Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade fails on pm-utils dependancy

2007-12-07 Thread Robert
James A. Peltier wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: No, you are not an idiot. If you look through the forum thread I referred to, you'd find that "smart" people went though the same thing. And I know, for a fact, they are smart. :-) Akemi No that's the thing, I did read it. I just kept thinking, "

Re: [CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.6 is released for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64

2007-12-16 Thread Robert
James A. Peltier wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.6 for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64. It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent, see this link to download ISOs: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos

Re: [CentOS] problems building appletalk module with new kernel

2007-12-25 Thread Robert
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:20 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:10 -0700, Craig White wrote: OK, I thought I ended xen excursions by removing previous copy of xen kernel but obviously it came back with updates. How do I make sure that xen kernel

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-26 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 13:16 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: Aha! Saw your "Trouble ... River City" reply to Scott. Your giving away s/Your/you're/ I *hate* when I do that! The fact that you know the difference also says something about your a

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert
Johnny Hughes wrote: OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes Besides that obvious question, moderation would mean an end to the quick replies that we enjoy now. Regards, Robert

[CentOS] OT -- Flash (.swf file) audio stream separation

2008-01-10 Thread Robert
Does anyone here know of a utility that will filter a flash stream into its video and audio components? In order of preference -- 1)RPM 2)any open source tool 3)anything that does the job. Thanks for any clues. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

2008-01-31 Thread Robert
Scott Silva wrote: on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running wit

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: 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 t

Re: [CentOS] Find files

2008-02-22 Thread Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to delete files that are more than 7 days old. When I run it interactively it works, no problem, but it does not run from a file stored in cron.daily. The rest of that daily file runs properly. [The execute bit is on]. I don't see anything in the /var

Re: [CentOS] How to install hp lasejet 1018?

2008-03-04 Thread Robert
Heiko Adams wrote: Hello, does anyone have an idea how to use an hp lasejet 1018 with CentOS 5? I didn't find any driver for this printer on CentOS 5. If nobody has specific information, you might find this useful: http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1018 _

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

2008-03-11 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: 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% GN

Re: [CentOS] Problems reading a backup data DVD

2007-08-19 Thread Robert
Mark Hull-Richter wrote: I wrote a bunch of files to a backup DVD about two months ago and now neither of my drives will read it. I get mount errors from "not a directory" to something like "unrecognized file system type" and so on, usually after a really long wait and a notice about how the d

Re: [CentOS] My server won't boot (grub looping - stage2)

2007-08-30 Thread Robert
mbneto wrote: Hi, I can't boot. It simply does not show me the menu of kernels to choose. When the problem first manisfested itselfFirst I was getting that loop regarding the 'loading stage2'. After I tried that grub-install I simply get an infinite loop of beeps! :( Here is a set of steps

[CentOS] SysVinit guidance, please

2007-09-04 Thread Robert
I have experienced a couple of power failures since installing CentOS 5, both while I was working on the system. The first time, several weeks ago, I thought there was some "feature" that I had never seen before but couldn't really put my finger on it. The power came back on after a few secon

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Robert
Mark Rosenstand wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't mean the usual type that use an os. There ar

Re: [CentOS] USB modem gives errors on centos 4.5

2007-09-14 Thread Robert
BRUCE STANLEY wrote: */Steven Vishoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: --- Jerry Geis wrote: > >>/ I am getting these errors when I plug a zoom USB > />>/ modem in my amd 64 box. > />>/ > />>/ usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using > ohci_hcd > />>/ and address 3

Re: [CentOS] File retrieval from outside hangs, internally is okay, only Centos5 affected

2007-10-07 Thread Robert
Miskell, Craig wrote: I have a really weird problem with some of my servers, namely all the ones running Centos5 When I try to download a file from the server to a machine outside our Cisco 6500 router/firewall, the download hangs about half the times (15 out of 40) when less than half a megabyt

Re: [CentOS] Why tzdata-2007h [RHEA-2007:0928-05] only for CentOS 2?

2007-10-11 Thread Robert
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: I might be stupid and ask an idiot or offensive question, but here it is: "Why was tzdata-2007h [RHEA-2007:0928-05] only released for CentOS 2, when upstream has released it for all the versions?" The guys from X/OS have released it for 5.0 along with the other upd

[CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

2007-11-03 Thread Robert
The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ). This is no big deal to me -- as long as I can make certain that the older kerne

[CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

2007-11-04 Thread Robert
The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ). This is no big deal to me -- as long as I can make certain that the older ker

Re: [CentOS] Questions about kernel updates

2007-11-04 Thread Robert
Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert wrote: The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ). This is no big deal to me -- as

Re: [CentOS] Can not print with OpenOffice.Org on CentOS 5.0 x86

2007-11-12 Thread Robert
Ioannis Vranos wrote: I can not print any document with OpenOffice.Org Writer on CentOS 5.0 x86. Has anyone encountered this problem? My printer is HP Deskjet 3745 and apparently uses the hplip and hpijs packages provided by CentOS. No problem here with CentOS 5 fully updated openoffice.or

Re: [CentOS] weird cron problem

2007-11-16 Thread Robert
Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: PATHS - everytime i have cron issues its a PATH problem. The cron env is not the same as the user when logged in Thanks, that's probably the cause. rsnapshot resides in /usr/local/bin I changed the PATH in /etc/crontab now. Silly that I didn't see it. So jobs in /

[CentOS] wall and mesg and Xwindow

2007-11-20 Thread Robert
I read in another post this morning something that reminded me of a question that has left my pulling my eyebrows out. How are broadcast messages enabled in X? I have found that # mesg y at a console will enable wall to post to that console. And, by placing "mesg y" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, me

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-11-29 Thread Robert
Tronn Wærdahl wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 5:04 PM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > What do you call a person that only speak one language ? :-) > British ? ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Conexant fax/modem not faxing with sendfax

2007-12-01 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: On Dec 1, 2007 3:40 PM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Go get yourself an external USRobotics Courier v.everything from eBay. > I decided to give my lovely winmodem LT/Agere modem one more shot with the martian driver - it seems to work (at l

Re: [CentOS] Retrive data from repartitioned / reformatted hard drive?

2007-06-29 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0 install CD - and launched cdfdisk /dev/hda. cfdisk informed me that there was even n

[CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

2011-05-03 Thread Robert
Hi All, I'm brand new at doing anything linux and would like feedback on this script I'm trying to understand from an example I'm working on.. Oh, running Centos 5.6 Anyhow, I run this bash script: #!/bin/bash # send data to the table in the MySQL database MYSQL='which mysql' if [ $# -ne 4 ]

Re: [CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

2011-05-03 Thread Robert
33 -0500, Robert wrote: >> MYSQL='which mysql' > Also this line should use either backticks or $() command substitution > instead: > > For example: > > [andrew@savoy ~]$ MYSQL='which mysql' > [andrew@savoy ~]$ echo $MYSQL > which mysql > [andrew@savoy ~]

Re: [CentOS] Syntax Help on a Bash Script

2011-05-04 Thread Robert
On 05/04/2011 12:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/3/11 11:33 PM, Robert wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm brand new at doing anything linux and would like feedback on this >> script I'm trying to understand from an example I'm working on.. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-15 Thread Robert
Les Mikesell wrote: > nate wrote: > >> Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> >>> If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was >>> made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that >>> the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the >>>

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

2009-10-16 Thread Robert
Buz Davis wrote: > I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and > "buz". I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account > "buz", and thus created > /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry "buz" (without any quotes). > I still > get the error message "onl

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 at last?

2009-10-20 Thread Robert
fred smith wrote: > Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads > (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this > possible!) I'm wondering when the updates will begin flowing so that those > of us running 5.3 can do "yum upgrade" and enjoy all t

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

2009-10-22 Thread Robert
Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: > >> Paul Heinlein wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in a small o

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Robert
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Matt wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, wrote: >> >> >>> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so >>> excuse me if this has been answered >>> >>> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l & >>>

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 errors

2009-10-24 Thread Robert
Rohan Gilchrist wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I'd wait a little while before upgrading to 5.4, but am > running into the following errors: > > -> Finished Dependency Resolution > lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.32-1 is n

Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

2009-10-29 Thread Robert
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP, > laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic > thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that it wants a > password, no user name. It doesn't accept anything.

Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

2009-10-29 Thread Robert
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > someone wrote: > >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP, >>> laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic >>> thing, but I can't get to the networking page. It says that i

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Rod Rook wrote: > Hi, Lee, > The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused > by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log. > Thanks to you anyway. Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084836.html

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Rod Rook wrote: > Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html > It is all there if you follow the thread. > Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. > As I said

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Robert wrote: > Rod Rook wrote: > > >> Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html >> It is all there if you follow the thread. >> Anyway, you agree with me that there is

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread Robert
Victor Subervi wrote: > Adding python debugging to apache revealed an import error. The > strange thing is that when I load the exact lines of code in the > command line python interpreter, it has no trouble importing the class > in question. > > With respect to the dos question, I've uploaded

Re: [CentOS] OMG! Microsoft patents sudo! Linux and MacOS dead!

2009-11-12 Thread Robert
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:07:15 +0800 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> > > >>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/15082/omg_microsoft_patents_sudo_linux_and_macos_de

Re: [CentOS] Stop K3B CDDB Popup

2009-11-13 Thread Robert
MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:02 -0800, John Doe wrote: > > >> From: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED >> >> >>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:27:18 -0800, John Doe wrote: >>> From: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED > On CentOS 5.4 I just installed K3B to write som

Re: [CentOS] Capturing video

2009-11-17 Thread Robert
cen...@911networks.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to watch: > http://www.video.bhphotovideo.com/?fr_story=a405075c1837a65dbee4f4d48db9a26a992d3ab2&rf=bm > > It's within flash and the problem is that even in slow mode I get 20 > seconds, then a few minutes later another 10 to 20 secs... > > I hav

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the CentOS server?

2009-11-18 Thread Robert
hadi motamedi wrote: > Sorry. It was just an example . I wanted to ask you for the equivalent > of "ping -f -l" in its general format . Please help me. The equivalent of "man" is "man", therefore the equivalent of "man ping" is "man ping". That is also the equivalent of "man ping" in the Red

Re: [CentOS] my mail is refusing messages

2009-11-19 Thread Robert
Eero Volotinen wrote: > Nelson Gonzaga wrote: > >> Hi there, >> I trying to send e-mail using this: >> >> mail -s "maillog" ngonz...@yahoo.com < >> /var/log/maillog >> >> but sendmail refused and I don't know why, see my maillog: >> >> Nov 19 14:31:33 servertdoc se

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth - How to uninstall, before installing newest version?

2009-12-16 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: > Desktop is CentOS 5.4 (32 bit). I have Google Earth version > 4.2.205.5730 (13NOV2007 build date) installed. I have checkinstall > (spelling?) installed, but am not sure if that was installed before or > after Google Earth was installed. I have the Google Repository > insta

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

2009-12-17 Thread Robert
tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: > "William L. Maltby" wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: >> >>> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> >>> >> >> Some BIOS allow you to disable on-board video. Can you get to BIOS and >> see? If you can that might get

[CentOS] Setting CDROM parms

2010-01-02 Thread Robert
My apologies in advance for asking such an elementary question. I called myself searching the Installation Guide and Deployment Guide, with no success. The situation is that I bought a Lite-On ATAPI iHAP122 that will not burn DVDs unless I use hdparm to turn dma off. I bought that drive becaus

Re: [CentOS] Setting CDROM parms

2010-01-03 Thread Robert
Mr. X wrote: > > --- On Sat, 1/2/10, Robert wrote: > > >> From: Robert >> Subject: [CentOS] Setting CDROM parms >> To: "CentOS mailing list" >> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 6:23 PM >> My apologies in advance for asking >> such

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-06 Thread Robert
Per Qvindesland wrote: > God I hate commercials in a mailing list almost worse then getting > Viagra offers in my inbox. That, and the "unsuscribe" (sic) posts. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-06 Thread Robert
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 06.01.10 17:15, schrieb Ralph Angenendt: > > [nothing] > > Erm yes. Suddenly brain stopped working, but fingers were still moving :) > > Ralph > ...A brief sojourn through La-La Land. I think we do that when the brain IS working. ;-) ___

[CentOS] Lightscribe

2010-02-06 Thread Robert
I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external USB-connected CD/DVD burner. The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to label a disk. I

Re: [CentOS] Lightscribe

2010-02-09 Thread Robert
Arun Khan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robert wrote: > >> I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external >> USB-connected CD/DVD burner. The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can >> burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs

Re: [CentOS] hplip packages centos4

2010-02-16 Thread Robert
Terry Polzin wrote: > On Tuesday February 16 2010 04:45:05 John Doe wrote: > >> From: Terry Polzin >> >> >>> where can I find packages for hplip and it's deps for centos4x? >>> >> Google pointed to this... >> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html >> >> JD >> >> >>

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

2008-06-02 Thread Robert
Dexter Stowers wrote: I am having problems burning DVD's from commandline. I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck using cdrecord-2.01 and cdrtools that is supposed to add DVD support? Thanks! -- Dexter Not the tool you asked about but if you have already created the iso file: gr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-03 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 upgrade mostly good (so far)

2008-06-25 Thread Robert
Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: 1. "shutdown -h now" goes all the way down but does not power down the box like it always has before. Same when shutting down via the GUI shutdown dialog

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: I upgraded my Desktop yesterday and my daughter's Desktop this morning. If you surf the web, the move from Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x to Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 will be well worth your time. FF 3b is not without its own warts, though. I frequently save downloaded video cl

Re: [CentOS] ps to pdf

2008-07-21 Thread Robert
Craig White wrote: I need a way to convert files that I save with Firefox as a 'print to file' to 'pdf' I tried 'convert' but that rendered the text as graphics which grew the file and wasn't what I wanted. How would someone accomplish this - or can I just print to a PDF? If it's already i

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread Robert
Ron Loftin wrote: Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since we are using versions of CUPS and foomatic that are frozen, and a

Re: [CentOS] Unable to write video dvd using k3b

2008-07-30 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, lingu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I download dvd movie files from torrent.It is like below -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048614912 2008-07-24 16:49 VTS_01_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 538210304 2008-07-24 16:52 VTS_01_2.VOB File command on ab

Re: [CentOS] Unable to write video dvd using k3b

2008-07-30 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On occasion, I have removed languages and extras (outtakes, etc.) but it takes more patience than I have to build a DVD from scratch. For backing up commercial DVDs, I like DVDShrink (using no shrinking)

Re: [CentOS] When will we be moving to lighttpd 1.5?

2009-05-17 Thread Robert
Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM, James Matthews wrote: > >> I know I can compile it however I prefer to use the package manager and >> having an updated version. >> >> -- >> http://www.goldwatches.com >> > > Run 'rpm -qi lighttpd' to see where you got the lighttpd packa

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-18 Thread Robert
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-18-2009 3:18 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Akemi Yagi >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Karanbir Singh >>> wrote: >>> Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > I recently noticed t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 53, Issue 4

2009-06-04 Thread Robert
David McGuffey wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey >> wrote: >> >>> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums.? I've been running >>> >> Fedora >> >>> since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work.? But this is >>> >> my first >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert
Robert Nichols wrote: > MHR wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert >> Nichols wrote: >> >>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to >>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utili

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-15 Thread Robert
Robert Nichols wrote: > Robert wrote: >> >> Robert Nichols wrote: >>> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure >>> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk >>> (I have a shell script that does that in a

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this situation? > > I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five > announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to > get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the > announcement. The last time ar

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

2009-06-22 Thread Robert
Bent Terp wrote: > From my personal experience, we've received better support from CentOS > than from RedHat! > What you don't get is a phone-droid that's being paid minimum wages to > listen to phone abuse. I'm with you on that one. My first stab at Linux was in '99 when I bought an of

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-01 Thread Robert
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: The audacious package is willing to wait that long >> :) >> >>> Nope, because I've built it *for myself*, >>> i.e. in my repo. >>> >> And was your patch rejected from the places you are >> complaining about? >> > > There. Is. No. Q

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-26 Thread Robert
you say you banned them in the gateway for ssh and ftp... what type of gateway? would you share the place you got the info from and/or the ip blocks please? thanks - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] aautomatic updates

2009-07-28 Thread Robert
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > Could someone please remind me what > file controls automatic updates? > > Thanks, > Mike. > Perhaps you're thinking of /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd and its config file /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf Don't you just hate it when you know something and can't remember it!?!

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
some recent comments & speculation border on slander. slander is simply anything that can lower one's view of a person in another's eye. the centos team has already done this, yet may i suggest to all that it would be best to give Mr Davis every possible benefit of the doubt. ...and "no matter

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
> > The letter was done in the fashion it was in sorrow, and not > in anger, as my blog post noted. We remain hopeful that > lance will step up to doing the right thing vis-a-vis the > project as to the mentioned items. > > -- Russ herrold Russ, of course... :-( there is no doubt in my

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Robert
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> "Don't cry over spit milk" >> > > I won't, especially when someone else spat it. > > Want to buy an 'l'? > > scnr, > > Ralph > ROTFLMAO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), > and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. > > Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently > made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-wee

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Robert
Dag concern is good and you are right about how CentOS people should have a solid testimony for the projects "big picture" the thing is that since day one, as near as i have experienced and can tell, most of them have many years of "rock solid CentOS work" as a testimony. rock solid! we haven't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Robert
> > This presents a ripe opportunity for a perception of > "unwarranted criticism", "whining" by someone who paid > nothing, "lack of appreciation for all the *free* hard work > we do", etc. > > > > > -- > Bill > Bill, Good points... yet you forgot about "presentation" if a person m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Robert
Johnny Hughes wrote: > If you mean that I can be an arrogant SOB sometimes, then YES, we (and > my wife) can agree. > Before making an admission like that, you should re-read http://wwwf.centos.org/127_story.html?storyid=127 I thought then and think now that you were 'way too humble in de

