Re: [CentOS] [OT] how to specify dimensions a a Java Popup

2013-01-23 Thread John Doe
From: Michael Hennebry > Thanks.  Google hadn't said it to me. > What I did get was buried in a bunch of stuff for javascript. Google advice: -javascript removes javascript from the results JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] clock sync/drift

2013-01-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 23.01.2013 um 06:21 schrieb Ron Loftin : > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 21:16 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a little over 100 servers, almost all running CentOS 5.7. >> Virtually all are Dell servers, generally a mix of 1950s, R610s, and >> R410s. >> >> We use NTP and/or PTP to sy

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 22.01.2013 um 22:19 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > James Freer wrote: >> I've just installed v6.3 as a desktop (from >> Centos-6.3-i386-LiveCD.iso) and to get the hang of the Centos approach >> and then hope to move on to a server. I've been using linux *buntu for >> 5 years. >> >> Hope i don't so

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer : > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/22/2013 03:01 PM, James Freer wrote: >>> I've just installed v6.3 as a desktop (from >>> Centos-6.3-i386-LiveCD.iso) and to get the hang of the Centos approach >>> and then hope to move on

Re: [CentOS] clock sync/drift

2013-01-23 Thread John Doe
From: Matt Garman > I suspect something is mis-configured, because I can't imagine the > hardware clock on ALL these servers is *that* bad. Tried SYNC_HWCLOCK=yes in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Ron Yorston
Bruce Ferrell wrote: >I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system >is via gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers >but what I'm looking for is a sertup that allows me to see the *dm login >screen instead of being dropped direct into a desktop. I

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/how-to-change-the-default-crontab-editor-395750/ http://osxdaily.com/

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Adekoya Adekunle
i tried this(gedit /etc/crontab). it loads a file. the content of this file is different from what i have in crontab -e. why the difference ? On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 23.01.2013 12:23, schrieb Adekoya Adekunle: > > hi, > > > > How can I open crontab with

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:41 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > i tried this(gedit /etc/crontab). it loads a file. the content of this > file is different from what i have in crontab -e. why the difference ? > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> >> Am 23.01.2013 12:23, schrieb Ade

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:44 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? There are no specific CentOS certifications, however the Red Hat certifications are what I would recommend: http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/ Specificall

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

2013-01-23 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:44 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? There are no specific CentOS certifications, however the Red Hat certifications are what I would recommend: http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/ Specificall

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/1/23 Adekoya Adekunle : > hi, > > any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? rhce/rhcsa http://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-Linux-Certification-Study-Edition/dp/0071765654/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1358942993&sr=8-3&keywords=rhce -- Eero, rhce _

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Adekoya Adekunle
i noticed something now. i setup a cron job with crontab -e on a local machine and things work fine. i logged into a remote machine with SSH and also setup the same job with crontab -e and things dont work what could be the cause ? could the reason be related to the difference between crontab

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 23.01.2013 um 13:13 schrieb Adekoya Adekunle : > i noticed something now. i setup a cron job with crontab -e on a local > machine and things work fine. i logged into a remote machine with SSH and > also setup the same job with crontab -e and things dont work > > what could be the cause ? c

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/23/2013 05:48 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: > Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system >> is via gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers >> but what I'm looking for is a sertup that allows me to see the *dm login >> scree

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 wrote: > > > > I composed with HTML and bolded */10 > > Some people consider it rude to use HTML on a mailing list. And, as > we've just seen, it can actually be converted to

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
This might be a little off-subject but look at xrdp. That sits on top of vnc and let's you use Windows' remote desktop client to log in as any local user. On Jan 22, 2013 9:53 PM, "Bruce Ferrell" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system is > vi

Re: [CentOS] totem fails to open .wmv file

2013-01-23 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > [mlapier@mushroom bin]$ rpm -qa | grep ^gst > gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-2.el6.i686 > gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.29-1.el6.i686 > gstreamer-0.10.29-1.el6.i686 > gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-2.el6.i686 > gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.23-1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

2013-01-23 Thread Oelberg, Cory [DAS]
- Original Message - From: centos-announce-requ...@centos.org [mailto:centos-announce-requ...@centos.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 06:00 AM To: centos-annou...@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7 Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

2013-01-23 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to > (in a shellscript that subsequently invokes ff 18) but so far I've

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > > You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the above > may serve as a starting point. The iNet? Wow, Apple's getting into everything these days... :) -- Bowie ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] How to configure display on CentOS 6?

