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In CentOS 6 gconftool-2 (command line) is used to enable/disable items. In CentOS 7 I found "settings->power-> blank screen" as something I wish to configure by the command line? How is that accomplished? I brought up gconf-editor and searched for power and blank and found nothing. How can I control this setting from the command line? Thanks Jerry

On Centos 6 - how do you disable the control-alt-delete function in GNOME? Editing /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf works for console mode but not for GNOME. Thanks, Jerry

Some how I have changed something such that the command line: gconftool-2 -t string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/images/other.jpg does not change my background any longer. Has someone come across this before? How can I change gnome back to ALL default settings? Jerry

I am trying to hwclock to set the time. (hwclock -w) this is what I get on standard 5.2 x86_64. hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. No usable clock interface found. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. [root at devcentos5x64 src]# ls -l /dev/rtc crw------- 1 root root 10, 135 Feb 6 13:32 /dev/rtc Any

Hi all, I inherited a cpu-stats script from the previous *nixadmin at our department. This script relies on a rsh-command to get the vmstats from the remote machines and then using a perl script to push it to a web server. Now I''ve just added a new machine running CentOS 5.2 x64 to the script and I get the error message in the subject line; "poll: protocol failure in circuit

I had some trouble setting up dual monitors on centos with an nvidia card. I managed to track stuff down, so I thought I'd make it public on the list. I have an nvidia quadro nvs 290 in a Dell, recently installed centos5. Same stuff should apply for other nvidia cards. I needed nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64. It is available from rpmforge. Installing rpmforge is described on this

Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip. I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. Is there a way or do I just wave to use 2.6.24 or 25. Thanks, Jerry

I am trying to install on a kvm virtual machine (host is C5). At some point it stops with install error about cyrus-sasl. I goto the /root/install.log in I have a number of errors about: Installing libstdc++ warning %post scriplet failed. exit status 127 Install zlib warning %post scriptlet failed. exit status 127 Install libxml2 warning %post scriplet failed. exit status 127 this continues for

I am trying to use nash on centos 5.2 to demonstrate the problem I did: cd /sbin ln -sf /sbin/nash sleep export PATH=/sbin:$PATH sleep 5 and I get an error. Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting nash cannot open 5: no such file or directory Why doesnt that work? Thanks, Jerry

Hi all, I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline >> output.txt done

Hi Is there any way to re-export an nfs mounted directory? I am having three servers runnning on centos4.5 and i am trying to implement nfs share in an below manner [bcoz there is no alternative way for me to setup nfs share] HOST A--->>>EXPORTS /prod/data ------->>>HOST B HOST B ---->>MOUNTED ------>>> /prod/data-----UNDER---/PROD1 [working fine] HOST B

I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From:<root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com> SIZE=56 AUTH=root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. Neither email server is busy. Nothing is waiting. the DNS on both machines point to the same nameserver. The DNS

To continue here with problems on this compaq v2000 laptop, I put kernel source on a USB disk and plugged it into the v2000. NOTHING IS recognized. I tried to manually mount the disk and nothing either... I thought USB was well established.... I thought trying to recompile the kernel for realtek support might get my networking going... I am stuck??? Jerry -------------- next part

By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, which results in workstations being locked up. Bob

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently I clicked wrong this morning and now instead of the menu > (panel) with "Applications, Places, System", etc. being on the right > side of my screen, it is in the middle of the screen, vertically, from When I logged into GNOME a minute ago, I had the cursor over that menu and

hi all, running centos 4.7 i686. I seem to have an o pen r elay sendmail server. How do I close it? I have the STRAIGHT centos install sendmail.mc file. Only thing I changed was: dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl so as to allow incoming email and not just localhost. however this seems to relay everyone. I looked at http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying but it

I have been told to install a 32 bit libc on my x86_64 system. I tried "yum install libc.i386" and I got no match. What is the command I need? Jerry

> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > >/ Jerry Geis wrote: > />>/ > />>/ What went wrong? > />/ > />/ Also, I can see you are still doing your old "ask on the list rather than > />/ actually work out what the problem is" trick :/

How do you disable gnome-panel on centos 6? Before I could at least kill gnome-panel on centos 5, however on centos 6 even kill -9 gnome-panel restarts it again. Anyone know how? jerry

Hello, I own a NVidia GF488Go and therefor I tried to give aiglx+compiz a try, and it seems to work great - impressive :-) However the problem I experience is that I am unable to compile any of the "window decorators". I installed kde-devel libs + dependencies, gtk+-devel dependencies - however I don't have gnome nore gnome-develop packages installed and I build with gconf