Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: The colors are not important aside from standardization. If you need to fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the same as the other end. If you use the standard color scheme, that is not a problem. Not sure if that is true. I've always

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 25.12.2010 20:29, Ryan Wagoner wrote: I commonly see jacks wired to T568B standard. I've seen some CAT6 jacks with only the colors shown for T568B. The coloring for T568A is backwards compatible with 1 or 2 line phone connectors. The B is the most common, and that is the one I use. As for

Re: [CentOS] Superblock Problem

2010-07-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 01.07.2010 23:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: invalid argument setuproot: moving /root failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of vi vs. emacs)

2010-05-04 Thread Morten Torstensen
Looks like brief is still available, as a rewrite for Windows as a console app. Can be run in linux using winconsole instead of wine. http://www.briefeditor.com/index.htm OTOH, I prefer ultraedit for linux (and windows) these days. -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a PV that belongs within a Volume Group?

2010-02-19 Thread Morten Torstensen
Or just do it simple... take the extra free space on the disk, create a new partition there and add that as a new PV to the VG. -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
should not use it there. You need a 64-bit kernel. Default for servers should be 64-bit now anyway. Not many reasons left for a 32-bit system, and more and more 3. party applications have less and less support for 32-bit platforms in general. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
There are many differences between JFS and JFS2 on AIX and the latter is better in many ways... more tuning and support for shrinking. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
, how can it even be an option? I couldn't live without LVM... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen

[CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

2009-10-22 Thread Morten Torstensen
I am looking for yum-priorities or any info on any changes here for CentOS 5.4. There is also a forum post for this here: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22798forum=37 Is this missing on purpose? Function merged with another yum package? Or is it just missing as an

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

2009-10-22 Thread Morten Torstensen
An upgrade should do fine, I think... the yum versions in 5.3 and 5.4 looks to be the same, so nothing would be uninstalled afaik. Looks to me that you will only see this when you do a fresh install of 5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

2009-10-22 Thread Morten Torstensen
5.3/updates? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.* 19G     5.3 14G     5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

2009-04-08 Thread Morten Torstensen
Michael Simpson wrote: My fiance (who is the artistic one of the family) thinks the new graphics are beautiful and i agree with her. Me too! I checked the artwork when it was announced and I liked it already then. Great work and thanks to all involved! -- //Morten

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
Les Mikesell wrote: The ones that require the work that the CentOS team does to rebuild/rebrand/repackage before redistribution is permitted. This was As a corporation Red Hat HAD to do that, even if IANAL. CentOS as a model works just fine. Sure, sometimes there can be a lack of manpower

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory have bad timing in some way making them not compatible with the

Re: [CentOS] Mail delivery failing with 450

2009-03-07 Thread Morten Torstensen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: - as the MX is the same as your domain name you do not need an MX It is good to always have an MX. - having four ns records all point to the same IP is just, uhm, pointless Can make it easier to separate workloads and move them to different servers later. //Morten

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

2009-03-06 Thread Morten Torstensen
Ed Donahue wrote: vi /etc/init.d cahnge the number 5 to 3 reboot fix driver change the 3 to 5 reboot or # telinit 3 # compile whatever # telinit 5 No reboot needed. -- //Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] squid stops working several times a day

2009-02-04 Thread Morten Torstensen
Alexander Farber wrote: Sadly, CentOS squid packages are quite old. Squid recent releases are: 2.7.STABLE5 and 3.0.STABLE12... this explains, why OpenBSD+Squid worked well for us at the same server - I guess OpenBSD's Squid package is better maintained. Except you cannot really say, just

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding

2009-02-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
John wrote: I am an open source person but when it comes to something like that I hate to say it but Exchange has it covered. What's others opinions? How would you do it? I'm currious to know how you would do this in an environment that has many compliance problems. Mainly issues of privacy

Re: [CentOS] OT RHEL

2009-01-31 Thread Morten Torstensen
Per Qvindesland wrote: \ In the company we are working for we are looking at buying a p520 system with HACMP, that it why I am looking for a ppc version. RHEL 4 and 5 both works great on the IBM power systems. Ditto for PowerHA (nee HACMP) version 5.4 for both AIX and Linux. With the p520, I

Re: [CentOS] difference in x86 64 bit centos between 4.x and 5.xversions

2009-01-30 Thread Morten Torstensen
RobertH wrote: is there a reason to stay with the older version other than for specific deprecated hardware issues or something else? No, IMO. If you install a new system then install CentOS 5. Version 5 is so old by now that all major applications should be supported there. The usual YMMV

Re: [CentOS] Bezerk they will go!

2009-01-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
drew einhorn wrote: Note the minimalist .sig Probably should fatten it up You already did by adding a copy of your email as HTML ... ;) -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
and just jump into the code in the first sector. So if LVM leaves the first sector and track (so grub can hide there) alone, it should work just fine. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
on the /dev/sdb directly with no partition table needed. I would also strongly consider having two disks mirrored for the system in one lvm vg and the rest in another, but with 1TB disks it is kind of wasted space. Tho with 12 disks you can have 2 disks for RAID1, then 8+P+1 in RAID5. -- //Morten

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
option is of course to create a number of 2TB partitions and create a VG with all of them as PVs. Of course, you would need 6 partitions for this, but once you have them addded to a VG it is pretty seamless. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-26 Thread Morten Torstensen
care about the old partitions anymore. Everything should be in LVM for ease of management. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Morten Torstensen
. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-19 Thread Morten Torstensen
. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-19 Thread Morten Torstensen
for sure your database will need more memory sooner rather than later, and 8-16GB memory on a RDBMS isn't that much anymore. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-06 Thread Morten Torstensen
doesn't detect anything or the readings it gets is just nonsense. Updating lm_sensors is not high on the priority list for Red Hat. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland

Re: [CentOS] flash fails to work on Los Angeles Times website - fix

2008-12-21 Thread Morten Torstensen
, it was just something he wanted to share with others. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-08 Thread Morten Torstensen
. There are still constraints in PAE on how much memory one single process can use and adding memory to a machine where you use PAE does not automagically solve all your memory bottlenecks. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread Morten Torstensen
range. YMMV depending on specific workload of course. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-28 Thread Morten Torstensen
if you do have one you still paid for it at some point. Now, if only IBM could implement the Power hardware Hypervisor to the Intel/AMD world... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

2008-11-06 Thread Morten Torstensen
with a crossover cable. Maybe you should investigate alternate paths? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SATA errors on CentOS 5.2

2008-11-04 Thread Morten Torstensen
some issues with boot order, but nothing that could not be solved by specifying boot order in the bios. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Morten Torstensen
. A centos-tech list sounds more like the name of the developer or power user list than a semi-off-topic technology discussion group. That was my first thought when seeing the new name. ...and fwiw I would put the new list into the same label/folder too, so I don't really care :) -- //Morten

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on POWER

2008-06-18 Thread Morten Torstensen
Any news on this? Will we see a POWER version of CentOS 5? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-28 Thread Morten Torstensen
Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I have a similar setup, but

Re: [CentOS] Re: PHP 5.2.5 when ?

2008-01-17 Thread Morten Torstensen
Michael A. Peters wrote: PHP is a module that adds functionality to Apache. The only parts of the PHP is the programming language that drives a large chunk of web applications out there. It is not just an apache module. Back to the point though, PHP is not a major component of RHEL/CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] Re: PHP 5.2.5 when ?

2008-01-15 Thread Morten Torstensen
Steven Vishoot wrote: I can't understand why people choose an enterprise distro for it's longevity, and then proceed to try and break it. It is almost like buying a brand new car and then immediately replacing the engine. Does Having your cake and eating come to mind? No, because in this case

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Morten Torstensen
[snip away bible quotes] This is getting way off topic, please consider what you post. //Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: dovecot errors after upgrade to 5.1]

2007-12-03 Thread Morten Torstensen
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, Looks like my Centos 5.0 mail server upgraded automatically last night to 5.1. It appears to have worked normally until about 16:00 CST when dovecot began to fail. I have rebooted the system to be able to use the 5.1 kernel, but dovecot still continues to

Re: [CentOS] Sort imap e-mail remotely

2007-11-01 Thread Morten Torstensen
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 I use procmail. Check with

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

2007-10-24 Thread Morten Torstensen
Anup Shukla wrote: Still, given the suggestion, i will surely try to reduce the number of slices. I would make one system LUN at say 20GB and one data LUN with the rest of the RADI5 space. On the system LUN I would make a /boot filesystem and a LVM partition with at least a / filesystem

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks

2007-10-24 Thread Morten Torstensen
Anup Shukla wrote: Format and run the dd command again. The speed is 130MB/s now. It can vary a quite a bit depending on where you hit the disk. Remember, what you are testing is just how fast dd can read from /dev/zero and write to the file in a filesystem with 1k blocks. How that will map

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread Morten Torstensen
Anup Shukla wrote: So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the system drive. Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS) If you use a hardware RAID adapter, you can make two LUNs from the disks. So make one big RAID5 array but two logical drives. I would still use LVM

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS

2007-10-13 Thread Morten Torstensen
there. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] apt-cacher for CentOS

2007-10-11 Thread Morten Torstensen
that could be re-packaged? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever

Re: [CentOS] Can't get XFS enabled on Centos 5.0

2007-10-11 Thread Morten Torstensen
it is that simple? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

2007-10-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
this problem on CentOS or is it some specific problem to my configuration? I use fetchmail/postfix/dovecot/procmail locally on the server to consolidate mail. Could be that it tries to filter on some hostname/domain name? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

2007-10-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
too, but I could not see any config entries that pointed logwatch there. Anyway, patching /usr/share/logwatch/services/postfix with your patch fixed it. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

2007-10-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
Les Bell wrote: You can suppress messages by adding regexp patterns to /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf. For example: Thanks, that can be a handy way too. But I preferred to fix the filter and will keep ignore.conf as a last stopgap measure. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

2007-10-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
Morten Torstensen wrote: Anyway, patching /usr/share/logwatch/services/postfix with your patch fixed it. /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/postfix of course... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out

Re: [CentOS] Re: Logwatch for postfix

2007-10-02 Thread Morten Torstensen
logwatch versions, as it is pretty obvious, but I want to keep to the base repos as much as possible. But thanks for the tip! I got a patch for the postfix script for logwatch that works great for me. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] mysql and windows

2007-09-30 Thread Morten Torstensen
. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] need help on second Ethernet port (eth1) point to point connect

2007-09-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
Robert Moskowitz wrote: A large number of NICs are autosensing. They do not need a crossover And rx/tx autosensing is part of the gigabit ethernet standard afaik. Modern gigabit cards should be able to autosense speed, duplex and direction. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] DVD Drive Recommendations

2007-07-26 Thread Morten Torstensen
have not detected any functional differences in use in linux, apart from the different feature sets and speeds. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst

Re: [CentOS] DVD Drive Recommendations

2007-07-26 Thread Morten Torstensen
are commodity these days with standard interfaces. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever