Re: [CentOS-docs] [Centos-moderators] Release Note translation for CentOS 5.3

2009-01-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
 PS: my guts say that slide 5 (in Il team di sviluppo di CentOS, testa 
 ogni pacchetto presente in questo repository, che sono prodotti su 
 CentOS =VERSION=, e ne verifica il funzionamento.) has a couple of 
 extra commas, but I have to talk with my friend first. AFAIK placing a 
 comma between the subject and the verb  (i.e. before testa == tests) 
 is not OK. And neither is the one before the 'e (as in , e ne verifica 
 [...] == and verifies [...] ).

I fully trust you there :)

Thanks!

Cheers,

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS-docs] Anaconda Slide Translation Guide

2009-01-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Ralph,

 I think the background color in rhgb is off, but that can be fixed if I
 get the correct RGB values for TreeFlower Backgrounds.

I would suggest to use: #204C8D

R: 32
G: 76
B:141

Best Regards
Marcus
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Anaconda Slide Translation Guide

2009-01-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again,

btw. are you going to prepate the desktop-backgrounds-basic package, too?

Best Regards
Marcus
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Anaconda Slide Translation Guide

2009-01-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Marcus Moeller wrote:
 Hi again,
 
 btw. are you going to prepate the desktop-backgrounds-basic package, too?

Already done. But I forgot to put those into svn :-/

Will do so in a minute.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Anaconda Slide Translation Guide

2009-01-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 Marcus Moeller wrote:
  Hi again,
  
  btw. are you going to prepate the desktop-backgrounds-basic package, too?
 
 Already done. But I forgot to put those into svn :-/
 
 Will do so in a minute.

Coming up in a few minutes is the last change before I put the anaconda 
slides in: New rhgb package with different colors and new redhat-logos 
package including a KDE splash screen. This one has to be installed with
--replacepkgs, as I didn't change the EVR on that. 

Please test and report any errors you see. I'm waiting for two translations
and then will package the final src.rpms - except if you find errors.

Cheers,

Ralph

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[CentOS-virt] CentOS 5.2 (x86_64) : 64 bit HVM VM fails.

2009-01-29 Thread jd
hi
   I am trying to do an installation of 64 bit HVM from a CDROM, the Dom0 is 64 
bit. I am getting pae not supported !! 

  (as a side note, failure on RHEL 5.2 is different 'long not supported on your 
cpu, use a 32-bit version' .. cpu is 64 bit AMD and so is Dom0)

  Do I need to tweak anything ?

Thanks
/Jd


  
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Re: [CentOS-es] Bacula

2009-01-29 Thread Mario Ganga
Hola

En el trabajo hemos estado probando bacula,

Con respecto a la configuracion, es algo enrredado desde mi punto de vista,
no encontre mucha informacion en español...

Permite hacer resapldos full, incrementales y diferenciales.

Aunque hemos probado solo con pocas maquinas, funciona bien, en los
respaldos de linux puedes eleguir que respaldar y que excluir, en los
respaldos de windows por ejemplo: respaldamos el perfil de un usuario pero
no hemos podido excluir por ejemplo los temporales...

El respaldo completo de de un perfil de nuestors usuarios de win es aprox 2
GB.

NO lo hemos probado ni con cintas ni con dvd asi que no podria darte una
opinion..

y solo con perfiles de usuarios que es para lo que lo queremos.

Mi recomendacion es leer bien la documentacion antesde empezar y entender
como funciona
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00421000http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00422000http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00423000http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00424000http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00425000http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00426000bacula
director, storage, catalog.


Espero te ayude...


Atte.

Mario Ganga Castro.




On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, César Sepúlveda kropotki...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hola lista, ¿alguien de aquí, tiene corriendo bacula, como servidor sobre
 centos 5?.

 ¿Qué tal al experiencia?, ¿Alguna recomendación en especial para correr
 bacula
 sobre centos 5?

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Re: [CentOS] mod_bandwidth

2009-01-29 Thread David Hrbáč
Michael A. Peters napsal(a):
 Is there a compiled mod_bandwidth rpm in CentOS or EPEL?
 
 I can't seem to find it, what name does it use if there is one?
 
 Basically all I need to do is find a way to severely throttle apache for 
 testing an upload progress bar - my bandwidth on my lan is too fast, the 
 progress bar either only gets one update or none by the time the files 
 are uploaded (5 8 megapixel jpegs) - even when I use my laptop over 
 wireless - so I need to limit the bandwidth apache accepts severely to 
 simulate real world conditions.
 
 I assume mod_bandwidth can limit the post bandwidth as well (what apache 
 eats)?

Hi,
mod_bandwidth is for Apache 1.x only, so there's no rpm for Centos 4/5.
You have to use some other module, like mod_{bw,bwshare,cband}, etc. See:

http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/repodata/repoview/M.group.html
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/x86_64/repodata/repoview/M.group.html
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/i386/repodata/repoview/M.group.html
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/x86_64/repodata/repoview/M.group.html

Regards,
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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 January 2009 01:43:42 Matt Shields wrote:
  Now when there is a footer added that says to unsubscribe, send a
  message to a specified address, it can be frustrating. But I guess it
  works, a list manager will probably remove the poster.
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 Who cares about the headers every single message from the list has a
 footer appended to it with the information about the list.  Click on the
 link and it tells you how to unsubscribe.  Not to mention that, but once a
 month I get an email from the mailing list telling me about my subscription
 and how to log in and make changes to my subscription.

Look again, though.  The footer has links, but it doesn't say 'Unsubscribe or 
change options'.  I agree that the info is there on the welcome letter, but 
how many people save it?

