Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Looks good. The important part is that it references the drive when doing the installation. What do you mean? The problem is that grub stage1 is loaded but its instructions for locating stage2 point it to another disk which may or may not be at the location stored. That was the problem

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in a cluster

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Very. We have a single Linux box facing the Internet which runs everything through postfix, amavisd, and clamav to weed out the phishing and worms that attack the Microsoft virus, Windows, then hands off messages that pass to the internal cluster using round-robin DNS as the poor-mans load

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
What does fsbench say? It has the best writing performance too?!? No, according to the fsbench results, ReiserFS wins on Read Performance, but XFS is, approximately, four times more faster on write. I said that the ReiserFS have the best performance based on my read/write server statics,

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: What does fsbench say? It has the best writing performance too?!? No, according to the fsbench results, ReiserFS wins on Read Performance, but XFS is, approximately, four times more faster on write. I said that the ReiserFS

Re: [CentOS] Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I have a Dell poweredge 400SC here with an LSI scsi card. I installed Centos4 a while ago and put it in a datacenter. I rebooted many weeks after, and the machine didn't come back up. So I went to the datacenter tonight to find out that the server was stuck at

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now booting properly. What could I do to avoid this situation in the future?

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. My conclusion was as follows: - EXT3: reliable

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Chan
On CentOS 5.0, a had the same benchmarks and now, EXT3 and XFS seems to had better or equivalent performance on Read and Create Random files. One of this tests, using bonnie++, show this: # bonnie++ -d /mnt/sdc1/testfile -s 8192 -m `hostname` -n 50:15:5000:1000 bonnie++? Not

Re: [CentOS] reasons for using CentOS in business environments

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Rogelio wrote: My apologies if this question has been previously answered, but could anyone here provide me with resources that I might use to help build a case for exclusively using CentOS in an enterprise environment? (Approximately 200 servers) Long story short, I've used a little of

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. My conclusion was as follows: - EXT3: reliable but very slow to read many small files. - ReiserFS: best

Re: [CentOS] Re: Adobe products under Linux?

2007-11-25 Thread Christopher Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's always worth seeing what wine under CentOS can do, but I wouldn't get my hopes up that it will fill the shoes of windows because of lots of compatibility problems. Still, it's worth a shot. reactos! reactos! ... ... ... Why are you all looking at me like

Re: [CentOS] webserver setup

2007-11-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Hi, I have setup a webserver on CentOS 4.5 with NameVirtualHost. Two VirtualHost should be reachable by port 80 from outside, while the third (default) should be only reachable by https from outside but by http from inside. Since all share the same IP firewalling seems

Re: [CentOS] Port 631 closed, not hidden

2007-11-22 Thread Christopher Chan
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 02:48 -0500, Miark wrote: I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that be happening? The cups service opens

Re: [CentOS] Port 631 closed, not hidden

2007-11-21 Thread Christopher Chan
Miark wrote: I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that be happening? Do your firewall rules DROP or REJECT? ___

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-13 Thread Christopher Chan
Johnny Hughes wrote: John Thompson wrote: On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-12 Thread Christopher Chan
Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0xb7bc2bec,

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
John Thomas wrote: Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate. I am running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
John Thompson wrote: On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no LBA

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0xb7bc2bec,

Re: [CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread Christopher Chan
Simon Jolle wrote: Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. Intel does

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Garrick Staples wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:12:33PM -0600, John Thompson alleged: On 2007-11-07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues what I did wrong? Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
That leads to the question, where is the partition for the /boot for the Centos5 kernels located and is there LBA support in the BIOS? should have been: where is the partition for the /boot filesystem that holds the centos5 kernels located... ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5: comment swap in fstab

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what gave me this idea, but I decided to comment out the swap partition in /etc/fstab and reboot my laptop. I did not run swapoff directly at any time. I'm running more things now than I would ever dream of to hammer my 500MB of memory, but I still notice

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail failing on home machine

2007-11-07 Thread Christopher Chan
John R Pierce wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: configure your sendmail to use your ISP's mail server as a 'smarthost'. How is that going to help the dest mta verify his address? it won't have to. his ISP will accept mail from its own customer's IP address, same as if they were end

