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Hi All, I just enabled nscd to see if I can speed up some operations on our large NFS/NIS environment, however, now that I've enabled nscd I am no longer able to sudo. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Everything was working fine prior to enabling it. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone :

Hi All, Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the network and not hundreds of times. If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University -

Hi All, Is there something similar to apt-cacher available for CentOS? I would like to ensure that an application is only downloaded once to the network and not hundreds of times. If there isn't an equivalent, would someone please point me in the direction of how I might accomplish this with CentOS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University -

Hi All I know this is not a LPRng list but I'm trying to build the latest SRPM from http://lprng.sourceforge.net/DISTRIB/LPRng/LPRng-3.8.27-1.src.rpm so that I may use it on my CentOS 5 box, but it fails with the following errors <snip> + make MAKEPACKAGE=YES if [ "UTILS" = po ] ; then \ for i in po/Makefile* ; do \ if [ -f "$i" ] ;

Completely off topic, but I'm sure someone out there is using scripts that require a sudo password of some sort, so I'll ask. What are people doing to automate tasks that required sudo passwords in order to run? sudo without a password is not an option for me, but I would like to be able to enter the password once have it saved and then read back when sudo is required. something

Hi All, I am trying to install Anjuta from the KB Singh repos on CentOS 5 without success. yum install --enablerepo=atrpms,centosplus,rpmforge,kbs-Extras-x86_64,kbs-Misc-x86_64 anjuta-1.2.2-6 Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies -->

I'm having problems with ssh.com and X11 forwarding ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (non-commercial version) on i686-pc-linux-gnu I am in the process of testing some of my machines with CentOS 5 x86/x86_64 and have run into a bit of a snag. X11 Forwarding is not working. I've tried all combinations of (+/-)[Xx] and it doesn't work, seemingly it doesn't want to set the

Anyone have Auctex for CentOS 5. I found RPMs for el4 but would rather use EL5 RPMs possible. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com

Does anyone know where I can find good ol' fashion gv? It seems the only ghostview is kghostview or evince. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN :

Hi All, I'm trying to find out the best way to mirror the kbsingh repositories because most of my machines do not have access to the outside world. What is the best way to do this. I want extras and misc for both el4 and el5 all arches. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045

I'm trying to install Gnumeric using the kbsingh RPMs. Has anyone been able to use these with CentOS 5? Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories kbs-Extras-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-Misc-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates 100%

I just tried to perform a yum upgrade on my CentOS 5 machine and it failed on a pm-utils >= 0.99.3-6 is needed by package hal error. I rsync my repos every night. This is the first time it's happened sudo yum -y upgrade Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Upgrade Process Setting up repositories updates 100%

I have been dragging my feet on remote display, and have just gotten VNC going to have SOMETHING to move off the start line. But I need the 'best' for different situations, so I want to rate them. 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best' for the catagory and 3 the loser. VNC RDESKTOP FREENX Server memory Server cpu client memory client cpu bandwidth

Dear All, Sorry for disturbing, anyone have recommendation for a good open source library system. hope to do it for my church. Thanks

What are the ramifications to a large key length when using pub/priv keys for ssh authentication. I have some remote admin and file transfers to manage and only have ssh access w/o vpn to use for it. Thanks, jlc

Hi! I have a problem with Kernel density estimate plot for 3-dimensional data in ks-package. Here the example: # load ks, spatstat # three-dimensional kernel density of B B <- pp3(runif(300), runif(300), runif(300), box3(c(0,1))) x <- unclass(B$data)$df H <- Hpi(x) fhat <- kde(x, H=H) plot(fhat) plot(fhat, axes=FALSE, box=FALSE, drawpoints=TRUE);

Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms, I have e-mail server using Centos 4.1 So far I can send and receive e-mail using this server, but why to this address: retna at pttropical.co.id can not send? Every time I send e-mail to above address my server always respon with this massage: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <retna at pttropical.co.id>... Deferred: mail.pttropical.co.id.: No route to host

Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Here's hoping... -- Bill

I can ssh into a remote machine. I can start X on that machine with startx How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and have it display on my machine in my office. So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the screen output from firefox in my office. Both boxes are running centos 5. how is that done? Jerry

just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc.... None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with iptables but that will not work for us. I did a little research on google and found programs like sshguard and