This is not just a centos problem - all lists seem to suffer from it.  I think 
just adding that phrase into the footer would help - though again it seems 
human nature to skip over footers, particularly as we are used to seeing sigs 
that have no interest to us.

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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf
Of
Matt Shields
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:44 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

Who cares about the headers every single message from the list has a
footer
appended to it with the information about the list.  Click on the link and it
tells you how
to unsubscribe. 

If an unsubscribe message sent to the list causes so much hiatus as now, why
not make it simple for all involved and just add an unsubscribe link in the
footer, as several subscribers have already mentioned, and be rid of all
this...

It's not completely obvious that all list-info, incl how to unsub, is
available if you follow the link in the footer. At least not for a technology
challenged CTO or whatever he/she was. ;-)

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Re: [CentOS] SELinux - null security context

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/29/09, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote:
.
 Does anyone use SELinux on their work-station i.e. the place where you try
 things out, debug things etc?? or is it really only for stable systems where
 not many OS changes and new program trials occur?
 I know that asterisk doesn't play nice with SELinux, even in permissive mode
 it fails to work, and yet this is one area where I would like to have it
 work as my phone system is VITAL to my business!
 Thanks
 Rob

We use SELinux on both our workstations and our servers.
We run them in permissive mode for a while, do our testing and then
switch to enforcing once we have cleared up any denials. Run tests
then if it all looks good , put the boxen into production. Audit2allow
and other such tools are very useful in creating any policy changes
that you require and the selinux mailling lists are helpful as well.
The main thing i have been caught out with is when using tftp to
transfer configs from our cisco kit to my workstation in that when i
touch the file i need to set the correct context for it.

Russell Coker's site is a good place for selinux info

http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/

mike
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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Simpson
Miss Mailers anyone?

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/miss-mailers/


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Re: [CentOS] hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE

2009-01-29 Thread Anthony Kamau
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
 Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
 Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2009 5:30 AM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: [CentOS] hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE

 Any idea what can be done?  They seem to be more nuance that not, but
 if
 I am in init 3 mode and in VI and get one of these messages in the
 middle of editing some file, well, I typically :q! out and start
 over.


man dmesg suggests that running the command `dmesg -n1' should stop you
getting messages on the console other than panic messages!

But all in all, you probably want to fix the issue to avoid filling up
your logs with crap messages; for that, I have no solution!

Cheers,
AK.



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Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-29 Thread John Doe
  Anyway, I managed and am currently extending the array 
  to the 12 disks...  It seems that it is going to take around 3 days! Maybe
  because the cache battery is not fully charged and so the writes are not
  cached... After that, I need to reduce the boot logical disk down to a
  dozen of GBs. And then, I need to create the other(s) logical disk(s).

FYI, I found out hpacucli cannot reduce the size of a logical disk; even if 
there is 99% of unpartioned space... :/
So, since my boss wants a clean install, I started over and chose option 2: a 
CentOS external USB disk + hpacucli installed on it...

JD


  

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[CentOS] Knoppix won't let me write to emergency drive

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
I appear to have lost the whole of my home directory on my centos
server (which includes all my mail saved from the last 7 years).
Although I have recent backups of most data I would like to copy
important files from /etc, and, if possible, /var/logs so that I can
try to find out what went wrong.  However, knoppix refuses to let me
write to either my usb hdd or usb pendrive.  Does anyone know how to
persuade it?

Thanks

Anne
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Re: [CentOS] Knoppix won't let me write to emergency drive

2009-01-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
However, knoppix refuses to let me
write to either my usb hdd or usb pendrive.  Does anyone know how to
persuade it?

Remount rw as root?
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Re: [CentOS] Knoppix won't let me write to emergency drive

2009-01-29 Thread Per Qvindesland
Hi

Have a look here http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97328


Per


On 1/29/09 3:15 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote:

 I appear to have lost the whole of my home directory on my centos
 server (which includes all my mail saved from the last 7 years).
 Although I have recent backups of most data I would like to copy
 important files from /etc, and, if possible, /var/logs so that I can
 try to find out what went wrong.  However, knoppix refuses to let me
 write to either my usb hdd or usb pendrive.  Does anyone know how to
 persuade it?
 
 Thanks
 
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Re: [CentOS] Knoppix won't let me write to emergency drive

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
2009/1/29 Per Qvindesland p...@norhex.com:
 Hi

 Have a look here http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97328


 Per


 On 1/29/09 3:15 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote:

 I appear to have lost the whole of my home directory on my centos
 server (which includes all my mail saved from the last 7 years).
 Although I have recent backups of most data I would like to copy
 important files from /etc, and, if possible, /var/logs so that I can
 try to find out what went wrong.  However, knoppix refuses to let me
 write to either my usb hdd or usb pendrive.  Does anyone know how to
 persuade it?

Thanks, both of you.  I'll follow that up if necessary.  At present
I'm in CentOS Rescue mode.  It looks as though all my files are there,
but I'm still trying to find out what went wrong and the best way to
tackle it.

I'll start a new thread.

Anne
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[CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Since repeated power cuts last week I've been a bit worried about the
state of my server.  Today it spontaneously rebooted - but failed to
complete.  Now it isn't recognising me as a user, by the look of it,
so I've got some questions before I do something that might make
things worse.

I can boot as root, and it appears that all my files are present.
System-config-user sees me as user 500, which is correct, so it must
be my kde login that is trashed.  Foolishly, I didn't install a second
desktop system, so I can't deal with things there.

