Re: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument

2011-05-17 Thread John Doe
On 5/17/11 12:36 AM, neubyr wrote: > How do I pass xargs input one line at a time to subsequent command? > For example I want to install rubygems by reading a text file as shown > below, however the arguments are getting passed all at once to the > 'gem install' command. I hace tried -L (max-

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Christopher Chan wrote: > The Centos ML does quite well without a moderator imho. No need to go > draconian like other projects/'communities' I think a moderated mailing list around release time sounds like bliss to me. jh ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 05:50 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> The Centos ML does quite well without a moderator imho. No need to go >> draconian like other projects/'communities' > > I think a moderated mailing list around release time sounds like bliss

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Christopher Chan wrote: >> I think a moderated mailing list around release time sounds like bliss to me. >> > > Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! Well, we could sign up on a rota... jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:58:31PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! I'd be more than happy to moderate the list. I can assure you that the current trolls will be back in their cages safely under their bridges in short order.

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread John Doe
Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a "CentOS Politics/Philosophy" new list...? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument

2011-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:36:08AM -0500, neubyr wrote: > How do I pass xargs input one line at a time to subsequent command? xargs is the wrong tool for this job. > $ awk '{ print $0 }' gem.list.1 | xargs -L 1 -0 -I name sudo gem install name while read line do sudo gem install $line done < g

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Simpson
On 17 May 2011 11:03, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:58:31PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! > > I'd be more than happy to moderate the list.  I can assure you that the > current trolls will be back in their cages safely unde

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 06:03 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:58:31PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! > > I'd be more than happy to moderate the list. I can assure you that the > current trolls will be back in their cages

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John J. Boyer wrote: > Les, > > I installed the development tools and development libraries, as you > suggested. I even tried to install packages x*.x86_64 There were some > unresolved dependencies in the latter, so I used --skip-broken with yum. > There was a report of conflicting files, so i

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Christopher Chan wrote: > On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 05:50 PM, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >>> The Centos ML does quite well without a moderator imho. No need to go >>> draconian like other projects/'communities' >> I think a moderated mailing list around re

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 05/16/2011 02:44 PM, ne...@grayhatlabs.com wrote: I never thought sliced bread was all that great. Wouldn't it be better for people to donate money to help push things along faster? I mean if your really upset about how long its taken to come out why don't you donate some money to help the p

[CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Jerry Franz
On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: > Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a "CentOS > Politics/Philosophy" new list...? And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating flame war. Don't skim it - read it. http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-17 Thread David Mehler
Hi, Thanks to everyone with suggestions thus far. I'm still having difficulties getting this to work. Using find and xargs I can get the permissions on the files and directories what i'm wanting, but adding new ones the umask takes over the group ownership is right but with the 077 it doesn't matte

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > John J. Boyer wrote: >> Les, >> >> I installed the development tools and development libraries, as you >> suggested. I even tried to install packages x*.x86_64 There were some >> unresolved dependencies in the latter, so I used --skip-broken with yum. >> There was a

[CentOS] securing sshd with selinux

2011-05-17 Thread Hajo Locke
Hello List, dont have experience with selinux, but i want to know if it would be a practicable way to secure sshd with selinux. i have some webservers and want to grant ssh-access to some users. my plan ist to make new server where users are able to log in. the homes from webserver are mounted

Re: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument

2011-05-17 Thread Andy Holt
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of neubyr > Sent: 17/05/2011 06:36 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument > > How do I pass xargs input one line at a time to subsequent command

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 13:34:10 David Mehler wrote: > difficulties getting this to work. Using find and xargs I can get the > permissions on the files and directories what i'm wanting, but adding > new ones the umask takes over the group ownership is right but with > the 077 it doesn't matter. Usi

Re: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Andy Holt wrote: >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of neubyr >> >> How do I pass xargs input one line at a time to subsequent command? >> For example I want to install rubygems by reading a text file as shown >> below, however the arguments are getting passed all at once to the >> 'ge

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Radu Gheorghiu
On 05/17/2011 01:46 PM, Michael Simpson wrote: > On 17 May 2011 11:03, John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:58:31PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! >> I'd be more than happy to moderate the list. I can assure you that the >> curren

[CentOS] OT: Video Surveillance SW on CentOS

2011-05-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
I suggested to our Homeowners Association that we begin a Private Forum (phpBB) and web site. That suggestion has been well received and we will proceed with that. Now, I have become involved in a much more complex and important project, which is Video Surveillance, for the entrance to our subdivi

Re: [CentOS] OT: Video Surveillance SW on CentOS

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Lanny Marcus wrote: > I suggested to our Homeowners Association that we begin a Private > Forum (phpBB) and web site. That suggestion has been well received and > we will proceed with that. > > Now, I have become involved in a much more complex and important > project, which is Video Surveillance,

Re: [CentOS] xargs with max each line / argument

2011-05-17 Thread neubyr
Thanks for the help everyone. I used awk as the gem.list file may contain version number in brackets - "rake (1.2)". I should have mentioned this before. I used 'awk $1' to get first column from each row. I liked all inputs, but I think I will try mark's awk solution here. Thanks again.. On Tue

Re: [CentOS] OT: Video Surveillance SW on CentOS

2011-05-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 09:33:47 AM Lanny Marcus wrote: > ZoneMinder seems to be a much more active project. > I would appreciate Feedback, from anyone who has used either or both > of these programs. Pros and Cons? > The idea is to have at least two (2) cameras. One for Arrivals and One > for D

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:56 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: >> Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a "CentOS >> Politics/Philosophy" new list...? > > And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating > flame war. Don't skim i

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: <> > [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this > piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu > Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for somebody to come and > fill their pockets', I would have spent it producti

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 2:45 PM cen...@911networks.com spake the following: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:47:30 -0500 > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by >> following the licensing requirements and be happy with that? > > Johnny please don't take this perso

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: > <> >> [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this >> piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu >> Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for somebody to come and >> fill their pockets', I woul

Re: [CentOS] OT: Video Surveillance SW on CentOS

2011-05-17 Thread Dan Carl
On 5/17/2011 8:33 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > I suggested to our Homeowners Association that we begin a Private > Forum (phpBB) and web site. That suggestion has been well received and > we will proceed with that. > > Now, I have become involved in a much more complex and important > project, which i

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:56:59 AM Jerry Franz wrote: > On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: > > Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a "CentOS > > Politics/Philosophy" new list...? > > And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating > flame war. Don't

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:56:59 AM Jerry Franz wrote: >> On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: >> > Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a "CentOS >> > Politics/Philosophy" new list...? >> >> And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this float

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:33:37 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism > has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic > get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced to a > configurab

Re: [CentOS] securing sshd with selinux

2011-05-17 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 03:00:43 PM +0200 Hajo Locke wrote: > dont have experience with selinux, but i want to know if it would be a > practicable way to secure sshd with selinux. [snip] Do your users need full ssh access or just scp/sftp? You mention php/perl, but it's not clear if they ne

[CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread Jussi Hirvi
There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I stumble on weird results. With my filelist, I try to do cat list | xargs vim ...to edit the files listed in the file "list". Here's what happens: [root@lasso2 tempdir]# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: > <> >> [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this >> piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu >> Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for somebody to come and >>

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) (not)

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: >> on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: >> <> >>> [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this >>> piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu >>> Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 5/17/2011 12:19 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I > stumble on weird results. > > With my filelist, I try to do > > cat list | xargs vim Try this: vim `cat list` -- Bowie ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:19:45 PM +0300 Jussi Hirvi wrote: > [root@lasso2 tempdir]# cat list | xargs vim > 3 files to edit > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > > Ok, so far, so good. And after this, the file a opens, as expected. > However, the contents show as all uppercase. And

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/17/2011 12:19 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I > stumble on weird results. > > With my filelist, I try to do > > cat list | xargs vim > > ...to edit the files listed in the

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4dd2a021.4080...@greenspot.fi>, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I > stumble on weird results. > > With my filelist, I try to do > > cat list | xargs vim > > ...to edit the files listed in the file "list". Here's what

[CentOS] yum in test mode and downgrade of a package

2011-05-17 Thread Bernard Fay
Is it possible to run yum in test mode?Something similar to rpm --test ... Also, is it possible to downgrade a package? Say we install a package and we find this new version creates problem for an application running on the server and we need to go back to a previous version. Thanks, --

Re: [CentOS] yum in test mode and downgrade of a package

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Bernard Fay wrote: > Is it possible to run yum in test mode?Something similar to rpm --test > ... yum -? usage: yum [options] COMMAND List of Commands: check-update Check for available package updates clean Remove cached data deplistList a package's dependencies downgrade

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread R - elists
we do not need post by post moderation so to speak we need several lists... two of which are babies / horses behind list adult list when you prove your "centos helpfulness & community worth" on the babies list, you get to be in the adult list this would seem easier to admin... i would actual

Re: [CentOS] securing sshd with selinux

2011-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/05/11 14:00, Hajo Locke wrote: > Hello List, > > dont have experience with selinux, but i want to know if it would be a > practicable way to secure sshd with selinux. sshd runs unconfined, at least on el5: $ ps Zax | grep sshd system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh 2918 ? Ss

