[CentOS] OT: errors building packages from src.rpm (trying to rebuild RHELIPA)

2009-07-06 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, I am trying to rebuild RHELIPA packages downloaded from ftp.redhat.com. All goes ok except from python-psycopg2 package. When I try to rebuild, gives me these errors: + exit 0 Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 Requires: pytho

Re: [CentOS] OT: errors building packages from src.rpm (trying to rebuild RHELIPA)

2009-07-06 Thread Andrew Colin Kissa
I suspect it is a problem with the spec file under the %files section. On 06 Jul 2009, at 10:59 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rebuild RHELIPA packages downloaded from ftp.redhat.com . All goes ok except from python-psycopg2 package. When I try to rebuild, gives me these

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-06 Thread Ian Murray
I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't backport. Before I set the machine up for proper, I tried a live Ubuntu disk which recognised the ethernet no problem, which lead me to figuring out what to

Re: [CentOS] OT: errors building packages from src.rpm (trying to rebuild RHELIPA)

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:59 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: > Hi all, > >  I am trying to rebuild RHELIPA packages downloaded from ftp.redhat.com. All > goes ok except from python-psycopg2 package. When I try to rebuild, gives me > these errors: Translated: > RPM build errors: >     user brewbuilder d

Re: [CentOS] ffmpeg and zoneminder install problems

2009-07-06 Thread John Doe
From: Gregory P. Ennis > svn checkout -r 11879 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg > cd ffmpeg/ > ./configure > make > When I execute the make command I get the following that results in an Error > message. If you use svn, it is always a good idea to do a 'make distclean' between the

[CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, and vo

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's > installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS > system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then > everything unchecke

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > > ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ? On my laptop: [kikino...@lifebook ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 4 jui 6 07:32 /dev/audio crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 3 jui 6 07:32 /dev/dsp And on the jukebox: [kikino...@jukebox ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp

Re: [CentOS] How best to allow users to change Samba passwords?

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I know this is a late reply, but I've only just got round to things. pgina works absolutely fine, thanks for that. It also allows fallback to local users for our laptop wielding brethren. All I need to do now is work out how to use the Centos/redhat/fedora directory server. On 01/07/2009 16:38,

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : >> >> ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ? > > On my laptop: > > [kikino...@lifebook ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} > crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 4 jui  6 07:32 /dev/audio > crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 3 jui  6 07:32 /dev/d

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > Yeah, unfortunatelly I don't know either. Never used systems for such > thing, it's probably a udev issue. Easy solution is to chown user > /dev/dsp and then add this command to rc.local. OK, I followed your quick & dirty hack. I have to be root to set the volume l

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > >> Yeah, unfortunatelly I don't know either. Never used systems for such >> thing, it's probably a udev issue. Easy solution is to chown user >> /dev/dsp and then add this command to rc.local. > > OK, I followed you

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading drives in raid 1

2009-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/02/2009 09:52 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > > I am thinking I would next forget about md0 (the boot part) and concentrate > on the md1, where the whole system lies. Don't completely forget about it. You'll probably need to reinstall grub when you replace each disk. _

Re: [CentOS] what would be happen if swap partition is not?

2009-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/03/2009 05:46 AM, MontyRee wrote: > > But, if there is no swap partion at system, what would be happen? > that makes the system unstable or not? That depends on what you're running. As people point out, you can usually get along without one, but doing so is a bad idea in some configuratio

[CentOS] Memory reporting...

2009-07-06 Thread John Doe
Hi, I have a little question about memory usage... When I do a free, I get: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 18482800 18030668 452132 0 6830689426792 -/+ buffers/cache:7920808 10561992 But, when I do a ps, mysql is

Re: [CentOS] Memory reporting...

2009-07-06 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a little question about memory usage... > > When I do a free, I get: I calculate system memory usage by (total memory) - (free memory) - (cached memory) - (buffers memory) The "free" memory reported by free/top/other tools is very misleading, and is the topic of

Re: [CentOS] Memory reporting...

