Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les, On 11/22/2010 06:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is anyone following the news of the Novell sale and some mysterious > 'intellectual property assets' that were transferred to a holding > company controlled by Microsoft? Did you really struggle to find a more appropriate place to discuss someth

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

2010-11-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Rob Kampen wrote: > Toralf Lund wrote: > I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM > System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install > setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears > to be success

Re: [CentOS] Latex - was Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Robert Heller wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Robert Heller > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news? > > At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:10:41 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:42 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wr

[CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/22/10 9:57 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:29:12PM -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote: > >> Windows only, unfortunately. > > When did they stop publishing *nix versions? I worked > > extensively with tha

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

2010-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/23/10 5:56 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > >>> I should perhaps mention that I found a solution, sort of: It seems like >>> the problem is that the system simply won't boot from a single hard disk >>> set up as just that - a single, separate drive. I suspect this has >>> something to do with the dis

Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/23/10 4:42 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Les, > > On 11/22/2010 06:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is anyone following the news of the Novell sale and some mysterious >> 'intellectual property assets' that were transferred to a holding >> company controlled by Microsoft? > > Did you really strugg

Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 09:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/23/10 4:42 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Les, >> >> On 11/22/2010 06:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Is anyone following the news of the Novell sale and some mysterious >>> 'intellectual property assets' that were transferred to a ho

Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news? (OT)

2010-11-23 Thread Drew
> XHTML is supposed to be semantic, e. g. it indicates clearly that "this > is a quotation", "this is an abbreviation", etc. The only thing > Dreamweaver can do is put cleanly indented brackets around > everything, to make sure no search engine leafing through the page will > ever have the slighte

[CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell script to the mail program. So far it's not working as expected... # time echo "test" 2>&1 | mail -s "timetest" m...@mail.com real0m0.126s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s The time command writes to stderror, but here

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from RHEL 6 beta ?

2010-11-23 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi again ! I am begining to play with my new servers. I got for starter 2 nodes (1u intel server platform, with a LSI Logic FC949ES FC card). I am like a child playing with his new toys at christmas... I can't wait for CentOS 6 to come out. I do not want to clutter the list about requests for Ce

Re: [CentOS] Latex - was Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:02:35 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Robert Heller wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list > > From: Robert Heller > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news? > > > > At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:10:41 -0500 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >

Re: [CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell > script to the mail program. > So far it's not working as expected... > > # time echo "test" 2>&1 | mail -s "timetest" m...@mail.com > > real0m0.126s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > The t

Re: [CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 23.11.2010 15:30, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Rainer Traut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell >> script to the mail program. >> So far it's not working as expected... >> >> # time echo "test" 2>&1 | mail -s "timetest" m...@mail.com >> >> real

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 10:22 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like >> FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? >> >> My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb >> base) and FC14 switches t

Re: [CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:04:09PM +0100, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 23.11.2010 15:30, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > > Rainer Traut wrote: > >> am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell > >> script to the mail program. > >> So far it's not working as expected... > >> > >> # tim

[CentOS] Latex - was Novell sale news?

2010-11-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Robert Heller wrote: 160 lines of largely untrimmed quoted cr*p You know better, Robert and by your action you say you just don't care. This kind of behaviour is the best way I can think of to drive people away from reading the list My prior working rule on this list (and

[CentOS] 200 line kernel patch to improve performance

2010-11-23 Thread Jerry Geis
There was an article about a kernel patch to improve performance. www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html it involves adding this to ~/.bashrc | if [ "$PS1" ] ; then mkdir -m 0700 /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user/$$ echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user/$$/

Re: [CentOS] 200 line kernel patch to improve performance

2010-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:26:34PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > My machine Centos 5.5 does not have a /sys/fs/cgroup > > Is there anything else to do instead? Wait for CentOS 6, which will have it ;-) -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 11/22/10 9:57 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:29:12PM -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote: >> >> Windows only, unfortunately. >> >When did they stop publishing

[CentOS] Automount, External USB disk and e2fsck

2010-11-23 Thread Robert Heller
Does Automount/autofs automagically run e2fsck? If so, how does one disable this? We have an external USB connected 2TB hard drive setup to automount. Sometimes e2fsck gets fired up, I think from Automount. I have this line in the automount config: /backupdisk -fstype=ext3,nocheck:LABE

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from RHEL 6 beta ?