While waiting for a reply I'm going to try to get essential files from
my home directory onto an external disk (I did a huge backup yesterday
of data files).

I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
don't want to waste time trying to repair it.

This is the information I gathered from /var/log/messages:

shows a host of setroubleshoot messages, culminating in SELinux is
preventing dovecot (dovecot_t) append to /var/log/mail/mail.info
(sendmail_log_t).  For complete SELinux messages run.

then syslogd 1.4.1:restart

no reason given.  Everything then continues as normal until suddenly
EXT3-fs error (device sda7): ext3_lookup: unlinked  inode 638978 in
dir #638977.

Lots of 'Last message repeated' messages, and eventualy it shut down.

I did allow fsk to run when I restarted the box.

That doesn't seem a lot to go on.  Any advice?  Thanks

Anne
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Re: [CentOS] difference in x86 64 bit centos between 4.x and 5.xversions

2009-01-29 Thread RobertH

 
 My opinion is to first determine a few issues.
 
 How much RAM will it need?  If over 3GB of physical RAM, 
 consider 64 bit.
 Are there third party applications you need to run on it?  If they are
 64 bit, that answers the question too.  If 32 bit, are they 
 supported on 64 bit OS?  Do they have different versions for 
 32 and 64 bit?
 

lots of good info to ponder back from those that responded.

what i a getting at is, why would one use x86 64 bit Centos version 4.7 when
one can get the same in x86 64bit Centos 5.2 or later version?

is there a reason to stay with the older version other than for specific
deprecated hardware issues or something else?

is 64 bit Centos 5 just plain better OR would some of you choose 4.7 over
5.x and why?

 - rh 


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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.
snip

Most hdd manufacturers have bootable CD images you can download which
have utilities and thorough diagnostics.

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[CentOS] it's that time again - lj rca's

2009-01-29 Thread RobertH

it is that time again to let your choices be known in one of the mainstream
journals

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/readers-choice-awards

 - rh

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Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on used rackable sys tems 1U with dual Opteron 248 HE

2009-01-29 Thread David Ross


-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]on Behalf
Of RobertH
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:04 PM
To: 'CentOS mailing list'
Subject: [CentOS] getting Centos on used rackable systems 1U with dual
Opteron 248 HE

hi there.

anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install
Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit
[snip]
for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not bad

thanks in advance...

[david] Have you checked install logs for error messages? During install it
is displayed on one of the virtual consoles. Not sure which. One of the
Install User Guides documents the purpose of each one used and the key
combinations [david] needed to switch between them. I think it's
ALT+(something)+Fn(n=1...).

You can also boot from the live CD to run diagnostics.

David Ross

 - rh

Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server

General Features:
No Server Operating System
Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors
4 GB DDR RAM
120 GB IDE hard drive
ATI Rage XL integrated video
Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet


Motherboard Features:
AMD-8111 chipset
One (1) PCI-X riser slot
Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets


Front I/O Ports:
Two (2) PS/2 ports
One (1) 15-pin VGA port
One (1) 9-pin serial port
Two (2) USB ports
Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks


Case Features:
1U half-depth server chassis
One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay
Four rear cooling fans
400-watt power supply


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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.

try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

man smartctl

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Re: [CentOS] hdc: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE

2009-01-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
John R Pierce wrote:
 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
   
 Any idea what can be done?  They seem to be more nuance that not, but if 
 I am in init 3 mode and in VI and get one of these messages in the 
 middle of editing some file, well, I typically :q! out and start over.
   
 

 you can use ctl-L to refresh a vim edit screen... (if you're in insert 
 mode, hit ESC first)...  beats quitting and starting over.
   

Now I just have to remember that when I am using vi. I actually use vi a 
lot, but just for simple editing...


  do these errors always occur on /dev/hdc or random devices?  if always 
 /dev/hdc, is that a CD/DVD or a HD ?  that OQO thing is some kinda 
 VIA C7 or whatever?   you might try disabling DMA on the /dev/hdc, like...
   

hdc is the ONLY media regularly in the unit. Only used CD for the 
install, and only occationally a usb drive. And yes it is a VIA-based 
system.

And disabling DMA results in what? No dma errors, slower seek/write 
times, bad things on kernel panics?

  
 /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

 [this would have to be put in a init file, maybe /etc/rc.d/rc.local ]

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-29-2009 8:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
 2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham alex-qMVNeVs1MAKw5LPnMra/2...@public.gmane.org:
 On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.
 try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

 man smartctl

 Thanks.  I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-)
 
 The short test has completed without errors.  I'll run the long test
 during dinner.  Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess
 that the next thing is memtest?
 
 More suggestions?
 
 Thanks
 
 Anne
If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely trashed.
Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you might
just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing corrupted
files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can take some time
recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. That way you will
still have the old system for whatever might come up. I always seem to find
something that didn't get backed up properly.


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[CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Tim Nelson
It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage engine, requires 
Windows to host multiuser access, etc. However, I've successfully been storing 
QuickBooks files on Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues 
other than slight performance degradation. However, a somewhat recent thread 
here mentioned the proper use of oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to 
considerably increase performance/reliability.

Could someone please share any hints/tips on configuring Samba for optimum use 
with QuickBooks? I have one server in particular that appears to be suffering 
performance problems with QuickBooks but runs lightning fast with all other 
applications. If I recall, and as the subject mentions, I believe the key lies 
with the oplock settings.

Thanks!

Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105
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[CentOS] OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm clients

2009-01-29 Thread Ed Morrison
Hi All:

I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
(authentication  SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
matter?

