Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 8:34 AM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 wil

Re: [CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 4, 2007 11:12 AM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a > question: > > Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other > words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMFor

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 11:03 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Morten Torstensen wrote: > > [snip away bible quotes] > > > > This is getting way off topic, please consider what you post. > > > > Having only one true repository whose name shall not be uttered in the > package filenames doesn't r

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 12:11 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > >> I don't see why > >> a particular package couldn't be served from more than one repository. > >> Is there some rule about that? > > > > Nope. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing is likely when mixing re

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 12:51 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > >> The point is that as an end user, I want a sensible way to deal with > >> multiple repositories that _don't_ collaborate. After all, if everyone > >> a

Re: [CentOS] RPM Spec and subpackage architecture

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 1:36 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are there any RPM wizards out there that know how to specify a > different architecture for a subpackage in a spec file? > > I have a package that has a binary component and a non-binary > component that I would like split i

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 2:24 PM, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So to answer the subject: No, EPEL is incompatible to every other repo > that existed before EPEL came up. That was not the original promise of > EPEL (I know as I was a steering member before I gave up on this > insanity course), but

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Caveat to using firefox over X11... you will sometimes get corrupted images and icons. This is because firefox (and many other X11 applications) use shared memory to store images. The corruption comes because your local X11 server cant see that memory location and will write whatever it can get to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 sysreport

2007-12-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 11, 2007 9:46 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the > sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such > a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already > (http://bugs.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Strange GUI/GNOME Lockups

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 7, 2007 11:32 PM, Jayson Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, a hello to all! > > I recently moved to CentOS from Fedora on my primary desktop due to a > desire to have a highly reliable stable desktop that would be supported > long term without constant upgrades. I'll keep my laptop Fed

Re: [CentOS] What is the REAL version of Xen in 5.1?

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 17, 2007 7:49 AM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 3.0.3, but an 'xm > info' shows 3.1. > > So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 packaged as 3.0.3? > And if it's the former, does anybody have an

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 12:35 PM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # setserial -g /dev/ttyS* > Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument > /dev/ttyS1: No such device or address > /dev/ttyS2: No such device or address > /dev/ttyS3: No such device or address > # > # dmesg | grep tty > Xen virtual

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 1:38 PM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taking a suggestion from the discussion regarding the aforementioned bug I > altered /boot/grub/grub.conf and added this entry: > > title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen-com1) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-53

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 2:03 PM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I fixed the UART assignment for ttyS0 with > > # setserial /dev/ttyS0 UART 16550A > > and now my modem's TR signal is high as desired. My question, am I > condemned to manually editing the grub.conf file after every kernel upda

Re: [CentOS] Backup

2008-01-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a RHEL2 server that has had one of the drives in the raid array > fail. I would like to do a full backup of the system before we replace > the raided drive, in case the second drive decides to die during the > procedure. > >

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 28, 2008 9:19 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:36:03 -0500 > > Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> And above all, because I know many admins slack on this, and I'm > >> guilty of it as well if it's not forced... ROTATE

Re: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows > XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate > with it via samba, ssh, and anything else.I also disabled the > Windows Firewall. The C5 system does not have any firewall enab

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs?

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Feb 1, 2008 8:11 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs? > > RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs? > > Why not? > RH-5 does not have Xemacs because a choice had to me made on using Emacs or Xemacs. Trying to support both was resource intensive and I think fewer p

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Jason Pyeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where should we start on preventing this type of problem? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mqueue]# find | wc -l > 185259 > Short answer: We can't. Long answer: Need to know a lot more about the problem before one can even try to fix

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a new Centos 5.1 install on a HP nc2400 (that use to run XP). > Completely clean install; blew away the XP partitions... > > After applying all the updates, and configuring for the rpmforge repo, I > used yumex

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Max Hetrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > Where does NetworkManager keep its information? There was no > > /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. I made one (but don't

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or > HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? > Self-teaching in a home lab? > I found that the best way for me was

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a directory full of installation and configuration scripts > that are updated on a fairly regular basis. I would like to implement > some sort of version control for these files. I have used SVN and CVS > in th

