Re: [CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

On 2014-06-04 21:37, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:42:23PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: >> On Tue, June 3, 2014 12:37, Stephen Harris wrote: >>> The OP likely has a function called "cd" which does other stuff (sets > >> hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ alias > > A function is not an alias. >

[CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

Is there any tool for analysing the MBR on a computer? I know one can just dd it and see roughly what it contains. But surely one should be able to work out the exact content of the MBR and the neighbouring sectors read at boot time? I had a difficult day, probably due to my ignorance, which would

[CentOS] Samba 4.1.7 + CentOS 6.5 - Home's directory mounting in W7 + Roaming of Profils

Hello all, I progress slowly in my installation of Samba; but I'm confronted to two problems: 1) Is it possible to configure Samba (4.1.7) directly from GNU/Linux (CentOS 6.5) for automatically mount the user's home directory to "H:" when he connects to the domain ? 2) In addition, after that

Re: [CentOS] firefox-29.0-5.1.el6

Hello Νικόλαος, On Sat, 17 May 2014 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) ngeorgop wrote: > New compilation of firefox (v. 29.0) > build with > 1) devtools-2 (http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/readme) > 2) python27 (from SCL) > (http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.5/i386/external_product

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

The dd command shows you **exactly** what is in the MBR and, if you want, the following sectors. But the following sectors are not particularly relevant to boot. THe MBR contains the boot record and the partition table. There is not room for anything else. But your problem is not with the MBR s

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 06/05/14 07:01, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there any tool for analysing the MBR on a computer? > I know one can just dd it and see roughly what it contains. > But surely one should be able to work out the exact content > of the MBR and the neighbouring sectors read at boot time? > > I had a diff

Re: [CentOS] firefox-29.0-5.1.el6

Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) ngeorgop wrote: > New compilation of firefox (v. 29.0) > build with > 1) devtools-2 (http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/readme) > 2) python27 (from SCL) > (http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.5/i386/external_products/softwar

Re: [CentOS] [Samba] Samba 4.1.7 + CentOS 6.5 - Home's directory mounting in W7 + Roaming of Profils

From: Pascal Blétard > 1) Is it possible to configure Samba (4.1.7) directly from GNU/Linux (CentOS > 6.5) for automatically mount the user's home directory to "H:" > when he connects to the domain ? This worked for me: /etc/samba/smb.conf   logon script = logon.bat   logon path = \\%L\Prof

[CentOS] [SOLVED] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

I get the digest version fo this list so I apologise for any discontinuity to my reply posts introduced thereby. On Wed, June 4, 2014 15:36, Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > No OSX here either, but just to be sure, could you publish the results of: > > which cd; echo $? > locate cd | grep '/cd'$;

[CentOS] FW: [Samba] Samba 4.1.7 + CentOS 6.5 - Home's directory mounting in W7 + Roaming of Profils

> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 05:39:47 -0700 > From: jd...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 4.1.7 + CentOS 6.5 - Home's directory mounting in > W7 + Roaming of Profils > To: paddel...@hotmail.com; centos@centos.org > From: Pascal Blétard > > > 1) Is it possible to configure Samba (4.1.7) direc

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

> 1. What does the 1+ in the shell expansion ${1+"$@"} mean and do? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68484/what-does-1-mean-in-a-shell-script-and-how-does-it-differ-from > 2. I know that $0 returns the shell name or shell script file name. How does > ${0##*/} differ in effect from $0.

Re: [CentOS] firefox-29.0-5.1.el6

wwp wrote: > > Any chance to see x86_64 packages for this? And a firefox 29.x update? The downloads of firefox 29 i686/x86_64 from run fine on CentOS 6 James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] firefox-29.0-5.1.el6

Hello James, On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:44:23 +0100 James Pearson wrote: > wwp wrote: > > > > Any chance to see x86_64 packages for this? And a firefox 29.x update? > > The downloads of firefox 29 i686/x86_64 from > run fine on CentOS 6 I know this.. Regards, -- w

Re: [CentOS] FW: [Samba] Samba 4.1.7 + CentOS 6.5 - Home's directory mounting in W7 + Roaming of Profils

On 6/5/2014 9:29 AM, Pascal Blétard wrote: > > >> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 05:39:47 -0700 >> From: jd...@yahoo.com > > I tried it first, but this seems doesn't working for me :/ > > - Can you send me your whole smb.conf (in particular for "sysvol" and > "global" shares) > - Which OS on client? Win7

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:0626 Important CentOS 5 openssl097a Update

what about RHSA-2014:0624-1? On 06/05/2014 06:38 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:0626 Important > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0626.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mi

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:0626 Important CentOS 5 openssl097a Update

Hi, Its in the pipes, coming in the next few minutes. - KB On 06/05/2014 05:16 PM, Joe Pruett wrote: > what about RHSA-2014:0624-1? > > On 06/05/2014 06:38 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:0626 Important >> >> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/err

Re: [CentOS] chromium-34.0.1847.132-4.el6

> New EL6 compilation of chromium (34.0.1847.132) (aura) > Based on russian fedora build > Build with devtools-2 (http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/readme) > > chromium-34.0.1847.132-4.el6.i686.rpm > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9RlkKQB1POSM1ByMUNMaWNVYmM/edit?usp=sharing > > chromi

