[CentOS] Strange: wireless card shouldn't work, but it works ?!?

Hi, I know this is a rather unusual request. Normally, people would complain about a card that *should* work, but here goes. I have a series of machines in a computer room, all equipped with a RT2561 wireless card. CentOS doesn't include support for that card, so what I usually do to install

[CentOS] CentOS Book

Hi, I'm using CentOS on server and desktop since 4.2, and I'm quite happy with it. Can you recommend some complete documentation besides the RHEL Deployment Guide? For example, I have a big fat paper book "FreeBSD Unleashed", 700 pages chock full of useful information. Now I wonder if you c

[CentOS] Firefox and Flash

Hi, I have CentOS 5.1 with the latest updates running on all my desktops. Firefox has the flash-plugin from RPMForge installed, and I think this is the cause that it crashes quite often. Is there a more stable Flash plugin somewhere? I had a similar problem on Slackware 12.0 with the "stable

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Book

Akemi Yagi a écrit : You can find some in this thread: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12042&forum=37 Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange: wireless card shouldn't work, but it works ?!?

Akemi Yagi a écrit : Look into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/weak-updates/ . Do you see your module file in there? Now that explains it all. And it leads to another question: is it still useful to rebuild the module on the new kernel? Might be of academic interest, but you never know. Niki

[CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

Hi, I installed CentOS 5 on a client's machine yesterday afternoon. He phoned me in the evening to tell me that his desktop "froze several times upon him", and he had to hard-reboot it. The last time this happened to me was with some exotic wireless card whose driver had problems with SMP. B

Re: [CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Did/Can you get the customer to try 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' or similar I suggested Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but that didn't work. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

Olaf Mueller a écrit : Last time I saw something similar was when my harddisk get broken. Are there any opcode entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg? Sorry I don't understand what "opcode entries" means (I'm not a native english speaker). _

Re: [CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Niki, a lot of these type of issues are memory related. Run memtest to ensure that your RAM is OK. Excellent idea! Besides, the client gets the feeling that he "gets value for money" when he watches Memtest's busy blue screen. In the meantime I can have some coff

Re: [CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

Olaf Mueller a écrit : Last time I saw something similar was when my harddisk get broken. Are there any opcode entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg? Something crosses my mind: could it be related to a faulty video card? I vaguely (very vaguely) remember having had similar troubles wi

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

Jimmy Bradley a écrit : Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to down

Re: [CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

Olaf Mueller a écrit : Section "Module" #Load "glx" Load "freetype" #Load "dri" EndSection I think that was the culprit. After checking RAM and disk integrity, I reverted the driver back from "nvidia" to "nv" and uncommented the two lines you mentioned. Looks l

[CentOS] MySQL and charsets: latin1 vs. utf8

Hi, Our public library management software (PMB) is currently running on a Slackware Linux 12.0 server, with Apache, PHP, MySQL and a few PHP modules. I'm considering migrating it to CentOS 5.1, because it would be easier to maintain for updates, and for various other reasons. Slackware is o

Re: [CentOS] MySQL and charsets: latin1 vs. utf8

Warren Young a écrit : I think what you mean to ask is, can you run the mysql command line tool in a different character set than the system default, so that when it prints out text, it goes to the terminal with the correct character set. The answer is, yes: $ LANG=fr_FR mysql -uDBUSER -p.

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

Niki Kovacs a écrit : Hi, Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL. It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely: 1) php-gd 2) php-yaz 3) php-xslt Post Scriptum: I just wonder if the required php-xslt module is not identical with the

[CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

Hi, Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL. It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely: 1) php-gd 2) php-yaz 3) php-xslt I've googled and fiddled around quite a bit, and come to the following conclusions: 1) php-gd can be installed from

[CentOS] Apache: User and Group

Hi, I'm currently setting up a simple web server. So far, everything (PHP, MySQL) works very well, but I admit I never gave security that much thought. Time to change that habit. First things first. The RHEL Deployment Guide lists Apache's configuration directives alphabetically. Instead of

