Re: [CentOS] SAMBA is driving me crazy

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: scaglietti amore wrote: that was it plus i had to set /selinux/enforce = 0im greatfull , thanks alot Craig Subject: RE: [CentOS] SAMBA is driving me crazy> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:09

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

2008-03-06 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: 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? in addition to the other suggestions, i recommend a copy of Evi Nemeth's "U

Re: [CentOS] Question on mail

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: I goto the address http://ordb.org and I get no page. Is this because this site is down or am I considered spam all of a sudden? i started noticing something similar recently... looks like a consequence of this: http://it.slashdot.org/artic

Re: [CentOS] Strange behavior from grep

2008-03-28 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Mário Gamito wrote: Well, my question now is, how do I get the word 'gamito' alone from the file ? grep -o 'gamito' file -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v __

Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running? No, I don't have. Then I dunno why root didn't, as with selinux disabled root also has implicit rights to all files/folders, but with selinux enabled security context c

Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation of Netware?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Nigel Kendrick wrote: I am hoping someone can kick me up the learning curve (!) on Virtualization: We have an old piece of data logging software that was written in Turbo Pascal 6 using a file I/O module tuned to Netware and so it expects its data files to be

Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Akemi, How exactly do I get yum to access the RPMForge repository though? Akemi already answered this question. did you read the second wiki link? Always use yum because it takes care of dependency. See http://wiki.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] How do I Get Notified of REPO Updates?

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:49 AM, John Thomas wrote: Anyone have a script to check a repo for updates and list the new files? `yum list updates` gives you a list of packages installed on your system for which updates are available. `yum list recent` gives you a list of packages that have rece

Re: [CentOS] grep

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Scott McClanahan wrote: Not a CentOS specific question, although I am running grep on CentOS 4.3 but how would you grep out a series of lines in a file starting at a specific point. For instance, if I have a file named foo and I want to grep out the next 5 li

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-4.5 and LG cd-rom/dvd burner

2007-09-19 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:32 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: I would like to burn the cd-rom iso's of CentOS-5.0 on my desktop machine, which is running CentOS-4.5. Is there a site or other reference that can provide me with a detailed, hand held, step-by-step, blow-by-blow description on how to do

Re: [CentOS] mail server

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:16 AM, CentOS List wrote: what can you recommend for mail server. I'll be needing mail server with tls,ssl and virtual domains with web ui management, im doing this for a client of mine. I have been using Qmail. http://www.qmailrocks.org/ This site has everything

Re: [CentOS] Two Issues - Postfix and Gamin

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Brent DiNicola wrote: The second issue is also with 4.5 but with Gamin. I have about 20 Linux CentOS workstations that have been running nicely for several months (almost years) and after the 4.5 upgrade I have noticed that the gam_server process with Gamin keeps

Re: [CentOS] beginner resources for CentOS

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 3, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking for a good online (or even a good) "how to be a sysadmin" guide for beginners geared towards CentOS users. Does anyone have any suggestions? dunno about online, but there are some good books out there on the topic. read E

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I do apologize if this came out rude, it wasn't my intention. And I didn't get the reply, so I though I never posted it to the CentOS group. did you check the archives? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083253.html your in

Re: [CentOS] errors on multimedia guidance for x86_64

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Huff
On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:43 PM, David McGuffey wrote: --> Finished Dependency Resolution gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) li

Re: [CentOS] Startup script woes

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Huff
On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Jeff wrote: I use the Java Service Wrapper to run JBoss in CentOS 4. A little work to set up, but it works great once you get it figured out. My version is s few years old now, so I can't speak for what may have changed in the meantime. http://wrapper.tanukisoftware

Re: [CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Ausmus, Matt wrote: Anywho, I wanted to post this response to a thread that was created back in November 2008 about the ntop daemon failing to start. I’m currently setting up ntop as a NetFlow & SFlow collector and came across the issue. A quick refresher, th

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? i have the following packages installed: rhythmbox-0.11.6-4.el5 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf and my RHEL 5.4 system plays MP3s. -steve -- If this were pl

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) secondary dns provider. i've had consistently good experiences with RollerNet (http://rollernet.us ). -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Alan McKay wrote: And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is out there and what I should use. the most comprehensive list of such things of which i am aware is here

Re: [CentOS] what causes CUPS to dis-enable a printer?

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Dave wrote: Would it (should it) eventually notice that the server is back and re-enable itself just as automatically as it disabled itself? not according to the default CUPS configuration under RHEL/CentOS. http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-cupsd-conf.

