Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Hi Simon, we used to use Squirrelmail also, but have since migrated to RoundCube. It's easy enough to install on a CentOS 7 server (we don't use EL8) by downloading directly from the Roundcube website and following the installation instructions. The interface is clean, modern, and the project

Re: [CentOS] System Time

2020-03-11 Thread Blake Hudson
On 3/8/2020 1:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote:  Digital cinema equipment is the only commercial electronic equipment that I know of that is deliberately designed to not do what it's intended to do When someone asks why their firewall is blocking such and such, I sometimes respond that firewalls are

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Warren Young wrote on 7/1/2019 9:48 AM: On Jul 1, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: I've never used ZFS, as its Linux support has been historically poor. When was the last time you checked? The ZFS-on-Linux (ZoL) code has been stable for years. In recent months, the BSDs have rebased

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Warren Young wrote on 6/28/2019 6:53 PM: On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Linux software RAID…has only decreased availability for me. This has been due to a combination of hardware and software issues that are are generally handled well by HW RAID controllers, but are often

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Blake Hudson
Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote on 6/27/2019 8:36 AM: Hello list. The next days we are going to install Centos 7 on a new server, with 4*3Tb sata hdd as raid-5. We will use the graphical interface to install and set up raid. Do I have to consider anything before installation, because the disks

Re: [CentOS] Stupid C7 firewall question

2018-10-25 Thread Blake Hudson
Joel Freeman wrote on 10/24/2018 9:06 PM: On a similar note, Is there any reason to use Firewalld over IPTables? I'm incredibly new to Linux administration, and would like to your guys' opinions on it. Many thanks, Joel. My first impression was that firewalld and NetworkManager had a more

[CentOS] Percentage of CentOS coded in each language

2018-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Had a curious question about how much of Linux (as a usable distribution, not just the kernel) is coded in each language. I can find some older or vague references without citation that Linux is largely coded in C and C++, with a fraction of a percent coded in other languages. While the

Re: [CentOS] lvconvert(split) - raid10 => raid0

2017-10-17 Thread Blake Hudson
Pulling (the correct) half of the HDDs would yield a degraded RAID10 array which is essentially the same disk layout as a RAID 0 array. Unfortunately I have no experience with RAID level migration using LVM to tell you the correct commands to do so in a supported manner. When converting from

Re: [CentOS] Problem with CentOS 5.11 virtual machine

2016-08-24 Thread Blake Hudson
John R Pierce wrote on 8/24/2016 1:17 PM: On 8/24/2016 9:49 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Try reinstalling vmware-tools yea, any time you installed a new kernel on el5, you had to reinstall vmware tools, kind of a pain. on newer systems, this seems less neccessary. Perhaps this is

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2015:1197 Moderate CentOS 5 openssl Security Update

2015-07-02 Thread Blake Hudson
FYI I believe applying this openssl update may result in breaking SSL MySQL connections similar to RHEL/CentOS 6 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228755 I opened a bug report for RHEL5/CentOS 5 weeks ago - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231960. However, it hasn't

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-16 Thread Blake Hudson
- sendmail Begin STATISTICS -- Bytes Transferred: 5241 Messages Processed: 2 Addressed Recipients: 2 -- sendmail End - I'd also like to know where/how logwatch is getting the

Re: [CentOS] Apparent bug in logwatch's reporting of number of email by sendmail

2015-03-13 Thread Blake Hudson
ken wrote on 3/13/2015 11:36 AM: # rpm -q sendmail logwatch sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 logwatch-7.3-10.el5 One host sends just one email per day, the daily logwatch report. Here's /var/log/maillog entries from yesterday (hostnames are changed to make designations in this conversation more

Re: [CentOS] Centos box and Cisco 3750 VLAN's

2014-05-30 Thread Blake Hudson
Boris, I'd suggest reviewing the guide from Redhat on configuring your server (https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces_802.1q-vlan-tagging.html) In essence, eth0 is a shell. eth0.x is where all the traffic

Re: [CentOS] [OT] how do I remove a battery

2014-04-22 Thread Blake Hudson
Yup, looks like that tab needs moved out of the way and the battery removed. Down seems to be the shortest path to my eyes. However, I could see why one might also try right. --Blake Michael Hennebry wrote the following on 4/22/2014 3:08 PM: I've got an MSI K9N Platinum MS 7250 VER 1.1

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Most USB flash drives have horrid performance, especially for writes and doubly especially for random writes. For a live linux distro, I would recommend a Sandisk Extreme or anything from Patriot. Rainer Traut wrote the following on 2/27/2014 6:17 AM: Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote the following on 9/26/2013 3:28 PM: Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html This seems like a great example of how LVM complicates the process of moving to a new disk. Without LVM,

Re: [CentOS] www.centos.org is down

2013-06-25 Thread Blake Hudson
Looks like Apache is not running... # nmap -A www.centos.org Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-06-25 08:20 CDT Stats: 0:00:08 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Traceroute Traceroute Timing: About 32.26% done; ETC: 08:21 (0:00:00 remaining) Nmap scan report for

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-16 Thread Blake Hudson
Steve Thompson wrote the following on 10/16/2012 7:45 AM: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, John Reddy wrote: [root@mydomain ccc]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. EHLO MAIL FROM: m...@gmail.com RCPT TO: m...@gmail.com DATA testing from

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-16 Thread Blake Hudson
Alexander Dalloz wrote the following on 10/16/2012 1:41 PM: Am 16.10.2012 20:13, schrieb Les Mikesell: ]# netstat -pant|grep :25|grep LISTEN tcp0 0 209.216.9.56:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 14058/master tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:25

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Blake Hudson
Tony Molloy wrote the following on 9/4/2012 6:10 AM: Hi, I've just got possession of a Dell PE R720 with 2 MD1200 disk enclosures. Both MD1200 are fully populated with 12 x 3 TB disks The system will basically be a student file-server running CentOS 6.x serving various size files from

Re: [CentOS] Bind Died CentOS 6.2 64Bit

2012-05-21 Thread Blake Hudson
aurfalien wrote the following on 5/21/2012 12:05 PM: On May 21, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Shiv. NK wrote: Dear all, bind cannot load zone files, i see the following in the log for all domains. i have tried with 777 to all zone files but does not make difference. main directories are also owned

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 How to change hostname for each individual IP

2012-04-10 Thread Blake Hudson
Lamar Owen wrote the following on 4/9/2012 9:11 AM: On Friday, April 06, 2012 09:18:27 AM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: No matter what I do when I connect to the application it read example.example.org which is the hostname of the machine rather then the hostname I want it to read on a particular

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:54 PM: yes it should be udpated. I was just pointing out that the i386 version you have installed must have come from extras, since your x86_64 system cannot see the i386 versions available in the base+updates i386 repos that you

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:59 PM: BTW: why do you need 32bit perl? Since the package exists and you have it installed, I guess there must be use-cases... but perl being interpreted, I'm curious as to what they could be. I did not install it intentionally. I

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Johnny Hughes wrote the following on 2/15/2012 4:39 AM: I am adding the i386 version of perl to x86_64 extras for c5 now ... it will go out to the mirrors soon. I appreciate the help Johnny. Thanks, --Blake ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-14 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os and updates dir for that arch, with the newer version in updates. Same if you have an

[CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-13 Thread Blake Hudson
I seem to running into the following bug when attempting to perform a yum update: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5322 I have been skipping perl to move on. However, I am unable to update perl to the latest i386 release due to what appears to be a mistake in the centOS repo. The CentOS

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-25 Thread Blake Hudson
Robert Arkiletian wrote the following on 8/24/2011 1:17 AM: Just noticed that our new server has a newer 80+ efficiency 865W PSU with PFC. So apparenty our existing 1500VA (865W) APC Back-UPS is not safe to use anymore. We apparently need a pure sine wave UPS.

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone know if I can reconfigure a PERC H700 without rebooting?

2011-08-22 Thread Blake Hudson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Kjellström wrote the following on 8/22/2011 8:34 AM: On Monday, August 22, 2011 12:10:07 PM Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a server which is really difficult to restart because of usage requirements and the fact that it's in a co-lo

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Power-outage From: m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:28:21 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice or

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Power-outage From: m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:57:41 AM Blake Hudson wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-16 Thread Blake Hudson
pci is a shared bus with a max of 2 gigabits. you'll see a gigabit but never see two or more. 32bits * 33MHz = 1,056,000,000 bps. PCI is an arbitrated bus with one talker at a time (half-duplex), so it's only capable of half the data rate of a 1Gbps (full duplex) network. In practice, I've

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) From: Nicolas Ross rossnick-li...@cybercat.ca To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:38:42 PM While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-04 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta From: Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:40:51 AM On 05/02/2011 10:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 05/02/2011

