Re: [CentOS] servercd i386 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though. Can someone point me to it. Thanks, Jerry There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here: http://wiki.centos.org/FA

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Answer: When it's ready. Suits me - I have a different question (and it's pro

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Pruett wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is already solved on another thread ... but for closure on this one, there is a known bug here with that kernel and ipsec: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 that bug entry does say to use the upstream bug for info about

Re: [CentOS] Hardened ver of CentOS?

2008-06-02 Thread Ned Slider
Rogelio wrote: John R Pierce wrote: CentOS /is/ a distro, there is only one centos 'distribution'. centos configured with selinux enabled, appropriate firewall rules, and the minimum number of services required for your application should be fairly 'hardened' as-is. Understood. I mean

Re: [CentOS] Network problems on new CentOS 5 install on P35, ICH9R mobo

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Dick Roth wrote: Juan C. Valido wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 06:09 -0400, Dick Roth wrote: Had to replace dying cpu and mobo, so also replaced IDE with new SATA drive. Installed from latest ISO onto SATA and can't get networking to lease an IP address from my ISP (Comcast). The network utili

Re: [CentOS] sendmail and spam

2008-06-04 Thread Ned Slider
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:53 -0400, Alain Terriault wrote: Hi, What is todays most effective combination to filter spam ? On my old Redhat 3 system I used Sendmail and Spamassasin .. it was good, but with the current setup we are getting way to much spam. Looking around I fo

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert - elists wrote: Using XEN or Vmware or Both? Thanks! - rh I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: $ rpm -q VMware-server VMware-se

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: Ned: I was very interested to read that you've run VMWare Server on systems with only 512 MB of RAM. I haven't tried it, because the box I can use only has 512 MB of RAM. Yes, assuming you give 256MB to a single VM guest and allow the CentOS host 256MB, you'll get abou

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help Required!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-14 Thread Ned Slider
D Steward wrote: Hi, others have by now addressed your issue, so I'll now have my say. Please in future, use a better title than the one you have chosen - it will help others who are searching for a solution to problems similar to what you were having. You are lucky this mailing list is so laid

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-23 Thread Ned Slider
Gary Richardson wrote: Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. Yes, Clonezilla is a LiveCD which you boot from to clone the disk so your machine will be offline during this process.

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: If there is something in the conf file that needs to change (that worked in 5.1 and does not in 5.2) let us know and we can add it to the release notes and/or wiki. It was in the listening section as follows: # A space separated list of IP or host addresse

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original to [*] allowed me to connect. I then

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original to

Re: [CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is my first major version update after using a local repo. It seems that before I can "yum update" I have to fetch the complete new 5.2 base? Is this correct? When I run yum update it now fails with various strange dependency errors although all the updates are synced.

Re: [CentOS] spam filtering with centos 5.2

2008-06-29 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: In the past I've used a combination of spamhaus combined RBL's and Spamassassin with Mailscanner as my spam recipe, but this stopped working very well for me well over a year ago. As many of the users of the couple small/personal mail servers I run are NOT technical peopl

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group writable, however when I crea

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the opti

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

2008-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
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] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, but there is no executable that I can locate, and wireshark in not in the gnome panel. So I looked at a system were I had installed

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

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Les Bell wrote: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. << Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than p

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
Marc-Andre Levesque wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? Cheers Tony This sc

Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Hughes wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: List, I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with a solution. Thanks, Greg Ennis Updating: perl

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothin

Re: [CentOS] udev-devel or libudev-devel on CentOS 5.6

2011-09-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 27/09/11 23:39, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there libudev-devel or udev-devel package available on CentOS 5.6 ? > No, there is not. There is only the udev package. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] Virtual RPM howto?

2011-10-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/10/11 11:46, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Can someone point me to a howto or an example of a virtual package? > xorg-x11-drivers is an example of a virtual package in the distro. It pulls in all the xorg-x11-drv-* packages as dependencies. Take a look at the SRPM. Hope that helps. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6.0 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository

2011-10-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/10/11 14:22, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Vreme: 10/08/2011 02:34 PM, Timothy Murphy piše: >>> I don't really understand the function of this repository, >>> or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository? >>> >>> I read the outline at >>>

Re: [CentOS] Using SD-card reader? (Lenovo T61/Richo R5C822 controller/sdhci driver)

2011-10-13 Thread Ned Slider
On 13/10/11 09:35, Toralf Lund wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to access an SD-card using the built-in reader on a Lenovo > T61 Laptop running CentOS 5.7. The unit is recognised by lspci: > # lspci > [ ... ] > 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro > Host Adapter (rev 21) >

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 28/10/11 18:31, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists > wrote: >> >>> How is, say, being >>> required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing >>> something you have already contracted and paid for? >> >> It would surprise me if Red Hat would

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/10/11 18:41, Ron Loftin wrote: > > This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any > useful information. > > I have an "older" laptop that is using the Intel 2200 wireless > interface. I installed CentOS 5 on it some time ago and everything is > fine. When I was review

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-10-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/10/11 23:04, Ned Slider wrote: > On 29/10/11 18:41, Ron Loftin wrote: >> >> This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any >> useful information. >> >> I have an "older" laptop that is using the Intel 2200 wireless >

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: > David Miller wrote > --- > > You can go with the self support option. Seeing you are willing to go with > CentOS as long > as there are timely updates. That tells me you dont really care about getting > "support" from >the vendor

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/01/2011 09:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: >>> David Miller wrote >>> --- >>> >>> You can go with the self support option. Seeing you are

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/11/11 05:34, Ned Slider wrote: > On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> On 11/01/2011 09:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> On 01/11/11 18:27, Bob Hoffman wrote: >>>> David Miller wrote >>>> --- >>>> >&g

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/11/11 22:36, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/02/2011 06:34 AM, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 01/11/11 22:26, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >>> >>> Just to be sure does that mean that for $2000 I can install on one physical >>> system and unlimited guests

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 13:22, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: > Hello, > > I post here because I have an embarassing issue considering the yum > version provided with CentOS 5. > > I am trying to package an application for CentOS. So I wrote my own > specfile which is composed of declaration of various packages (main

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 14:40, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: > Le 05/11/2011 15:29, Ned Slider a écrit : >> Please post your spec file to a pastebin for us to see. >> > > Hello, > > Here it is : http://ares.ptitoliv.net/~ptitoliv/fusiondirectory.spec > Rather than making the

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 15:29, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: > Le 05/11/2011 16:19, Ned Slider a écrit : >> On 05/11/11 14:40, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: >>> Le 05/11/2011 15:29, Ned Slider a écrit : >>>> Please post your spec file to a pastebin for us to see. >>>>

Re: [CentOS] [YUM] - Issue on package removal order on CentOS 5

2011-11-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/11/11 16:25, Olivier BONHOMME wrote: > Le 05/11/2011 17:14, Ned Slider a écrit : >> Quite possibly, I don't know. >> >> In which case, if such a bug does exist and is affecting you, I would >> place the script within %postun of each package that needs it rath

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: centos Wireless - Broadcom BCM4313

2011-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/11/11 16:02, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 11/08/2011 12:46 PM, Johan Vermeulen piše: >>> What does "iwlist" command give you? >> # iwlist >> Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning [essid NNN] [last] >> [interface] frequency >> [interface] channel >>

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/11/11 14:37, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm running RHEL 5.3 on 6 boxes - and on every one of them > sensors-detect finds nothing. > What did Red Hat say? > 5 of them are Sun fire 2250 machines, and 1 is Sunfire 4170. > > Googling and searching this list does not seem to find anythi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] posting bounties for rpms compatible with centos?

2011-12-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/12/11 23:01, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Is there an etiquitte to posting bounties to the centos community for OSS to > be > packaged in rpm form for centos? > The generally accepted route is to make a request on the mailing list of an appropriate repository, for example, repoforge (rpmforge):

Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-12 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/12/11 18:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really > understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it > out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is > > Skipping filters plugin, no data

Re: [CentOS] asus-wmi.ko for Asus G73Sw running CentOS 6.2

2011-12-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/12/11 04:27, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi List, > Just loaded our favorite OS onto my new ASUS laptop. > Practically everything worked out of the box - I used the live DVD to > check things out and installed from there. > I have followed > http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread Ned Slider
On 29/12/11 03:38, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 00:40 -0700, Bennett Haselton wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Rilindo Foster wrote: > >>> What was the nature of the break-in, if I may ask? >>> >> >> I don't know how they did it, only that the hosting company had to take t

Re: [CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

2012-01-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/01/12 10:29, C. L. Martinez wrote: > > I am using nvidia drivers from elrepo.org (nvidia-x11-drv-290.10 > and kmod-nvidia-290.10). Somebody knows where can I find some doc to > resolve this? Any idea? > > Thanks I would also try the nvidia Linux support forums: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulle

Re: [CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

2012-01-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/01/12 15:43, Tait Clarridge wrote: > >> >> http://taiter.com/techlog/2010/07/nvidia-gt210---hdmi-audio.html >> > > My mistake, the correct link is here: > > http://blog.taiter.com/tech/2010/07/nvidia-gt210---hdmi-audio.html > > Forgot I was testing my redesign and had the wrong server in my h

Re: [CentOS] defense-in-depth possible for sshd?

2012-01-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/01/12 13:34, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On 1/10/2012 5:16 AM, John Doe wrote: >> From: Bennett Haselton >> >>> On 1/10/2012 2:02 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: UsePrivilegeSeparation Specifies whether sshd(8) separates privileges by creating an unprivileged child process to

Re: [CentOS] NOUVEAU driver video acceleration

2012-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/01/12 15:58, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 01/16/2012 02:41 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> >>> I did this: >>> >>> [root@mushroom yum.repos.d]# rpm --import >>> http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org >>> [root@mushroom yum.repos.d]# rpm -Uvh

Re: [CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

2012-01-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/01/12 15:21, Lars Hecking wrote: > > Apologies for hijacking this thread, but I have posted here before and > received not a single response. This is on CentOS5. > >http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-November/119707.html > > Other than the OP, I don't want HDMI sound, but

Re: [CentOS] postfix - reject of incoming mail due to helo check??

2012-02-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/02/12 10:01, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi list, > I have been getting the following types of log messages > > Jan 30 08:22:33 ndgonline postfix/smtpd[30538]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT > from unknown[71.46.229.50]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find > your hostname, [71.46.229.50]; from= > to=

Re: [CentOS] postfix - reject of incoming mail due to helo check??

2012-02-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/02/12 15:44, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 2012-02-02 15:39, Ned Slider wrote: >> >> I would recommend removing reject_unknown_client from your >> smtpd_sender_restrictions. >> > > I would not recommend that, I would recommend you fix your DNS. If you > have

Re: [CentOS] postfix - reject of incoming mail due to helo check??

2012-02-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/02/12 21:08, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 02/03/2012 06:35 AM, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 02/02/12 15:44, Giles Coochey wrote: >>> On 2012-02-02 15:39, Ned Slider wrote: >>>> I would recommend removing reject_unknown_client from your >>>> smtpd_sender_restri

Re: [CentOS] yum update stuck...

2012-02-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/02/12 10:50, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > Running Transaction >Updating : selinux-policy > 1/6 >Updating : kmod-r8168 > 2/6 > Working. This may take some time ... > > > An hour later, st

Re: [CentOS] OFF TOPIC. The best course of CentOS in USA

2012-02-19 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/02/12 15:38, Edson - PMSS wrote: > I would like to know which all of you point me as the best training > course of CentOS in the world or in the USA. I am a Brazilian and I > would like to have this information. I have a good background in > GNU/Linux, CentOS and Debian like operating systems

Re: [CentOS] Pam problems

2012-02-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/02/12 20:46, Craig White wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> >>> You should be able to indicate to cyrus-saslauthd to use pam >>> (/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd) and thus you would need to configure sendmail t

Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > You know how I asked about procedures to build a dual-boot system with > CentOS and WinXP a while ago? Well, I I've begun with a test machine. > > What I had from start was a working CentOS 5.3 32b system. What I did was to > just add another empty drive configured

Re: [CentOS] URL of website doesn't point anymore to CentOS/Drupal installation

2009-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
M. Fioretti wrote: > > Everything worked perfectly for months, if not years. Five minutes > ago, somebody wrote to me that a digifreedom.net URL I suggested him > to read "doesn't work". > ...and a few minutes before that someone was editing your domain: whois digifreedom.net Domain Name:

[CentOS] Missing perl-DBD-Pg security update

2009-05-19 Thread Ned Slider
Hi, Any news when we may expect the missing perl-DBD-Pg security update for CentOS 5 from last week? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0479.html It came out the same day as the poppler security update that CentOS pushed 2 days later so I'm wondering why the perl-DBD-Pg security update s

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Equinox86 wrote: >> yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time >> and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to >> recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, >> similar to swiss

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-20 Thread Ned Slider
nate wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. Some of the outstanding >> security updates are rated critical; maybe people just don't realize >> how many unpatched vulnerabilities there are at this point. > > I run C4 i386, though my systems are on trusted ne

Re: [CentOS] How to remove the wrong wireless firmware module

2009-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
David McGuffey wrote: > How do I back out of these directions? > > "yum install iwl4965-firmware > > rmmod iwl4965; modprobe iwl4965 > rmmod iwl4965 yum erase iwl4965-firmware > Your wireless device should be working now. Enable NetworkManager to use it. > Starting from CentOS 5.3 (kernel 2.6

