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Hello I threw together some Seamonkey 2.0 rpms for i386 and you can grab them from here http://lostsonsvault.org/dls/centos/ I dont have a 64 bit one yet but if someone would like to rebuild the src.rpm for 64 I will gladly host it, thanks. LostSon

Hello A few weeks ago I started having problems with my system email or specifically my logwatch reports showing up in my inbox. I got most of those issues figued out except one now when i get an email from my system it has a title of this Cron <root at localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.daily with this message /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch: Recipient names must be specified I have my

We have CENTOS 5.1 on DELL server. This server is OUTSIDE Firewall. I tried to update it to latest release and get error. any ideal? ========================================= # yum update Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError:

Hello All I may have ruffled some feathers with a comment i made earlier about rpmforge. This was posted back on the ML. On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:47 -0600, lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Discussion on that for us? So to oblige here is a further discussion on this subject. The reason I say this about rpmforge is because if you

Hey I was wondering how i can become a proof reader for the newsletter ? I speak and read native english as it says in the wiki. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - It's not just for servers ya know... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed

Hi, What's the most simple way to check if my microphone works on a plain CentOS 5.3 desktop? Is there a simple way, for example, to record voice into a simple .wav file? Niki

Hi all; I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the following: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime yum --enablerepo=rpmforge

Hello I am curious about some articles I would like to contribute to the wiki. I would like to add some articles about installing games, like UT, Quake3 with the Urban Terror mod and Enemy territory. The question I have is are these articles something that the group would like on the wiki ? I know CentOS is more aimed at servers and sysadmins than home user but there are some of us out there and

Hello I was wondering if someone could put together a bug triage guide and put it on the wiki. I was looking for something to do tonight and z00dax said go hunt some bugs. So I went first to the wiki to look for a guide for a proper procedure on how the team would like bug triaging handled but didn't find one. I have triaged before but i know every place is different. So some guidelines

Hello Attached is my idea for a nvidia wiki page hopefully this is informative and good enough for the wiki, ideas and critique welcome of course, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - It's not just for servers ya know... -------------- next part -------------- ## my proposed nvidia guide wiki page ## If you have a nvidia card and wish to use it with centos than follow

Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different repo, I think, but what? Currently I have ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

I want to uninstall the default version of firefox, however there appears to be 2 of the same rpm's installed and its complaining.. I've been in Solaris land for the last 5 years and my rpm skills aren't the most current; how is this achieved? [root at canthus ~]# rpm -q -a firefox firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos [root at canthus ~]# rpm -e

Hello I seem to be getting some messages via email and in var/log/messages as well, i think its a hard drive gone bad but was wondering if anyone has seen something similar to this or would have some ideas if its fixable or not, here are the messages This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: localhost.localdomain DNS domain: localdomain NIS domain: (none)

Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it for real. Notably, which screen new applications start on (when using the Applications menu or panel launchers) seems to

I've read website http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS. I am a total newbie with CentOS, but currently, with update 21 of the Java 6 JDK and CentOS 5.5, the installing the JDK appears to be simpler: 1. Download the latest *rpm.bin jdk (as of today,jdk-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin) fromhttp://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp 2. chmod +x the downloaded file. 3. su 4. Execute

Hello I am trying to get wicd to work on Cent 5.5 it installs fine but when i run wicd-curses i get this error wicd-curses File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 505 class appGUI(): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax my versions of wicd and python-urwid are wicd-1.7.0-3.el5 python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.el5 Has anyone been able to get wicd working

Hello Has anyone tried to build ghc and xmonad on a centos 5.3 set or is there a repo somewhere with the goodies ? -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org centOS its not just for servers... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL:

Sorry this is off-topic, but I'm scrambling to get this system in, google didn't help, and I'm sure someone on this list knows the answer cold. I'm trying to nfs-export a tmpfs disk. I saw a hint from a response about ram disks... which leads to my guess that tmpfs simply doesn't implement some method that nfsd needs. I can probably survive without tmpfs, but I'd like to

Hi all Guess it''s time for me to dig a bit deeper into the ruby language. Can you recommend some good starting books on ruby programming? Thanks. -- Med venlig hilsen Juri Rischel Jensen Fab:IT ApS Vesterbrogade 50 DK-1620 København Tlf: 70 202 407 / Fax: 33 313 640 www.fab-it.dk / juri@fab-it.dk

Hi, i am sorry for little oftopic - but i am looking for M$ Sharepoint open-source alternative. I allready tought it could be Alfresco, but i need something more - wiki . Or i will install also some wiki and connect it trought ldap. But, i am asking you friends - maybe you have some experiencies in your enviroment. Thanks in advance! David, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML