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Hello, are there any best practices for the length of user names? I tend to limit them to 8 characters and to follow the pattern 'first letter of the first name'+'first 7 letters of the last name' (e.g. mbaudier). But people are sometimes frustrated with having their last name truncated and I wonder if limiting the user name to 8 characters is not a kind of superstition coming from some old times... I would be very interested to hear opinions / experience about this. (I'm using CentOS 5.5) Thanks in...

...te and that this may be a driver problem. A few more information about my settings which may be useful: - the root filesystem is installed on an LVM - I use the NetworkManager and not the network service - I disabled bluetooth (in order to remove all unused devices that may impact this problem) - [mbaudier at localhost ~]$ lshal | grep suspen org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.method_execpaths = {'hal-system-power-suspend', 'hal-system-power-suspend-clear-error', 'hal-system-power-hibernate', 'hal-system-power-hibernate-clear-error', 'hal-system-pow...

Hi, When browsing the (excellent) deployment guide I found the following broken links: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-basic-firewall-securitylevel-enable.html ('Next' link from http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-basic-firewall-securitylevel.html) http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-iptables-options-commands.html

> Then I hope to finish my tutorial on installing Eclipse > Helios for Centos 5.5 Is there anything special to be done? I just unzipped the SR1 distribution for RCP/RAP developers linux-gtk-x86_64 and it works without problem on an up to date CentOS 5.5 x86_64. (to be more precise: I install it as root under /opt, install some plugins like subclipse and regular users start it from there)

Hello, I'm currently setting up a virtualization infrastructure based on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and KVM. I want to use LVM because of its flexibility, especially the ability to add more disk space to a guest if needed. We are considering using an hardware RAID1 with BBU as the lowest layer. My question is: where is it recommended to put the LVM? 1. On the host only In that case, the guests

Hello, I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and above all well compatible with CentOS. Hibernate / suspend feature are important to me, because that's the main issue I have with CentOS on other laptops. I have found the following

Hello, since I upgraded from CentOS x86_64 5.4 to 5.5, I noticed that Firefox has become significantly slower on GMail (or Google Apps Mail). The page becomes slow to scroll as soon as there are more than a few mails in a conversation (like in a typical CentOS mailing list thread). Did anyone else notice that as well? (I guess that I'm not the only GMail user around) Could I have missed

Hello, I'm currently travelling (in south-eastern Europe) with a netbook (Samsung NC 10) running CentOS 5.4 i386. I frequently try to access internet from bars or hotels (mostly via wireless). Although it works pretty often, it happens quite regularly that in some hotels I cannot access internet from CentOS while it is possible from Windows. This is the case in the hotel where I am currently

Hi, we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two different types of server by a provider: - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xml The target infrastructure will host: - a few public web sites (PHP / MySQL) - a development

Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add the following kernel arguments to the GRUB boot configuration: pcie_aspm=force

Hi, in order to test a future deployment of our apps on Solaris, I tried to virtualize Solaris 10 (update 7) in KVM. It installed fine but afterward it keep rebooting: reboot -> GRUB -> reboot -> GRUB etc. I know that Solaris is not officially supported by CentOS/KVM in CentOS 5.4:

Hi, I have a virtualized infrastructure based on KVM/QEMU with CentOS 5.5 x86_64 hosts and guests, using bridge networking. I want to set up IP based VirtualHosts in Apache (because they will use SSL) and I have ordered an IP block. Now, in order to have the IPs available on some guests, I'm wondering whether I should: 1 - add additional virtual interfaces or 2 - set up IP aliases (eth0:1,

from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? > Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every > revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a > public revision control system? > I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS? That would indeed be fascinating and useful

Hello, Amazon has just released a custom Linux distribution (Amazon Linux AMI) for use in their EC2 cloud: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_is_the_Amazon_Linux_AMI Out of curiosity, I googled a bit around it and read in various places (e.g. [1] and [2]) that it is based on CentOS 5 (basically a stripped down version) and should be compatible with most packages. Do any of you have

Hello, I have a Kyocera FS1920 network printer, and I run an up-to-date CentOS 5.6 x86_64 workstation. When I try to print with evince or Firefox the default paper size is always set to US Letter whereas the printer use A4. I have searched and other people seem to have the problem, but the only recommendations that I have found boil down to setting the default paper size to A4 in the CUPS

Hello, I need to do some analog video capture and I was wondering what is the status of this in CentOS 6. The last information I could find was here (obviously for CentOS 5): http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-September/082521.html Could anybody recommend a not-too-expensive video capture cards (PCI, USB, fireWire, ...) which would be well supported (drivers easily available in base,

> - Baseurl for the CR repo is set to only use centos.org internal > ?machines, this is to reduce the amount of time we need to spend in > ?seeding and then managing external mirrors. Is it possible to synchronize locally the CR repo? We usually synchronize all repositories in our internal network via the third-party mirrors, but since the CR repo won't be available there, it would

Hello, I'm considering buying a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 *Tablet*. Does anybody run CentOS 6 on it? Is the multitouch working? Thanks in advance for any hint, Mathieu PS: I have checked thinkwiki.org already

Hello, I just registered to the wiki under the login: MathieuBaudier I'm currently testing a lot CentOS (see below: To introduce myself quickly) and although I target server deployments, I have also spent some time configuring desktops. I went through some of the pain and I would have been happy to share it with other through the wiki. Especially: - I configured a fairly recent MacBook Pro

Hi, I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running continuously and I would like to better manage their power consumption. I have found interesting information on how to perform CPU scaling (e.g. [1] or [2]). But I cannot find if there is a way to (software) monitor power consumption on CentOS (or other such data like CPU temperature, fan speed etc.). What I read so far is that