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...files. After they've been in use for a while their sparseness is reduced even though they may have lots of free space. Having the guest kernel fill deleted blocks with zeros doesn't make the underlying file sparse, but it does help. I've got a page with more details: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/sparsify.html Anyway, a couple of things: 1. The patch (see below) is pretty simple. I've been using it for some time in UML build systems for old versions of software (rh62, anyone?), and today I even tried it for several seconds in a Xen domU kernel. It seems to do w...

I noticed that although I'd fetched the latest update to ntp from the mirror it wasn't being installed. It seems that the version numbers have got out of step. According to the changelog the update that was released in August should have had the version number 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2, whereas in CentOS it's actually 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2. The changelog says the latest update

I've mostly been using MATE from epel when I use GUI access on CentOS7 because it works with x2go, but just noticed on a system with Gnome3 that I can't drag items out of the menus to the desktop or top bar for easier access. Is there some way to make the desktop space useful for more than pretty wallpaper? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

Hi, I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me? Here is how i did: 1) I installed 4.8-RELEASE from CD, 2) I used cvsup to upgrade. For this i used the stable-supfile as shown in the Handbook. => My OS version as shown by 'uname -a' and '/stand/sysinstall' is "4.8-STABLE". It

Hello, I was asked if it is possible to zero unused space in ext3 partition? Users write to the server via Samba and are far from computer geeks so teaching them to use some safedelete utility is quite impossible. Is there some way or utility to wipe out all the data from unused space? Thanks, Mindaugas

Hello, I was asked if it is possible to zero unused space in ext3 partition? Users write to the server via Samba and are far from computer geeks so teaching them to use some safedelete utility is quite impossible. Is there some way or utility to wipe out all the data from unused space? Thanks, Mindaugas

The issue of webcams not working with recent kernels on CentOS 6.6 has come up a number of times on the list. I'm happy to report that the latest kernel (2.6.32-504.8.1) appears to have fixed the problem. The relevant changelog entry is: - [usb] ehci: Fix a regression in the ISO scheduler (Gustavo Duarte) [1162072 1145805] The related CentOS bug report is here:

Les Mikesell wrote: >I've mostly been using MATE from epel when I use GUI access on CentOS7 >because it works with x2go, but just noticed on a system with Gnome3 >that I can't drag items out of the menus to the desktop or top bar for >easier access. Is there some way to make the desktop space useful for >more than pretty wallpaper? I'm not at my usual machines so I

Johnny Hughes wrote: >This was discussed on the CentOS-Devel mailing list and approved by the >CentOS Board. Yes, it was discussed at great length on centos-devel. The core developers proposed a date-based versioning system which met with much opposition. I certainly wasn't convinced by their arguments. >It is what we are using in the future. I suggest you become familiar

The EPEL mirrors for EL4 no longer have a headers directory, just repodata. This means that up2date has stopped working. Is this a problem with EPEL or with my system? Ron

Hello, I'm backing up a file server using rsync from a cron job, which recently started to give me errors like: delete_file: rmdir "/some/path" failed: Directory not empty symlink "/some/path" -> "/some/other/path" failed: File exists Looking at the involved files and directories, it looks like the user decided to replace a directory with a symlink, but

I'm having trouble getting CentOS 4.5 to install via FTP. I have a local FTP server with a mirror of 4/os/i386. I boot from the first CentOS 4.5 CD and enter 'linux askmethod'. I choose the FTP installation method and DHCP for the IP configuration. At the FTP Setup screen I enter the IP address of my server and the path of the i386 directory. Selecting OK there takes me to the CD

Phil Wyett <philwyett at aura-tech-systems.co.uk> wrote: >Could you be more specific about your issue? Does the webcam get >detected? if you use 'cheese' do you get any errors in say 'dmesg'? > >There has been a webcam issue of late that seems to trace back to a >regression with the latest kernels. This was fixed in the centos plus >kernel, but there is a

Hi, while discussing with friends how to 'hide' an ssh-entry to a system (using uncommon ports, "knocking" on a sequence of ports with telnet, etc) we saw the problem you need all that ports open on the client side as well. But maybe on the client side you are just a guest and those ports are locked for a good reason. So we had another idea: using a sequence of login-names

Precedence: bulk Hi folks, It seemed to me that it would be useful to be able to control access to my server with the /etc/ssh_known_hosts file, using RSA authentication of the remote host. But the protocol only allows RSA host authentication in conjunction with rhosts, while I prefer RSA user authentication. I've made a patch to the server which adds a new configuration option:

Last month we discussed the problems with webcams in CentOS 6 and I raised Bugzilla #1158988 with Red Hat. This bug has now been declared a duplicate of 1145805. Unfortunately I'm unable to access that report so although I know Red Hat are looking into the matter I don't know what they're doing. Ron