[CentOS] The internet filter coming to the US — with barely any dissent

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/the-internet-filter-coming-to-the-us-with-barely-any-dissent/ The US Congress spent yesterday packing up and heading home for mid-term re-election campaigns, having failed its most important job — passing the annual budget. But even this deadlocked Congress is c

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 21:52 -0700, Iain Morris wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White > wrote: > > > > This discussion completely ignores the fact that user > authentication is > just one of the many things LDAP does. If al

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:14:25 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote: >> At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't >> even debug it! >> >> Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it? > >Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 b

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

Iain Morris wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White > wrote: > > > > This discussion completely ignores the fact that user authentication is > just one of the many things LDAP does. If all you are going to do with > LDAP is s

[CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

Dear all, i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB i've did a bit research, read alot of articles.. mainly i came up with the understanding that: EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem. an

Re: [CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Dear all, > > i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql > > web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB > > i've did a bit research, read alot of articles.. > mainly i came up with the understand

Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

On 10/2/2010 6:12 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could you please test > the one at: > > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/ > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/ > > and provide feedback ? The more people test and prov

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

> /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17, but when I reboot, 2.6.18-128 > comes up. I am suspecting that you are looking at /etc/grub.conf which is supposed to be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf and somehow this is no longer a symlink, but rather a file of its own, which is not being read. T

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

On 10/03/10 9:16 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: >> /etc/grub.conf points at 2.6.18-194.17, but when I reboot, 2.6.18-128 >> comes up. > I am suspecting that you are looking at /etc/grub.conf which is supposed > to be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf and somehow this is no longer a > symlink, but rather

[CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

Hi all. I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines characters in Firefox. Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like dominos. Any suggestions please? Keith ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines > characters in Firefox. > > Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like > dominos. Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the firefox rpm. Now

Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Frank Cox > Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox > > > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: >> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines >> characters in Firefox. >> >> J

Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > > >> To: CentOS mailing list >> From: Frank Cox >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox >> >> >> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >>> I'm running Ce

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to 2.6.18-194.17?

Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on 10/03/2010 01:16 AM: > Hi. I just noticed I had a CentOS 5.3 system that I updated to CentOS > 5.5 a few days ago, > and I just ran "yum -y update" again to get the latest kernel, and I > just noticed it still has the old 2.6.18-128 kernel instead of the new > 2.6.18-1

Re: [CentOS] Here we go again: SpamAssassin doesn't like the new Perl update...

Am 02.10.2010 08:37, schrieb Michael Kress: > >> >>> Starting spamd: Subroutine NetAddr::IP::UtilPolluted::AF_INET6 redefined >>> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65. >>> at >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/NetAddr/IP/Util.pm >>> line 180 > Hi, same issue

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: ... > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm > not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS > server for file backup) but is this a com

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: > ... > > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. > > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm > > not overly bothered by the low colour depth

Re: [CentOS] help with spec file

Tim Dunphy wrote on 10/02/2010 10:32 PM: ... > I have come up with a spec file for the current version that _mostly_ works... Might want to compare your effort to one known to work (from a google on - subtitleeditor "src.rpm"): ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/13/SRPMS/subtitleeditor-0

Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 03:09:21PM -0500, Robert wrote: > > > On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > > > > > >> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> > >>> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chin

Re: [CentOS] help with spec file

Great Phil! I'll check it out!! Thanks... On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Tim Dunphy wrote on 10/02/2010 10:32 PM: > ... >> I have come up with a spec file for the current version that _mostly_ >> works... > > Might want to compare your effort to one known to work (from a

[CentOS] sata AHCI controllers (real and virtual)

I saw something somewhere about AHCI support requiring kernel 2.6.19 or later. But the current CentOS/RHEL stable kernels are 2.6.18 I'm trying to run CentOS/RHEL in a VirtualBox vm, which by default creates sata virtual disks with an AHCI virtual controller. These virtual machines are quite unst