similar to: Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

Some people don't know how to conduct themselves on usenet and mailing lists. Despite the mailing list guidelines being crystal clear about no html posting and not top-posting we have people still doing so. People still use text-readers to access the mailing list so you could be denying access to these people by flouting the mailing list guidelines. This is an example of top-posting

I have a choice of CentOS 4/5 and Fedora 9 on a laptop. I have not use CentOS 5 on a desktop but have used CentOS 4 and Fedora 9. I found the Fedora Gnome not as appealing as the CentOS 4 clearlooks. Any opinions from someone who has used CentOS 4/5 and Fedora? I'm not a KDE fan so KDE users need not reply. Regards, Vandaman.

In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and based on your preference) If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite

Karanbir Singh wrote: > And yea, working on setting up a sort of list to handle > much of this semi OT traffic. More news on that around > Wed next week, dint ask about it now. Off course people are going to ask. In my opinion as long as a topic is marked OT, it is preferable to one not marked but one in which the OP has not even done basic research on his problem. One distro had a

OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir Assadallah" <rdjir001 at eircom.net>. This has just come if from the abuse department :- Dear Vandaman, Thank you for

In the up and coming wiki, don't forget to have an FAQ/Fight against FUD section. Looking at the web in January an upstream vendor employee said some things in his wiki. In Feb/March CentOS was discussed on the Fedora-list/Slashdot. - Common myths about the legality/ethicality of CentOS - CentOS providing value to Open Source as a whole - Projects emanating from CentOS like SMEServer

I have just got an email was trying to source videos for theora test media here is the message: "Intrinsically H.264 properly encoded should be about 30% more efficient than Theora." is this FUD or not? tom_a_sparks

Hi, RH devel kernels from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ built against Centos tree are available here: http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/x86_64/repodata/ http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-kernel/stable/i386/repodata/ Regards, David Hrb??

I may need a strong shot of coffee but I though putting "hide files = /~*/" as follows in the samba config file would hide files with a tilde. [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes hide files = /~*/ Unfortunately after restarting the server the files are still visible. Regards, Vandaman.

I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch scans. Seems that the format of the log

There are security updates upstream for CentOS (4 and 5) and it looks like the CentOS 5 ones have been rebuilt and rolled out. How come the CentOS 4 branch lags behind, or are the CentOS 5 devs different from the CentOS 4 devs? If more volunteers are needed I'm sure assistance could be offered by the CentOS community. Regards, Vandaman.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols at Ziff-Davis said: | Unlike all other previous Microsoft operating systems, XP | Home will simply not work in an office network environment | with NetWare, NT, Samba, or Windows 2000 servers. Period. | You simply can't connect to the servers' domains or their | file/print services. Which sounds like they took the SMB client out... | XP Home also has a built-in

I'm working on a commercial project that would benefit immensely from the use of rsync. However, I cannot convince management that rsync is a worthy tool due to the rote "it's shareware, it's not supported" FUD. Are there any documented, corportate users of rsync? Testimonials? In short, how do I drag this risk-averse group out of the FTP age into the rsync present? /p

Unless I'm mistaken, does it look like Centos 4.7 is missing an update released on December 3rd 2008? Upstream details :- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0989.html An updated tmpwatch package that fixes various bugs is now available. The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time.

Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first, I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this issue has something to do with how CentOS handles network setup on first boot of the XEN kernel. - Installed a brand new CentOS 5.3 server with minimal packages. - Installed XEN,

All, For a production environment, I'd like to setup CentOS XEN guests as lightweight as possible. I'd like the XEN guests to be able to send nightly email as all CentOS servers do, but there is no reason to run a mail server as the CentOS Dom0 already has an email server running that can act as an email smart host. The options that seem most appealing to me are either ssmtp or sendmail

I've had it with Dell server garbage. They seem to change RAID controllers as much as I change socks, and then the controllers don't work with Linux, unless you load a new driver. They sell servers with a PCI-e slot in them, but then you get it and find out the RAID controller is using the PCI-e slot! Their sales folks are dumber than rocks, and they change them more often than I

Has anyone built an rpm for xboard for CentOS 4? I looked in the EPEL repo, KBS repo and rpmforge but none exist. The KBS repo has gnuchess in testing but what good is gnuchess without xboard? As usual the fedora SRPM for Fedora 6 and Fedora 9 cannot build on CentOS 4- they might build on CentOS 6 but i have no time machine :). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

There's grub 0.97 on CentOS 5. The manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html says it is for 0.97. However, it mentions for instance a program grub-set-default that is not present in grub-0.97-13.2. It also mentions grub.conf options savedefault and fallback. Are these available in the CentOS grub? I tried with savedefault and it does not create a

I've finally got a new machine coming that will allow me to play with virtualization. What might most of you recommend for the type of virtualization software I use. I seem to recall that xen might not be the best choice due to it's lack of development. I could be wrong, though. For the present time, all of the VMs will be Centos based. Any opinion will be appreciated. steve campbell