Re: [CentOS] Centos5 install failure

2007-11-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Any clues what I did wrong? Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list where grub and lilo users like me are subscribers. Don't complain about grub. grub gives you far more power than that piece of trash called

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail failing on home machine

2007-11-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Peter Loron wrote: I have a CentOS 5 machine at home, behind a NAT gateway. Among other things, I'm running mdadm in monitor mode to alert me to RAID failures. I want it to send messages to my main email address. Any messages I send from the home CentOS box to that email address are being

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail failing on home machine

2007-11-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Nothing to do with your ip. Just use an email address that Google can verify and again, it has NOTHING to do with sendmail. ...I don't know where I got Google from :-D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail failing on home machine

2007-11-06 Thread Christopher Chan
configure your sendmail to use your ISP's mail server as a 'smarthost'. How is that going to help the dest mta verify his address? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Chan
Sieve is a library, integrated into lmtpd, while procmail is a standalone process (and eats resources). I thought eating resources was a feature of procmail? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Chan
John R Pierce wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Sieve is a library, integrated into lmtpd, while procmail is a standalone process (and eats resources). I thought eating resources was a feature of procmail? I didn't think procmail ate significantly more resources than any other delivery

Re: [CentOS] Sort imap e-mail remotely

2007-11-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Patrick Lodder wrote: Hi all, I have a big e-mail box over at my provider. I receive a lot of e-mail every day (over 100), which are distributed into different imap-folders by thunderbird. The problem is that thunderbird must be running (offcourse) to be able to it's job. And for

Re: [CentOS] Sort imap e-mail remotely

2007-11-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Morten Torstensen wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: solution(maybe I'm search with the wrong keywords). I found fetchmail procmail, but I wasn't able to figure out if they can do it. http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/ But then he needs to have imapfilter running. For automated sorting of email

Re: [CentOS] Wierd Networking Problem

2007-10-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Shawn Everett wrote: Hi Guys, I'm 100% sure this is not a Linux issue but I want a second opinion... I have a Linux server running CentOS. It was been absolutely perfect without any errors or problems. Since Monday it has been unable to send email. It is configured to act as a smart

Re: [CentOS] Wierd Networking Problem

2007-10-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Bart Schaefer wrote: On Oct 31, 2007 12:24 AM, Shawn Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: telnet smtp.isp.net 25 generates the following: Trying a.b.c.d... Connected to smtp.isp.net. Escape character is '^]'. And then nothing. All other machines can connect to smtp.isp.net 25 without a problem.

Re: [CentOS] logrotate problem

2007-10-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Man, I missed that one. Serves me right for switching email accounts. At least you just poke fun. If Robin Socha was here...we would have endless fun/torment. Shall I invite him? Why, that would be wonderful. Or better not, otherwise I won't

Re: [CentOS] mp3 recorder?

2007-10-27 Thread Christopher Chan
What other mp3 capture programs do people use? My goal is to simply capture each side of a tape to mp3, then use Audacity to break each song to its own mp3 file. would mplayer do? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mp3 recorder?

2007-10-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: What other mp3 capture programs do people use? My goal is to simply capture each side of a tape to mp3, then use Audacity to break each song to its own mp3 file. would mplayer do? A google search of mplayer audio

Re: [CentOS] logrotate problem

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
-xr-x 1 root root 104 Jan 1 2006 rpm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Aug 22 2005 slocate.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 286 Feb 21 2005 tmpwatch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158 Feb 18 2006 yum.cron Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 10/26/07, *Christopher Chan* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] logrotate problem

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
umair shakil wrote: Dear All Salam, I have syslog server running logs of network devices, I am facing problem about two weeks that my weekly log is not rotating, as i manually runs the script it does, secondly i put the entry in cron.daily, still today i checked but no log rotation

Re: [CentOS] Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Robin Bowes is no longer on the qmail list among others and so there is very little flaming now there. Eeek. I meant Robin Socha. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] logrotate problem