Re: [CentOS] Secure mail login problem

2009-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Hi all, > Finally got around to making sendmail and dovecot use a secure log in > procedure on my server. > Now when I open up outlook it goes through a secure log in. > Unfortunately, I am using my own self signed cert on the server for this. > > Hence, I get, for every singl

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

2009-06-28 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: > I have KomPozer installed, but after using M$ FrontPage for years, > KomPozer looks like it is going to have a learning curve and I want to > get away from FrontPage and Windows. I know Mark (MHR) uses > SeaMonkey. Wondering if there is anything else I can use on Linux that >

Re: [CentOS] Building Custom Kernel - CentOS 4.4

2009-06-29 Thread Ned Slider
Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having issue when trying to build a custom kernel in CentOS 4.4. > Current Kernel Version is 2.6.9-42.ELsmp and the server is HP Proliant DL380 > G3. I downloaded the source rpm and then installed it. Gave the command, > rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 /usr/src/r

Re: [CentOS] Building Custom Kernel - CentOS 4.4

2009-06-29 Thread Ned Slider
Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi Ned, > > The package cpp was already installed. > > [r...@astind02 customKernelcompile]# rpm -qa |grep cpp > cpp-3.4.6-3 > [r...@astind02 customKernelcompile]# rpm -qa |grep gcc > gcc-c++-3.4.6-3 > libgcc-3.4.6-3 > gcc-3.4.6-3 > > Any hint on this?? > hmm, not sure. P

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi all, > >> I have been using RPMforge much longer than EPEL and only have a few >> packages from EPEL on my 5.3 (32 bit) desktop. When I added the EPEL >> Repository to Priorities, the number of packages excluded went from >> approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that h

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Linux Advocate wrote: > > >> beranger...@yahoo.com... , u have a problem with dag...and now it looks >> like u have a problem with linus torvalds himself u talk abt the need >> for cooperation,etc but you apparently dont get that 'you have to gi

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Ned Slider
R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ned Slider wrote: > >> Rather than dumping *even more work* on the core CentOS project (who are >> already clearly struggling to provide even the core distro >> at present), ... > > It may be clear to Ned, but is not

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-01 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > >>> Anyway, as I said previously, I would rather see the CentOS >>> Project concentrate on the core product and do a really good >>> job on that (i.e, a move closer to the old 4 week release lag >>> than the current 10 week re

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-02 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: >> >From http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090629 >> >> "Right next to the Gentoo stand was a group of young people, proudly >> displaying their affiliation with CentOS. >> Dag Wieers, the well-known maintaine

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-03 Thread Ned Slider
Didi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: >>> >From http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090629 >>> >>> "Right next to the Gentoo stand was a group of young people, proudly >>> displaying their affiliation w

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-14 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: >> I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the >> kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't >> backport. > Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point rele

Re: [CentOS] bizarre firefox/X11 problem on centos 5.3

2009-07-23 Thread Ned Slider
fred smith wrote: > I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this > bizarre, repeatable problem: > > fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the > HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a > moment later when clicking the li

Re: [CentOS] Self signed certs, openssl dovecot

2009-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: > So, at wits end. Have gone back to plain text for pop3. > > I set up the ssl as per instructions but I always get a 'chain' error first > time trying to receive mail with my mail client. > > Comes down I believe to the need to get a CA for dovecot's pem files or I > will alwa

Re: [CentOS] rpm

2009-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
luc...@lastdot.org wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Leon wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> I'm trying to install amavisd-new on Centos 5.3. There is a lot of >> failed dependencies errors when I try to install it. My question is, >> there is a way to automatically get all the rpm dependencies

Re: [CentOS] Self signed certs, openssl dovecot

2009-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: > >> Did you try any of the advice you received when you asked a month ago? >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-June/078273.html >> > > That was for the error with outlook, this is more about how to add that > middle chain with dovecot to avoid the issue. > Non

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Veiko Kukk wrote: > I have one HP Proliant DL320 G5p, where for some reason, the AHCI mode > is not enabled. According to server specs, it should have AHCI/NCQ > capability, but ata_piix module gets loaded during bootup, not ahci module. > Any ideas how to enable AHCI mode? > I'm not sure for t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 at 1:19pm, Veiko Kukk wrote > >>> I'm not sure for this particular model server, but normally this is a >>> *BIOS* setting for the SATA controller. >> There are no settings in BIOS for AHCI mode, it's only possible to >> choose between raid and sata

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Milos Blazevic wrote: > Hello David, > > In brief, I've solved this problem on my Dell Inspiron 1525 (with > Broadcom 4312 wireless card), so I figured letting You know would be > nice, 'cause it didn't seem like the issue is resolved. > > Visit this link: > http://jomcode.com/fadhil/?p=59 > >

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-07-28 Thread Ned Slider
Milos Blazevic wrote: >> Message: 27 >> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:31:53 +0100 >> From: Ned Slider >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Message-ID: <4a6e38e9.1010...@unixmail.co.uk> >> Cont

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob Hoffman wrote: >> Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to >> update. >> Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. >> >> The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a >> few thousand fedora and

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > You seem to be reading something (into, maybe

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >>> >>> >> The "fix" has been available for a long time: >> >> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html >> > > I'm not sure that is the 'fix'. My systems were

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >> Benjamin Franz wrote: >> >>> Ned Slider wrote: >>> >>>> The "fix" has been available for a long time: >>>> >>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html &

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Ned Slider
Boris Epstein wrote: > > I found an even simplier solution - disabled SELinux. I've got a > firewall and that is plenty. > Wow, not sure I'd place all my faith in a firewall. There is an SELinux tutorial on the Wiki that explicitly covers how to handle Apache serving content outside of Documen

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread Ned Slider
Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:36:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > [] >> My 'dream' OS has always been one where the base install was extremely >> minimal - just enough to install the rest over the network. Then there >> would be a way that anyone could 'publish' their install

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi, > >>> My 'dream' OS has always been one where the base install was extremely >>> minimal - just enough to install the rest over the network. Then there >>> would be a way that anyone could 'publish' their installed list of >>> repositories and packages and anyone else

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-08-01 Thread Ned Slider
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:30, Mark Hedges wrote: >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux >> Is this why DBD::SQLite broke under mod_perl recently in >> CentOS? > > It might or might not be... In order to be sure, you may check the > audit logs at /var/log/a

Re: [CentOS] State of KVM and CentOS

2009-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/03/2009 10:28 AM, Johan Swensson wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was wondering, what is the state on getting a more updated version of KVM >> onto centos? >> I've found some 3rd party repos by I'm curious if one could expect a new >> supported KVM soon or will it not get in unt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-06 Thread Ned Slider
R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: > The bit that causes all the confusion here is the "C" in the name CentOS. It would all be so much clearer if the project would just rename to EntOS because that's what it is. I guess the "Community" bit refers to the community

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: > Dear Russ, > Don't misunderstand. I think you have done and are doing a great job but some things are out of any single person's control. All I'm suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy answer to the question of "what if" those things

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
Alan Sparks wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:48 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> Second, I am supposed to also kiss your ass? >>> >> Is it necessary to insult me? I have said *nothing* to you to warrant >> this. >> >> > > Jeez, people, take it offline. > -Alan >

Re: [CentOS] OT: Newest kernels much smaller in size

2009-08-09 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: > I'm updating my Desktop and curious as to the reason for the huge > difference in size, between the oldest kernel, which will be removed, > and the newest one that will be installed. Question: Did they remove a > lot of things from the kernel or rewrite it much more efficientl

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
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] to filter dos ip using iptables recent

2009-08-16 Thread Ned Slider
MontyRee wrote: > Hello, all. > > I read this document about iptables recent module. > http://blog.andrew.net.au/2005/02/16#ipt_recent_and_ssh_attacks > > and I would like to filter the excessive spam mail sending ip address by > iptables recent module. > and some questions. > > iptables -A

Re: [CentOS] thinkpad x200 wireless LAN

2009-08-26 Thread Ned Slider
Roger K. Wells wrote: > On the following system: > > Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > the Intel 5100 pci wireless adapter appears to be detected and a > reasonable driver is indicated (iwlagn) but the radio does not appear to > be on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - Activating laptop wireless card

2009-09-01 Thread Ned Slider
Andrew Allen wrote: > I've just installed CentOS 5.3 on my Dell laptop and it seems to have > detected and set-up my wireless card (BCM 4311) correctly as eth1. > However, so far I haven't been able to activate it and have read the > wiki > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless#head-320d6f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - Activating laptop wireless card

2009-09-02 Thread Ned Slider
Andrew Allen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 20:06 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: >> Andrew Allen wrote: >>> I've just installed CentOS 5.3 on my Dell laptop and it seems to have >>> detected and set-up my wireless card (BCM 4311) correctly as eth1. >>> However,

Re: [CentOS] dnsmasq - I'm a little confused....

2009-09-02 Thread Ned Slider
MHR wrote: > > What's up here? Is this really a case of incredibly slow mirrors or > is there something else? > > mhr > Same here, kind of. My rsync script pulled the package from my local (UK) mirror yesterday shortly after it's release was announced, but the metadata has yet to be refre

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