Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Max Hetrick
On 04/07/2011 08:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Please try to maintain some semblance of professionalism when you post to this list. This coming from someone who frequently tells people to SHUT UP and go away and use something else. I guess that's far more professional than others trying to

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-21 Thread Max Hetrick
On 03/21/2011 05:57 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Apologies if this caused any inconveniences. No apology necessary from you. Much appreciated for fixing it quickly, Ralph. If anyone is using Thunderbird, there's a handy add-on called Remove Duplicate Messages on Mozilla's add-on site.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/25/2011 03:04 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I need to call you on this one. Windozie (implying some kind of decent user interface) and stability are not mutually exclusive, as your comment suggests. In the old days you may have had to choose, but that's long past. Windows 7 is very stable,

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/25/2011 03:49 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: So what happens when one does the monthly tuesday patches for windoze and your security door controller running on SQLserver (micro$oft) fails. Back out all the patches - inform micro$oft - wait - wait some more - never get a response - call the

Re: [CentOS] How to unpack rar file?

2011-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
On 01/13/2011 05:20 PM, ken wrote: I think I did this once a long time ago, but don't recall clearly How do I unpack a .rar file? yum install unrar (From RPMForge) unrar -e file.rar Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-14 Thread Max Hetrick
On 12/14/2010 05:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Sorry, but I don't think you can install with that. 10 years ago, think it was, I was giving /, /usr and /var 4G. For most of the time since then, I went to 20G for /usr, then 40G. And I gave /opt 20G. Giving 1G for /var is *asking* for trouble

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
On 12/08/2010 10:39 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Don't run software you don't trust. Keep the software you run up to date. Don't open files you don't trust. Agree here. We have very few issues at my company, because we stress the issue of thinking before you click, especially when it comes to

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Max Hetrick
On 11/15/2010 01:47 PM, Kill Script wrote: I am looking for a beginner guide to shell scripting simple tasks on CentOS (e.g. ssh'ing into a server / router / switch, checking for certain things, then exiting and going to the next IP). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look? (I'm

Re: [CentOS] RM Help

2010-10-26 Thread Max Hetrick
On 10/26/2010 05:23 PM, Matt wrote: Is there a way to tell rm -f to only remove a file if its owned by say mail? Not sure you can directly use rm for that, but you could find the uid of the user in /etc/passwd, then run find and -exec on it with rm. To view them: cat /etc/passwd | grep USER

Re: [CentOS] ls this bandwidth package availblale in Centos

2010-09-30 Thread Max Hetrick
On 09/30/2010 11:32 AM, adrian kok wrote: Hi ls the if top package availblale in Centos? http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ Yes, it's available in the third-party RPMForge repo. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge Regards, Max

[CentOS] Latest BackupPC release in CentOS testing repo

2010-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
BackupPC released 3.2.0 as a stable version a few weeks ago. The most current release is 3.1.0 in the testing repository. Are there any plans that this will be updated to 3.2.0 in the repo some time down the road? Also, will the BackupPC package be moved out of testing and into extras ever? Or

Re: [CentOS] Latest BackupPC release in CentOS testing repo

2010-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: To complicate this question a bit more - there is also a 3.1.0 version in the epel repository and not much point of having a separate one in centos-testing (or extras) with the danger of conflicts or different configurations. Yeah, I saw it was there as well. Max

Re: [CentOS] is it safe to resize root, on an LVM system, online?

2010-07-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Rudi Ahlers wrote: It's a console-only server, i.e. no X installed. So I'll have to setup a test server to see if I can do it without breaking abything There should be no issues doing it live. # lvextend -L+1G /dev/myvg/myvol # resize2fs /dev/myvg/myvol Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server software suggestions

2010-05-26 Thread Max Hetrick
sync wrote: Hello,guys: I've seen several suggestions for alternatives to exchange for mail, which I will be trying. My question is, does anyone know of any good open source shared calendar systems? eGroupware and Horde are popular. I use Horde Webmail Edition which includes e-mail,

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server software suggestions

2010-05-26 Thread Max Hetrick
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On a related note, since you're a horde user: my ISP that I have my domain hosted on offers roundcube, squirrelmail, and horde. What I don't like about squirrelmail is that it does *not* do the right thing on a reply: I have to manually put in who wrote the email I'm

Re: [CentOS] Configure Webcam in centos 5.4

2010-03-23 Thread Max Hetrick
Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi list, I looking for a solution about how to configure webcam in centos 5.4 What are the webcam packages available in centos. The Logitech QuickCam Pro just plugs and plays too. Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] [OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?

