[CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Hi, Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-week course for Writer and Calc. A

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), > and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. > > Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently > made the

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:21:56 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > Anyone has a solution to this? This seems like a major nuisance to me. Have you tried OO version 3 from openoffice.org? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Christoph Maser a écrit : > > Just a random guess. Do you have right openoffice.org-langpack > installed? Yes. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Cmake on Centos

Have folks been using Cmake on Centos5 without issues? I have installed an RPM for it, but I've been running into some apparent configuration issues. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/

Re: [CentOS] Cmake on Centos

Yes, I successfully use cmake-2.6.4-7.el5 from the atrpms.net repository. Have a look at atrpms.net for getting the file. For me it worked out of the box on a CentOS 5.3 x86_64. Greetings, Andre Geoff Galitz schrieb: > > > > > > Have folks been using Cmake on Centos5 without issues? I

[CentOS] German Centos/Linux Group in Cologne/Bonn/Aachen

It seems there are a number of Centos users in the Cologne/Bonn/Aachen area of Germany. If there is not one already (and please let me know if there is!) I'd like to start a Linux User Group (including Centos) for this area. I'm way down in Blankenheim, though. Would someone like to

Re: [CentOS] Cmake on Centos

> Yes, I successfully use cmake-2.6.4-7.el5 from the atrpms.net > repository. Have a look at atrpms.net for getting the file. For me it > worked out of the box on a CentOS 5.3 x86_64. > > Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

[CentOS] traceenable for httpd

On centos 5.3 x86_64 I can add "traceenable off" to httpd.conf and that works well. however this doesnt seem to work for centos 4.7 i686. Is there a similiar named option on 4.7? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] traceenable for httpd

> On centos 5.3 x86_64 I can add "traceenable off" to httpd.conf and that > works well. > however this doesnt seem to work for centos 4.7 i686. > Is there a similiar named option on 4.7? > > Jerry TraceEnable off is in apache 2.2 which is included in CentOS 5, and it may be in later versions of a

Re: [CentOS] traceenable for httpd

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > On centos 5.3 x86_64 I can add "traceenable off" to httpd.conf and that > works well. > however this doesnt seem to work for centos 4.7 i686. > Is there a similiar named option on 4.7? No. That option didn't come out until after the httpd include

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Nicki OO is one of the few packages I get directly from the sun/OO site. I install it in /opt and it works fine. You may want to remove the existing via yum first. Rob Kampen 407-341-3815 On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Ev

[CentOS] rpmforge.repo

How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see anything wrong with anything in there? Sam # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Re

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Sam Drinkard: > How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, > yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl > modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see > anything wron

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Hi, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 04:21, Niki Kovacs wrote: > And right now I discover that one crucial function of Calc, "fill > series", doesn't work. Let's say I type "lundi" (monday) in one cell, so > I can pull Calc's handle to fill other cells with the days of the week. > Doing the same with "janvi

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Dear Community, I recently started thinking about how to make a project like CentOS more transparent and open (especially for new contributors). The http://wiki.centos.org/Team page (which Dag created about a year ago) lists about 20 (more or less active) members, divided into core and community c

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

Sam Drinkard wrote: How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see anything wrong with anything in there? Sam # Name: RPMforge

[CentOS] rpmforge.repo

Sorry I didn't quote the reply from Christoph Maser... was on another machine. Anyhow, this is the complete yum output with rpmforge.repo active. # yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Sam Drinkard: > Sorry I didn't quote the reply from Christoph Maser... was on another > machine. Anyhow, this is the complete yum output with rpmforge.repo active. Looks like rpmforge has the same or a higher prio (lower number) than base

Re: [CentOS] traceenable for httpd

> > On centos 5.3 x86_64 I can add "traceenable off" to httpd.conf and > > that works well. > > however this doesnt seem to work for centos 4.7 i686. > > Is there a similiar named option on 4.7? > > > > Jerry > > TraceEnable off is in apache 2.2 which is included in CentOS > 5, and it may be in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Just to answer two of those questions: Marcus Moeller wrote: > THE WIKI: > > For me a wiki is a collaboration platform which should be accessible > to every contributor in the same manner (except the front and user > pages). That means there should be a join process (where you have to > agree to

