Re: [CentOS] Configuring an Intel 3945 wireless card: partial success

2008-09-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Mogens Kjaer a écrit : Take a close look at what gets logged into /var/log/messages Sorry couldn't try this out earlier, as my wife went away for a few days with the laptop. Anyway, here goes. To try it out, I stopped the 'network' service and started 'NetworkManager' as well as 'NetworkM

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
ry to reinstall your system. User A: I did what you said, but it still doesn't work! User C: You must recompile your kernel I think. User A: What does "recompile" mean? I'm sure Eugene Ionesco would have enjoyed these forums

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Anne Wilson a écrit : Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great many newbies, which is a real shame. I wouldn't call it hostility. More in the sense of a polite - and sane - scepticism. There's a French saying which may illustrate this: "Hell is paved with g

Re: [CentOS] What is the minimum ISO to build a server?

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Florin Andrei a écrit : Often I just use the first CD (out of the regular set of install CDs). http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/centos/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-1of6.iso Choose "customize package groups" (or whatever is the name of that option) and then unselect all package groups ex

Re: [CentOS] Configuring an Intel 3945 wireless card: partial success

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : If I remember, you are using the ipw3945 module. This is being deprecated and replaced by iwl3945. While the new one might not fix your problem, it wouldn't hurt to try it. In my case, ipw3945 did not work but iwl3945 did. Trouble is that the iwl3945 module is disabled i

Re: [CentOS] Filezilla

2008-09-05 Thread Niki Kovacs
Juan C. Valido a écrit : Does anyone know where I can get the filezilla package for CentOS 5.2. Thank you. My best bet would be to use the FC8 SRPM on rpm.pbone.net and try to build that. Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-05 Thread Niki Kovacs
automounting mechanism to know what I need to change to make this happen. Try this: # /etc/init.d/pcscd start --> Smart Card Reader daemon! And if it works: # chkconfig pcscd on Enjoy! Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] Problem with running Centos 5.2 on Dell Optiplex 330

2008-09-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
NiftyClusters Mitch a écrit : The quick and handy way to do this is to pick up an inexpensive USB ethernet link or other ether net card. After a yum update to a new kernel you may well have a driver that works. 'yum update' without a working network card won't lead him far, IMHO :o) ___

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on an MSI Wind U100 Netbook && RTL8187 wireless card configuration

2008-09-12 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I recently purchased an MSI Wind Netbook, just slightly bigger than an EeePC, and IMHO just one step above the mere toy category. It's got a 10" monitor, 80 GB SATA HD, and the keyboard is just big enough so I can type with ten fingers (with a little exercise). The thing came preinstalled

[CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-12 Thread Niki Kovacs
0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 Please correct me if I'm wrong. cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : 2) add a line to /etc/hosts like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero ::1 localhost6.locald

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.localcalimero When I do this, I get the following result (after rebooting): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname calimero.local [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn localhost.loca

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : It should look like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost calimero.localcalimero I slightly altered it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fa

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Josh Donovan a écrit : See http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html and look at the section titled "Changing the host name:" Conclusion of this thread: looks like there are two different schools for configuring the hostname. _

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : From Slackwares /etc/hosts: ... # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. ... I'm familiar with that one. Been a

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
RobertH a écrit : If what you are asking is can you setup an internal dns name to IP address and IP address to name resolution and call it what you want... yes you can I smell politics :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
John R Pierce a écrit : Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. Looks like peeking at other apps makes me discover the ones I've got. I just fiddled around with GThumb and discovered a truly grea

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Lanny Marcus a écrit : The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense of learning a few very basic steps that everybod

Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Andrew Allen a écrit : I want to set up a local mysql server + client (preferably graphical, ie mysqlgui) so have yum installed both perl-DBI and mysql.i386, both apparently successfully. However, I can't see what to do next to get mysqld running, as it doesn't appear in the list of services (in

Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
MHR a écrit : Oh, I don't know - if you say it in French, only a few of us will understand (and we'll get a good laugh out of it, too!). Give it a shot! Graphical frontends for MySQL? Saloperie de bordel à cul de pompe à merde. Was I graphical enough? :o) Niki PS: My wife's boss, who is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sven a écrit : Hi folks Anybody running CentOS on Eee PC 1000H? In CentOS wiki[0] there is a draft about Eee PC 900 from Fabian Arrotin. Does the same howto work for Eee PC 1000H? Dunno, but I successfully managed to install CentOS 5.2 on a similar piece of hardware, the MSI Wind U100 net

