Re: [CentOS] how2 mount ntfs partition that is part of a full HD image file

2014-10-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:34:55PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 10/04/2014 05:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount > >one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single > >partition when

[CentOS] OH NO, Something has gone wrong!

2014-10-06 Thread Fred Smith
and the system can't recover, please log out and try again." Sounds like a VirtualBox problem to me, but was wondering if anyone here had seen it and maybe knows what's going on. Thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "

Re: [CentOS] OH NO, Something has gone wrong!

2014-10-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:50:03PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm setting up C7-64 as a VM using VirtualBox, on a Windows host. > > as soon as I install the vbox Guest Extensions and reboot, when I log > in next time I get a white screen with a frown

Re: [CentOS] OH NO, Something has gone wrong!

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 07.10.2014 um 02:25 schrieb Fred Smith : > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:50:03PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> I'm setting up C7-64 as a VM using VirtualBox, on a Windows

Re: [CentOS] Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
since I've used dd-wrt, so I don't swear this is full truth, but I think there are options in the UI for enabling or disabling telnet and/or SSH. The default settings (if you haven't changed 'em) ought to be enabled for telnet and disabled for SSH, but of course you can change '

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 remove items on screen

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
us are given. While I don't know how to do that, I thought I'd also throw in another thing you may wish to investigate: right-click on the desktop brings up a menu with a few items on it, one of which is "open in terminal". -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.u

Re: [CentOS] Problem with WRT54GL router

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
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[CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
w, I could reboot, but I'd just as soon not. Anybody know what that jbd2/sdd1 stuff is that lsof shows me, or how to umount it other than a reboot? thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me your ways, O LORD, teac

Re: [CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 03:18:37PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2014 3:13 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I've got a usb HD mounted, and it has been mounted since the weekend, and > >has been kept busy during that period. > > > >now I"m done with it an want

Re: [CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:19:00PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > I've got a usb HD mounted, and it has been mounted since the weekend, and > > has been kept busy during that period. > > > > now I"m done with it an want to umount it, but

Re: [CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:46:17PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:19:00PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Fred Smith wrote: > >> > I've got a usb HD mounted, and it has been mounted since the weekend, >

Re: [CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:37:25PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:46:17PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 06:19:00PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > >> Fred Smith wrote: > > >> &g

Re: [CentOS] umount problem

2014-10-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:09:14PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2014 5:54 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >...probably left some jbd2 thread hanging loose... > > one of the googled articles on jdb2 errors that I read suggested > there have been kernel bugs which caused the jo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and ntp

2014-10-10 Thread Fred Smith
olving the mystery! I have the idea, from,... somewhere,... that chrony may now be the default ntp agent in Fedora/RHEL and by extension, CentOS. I used to use it years ago when I was still stuck on dialup, because it works well with systems that do not have persistent network access, and I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 User Manager Tool

2014-10-10 Thread Fred Smith
g-users" from the command line, but I can't find either? I > >> don't have a "System" top menu, only "Applications" and "Places", and > >> when I try the command line option I get "command not found".

Re: [CentOS] Hiding a network printer

2014-10-13 Thread Fred Smith
choose to share it or not, but that's probabaly all or nuttin. If you're smarter than I am (not to say, more ambitious) you could probably add some firewall rules to do the trick. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: [CentOS] How to update

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:07:30AM -0700, Néstor wrote: > HI people, > > I am using centos 5 and I am confused on what file to put in my yum.repo.d > to update my centos. > do you mean "update", or "upgrade" ?? update simply means to install whatever fixes/enhancements have been released for Ce

[CentOS] pidgin-sipe on Centos-6/64

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Smith
-figuring I had the wrong version (since the pidgin in C6 is now rather old) I downloaded the source and built it, again with no errors. but having installed it, I get the same symptom. I'd appreciate any helpful hints. thanks! -- Fred Smith --

Re: [CentOS] pidgin-sipe on Centos-6/64

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Smith
nux.ro > > - Original Message - > > From: "Fred Smith" > > To: centos@centos.org > > Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2014 19:58:22 > > Subject: [CentOS] pidgin-sipe on Centos-6/64 > > > Hi! > > > > Wondering if anyone here has been abl

Re: [CentOS] [Resolved] pidgin-sipe on Centos-6/64

2014-10-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:49:18PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:55:00PM +0100, Nux! wrote: > > pidgin-sipe is in EPEL for CentOS 6, have you tried that? > > Ah, no. I somehow missed that. Thanks for the pointer, I'll go get it. Thanks, Nux, I feel kin

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 Annoyances

2014-10-30 Thread Fred Smith
lity, and still runs > perfectly. I'd hate to spend a few hundred dollars each to replace > all those systems. I believe there are people working on this, it's just not yet ready for prime time. It's probably harder than it would have been simply becauase RH did not provide the

[CentOS] Anyone have any experience with Epson EasyMP projectors?

2014-11-12 Thread Fred Smith
e=Overview&oid=35942&prodoid=36528570 Do any of you folks out there know of any way to use Linux with one of those devices? Thanks! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD

Re: [CentOS] Anyone have a Brother multifunction working on Centos 7?

2014-11-12 Thread Fred Smith
pp://192.168.2.97/ipp I seem to recall fooling around with various choices here, before finally settling on that one (because it worked). I don't THINK I had to hack at anything else to make it work... good luck! -- ----

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-05-25 Thread Fred Smith
that means you need to find the appropriate incantation to turn on networking. Most likely, right-click on the NetworkManager icon in the top panel, click "edit connections", click Ethernet in the window, then click the "Add" button, and add to your heart&

Re: [CentOS] Low random entropy

2017-05-26 Thread Fred Smith
n involves open source hardware, at http://onerng.info/ which is a hardware entropy generator. Lots of discussion on how it works, and why. the one I have doesn't seem to work on a usb3.0 port (on my desktop PC), but that may not be its fault. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread Fred Smith
unofficial 32-bit build, and I don't know if it is being kept up to date. also, 3rd-party repositories (epel, et al) aren't offering 32-bit packages for C7, either, so if you depend on any of them for packages you really care about (e.g., I can't use gnome-3.x, I us

[CentOS] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
d it appears to restart (no messages appear). when I then do "ls /mnt/syno-fredex" it doesn't appear to actually get mounted, and /var/log/messages doesn't show anything. I'd appreciate advice on this matter. thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcsho

Re: [CentOS] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: Kenneth: thanks for the heads-up. I was stuck on looking for autofs tutorials, having forgotten (if I ever knew) that systemd had subsumed that feature. thanks again! Fred > On 6/8/2017 11:03 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I&#x

Re: [CentOS] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
l, systemd doesn't support using the > request-key infrastructure to use a user's kerberos ticket to set up > the automount. Glad to know it still works. Could any of you look back at my first post and give me a hint what I'm doing wrong? (I can repost if necessar

Re: [CentOS] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:45:26AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Fred Smith > wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:25:31AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> >

Re: [CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
onto such a > device :) Raspberry Pi 3B 35 bucks notincluding power supply or SD card. the only thing I'm not sure of is the PXE part. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord is like a strong tower.

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:58:25PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:45:26AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Fred Smith > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:25:31AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > >>

Re: [CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:10:16PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/9/2017 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:00:42PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote: > >>I am searching for the cheapeat *nix SOC device with ethernet and wifi that > >>can run Pyt

Re: [CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 02:30:23PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > >> Maybe we need another mailing list, like alt.religion.editors*, we could > >> have alt.religion.systemd > >>

[CentOS] looking for graphing tools

2017-06-19 Thread Fred Smith
Hi! I have bazillions of incoming (rejected) attempts to connect to my SMTP server, and I'm interested in separating out those that seem to come in huge bunches (e.g., the one from yesterday that ran for about 10 hours and sent over 4100 attempts), and graphing them so I can see the spacing and/or

Re: [CentOS] Problem with ipa-client

2017-07-04 Thread Fred Smith
eipa- that is actually running on your box, you could "yum remove" the others. and of course, if you remove ipa- and leave freeipa- then you are on your own as far as receiving updates. Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

[CentOS] I found this interesting: amount of evil traffic on the internet

2017-07-10 Thread Fred Smith
he most effective of all the filtering techniques I've found for dropping spam before it ever gets into my mail system. For mail that does get in, SpamBayes works great, once one figures out how to configure it.) If any of you don't believe that the 'net is populated by evil beings, l

Re: [CentOS] old hardware / minimal netinstall -> CPU fan control

2017-07-11 Thread Fred Smith
have some suitable driver. good luck! -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us // (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-11 Thread Fred Smith
ame issue some years ago, and found a low-priced mono laser that lated me quite a few years. no color, but few thing I wanted to print actually demanded color. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord is like a strong tower

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:09:15PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/11/2017 3:58 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I faced the same issue some years ago, and found a low-priced mono > >laser that lated me quite a few years. no color, but few thing I > >wanted to print actually de

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
the past, > that I approach them with fear and trepidation. I've installed brother drivers by hand, and it involves working through a somewhat cryptic list of modifications you need to do to your Linux system. other times I use their driver install tool and let it do what is needed. -- -

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 07:41:32PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Fred Smith wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 03:27:14PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > >>Next on the list is a Brother HL-L2360DW. > >>It appears to work with lin

Re: [CentOS] Headphones volume control not working in CentOS 7

2017-07-28 Thread Fred Smith
all supported auto-switching between speakers and headphones when the phone plug was inserted, but the only one I have now that does that is my netbook. the current desk-side system and its last couple of predecessors now do not do that. Go figure. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

[CentOS] Using GIMP on Centos-7, problem

2017-07-30 Thread Fred Smith
will be appreciated, thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,

Re: [CentOS] claiming unsused space back

2017-07-31 Thread Fred Smith
ed disk space. presumably you'll delete that file once it is created, but you won't have any more free disk space than you had before. the only difference will be that that unused space will then be filled with zeroes. what are you actually wanting to do here? -- Fred Smith -- fre.

Re: [CentOS] Light-weight window manager, recommendations

2017-08-04 Thread Fred Smith
tools/ apps that I can't bear to actually use them. So, I don't know what would be light enough to make it non-painful to use. Should you find something, please post here so I can also give it a try. thanks! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

[CentOS] Kernel:[Hardware Error]:

2017-08-12 Thread Fred Smith
power management: ts ttp tm 100mhzsteps hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro six core AMD, above is one of the cores. Any clues to figure out the errors, and/or mitigate? thanks! Fred -- --- .Fred Smith

Re: [CentOS] Kernel:[Hardware Error]:

2017-08-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 05:51:33PM -0400, Steven Tardy wrote: > > > On Aug 12, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Fred Smith > > wrote: > > > > I had a series of kernel hardware error reports today while I was away > > from my computer: > > > > Message from sysl

[CentOS] what is CodeMeter and why is it running on my CentOS box?

2017-08-12 Thread Fred Smith
work with something called a "cm stick". I don't have one, don't want one, and never heard of them. Is there any reason I should be leery of just "yum remove"ing the package? thanks! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: [CentOS] what is CodeMeter and why is it running on my CentOS box?

2017-08-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 06:49:01PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 8/12/2017 6:25 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I just stumbled over /var/log/CodeMeter, which contains a number of large > >log files. > > > >I know I'm getting old and forgetful, but I can't reme

Re: [CentOS] Kernel:[Hardware Error]: use of vacuum

2017-08-13 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 08:18:24AM -0400, ken wrote: > On 08/12/2017 07:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >Well. overheating is possible... we don't live in the cleanest possible > >house, AND we have cats. so, in general I open up this box twice a year > >and vacuum out the

Re: [CentOS] what is CodeMeter and why is it running on my CentOS box?