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Is this for the same BSD system you asked questions on before concerning log rotation problems? Which BSD system borrowed run-parts from Debian? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] logrotate problem

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Jim Perrin wrote: On 10/26/07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which BSD system borrowed run-parts from Debian? All of them. Since they're based on debian anyway. See this thread for details - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-October/088245.html One of these days

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Les Mikesell wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heck, I see lots of circles where they wouldn't trust mysql for an enterprise application so it seems clear that you are not talking about stability or performance but rather familiarity and the amount of trust you have in what you know. Let's see

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Chris Mauritz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I don't recall ever having a problem with postgresql. I guess the latest versions are more crash resilient. But still no builtin replication. This has gotten far afield of CentOS, but recent vintages of Postgresql DO support replication

Re: [CentOS] Re: Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Ah but you cannot just replace it with another radio and expect it to work...sendmail and postfix have very different interfaces and design. They have their own ways of handling. Do we have to entertain stuff like writing/debugging sendmail

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format so you can run imap from any client facing server, or to keep the delivery host information in an LDAP attribute that you find when validating the address. This is

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:21 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format so you can run imap from any client facing server, or to keep the delivery host

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Les Mikesell wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format so you can run imap from any client facing server, or to keep the delivery host information in an LDAP attribute that you

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Les Mikesell wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format so you can run imap from any client facing server, or to keep the delivery host information in an LDAP attribute that you

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:58 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format so you can run imap from any client facing

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Heck, I see lots of circles where they wouldn't trust mysql for an enterprise application so it seems clear that you are not talking about stability or performance but rather familiarity and the amount of trust you have in what you know. Let's see, mysql crashes (elcheapo hardware, happens

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100, 000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Les Mikesell wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Anyway, back to my original request. You can use the transport_maps feature to dynamically lookup lmtp transports on a per account basis. I have figured it out, and for those that are curious I will post when I've finished documenting everything. I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
I know that XFS gets all the press about being a great performing file system ... but if you want the best stability on CentOS, you should at least consider ext3 instead. +1 I have worked very hard to get stable code for xfs in centos-4 and centos-5, and lots of people use it, but (IMHO)

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Shawn Everett wrote: I will be telling them wait for a power loss, wait for the XFS code to shut down one of its filesystem for no reason, take a good look at the neverending stream of bug fixes in the mainline kernel, take a look at those kernel developers who have openly announced they want

Re: [CentOS] Re: Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Scott Silva wrote: on 10/22/2007 9:21 PM Christopher Chan spake the following: Chris Mauritz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: It is like a step-by-step book, that intendes to *really* help people getting their servers up and running. I would really rather make qmail newbies go through

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
What I am having a problem is how do I get postfix to transfer the email to the particular IMAP server that the user account is on. I know that I need to use lmtp and transport, but all the examples I have seen show forwarding all email to 1 IMAP server. I would like Postfix to do a lookup

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100, 000+ users

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Matt Shields wrote: Data changes too frequently to generate the file every x number of minutes across all smtp servers. You have to support instantly deliverable mailboxes for new accounts? The mysql db isn't a single server. It's a master (read/write) with multiple replicas for read

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
So, i have been quite moronic in not trying to apply logic initially. Please leave that term for those who really deserve it. As for not trying perhaps the lazy label is more suitable :-P ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] restrict network access

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Chan
umair shakil wrote: Salam, Squid actually Proxy will do the trick Nope. Not if they are installed on those PCs. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 10/19/07, *Arne Pelka* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two pc using centos 4, these machines need

Re: [CentOS] Re: Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Chan
Karanbir Singh wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Scott Silva wrote: CentOS does not have any control to insert any links into the qmail.org site. or even come with qmail. CentOS includes sendmail and postfix. and lets not forget the one true MTA to rule them all : Exim! Where do we join

Re: [CentOS] Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Chan
Chris Mauritz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: It is like a step-by-step book, that intendes to *really* help people getting their servers up and running. I would really rather make qmail newbies go through the flames and really learn how qmail works than let them loose with a list

[CentOS] test

2007-10-21 Thread Christopher Chan
Please excuse me. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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