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Eee PC 1000H

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marcus Moeller a écrit : If you could translate this How To to English it would be great if you could promote it on the -docs ML and the wiki. I'll see what I can do. But I haven't finished yet: there's still the wireless card to configure... Niki

Re: [CentOS] Installing & activating mysql in CentOS 5

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
MHR a écrit : Have you ever seen the English subtitled version of "La Cage Aux Folles?" It was rated PG, I think (snicker). When Pulp Fiction came out, I saw it in a small cinema in Montpellier, in english with French subtitles. There's a scene where Bruce Willis is yelling: - Jesus Chr

[CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be the exception that confirms the rule. I've been jumping through several burning loops these past days to configure my little MSI Wind netbook, a

[CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-19 Thread Niki Kovacs
a bug for that? 2) In the meantime, what can I do? Simply exclude vlc, amule, audacity and wxGTK from updates in /etc/yum.conf and wait until the problem is resolved? Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-19 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : Some info here: http://planet.centos.org/ Thanks for the info. Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-20 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : I believe what Dag is saying is that, if you wish to use audacity, you cannot update wxGTK. Conversely, if you update wxGTK, you cannot use audacity. I'm sure he will eventually resolve the issue. In the meantime, how are we supposed to go about to install AMule, VLC a

Re: [CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : Not that it matters, but "model=toshiba" is the one that eventually worked. Which is interesting because it's not a toshiba laptop. The lesson here is, don't eliminate any entries as not relevant because your machine isn't that model. Same here. My wife has an ASUS laptop w

[CentOS] GIMP 2.4 packages for CentOS 5

2008-09-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, One of my rare regrets with CentOS 5 was that GIMP only came in version 2.2, but 2.4 offers many nifty new functions quite handy for everyday work. For those of you who are interested, I built some GIMP 2.4 packages for CentOS 5. Download and install (using rpm -Uvh) the following packag

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
John a écrit : I've had that set up ever since I first added any repositories. I've got it set to a priority of 10, is there a better value to use? 1 = highest priority <==> packages never get squashed 99 = lowest priority So basically you're free to choose any value between 1 and 99. The l

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
John a écrit : I do not and did not mean to be offensive to Dag, and I apologize if I was--it just seemed like an issue that would be affecting a lot more people than just me and I wanted to see what others were doing about it. So far I've not heard what that is. I second that. Dag is doing gr

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : And if all that could be discussed on rpmforge users mailing list *where* other people from the rpmforge community also read and post, it would have been even greater >:) Sorry for that. Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

[CentOS] HAL adds printer twice

2008-09-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, When I want to configure a printer, say an HP Deskjet 940, I install hplip, configure cupsd.conf, open up http://localhost:631 and configure the printer in the CUPS interface. Now whenever I want to print, I see that the selfsame printer is added again, and CUPS mentions it as "added by H

[CentOS] Strange message at boot time

2008-09-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm usually booting all machines here with 'vga=788 quiet' options in menu.lst, so I see what services start, but it's not too verbose at the same time. One message that puzzles me is the very first one after GRUB starts init: "Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible r

Re: [CentOS] Strange message at boot time

2008-09-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : From the CentOS 5.1 Release Notes: "During the boot process you may see the message "Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range" appear. This message comes from the new kdump infrastructure. It is a harmless message and can be safely ignored." Phe

[CentOS] Configure an ATI Radeon X1200 card?

2008-09-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I want to configure X on a NEC PC with an ATI graphic card. Usually, I do that by hand, e. g.: # init 3 # X -configure --> first draft # mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11 Then I edit this with Vi, step by step. Usually, this works, but not for ATI cards. Here, the first draft only gives me a "v

Re: [CentOS] Configure an ATI Radeon X1200 card?

2008-09-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
John a écrit : IMO I think you would be better off get the drivers from ATI and use them. I have had better results with getting the propriatery drivers for those cards. I followed your suggestion, and it worked very well. Thanks! Niki ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Configure an ATI Radeon X1200 card?

2008-09-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : This was with centos 5.0 and probably also 5.1. Unless things changed in 5.2, or X1200 is very different from X1300, I suggest you try fglrx if vesa doesn't suit you. I opted for fglrx, with excellent results. Strangely enough, the X1200 card is not listed on A

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
"XxY" will do) Check the Driver section if your driver is listed OK instead of "vesa". Once this is working, you can fine-tune bits like DRI, Composite, etcetera. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Moskowitz a écrit : Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Of course you will have to do this with X not running. Two solutions. Either edit /etc/inittab, like this: # Default runleve

Re: [CentOS] Video driver questions

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Moskowitz a écrit : So I did and it made a HUGH xorg.conf.new file. With instructions to try it out by: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new Well that brought up X but no window open and left or right mouse did nothing. So back to and I see messages about VNC mode (I have vncserver conf

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
nless, of course, it's one of those phantom PC farms constitued of 50.000 infested Windows PC's. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option "files containing ..." (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having the string as part of the name but actually contain

Re: [CentOS] Good [L]AMP tutorial for CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-10-11 Thread Niki Kovacs
ion" section contains detailed instructions for setting up MySQL, Apache and PHP. Everything is based on CentOS 5. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm running a small Linux consulting business here in a group of small villages in the South of France (http://www.microlinux.fr). I'm using CentOS for everything, servers as well as desktops. The desktop installs are usually highly customized. My approach is to list the client's needs, f

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thanks very much everybody for your numerous comments. I guess I got much more than I expected. Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : I tend to agree with you, actually. The Fedora list, for example, seems to work fine as far as I can see (most of the time, anyway), and I just skip over anything that doesn't look interesting to me. I second that. Coming from Slackware, I tend to adhere to the KISS (Keep

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Toby Bluhm a écrit : I put myself into the keep as is category. Given the popularity of this thread, I suggest creating a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, where folks can discuss list-related stuff. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at ball-breaking length.

Re: [CentOS] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
are there or what licence information would we need to include for our customers? Yes, you are allowed to do that. And if your business runs well, consider a donation to CentOS. Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] Simple audio recording app?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to get my microphone to work (mainly to use it with Skype). I've just been looking for a simple audio recording app, as I vaguely remember having seen such a thing before, only I can't seem to find it anymore. I'm using the default GNOME desktop with the latest CentOS 5. Any sug

[CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I know I know: upstream minus artwork. Nevertheless, I admit I'd like to simply use the RHEL background wallpaper for my desktop. Something like: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/images/rhel4/44-Desktop.jpg Can't seem to find these (4 and 5). Any idea? Cheers, Niki

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Spike Turner a écrit : - desktop-backgrounds-basic.noarch - desktop-backgrounds-extra.noarch would give you a decent variety? Reminds me of that Gary Larson joke: - Hi, I'd like vanilla icecream. - Wouldn't you rather have wood / liver / corn? So let me insist: I want *that*

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : ftp.redhat.com - get + rebuild their .src.rpm, that wont have any centos patches in there :D Of course! (Slap my forehead) Thanks! N ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

[CentOS] Installer stopped short

2008-10-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just tried to install a CentOS 5 desktop on very recent hardware, an Acer desktop machine. The installer stopped short very early. I gave Ubuntu 8.04 a shot, and it installed without a problem. Now what can I do about this? Is there a way to use some "enhanced" kernel (like the centos.

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thom Paine a écrit : I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. I do a lot of sandbox testing, and VirtualBox is just great for the job! Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing lis

[CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : having just got off a 40 min long skype call with some guys on the other side of the pond, one bit of feedback I can give you is that skype ( from their rpm ) on centos-5 does work ! Well, great to hear it works for you. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest i

[CentOS] Correctly setting up sound with Intel High Definition ICH7

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Earlier this day I started a thread about Skype not working with outgoing sound. Now I wonder if it's not a problem with my soundcard. I had a vague suspicion about this, but since it's way off the original topic, I decided to start a new thread about this. Here's what the soundcard look

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Lanny Marcus a écrit : Niki: Welcome to the club! This is something I have tried to get working, on my CentOS 5 (32 bit) desktop. William was very kind and he volunteered to help, but I have other projects, with higher priorities, ahead of this one now. Great to know that one of the previous res

