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freenx disconnects?
by Les Mikesell 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

My NX/freenx connections have recently started to drop more or less randomly after several hours. Reconnection works with everything still running. I don't think anything has changed other than CentOS updates. Is anyone else seeing this? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Dualboot CentOS and Windows
by Frank.Brodbeck＠klingel.de 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? TIA, Frank.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Les Mikesell 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> I there are too many updates, and sometimes they crash something. I >> remember while using Fedora 10, after disappointment with F9, after an >> update, the sound stopped to work. I didn't like the idea of Thunderbird >> beta in F 12. Also, the external drives are mounted using the uuid(?) >> name, so instead of /media/disk, appears something like >> /media/88299233ddd22, which breaks my backup/recover script. And a few >> other thinks. My general option was that the experience wasn't good, or >> put in another way, Ubuntu works better. > > Uuid doesn't look like something I'd like to see anywhere soon on my > systems... I'll look into that though. I'd like to know the point with it. What happens when you mount 2 otherwise identical disks/filesystems? As might happen if you take a disk from a default install and mount it into another similar system? I haven't tried with a recent fedora version, but I'd guess it still won't work if you have the default LVM volume id from an install - they've gotten this wrong with every label/id approach so far. Even people who are 'no-tech' types as far as Linux goes may want to swap drives around and copy some old data or at least look at the contents before reusing a drive. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Les Mikesell 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >> Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. >> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They >> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. >> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. > > Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple of years ago. > Stability seems ok, but personally I don't like the sudo this and sudo that > and sudo everywhere. Besides, it felt somehow clunky. CentOS seemed slim, > slick and fast compared at the time, so CentOS is what I got stuck with (in > an endearing sense of course). Server software has been fairly 'feature-complete' for a decade or so and there's not a lot of point in using a rapidly changing distribution to run it. If you did use Ubuntu, you'd want the LTS (long term support) version. On the other hand, Linux desktop software still has a ways to go and there are more reasons to accept the new bugs that come along with new features and the need to upgrade more often. RHEL's decision to update the versions of Firefox and OpenOffice in a minor release helped, but it still feels very old as a desktop. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Christopher Chan 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On >> > Behalf > >> Of Matt >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user >> >> Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. >> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They >> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. >> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. >> > > Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple of years ago. > Stability seems ok, but personally I don't like the sudo this and sudo that > and sudo everywhere. Besides, it felt somehow clunky. CentOS seemed slim, > slick and fast compared at the time, so CentOS is what I got stuck with (in > an endearing sense of course). > Bah, sudo -i for the equivalent of su -.

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Inquiry:Problem with nmap
by hadi motamedi 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I solve my problem with nmap , as described below : "My CentOS server can ping the network element , but when I try to scan its open ports to see which ones are open at now the nmap cannot distinguish them and returned as they are being filtered : #nmap -sS -p 20-80 172.18.0.1 Can you please let me know how can I modify my nmap command to get through ? Thank you in advance

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Re: [CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?
by David Tauriainen 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

> I have a server that is running centos 5.3 x86_64 that until last week was > running fine. With no error messages in console and in /var/log/messages > the server simply stops responding. I posted the following bug to RedHat yesterday for similar symptoms with RHEL 5.4, same kernel. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525898 I happen to have a 3ware raid card, but didn't think of it as a culprit. Were you seeing any soft lockup messages with kswapd0 in /var/log/messages?

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Marcelo M. Garcia 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Marcelo M. Garcia >> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:57 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user >> >> Sorry, but Fedora is no longer a good desktop choice. I was a Fedora >> user, but the distribution is pushing to far the idea of cutting edge >> features. > > Would you mind elaborating your view here? > Hi To be honest there isn't much to elaborate. I understand the goal Fedora project to test the latest software available. In this way, Fedora isn't for everyone. At least is not for your main system, but if you have a spare machine to install and play with it, it's probably a good idea. In my case, the rpmfusion NVIDIA driver didn't like my card, a Quadro NVS280. I there are too many updates, and sometimes they crash something. I remember while using Fedora 10, after disappointment with F9, after an update, the sound stopped to work. I didn't like the idea of Thunderbird beta in F 12. Also, the external drives are mounted using the uuid(?) name, so instead of /media/disk, appears something like /media/88299233ddd22, which breaks my backup/recover script. And a few other thinks. My general option was that the experience wasn't good, or put in another way, Ubuntu works better. None of this is critical, but it is annoying. For me, a good distribuition would be something seating between Fedora and CentOS. In the last months I started thinking that Ubuntu feel this gap. I still believe that CentOS is best option for servers and technical workstations, but not for my laptop, a Dell XPS M1530. Regards mg.

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RHEL 6/Upstart
by Christopher Chan 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Has a beta been released and if so can anybody say whether it uses Upstart? or Has anyone worked with Upstart?

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Finally got keepass installed
by Eric Clark 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

well I finally got Keepass installed on CentOS The libraries for qt4 are actually located at pbone as well as keepass. I would love to know how to add pbone.net as a trusted repo in Yum, just for you guys that like to work with cross operating systems and having a password manager. Keepass is pretty good for all platforms and I even have it on my blackberry.

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