similar to: Yum-Fastest Mirror

Hello, what is causing the following, and can someone give the solution which is mentioned at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1320623 by the way: why are the "fastest" mirrors from other continent? [root at host sysconfig]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Cleaning repos: base epel extras updates Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root

Just recently bought a Dell E6410 with a Intel? HD Graphics with ExpressCard with I7-640m processor. Having some issues getting a graphical env to work. By just the looks of lspci X is wanting to use the VGA Compatable controller: Intel Corp Core Processor Intergrated graphics controller. Everything else is using Intel Corp Series 5/3400 Series Chipset. Has anyone else had any luck getting

I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox but firefox will only let me save the file. Under applications I have tried using the doc reader and adobe to associate pdf's with firefox with no luck. I am running firefox 3.0.4. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you -- Bo Lynch

This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info. -- Bo Lynch

Just wanted to get some thoughts from the list..... We are a public k-12 school and are looking to migrate to a groupware style system for out staff to collaborate better. Currently we are using Squirrelmail/postfix for email. Does anyone have any recommendations/opinions. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you -- Bo Lynch Systems Administrator RedHat Academy Instructor Energy Manager

just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc.... None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with iptables but that will not work for us. I did a little research on google and found programs like sshguard and

Hi dear R help group. I was wondering how can I find out which CRAN mirror would be the fastest for me (I leave in Israel and therefore don't have a CRAN mirror for our country to go to by default) Thanks, Tal -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.r-statistics.com/

There have been some complaints recently concerning this, so I thought an explanation of the setup AND recommendations are in order. First, I want to say that we need more donated servers with fast (at least 100mbit) internet connections. If you are making lots of money using CentOS and are a hosting provider, please consider providing us a donated server so we can better distribute CentOS. Now

I am trying to set up a local repo for my division. I tried to rsync 5.1 updates off the mirrors and recieved an error of no file or dir. After going to the mirror, I notice that all of the 5.1 filder is empty and there is a readme there that states..... This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, you should use /5/ and not /5.1/ in your path. Please see this FAQ

A couple of days ago I run yum update to take care of installing new updates for evolution.i386, evolution-data-server.i386 and nscd.i386 . The update went through with no fuss. Yesterday when I ran check-update I got the exact same updates list. So I did not run yum update, thinking this was a sync error or a repo issue. Today (just a few minutes ago) I ran the update check again and got the

[root at host ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root at ost ~]# yum search libcli Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase Determining fastest mirrors * base: centos-distro.cavecreek.net * elrepo: elrepo.imt-systems.com * extras: ftp.ussg.iu.edu * rpmforge: apt.sw.be * updates: mirror.nandomedia.com base

On 16.06.2016 21:39, Ned Slider wrote: > > On 16/06/16 19:41, Walter H. wrote: >> On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: >>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 >>> Walter H. wrote: >>> yum -disableplugin=fastestmirror nowseewhathappens. >>> >>> >> yes this goes fast, no timeout; >> can I configure this in /etc/yum.conf? >>

I am trying to install phpBB forum on version 5.2. It requires that I have imagemagick and gd graphics support. What rpm packages provide these. I have tried a yum install ImageMagicK with yum responding nothing todo. Is imageMagicK not available with 5.2? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Bo Lynch

guys, i have the yum plugin -> fastest mirror . But not even once i have seen it selecting repos which are near my region such as japan or australia ( where i get the best speeds). Something is wrong. It seems stuck with these 3 sites ; Determining fastest mirrors * ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de : 0.309373 secs * apt.sw.be : 0.483867 secs * fr2.rpmfind.net : 0.503842 secs

Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried "yum clean all" but no joy - the process hangs again on "extras" - see second listing below. Suggestions? Dave [root at cserver ~]# yum check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from

Hopefully very easy question to answer. I am trying to migrate data of of a samba server that is using winbind joined to a windows domain to another box. What samba or winbind files do I need so that this will resolve to names rather than UID and GID. For example........ drwxr-x--- 1049 10926 10005 36864 May 15 11:46 Student Thanks -- Bo Lynch

Hello, how can I prevent of using these mirrors? # yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Cleaning repos: base extras updates Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors # yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Setting up Update Process Determining fastest mirrors * base: centos.den.host-engine.com * extras: centos.den.host-engine.com * updates:

Just created a new backup server using CentOS 5.0. I am using a auth file to access windows shares for backups. When connecting like this smbclient //server/share -A=/auth/file it works. When I try to tar with smbclient like this smbclinet //server/share -A=/auth/file -Tc /backup/tarfile.tar I get the following message..... session_setup_failed : NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Am I doing something

Dear all, Newbie: What is the fastest way to combine all columns of a matrix to one column? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/What-is-the-fastest-way-to-combine-all-columns-of-a-matrix-to-one-column-tp4423882p4423882.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hello, We're synching several directories between two windows server 2003 machines. Rsync version is 2.5.7 The command is running via a batch script, which looks like: .... D:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe -rva --progress --delete --force --stats --exclude-from=d:\batch\rsync\excludes\excludes.txt /cygdrive/n/zphome/intranet.cp.siemens.de/sub1 server::wwwroot1/ >>