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Missing CentOS 4.7 update?
by Vandaman 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Unless I'm mistaken, does it look like Centos 4.7 is missing an update released on December 3rd 2008? Upstream details :- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0989.html An updated tmpwatch package that fixes various bugs is now available. The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time. tmpwatch is typically enabled and configured to clean up directories used for temporarily holding files, such as, for example, the /tmp directory. This updated tmpwatch package includes fixes for the following bugs: * tmpwatch unnecessarily reported a "No such file or directory" error whenever a file was deleted before tmpwatch accessed it. In this updated package, tmpwatch correctly no longer reports such errors, thus resolving the issue. <snip> Regards, Vandaman.

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Gnome Desktop Session Save?
by James B. Byrne 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

I seem to recall that at one time with CentOS I had the ability to save my gnome desktop and open applications, like terminal, when exiting. The effect was such that when I logged on to a new session those applications would open automatically for me. Is my memory faulty? If not, then has this facility been removed? If neither my memory failed nor the facility removed then how does one do this now in CentOS-5? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Alternative to audacity
by MHR 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

What's a good, gui-based sound editor as an alternative to audacity (since that is not working right now due to conflicts in the gtk libraries in rpmforge)? Or is there another place whence one may retrieve audacity? I tried sourceforge, but the links there resolve to a broken download link or they are for 64-bit rpms. Thanks. mhr

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CentOS, PHP, Basic GIS
by Michael A. Peters 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

I have no experience with GIS whatsoever. I really know squat about it. I'm currently working on a project to plot locality data for wildlife on a map of Shasta County. This is for a new herpetological club that hopes to track strength of our local herp populations, since it seems evident that in the last 20 years we lost one species of frog and are close to losing another (probably less than 100 left and they don't seem to be successfully breeding) and the declines were known, but the extent of the declines was not known well enough until it was too late. We want to try and prevent that with other species in our county by keeping records of where they currently are and where they use to be but are no longer found. When we see what appears to be shrinking range, we can investigate and if need be, request surveys by wildlife management before it is too late. Basically - the data will be plotted as a grid of regular hexagons. When locality information (museum record or photo voucher record in our own database) exists, the hexagon the record sits in gets drawn a pretty color (depending on type and age of records). I have it working on a raster (jpg) map where I guessed the latitude/longitude borders - working well enough with sample data that I know my php code works, but while it is ballpark accurate I need to do it with maps of known values. Quick and dirty option - obtain (possibly pay for) a large (at least 2k pixels wide) raster map with known lat/lon borders that has the county outline, major lakes and rivers, nothing else. The maps could be made and then resized for web view. The major problem with that model is that drawing colored hexagons near the county border and near rivers will make it more difficult to see them, thus making it harder to interpret the map. What I would prefer to do - Draw my data hexagons on a blank slate [ via imagecreate(width,height) function), then draw the county border on top of that, and then on top of that either draw the lakes/rivers and/or basic topographical lines. My preference obviously includes getting data sets for those things (county border, lakes/rivers, topography) in a format that I can parse with php to draw them with gd. My county does have some GIS data available: http://www.shastagis.co.shasta.ca.us/gissearch/search_new.aspx I don't have a clue how to get that data into format useful for drawing with gd via php. Anyone have experience with this? Can anyone recommend a (preferably free) Linux GIS program that works on CentOS that could potentially convert data files into format useful for drawing with gd? I don't need to get fancy with zoom, rotate, etc. capabilities - just a basic static flat map output. Thanks for any suggestions. I may try to find a "GIS for dummies" type book, though I've generally not been fond of dummy books, I kind of feel like one when it comes to GIS.

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tripwire on centos 5
by Mariusz 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhe… on centos5? M. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [CentOS] Joyeux Noel
by Brent L. Bates 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

And a Very Merry Christmas to you too. That includes everyone else too. :-) Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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network interface
by adrian kok 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hi all How can I bring up eth0:2 only "ifconfig eth0:2 up" is not working I have to use service network restart But it restarts all network interfaces that I don't want Thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Joyeux Noel
by Ian Blackwell 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Merry Christmas everyone. Ian

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[OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?
by William L. Maltby 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Fully up-to-date CentOS 5.2 and Firefox browser. A previous thread had a problem with plugins disappearing. I've discovered, by accident, a causal relationship. Running a Thunderbird mail client (could happen with others? Haven't tested with Evolution yet.) I click a link that opens the browser. BANG! The plugins.dat is "emptied". Restored from my rsync backup, repeat, BANG! "Empty" again. Now, if the browser is already open, NP. Anyone can confirm? Known problem? If not, I'll post bugs in the appropriate places. TIA. -- Bill

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drbd 8.3.0 is out
by Rainer Traut 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi, is this the right place to ask for updated -extras- packages? this seems to be the successor of the 8.2.x branch and contains various bugfixes. Thx Rainer

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