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have run into a snag with my CVS installation: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cvs co -P installfiles > cvs checkout: Updating installfiles > cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 1022462837 bytes > > Unfor

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? > Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails > it KILLS my X11 session. > > If I am at my desktop it works fine. > > xpdf used t

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Checking in binary files into CVS or any repository control system is > > > usually a broken thing. You want to either check in the stuff inside > > > the tar ball seperately (if its going to change), or just copy i

Re: [CentOS] Fedora user moving to CentOS

2008-03-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Tim Alberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for > me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems > I hav

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

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:29:54PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> You can not redistribute the redhat-logos or redhat-artwork binary > >> packages to others unless you are selling your media

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

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:01:13PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > > 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 -- Istro

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

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > = > > The rest is available for review at the linked address ... but it is > very clear that if you have any RHEL subscriptions, then you must pay > for

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

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>

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

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >>> And in this case, the precedents of hundreds years of contractual law > >>> would have to be overturned. The GPL license covers source code > >>> access. The RHEL license covers binary acce

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

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Daniel de Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Daniel de Kok wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL >

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

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >>> copyright law? > >>> > >>> Well ... the general consensus is that is not the case, and that the > >>> SPEC file is covered under the same license as the rest of the source > >>> code unl

Re: [CentOS] HTTP blocked?

2008-03-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed CentOS 5 and put ZoneMinder on it. Everything seems to > be working fine, except I can't access the web pages from a remote > computer, even if it's on the same LAN. If I lynx to the webpage from the >

Re: [CentOS] Re: list of epel packages

2008-04-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:21:17PM +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > > Or to be more specific, what i am trying to do is to remove epel repo and > all > > installed packages from that repo , how will i achieve it? > > Somet

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/7/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? At this point, I do not know of any effort towards a Sparc version. The problems in getting usable documentation and determined developers. I would probably look at Debian fo

Re: [CentOS] Root fs suddenly goes r/o

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/11/07, Eduardo Grosclaude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Out of the blue, dmesg on my HP Proliant w/ a SCSI disk gives loads of messages like this one: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Then the root fs goes read-only, so little else can be done on the mac

Re: [CentOS] Security checklist for new Centos server?

2007-07-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/20/07, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, everybody I've browsed around a bit, but there seems to be no single practical list of this kind. My first point is going over the long list http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/unix-stig-v5r1.pdf and figuring out what meets the local e

Re: [CentOS] Is there a Centos 5.1 beta?

2007-07-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/20/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> And if so where can I get information of what is being >> fixed/upgraded/added/deleted? >> >> > > No ... we don't do a beta until the upstream provider releases their > beta. But even then

Re: [CentOS] Security checklist for new Centos server?

2007-07-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/21/07, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 15:12:34 PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My first point is going over the long list > http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/unix-stig-v5r1.pdf and figuring out > what meets the lo

Re: [CentOS] Bind 9 pharming security hole

2007-07-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/24/07, Indunil Jayasooriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am running bind on centOS5. I use RPM. Is there a patch ? Any idea to apply the patch? yum update The problem was released as a bug fix earlier today. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that

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

2007-07-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/28/07, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dumb question. > > Can't we identify the source of the package by looking at the signature. > Yes.. but there isnt a tool that comes up with it, and there are too many people who do not have enough training to answer this question. They may hav

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

2007-07-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/30/07, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:08:49PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > So after the fact everyone can claim anything. The important thing is > > how did epel (or better said certain key persons in there) deal with > > it when they did not see the po

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

2007-08-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8/5/07, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would > be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary. > > I configured my named.conf file to pull zones from the primary, started > BIND on the new box. Her

Re: [CentOS] Linux User Auditing

2007-09-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/3/07, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bazy: > > Thanks. I hope in the future version of auditd, it will be much easier to > monitor user's activities. > > You can also run psacct which will also do other auditing commands. yum install psacct chkconfig --level 2345 psacct on lastcomm wh

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection Systems

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/26/07, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Situation: We are providing hosting services. > > I've grown tired of the various kiddie scripts/dictionary attacks on > various services. The latest has been against vsftpd, on systems that I > can't easily control vs. putting strict limits on s

