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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTEC

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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Do an lsmod and see if you see sg, maybe sd_mod, scsi_mod, ide_cd. Look at /etc/modules.conf (I

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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote

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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
They are all there. See below William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:11 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: Almost forgot. IIRC, usb devices are always scsi. My usb flash drives all appear as scsi. So we can be certain that you need a scsi stack of loadable modules similar to

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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Definetly trouble right here in River City... Joe Pruett wrote: so you can read burned disks ok on the drive under linux? I shut down the server, unplugged the CDRW, rebooted, set up a tail -f /var/log/messages then plugged in the CDRW and got: Dec 26 12:43:09 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: new ful

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

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 12/25/2007 4:39 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:30:51 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what am I missing configuration-wise? Does k3b work? (You can use k3b on a Gnome system -- I do

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 vnc server

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jerry Geis wrote: Any one using vnc server on centos 5.1? FIrst time VNC user here. At least on Centos. on 4.6 I had no issue. on 5.1 I am having times when on connetion the VNC serveris crashing and logs me out of all my open'ed items. I can relog in. But I was wondering if others are seeing

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

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Steven Vishoot wrote: --- Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.

Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ed Donahue wrote: At startup, you will see a message that say Press I to run in interactive mode, there you can reject starting sendmail when you are prompted. Now this is something to add to my Linux support/admin notes. THANKS! On Dec 27, 2007 10:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz < [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ed Donahue wrote: At startup, you will see a message that say Press I to run in interactive mode, there you can reject starting sendmail when you are prompted. Now this is something to add to my Linux support/admin notes. THANKS! On Dec 27, 2007 10:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz < [EMAIL PROTEC

[CentOS] Failed to enable keyboard

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot be booted from CD. So I put the drive in another system, do the install, move the drive, and fix the video with system-config-display. But seems perhaps there is another (small) problem. The build system has a PS/2 keyboard interface (

[CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of sorts. I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to set it up in the target networks, but now The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard about disabling sendmail, but thought I needed

Solved - Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
hostname. it will timeout past this after a bit. having the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts should resolve this. - Rick Original Message Date: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:03:52 AM -0500 From: Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list S

Re: [CentOS] Failed to enable keyboard

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot be booted from CD. So I put the drive in another system, do the install, move the drive, and fix the video with system-config-display. But seems perhaps there is

Re: [CentOS] Failed to enable keyboard

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: What is the make/model of this system? I have yet to touch a system (PC-based) that does not allow access to BIOS. DecTop http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm Scott On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007

Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The time sitting with Vixie, Mockapetris and others at an IETF bar. When it comes down to it, you just have to do the work and dot those Is and cross those Ts. Josh On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ed Donahue wrote: At startup, you will see a message that say Press I t

[CentOS] MOre on buring ISOs

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So right now I have installed k3b on this notebook. I am using my Storix DVD/CDRW usb drive. I can read cds with it. Cannot burn CDs. First k3b suggests slowing down (from 8x to 4x). Then use TAO. Then it gave up. So I try cdrecord directly. -checkdrive finds some interesting things. Got to

Re: [CentOS] MOre on buring ISOs

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
gnome installed, so it will have to be all command line Robert Moskowitz wrote: So right now I have installed k3b on this notebook. I am using my Storix DVD/CDRW usb drive. I can read cds with it. Cannot burn CDs. First k3b suggests slowing down (from 8x to 4x). Then use TAO. Then it gave

Re: [CentOS] MOre on buring ISOs

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Correction. I cannot read a CD in this Storix drive. I thought I had recently, but not. I used this drive all the time on this system when it had Centos 4.x installed. Probably the only 4.x system left around here is a

[CentOS] Firewall builder - which rpm?

2007-12-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I need a decent, easy, firewall on Centos. This is for test systems, so I do not need a lot. For 'a lot', I use and Astaro firewall. I had used Firestarter once, but found out that it cannot handle routing between a public and private network. Basically saying this is impossible. Of course

Re: [CentOS] Firewall builder - which rpm?

2007-12-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Grant McChesney wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 10:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I need a decent, easy, firewall on Centos. This is for test systems, so I do not need a lot. For 'a lot', I use and Astaro fir

Re: [CentOS] Re: MOre on buring ISOs

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 12/27/2007 9:51 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Correction. I cannot read a CD in this Storix drive. I thought I had recently, but not. I used this drive all the time on this system when it had

[CentOS] ISO burning challenge -- pilgrims progress

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
First the Storix drive works just fine under DSL 4.2.1 on my Libretto. So the drive is fine, the media is fine. And cdrecord on DSL reports the media to be Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturee: Prodisc Technology Inc. I have all of ONE system with Centos 4 on it. A Trixbox 2.2; I added cdrecord a

[CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match the current GUI. Now the box is locked up. I will have to pull it again, hook it up to a kybd/VGA and reset iptables Maybe Shoreline with webmin Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work. Both public and

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Matt Shields wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match the current GUI. Now the box is locked up. I will have to pull it again, hook it up to a kybd/VGA and reset iptables Maybe Sho

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match the current GUI. Now the box is locked up. I will have to pull it again, hook it up to a kybd/VGA and reset iptables Maybe Shoreline wi

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Slade
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Peter Farrell wrote: "Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work." Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install. http://www.smoothwall.org/ well first challenge is my unit's USB ethernet dongles. Centos uses the RTL

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Spangler
On Mon December 31 2007 07:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Full discloser time. My day job is with ICSAlabs. My area is security > protocols research (like setttin up the initial IPsec certification > criteria), but when I visit the labs there are all those firewall > products up

Re: [CentOS] ISO burning challenge -- pilgrims progress

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: It's to bad you couldn't continue the prior thread. Would have been better to have everything in one thread. OK. I see your point here. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-December/091666.html On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 00:04 -0500, Robert

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Peter Farrell wrote: "Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work." Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install. http://www.smoothwall.org/

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Dennis McLeod wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:13 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Firewall frustration Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Robert Spangler wrote: On Mon December 31 2007 07:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Full discloser time. My day job is with ICSAlabs. My area is security protocols research (like setttin up the initial IPsec certification criteria), but when I visit the labs there are all those firewall

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Matt Shields wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 7:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Shields wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well FWbuilder is NOT easy. The documentation does not match the current GUI. No

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Peter Farrell

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Mos

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook supports bootable USB. My Li

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook su

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Chris Mauritz wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you go with a bootable usb, i

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:32:14 -0500 Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess he wants it to be portable. He seems to be knowing his requirements a lot better than we do. It looks like he wants an easy firewall that

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Firewall is up and running. Used Shorewall with Webmin. Les Bell wrote: Robert Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While IPTABLES might be CHEAP (price) it is a very good firewall. Learn to set it up from the command line, it isn't that hard. << Amen. I've been usin

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Thanks I will read this through a bit later. Perhaps I was making more of it than needed, but my attempts were not working. And all I was trying for at first was to allow SSH through. Steven Haigh wrote: On 02/01/2008, at 4:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I spent much of the past 24 hours

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Christopher Chan wrote: I spent much of the past 24 hours trying to find out how to set up iptables for firewall routing WITHOUT NATing. Could not find anything. Eh? You just need to enable ip forwarding to enable routing. After that, it is put up the firewall rules as is necessary, build

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Christopher Chan wrote: I tried it. I had everything open. Then I blocked everything. Then I set up a rule to allow SSH in to eth0 and out eth1 (and the other way). At least I thought that was what the rules said, but no SSH connectivity through the firewall. That was when I realized that I

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 3:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I spent much of the past 24 hours trying to find out how to set up iptables for firewall routing WITHOUT NATing. Could not find anything. Eh? You just need to enable ip forwarding to enable

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Message ---* From: Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:03:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration > Christopher Chan wrote: > > > >> I tried it. I had everything open. Then I blocked everything. Then I >

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Thu, January 3, 2008 8:18 am, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 3:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I spent much of the past 24 hours trying to find out how to set up iptables for firewall

