Re: [CentOS] Raid 5 Q

2012-11-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/16/2012 9:02 AM Phil Savoie spake the following: I have a raid 5 built on an opensuse box that I just reinstalled Centos 6.3 on. Is it possible to rebuild the raid 5 array non-destructively? I have googled on this and have found using mdadm --scan --assemble list of fd devices.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 x86_64, drbd, which repo? atrpms or elrepo?

2012-11-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/8/2012 10:27 AM Nikolaos Milas spake the following: On 8/11/2012 12:59 μμ, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi all. I am currently installing drbd on Centos 6.3 x86_64 and have two possible repos to choose. Which one in your opinion is better/provides more stable packages/etc.? IMHO, you

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-25 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/25/2012 3:54 PM Frank Cox spake the following: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:50:49 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: Or, if someone else will be logging in and you just don't want to give them root access, you could set up sudo access to a script that does a 'yum -y update' and then asks if they

Re: [CentOS] Linux Software RAID 1 - Unequal Sized Hard Disks

2012-10-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/18/2012 9:53 AM Manish Kathuria spake the following: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 18.10.2012 17:29, schrieb Manish Kathuria: Has anyone created or rebuilt a Linux Software RAID having mirrored partitions on unequal sized hard disks ?

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/16/2012 8:16 AM John Reddy spake the following: Something isn't quite right with your setup. When you do the HELO command, the server should reply with something. For example: == $ telnet smtp.comcast.net 25 Trying 76.96.40.155... Connected to smtp.comcast.net. Escape

Re: [CentOS] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2012-09-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/14/2012 8:26 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: M. Fioretti wrote: I have accounts on two Centos servers, A and B, each hosted on a remote VPS by a different provider/datacenter. Until yesterday night, I could connect without problems via SSH to both servers from my home Fedora

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2012 12:33 PM Russell Jones spake the following: Hi all, I am having an issue with some older CentOS 5.3 servers. Every time the server boots, it gives the error Cannot access the hardware clock by any known method, and then promptly sets the time 5 hours behind the hardware clock,

Re: [CentOS] IP range

2012-08-02 Thread Scott Silva
snip Nope Work only .49 and .50 I bought 8 public IP-s ... so 8 IPs have to get work. In the hosting specification this IPs is usable with xxx.xxx.xxx.48-55 with subnet mask 255.255.255.255 with no gateway. As I sad, works perfectly with this command (8 times, of course :) ):

Re: [CentOS] IP range

2012-08-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/2/2012 12:54 PM John R Pierce spake the following: On 08/02/12 12:45 PM, Scott Silva wrote: It doesn't work that way... You may think you bought 8 ip's, but you can only pass traffic on 6... That is how it works... You buy 16, and only 14 work. The first and last address are as Johnny

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-08-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 7/25/2012 6:44 AM Brian Mathis spake the following: Is any part of this thread related to CentOS anymore? Sometimes you have to share the memories before they are gone for ever... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6.2: installation at specific kernel level

2012-07-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 7/12/2012 7:08 AM Cal Sawyer spake the following: Hi, all I have a number of machines that are out of sync with one another by virtue of having done a yum update after a base 6.2 install at different times (all were previous CentOS 5.3) Consequently, systems are a mix of 2.6.32-220.7.1,

Re: [CentOS] How to handel smtp to public servers - done

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/27/2012 7:26 AM Götz Reinicke spake the following: Am 27.06.12 16:08, schrieb Tilman Schmidt: Am 27.06.2012 11:15, schrieb Götz Reinicke: Am 27.06.12 10:29, schrieb Fajar Priyanto: 1. Many malware have their own smtp and can send spam directly. To overcome this, block port tcp 25 on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/20/2012 11:34 PM Arun Khan spake the following: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rob Kampen rkam...@reaching-clients.com wrote: snip sounds like the mirror is not in synch - when it is running with both drives, what does cat /proc/mdstat System boots up fully functional

