Re: [CentOS-docs] Newsletter release delay

2009-10-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Garry.Dale garry.d...@gmail.com wrote: Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on 10/19/2009 04:00 PM: snip Could I also remind people to proof read it. I made a few minor spelling and grammar updates. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Phil Schaffner

[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.4 i386 and x86_64

2009-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.4 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.4 is based on the upstream release EL 5.4.0, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it

[CentOS-virt] Sending function key like F12 to a booting cd

2009-10-21 Thread Torkil Zachariassen
Under Xen I am booting a virtual server from a recovery CD-Rom (actually a iso image) When the cd boots in the console window I have to send the single key F12 to the window within 10 seconds from start, otherwise it will try to boot from harddisk. Pressing F12 in the console window does not

[CentOS-es] Migrar

2009-10-21 Thread Choique
Hola gente tengo que migrar un servidor, en realidad mi idea es instalar en el nuevo hardware con centos 5.4 de 64 bit los mismos sevicios que tengo en el server viejo con centos 5.3 de 32 bit . La idea es no tener que volver a configurar todo otra vez, si no instalar los mismos programas y

[CentOS-es] Squid pasando por ISA como

2009-10-21 Thread Enrique Rosario
Saludos. Tengo centos 5 y como proxy el squid 2.6. ahora me han pedido que tengo que pasar el trafico por un ISA Server. :( Puse en el conf. esto cache_peer datos_del_ISA parent 8080 0 no-query no-digest Hasta aqui todo ok pero ? Cuando trato de acceder a paginas activas con metodos get o

Re: [CentOS-es] problemas con zimbra

2009-10-21 Thread Ruben Moyota
Hola, Podrias revisar si Selinux esta instalado y corriendo, en todo caso ahi esta una guia de instalacion de zimbra para centos, es algo antigua pero sirve para la version actual. http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/8726-centos-5-install-guide.html Saludos. El 20 de octubre de 2009

Re: [CentOS-es] Duda Sobre DNS

2009-10-21 Thread Rodrigo Julio P�rez
El 20 de octubre de 2009 12:34, Renato Covarrubias Romero rcova...@alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl escribió: El 19/10/09 17:14, Rodrigo Julio P�rez escribió: Estimados Listeros, Buenas Tardes, tengo una pequeña duda, y necesito vuestra ayuda. Tengo un servidor de Nombres en un Centos 5.3 funciona

[CentOS-es] Una pregunta

2009-10-21 Thread Mario Villela Larraza
Estoy por levantar un servidor para compartir unidades de red e investigando en la red me he topado con muchos fatores y distintas formas de hacer esto, tengo varias preguntas: 1 que diferencia hay entre una vercion de 32 bits y de 64 bits, hablando del SO? 2 cual es la mejor forma de certificar

[CentOS-es] problema compiz y reproductor de videos

2009-10-21 Thread Taz man
hola al momento de querer repoducir un video .wmv utilizando totem en centos 5.0 o 5.3 me aparece el siguieten error sabran de algun rpm para correir este errror Se requiere un complemento de demultiplexor Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) para reproducir este medio, pero no está instalado.

Re: [CentOS-es] Dominios

2009-10-21 Thread Osvaldo Rivas
Hardy: Recién ahora estoy mirando tu respuesta, y te quiero agradecer por las aclaraciones. Realmente me sirvieron para asentar un concepto que hace rato venia confundiendo. Osvaldo Rivas - Original Message - From: Hardy Beltran Monasterios h...@hardy.com.bo To: centos-es@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-es] problema compiz y reproductor de videos

2009-10-21 Thread Rubén González
From: rinos...@hotmail.com To: centos-es@centos.org Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:04:24 -0500 Subject: [CentOS-es] problema compiz y reproductor de videos hola al momento de querer repoducir un video .wmv utilizando totem en centos 5.0 o 5.3 me aparece el siguieten error sabran de algun

Re: [CentOS-es] Dominios

2009-10-21 Thread Ricardo Martinez
muy buena respuesta Hardy 2009/10/7 Hardy Beltran Monasterios h...@hardy.com.bo El mar, 06-10-2009 a las 09:42 -0400, Osvaldo Rivas escribió: Que tal lista, me gustaría si no es mucha molestia, aclarar una duda que tengo hace mucho tiempo. La situación es esta, Registre un dominio

