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Rick Graves wrote: > John, > > I think the error that I encountered earlier this week > was because I am now blocked from accessing the main > CentOS mirror. > > At any rate, today I tried a different mirror, and at > least yum would run. > > I am still on the RH9 X install. > > I tried yum update, and got this: > > Resolving dependencies >

Beau, > Subject: Re: [Centos] HOWTO? Upgrade Centos-2 to > Centos-3 John Newbin has been working on a migration center. It may have some useful information; get it here: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/migration.htm > Correct me if I am wrong, but centos 2 > is based off or redhat 7.2, so it may work. Check out the CentOS/RedHat family tree at the bottom of the

Christopher, I have a couple of other points. My recent email with the subject "nVIDIA on CentOS 3.3" was specifically in response to Kevin Wood's Fri, 17 Sep 2004 email with the subject "Does the nvidia graphic card problem still exist with CentOS-3.3?". The wording of my email came out wrong because I was responding to Kevin's email (which I copy below, along

Hey, > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > all the latest patches is to run: > # yum update There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM updates every day. There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu= Rick

This is a list of issues for discussion for CentOS-4. Most of it is based on my experience from building/maintaining CentOS-2 and observing CentOS-3. I have not seen the CentOS-4 beta yet so I don't know if any of this is already done. If these have been discussed on IRC then perhaps someone could produce a shot summary of the outcomes....? * Just call it CentOS-4 not 4.1 etc. Too

Hey, > check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. So must one have your own local repository to avoid being labeled as a madman? In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find this? Just curious. Rick

Ulrik wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:59:14 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ulrik S. Kofod" <usk at cybersite.dk> To: centos at caosity.org Reply-To: usk at cybersite.dk Subject: [Centos] network card / kudzu When I have installed centOS, Kudzu says my network cards have been removed, and right after it finds them again and asks me to configure them? It looks like it is the

John, Would you like to take a first crack at the text for the migration center? You could then run it by this group. If we get something that is good enough not to get shot down here, I will work it into the web site. If we decide to go with separate sites, the text could just be copied over, so there would be no wasted effort. Rick --- centos-request at caosity.org wrote: Message: 8

At long last I have uploaded CentOS-2 Final to the centos mirrors :) Some information on CentOS-2 is available here http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/index.htm as well as the caos web site. Surely no one will find any bugs or problems, but if you do, email is better for me ATM than IRC. John. -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne

Hey, Greg suggested that I take a straw poll. Should cAos take steps to prevent getting stuck with a big ISP bill in the future? For example, should cAos: a) for new installs, have the yum.conf point to public mirrors, rather than to mirror.caosity.org? b) make sure that "yum update" does not substitute a new yum.conf file that points only to mirror.caosity.org? c) allow public

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2004:634-01 Updated zip package fixes security issue Files available: zip-2.3-10.1.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John

Lance, Let's go at this from another angle. > I am absolutely certain having analysed the logs > that the excess bandwidth was caused by people > downloading .iso images for centos from our > master mirror(s) .... How could this happen? Here is my explanation: 1) As far as I am aware, the cAos site does NOT ask distro users to download from public mirrors, rather than from

Hey SCTV Library, Good work! (Is that your real name?) > The problem was the AGP driver, Not the Nvidia driver. I was wondering if you could help me write an informative FAQ for this. Here is what I have so far: The Nforce2 driver is part of the kernel-unsupported package (which must be installed separately). Set the Option "NvAGP" to "1". This tells the kernel to

Hey, Lance mentioned yum group install. This yum group capability makes the "server" CD's more versatile than the name implies -- you only need a broadband connection to get any kind of CentOS install you want. Start with a minimal install off the CD, and then use the yum group install to conveniently get the same install you could get off the 3 CD set (only more up to date).

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2004:404-01 Updated samba packages fix vulnerability Files available: samba-2.2.10-1.21as.1.i386.rpm: samba-client-2.2.10-1.21as.1.i386.rpm: samba-common-2.2.10-1.21as.1.i386.rpm: samba-swat-2.2.10-1.21as.1.i386.rpm: More details are available from the RedHat web site at

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem but on a number of CentOS-3 boxes I had a problem when you log out from X/Gnome it would take ages (> 1 min) to log out. Saving the session made it quicker for the next logout, but the culprit appears to be the rhn-applet. Uninstall that rpm and problem solved. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and

I had sent my reply to centos-devel, but as there is discussion here - here it is ... Lance ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:47:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net> Reply-To: centos-devel at caosity.org To: John Newbigin <jn at it.swin.edu.au> Cc: centos-devel at caosity.org Subject: [CentOS-devel] Re: [Centos] Issues/thoughts re

Aaron, > It is a kernel problem. The stack size changed in > the 2.6 kernel. You > need a version of the kernel with the old 8k stack > size. You can get > such a kernel from: > www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php > > As you can see these are fedora kernels but might > work on centos. Actually, while troubleshooting this display

John, Your RedHat/CentOS family tree looks great! Even people who are not trying to migrate might want to take a look. For those who have not seen it yet, it is at the bottom of John's migration page, http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/migration.htm For a general understanding how the different versions relate to each other, that picture is worth 1,000 words, easy.

Is there a method or way that will allow one to automagically mount samba shares requiring a password w/o using a plain text password? Even if I have to store the plaintext password in a file, is there at least a way to keep plain text passwords going over the network (IPSec perhaps)? === Al