Re: [CentOS] problem with centos upgrade

2009-05-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
John R Pierce wrote: > fabian dacunha wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine >> >> but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl >> errors and it terminates >> >> OS is centos 5 (final) >> >> the part of errors reported >>

[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Umm... is there any rational reason to only announce the CentOS-5.3 Live CD on May 27, when it was available since May 19, and Patrice has updated the Release Notes on the same May 19? The CD date is indeed 19-May-2009 02:50 and I've found it on May 21 on all the mirrors I've checked. I was pe

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 05/27/2009 08:52 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > Umm... is there any rational reason to only announce the CentOS-5.3 Live CD > on May 27, when it was available since May 19, and Patrice has updated the > Release Notes on the same May 19? Like every thing else we do - its not released

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > Umm... is there any rational reason to only announce the CentOS-5.3 > Live CD on May 27, when it was available since May 19, and Patrice has > updated the Release Notes on the same May 19? Yes. We had some issues with our mirror network which we wanted to resolve

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> Like every thing else we do - its not released till > its announced. And till its announced, it can change > - be removed or modified or even pulled. Thanks. It makes sense. It's just... the regular 5.3 was *not* posted (as ISO images) one week before the announcement! And it was frustrating

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> Yes. We had some issues with our mirror network which we > wanted to resolve before announcing the Live CD, so that > the CD would be available on all mirror carrying CD isos. Ouch, didn't know that there were mirroring problems. > > Also, how come it only includes FF 3.0.6? This is > terribl

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/27/2009 10:25 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > Just updating 1 (one) package and regenerate the CD... how much would it have > taken to test the result? Note that the updated package was part of CentOS > 5.3 since April 28 already. (Sigh.) the problem in this case, is that the package sh

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> the problem in this case, is that the package should not > have been updated. It would / should be the same as whats > in the 5.3 tree. We prolly need to add that to the QA process. I know that this is CentOS' policy -- to ship obsolete packages on the install media, just to match 100% the ups

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > It looks like CentOS has not defined yet a solid policy wrt the > LiveCD. > > You could have taken some ideas from the ScientificLinux > LiveCDs/LiveDVD/miniLiveCD. Unless you consider them a "rival", or > unless you hate Urs Beyerle. For instance, they've added to t

Re: [CentOS] problem with centos upgrade

2009-05-27 Thread fabian dacunha
> John R Pierce wrote: >> fabian dacunha wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine >>> >>> but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of >>> perl >>> errors and it terminates >>> >>> OS is centos 5 (final) >>> >>> the part of er

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Nothing will keep from joining the live CD project on > http://projects.centos.org/ - constructive input is > always welcome. Oh. Knowing that CentOS is the most conservative from all the EL clones, I don't expect 'heresies' to be accepted. Sh

[CentOS] Sparse LUN's

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Bird
Hi All, I've been chasing down a problem with LUN masking on CentOS5/RHEL5 hosts with QLogic HBA's for a few hours and seem to have got to an impass; Any device (disks in my case) on Non-sequential LUN's are not registered with the OS. This happens across various HBA models and kernel versions. F

[CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.3 on all my desktops, and I really like it. Now I'd like to build a few additional apps that aren't included in any third party repo. Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. General question: 1) how "safe" is it to

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm > considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. > > General question: 1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this > package? To do so, I'd use an SRPM from Fedora. > 2) What could I possible "break" on a > va

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > Should I switch completely to CentOS (that is, laptop(s), etc.), I should > rather see whether I could be of any help with other issues, such as > CentOS extras (e.g. how safe is to mix 'extras' with RPMforge with > centos.karan.org when one

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm >> considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. >> >> General question: 1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this >> package? To do so, I'd use an SRPM from Fedora. >> 2)

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ladislav Bodnar a écrit : > > Hey, didn't you abandon Linux and switch to Windows not long ago? I remember > you making a big deal out of this on your blog. Or did you change your mind > again? Was the Windows world that bad? To err is human. Béranger is looking for perfection in an imperfect

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > > Nothing will keep from joining the live CD project on > > http://projects.centos.org/ - constructive input is always welcome. > > Oh. Knowing that CentOS is the most conservative from all the EL > clones, I

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Ladislav Bodnar a écrit : > >> Hey, didn't you abandon Linux and switch to Windows not long ago? I remember >> you making a big deal out of this on your blog. Or did you change your mind >> again? Was the Windows world that bad? > > To err is human. Béranger is looking for

[CentOS] Deluge torrent client issue

2009-05-27 Thread attila.mathe
Hi All, Does someone know, why I'm receiving the following error message for the Deluge torrent client under 5.3, when I'm trying to access the Web interface ? DBusException : The name org.deluge_torrent.dbusplugin was not provided by any .service files Oops, Deluge Broke :-( , You might have

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Ladislav Bodnar a écrit : > > > > > Hey, didn't you abandon Linux and switch to Windows > > > not long ago? I remember > > > you making a big deal out of this on your blog. Or > > > did you change your mind > > > again? Was the

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Toby Bluhm
> > Fixing of what? > Come on now. You started this thread. -- tkb ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > What's really nice is that Ladislav, the promoter of FLOSS, is banning me > *by the IP* to comment on his DWW There is a big difference between insightful, calm commenting and senseless, angry ranting. __

[CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

2009-05-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:16:42AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Here is the updated version: >> >> http://centos.toracat.org/kmods/CentOS-4/xfs/SRPMS/ >> >> Please discard the obsoleted ones (I did not bump the version/release >> number).  Let me

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13

2009-05-27 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

2009-05-27 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> The problem is more that your client breaks threading, as >> it does not insert an In-Reply-To: line. > > All I can do in Yahoo Mail is to preserve the "--- On date, someone wrote:"

[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello everyone, I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off aga

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread nate
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using CentOS 5.3 on all my desktops, and I really like it. Now I'd > like to build a few additional apps that aren't included in any third > party repo. Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm considering > a (careful) upgrade of this package. > > General qu

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
nate a écrit : > > Try it out and see what happens.. since the version change seems > pretty minor I wouldn't expect too much breakage .. Though to be > on the safe side it's probably good to install it to another > directory(/usr/local or something) and change the package name so > it doesn't con

[CentOS] Cron Job?

2009-05-27 Thread Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, How does one create a cron job that runs commands like: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -update Say every 15 mins? -Jason ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > nate a écrit : >> Try it out and see what happens.. since the version change seems >> pretty minor I wouldn't expect too much breakage .. Though to be >> on the safe side it's probably good to install it to another >> directory(/usr/local or something) and change the package na

Re: [CentOS] Cron Job?

2009-05-27 Thread Zack Colgan
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > How does one create a cron job that runs commands like: > > /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update > /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -update > > Say every 15 mins? > > -Jason You could cr

Re: [CentOS] Cron Job?

2009-05-27 Thread gregor-grue...@t-online.de
Hi Jason,to run the cronjob every minutes then like:# crontab -e*/15 * * * * /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update; /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -updateor look into the docu. man 5 crontabbest regardsGregor Gruener -Original-Na

[CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-05-27 Thread Samuel Machua
LinkedIn Samuel Machua requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Romeo, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Samuel View invitation from Samuel Machua http://www.linkedin.com/e/c640Z0zoY42Hba6yQ6iWhZknxFvA

[CentOS] NUT packages for centos/rhel ?

2009-05-27 Thread fred smith
Anyone know of NUT (the ups tools) packages for Centos 5 or RHEL 5? Thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He

Re: [CentOS] NUT packages for centos/rhel ?

2009-05-27 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:42:14PM -0400, fred smith wrote: > Anyone know of NUT (the ups tools) packages for Centos 5 or RHEL 5? > > Thanks! Nut should be in EPEL: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/nut Though it seems to be orphaned and needs a maintainer. Don't know if it

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-27 Thread Dave Jones
On Friday 22 May 2009, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: ... >> Would it make sense to install the kernel from CentOS 5.2? Any >> contraindications? >As others have said, you should still have the 5.2 kernel around. Just change >the grub.conf and reboot. It makes no sense to start swapping around hardware

Re: [CentOS] Fixing to bite the dust?

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-22-2009 5:18 PM sam spake the following: > I dunno Nate, > > It started all this extraenous logging stuff after kicking memory > from a paltry 256m up to 2 Gigs. The system has on occasion crashed with > little else in the log files that would indicate any kind of other > hardware prob

[CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, Where is the proper place to put .htpasswd so I can password protect directories in /var/www/html? /etc/httpd/run? -Jason ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-25-2009 9:26 AM William Warren spake the following: > Tosh wrote: >> Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >>> Hi Bill, >>> >>> On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >>> >> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? >> >>> Something I totally left out in my last email -

Re: [CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread John R Pierce
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > Where is the proper place to put .htpasswd so I can password protect > directories in /var/www/html? > > /etc/httpd/run? > probably not, as thats a world readable directory (its a symlink to /var/run ) I've generally stuck them in an app specifi

Re: [CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:36:19PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > I've generally stuck them in an app specific directory, if your website > is all in /var/www, I'd probably stash them in a subdir of that. Just don't stick them under htdocs; or if you do then ensure there's an access control to pre

Re: [CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:36:19PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > >> I've generally stuck them in an app specific directory, if your website >> is all in /var/www, I'd probably stash them in a subdir of that. >> > > Just don't stick them under htdocs; or if you do th

Re: [CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > Where is the proper place to put .htpasswd so I can password protect > directories in /var/www/html? > > /etc/httpd/run? In theory if you have root access to the system, you really shouldn't use .htaccess files unless

Re: [CentOS] Where to put .htpasswd

2009-05-27 Thread Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
Hi John, >> Where is the proper place to put .htpasswd so I can password protect >> directories in /var/www/html? >> >> /etc/httpd/run? >> > probably not, as thats a world readable directory (its a symlink to > /var/run ) What does world readable mean scope wise? Like world readable from a web-s

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-27 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:03 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > I am experiencing the same issue with random reboots after a 5.3 > upgrade. Sometimes it will go for days without rebooting then today > it has rebooted 6 times at random times. I have modified grub.conf to > go back to 2.6.18-92.1.22.el

[CentOS] 'Missing end of line'

2009-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
For a while I've been getting this in my daily reports: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: /etc/logrotate.conf:26 missing end of line It appears to originate from my CentOS server (though since client root mail goes there I can't be certain. The headers don't suggest client origin, to me). I'

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-27 Thread Tosh
JohnS wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:03 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > >> I am experiencing the same issue with random reboots after a 5.3 >> upgrade. Sometimes it will go for days without rebooting then today >> it has rebooted 6 times at random times. I have modified grub.conf to >> go back to 2