[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:0377 CentOS 6 kdelibs FASTTRACK Update

2012-03-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:0377 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0377.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi, On Monday, March 12, 2012 you wrote: What do you guys recommend for backing up a small CentOS server in a business environment. It will have (3) 300gb drives in a raid 5 array but I don't anticipate more than about 25gb of data that needs to be backed up each night. I stumbled on

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird and Firefox 10 font rendering

2012-03-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 08/03/12 17:34, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/08/2012 07:49 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: On 08/03/12 14:35, John Doe wrote: I use both 3.6.26 (from centOS 5) and 10.0.2 (binary from mozilla). And, after setting the same font settings in both, I cannot see any real differences... Only tiny

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird and Firefox 10 font rendering

2012-03-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 08/03/12 15:36, John Doe wrote: From: John Doejd...@yahoo.com Hum... playing with the gnome font settings does not change anything in either firefoxes... Really? I'm trying this again now... What I'm doing is: 1. Start firefox 2. Select System-Preferences-Fonts from the desktop panel

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird and Firefox 10 font rendering

2012-03-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 12/03/12 09:11, Toralf Lund wrote: On 08/03/12 15:36, John Doe wrote: From: John Doejd...@yahoo.com Hum... playing with the gnome font settings does not change anything in either firefoxes... Really? I'm trying this again now... What I'm doing is: 1. Start firefox 2. Select

Re: [CentOS] hfs with extended attribute support

2012-03-12 Thread Wessel van der Aart
i figured that if you use filesystems and protocols most native to the mac os you´ll get the best results in stability on the client side, that´s why i thought of HFS. but ext4 seems to do the job well. i´ll definitely checkout samba too. do you also serve homedirs to them? had any issues?

Re: [CentOS] php-pear problem on yum update

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Gatsis - Qbit
Thank you all for answering Finally I exclude php-pear for updating. Leonard you are right, for some reason rpm forge has install some packs for pear. I'll leave it as is, I cant afford causing problems. We have a lot of web pages and databases running so we cant take any risk. Thank you again

[CentOS] perl .spec / srpm

2012-03-12 Thread Nick
Hi Can anyone here point me in the direction of a .spec or SRPM for Perl 5.12.4 for CentOS6? Or even any newer version would do. Whilst I'm asking, ditto a Perl-enabled version of OpenLDAP (latest stable release)? IIRC, the version in the base repo has the Perl extensions disabled. Thanks,

Re: [CentOS] KVM CentOS i386

2012-03-12 Thread Anton Zaytsev
Hi Ljubomir, thanx for reply. I need for CentOS 5 exactly. It will be *great* if you'd share them. Are they compatable with the latest kernel? I have found some rpms in CentOSplus repo, but they are for 2.6.18-92.1.13 only. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-03-12 Thread Lars Hecking
Once you make the network interface no longer NM managed you can then perform a service network restart in your post and all network functionality should then become available. This may be desired or true in theory, but is not working. I have NM_CONTROLLED=no in ifcfg-eth0, and it works

Re: [CentOS] perl .spec / srpm

2012-03-12 Thread John Doe
From: Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org Can anyone here point me in the direction of a .spec or SRPM for Perl 5.12.4 for CentOS6?  Or even any newer version would do. Maybe try to tweak:

Re: [CentOS] perl .spec / srpm

2012-03-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/12/2012 10:27 AM, Nick wrote: Hi Can anyone here point me in the direction of a .spec or SRPM for Perl 5.12.4 for CentOS6? Or even any newer version would do. Whilst I'm asking, ditto a Perl-enabled version of OpenLDAP (latest stable release)? IIRC, the version in the base repo

Re: [CentOS] perl .spec / srpm

2012-03-12 Thread Nick
Thanks for the links. On 12/03/12 16:06, John Doe wrote: Maybe try to tweak: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/source/SRPMS/p/perl-5.14.2-212.fc18.src.rpm On 12/03/12 16:49, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is where all the CentOS-6.2 SRPMS live:

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-03-12 Thread m . roth
Lars Hecking wrote: Once you make the network interface no longer NM managed you can then perform a service network restart in your post and all network functionality should then become available. This may be desired or true in theory, but is not working. I have NM_CONTROLLED=no in

[CentOS] Stateless client

2012-03-12 Thread Rushton Martin
I'm trying to configure an old 64-bit desktop machine as a client for a CentOS server. The client must have no modifiable storage at all so my options seem to be: 1) Stateless network boot 2) Live DVD I've been looking at the latter route, does anyone know if there is a convenient hook

Re: [CentOS] Stateless client

2012-03-12 Thread m . roth
Rushton Martin wrote: I'm trying to configure an old 64-bit desktop machine as a client for a CentOS server. The client must have no modifiable storage at all so my options seem to be: 1)Stateless network boot 2)Live DVD I've been looking at the latter route, does anyone know if

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Brian Mathis brian.mathis+cen...@betteradmin.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Scott Walker

[CentOS] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE

2012-03-12 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-6.2 We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2 host. The MAILTO variable is set to supp...@harte-lyne.ca in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host instead of receiving the mail with the output we see this in /var/log/cron instead: Mar 12 14:49:01 inet09 CROND[6639]: (cron

