[CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Mark
I just picked one of these up to replace my 4315, which broke (I think the feeder roller gear broke from an overstuffed feeder), but it's giving me problems. I had no trouble configuring it to print, but it doesn't appear in lsusb and xsane can't find it, so I can't scan with it, which is the main

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 01:42 -0700, Mark wrote: > I had no trouble configuring it to print, but it doesn't appear in > lsusb and xsane can't find it, so I can't scan with it, which is the > main reason I bought it in the first place. --- Yeap my Scan Jet was the same way. It printed but would not

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:06:59AM -0400, JohnS wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 01:42 -0700, Mark wrote: > > --- > Yeap my Scan Jet was the same way. It printed but would not scan. I > got the HP Open Source drivers and installed them and was no problems > after that. > > http://hplipopensour

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Marc-André Lévesque
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 06:04 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > I found that their CentOS instructions were a bit off. Well their instructions are off. Their rpm will not install because of dependencies and file ownership conflict between rpms. To succeed at installing their hplip rpm, I had to provid

Re: [CentOS] NX and CentOS 5.5?

2010-09-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/18/10 6:08 PM, Raymond Jender wrote: > I am pulling my hair out here folks.. > I am running CentOS 5.5 in command line only. Reason being I am standing up an > IDS system on it. > I have installed the NX client/node and server pkgs. I have installed the NX > client for windows on a Vista b

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Marc-André Lévesque
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 11:24 -0400, Marc-André Lévesque wrote: > As for setting selinux to permissive, I didn't bother. I'm sticking to > enforcing. I'd rather fix selinux when I'll need a blocked feature than > disabling it. For the record, here's the avc: > > avc: denied { write } for pid=23

Re: [CentOS] NX and CentOS 5.5?

2010-09-19 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/18/10 6:08 PM, Raymond Jender wrote: >> I am pulling my hair out here folks.. >> I am running CentOS 5.5 in command line only. Reason being I am standing up >> an >> IDS system on it. >> I have installed the NX client/node and server

[CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
Hello all, I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 on a recently donated home server (was Windows). I've tried installing twice; first, separating /boot, swap, /, /var, /usr and /home into different partitions, the second time choosing default layout. Both times have resulted in "GRUB Hard Disk Err

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Mark
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > I found that their CentOS instructions were a bit off.  I have my own > page on hplip for CentOS.  There's an rpmforge rpm as well, but using > that one, I wasn't able to scan. > > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/hplip.html >

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:44:41AM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > I found that their CentOS instructions were a bit off.  I have my own > > page on hplip for CentOS.  There's an rpmforge rpm as well, but using > > that one, I wasn't able to scan.

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread John Thomas
On 09/19/2010 11:55 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> [...@marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ hp-setup -i >> > warning: python-dbus not installed.<<< AFAICT, there is no such package. > There is a dbus-python. Is that definitely installed? Where do I get dbus-python? centos55[r...@home2 yum.repos.d]# yum sear

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread John Thomas
On 09/19/2010 12:02 PM, John Thomas wrote: >> There is a dbus-python. Is that definitely installed? > Where do I get dbus-python? Sorry, noticed after I sent: Package dbus-python-0.70-9.el5_4.x86_64 already installed and latest version -- Sincerely, John Thomas _

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread Mark
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > That's interesting.  Some leftover config files?  (I've only done with > networked, rather than USB printers, so really not sure.) Possibly - I couldn't 'locate' anything that looked right for this (i.e., where do I find these?). > There

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
Update: on a hunch, I tried installing Ubuntu Server. Interestingly, the GRUB installation failed during setup, however the LILO installation completed successfully, the Ubuntu installation boots correctly. For me, the whole reason to start using CentOS was to move away from Ubuntu. I could do 3

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Rob Del Vecchio wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Rob Del Vecchio > Subject: Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error > > Update: on a hunch, I tried installing Ubuntu Server. Interestingly, the > GRUB installation failed during setup, however the LILO installation

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
Can't you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in your bios ? It decreases performance and could be problematic. 2010/9/19 Keith Roberts > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Rob Del Vecchio wrote: > > > To: centos@centos.org > > From: Rob Del Vecchio > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk

[CentOS] How to simulate minimal ISO install using stage2 image file?

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
Hello, I'm working on a project which automates creation of EC2 AMI images. To do this, you must use a running EC2 instance to mount an image file in a chroot jail. My problem is that I want to create an AMI that looks exactly like a minimal (nothing selected) install from the CentOS ISO image, b

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
> Well I'd wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross > format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB > on the MBR. I've read a bit on kickstart installations, and now I get to delve deeper :) Thanks for the advice! > Can't you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in yo

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
Also please note that if that card has SATA 2.0 capacity, native mode is probably named "AHCI" on the bios. 2010/9/19 Rob Del Vecchio > > Well I'd wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross > > format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB > > on the MBR. > > I've read a bit o

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
> Also please note that if that card has SATA 2.0 capacity, native mode is probably named > "AHCI" on the bios. Indeed! There is an AHCI option. I will set that. Thanks for the info, Rob ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
Used a kickstart script to install the system, got slightly different results. Upon boot, I see: L 99 99 99 ... 99 and so on. This could be due to a correctly configured BIOS (set to AHCI). However, the installation boots when the installation disk finds an installed copy of CentOS on the hard d

Re: [CentOS] GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
Sorry, should have googled before mailing; looks like it can be fixed with grub-install. Hopefully smooth sailing from here. Thanks for the help thus far, Rob ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Went with OpenDNS for now

2010-09-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > A few weeks ago I asked about firewalls and family filters. Lanny > Marcus, I believe, suggested OpenDNS. Just wanted to thank him (and > everyone here) for their suggestions. Ron: My pleasure. Usually, I am the one receiving help from the li

[CentOS] Using Make in frequent cron job

2010-09-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its normal verbosity when something is made? I want to use Make in a frequent cron job (every 1/2 hour, perhaps 10 minutes) but I don't want to get a bunch of emails telling me nothing was done (which will be most of the tim

Re: [CentOS] Using Make in frequent cron job

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its > normal verbosity when something is made? You can write a wrapper script and run it in a subshell to capture the output. Pretend echo is make: a=$(echo 'made some

Re: [CentOS] Using Make in frequent cron job

2010-09-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/19/10 6:58 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its > normal verbosity when something is made? > > I want to use Make in a frequent cron job (every 1/2 hour, perhaps 10 > minutes) but I don't want to get a bunch of emails telling

Re: [CentOS] How to simulate minimal ISO install using stage2 image file?

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: > I'm working on a project which automates creation of EC2 AMI images. > To do this, you must use a running EC2 instance to mount an image file > in a chroot jail. > > My problem is that I want to create an AMI that looks exactly like a > minima