Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-16 Thread Original Woodchuck
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:27:23PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: Could someone explain again why we are not suppose to top post? It's polite and shows you are a gentleman. It's in the same category of consideration for others as keeping to your locale's preferred side of roads, hallways and

Re: [CentOS] Why the huge shmmax default setting?

2013-12-18 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:55 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/17/2013 4:33 PM, Lists wrote: This large value doesn't really make sense to me - can somebody explain why the change to such a large value? its just a limit, it has no impact unless someone claims too much shared

Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

2012-10-10 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:48:23PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: To clarify the situation. The ONLY difference in the shell setup for both root and an ordinary user is the name. As shown below they bith use the same shell, they both have exactly the same contents in .bashrc and .bash_profile.

Re: [CentOS] C6: ntpd time reset +277092510.162464 s

2012-08-31 Thread Woodchuck
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:09:54PM +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of migrating our oracle servers to RHEL and C6; while testing ntpd I'm seeing time resets. Well, the delta-T is something like 8.8 ~years~, so I'd suggest first checking the BIOS clock in the host in

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

2012-08-09 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:40:19PM -0700, Craig White wrote: On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Russell Jones wrote: Here's a question: run hwclock, then, when you reboot, go into the BIOS, and see what the time is. mark Thanks Mark. hwclock showed the right time before

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

2012-08-09 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 07:11:02PM -0500, Russell Jones wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Woodchuck mar...@pennswoods.net wrote: Thanks for the help! Dave: There are no options for time zones in the BIOS clock. The time is just there to be set. It is currently set to 7:08 PM, which

Re: [CentOS] find errors in a directory of files

2012-08-04 Thread Woodchuck
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:19:39PM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: hello list, I'm trying to write a script that will search through a directory of trace logs for an oracle database. From what I understand new files are always being created in the directory and it's not possible to know the exact

Re: [CentOS] cups printing to a remote network

2012-08-04 Thread Woodchuck
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:30:48PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have an need to be able to print to an HP1320 that is usb connected to a Fedora 17 desktop on a remote network from a Centos 5.8 cups print server on an internal network. The desktop is in a remote network that

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing grep, sort, uniq for speed

2012-06-28 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote: This snippet of code pulls an array of hostnames from some log files. It has to parse around 3GB of log files, so I'm keen on making it as efficient as possible. Can you think of any way to optimize this to run faster? If the key

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:21:41PM -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest not going to it without proper measures. it

Re: [CentOS] Swap Partition in CentOS 5.8

2012-06-18 Thread Woodchuck
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:30:28PM -0400, Christina Salls wrote: This is actually from RHEL admin guide but should be appropriate for CentOS as well: Let me un-windoze your table: (you should consider using a text-based mail agent on Unix lists). PRE Table 6.1. Recommended System Swap

Re: [CentOS] Need to split long lines in mail archives

2012-04-09 Thread Woodchuck
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: CentOS-6.2 I am investigating how to split long lines present in a Mailman generated html archives.  Mailman places the email bodies within pre/pre tags and some users have MUAs that send entire paragraphs as one

Re: [CentOS] kernel LANG option

2012-04-06 Thread Woodchuck
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 10:31:54AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: One thing that irritates me is that I'll copy something from a site in ff and paste it into webmail (squirrel/ensign, if that matters); then, in the evening, when I want to forward it to one or more of my lists, using t-bird, I

Re: [CentOS] Constant disk activity

2012-03-22 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:06:41PM +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:45 PM, dnk d.k.emailli...@gmail.com wrote: It is old. 512 Mb ram, 1.6 Ghz (Celeron), 2 X 1TB Dell 7200 RPM Sata drives. Mostly backup purposes (rsync and crashplan). transmission-daemon running.

Re: [CentOS] Constant disk activity

2012-03-22 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:49:10PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/21/12 11:35 PM, Woodchuck wrote: What is this transmission daemon of which you speak? its a bittorrent thing. peer to peer file exchange Ah, so. Thanks. Yeah, if it's active it's probably hitting the disk. iotop