2010-02-24 Thread Max Hetrick
Robert P. J. Day wrote: any testimonials for some simple wiki software to run on centos 5.4 on an intranet? all i'm after is something uncomplicated that (ideally) yum installs, and that others can start using to start sharing useful info, nothing more. thoughts? You can do comparisons

Re: [CentOS] Recommended PCIe SATA/SAS Controller?

2010-02-24 Thread Max Hetrick
Tim Nelson wrote: Greetings all- I need to purchase a PCIe SATA or SAS controller(non-raid) for a Supermicro 2U system. It should be directly bootable. Any recommendations? The system will be running CentOS 5.4 as an LTSP system. Thanks! Look at the Promise non-raid cards. I just bought a

Re: [CentOS] Recommended PCIe SATA/SAS Controller?

2010-02-24 Thread Max Hetrick
John R Pierce wrote: do those have SFF x4 SAS connectors? when I just looked at Supermicro's 2U chassis, thats what most of them used for their drive backplanes. the typical 2U today takes 12 3.5 drives or 24 2.5. dealing with that many discrete SATA cables would be a mess. I don't

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-03 Thread Max Hetrick
a arias wrote: Over the last year I have worked with Xen, KVM, VMware ESX and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox is my recommendation, hands down. I think this is too vague of a opinion on virtualization use. I think it depends on what you're doing with it. VirtualBox is a nice piece of software for

Re: [CentOS] knockd rpm for CentOS-5.4

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
James B. Byrne wrote: Is there a recommended knockd package for CentOS-5.4 or do I just pull from the project's web site? I think RPMForge has this packaged if you're into installing a third-party repo. Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
Jake Shipton wrote: Hi, Personally, I'd recommend VMware Workstation. Always been good for me, however lately I have been trying out Virtualbox (PUEL) :-). They have an Open Source Edition also (Virtualbox), only it lacks USB Support. If you go on there website, you can see the 3 missing

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Hetrick
Bobby wrote: Odd, for some time I have had USB support with Sun's Virtualbox. It was a problem at some point but works fine here (Using Fedora 11). I'm pretty sure I watched a USB CAM on XP (as a VM client) a while ago. Well, it's supported and works, however, you have to remount usbfs

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-01 Thread Max Hetrick
MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? Have a look at Munin. http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ You can install it from the RPMForge repo. # yum install munin Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mysql Workbench

2010-01-18 Thread Max Hetrick
JohnS wrote: You can get directly from mysql.com for EL5. I don't believe you can. The only RPM they have is for fedora 11, that I can see. Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: To put it into perspective, ask the manager how much it would cost the business if this data was unrecoverable? After that, if they still don't want to spend a few hundred $$s on the insurance, get it in writing that your manager understands the risk and print it out and

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: Backuppc will at least send you an email when the backups have failed for 3 days in a row. Yeah, I have this configured. Although, to be honest since I've set it up, I've not had any failures yet, so I'll have to wait until I do, ha. Max

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I've built a new backup server for our linux-clients. Is Amanda the way to go for a backup-solution? It seems to be pretty powerful, if a bit finickety to set up initially. The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two folders on

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: Somewhat similar, thanks. I think however I need to get away from this sort of backups. They're just to space-consuming. Check out the user submitted HowTos on the Wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-bab8e87dc82e722540e2d39de8408750004a8c4a Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Sorin Srbu wrote: Sound very interesting indeed! I don't think the performance will be a problem, the server's a calculation machine that has now been scrapped running a dual-x...@2,something GHz and some 4GB RAM IIRC. Do you think the software-raid5 array used, would be a problem in

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
lostson wrote: For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Use the rpmfusion repo then do a I can't say that I've ever had a single system every trashed by using RPMForge. This is why the yum-priorities package exists for any repo you want to use, so you don't

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. Agreed. That's exactly what I started to do too. You get a lot

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Boris Epstein wrote: This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any recommendations as far as hardware? Why not just get a SAN

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Joseph L. Casale wrote: recommendations as far as hardware? Giving we have no clue what it is used for no:) Seriously, it makes all the difference what this is backing, vm's exported over nfs/iSCSI, samba, etc... Very good point there. If you're looking for something like an all-in-one

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Max Hetrick
Boris Epstein wrote: Roughly how much space does the appliance provide? And how much did it cost? This one was only configured with 2TB. It and the drives were like 4 grand or something. Of course IBM stuff is expensive, and you can get all sorts of size configurations. I'm currently

Re: [CentOS] Signing In Other than Root

2010-01-05 Thread Max Hetrick
Susan Day wrote: Hi; How do I make it so that it's impossible to SSH into the server directly as root? That is, make it necessary to SSH in as an ordinary user and then su to root? TIA, Suzie # vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Uncomment the following line: #PermitRootLogin yes PermitRootLogin

Re: [CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir changes for virtual host source files

2009-12-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Ed Heron wrote: I see someone has noticed my lack of suggestions or recommendations for placement of virtual host source files... Since there are many places to put virtual host source files, I had intentionally avoided the discussion due to the complexities and to keep the document

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-09 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: I've tested it and it works! Presumably, it might have worked in some of my previous attempts, but I only now figured out that I need to manually attach the device via device menu or USB icon. Not exactly plug and play, but workable. The mount command itself is

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: I recently doownloaded and installed the latest RHEL5 rpm from the VirtualBox web site. While it generally works very well, I have been unable to get USB access to work on the guest. This seems to be a very common problem. Many references to it turn up in a web

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Jim Perrin wrote: I would imaging it's rather similar to this - http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7t=20097 Gah, lowsy spel chekc not pikcing up waht I mean. s/imaging/imagine/ Ridiculous, I know...a computer should know what you're thinking and how to spell it. :) I tried

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Lars Hecking wrote: This is the bit that won't work. The mount options seem to have no effect: dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 001 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 002 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 003 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 8 12:08 004 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
gene.po...@macys.com wrote: It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. I cannot seem to locate a CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. I can get a copy of

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: I am running VMware Server 2.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 with no problems. Search this mailing list for info on 5.4, as I think there was a small issue that needed to be worked around. I believe this was the issue: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/229957 Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: That's actually pretty strange because the glibc update in 5.4 will break VMware Server 2.0.1. Have you rebooted or restarted vmware since the update? if you haven't, don't until you look up the fix... Yeah, I've rebooted my instances. My one instance is my laptop

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: No, I have it on an x86 box and had to use the workaround here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1364852 /lib/libc-2.5.so is actually still available after the upgrade so you don't have to copy it from another system - it just isn't the target of the libc.so.6

Re: [CentOS] OT: pager pay

2009-10-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Alan McKay wrote: Anyone else want to share theirs? I don't get on call, but my company pays my text messaging plan on my cell phone each month, since it's used as my pager. It's about $10 a month. Our policy for call outs are as follows: If I have to come into the office, I get a minimum

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Max Hetrick
ML wrote: I used to work with PIX 525's so I have knowledge, I just dont quite know how to do this with CentOS and such. Can anyone offer advice? Nothing against CentOS, but if this is going to be a dedicated firewall, have you thought of using an appliance type OS/application? I've

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Max Hetrick
Florin Andrei wrote: Well, it's the group bias. I keep an eye on a Kawasaki forum, and they have a knack for doing a lot of Suzuki bashing. I'm, like, WTF, they're all awesome sportbikes! :-) Same here. In the end, Linux is the same, just different flavors for different tastes.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Max Hetrick
Florin Andrei wrote: I'm a big CentOS fan, I joined even the Facebook group (lol), but its place is on the server or, perhaps, on a workstation for a power user (or for things like running scientific apps on the desktop). If you're a PhD running quantum theory equations with Mathematica on

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Christoph Maser wrote: So we should make a proper nagios documentation on the centos-wiki because the official nagios docs suck? No, but I don't see that it's a problem that it's on the CentOS wiki. There are lots of guides on the wiki that aren't exactly CentOS specific, so does that mean

[CentOS-docs] Please remove my wiki account

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Wiki Admins, I will no longer be participating in the CentOS wiki. I've removed my name from any of the pages that were submitted by me, and welcome others to do so with the pages as they wish. I'd like to be removed from the EditGroup, as well as have my account deleted. Username: MaxHetrick

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote: So I am a bit disappointed (but can understand) ppl. like Max who already contributed high quality docs in the past are re-signing from contributing to the wiki (just because one or two other guys have a different pov). I have also suggested that docs like the CentOS

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
R P Herrold wrote: if you are referring to me, your projection into what I wrote has mislead you. Well, I was kind of referring to what you said here: If people want to write content, they NEED TO GO TO FEDORA, or the upstream, and get patches accepted, so the changes flow back down in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Christoph Maser wrote: Btw. i really consider the current nagios article on the wiki bad. Its totally outdated and covers way to much info how to configure nagios itself. In my opinion this should be simply replaced by links to the official documentation since it is out of place and

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: It might be simpler to just have a tutorial that uses the package that is available from rpmforge. I have already written such a tutorial and it receives several hundred hits each month. Its also the second result in Google if you search for install nagios

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Karanbir Singh wrote: How about splitting it up into 'Install Guide' and a 'Recommended first steps'. Having used Nagios ( or does Nagios use us ? ) I know there are a million different ways to set things up. And only a few people really need to get down and understand eveyrthing about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel subject: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2 location: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios content: A security feature of centos 5.2 SELinux prevents the access from the apache httpd

Re: [CentOS] Alternative to logwatch

2009-08-20 Thread Max Hetrick
Developer wrote: Hello, I am searching an alternative to logwatch. After too much time spent trying to configure it. I have apache log's in different files and directories, for some reason I can not put logwatch to work. Anyone know and alternative? Check out swatch from the RPMForge

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: 1) The Title of the article says How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5 2) My successor is a real HK bred and born person so his command of the English language is like most such persons; that is to say, very poor. 3) Regarding not letting him within ten

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Max Hetrick wrote: Someone added a very bright disclaimer, so all should be good in the future. I do agree with others that using /dev/sdX would probably be wise as well in documentation, but that doesn't fix the true root of the problem. People really should watch cutting and pasting

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
madunix wrote: Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers recommended or not? need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? I guess that depends on your situation. For me, if it's a package that I know isn't going to mess with users being logged on, or

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Dumb people will find ways to be dumb no matter how much you dumb things down... :) You can't teach or bottle common sense... ;) Even with no warnings on the document, the first sentence states this is for install time. Anyone that has ever installed an OS should know

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 has: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a clear explanation for those who

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Brian Mathis wrote: This thread seriously highlights the sort of attitudes that are causing major issues in IT in general, and have been for years. Whenever someone makes a mistake, we point fingers and call them stupid. We haughtily proclaim that only people who know what they are doing

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 has: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=64 Will the joker who put in this particular gem without any warnings or a clear explanation for those who

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Why don't you go with the SL or even pay RH, if you are that concerned about hacking attempts? It seems clear that CentOS is not a good distro for you if you are not satisfied with its update schedule. I believe it is better to make a different choice of distro,

Re: [CentOS] vpn

2009-08-11 Thread Max Hetrick
chloe K wrote: Where remote and local address and subnet I can put for vpn configuration in linux box? A little more information would probably be best before anyone can help you. Do you already have a VPN server/device running that you're trying to connect to? For instance, are you

Re: [CentOS] Python 2.4 64-bit problem w/CentOS5.3?

