As I recall you weren't necessarily nice to anyone who suggested the
process of building CentOS wasn't perfect. But now that it is, I
guess that doesn't matter.
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Les Mikesell
please dont recall Les...
let it go
your memory is poor.
- rh
what exactly is the planned day and time that centos4 will be moved removed
from working yum update current mirrored functionality ??
march 1st or a day or two later please?
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craig
this is your second troll in two posts.
stop trolling
we are glad for your past life when centos rescued you from whatever.
plus, your past and current usage of centos, migrations to another distro,
and opinions are duly noted again.
like for the hundredth time
another time will not be
what a crock -- go cry elsewhere, troll
I suppose I'll have to take up mailing list moderation issues
again -- The person I needed to talk with is already away for
the weekend, however. Fortunately we have already covered
the topic of addressing your spam and have consensus as to
how
Just want to remind everyone that this isn't a social chatter
list, or a LUG free for all. Lets try and actually be
productive and lets try to help people in a tangible manner.
If you don't have anything relevant to say or contribute to a
conversation, its perfectly fine to not say
greetings
are distro pkg update messages only email lists or website too?
i see that CentOS 5 kernel stuff is pushed 2x in past coupla days and just
wanna make sure what differences are...
or was it just a move from CR to mainline difference and upgrading same
things again?
- rh
I've edited /etc/hosts to add few custom IP/hostnames couples.
After each reboot, I have to add them again. I've then added
/etc/sysconfig/network/hosts, but it seems to ignore it or at
least ignore 127.0.0.1 assignments I'm doing in it.
Is there a mechanism I'm not aware of, or doing
brian,
there are many solutions
if you like ssh and rsync etc, then...
taking this solution and modify it a little and it works great
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
one, you can backup the machine(s) to another system with large space
two, once machine(s) backed up, then
Can we discontinue this and return to tranquillity please ?
Paul.
Paul,
with all humility due respect, if I was given authority within CentOS and
on this list, you would be one of the first we would discipline...
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Christopher,
It's not an email program but I think it has the best
filtering capabilities of all - the brain.
umm, yeah, exactly, i want to use my brain to program certain peoples posts
from never reaching my eyeballs
arent they called threaded email readers?
i really didnt find much
But filters tend to be stupid as well. And once you are involved in
a conversation you should have a certain responsibility to
follow it to the bitter end. Filters mostly don't understand
that (but gmail will push a reply to your own message into
the 'important' view).
i hear ya
we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list
would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list
reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists.
the CentOS list signal/noise ratio is so bad that we need something better
than just
greetings,
have been google foo for week or so.
used to be super easy to upgrade spamassassin on CentOS dist.
just grab the tarball and put in right spot and
rpmbuild -tb spamassassin-3.somethingsomething.tar.gz
then rpm or yum install and done
would take just a few minutes.
Yet...
in
john
you can inexpensively purchase proper slim dvd drives for proliant servers
we have done so for G3. G4 is essentially same
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-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:37 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?
On 7/7/2011 9:24 AM, R - elists wrote
rudi
when migrating some rackmount HP servers running Centos4 from hard coded 100
meg fdx to auto gigE that we had to
1) remove this from our ifcfg-ethX files
ETHTOOL_OPTS=speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
2) proper CAT6 wiring
3) plug into the copper gigE switchport
4) reboot
using Cisco
A minor detail - I think you *must* have autoneg set first -
it applies them one after the other, in my experience.
ETHTOOL_OPTS=autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
mark
in this case though, it is gigE so dont use 100
it was used cause cisco typically should be hard set for
Do note that the server-grade SSDs are far more reliable than
the consumer-grade crap.
mark
mark,
what specific units are considered server grade ssd's ?
have you bought and used them with CentOS? other opsys ?
where are you sourcing and what are you paying?
- rh
Dag wrote:
Before I leave this list let me take you back about 7 years
to the Whitebox mailinglist. You may not remember that
Whitebox had a list of issues of its own, no timely updates,
no community effort, lack of good communication. It was
mostly a one-man-effort.
bummer to see you
no, the saying is...
if it aint broken, dont fix it !
especially on weekends, monday, or friday
;-
that is why everyone should have a small or large lab for testing and
rollout...
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Les wrote:
Everyone expected this from Red Hat before the 'EL' versions
when publishing a free CD of community work was the way QA
was done. (And if you've forgotten, go dig through some
changelogs of that era to see just how bad things were and
how much we gained from that process).
we do not need post by post moderation so to speak
we need several lists...
two of which are
babies / horses behind list
adult list
when you prove your centos helpfulness community worth on the babies
list, you get to be in the adult list
this would seem easier to admin...
i would actually
There is a plan, of sorts. I wanted to make sure the QA guys
had a few days to mull it over before making it public. And
then there was the rather nice and long holiday weekends here
in the UK. 10th is the first target, with a release couple of
weeks later. We have a potential release
call redhat legal and/or please take this up with your own paul legal
counsel
this is not the place
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the we that we speak of is our organization, *not* of or for CentOS and
it's assigns
we believe that CentOS could do more and that (humble opinion) the CentOS
team should be financially compensated fairly for their efforts on all of
our behalf...
- rh
Eero,
that is great, as long as you consider and actually donate to CentOS
regularly
statistically, most people that download or use CentOS, do not donate.
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How would they be different from Oracle if they did that as a
business?
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Well Les, i dont know.
bringing in Oracle to the equation needlessly complicates this thread
although i get some parallels for thinking purposes only.
the project and that company are not
I never ask, and never complain, since I don't feel this
totally free product owes me anything... As a matter of fact,
we owe the project...
Scott,
yes, we all owe the CentOS project in some way...
thing is, IDFR if we have ever been fully updated on the Open Letter
problem(s) with the
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Cox
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:37 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard
It didnt work.
Here is the logs:
Feb 7 18:17:25
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of S Mathias
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:45 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates
SNIP
Would someone please unsubscribe and BAN this person please ?
the person
please stop wasting your precious time
break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM
it is TOTALLY inexpensive and you can add some quality years to your life
than to spend it in such painful and worrisome turmoil
;-
I TOTALLY do not get your point.
If you
heads up and fyi folks...
CentOS 4 latest...
SpamAssassin version 3.3.1
running on Perl version 5.8.8
:-)
i noticed on a centos 4 box after doing a manual yum update and getting 2
updated perl packages from rpmforge
again, just a heads up as rpmforge has been rock solid for us for years so
we have CENTOS 5 on DELL servers. some servers have longer
than one year did not reboot. Our consultant suggest we need
at least reboot once every year to clean out memory junk.
What is your opinion?
maybe i missed it yet, did anyone mention the old adage...
if it isn't broke,
mark
the FAQ suff is a good idea...
in fact, when people singup, they should have to agree to list rules or be
pointed to them on signup.
i wonder though, seriously, does the teach a man to fish principle really
apply?
ie LMGTFY type stuff or ???
or cluesticks?
;-
as far as lazy, it is
disagree, we read them all the time.
if we didnt, then we would be wasting time money purchasing very hi tech
and then wasting time and money not being able to use it or spinning wheels
looking for docs etc.
i think the problem is more that rules are not enforced in many lists...
or nobody
the point is enforcement somehow...
why not require a small yearly donation for access to the list ???
12 bucks a year? or more ?
donations cannot be taken back yet lusers can be moderated or terminated
and to come back, they donate again
- rh
But what's the point? When you give away
huh? it was sincere
we are on your side bunky... :-)
insert foot in backside;-)
lighten up homes
- rh
Come on, did he need satirepost/satire?
#insert old_guard.h
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well taken
i think centos should make manatory donation for support list or a few of
their lists...
revenue will do centos project/people good.
then moderate
- rh
The simple answer is moderation. If, say, 3, or 5 regular
posters complain about someone, they get a canned warning
no, i probably would join your list because it might be straight up doody.
right? eh? ;-)
open source doesnt mean free tech support to triple portion idiot morons on
an email list
present company excluded, of course ;-)
- rh
Ahh ok so you want mind paying a fee to join my list and
realistically you are not getting any dns
when in dhcp mode, the /etc/resolv.conf file typically will point to the
router ip instead of real dns servers
once you deal with that, you should be ok...
thing is, if you stay in dhcp mode, the next time you dhcp or reboot, the
resolv.conf will go
Has anyone had any success getting WinXP 32bit to use 4 CPU's
under Centos 5.5 KVM?
