Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote: I am not having any issues with CentOS 5 and Gnome ... I have been using it as my primary desktop since before the 5.0Beta stage. I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products. The only 3rd party tools that are *

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote: I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products. One of our third party applications (SlickEdit) has been having its share of issues. We finally had an error message (Xlib: resource ID allocation space exhausted)

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Effects -- questions/issues

On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:39, fred smith wrote: Enabling from the gnome menu doesn't exactly work compltely, one needs to google around a bit to find out the remaining magic incantations to make it fully work. So, I've done that and it's working. Can you enlighten the rest of us? That is, po

[CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

I have a stock CentOS 5 system as far as email (sendmail) is concerned that is on our corporate LAN. I am not trying to set up a mail server; I merely want our CentOS systems to be able to send out emails. This works as long as the recipient's domain is our local domain. Any email send t

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

Thanks for all the quick responses. Enabling SMART_HOST as well as masquerading did the trick. I also had to install the sendmail-cf RPM, but everything appears to be working now. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] mkdep vs. makedepend

On Jul 4, 2008, at 17:50, MHR wrote: One of my assignments is to bring this up to CentOS, but on my first effort, I ran into this interesting "feature." The original build process (FC1) uses mkdep to generate the dependency files that are subsequently used by the makes to build the app. mkdep

Re: [CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen

On Jul 29, 2008, at 23:55, MHR wrote: Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not be able to use it Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which works for me

[CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

Most of my desktops are still running CentOS5, but I have installed CentOS6 on a few of them. The users on those desktops are reporting that DNS lookups are slow, and from my brief tests, that does appear to be the case. After some googling, I found a suggestion to disable IPv6, but that didn'

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:29, John Hodrien wrote: > You probably want to do an strace -f host blah rather than a basic strace, or > I think you'll lose what's going on. Good point. Using -f doesn't show a 3+ second gap, but I still have no idea why it's slow (3-5 seconds) compared to CentOS5, or wh

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

On Sep 27, 2011, at 13:53, Frank Cox wrote: > Why do you think dnscache won't help? Caching is not restricted to your local > domain. I guess I forgot to mention that only the first query is slow. If you repeat the query, the response is fast, so it's already being cached somewhere. I always a

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6 [not really -- SOLVED]

On Sep 27, 2011, at 14:02, Les Mikesell wrote: > The usual reason for a delay is that you have more than one nameserver > specified in resolv.conf and the first one tried is down or > unreachable so you time out and retry. Bingo! Thanks Les. All systems use DHCP which updates the resolv.conf fi

[CentOS] Call supplicant on link detection

Dear all, I have a working 802.1x structure with a bunch of Cisco switches, and a couple of NPS RADIUS servers. 802.1x auhtentication with MSCHAPv2 is working with Windows clients and I need to get some Centos clients into the structure. I've been using wpa_supplicant and now it would be usefull to

Re: [CentOS] Call supplicant on link detection

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 11/07/2011 02:27 PM, Peter von Nostrand piše: > > when the interface detects a link > > What do you exactly mean by this? is this on Ethernet or...? > > Yes, I'm sorry, is a wired connection > Netw

[CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

I installed CentOS 6 on a Dell Optiplex 790 with a StarTech.com dual serial port card, and the serial ports aren't being recognized. According to dmesg, only the built-in serial port is being recognized: # dmesg | fgrep ttyS serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

Thanks for all the pointers. I've downloaded the driver sources and compiled/installed them, and the serial ports appear to be available upon reboot (according to dmesg). I'll look into building it with DKMS to make it easier to support with future updates. Thanks again, Alfred

Re: [CentOS] how to find...