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Josh
While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem, what about all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list... We the silent would miss out on important news... On 5/17/2011 1:27 PM, R - elists wrote: > we do not n

[CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

2011-05-17 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
[root@hwdltsaloli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INP

Re: [CentOS] OT: Video Surveillance SW on CentOS

2011-05-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > I suggested to our Homeowners Association that we begin a Private > Forum (phpBB) and web site. That suggestion has been well received and > we will proceed with that. > > Now, I have become involved in a much more complex and important > proj

Re: [CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

2011-05-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/5/17 Aleksey Tsalolikhin : > [root@hwdltsaloli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables > # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel > # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. > *filter > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > :RH-Firewa

Re: [CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

2011-05-17 Thread Stephen Harris
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT That's _protocol_ 50 and 51; not ports 50 and 51 % grep '5[01]' /etc/protocols esp 50 ESP # Encap Security Payload ah 51 AH # Authentication Header IPSec traffic. --

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem, > what about > all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally > ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list... > > We the silent would miss out on important news... Clearly, t

Re: [CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

2011-05-17 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:13 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > [root@hwdltsaloli ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables > # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel > # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. > *filter > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]

Re: [CentOS] Why is iptables configured to accept packets on ports 50 and 51?

2011-05-17 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Michel van Deventer wrote: > > The -p you are referring to is NOT a port, but a protocol (number), 50 > and 51 stand for IPSEC protocols (AH and ESP). Doh! *facepalm* Thanks, Stephen, Eero and Michel. I appreciate your help. :) Best, Aleksey _

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) (not)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/17/2011 9:36 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: >>> on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: >>> <> [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this piece has taken ... If I had known

[CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly there's another $800 for a "system common planar" that's "required". Googling only fi

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Markus Falb
On 17.5.2011 20:21, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem, >> what about >> all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally >> ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list... >> >> We the si

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our > Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and > suddenly there's another $800 for a "system common

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our >> Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking >> out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and >> suddenly there's an

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our > >> Dell PE 1950's > >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > >> out I

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >> > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our >> >> Dell PE 1950's >> >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/17/11 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's another $800 for a "sys

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread aurfalien
On May 17, 2011, at 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE > 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's anothe

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/17/11 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out >> IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly >> ther

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread aly . khimji
Indeed I agree, we are a full IBM shop and after working with there gear for a very long time, I also suggest the same, this will ensure you get everything you need and all the correct parts to get you back asap. Its just a safe bet with IBM. Aly --Original Message-- From: John R Pierc

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's another $800 for a "system

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 01:52:37 PM aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > If all you ned are plain old servers, check Aberdeen. They repackage > SuperMicro and have great support. I'd just PM'd a message to OP with this message. We have a slew of SuperMicros and they have been very stable and robust. Al

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out >> IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly >> there's an

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) (not)

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 02:58 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5/17/2011 9:36 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the > following: >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: <> > [I see 14 new posts within the past

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/17/2011 12:49 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > Les, > > I installed the development tools and development libraries, as you > suggested. I even tried to install packages x*.x86_64 There were some > unresolved dependencies in the latter, so I used --skip-broken with yum. > There was a report of confl

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 17.05.11 17:33, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism > has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic > get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced to a > configurable number of hu

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:52:09AM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Well, too much work for what it is worth. I once helped moderating a > newsgroup and that is a task I at least won't do again. Still hoping for > some common sense :) +1

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 17.05.11 13:37, schrieb Benjamin Franz: > On 05/16/2011 02:44 PM, ne...@grayhatlabs.com wrote: >> I never thought sliced bread was all that great. >> >> Wouldn't it be better for people to donate money to help push things along >> faster? >> >> I mean if your really upset about how long its take

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-17 Thread John J. Boyer
Les, Here's my autogen.sh file. #!/bin/sh # # autogen.sh glue for liblouis # # Requires: automake 1.9, autoconf 2.57+ # Conflicts: autoconf 2.13 set -e # Refresh GNU autotools toolchain. echo Cleaning autotools files... find -type d -name autom4te.cache -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf \; find -type f

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 05/15/2011 06:10 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> Where is Ubuntu telling people exactly where they stand on producing a >>> their new releases. >>> >>> What about Red Hat ... how about Fedora. >> >> I don't

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-17 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 17.5.2011 19.36, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Try this: > > vim `cat list` Thanks, this really works! I tried it with all my combinations: OS X workstation by itself OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 4 OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 5 BTW, with the xargs command, all of these combinations give so