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

Johnny Hughes a écrit : If you had to add a switch to the configure file (you said --with-xslt-sablot) then it probably not the same. So, in short, the only way to update rebuilt packages (since they figure in yum.conf's exclude= line) is to track the presence of updates, then download the

Re: [CentOS] Apache: User and Group

Jim Perrin a écrit : If apache owns everything in that directory, then it can modify them. This can potentially be undesirable. Depending on what you're doing, you'll have to mix and match permissions as needed. Mostly apache just needs to be able to read stuff, so having root own it with 644 is

[CentOS] General questions about security

Hi, I admit I never gave security that much thought, that is, except the most basic security rules like choosing good passwords, or reasonable file and directory permissions. But now I have to change that, since I'll soon have to setup a dedicated production server for our public libraries.

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

Les Bell a écrit : Policy. It's a drag, writing policies, but without policies, you're in the "Ready! Fire! Aim!" school of security. The top tier of policy is the "Enterprise Security Policy", which establishes the security function, roles, responsibilities, budget, etc. It also gives the powe

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

Ross S. W. Walker a écrit : Check to see if the town/county has any policies in place for computer systems and networks for public services and follow those guidelines. Otherwise look at surrounding public library systems to see if they have any you can adopt. The surrounding places here (

[CentOS] Seamonkey (with plugins) as Firefox replacement?

Hi, I'm running CentOS 5.1 with the GNOME desktop in all our public libraries around here. I start from a minimal install stripped down to the bones, install X11, GNOME, and then one application per task. I try to follow some best-of-the-breed logic, and my focus lies on robustness to avoid t

[CentOS] Create a Yum repository for CentOS 5?

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.1 on both server and desktops. I have a series of packages that I either rebuilt from CentOS SRPMS to modify them according to my needs (PHP for example), or that I built from Fedora Core SRPMS because they're not available on CentOS nor in the RPMForge repos (Seamonkey

Re: [CentOS] Create a Yum repository for CentOS 5?

Johnny Hughes a écrit : Yes, it is easy to do. You just put the RPMS in a directory ... it would be nice to separate them by arch and version. You then run the command: createrepo . Thanks very much for that excellent explanation! Cheers, Niki _

[CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

Hi, Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL uses a

Re: [CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : use gnome-terminal in XFCE? Just found the answer, and it's called luit. It's even on your system, a little utility that's part of the xorg-x11-apps package. I tried this: $ luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 ssh databaseserver And it works like a charm. From the luit

[CentOS] yum-proxy?

Hi, I've been using Debian for a few years, and there was one nifty little app that made installing and updating so much easier: apt-proxy. Most of the time, I'm taking care of small LANs with an average of five client PCs. But this is a very remote place in South France, so most villages on

[CentOS] ccache on CentOS?

Hi, Before using CentOS, I've spent a few years with Slackware. This distribution doesn't come with many packages, so I had the habit of building a lot of stuff myself. One of the first things I installed was ccache, a compiler cache that accelerates (re)building significantly. Has anyone ev

Re: [CentOS] ccache on CentOS?

William L. Maltby a écrit : RpmForge has it. Well, I already had the RPMForge package. But I tend to forget that CentOS is not Slackware. I just logged out and back in again, and see: all the symlinks in /usr/lib/ccache/bin are properly set, and the PATH adjusted accordingly. (In Slackware

[CentOS] Hardened PHP? Suhosin patch?

Hi, I'm running a few PHP-based apps on our server (PMB, SPIP, Joomla, PHPMyAdmin), and I'm not always comforted about security. I don't know the details, but many a security expert frowns when it comes to PHP. Now I just stumbled over this: http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin.127.html Has

Re: [CentOS] Hardened PHP? Suhosin patch?

Johnny Hughes a écrit : http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/21/1/ That explains how to install in centos-4 and centos-5. Thanks for the link. And thanks for a few interesting reads along the line. Since I have to rebuild PHP anyway (to include php-xslt, which apparently can't be obtained

[CentOS] Network configuration question

Hi, My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration: On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet jacks to it, and the two are

Re: [CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1

Michael A. Peters a écrit : That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well - 2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when op

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question [solved]

Robert a écrit : 1. Leave your current working LAN untouched. 2. Physically connect your desktop PC and the older laptop with a rollover cable. 3. Create a second network on your desktop PC using eth0. 192.168.2.1 would work fine. 4. Add the laptop to the new network, assigning it 192.168.2.2

Re: [CentOS] help with x config on centos 5.1

Jerry Geis a écrit : Hi all, Typically I dont have issues with configuring X. However this time its an issue. I have an NVIDIA graphics card trying to do 1920x1080. My job mainly consists in installing Linux on various hardware. When it comes down to configure X, I just kept the habit f

Re: [CentOS] 5.0 -> 5.1

Ashley M. Kirchner a écrit : Nope, I don't run yum. I do manual updates. In my native Austria, we call this: "To bear the church around the cross." (Cultural context: during catholic processions, folks use to bear the cross around the church.) :oD _

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up

Frank Cox a écrit : That's highly unusual, because I have never seen that error caused by anything other than selinux. Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure places in opt/, and not included in the PATH :oD I bet my whole Aretha Franklin CD collection that addin

Re: [CentOS] Getting JRE working in Firefox

Robert Moskowitz a écrit : I have installed both: jdk-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin jre-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin But no Java plugin in Firefox. I have written a complete HOWTO here: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=13 Scroll down to "Installation du plugin Java". It's in french, but

[CentOS] pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

Hi, I've been using LaTeX for a few years on Mac OS X, and I'd like to use it on CentOS now. I installed a complete environment using 'yum groupinstall "Authoring and Publishing"' and then installing tetex-xdvi, plus manually installing the 'memoir' class. I can run 'latex document.tex' ok:

[CentOS] Syntax question: svn propset on multiple file types?

Hi, I'm currently using SVN for writing some docs with LaTeX, and I wonder how I could possible tell SVN to ignore all *.log, *.aux and *.dvi files. I know how it can be done for one at a time. Let's say my files are in the docs/ directory. Then I'd go into the parent directory and do: $ svn

Re: [CentOS] pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

R P Herrold a écrit : known issue; using a similar creation chain, see the xpdf (left) and Evince (right) rendering of the same file: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291595 Curiously enough, the problem disappears when I just leave out \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and don't spe

Re: [CentOS] Syntax question: svn propset on multiple file types?

Vincent Knecht a écrit : create a file with one expression by line, ie: *.log *.aux *.dvi then use svn "-F file" option to give it the list. Thanks! That worked! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] XFCE, was: pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

R P Herrold a écrit : As you are probably aware, at XFCE 4 became an 'early adopter' of those standards. http://www.xfce.org/about/ and 'aims to be fast and lightweight' unlike, say, evince, which tries to be a universal 'Swiss Army' document 'knife' ;) XFCE forever I second that. I'v

[CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD I manag

Re: [CentOS] Viewing QT .mov files in Totem

James B. Byrne a écrit : CentOS-5.1 Is there anything special one must do to get the Totem shipped with CentOS-5 to display .mov files? When I try to view a file I get an error box with the message: My video solution for Linux is: 1) VLC 2) MPlayer, rebuilt in a no-GUI-version, with w32cod

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

John Plemons a écrit : There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst , libpst and Outport . Thunderbird uses a separate m

[CentOS] Graphical frontend for gphoto2? (Handling photo cameras in XFCE)

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.1 with the latest XFCE-4.4 desktop. I try to stick as much as possible to the UNIX tools philosophy, one app per task. For viewing images, I installed GQView. But right now, I wonder what I could probably use for handling photo imports from digital cameras. GThumb tends

Re: [CentOS] Graphical frontend for gphoto2? (Handling photo cameras in XFCE)

Akemi Yagi a écrit : I am interested in this, too. I wrote a small wish script that uses gphoto2/gtkam to provide a simple gui frontend that operates a camera. I could not find anything that could do this when I searched. Among gtkam's dependencies, there's libexif-gtk. I tried to build it,

Re: [CentOS] Graphical frontend for gphoto2? (Handling photo cameras in XFCE)

Akemi Yagi a écrit : I will put this in my ToDo list... I investigated a bit more: looks like quite many distributions (Gentoo, Arch, FreeBSD) are having trouble building libexif-gtk. I spent the best part of a sunny morning on it, applied all the patches I found here and there, but libexif-

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

Sean Carolan a écrit : We have a directory full of installation and configuration scripts that are updated on a fairly regular basis. I would like to implement some sort of version control for these files. I have used SVN and CVS in the past, but I thought I'd ask if anyone can recommend a simp

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

Jerry Geis a écrit : xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. A more general remark: if an app can't be found in CentOS, even in the RPMForge repos, it's easy to build it from a Fedora Core 6 SRPM. I have written a small HOWTO here: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id

Re: [CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on Centos 5 ?

Fajar Priyanto a écrit : Installing an old mysql into the latest centos is not the best way either. Why not installing the whole database into the new mysql? Unless it's using functions that are not available/compatible with mysql5, it will work OK. Wrong. I'm running a public library managem

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

William L. Maltby a écrit : Is there an alternative? I use Adobe's acroread. Works very well. But don't get the 8.* series - it's broken in printer interface and is a little bloated do to a not yet really useful voice reader capability. I'm using CentOS 5.1 for all our desktops in public li

Re: [CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on Centos 5 ?

Peter Farrell a écrit : Compile it man! Set the flags so everything goes under /usr/local/mysql. What's the big deal? Er... I think you wanted to reply to someone else. Because I share your viewpoint. Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on Centos 5 ?

Fajar Priyanto a écrit : May I know the name of the library management program? KOHA? No, PMB. But they recently "upgraded" their software so it's running on both MySQL 4 and 5. Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

[CentOS] Open extra ports on firewall?

Hi, I'm using the preconfigured firewall that comes with CentOS 5. I configure it with system-config-securitylevel-tui, close all ports except SSH, and then open only the ones I need. Right now, on one of my desktops, I've installed AMSN, which requires opening a series of ports. I've config

Re: [CentOS] Open extra ports on firewall?

Alex White a écrit : It means you've opened 7000 through to 7010 for udp and tcp. OK thanks. I just took a peek in /etc/sysconfig/iptables, and indeed. Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] Thunderbird: can't seem to install french spell checker

Hi, I can't install a french spell checker in Thunderbird. There's a link in Thunderbird's preferences, to download new dictionaries, but it's dumb. So I downloaded the dictionary manually (spell-FR.xpi) and installed it in Thunderbird using the 'Extensions' dialog. But the installed dictiona

Re: [CentOS] Open extra ports on firewall?

Robert Spangler a écrit : Check out this site. It's a tutorial fro IPTables. http://iptables.rlworkman.net/chunkyhtml/index.html Funny you send me this link. I know Robbie Workman as an ex-fellow Slackware user. And I also know some basic iptables (no system-config-* in Slackware :oD). My

[CentOS] Firefox 3

Hi, I just read the release announcement for RHEL 5.2beta: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-March/msg0.html And something caught my eye: --8<- * Laptop and Desktop Enhancement + Suspend and Hibernate improvements + Re-base of

Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect

Lanny Marcus a écrit : Note: The Wiki for Skype needs a tiny update. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype It's not a Beta now. Last night, I downloaded and installed skype-2.0.0.63-centos.i586.rpm The Skype web site calls this a "Gold" release. Much closed source software has a "Gold" release.

Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect

Lanny Marcus a écrit : Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx│ │ Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3,Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3│ │ View: [Playback] Capture All│ │ Item: Master

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

Johnny Hughes a écrit : This implementation changes the way pango, cario, and a new thing called xul-runner interact with several gnome things ... it is also tied to a newer version of nss ... which requires other system components to be rebuilt. I gave it a go anyway, and the result is ver

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

Niki Kovacs a écrit : I gave it a go anyway, and the result is very convincing. I forgot: if anyone wants to try out Firefox 3.0beta without the hassle of building/adapting it for CentOS, feel free to use the RPM from my repo. To add it, create and edit /etc/yum.repos.d/kikinovak.repo

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

William L. Maltby a écrit : I tried to get and test this for you, and me. Can't access the repo. # uname -a Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/kikinovak [kikinovak] enabled=0 priority=99 n

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3

William L. Maltby a écrit : It looks like it will take about 13 hours to download. I'm afraid I would soak up your outgoing bandwidth. If I don't hear from you in an hour or so, I'll kill it. I'm hosting this on a publicly available server, and sometimes, download speeds are throttled. But 13

Re: [CentOS] Seamonkey rpms for CentOS?

Heiko Adams a écrit : Hello, does anyone know where to get seamonkey rpms for CentOS 5.1? I have an RPM for Seamonkey 1.1.7 on my own repo. Add a stanza like this: [kikinovak] enabled=1 priority=1 name=CentOS-$releasever - kikinovak baseurl=http://kikinovak.free.fr/centos/$releasever/kikinovak

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 single (server) CD ??

Chas a écrit : Hi, Any chance of a CentOS 5.1 single server CD similiar to the one for 4.4? That CD wa very useful for 90% of the instals that I've been doing and whatever extras were needed were eaily added through Yum. I'm doing all my installs, be it server or desktop, starting from a stri

Re: [CentOS] Browser window problems (previously discussed) - details?

MHR a écrit : For those of you who have reported here about problems with your browser windows suddenly going away in Firefox and/or SeaMonkey: The solution for me was to upgrade to Firefox3beta4. Just doesn't crash anymore. I know there are no updates for now, but heck, from a pragmatic point

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

Mag Gam a écrit : Why would you download an illegal version of RHEL? I see no point in that... Maybe there's also illegal customer support on these filesharing networks :oD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

[CentOS] Monitor connections?

Hi, I just setup a dedicated server on OVH, and I wonder: what's the best way to monitor connection attempts? Like: folks trying to connect on various ports? Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

[CentOS] Commandline utility to edit ID3 tags?

Hi, I'm running a webradio on our brandnew CentOS 5.1 database server. (The main purpose of this radio is fun, sure, but it's also a bit like a canary in a coalmine...) It's based on Icecast, MPD and NCMPC and works great. I'm configuring the server remotely via SSH, no X. Is there any comma

Re: [CentOS] Commandline utility to edit ID3 tags?

Greg Bailey a écrit : If you have the rpmforge repository enabled, yum install id3lib. It includes a command-line utility "id3tag" which can do that. I just checked it out, and it works great for editing single ID3 tag fields. Now one more question: is there any other command line utility

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

Morten Nilsen a écrit : I don't really mind doing it manually, it yields greater control.. Sorry, but this is an urban myth. Yum and RPM let you control things *equally*. I know, I use them both regularly, everyday, at home and at work. Refusing to use Yum in a situation like the one you des

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

Morten Nilsen a écrit : Johnny Hughes wrote: Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: quiet rhgb Just got home - and no, they do not.. I remember having had a problem with the CentOS 5.0 kernel when adding 'vga=788' (or 'vga=791') to GRUB's kernel line. Seems l

Re: [CentOS] Commandline utility to edit ID3 tags?

