Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-06 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Geis wrote: > > So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the > screen output from firefox in my office. > Both boxes are running centos 5. > > how is that done? First, man ssh, so you can read the ssh manual. Second

Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

2008-01-04 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: > I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop, > but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following: > > - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx) > - USB (Pny Memory Stick - ev

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MHR wrote: > I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here > might have an insight on this. > > I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running > x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7. > > Shortyl after in

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fred smith wrote: > Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new > release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made > any improvement for me in terms of this issue. I've never had Firefox do this before.

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-09 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny Hughes wrote: > Also, it has been my experience that a messed up profile (especially > after an upgrade) can cause problems. > > You can test this by moving the ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_bak and see if > still have issues. This will remove all

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-09 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Hetrick wrote: > I just followed your advice and moved my profile over to create a new > one. I copied my bookmarks over and reloaded my plugins manually. I'll > post if this resolved my issues. After following Johnny's adv

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-10 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MHR wrote: > Interesting. At the time I read Johnny's post, I was running the 2.0 > alpha trunk build of SeaMonkey, and I didn't have any problems at all. > One of the things this did when I installed it was to create a new > profile and copy over (s

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

2008-01-18 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan wrote: > I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it > still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen > in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have > developed in the Firefox line.

[CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

2008-02-06 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I found a thread here about this problem, but no answer or resolution as to whether it's a bug, or even something that can be fixed. I'm trying to get PDF support under DocMG

Re: [CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

2008-02-07 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Looks like a bug - probably happened when poppler-utils and xpdf still > were installable side by side (and both provided pdftoppm). Though I > found no bug report upstream regarding that issue - is noone missing > pdftoppm?

Re: [CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

2008-02-07 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Hmmm. I just rebuilt from the tar.gz which is in Upstream's SRPM - this > doesn't build pdftoppm, although the Source is there. > > Okay. The spec file does a: > > %configure --enable-cairo-output --disable-splash-output >

Re: [CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

2008-02-07 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > I think that explains it. Up to you if you want to file a bug report. > But that sounds more like an RFE to me. FWIW, I downloaded the precompiled binaries for xpdf here:

Re: [CentOS] Resize Logical Volume

2008-02-14 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Arteaga wrote: > I have a CentOS 4.4 running on a server with a 136GB hard drive, i have > three different logical volumens and i would like to resize one of them > ( / ) with some idle space remaining in the hard drive. Can i do it with > the se

Re: [CentOS] Resize Logical Volume

2008-02-15 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Arteaga wrote: > I tried the commands you sent me and i can extend the size to the new > value but can´t resize the file system: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvextend -L+30G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 88.59 GB >

Re: [CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

2008-02-28 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Toby Bluhm wrote: > There's multiple spaces in the output that cut is hitting - use tr to > reduce them. > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 Or: ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 11 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > ANy help would be greatly appreciated! I'm using the ipw3945 on CentOS 5.1 with the following packages: ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.nodist.rf dkms-ipw3945-1.2.1-1.nodist.rf I installed mine usin

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Hetrick wrote: > This is all that was needed to install and connect to the wireless > network. Also, the card is seeing 4 different neighbor's wireless > connection points, so it's probing and searching appropriately. Also

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Where does NetworkManager keep its information? There was no > /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. I made one (but don't know > how to get PTK passphrases into the file). No change. I'm not sure mine stores any

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > What is NetworkManager using for its 802.1X supplicant code? - From /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager-0.6.4/README: The nm-applet provides a DBUS service called NetworkManagerInfo, which should provide to NetworkManager the Pre

Re: [CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

2008-03-06 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John R Pierce wrote: > I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something > that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. Peek at checkmate: http://checkmate.linuxonly.nl/ Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the reply and link. I'm looking this over right now. If you look to use rsnapshot, there's a guide on the CentOS wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RsnapshotBackups Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment

2008-04-10 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gopinath wrote: > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had time to update it to

Re: [CentOS] snmpd wont start on CentOS 4.4?

2008-04-10 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustavo Gouvea wrote: > Yes, I did the reboot. "getenforce" shows "disabled". > The funny is that, issuing the start command it says "OK". Try stopping it, then removing the lock file, then restarting it. # service snmpd stop # rm /var/run/snmpd #

Re: [CentOS] username list?

2007-07-12 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > Where/how in CentOS can I get a nice list of all the usernames on the > system? > # cat /etc/passwd Seperated by username, password, UID, GID, home directory, shell # cat /etc/group Use this to see group information. Reg

Re: [CentOS] Full server restore-point image

2007-08-02 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: > I was thinking on using the CentOS LiveCD and then use dd command to > clone all partitions to another storage device. But I have no > experience on this. You could also check out Ghost 4 Linux. I've used it to clone ha

Re: [CentOS] how to export and import VMware servers

2007-08-02 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I recently build a CentOS-based VMware server (the free ver) and now > need to move all of the virtual machines off my old Windows-based > VMware server (also the free ver) to this next CentOS-based one. > > I have successful

Re: [CentOS] Using a local mirror?

2007-11-27 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Pyeron wrote: > We have a rsync'ed copy of the centos distro. > We want to point our local machines at that, what is our next step? Hi, Jason. cd /etc/yum.repos.d I'd make a backup of the original CentOS-Base.repo: cp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] Using a local mirror?

2007-11-27 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Pyeron wrote: >> This will be my second try after trying to find a less invasive method like >> proxying. >> Right now when a machine pulls up mirrorlist.centos.org it will point to an >> internal system, whose cgi behaves as such (expecting a

Re: [CentOS] SNMP Log entries

2007-11-29 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enyo wrote: > I do not care about seeing normal connection info from snmpd, but > retaining logging for other info such as malformed packets, bad > community strings etc is of interest. I think you can just put your logging level in /etc/snmp/snmpd.c

Re: [CentOS] Gnome Taskbar(s)

2007-06-18 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredex wrote: > When I install Centos5 in the near future I'm going to want to be able > to restore the old-style panels. Anybody know what I need to change to > make it work in the old way? Poke around the hidden directory in your profile: /home/u

Re: [CentOS] How to unpack rar file?

2011-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/13/2011 05:20 PM, ken wrote: > I think I did this once a long time ago, but don't recall clearly > > How do I unpack a .rar file? yum install unrar (From RPMForge) unrar -e file.rar Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/25/2011 03:04 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > I need to call you on this one. "Windozie" (implying some kind of > decent user interface) and "stability" are not mutually exclusive, as > your comment suggests. In the old days you may have had to choose, > but that's long past. Windows 7 is very

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/25/2011 03:49 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > So what happens when one does the monthly tuesday patches for windoze > and your security door controller running on SQLserver (micro$oft) > fails. Back out all the patches - inform micro$oft - wait - wait some > more - never get a response - call the se

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-21 Thread Max Hetrick
On 03/21/2011 05:57 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Apologies if this caused any inconveniences. No apology necessary from you. Much appreciated for fixing it quickly, Ralph. If anyone is using Thunderbird, there's a handy add-on called Remove Duplicate Messages on Mozilla's add-on site.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Max Hetrick
On 04/07/2011 08:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Please try to maintain some semblance of professionalism when you post > to this list. This coming from someone who frequently tells people to "SHUT UP" and go away and use something else. I guess that's far more professional than others trying to

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Max Hetrick
ML wrote: > I used to work with PIX 525's so I have knowledge, I just dont quite > know how to do this with CentOS and such. > > Can anyone offer advice? Nothing against CentOS, but if this is going to be a dedicated firewall, have you thought of using an appliance type OS/application? I've

Re: [CentOS] problem installing centos 5.3 on IBM x3200 m2

2009-10-07 Thread Max Hetrick
Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install centos 5.3 on ibm x3200 m2 server. The problem > appears when the installer is about to finish the installation. It > detects the RAID correctly, but it doesn't finish formatting the root > partition. I tried the default partition layout and al

Re: [CentOS] OT: pager pay

2009-10-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Alan McKay wrote: > Anyone else want to share theirs? I don't get on call, but my company pays my text messaging plan on my cell phone each month, since it's used as my pager. It's about $10 a month. Our policy for call outs are as follows: If I have to come into the office, I get a minimum ca

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the > exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support > matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. I cannot seem to > locate a CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. I can get a copy

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: > I am running VMware Server 2.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 with no > problems. Search this mailing list for info on 5.4, as I think there > was a small issue that needed to be worked around. I believe this was the issue: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/229957 Regards, Ma

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: > That's actually pretty strange because the glibc update in 5.4 will break > VMware > Server 2.0.1. Have you rebooted or restarted vmware since the update? if > you > haven't, don't until you look up the fix... Yeah, I've rebooted my instances. My one instance is my lap

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: > No, I have it on an x86 box and had to use the workaround here: > http://communities.vmware.com/message/1364852 > /lib/libc-2.5.so is actually still available after the upgrade so you > don't have to copy it from another system - it just isn't the target of > the libc.so.6

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: > I recently doownloaded and installed the latest RHEL5 rpm from the VirtualBox > web site. While it generally works very well, I have been unable to get USB > access to work on the guest. > > This seems to be a very common problem. Many references to it turn up in a > web

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Jim Perrin wrote: >> I would imaging it's rather similar to this -> >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20097 > > > Gah, lowsy spel chekc not pikcing up waht I mean. s/imaging/imagine/ > Ridiculous, I know...a computer should know what you're thinking and how to spell it. :)

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: > This is the bit that won't work. The mount options seem to have no effect: > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 001 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 002 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 003 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 004 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root roo

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-09 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: > I've tested it and it works! Presumably, it might have worked in some of > my previous attempts, but I only now figured out that I need to manually > attach the device via device menu or USB icon. Not exactly plug and play, > but workable. > > The mount command itself is

Re: [CentOS] Signing In Other than Root

2010-01-05 Thread Max Hetrick
Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > How do I make it so that it's impossible to SSH into the server directly > as root? That is, make it necessary to SSH in as an ordinary user and > then su to root? > TIA, > Suzie # vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Uncomment the following line: #PermitRootLogin yes PermitRootLo

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Boris Epstein wrote: > This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set > up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The > storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any > recommendations as far as hardware? Why not just get a SAN appli

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> recommendations as far as hardware? > > Giving we have no clue what it is used for no:) Seriously, > it makes all the difference what this is backing, vm's exported > over nfs/iSCSI, samba, etc... Very good point there. If you're looking for something like an all-in-on

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Boris Epstein wrote: > Roughly how much space does the appliance provide? And how much did it cost? This one was only configured with 2TB. It and the drives were like 4 grand or something. Of course IBM stuff is expensive, and you can get all sorts of size configurations. I'm currently startin

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. > Use the rpmfusion repo then do a I can't say that I've ever had a single system every trashed by using RPMForge. This is why the yum-priorities package exists for any repo you want to use, so you don't

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: Before you get your system all hosed using ANY third-party repos, I suggest you read these two pages first. This explains the prioriti

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: > If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos > servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run > ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. Agreed. That's exactly what I started to do too. You get a lo

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > I've built a new backup server for our linux-clients. > > Is Amanda the way to go for a backup-solution? > > It seems to be pretty powerful, if a bit finickety to set up initially. > > The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two > fol

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: > Somewhat similar, thanks. I think however I need to get away from this sort > of backups. They're just to space-consuming. Check out the user submitted HowTos on the Wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-bab8e87dc82e722540e2d39de8408750004a8c4a Regards, Max __

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: > Sound very interesting indeed! > > I don't think the performance will be a problem, the server's a calculation > machine that has now been scrapped running a dual-x...@2,something GHz and > some 4GB RAM IIRC. Do you think the software-raid5 array used, would be a > problem i

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: > To put it into perspective, ask the manager how much it would cost the > business if this data was unrecoverable? After that, if they still > don't want to spend a few hundred $$s on the insurance, get it in > writing that your manager understands the risk and print it out a

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: > Backuppc will at least send you an email when the backups have failed > for 3 days in a row. Yeah, I have this configured. Although, to be honest since I've set it up, I've not had any failures yet, so I'll have to wait until I do, ha. Max

Re: [CentOS] mysql Workbench

2010-01-18 Thread Max Hetrick
JohnS wrote: > You can get directly from mysql.com for EL5. I don't believe you can. The only RPM they have is for fedora 11, that I can see. Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-01 Thread Max Hetrick
MOKRANI Rachid wrote: > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? Have a look at Munin. http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ You can install it from the RPMForge repo. # yum install munin Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] knockd rpm for CentOS-5.4