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Christopher Chan wrote: ip src/dest is used for routing decisions by the kernel. The IP state machine (check the RFC or any decent TCP/IP textbook) is really quite simple. But iptables sticks its nose into the center of that state machine and can mangle addresses to change how packets flow th

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

2008-01-04 Thread Robert - elists
> > OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all > posts :-D > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!! E ahem, I meant hands... :-) ( like they both do not have enough to do already ;-> ) - rh

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Christopher Chan wrote: Now I have to hop over to the Asterisk list to figure why with one firewall the INVITE properly redirects the RTP to the RTP server, and the with the other firewall this is not in the INVITE so the RTP flow does not. ARGH! I hope you are not trying to get a

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Toby Bluhm wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: qsm wrote: maybe shorewall can do your live so easy. It does not support the rtl8150 chipset. That is what the I have in the way of USB ethernet dongles. Which is another reason to go with a Centos based solution when you need to put

[CentOS] Which RPM of Hylafax+ should I use?

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I want to install Hylafax+, IAXmodem, and T38modem on my Trixbox 2.4 which is built on Centos 5.1 ("vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5"). Over at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148904 there are Hylafax+ rpms for: Fedora 7,8 Fedora Core 2,5,6 Redhat 7,9 I **think** Fedora Core

[CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking. Make a Live DVD with everything I ne

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
ld be nice, but question about how much work Live CD is. Perhaps I should pull the current one down and boot it for kicks... On 1/5/08, *Robert Moskowitz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, m

[CentOS] Some repo fancy footwork?

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am looking at K12LTSP-EL5 which is Centos 5 based. Supposedly their disc2 maps to Centos 1of6 and so forth. I have a repo of the Centos 5.1 isos: /centos/5/os/i386 The question is can I put the K12LTSP disc 1 in a directory: /centos/k12ltsp-el5/i386 then with some logical link magic mak

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was

[CentOS] Long time waiting on boot

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just installed Centos 5.1 with XEN on my HP nc2400 duo core and there are two problems out the starting gate: Oh, I am booting off a 40Gb 2.5" drive on a USB adapter. The internal hard drive is encrypted and not usable right now (until I get XEN figured out). But I don't think it has a bear

Re: [CentOS] Long time waiting on boot

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The problem with the booting might be USB timing related see below... Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just installed Centos 5.1 with XEN on my HP nc2400 duo core and there are two problems out the starting gate: Oh, I am booting off a 40Gb 2.5" drive on a USB adapter. The internal hard dri

[CentOS] How do I blank or overwrite DVD-RW disks in CentOS 5?

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols
I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the dialog: Using gen

[CentOS] Re: How do I blank or overwrite DVD-RW disks in CentOS 5?

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols
Barry Brimer wrote: I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the d

Re: [CentOS] how can i upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Slade
John R Pierce wrote: Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; How can I upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1? make full backups of all your system volumes (/, /var, and so forth if you have them as seperate volumes), shutdown and boot the CentOS 5.x CD, run an upgrade. this will probably work if your system

[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitio

Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mark Weaver wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I

Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out

Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Just to let you all know (and the reason for top posting) The install of Centos with XEN went with no problems. Just had to be VERY careful and NOT touch hda1. Booting was taking 10min or more. Timeouts. On study, it was USB related and the drive I am using is .7A (3.5W ie more than USB s

Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists opti

Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside

Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message

[CentOS] Fwd: Securing Linux laptops

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
http://www.linux.com/feature/123579 Feature: Wireless & Mobile Securing Linux laptops By Rick Cook on January 07, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) Print Comments Laptop and notebooks are being stolen at an ever-increasing rate. In 2004, Safeware Insurance which sells computer insurance, estimated 600,000 la

[CentOS] Hostap

2008-01-08 Thread robert boardman
Hi All Is there an easy way to add hostap support to centos 5 without recompiling the kernel, although I have a prism 2.5 card the stock install doesn't seem the allow this to be setup as an AP thanks in advance for the advice Robb ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] IAXmodem 1.0

