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18 Oct '09

Just tried to play a movie/DVD and Totem (what automatically popped up when I inserted the DVD) said it needed plug-ins... it didn't say which plug-ins. The website listed in the help page no longer exists. I have four of the gstreamer packages and libdvdcss installed, but I guess there's something more needed. Anyone know? tia for the tips. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake

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CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent
by Yves Bellefeuille 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the release. Could the same be done this time? -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan(a)storm.ca> "Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA" -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 389

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Samba/BackupPC under CentOS-5.3
by Timothy Murphy 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines, In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions, if that is relevant here. I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine. It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders, but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients. To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D" on a machine running Windows XP Pro. I can access it through Samba: ------------------------------------- m@rose ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs harriet:"EA Games D" /mnt/win Password: [tim@rose ~]$ ls /mnt/win The Sims 2 ------------------------------------- But I do not seem able to back it up with BackupPC . In my BackupPC conf file for harriet I have under Smb Settings "EA Games D" But when I run a backup (incremental or full) I get the error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG 2009-10-17 14:43:43 Got fatal error during xfer (tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?
by Mathieu Baudier 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? > Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every > revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a > public revision control system? > I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS? That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have a look at it. (I rebuilt libvirt from RedHat SRPM, just to test the some new virtualization feature of v5.4, and going through the process I kept wondering how the CentOS team is doing it on all the packages!)

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iscsi target for C5.x
by John R Pierce 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I looked in rpmforge but didn't see anything.

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[off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine
by Marcelo M. Garcia 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x Thanks Marcelo

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CentOS 5.4? anyone?
by mbneto 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? - Regards.

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so when's 5.4 going to be out? :-)
by Robert P. J. Day 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics Update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:29:40 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf Update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4AD87544.6060804(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1501 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

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CentOS 5.4? anyone? - "debate"
by Gabriel - IP Guys 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Dear All, If someone asks a question such as "When is Centos 5.4 coming out" bare in mind that it may be because they genuinely want to know when it's coming out, and feel that somehow, they have not been privy to that information. To me, I see CentOS as a polished professional product given what it is, a repackaging of RHEL, and to that end I have the expectation of a fully fledged professional product, which includes static release dates. (I know it's not always possible, so please, no flames) I say this with love, and all the maturity that goes with it, "I can't WAIT for CentOS 5.4!!!" but at least I have the luxury of understanding the process which prevents 5.4 from coming out on a particular day. The owners of 600 or so servers out there which I look after, like to believe they are techie people, because they can use Google, and they can read a few articles that say Centos 5.4 on the way. I get very regular emails asking why there server is still on centos 5.2, and I have to explain, if it's not broke, I'm not fixing it! On TV, when you watch a commercial that tells you of the latest blockbuster movie - there is a date attached. The next butt kicking FPS for Xbox 360... has a release date. So many products that have a "limited" life span (iPods, games consoles, mobile phones, books, songs) are planned with a "static" release date, and if that date is missed, bad press is almost a guarantee! The point I'm making, is that people have become used to knowing when things will happen. (I believe this is illustrated in the number of people fascinated with Flash Forward! Google is your friend). So, give them a break - and the idiots that insult other people who obviously do not understand how things work need to instead take the time, and understand that the internet is no longer the domain/hangout of the technically savvy. Even Linux is no longer the realm of only the technical geniuses, (although there are a lot of us!) When someone asked "When will *CentOS 5.4 come out??* The answer is, "When it is good and ready", and when they ask "Why/What does that mean?", ask them to Google "open source distribution release cycle". That should keep them busy for long enough for me/you to actually get some work done J --- Kind Regards, Mr Gabriel

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