Re: [CentOS-es] Dominios

2009-10-21 Thread Mario Ganga
Exelente 2009/10/21 Ricardo Martinez harisel...@gmail.com muy buena respuesta Hardy 2009/10/7 Hardy Beltran Monasterios h...@hardy.com.bo El mar, 06-10-2009 a las 09:42 -0400, Osvaldo Rivas escribió: Que tal lista, me gustaría si no es mucha molestia, aclarar una duda que

Re: [CentOS-es] problema compiz y reproductor de videos

2009-10-21 Thread Mario Ganga
Hola si es solo un maquina para trabajo de escritorio yo recomendaría ubuntu de la 8.04 hacia arriba, considero que centos es una distro optimizadas para servidor. Atte. 2009/10/21 Rubén González rhu...@msn.com -- From: rinos...@hotmail.com To:

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances such as

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative.

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Acrobat isn't easy to use either.  i find it kinda clunky and not intuitive.  Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text. InkScape for graphics

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding

[CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Herbosch
Hi list, I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository which is working fine. Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my / etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file I copied the OS directory from the install media and ran createrepo on that dir.

[CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

2009-10-21 Thread ken
On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: ken wrote: Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out. Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle dba has strict parameters on what versions can be

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Rudi Ahlers schrieb John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, and even servers, but from what I understand it's also

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 at last?

2009-10-21 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:58:59PM -0400, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.uswrote: Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: Hi Rainer, I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc) we already have. CentOS is my preferred OS of

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Lincoln Zuljewic Silva
List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, A while back I vaguely remember someone posting a link to documentation on how to prioritise console access (for want of a better expression). For the life of

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

2009-10-21 Thread David Fix
Sorry, don't have time to read the whole thread (busy day!), so please excuse me if I just add to the noise, but this may work for you (at a bash prompt): for x in *; do rpm --freshen --repackage $x; done If it's not what you're looking for, I apologize in advance. :) -- David Fix

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

2009-10-21 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
Hi :) - Paul Herbosch paul.herbo...@tbwaworld.com escreveu: I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository which is working fine. Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file I copied the OS directory

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

2009-10-21 Thread KFisler
The problem with such a loop is that only one pkg is the arg to each invocation of the rpm command. So if there are any dependencies for a particular invocation, nothing will be installed. From: David Fix dav...@mrxfx.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: 10/21/2009 07:32 AM

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Bird
Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ Thanks for not reading my post. See I can't find it in the archives or via Google in the text below. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, A while back I

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Herbosch
On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:48, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: Hi :) Hi Antonio. - Paul Herbosch paul.herbo...@tbwaworld.com escreveu: I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository which is working fine. Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

2009-10-21 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 10/21/2009 02:36 PM, Paul Herbosch wrote: ... another question: do 5.4 rpms at some point end up in the 5.3 update repo? (if this is the case I don't have to do anything but wait for them to show up) or do I always have to rsync 5.4 over and arrange my files so that yum finds them in the

Re: [CentOS] conventional cluster management software

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: Clustering is a really complex thing to get right, it can often cause more problems than it would otherwise prevent. Even some high end clustering is really poor. A couple of jobs ago I had to use BEA Weblogic application clustering for a massive J2EE app. Ran us roughly $10 or

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk wrote: Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ Thanks for not reading my post. See I can't find it in the archives or via Google in the text below. Spent a few minutes looking at the

[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Herbosch
On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:52, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 10/21/2009 02:36 PM, Paul Herbosch wrote: ... another question: do 5.4 rpms at some point end up in the 5.3 update repo? (if this is the case I don't have to do anything but wait for them to show up) or do I always have to rsync 5.4 over and

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared space.  

