similar to: make /home/user without all the maps

Hello All, the update to Centos6.6 got interrupted on a laptop. I then did this: package-cleanup --cleandupes yum-complete-transaction and remove and reinstall the latest kernel. I now get an error message when booting: /dev/mapper/vg_jvermeulen-lv_home does not exist. I can boot into single user mode and run all commands. in fdisk -l .....lv_home is not listed. How can I re-add this? I do

Hello All, I'm trying to use vi commands instead of using the mouse. I open Gnome-Terminal I open a file : vi /home/jvermeulen/.ssh/id_dsa.pub I select the key with " V " ( visual line ) I type " y " to yank the selected line. I can now use :e otherfile.txt and paste the text in otherfile.txt This is the only way I succeed in copying text to another file in

Dear All, CentOs 6 is great, but I would like to get back 2 things from 5.6 : how can I always see the text lines during startup? (so no graphical screen ) how can I *not *see all the users on the system when loging on? (so that users also have to remember their username) thanks for any advise. James -- Johan Vermeulen IT-medewerker Caw De Kempen johan.vermeulen at cawdekempen.be

Dear All, I'm replacing an older OpenSuse server with a new Centos6.4 server. So far that goes ok, except that the OpenSuse server is also a samba server with ldap connection. Since I replaced all but 2 machines in the building from Windows to Linux, I was hoping not to install Samba on the new server. ( And also because I can't get it to work on Centos. ) I saw a post on the

Hello, when I log in through ssh to a remote site and open the web interface from a ( new ) printer using Lynx, it only displays : FRAME: wlmframe I suspect this is some unfriendly coding, that will cost me time in opening Firefox instead of Lynx or w3m. Does anybody know of a way around this? Greetings, Johan -- Johan Vermeulen IT-medewerker Caw De Kempen johan.vermeulen at

Dear All, I am faced with this problem: Firefox version is 17.0.6 before and after the update I ran an update today; bash-4.1# yum history Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security ID | Login user | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 296 | james <james>

Dear All, i'm working on this Centos6.5 laptop, fully updated *# uname -a** **Linux jvermeulen.ict 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux* It's an Acer Aspire E1-571. I can't get the Intel Centrino N 6235 to work. I've used this card on several different types of laptops and never had any trouble. I think I have the packages

dear All, when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange thing called Ekiga. Now, some guys at work use Skype and I heard that's owned by Microsoft. So enter James. I bought a webcam, actualy 2, to test Ekiga. Logitech Webcam c210. I saw this url :http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ on this url :http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams and in

Dear all, I have a question regarding 2 network card setup, when e.g. using dhcp. Until a few months ago, I worked with OpenSuse. There in firewall config, you had to assign each NIC to a zone, either internal, external, DMZ or custom. Without it not much would work. I don't seen anything on CentOs in firewall config. So how does this work in CentOs? greetings, James -- Johan

Dear All, we have some Nubuilder databases on a Centos6.3 server: [root at caw-server2 db]# ls /var/www/html/nubuilder/db reg_begeleidingsteam reg_jww_archief reg_personeel reg_straathoekwerk reg_bib reg_jww_dossiers reg_resident reg_vrijwilligers reg_drughulp reg_jww_dvd reg_signaleren reg_jac_activiteit reg_onthaal reg_sollicitatie in each

dear all, I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast, even on al 512Mb machine. But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this. Anybody can help me with this? greetings, James -- Johan Vermeulen IT-medewerker Caw De Kempen johan.vermeulen at cawdekempen.be 0479.82.01.41 Opensource Software is the future.

dear All, I'm facing this routing problem, the setup is actualy part of ltsp, but I think this problem is Centos-specific. The server is a Dell Poweredge R210. The install is standard 6.4, updated. I have one nic facing the public internet: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 DEVICE=em1 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=d4:ae:52:c1:28:2b NM_CONTROLLED=no ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet

Dear All, I'm having trouble on 2 laptops Lenovo B580 since upgrading to Centos6.5. ( Because it's a Lenovo I cannot switch the network card for a better supported network card. ) There on the latest kernel : root at jac network-scripts]# uname -a Linux jac.cawdekempen 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 13 13:06:13 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With the help of

dear All, I'm spending the afternoon trying to build software raid using this ( excellent ) guide : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 I'm doing this not only because this machine has no raid controller - I could go out and buy one - but also because I hope software raid will provide easier monitoring. This is a newly installed, updated Centos6.4 standard

Dear All, I'm sending this mail in relation to a post on the CentOs 6 forum : https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32545&start=0#forumpost139559 CentOs 6 works great so far, and I do not want to sound impatient, but I'm eager to find out when Ltsp would be available on CentOs6 - or even in Rhel6. We now use Kiwi-Ltsp on OpenSuse and

dear All, I'm trying to set Shadow options in Ldap with the help of phpLDAPadmin. This is *what I know : * */Shadowmax : /maximum nr of days a pw can be valid * /ShadowLastchange : /contains the last change of the shadow file * Shadowwarning : nr of days before expiration to warn user. *What I'm trying *to do is have the users 's passwork expire, that works ok. But how can I have

Dear All, I convinced my boss to buy me a new laptop, it arrived today! So now that I finaly have a X86_64 machine, I want to try Kvm. I'm very excited. I Anaconda I selected install as virtual host, but after install, update and reboot I try #[jvermeulen at it root]$ virt-manager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383,

Hello All, slightly unrelated because lightdm = epel, I know. Still, maybe someone had the same issue. When using the last two kernels, some machines give me trouble when installing Centos7 and Mate One machine is basically an Asrock board, on this I get no login screen: description: Motherboard product: AD2550B-ITX vendor: ASRock *-display description: VGA compatible

Hello All, I'm looking at setting up ds-389 on both Centos6.6 en Centos7, both minimal installs with epel repo enabled. When running yum search ds-389 on Centos7 I get only 3 packages, 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-devel 389-ds-base-libs On Centos6.6 I get the whole list: 389-ds.noarch : 389 Directory, Administration, and Console Suite 389-ds-base.x86_64 : 389 Directory Server (base)

Dear All, I'm currently troubleshooting NetworkManger scripts. I see a difference in machine A : drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 apr 24 16:33 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 jan 9 12:13 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 175 jan 9 12:13 00-netreport -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335 okt 22 2012 04-iscsi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345 jan 9 12:13 05-netfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 926 sep 25 2012 10-dhclient