2017-08-13 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 09:25:11PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > I just stumbled over /var/log/CodeMeter, which contains a number of large > log files. > > I know I'm getting old and forgetful, but I can't remember intentionally > installing that package. > > Yum j

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Fred Smith
> P. Hmm. was unaware of tracker-etc. what are these indexes used for? I can't think of anything I do on the system that would need to know all bout some arbitrary file somewhere on the filesysystem, so why would this be useful? thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred

[CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-21 Thread Fred Smith
Hi! Thanks to some of you I got autofs set up on my C7 netbook for mounting local cifs filesytems. Now I want to do something on my C7 desktop machine, that seems to me to be a little different, and I"m not sure how to do it. I have an external RAID1 box that attaches via USB. It is/will be near

Re: [CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/21/2017 07:23 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >so, in my case, the USB drive contains an xfs filesystem. would I > >do something like this: > > > >in /etc/auto.master: > >backup /etc/auto.back

Re: [CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:59:23PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/23/2017 01:06 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >so, the two lines saying: Key "syno-fredex" or key "syno-public" > >appear whenever I try to access one of those two filesystems. I AM NOT > >US

Re: [CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 08:53:17PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/23/2017 02:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >do I need to reboot or something to get autofs to forget about them > >being in /mnt? > > > No, you need to figure out what program, not autofs, is trying to &

Re: [CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:04:05PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/24/2017 06:55 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >if I click one of those then run systemctl status autofs I see one > >of those errors show up. If I click on it again, there are two > >errors. if I click on the oth

Re: [CentOS] more questions on setting up autofs on C7

2017-08-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 09:37:59AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/25/2017 08:32 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >Don't know of anything in mate that would do th at, but I'll do some > >digging around. > > > You can always look the hard/slow way: > >

[CentOS] anybody else had this problem since the CR updates?

2017-08-26 Thread Fred Smith
I'm running Mate on my C7 boxen, a desktop and a netbook.\ Mate comes from epel, so it's probably not a CentOS problem, but lemme ask here in case anybody else has seen it: some tools (nm, pavucontrol, and possibly others I haven't noted down) no longer have the correct formatting on screen. ther

Re: [CentOS] anybody else had this problem since the CR updates?

2017-08-27 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-08-27, Fred Smith > wrote: > > I'm running Mate on my C7 boxen, a desktop and a netbook.\ > > > > Mate comes from epel, so it's probably not a CentOS problem, but lemme > &

[CentOS] installing lxqt on CentOS-7

2017-09-07 Thread Fred Smith
ssary crap? thanks in advance! Fredex -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glor

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:18:15AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:40:52 + > Richard wrote: > > > The mate-gtk2/3 issue effects windows/menus/scrollbars and the like, > > not the login screen. See: > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
; > The chunk size above is for the md-RAID write-intent bitmap; that's not > > exposed information (for any RAID system that I'm aware of, software or > > hardware) or something that filesystems can optimize for. > > Oh, ok. How do you know what stripe size was picked b

Re: [CentOS] Notice: Check your tuned settings for a performance boost.

2017-09-21 Thread Fred Smith
to do about it) that my Centos 7 desktop (six core AMD Vishera) seems sluggish at times, when there doesn't seem to be much running that should be a system hog. I'll see if this change helps resolve that. Does running the command shown there make a permanent change, i.e., one that surviv

[CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2017-09-26 Thread Fred Smith
and has made it work? thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might b

Re: [CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2017-09-27 Thread Fred Smith
pretty old, but I'm checking it out. One could wish it wasn't quite so terse, in spots. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the

Re: [CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2017-09-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:08:59PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:06:35PM +1000, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > > Most of the useful audacity stuff is in their wiki: > > > > http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_mic_on_Linux > > > > seems like a

Re: [CentOS] Missing file in current kernel-devel package

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Smith
l7.x86_64/include/linux/fence.h > >It does not exist in the kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 > package. Is this something that got missed, or did HR drop it, or? > > mark I'm running that kernel with Nvidia 384.90, but I get the nvidia driver from elrepo. w