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Brian Kirkman
Jonathan Moore wrote: Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Jonathan Moore wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and export via nfs and/or smb to the systems

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:53 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single disk from the array. But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this in

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Fedora does not have 'point releases'. Right... One does a 'fresh' re-install every 6 months to a year (or something like that). Well, not quite. Although it being what it is and sometimes breaking, you can yum upgrade it[1], but the suggested method involves using anaconda to upgrade it,

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rainer, I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's,

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this in all situations? I could see it taking longer to notice a failed disk then it normally *should*. I wonder what type of impact

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Thanks for the input folks. I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes. Very good to know. -jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

2009-10-21 Thread Barry Brimer
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, ken wrote: On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: ken wrote: Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out. Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle dba has

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Moore supermegat...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input folks.  I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes.  Very good to know. The documentation here should

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue

2009-10-21 Thread Todd Denniston
ken wrote, On 10/21/2009 05:12 AM: On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: ken wrote: SNIP Yeah, this directory contains 1507 rpms (IIRC)... which is a lot, but it should still work. This is Linux, after all. And there's plenty enough memory and cpu to handle it. Running rpm

[CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a local user account call panel on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the QUEUE=10s

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I have a local user account call panel on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single disk from the

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Matt
Hi there folks.  I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question.  I'm pretty new to anything rpm based.  I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it.  Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 And I execute these commands yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum clean all yum update

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I have a local user account call panel on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Alan McKay wrote: OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 And I execute these commands yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 14:46:05 Robert Heller wrote: Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own before the main

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Alan McKay wrote: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync sure,

[CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Drew
Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been asked by my spouse

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread John R Pierce
Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a single larger server took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device, could a single server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either replaced entirely or brought back online?

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Carl
Les Mikesell wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I have a local user account call panel on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time?

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? There is very little in the way of technical reasoning for it. Mostly it was a call by those in charge. We still have several servers running Debian doing various network related

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a single larger server took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device, could a single server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either replaced entirely or

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Bird
Jonathan Moore wrote: Spent a few minutes looking at the the archive at gmane.org and found one post that might be of interest. It's from back in 2006, but a quick read seems to be on the same track. HTH. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general/31549/focus=31588 Thanks

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Toby Bluhm
Drew wrote: Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been

[CentOS] centos5.4 and extras

2009-10-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Trying to install CentOS 5.4 with Xfce and I have enabled the extras repo, but Xfce doesn't show up when I customize the software selections. Is this because 5.4 hasn't hit all of the mirrors yet, or is Xfce not around for 5.4? Ryan ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Drew schrieb: Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been

[CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread slchavarria
Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Thank you in advance and greetings SLCC - Este mensaje y cualquier archivo que se adjunte al mismo es propiedad de Grupo Iusacell y contiene informacion

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread nate
slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. nate ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. Except that you'll probably end up with 5.4 or maybe an

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. All, that is yum update with a standard configuration (note that All here includes updates all the way to 5.x latest (which, as of

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
My guess would be a resolving problem also. Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. Check your /etc/hosts file Dan My /etc/hosts file is only has the nameserver x.x.x.x entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when mail on the command line is done. Again, this is

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jerry Geis wrote: My guess would be a resolving problem also. Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. Check your /etc/hosts file Dan My /etc/hosts file is only has the nameserver x.x.x.x entry. That should be in /etc/resolv.conf. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Torkil Zachariassen
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Yum knows :) $ yum --security check-update You may have to install yum-security first: # yum install yum-security .t.

[CentOS] 'Extremely lazy' disk flush?

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history completely in a crash like

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / My guess would be a resolving problem also. // Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. // Check your /etc/hosts file // Dan // // My /etc/hosts file is only has the nameserver x.x.x.x entry. / That should be in /etc/resolv.conf. Your right. it is - my

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jerry Geis wrote: That's a few DNS timeouts. / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. // // Very odd, any thoughts? / Are you mailing to localhost? I tried: mail panel mail pa...@localhost mail pa...@localhost.localdomain mail pa...@machine.domain.com (insert actual

Re: [CentOS] 'Extremely lazy' disk flush?

