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Finally moved my home desktop from Fedora to CentOS. My spouse was unhappy with me upgrading from F9-->F10-->f11 etc and wanted something more stable. I built a second machine which is now running in parallel to the old F11 desktop. I moved my data (mail and files) from the F11 box to the CentOS 5.4 box. I used tar to move everything. Mail and files transferred A-OK...but the Evolution

I have a requirement to allow our security officer to regularly view and analyze the logging and auditing results of one of the machines in our lab. He comes from the Microsoft Windows world and is not a *nix trained person. I know I can configure logwatch. I can also create a script containing various 'aureport' runs into a cron job. Any recommendations for a GUI-based tool that would

I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn't seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc. Dave

Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to blow away and install CentOS 6. C6 install process finds raid metadata associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the installation process. There doesn't appear to be an option for disassembling the raid as part of the install process. I think there should be. Any tricks to removing/by-passing

Sending my son back to college with a dual-boot laptop with Win 7 and CentOS 5.5. He uses Win7 to manage his iPod and SW that sometimes issued by a professor for a specific course...otherwise he uses CentOS for everything else. That setup worked well last year, except for printing. He has a low-end Cannon printer that is not supported in the Linux realm. Most of his coursework was uploaded to

> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey > <davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote: > > This is my first post here on the CentOS forums.? I've been running > Fedora > > since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work.? But this is > my first > > foray into CentOS. > > > > I followed the multimedia guidance on t...

Received the following message in mail to root: Message 257: >From root at desk4.localdomain Tue Oct 28 07:25:37 2014 Return-Path: <root at desk4.localdomain> X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: root at desk4.localdomain From: mdadm monitoring <root at desk4.localdomain> To: root at desk4.localdomain Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md0:desk4 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:25:27

Hi David, Am 03.12.2014 um 02:14 schrieb David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizion.net>: > This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm > running on desk4 > > A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. > > Faithfully yours, etc. > > P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: > > P...

Somewhat offtopic, watch out for xguest; it can create problems. I.e. if you logout from xguest you can't log back in, you need to reboot. HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David McGuffey" <davidmcguffey at verizion.net> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 02:12:23 > Subject: [CentOS] How to configure xguest Firefox home page > I've installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a > kiosk machine...

Tried as I might, I cannot get kvm on CentOS 5.4 to run as a non-root user. Have Googled and followed guidance I've found (put the regular user in the kvm group, change permissions on several files, etc.). Anyone have decent (e.g., working) guidance on how to do this? Dave M

I'm doing some testing in a lab which is isolated from the rest of my network (DMZ). I'm doing both inbound and outbound filtering at the firewall (CentOS +iptables). What protocols, ports and destination IP addresses does yum use to identify updates, and then actually go get them for installation? Looking at yum.conf and wireshark data, yum appears to go to a central site, look up the

I have an older quad-core AMD processor that supports hardware virtualization on a motherboard that does not support it in the bios. Eventually I'll swap the mobo out on this box for one that will support hardware virtualization and use qemu-kvm. I prefer kvm because of SELinux and sVirt that protects the host from VM breakout should a VM become hostile. In the meantime, I want to start work

Moat of the advanced persistent threats (APT) are initiated via e-mail. Opening an attachment or clicking on a web link starts the process. Why isn't Firefox and Evolution confined with SELinux policy in a way that APT can't damage the rest of the system? Why are we not sandboxing these two apps with SELinux? I've discovered some guidance for sandboxing Firefox using the

I'm receiving the centos-request in digest mode. Using Fedora 10 and Evolution. When I tried to reply to a centos-request message inside the digest, the result doesn't seem to look right. I cut/paste the proper subject line (replacing the CentOS Digest, Vol NN, Issue nn text), but some have complained that this approach doesn't allow the original question and replies to be threaded.

I want to add a new video card that will drive multiple monitors. Current installation of CentOS 6.3 x86_64 is working well with the hdmi output of the motherboard. Once I install the new video card, how do I force 6.3 to discover and configure it? Seems with 6.0 and newer, system-config-display is gone and replaced with a combination of udev and xrandr. I'm not familiar with these and

Trying to set up a copy of CentOS 6.2 for home use and give each family member their own guest. Goal is to cripple the host so that no meaningful work can be done through it and each family member must use their own guest. "Gold Disk" masters would be kept of each guest, so if they screw it up, I can simply overwrite their current guest from the master. SELinux is enabled and sVirt

Have been running 5.4 x86_64 for a couple of months now. Every once in a while, I would get a notice that updates were available. It appears that about 3 weeks ago, yum stopped notifying me of updates. Over that time, I've manually done a 'yum update' from a command line, with an output that there are no updates. I know this cannot be true, because I watch the 'centOS-announce

Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 module and associated firmware. However, he claims that at school, he has always had intermittent problems with wireless under

...hrough these short outages. I'll obtain a new 250G (or larger) drive and start rooting around for guidance on how to replace a drive with the MBR and /boot on it. On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 22:11 +0100, Leon Fauster wrote: > Hi David, > > Am 03.12.2014 um 02:14 schrieb David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizion.net>: > > This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm > > running on desk4 > > > > A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. > > > > Faithfully yours, etc. > > > > P.S. The /proc/mdstat file curren...