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Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the

Howdy, I have a diff file in my /var/tmp and would like to apply patch to a file in a different directory (other than /va/tmp). I tried using patch with -d switch, but that doesn't work. It complains abt 'patch: **** Can't open patch file tilda.diff : No such file or directory'. Do I need to copy my diff file to the directory where original file resides? Or is there any other way

Howdy, How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? Thanks, CS. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090615/fb9e463a/attachment-0001.html>

Howdy, I tend to try out many open source apps/packages - games, editors to media tools. I have a bad habit of downloading and extracting source in the /var/tmp directory and then doing configure-make-install process. I am not sure of best practice (good practices) to be followed when installing any software. For example how and where to keep the src. Any comments and/or resources would be really

Hi, I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir also on local system. So I added a new user account and changed auto.home as follows: test1 -rw,hard,intr /home/test1 * -rw,hard,intr nfs1:/export/users/& But this

Howdy, I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I was trying find and ls together as: # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls Similar behavior is seen even when I execute both commands separately. Any thoughts on what might be wrong here? -- thanks, neubyr

Howdy, I have renamed a directory on NFS ver 3 server and then created a new directory again with the same name. # mv dir dir-hosed # mkdir dir The directory is auto-mounted on client side. I had unmounted directories on client side before making above changes. Now when I try to mount back 'dir', I still see old files and not new empty dir. Am I missing something here in the NFS config?

Hi, I need to maintain a same user/group list on multiples systems. Can we just copy the same passwd and groups file on all machines? If we create a new user on one system then I will need to copy this to all other systems. This is quite cumbersome. Any suggestions? - CS.

Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://<server>/<dir>'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Thanks, CS.

Hi, I would like to give read-only access to mysql and apache-http server log files to a non-root user. I can modify group or other permissions. But is there any other way you can suggest? Can I update it in user's home dir? -- CS.

This is a maintenance release to fix a bug triggered while working with Ruby on Rails and Informix. Web site: http://ruby-informix.rubyforge.org Changelog: 0.6.1 13/10/2007 ------------------ Bugs fixed: * Database#columns was returning an empty array from within the Informix ActiveRecord adapter (ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::InformixAdapter#columns) if

Hi, I have CentOS 4.3 installed on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop (Pentium IV 2.4 GHz CPU). Everything runs just fine, but I have one problem. When I leave the machine unattended for something like an hour or two, my desktop has "frozen". Unable to recovery anything, even [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Backspace] refuses to quit X, so I have to hard-reboot by pressing PowerOn/Off for 10 seconds.

Hello, I am using virt-manager 0.9.4 on a Debian unstable system (libvirt 0.9.12) to connect to a libvirtd via SSH running on a Debian testing system (also version 0.9.12), and I have a problem using virt-manager, which first takes ages to connect, then freezes. The SSH connection is top-quality, the hosts are next to each other and connected by Gigabit Ethernet. virsh connections work fine.

Howdy, I am having a problem with a library compiled from some legacy fortran code. I can call the library, it runs as it should, returns a list, and gives a ">" prompt, but then locks up the R session. Functions typed in return nothing. ctrl-c results in a new prompt that is still locked up, and R overwhelms the processor. This happens on Mac, Windows, and Linux exactly the same. I

I am getting following error while creating a new topic using RESTful design. But, everything works fine when I use <% form_tag :action => :create do %> . ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `symbol_path'' for #<ActionView::Base:0xb72a2e40>) on line #3 of topics/new.rhtml: 1: <h1>New Topic</h1> 2: 3: <% form_tag :topic, :url => topics_path do %>

Howdy Folks, I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted. Any clues as to why I would be getting this message, how to convince the game that the CD is actually in the CD-ROM drive, or how to

Hi, I am not sure how to configure LDAP authentication with samba. I have a windows box, which is part of Active Directory domain and does user authentication against it. I would like to use same user credentials and map them to a appropriate network drive (linux home dirs). In short, Linux user's home dir should be available on Windows box also. I looked at the smb.conf man page, but I

Howdy, I installed Nevada build 49 in a parallels VM on my intel mac mini, and when I run the following DTrace script: $ cat follow.d #pragma option D flowindent; pid$target:::entry, pid$target:::return {} $ cat format.cmds disk 0 exit $ dtrace -s follow.d -o follow.out -c "/usr/sbin/format -f format.cmds" dtrace: script ''follow.d'' matched 13641 probes The system

Howdy :) I just have a little question regarding PDC and domain logons... my setup is working nicely with roaming profiles, logging onto the Samba 2.2.3 PDC, but I find that I am still able to find the server from a new machine, supply a user/password and access the shares on the server. Is this correct operation? Surely allowing this completely defeats the object of machine accounts and a

I am experiencing a problem with yum on one of my CentOS-5.5 systems. Specifically, on Friday past (July 16), I ran yum update as root. Yum displayed all of the outdated packages and asked if I wanted to proceed. An answered yes. This first package downloaded was nss. At this point yum simply stopped processing or responding. A ctrl-c at the yum session terminal window did not interrupt the