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SATA Switch
by Matt 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Does anyone know of a front panel SATA switch? I would like to have one drive with 'Windows 7' and another with linux on my PC but do not want them on the same drive. Matt

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aide updated packages
by ceejay cervantes 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Any news on the latest aide package? Current version of aide on CentOS 5 is aide-0.13.1-4.el5. This version of aide produces the following message on /var/log/messages "aide: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application" when executed. Upstream already has released aide-0.13.1-6.el5 last January. I only see this version on the CentOS5 testing repo http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/ regards, Ceejay Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/

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Image viewer refuses to print TIF graphics
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

I'm not sure if it's just the TIFs or if that related at all, since I have had some luck in printing these before, but recently the image viewer (eog - the Eye of GNOME, v 2.16.0.1) has responded to a print command on certain TIFs with nothing. Nothing shows up in the spool queue for the printer, and, although the printer (a Brother 2140 laser printer) heats up, it doesn't print anything at all. Now, this is better than it printing hundreds of pages with indecipherable gobbledygook on them, but I'd really prefer the image itself. Any ideas on what it might be? My "standard" solution is to use either tiff2pdf or Adobe Photoshop Elements (in my virtual WIndows box) to convert them to PDFs, which then print just fine, but that's a real annoyance - tiff2pdf routinely generates enormous PDF files, and it takes a while to bring the XP VM out of hibernation, log in, open APE and run the conversion. Other alternatives welcome.... mhr

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VMWare vs. KVM - recommendations?
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Okay, I'm being noisy today. I have VMWare Server 1.0.8 installed on my CentOS desktop, and it runs my XP and CentOS guests just fine, though I don't use them much. I'm considering moving to either VMWare Server 2.0 or switching to KVM instead, mainly because VMWS 1 is now obsolete and also because its limitations on video configurations is really annoying - I have a 22" 1680x1050 LCD monitor, hoping to upgrade sometime in the not-too-distant future to a 23 or 24" display with full HD (1920x1080), but VMWS 1 does not support any wide-screen configurations at all. I tend to use on-screen real estate to maximum benefit, and the 1152x864 maximum useful size I have now is just too small for me, so I'm thinking maybe it's time to upgrade to something newer/better. I've seen some of the horror stories about problems with VMWare 2.0, which is not at all encouraging, and I've taken a look at the Red Hat Virtualization guides (the 5.4 one that's online in html only) and also a PDF version for 5.2 that I found somewhere, and it _looks_ complicated. (One of the main benefits of VMWare Server that I really liked was that it is fairly easy to use and relatively low maintenance, if it works, and 1.0.8 works just fine, except for the screen issue.) OTOH, the built-in nature of KVM is really appealing, and if it works as well as other features of CentOS/RH/Linux, it would be nice to be able to avoid the separate upgrade and re-build-the-drivers-vmware-config.pl annoyance every time a new kernel comes along. I'm a big fan of well-integrated software, especially in this area (virtualization). One question I had that overrides most other considerations is how to transfer my existing XP VM over to whichever new underlying system I choose - is that even possible, or do I have to go through all the reinstallation pain yet another time? If I have to go that route, I'll probably opt for kvm and take that plunge so I can do it once and never again (ok, that was not supposed to be funny... :-). Recommendations? Thanks, as always. Mark Hull-Richter Expert CentOS/Linux C/shell Software Developer Registered Linux User #472807 - sign up at http://counter.li.org/

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AR 9.3+ vs. savable fill-in PDFs on CentOS
by MHR 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

I've tried reporting this to Adobe, but they are remarkably deaf to such an enormous market of free software users. At least as of AR 9.3, including the latest 9.3.1, I have been unable to view or work with the savable fill-in PDFs that I've pulled off the web in the last couple of months. I have no trouble at all with them in my Windows virtual machine, but the Linux version starts up, displays the window/frame outline, then crashes and dies silently. Since Adobe doesn't provide any useful channel of communications for support to users of its free products, even though they are essentially ubiquitous and somewhat essential (for things like this), apparently their recent breakthrough in the area of supporting Linux systems does not include actually supporting Linux systems users. So, since I have made that enormous leap of logic, I wonder, is anyone else experiencing this problem? Yes, I know all about evince - use it most of the time, but it does not handle the fill-in PDFs or the ones where you can save the filled-in values. Any other options? Thanks. mhr

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CentOS 3.8+Wine
by TeeWei Hian 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Can wine install in CentOS 3.8? I'd tried the following method but failed to install wine. *_Method 1_* [root@gloin yum.repos.d]# yum install wine Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching wine No actions to take _*Method 2*_ [root@gloin yum.repos.d]# rpm -ivh /home/wine/* warning: /home/wine/wine-1.0.1-1.el5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6 error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-capi-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-capi-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-cms-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-cms-1.0.1-1.el5 liblcms.so.1 is needed by wine-cms-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-cms-1.0.1-1.el5 /usr/bin/xmessage is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libXxf86vm.so.1 is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libasound.so.2 is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc4) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc8) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-core-1.0.1-1.el5 desktop-file-utils >= 0.8 is needed by wine-desktop-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-devel-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-devel-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-devel-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-esd-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-esd-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-jack-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-jack-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-jack-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-ldap-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-ldap-1.0.1-1.el5 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by wine-ldap-1.0.1-1.el5 libldap_r-2.3.so.0 is needed by wine-ldap-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-ldap-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-nas-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-tools-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-tools-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-tools-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by wine-twain-1.0.1-1.el5 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by wine-twain-1.0.1-1.el5 rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by wine-twain-1.0.1-1.el5 _*My repos *_[root@gloin yum.repos.d]# ls adobe-linux-i386.repo epel.repo epel-testing.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo mirrors-rpmforge rpmforge.repo _*uname -a*_ [root@gloin yum.repos.d]# uname -a Linux gloin.abc.com.my 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Aug 1 08:47:53 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux _*Glibc version*_ [root@gloin yum.repos.d]# ldd --version ldd (GNU libc) 2.3.2 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. _________________________________________________________________ 您的电子邮件和更灵活的即时通信。免费获取 Windows Live Hotmail。 https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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No "you have new mail" message on login
by Ian Masters 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello I have a few servers running CentOS release 5.4 (Final) and none of them are displaying a "you have new mail" message on login. I've asked Professor Google but he is strangely silent. Have I neglected an important setting? I thought this was a default on most linux ditributions. Any help much appreciated. Ian

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Can't create partition even though free space is available
by Ruslan Sivak 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm working with XenServer 5.5u2, which is basically CentOS 5. I'm having trouble creating a partition. I should still have free space in the extended partition, but it won't let me create any more logical partitions. Is there anything I'm doing wrong or is this a bug in fdisk? Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux /dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 999 108959 867196701 83 Linux /dev/sda6 108960 216920 867196701 83 Linux Command (m for help): n Command action l logical (5 or over) p primary partition (1-4) l No free sectors available -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLsVLVGUZBYlCheYcRArD/AKCfnrRuqNeAe/69sFVp0nNcsA5a4wCfU7MY d6rAC2hAj2o1eRVBF2sJL/U= =dQUi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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apcupsd, APC UPSs, and batteries, resolved
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Well, here's the tale: we got a "replacement kit" for some APC SmartUPS 3000 - rackmount UPSs. The "kit", costing about half of what APC is asking, is just the batteries, and you pull the tray out, open it up, and swap out the batteries. Except, I did this on one... and the replace battery light never went out. Not using apcupsd's apctest, not pushing the button. The five lights on the right that show power level went down to about one or two, and took an hour or two to come back up. apctest just said replace battery was the status. I put another set in. I swapped it with another UPS, and its lights went on, so it wasn't just that one. Also, these are just batteries, not chipped like an Epson inkjet print cartridge. I did the same on another a few weeks ago, and the same. Finally - I believe these had been replaced before - I went back online, and found the exact same ones. Got them in yesterday, replaced one that I'd replaced before, waited a couple hours, and pushed the test button. It thought about it, did the test, the power level only went down *one*... and the replace battery light went out. apcupsd also reports everything's wonderful. The ones that didn't do it were PowerSonic 1250 F2's. The ones that worked were BBHR5.8012. I *think* the difference is the HR. So, now I'll be going back to the original vendor, and asking for a replacement set - he doesn't seem to have BB, but if he can give me some other HR, I'll try that. The HR is "high rate", which I assume means high rate of dis/charge. I'll let y'all know what happens, but at this time, my opinion is that if you see a replacement kit for RBC43's, make *SURE* that they're HR. mark

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No "you have new mail" message on login
by Ian Masters 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

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