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CentOS as a desktop was Re: Slightly OT
by Donald Buchan 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

> OK ... this is silly > > CentOS is an Enterprise distro and works great as a workstation. In > fact, it is just as good as Ubuntu for a desktop. I would argue that a > stable, supported for several year desktop is much better than a distro > that upgrades every 6 months. I have found just that. I was introduced to linux a couple of years ago by way of FC5 (known about it for years, always wanted to migrate, dabbled in RH6 about 8 years ago and dropped it). I was supposed to get CentOS 4.4 but got FC5, allegedly -devel. Big mistake, I had it removed and CentOS 4.4 installed after a couple of months. The stability, the lower number of updates, reduced to effective nil dependency hell (provided that I stuck with the repo stuff, and even then many outside stuff) and long-term support was what attracted me. The 6 month treadmill was one of several issues I had; why spend 6 months installing and fighting with a system, only to have to go through the trouble of reinstalling after 6 months and starting again? However getting my "new" printer (about one year on the market and had it since December 2007) to work on my desktop under 5.2 as well as getting, then keeping keeping wireless on my laptop using a 4 year old PCMCIA card were deal breakers. I currently run 3 computers at home, one on the same box that got the 4.4 a couple of years ago and now upgraded to 4.6. The other two ... I had 4.4 on one and the other is a new acquisition, and installed 5.2 on both, and within a month I had to move to Ubuntu (aaaarrrrgghhhh-lee. I will be moving to F9 soon if things work out, Ubuntu is a strange breed that works, with a consumer experience virtually identical to what I had under CentOS with the exception of stuff that works with no trouble and a few nuances, but ... something rubs me the wrong way. Things like the Ubuntu customizations to the Gnome menus and the fact that the default user is defacto root while root is relegated to uselessness (including not being able to log into its own desktop to take advantage of the gui admin tools!) Long and the short of it, I would rather keep up with CentOS, made a rash decision to use Ubuntu 8.06 since it works and has the saving grace of being LTS, and will look into Fedora 9 since I'd rather be running a(n albeit small) Red Hat farm instead of a mostly Ubuntu/Debian farm. I still agree that CentOS is a robust and highly appropriate desktop. Just getting it to do basic things like wireless and printing (forget easily, just at all) need MAJOR work from upstream. Oh well, I don't pay site licences and CentOS strives for 100% binary compatibility ....

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Firewire/IEEE1394 support on centos.plus repro and yum update
by Emmanuel Borlet 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Helo, I'm trying to update a centos server with a kernel form the centos.plus repro because it contain Firewire/IEEE1394 support. But when y do a : # yum update The kernel from the base is more recent thant the centos plus repro I have tried with the http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities plug-in and it didn't take the right kernel : ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.2/centosplus/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6 .18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus.i686.rpm But the ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18 -92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm How i can force kernel choice form centos plus ? Thank's for your help Emmanuel Borlet See : # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=addons #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=extras #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=centosplus #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=10 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch& repo=contrib #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

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Whole disk encryption
by Plant, Dean 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Has there been any updates to support encrypting the whole disk in 5.2? If not, Is anyone doing this and can point me to some good documentation? Thanks Dean

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TSPC RPM for CentOS 5
by Darryl Ross 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi All, Before I go about building an RPM for TSPC (the IPv6 tunnel setup protocol client), I'm just wondering if someone has already done it? My Googling hasn't turned up anything, and I can't see any packages in the Dag, RpmForge, etc repositories. Regards Darryl

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rsyslog and imuxsocks
by Dirk H. Schulz 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi folks, I have installed rsyslog and rsyslog-mysql from the base repository, but the loadable module "imuxsocks" seems not to be part of these packages. Does this have a certain reason? And is there any other way to get this module besides compiling rsyslog on my own? Any hint or help is appreciated. Dirk

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2008:0612 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0612 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:53:20 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0612 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080806095320.GA20052(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0612 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 0e96a5c5648375bca4f54f290d3a2247 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 5336a850aa30b5a55cdb3788a14a9f28 kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 3c78e714d11c2c2b6910cdcc47a694bf kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 1404c810d7571d722436fba2dbe86445 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm f4990d57aed66cd66b86cb0193032981 kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.noarch.rpm bc9b2a65df26736b6dfd8ed731f50209 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i386.rpm 5aa251d478ff3d43fae595e008087f0a kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm d76a3f8d837b82f0ddb3d9b06537898f kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 4a0c9a6c14ade7cbf7e2701cfdfa22a8 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm 743d9f204512f83a73e46ae126733371 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm Source: 1b05a0525efa915022c16d741764325e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:53:21 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0612 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080806095321.GA20065(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0612 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 1457356856ffe82848877a6f08457dea kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 7cd3f0234fb117b11298281bdb5f4d0c kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm c79e31719719d3b732f0f62248c2186e kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm ff0631c0ff8325ae2162ee811090193a kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm b1d78ee9d4a2b15052584d1a55733325 kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.noarch.rpm 53917fdfdbabc3e34983b9cf073983ae kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm 3726883410bb2de3d7b124bf68439e72 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm a8ce18b06b43a0e586347ba5e9f0ad8c kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 1b05a0525efa915022c16d741764325e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2 **********************************************

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RPM Uninstall
by Matt 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I am wanting to uninstall an rpm off my CentOS 4.6 box. Namely caching-nameserver. Is there anywhere I can look at the uninstall script to see what it all does on its way out? Matt

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CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi. We have a Windows laptop that has gotten too slow, it's borderline unusable, so I burned a CentOS 5.2 32-bit Live CD, just to try it out in the home. It boots up fine, but it does not connect to the Internet... Now we normally connect through a wireless network, there are several around here -- on the Windows box we choose the network to which to connect... but on CentOS there is no such menu? I went to Administration -> Network, and enabled the wireless interface, set to Auto and to DHCP, but it said, unable to assign IP address, and no connectivity... How do I connect to a wireless network, please? Thanks, Aleksey

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HP ILO Fence Configuration
by Balaji 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Dear All, Currently i am using HP x6600 Server and I have installed RHEL4 Update 4 AS Linux and RHEL4 Update 4 Support Cluster Suite in my server I am new in fence and can any one help me how to configure HP ILO fence in my server and HP ILO Fence Functionality Regards -S.Balaji

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remote install/upgrade of FC3 name server to CentOS 4 or 5
by Larry Vaden 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello, Does anyone know of a good URL that covers the remote install/upgrade of a FC3 system to CentOS 4 or 5? We have one physically stranded FC3 system which is a name server and we need to upgrade to remove vulnerabilities. Kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden Internet Texoma, Inc.

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