2009-08-04 Thread Max Hetrick
Curt Mills wrote: I'm getting this on two XF_64 systems by running yum update today. Perhaps Python 2.4 is missing some lib64 libraries? I'm getting this error on 32 bit systems as well. yum clean all Then run your updates again, and it worked fine after that. Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS] Keep lossing wireless - ipw3945

2009-07-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ooops, Well that one slipped past me. Later tonight I will head over to the wired cafe here (they have a whooping 8 wired drops there!), and switch drivers. I had some issues similar to that before I switched. Once I switched the drivers, all was well, with one

Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

2009-06-03 Thread Max Hetrick
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following kernels on my /boot: 2.6.18-128.1.6 2.6.18-92.1.18 2.6.18-92.1.22 I'm low on /boot space and need to remove the oldest version. It appears that I cannot use yum to remove since all of the versions are the same (only the release is

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to downgrade to what Zimbra thinks works. And Horde has been around for a

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but you can't beat the ease of just yum

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you have the newest PHP installed everytime

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-11 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Silva wrote: Do you think you might want webmail also? If so, the Horde apps from the extras repo will do it for you. Hi, Scott, I've been evaluating Zimbra for a bit now, as it seemed that configuration and set up of Horde was kind of complicating. I wasn't aware that it was in the

Re: [CentOS-docs] adding stuff to wiki

2009-01-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote: Good Evening Jeff. Please consider being less discouraging to people who want to help. I think it's not about discouraging someone. Just post a snipset of what you want to contribute to the wiki, so we can discuss it here. I can actually sympathize with the original

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 update backlog

2009-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Vandaman wrote: I'm sure there are plenty of people who run CentOS in production and going without security updates for a month is not ideal. Many would offer to help were any offers for help made. Then I would suggest for those that they purchase RHEL with support. CentOS is a free

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-08 Thread Max Hetrick
René Standfest wrote: We have running at the moment eGroupWare, but we plan to migrate to SOGo (http://sogo.opengroupware.org) in the next two months (we had some annoying problems with eGW in the past). It has a really cool Webfrontend (looks like Thunderbird with Lightning) and has a really

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I develop on OpenGroupware, not SOGo, but both use SOPE's LDAP library/bindings. If the DSA supports LDAPv3 binds you shouldn't have any problems using it. I'd recommend OpenLDAP any day, as it is far-and-away the faster and more feature-reach DSA. But I very

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
Bo Lynch wrote: Just wanted to get some thoughts from the list. We are a public k-12 school and are looking to migrate to a groupware style system for out staff to collaborate better. Currently we are using Squirrelmail/postfix for email. Does anyone have any recommendations/opinions.

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
Rainer Duffner wrote: For Zimbra, yes. But honestly: how on earth would they be able to guarantee that it's working correctly in any other meaningful way? Would you like to do support for your product that relies on a dozen or more external other products (that aren't maintained in most

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
René Standfest wrote: We have running at the moment eGroupWare, but we plan to migrate to SOGo (http://sogo.opengroupware.org) in the next two months (we had some annoying problems with eGW in the past). It has a really cool Webfrontend (looks like Thunderbird with Lightning) and has a really

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC newbie: a couple more questions

2009-01-05 Thread Max Hetrick
Timothy Murphy wrote: Just shows how opinions can differ. I found the documentation very bad, at least for one with my needs - a home network on a few computers looking for a simple backup system. I should say that BackupPC _is_ a simple backup system once it is installed and configured;

Re: [CentOS] masquerade from - postfix

2008-12-22 Thread Max Hetrick
David Hláčik wrote: As example mail from r...@sx1.labs.polarion.com should be masqueraded to mail from r...@polarion.com and etc. This is very easy fix in sendmail, but how to do this in postfix - and not to break virtual domains configuration. I believe in your /etc/postfix/main.cf file,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Added BackupPC Guide

2008-12-18 Thread Max Hetrick
S.Tindall wrote: 1) Add the wiki reference, which contains clarification of many points not addressed sufficiently in the documentation. http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Done. 2) Also, a bug report contains corrective measures for the 64-bit installation.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Added BackupPC Guide

2008-12-18 Thread Max Hetrick
S.Tindall wrote: Nope. Maybe someday. So you're asking me to apply something to a guide which you want, but yet to you don't want to offer time to add to the document yourself? My view of a HowTo's purpose is to make the described service useful to a wide audience. You don't interact with

Re: [CentOS-docs] Added BackupPC Guide

2008-12-18 Thread Max Hetrick
Akemi Yagi wrote: Of course, missing l is important (in fairy). :-D We have fairies now too on the wiki? Cool! :-D Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Added BackupPC Guide

2008-12-18 Thread Max Hetrick
William L. Maltby wrote: I read the thread the same as you. Maybe Max was stressed and misread the intent of Steve. You are correct William, I did misread what Steve was trying to say, and I didn't mean to sound harsh. I also explained in my reply back to Akemi why I felt Windows was

[CentOS-docs] Visualization and desktop page

2008-12-10 Thread Max Hetrick
Hi, all. How appropriate would a visualization and desktop prettification page be? I know like myself a lot of people use CentOS not only as their server, but also as their main desktop system. This page could be for used for adding desktop magic programs, tips, tricks, and visualizations. I

Re: [CentOS-docs] Visualization and desktop page

2008-12-10 Thread Max Hetrick
Scott Robbins wrote: I know I'd like to see such things (as one of the culprits in a way, having a few articles on laptops on the wiki.) Actually, by odd coincidence, just today I was thinking of putting Conky on one of them. But if Max, whose nagios articles I recommend to everyone,

Re: [CentOS] suspend/resume system crash

2008-12-09 Thread Max Hetrick
Sergej Kandyla wrote: I've installed CentOS 5.2 i386 (with all updates) on notebook Fujutsu Siemens Esprimo U9200 Suspending works normal, but after resuming my system crashes. There are no messages about that in /var/log/messages, only after reboot system I see in gnome: I have a

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Niki Kovacs wrote: I recently had a power failure, and since that, apparently the only problem I have is: flash videos in Firefox have no more sound. I tried to reinstall both firefox and flash-plugin, but to no avail. Is it installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ? # ll

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Niki Kovacs wrote: Actually, I can play Flash videos alright. Only they have no sound. Other apps like mplayer or xmms do have sound. Which leaves me clueless. I was just thinking maybe there was something wrong with flash plugin file since the power was killed, which is why I mentioned

Re: [CentOS] Terminal emulation scripting

2008-11-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I need to write a script that will contact a remote system using TELNET with VT52/1xx/2xx/320 and perform some operations. I am familiar with TELNET but it appears that it won't work for my purposes. Check out expect. I had to do this with some data radios as of

Re: [CentOS] iptables local forwarding

2008-10-23 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Not recommended. Do 'service iptables save' as Filipe posted. I've never had any issues doing so. I know Johnny has recommended that several times on the list as well. If he says it works, then I would say it can't hurt. ;) Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS] iptables local forwarding

2008-10-23 Thread Max Hetrick
Christopher Chan wrote: YMMV. I prefer to build one via iptables, save it, then copy the file across to all other hosts that use the same rules. Your preferred method and mine might be different, but the end result is the same, so what does it really matter? That's rhetorical by the way,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Max Hetrick wrote: To further explain things, MoinMoin starts off headers with = Title 1 = and here's the problem with the html2wiki converter, it actually doesn't convert the h1 correctly with how I would logically think it should work. I contacted the Perl developer of HTML-WikiConverter

Re: [CentOS] snmp question v3

2008-10-17 Thread Max Hetrick
adrian kok wrote: Do you know whether snmpwalk can work in v3? if not, how can I get the snmp v3 info Yes. # snmpwalk --help Look at the following switches then. -a PROTOCOL -l LEVEL -u USER -x PROTOCOL -X PASSPHRASE Regards, Max ___ CentOS

[CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Hi everyone, I added a page under the HowTos for Encryption, and then added a guide for encrypting /tmp /swap and /home using cryptsetup and LUKS keys on LVM, when you already have partitions setup. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptTmpSwapHome Regards, Max

Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote: Please try to follow the wiki styling guidelines: http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/EditingCentOSWiki That means you should e.g. use headings for titles and subtitles. Take a look at existing pages to see what I mean. I write my stuff in HTML, and then use

Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote: We are just trying to offer a common look feel on the wiki. I am going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean. I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing docs

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