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 3:37 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: Hi All: I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: Mem: 15720140k total,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 4:22 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: From: Yves Bellefeuille Sent: June 19, 2012 15:55 I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was limited to 16 Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should use x86_64. If that is the case then both

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-06-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/8/2012 9:33 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin spake the following: I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a virtualized instance. The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out a way to live clone the original. Initially, I thought I could do this via

Re: [CentOS] 75% - 80% Rebuild Complete

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/7/2012 9:40 AM Bowie Bailey spake the following: On 6/5/2012 7:21 PM, Eugene Poole wrote: OK, I'm about 90% sure that I've corrected the boot loader situation with RAID-1 and the second hard drive. I haven't tested the correction, but here's what I did: Examined the grub.conf

Re: [CentOS] Postfix will not start due to permission errors on CentOS 6.2 x86

2012-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2012 1:03 PM John R. Dennison spake the following: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: No, it was the same reason I couldn't get Apache to work: Selinux was enabled. I disabled Selinux. Now, both work fine. Um, both work out of the box with selinux

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail problem - baffled

2012-05-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/15/2012 2:39 PM Jussi Hirvi spake the following: On 15.5.2012 23.54, Alexander Dalloz wrote: So there must be sm-mta-rx be defined somewhere. Just in case, here is my conf for the rx instance. To repeat, this sendmail instance sends everything to amavisd at port 10024. - Jussi snip

Re: [CentOS] Spam, fail2ban and centos

2012-05-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/9/2012 9:59 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: I am starting to see a real pattern to all this. I would love to see someone do a case study on spam attacks. Their system seems well honed to scale up with your

Re: [CentOS] when is the o.s. considered to be at a certain minor version? Or, is it safe to apply only certain package updates from the next release version?

2012-05-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/10/2012 1:14 PM Jon Detert spake the following: Two related questions about the minor release numbers (e.g. the 'x' in 5.x or 6.x) : 1) What constitutes the o.s. being at a particluar minor release? Typically, when you install you are getting a package set available from a specific

Re: [CentOS] Spam, fail2ban and centos

2012-05-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/10/2012 9:47 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: I think you are over-analyzing. The senders are distributed and shift around whether you do anything defensive or not, and if you have ever accepted an address

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/3/2012 6:18 PM Bob Hoffman spake the following: On 5/3/2012 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: whois only lists a technical contact ofhostmas...@telepacific.com. However, from their website, I went to contact http://www.telepacific.com/support/corporate-contacts.asp, and see snip

Re: [CentOS] DKIM Pass - Fail - Solved !!!

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/2/2012 9:36 AM Prabhpal S. Mavi spake the following: ntpdate should be run just once and then just have ntpd on.. the nptdate should bring the server to the proper time and cause dovecot to fail..you should only need to run it once (assuming the server is left on and not off for long

Re: [CentOS] OT Open Cobol

2012-04-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/27/2012 8:04 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS? Any pointers would be very welcome. I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to

Re: [CentOS] Hyper Threading Feature

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/12/2012 5:57 AM Kaushal Shriyan spake the following: Hi, Any performance bottleneck if HT (Hyper Threading) is enabled in quad core processors on CentOS 5.8 running MySQL DB Server ? Please help me understand about pros and cons of this feature. Regards, Kaushal As far as I know,

Re: [CentOS] Problem with latest kernel install

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/12/2012 3:50 PM Arthur Pemberton spake the following: After a simple `yum update` I got the following on reboot. Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or director FATAL: Could not load /lib/module.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 x86_64 Squirrelmail Problem

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/30/2012 4:38 AM Prabhpal S. Mavi spake the following: Hello Mr. Johnny This is brilliant!! you are so knowledgeable and professional. Your solution fixed the problem right away. mbstring.func_overload = 0 It was like this: mbstring.func_overload = 2 Johnny is the third god of

Re: [CentOS] One disk speed problem [SOLVED], and a question on hdparm

2012-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/26/2012 1:49 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: I believe I've posted before about one of the speed issues we were having, of backups taking many, many hours that should *not* take that long. My manager and I finally nailed it down to the h/d itself. Identical boxes, and he tried

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/13/2012 11:07 AM Ross Walker spake the following: On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Alan McKayalan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Back about 3 months ago I took this system down and removed all the RAM, and stuck individual chips into it and booted it, testing each chip on its own. At that time

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS Server

2012-03-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following: On 3/7/2012 9:32 PM, Devin Reade wrote: John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'. Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ...

