similar to: system-config-network on 5.1

What is happening in centos 5 with network config files??? I have a machine with 2 network cards. ifcfg-eth1 keeps changing to DHCP. All my static setup is gone. Why is it doing this? How can I stop it? I run "netconfig -d eth1" and re-setup my static information. I reboot and now I am back to DHCP. I have a gigabyte motherboard, nvidia chipset. forcedeth driver. eth0 is e1000.

I am doing a yum install netconfig on the new 5.1 and nothing gets installed. Was it removed? replaced with something else? yum provides netconfig does not show a "bin" command just false matches. Is there a new command? Thanks, Jerry

On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to create a script that runs upon login that asks the user a series of questions that does (among other things) ask them to input their networking information (IP, mask, gate, DNS, etc). I'm hoping you guys might point me in the right direction. Here are some of the specific things I'm looking to accomplish with such a script.

Is there any "formal" mechanizism by which after a yum update , and kernel change that "drivers" can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? Do I need to make my own? Thanks, Jerry

When using gimp on centos 5.1 when I select File save it never comes back with a dialog to save the file. Is something broken on gimp? Jerry

Hi, i just installed CentOS Sparc, but i dont know how to configure the network interface. Could someone tell which files do i have to modify??? thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I have a device on my network that is not DHCP and I dont know the IP address of it and it has not method of finding it or changing it unless you know the IP address (setable by browser). Is there a way on linux, based on MAC address, to get the IP of the unit? Thanks, Jerry

I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2. I am getting arg list to long. I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2. I am using the default shell which is bash. How can I get past this? THanks, Jerry

All, I have been looking at zenity to pop up messages on the X screen. Is there another alternative to zenity that I have not found? I need to be able to completely remove the OK button, I cannot find a way in zenity to do this. also It would be nice to have a --timeout 5 option on the command line also. Any suggestions? Jerry

I am getting an error about to many open files. I tried to "echo 500000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" The number is there now, but I continue to get the error. Is there something else to do? Jerry

After installing 4.92 I wanted to run netconfig. It was not availble. I did "yum install netconfig" and got the package. What should I have selected in the "custom packages" at install time to get netconfig? Thanks, Jerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I changed my X driver from nvidia to xv. Now when I vncviewer into my machine it KILLS my current logged in user. When I try to login it accepts my login looks like its going to do it then kills my X windows screen. When I reconnect I'm back at a login again. This is for my account user geis. If I login as root it all works fine. I was told to change from nvidia to nv as some other

I have a box I just installed centos 4.5 on. The name of the machine in /etc/hosts is TomSlick.xyz.com TomSlick (for example). the name of the machine in /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=TomSlick.xyz.com Note both are upper case: Yet when I login as root the prompt is showing me tomslick in lower case not a combo upper lower. I have grepped /etc and below for tomslick and cannot find why this

Is there a method to display pop up messages on X display? I found xmessage, however I was hoping for something a little more flexible. like being able to tell xmessage to display a file (typically one line in the file). then send it a signal to tell it to re-read the file and show the new data. Sure I can kill it and re-show it but that isnt very nice... Is there something available in centos

I am trying to find a way to set auto login for a machine under X using the command line. I presume I want to use gconftool-2 to do that. Under the old X centos 4 I edited /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf This file no longer exists under X 7 for centos 5. I cant find a way to "show all" under gconftool-2 so that I can see what the key/value pair should be. When I do "gconftool-2 -a "

This morning I am getting a message on my screen that: There was a problem registering the panel with the bonobo-activation server error code is 1 It further suggests run bonobo-slay to perhaps take care of the situation. When I run bonobo-slay it says: bonobo-slay Can not open directory /usr/lib/bonobo/servers No such file or directory What do I do now? Thanks, Jerry

I installed a gcvs package today. I tried to then run gcvs and I get this error: gcvs: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory rpm -qa | grep libgtk returns nothing. yum install libgtk returns Nothing to do. What am I missing? Jerry

Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed? What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4? Thought maybe today we would start seeing 5.3 showing up... Looking forward to it. Jerry

grabbed my DVD and did an install. When partitioning the disk I did not see a selection for ext4. Is this enabled after the fact some how? Jerry

Hi all, There are many packages in centos. Does there exist a "listing" of packages that have the dual licensing? By dual license I mean packages not just GPL licensing in a commercial setting. Thanks, Jerry