2009-10-21 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
/ // That's a few DNS timeouts. // // / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. // // // // Very odd, any thoughts? // / // Are you mailing to localhost? // // I tried: // mail panel // mail panel at localhost http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos // mail

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread nate
Jerry Geis wrote: How do I make this resolve faster or something. I have no way to make an MX record for this box. its all just local email. it never leaves the box. have you seen http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.22 ? nslookup only looks at DNS. So if you are trying to resolve

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jerry Geis wrote: / You still haven't answered how long nslookup takes to respond with these or your IP addresses. I think sendmail will ask DNS for an MX record first because that's how mail is supposed to work - then if that fails it goes for an A record or your hosts file. Sorry

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: How do I make this resolve faster or something. I have no way to make an MX record for this box. its all just local email. it never leaves the box. have you seen http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.22 ? nslookup only looks at DNS. So if you are

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Brent L. Bates wrote: It is not odd. You just refuse to listen to those trying to help. How many times do they have to say `Check your DNS'? Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it has a line like this: hosts:files dns `files' comes FIRST and `dns' LAST.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Carl
Jerry Geis wrote: My guess would be a resolving problem also. Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. Check your /etc/hosts file Dan My /etc/hosts file is only has the nameserver x.x.x.x entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when mail on the command line

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: But sendmail is going to ask DNS first and if DNS fails with a timeout instead of a quick NXDOMAIN, delivery will be slow. My reading of that FAQ says you can turn off DNS support in sendmail entirely, just use a host file. nate

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/21/2009 11:08 PM, Torkil Zachariassen wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Yum knows :) $ yum --security check-update You may have to install yum-security

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:26:05 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: / // That's a few DNS timeouts. // // / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. // // // // Very odd, any thoughts? // / // Are you mailing to localhost? // // I tried: //

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: But sendmail is going to ask DNS first and if DNS fails with a timeout instead of a quick NXDOMAIN, delivery will be slow. My reading of that FAQ says you can turn off DNS support in sendmail entirely, just use a host file. But that won't fix all the other things that expect a

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Carl
Dan Carl wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: My guess would be a resolving problem also. Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. Check your /etc/hosts file Dan My /etc/hosts file is only has the nameserver x.x.x.x entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Molloy
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:31:13 Alan McKay wrote: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just

[CentOS] CentOS-5.3 saslauth configuration issue

2009-10-21 Thread James B. Byrne
I am trying to get cyrus-imapd and saslauthd running together so that I can get squirrelmail to work. I have accomplished this on several other servers and have relatively complete documentation on how to do this. What I am running into in this case has me baffled. If I start saslauthd as a

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: But that won't fix all the other things that expect a working DNS - and will keep you from sending mail anywhere else. smarthost I'm not sure what the original thread started as just seemed specific to sendmail. nate ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Drew
What exactly does the home-server do that couldn't be done on the clients connected to it, once they are running? Run Linux 24/7. :-) For what I do with my PC it's far safer to store my files on a seperate machine. I tend to tweak linux a lot (I run Gentoo) so breakage is a regular thing. I've

[CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high. I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drives so I have to have those capabilities. It has to be CentOS 5.4

[CentOS] [SOLVED]: CentOS-5.3 saslauth configuration issue

2009-10-21 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, October 21, 2009 15:25, James B. Byrne wrote: I am trying to get cyrus-imapd and saslauthd running together so that I can get squirrelmail to work. I have accomplished this on several other servers and have relatively complete documentation on how to do this. What I am running into

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote: Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server.  The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high.  I would like to use

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/22/2009 01:56 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. Areca's have worked well for me over the last few years, and they have some small formfactor hba's too ( eg like being able to host a bbu in a 1U chassis. I've never

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If you have a card you are happy with, I would appreciate a recommendation. I use the LSI's, they are pretty solid with a good cli, snmp and rhel support. Keep in mind airflow, these cards get hot without good airflow. 6.6 long, and half height? I just went and measured the 1068's I have

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high. I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drives so I have to have those capabilities. It

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

2009-10-21 Thread Johnny Tan
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I use the LSI's, they are pretty solid with a good cli, snmp and rhel support. Sorry to hijack, but really quick question. What cli do you use for the LSI cards? Do you have a URL? johnny ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

2009-10-21 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi Everyone I am looking at setting up a File Server that uses ISCSI storage. It is the first time I have done this, so I am wanting to get peoples thoughts on whether for CentOS systems you should use Hardware based ISCSI HBA's? If so do I need to be careful about what HBA I use ? Currently

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