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Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
by techlists＠comcast.net 03 May '08

03 May '08

I doubt you can do it. Besides requiring IE, you also have to download and run a Windows based viewer. Even using Windows XP with Firefox, I've never been able to get it running without IE. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Rogelio <scubacuda(a)gmail.com> > Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It requires > Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox)

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Subject: Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by Lanny Marcus 03 May '08

03 May '08

On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl <maillists AT conactive.com> wrote: >Message: 61 >Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:14 +0200 > Message-ID: <VA.000031c6.00c102f3(a)news.conactive.com> >*Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? [lanny@compaq1300 ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [lanny@compaq1300 ~]$ Kai: That's the kernel that is on the CentOS 5 Install DVD. During the past few days, I did "yum update" on our 3 Desktops and I will now continue to do that, frequently, as if these Desktop boxes were Servers. In the 2 Dell Dimension boxes, the kernel updated. In this Compaq Evo D300v Celeron box, the kernel did not update. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by Lanny Marcus 03 May '08

03 May '08

On 02 May 2008, Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com wrote: > > ______________________________________________________________________ > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not update the > > kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates > > are available. > > Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line Erek: Thank you. I looked at the /etc/yum.conf file. There is no line that says exclude=kernel Lanny

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Re:[CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by Lanny Marcus 03 May '08

03 May '08

On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote: > > ______________________________________________________________________ > On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote: > > This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not update the > > kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates > > are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past > > couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and mine > > (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now, > > there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP > > option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel > > on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA! > > When this happens i do a "yum clean all" then do the update again. > That usually sorts it . Mike: Thank you. I tried the 2 commands you suggested, but no joy. Results are below. Lanny [root@compaq1300 ~]# yum clean all Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Cleaning up Everything [root@compaq1300 ~]# yum update Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 google 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 rpmforge 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00 ################################################## 17/17 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00 ################################################## 4/4 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.4 MB 01:56 ################################################## 6747/6747 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 834 kB 00:18 ################################################## 2400/2400 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 230 kB 00:03 ################################################## 463/463 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 104 kB 00:00 ################################################## 361/361 259 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion [root@compaq1300 ~]#

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"yum update" did not update kernel on one box
by Lanny Marcus 03 May '08

03 May '08

This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and mine (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now, there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!

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read only root file system
by Jason Pyeron 02 May '08

02 May '08

I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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AW: RE: [CentOS] read only root file system
by Marc Rebischke 02 May '08

02 May '08

I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? Well, i tried two possibilities years ago.. 1.) : There are SCSI-Disks with jumpers for "Write Protect" , so you have a real Hardware write-protection. 2.) : Have a look at (Open)BSD's "Immutable Flag"-Feature. (Well, i hope you all love OpenBSD?) ;-) But....don't get nervous while setting up the box... Regards Marc Rebischke

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RH9 to centos 5 386
by Jerry Geis 02 May '08

02 May '08

I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.cen… rpm -i --nodeps --force http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-1.… yum upgrade Everything was progressing until I did tte "yum upgrade" I got an error about not finding a yum package. "There was a problem importing one of the python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named yum" What do I do now... Thanks, Jerry

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Archive-to-DVD
by David Mackintosh 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hi folks, Here's the situation. I have a group of engineers who love to save things to disk. Now that the filer is getting full, they are interested in archiving some of those things to DVD. The tress containing the things they want to archive are specified like so: /path/path/path/A/04?? /path/path/path/B/04?? /path/path/path/A/05?? /path/path/path/B/05?? /path/path/path/A/06?? /path/path/path/B/06?? ...and there are things in A and B which do not match the specifications. The total amount of data in this specificaiton is around 30GB, and this is not distributed equally through the specification. What I'm hoping for is a program that I can feed in directory specifications like the above, and it will produce for me DVD images (.iso files) containing these trees in such a format that when the engineers want file $X, I can give them the DVD (or the whole stack, if required) and say "there you go" without having to go through a restore process. I don't want something which creates it's own archive format which spans the DVDs (ie split-tar or ufsdump). I would settle for a program that produces a list of files such that I can create DVD images on my own. Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about doing this, before I roll my own solution? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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CentOS Forums
by Johnny Hughes 02 May '08

02 May '08

We have CentOS Forums here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/ Akemi Yagi (toracat on IRC) and Fabian Arrotin (arrfab on IRC) are the Forum Moderators. There are a lot of posts there that I find helpful when doing web searches ... but we could use more people answering questions there. Also, we specifically need some people to answer questions concerning Oracle database deployment in the CentOS4 and CentOS5 oracle forums: CentOS 5 Oracle: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=49 CentOS 4 Oracle: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=35 If we have anyone out there who likes the forum format for tech support, is fairly knowledgeable and would like to help out, we would greatly appreciate help in our CentOS Forums. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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