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Gnome-terminal $PATH
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Hi all, Usually I work in X environment (XCFE) with extensive use of x terminal; concretely, I use Gnome-terminal. Sometimes I change to root to do some admin tasks. But often it seems a few commands are not availables. The key is in the $PATH value: echo $PATH (in login shell, interactive ): /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin echo $PATH (in gnome-terminal, no-login interactive shell): /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jordi/bin The last path in $PATH variable shows me that the problem would be the gnome-terminal doesn't update correclty the $PATH when I change to root through "su" command. ¿What do you think about? TIA.

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Ignoring DDC settings on Xorg
by first last 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

I am trying to set up a new 1400x900 widescreen monitor, but I just cannot get it to work correctly. The closest I get is 1400x900, which causes lots of vertical blur bands. I have tried with two different machines with i945 and ATi cards, running CentOS 4 and Ubuntu, always with the same result. My investigations indicate that the monitor reports itself to be "1440x900". It also supports 1600x1200 by squashing the pixels together, so it also advertises support for that resolution, which messes things up. According to the documentation I have seen online, disabling DDC (using NoDDC and DCC "off") and setting the correct modeline should work, but it always reverts to 1440x900 (if I am lucky). Any ideas on how to force it to the right resolution? It really is driving me nuts not being able to use the monitor to the native resolution. Thanks Gabriel ___________________________________________________________ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk

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Re: [CentOS-devel] logged in sessions - was CentOS 5 ArtWork
by Paul 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:38 +0000, Jason_Meers wrote: > Christoph Maser wrote: > > >> > > Actually the default logins (text mode and gdm) both show the hostname. > > Don't tell me you leave logged in sessions. > > > > No not normally, only on a few specific machines on the LAN that are > only accessible from another machine on the LAN. > > 1) Not all backup software has usable command line tools, so sometimes > you have to connect the a GUI on a logged in session. > > 2) If you look at the way remote desktop(vino-server) and vnc work it is > impossible to remote control the session if the machine is not already > logged in (the session doesn't exist). Some dirty workarounds do exist > i.e the machine uses gnome session, but vnc uses a kde session to avoid > various conflicts. > > I reported this to the vino developers in august last year: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352349 > > --snip-- > Is it possible in any current or future releases of vino to connect to > the machine while it is sat at the login screen? If you use the vnc server built into X.org you have access even without a logged-in session and I find performance better than using Vino. I just recently set it up on a CentOS 4.4 workstation so I know it works with X.org in that version at least. The following page gives info on how to do it... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_VNC_to_connect_to_existing_X_Sessions The important section is the following... File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Module" Load "vnc" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Section "Screen" #This tells X where to locate the VNC password file Option "PasswordFile" "/home/your_user_name/.vnc/passwd" Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" Save your changes and close your editor. You will have to restart X (no need to reboot, just log out (end session in KDE), and hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE when the login window comes back up, then login). You also need to create your passwd file that you specified above. Code: ~/.vnc/passwd file $ mkdir ~/.vnc $ vncpasswd ~/.vnc/passwd Password: Verify: Regards, Paul

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Problem with rpmbuild
by Todd Cary 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

I want to be able to recompile php, so I downloaded the src dvd and did a rpm -i php-4.3.9-3.15.src.rpm After doing that I wanted to check to see if I can recompile it before making changes. So, I went to the SPECS dir and did a rpmbuild -i php.spec It spent a lot of time doing the compile, but at the end there were errors. What am I missing? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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hard link a directory
by Mark Quitoriano 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Hi im trying to hard link a folder and i get this # ln /var/spool /home/recordings ln: `/var/spool': hard link not allowed for directory how do i hard link a directory?

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dumb question: Need to update my GD to include freetype support on CentOS 4.4
by Dale 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Hello, Sorry for what might be a dumb question. I have a CentOS 4.4 machine with GD installed. I tend to prefer doing things via RPM to allow for updating in a easier fashion. I have a php based app that requires Freetype support in GD. This is a live server with many websites on it (although none are using GD at the moment. I am not sure the best/easiest way to get GD updated such that it has Freetype support. I did not install X on this machine as it was not needed. Would installing X be one of the steps I need to take? Thanks for your suggestions. Dale

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Switching from Vesa driver to video adapter driver fails
by Edward Diener 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

The Vesa driver works fine with CentOS 4.4. I have an NVidia 6200 video adapter. I go to Applications | System Settings | Display | Hardware tab and find my video adapter in the list and set it. The dialog tells me I have to log out for it to take effect, so I duly do that. I then getting a message from a non-graphics screen saying that the attempt to switch to the video adapter failed. When I view why, amidst all the information given is the messages: (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: No screens found I am able to switch back to the Vesa driver through the non-graphics screen, and this brings me back to my graphics login and I am once again successfully in CentOS 4.4 using the Vesa driver. Does anybody have any idea what the messages above mean or how I can correct it so it can successfully load my video adapter specific settings ? The NVidia 6200 is definitely on the Hardware tab menu, that is my video adapter, and I have the latest Xorg updates for CentOS 4.4.

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Will Intel D101GGCL work?
by Eduardo Grosclaude 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

Hello, Please. Can the following spec give me some headache with CentOS 4.4? Where to find out? I have read former advice on the list about not to mess with Intel PCI extra cards. Thank you in advance CPU P4 3,06 (524) S.775 FSB533 INTEL D101GGCL 775 ATI DDR SV R 1 PCIE 16X D.CORE Mem KINGSTON DDR2 1GB 533 HD SATA 80GB SEAGATE ST380211AS /or/ HD SATA 120GB SEAGATE ST3120026AS -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina

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problem with adding firebird/interbase support to PHP5
by Tomas Srnka 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

Hi, I'm using CentOS since 4.2 on my server. Now, I need to add support for firebird to PHP. I've installed PHP5 from Centos-contrib or Centos-plus. The firebird2 was installed from sources (./configure && make && make install). I tried to add "--with-interbase=shared,/usr/local/firebird" to php.spec but it doesn't work :(. Can you please help me howto add support for firebird to PHP ? -- S pozdravom / Best regards Tomas Srnka mobil: ++421 910 198 432 e-mail: toms(a)linuxos.sk ICQ#: 458-128-722 Skype: tomas_srnka

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cut command on centos
by Jerry Geis 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

How do I make the delimiter for cut be a single character with hex value 1e? I tried in a script file: DELIMITER='\x1e' DD=`echo $DATA | cut -f 1 --delimiter $DELIMITER` and it tells me: cut: the delimiter must be a single character Jerry

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