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Has anyone built an rpm for Centos 5 and IAXmodem 1.0? I need it, and I thought to ask before struggling to get it. The Trixbox people are saying a couple of weeks still on their side... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] IAXmodem 1.0

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Christopher Chan wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Has anyone built an rpm for Centos 5 and IAXmodem 1.0? I need it, and I thought to ask before struggling to get it. The Trixbox people are saying a couple of weeks still on their side... Try rpmforge. Dag has probably got one built. I have

RE: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

2008-01-13 Thread Robert - elists
> Subject: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED > > Hi > > Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have > scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the > relevant mail(s). > > Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at t

[CentOS] Starting Udev

2008-01-13 Thread robert boardman
Hi just rebooted my centos server with a zaptel TDM400 card in one of the PCI slots when the card is in the machine hangs at "Starting udev" using either 2.6.18-53.1.4.e15 or 2.6.18-53.e15 kernels, has anyone come acroos this problem before if so how did you fix it Thanks in advance for an

[CentOS] What is connect-debounce wrt usb?

2008-01-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I get the following message on a Centos 5 system (really a Trixbox 2.4 build on Centos 5): Jan 14 00:12:28 sip2 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled What does this mean? This message occurs about 30 times/sec for about 45 sec. Then my Bluetooth token starts up.

RE: [CentOS] OT: Dell BIOS and mixed drives

2008-01-15 Thread Robert - elists
> > I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard > SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each > kind of drive into the bays to make an experimental > machine with the xen kernel. > > After enabling both of drives, the BIOS recognizes > each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me

Re: [CentOS] Webdev tools

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I want a tool that will allow me to download files from a webdev site. All I have found is the other direction: my files to a webdav server. cadaver : ( second hit on google for 'webdav client linux'. searching for 'cadaver centos

[CentOS] Webdev tools

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I want a tool that will allow me to download files from a webdev site. All I have found is the other direction: my files to a webdav server. In particular (some of you might be interested) is the whole IEEE 802.11 meeting documents webdav site: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents http

[CentOS] mount -t devfs

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have installed fuse-davfs2-1.2.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm but mount -t davfs http://URL /mnt/dav gets /sbin/mount.davfs: group davfs2 does not exist what did I miss in the install??? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

[CentOS] Do you need to reboot after adding an entry to fstab?

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs. Does simply adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed? (or some service restarted). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

Re: [CentOS] mount -t devfs

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
MHR wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 9:33 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > I have installed fuse-davfs2-1.2.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm > > but mount -t davfs http://URL /mnt/dav > > gets > > /sbin/mount.davfs: group davfs2 does not

Re: [CentOS] Major update and again no new repodata

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tony Molloy wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 12:42:32 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Yesterday I pulled down a major update to OpenOffice. But no updates to repodata. I waited a day to see if there was some reason for the lag (like more rpms needed to complete the set), but still today, no

[CentOS] Major update and again no new repodata

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Yesterday I pulled down a major update to OpenOffice. But no updates to repodata. I waited a day to see if there was some reason for the lag (like more rpms needed to complete the set), but still today, no repodata to pull down (my rsync looks for more recent file dates). Help? __

Re: [CentOS] mount -t devfs

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: What is meant by this message? Do I need to create a group of davfs2 (what command?)? And mount -a -t davfs did not make a difference RTFM. It's all explained in the mount.davfs manual page. I HAVE been RTFMMT. And tried i

RE: [CentOS] brltty

2008-01-18 Thread Robert - elists
> > i'm a blind user of linux > can i install centos with braille? Hi there Mattias What is britty? How do you operate the computers now ? Do you do it with windowsxp plus a program and hardware that reads the screen to you ? Or some other way? A friend of mine has the program that reads th

Re: [CentOS] mount -t devfs

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Everything under "Security Policy". The need for a davfs2 system user and system group are explained there. And yes, the package is broken, because it should add the user. OK. I figured out I needed the user and group davfs2. I created them using the Gnome tools. Then

Re: [CentOS] ICMP: 62.x.x.x: Source Route Failed

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Spangler
n code 0x3 to explain why a DestinationUnreachable message was sent. It is usally generated by a router when it cannot forward the packet because it is using source routing and the required route does not exist. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://c

Re: [CentOS] name resolution question

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 18 January 2008 17:57, Joe Greenseid wrote: > Can anyone explain the following behavior to me? What does your resolve.conf and hosts look like? -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.

[CentOS] simple script idea

2008-01-19 Thread Robert - elists
Hi there... Foolish me all was going sooo well and then I got a wild hair and updated to the latest clamav .92 today. It is possible I should have just done an rpm update install yet there were some changes in ClamAV lately and I didn't know how well that would go. up till now I spec'd a

RE: [CentOS] simple script idea

2008-01-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > find / \( -uid 46 -o -gid 46 \) -print0 | xargs -0 chown clamav:clamav Garrick, Thank you, that is pretty slick I haven't checked the man page for find like forever... Didn't recall ever seeing find via uid or gid Thanks again! - rh ___ CentO

[CentOS] Up2date

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Spangler
updated? Thank you. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Re: simple script idea

2008-01-21 Thread Robert - elists
> > > > - rh > Sounds like a broken script in the package. Did you report it to Dag? > > No, I didn't report to Dag His package was doing what it was supposed to do after my yum remove of clamav, and so it created a clamav user and group because it was a new install... of course it didn't use

[CentOS] modprobe.conf and ipv6

2008-01-21 Thread Robert - elists
Greetings, Are these still valid modprobe.conf for centos 5 ? alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off Secondly, Are they still valid in centos 5 for the same reasons we put them in the modprobe.conf for centos 4 ? The centos wiki says yes. It used to be a "speedup" issue in centos 4 among other thi

[CentOS] Recommend a mini or nano ITX system for Centos

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am looking into convising the boss to get me a mini-itx system to replace my workhorse notebook (I have to have a corp notebook and I can remote terminal into a Centos server from it). So I have been playing with one mini-itx system (the decTOP) and am looking at my options. I want a fast

Re: [CentOS] Recommend a mini or nano ITX system for Centos

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I want a fast processor, 1Gb memory, LAN, 4USB, VGA. Wireless and bluetooth optional USB dongles along with a second LAN interface). PCI slot optional (for said wireless, bluetooth or LAN!). For a mainboard, you might want to look

Re: [CentOS] Why iptables are not working?

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Spangler
; suggestion for installing the iptables? > > thanks a lot It is most likely installed as this is default unless you tell the install program not to install it. To start IPTALBES: service iptables start To ensure it starts all the time on reboot: chkconf --level 2345 iptables on

Re: [CentOS] Why iptables are not working?

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Spangler
> > To ensure it starts all the time on reboot: > > > > chkconf --level 2345 iptables on > > that doesn't actually 'start iptables', rather that sets it so the > system firewall scripts are run at startup. Step 2 you are correct but you failed to look at ste

Re: [CentOS] Recommend a mini or nano ITX system for Centos

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:14 AM -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I have been playing with one mini-itx system (the decTOP) and am looking at my options. I want a fast processor, 1Gb memory, LAN, 4USB, VGA. Wireless and bluetooth op

Re: [CentOS] Up2date

2008-01-25 Thread Robert Spangler
On Sunday 20 January 2008 13:11, Robert Spangler wrote: > I want to use UP2DATE to alert me to updates that are available but still > use yum to make the update. Up2date alerts me and i see what is available > and then update with yum. Up2date icon still shows updates are available.

[CentOS] Re: question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Nichols
Alex White wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alias foo=bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ foo bash: bar: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ "foo" bash: foo: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTE

[CentOS] Re: Monitor power save question

2008-02-01 Thread Robert Nichols
nate wrote: David G. Miller wrote: I don't see anything incriminating in dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I'll switch the system to boot to runlevel 3 so I can see if X is spewing something to the first alternate console that isn't getting written to the log file. Anyone have

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