[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: that can't happen unless folks can out particular cases where collaboration failed (esp on the epel side), so that I can I can try to help. 'outed' in a off list email to Rex In the meantime, I'll go digging on epel's list searching for posts made by yo

[CentOS] perl-File-Temp problem

2007-12-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, FTNX wrote: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of perl-File-Temp-0.19-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 gee -- I can diagnose from here that a 'rf' [repoforge] package conflicts with a base CentOS

[CentOS] ./configure perfparse -> "configure: error: required library libgd unusable"

2007-12-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Rogelio wrote: problem that was a result of "yum remove gd", I formatted the box and reinstalled everything. "checking for gdlib-config... /usr/bin/gdlib-config checking for gdMalloc in -lgd... no /usr/bin/gdlib-config is owned by package: gd-devel Install that with yu

[CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

2008-02-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: I check on my FC 7 system which is running poppler-utils Looks like a bug - probably happened when poppler-utils and xpdf still were installable side by side (and both provided pdftoppm). Though I found no bug report upstream regarding that issue - i

[CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote: The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. 1. ask them 2. there have been reports of stability problems with the patch -- it does little good to rush out a fix

[CentOS] Support Tools

2008-02-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thorsten Kampe wrote: does something like the SUSE/Novell ntsutils (previously called "supportconfig") or Microsoft's MPS Reports exist for CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux? I mean a program that reads and exports various configurations and parameters to facilitate technic

[CentOS] Support Tools

2008-02-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: There's sosreport in centos 5.1, formerly sysreport in previous ... beat me by 36 sec. on the post -- but I _did_ explain details on why the other two platforms vary ;) - R ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

[CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

2008-03-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: * CentOS: Only two typos in the default install, in more than 4 years. One each by hughesjr and orc_orc We've been training Evolution, to get the count up. - R ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

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

2008-03-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: I can run 'latex document.tex' ok: the resulting .dvi looks nice in xdvi. When running 'dvips -o document.dvi', I get a .ps file that I can view OK in Evince. But when I run 'pdflatex document.tex', the fonts in the resulting PDF are all ragged and fuzz

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

2008-03-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: 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

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

2008-03-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: What we need is a case that's been taken to court and a verdict given. :) umm -- Istrongly disagree. There are services sold by people called 'lawyers' whom sell authoritative analysis, guidance, and answers they'll stand behind as a professional t

[CentOS] RPM build environment -- was: query on sendmail issues

2007-07-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) i dont see /usr/src/redhat/BUILD and the other 4 directories.. namely RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS, SRPMS so basically how do i install /src.rpm files Building as root is not sensible, as packages can 'leak' and pollute the host environment -- see:

[CentOS] possible corrupt rpm database

2007-07-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave wrote: I've got a centos5 box that at least has a dependency issue or a corrupt --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package asterisk-devel.i386 1:1.4.8-42.el5 set to be updated ---> Package zaptel.i386 1:1.4.4-36.el5 set to be upd

[CentOS] typo on a Wiki page

2007-07-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote: A nice catch. As you know, typos are a hallmark for some CentOS developers and an integral part of the CentOS project because they make this OS stand out. :-) hey -- I resemble that -- Russ Herrold orc_orc on IRC ___

[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: ATM we'll just live and let live, and there will not be any one-side effort to rectify any compatibility issues EPEL created. It's their mess, they'll have to clean it up. Live and let die, you mean - at least as far as the users are concerned. I don'

[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I understand how a lot of it "went down" (saw the meetings and am on the lists as well), I'm just wondering if that aside (I know, hard to do :), could there feasibly be an RPM-based solution to this that would make repo-tags obsolete? 'could be'?

[CentOS] yum remove 'tomcat*'?

2007-07-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice packages? This is a known issue in that using yum to remove packages is to use a blunt tool -- use rpm for finer control on package removals This question ocurs often in the yum

[CentOS] redhat-rpm-config, was: yum remove 'tomcat*'?

2007-07-31 Thread R P Herrold
fixing thread hijack in subject line On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: Red Hat fixed their bug: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0365.html I haven't seen a response to centos bugzilla 0002160 that I filed a month ago about this. Did you look at a system before posting? Or jus

[CentOS] Diskless client from system-config-netboot doesn't boot.

2007-08-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sophana wrote: David Mackintosh a écrit : I've followed a set of instructions I found on http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/ch-diskless.htmli which describes using system-config-netboot to set up PXE booting.