On Mar 4, 2012, at 21:55, fred smith wrote: > it's already installed (via "yum install xiphos") and I need to know > which repository it actually came from. I think it came from Centos, > but dont' know how to be sure. "yum list installed" merely shows it > as installed,but doesn't list the repo f

[CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3

Does anyone have remote desktop connectivity working in CentOS 5.3? I'm using the Gnome desktop and have configured the Remote Deskop Preferences to "Allow other users to view your desktop" and "Allow other users to control your desktop". The configuration dialog box says that "Users can

[CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly after the partitions a

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

> How long does it hang? CentOS 5.x takes much longer to get to the > point where it is installing packages than 4.x, probably a good 3-4 > minutes more, perhaps longer if your mirror is over a WAN connection, > my mirror is on the local LAN and it does take a long time as well > though it always h

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote: > hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case > I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have > groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install > and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the inst

[CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. Everything works fine when connected to the network. However, removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes minutes to complete. For instance, starting a new Terminal window takes over 3 minutes. I di

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:01, Phil Schaffner wrote: > You could do "service network stop" on the CentOS VM when not on the > network, or if you need networking between the VM and the hosts, > configure for hostonly networking. I guess I should have mentioned that my user wants to access the files

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:38, Geoff Galitz wrote: > Are you running VMWare Workstation or Server? VMware Workstation. > I am running VMWare > Workstation under MS Vista with a bunch of Centos guest VMs. I > noticed that > when my Vista host network connection changes state (becomes > unavailab

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:58, JohnS wrote: > Open a terminal window and type cat /etc/hosts and post it. # cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 139.68.198.200 fm1185.bos

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:03, Brian Mathis wrote: > This is a classic sign of DNS query timeouts. When you are connected > to the network the system is making DNS queries which respond quickly. > When you are not connected, the host makes DNS queries and waits for > a response. The timeout is a mi

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:30, Renato de Oliveira Diogo wrote: > The fm1185.bose.com is hostname of the host, correct? > Try put: > === > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fm1185.bose.com No, it's the name of the Windows XP machine where the VM is running. I always remove the hostnam

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

On Jun 16, 2009, at 15:36, JohnS wrote: > ::1 line > > Put it back and have a go at it. I took it out because it was slow. I'll put it back in, but don't think it will make a difference. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

[CentOS] Samba issue accessing shares by IP address

We have a strange issue with Samba shares on our CentOS 5.5 systems in that we can access the shares by name, but not by IP address. First a little background. Recently, our domain controllers were upgraded and I had to tweak the smb.conf file by changing security from DOMAIN to ADS and adding

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

On Oct 21, 2010, at 13:42, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'll file a bug if needed and someone confirms. It's not a bug: /bin/vi is supplied by the vim-minimal package and /usr/bin/vim is supplied by vim-ehnabced. Just alias vi to vim and you should be all set. Alfred _

[CentOS] Strategy for using CentOS on laptops in an NIS environment

We use NIS (ypbind) and Kerberos at work for all our Linux and Unix systems. Home directories are mounted via autofs from an NIS map. Everything works just fine as long as all network resources are available (however, things turn ugly when the NIS servers are not reachable). Some users a

Re: [CentOS] Gnome Desktop Questions?

On Sep 5, 2008, at 11:41, James B. Byrne wrote: Can somebody tell me how to get these minor, but for me very desirable, changes made to the second system? The only difference between the two systems that I can recall is that one (the first) was upgraded from 4.6 while the second (the more

[CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things that used to work then d

Re: [CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

Yesterday I wrote: I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things tha

Re: [CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5

The easy way to do this would be to open an issue report at bugs.centos.org/ and someone can work with you to verify the bug exists. Done: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3200 Thanks, Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

[CentOS] Is anyone using Review Board on CentOS 5?

I'm trying to install Review Board (http://review-board.org) with python-setup tools and "sudo easy_install ReviewBoard", but this fails as follows: easy_install ReviewBoard Searching for ReviewBoard Best match: ReviewBoard 0.9.dev-20081202 Processing ReviewBoard-0.9.dev_20081202-py2.4.egg Rev

Re: [CentOS] Is anyone using Review Board on CentOS 5?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 13:28, R P Herrold wrote: > cough cough ... as pointed to by INSTALL > > http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/wiki/GettingStarted > http://f13o.blogspot.com/2008/01/install-reviewboard-on- > centos-51.html Oops, I guess I didn't read far enough down on the GettingSt