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:43:36 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > >> Hello all: >>Does anyone know of a tool/project that will allow me to read the >> battery condition (not the charge status) on a Dell laptop battery? >> Under XP there is a utility that warns that

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

Johnny Hughes wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> My laptop is four years old, and yes the battery is aging. When I bought >> the >> laptop there were instructions that if a laptop is used mainly on mains, you >> should run it on battery, say once a month or so, until you are down to 10%. >>

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), > and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. > > Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently > made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-wee

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: > I recently started thinking about how to make a project like CentOS > more transparent and open (especially for new contributors). I have no idea what meaning to 'transparent' you have in mind -- all mailing lists of public character are open; the foru

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

On 06/08/09 16:21, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >>> My laptop is four years old, and yes the battery is aging. When I bought >>> the >>> laptop there were instructions that if a laptop is used mainly on mains, you >>> should run it on batt

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 54, Issue 1

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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of Chan Chung Hang Christopher >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:51 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis > >> People looking for info about this and r

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: > The bit that causes all the confusion here is the "C" in the name CentOS. It would all be so much clearer if the project would just rename to EntOS because that's what it is. I guess the "Community" bit refers to the community

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Ned Slider wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: > The bit that causes all the confusion here is the "C" in the name > CentOS. It would all be so much clearer if the project would just rename > to EntOS because that's what it is. Show merit on a sustained basis, and get offered [drafted

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:40 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > Some people are perhaps offended that the less public CentOS > infrastructure levels do not invite them in -- I cannot help > their wounded feelings.  Indeed, in part it may be that some > talented people drift away or withdraw for such a reason

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Marcus Moeller wrote on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:52:01 +0200: > Dear Community, I think the community would benefit from opening a new mailing list for these issues. There's already a promo list, but a discussion like this doesn't really fit on it. I also think it doesn't fit here. So, I think everyo

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

Christoph Maser wrote on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:18:26 +0200: > Looks like rpmforge has the same or a higher prio (lower number) than > base maybe base has accidentally none. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Million linux virtual machines

> what am I missing here ? Were they using CentOS ? I think this was one of those random /.esque off-topic sorta posts that tickles some geeks pink and makes others shake their heads. Myself, I enjoy the occasional off-topic "look at this cool, possibly weird, new way of using FLOSS". :-) -- D

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Hello all: >   Does anyone know of a tool/project that will allow me to read the > battery condition (not the charge status) on a Dell laptop battery? > Under XP there is a utility that warns that the battery is still > holding a charge but that th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Dear Kai, > I think the community would benefit from opening a new mailing list for > these issues. There's already a promo list, but a discussion like this > doesn't really fit on it. I also think it doesn't fit here. > So, I think everyone interested about CentOS management should be able to > d

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:40 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > >> Some people are perhaps offended that the less public CentOS >> infrastructure levels do not invite them in -- I cannot help >> their wounded feelings. ... > During my 'relatively short' history with C

[CentOS] so many arp caches why?

Hello, all. When I execute arp -a -n, there are lots of arp caches like below. Surely, I set netmask and Broadcast without problem and routing table also no problem. System is CentOS release 4.7 i386. I know how to delete the arp cache, but I don't know why .. # ifconfig eth0

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

MontyRee wrote: > > > Hello, all. > > > When I execute arp -a -n, there are lots of arp caches like below. > Surely, I set netmask and Broadcast without problem and routing table also > no problem. > > System is CentOS release 4.7 i386. > > I know how to delete the arp cache, > but I don't know why

Re: [CentOS] Autorun ability on cd?