Re: [CentOS] can NOT update CENTOS use YUM

2009-08-09 Thread Robert
mcclnx mcc wrote: > Thanks. for answer. I tried: > > yum clean all > yum update > > It still same problem. > >>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist >>> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os >>> This might be a stupid question but can you paste that URL into a bro

Re: [CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Robert
Boris Epstein wrote: > I have asked Google and thus far nothing came back that looks even > remotely promising... > > Boris. > This is the first I had heard of this add-on I found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 where I read Support for this add-on is provided by the develop

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 live-cd install -

2009-08-10 Thread Robert
Bob Goodwin wrote: > I just downloaded the Centos 5.3 live-cd and booted the resulting disk. > I do not see an icon to install from the cd! > > Did i get the wrong thing? I have a fixed allocation of bandwidth and > hate to waste 700+ megs! > > Bob > IMO, if you're on a dial-up or other slow c

Re: [CentOS] SELinux messages after compiling new kernel

2009-08-27 Thread Robert
Sergio Belkin wrote: > 2009/8/27 Jim Perrin : > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> >>> How can I fix these errors? >>> >> Easy. Use the kernel provided in the distribution. >> >> > > Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but Firstly: I need a newer kernel

[CentOS] System Recovery

2009-09-04 Thread Robert
I hosed my main desktop pretty badly a couple days ago, have reconciled myself to bad news and would appreciate some advice. (CentOS 5.3 fully updated but now backed down from kernel 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 to 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 just to try that.) The whole debacle began when I was investigating

Re: [CentOS] System Recovery

2009-09-04 Thread Robert
Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:24:16AM -0500, Robert wrote: > >> I deleted one copy of the backup, as I've done in the past and made a >> new crontab entry to try the backup again 2 or 3 minutes later. It was >> still running several hours late

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread Robert
Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > >> While I haven't tried that, >> > ? > > >> I don't think that's the problem I'm >> having: I can copy and paste the URL of the .mov file into mplayer or >> vlc from the commandline, and get the exact same symptoms. I.E., there >> is no bro

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), > can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data > on the first? > > On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... > > Thoughts? > > -ML > Step by step instructions at http

Re: [CentOS] Automounter problem in C5.5?

2010-08-10 Thread Robert
On 08/10/2010 10:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us informed us: > Or a usb driver problem. Or (I hope not) a hardware problem. > >> 2) How do I restart the automounter when it dies, or can I? I've hit >> this issue before once or twice and only rebooting seems to make it >> right again. >> > A

[CentOS] ATI, Catalyst and a new kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Robert
Please bear with me for a really stupid question... I have a Radeon HD 4550 video card and currently run the Catalyst driver, fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1. I use the "package managed" method for installing, allowing me keep track of what's what: [...@madeleine ~]$ su Password: [r...@madeleine rj]# gre

Re: [CentOS] Screensaver timer failure

2010-08-26 Thread Robert
On 08/26/2010 01:06 PM, Mark informed us: > > After yet another test yesterday where I just left the machine idle > for over 3 hours and the screensaver did not activate, I concluded > that mplayer was not part of the problem and rebooted. > > Screensaver now works just fine (same kernel, with or

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Robert
On 08/30/2010 09:24 PM, fred smith informed us: another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels available > at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST > THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is > the most recent on

Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

2010-09-06 Thread Robert
On 09/05/2010 05:01 PM, Chuck informed us: > > I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows > a ton of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm > correctly setup for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only > like 4% downloaded and crawling. I've tri

Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

2010-10-03 Thread Robert
On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > > >> To: CentOS mailing list >> From: Frank Cox >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox >> >> >> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >>> I'm running Ce

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-02 Thread Robert
Paul R. Ganci wrote: Matt wrote: why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1 mirror then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D How do you do that? Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS: http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-gru

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-12 Thread Robert
Robert wrote: Paul R. Ganci wrote: Matt wrote: why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1 mirror then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D How do you do that? Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS: http://www.howtoforge.com

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos on intel D945GCLF board

2008-08-19 Thread Robert
Scott Silva wrote: on 8-19-2008 7:49 AM � spake the following: Here is the lspci output from the machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-23 Thread Robert
All I can say is, thanks for being confused. I have hated the 4.3.something ver of googleearth since I first installed it. Based on your investigation, I realized that ver 4.3 isn't supposed to work with my Athlon XP 2600+ and didn't look back in getting all the ver 4.3 stuff replaced with 4.2.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-28 Thread Robert
R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: three words: Processor Tech Sol -- Russ herrold Ahh, I was waiting for you to show up. OK, everyone, if you are trying to show your age, stop now -- because no one can win orc_orc (Russ, our CentOS dev). Actually from slightly b

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