Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
nate wrote: Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Hi, I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and any lines on the form print OK but th

Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
and while we are at that: please use a decent mail program that can attach the correct MIME content-encoding header for your special characters. These are coming out as garbage because your message is us-ascii. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: ht

Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ramon Nieto wrote: > I'll like to know from others their experience using 10 Gb LAN with > CentOS 4 & 5. > > There is a chance here at work to change our backbone network to 10 Gb > LAN if this get approved (by the CIO) i'll like to include to this > project some 10 Gb Network Cards for our CentOS

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2008-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Mad Unix wrote: I need to replicate MySQL DB of mulltiple server on SiteA to my DR-Site Site_B... all DB are alocated on RHEL,SuSE,Centos,Debian, FreeBSD servers. I need a script to take Multiple MySql DataBase Backup and then import to SiteB, the replica can be done as cold or hotbackup and c

Re: [CentOS] Xboard rpm for CentOS 4 SOLVED

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Karanbir Singh wrote: > the latest version of xboard is now also in > kbs-centos-extras-testing > for centos-5 ( based on the fedora10 rpm ) > Thanks. That would be handy for when I upgrade to CentOS 5 as CentOS 4 is showing its age. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] how to set term environment for cronjobs?

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:37:54 +0200: > wget downloaded the whole website > which was like 23MB everytime, then you added parameters you shouldn't have added. A simple wget URL downloads only that document and nothing else. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Co

Re: [CentOS] Half-OT: Modify several ldap entries

2008-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > I want to fix several entries of mail attribute mail that have an > error something like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and so on. > > I want to to change them to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [CentOS] XDMCP - no GDM login, only gray screen with X

2008-10-02 Thread lingu
Hi, Set Enable=true under XDMCP section on /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and relogin it will work you out. Regards, Lingu On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble getting the GDM login screen to show up when I > connect from a remote host. I

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Hy there, > > i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. > Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several > problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on > this box. > > Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new > rele

[CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Griesbach, Lutz
Hy there, i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new releases in the nightly updates? I would li

Re: [CentOS] Half-OT: Modify several ldap entries

2008-10-02 Thread Sergio Belkin
2008/10/2 Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sergio Belkin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to fix several entries of mail attribute mail that have an >> error something like this: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> and so on. >> >> I want to to change them to: >>

AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Griesbach, Lutz
Oh, c'mon! If I want to talk about professional honor, I'd prefer a different list. I know, that they're switched of by default - but I didn't set up this machine and I have rarely any documentation about it. Somebody (my predecessor) enabled nightly updates and I thought, there might be a reas

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1

2008-10-02 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] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 13:11 +0200, Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Hy there, > > i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last > night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not > respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. > > Can I control the update pol

Re: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Oh, c'mon! > If I want to talk about professional honor, I'd prefer a different list. > So, I thought it might be possible to stick in the release during nightly > updates, > but your educational answer doesn't help much. Get out of your high horse. You are running a s

RE: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing

2008-10-02 Thread John
The printer I'm using is a HP Officejet 6313 - there is no exact match in the HPJIS driver's list of printer - so I've used the closest match - JohnStanley Writes: HP has a Open Source driver project: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html This is a simple install consisting of a binar

[CentOS] For newcomers to the mailing list.

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
1. Don't top post. 2. Don't hijack another thread with new unrelated info. 3. Trim your responses. 4. Turn off html in your mail client. 5. Try and do some basic google searches on your problem. Quoted from: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lutz Griesbach wrote on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:11:25 +0200: > Is that possible? No. And it wouldn't help you. There is no such thing as an "upgrade" in reality. An "upgrade" to 4.7 is just an update to the bunch of rpms that is considered to be "4.7". e.g. *any* update of dhcrelay might create the

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lutz Griesbach wrote on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:54:32 +0200: > Also I didn't now, that nightly updates include upgrades and this > doesn't makes sense to me either. Who wants to get 193 packages including > kernel, glibc and the like, without any notice over night on his machine? So, you thought you w

AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Griesbach, Lutz
Ok, i only tried "upgrade" once manually to get another box from centos4.4 to a 4.5 ( and I ran into this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2557 ) and thought, the difference between update and upgrade is like the debian based "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". The man page states t

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:54:32PM +0200, Griesbach, Lutz wrote: Please wrap your lines at a reasonable length; 72 to 76 characters is good, thanks! > Also I didn't now, that nightly updates include upgrades and this > doesn't makes sense to me either. Who wants to get 193 packages including Wha