2010-11-23 Thread William Warren
On 11/23/2010 9:18 AM, Nicolas Ross wrote: > Hi again ! > > I am begining to play with my new servers. I got for starter 2 nodes (1u > intel server platform, with a LSI Logic FC949ES FC card). I am like a child > playing with his new toys at christmas... I can't wait for CentOS 6 to come > out. > >

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, David G. Mackay wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: David G. Mackay > Subject: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata > > I've just filed bug 0004634. Grub won't install onto my pata drive now > that I have a sata drive installed. This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5. > Has anyone els

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread John Hinton
On 11/23/2010 12:49 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > WP users *LOVED* reveal codes as it allows people to see exactly > what's going on under the hood, and even fix some things when the > files get out of whack. I answered the phone one time, and the > opening from the caller was ``I want Reveal Codes''

[CentOS] Websites Up!

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
Just a quick note to say that I have moved all my websites to a cloud platform with 99.99% uptime. So I apologise if anyone has been trying to get to the Kickstart User Guide and other Centos bits on my website. My home server is being worked on, and I'll just use that for development purposes

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On 11/22/10 9:57 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: >>> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:29:12PM -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote: >>> >> Windows only, unfortunately. >>> > When

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread David G. Mackay
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:12 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, David G. Mackay wrote: > > > To: centos@centos.org > > From: David G. Mackay > > Subject: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata > > > > I've just filed bug 0004634. Grub won't install onto my pata drive now > > that I have

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
John Hinton wrote: > On 11/23/2010 12:49 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> WP users *LOVED* reveal codes as it allows people to see exactly >> what's going on under the hood, and even fix some things when the >> files get out of whack. I answered the phone one time, and the >> opening from the caller wa

Re: [CentOS] upcoming mailman version change?

2010-11-23 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sunday, November 21, 2010 05:49:25 pm Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: > 2010/11/22 Dave Stevens : > > Hi, > > > > I'm using CentOS on a box that, among other things, offers mailman > > mailing lists, currently mailman 2.1.9. Version 2.1.14 is avilable > > from the developers but integrating it into

[CentOS] Strange happening with new users and keyed access on diskless cluster

2010-11-23 Thread Joseph Norris
Hello to all, I have been battling this situation now for 3 days and still have not found a resolution. I appeal to any and all for help. Here are the facts as far as I can tell. 1) I moved a 66 node rocks based cluster to a diskless cluster using the latest version of Centos and all update

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> I have never used word processing programs for much of anything >> serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things. > > I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even some published > articles in SysAdmin (before it sadly went u

[CentOS] Eclipse Helios on CentOS 5.5 (was Websites Up!)

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Then I hope to finish my tutorial on installing Eclipse > Helios for Centos 5.5 Is there anything special to be done? I just unzipped the SR1 distribution for RCP/RAP developers linux-gtk-x86_64 and it works without problem on an up to date CentOS 5.5 x86_64. (to be more precise: I install it a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find the right RAM for it... I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR each, plenty of connectors, very well built) based

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I have never used word processing programs for much of anything >>> serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things. >> >> I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even some published >> articles in SysA

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM > > Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find the right RAM for it... > > I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR each, plenty of conn

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Keller
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:05:58PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Oh, yes: in '95, PC Magazine ran a review of word processors, and noted > that 90% of the people IN 1995 using word processors only used 10% of the > features that were available then, and of the other 10% of the folks who > did

Re: [CentOS] Strange happening with new users and keyed access on diskless cluster

2010-11-23 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Joseph Norris ha scritto: > Hello to all, > > I have been battling this situation now for 3 days and still have not > found a resolution. I appeal to any and all for help. > > Here are the facts as far as I can tell. > > 1) I moved a 66 node rocks based cluster to a diskless cluster using >

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I have never used word processing programs for much of anything >>> serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things. >> I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even some published >> a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> it, turn it off, and maybe uninstall. If these are PoS boxen, do you need > X windows? Do you need Gnome or KDE as windonw managers (look at smaller > ones - I use IceWM at home, < 600k, yes, k, not M; the other admin here > likes xfce)? I have the CentOS Extras XFCE on one of them (for which I

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Keith Keller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:05:58PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Oh, yes: in '95, PC Magazine ran a review of word processors, and noted >> that 90% of the people IN 1995 using word processors only used 10% of >> the features that were available then, and of the other 1

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I don't use them as cashier machines, just got them second hand. > They were so cheap that I bought one just to try, and then found it so > good that I bought the other three... > (I'm probably not the only one on this list who has computers all over > the place, and a wif

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse Helios on CentOS 5.5 (was Websites Up!)