Re: [CentOS] Xen VMs: regular filesystem corruption

2007-10-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10/12/07, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that Xen VMs are subject to file system corruption under certain > conditions. I find that often when I reboot or shutdown a VM the > filesystem is corrupted after that and the VM no longer usable. The xm > create then fails with some

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server

2007-10-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10/15/07, Bruno Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Is it possible to run in at the same time Xen and Vmware, under the same > physical host? > > Not without patching a lot of stuff. When someone asked this a while back.. there was a lot of conflicting code and when they

Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/6/07, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the .rpm file from Google and am trying to install > Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5. I get the below error. Is this because > I'm using SELinux or because of something else? I found a small > Picasa folder in /opt (24 items, 143.7 KB

Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/6/07, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06 November 2007, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > >Hmmm does the package look good with a > >rpm -K picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm > > I'm not sure why I could not install the RPM for this. Then, after I &g

Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/6/07, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06 November 2007, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > >Hmmm does the package look good with a > >rpm -K picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm > > I Google'd and Yahood' and found a post that mentioned adding a Yum

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 8, 2007 9:10 AM, James A. Peltier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2007 1:12 AM, Rainer Traut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> now that EL5.1 is out the big question is when will Centos 5.1 be out. > >> I know the answer, when it's ready. > > >

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 8, 2007 10:28 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> Does this also mean that the CentOS 5 IA64 port will now be CentOS 5.1 > >> IA64 instead? > > I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? Al

Re: [CentOS] Re: Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 11, 2007 9:29 AM, Eric B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Barry Brimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source > >> equivalent > >> of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've

Re: [CentOS] pine 4.64 with CentOS with LDAP

2007-11-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 19, 2007 4:29 PM, Farid Hamjavar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > pine 4.64 on CentOS 5 > > I have successfully compiled 4.64 with SSL and it works fine. > > However, I like to add LDAP feature. > > I am having trouble with compiling it with LDAP. > > I built the latest stable openl

Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 3, 2007 6:03 PM, Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > I would say that those systems may not be good candidates for future > > EL versions. The memory requirements for the Enterprise editions are > > going up with moore's

Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 3, 2007 11:26 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is listed as a known issue, but I have a lot of 256Mb systems where I > have used the graphic installer > > OUCH! > > And when this is fixed (I really hope), it will mean some new ISOs to > download? > I would say that t

Re: [CentOS] Correct xen domains path

2007-06-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:07 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:05:24AM -0400, Rick Barnes wrote: > > > My preference was to use /srv/xen and then symlink

Re: [CentOS] Correct xen domains path

2007-06-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:31:30AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've not heard a good reason to keep SELinux enabled, to be honest. > >For hi

Re: [CentOS] Correct xen domains path

2007-06-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:18:40PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've never said there are _no_ cases for SELinux. I was questioning it > >as

Re: [CentOS] Correct xen domains path

2007-06-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:18:40PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 6/18/07, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've never said there are _no_ cases for SELinux. I was questioning it > >as

Re: [CentOS] Vim differences between C4 and C5

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/28/07, Rick Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have installed CentOS 4.5 and 5 on 2 separate machines, and both have default installs of vim-enhanced on each of them. I noticed that I can get syntax highlighting as a regular user, sudo and as root in C4.5. In C5 I only get highlighting as

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?

2007-07-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/2/07, Brent L. Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On our servers here are some sendmail.mc lines referring to our domain. May be they will help. These are from our main server: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',vigyan.com)dnl CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet,Addr=vigyan.com')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',

Re: [CentOS] Snare for Centos 5 x86_64?

2007-07-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/3/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone successfully get Snare for 64-bit CentOS 5 installed and working? From what I can tell it is not 64 bit safe for any version... it is also not rated to work beyond a 2.6.9 kernel http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/Snare/index

Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?

