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My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of these two OSes is to be the default on next reboot, so he can switch from one OS to the other and back remotely. If Linux is up, he just needs to

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:23:52 -0400 Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:15:30 -0500 > > Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote: > >> > >> I'm curious what has made some people hate LVM so much. > > > > (3)

Hi folks, I've never encountered the following problem before (but I guess there is a first time for everything) --- after issuing a regular shutdown, the system starts the shutdown procedure, but stalls at some point, and never finishes. It gets to the console, writes the "powering down" message and stops there --- the hardware never actually powers off. At that time, the machine

Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remote access to it to perform regular system maintenance, virus cleanups, occasional software installations, reboots, config changes,

Does anyone know about some free (as in beer, and maybe as in speech) software which would implement authentication and authorization of a user prior to issuing a valid dhcp lease? I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office building with a laptop (a colleague, a visitor, a guest, whoever), and hooks up onto the local net (wired or wireless). The server detects an unknown

I am having trouble using the realtek wifi chip in my new tp-link usb wifi dongle. Upon plugging it, the device gets registered by the kernel (in /var/log/messages), but that's about it, no network device is being created (iwconfig does not see it, nothing else works). A few google searches later I found out that this realtek chip is not supported by the kernel and requires a driver, and that

Hi everyone! :-) I am supposed to get (for the first time) into the world of making youtube clips. I have a webcam, a microphone and a big hard drive configured and ready. The question is: what would you suggest as an easy-to-use yum-installable app that could handle a couple of minutes/hours of recording? People who are about to use it are complete noobs, and I would like to give them a

Hi everyone! :-) I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I used them happily. I am mostly

I have a dual boot CentOS 5.2 / FC4 machine, and recently I have bought a new widescreen tft monitor. I used to use a plain 4:3 crt, and after plugging the 16:9 tft naturally X needed reconfiguring. This was easy in FC4, and seemed as easy in CentOS, but with a wrong result. Basically, what I did was to run system-config-display to reconfigure for the new monitor and resolution. All goes

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:59 AM Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > Which Fedora release was used as a base(*) for RHEL 8? > > Wikipedia says, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is based on Fedora 28 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_versions#Fedora_28>, upstream Linux kernel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel> 4.18, systemd

Every once in awhile I see this horizontal percent bar flash up on the screen then disappear. What is that? CentOS 7.1, ? kde. -wes

Hi everyone! :-) I have a problem with making a wireless USB dongle work under CentOS 6. The dongle is known to not work natively under Linux and last time I used it (cca 3 years ago) I managed to get it working using ndiswrapper. This time I was hoping to make it work again in the same way. But the "yum install kmod-ndiswrapper" reports the following (among other regular stuff):

Hello everyone, I'm new to the CentOS list, so forgive me if this has been answered before (someone please point me to an efficient way of searching through the list archives). I have a wifi card from the subject line, and have the driver installed. Using NetworkManager under Gnome everything works perfectly. However, I prefer to use network service instead of NetworkManager since a) I use

The simple ordinary yum update of CentOS 5.3 spits a bunch of transaction check errors regarding packages perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch and perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch which is supposed to replace perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm from install of

I have a machine here that resets itself every one hour (without my intention, of course): # cat /var/log/messages | grep "sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5" Jul 14 22:29:41 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild at builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 14 23:30:09 sith kernel: Linux

I need your help I have a sangoma A104D on my dell server; I got card status ok with no alarm If I dialed the extension 6210006, it shows the output as stated below, but there is no ringing from the pstn number nor the iax softphone am using on my pc. I will be glad if someone can give me a working config? What I want to achieve is to send all my call to the pstn on A104D? The pstn am

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:53:14 -0400 Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > This just came to my attention --- I have CentOS 7 installed on one > > machine, and have configured elrepo and epel as additional > > repositories. When I turned on

Hi folks! :-) I have a Fujitsu Lifebook U series laptop running updated CentOS 6.4 (64bit), and the touchpad doesn't work. It's a new laptop, the touchpad works correctly in Fedora 18 Live (given the kernel parameters below), no hardware problems. I searched the web all around, and it's a known issue for several laptop models. The only solution, quoted everywhere, it is to append the

On 2019-01-22 11:01, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 7:54 AM Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> I am having trouble using the realtek wifi chip in my new tp-link >> usb wifi dongle. Upon plugging it, the device gets registered by the >> kernel (in /var/log/messages), but that's about it, no network device >>

I have a small problem with webalizer. I use it to analyze logs of a small web server hosting a single site, and the only thing I am interested in from webalizer is the piechart diagram it produces about the geographic distribution of people visiting the site. However, the piechart it produces gives me a very crude information, with 50% or so of visitors belonging to "unresolved",