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS Server

2012-03-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/8/2012 9:59 AM Lamar Owen spake the following: On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:45 PM Scott Silva wrote: on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following: ROFL When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop working... ;) I try to procure ones

Re: [CentOS] Ways To Practice Breaking My System?

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/21/2012 12:45 AM Alex Walker spake the following: Hi All I've been looking into some ways to break a CentOS system so I can perform some simulated disaster recovery and get some hands-on practice with rescue mode and other system recovery tools. I'm thinking to start off with things

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/15/2012 9:25 AM Steve Campbell spake the following: I was looking for the old Vispan stuff, and it seems to have disappeared from the web. Now I realize it was old, but it did provide some details that I liked on my old servers. I've got mailscanner-mrtg running, but that only provides a

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2012 4:35 AM Steve Campbell spake the following: On 2/12/2012 2:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Steve Campbell: Actually, I'm having problems with pop and imap. I changed mailservers this weekend, going from a Centos 3 box to a Centos 6 box. The Centos 3

Re: [CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2012 12:54 PM Matt spake the following: Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such as RPMFORGE? I have done it by something like rpm -qa|grep rf and cat the list into rpm -U... I don't have the exact incantation near me, but that will get you a start

Re: [CentOS] megaraid/PERC

2011-11-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/29/2011 12:35 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with a PERC 5

Re: [CentOS] Centos v3.3 CD 2

2011-11-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/14/2011 5:38 PM Jonathan Nilsson spake the following: Nice mail database... apparently the mail client has some nice features too: on 11/14/2011 4:09 PM Scott Silva spake the following: on 10/29/2004 5:55 AM Luis-Miguel Astudillo spake the following: wouldst thou be willing

Re: [CentOS] Overlay Filesystem Mounts?

2011-11-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/15/2011 9:22 AM Tim Nelson spake the following: - Original Message - Vreme: 11/15/2011 05:44 PM, Tim Nelson piše: However, it is possible to mount all of the shares to one location, such that there is one 'data' dir, with the combined contents of each of the three shares? So,

Re: [CentOS] Overlay Filesystem Mounts?

2011-11-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/15/2011 10:48 AM John Hodrien spake the following: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Scott Silva wrote: In Microsoft terms that sounds like Distributed file system. I think you can do that under samba... Is that the same? I thought DFS was just about effectively having cross server symlinks so

Re: [CentOS] Centos v3.3 CD 2

2011-11-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/29/2004 5:55 AM Luis-Miguel Astudillo spake the following: Sorry, I have been away for a while. has anyone fixed CD2 fotr CentOS v3.3 ? CentOS 3.3 is out of production and off support... For a while now... ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Centos v3.3 CD 2

2011-11-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/14/2011 4:09 PM Scott Silva spake the following: on 10/29/2004 5:55 AM Luis-Miguel Astudillo spake the following: Sorry, I have been away for a while. has anyone fixed CD2 fotr CentOS v3.3 ? CentOS 3.3 is out of production and off support... For a while now... Sorry... For some reason

Re: [CentOS] Intel wireless firmware

2011-11-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/29/2011 10:41 AM Ron Loftin spake the following: This may not be the best place to ask, but Google hasn't given me any useful information. I have an older laptop that is using the Intel 2200 wireless interface. I installed CentOS 5 on it some time ago and everything is fine. When I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 Dovecot Problem

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/1/2011 10:30 AM Grant McChesney spake the following: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Hintonwebmas...@ew3d.com wrote: For those of you that still are running CentOS 4... I have one system that is still going... there is a problem with the newest release of Dovecot under mbox.

