similar to: what people really mean when they say they're running "5.3"?

i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for centosplus reads: "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database support, a rebuilt kernel with additional drivers & filesystem support, php5 and mysql5."

first, the short form of the question -- has anyone got that wireless adapter working on centos 5.5 and associated with an access point that uses WPA/WPA2 security? and the details. in a classroom where there is *no* wired networking at all, all PCs have only that wireless net adapter, which works fine on windows but, after installing centos 5.5, unsurprisingly, we have no networking. there

ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, yes, it does make sense. the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse. however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on red hat. for most

prepping to teach a 5-day CompTIA linux+ course next week with CompTIA-supplied courseware and, given that it was my choice, i chose to set up the classroom with centos 7.4 on all the student systems since i assume most students are there to learn sysadmin and that's the most likely platform they'll have when they get back to work. also, most students are taking this course to prep for the

again, from here: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 regarding a newer version of PHP, a number of PHP experts that i know of suggest that, if you truly need an up-to-date version of PHP, you should: rpm -ivh http://rpms/famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm while remi collet's repo isn't official, it's accepted by numerous developers as a reliable source of newer PHP

(note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.) over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in RHEL admin but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5. it's a decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic,

Dear Centos community, I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn two systems and confuse myself, I understand yum is much better than rpm if is the case? Thank you! Jim

i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual

i zipped over to centos.org to check out the 5.4 manuals, and what i found was: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ which stops at 5.2. now, i don't really see this as a problem since i can always get what i need here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ i'm just curious as to whether centos is just not bothering to rebrand the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info

i'm sure there's a simple answer to this -- i already understand that newer kernels than the ones shipped with the official release aren't officially supported but there is the elrepo kernel repository here: http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/RPMS/ with a mixture of long-term (lt) and mainline (ml) kernels. i assume that the mainline kernels pretty closely track the latest

i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular and significant part of their sys admin? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public availability of centos 5.4. here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html we read: "The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'.

what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT, the latest "poppler-utils" package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the source is up to version 0.12: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ which matches the current fedora version, but that's not surprising since, naturally, fedora zips right along

NEWBIE alert: i'm a linux person, not an asterisk person so i'm certainly capable of handling any linux-flavoured solution you can suggest. here's a note i got from a local company i know (some proper names removed): ===== start ===== Now and again our ISP goes down and when it does give us a hicup, the Asterisk system shuts down (not very forgiving). When it shuts down our phone

does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W would, of course, be ideal, but if you have some decent training manuals that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm still willing to chat. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only* version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that i was missing required functionality of NFSv1, or something equally weird. i'll check the /etc/init.d/nfs script, but i think what got me into trouble was trying to use the entire set of

i've just started looking after a (virtual) centos 5.4 server that's hosted at rackspace and, unsurprisingly, it was set up with all the standard defaults. part of the work i'll be doing involves php and, as i read it, the standard php version with centos 5.4 is php-5.1. if i *wanted* to move up to a more recent version (say, php-5.3), obviously, i'd need to go outside the

yes, it's OT but just in case folks here know someone who might be interested, i'm writing and publishing a course to introduce people to the joys of linux kernel programming: http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-linux-kernel-programming and, no, it's not free -- six months worth of course will cost you all of $39 (CAD), but the first four

it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard these days? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course i'm teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question, possibly technical, possibly more policy. first one involves the choice for virtualization. the course has a short section involving virt using xen but everything i've read suggests that red hat is concentrating on kvm for virt. thoughts on that? i