2007-07-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/6/07, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 17:52 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 7/6/07, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, you probably have two out of three now. 66% success is not bad in > > this life! :-) > > Maybe for public school folk

Re: [CentOS] Stuck Centos 7 to 8 upgrade

2020-05-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 13:39, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. wrote: > Four problems below: > > # dnf -y groupupdate "Core" "Minimal Install" > bintray-tvheadend-stable 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00 > Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'bintray-tvheadend-stable', > ignoring this repo. > > CentOS 7 can't b

Re: [CentOS] user names

2020-06-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 13:13, Jerry Geis wrote: > How can I define a local use with "@" in the name > > useradd "bob@myname" gives error. > > I "need" to have the @ sign in the name -is that possible. Silly reason - > the system I am trying to send emails to the linux server has a bug. I'm > tr

Re: [CentOS] Bridge network for virt-manager

2020-06-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 06:39, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hello. I desire to get bridge network working using virt-manager. > Centos 7 and centos 7 guest. > > From researching I think I need to have a ifcfg-br0 file like this ? > > cat ifcfg-br0 > DEVICE=nm-bridge0 > STP=no > TYPE=Bridge > BOOTPROTO=none

Re: [CentOS] firewalld / iptables / nftables

2020-06-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 08:19, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Despite that the migration of our applications comes with a significant > workload. It seems that also every aspect of common services had changed > with EL8. > > In EL8 firewalld uses nftables as backend. I wonder why iptables does >

Re: [CentOS] /etc/networks file

2020-06-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 19:55, Jay Hart wrote: > I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through > ping, wget, dnf, etc. > The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to > repositories. > > Where this inquiry is going is: If your internal network i

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 8.2 from 7.8

2020-06-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 14:08, Jerry Geis wrote: > > So now that 8 is out - is it still "frowned" upon to do that in place > update ? > Is that not a good / valid solution ? It really isn't a good solution without a lot of hand work. It can be done but the person doing the updates needs to figure

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 09:42, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:23:36PM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > About Oracle as alternative. Oracle Linux is not an alternative to > > > CentOS but for RHEL and if I will force to pay for enteprise system > > > currently I will pay RHEL,

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 13:11, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Hi Johnny, > thank you for your and all centos team works. > > Many of us know how much work is needed for building new releases and > maintaining C6 and C7, plus CentOS Stream and modules (Appstream). This is > a huge work for a small team

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 15:10, Peter wrote: > > On 22/06/20 7:03 am, John Pierce wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:01 AM Simon Matter via CentOS > > wrote: > > > > exactly, that was my point.I remember 8.0 was very delayed by how much > > harder and different the build process was. > > Tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 rsyslog and ELK

2020-07-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:33, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I asked a similar question about a year ago and didn't get any answers. > So I thought I'd try again. > Honestly, as much as I have heard of people using Elastic Kibana.. they are usually using it for things already in JSON. WHen I looked in the

Re: [CentOS] force CUPS print server to fit-to-page

2020-07-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 11:18, Josh wrote: > > Any other suggestions? Does anyone on this list use CUPS as a print server > for Apple devices or is a CUPS expert? > > Original question: > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-July/351009.html > Usually for CUPS issues, I check to see if a

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, david wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> Yes .. it should be on mirror.centos.org now .. you could change the > > >> repo where your updates come from. OR .. wait for that mirror to get > > >> updated. > > > > > > > > > I just did > > > yum clean all > > > yum update > >

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 11:06, david wrote: > > > Sorry for being so ignorant, but I don't > > > understand "just reinstall the kernel". I don't > > > know how to translate that into a specific yum or rpm command. > > > >I agree it is a lot of shorthand because of expectations. In the end > >we (

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 12:08, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Hi Johnny, > thank you for your answer. I always accepted release cycle of CentOS > without any problem (maybe with EL8 but it is ok). > > I don't need SLA and I don't blame anyone for this, errors can occour. For > example in this story, I

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 13:35, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > > Il 02/08/20 19:09, Alessandro Baggi ha scritto: > > > > Il 02/08/20 18:54, Stephen John Smoogen ha scritto: > >> On a side note, you keep emphasizing you aren't expecting an SLA.. but > >> all

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 18:13, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen John Smoogen > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable > Date:

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 09:15, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: > > you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the > > same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my > > uefi workstations. > > The great thing about standards i

Re: [CentOS] changing subscribed email address?