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 3/11/2012 6:12 PM, Scott Walker wrote: What do you guys recommend for backing up a small CentOS server in a business environment. It will have (3) 300gb drives in a raid 5 array but I don't anticipate more than about 25gb of data that needs to be backed up each night. I want a lot of

Re: [CentOS] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE

2012-03-12 Thread Craig White
On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.2 We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2 host. The MAILTO variable is set to supp...@harte-lyne.ca in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host instead of receiving the mail with the output we see this in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread m . roth
Steve Lindemann wrote: On 3/11/2012 6:12 PM, Scott Walker wrote: What do you guys recommend for backing up a small CentOS server in a business environment. It will have (3) 300gb drives in a raid 5 array but I don't anticipate more than about 25gb of data that needs to be snip The vendor is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org wrote: I believe in tape... it's just not a viable option with the large disk sizes we have today unless you have a lot of money for a fast, multi-drive solution.  I can backup a bit over 500GB daily in 3 hours to external

Re: [CentOS] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE

2012-03-12 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 12.03.2012 20:03, schrieb James B. Byrne: CentOS-6.2 We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2 host. The MAILTO variable is set to supp...@harte-lyne.ca in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host instead of receiving the mail with the output we see this in /var/log/cron

[CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
I have had the same email address since 1997 (when microsoft stole bob.com from me thanks to network solutions...) In the early days I of course was free with my email and used it everwhere. Fast forward to 2012, some 15 years later. woof..the amount of spam sent to me has always just kept

Re: [CentOS] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE

2012-03-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: / CentOS-6.2 // // We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2 // host. The MAILTO variable is set tosupport at harte-lyne.ca http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos // in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host

Re: [CentOS] hfs with extended attribute support

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
On 03/12/2012 05:11 AM, Wessel van der Aart wrote: i figured that if you use filesystems and protocols most native to the mac os you´ll get the best results in stability on the client side, that´s why i thought of HFS. but ext4 seems to do the job well. i´ll definitely checkout samba too. do

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12-03-12 22:12, Bob Hoffman wrote: [snip] Not sure if this setup is perfect, but it is working quite well. Yes, the mail takes a few seconds longer and there is probably more I could do, but this ROCKS!!! Totally agree. I'm definitely not a postfix expert but below I have listed some rules

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread m . roth
Bob Hoffman wrote: I have had the same email address since 1997 (when microsoft stole bob.com from me thanks to network solutions...) I remember reading about you, vaguely. snip Now I have set up a centos 6 box using postfix. Today I decided to try to add smtpd restrictions. After a lot of

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Jure Pečar
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:13 -0400 Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: On my centos 5 server I just used sendmail with spamassassin and it killed a lot. Still, 100s, sometimes more made it through. Then thunderbird would weed out more, learned as it went... Still, had an inbox with a lot

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
on/Mon Mar 12 18:39:23 EDT 2012 Jure Pecar wrote /== /On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:13 -0400 /Bob Hoffmanbob at bobhoffman.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos wrote: // On my centos 5 server I just used sendmail with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
On 03/12/2012 12:37 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So today I use TB size drives dropped into an external docking station. The docking station plugs into the server using eSATA. Then it's a relatively simple script run by cron to handle the daily backup. I'm Yup. Our home directories (NFS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: I would ideally like to get several drives on a single ESATA controller (At least 4 would be nice, though I know it won't have amazing performance if I access multiple drives at once). If you have internal space there

Re: [CentOS] KVM CentOS i386

2012-03-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 03/12/2012 04:39 PM, Anton Zaytsev wrote: Hi Ljubomir, thanx for reply. I need for CentOS 5 exactly. It will be *great* if you'd share them. Are they compatable with the latest kernel? I have found some rpms in CentOSplus repo, but they are for 2.6.18-92.1.13 only. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
Over the years I have run into several situations where for one reason or another a backup utility such as dump or tar couldn't read a particular backup. For that reason, I like to periodically do a backup using another backup format. So I might use backuppc for my main backup system, but once a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
On 03/12/2012 04:28 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: I would ideally like to get several drives on a single ESATA controller (At least 4 would be nice, though I know it won't have amazing performance if I access multiple drives at

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
On 03/12/2012 02:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bob Hoffman wrote: I have had the same email address since 1997 (when microsoft stole bob.com from me thanks to network solutions...) I remember reading about you, vaguely. snip Now I have set up a centos 6 box using postfix. Today I decided to

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: On 03/12/2012 02:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bob Hoffman wrote: I have had the same email address since 1997 (when microsoft stole bob.com from me thanks to network solutions...) I remember reading about you, vaguely.

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Ron Loftin
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 23:15 +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: On 12-03-12 22:12, Bob Hoffman wrote: [snip] Not sure if this setup is perfect, but it is working quite well. Yes, the mail takes a few seconds longer and there is probably more I could do, but this ROCKS!!! Totally agree. I'm

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-12 Thread Nataraj
On 03/12/2012 09:08 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: I'm going to chuck in my 2 cents worth here, as I've been using Postfix as a first-line filter for some years now. All of the above suggestions are very useful. The only point that I haven't seen in this thread is that mail server/filter configs are