Thanks,

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:
 It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage engine, requires 
 Windows to host multiuser access, etc. However, I've successfully been 
 storing QuickBooks files on Samba shares at a handful of locations with no 
 real issues other than slight performance degradation. However, a somewhat 
 recent thread here mentioned the proper use of oplock'ing in the Samba 
 configuration to considerably increase performance/reliability.

I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows service on
port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.

If someone has figured out a way around this, I would prefer to host
multiple user QuickBooks access on Samba.

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The CentOS team likes to offer an apology for the political spam mails
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Due to the nature of mailing list software for public discussion groups, 
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to go.

The spammer today faked the identity of a CentOS core developer and thus 
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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:37:00 am Scott Silva wrote:


 If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely
 trashed. Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix
 it, you might just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and
 fixing corrupted files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can
 take some time recovering from the old drive as you find things missing.
 That way you will still have the old system for whatever might come up. I
 always seem to find something that didn't get backed up properly.


Since you can log in as root, a less drastic first step might be to:

Change your runlevel (as root) to 3 and try a text login (as you) for access 
to your files.

man init

If the kde files are trashed, perhaps you can create another user on the 
system and copy over your personal files, or do a diff to see which kde files 
might have been trashed.

If it really looks bad (disk bad and/or major file corruption) , then I agree 
that a new install might be the way to go but that's significant pain . . . 

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
2009/1/29 Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com:
 on 1-29-2009 8:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
 2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham alex-qMVNeVs1MAKw5LPnMra/2...@public.gmane.org:
 On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.
 try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

 man smartctl

 Thanks.  I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-)

 The short test has completed without errors.  I'll run the long test
 during dinner.  Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess
 that the next thing is memtest?

 More suggestions?

 Thanks

 Anne
 If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely trashed.
 Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you might
 just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing corrupted
 files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can take some time
 recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. That way you will
 still have the old system for whatever might come up. I always seem to find
 something that didn't get backed up properly.

Two days ago I discovered that the failures had indeed totally trashed
the system.  I did re-install, formatting only / and /boot, but I've
had a couple of these spontaneous shutdowns since then, which is why I
suspected hardware failure.

I've got copies of just about everything, I think, on an external
drive, and I could try another drive as you suggest, mounting the old
one in an external case, which I have.  I can cope with this, but I'm
deeply unhappy about not knowing what happened, and whether it is
likely to happen again.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Franklin S Werren
Use Spinrite from www.grc.com
It will work on any file system
I have used it on Windows - Ubuntu Linux - and even an X-Box
Works wonders

Franklin S Werren



Scott Silva wrote:
 on 1-29-2009 8:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
   
 2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham alex-qMVNeVs1MAKw5LPnMra/2...@public.gmane.org:
 
 On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:
   
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.
 
 try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

 man smartctl

   
 Thanks.  I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-)

 The short test has completed without errors.  I'll run the long test
 during dinner.  Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess
 that the next thing is memtest?

 More suggestions?

 Thanks

 Anne
 
 If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely trashed.
 Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you might
 just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing corrupted
 files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can take some time
 recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. That way you will
 still have the old system for whatever might come up. I always seem to find
 something that didn't get backed up properly.


   
 

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
2009/1/29 Franklin S Werren ad...@chautauqualake.net:
 Use Spinrite from www.grc.com
 It will work on any file system
 I have used it on Windows - Ubuntu Linux - and even an X-Box
 Works wonders

Data recovery isn't a problem - I've copied everything off.  Still,
I've bookmarked that, just in case.  It's lucky I don't have just one
box :-)

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham a...@avantel.ca:
 On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:37:00 am Scott Silva wrote:


 If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely
 trashed. Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix
 it, you might just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and
 fixing corrupted files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can
 take some time recovering from the old drive as you find things missing.
 That way you will still have the old system for whatever might come up. I
 always seem to find something that didn't get backed up properly.


 Since you can log in as root, a less drastic first step might be to:

 Change your runlevel (as root) to 3 and try a text login (as you) for access
 to your files.

 man init

 If the kde files are trashed, perhaps you can create another user on the
 system and copy over your personal files, or do a diff to see which kde files
 might have been trashed.

 If it really looks bad (disk bad and/or major file corruption) , then I agree
 that a new install might be the way to go but that's significant pain . . .

Yes, I'll try that first - if I can convince myself that the hardware
is OK.  I really wish I know what caused it, though.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-29-2009 9:02 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
 2009/1/29 Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com:
 on 1-29-2009 8:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
 2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham 
 alex-qMVNeVs1MAKw5LPnMra/2q-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org:
 On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:
 I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages
 from smartmontools.  Is there any way I can check that?  If it is I
 don't want to waste time trying to repair it.
 try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

 man smartctl

 Thanks.  I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-)

 The short test has completed without errors.  I'll run the long test
 during dinner.  Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess
 that the next thing is memtest?

 More suggestions?

 Thanks

 Anne
 If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely 
 trashed.
 Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you 
 might
 just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing 
 corrupted
 files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can take some time
 recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. That way you will
 still have the old system for whatever might come up. I always seem to find
 something that didn't get backed up properly.

 Two days ago I discovered that the failures had indeed totally trashed
 the system.  I did re-install, formatting only / and /boot, but I've
 had a couple of these spontaneous shutdowns since then, which is why I
 suspected hardware failure.
 
 I've got copies of just about everything, I think, on an external
 drive, and I could try another drive as you suggest, mounting the old
 one in an external case, which I have.  I can cope with this, but I'm
 deeply unhappy about not knowing what happened, and whether it is
 likely to happen again.
 