I have tried everything and the best I can get is 2 CPU's. I
tried everything listed here
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/running-windows-smp-guests
I am using
the VIRTIO drivers.
Is
They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would
get into contract liability if they did).
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009).
RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010.
RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012
RHEL5 will go out of
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May
31, 2009).
RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010.
RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012
Since the world will end in 2012, your version 5 installs
will be just fine!!!
LOL
Scott,
hehehe, do you mean
I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off
upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that
still seems like it was a good move even if most of the
problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with
many years elapsing between releases, skipping a version
i forgot...
is it necessary to reboot after glibc* yum updates on 4.x and 5.x or any
centos for that matter...
tia
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I'm starting to wonder if the simplest solution to this is to punt.
If I put a $40 router between eth2 and the big scary world,
then eth2 could become 192.168.whatever.whatever, and then
this routing issue would go away on its own and it could
still talk to the outside world (and
I have had a number of people ask me why I want this
arrangement, where I have two modems on a single outbound subnet.
This is (going to be) a server with limited upload bandwidth.
By having two outbound connections, I can use a round robin
dns entry to share the load between the
I have been using a free DNS service for the past seven (7) years.
This morning, at 4 A.M., , I changed the A record for one
of my web sites, to point to an IP address on a different
server, so I could test. After watching the TTL count down
from 3600 to zero, with the dig command,
would anyone out there care to share their robots.txt experience using
centos as a webserver and their robots.txt files?
i realize this is a somewhat simple exercise, yet i am sure there are both
large and small hosters out there and possibly those that have high traffic
modify their robots.txt
Karanbir Singh wrote:
snip
Good question, they are after all ( the Sun 45xx's ) just
opteron box's with a mostly standard build. Finding a CentOS
compatible ( drivers pre-included, and not crap like cciss )
would not be too hard.
Who wants to offer up a machine to test on :)
--
Hi,
i have Check my tmp directory and subdirectorys for std,
udp.pl no file exist. Also i have check /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow for unusual users.
regards
Manu,
forgive me if i missed it when i deleted several of the posts in the thread
yet how hard is it to check all the
do you have remote console access i.e. DRAC or ILO ?
did you mention if any recent OS or other software updates like 5.3 to 5.4
or otherwise?
someone could be DOS'ing the server ???
do you run a firewall and drop bad traffic to the floor or is it wide open?
you havent mentioned what the
roland,
what i recently did was use this info and modified the backup-servers script
slightly
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
it was really simple to move a live centos4 from one machine to another
after admin down services that would allow data to change on the final rsync
pass.
Specific arguments I can think of would be:
- Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware
- Lack of support for both H/W and S/W
- Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS
- Higher probability of hardware failures over time
- Performance bottlenecks
Any other thoughts?
Why not try wordpress mu then?
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is that like the nerdy lazy cow version?
;-)
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nice simple script and setup info here...
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
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does anyone have a very secure reliable recommendation for a guestbook
solution for virtual hosting on centos 4 or 5 ?
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May I ask what purpose the guestbook should serve?
You could just install wordpress and moderate every comment
before it's posted.
Guestbooks only accumulate spams.
Who writes into guestbooks nowadays?
I've got a blog myself and of the 500 or so comments it has
accumulated, 495 are
check this out if you wish to do root based server backups or whatever
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
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Don't know if that is really true ... Anyway:
Install a minimal system and then rsync everything over.
Kai
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Kai
for list purposes, would you consider sharing a script that shows what to
sync and what *not* to sync
:-)
- rh
dunno if it is a priority, or if anyone is to concerned, yet wiki.centos.org
does not appear to come up well in ie8
tested fine in firefox, yet ie8 was wacked
ymmv
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