[CentOS] Xen VM vanishes after creation

2007-08-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Just starting and playing around with Xen on Centos 5. I created a new VM (para-virtualized) with the Virtual Machine Manager, installed Centos 5 minimal on it, rebooted after successful installation. I did a presentation in some depth at a local LUG (t

[CentOS] Xen VM vanishes after creation

2007-08-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: R P Herrold wrote on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:29:47 -0400 (EDT): cd /etc/xen hmmm -- As I recall, you noted in your initial post having built the xen images at: /home/xen. Please, could you please place in a pastebin (http://www.pastebin.ca/) the

[CentOS] Xen VM vanishes after creation

2007-08-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: That's so short I could post it here. But here you go: http://www.pastebin.ca/672505 test1 is the name of the VM. It's the first and only I created so far. I made one or two edits in xend-config.sxp *after* the problem occurred, nothing that could hav

[CentOS] Re: centos] Xen VM vanishes after creation

2007-08-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: What I don't udnerstand is how xend or xm determines where the image file is located. I can't see that anywhere. And the same applies to how it man xm holds this answer -- if the path variable is not set, it seems to look at the CWD, from some of the

[CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Goodness ... the Stuff you have in your closet at PARI. Best as I had roughed out plans for a builder some

[CentOS] tftp-server, unable to create new files (even with "-c" option)

2007-09-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Just to make sure, is the /tftpboot directory set to perms 777? Not that that parent directory (/tftpboot) requires (or should ever have) anything like that to work -- why the voodoo suggestion? -- Russ Herrold

[CentOS] CentOS on s390; was: CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so, that would help matters considerably! As it turns out, I _may_ actually have

[CentOS] Installing java on CentOS 5

2007-11-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote: I hope now that java is GPL that it is packaged/bundled to eliminate this nonsense The versions are using and adjunct components people want are not GPLd -- Russ Herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

[CentOS] Installing Java on CentOS 5

2007-11-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On the other hand, redistribution is permitted... Yeah, but there's still that indemnification clause in the Distribution License. The FAQ says that this really doesn't matter, the License says otherwise. An

[CentOS] cisco vpn client on linux

2007-11-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jerry Geis wrote: I then found a vpnc reference but did not find a 64 bit version. yum install vpnc did nothing What is my next step? it builds trivially from the SRPM -- it works fine here for me - Russ Herrold ___ CentO

[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: Huh? In fact, work is underway to codify the opposite: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration James 2:14-26 -- Russ Herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: R P Herrold wrote: James 2:14-26 Rex Dieter replied: If you can identify particular cases where collaboration, as outlined in the above policy draft, was not followed, I will personally break out a can of whoop-ass, and work to fix things. Remember

[CentOS] conga, ricci and luci updates missing?

2007-06-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Dave Augustus wrote: According to this link, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0331.html conga, ricci and luci have updates available. Well, not exactly, or at least not generally. This is in an advisory for product "RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server)": Fromt eh ad

[CentOS] conga, ricci and luci updates missing?

2007-06-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, R P Herrold wrote: I think you may wish to consider asking that the sources be released on upstream products. dang it -- I was reading too fast. Yup this is a problem that stuff is dropping into the mirrors without advisories being seen by centos team members on non

[CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advis ory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Larry Vaden wrote: > Please take off the blinders and realize there are lots of folks (some > x% of a million or more) on this list who compile from current source > in order to minimize their risks and are therefore the subject > audience. and it is on topic in this venue, j

[CentOS] CentOS 5 Security Updates

2011-02-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Cal Webster wrote: > java-1.6.0-sun non FOSS, non-source provided, no? This is in an addon channel in RHEL, and so far as I know we have never shipped such Of the others the wireshark update is a periodic update of some edge case dissectors [these developers are quite go

[CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

2011-03-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, robert mena wrote: > yeah but he wants to hear from the horse's mouth > > Who knows what the guy really said when a reporter quotes something The 'pull quotes' attributed to me (the horse in question) by the Reg are accurate and carry good context Anyone who follows

[CentOS] bind 9.7.3 and libp11 engine_pkcs11 of fedoca core 14

2011-03-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, fakessh @ wrote: > I installed the packages and libp11 engine_pkcs11 > to allow me to recover the rpm of bind depositing unofficial CentALT. > is the only way to properly recompile the source rpm > this in order to to safety the last holes in bind there is a fake bind that run

[CentOS] Watching a directory

2011-03-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Would anyone have thoughts? don't reinvent the wheel inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: > True. You cannot have multiple PTR records for an IP. I did not mean > to suggest that you could. Not saying you are wrong here, but have you an RFC reference to this effect? We previously held this belief from our prior practice, but cannot find a

