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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

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

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 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

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

On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:01:43 +0200 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > You are correct, but what "more info" do you want? Well, a list of names of those conflicting packages would be nice to have. Or instructions how to ask yum to compile it. > You've spelled it > out quite well, you have the solution (set the lowest prio == highest >

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

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

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

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

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

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:15:05 -0800 Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:39:47PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:13:17 -0500 > >> Scott Robbins wrote: > >> > You may have noticed how if Fedora, by some odd

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:42:35 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Do most people today have /boot on a separate partition, > > or do they (you) have it on the / partition ? > > > Separate partition, 100% of the time. Inside / (which is mostly always ext4), 100% of the time. :-) That said, I prefer virtual machines over multiboot environments, and

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 the yum-priorities package (and set up priorities in the order base&updates < elrepo < epel), it turns out that there are 65 conflicting packages between base and epel, and additional 5 between elrepo and epel (there

I've got this report (edited for clarity): # As it happens, it is unique to tunneling. I only have one protocol to # test with tunnelling at present due to firewalling on the host I'm # connecting to (rdp to a terminal server). # # When I try and telnet [host] 3389, it works fine, and I can disconnect # as normal. If I try the rdp client, I get this error: # # rdesktop: A Remote Desktop

Hi everyone! :-) While doing a regular manual yum update on my ContOS 5.3 server, yum complained as follows: [root at sith ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ftp.icm.edu.pl * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * base: centosb2.centos.org * updates: centose.centos.org * extras: centosb2.centos.org * addons:

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

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

On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm > sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the > hardware has a certain physical speed, regardless of the presence of > LVM. What am I missing? Well, there's best and worst case scenarios. Best case for file-backed VMs is

I am looking at the simplest (implementation-wise) solution to the following problem (on CentOS 6.2): I have a list of web addresses (like http://www.example.com, https://1.2.3.4/, etc.) that should be "forbidden" to access from a particular host. On access attempt, the browser should be redirected to a local web page (file on the hard disk) with the explanation that those addresses