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CentOS Project Infrastructure
by Marcus Moeller 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Dear Community, I recently started thinking about how to make a project like CentOS more transparent and open (especially for new contributors). The http://wiki.centos.org/Team page (which Dag created about a year ago) lists about 20 (more or less active) members, divided into core and community contributors. I personally do not like that kind of distinction. Of course there should be something like a 'board' and clear responsibilities (release management and such), but at least the board should be elected by all active members. As we are a community of ppl with high technical skills probably only persons with a valuable number of contributions and knowledge will be elected to the board. A board member could of course be responsible for core dev tasks, too. The board itself could consist of a mix of technical, marketing, or legal orientated ppl. To make this happen, the new maintainer process has to be clarified first. I am thinking about a (frequently maintained) list of open tasks e.g. maintained within trac, from which a new (and even existing) maintainer could choose one. Of course suggestions for task that are not listed there could be published on the ML. The 'Team' page should list major tasks one is working on or responsible for. If one needs help (e.g. I am in need of help for the website update), he/she could add a note to this task list (and maybe even announce on the ML) with contact details (wiki homepage). Other areas of taking part should and are already covered on: http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute But some aspects are still unclear: THE WIKI: For me a wiki is a collaboration platform which should be accessible to every contributor in the same manner (except the front and user pages). That means there should be a join process (where you have to agree to the cc license) which then leads to EditGroup membership. I do not see a good reason why new articles should first be published on the ML. A user should be able to add a new article and then announce it on the ML (if necessary). Same on the personal pages. Of course it makes sense that new users introduce theirself on the ML but they should already have access to their own personal page, before. A comment function could be a good feature but in a comparatively small community like ours, most of everything can be discussed via ML or could be handled through page changelog. I personally see no reason to honor authorship of created pages besides the wiki page history. THE BUGTRACKER: The CentOS bugtracker contains a lot of upstream bugs that cannot be fixed here. We have to make sure that these are tracked upstream and fixed there. THE CONTRIB REPO: This repository has been re-invited in CentOS 5.3 but it's still unclear what it's meant to be for. Could it contain non-free packages. Should'nt oss packages better be pushed to EPEL/RPMFusion or even RPMForge? Where should spec files go? Is there an SVN with write access and an automated build process, already? Barriers on this site should be lowered when it's clear what the repo is meant for. QA: Some of you might know that CentOS has got an QA process before releases. This is an closed process and invite only. There where some reasons for it (e.g. some ppl only took part in the beta program to get early access to upcoming releases) but an invite only QA could not be the solution. This process should be open to all members. BARRIERS: Overall, the barriers for new contributors are much too high. This can also be fixed with something like a mentorship program where longtime developers take care about new maintainers. Best Regards Marcus Moeller

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disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation
by James A. Peltier 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hi All, I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2. I've looked in the /etc directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2 files. Am I missing something grossly obvious here? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy.

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vtund segfault
by Daniel Bruno 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

I configured a tunnel where the server is a CentOS 5 x86_64 with compress. In the client don't have problem but in the message log of the server show this erro: vtund[15145]: segfault at 0000000000000040 rip 0000000000409774 rsp 00007fff88d548d0 error 4 I did the same configuration on another server, but i686 and had no problems. Packs: vtun-3.0.2-1.el5.rf x86_64 lzo2-2.02-3.el5.rf x86_64 Any idea? Thanks, -- Daniel Bruno http://danielbruno.eti.br danielbruno(a)projetofedora.org

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vnc - single application or a "remote localhost" on Firefox
by Frank Cox 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Normally I use VNC-over-SSH to provide a complete desktop to a remote user. Is there a way to provide a single application to a user instead of a complete desktop? In this case I am looking for a method to provide remote report-viewing access to LedgerSMB for a company's outside accountant. LedgerSMB runs through a web browser (i.e. http://localhost/ledgersmb) so he doesn't need or want remote access to anything other than one instance of Firefox. In other words, normally the remote users crank up a VNC session and see their full desktop. For this instance I would like to have him see only a Firefox session. A ssh session like "ssh -X user@remotehost firefox" works. But it's painfully slow. On the other hand, VNC has a reasonable amount of snap. The other approach would be to somehow do use some kind of ssh port-forwarding under Firefox so he could run Firefox locally on his own computer, and somehow access http://localhost/ledgersmb on the remote machine. Is there such a thing as a "remote localhost" that would work like that? I don't want to open anything other than ssh on the application server to the big scary world. To complicate things a bit more, the accountant runs Windows on his computer. Maybe there is a simple way to accomplish this feat and I'm just not seeing it? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect
by chandlercody＠gmail.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Thank you for the help and info! ------Original Message------ From: Lanny Marcus Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect Sent: Aug 12, 2009 2:45 PM On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, <chandlercody(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items to help me learn/gain knowledge. Should be binary equivalent with RHEL, so the upstream documentation for RHEL should be fine. There may be some differences in the updating procedures, but other than that, I think it should be the same. If I'm wrong, someone more knowledgeable, hopefully will jump in and correct me. Suggest you download the Live CD and burn that and test it on your laptop to see if it is going to work OK on your HW. It can be problematic on a laptop, especially if it is very new. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect
by chandlercody＠gmail.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items to help me learn/gain knowledge. Thank You Cody ------Original Message------ From: Robert Heller Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS(a)centos.org ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect Sent: Aug 12, 2009 1:19 PM At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > > Hello > > I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop > and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom. > Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm, > latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive > information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and > boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated! Is the drive IDE (PATA) or SATA? If SATA, you will need a proper SATA driver. As a *guess* (which worked for the SATA controller on my desktop motherboard), try adding the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter: Boot: linux irqpoll > > Thank you > Cody > Sent on the Now NetworkÂ™ from my SprintÂ® BlackBerryMIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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vpn
by chloe K 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi Where remote and local address and subnet I can put for vpn configuration in linux box? Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo..com.

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SOLVED: Re: OT: Firefox SSL error on Linux, Firefox OK on Windows - same web site
by Lanny Marcus 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Using CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) on my Desktop with Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12. > With one web site (LinkShare) I am getting an SSL error, after > clicking to get a more advanced report I do not get that error, using > Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 on M$ Windows and I get the report OK on > Windows. It appears, when using Firefox on Linux, that it is not > ending up on the LinkShare web site and Firefox is giving me the below > error. I use OpenDNS.com for DNS service. > > Secure Connection Failed > > analytics.linksynergy.com uses an invalid security certificate. Thank you Johnny, Filipe and Rick (Rick wrote me off list)! The problem is not on my end. :-) The problem is with the DNS settings of LinkShare. I wrote to them, again, this time with information Filipe and Rick provided to me and I'm sure after they change their DNS settings, this problem will go away. :-)

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Laptop hd incorrect
by chandlercody＠gmail.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom. Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm, latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated! Thank you Cody Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board
by Kai Schaetzl 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Ian Murray wrote on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT): > I hit reply and changed the subject. Please stop doing that. That's what I do on my local > LUG list and nobody complained so, I don't know if I have committed > some list faux pas, so apologies if I have done. It's wrong for every mail conversation. > > Perhaps you can set me straight on where I am going wrong? Send a new message. If you hit "reply" then the threading information (in -reply-to und references headers) gets inserted as well and thus the message gets threaded to that thread. Opposite to what some people who are new on the net believe the threading is *not* done by the subject but by the threading headers. The subject gets used only in case the threading headers are absent. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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