Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
sbeam wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2008 07:26, Michael Simpson wrote: >>> Ditto here. Have you run an "rpm --verify" to see if you have corruption >>> problems? Have you mixed installs from (possibly conflicting) repos? I >>> suspect one of those two. Have you checked your hardware (memtest, >>>

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. > > Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. > > A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen > that in Fedora. This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linu

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 14

2008-10-24 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] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Mark Maskery a écrit : >>> We develop and sell a server based application as an appliance in >>> which, in general, the customer does not have direct access to the >>> operating system. My question is, ar

Re: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?

2008-10-24 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, --On 17. Oktober 2008 10:45:08 -0400 "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:13 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I have lots of messages like these appearing on my local CentOS 5.2 consoles: > Oct 17 12:03:29 machine kernel: printk: 1 mess

[CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Semih Gokalp
Hi all CentOS users, I looked /var/log/messages log file and i realize something in "messages" files like below; --- Oct 24 04:02:42 cube2 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1545 --- "sdc" is my storage and i switched off storage at 6 PM. and when i checked messages log file

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Semih Gokalp wrote: ... > -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 15:39 faillog This is a file with "holes" in it, try du /var/log/faillog to get the size on disk. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27

[CentOS] Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-24 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM configuration. My question: How do I get the installer to let me use DiskDruid to create RAID1 arrays and then use LVM fo

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Semih Gokalp
yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? 2008/10/24 Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Semih Gokalp wrote: > ... >> -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:11:29PM +0300, Semih Gokalp enlightened us: > yes i did it before. > > du /var/log/message > > 28 /var/log/faillog > > but > > ls -al /var/log/ > > -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog > > but why it is different ? > It is what is call

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Semih Gokalp wrote: yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? It is a sparse file. It has holes in it. Only a few blocks are actually allocated. It is not

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks all for help. Thanks again. 2008/10/24 Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Semih Gokalp wrote: >> >> yes i did it before. >> >> du /var/log/message >> >> 28 /var/log/faillog >> >> but >> >> ls -al /var/log/ >> >> -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog >> >> bu

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > >> piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. > > > > Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. > > > > A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen > > that

[CentOS] Certain scripts "hang" the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
I have an init script that after running, causes my terminal not to log out cleanly. Here's what i mean: # /etc/init.d/script restart << this runs fine, returns my shell prompt # exit << When I enter this command, my shell window just stays "stuck" and actually won't close down. Anyone know w

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts "hang" the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Sean Carolan enlightened us: > I have an init script that after running, causes my terminal not to > log out cleanly. Here's what i mean: > > # /etc/init.d/script restart << this runs fine, returns my shell prompt > # exit << When I enter this command,

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts "hang" the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:48, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # /etc/init.d/script restart << this runs fine, returns my shell prompt > # exit << When I enter this command, my shell window just stays > "stuck" and actually won't close down. > > Anyone know why this happens? Yes,

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts "hang" the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
>> # /etc/init.d/script restart << this runs fine, returns my shell prompt >> # exit << When I enter this command, my shell window just stays >> "stuck" and actually won't close down. >> >> Anyone know why this happens? > > Are you spawning/backgrounding jobs in the script? Here is the script,

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts "hang" the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Sean Carolan
> You might try to change the script in init.d to append ">/dev/null 2>&1" at the line that starts the daemon, this might force > it to detach itself from the terminal. This appears to have corrected the issue, thank you very much for the reply. ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere > (probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for > storing the comamndline. There are two possible buffer limits one could

Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?

2008-10-24 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use > the session shadow mode on some machines. Oh neat! When did this get added to freenx? I've been wanted to test that out for a long time. Regards, Ranbir _

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Bart Schaefer wrote: >On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere >> (probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for >> storing the comamndline.

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Campbell wrote: There are two possible buffer limits one could encounter: tty driver input line buffer (which is not an issue for bash because readline avoids it) and kernel exec space for the arguments plus environment passed to a new process. Only the second one causes the error message

[CentOS] Re: OT: Setting a CentOS to gateway a private IP address

2008-10-24 Thread James B. Byrne
The solution to this proved quite simple, once I grasped the fact that all routers on a common network have to route for that network (duhh!!!) as well as any others that they may handle. So the ripd.conf file looks like this: ---> ! -*- rip -*- ! ! RIPd configuration file ! hostname a.b.domain.

Re: [CentOS] freenx 7.3?

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. Oh neat! When did this get added to freenx? I've been wanted to test that out for a long time.