Re: [CentOS] Choosing a CentOS version

2011-10-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/3/2011 10:21 AM Bade Iriabho spake the following: This may be a noob question but there is something I have been trying to understand, there are currently three main versions of CentOS 4, 5, and 6. My main question is simply how do I know what version I should deploy? I have searched

Re: [CentOS] 5.7 x86_64 DVD iso

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/29/2011 8:29 AM Weiner, Michael spake the following: I am trying to find a DVD iso that is not a torrent, and looking through the mirrors I am unable to find one. Does anyone happen to have a mirror or repository that they know of that carries the DVD iso for direct download? I am behind

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/26/2011 3:13 PM Benjamin Smith spake the following: On Monday, September 26, 2011 02:42:18 PM Devin Reade wrote: --On Monday, September 26, 2011 12:11:47 PM -0700 Benjamin Smith Unfortunately in trying to use C6 on the old machine I wound up with far too many changed variables to figure

Re: [CentOS] Perl module installed via CPAN but its is not found

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/26/2011 4:32 PM TE Dukes spake the following: Hello, I am trying to rebuild a zoneminder rpm. It calls for the module perl(Sys::Mmap). I installed via CPAN but when I run rpmbuild --rebuild zoneminder-xx, it tells me the above module is needed. Seems I ran into this once before and

Re: [CentOS] x86_64.rpm v. i686.rpm

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/26/2011 4:36 PM TE Dukes spake the following: Just curious why there are two types of rpms for some packages. Just got my first 64 bit machine. Which should I be installing? Both? TIA Eddie Because a 64 bit machine can also run 32 bit programs. So the default seems to pull in several

Re: [CentOS] fdisk on centos 6

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/15/2011 1:57 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: I am getting the WRONG values reported from fdisk on centos 6. This is listing an 8G CF card on /dev/sde Disk /dev/sde: 8019 MB, 8019099648 bytes 247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768

Re: [CentOS] dealing with spoofing

2011-09-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/1/2011 10:39 AM Kenneth Porter spake the following: --On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:48 PM -0400 Mailing Lists mailingl...@theflux.net wrote: http://www.openspf.org/Introduction - SPF FTW DKIM is another possibility. Blizzard (the game company) signs some (not all) of its mail with

Re: [CentOS] dealing with spoofing

2011-09-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/1/2011 1:14 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: On Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:43 PM -0700 Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: I get TONS of spam with legitimate DKIM signatures... DKIM and SPF do not stop you from getting spam. Their purpose is to keep you from getting joe

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 12:34 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 3:10 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
snip Craig, yes, and no. I am actually looking for a list of software packages that can be removed without breaking the running OS. like for example bluez-libs or cronie-anacron which isn't necessarily needed for a bare-minimum system to run. I honestly don't just want to delete stuff that

Re: [CentOS] getting old mail every 5 months or so

2011-07-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 7/5/2011 9:34 AM Bob Hoffman spake the following: Using centos 5.x, sendmail, as a server, downloading mail with thunderbird (although this happened with outlook too) every 5 or 6 months I open my mail client (thunderbird) and one of my mail accounts decides to download 1,000 or so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/14/2011 2:23 PM gvim spake the following: ,snip Then 21st, now 24th. Scientific Linux doesn't seem to have these problems. That's why I switched. Don't get it. gvim You forgot to switch lists... ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/13/2011 7:23 AM James B. Byrne spake the following: I just want to say that I really, really, appreciate the information given on this site: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/calendar What I appreciate is the lack of fighting and Is it done yet? posts that were flowing out before...