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > There are significant components of the upstream 5.6 release which are > stuck behind the CentOS 5.6 release process, but are now incorporated > in EPEL 5 components. Sad that -- that the dependent partial Red Hat adjunct project is not compatible

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Александр Кириллов wrote: > http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2011-03-18-how-to-lose-a-client_N.htm CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is owed. If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are wanted or needed, PLEASE

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Александр Кириллов wrote: >> TANSTAAFL > ... long overdue "free lunch" I get it -- you dont (or choose not to) understand the written word -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Drew wrote: > Most likely because of relative cost and/or perceived value of SLES vs RHEL? > > Novell is essentially offering to help you while you switch existing > kit over to SLES. If you're already paying for a RHEL subscription, > Novell's offer may have a lower cost or o

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > Building the kernel shouldn't be an issue - but look at the > SL notes on the srpms that don't build with the listed > dependencies as shipped - and they aren't being picky about > the library linkages matching the RH binaries like CentOS > is. > If

[CentOS] how can we help? was: Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, cornel panceac wrote: > 2011/3/23 R P Herrold > >> This comes and goes, and really there is no substitute for actually >> 'doing' rather than >> talking in the cloister > as i see it, the problem is while the users expectation has g

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > It is just hard for an outsider to reconcile the statements about the > build process not needing any changes or more resources with the lack of > a target time. Or that binary compatibility is the critical thing with > the distribution becoming incompat

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > OK guys. Why don't you fork the CentOS project and build your own??? > > Why don't ANYBODY fork CentOS project? What are you/they waiting for? > Whining is easy, build something on your own. Too strongly stated. I am aware of at least two private

[CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: > As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it > needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like "last build; X > packages OK, Y packages failed"? This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's builders by me and anot

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: > This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project > shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is > another example) because it makes the developers look like > rank amateurs. It is _so_ easy to tell others what they should or should not do. Ea

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > day (and I mean every complainant every day) and saying SL is better, > raising blood pressure to devs (which is why they are loosing their > temper), but keeps bashers wanting CentOS over the SL? I do not get it Actually I just finished an email t

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made > public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended > outcome. Off topic here as to what RHEL and its vendor should or should not do, Les. And 'self-hosting' has NEVER been a goal of the upst

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ian Murray wrote: > hair is best cut. My bakery has refused to sell me sliced bread because it was > too hot to slice... however, they kindly explained when I should come back if > I > wished such that the bread would suitably be ready. No drama. and so we should tell people:

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > But Johnny's postings seem pretty insistent on never releasing the > actual scripts in a form that can be used elsewhere or by anyone outside > the project, so maybe a more productive approach would be some way of oh horse puckey, troll -- it is just 'sh

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/12/2011 12:51 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> >> off the top of my head, here is the meta-code > Would you really repeat those steps by hand if someone gave > you a new server to add to what you use? Maybe things are > worse th

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Brian Mathis wrote: > packages, etc... but how? From the tone of the messages it seems like > it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for > zero in this context as we are talking about things that take place in > public. Those things need to go into

[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: > I also don't see what the size of my (past) contributions to CentOS has to > do with this whole discussion. I would much rather discuss why the QA > process needs to be closed, why you think opening up the process will not > help fix issues faster (while ob

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Does anyone have the .iso image of virt-p2v? It is not available anymore > through that link. The source is available, but building it requires a > *lot* of packages, some of which seem to be hard to find. I have a copy in my archive, but how about contac

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > RJ's website says he is (was?) in the process of rewriting virt-p2v. > >> I have a copy in my archive, but how about contacting Richard >> Jones, and asking him for an update or replacement? I'll shuttle it out into public bandwidth and advice you privat

[CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

2011-04-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Thanks for pointing out that it really is abnormal because > it takes about 2 hours for virt-install to create a 190G > disk for me. As you are having issues with the install, I might suggest creating a more modest sized disk image, at least dur

[CentOS] mod_ssl?

2011-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > I just noticed that the mod_ssl package was missing on a 5.x machine > that I thought was approximately like several other that have it - and > don't remember doing anything different. Is there some yum group that > would install httpd without including

[CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

2011-05-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote: > Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the > entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's > servers through to building the entire distribution? > > I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find > suc

[CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > I do not have personal experience with CentOS, but I have seen different > X86-PC MB's on embedded units/routers recognizing LAN and Wireless NIC's > differently ones from PCI1 to PCI5, others from PCI5 to PCI1, one MB > even without any order at al

[CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: herrold: >> I'll try to blog about it, but once one knows the 'secret' it >> is not all that hard to predict -- This unit has three NICs >> (two onboard of the same type and an addon) which do NOT >> 'wander around' through reboots > But can you swap the di

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many > changes of how thing work. In local testing built from the anaconda and related sources that will become CentOS 6, the offer to upgrade an existing install is made during a me

[CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
quick answer: even paranoids have enemies On Sun, 8 May 2011, Jason wrote: > So I turned on Apache ReWrite and I created a file and I put in rules like: > (just a small subset) > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/php(.*) [NC,OR] > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmy(.*) [NC,OR] .snip > 2. I

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > But virtually guaranteed for any process that isn't transparent. > Someone must enjoy it. Maybe the anticipation is supposed to build up > excitement. Thanks for the jab. It is fun to be punched. If there were not false steps along any path, one would

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > Someone is obviously sarcasm-challenged today. But there is > a middle ground for people who would like a best-effort idea > of what to expect. and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer -- Russ herrold _

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: >> and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, >> you already know the answer > It's also the sort of thing people in a community try to do > for each other without needing legal

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > No one questions your effort on the technical side - or has a right to. > Why is it so hard to share what is going on? I began publishing the pre-centos cAos (or fedora.us) buildsystem in February 2002 under the GPL (then v2) and updated it from time

[CentOS] Adverts in the mailing list; was: Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Also, when you move to a hosted solution, I would appreciate > your considering my company for it. > > Neil When stuff like this moves out of the sig and into the body of the message as a direct solicitation, and (as it seems to me) a person is

[CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

2009-10-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, John R Pierce wrote: > Netscape? Try NCSA Mosaic... Where I lived, the best my modem would > do most of the time 19-21kbps... Gopher and/or UUCP was more useful. We regularly test web apps with lynx, elinks and w3m -- I opened a ticket on that just yesterday with one of m

[CentOS] anyone tried firefox 3.5 under centos 5.4

2009-10-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Janez Kosmrlj > wrote: > > Works fine for me using rpms (rebuilt from the src.rpms) on http://mharris.ca/ > > They're basically slightly altered fedora rpms. You have to read the > spec to see the build arguments required,

Re: [CentOS] centos] authorized_keys command=""

2009-10-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, happymaster23 wrote: > as I have read manual, if I use in file authorized_keys option > command="" with some command, no other commands will be permitted. I > have tried it, created authorized_keys2 for root and added there > command="rdiff-backup --server" and after that trie

[CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, ML wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? one assumes, without them being able to over-ride such notification, or even being aware of such ... inotify, watching that end user's directory for an atime change, comes to mind -- Russ herr

[CentOS] run script on logout

2009-11-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Does anyone have an idea how to run a script when the user logs out. same answer as last week: check out inotify -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

[CentOS] What's wrong with yum-priorities?

2009-11-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > "The upstream maintainer of yum, Seth Vidal, had the following to say > about 'yum priorities' in September 2009: > > Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many things > about priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just

[CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: >> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >> other words. > > Crap, I just removed one with no backups. and 1) as it was partially inconsistent with upstream,

[CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > When you create a virtual machine don't you have a choice of > what type of processor you want and so forth? nope > That would be the clean way to do it would it not? It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are ordinarily set up under

[CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Jerry Geis wrote: > Looking for any solution. how deep is your wallet ;) I would just find a 486 out in the boneyard. As I still have a RHL 4.2 486/33 s/ 16 meg of ram in daily service, I know just what machine to pull and replace -- Russ herrold _

[CentOS] Is lsb 3.2+ detrimental to CentOS 5.4?

2009-12-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, MHR wrote: > $ yum list | grep -i lsb > redhat-lsb.i3863.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos > installed > redhat-lsb.x86_64 3.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos > installed when a non-CentOS packaging calls for a CentOS provided package by

[CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stephen Harris wrote: You can always run multiple copies of fetchmail in the background if you want parallel fetching or run just one tenth of those RC files (when well numbered) present each time a script is invoked, if you are not in a hurry to retrieve email from side

[CentOS] cups and LSB 3.2; was: Inquiry:yum? - hijack

2009-12-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: > Forgive me for thread stealing - lsb 3.1 is the current CentOS supported > version. > I have some postscript / cups / printer drivers that insist on lsb 3.2 - > anyone know if this is possible? > TIA Rob This (LSB 3.2 -- last in the 3 series) is not re

[CentOS] OT: What are the 2 openssl commands I need to use?

2009-12-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Dan Carl wrote: > On 12/29/2009 11:36 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> I looked on the openssl man page but am too dense with commands to >> understand what I need to do ... snip >> openssl commands I need to use, after I ssh into the web site, to >> generate a 2048 bit key and c

[CentOS] OT: What are the 2 openssl commands I need to use?