Re: [CentOS] Missing file in current kernel-devel package

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Smith
I would deal, but to suddenly drop > >>> it, bad. > >> > >> Tell it to Linus, not us: > >> > >> https://lwn.net/Articles/685049/ > > > Well, I d/l the latest from NVidia, and that one built. Of course, now I'm > going to really worry about

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Fred Smith
e it several times, as well as smaller changes, and have yet to have a failure (knock on wood). Does it work with LVM? Hmmm... good question. I think so, but would have to go check to be sure. Good luck! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: [CentOS] Auth failure messages

2017-10-17 Thread Fred Smith
there are now days when I find nothing in my spam folder, whereas I would formerly see a dozen or five dozen or similar. and though it is now old and no longer maintained, spambayes still works well to separate the wheat from the chaff. if you want, contact me off-list and I can send

[CentOS] RH software collections

2017-10-31 Thread Fred Smith
contact to inquire if RH could add lua to their current nginx build for the software collections I haven't a clue how to approach this, so any guidance would be great! thanks in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not eve

Re: [CentOS] RH software collections

2017-10-31 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:44:11AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 31 October 2017 at 11:27, Fred Smith wrote: > > Off topic, since it is a RH question, but I'm hoping someone here can > > point me to the right place to pursue this: > > > > We need an

[CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
C7. I've glanced at Lenovo Thinkpads on amazon where there are several "factory refurbished" ones with similar specs to what I mention above in the $500-700 range, but I don't know if they're any good or not I'm open to suggestions from any/all of you! thanks in ad

Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
x27;ll probably have dev tools on it too for the uncommon occasions when I need to build something. If it is good enough I may find other thiings to do with it, but I have a reasonably powerful desktop also running C7, so many of those "other" things are taken care of there. Fred -- -

Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 09:16:48PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > On Thursday 02 November 2017, Fred Smith > wrote: > > > mostly portable email and browsing. > > For that, almost anything will do, of course. only if it actually works for Linux/C7. My netbook used to

Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 06:34:06PM -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 11/02/2017 10:41 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I'm looking to replace my (old, creaky) netbook (Acer Aspire One D255e, > >a screaming dual core 1.6 GHz Atom, and a whole 2 gigs of RAM) with > >somethin

Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-03 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 06:48:11AM -0700, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 11/02/2017 03:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > >>> Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >>> > >>

Re: [CentOS] modestly priced laptop for C7

2017-11-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 02:26:59PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 11/03/2017 12:09 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 06:48:11AM -0700, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 11/02/2017 03:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM

Re: [CentOS] Intermittently unresponsive mouse

2017-11-07 Thread Fred Smith
. > > > > -- Fred if your bluetooth is courtesy of a USB dongle, you could get a short USB cable to extend its reach nearer your mouse. if, OTOH it is a builtin bluetooth thingy, then, well, sorry I wasted your time! :) -- Fred Smith

Re: [CentOS] Announcement: 32 bit Wine repo for RHEL and CentOS 7

2017-11-20 Thread Fred Smith
ne/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/kindle exists, but is empty. Does that mean installation failed, or that I'm too stupid to be turned loose with a computer? :) :) Suggestions welcomed, thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Fred Smith
at 90% of the > company does And I'm *really* aggravated. Hah! I'm now being forced to use it to record my hours. And I thought I hated the abomination at elabor.com! I may retire sooner because of it. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

Re: [CentOS] Announcement: 32 bit Wine repo for RHEL and CentOS 7

2018-01-23 Thread Fred Smith
re it's ready to go, before I try installing Windoze packages on it... I vaguely recall hearing about such things, but can't remember any of the details. Thanks, in advance, for your advice! PS: Has anybody been able to get the Kindle for PC Reader

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 add-on serial cards

2018-01-28 Thread Fred Smith
when I try ttyS1 or > ttyS2. > > I'm thinking that this might be a driver issue, but having used > several different cards I'm just not sure. > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Pete Wondering if

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 add-on serial cards

2018-01-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:00:02AM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > > > On 01/28/18 20:15, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > >>I'm upgrading from CentOS6 to CentOS 7. > >> > >>I run 2 weather

[CentOS] Anyone using GQRX in Centos-7, for SDR ?

