[CentOS] Centos NFS-Utils

2011-09-11 Thread Rita
Just wondering, We have been using RHEL 6.1 for a while and its NFS-utils support the fsc option for caching. Will Centos 5.6(or .7) ever support this feature? -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- ___ CentOS mailin

[CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond
dear guys, I have a problem between my CentOS 5.5 (on Axioo notebook) and LCD Projector. When I connect my notebook to LCD Projector, it can detect my notebook. But when I press Fn + F7 to activate dual monitor between my notebook and LCD Projector it goes to blank screen. FYI, the LCD Projector i

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 20:34 +0700, Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond wrote: > But when I press Fn + F7 to activate dual monitor between my notebook > and LCD Projector it goes to blank screen. FYI, the LCD Projector is > NEC but I don't know the series. In my limited experience with notebooks and laptops,

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond
Here is my complete xorg.conf, Paul. # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice"Synaptics" "CorePoint

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:34:30 +0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > dear guys, > > I have a problem between my CentOS 5.5 (on Axioo notebook) and LCD > Projector. When I connect my notebook to LCD Projector, it can detect my > notebook. VGA or DVI? > But when I press Fn + F7 to activate

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Christopher Hawker
I am led to believe that external monitors have very little interaction in terms of Monitor to PC. It may be a BIOS issue, try and have a look there. What particular model of laptop do you have? On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond < dewa.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is my c

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond
@Christopher Hawker : my laptop version is M54SR, old version of Axioo. @Robert Heller : VGA or DVI? --> VGA Which screen is blank? The notebook's or the LCD Projector or both? --> LCD Projector Is the LCD Projector displaying a message to the effect that an unsupported sync rate or video mode i

Re: [CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

2011-09-11 Thread me
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:23 -0400, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > >> Where is this syntax documented? I see the -h option in the man page >> but the n + part is not there and I would like to understand where >> that comes from. > > whois -h whois.ari

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Andrew 'Dewa' B. Osmond wrote: dear guys, I have a problem between my CentOS 5.5 (on Axioo notebook) and LCD Projector. When I connect my notebook to LCD Projector, it can detect my notebook. But when I press Fn + F7 to activate dual monitor between my notebook and LCD Projector it goes to bl

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:52:38 +0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > @Christopher Hawker : > my laptop version is M54SR, old version of Axioo. > > @Robert Heller : > VGA or DVI? > --> VGA > > Which screen is blank? The notebook's or the LCD Projector or both? > --> LCD Projector > > Is th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

2011-09-11 Thread Janne TH. Nyman
> And she changed it from AHCI to compatibility mode (had to change itto > that mode to make the drive being recognized?), which is not the best > setting regarding speed. Alexander: The she is actually a he :) > Quite right, sorry, I'd read it backwards. So presumably either a bug > in the > AHC

[CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

2011-09-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
I just noticed that some CentOS 4 or 5 machine that I don't admin but have root access to hides MySQL passwords from ps: Console 1: $ mysql -u root -pSECRET mysql > Console2: # ps aux root 32165 0.0 0.1 109408 2204 pts/1Ss+ 11:19 0:00 mysql -u root -px xx That is re

Re: [CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

2011-09-11 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 19:32 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I just noticed that some CentOS 4 or 5 machine that I don't admin but > have root access to hides MySQL passwords from ps: > > Console 1: > $ mysql -u root -pSECRET > mysql > > > Console2: > # ps aux > root 32165 0.0 0.1 109408 2204 p

Re: [CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

2011-09-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 19:35, Craig White wrote: > you'd still have it in bash_history though so it's really a poor idea to > ever pass a significant password directly on the command line execution > - whether visible or not visible to ps. Much better is to be prompted > for the password instead.

[CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Michael D. Berger
On my CentOS 6 partition of my laptop: First note that for this test, NetworkManager is not running because I did: chkconfig --del NetworkManager and then rebooted. Here is my ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE="eth0" NM_CONTROLLED="no" ONBOOT=no HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Rodrigo K. Ferreira
Hello, Please use ethtool ethX and verify if link is detected or not. Att., Rodrigo Kellermann Ferreira On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Michael D. Berger < m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On my CentOS 6 partition of my laptop: > > First note that for this test, NetworkManager is not > ru

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: > On my CentOS 6 partition of my laptop: > > First note that for this test, NetworkManager is not > running because I did: >   chkconfig --del NetworkManager > and then rebooted. > > Here is my ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE="eth0" > NM_CONTROLLED="

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew Dorozhkin
11.09.2011 22:57, Michael D. Berger wrote: > On my CentOS 6 partition of my laptop: > > First note that for this test, NetworkManager is not > running because I did: > chkconfig --del NetworkManager > and then rebooted. > > Here is my ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE="eth0" > NM_CONTROLLED="no" > ONBOOT=

[CentOS] persistent custom lines in /etc/hosts?