On Wed, August 5, 2009 16:37, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:15:47 -0400, Stephen Harris > wrote: >> >> Untested, and it depends very much on your shell, but create a >> function >> >> cdr() >> { >> cd $1 || exit >> if [ -x ./.myscript ] >> then >> ./.myscr

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

thus nate spake: > MontyRee wrote: >> >> Hello, all. >> >> >> When I execute arp -a -n, there are lots of arp caches like below. >> Surely, I set netmask and Broadcast without problem and routing table also >> no problem. >> >> System is CentOS release 4.7 i386. >> >> I know how to delete the arp c

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

> Proxy ARP enabled? No like below. net.ipv4.conf.eth0.proxy_arp = 0 net.ipv4.conf.lo.proxy_arp = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.proxy_arp = 0 Thanks. > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:00:54 +0200 > From: timo.schoe...@riscworks.n

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

R P Herrold wrote: > > Some people are perhaps offended that the less public CentOS > infrastructure levels do not invite them in -- I cannot help > their wounded feelings. Indeed, in part it may be that some > talented people drift away or withdraw for such a reason. > While I regret the los

Re: [CentOS] Million linux virtual machines

Drew wrote: >> what am I missing here ? Were they using CentOS ? > > I think this was one of those random /.esque off-topic sorta posts > that tickles some geeks pink and makes others shake their heads. > > Myself, I enjoy the occasional off-topic "look at this cool, possibly > weird, new way of

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

MontyRee wrote: > > Hello, all. > > > When I execute arp -a -n, there are lots of arp caches like below. > Surely, I set netmask and Broadcast without problem and routing table also no > problem. > > System is CentOS release 4.7 i386. > > I know how to delete the arp cache, > but I don'

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: >> But the hard fact is that CentOS has been, is, and will >> remain a reliable approach for millions of systems, not with >> an 'open anything goes' management, but with a conservative >> and careful one, based on observed and continued technical >> merit b

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > If the laptop uses the (old!) APM interface, xapm will work.  If the > laptop uses the (newer, current) ACPI interface, I have written a little > utility that displays the battery state.  Visit > http://www.deepsoft.com/OddsAndEnds and scrol

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Ned Slider napsal(a): > The bit that causes all the confusion here is the "C" in the name > CentOS. It would all be so much clearer if the project would just rename > to EntOS because that's what it is. > > I guess the "Community" bit refers to the community of users, nothing more. Without the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Marcus Moeller wrote on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:32:29 +0200: > I think that 'centos' is the correct list to address these issues as > it's the most commonly read list and where the 'community' lives. Well, for the record: I'm not interested to read threads like this on *this* list. > I have to agree

Re: [CentOS] traceenable for httpd

Patrick Flaherty wrote on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:35:55 -0400: > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE > RewriteRule .* - [F] Or you could simply disallow it ... (among some other methods). Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

> Some other device on the subnet is doing proxy arp. No. there is no other card. and as you see, arp caches from eth0.. ? (72.18.205.157) at 00:23:5E:12:63:FE [ether] on eth0 I updated all packages including kernel and rebooted but there was no changes..

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

R P Herrold wrote: > >> Leaving outsiders to wonder what happens if those few insiders have a >> bad day. > > ... and we took heat for going public as well. We have done > what is right and accepted that not all will be pleased. > Thanks for being in there, throwing rocks, Les Don't misunders

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

MontyRee wrote: > >> Some other device on the subnet is doing proxy arp. > > No. there is no other card. Not another card, another network device - the one with 00:23:5E:12:63:FE as it's ethernet MAC address. > and as you see, arp caches from eth0.. > > ? (72.18.205.157) at 00:23:5E:12:63

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: >> > > > > The bit that causes all the confusion here is the "C" in the name > CentOS. It would all be so much clearer if the project would just rename > to EntOS because that's wha

[CentOS] BUG in httpd 2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Ned Slider wrote: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:30, Mark Hedges wrote: > >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux > >> Is this why DBD::SQLite broke under mod_perl recently in > >> CentOS? > > > > It might or might not be... In order to be sure, y

Re: [CentOS] BUG in httpd 2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2

Mark Hedges wrote: > With SELinux off, any script run by apache can access > anything on the filesystem that can be read by the apache > process user. Maybe that's not the best way to do it, but > it confirms that SELinux is not causing DBD::MySQL to break > under mod_perl in CentOS 5.3. I recal

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

Thanks for your answer. > Not another card, another network device - the one with > 00:23:5E:12:63:FE as it's ethernet MAC address. There is no another network device as I know. Can I check by some command except ifconfig or ip? # ip link show 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

MontyRee wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > >> Not another card, another network device - the one with >> 00:23:5E:12:63:FE as it's ethernet MAC address. > > There is no another network device as I know. > Can I check by some command except ifconfig or ip? You must have at least one other thing

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

On 07/30/2009 10:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote: >>> Benjamin Franz wrote: >>> Ned Slider wrote: > The "fix" has been available for a long time: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html > I'm not sure that is the 'fix

Re: [CentOS] Certificate system

John R Pierce wrote: > a few months ago, Barry Brimer wrote... > >> The Fedora version of RHCS is called Dogtag >> >> >> >> You might have to modify/rebuild their SRPMS. >> >> > > has anyone rebuilt this for CentOS5 yet? > > its quite a f

[CentOS] Certificate system

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, John R Pierce wrote: > I spent pretty much all afternoon and think I've got it built correctly > from the RHCS sources on ftp.redhat.com using CentOS 5.3 x86_64... ... nice work, John -- I know you were dragging earlier today, in IRC, when you mentioned this effort -- Russ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Don't misunderstand.  I think you have done and are doing a great job > but some things are out of any single person's control.  All I'm > suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy answer to the > question of "what if" those thi

[CentOS] syslog to remote server

Hi, I set up the syslog.conf to log local0 and local1 to a remote log server: *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local0.none;local1.none /var/log/messages local0.*;local1.* @192.168.1.2 The messages from local0 worked fine, all sent to the remote log

Re: [CentOS] syslog to remote server

On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:58:05 pm hce wrote: > The messages from local0 worked fine, all sent to the remote log > server. But all messages from local1 were still displayed in > /var/log/messages despite it has been set to local1.none. How do you determine which messages come from which facili

Re: [CentOS] syslog to remote server

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I set up the syslog.conf to log local0 and local1 to a remote log server: > > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local0.none;local1.none >  /var/log/messages > > local0.*;local1.*                                       @192.168.1.2 > > The

[CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Don't misunderstand.  I think you have done and are doing a great job >> but some things are out of any single person's control.  All I'm >> suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy

Re: [CentOS] BUG in httpd 2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, nate wrote: > > With SELinux off, any script run by apache can access > > anything on the filesystem that can be read by the apache > > process user. Maybe that's not the best way to do it, but > > it confirms that SELinux is not causing DBD::MySQL to break > > under mod_perl

Re: [CentOS] firewall question

- Original Message > From: William L. Maltby > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 4:15:40 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] firewall question > > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > > > Or IPcop? > > > > > > BTW, Scott and other IPCop users

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Dear Russ, >>> Don't misunderstand.  I think you have done and are doing a great job >>> but some things are out of any single person's control.  All I'm >>> suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy answer to the >>> question of "what if" those things happen to a few of you.  I th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

On 07 Aug 2009, at 8:14 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > (like the Contrib repo) are getting a bit clearer so I > guess we are on the right track. Contib repo !!! What Contrib repo ? The last time i tried to contribute i was told to head on to Fedora or rpmforge. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

Dear Andrew. >>  (like the Contrib repo) are getting a bit clearer so I >> guess we are on the right track. > > Contib repo !!! What Contrib repo ? The last time i tried to > contribute i was told to head on to Fedora or rpmforge. The Contrib repository has been re-invented in CentOS 5.3 but it's