2009-12-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Mark: Thank you. openssl *is* shown in the services running, so I am > sure that is the problem, that it is not in my path. I will ask him to > include openssl in my path. Lanny Perhaps openssh as a daemon service -- openssl does not so run /usr

[CentOS] OT: What are the 2 openssl commands I need to use?

2009-12-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> My notes indicate that another certificate authority >> [startssl] also requires a stronger (sha1) signing algorithm >> on CSR's  -- ymmv > Jackpot Russ. This is with StartCom Ltd. (StartSSL) in Israel. Eddy > there really hung in there with me on this

[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

2009-12-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I do believe that with Java now GPL, Linux+Java can be a great platform. > But there are years of parallel development paths and, if I can put it > that way, mutual distrust, that need to be overcome. > So it is still a bit painful (but much much bette

[CentOS] [PKI concepts] Why Jboss need (signed cert and) root-cert in PEM format?

2010-01-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Sven Aluoor wrote: > Hi folks > > [ Please add me CC. Thanks ] so .. a 'not subscribed' driveby -- also looks to be a cross-post > We have here a Jboss app and web server. We signed the SSL-certificate on a product we do not build > that end-user don't have ugly error mes

[CentOS] Corporate drop box for files

2010-01-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server > as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked > for instead of an ftp server. > > Anyone know of something/project that exists already? Some form of a we

[CentOS] VNC Questions

2010-02-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Warren Michelsen wrote: >> You can accomplish all of these things by following the instructions >> here: >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server > > I tried these instruction last week and each time I tried: > > service vncserver start > > I got the error that the comman

[CentOS] Trying to rebuild srpm from fedora....

2010-02-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > This CentOS wiki will help you: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > > Akemi I corresponded privately with the OP on the target earlier today -- there are a metric F tonne of dependencies as well lying in wait gnome-web-photo is neede

[CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > I use rpm for basic stuff because it runs faster. For example: > > $ time yum list installed > ... > real0m17.069s > user0m0.857s > sys 0m0.675s > > $ time rpm -qa > ... > real0m4.714s > user0m4.457s > sys 0m0.120s > > Yum tends t

[CentOS] irc cloak

2008-05-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 7 May 2008, James Bunnell wrote: What are the requirements to get a Centos IRC cloak in freenode? Thanks in advance. As of the last discussion by the centos group of developers, IRC cloaks were not something that was going to be generally 'purchasable' by way of a donation, as if som

[CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: I'm not sure I've ever seen the words 'easy' and 'pine' used in the same sentence before. Pine has to have the most counterintuitive interface known to man. I usually hold the shift key down while using the down-arrow to move over the parts to remove

[CentOS] is CentOS an LSB certified product?

2008-06-13 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Nicholas wrote: Would anyone know if CentOS 4 and 5 is LSB certified? We have been offered a pass through the process by the LSB, but there has not been demand for it. I have not found any info on RH being LSB certified either. Is RH also LSB certified? One assumes y

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Miguel Medalha wrote: Let me be the first (maybe): CentOS 5.2 is here (at least): http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.2/ ummm ... PLEASE -- no unofficial announcements as there are some last minute tweaks still in process. as Hughesjr pointed out in one channel:

[CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Ian Forde wrote: Wrote 0 leases to leases file. Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:de:ad:be:ef/10.0.0/24 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:00:de:ad:be:ef/10.0.0/24 ??? This network 'name' literal (containing the '/'): "10.0.0/24" _looks_ wrong to me (it causes the 'punctuation' in the lo

[CentOS] Java Setup

2008-07-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: I have been following the instructions here http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS but trying to modify them for jdk-6u7-linux-amd64.rpm but there doesn't see to be a compatible java-1.6.0-sun-compat-*.rpm.Does one exist ? What's wrong with the

[CentOS] Problems with building an rpm

2008-07-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I followed the setup instructions from http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ ... the author is known to me ;) Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers And then asked for a password. Which password? My userid or root's? I tried both and after

[CentOS] Re: OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Martyn Hare wrote: Yes but Linus could be guest speaker at LinuxChix, Bill has to pay for his women ;-) hey now -- she worked in tech too -- a product manager for MSFT's 'Bob' product (clippy on steroids) ... oh, hmmm, so he _did_ indirectly pay for ... Never mind -- a

[CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

2011-10-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Johnny Tan wrote: > Like recent Ubuntus, C6 uses upstart in place of traditional Sys V init. > > Likely, you will want this in /etc/init/ -- note!, not the same as > /etc/init.d/ I don't know WHAT you are looking at, if anything, but it is not a CentOS 6 install; 'upstart' i

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