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Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remote access to it to perform regular system maintenance, virus cleanups, occasional software installations, reboots, config changes,

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:59 AM Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > Which Fedora release was used as a base(*) for RHEL 8? > > Wikipedia says, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is based on Fedora 28 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_versions#Fedora_28>, upstream Linux kernel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel> 4.18, systemd

The simple ordinary yum update of CentOS 5.3 spits a bunch of transaction check errors regarding packages perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch and perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch which is supposed to replace perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm from install of

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

Hi everyone! :-) I have a problem with making a wireless USB dongle work under CentOS 6. The dongle is known to not work natively under Linux and last time I used it (cca 3 years ago) I managed to get it working using ndiswrapper. This time I was hoping to make it work again in the same way. But the "yum install kmod-ndiswrapper" reports the following (among other regular stuff):

Hi folks! :-) I have a Fujitsu Lifebook U series laptop running updated CentOS 6.4 (64bit), and the touchpad doesn't work. It's a new laptop, the touchpad works correctly in Fedora 18 Live (given the kernel parameters below), no hardware problems. I searched the web all around, and it's a known issue for several laptop models. The only solution, quoted everywhere, it is to append the

On 2019-01-22 11:01, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 7:54 AM Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> 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 >>

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. I have been > using it for years on thousands of production systems with no issues > that could not be easily explained as myself or someone else doing > something stupid. And even those issues were pretty few and far > between. >

I have a small problem with webalizer. I use it to analyze logs of a small web server hosting a single site, and the only thing I am interested in from webalizer is the piechart diagram it produces about the geographic distribution of people visiting the site. However, the piechart it produces gives me a very crude information, with 50% or so of visitors belonging to "unresolved",

Hi everyone! :-) Yesterday I managed to find a driver for my USB wireless dongle, and it is now correctly recognized by the kernel. However, I don't know how to configure it. The system-config-network opens up in text mode and is not very forthcoming (it lists ethernet, ISDN and modem as possibilities for configuring a new device). I don't know how to create an

Hi folks, I've been trying to do some KVM virtualization on a C5 host, and to my surprise, there seems to be no kvm package in any of the repos. Yum install kvm says: No package kvm available. Nothing to do This machine is a CentOS release 5.10 (Final) with the 2.6.18-371.11.1.el5 kernel. Also, the docs related to C5 on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM seem to be terribly outdated.

On 2/27/2015 4:52 PM, Khemara Lyn wrote: > I understand; I tried it in the hope that, I could activate the LV again > with a new PV replacing the damaged one. But still I could not activate > it. > > What is the right way to recover the remaining PVs left? take a filing cabinet packed full of 10s of 1000s of files of 100s of pages each, with the index cards interleaved in the