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
James B. Byrne wrote: > Is there a recommended knockd package for CentOS-5.4 or do I just > pull from the project's web site? I think RPMForge has this packaged if you're into installing a third-party repo. Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
Jake Shipton wrote: > Hi, Personally, I'd recommend VMware Workstation. Always been good for > me, however lately I have been trying out Virtualbox (PUEL) :-). They > have an Open Source Edition also (Virtualbox), only it lacks USB > Support. If you go on there website, you can see the 3 missing f

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
Bobby wrote: > Odd, for some time I have had USB support with Sun's Virtualbox. It was a > problem at some point but works fine here (Using Fedora 11). I'm pretty sure > I > watched a USB CAM on XP (as a VM client) a while ago. Well, it's supported and works, however, you have to remount usbfs

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
Bobby wrote: > Interesting. Would you mind sharing what files that is as I've never > encountered it but would like to know more if/when I do? What version (of VB) > are you using? I'm running the latest version: 3.1.2 build 56127. I had to perform these steps to get USB to work on a Linux or

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-03 Thread Max Hetrick
a arias wrote: > Over the last year I have worked with Xen, KVM, VMware ESX and Sun > VirtualBox. VirtualBox is my recommendation, hands down. I think this is too vague of a opinion on virtualization use. I think it depends on what you're doing with it. VirtualBox is a nice piece of software fo

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: > It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar > so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 > which shows as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen strange characters in DOS files before.

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: > DOS files typically have ^M characters at the end of each line and > maybe a ^Z at the end of file. This is different to using an alternate > character set. That's right. I couldn't remember what it was, it's been awhile sinc

Re: [CentOS] f/oss routing solution?

2008-04-27 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: > You might also want to look at http://www.vyatta.org/ They seem to > have a nice solution although i have not tried it. My company just replaced a Cisco PIX firewall appliance with some IBM hardware running Vyatta.

Re: [CentOS] Directory Compare

2008-05-15 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to verify some directories of backed up data versus restored data. > What would you recommend as the type of comparison to do, and which tool > would give the easiest/most usable output? # fiff /path/to/dir1 /path/t

Re: [CentOS] Directory Compare

2008-05-15 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph L. Casale wrote: > diff? Yeah, that's what I am about to run. Just thought their might be > something it might miss in that scenario. Thanks for the confirmation! Oops, yeah diff not fiff. I need typing lessons today! Max - -- # find . "*i

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to > use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12" screen). The > bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. > Has anyone played with using Centos5 on sys

Re: [CentOS] Burning DVD with upgrade of cdrtools for cdrecord

2008-06-02 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dexter Stowers wrote: > I am having problems burning DVD's from commandline. I was wondering if > anyone else has had any luck using cdrecord-2.01 and cdrtools that is > supposed to add DVD support? Thanks! I thought dvd+rw-tools provided DVD support

Re: [CentOS] Help, PHP/Mysql connections are so slow.

2008-06-09 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pro Green European wrote: > Thank you for all your time and replies :) > > I solved the problem by switching to RHEL 5.2 x86_64 on the same server. Now > PHP/Mysql is working properly. > > Strange thing though, every setting is identical to that of

Re: [CentOS] Help, PHP/Mysql connections are so slow.

2008-06-09 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > 5.0.45 AFAICS. That would answer the upgrade to at least 5.0.30 part. :) Thanks, Ralph. Regards, Max - -- # find . "*imbecile" -exec sed -ie "s/stupidity/commonsense/g" '{}' \; -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Belanger wrote: > Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets > particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: > hostname > OS/arch > Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) > Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) I use GLPI:

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > > Someone else mentioned ocsinventory-ng > (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), but to complete the picture, > ocsinventory-ng includes agents for windows and linux that will > automatically send each machine's hardware and softwa

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-12 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > > I'm just starting to roll out the agent to a large number of machines. > It reports a level of detail that would be difficult or impossible to > maintain by hand, including things like the number of memory slots and > their co

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-16 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > > The current version is considerably nicer, and there is a new tool to > remotely deploy the agents. I think it has to run under windows but it > will deploy both the windows and linux agents using windows management > protoco

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos, and linux in general

2008-06-19 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael wrote: > Or are there other boot options? Have you tried to check the media? At boot: linux mediacheck Check each CD as it prompts you to replace them. If that fails try it with DMA turned off. linux mediacheck ide=nodma If everything p

Re: [CentOS] nagios-nrpe-2.8.1

2008-06-26 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: | I am actually looking for nagios-nrpe-2.8.1 version for CentOS release 5 | (Final) rpm. I have looked in rpmforge. Not able to find it That's because the most current version that is spun up on rpmforge is: nagios-nrpe-2.5

Re: [CentOS] kernel-smp for CentOS 5

2008-06-30 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Marcinek wrote: | I recently installed CentOS 5 and was trying to locate the kernel-smp packages but without success. Have these packages been removed from the distro or renamed? Does anyone know how many processors the default kernel will hand

Re: [CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

2008-07-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: I have been Googling my head off but cannot find a method to stream edit all the images in a directory and to resize them. I have a large number of images of up to 3GB in size that I want to put in albums on a website, but before I do this I need to resize them to a mor

Re: [CentOS] Howto: Java Plugin for Firefox 3.0.1?

2008-07-17 Thread Max Hetrick
James B. Byrne wrote: Can anyone here give me the magic decoder ring recipe for getting jre "plugged" into Firefox 3.0.1? The plugins directory is gone and the Firefox FAQ regarding this issue cryptically mentions that plugin support has been dropped. It then points one to a early adopter SUN jr

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-21 Thread Max Hetrick
Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with iptab

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: > I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your > webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through > IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but > you can't beat the ease of just "yum

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: > Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube > as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps > compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you > have the newest PHP installed everyti

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: > As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like > Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own > spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to "downgrade" to what Zimbra > thinks works. And Horde has been around fo

Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

2009-06-03 Thread Max Hetrick
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > I have the following kernels on my /boot: > > 2.6.18-128.1.6 > 2.6.18-92.1.18 > 2.6.18-92.1.22 > > I'm low on /boot space and need to remove the oldest version. It > appears that I cannot use yum to remove since all of the versions are > the same (only the release is

Re: [CentOS] Keep lossing wireless - ipw3945

2009-07-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Ooops, Well that one slipped past me. Later tonight I will head over to > the wired cafe here (they have a whooping 8 wired drops there!), and > switch drivers. I had some issues similar to that before I switched. Once I switched the drivers, all was well, with one

Re: [CentOS] Python 2.4 64-bit problem w/CentOS5.3?

2009-08-04 Thread Max Hetrick
Curt Mills wrote: > I'm getting this on two XF_64 systems by running "yum update" today. > Perhaps Python 2.4 is missing some lib64 libraries? I'm getting this error on 32 bit systems as well. yum clean all Then run your updates again, and it worked fine after that. Regards, Max ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Why don't you go with the SL or even pay RH, if you are that concerned about > hacking attempts? It seems clear that CentOS is not a good distro for you if > you are not satisfied with its update schedule. I believe it is better to > make > a different choice of distro

Re: [CentOS] vpn

2009-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
chloe K wrote: > Where remote and local address and subnet I can put for vpn > configuration in linux box? A little more information would probably be best before anyone can help you. Do you already have a VPN server/device running that you're trying to connect to? For instance, are you connec

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Dumb people will find ways to be dumb no matter how much you dumb > things down... :) You can't teach or bottle common sense... ;) Even with no warnings on the document, the first sentence states this is for install time. Anyone that has ever installed an OS should know

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 > > has: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 > > Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a > clear explanation for tho

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: > This thread seriously highlights the sort of attitudes that are > causing major issues in IT in general, and have been for years. > Whenever someone makes a mistake, we point fingers and call them > stupid. We haughtily proclaim that only people who "know what they > are do

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 > > has: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 > > Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a > clear explanation for tho

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > 1) The Title of the article says "How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5" > 2) My successor is a real HK bred and born person so his command of the > English language is like most such persons; that is to say, very poor. > 3) Regarding not letting him within

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Max Hetrick wrote: > Someone added a very bright disclaimer, so all should be good in the > future. I do agree with others that using /dev/sdX would probably be > wise as well in documentation, but that doesn't fix the true root of the > problem. People really should watch cu

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
madunix wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? I guess that depends on your situation. For me, if it's a package that I know isn't going to mess with users being logged on, or s

Re: [CentOS] Alternative to logwatch

2009-08-20 Thread Max Hetrick
Developer wrote: > Hello, > I am searching an alternative to logwatch. > After too much time spent trying to configure it. > I have apache log's in different files and directories, for some reason > I can not put logwatch to work. > > Anyone know and alternative? > Check out swatch from the RPMF

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