Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/17/2010 4:05 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:16:59PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote: >> Benn playing with the beta's and have looked around for a potential release >> date...Does anyone know what the likely date is??? Thanks > > "When it is ready and not a second be

Re: [CentOS] should vsftpd be disabled in favour of sftp for security reasons?

2010-09-17 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, September 17, 2010 05:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > from this RHEL doc page: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html > > the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable > vsftpd, ostensibly

Re: [CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things, is custom software

2010-09-17 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Subject: [CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things, > is custom software > > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> All I'm saying is that i

[CentOS] Bandwidth issues

2010-09-17 Thread Michel Bulgado
Hello this is the first time I write to the list. I use in my company CentOS 5.5 on all servers, especially in the firewall, recently I have problems with bandwidth, since my internet connection is 512 Kbps and the same is saturated with torrents. I need to limit the bandwidth consumption for t

Re: [CentOS] Howto enter a password to mount windows share in Places

2010-09-17 Thread Denis
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis wrote: >> Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount >> a windows share. I can do: >> >> smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd >> >> but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI

Re: [CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things, is custom software

2010-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/17/2010 4:32 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> >> Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new >> release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from >> Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit > > Can you find that out via TCP/IP, or

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > >>> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with >>> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > >> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has >> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files. > > Thanks for t

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Hanby
I thought it was the Id mantra :-) I've been checking around and haven't heard anything other than speculation. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 PM To: centos@centos.org S

Re: [CentOS] Howto enter a password to mount windows share in Places

2010-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/17/2010 4:48 PM, Denis wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis wrote: >>> Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount >>> a windows share. I can do: >>> >>> smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd >>> >>> but have not been

Re: [CentOS] Howto enter a password to mount windows share in Places

2010-09-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Denis wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis  wrote: >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares > Thanks, I looked there. But I was looking for something that would > easily disconnect and maybe do it automatically when t

[CentOS] Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux Was: Re: looking for cool

2010-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new > release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from > Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit On 64 bit, the [manual] install was as simply

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/17/2010 4:52 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I was thinking of copying the old root partition with sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd >> >>> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has >>> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files. >> >> Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-09-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:14:19PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote: > Thanks and Yes and I agree and know that, but I was just wondering if they > had a potential target date.I have read September and also October but > was wondering if any of that was more than speculation It's *all* spec

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-09-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I thought that was the debian mantra. And also the reason we don't use it. Who is this "we" you speak of? What I posted was the hard cold truth of the matter. Redhat does not discuss release dates with

Re: [CentOS] Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux Was: Re: looking for cool

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:06:56PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new > > release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from > > Adobe, then find who's running 6

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Jim Wildman
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > Has anyone ever standardized a way to do this that will work across more > than a few platforms? I've always thought there should be a way to at > least make a subversion repository holding copies of all of /etc of all > of your machines where similar ho

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