 Anne
Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own?

If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.



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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Anne Wilson wrote:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-29-2009 9:28 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.
 
 Anne
Since you have other systems, maybe you could hang something on the serial
port and get the kernel messages there to see if you get any other info that
might not be making it to the logs.


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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Toby Bluhm
Anne Wilson wrote:
.
.
.


 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague.

I just fixed a test box that kept getting something like received INT 
11 - no one cared and then locks up. Replaced two caps - I yanked them 
from some old, defunct power supplies.


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Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm clients

2009-01-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:45:25 -0800
Ed Morrison wrote:

 I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
 the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
 would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
 the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
 (authentication  SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
 logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
 matter?

If you find something really clever to do this, I would be very interested
in what it is.  I was just asked (yesterday afternoon) about setting up
something similar to that for a government office.

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Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm clients

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-29-2009 8:45 AM Ed Morrison spake the following:
 Hi All:
 
 I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
 the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
 would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
 the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
 (authentication  SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
 logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
 matter?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Ed
I saw an article recently about the Swiss Federal courts using Alfresco for
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Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm clients

2009-01-29 Thread dnk

On 29-Jan-09, at 10:09 AM, Scott Silva wrote:

 on 1-29-2009 8:45 AM Ed Morrison spake the following:
 Hi All:

 I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients
 the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This
 would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process  
 for
 the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure
 (authentication  SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before
 logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on  
 this
 matter?

 Thanks,

 Ed
 I saw an article recently about the Swiss Federal courts using  
 Alfresco for
 something like this.


Knowledge Tree was the other i was looking at.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
2009/1/29 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

 My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

I'm beginning to think that way.  The smartctl long test has completed
without errors.  I think that I'll dig out the specs for the mobo/cpu
tonight, then buy a new PSU and CPU fan in the morning.

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron

 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
 [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
 Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
 
 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
 tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:
  It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage 
 engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
 However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on 
 Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues 
 other than slight performance degradation. However, a 
 somewhat recent thread here mentioned the proper use of 
 oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to considerably 
 increase performance/reliability.
 
 I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
 The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows 
 service on port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.

We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We also have it on a
samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it works for us.

 
 If someone has figured out a way around this, I would prefer 
 to host multiple user QuickBooks access on Samba.
 
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[CentOS] Question on script

2009-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all,

I am trying to extract from the aplay -l output the Card and Device numbers.
I had a script that was working but found another motherboard that has 
an EXTRA word.
HDA Nvidia and HDA ATI HDMI is what I am talking about below.

how do I search for a line that has HDMI (which I know how to do), then
ignore everything upto the device work and take the next field after that?

Thanks,

Jerry

I was doing this but it does not work for both cases.
AUDIO_HDMI=`aplay -l | grep -c HDMI`
if [ $AUDIO_HDMI -ge 1 ]
then
AUDIO_DEVICE=`aplay -l | grep HDMI | grep  device  | 
grep -m 1 -v device 0 | tr -d ':' | cut -d ' ' -f 8`
AUDIO_CARD=`aplay -l | grep HDMI | grep  device  | 
grep -m 1 -v device 0 | tr -d ':' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
sed 0,/hw:/s/hw:.*/hw:$AUDIO_CARD,$AUDIO_DEVICE\/  
/etc/asound.conf  tt.txt
mv tt.txt /etc/asound.conf


card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


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Re: [CentOS] it's that time again - lj rca's

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:48 AM, RobertH robe...@abbacomm.net wrote:

 it is that time again to let your choices be known in one of the mainstream
 journals

 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/readers-choice-awards
Thanks! CentOS is one of only 13 distributions in their list. :-)
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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Robert


Anne Wilson wrote:
 2009/1/29 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com:
   
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 
 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.
   
 My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

 
 I'm beginning to think that way.  The smartctl long test has completed
 without errors.  I think that I'll dig out the specs for the mobo/cpu
 tonight, then buy a new PSU and CPU fan in the morning.

 Anne
   
Anne, the machine I'm using right now ate my lunch big-time, perhaps a 
year ago.  It turned out to be the front panel momentary power switch on 
the junky consumer-grade case.  The really weird thing is, this box runs 
24x7 and the switch hasn't been used very much. Go figure.  
Work-around/proof was to disconnect the power switch entirely, plugging 
reset switch to the vacated pwr sw header.
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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Bob Hoffman
 

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None of my messages has ever come, as far as I know, with any footer about
the list. The only footers I ever see are the ones from the sender. Maybe
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Many get confused as every mailing list is a bit different. Some are hard
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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 1/29/09, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote:
 2009/1/29 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on
 its own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan.
 If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

 My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

 I'm beginning to think that way.  The smartctl long test has completed
 without errors.  I think that I'll dig out the specs for the mobo/cpu
 tonight, then buy a new PSU and CPU fan in the morning.

Assuming that the Diagnostic tests you run on the hard drive and RAM
are OK, if the box was made by Dell, Compaq/HP, etc., they probably
have Diagnostics you can run on the mobo/cpu that you can Download
from their web site. If not, hopefully from the web site of the mobo
manufacturer.

You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS
with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly. Depends on
how long the frequent outages were that day. My observation is that if
the power goes down (especially when we have Thunderstorm activity) it
may come back up and then go down again, sometimes in 1 or 2 minutes
or less.

The cheap PSU's are vastly over rated, with regard to their capacity.
The one I bought for this Dell Dimension 2400 a few weeks ago says
550 watts. The motherboard repairman told me he believes the true
capacity is about 50% of that.

If your data is critical, the backups should be stored off site. There
are some companies mentioned on webhostingtalk.com who provide backup
service to their servers over the Internet.

In my own box, the vast majority of the symptoms, if not all symptoms,
disappeared, after I unplugged the connectors and reseated them. Then,
the new PSU.   In my wife's box, a strange intermittent problem,
where the BIOS couldn't see the hard drive when booting, disappeared,
when I replaced the EIDE cable.

When you have the cover off, put your hand on the Shroud over the CPU
and see whether or not it is hot or cool. If it is hot, that's not an
indication of good cooling.  The Capacitors on the motherboard should
look alike and not be hot to the touch.  GL
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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 January 2009 20:23:40 Lanny Marcus wrote:
 Anne, the machine I'm using right now ate my lunch big-time, perhaps a
 year ago.  It turned out to be the front panel momentary power switch on
 the junky consumer-grade case.  The really weird thing is, this box runs
 24x7 and the switch hasn't been used very much. Go figure.  
 Work-around/proof was to disconnect the power switch entirely, plugging
 reset switch to the vacated pwr sw header.

As far as I can see, all that's gone is my ~/.kde - and that's a big enough 
pain :-)  So far, everything I've checked has been fine, so I'm thinking that 
it's either power or over-heating.  Since I've been running tests for several 
hours, I'm inclined to rule out over-heating, so I'll get a new PSU.  The case 
was not a cheap one, but it did have a built-in PSU.  Come to think of it, I 
do believe that I have a 400w PSU in my cupboard, that is a known good brand, 
and unused.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 January 2009 20:23:40 Lanny Marcus wrote:
 Assuming that the Diagnostic tests you run on the hard drive and RAM
 are OK, if the box was made by Dell, Compaq/HP, etc., they probably
 have Diagnostics you can run on the mobo/cpu that you can Download
 from their web site. If not, hopefully from the web site of the mobo
 manufacturer.

It's a home-build.  I've been doing this since about 1990.  The drives are 
Hitachi, and I seem to recall that once before I tried to run the Hitachi 
diagnostics, without success.  My request for help/information from them was 
ignored.  However, at the time I got the drives they had a good warranty 
period, which is something I always check as a guide to how much confidence  
the manufacturer has in them.

 You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS
 with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly. 

I don't think there's any problem with the UPS (APC).

 Depends on
 how long the frequent outages were that day. My observation is that if
 the power goes down (especially when we have Thunderstorm activity) it
 may come back up and then go down again, sometimes in 1 or 2 minutes
 or less.

The village has had several weeks of being powered by emergency generators 
stuck in fields.  We've had very many power dips and momentary losses, then in 
the space of last week we had an 11-hour outage, followed a few days later by 
a 4.5 hour one and two short ones soon after that.  I think it was the 
rapidity of those outages that caused the problem.

 The cheap PSU's are vastly over rated, with regard to their capacity.
 The one I bought for this Dell Dimension 2400 a few weeks ago says
 550 watts. The motherboard repairman told me he believes the true
 capacity is about 50% of that.

I buy only recommended brands, and watch the load.  However, that box has a 
PSU that came with the (not cheap) box, so I don't know the quality.  I think 
it should be replaced.  I can't remember its rating - I'll check tomorrow when 
I pull the box out.

 If your data is critical, the backups should be stored off site. There
 are some companies mentioned on webhostingtalk.com who provide backup
 service to their servers over the Internet.

Critical only to me - personal stuff.  All the same, I take your point.  I 
will move the backups to a safer spot.

 In my own box, the vast majority of the symptoms, if not all symptoms,
 disappeared, after I unplugged the connectors and reseated them. Then,
 the new PSU.   In my wife's box, a strange intermittent problem,
 where the BIOS couldn't see the hard drive when booting, disappeared,
 when I replaced the EIDE cable.

 When you have the cover off, put your hand on the Shroud over the CPU
 and see whether or not it is hot or cool. If it is hot, that's not an
 indication of good cooling.  The Capacitors on the motherboard should
 look alike and not be hot to the touch.  GL

I'll check those at the same time.  Thanks for the reply

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
  [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
  Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
  To: CentOS mailing list
  Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
  
  On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
  tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:
   It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage 
  engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
  However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on 
  Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues 
  other than slight performance degradation. However, a 
  somewhat recent thread here mentioned the proper use of 
  oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to considerably 
  increase performance/reliability.
  
  I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
  The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows 
  service on port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.
 
 We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We also have it on a
 samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it works for us.

They've made a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of changes since then. It's
multi-user scheme seems to change with each new version.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Glenn
At 03:44 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
On Thursday 29 January 2009 20:23:40 Lanny Marcus wrote:
  Assuming that the Diagnostic tests you run on the hard drive and RAM
  are OK, if the box was made by Dell, Compaq/HP, etc., they probably
  have Diagnostics you can run on the mobo/cpu that you can Download
  from their web site. If not, hopefully from the web site of the mobo
  manufacturer.
 
It's a home-build.  I've been doing this since about 1990.  The drives are
Hitachi, and I seem to recall that once before I tried to run the Hitachi
diagnostics, without success.  My request for help/information from them was
ignored.  However, at the time I got the drives they had a good warranty
period, which is something I always check as a guide to how much confidence
the manufacturer has in them.

  You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS
  with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly.

I don't think there's any problem with the UPS (APC).

  Depends on
  how long the frequent outages were that day. My observation is that if
  the power goes down (especially when we have Thunderstorm activity) it
  may come back up and then go down again, sometimes in 1 or 2 minutes
  or less.
 
The village has had several weeks of being powered by emergency generators
stuck in fields.  We've had very many power dips and momentary 
losses, then in
the space of last week we had an 11-hour outage, followed a few days later by
a 4.5 hour one and two short ones soon after that.  I think it was the
rapidity of those outages that caused the problem.

  The cheap PSU's are vastly over rated, with regard to their capacity.
  The one I bought for this Dell Dimension 2400 a few weeks ago says
  550 watts. The motherboard repairman told me he believes the true
  capacity is about 50% of that.
 
I buy only recommended brands, and watch the load.  However, that box has a
PSU that came with the (not cheap) box, so I don't know the quality.  I think
it should be replaced.  I can't remember its rating - I'll check 
tomorrow when
I pull the box out.

  If your data is critical, the backups should be stored off site. There
  are some companies mentioned on webhostingtalk.com who provide backup
  service to their servers over the Internet.
 
Critical only to me - personal stuff.  All the same, I take your point.  I
will move the backups to a safer spot.

  In my own box, the vast majority of the symptoms, if not all symptoms,
  disappeared, after I unplugged the connectors and reseated them. Then,
  the new PSU.   In my wife's box, a strange intermittent problem,
  where the BIOS couldn't see the hard drive when booting, disappeared,
  when I replaced the EIDE cable.
 
  When you have the cover off, put your hand on the Shroud over the CPU
  and see whether or not it is hot or cool. If it is hot, that's not an
  indication of good cooling.  The Capacitors on the motherboard should
  look alike and not be hot to the touch.  GL

Capacitors on the motherboard will look like they are rounded and 
bowing upward or cracked, or may even have some yellowish, dried, 
liquid, if they are defective. If they are intermittent, they may 
show only the slightest signs of this. The capacitors have a liquid 
inside that literally cooks off if they get too hot.

I'll check those at the same time.  Thanks for the reply

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY [OT]

2009-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron

 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
 [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Craig White
 Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 15:52
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
 
 On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
   -Original Message-
   From: centos-boun...@centos.org
   [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
   Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
   To: CentOS mailing list
   Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
   
   On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
 tnel...@rockbochs.com 
   wrote:
It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage
   engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
   However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on Samba 
   shares at a handful of locations with no real issues other than 
   slight performance degradation. However, a somewhat recent thread 
   here mentioned the proper use of oplock'ing in the Samba 
   configuration to considerably increase performance/reliability.
   
   I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
   The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows 
 service on 
   port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.
  
  We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We 
 also have 
  it on a samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it 
 works for us.
 
 They've made a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of changes since 
 then. It's multi-user scheme seems to change with each new version.

Yeah, we are looking to migrate away for just this reason. It changes away from
what you need every upgrade.

Anyone else in a consulting/law firm/software dev shop who is a governemnt
contractor that needs to do cost accounting and wants it to be hosted on a linux
server? Let me know, we are going to have to do some thing else soon.

BTW, we just found out the Turbo Tax 2008 does not work with older version of
Quickbooks today.

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Rob Kampen



Jason Pyeron wrote:

-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez

Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:

It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage 
  
engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on 
Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues 
other than slight performance degradation. However, a 
somewhat recent thread here mentioned the proper use of 
oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to considerably 
increase performance/reliability.


I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows 
service on port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.



We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We also have it on a
samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it works for us.

  
If someone has figured out a way around this, I would prefer 
to host multiple user QuickBooks access on Samba.


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We had QB premier 2004 working well on Samba, then down graded to QB pro 
2007 and the nightmare began.
Long story - short version is we now run QB Pro 2007 on a CentOS 5 W/S 
running VirtualBox and a W2K instance with network bridging in 
multi-user mode so the four Windoze XP clients can access it.
Performance is not great but adequate, however I can backup reliably and 
it stays up 24x7.

Wish there was an alternative.
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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY [OT]

2009-01-29 Thread Rob Kampen



Jason Pyeron wrote:

-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Craig White

Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 15:52
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:


-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 

tnel...@rockbochs.com 


wrote:


It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage
  
engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on Samba 
shares at a handful of locations with no real issues other than 
slight performance degradation. However, a somewhat recent thread 
here mentioned the proper use of oplock'ing in the Samba 
configuration to considerably increase performance/reliability.


I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares.
The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows 

service on 


port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.

We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We 
  
also have 

it on a samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it 
  

works for us.

They've made a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of changes since 
then. It's multi-user scheme seems to change with each new version.



Yeah, we are looking to migrate away for just this reason. It changes away from
what you need every upgrade.

Anyone else in a consulting/law firm/software dev shop who is a governemnt
contractor that needs to do cost accounting and wants it to be hosted on a linux
server? Let me know, we are going to have to do some thing else soon.

BTW, we just found out the Turbo Tax 2008 does not work with older version of
Quickbooks today.

  
Beware - they tell you QB2007 needs XP and will not work under W2K - 
this is rubbish, they just act as another marketing arm for Redmond.
Also this year with Turbo Tax 2008 they warn it will be the last year it 
will work on W2K, let's wait and see.

Rob

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Boyd

On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:


 You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS
 with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly.

 I don't think there's any problem with the UPS (APC).

I've seen APC rack mount systems shut down the power outlets when  
doing their self-test and the batteries were dodgy.

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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Chris Boyd cb...@gizmopartners.com wrote:
 On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
 You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS
 with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly.

 I don't think there's any problem with the UPS (APC).

 I've seen APC rack mount systems shut down the power outlets when
 doing their self-test and the batteries were dodgy.