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread Blake Hudson
Just about any motherboard will work. Where you typically would run into problems would be drivers for expansion cards/peripherals. We have 4 NICs in many of our CentOS 5 servers: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x 32bit VPS Ping Issue

2011-03-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Sounds like the remote router is having to ARP to find the MAC address of your VPS server. Perhaps its ARP cache is full or it has a relatively short ARP cache TTL. Cisco routers, by default, have a 4 hour timeout. I can't imagine a router having 5 minute timeout. You could test this by running a

Re: [CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools

2011-03-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: [CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools From: Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com To: CentOS User list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:43:03 PM We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 From: compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:08:46 AM For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has

Re: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems

2011-01-11 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems From: Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:09:25 PM CentOS 5.5, fully patched. I have a HE tunnel (tunnelbroker.net) IPv6 tunnel.

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question From: Raymond Lillard r...@sonic.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:36:43 AM On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote: The colors do not matter. What matters is the

Re: [CentOS] Minimising disk I/O

2010-11-29 Thread Blake Hudson
I would suggest looking at articles that focus on laptop power consumption, they typically have a section dedicated to disk accesses and how to spin the disk down as much as possible since this has traditionally been one of the better ways to minimize power consumption on a laptop. This article

Re: [CentOS] Router for SOHO network - hardware considerations

2010-11-22 Thread Blake Hudson
Is there anything you could especially recommend for this job? (I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty, BTW :oD) +1 for Linksys WRT54GL and tomato firmware +1 for pfsense (or monowall) on a small server The Linksys is going to be your cheapest option and will take the least amount of

Re: [CentOS] slow down dd - how?

2010-07-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Jozsi Avadkan wrote: How can I slow down dd? I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40 GByte]. Does ionice work properly? Yes, with CentOS 5.5 and the default scheduler. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] ntp server

2010-07-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Seems like a well thought out and thorough explanation of how to do what you're looking for. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579418 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xulrunner-devel dependencies

2010-07-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: [CentOS] xulrunner-devel dependencies From: Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:49:06 AM What's the deal with all of the new dependencies for xulrunner-devel in the last update?

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart from tagged VLAN?

2010-07-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kickstart from tagged VLAN? From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:33:45 AM Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: On Cisco switches it would be called native vlan if i

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

2009-10-30 Thread Blake Hudson
Cylinders are largely logical - even in magnetic disks you have no way of knowing if the logical cylinder matches up with the physical construct of a cylinder on the disk medium - in any modern(15 years ?) disk they won't. Don't worry about cylinders, just align your fs to the stripe/sector.

Re: [CentOS] Copy OS live to different hardware

2009-10-12 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Copy OS live to different hardware From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, October 12, 2009 9:48:32 AM Bob Puff wrote: Hello, I've got some CentOS 5.3 servers that I want to

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
I would second what another poster stated, to look at DB/RAM optimizations. If possible, you should have enough RAM in the system to hold your entire DB in memory - and your db software should be setup to take advantage of that memory. Since you stated that your system is only having trouble

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions From: Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:55:35 PM Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

2009-08-05 Thread Blake Hudson
Actually, it's the 100% charge state that is bad for LiIon. But a charge/drain cycle will likely wear the battery out even faster - LiIon batteries wear model is based on usage time. A 90% charge is ideal for long term storage - or for someone who leaves the laptop plugged into AC power most

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

2009-08-05 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell From: Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:14:46 AM The times I have removed it from the mains the battery held out for only about

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-20 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ? From: Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:21:28 AM On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi, I'd

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade From: fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:37:57 AM On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:10:08PM +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade From: fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:58:28 AM but since the file appears to download fine, it wouldn't be a case of

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade From: R P Herrold herr...@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:58:09 PM On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, fred smith wrote: Downloading Packages: (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128.

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade From: Blake Hudson bl...@ispn.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:12:25 PM Original Message Subject: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade From

Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror

2009-04-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror From: Michael Peterson mpeter...@mail.charlesfurniture.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:02:36 PM John R Pierce wrote: Michael Peterson wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror

2009-04-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:46:21 PM Interesting.I thought that i686 used instructions only available

Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror

2009-04-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2 to 5.3 kernel not on mirror From: Blake Hudson bl...@ispn.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:00:53 PM Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Update from 5.2