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Huff
On May 14, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: Second (and this is probably OT), I use the binary nVidia driver and the keyboard and mouse sharing utility Synergy (http:// synergy2.sourceforge.net, a fantastic utility without which I would be so much less productive). Since upgrading

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Huff
On May 16, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Carol Anne Ogdin wrote: Can you post some URLs for CentOS forums you mentioned in your reply? I've searched high-and-low with no success. http://www.centos.org in the navbar, look for Support->Forums. or pick the *very first hit* from a Google: http://www.g

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Huff
On May 16, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Carol Anne Ogdin wrote: Your opinions are louder than your putative experience. Unfortunately, in 51 years in the computer industry, I've sometimes had to cope with behaviors like yours. It still makes me sad to experience such unhappy people who think that

Re: [CentOS] Copying files from specific date.

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Rajeev R. Veedu wrote: Does anyone aware of any utility to copy files which are created or modify form a specific date ?. to copy all files in /dir1 modified within the last 5 days to /dir2: $ find /dir1 -mtime -5 | xargs -I {} cp {} /dir2 if the filenames ha

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: It appears that our firewall is not allowing connection to outside MX hosts. I think I need to configure sendmail to forward emails to our local smtp host, but I am not sure how to do that. 1. make sure /etc/mail/sendmail.mc includes th

Re: [CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I'm not sure if there's a "great" way to have concurrent version of Python installed cleanly or not... the Python project itself used to maintain some RPM's and a Yum repo, but I believe that project is somewhat dormant and last time I tried i

Re: [CentOS] so many problem CENTOS 5.2 with DELL servers????

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:24 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: Anyone know why? IS CENTOS 5.2 certify with DELL server? the Red Hat Hardware Catalog is here: https://hardware.redhat.com/ the PowerEdge 2650 is supported for i386: https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=232318 the R900 is supported under 5

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Terry wrote: I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? here's a reasonably straightforward scheme: 1) make sure yum is in

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Terry wrote: Our issue isn't bandwidth. Our issue is controlling which patches are to be deployed and at what time. ok, then you want option a) from my previous response. if you're the gatekeeper of all packages that go into your private repository, and if y

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: People keep sending me to RPMforge, but apparently you don't go there yourselves to see you are sending me nowhere. Follow your advice: https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/ Paul, i'm sorry that you're experiencing confusion; the websites for RPM

Re: [CentOS] Wiki updates needed for rpmrepo.org when it's up & running

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Huff
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:01:27 -0500: when I tried: rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm I got an error back. Lanny, this is the package you want: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem on 5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Steve Huff
On May 12, 2009, at 9:13 AM, fred smith wrote: More importantly, how do I resolve it? http://www.google.com/search?q=centos+%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fmagic%2Fmime -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://fi

Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

2009-06-03 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following kernels on my /boot: 2.6.18-128.1.6 2.6.18-92.1.18 2.6.18-92.1.22 I'm low on /boot space and need to remove the oldest version. It appears that I cannot use yum to remove since all of the versions are the same (only t

Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

2009-06-03 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: That seemed to work, but I still have some 92.1.18 elements left: ls -l /boot/*92.1.18* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65438 Nov 12 2008 /boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug for each file, find out what package it belongs to, and then remove it

Re: [CentOS] munin stopped working

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 10, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: I don't know at all what I should do. Is anyone else running munin and hit and solved the same problem? you should look at the archives for the rpmforge list :) http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-May/002416.html -steve -- If t

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 29, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: I know, and I understand that you are now vexed, but, like I said: instead of 8,000 packages in RF, better have 400 rock-solid ones? i look to rpmforge for a wide variety of packages, none of which have anything to do with mplayer,

Re: [CentOS] install cups-devel error on CENTOS 5.3

2009-07-28 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:26 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: Anywhere I can download new version of "cups-devel"? http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/ -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://five.sentenc.es

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? one such tool, and links to many others, are here: http://web.taranis.org/shmux/ -steve -- If t

Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Huff
ipient, while a public message educates not only the recipient but also other new readers. -steve -- Steve Huff - http://five.sentenc.es ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Huff
. 'man libuser.conf' worked well for me. from this doc you will learn that libuser requires either TLS or a ldaps:// URI. -steve -- Steve Huff - http://five.sentenc.es ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What are you doing right?

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Phil Lembo wrote: So the question is, what is CentOS doing *right*? http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/hardware/ http://www.redhat.com/partners/hardwarepartners/ that's at least part of the answer :) -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I coul

Re: [CentOS] phpMyAdmin can't connect to remote server

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: > If anyone else has any insight or questions please let me know. I'm happy to > experiment. is SELinux enabled? any relevant messages in the audit log? -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fi

Re: [CentOS] Issue with Perl and rpmforge - advice?