[CentOS] Issue with package-cleanup --oldkernels with PAE kernel

I'm not sure if this is a bug, known issue, feature, etc. On my CentOS systems with the PAE kernel installed, package-cleanup behaves as follows: # rpm -q kernel package kernel is not installed # rpm -q kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 k

[CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

What is the best way to get the RPM described in the following URL installed on CentOS 5.2: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0586.html I have users who can't run cron jobs because their home directories are NFS mounted, and I believe installing this RPM would fix the problem. I re

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:49, Ned Slider wrote: > I've rebuilt most of the upstream fastrack packages for CentOS-5.2 > here: > > http://centos.toracat.org/ned/CentOS-5/testing/ > > Usual disclaimers apply - provided "as is", and use at your own risk. Great, I grabbed a copy but will probably not i

Re: [CentOS] Question about Shell Script.

On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:52, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > By putting `` or $( ) around the call. You can also eliminate the grep altogether: NUMBEROFPRO=/oracle/10.2.0/db_1/bin/sqlplus / as sysdba

Re: [CentOS] Checking for changes

http://www.ext3cow.com/Welcome.html -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Joseph L. Casale Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009 22:49 An: 'CentOS mailing list' Betreff: [CentOS] Checking for changes Is ther

[CentOS] Intermittent NFS problems with NetApp server

I've been experiencing some intermittent problems accessing at NetApp server via NFS and automount. I'm running CentOS 5.2 (fully updated) on all my servers and workstations. Usually, everything is working just fine, when suddenly we get the following error: /bin/sh: /home/epd/srcref/sw

Re: [CentOS] sorting a file

> I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - > the > IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the > best > way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address > appears ? I always solve a problem like this with a small Perl script.

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead. I put whatever version of the driver I want to deploy (currently NVIDIA- Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run) in a network accessible location and create a link named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest to it. The script then handles the rest. Alfred

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:35, William L. Maltby wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. If the > system load is high and memory is short, you may be getting into a > swap > situation. I suggest trying the test when the system is lightly loaded > to see if the results di

Re: [CentOS] Another system with no sound

On May 9, 2011, at 10:30, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Have you compared /etc/modprobe.conf? I had not, but on these two systems they are identical: alias eth0 tg3 alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 remove snd-h

[CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate the installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.cfg file generated by the manual install. However, I can't wrap my b

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

On Aug 16, 2011, at 17:30, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Is you network card even loaded when you type "ifconfig -a" in the $hell? > Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. I'm away from the system now, so I can't post the output if ifconfig now, but basically I did a

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: > If you mean during the install, add "--activate" to your kickstart > file's "network ..." line. That's good to know for the near future when I will be tweaking my existing kickstart files. > If you mean after the install, what's the output of "chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: > If you mean after the install, what's the output of "chkconfig --list > NetworkManager", "chkconfig --list network", and your NIC's ifcfg-X? I ended up re-installing the system from DVD this morning (don't have my kickstart server set up yet), and this t

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:58, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual card that > have the connections That's my point, I only have one NIC (it's a desktop system) yet NM created two config files, one with ONBOOT=no and the other with ONBOOT=yes.

[CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

I've updated my kickstart configuration files to work with CentOS 6 and am most of the way there integrating a CentOS 6 system into our LDAP/NIS environment. My authconfig line in the kickstart file is as follows: authconfig --enablemd5 --passalgo=sha512 --enablenis --nisdomain=XXX --nisserv

Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:18, Steven Crothers wrote: > Are they logging in locally or via SSH? Locally. Remote logins via ssh work just fine as the home directory is auto-mounted and ssh can find its keys. I think I solved the problem, but am out of the office today to fully test it. It involved

[CentOS] Error installing latest CentOS kernel from %post section of kickstart

I'm running the command "yum -y update" from a script called from the the post section of my kickstart config file, and I get the following error: Installing : kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686 185/378 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template After the i

Re: [CentOS] Error installing latest CentOS kernel from %post section of kickstart

On Aug 31, 2011, at 14:58, Ned Slider wrote: > Yes, it's a known issue: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2011-January/msg6.html > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257 Thanks, the workarounds described in the

Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure

On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:26, I wrote: > I think I solved the problem, but am out of the office today to fully test > it. It involved setting the default realm and adding some encryption types > to the /etc/krb5.conf file. What I still don't understand is what has > changed in CentOS 6 that cause

[CentOS] Creating a USB bootable modified netinstall ISO image

I’ve been creating slightly modified CentOS netinstall ISO images using the following steps: Copy contents of CentOS netinstall ISO image to a temporary directory Edit isolunux/isolinux.cfg file Create new ISO image using the following command: mkisofs -o new.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isol

Re: [CentOS] Creating a USB bootable modified netinstall ISO image

On Dec 3, 2014, at 12:01, Greg Bailey wrote: > I think you'd need to use the "isohybrid" command that's included in the > syslinux package. BING! BING! BING! We have a winner! Thanks for that info, it makes the USB stick bootable. This will make kickstart installations so much easier, especia

[CentOS] Pre-packaged Python 2.7 for 32-bit CentOS 6?

Either this doesn’t exist or my Google-foo is failing me this morning. I keep coming across the Software Collections Repository (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL), but that is for 64-bit only. Before I attempt to create Python-2.7 RPMs for 32-bit CentOS 6 to install i

Re: [CentOS] Pre-packaged Python 2.7 for 32-bit CentOS 6?

On Dec 15, 2014, at 9:54, Tony Schreiner wrote: > There's IUS > > http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/i386/repoview/ That seems to be what I need. I wonder why my Google searches didn’t unearth this. Thanks for the quick response, Alfred __

Re: [CentOS] Making custom USB install media

On Jan 13, 2015, at 23:16, Matt wrote: > I guess I could phrase my question as "Given that the default image for 6.6 > and 7.0 do this, how do I make custom media that does it to?" > > When I make custom media, it only works off an actual DVD. Have you tried /usr/bin/isohybrid on the ISO file?

[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can’t be replaced as it’s an integral part of the OS. However, is it possible to build a glib 2.15 RPM from source to be installed in /opt/cen

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 17:24, Patrick Flaherty wrote: > > Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really > not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new > install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only reasonable > thing to do, an

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? > > > Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that Docker requires 64-bit. Oh w

Re: [CentOS] Edit login user list on CentOS 6

> On Apr 10, 2015, at 17:12, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Less sure about 6. Maybe look at /var/cache/gdm ? I think you nailed it! I was using “grep -R” to search for all files that contained the usernames I wanted to remove, but gdm creates directories named after the usernames, which is why I

Re: [CentOS] Edit login user list on CentOS 6

> I think that you can exclude usernames from the list on Centos 6 > by making their user number less than 500. That doesn’t help me, as I have no users defined in the /etc/passwd file, and the UIDs are defined in a corporate database that match the employee number. > You can (also) exclude entr

[CentOS] Edit login user list on CentOS 6

The thread on the CentOS 7.1 user login screen reminded me of a small nagging issue I have on CentOS 6. We are using a Windows AD backend to authenticate users on our CentOS 6 systems. When a system is built, and nobody has yet logged into it, you have to enter your username in the login scree

[CentOS] Best way to integrate CentOS in Windows AD environment

We currently use a combination of Kerberos and NIS to manage users on our CentOS 6 systems in a Windows AD environment. NIS is provided by Windows Services for UNIX (or something named similarly), which has some issues, and is also not going to be supported by Microsoft in the future. NIS supp

[CentOS] Strange performance issue on CentOS 6.7 server

I’m running CentOS 6.7 on my build servers, and on one of the servers the builds are taking almost an order of magnitude longer than usual. There are no runaway processes and there is plenty of free memory. So I suspected that file I/O might be slow, and sure enough, that appears to be the cas

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issue on CentOS 6.7 server

On Feb 3, 2016, at 16:13, Warren Young wrote: > A dying hard disk can do it. HDDs try to silently paper over I/O errors, but > what they can’t hide is the time it takes to do this. If your HDD is > constantly correcting errors at the oxide layer, it will be reallly > sow. > > You can