MHR a écrit : On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just checked it out, and it works great for editing single ID3 tag fields. Now one more question: is there any other command line utility to display the whole ID3 tag, e. g. all the fields? Som

Re: [CentOS] Commandline utility to edit ID3 tags?

xml devel a écrit : Try eyed3 http://eyed3.nicfit.net/ Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

Florin Andrei a écrit : I want to build a dedicated MythTV box using CentOS5. I need a lightweight desktop environment, something extremely simple that does not use much memory. Gnome and KDE use way too much memory and are too complex for what I want to do. X! F! C! E! I've been using XFCE

Re: [CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

Primorec a écrit : question: Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as a 'group' using yum ? # yum grouplist ;o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

Sam Beam a écrit : Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs I tried the nvidia dkms driver from rpmforge

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

John a écrit : He built it like so: Me built it almost like so. #telinit 3 #sh nvidia-linux-version-number #then you get a text gui #he let it build the kernel module #then it asks do you want to me to update you xorg.conf. #selected yes selected no. I always edit xorg.conf by hand anywa

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

John a écrit : But understand this now. When you do that your not building against the newest kernel. Thus you will have inconsistent modulesand run into problems. It is meant to work by building against the newest kernel. I don't see the real point in that from a security standpoint in having

[CentOS] CentOS 5.0 and php-yaz

Hi, I have a CentOS 5.0 LAMP server, and I need to install the php-yaz module to implement the Z39.50 protocol (which handles data exchange for public libraries). I've already done this with Debian (a one-liner: apt-get install php-yaz) and also on Slackware (more complicated: compile Yaz, r

Re: [CentOS] Recommended REPO Setup for Desktop on Cos5

user. 2) And if I can't find it there (example: xmms-wma), I check out the .spec file in the freshrpms repo, download the corresponding source, and that does the job. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

[CentOS] Managing recompiled packages?

squash my personal version. Is there a way to prevent these packages from being updated? Or how should I handle these? Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 and php-yaz

Antonio da Silva Martins Junior a écrit : I already had done this on CentOS4.5... Download and instal the yaz library (on C5 I think the FC6 packages will build ok). Then use the pear installer: pear install yaz The php-yaz package are in the PECL repo, wich can be accessed using the

[CentOS] Sound setup on ASUS laptop (Intel High Definition soundcard)

Hi, I just got a brand-new ASUS laptop, a W6F light laptop. So far I managed to get everything to work (wireless, X, ...). The only thing that stubbornly refuses to work is the sound. Here's the sound card: # lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) H

[CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

is obviously corrupt data? Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

Daniel de Kok a écrit : On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 07:09 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l total 692996 -rw-r- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime drwxrwxrwx 4

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

'badblock -v' on it. Looks like half of the disk is damaged, so it's clearly a hardware failure. The guy at the store told me that with the actual heat it's not a surprise. Anyway: thanks to anybody for the detailed advice!

[CentOS] Can't print from Firefox

uch as GEdit or OpenOffice.org Writer. But I can't print anything from Firefox. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't print from Firefox

Niki Kovacs schrieb: Hi, I've just installed CentOS 5.0 on my father's laptop, in replacement of Windows XP. Everything runs fine, except I can't seem to print from Firefox. Nobody can help me on this? I really need to set this up, and I'm going back to France tomo

Re: [CentOS] Can't print from Firefox

nters (one with the gimp-print driver). But with a clear head today, I reconfigured everything properly, set the printer as default, and now every app prints fine. Thanks, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] Can't install Kaffeine from RPMForge repo

ransaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplayer2.desktop from install of kaffeine-0.7.1-1.2.el5.rf conflicts with file from package kdelibs-3.5.4-11.el5.centos Error Summary - Any suggestion

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't install Kaffeine from RPMForge repo

e a charm. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] System on time

Hi, To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in rc.local. I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there something more appropriate? Niki Kovacs

Re: [CentOS] System on time

Matt Hyclak a écrit : On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in rc.local. I wonder if this is

Re: [CentOS] System on time

Matt Hyclak a écrit : Sounds like a daylight savings time issue, or you have the wrong timezone configured... My timezone is Europe/Paris, but indeed we recently switched to what we call here "winter time". ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

Ern jura a écrit : Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide. Here I have an ASUS, an HP Pavilion and an older Fujitsu Amilo D, all running CentOS 5.0

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