After reading that her village was on generator power, etc., I would
be suspicious of the health of that UPS. If the box has problems, it
may be because the UPS was unable to cope with the very heavy
prolonged workload. If the UPS does not have Automatic Voltage
Regulation, without using the battery, it would also have been working
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Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic - Looking for web based file management application for law firm clients

2009-01-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Ed Morrison wrote:
 Hi All:
 
 I am working with a law firm that would like to offer to it's clients 
 the ability to access their documents through a web interface.  This 
 would require a nice gui to offer the clients with a simple process for 
 the clients to download from.  It would also need to be secure 
 (authentication  SSL), and mandatory disclaimer acceptance before 
 logging into their account.  Anyone with experience or thoughts on this 
 matter?

I was also looking for something like this. You can find a whole load of 
choices here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

A lot of the open source ones are built on Java like the two mentioned 
in this thread Afresco and KnowledgeTree.

One that is not listed but is possibly less of a hassle to setup and 
maybe fit the law firm's needs is Epiware:

http://www.epiware.com
http://www.linux.com/feature/146307
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epiware/

No java involved and you get an online demo to look at first too.
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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

 My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

 --
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lesmikes...@gmail.com

Yesterday I had a system shutting down on its own. It would power up
and stay on, but I discover that the PSU fans were not spinning.  The
failing fans explained a warning message at POST indicating that the
system was overheating and needed immediate repairs.

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Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-29-2009 4:29 PM Aldo Foot spake the following:
 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Les Mikesell 
 lesmikesell-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its 
 own?

 If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If
 the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS.

 I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged.  The system is just
 spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.
 My first guesses would be the system power supply or the CPU fan.

 --
   Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
 
 Yesterday I had a system shutting down on its own. It would power up
 and stay on, but I discover that the PSU fans were not spinning.  The
 failing fans explained a warning message at POST indicating that the
 system was overheating and needed immediate repairs.
 
 ~af
I have a recovered desktop at home that was my daughters. Sometimes it powers
up and shuts off, and sometimes it will die before it gets out of the post
screens. I suspect the CPU fan, but since I don't need the system right now (I
just gave her a better one so she is happy), it sits until I have time.

There are many ways a system can break, and some of them can be very difficult
to figure out without a bunch of spare parts you can swap.

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Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Kevin Krieser

On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Matt Shields wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Krieser k_krie...@sbcglobal.net 
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 On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:

  On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:20:47 Kevin Krieser wrote:
  The information IS in the headers, but many email programs don't  
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  I generally look at the footers, when present, to see how to
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  It's easy to find when you know, but then we're not newbies, are we?
 
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 I've been on several different lists, on and off, so I am not a newbie
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 ones that need the advice.


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Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
 We are finally going to replace our VHS-C  Camcorder, with a Digital
 Camcorder, tomorrow. Looking for suggestions,
 for Digital Video Editor to use on CentOS 5.2. Preferably, something
 in the CentOS or RPMForge repositories and easy to use. TIA!


 Cinelerra.  It is very powerful, and Dag kindly added to his repo
 quite sometime ago.

 http://cinelerra.org/

 The only problem is that, because it is so powerful and feature
 rich, learning curve is very steep.  I have yet to learn it myself but
 I already know its capabilities through my best Linux friend who is an
 expert in video editing.

Akemi: To revive my thread that is nearly six (6) months old... First,
for reasons I will never understand, the store where my Stepson works
took their sweet time about selling the camcorder to us at a discount,
so there was a very long delay in our getting it and we've only used
it a few times. Tonight, my wife had our eight (8) year old daughter
use it, while she was doing her dance exercises. When she saw how
great she looked, she wanted to edit the video and post on youtube.
She has been using M$ Windows for months, so I suggested Windows Movie
Maker or whatever it's called. She replied that she did not like that
program and had deleted it from her box. So, I found this thread and
she has been  using Cinelerra on my box, but it saved the edited file
in .xml format, so there *is* a learning curve to Cinelerra. Cinelerra
seems to have *no* problems working with the video from the Samsung
Camcorder which uses the mini DVD media. :-)  She did discover in a
web search that Cinelerra is only available for Linux and that it is
not for beginners.  She is very smart and persistent, so she will be
able to use Cinelerra with time.Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread John
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
 [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rob Kampen
 Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:30 PM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
 
 
 
 Jason Pyeron wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
  [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
  Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
  To: CentOS mailing list
  Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
 
  On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
  tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:
 Long story - short version is we now run QB Pro 2007 on a 
 CentOS 5 W/S 
 running VirtualBox and a W2K instance with network bridging in 
 multi-user mode so the four Windoze XP clients can access it.
 Performance is not great but adequate, however I can backup 
 reliably and 
 it stays up 24x7.
 Wish there was an alternative.


So exactly what is the problem about running that version on Samba? What
Samba configurations did you try if any?

JohnStanley

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Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread John
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
 [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson
 Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:37 AM
 To: centos@centos.org
 Subject: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
 
 It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage 
 engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. 
 However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on 
 Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues 
 other than slight performance degradation. However, a 
 somewhat recent thread here mentioned the proper use of 
 oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to considerably 
 increase performance/reliability.
 
 Could someone please share any hints/tips on configuring 
 Samba for optimum use with QuickBooks? I have one server in 
 particular that appears to be suffering performance problems 
 with QuickBooks but runs lightning fast with all other 
 applications. If I recall, and as the subject mentions, I 
 believe the key lies with the oplock settings.
-
What do have for the current Samba configuration file? What version QB?

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