Re: [CentOS] XDMCP - no GDM login, only gray screen with X

2008-10-02 Thread Sean Carolan
> Set Enable=true under XDMCP section on /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf > and relogin it will work you out. > I thought about this until I read the directions in the defaults.conf file: # This file should not be updated by hand. Since GDM 2.13.0.4, # configuration choices in the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm

AW: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Griesbach, Lutz
Why being so offensive? May be i ask stupid Questions, but you're the one judging me without knowing any background. With RTFM you are right, I read the man pages and disabled nightly updates. Thank you for your help. Lutz Griesbach --- -

Re: [CentOS] Half-OT: Modify several ldap entries

2008-10-02 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 20:56, Sergio Belkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to fix several entries of mail attribute mail that have an > error something like this: I use "ldapvi" that opens your whole LDAP database in an editor and allows you to do the changes using the editor. Once you a

Re: AW: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Toby Bluhm
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: . . Don't top post, please. With RTFM you are right, I read the man pages and disabled nightly updates. Thank you for your help. Did you leave it so it at least notifies you of available updates? Better than ignoring updates altogether. -tkb

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Ok, i only tried "upgrade" once manually to get another box from centos 4..4 > to a 4.5 > ( and I ran into this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2557 ) and thought, > the > difference between update and upgrade is like the debian based "apt-get > upgrade" > and "ap

RE: [CentOS] Faking RHEL with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
NiftyClusters T Mitchell wrote: > > If it is Oracle, Given the price of Oracle -- just purchase the RH > product. > It is common that the expensive packages are the most restrictive and > putative. FYI, Oracle runs just fine on CentOS. -- Bowie ___

[CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My OQO has a VIA chipset. From the hwconf: class: VIDEO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700M2 UniChrome PRO II Graphics" vendorId: 1106 deviceId: 3157 subVendorId: 1106 subDeviceId: 3157 pciType: 1 pcidom:0 pcibus: 1 pcidev: 0 pcifn: 0 When I install Centos, I defaul

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Griesbach, Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i only tried "upgrade" once manually to get another box from centos4.4 to > a 4.5 ( and I ran into this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2557 ) and > thought, the difference between update and upgrade is like the d

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Moskowitz a écrit : At first I get errors from X when logging in, finally I get changes to occur, but I am still at 800x480. Selecting 800x600 or 1024x768 mkaes no difference. Below is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Any ideas on what to try? Backup your existing configuration. As root:

RE: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > > > Oh, c'mon! > > > If I want to talk about professional honor, I'd prefer a > different list. > > So, I thought it might be possible to stick in the release during > > nightly updates, but your educational answer doesn't help much. > > Get out of your high hor

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That bug is unreproducible because you have manually altered the yum > configuration so in > reality its a self-induced problem not a "bug". If you are new to using a > mailing list > follow some of these guidelines :- > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-Oc

[CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I've got a CentOS4.7-machine as a fileserver. The machine also serves as the LDAP-server against which all regular users are authenticated. The problem I am having is that the machine takes a very long time to boot. Most of the services start up rather quick, but three services take quite a l

Re: [CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 17:08 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a CentOS4.7-machine as a fileserver. The machine also serves > as the LDAP-server against which all regular users are > authenticated. The problem I am having is that the machine takes a > very long time to boot. Most

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Niki Kovacs wrote: Robert Moskowitz a écrit : At first I get errors from X when logging in, finally I get changes to occur, but I am still at 800x480. Selecting 800x600 or 1024x768 mkaes no difference. Below is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Any ideas on what to try? Backup your existing conf

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Moskowitz a écrit : Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Of course you will have to do this with X not running. Two solutions. Either edit /etc/inittab, like this: # Default runleve

Re: [CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:17, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > add this to the bottom of /etc/ldap.conf > > timelimit 30 > bind_timelimit 30 > bind_policy soft > nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap Personally, I use a longer list or users: nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,

Re: [CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:25:55PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Personally, I use a longer list or users: > nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus > > I've collected those in trying to speed up the startup of other > daemons. I'm not sure if all of them are still

Re: [CentOS] For newcomers to the mailing list.

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Don't top post. Bottom post instead. > 2. Don't hijack another thread with new unrelated info. Create a new thread for a new topic. > 3. Trim your responses. Leave in the attribution lines of any included previous posts, but leave o

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Niki Kovacs wrote: Robert Moskowitz a écrit : Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Of course you will have to do this with X not running. Two solutions. Either edit /etc/inittab, Thought

Re: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Bob Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [From vandaman2002-rt(at)yahoo.com:] >> >> Griesbach, Lutz wrote: >> >> > Oh, c'mon! >> >> > If I want to talk about professional honor, I'd prefer a >> different list. >> > So, I thought it might be possible to stick in the r

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > ModelName"LCD Panel 1024x768" > ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: > HorizS

Re: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember when I first > started on this list, all I had was my name and title, which happened > to be "Linux Kernel Engineer," and I caught a fair amount of flack for > /that/. I remember those days very well, Mark. And I wonder

AW: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Griesbach, Lutz
> 5) Bottom post, trim responses, be polite, no html, etc., etc. - > remember those last few posts right here on this email list? The > guidelines are right there in a link when you sign up, and you AGREED > to them, so you ought to read them and take heed, too. > I'm sorry form my Top-Posts her

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I install Centos, I default to the vesa driver, and it operates at the > monitor's native 800x480. Of course I want more and to physically scroll > the screen to see all of the content (the OQO has slide bars on i

Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Ramon Nieto
--- El jue 2-oct-08, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: De:: Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Asunto: Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS A: centos@centos.org Fecha: jueves, 2 octubre, 2008, 4:08 am I really do wonder what you want to accomplish by that. Ralph Samba as a PDC with shar

[CentOS] Keeping a complete CentOS mirror

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Miller
Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of CentOS 4/5 automagically? In other words I would pull the old files from the vault site when needed, and new files from one of the other mirrors. I've seen/used a few scripts but rsync just stomps the old releases with the latest.

[CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir Assadallah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. T

Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
2008/10/2 Ramon Nieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- El jue 2-oct-08, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > Samba as a PDC with shares and user profiles for 1500+ users. > > PS. > > My last email using yahoo, i'll subscribe with a gmail account. > Ah, thank you - I couldn't even read w

[CentOS] VNC & GDM & runlevel 3

2008-10-02 Thread Test
Has anybody been able to get this to work ? I have been trying multiple options until now but all give me the empty crappy desktop with black cross display... I have tried changing the server_args in the xinetd config, but that makes a connection and exits straigt away... On 1 box it works in ru

[CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core

2008-10-02 Thread James B. Byrne
I am attempting to install CentOS-5.0 from CD-ROM onto an HPQ- DC7700 Dual Core machine. The standard install seems to halt at, or immediately after, this point in the setup process is displayed on the console: {default install option} ... CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU 4300 @ 1.8GHz stepping 02 .

Re: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember those days very well, Mark. And I wondered why when you > removed that title. Don't think I've ever given you hard time... :-D > Now you know, and no, I don't think you've ever been other than polite and helpf

Re: [CentOS] Keeping a complete CentOS mirror

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Q. Why? > A. Because I have customers that need access to older OS builds as their > products do not move as quickly as CentOS. > These folks must be slower than molasses at the south pole (before global warming) ;-)

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Moskowitz a écrit : So I did and it made a HUGH xorg.conf.new file. With instructions to try it out by: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new Well that brought up X but no window open and left or right mouse did nothing. So back to and I see messages about VNC mode (I have vncserver conf

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread John R Pierce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir

Re: [CentOS] Flaky graphics - need help nailing down the cause

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
SOLVED: Thanks to all who piled in with their good advice. I hooked up my old (50lb) CRT and it showed the same display problems, so I figured it was the video card. Got lucky, found a replacement (the 7200GS) cheap at our local Micro Center and all is now well again. BTW, the "beta" driver I'm

RE: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam > is probably > > a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his > > service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an > > except, 99% of spam has forged FROM addresses, often an > innocent address

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Bob Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This list does not publish the actual mails in the archive does it? > Apparently you have not looked there? Yes, it does. That's what archives are for - historical records and information. It's a goldmine if you can rem

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Vandaman
John R Pierce wrote: > except, 99% of spam has forged FROM addresses, often an > innocent address > randomly picked from the same lists being used to send the > spam TOO. > > 95% of the spam is sent from hacked/infected servers acting > as relays, > so complaining to the owner of the IP space t

RE: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > Apparently you have not looked there? Yes, it does. That's > what archives are for - historical records and information. > It's a goldmine if you can remember how to look something up > > mhr Yes I have, just never looked at anything other than what I was reading. Great.. Guess

[CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-02 Thread Didi
Hey I just read this http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/cebit_open_source_linux_magazine_and_linux_foundation_announce_call_for_projects Maybe Centos want's to try to get a stand. Cheers Didi www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype : ribalba ___

RE: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Vandaman
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Great.. Guess best thing to do is get a gmail account to use > with mailing lists to lower spam scanners on your main email.. > > Sigh..too late for this one...lol Gmail? Yahoomail is just fine too. I use the addressguard and have disposable addresses, so my main email is