2011-09-11 Thread wwp
Hello there, I've edited /etc/hosts to add few custom IP/hostnames couples. After each reboot, I have to add them again. I've then added /etc/sysconfig/network/hosts, but it seems to ignore it or at least ignore 127.0.0.1 assignments I'm doing in it. Is there a mechanism I'm not aware of, or doi

Re: [CentOS] gnumeric

2011-09-11 Thread ken
On 09/10/2011 03:01 PM Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:40:47 > ken wrote: > >> Where do I find a gnumeric rpm? I must not have enough repos listed. > > http://www.elders.princeton.edu/data/puias/6/x86_64/os/Addons/ > Thanks, Frank. That isn't the exact version I was looking for, bu

[CentOS] Vitualization and Partitioning

2011-09-11 Thread Thomas Dukes
Hello, OK, getting ready to order a new machine and had some questions about 6.0. It will have a single 500GB HD. When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at /var/lib/libvirt/images/. I may combin

Re: [CentOS] XORG and LCD Projector

2011-09-11 Thread ken
A long time ago I did this. I think I was using Suse 9.3 at the time. (That's how long ago it was!!) It was so easy-- taking less than a minute-- that I don't remember how I did it. My "muttbox" is a Dell i600m. is the key to switch among the video options we're talking about. This probabl

Re: [CentOS] persistent custom lines in /etc/hosts?

2011-09-11 Thread R - elists
> > I've edited /etc/hosts to add few custom IP/hostnames couples. > After each reboot, I have to add them again. I've then added > /etc/sysconfig/network/hosts, but it seems to ignore it or at > least ignore 127.0.0.1 assignments I'm doing in it. > > Is there a mechanism I'm not aware of, or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Robert Spangler
On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:57, the following was written: > So why is "ifconfig eth0 up" not connecting? Have you tried 'ifup eth0'? -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a lifetime. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://linuxcounter.net/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Al
Have you tried; cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ./ifup ifcfg-eth0 On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Robert Spangler wrote: > On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:57, the following was written: > >> So why is "ifconfig eth0 up" not connecting? > > Have you tried 'ifup eth0'? > > > -- > > Regards >

Re: [CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

2011-09-11 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 19:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 19:35, Craig White wrote: > > you'd still have it in bash_history though so it's really a poor idea to > > ever pass a significant password directly on the command line execution > > - whether visible or not visible to

Re: [CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

2011-09-11 Thread Steve Walsh
On 09/11/2011 12:26 AM, Always Learning wrote: > This works for me on Centos 5.6. It may assist newcomers to the Linux > world of Centos. > > whois 51.51.51.51 > > produces a normal and conventional display of data. > > However since ARIN, the North American registrar of IP addresses, > "mo

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-11 Thread Emmett Culley
On 09/08/2011 10:34 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Emmett Culley wrote: >> On 09/08/2011 09:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Emmett Culley wrote: On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote: > On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: >> Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file sys

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet "ifconfig up" failure

2011-09-11 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:21:21 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: > On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:57, the following was written: > >> So why is "ifconfig eth0 up" not connecting? > > Have you tried 'ifup eth0'? I have now, it works fine. Thanks, Mike. __

Re: [CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

2011-09-11 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 10:55 +1000, Steve Walsh wrote: > I wrote:- > > A one line script solves it for me (but only for ARIN network entries). > > > > #!/bin/bash > > whois -h whois.arin.net n + $1 > Any particular reason you used a bash script as opposed to an alias in > your bash confi

Re: [CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

2011-09-11 Thread Devin Reade
Getting back to the original question, it is a feature of mysql (not of CentOS per se), but there's nothing that stops other (C) programs from doing something similar. Shortly after startup, a programmer can set things up so that command line arguments (or in this case one of them) is hidden from

Re: [CentOS] Vitualization and Partitioning

2011-09-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
Hi, > When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest That would be better from a performance point of view > OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at > /var/lib/libvirt/images/. This should be using files as disk files, which I did and found

Re: [CentOS] Vitualization and Partitioning

2011-09-11 Thread ken
On 09/11/2011 11:10 PM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Hi, > >> When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest > That would be better from a performance point of view > >> OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at >> /var/lib/libvirt/images/. > T

Re: [CentOS] TIP for broken ARIN whois

2011-09-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Always Learning wrote: > >> >     #!/bin/bash >> >     whois -h whois.arin.net n + $1 > >> Any particular reason you used a bash script as opposed to an alias in >> your bash config? > > My understanding of aliases is I can not include additional parameters With b

[CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-09-11 Thread Christopher Hawker
Hey all, Roughly, how much disk space would I need on my server to mirror the entire ISO collection and the repository files. Also, how would I tell my server to only mirror CentOS 5 and 6? -- If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 478 241 896. Regards, Christo

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
Current full mirror size is 122G - Original Message - | Hey all, | | Roughly, how much disk space would I need on my server to mirror the | entire ISO collection and the repository files. Also, how would I tell | my server to only mirror CentOS 5 and 6? | | -- | If you have any questions

Re: [CentOS] persistent custom lines in /etc/hosts?

2011-09-11 Thread wwp
Hello R, On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:15:02 -0700 "R - elists" wrote: > > > > > I've edited /etc/hosts to add few custom IP/hostnames couples. > > After each reboot, I have to add them again. I've then added > > /etc/sysconfig/network/hosts, but it seems to ignore it or at > > least ignore 127.0