2013-01-23 Thread Toralf Lund
> Ned Slider wrote: >> On 22/01/13 14:32, Toralf Lund wrote: >>> How exactly are you supposed to configure the display (i.e. set up X11) >>> on a CentOS 6 system? I mean, in the past, there was >>> system-config-display, but that's not supported any more. There is >>> gnome-display-properties/Syste

[CentOS] dhclient in 5.9 having trouble with dhcpd in 6.3 ?

2013-01-23 Thread Stephen Harris
I have a KVM setup. Host is 6.3. I have a bridged client running 5.9 Since upgrading to 5.9 I noticed that ntpd is being restarted every 12 hours. Jan 20 08:00:25 mercury ntpd[16103]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 Jan 20 20:00:26 mercury ntpd[27462]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 Jan 21 08:00:27 mercur

Re: [CentOS] How to configure display on CentOS 6?

2013-01-23 Thread Scot P. Floess
I think you can also use X --config That should build an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for you... On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Toralf Lund wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote: >>> On 22/01/13 14:32, Toralf Lund wrote: How exactly are you supposed to configure the display (i.e. set up X11) on a CentOS 6 sy

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

2013-01-23 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/23/2013 12:10 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2013/1/23 Adekoya Adekunle : >> hi, >> >> any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? > > rhce/rhcsa > > http://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-Linux-Certification-Study-Edition/dp/0071765654/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1358942993&sr=8-

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/1/23 Phil Dobbin : > On 01/23/2013 12:10 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> 2013/1/23 Adekoya Adekunle : and rute: http://linux.2038bug.com/rute-home.html http://www.redhat.com/training/courses/rh300/ rapid track is also recommended for noobs.. -- Eero __

Re: [CentOS] clock sync/drift

2013-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > Hi, > > We have a little over 100 servers, almost all running CentOS 5.7. > Virtually all are Dell servers, generally a mix of 1950s, R610s, and > R410s. > > We use NTP and/or PTP to sync their clocks. One phenomenon we've > noticed is that (1)

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

2013-01-23 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: >> >>In case anyone is interested, I managed to rebuild firefox 18.0.1 on >>CentOS 5 (i686) without too many problems >> >>It appears to run fine on CentOS 5 >> >>If anyone wants to know the details, then let me know > > > I've been thinking of trying to build it here, but have

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: >> >> You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the above >> may serve as a starting point. > > The iNet? Wow, Apple's getting into everything these days... :) I think he meant the Inet. Missed the beginning

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
SilverTip257 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < > kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 wrote: >> > >> > I composed with HTML and bolded */10 >> >> Some people consider it rude to use HTML on a mailing list. And, as >> we've just seen, it

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I've used vnc spawned by xinetd in the past and it works the way you > describe. It works, but not as nicely as freenx and if you lose your > connection it kills everything running, like it or not. > I know it is bad form to reply to mysel

Re: [CentOS] How to configure display on CentOS 6?

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Toralf Lund wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote: >>> On 22/01/13 14:32, Toralf Lund wrote: How exactly are you supposed to configure the display (i.e. set up X11) on a CentOS 6 system? I mean, in the past, there was system-config-display, but that's not supported any more. There is gnome

Re: [CentOS] clock sync/drift

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Craig White wrote: > On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Matt Garman wrote: >> >> We have a little over 100 servers, almost all running CentOS 5.7. >> Virtually all are Dell servers, generally a mix of 1950s, R610s, and >> R410s. Hmmm... May I *STRONGLY* urge you to replace the 1950's ASAP. We've surplus

Re: [CentOS] How to configure display on CentOS 6?

