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Hi, How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? Regular users have it, but not root's. I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I've just installed a server with CentOS 4. This server is behind a proxy. I'm trying to import the RPM key. Already set http_proxy variable to: export "http_proxy"=http://proxy.xpto.com:3128 Truth is, command # rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 just leaves me hanged. Any ideas ? Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I'm the system's administrator at my company. All servers are CentOS :) I've been noticing that many people spend the whole day hearing to online radios. How can i block the streaming ? It's HTTP and i think it's through port 80. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito PS: No good blocking the radio sites, they'll discover others.

Hi, Does anyone knows of a place where one can download through HTTP (and only HTTP) the CentOS 4.1 DVD ISO ? I'm behind a firewall and have no chance of either getting it through bittorrent or FTP. Any help would be apreciated. Warm regads, M?rio Gamito

Hi, I need to run /bin/mount and /sbin/mount.cifs commands as nobody user (it has (bin/bash shell). So, I've edited /etc/sudoers and added: Cmnd_Alias CMD_MOUNT = /bin/mount Cmnd_Alias CMD_CIFS ) = /sbin/mount.cifs nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_MOUNT nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: CMD_CIFS But when I run the command as nobody (in the shell), I get the error: "mount

Hi, I've just installed a fresh CentOS 5.2 Now, I run "yum update" and I get: "Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try

Hi, I'm trying to recompile CentOS stock kernel, and after making my choices (make menuconfig), i run "make" and imediatly get this error (after my signature). Yes, i have the kernel source installed :P Any help would be apreciated. Warm regards, M?rio Gamito [root at tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# make CHK include/linux/version.h SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h ->

Hi, I'm installing CentOS 4.4 64 bits with RAID 1 per software. But when the installation finishes, i cannot boot the system. I always get GRUB error 15. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070228/9c237e08/attachment.html>

Hi, I've installed a mail server using CentOS 4.4 Now, if i reboot the server remotely by ssh, when it cames up, i have no network. The interface is up and everything looks pretty fine. But i can't even ping other machines in the same intranet. If i reboot it locally at the console, the network cames just fine. Never seen nothing like this. The mind boggles :( Any ideas ? Warm

Hi, First things first, sorry for the off-topic, but I've already burned my eyes Googling and couldn't find the answer to what I need and I remembered asking here, because I'm a long time CentOS and its mailing list user. Again, my apologies. I have this command to create an FTP account: # pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/mario This command asks for

Hi, I have this file server with CentOS 4.0 Each time a new kernel comes out, i have to recompile it, becuse i need Appletalk support and the kernel doesn't have it. I've done this before many times and in other servers, and all went well. Now, in this particular server, with the new 2.6.9-11, after i've recompiled it, created the .img and edited grub, the machine doesn't

Hi, I'm making a schema for my company's co-workers, but i'm obviosuly doing something wrong, because i get: ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt" -w secret -f people.ldif adding new entry "dc=telbit,dc=pt" ldapadd: no attributes to change or add (entry="cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt") My schema file (experimantel) is: ## objectclass definition for

Hi, Is there a way i could hide "netlogon", "profiles", "homes", etc., from my windows 2000 users ? Will "hide files" solves the issue, or is there another way ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, Sorry for the little bit off-topic. I have a script that has to performe a hash over a password. Problem is that sha512sum expects CTRL-D to be pressed to return to the command prompt. I've searched all over Google, but either I didn't do the right search or there is nothing relevant about this. Bottom line is that I need this command to print the password hash and returns to the

Hi, The subject says it all. For two days i've been trying to get IMAP and IMAPS working and nothing. I'm running CentOS 4.4 with qmail-ldap I just can't login in dovecot. Following my signature is some info. You can find my dovecot.conf at http://www.gamito.org/dovecot.conf I'm about to give up :( Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

Hi, First of all, my apologies for the extension of this message, but it is needeed for you to undertand my problem. Straight to the point: i have this domain in my company running in Samba 3.0.2 My users are: hcoelho, jardim, gamito, yesenia, smatias, fqueiros, faugusto, vamaro, peixinho, aragao, dina, pinho. I have this shares with the users that can access them and the correponding Linux

Hi, I have a smoothly running Samba PDC. Just one thing that isn't working: when users try to change their password in their windows 2000 machines, they get an error saying: "The domain NETUAL is not available", but it is !!! I even set 777 permissions on /etc/shadow (shame on me) just to test, but nothing. Curious thing is that i'm running a RH package 3.0.2 If i compile

Hi, I have this mail server running CentOS 4.4 I've installed in it a djbdns dns cache running at 127.0.0.1 Everything works just fine, except yum. Is there a way to turn this around ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, -- :wq! M?rio Gamito

Hi, Does anyone knows of a site that has the x64 CentOS DVD for download ? Or is it just bittorrent ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070207/2664c5cc/attachment.html>

Hi, I'm trying to mount a Windows folder from a Linux box with the command: # mount -t smbfs (...) but I get the error: "mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'". Does this mean that CentOS mount doesn't support smbfs type ? If so, how can I enable it ? I'm using 5.1 Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito