Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread James A. Peltier
On Sun, 16 May 2010, fred smith wrote: > a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation > of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email. > upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my > custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don'

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/15/2010 11:48 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > What would be the proper way to request such a thing? s/request/offer to do this/ and its game on. Open an issue at bugs.centos.org, with the details, and we can help from there on. - KB ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/15/2010 08:05 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > My desktop updated without a hitch... well, actually, I ran out of > disk space after the download completed, so had to clear some space, yum tries to do some space required estimates before starting the process, so its clearly got that wrong in your

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote: >> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation >> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email. >> upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote: > >> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation > >> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread Ben Mohilef
I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates. Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between 5.4 and 5.5 ? regards, ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread samuel machua
Hi Fred, were you able to fix your mail problem is seem to be having the same issue. On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:17 -0400, fred smith wrote: > sendmail.cf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
fred smith wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote: a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation of nvidia proprietary driver), I noti

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Mohilef wrote: > I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates. > Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between > 5.4 and 5.5 ? > I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla. Of c

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/16/2010 12:17 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote: a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation of nvidia pro

[CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread Bryan Berry
I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers. How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system? That would really help me in my experiments.

Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/16 Bryan Berry > I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of > my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers. > > How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system? > That would really help me in my experiments. >

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/15/2010 08:05 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> My desktop updated without a hitch... well, actually, I ran out of >> disk space after the download completed, so had to clear some space, > > yum tries to do some space required estimates befor

[CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote: > > I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla. Of > course, I also recommend using OOo 3.2, directly from openoffice.org. I use OO 3.2 from openoffice.org but I have never been able to find an x86_64 version of Firefox on the Mozill

Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread James Hogarth
To my knowledge they don't build that version. The ff I use on systems that need ff 3.6 is the one from mark Harris's repo. http://www.mharris.ca/mharris-yumrepo.html James On May 16, 2010 9:56 PM, "Frank Cox" wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote: > > I would recommend updating

Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > I use OO 3.2 from openoffice.org but I have never been able to find an > x86_64 version of Firefox on the Mozilla website. > I just ran my FF and here's what it says in Help->About: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2) G

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/16/2010 06:34 PM, Ben Mohilef wrote: > I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates. > Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between > 5.4 and 5.5 ? Some of the updates are still due, including the centosplus kernels. You sho

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Robert
On 05/15/2010 05:05 PM, Ned Slider informed us: > Robert wrote: > >> > > > >> Only disappointment so far is that lm_sensors still doesn't grok the AMD >> K-10 thermal sensors - a situation I grumble about even as I file it in >> the "beggars can't be choosers" folder. >> >> >

Re: [CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

2010-05-16 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: > Hi, > I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers? I just updated a machine

Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks a lot cornel, i will try that out On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, cornel panceac wrote: > > > 2010/5/16 Bryan Berry > > I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of >> my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers. >> >> How can I set u

[CentOS] rsync - dirs and symlinks only, not contents

2010-05-16 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I have a need to copy only dirs, subdirs and sym links only without the need to copy contents. I originally used the following test to observe behavior; rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- *" source destination So I noticed that dirs/subdirs were copied but without contents as desired. I hav

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:56:58PM -0400, samuel machua wrote: > Hi Fred, were you able to fix your mail problem is seem to be having the > same issue. > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:17 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > sendmail.cf Yes, something in the 5.5 update probably put a new sendmail.mc or sendmail

Re: [CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

2010-05-16 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 20:10 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: > > Hi, > > I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 09:04 +0700 schrieb David Suhendrik: > Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, > and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the > sata controller, and indeed this is the problem. > > But I had to install windows se

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
David Suhendrik wrote: > Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, > and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the > sata controller, and indeed this is the problem. > > But I had to install windows server to update the bios, then installed >

[CentOS] centos release 5.5 issue

2010-05-16 Thread Philip Manuel
Hi One of our developers has come across an issue with the new release. He provided this piece of code to show the problem:- cat failure.c #include int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { return 0; } gcc failure.c /usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:169: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...