2013-01-23 Thread Scot P. Floess
I ran into a similar problem when using a diskless laptop - the display was not working in graphical mode...and I had not system-config-display (using CentOS 6.3)... Anyway, you can definitely do "X --config" to configure the xorg.conf file. On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Tor

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/23/2013 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: >> On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: >>> You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the above >>> may serve as a starting point. >> The iNet? Wow, Apple's getting into everything these days... :) >

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Many thanks to everyone who responded with extremely helpful tips. Reporting back that I implemented HAProxy on CentOS 6.3 and this works like a charm - after I worked out a couple of HAProxy kinks. Boris. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > The

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Corey A Johnson
On 1/23/2013 12:22 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 1/23/2013 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the above may serve as a starting point. >>> The iNet? Wow, A

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. From a terminal window: su gedit /etc/crontab & I do it all the time. I suppose there is a one line variant with sud

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >> >> How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? >> >> i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. > > From a terminal window: > > su > gedit /etc/crontab & > > I do it all the time. I suppose th

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? >>> >>> i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. >> From a terminal window: >> >> su >> gedit

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-23, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < > kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 wrote: >> > >> > I composed with HTML and bolded */10 >> >> Some people consider it rude to use HTML on a mailing list. And, as >> w

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? i want to edit my cron jobs with other

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Cliff Pratt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to e

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:59 AM, wrote: > SilverTip257 wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < > > kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 wrote: > >> > > >> > I composed with HTML and bolded */10 > >> > >> Some people consider it rude to

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-01-23, SilverTip257 wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < > > kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > > >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 wrote: > >> > > >> > I composed

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 23/01/13 18:41, Cliff Pratt wrote: > cron does not have the same environment as the user logged in as root. > Specifically, it doesn't have the same 'PATH'. +1 It may also have a different selinux context. I recently discovered a logwatch setup that worked fine on C5, but parts of it were si

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 14:10 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2013/1/23 Adekoya Adekunle : > > hi, > > > > any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? > > rhce/rhcsa > > http://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-Linux-Certification-Study-Edition/dp/0071765654/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=135

[CentOS] How to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare?

2013-01-23 Thread Ren Wen shan
Hello everyone, I am new to this group so please forgive me if this question has been already asked. With four identical hard drives, I want to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare by a fresh CentOS (6.3) installation. I have read this article ( http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-

Re: [CentOS] How to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare?

2013-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ren Wen shan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this group so please forgive me if this question has been > already asked. > > With four identical hard drives, I want to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare by a > fresh CentOS (6.3) installation. > > I have read this

[CentOS] Software Updater issue

2013-01-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, Heads up! For some reason the Software Updater thought it would be interesting for me if it upgraded my nvidia 304 driver with the nvidia 310.32-1 driver. That would be nice if the 310 driver supported my crusty old GS 7600 but it doesn't. I had to run two yum downgrade sessions to

Re: [CentOS] Software Updater issue

2013-01-23 Thread Barry Brimer
> I'm not sure about this but that seems like a bug when it thinks that > the 310 driver package is an upgrade for the 304 driver package. > > Jan 23 21:43:39 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 > Jan 23 21:43:49 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 > Jan 24 00:43:58 Installed

Re: [CentOS] evaluating backup systems: rsync

2013-01-23 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 at 08:07 -, SilverTip257 wrote: > If you change a directory name, rsync has no way of knowing that you > moved it. And since the new directory doesn't exist on the rsync > source that new directory is removed and those items are rsynced > again. > > Bottom-line: Change th

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread andreas
Στις 23-01-2013 16:25, Bowie Bailey έγραψε: > On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: >> >> You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the >> above >> may serve as a starting point. > > The iNet? Wow, Apple's getting into everything these days... :) A clear indication of