[CentOS] Yum-Fastest Mirror

2008-10-02 Thread Bo Lynch
Is there a way to configure yum fastest mirror to only look for http mirrors not ftp? I have tried adding ftp and ftp:// to the exclude section in the config file with no luck. Any info would be much appreciated. Thank you -- Bo Lynch ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Keeping a complete CentOS mirror

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chris Miller wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:56:43 -0700: > Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of > CentOS 4/5 automagically? Not sure what you mean. If you want to keep all old, superceded files you should make a copy of each daily rsync. If what you mean by release is

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lutz Griesbach wrote on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:42:49 +0200: > 4.7 ist out since Sept 13th. What exactly triggers the update on October > 2nd? > If I run nightly updates, shouldn't it happened exactly when the release > is out > or, at least, when the mirrors are up to date? Again, there is no such th

Re: [CentOS] Keeping a complete CentOS mirror

2008-10-02 Thread John R Pierce
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Chris Miller wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:56:43 -0700: Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of CentOS 4/5 automagically? Not sure what you mean. If you want to keep all old, superceded files you should make a copy of each daily rsync. If

[CentOS] Re: Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-2-2008 4:11 AM Griesbach, Lutz spake the following: > Hy there, > > i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last night, it > did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not respawning the > dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. > > Can I control the update p

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
John R Pierce a écrit : except, 99% of spam has forged FROM addresses, Yeah, but at least one sender IP that can't be forged. Run jwhois on that, which usually gives you an [EMAIL PROTECTED] adress, and then simply forward them the spam. Normal providers hate hosting spammers. Unless, of

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Glenn
At 03:13 PM 10/2/2008, you wrote: John R Pierce a écrit : except, 99% of spam has forged FROM addresses, Yeah, but at least one sender IP that can't be forged. Run jwhois on that, which usually gives you an [EMAIL PROTECTED] adress, and then simply forward them the spam. Normal providers

Re: [CentOS] For newcomers to the mailing list.

2008-10-02 Thread mouss
MHR wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Don't top post. Bottom post instead. 2. Don't hijack another thread with new unrelated info. Create a new thread for a new topic. 3. Trim your responses. Leave in the attribution lines of any included previous posts

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread MHR
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it was, the original poster of the thread did not post his email headers, > so we are just taking his word for it that it came from eircom.net. However, > emailing their [EMAIL PROTECTED] now gets an auto-response that they wi

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new releases in the nightly upda

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-10-02 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. Coincidence? Update: I've Found the problem with this, it's a bug[1] in gnome-vfs. The Trash d

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Vandaman
MHR wrote > Sounds like they have a serious problem with spam from their users, > they know it, but they don't know how to deal with it (or don't care), > in which case (either way) they deserve to be blacklisted. That kind > of "support" we can do without. 1. Go to the eircom page or type abuse

[CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core

2008-10-02 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, October 2, 2008 13:58, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am attempting to install CentOS-5.0 from CD-ROM onto an HPQ- DC7700 Dual > Core machine. The standard install seems to halt at, or immediately after, > this point in the setup process is displayed on the console: > > {default install option

[CentOS] Re: OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-2-2008 12:54 PM MHR spake the following: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As it was, the original poster of the thread did not post his email headers, >> so we are just taking his word for it that it came from eircom.net. However, >> emailing their [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:25:55 -0400 > "FB" == Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FB> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:17, Craig White FB> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> add this to the bottom of /etc/ldap.conf >> >> timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Les Mikesell wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:58:40 -0500: > No, the updates aren't nicely separated into ones that will break the > services you happen to need and ones that won't. Nice picture. I imagine them sitting around the table and rolling some dice to determine which ones to break this tim

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI ini and ESX Server

2008-10-02 Thread Jason Cox
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, I guess I had better read up on how to create targets, I just assumed > it would > be like iet and use text files. What was your mod for the init script? > > jlc > I added the following to my /etc/init.d/tgtd

Re: [CentOS] 10 Gb with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > and while we are at that: please use a decent mail program that can attach > the correct MIME content-encoding header for your special characters. > These are coming out as garbage because your message is us-ascii. > Hi Kai Your ema

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Boyd
On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Vandaman wrote: 1. Go to the eircom page or type abuse at eircom in google to get the web form. The form looks like it goes direct to their tech support, they responded very fast. Yes, but the trend is for the big ISPs to use ARF, which sort of defeats the idea

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Chris Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Vandaman wrote: > >> 1. Go to the eircom page or type abuse at eircom in google to get the web >> form. The form looks like it goes direct to their tech support, they >> responded very fast. > > Ye