2020-09-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 15:30, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:25:44PM -0700, John Pierce wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 12:21 PM Jake Shipton > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Attached to the footer of every message on the list features the > > > following link: > > > > > > https:/

Re: [CentOS] Conversion from Centos 5 to Centos 7 & mailx changes

2020-09-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 16:00, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have just upgraded a Centos 5 server to a Centos 7 server and am > having difficulty with a change of behavior of mailx with the use of a > command line of : > > mail -s 'This is the subject' u...@domain.com < text_file.txt >

Re: [CentOS] Conversion from Centos 5 to Centos 7 & mailx changes

2020-09-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 10:19, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Stephen and Kenneth, > > Thank you very much for your help. > > I tried 'MAILRC=/dev/nul' which I put in /etc/mail.rc as > > 'set MAILRC=/dev/null' > > No that is meant to be a shell environment variable so that it does not try to read /etc

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird won't start after move to new box

2020-09-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 12:09, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've tried moving my Thunderbird profile from one C7 box, a standard PC > to another C7 box, a DELL server. I did this by rsync'ing ~/.thunderbird. > > what options did you use to rsync the directories over? And does restorecon -r -v /home s

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:12, Michael Schumacher < michael.schumac...@pamas.de> wrote: > hi, > > I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details > are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system > was running on spinning discs and this is certainly not t

Re: [CentOS] Systemd service unit file needs to wait until a specific interface is up

2020-09-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 04:33, Carlos Lopez wrote: > Hi all, > > > With SystemD, how can I make certain service dependent on certain network > interfaces being up? > > For example, I have an 802.1ad bond interface I need to wait on for being > up (this interface has no ip address assigned, it is u

Re: [CentOS] Systemd service unit file needs to wait until a specific interface is up

2020-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 23:39, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 9/23/20 7:07 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 04:33, Carlos Lopez wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> With SystemD, how can I make certain service depe

Re: [CentOS] Logitech C922 webcam

2020-09-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 13:31, H wrote: > Just installed the above USB webcam but it is not recognized by dmesg | > grep usb, nor does Zoom recognize it. I was under the understanding it > should not require a driver, or? > > I am running CentOS 7. > > Does anything show up when the device is plug

Re: [CentOS] Mail server troubles

2020-10-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 17:50, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably a bit OT, but here goes. > > I've been running our local school's mail server since 2013, with mail > addresses for school staff and some teachers. The server is running CentOS > 7 > with Postfix and Dovecot, and it's a

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 14:03, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > > ... or a general problem. Does some one tried the version from > > mozilla? > > > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr > > > > Can't test it - I don't run EL6 workstation

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 05:19, James Pearson wrote: > Peter wrote: > > > > What confuses me here is why would Red Hat rebase a package so close to > > EOL. Now that they have they're stuck with either leaving a severly > > broken firefox or providing a fix less than 6 weeks before EOL. I > > hon

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 11:29, James Pearson wrote: > Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > > Amazingly it appears that Red Hat has released another Firefox: > > Red Hat just follow the Mozilla ESR stream release cycle, which is > currently ESR 78 with point releases come out every 4 weeks or so > > Each

Re: [CentOS] X defaults

2020-10-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > I've been trying to move from Centos 7 to fedora. > My monitor is 1440x900, but fedora only believes it's 640x480. > G. > xrandr has not helped. > I've been trying to write X configuration files to tell

Re: [CentOS] X defaults

2020-10-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 15:51, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < > > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > > >> I&#

Re: [CentOS] GVIM annoyances

2020-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 06:11, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've just upgraded from my old F9 box to C7, which of course means lots > of changes. However, the ones are are annoying me most are with VIM. > > No matter what I do I can't get gvim to open in a reasonable size. I > have a dual headed setup

Re: [CentOS] Style Guide for ASCII Text Documents ?

2020-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 01:38, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone on this list recommend a good style guide for formatting > technical > documentation (HOWTOs related to CentOS servers) using ASCII text only ? > > Markdown and/or AsciiDOC are *not* an option, since these documents should >

Re: [CentOS] run firefox via an ssh tunnel

2020-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 17:45, R C wrote: > I do it all the time. > > > make sure you forward X11, on the ssh server side, and login with > ssh -X me@myhost.whatever > > start firefox with: > > /usr/bin/firefox -no-remoteif you don't want the remote pages ending > up in your local browser >

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