2010-09-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Mark wrote: > I have an old version of rkhunter installed on my CentOS 5 machine, > one I got from rpmforge. > > In my most recent attempts to update this, I get the following errors in yum: hi Mark! you have a couple of different issues going on here. first off, a

Re: [CentOS] Wrapper package / yum repository

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Gabriel Tabares wrote: > Any ideas? I am quite baffled and would like to get this to work as soon > as possible. please post the output of `rpm -qp --requires `. thanks, -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fictio

Re: [CentOS] Wrapper package / yum repository

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 7, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Gabriel Tabares wrote: > tomcat-6.0.26-1.13 > adm-app-conf-18-2010.09.01 > jdk-1.6.0_20-2.0 > ant-1.8.1-1 there's your problem. in the specfile, these dependencies should be specified as: Requires: tomcat >= 6.0.26 Requires: adm-app-conf >= 18 ... relevant API d

Re: [CentOS] ls this bandwidth package availblale in Centos

2010-09-30 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 30, 2010, at 11:32 AM, adrian kok wrote: > ls the if top package availblale in Centos? the RPMforge repository has it. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabia

Re: [CentOS] Here we go again: SpamAssassin doesn't like the new Perl update...

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > I'll raise that and a restart: > > % /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart > Stopping spamd:[ OK ] > Starting spamd: Subroutine NetAddr::IP::UtilPolluted::AF_INET6 redefined > at /usr/lib/perl5/

Re: [CentOS] No "last command" in VIM?

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'll file a bug if needed and someone confirms. Dotan, This is not a bug. When you invoke vim as 'vi', the -C option is added, which sets Vim to Vi-compatible mode; this disables a number of features, including :history. From :help history

Re: [CentOS] No "last command" in VIM?

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > /bin/vi is supplied by the vim-minimal package d'oh! Alfred is correct, and i am mistaken (in cause, though not in effect). -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth N

Re: [CentOS] Geany plugins out of sync

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Nov 1, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > Any chance for this to be repackaged? Or, some quick & dirty > workaround? Thank you very much in advance! the appropriate list is :) as for the geany-plugins package, it's already updated in SVN but not yet built. grab the spec from h

Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to see it properly from the beginning? before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run /

Re: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: If someone would come up with a way to automate the dependency resolution so that I could grab and package everything at once, then I would do it, dag has a script that does just this. can you post a link? i've ju

Re: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Mad Unix wrote: Am still not able to install Find_File if i may ask, why do you need to install this module? as was noted above, it's already part of perl. do you know for certain that you need a newer version of File::Find than is already installed?

Re: [CentOS] What fires logrotate

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Al Sparks wrote: What exactly fires logrotate (and other scheduled events like "logwatch", which ends up in root's inbox)? look at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch. those scripts (and the others in /etc/cron.*ly) are invoked by the foll

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 31, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: also NOT top posting? - Wht do u mean by this I don't get u. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:54 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > thx every much trying

Re: [CentOS] Re: Help me

2008-09-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Martyn Hare wrote: I would recommend top posting. that's great, but please don't do so here. the CentOS website asks that you bottom post: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 and this issue was done to death just a few months ago: http://l

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Charles Campbell wrote: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel- release Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release error: skipping http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release - transfer fa

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote: While using Fedora, I always used java straight from Sun. What is recommended for CentOS?? Getting jetty, java and other java apps working correctly has been a real chore. If I used nothing but RPMs for CEntOS, would I have a real working java

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Ric Moore wrote: http://jpackage.org/ makes your life easier. Which of the jpackage sites do you use for yum? I'm definitely looking into cfengine, as mentioned by Nate. I prefer "easy" over "bare- knucks" any day. I just rpm -e'd everything on this system with

Re: [CentOS] Java install

2008-09-11 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 11, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ric Moore wrote: I'm sorry, I was in "Deer in the headlights mode". I should have said repos specifically. I have had these enabled: * epel: mirror.its.uidaho.edu * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com * jpackage-fc: planetmirror.com * jpackage-generic-nonfree:

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

2008-09-17 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Andrew Allen wrote: documentation on this anywhere? Also, what's the current opinion/ advice on a graphical user interface for mysql please? it's hard to go wrong with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/), which you can get from RPMforge. -steve -- If t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Probably a bad set-up but which one?

