Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 05/12/2009 11:11 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Ed Heron wrote: > >> Has anybody had a chance to look at this? >> > > Moving it up on my to-do list... > > When cloning the root partition need to add "H" to the rsync flags to > preserve hard links. Don't think /boot uses hard links, but

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 05/12/2009 10:19 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:22, William L. Maltby > wrote: > >> In my experience, most admins set this to the preferred >> shell interpreter (csh, bash, ...). >> > > /bin/sh is the standard path for the Bourne Shell. No, it's no

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
From: "Phil Schaffner", Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:11 PM > Ed Heron wrote: >> Has anybody had a chance to look at this? > > Moving it up on my to-do list... Thanks. > When cloning the root partition need to add "H" to the rsync flags to > preserve hard links. Don't think /boot uses hard links,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ed Heron wrote: > Has anybody had a chance to look at this? Moving it up on my to-do list... When cloning the root partition need to add "H" to the rsync flags to preserve hard links. Don't think /boot uses hard links, but wouldn't hurt to use it there also. An often-recommended alternative

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:22, William L. Maltby wrote: > In my experience, most admins set this to the preferred > shell interpreter (csh, bash, ...). /bin/sh is the standard path for the Bourne Shell. If you change that to the C shell or something else that is not compatible with the Bourn

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:33 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > > >>> For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. > >> curious -- when coding under that criterion,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: > I didn't mean to start a holy war here! ;) Bash is also ok ;) Yeah, let's not do it. Otherwise, someone would start C-shell bashing soon... Are you listening, Evolution? :-D Akemi ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
I didn't mean to start a holy war here! ;) Bash is also ok ;) 2009/5/12 R P Herrold : > On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. >>> curious -- when cod

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: >>> For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. >> curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: >> /bin/sh >> in my script's shebang ;) > lrwxrw

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. > > curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: > /bin/sh > in my script's shebang ;) lrwxrwx

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: /bin/sh in my script's shebang ;) -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS-doc

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
>haven't yet, but will do so later today. And if nobody complains, hey, >it probably is a good article :) > >Ralph Either that or I've hit a target nobody is interested in... OK. It's a great article and nobody has any suggestions or problems... I'm batting 1000... yeah, that. Thanks.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ed Heron wrote: > From: "Ed Heron", Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:16 PM > > My first draft of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID is > > complete. > > > > Please, give it a once or thrice over and let me know what you think. > > > > I didn't go into too much detail with some steps. If

[CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? > Strange >:) not at all -- have used it for years; did a LUG presentation as well. It can live well in the inittab and run as a daemon process for very rapid prototyping. h

[CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
From: "Ed Heron", Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:16 PM > My first draft of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID is > complete. > > Please, give it a once or thrice over and let me know what you think. > > I didn't go into too much detail with some steps. If you think a > specific > ste

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for homepage

2009-05-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Cleber Souza wrote: > I have tried to change my homepage but were not allowed. Could it be allowed? > Username CleberSouza. Try again. Ralph pgpqvECrrAGaw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for homepage

2009-05-12 Thread Cleber Souza
I have tried to change my homepage but were not allowed. Could it be allowed? Username CleberSouza. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Mats Karlsson wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 23:11, Ralph Angenendt >> wrote: >> > Mats Karlsson wrote: >> >> On 2009-04-29, Mats Kar

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
Yes, I agree ;) The problem is that I am not familiar with this language ;) 2009/5/12 William L. Maltby : > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:23 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: >> 2009/5/12 Ralph Angenendt : >> > >> > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? >> > Strange >:)

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread David Dreggors
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? > Strange >:) > Yes and No... to many of us it may seem odd, we all know that shell scripting is faster and way more powerful than php. We also know that one could accomplish the same thing in half th

Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lalit Dhiri wrote: ... > I could not get the Ethernet to work when I first installed 5.2 on > the XPS M1530 so I chose to use the same route and made use of WiFi. > I will try Ethernet with out making changes with 5.3 to see if things > get going if not this is probably still the easiest route imho

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:23 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: > 2009/5/12 Ralph Angenendt : > > > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? > > Strange >:) > Why strange ;) I think PHP is no worse than Perl. I think the choice > of scripting language for tools is up to t

Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please

2009-05-12 Thread Lalit Dhiri
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:53:35 +0100 > From: n...@unixmail.co.uk > To: centos-docs@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please > > The hardware looks very similar to the XPS M1330 here (other than you > have the nVidia graphics

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
> I hate Webmin period. I like the scripted install though. Period? What period? Education period? :) I think that depends on the admin. Some like GUI tools, some don't. If I can do something faster with GUI, I'll do that with GUI. I think "command-liners" and "GUI lovers" are two opposite sides in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Vladislav Rastrusny
2009/5/12 Ralph Angenendt : > Noted. That would fit under "Admin tricks and shell one-liners", > wouldn't it? Yes, I think this is the place because it is very simple and plain. > Okay. I'm waiting for comments here - php as a scripting language? > Strange >:) Why strange ;) I think PHP is no wors

Re: [CentOS-docs] Link to Chinese translation in Wiki frontpage

2009-05-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
Timothy Lee wrote: >> That should not be a major issue, we have a couple of VM's that can be >> thrown together for this sort of a thing. If you want to go ahead and >> send me your ssh key, I can get the vm setup and get you access on there. >> > OK, attached please find my SSH key. Just on

Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please

2009-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Lalit Dhiri wrote: > Good morning, > > Would anyone with CentOS Wiki experience consider giving feedback on the > state of my draft article at? > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Dell/XPS_M1530 > > I will be adding info ref Nvidia graphics card driver, hard drive Load Cycle > and hope t

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 23:04 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: > Hello! > > I was advised by the forum moderator to ask for contribution: > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20223&forum=38&post_id=76546#forumpost76546 > > My wiki login is VladislavRastrusny > > I would

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribute request

2009-05-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Hi, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: > I would like to contribute for Tips & Tricks section with a small > automated script to install webmin repository data and webmin itself > from here: > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20223&forum=38&post_id=76546#forumpost76546 Noted.

Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please

2009-05-12 Thread Lalit Dhiri
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:09:19 -0400 > From: philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov > To: centos-docs@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] XPS1530 Draft Comments Please > >> > > Looks pretty overall. > > Just a style comment - but I'd enclose things like lspci