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RE: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums
by Mark A. Lewis 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

The other big thing to remember is that many of us do not have NNTP feeds at work, where e-mail and the web are easy to get to. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:05 PM To: CentOS Users Subject: Re: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:53 -0500, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > I see that a number of questions are being answered on the new web > forum that is now part of the centos site. And the mailing lists So > now there are two places to search, both the forum and the mailing > list archives. > True ... but some users like forums, and others like mailing lists. Each has there advantages and disadvantages. > This is just doubles the work required to follow along or find a > solution. > > I know NNTP isn't sexy, it doesn't allow graphics in posts, it doesn't > have person ratings or cute smileys, and it requires a modicum of > competence to use, but it DOES do all of these: > > . Allows off-line reading and replying, with an appropriate reader. > . Searching. > . Reliable way of showing you which threads have new posts. > -> I have not yet found a single web forum that did this well. check the envelope at the left after you login ... if the color is bright it's new to you ... if it is lightened out, it is not new to you. > . Orders of magnitude faster. > . Easy to archive. > . Small footprint, on-disk and over-network. > . Synchronisation to multiple servers, reduced network use. > . Bidirectional synchronisation to a mailing list. > . Supports authenticated posting, moderation, etc. > > --Jim I like forums ... and I personally think that forums are easier to search. I also think that things like BOLD letters and links like: [url=xxxxx]Text[/url] Where xxxxx is a 200 character string, are much more convenient in a forum. BUT ... I realize that there is no right answer, much like the vi / emacs argument, the GNOME / KDE argument, and the evolution / mutt argument. However, I think offering both is what a community based distro, with users in mind should do. I could be wrong though ... my wife reminds me of that quite often :) -- Johnny Hughes <http://www.HughesJR.com/> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Need a proper configuration of smartd monitoring.
by Alexander Georgiev 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Hi, I have a software mirror with 2 IDE disks - hda and hdc. I would like to be able to monitor their health using smartd, and I am running /etc/init.d/smartd as a service. I placed the folloing in the /etc/smartd.conf /dev/hda -H -m root /dev/hdc -H -m root I case of a problem I want to be notified by mail, and a message to be logged to the system log. Just want to know if this confugiration is adequate for proper monitoring with smartd, or I should add some other options in the conf file? Kind regards. A. Georgiev.

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samba-3.0.9-1.3E.2
by Tom Seeley 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I wouldn't normally hurry you guys about a package release, (because you're doing an excellent job), but any eta on the above? samba-3.0.9-1.3E.1 is in the current repos and that install seriously fubar'd my ADS + winbind setup. samba-3.0.9-1.3E.2 (which requires krb5-libs-1.2.7-31) fixes the problem. NB, samba-3.0.7-1.3E.1 (the old version) was fine for me, its only this intermediate version that's hosed. Thanks for you on going efforts, -- Tom Seeley

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:020-01 Updated samba packages fix security issue Files available: samba-2.2.12-1.21as.4.i386.rpm samba-client-2.2.12-1.21as.4.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.12-1.21as.4.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.2.12-1.21as.4.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:010-01 Updated VIM packages fix security vulnerability Files available: vim-X11-6.0-7.19.i386.rpm vim-common-6.0-7.19.i386.rpm vim-enhanced-6.0-7.19.i386.rpm vim-minimal-6.0-7.19.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:005-01 Updated fam packages fix security issue Files available: fam-2.6.4-12.i386.rpm fam-devel-2.6.4-12.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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cAos/CentOS Users in Boston/New England area
by Matt Shields 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I'm still looking for any volunteers in the Boston or New England areas that would be willing to help out at LinuxWorld in February. It goes Feb 14th - 17th, but the expo part is only 15th - 17th. If you can't come all three days, that's fine, but I would appreciate if there were a couple people that could come at least a day or two. Also, If you help out you get a 3 day pass to the expo exhibits. Here is more info on the event http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A Contact me if you'd like to help out. thanks -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz http://www.centos.org http://www.caosity.org

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CentOS-3 i386 errata: Updated VIM packages fix security vulnerability
by Lance Davis 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-010.html refers changed fupdates/i386/SRPMS/vim-6.3.046-0.30E.1.src.rpmes are :- updates/i386/RPMS/vim-common-6.3.046-0.30E.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.30E.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.30E.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-X11-6.3.046-0.30E.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/vim-6.3.046-0.30E.1.src.rpm To update run 'yum update' These files are on mirror.caosity.org now and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. Lance

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kernel compile and console mouse
by Jesús García González 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hello everyone, I had to recompile my kernel to enable NTFS support. I used as base the i686 kernel config and enabled the read-only NTFS module. After booting my custom kernel it all works fin (it reads the NTFS partition :-) ) but the console mouse (its a text only pc) wont work. Restarting the gpm service makes the poiter show but wont respond to mouse moves or clicks and will vanish at the first keystroke. Rebooting with the original kernel brings it back to life. What did I miss? Any help aprecuated, Best wishes, J.

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CentOS web page "Contact Us" form
by Rick Graves 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hey, Some time ago (two weeks maybe), I put a message in the CentOS web page "Contact Us" form, in part to see what would happen. Today I got an answer from Donavan. It is good that I finally got an answer. (I am not blaming Donavan; answering off the wall posts to a "Contact Us" form is not my idea of a good time, either.) Would it be better for submissions on the "Contact Us" form to get onto this mailing list immediately? Rick

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