[CentOS] Grub boot loader?

Dear All On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.lst' has the right configuration but when I reboot my CentOS server I cannot enter to grub edit menu to edit my boot kernel by pressing the 'e' key . Can you please confirm if I can activate it through issuing the followings : #grub-install /dev/

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.lst' has the right configuration > but when I reboot my CentOS server I cannot enter to grub edit menu to edit > my boot kernel by pressing the 'e' key . Can you please confirm if I can >

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, hadi motamedi > wrote: > > Dear All > > On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.lst' has the right > configuration > > but when I reboot my CentOS server I cannot enter to grub edit menu to > edit > > my boot kerne

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

On 1 February 2010 08:33, hadi motamedi wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, MHR wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, hadi motamedi >> wrote: >> > Dear All >> > On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.lst' has the right >> > configuration >> > but when I reboot my CentOS serv

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:11 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 1 February 2010 08:33, hadi motamedi wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, MHR wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, hadi motamedi > >> wrote: > >> > Dear All > >> > On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.ls

[CentOS] monitoring a workstation

Hi, I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). I need to obtain informations about : - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? Regards. __ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éve

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

Hi, For that you have a lot of solution : "top" or "vmstat 1" on the console for a global overview But if you need load and cpu utilisation per user you have to use ac. Exemple : ac -d -p ffaye 12.86 Jan 6 total 12.86 fwadmin

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 09:47 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 11:44 +, Andrew wrote: > >> But this is disappointing because I want my PC to be completely > >> functional and skype is part of that requirement - so I suppos

Re: [CentOS] perl question

On 29 January 2010 19:28, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to run a perl script that said it needs Net::SMPP > > I ran this: > your_host]# *perl -MCPAN -e shell* > cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76) > ReadLine support enabled > cpan> *install Net::SNMP > > seemed to wor

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

MOKRANI Rachid wrote: > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? Have a look at Munin. http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ You can install it from the RPMForge repo. # yum install munin Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010/2/1 MOKRANI Rachid : > Hi, > > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). > > I need to obtain informations about : > > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, > > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? > Install smpd on workstation and then use any sn

[CentOS] Apache MPM-ITK

Hi All! Wished to ask. I have put: apache+php+mysql All works perfectly, only there is one question. The matter is that apache something works from the user apache, and when I закачиваю on the site through php the form the owner of the gone file to become apache. How it can be corrected? Esteem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

Am 28.01.2010 17:46, schrieb Robert Heller: > At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:17:02 -0800 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >>> Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit >>> FireFox? The SUN 1.6 JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rp

Re: [CentOS] APC Smart-ups "status codes" (slightly OT)

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 01/29/2010 04:53 PM: > We got replacement battery "kits" for some of our APC UPS' (Smart-UPS, > rackmount). I put them into one tray (it's for an RBC 43, which takes 8, > and weighs a ton), and put it in, and let it charge. Idiot "change > battery" led stays on. So I hit

[CentOS] CentOS as an internet kiosk : how to create a "fresh" user upon leaving GNOME ?

Hi, I'm currently busy setting up a machine for use as an internet kiosk. Here's what I aim to do. - There's only one user on the system, 'invite'. One (very simple) password. The machine is to be used publicly and freely. - To ensure some privacy, there's one detail though. The best thing wo

[CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

Hello, I have a small server running a tool (RT : perl + mysql + apache) for our support team. I stripped down everything else. The OS is CentOS 4.8. I noticed a difference between df and du which is hard to believe : according to df, I am using 29 GB [r...@cedrat-rt ~]$ df -h Filesystem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS as an internet kiosk : how to create a "fresh" user upon leaving GNOME ?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently busy setting up a machine for use as an internet kiosk. > Here's what I aim to do. > > - There's only one user on the system, 'invite'. One (very simple) > password. The machine is to be used publicly and freely. > > - To

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, MOKRANI Rachid wrote: > Hi, > > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). > > I need to obtain informations about : > > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, > > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? > > Regards. In addi

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Robert Grasso wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small server running a tool (RT : perl + mysql + apache) for our > support team. I stripped down everything else. The OS is > CentOS 4.8. I noticed a difference between df and du which is hard to believe > : > > according

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone wrote: > > This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file > system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process > will release the files and df and du will jive. > That argument only holds until you reach the point i

Re: [CentOS] DynDNs.org compatible server scripts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I know this mail is slightly OT. But my DNS server and and all other > compute nodes (currently around 80) run Centos. > > Has anybody come across some package script which can be used to listen > to requ

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

>    > I rebooted on the CentOS v4.8 CD #1, started "linux rescue" : > > After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue here. My understanding of the difference between df and du was that du reports the actual size of the file while df reports the space allocated by the file

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

At Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:36:29 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Robert Grasso > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a small server running a tool (RT : perl + mysql + apache) for our > > support team. I stripped down everything else. The OS is > > CentOS 4.8. I no

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone > wrote: >> >> This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file >> system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process >> will release the files and df and du will

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

Robert Grasso wrote, On 02/01/2010 10:29 AM: > Hello, > CentOS 4.8. I noticed a difference between df and du which is hard to believe > : > > according to df, I am using 29 GB > [r...@cedrat-rt ~]$ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 33G 29G

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe )

On Monday 01 February 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone wrote: > > This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file > > system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process > > will release the files and df and du will jive.

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

>>> I rebooted on the CentOS v4.8 CD #1, started "linux rescue" : >> >> After the reboot that would be taken care of, so that's not the issue >> here. > > My understanding of the difference between df and du was that du > reports the actual size of the file while df reports the space > allocated by

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Tom Bishop wrote: > So I am trying to rebuild this source rpm from fedora > 10, shutter-0.85.1-1.fc10.src.rpm -its a screen capture application ( > http://shutter-project.org/ ) that I have been unable to find in any repos, > although it is in the fedora repos. Thought I woul

[CentOS] kickstart installation from usb key

I'm trying to set up a custom installation of CentOS using kickstart i tried many thing from how to's and tutorial web pages but nothing worked ;( Here is my USB key tree : |-- CentOS | |-- all my rpms | `-- last rpm |-- TRANS.TBL |-- boot.cat |-- boot.msg |-- custom.iso |-- general.msg |-- image

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

Robert Grasso wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small server running a tool (RT : perl + mysql + apache) for our > support team. I stripped down everything else. The OS is > CentOS 4.8. I noticed a difference between df and du which is hard to believe > : > Did you mount something such as an NFS s

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Thanks for the suggestions I will give mock a go and see what happenswill need to go read up and understand what mock is doing though On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Tom Bishop wrote: > > > So I am trying to rebuild this source rpm from fedora > >

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions I will give mock a go and see what > happenswill need to go read up and understand what mock is doing > though > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Tom Diehl wrote: >> >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Tom Bishop wrote:

[CentOS] glibc updates and rebooting

i forgot... is it necessary to reboot after glibc* yum updates on 4.x and 5.x or any centos for that matter... tia - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] glibc updates and rebooting

R-Elists wrote: > > i forgot... > > is it necessary to reboot after glibc* yum updates on 4.x and 5.x or any > centos for that matter... Should not be, but as with all library updates applications that are running when the update is applied won't get the update until they are restarted. Often time

[CentOS] VNC Questions

Fresh install of CentOS 5.4 (and my first experience with CentOS). Following install, the first thing I did was enable desktop sharing so that I can control this new 1U box from my Mac workstation. The VNC client sees this as "Warren's remote desktop" but I'd like it to be more meaningful, as I

Re: [CentOS] Browser related question

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > How does one monitor if a site is being accessed using browser? > > IOW, I just want to know if a user has launched a session thru Firefox. > > I basically want to know if a user has tried to access the webserver > and

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:33 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Thanks for your message . When I reboot my CentOS server I see the the menu > with a timer but I cannot enter to edit my boot kernel by pressing 'e' key . Perhaps I wasn't clear the first time. To interrupt the timer, you press the bar.

Re: [CentOS] glibc updates and rebooting

At Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:49:24 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > R-Elists wrote: > > > > i forgot... > > > > is it necessary to reboot after glibc* yum updates on 4.x and 5.x or any > > centos for that matter... > > Should not be, but as with all library updates applications that > are r

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:58 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: > user settings/prefs do I change the way this VNC server identifies > itself? I'd like it to show the host name. > I'd like my VNC sessions to be encrypted. > Finally, I'd like VNC to be functional at boot,? > > Can these things be don

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > You can accomplish all of these things by following the instructions > here: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server One thing that has bitten me when configuring the VNC server as describe there, is that "service vncserver restart" invok

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

On 2/1/2010 1:27 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:58 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: >> user settings/prefs do I change the way this VNC server identifies >> itself? I'd like it to show the host name. > >> I'd like my VNC sessions to be encrypted. >> Finally, I'd like VNC to be func

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

At 1:27 PM -0600 2/1/10, Frank Cox sent email regarding Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions: >On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:58 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: >> user settings/prefs do I change the way this VNC server identifies >> itself? I'd like it to show the host name. > >> I'd like my VNC sessions to be

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

> At 1:27 PM -0600 2/1/10, Frank Cox sent email regarding Re: [CentOS] > VNC Questions: >>On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:58 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: >>> user settings/prefs do I change the way this VNC server identifies >>> itself? I'd like it to show the host name. >> >>> I'd like my VNC sessio

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:41 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: > > I got the error that the command 'service' was not found. The /sbin directory is not on the standard path for normal users. Use this command: /sbin/service vncserver start Or use "su -" instead of "su" when switching to the root u

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

At 2:48 PM -0500 2/1/10, m.r...@5-cent.us sent email regarding Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions: > >>http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server >> >> I tried these instruction last week and each time I tried: >> >> service vncserver start >> >> I got the error that the command 'service' was not found.

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

At 1:53 PM -0600 2/1/10, Frank Cox sent email regarding Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions: >On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:41 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: >> >> I got the error that the command 'service' was not found. > >The /sbin directory is not on the standard path for normal users. > >Use this command:

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: >>Or use "su -" instead of "su" when switching to the root user and you >>will get root's environment, which includes /sbin on the path. > > Ah! This is something I've not run across before. Using "su -" did the trick. CentOS Wiki is (almo

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Thanks for the tips so I have gotten mock installed but for the life of me I can't figure out how to install the srpm, edit the spec file and then re-build. I have seen an example that installs and then I can edit via mock shell, but when I do a rpmbuild -ba or -bb it says its misssing the .tar fi

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Thanks for the tips so I have gotten mock installed but for the life of me I > can't figure out how to install the srpm, edit the spec file and then > re-build.  I have seen an example that installs and then I can edit via mock > shell, but when

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Thanks, that is very usefull and I have followed although I am still coming up with an error when I do a rpmbuild -ba xxx.spec error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/share/applications/centos5-shutter.desktop RPM build errors: File not found: /var/tmp/shutter-0.85.1-1-root-

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Tom Bishop wrote: > Thanks, that is very usefull and I have followed although I am still > coming up with an error when I do a rpmbuild -ba xxx.spec > > error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: >/usr/share/applications/centos5-shutter.desktop > > > RPM build errors: > File not foun

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Here is the section of the spec file: %{_bindir}/%{name} %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop %{_datadir}/%{name} %{_mandir}/man1/%{name}* %{_datadir}/pixmaps/ %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/%{name}.* it appears to be coverd... On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Clint Dilks wrote: > Tom Bis

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Tom Bishop wrote: > Here is the section of the spec file: > > %{_bindir}/%{name} > %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop > %{_datadir}/%{name} > %{_mandir}/man1/%{name}* > %{_datadir}/pixmaps/ > %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/%{name}.* > > > it appears to be coverd... > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 a

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: Here is the section of the spec file: %{_bindir}/%{name} %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop %{_datadir}/%{name} %{_mandir}/man1/%{name}* %{_datadir}/pixmaps/ %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/%{name}.* it appears to be coverd... Ah, not re

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Im just not seeing it, prolly staring me right in the face...attached is the .spec file On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > > Here is the section of the spec file: > > > %{_bindir}/%{name} > > %{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.

[CentOS] VNC Questions

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Warren Michelsen wrote: >> You can accomplish all of these things by following the instructions >> here: >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server > > I tried these instruction last week and each time I tried: > > service vncserver start > > I got the error that the comman

[CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > This CentOS wiki will help you: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > > Akemi I corresponded privately with the OP on the target earlier today -- there are a metric F tonne of dependencies as well lying in wait gnome-web-photo is neede

Re: [CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

Thanks Russ, I saw all the deps on their page, I guess I'll stop beating my head against the wall...lol ;) On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:14 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > This CentOS wiki will help you: > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > > > > Ak

Re: [CentOS] VNC Questions

RE: 2.6.1 Testing with a java enabled browser My java enabled browser (Safari) cannot connect. RE: 2.6.2. Testing with a vnc client I have vnc client 'Chicken of the VNC' which can connect but only to display 0 and then the response back from the CentO

[CentOS] Passwordless ssh

On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as well as in /root and copied the respective keys to authorized_keys files in each. Strangely, I

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

Warren Michelsen wrote: On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as well as in /root and copied the respective keys to authorized_keys file

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 19:49 -0700, Warren Michelsen wrote: > On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the > target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as > well as in /root and copied th

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: > On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the > target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as > well as in /root and copied the res

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: > On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the > target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as > well as in /root and copied the res