Re: [CentOS] building on x86_64 (was: Problem compiling freeradius on x86_64)

2008-03-09 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Johnny Hughes wrote: snip First thing is that building on x86_64 is quite a PITA. You will need to either use mock with the appropriate configuration file or you will need to create a build machine that has only x86_64 RPMS (otherwise you will either try (and fail) to link to i386

Re: [CentOS] Colors in vi for user root

2008-03-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? Regular users have it, but not root's. I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. And one last way if vim-enhanced is installed ... put this in the /root/.bashrc alias vi='vim'

Re: [CentOS] yum update best practices

2008-03-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, we run approximately 400 Centos servers at our company. We use cfengine for configuration management. I am looking for some documentation to do patching including kernel patches. I was thinking of just having each host run yum update via cfengine but not sure if

Re: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux andkernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-09 Thread S Roderick
I was hoping that either via kernel capabilities or SE Linux that we could avoid this. Both seem to offer exactly the feature we want, opening raw sockets from unprivileged accounts. But it's really unclear from all the doc's online how these two interact. Best we could do was try all the

RE: [CentOS] PROBLEM SOLVED -getting JavaRuntime Environmenti nstalledi nto OpenOffice

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just come out with a new one? If I install the latest, does the script un-install the previous version I just installed? I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE? I

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
I'll study up on it. Can you reccomend a good URL or reading material for setroubleshoot? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux Thanks, I'll check it out. _ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live.

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
So is there a way I can set SELinux to permissive, and still be secure while using Calc to connect remotely to a MySQL database? Or is there a way to leave SELinux enforced while also using Calc to connect remotely to a MySQL database? Sure, there is iptables (firewall). selinux,

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
Therese, the setroubleshoot package mentioned here was installed by default on my system. If you go to that after you have had a failure it generally tells you what it saw as a threat, and what to do about it if it should be allowed. Usually it's just a matter of copy and paste a line of

RE: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linuxandkernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
S Roderick wrote: I was hoping that either via kernel capabilities or SE Linux that we could avoid this. Both seem to offer exactly the feature we want, opening raw sockets from unprivileged accounts. But it's really unclear from all the doc's online how these two interact. Best we

[CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
Hi, I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1. I read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and real raid cards. The hardware I plan on installing this RAID card into is an Intel DP35DP

Re: [CentOS] XFCE, was: pdflatex: fuzzy fonts in Evince, but not on paper output

2008-03-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
R P Herrold a écrit : As you are probably aware, at XFCE 4 became an 'early adopter' of those standards. http://www.xfce.org/about/ and 'aims to be fast and lightweight' unlike, say, evince, which tries to be a universal 'Swiss Army' document 'knife' ;) XFCE forever I second that.

[CentOS] kernel.h error stdarg.h

2008-03-09 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello, if compiling the driver for my ralink wlan card or compiling the driver for my 5-1 card reader, I get the following error message. ./include/linux/kernel.h:10:20: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory Is there something broken on my system? # rpm -qa | grep kernel

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread nate
Therese Trudeau wrote: Do such cards exist? If so which model /manufacturers do you recommend? Any experiences/info/insights on hardware RAID cards good or bad on centos boxes would be appreciated. 3Ware 8000-series cards are probably the most compatible going back at least 3 years.

Re: [CentOS] RE: Choice of RAR/PAR utility?

2008-03-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 07 March 2008 22:53:03 Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:38:06 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. Is it still valid? I see the copyright notice is 2002-2004. Since it's included in the documentation on the program's development website and there has

[CentOS] Anyone installed the amazon downloader on 5.1?

2008-03-09 Thread fred smith
Just tried to install the Amazon-downloader on Centos 5.1 (the Fedora 8 version, which seems the closest match of any they offer). Of course it gets a bazillion unfulfilled dependencies. so I tried yum localinstall ./a*m and it trundles along for a while finding several of the packages available

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 c ard on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
Do such cards exist? If so which model /manufacturers do you recommend? Any experiences/info/insights on hardware RAID cards good or bad on centos boxes would be appreciated. 3Ware 8000-series cards are probably the most compatible going back at least 3 years. 9000-series cards are

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread nate
Therese Trudeau wrote: So these cards are just plug n play? Just plug them in, no software or drivers required, all mirroring is managed by firmware built into the card RAID card itself? Drivers are required for all storage adapters(RAID or not). 3Ware handles raid in hardware, not in

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Most of the things in this email, from me are a personal opinoin, but I do spend a fair bit of time with these sort of things, these days. Therese Trudeau wrote: 3Ware 8000-series cards are probably the most compatible going back at least 3 years. 9000-series cards are faster/better and CentOS

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
So these cards are just plug n play? Just plug them in, no software or drivers required, all mirroring is managed by firmware built into the card RAID card itself? Drivers are required for all storage adapters(RAID or not). 3Ware handles raid in hardware, not in software, it has a bios

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 car d on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
I would'nt bother with a 3ware 8000 or a 3ware 9000 card these days, if you really do want to get 3ware, get atleast a 9650. And anything less than a 9550 should be considered only if you get a really good deal off ebay. And remember that battery backup unit. I'm just really looking for a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Therese Trudeau wrote: I'm just really looking for a RAID card that will do RAID 1, with four drive capacity, i.e., a master drive with the OS and applications installed and mirrored, and a slave drive for data and photos, graphic design, video, etc also mirrored. What would battery built

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 car d on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
I'm just really looking for a RAID card that will do RAID 1, with four drive capacity, i.e., a master drive with the OS and applications installed and mirrored, and a slave drive for data and photos, graphic design, video, etc also mirrored. What would battery built into a RAID card

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAI D 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Brian
On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Therese Trudeau wrote: Hi, I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1. I read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/ Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and real raid cards. Discontinued

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1. I read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/ Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and real raid cards. Discontinued chipset but works fine:

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Therese Trudeau wrote: the whole point of a BBU is that you can turn on write back caching - and get a fair win in write performance on regular tasks. Pardon my ignorance, what is write back caching and BBU? Write Back Caching means the card will cache writes in its onboard storage,

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 car d on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
the whole point of a BBU is that you can turn on write back caching - and get a fair win in write performance on regular tasks. Pardon my ignorance, what is write back caching and BBU? Write Back Caching means the card will cache writes in its onboard storage, and let the OS

[CentOS] centos ldap client authentication

2008-03-09 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a FreeBSD openldap server set up and i'd like to authenticate to it with a centos 5.1 client. The server is also acting as a client itself and user access works fine from it. On the clientside I'm getting an error can not search ldap server, server is unavailable. This is

[CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers

2008-03-09 Thread Manish Kathuria
What is the maximum number of nameservers mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf which will be queried while looking up a hostname or IP address in the present version ? Earlier implementations had a ceiling of 3 name servers which could be queried. Has there been any increase ? Thanks, Manish

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Therese Trudeau wrote: Ah that makes total sense now, thanks. Do the 3wire and the Areca cards allow you to remove battery/cache/disk and install into similar motherboard? Also when you say remove battery and cache, do you mean remove the entire RAID card with battery attached to it as

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 car d on Centos box

2008-03-09 Thread Therese Trudeau
Ah that makes total sense now, thanks. Do the 3wire and the Areca cards allow you to remove battery/cache/disk and install into similar motherboard? Also when you say remove battery and cache, do you mean remove the entire RAID card with battery attached to it as complete assembly with

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf - Number of Nameservers

2008-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
Manish Kathuria wrote: What is the maximum number of nameservers mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf which will be queried while looking up a hostname or IP address in the present version ? Earlier implementations had a ceiling of 3 name servers which could be queried. Has there been any increase ?