[CentOS] Re: USB Wireless device for CentOS?

MHR wrote: I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) I have a tp-link tl-wn322g. The folks at tp-link were very easy to contact and helpful. They provided me the driver for it by e-mail Mel

[CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense geographically but not in terms of bandwidth. Alt

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91 kb 1:20 kerne

[CentOS] Re: Automatic site selection for dowload

Karanbir Singh wrote: You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little w

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

Johnny Hughes wrote: > What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it > passes a list of high bandwidth machines. > > I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I > can get a better result. I reported a problem like this much earlier. I am in Hong

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

I am having a problem that I assume is a set-up problem but I don't know which area to look at to fix it. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. I can't get the simple Perl "Hello World" script to work. Oh, it does print "Hello World" OK but it also prints the "Content" li

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

Kai Schaetzl wrote: Tech wrote on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:01:26 +0800: Oh, it does print "Hello World" OK but it also prints the "Content" line as text rather than using it as a directive. This is not a setup problem and not a CentOS problem. Your script is probably wrong in

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

ver) -steve Steve, Thanks for the reply. Instead of links I will post the code as it is very short. This is what the browser displays all on one line exactly as shown: Content-type: text/html Hello, world! Here is the index.html file: Tech Here is the hello.cgi file: #!/bin/perl pr

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

> nate wrote: Do you have server side includes turned on in apache? (in the section typically) Are your includes configured with the NoExec option? Hi Nate, Don't think so. I have +Includes and ExecCGI in directory options. NoExec does not appear anywhere in HTTP.conf or in perl.conf Mel

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

> Stephen Harris wrote: Right. The O/P is confusing his weasels. He's writing a CGI script but using an _include_ script. Two totally different things. Stephen, Thank you. I appreciate your time and patience. I now know what to go find to fix this. I was trying to do this the same way I i

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

> nate wrote: Have you tried variations on the path? e.g if your executing a shell I don't think ./cgi-bin/ would be a valid path, it would be relative to the file system itself. Example from my personal web site: Nate, The ./cgi-bin/ is under public_html. It is set in http.conf as a CGI

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

> nate wrote: Try calling the cgi directly like my example instead of executing perl in a shell. Will do. Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie "Hello World" problem SOLVED

> Lanny Marcus wrote: I began with Assembly Language, Machine Language and Fortran. This sounds like me (except for the Fortran bit). I even think that COBOL is new fangled stuff. This "senior citizen" doesn't mind being called a newbie. I have made some progress but am still frustrated. I

[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie "Hello World" problem SOLVED

John wrote: One last thing is how are you running the "cgi-bin" contents? Through Apache, Mod-CGI, Fast-CGI or Mod Pythons CGI? Apache needs to be the folder owner witch I take it, it is from you saying it does work on a few things? John, Thanks. I have the apache (http.conf) file directory op

[CentOS] Re: OT: C++ Newbie "Hello World" problem SOLVED

> Lanny Marcus wrote: Try Thanks. I have gone and posted there. To comment on some other suggestions I received here: Setting the folder to apache did not fix the problem. SELinux has not been run on this system. I had noticed some funny things with setti

[CentOS] CGI configuration - second post

This is my second request for help with this problem. I have followed the suggestions given the first time and made some progress but I still have one final problem/question. I have two CGI scripts that don't work. One is the standard Set-Cookie, examples can be found all over the net, that se

[CentOS] Re: CGI configuration - second post

> Ralph Angenendt wrote: And next time you ask something please include *error* messages. Ralph, Sorry. I should have said that there is nothing in the error log. I have entries in the access log but not the error log. I had one before but I did a complete format and re-install and it is go

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

John R Pierce wrote: > all the BackUPs I've ever seen have been simple relay switched units. > when the power is on, you're getting unfiltered power (except for a MOV > based surge protector), when the power is out, it switches to the > "modified square wave" inverter output. John, There a