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Folks, I *suggest* that little or no reply to this is warranted. It's just the statements of an old fart trying to make a (slightly) better environment for all of us. These thoughts are offered for consideration and use as you see fit. For some, "Hey, that'll work for me too" is the hoped for result. No discussion is intended or warranted, IMO. If you recognize yourself in

have a strange isue. [ this is my 2nd day with centos4] nice instalatin BTW ok, i activated cupsd sharing and open the port 631 in the security level when i lpq from withing a network interface i get thi error ~$ lpq lpq: error - no default destination available. and in centos the log shows D [19/Mar/2006:08:37:17 -0500] AcceptClient: 8 from 192.168.1.100:631. D [19/Mar/2006:08:37:17 -0500]

I had the electricity go out the other day. When my Centos 4.3 workstation came up, I said yes when it got to the prompt "Unclean shutdown, force filesystem check?" prompt. It ground away for awhile and then said something about a bad superblock. Yikes! I thought, that's a bad sign. After a reboot, I got nothing but a grub> prompt. I tried booting into rescue mode using the

Two things have been weighing on my mind regarding security issues. The first is that when I downloaded the CentOS 4.1 ISO images, I could not get the sums to match even using different downloads from different mirrors. I decided that that I was doing something wrong and decided to trust the images. So far no regrets. But I am concerned that I get it right the next time. I thought I had read

Just to set the record straight. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

Just a tag-on for the thread about list posting etiquette, etc., etc. The following is a link to an excellent (if wordy) how-to-do-it-right instruction manaual replete with links to other treatises on the topic. The entire text of this document is emailed to the mailing list on the 1st of each month. This is the Cadillac of etiquette manuals. http://www.linux-sxs.org/index2.html Enjoy, --

Got three emails from Brian Trudeau <brian.trudeau at eastek-intl.com> to my mbox address saying With a subject of re: xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx Re: [CentOS] How to add System V to CentOS? Says thanks for submitting a ticket to support and gives three tickets 2DE-0B7CC3E3-050B, 34B-0B7CC3E2-829E, 1B5-0B7CC3E3-CB12 Since I had nothing to do with this, wanted to get it back to the list so that

After updating to centos 4.3, I notice a failure in terminating irqbalance whenever i shutdown the system. Checking the services after the system reboot i see the error in irqbalance: "irqbalance dead but subsys locked" Can anyone tell me what irqbalance is and if it safe to disable it ? Why i dont see it in centos 4.2? Thanks in advance. Thai

Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux rgds/ldv

My former primary boot disk had some bad spots appear awhile back. Damage, per rpm --verify, seems to be predominately in loss of reference files in /usr/share/doc and such as that. Being the type that wastes my own time before wasting that of others, I did a semi-careful perusal of the rpm man pages. Thought the --files or some such might offer a way ought. IIUC, nope! Seems that I can't

Howdy, I'd like to play with Xen on top of a Centos 4.3 installation. I've been googling, but haven't found a nice comprehensive set of notes to get me started. I've looked at the XenSource site, a wiki site that tells you how to get CentOS working in a Xen shell (or whatever it's called). So, for a Xen newbie, does anyone have have any pointeds to notes, documentation,

How can I print, from the command line, a png file? -- Thanks

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I am using the following command below to create a boot floppy file. Am I not doing the correct thing? mkbootdisk --device bootfloppy.img 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/vmlinuz': No space left on device cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device Jerry

Hi I am trying to turn on register_globals, but I am failing. someone trold me that I should change php.ini and I did it. ? - register_globals = Off - register_globals = On I made a php test page html/test.php <?php phpinfo(); ?> and checked it, but I can not make it. output_buffering no value no value output_handler no value no value post_max_size 8M 8M precision 14 14

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html refers: This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the CentOS Security Response Team. The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: firefox-1.0.1-1.4.3.centos4.1.i386.rpm You may update you CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum upgrade Thanks Johnny Hughes

Me again. The ASUS P5N32-SLI motherboard in my new machine has dual NICs but CentOS has only detected one of them. I've tried rebooting with the network plugged in only to the second one, but kudzu still doesn't find it. Any suggestions?

Can a linux box running rsynch as either a client or server backup a remote windows mssql database without having to run mssql on the linux box via wine? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their

Trying yum update for the latest announcements. Part of the problem I experienced last week appears again: lame library DSA key is unavailable. I had tried to resolve this last week, to no avail. Tried again this week and found a French site with the key ID, but for libmad. Anyone can give me the proper instructions so this works? TIA Bill Here is a snipped part of the yum log.

Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault. -- Collins When I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.... The Berlin Wall has fallen. - Lebanese Druze leader Walid