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issue on CentOS 6.7 server

On Feb 3, 2016, at 17:10, Warren Young wrote: > smartctl can see through several different types of RAID controller to the > underlying physical disks via its -d option. This is what I have: # smartctl --all /dev/sda smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-linux-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686] (local b

[CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops, and on the desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all 900+ home directories listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted. If I don't start apache, this doesn't happen. We don't need access to home directories from ap

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:29, Mike Burger wrote: > If I may...why are you running Apache on your desktops? The products we develop need access to a web server, and some developers need a web server to test with. It's all just on our internal network; nothing is exposed to the Internet. Alfred _

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:20, Nux! wrote: > Instead of omitting LoadModule you could try to leave it enabled, but > specify a different userdir, i.e. not under /home. There is no reference to /home anywhere that I can find. I assume that apache just expands ~ to list all home directories and then

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:02, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Not the way I'd do it: where I've worked, and work, we have apache running > on servers, so we can guarantee their working ->correctly<-, and the > developers have directories that they can put things in and test that way. Well, all we need to

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 15:22, Mike Burger wrote: > Unless you've removed it from each and every Linux system (desktop > included), /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf contains the following: I have removed this on one of our test systems, rebooted, and it's still automounting all home directories. Alfred

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 15:37, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Ah, no. If it's running GUI, which none of our servers are, it wants > *everyone* who isn't nologin mounted. Including people who've never been > on that machine, nor will be. When you say "*it* wants", are you referring to apache or the GUI ma

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 16:43, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > For me, it's a gnome thing, not apache. Well, it's a combination of both. Gnome by itself doesn't do this; it only happens when you add apache to the mix. I set the init level to 3 on one of my test systems and rebooted. I also configured

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories? [SOLVED]

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:14, I wrote: > We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops, and on > the desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all 900+ home > directories listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted. If I don't start apache, > this doesn't happen. Aft

Re: [CentOS] the at command

On Jan 21, 2013, at 16:46, Jerry Geis wrote: > So I thought - hey in my program "I can send a command out that I want > to run - this command is also another program of mine, get the current > time, add 5 seconds to it, send this time HH:MM:SS > to all 10 boxes and "schedule" an "at" command to

[CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

I have a user who wants to have 4 monitors attached to his CentOS 6.4 system. I know that you can't use both on-board video and a PCI video card at the same time, but what about two PCI video cards? The system seems to recognize them as shown by the lspci -v output below, but I can't get Xorg

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

On Mar 28, 2013, at 19:02, Jay Leafey wrote: > It appears you are running the open-source nouveau drivers. I'm running dual > monitors, albeit on a single nVidia card, but I'm using the nVidia packages > from the elrepo repository. Look at http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia for > more details

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

On Mar 28, 2013, at 19:08, John R Pierce wrote: > actually with newer systems, the hardware does allow you to use builtin > and pci-express video concurrently. I had 3 monitors briefly on my > home (MS Windows 8) system, 2 were on a Nvidia GT640, the 3rd was hot > plugged into the onboard (In

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

On Mar 28, 2013, at 23:01, Dale Dellutri wrote: > What does xrandr report? Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 3200mm 1920x1080 59.9*+ 1600x1200 60.0 1680x105

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:58, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Nouveau supports dual monitors on a single card just fine. Yes, I have no problems with this either and have most of my users running with two monitors and the nouveau driver. But I'm trying to set up one user with 4 monitors now. This morning

Re: [CentOS] repeat command

On May 2, 2013, at 17:34, Michael Mol wrote: > On 05/02/2013 05:05 PM, Matt wrote: >> There is a unix command called repeat. >> >> repeat 10 some_command >> >> Basically repeats some command ten times. Is it available on Centos 6 >> and what package provides it? > > # yum whatprovides "*bin/re

Re: [CentOS] Missing Chrome Dependency

On Jun 18, 2013, at 6:28, Johnny Hughes wrote: > OK, the latest stable version of Chromium is now posted here: > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/ Thanks for all you for CentOS and for making this available. Any chance you can add support for the 32-bit version? I'm running CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Missing Chrome Dependency