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

David Both wrote: > The dd command shows you **exactly** what is in the MBR and, if you want, > the following sectors. But the following sectors are not particularly > relevant to boot. THe MBR contains the boot record and the partition > table. There is not room for anything else. But your probl

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 6/5/2014 10:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is this strictly true - that only the MBR is read at boot-time? the MBR has two elements. A) the boot code, which is read and executed by the BIOS at boot time, only on the boot drive and B) the master partition table, which is read on any drive when

Re: [CentOS] parsing out adjacent text

Tim Dunphy writes: > I'm very grateful. Ok so here is what I have so far of my script to get the > number of apache requests to a given host: > [...] > So now my question is, is there any way to limit the size of the output log > from within the script without having to use logrotate? You could

Re: [CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, James B. Byrne wrote: On Tue, June 3, 2014 13:03, Paul Heinlein wrote: Try cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/" hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/" -bash: cd: /Users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory It looks to me like

Re: [CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

Never mind... I didn't read far enough down my inbox to see the SOLVED section of the thread. On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, James B. Byrne wrote: On Tue, June 3, 2014 13:03, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Try > > cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/" > hll-m2

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/5/2014 10:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Is this strictly true - that only the MBR is read at boot-time? > > the MBR has two elements. > > A) the boot code, which is read and executed by the BIOS at boot time, > only on the boot drive > and > B) the master partition

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 6/5/2014 12:07 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >A) the boot code, which is read and executed by the BIOS at boot time, >> >only on the boot drive >> >and >> >B) the master partition table, which is read on any drive when its >> >inserted > That doesn't really answer my question; > I know (roughly)

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 6/5/2014 1:31 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > parted -a min /dev/sdb oops, that was supposed to say, parted -a /none / -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

Timothy Murphy wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 6/5/2014 10:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Is this strictly true - that only the MBR is read at boot-time? >> >> the MBR has two elements. >> >> A) the boot code, which is read and executed by the BIOS at boot time, >> only on the boot drive >>

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/5/2014 12:07 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> That doesn't really answer my question; >> I know (roughly) what the MBR, ie the first 512 bytes, contains. >> But I notice that my laptop, for example, leaves 64 sectors >> for something at the start of the disk; >> and when I

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 6/5/2014 1:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > mkpart pri 0.0GB x.GB > *always* gives me aligned partions (and parted - talk about user hostile > programs! "Not aligned", with not a clue as to what it actually wants) I've taken to always running parted with -a none, as its alignment rules ar

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/5/2014 1:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> mkpart pri 0.0GB x.GB >> *always* gives me aligned partions (and parted - talk about user hostile >> programs! "Not aligned", with not a clue as to what it actually wants) > > I've taken to

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/5/2014 1:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> mkpart pri 0.0GB x.GB >> *always* gives me aligned partions (and parted - talk about user hostile programs! "Not aligned", with not a clue as to what it actually wants) > > I've taken to always running parted with -a none,

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 6/5/2014 2:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > New bigger disks may use 4k physical sectors but report 512 for > backwards compatibility. If you don't write 4 contiguous sectors it > has to read, wait for the disk to spin back around, then write, > merging in what you did write. Which means writes wi

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/5/2014 2:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> New bigger disks may use 4k physical sectors but report 512 for >> backwards compatibility. If you don't write 4 contiguous sectors it >> has to read, wait for the disk to spin back around, then wri

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:0626 Important CentOS 5 openssl097a Update

We still haven’t seen the CentOS 5 openssl-0.9.8* RPM updates show up on the CentOS mirrors today. Checked: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.10/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ http://mirror.yellowfiber.net/centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ http://mirror.vcu.edu/pub/gnu+linux/centos/5.10/updates/x86_64/RP

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

John R Pierce wrote: > the rest of the space between the sector 0 MBR and the first primary > partition is completely empty, nothing puts anything there. You say that with supreme self-confidence, but I have just looked at 3 disks with eg [tim@helen tmp]$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdb.mbr bs=2048

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

Les Mikesell wrote: > Ummm, yeah That's why I let gparted do the math. But even gparted leaves some maths to be done, eg since it uses MiB's it seems logical to use GiB's which means difficult calculations like 80x1024 = ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathe

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Ummm, yeah That's why I let gparted do the math. > > But even gparted leaves some maths to be done, > eg since it uses MiB's it seems logical to use GiB's > which means difficult calculations like 80x1024 = ? > N

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

On 06/05/2014 03:31 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > traditional PC partitioning tools, dating back to MSDOS, put partitions > on 'cylinder' boundaries. this is a bad idea on modern disks, whether > they be SSD's that often have 128K physical write blocks, or newer HD's > with 4096 byte physical sector

[CentOS] Vanitygen on centos linux

Hi to all... After a hard search i dont found the way to install Vanitygen to make Bitcoin addres on centos. After 3 days i decide to find the way and make the how to. I post the how to on bitcointalk.com and want to share with centos people. How to link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi