similar to: Mirrordir with CentOS 4

Hello. I am trying to boot CentOS 4 from a copy of an ext3 software RAID 1 filesystem (md) which has been copied to a normal ext3 filesystem (hd). I am almost getting there, exept that the system hangs after booting the kernel. I copied the datas from the /boot and / partitions to two similar partitions on the backuped disk with mirrordir (can also be done with cp or dd). I have setup the new

Hello. I am scratching my head about sendmail for a simple thing: I have a CentOS 4 box on which I would like to receive e-mails. when I type 'telnet localhost 25' I can connect successfully to the sendmail service. Now if I type: 'telnet 192.168.0.30 25' on the same host the connection is refused. It also refuses connections from another host. I have edited the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've got an rsync command... rsync -av --stats --progress --partial --delete-after --bwlimit=2000 rsync://sunsite.uio.no/Mandrakelinux /export/ftp/mandrakelinux This works just fine when runfrom the command line (as user 'mwatts'). I've put it in the 'mwatts' users' crontab: MAILTO="m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com"

Hello centos community, I have a personal repository with self-made RPMs, and i need to include this repository to yum.conf. But i've noticed that yum configuration is overwritten when yum is updated. I can't update yum.conf manually on my servers each time yum is updated ... Is anyone have an idea ? Thank you. -- Martin

Hello. I did try to find out some information about centos-yumconf, but I didn't find any. I would like to know what centos-yumconf rpm is made for and what it does (just overwrite the yum.conf file, or copy things from the original and create a new one ?). I dont' really understand the necessity of this package, because I thought that the version upgrade was made through the $releasever

Greetings, Can anyone help me on how to fix this problem? when i run yum update from CLI i got this one [root at ict ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: sunsite.rediris.es * extras: sunsite.rediris.es * updates: sunsite.rediris.es .... .... ... .. ---> Package python-libs.x86_64 0:2.4.3-44.el5_7.1 set to be updated

While logging in via ssh (versions 1.2.17 and 1.2.12) under Linux 2.0, I found that limits weren''t being set (as shown by the output of "limit" (tcsh) or "ulimit -a" (bash). Since /etc/profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, and /etc/limits were ignored, I made /etc/sshrc and put "ulimit" statements in it. However, I was unable to limit the number of processes this way,

some of you might be interested. i just uploaded the first release of my r-excel interface package to CRAN. it is in contributed extensions nonstandard extensions erich neuwirth -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

some of you might be interested. i just uploaded the first release of my r-excel interface package to CRAN. it is in contributed extensions nonstandard extensions erich neuwirth -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

In the windows version (RGui), is there a way to set the text displayed in the titlebar of the R window? When I have 2 instances of RGui running, it would be helpul if the titlebar could help to understand which is which. -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

hist(rbinom(1000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,300)) gives a histogram with "touching bars" hist(rbinom(100000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,30000)) gives a histogram with space between the bars. is there a way to control the space betweent he bars easily? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at

typeof applied to a factor always seems to return "integer", independently of the type of the levels. This has a strange side effect. When a variable is "imported" into a data frame, its type changes. character variables automatically are converted to factors when imported into data frames. Here is an example: > v1<-1:3 >

RColorBrewer 0.1-1 is available on CRAN. The packages provides palettes for drawing nice maps shaded according to a variable as an R function. The palettes have been designed by and are copyrighted by the ColorBrewer project. An interactive palette selection tool byt the original designers is available at http://colorbrewer.org -- -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group

RColorBrewer 0.1-1 is available on CRAN. The packages provides palettes for drawing nice maps shaded according to a variable as an R function. The palettes have been designed by and are copyrighted by the ColorBrewer project. An interactive palette selection tool byt the original designers is available at http://colorbrewer.org -- -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group

with todays r-devel..tar.gz make distribution hangs on my win98 machine. this is the las message i see MAKE[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/devel/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/bitmap/jpeg-6 b' cp Rbitmap.dll ../../../bin MAKE[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/devel/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/bitmap' after that, the it seems that sed is running and somehow hangs. i do have the tools from brians

Is this warning given on purpose? > myconn<-textConnection("print(11*11)") > source(myconn) [1] 121 Warning message: In source(myconn) : argument 'encoding = "native.enc"' will be ignored Could it be omitted, since the docs state that encoding is only use if the corresponding argument is a file name or url? -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna

I do not know if this has been reported already (I searched the headers of the recent messages to r-devel) It seems that 'example' in R 2.11.0 has a problem when the help file does not contain any example. This is what happens on R 2.11.0 on Windows XP. > library(tools) > example(Rdiff) Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In

My configuration is Windows XP, R-2.5.1patched. My standard browser in Windows is Firefox 2.0.6, and I am using htmlhelp. I have problems with starting the browser for displaying help. help("lm") works as it should when Firefox is already running. When I do help("lm") and the browser is not yet started, I get Error in shell.exec(url) :

I have problems with Rpad and R 2.10.0 (Windows XP and Windows 7, browser is Firefox) Just starting Rpad by library(Rpad) Rpad() opens the browser and displays the .html files and the .Rpad files in my home directory, but these files do not have links and are not clickable. Doing the same in R 2.9.2 gives clickable links in the browser. Furthermore, in both cases an empty graphics window

I have a big contingency table, approximately of size 60*2*500*500, and I need to count the number of cells containing a count of 1 for each of the factors values defining the first dimension. Here is my attempt: tab1<-with(pisa1,table(CNT,GENDER,ISCOF,ISCOM)) tab2<-apply(tab1,1:4,function(x)ifelse(sum(x)==1,1,0)) tab3<-apply(tab2,1,sum) Computing tab2 is very slow. Is there a faster