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little question about memory usage... > > When I do a free, I get: /proc/meminfo may give you a more detailed summary. /Peter > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 18482800 18030668

[CentOS] Network Utilization

2009-07-06 Thread Parsons, Scott
I'm attempting to create a script that will indicate the % utilization of a network interface. I need this to export a one shot output that can be called by nagios. I've tried the following tools but I was unable to find a way to output just the utilization, and just one time: bmon, iftop, ifstat,

[CentOS] User Management

2009-07-06 Thread Justin Lim
I am just wondering how other people are doing their user management for multiple servers that not in any type of directory. Do anyone use any application that query each server for users or keep a database of users that's on each server? I would like to get feedback on what others use... Thank

Re: [CentOS] Network Utilization

2009-07-06 Thread Tom Brown
> I'm attempting to create a script that will indicate the % utilization > of a network interface. I need this to export a one shot output that can > be called by nagios. > > I've tried the following tools but I was unable to find a way to output > just the utilization, and just one time: bmon, if

Re: [CentOS] Network Utilization

2009-07-06 Thread nate
Parsons, Scott wrote: > I'm attempting to create a script that will indicate the % utilization > of a network interface. I need this to export a one shot output that can > be called by nagios. > > I've tried the following tools but I was unable to find a way to output > just the utilization, and ju

Re: [CentOS] User Management

2009-07-06 Thread nate
Justin Lim wrote: > I am just wondering how other people are doing their user management for > multiple servers that not in any type of directory. > > Do anyone use any application that query each server for users or keep a > database of users that's on each server? > > I would like to get feedback

Re: [CentOS] GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin (users & groups)

2009-07-06 Thread Pavel Lisý
Miguel Medalha píše v Ne 05. 07. 2009 v 22:26 +0100: > > > Does there exist a GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin for CentOS 5 (RHEL > > 5)? > > > > From a Windows client you can see and manage your LDAP directory with > the free > LDAP Admin: > > http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ > > Under

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:24:41 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > fetch an audio stream (produced by > MPD/Icecast upstairs on a big PC) Answering your question with one of my own, what's the "big PC" running? I was under the impression that Icecast didn't currently get along well with Centos 5. (The

Re: [CentOS] module-info vs pci.ids

2009-07-06 Thread nate
nate wrote: > Hello - > > It's been so long since I've tried hacking the kickstart > media to include an updated driver but I guess that time has > come again for me at least, getting an updated "igb" driver > into the CentOS 5.2 installation for a HP DL165G5p(I'm not > ready yet for CentOS 5.3

[CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Dmitry
Hi. Could you please give me advice about issue described below. My friends have to use a PC with old hardware for a few months. They've got 128MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive; Pentium 3 processor. At the moment they have windows xp running on it, but it's very slow. What are the system requiremen

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread jacob
The RAM is a little on the low side, 512M is the recommended to run a GUI at the moment I think but 128M is all that's required for Command line, and GUI would probably run but might be a little slow to respond. But otherwise this machine should do run Centos 5 fine. The CPU and HD are more then ad

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:01 PM, wrote: > The RAM is a little on the low side, 512M is the recommended to run a > GUI at the moment I think but 128M is all that's required for Command > line, and GUI would probably run but might be a little slow to respond. > But otherwise this machine should do ru

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread fabian
Dear Guys Thanks and apprecite your quick replies By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way top was reporting 95% wa i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the cron.daily entry in the

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Kampen
fabian wrote: Dear Guys Thanks and apprecite your quick replies By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way top was reporting 95% wa i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the cron.dai

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday 06 July 2009, "fabian" wrote: > now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily > directory so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to > almost 99 % for almost 6 hrs > but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance > or any per

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Dmitry a écrit : > Hi. > > Could you please give me advice about issue described below. > > My friends have to use a PC with old hardware for a few months. They've > got 128MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive; Pentium 3 processor. > > At the moment they have windows xp running on it, but it's very slow

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2009/7/6 Dmitry : > Hi. > > Could you please give me advice about issue described below. > My friends have to use a PC with old hardware for a few months. They've > got 128MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive; Pentium 3 processor. > At the moment they have windows xp running on it, but it's very slow. Just

[CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
Howdy, The yum install hangs in between. This happened few days as well, but just after doing Ctrl+C it reported error with mirror and switched to another one. Today, however, it is not responding to Ctrl+C and kill or kill -9 command is also not working. Any clues? Thanks, CS. _

Re: [CentOS] hardware requirements for Centos 2

2009-07-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Dmitry a écrit : >> Hi. >> >> Could you please give me advice about issue described below. >> >> My friends have to use a PC with old hardware for a few months. They've >> got 128MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive; Pentium 3 processor. >> >> At the moment they have windows xp running

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Carlos Santana a écrit : > Howdy, > > The yum install hangs in between. This happened few days as > well, but just after doing Ctrl+C it reported error with mirror and > switched to another one. Today, however, it is not responding to > Ctrl+C and kill or kill -9 command is also not working. Any

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
Thanks Niki. More specifically it hangs after: Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message: [r...@localhost ~]# yum clean all Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 17097.

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread nate
Carlos Santana wrote: > Any clues? kill the processes nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Carlos Santana a écrit : > Thanks Niki. > > More specifically it hangs after: > Downloading Packages: > Running rpm_check_debug > Running Transaction Test > > If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message: > [r...@localhost ~]# yum clean all > Existing lock /var/run/yu

Re: [CentOS] User Management

2009-07-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:15 PM, "Justin Lim" wrote: > I am just wondering how other people are doing their user management > for > multiple servers that not in any type of directory. > > Do anyone use any application that query each server for users or > keep a > database of users that's on each

Re: [CentOS] csgfs repo for CentOS 4

2009-07-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-26-2009 1:27 PM Bowie Bailey spake the following: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Bowie >> Bailey wrote: >> >>> Is there any update on the csgfs packages for CentOS 4? The current >>> rpms are 10 months old unless I'm looking at the wrong mirror. >>> >>> -- >>> Bo

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
- Process are not getting killed - I do not have yum-updatesd service running, status returns unrecognized service Any help? - CS. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Carlos Santana a écrit : >> Thanks Niki. >> >> More specifically it hangs after: >> Downloading Packages: >> Run

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread nate
Carlos Santana wrote: > - Process are not getting killed > - I do not have yum-updatesd service running, status returns > unrecognized service > > Any help? kill -9 ? since the processes are sleeping kill -9 should work fine nate ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not working.. :( - CS. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM, nate wrote: > Carlos Santana wrote: >> - Process are not getting killed >> - I do not have yum-updatesd service running, status returns >> unrecognized service >> >> Any help? > > kill

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> > kill -9 ? > As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not > working.. :( What about rebooting the machine? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, or other di

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread nate
Carlos Santana wrote: > As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not working.. :( You've specifically tried kill -9 ? That just doesn't make sense, I have never seen a process in a "S" state that did not die as a result of a kill -9. "D" state yes, "Z" state yes, "T" state maybe, b

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
Nope.. don't want to do that. It will screw up some of the other things/processes I want to remain active. CS. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> > kill -9 ? >> As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not >> working.. :( > > What about rebooting the machine?

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Carlos Santana
I am newbie, but I know diff in kill and kill -9. Heres my o/p: [r...@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep yum 16794 ?S 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17097 pts/1S+ 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 18082 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep yum [r...@localhost ~]# kil

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Carlos: What about kill -15? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, or other disaster? If so, ask me about our geographically redudant database system.

Re: [CentOS] yum install hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Carlos: There are several other signals you can try listed on this page: http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_12_01.html If none of those work, I don't think there is anything else you can do besides reboot. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will

[CentOS] Formatting print with awk and ORS

2009-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a command I execute: awk 'BEGIN { ORS=" " } { print "\"" $1 "\"" }' input_file which gives me exactly what I need, all field one's in quotes on one line each separated by one space. I now need to print a single quote around all of this, but the ORS flag is screwing me up, it's causing ever