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Kernel building
by Sam Drinkard 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

I have not even decided if I want to undertake a kernel build, but for the sake of discussion, if everything happens to be in the stock kernel, why, other than file bloat, would you want to build a custom kernel? In FreeBSD, you can remove all those devices and drivers that are not needed, and, depending on how much stuff you add or delete, can make a decent size reduction in the kernel itself. I'm not smart enough to know if there is a performance trade-off with a whole bunch of unneeded modules or drivers in the kernel, but perhaps common sense tells me that there must be some kind of performance hit otherwise. Kernel building in Linux is very much different from the BSD camps, and I'll admit I'm not sure I understand enough about the Linux build process to undertake it. Comments appreciated...... -- Snowman

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing list guidelines and moderation
by Brian T. Brunner 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner(a)gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> rickm(a)gethen.net 09/21/05 05:25PM >>> On 9/16/05 9:30 PM, "Karanbir Singh" <kbsingh(a)centos.org> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am looking to put together a set of guidelines for posting on the > CentOS Mailing Lists. The aim being that we come up with a framework > that is then enforceable by a moderator, should the need arise. > > Blanket user / thread moderation is something that I dont really want to > enforce here - but might be a necessary evil, over a short period of > time. End of the day, we are all educated sensible people - it should > not be too much to expect adherence to a reasonable set of guidelines. > > We also need contributions from the community to help on this effort, > the developers are already very stretched, and as has already been > pointed out - there are going to be other people, better qualified to > handle this role of moderator. If you are such a person - please get in > touch with me off-list, the sooner the better. 1. Don't be excessively annoying. 2. Don't be too easily annoyed. 3. Be generous with techical details that help the poster get the desired results. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated

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importing mails from a outlook express .dbx files
by Fatih Olcer 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi, i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client. thanks.

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deleting selected partition in kickstart
by Tony Schreiner 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

I am trying kickstart for the first time, and am running into something I don't see described in the documentation. Somewhere between me and my purchasing department and Dell, my order for 6 PE 1850s was changed from "no installed OS" to WIndows. So I received the boxes with Windows pre-installed. I would like to delete the NTFS partition with Windows, but keep the Dell Utility partition on the first partition. In the documentation for kickstart, I see options for deleting linux partitions deleting all partitions but not one for deleting one or more specific partitions. Am I right about this? Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

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Library
by Sam Drinkard 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Can someone tell me where I can find glibc-2.3.3 for either x86-64 or most likely i386. My yum stuff must be broken, or I don't know how to use it cause it can't find the lib. I'm looking on the CD's also, but so far, no luck. Thanks... -- Snowman

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Mailing list guidelines and moderation
by Karanbir Singh 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hey Guys, I am looking to put together a set of guidelines for posting on the CentOS Mailing Lists. The aim being that we come up with a framework that is then enforceable by a moderator, should the need arise. Blanket user / thread moderation is something that I dont really want to enforce here - but might be a necessary evil, over a short period of time. End of the day, we are all educated sensible people - it should not be too much to expect adherence to a reasonable set of guidelines. We also need contributions from the community to help on this effort, the developers are already very stretched, and as has already been pointed out - there are going to be other people, better qualified to handle this role of moderator. If you are such a person - please get in touch with me off-list, the sooner the better. - K

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XFCE 4.2 for CENTOS 3.4
by Primorec 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi, I would like to get xfce 4.2 desktop for CENTOS 3.4 in RPM format. I did google the net to no avail. Any hint ? Idea ? Igor

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Java -- again
by Sam Drinkard 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

I must have something screwed up. When I try to yum the jave jre, it appears that its not finding the file. Below is the output from my command. I set the yum configuration from the web link someone posted, which is below the command output. Appreciate any help.. Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # yum install j2re mozilla-j2re Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - gpgcheck=1 not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - enabled=1 dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files dag : ################################################## 2435/2435 update : ################################################## 186/186 base : ################################################## 1600/1600 extras : ################################################## 23/23 Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: j2re No Match for argument: mozilla-j2re Nothing to do ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From /etc/yum.repos.d # cat dag.repo [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1

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php4-cli package
by Andy Masiar 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi list, Was anyone successful in building and running a php4-cli rpm package for centos? I need it to run some php scripts via cronjob. Thanks! Andy

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firefox and mplayer failures
by Collins Richey 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Does anyone else have problems with playing video/audio files under firefox with mplayer? Almost everything I try (the latest were some .asf and .wmv clips) craps out under firefox, but if I save to disk and play with mplayer, they work just fine. CentOS 4.1 with latest updates and the following related to the problem. mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf mplayerplug-in-3.11-1.2.el4.rf mplayer-1.0-0.17.pre7.2.el4.rf firefox-1.0.6-1.4.2.centos4 -- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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