2018-02-01 Thread Fred Smith
ws it to work on a subsequent Centos boot (without poweroff), but no clue what. So, if anyone can point me to how to use it on C7, I'd greatly appreciate it. thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me yo

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using GQRX in Centos-7, for SDR ?

2018-02-02 Thread Fred Smith
o test and confirm success so I can move it to the main repo. I've installed it and it seems to be working fine (based on about 20 minutes of use, and note that I"m not an expert yet). thanks! > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > - Original Message - > > From: "F

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

2018-02-15 Thread Fred Smith
tps://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options > I had the same issue back when I installed 7.x on this box. I couldn't find a way around it, so I finally just went with the flow. I definitely DID have it in le

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

2018-02-15 Thread Fred Smith
legacy mode). > > Right, the problem seems to arise if you already have partitions on > your MBR disk. Perhaps Fred Smith can confirm this. Well, it's been a couple of years, but as best I recall, I had two brand-new 1TB drives, intending to use them as RAID-1, and the BIOS was (shoul

Re: [CentOS] Web site not responding with Firefox 52.6.0 (64-bit)

2018-03-03 Thread Fred Smith
52.6.0 on this > CentOS 7.4 laptop. This has been an on-going problem for several weeks. I get to slashdot.org, but I get a page where the most recent posting is from Thursday. -- --- .-

[CentOS] sqlinux weirdness

2018-03-03 Thread Fred Smith
uot;mdadm" path="/var/log/rear/rear-fcshome.log.lockless" dev="md126" ino=1368832 scontext=system_u:system_r:mdadm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:cron_log_t:s0 tclass=file -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: [CentOS] sqlinux weirdness]

2018-03-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 03:35:10PM +0100, Oleg Cherkasov wrote: > On 04. mars 2018 03:03, Fred Smith wrote: > >Every now and then I get an alert like this one. I have no clue what this > >"rear" subsystem is, or why madam would be trying to write to its log > >file.

[CentOS] latest skype (version 8.16.0.4) on Centos 7

2018-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
are for Ubuntu. GAH! running ldd against the skypeforlinux binary results in a huge list of shared libraries, including libasound (which is what the ubuntu messages say is missing). Anybody got a clue? Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome

Re: [CentOS] latest skype (version 8.16.0.4) on Centos 7

2018-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 09:29:51PM +0100, wwp wrote: > Hello Fred, > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:53:16 -0500 Fred Smith > wrote: > > > I've finally been reduced to having to install Skype on my Linux box. > > I resisted for years, but now ended up trying it

Re: [CentOS] latest skype (version 8.16.0.4) on Centos 7

2018-03-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 05/03/18 19:53, Fred Smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've finally been reduced to having to install Skype on my Linux box. > > I resisted for years, but now ended up trying it. > > >

Re: [CentOS] latest skype (version 8.16.0.4) on Centos 7

2018-03-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:55:19AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 03/06/18 09:34, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > >>On 05/03/18 19:53, Fred Smith wrote: > >>>Hi all! > >>> > >>

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox on CentOS 7 with bridged network not working

2018-03-15 Thread Fred Smith
ve anything to do with this, but it won't hurt to check that they are properly installed. Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

[CentOS] spectre variant 2

2018-03-16 Thread Fred Smith
eased microcode updates for this? I have no idea how to query AMD with such a question, anybody here know? Thanks in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping

Re: [CentOS] spectre variant 2

2018-03-16 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:42:34PM +, Phil Perry wrote: > On 16/03/18 18:24, Fred Smith wrote: > >Hi all! > > > >I'm running an up-to-date Centos-7 on an AMD Vishera 6300, 6 core CPU. > > > > What kernel are you running (uname -r)? uname -r 3.10.0-693.2

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