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/13/2011 9:48 AM Paul Heinlein spake the following: On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Devin Reade wrote: (I'm another one of those who has been delaying deployment of some new systems pending CentOS 6 due to wanting to maximize those systems' useful lifetimes.) I was wondering if hardware

Re: [CentOS] Initial 6.0 trees in QA

2011-05-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/26/2011 11:50 AM Steven Crothers spake the following: snip Fedora and Debian in my opinion are both superior to the way CentOS opens community development. Having one developer doing all the packaging (Johnny) is a waste of resources and intelligence. A simple repository where we can all

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/24/2011 1:06 PM Brunner, Brian T. spake the following: snip When the 7th seal is opened there will be silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour (Rev 8:1), implying that the net will be down world-wide. THAT will cause Armageddon all by itself (Rev 9:16, 16:16). I thought

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/23/2011 11:02 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic spake the following: snip Then everybody cough on that and started endless flame-war. I survived the rapture to come back to this? LMAO http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/ ___ CentOS

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

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: snip [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for somebody to come and fill their pockets', I would have spent it

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

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 2:45 PM cen...@911networks.com spake the following: On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:47:30 -0500 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by following the licensing requirements and be happy with that? Johnny please don't take

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) (not)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/17/2011 9:36 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: snip [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this piece has taken ... If I had known the comment

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

2011-05-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 11:47 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by following the licensing requirements and be happy with that? I hear ya Johnny... The only hurry I am in over 6 getting out is that FINALLY some of the whining will stop... For

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

2011-05-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 11:40 AM Janne TH. Nyman spake the following: Who cares? I find it amazing that these guys still keep on building and providing considering how their users treat them. Team CentOS, keep your heads up. For me, you are still the best thing that happened since sliced bread. I

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/8/2011 10:46 AM Jason spake the following: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. snip You know what they say; Just because you are paranoid does not mean that some one is NOT out to get you! ___

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/5/2011 1:55 PM Dave Stevens spake the following: Hello All, I want to ask about CentOS and money. Please do not start some kind of shitstorm over this, it isn't productive. I have just been looking at archive.org to see when the paypal option went missing from the donate menu at

Re: [CentOS] Server offline :-( please help to repair software RAID

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/28/2011 12:40 PM Alexander Farber spake the following: Thank you all, it seems to have finished - I'm rebooting. Just curious why is the State of md3 active, while the others are clean? If I remember right, clean means it is completely synced and not being written to or mounted. Active

Re: [CentOS] Rsync 3 from rpmforge

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/27/2011 7:46 AM Jussi Hirvi spake the following: Thanks for a triple answer. :-) Now I remember - like I said, I solved this problem once already. Hm, I should document better what I do... - Jussi Where's the fun in that? ;) ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following: On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well.

Re: [CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/19/2011 11:16 AM Scott Silva spake the following: on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following: On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server

[CentOS] Just a question about the Announce List

2011-04-11 Thread Scott Silva
Did the Announce go out for CentOS 5.6, or are people just jumping the gun? If it went out, I missed it, and need to look at my spam filters. If it hasn't gone out yet, then maybe I'm OK... See... No is it ready crap in here! ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Just a question about the Announce List

2011-04-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/11/2011 2:12 PM William Hooper spake the following: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: Did the Announce go out for CentOS 5.6, or are people just jumping the gun? If it went out, I missed it, and need to look at my spam filters. If it hasn't gone out

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/6/2011 2:59 PM Hendrik spake the following: 2011/4/6 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. No, once again you dont understand the issues, the

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/5/2011 11:46 PM John R Pierce spake the following: On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/7/2011 1:02 PM Dag Wieers spake the following: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/7/2011 2:28 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: On 4/7/2011 3:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended outcome. Off topic here as to what RHEL and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/7/2011 2:08 PM Emmanuel Noobadmin spake the following: On 4/8/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:58 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: and so we should tell people: We will ship it when it is done; please come back then Got it.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/4/2011 3:11 PM David Brian Chait spake the following: SL didn't pass the muster in our env in terms of a drop in replacement for Centos. On the other hand, we have simply dropped in Centos in place of RHEL w/ o issue. Our env is a rather complex CGI/VFX based pipeline that is not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/4/2011 10:35 AM Hendrik spake the following: 2011/4/4 Gilbert Sebenste seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu: Karanbir said on the Twitter account (and elsewhere) roughly 3 weeks after CentOS 5.6 gets released, and that will be hopefully by tomorrow. He says all but 30 packages are OK with

Re: [CentOS] WD RE4-GP Dropped From Raid

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/1/2011 4:35 AM Steve Brooks spake the following: Hi All, I have a WD RE4-GP which dropped an Adaptec 51645 RAID controller. I ran a smartctl short test on the drive and it failed with a read error. So I ran the Western Digital's own diagnostic software (DLGDIAG), both the short

Re: [CentOS] logical volume - device present without table

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/1/2011 8:22 AM neubyr spake the following: I am trying to mount a logical volume for creating new initrd image. The lvs command is showing a logical volume with 'd' attribute - device present without tables. It's getting listed under /dev/mapper but not under /dev/VolGroup00. Any help on

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/1/2011 8:32 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/27/2011 5:36 AM Ian Murray spake the following: What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored? (Or only work developing CentOS?) I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job. No one that we know of is willing to pay a full time salary for 1 or 2 or

Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Silva
snip (those commands should run the cron normally except starting at 03:00, where it should kick off at 3:15 instead of 03:05) If it also fails to start at 03:15 then that would suggest that something is happening to the cron job the last time it is run to make it hang (or make the system

Re: [CentOS] write-back cache question

2011-02-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/16/2011 5:31 AM James Chase spake the following: Can anyone with write-back cache working just confirm that they see some sort of indication of write-back in dmesg? SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft) SCSI

Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/16/2011 7:39 AM Bowie Bailey spake the following: On 2/14/2011 1:23 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Yeah, I'm rebuilding a server with Oracle RAC and I wasn't sure exactly what version of RedHat was used to build it originally. Centos 5.5 results in the external iscsi volumes being improperly

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/14/2011 1:50 PM Morten P.D. Stevens spake the following: 2011/2/14 robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com: Hi, Despite the mailing list and twitter I did not find any updated info on either versions regarding the current status. So, what is the current status of both versions? (like 60%) I

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/2/2011 1:58 PM mcclnx mcc spake the following: We have DELL R900 server with 128GB RAM (CENTOS 5.5)in it. This server only have one application running and few people use it. Every week I ata least get one or two messages from monitor tool mail to me say: Message=Memory

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-5-2011 3:50 AM David Latham spake the following: Hi, When I make DVDs of Centos and any others for that matter, I take the following steps: 1. Find an official torrent if possible. (Centos has torrents for the DVD. Unfortunately no Jigdo so far as I know.) Jigdo is a Debianism...

Re: [CentOS] yum update troubles

2011-01-04 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-3-2011 9:00 PM Luigi Rosa spake the following: Matt said the following on 03/01/11 21:39: Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this: -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for package: perl-IO-Compress -- Finished

Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir

2011-01-04 Thread Scott Silva
snip Odd that you would mention that, just after saying you shouldn't care... And in fact, some servers (e.g. dovecot) may handle more Thank you. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir I am now going to look for a setup guide of procmail-Maildir-dovecot on RHEL/Centos A

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 and Thunderbird Trash folder.

2010-12-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-1-2010 3:57 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: Um, do you ever log out, or close firefox? For that matter, do you have it set to empty trash when done? Or do you ever manually compress folders/empty trash? mark or just leave it running for a year at a time? NO - your

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-10-2010 11:02 AM John Kennedy spake the following: When will CentOS 6 be released??? (Just kidding...Just wanted to let you all know that RHEL6 has been released...And yes, I know that most of you all know...) John So the usual 4 to 6 week (maybe 8 week) build and QA/QC process... Like

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-10-2010 11:13 AM Scott Robbins spake the following: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:05:53AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 11-10-2010 11:02 AM John Kennedy spake the following: When will CentOS 6 be released??? So the usual 4 to 6 week (maybe 8 week) build and QA/QC process... Like anyone

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