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rob Townley a écrit : Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking outgoing sound? Funny, I never gave that a thought. Any idea which port I would have to open? Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : Niki Kovacs wrote: Well, great to hear it works for you. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea how to make the outgoing sound work here. Googling only shows that the problem seems rather widespread. It-works-here doesn't help me very much. h

[CentOS] adduser vs. useradd

2008-11-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle

Re: [CentOS] adduser vs. useradd

2008-11-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thomas Iverson a écrit : Hi there , you are almost right adduser is only a symbol-link of the useradd in CentOS , for my explanation , it may be security-related you know , to use useradd , you can also specify the home dir,group and so on , but script codes have danger adduser under some distros

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
7;s not hard to guess what the command line bits mean: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=40 Knowing how to handle RPM can also come in quite useful sometimes: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=39 Cheers, Niki Kovacs _

[CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. Now I had a look at t

Re: [CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > Hi, > > Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login > (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): > > $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. > It should not be writable for ot

[CentOS] Red Hat réagit à la crise économiqu e

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
L'entreprise Red Hat réagit à la crise... en supprimant une énorme fête d'entreprise. Au lieu de cela, ils ont décidé de donner l'argent à l'équivalent américain des Restos du Coeur, soit quelque 800.000 repas: http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1314667.html J'ai toujours eu un faible p

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat réagit à la crise économiqu e (oops)

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : >> >> J'ai toujours eu un faible pour Red Hat, mais là, je les apprécie >> carrément. Comme quoi l'esprit de partage ne s'arrête pas au code source. > > Mind your language, Kiddo! > Ooops. Sorry, this wasn't meant to go on this ML, but to my local LUG here in France,

[CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I recently had a power failure, and since that, apparently the only problem I have is: flash videos in Firefox have no more sound. I tried to reinstall both firefox and flash-plugin, but to no avail. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Max Hetrick a écrit : > Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> I recently had a power failure, and since that, apparently the only >> problem I have is: flash videos in Firefox have no more sound. I tried >> to reinstall both firefox and flash-plugin, but to no avail. > > Is it

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
John Doe a écrit : > If you can hear sound in other applications, maybe try to remove the > .macromedia Oh yes! Thanks very much for the suggestion! It worked, and now I have sound again! Cheers! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

[CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux, based on CentOS 5.x

2009-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
e any comments, suggestions, if you want to point out the odd typo or mistake, feel free to do so. I can take them into account until maybe the end of next week, before the folks in the layout department do their job. One last thing: since this is not the final version, please

Re: [CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux, based on CentOS 5.x

2009-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Heller a écrit : > At Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:40 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical >> introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. >> This is the first of two volumes, it's writ

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
costs only around 25 euros a month. Looks pretty much unbeatable. cheers, Niki Kovacs PS: I'm running a database server for eleven small public libraries on it... plus my private webradio to fill some extra unused bandwidth: http://91.121.7.181:8000/radionovak.ogg :o) ___

[CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-12 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook". Unfortunately, some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work the same way on a standard CentOS 5 install. 1) Am I supposed to be root to use

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Michael A. Peters a écrit : >> >> 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file? > > I've found it works much better if you are root. > I tried both, and see: cdrecord complains about not being able to set certain priorities while being run as user, which induces a high ris

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
John Doe a écrit : > > Couldn't it be the copy protection...? In theory, dd should also take care of copying the copy protection, isn't it? :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Robert Heller a écrit : > > An audio CD is not like a data CD. It does not have a 'file system'. > It is a collection of data tracks, containing cdda files. > Yeah, I know. But then, AFAIK, dd is supposed to handle these "binary sausages" as well. Meaning: take that input (whatever it is) and

[CentOS] CUPS oddity

2009-04-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've been setting up a few printer servers with CUPS. Our public libraries here all run 100% Linux (CentOS 5), so what I do is simply install the printer on one of the machines (with a static IP) and then configure CUPS so it can act as a printer server for Linux clients. It took me some t

Re: [CentOS] CUPS oddity

2009-04-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Laurent Wandrebeck a écrit : >> >> Can anybody explain this strange behaviour to me? > localhost is a non routable address: 127.0.0.1. > So it won't answer on the public ip address if you don't add it yourself. Thanks! Got it! Niki ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Fernando Gleiser a écrit : > > And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you > can install centos. > I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any > problems > I'm sorry but I can't seem to find that "Smart Array" utility. The machine