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Mathieu Baudier > Subject: [CentOS] Eclipse Helios on CentOS 5.5 (was Websites Up!) > >> Then I hope to finish my tutorial on installing Eclipse >> Helios for Centos 5.5 > > Is there anything special to be done? > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Mathieu Baudier > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements > >> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM > > Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not a

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/23/2010 1:50 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I have never used word processing programs for much of anything serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things. >>> >>> I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even

Re: [CentOS] Strange happening with new users and keyed access on diskless cluster

2010-11-23 Thread Joseph Norris
That's a very good idea - I will give it a try. On 11/23/2010 12:12 PM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Joseph Norris ha scritto: >> Hello to all, >> >> I have been battling this situation now for 3 days and still have not >> found a resolution. I appeal to any and all for help. >> >> Here are the facts

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> What type of RAM modules are you looking for? I'm never quite sure how to find out. I know that there was a pretty descriptive label on one of them (with 200 MHz or something) and that's how I could find a similar one. Let me open them and find out and I'll contact you offlist. They would be mu

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/23/2010 2:12 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Well, if you know what a "style" is you are closer to being a word > processing "expert" than many - because what you describe is the proper > way to use a Word Processor and has been since far back into the hey > day of products like WP. > > It

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:04:03PM -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: > > (parted) print > all > > Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 (ide) > Disk /dev/hda: 320GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Wade Hampton
Bit of info on WordPerfect and Linux. WP was ported to SCO Xenix by SDC of Utah in the early 90's. Several of us figured out how to get it running on Linux (1.0 or 1.2 series kernels, libc5) using the SCO libs and iBCS2 the old Intel binary compatible interface (I wrote the Linux WP mini-howto abo

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Wade Hampton wrote: > Bit of info on WordPerfect and Linux. WP was ported to > SCO Xenix by SDC of Utah in the early 90's. Several of us > figured out how to get it running on Linux (1.0 or 1.2 series > kernels, libc5) using the SCO libs and iBCS2 the old Intel > binary compatible interface (I wro

[CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am having real trouble with a new batch of Intel NIC's - We were using another type of 10gig card and they were fine but got EOL'd from Intel and are now using something subtly different. I dont have all the details yet on the issue but basically there is a major delay in when the link comes

Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Wade Hampton wrote: > The SDC version was WP 6 or 7. They later made native > Linux versions of WP 7 and 8. I still have a copy of WP 8; I haven't used it in years. The tar file is 28 MB in size. The Runme script says: Available Platforms: decalph hp9000 linux

Re: [CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Tom Brown wrote: > Has anyone got any clues as to what causes link delays? The only time I have seen such a delay in the past was because of OSPF on the Cisco switch it was connected to. Steve Stev

Re: [CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Tom Brown
> > The only time I have seen such a delay in the past was because of OSPF on > the Cisco switch it was connected to. these are Arista DCS-7148SX's so i'll have to chat to the network guys. On the kernel line can you state delay=x so that it waits for a link ?? thanks

Re: [CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Philip Manuel
On 11/24/2010 09:52 AM, Tom Brown wrote: >> The only time I have seen such a delay in the past was because of OSPF on >> the Cisco switch it was connected to. > these are Arista DCS-7148SX's so i'll have to chat to the network > guys. On the kernel line can you state delay=x so that it waits for a

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread David G. Mackay
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 22:17 +0100, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:04:03PM -0600, David G. Mackay wrote: > > > > (parted) print > > all > > > > Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 (ide) > > Disk /dev/hda: 320GB > > Sector size (log

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper rpms on x86_64? (was: firefox. java. 64 bit. bleah!)

2010-11-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Java has always been a challenge. I run x86_64 workstations with CentOS > current releases of firefox. I have had some luck with 64 bit firefox and > various plugins but found adobe flash is pretty poor for 64 bit thus if flash > is needed

Re: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata

2010-11-23 Thread cornel panceac
2010/11/23 David G. Mackay > I've just filed bug 0004634. Grub won't install onto my pata drive now > that I have a sata drive installed. This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5. > Has anyone else encountered this? I'm guessing that I can always > install Fedora on hda, which should give me a working g

[CentOS] slow network throughput, how to improve?

2010-11-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
would like some input on this one please. Two CentOS 5.5 XEN servers, with 1GB NIC's, connected to a 1GB switch transfer files to each other at about 30MB/s between each other. Both servers have the following setup: CentOS 5.5 x64 XEN 1GB NIC's 7200rpm SATA HDD's The hardware configuration can't