On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > There is now a 32 bit version of chromium posted ... same instructions > ... please test it. I was out of the office yesterday so I couldn't test it until now. It installs and runs fine for me, but I go get the same warning that was previously r

Re: [CentOS] Motherboard and chipset compatibility

On Aug 12, 2013, at 14:01, John R Pierce wrote: > how about an ultrasmall form factor desktop, such as the Dell Optiplex > 7010 USFF ? those have dual displayport outputs (requires $7 optional > video output panel), and are 24x6.5x24cm I was going to recommend the Optiplex 7010 as well. I ru

Re: [CentOS] Motherboard and chipset compatibility

On Aug 12, 2013, at 16:17, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > I didn't even know that the Optiplex 7010 was CentOS compatible (though > someone may have mentioned it in my previous thread); it is not on the > RedHat Hardware List, not does Dell's web site go out of its way to mention > it. Again, how does o

[CentOS] Need help resolving yum update issues on mixed architecture system

I have been using 32-bit CentOS since the 4.X days without a real need for 64-bit, but in preparation for CentOS 7, I have installed 64-bit CentOS 6 on a test system to qualify all our builds. However, in order to build some of our current 32-bit applications, I had to install some i686 package

Re: [CentOS] Need help resolving yum update issues on mixed architecture system

On Feb 24, 2014, at 18:59, John R Pierce wrote: > how did you do these installs? I've never had trouble doing it via > yum, like: yum install glibc.i686 That's exactly what I did, and it worked fine (I can compile our 32-bit apps), but I get the error when I try to do the "yum update".

Re: [CentOS] Need help resolving yum update issues on mixed architecture system

On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:13, John Doe wrote: > Maybe try 'protected_multilib' in yum.conf (see man). Thanks for the hint. Upon closer inspection, the issue was with glib from rpmforge, so doing a "yum update --disablerepo=rpmforge\*" makes it work. Alfred ___

[CentOS] How to configure user accounts without NIS

The company where I work is mostly a Windows shop, but I run a few CentOS servers and desktops. I have configured my systems as follows with Kickstart: authconfig --enablemd5 --passalgo=sha512 --enablenis --nisdomain=XXX \ --nisserver=nis1.XXX.com,nis2.XXX.com --useshadow --enablekrb5 \ --

Re: [CentOS] How to configure user accounts without NIS

On Jun 10, 2014, at 18:39, Andrew Holway wrote: > Integrated linux domain controller -> http://www.freeipa.org/ I’ll look into this, but I was hoping for a solution that can be configured via kickstart (similar to what I am doing now with NIS/Kerberos) without the need for external software and/

[CentOS] Problem installing glibc-devel.i686 on CentOS 7

The following transcript should provide all the necessary details: # yum install glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7.i686 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.gigenet.com * epel: mirrors.xmission.com * extras: mirrors.gigenet.com * updates: f

Re: [CentOS] Problem installing glibc-devel.i686 on CentOS 7

On Aug 28, 2017, at 11:53, Akemi Yagi wrote: > It is actually ​glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7_3.5.i686. So you either provide > the whole name or just use glibc-devel.i686 for the yum command. Thanks Akemi, that worked. I had done a “yum search” and just cut & pasted from the output, but leaving out t

[CentOS] Problem with graphics on latest CentOS 6

The thread "Problems with kernel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64” reminded me that I have a similar problem but on the latest CentOS 6 kernel I’ve been meaning to report. Here is the relevant system information: Linux ssg003.bose.com 2.6.32-696.13.2.el6.i686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 20:42:25 UTC 2017 i686 i

Re: [CentOS] Problem with graphics on latest CentOS 6

graphics. Alfred > On Oct 29, 2017, at 15:29, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > The thread "Problems with kernel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64” reminded me that > I have a similar problem but on the latest CentOS 6 kernel I’ve been meaning > to report. Here is the relevant system inf

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Where to buy S/MIME ??

> On Nov 25, 2018, at 8:35, Alice Wonder wrote: > > Where do regular users who just want an inexpensive certificate usable for > S/MIME from a CSR generated the traditional way go to buy a cert? Have you looked at https://letsencrypt.org? Alfred __

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