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hakan Koseoglu a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't > SCSI -> Disk > > Go to www.hp.com, , click on Support & Drivers, on Step 2, for product > type ML 150, click

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > > - HP IP Console Switch Firmware Update for Linux > > And that's it. There's no other link. > OK, at least I found an answer to this particular problem. I tried the US site, which yields many more answers. Unfortunately, no

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Mogens Kjaer a écrit : > > Boot a live CD/USB and do an lspci to list > controllers. > I booted the CentOS5 install CD 1 in rescue mode. Here's what lspci gives: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7320 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 P

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Mogens Kjaer a écrit : > > You should still try to open the box and check the cables. > > It might be easier to configure the system if you attach the > disks to the SCSI controller instead of the RAID controller - > if you don't want to run RAID. > I followed your advice (don't get me wrong:

[CentOS] x86_64 package mess ?

2010-02-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just installed CentOS 5.4 on a 64bit-server. It's the first time I work with this sort of hardware. Doing rpm -qa | sort | less shows that most of the packages seem to be installed twice: once for i386 architecture, and then again for x86_64. Is this normal? Or did I mess up something du

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 package mess ?

2010-02-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : > > There is a FAQ about it: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 > Thanks. That did the trick. Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2010-02-22 Thread Niki Kovacs
email address, then how comes you are using it without knowing his username and password? Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2010-02-22 Thread Niki Kovacs
James Bensley a écrit : > On 22 February 2010 20:31, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Sorry if this is not the place, but there's some quirk in the logic. If >> your late husband wrote to this list using his email address, then how >> comes you are using it without knowing

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2010-02-23 Thread Niki Kovacs
John R Pierce a écrit : > > in a nutshell, you boot the linux CD into 'linux rescue mode', then the > usernames are in the /etc/passwd file on the mounted hard drive, which > is I believe mounted as /a, so it would be /a/etc/passwd, and the > passwords themselves are encrypted in /etc/shadow .

[CentOS] Free online book about Linux, based on CentOS 5 (in french)

2010-02-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Last summer I published a cookbook-style detailed introduction to Linux, based on CentOS. I recently decided to make a free online version available as well. Those among you reading french might be interested. Here's the link : Presentation: http://www.microlinux.fr/documentation.html#onli

[CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. Only thing I found is: if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then continue else groupadd medintux

[CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The title says it all. My GNOME desktop is in French, so here's what my standard Applications (same word in french) menu looks like : Applications > Accessoires (Utilities) > Bureautique (Office) > Graphisme (Graphics) > Internet (Internet)

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > --- > That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it... 1) *What* should be the right way ? 2) then update it... update what ? Sorry, but this wasn't very helpful. I want to create a new *main* menu category Applications > Medintux. Just how should I go about t

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > 1. Ok what I said was you are on the right way to doing it > > 2. Heres the easy way. > Right Click on the Applications Menu Click on Edit Menus. I think you > can figure the rest out it's pretty easy. > > OK manually you can put the *.desktop entry into /YourHomeDir/.gnom

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > No no No... > > Here I found my link I used to do it amnually: It is for system wide... > http://wiki.matusov.sk/howto/gnome-menu-edit > > This is what I went by to do it so I could include the files in my rpm > build, which took a whole afternoon about. Thanks very much for

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : >> Thanks very much for the link! That did the trick. Now I have a shiny >> new entry 'Medintux' in my 'Applications' menu. >> > Ok now how you like it? > Great. But check for yourself : http://www.microlinux.fr/images/menugnome.png Cheers, Niki __

[CentOS] Solutions Linux : Paris, March 16th - 18th

2010-03-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Will CentOS be present at the "Solutions Linux" fair in Paris ? Other question. I'm currently re-reading "The Definitive Guide to CentOS". The book's introduction mentions 10 million CentOS users worldwide. Wow! I wouldn't have expected that much. How do you get this figure? By the number

[CentOS] Filter web content in a LAN ?

2010-03-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from satanism to

Re: [CentOS] Filter web content in a LAN ?

2010-03-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > > Satanism? What, you're going to filter all religion? Let's say www.rotten.com is still a favourite among the local youngsters. Not exactly family-friendly. (When I was that age, long before the Internet became popular, we only had "Faces Of Death" on VHS :oD) >

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