjaer kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 27. kesäkuuta 2008): > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > ... > > > Which is why yum upgrade is recommended, yum update may or may not work > > for everyone, depending on this flag > > Many have expressed concern because they've used "yum update" instea

Re: [CentOS] VNC vs GNOME desktop

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
fred smith wrote: I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. - KB ___ Cen

[CentOS] 5.1 -> 5.2 Upgrade oddity

2008-06-27 Thread James B. Byrne
yum upgrade -y yada yada yada then lots of errors like: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:173: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined and so on until Document is not well-formed XML: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/it/gdm.xml Updating : amtu ##

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les Mikesell wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate choices. I've been using ncac

Re: [CentOS] Torrent sharing question

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Bowden wrote: Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 -> 5.2 Upgrade oddity

2008-06-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
James B. Byrne wrote: yum upgrade -y yada yada yada then lots of errors like: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:173: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined and so on until Document is not well-formed XML: /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/it/gdm.xml Updating : amtu

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Hiep Nguyen wrote: > Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done wit

RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Sorin Srbu
Ok, any particular reason why not? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There is n

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:54:56 -0400: I don't understand your talk about "fake" directories. They are not fake, they truly exist in the filesystem. They are nevertheless fake. Consider the following: - system A has mount points / and /home - system B

[CentOS] 5.1 to 5.2 upgrade - perfectly smoothe

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Alberts
I run 3 servers and I upgraded them from 5.1 to 5.2 this week without even a single glitch. So now that I've been running CentOS for a couple months, I wanted to take a minute to say... Thank you to CentOS, everyone on the list for the occasional technical support (and thanks to the upstream

[CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Grzesiek
Hi, When I boot my dedicated server from netinstall cd, I see: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg System: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz - Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] - Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris > > This allows you to have one centrally controlled sudoers file > > but have machine specific privileges. > > Hmmm, I don't see it in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > By central you

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Grzesiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg > Another victim of : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically g

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:00:45 -0400: > Again, it's not fake, it's not artificial. It's both, really. artificial = it doesn't exist before the first nfs mount fake = from the remote machine it's an imitation of the real /home filesystem on the other machine. It looks like /home, i

Re: [CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Is there a way to coax several hosts behind the same caching proxy to use the same URL as the 1st choice but still fail over and try others if there is a problem? And preferably without having to manually edit files on each machine or coordinate choices. Fatestmirror d

Re: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Eric DuToit
In a flurry of recycled electrons Plant, Dean wrote: All my sudoers lines that call groups like he was trying to do always have a !SU, !SHELLS to specifically deny root access. Anyway I will shut up now as none of this will help fix his problem. If you ever grant someone ALL commands and the

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Grzesiek wrote: Hi, When I boot my dedicated server from netinstall cd, I see: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel, a

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. > > You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test > patched kernel, and then don't install any kernel patches until this one > gets

Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
That's exactly how nfs behaves, it's an elevator without that safety net. You're right. NFS is very dangerous and it may trick you. It should only be used if you know how it works and what you are doing. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100

[CentOS] Re: Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Grzesiek
Thank you all. I tries to install 5.1 then I add option "exclude=kernel*" in yum.conf, install testing kernel and upgrade to 5.2. thanks again! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] New USB ethernet adapter

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I got a new USB ethernet adapter from ebay, the ad said RealTek chipset, so I thought I would chance it. Well, my 5.2 system does not recognize the USB device. At all. What do I need to do? I checked the driver CD and the XP driver directory's .inf file has the following: ; ASIX AX88172

Re: [CentOS] New USB ethernet adapter

2008-06-27 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Moskowitz wrote: [AX88172.Ndi] AddReg = AX88172.Reg, AX88172.Con.Reg;, AX88172.Params DeviceID = USB\VID_0B95&PID_1720 How can I tell if this is a RealTek chipset and more importantly, getting it working? VID_0B95 is... 0b95 ASIX Electronics Corp. 1720 10/100 Etherne

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel, and then don't install any kernel patches unt

[CentOS] Clamd not working

2008-06-27 Thread Anne Wilson
Earlier this month I reported a problem in that ClamTK couldn't virus-scan a file. This was cured by following the dev's instructions If you open up a terminal window and type "ls /var/clamav" (without quotes of course), I'm betting you'll see a variety of files and/or directories in there. If y

Yogunluk: [CentOS] Clamd not working

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 June 2008 02:36, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Wojtek Pilorz wrote: > >> After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ > >> kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ] crashes each time early in boot > >> process on Compaq ProLiant 3000 > >> with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: I

Yogunluk: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crasheson dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

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Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

2008-06-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:46:43 -0400: > It should only > be used if you know how it works and what you are doing. Isn't that right for everything? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Yogunluk: Re: [CentOS] nfs cannot see mount points on other machine

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Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 June 2008 09:09, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate > of fraudulent orders coming from them. > > I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP > addresses. However, you would

Yogunluk: Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

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[CentOS] How/when to file bugs on upstream bugzilla?

2008-06-27 Thread Greg Bailey
I've hit a bug since upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2 that involves the screen blanking when I shut the lid on a Dell Latitude D820 notebook. It doesn't come back on correctly when I open the lid, and instead crashes X. I've filed a bug on bugs.centos.org that describes the problem (#2910), and was

Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-06-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 June 2008 13:18, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Brett Serkez wrote: > > All, > > > > I have a fresh CentOS 5.2 server that I am just starting to customize, > > it is very close to stock. > > > > This morning I ran yum update: > > > >

Yogunluk: [CentOS] How/when to file bugs on upstream bugzilla?

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