2008-09-29 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:11 AM, tech wrote: Thanks for your reply. By "Content" line I meant this line: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; I have tried many scripts, they all do this. I have problems with JavaScript too so I am not sure yet about this just being a Perl or CGI problem. I

Re: [CentOS] Re: Unexpected FTP Activity

2008-10-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: Is there any other automatic Internet activity in Centos? ntpd, possibly, if you set it up during firstboot without realizing. -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian,

Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Tom Brown wrote: I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of the user? ie locked or unlocked? t

Re: [CentOS] question on yum-downloadonly

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: I found yum-downloadonly and executed my command do that and save the dependencies in my current directory. Now when I execute my command: rpm -i mypackage all the dependencies are not found even though they are in the current directory. if I

Re: [CentOS] Log File Reviewing

2009-01-05 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: The regex you want is "^[[:space:]]*word" Wow, thanks everyone for the help! How does one modify this to also knock out lines that *must* have whitespace followed by a number [0-9]? I can do it using "^[[:space:]]*[0-9]" but it also take

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Attempt Prevension - iptables problems

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:24 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: It is evident that this attacker had more than one netblock available. It is conceivable that, instead of serially attacking us, they could just have easily attempted multiple simultaneous connections from all of their available IP address

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Incidentally, does anyone know what the many "Intrusion" entries in the System Event Log mean? someone opened the chassis? http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/1.8.1/en/messages/msgch10.htm -steve -- If this were played

Re: [CentOS] Gpg-agent will not start

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: What am I missing? ask yum: [sh...@srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent ... gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Re: [CentOS] Lost konqueror navigation toolbars

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: If I knew what provides these I could copy them from another account. Can anyone help, please? Do you know what causes a toolbar to be displayed? All the toolbars are visible in other users' konqueror, so I don't think anything vital is l

Re: [CentOS] rm user:group

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Matt wrote: I want to remove files but only if they are owned by a certain user and group. Basically I have this: find /var/spool/greylist -mmin +363 -exec rm -f {} \; I want to make sure it only deletes files owned by mail. Basically no matter what weird cha

Re: [CentOS] Directory server import

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Per Qvindesland wrote: Does anyone know if there is a simple way to import standard linux users into the directory server? I have found some but they don't seem to be so flexible since I have to import from several servers into different ou's a good toolkit

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:13 AM, James Bensley wrote: I would assume it would be possible but I don't know how, does anyone have any idea? http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/ -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2009-03-23 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - I'm thick. I've looked at that page and seen only what I'm already familiar with. Please, in plain English, how do I set ssh to come in on port 22022 (service called ext-ssh already set up for that) to be forwarded to 192.168.0.xx por

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Huff
On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me. it's very useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support $ man dkms $ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nvidia-x11-drv $ sudo reboot ... pr

Re: [CentOS] OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-07 Thread Steve Huff
On May 7, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an Editor but I believe it can reduce the qual

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Bob Taylor wrote: > Hi, I am writting this message in hope that you can be of a great help to me. > My husband that has been on this site died suddenly Feb 4th) and I can not > access my computer. He has a user name and password on the system. He has > used the L

Re: [CentOS] bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Huff
On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Ray Leventhal wrote: > I'm rather fond of the apf + bfd [1] solution and use it regularly on RH > and CentOS systems. > > Both are available here but sadly no rpm(s) that I've found. apf is available from RPMforge for CentOS 5. -steve -- If this were played upo

Re: [CentOS] compiling FahMON for Centos? [SOLVED]

2010-04-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:50 PM, fred smith wrote: > I had some detritus from a failed installatin of wxgtk hanging around > in /usr/local that confused heck out of fahmon's configure script. > removed it, removed the fahmon sources and re-extracted the .tbz2 file, > ran configure, ran make, and voila

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Huff
On May 4, 2010, at 10:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > And your point is? I mean, a) we're talking about CentOS yum update, and > b) a 5.5 update showing up before 5.5 is released. mark, from your post here http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-May/093953.html i infer that the pack

Re: [CentOS] installing gtkmm

2010-05-07 Thread Steve Huff
On May 6, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Ming-ching Chiu wrote: > Now i have to move the project to CentOS 5.4. I set up rpm forge and > installed gtkmm. Turns out that the package on rpmforge is too old that my > project doesn't compile. I wonder if there is other way to get newer version > of gtkmm and a

Re: [CentOS] Creating a user defined service in Cent os

2010-05-24 Thread Steve Huff
On May 24, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote: > so after creating a file how do i add it to service list. > coz when i create a new file in /etc/init.d it is not appearing in the > services list.. man chkconfig -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it a

Re: [CentOS] Openwebmail dependency problem

2010-06-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > By googling I found a lot of descriptions of the problem, but no solution. > > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm from install > of perl-Compress-Zlib-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file fro

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > why does RHEL not support XFS straight out of the box? i suspect you would be more likely to receive a meaningful answer from one of these sources: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] perl(packed-refs) missing dependency

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 23, 2010, at 11:06 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to install git-1.7.1 from the rpmforge repository on my > CentOS-5.5 CI box. I am getting the following error: please report RPMforge issues to , where there is already an announcement concerning this issue: http://lists.rpmfo