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Setting a CentOS to gateway a private IP address

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
James B. Byrne wrote: The solution to this proved quite simple, once I grasped the fact that all routers on a common network have to route for that network (duhh!!!) as well as any others that they may handle. So the ripd.conf file looks like this: ---> ! -*- rip -*- ! ! RIPd configuration file

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sam, > > Most people responding are probably running the 32bit (i386) version of > CentOS. If you are running the x86_64 arch and also running the > Mozilla.org firefox then you are PROBABLY doing so via the 32bit > comp

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, > but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a > bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working > that had been wri

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Ed Westphal
MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working that had bee

[CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Mad Unix
i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \; Thx. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Mad Unix wrote: >i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in >multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different >string... > >find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \; There are several tools that handle this type o

[CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
Hi, I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have installed a new centos 5.x server. the format of our current emails are [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the new format will be [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have 1600 accounts

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
Have you looked at the BlueQuartz project? It is specifically for the Cobalts, and I think is CentOS based. http://bluequartz.org/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Erick Perez wrote: >Hi, >I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and >we are phasing out the sun cube due to

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Erick Perez a écrit : > Hi, > I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and > we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have > installed a new centos 5.x server. > the format of our current emails are [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the new > format will be [EMAI

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i -e 's/old/new/g' {} \;

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Pintér Tibor
Phil Schaffner írta: Mad Unix wrote: i need your feedback about this command, it should find a string in multiple html files in a directory and replace it with a different string... find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/"old"/"new"/g' {} \; Mad Unix, find /dir -name "*.html" -exec sed -i

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 23:13 +0200, Pintér Tibor wrote: > perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/" *.html Won't recurse down the directory tree, but I guess the OP didn't actually ask for that. Could substitute the perl commad for sed in the earlier example. Many ways to skin the cat (all equally odious to the c

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
Hi bill. not sure what you want me to look there. The Cobalt will go away and will probably be used in other task. We are not trying to rescue it. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked at the BlueQuartz project? It is specifically > for the Co

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Erick Perez
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erick Perez a écrit : >> Hi, >> I have a customer with a sun cobalt running Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2 and >> we are phasing out the sun cube due to some limitations. So we have >> installed a new centos 5.x server. >> the format of ou

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Erick Perez wrote: However, Since both servers will "answer" to the same domain, i need some guidance as to how to 1- If user hosted on the Sun sendmail Cube sends emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], make the Cube forward/send the email to the Centos machine. 2- If user hosted in centos, sends email t

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Erick Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i read about transport maps in postfix, just tried and worked perfectly. > thanks, > now i have to figure the sendmail part (i think virtusertable) > > Do you know how to make the sendmail part? > Now that you are bottom

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Pintér Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/" *.html You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing --

Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: > Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole > fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much > bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big > event way back when. Then Fortr

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Pintér Tibor
You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing if you dont, the target changes are applied to the source files. t __

[CentOS] Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: > MHR wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, >>> but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a >>> bit

Re: [CentOS] Help with a sun cobalt with sendmail and centos with postfix

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Erick Perez wrote: >Hi bill. not sure what you want me to look there. The Cobalt will go >away and will probably be used in other task. We are not trying to >rescue it. It was just a FYI post as many may not know of Bluequartz. I have a customer who is still running a bunch

[CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 7:25 AM Alex H. Vandenham spake the following: > When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is > > mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) > > My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM > configuration. > > My question: > > How do I get

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Scott Silva wrote: ... >When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were >the languages of the future! In a presentation at the 1985 Usenix conference, Rob Pike made a comment that he didn't know what the language for scientific program of the fut

[CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: >> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole >> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much >> bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Peterson
Scott Silva wrote: on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I s

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Raymond Lillard
Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following: >> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: >>> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole >>> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much >>> bandwidth, but

Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: >> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole >> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much >> bandwidth, but the switc

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > That's why you punch sequence numbers in the > last 8 columns. :-) ... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, but remember to number by some integer >> 1 or you had to redo the whole remainder of the deck to i

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Phil Schaffner wrote: >On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: >> That's why you punch sequence numbers in the >> last 8 columns. :-) > >... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you, >but remember to number by some integer >> 1 or yo

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:15:31PM -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: > I have been learning and using COBOL since the mid 80's. > I use COBOL at the present time for Web Programming also. > The COBOL we use runs on UNIX and Linux. > I use it in addition to PHP/MySQL for Web Programming. > > I have lo

Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote: >>> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole >>> fossils are still

Re: [CentOS] Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"

2008-10-24 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were > the languages of the future! > Sheesh! When I learned Fortran IV in 1974, we had the WatFour and WatFive compilers, and were getting ready to