Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Brent L. Bates
better. You should also be using the 64 bit kernels as well, but then, you want that for a whole lot other reasons anyways. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton

Re: [CentOS] semi OT: logwatch results

2008-07-18 Thread Brent L. Bates
kind of attempt to break in or a weird kind of DOS attack. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [CentOS] Checking last shutdown state

2008-08-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
Does your UPS software have any logging capabilities? I know APC's PowerChute+ software logs everything it does. There would be an entry in it's logs saying it was doing a clean shutdown. The system logs may also have something about the time the system shutdown too. -- Brent L. Bates

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use example.com instead of hostname?

2007-07-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
Since you are using NAT, the important IP address and host name associated with it is the one the outside world sees. Does that IP address have a host name the world sees and does that name then resolve to the same IP address? -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912

Re: [CentOS] CentOS things to mod for VMware server

2007-08-06 Thread Brent L. Bates
. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates

Re: [CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel

2007-08-09 Thread Brent L. Bates
Is the CentOS-Plus kernel included in any of the CD or DVD ISO's? Looking over the Web site, I couldn't tell. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton

[CentOS] Adding Things to Rescue Mode

2007-08-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
some searching, but haven't found anything recent enough to be useful. Thanks for any help. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email

Re: [CentOS] looking for good web based DNS script to check nameservers

2008-10-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
FYI. I tried the Web site Robert Spangler posted: http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheckdomainf.aspx We failed some of their tests because THEIR DNS isn't set up properly. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400

[CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Brent L. Bates
get way too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking for. Does anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me? Thanks. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-12 Thread Brent L. Bates
Scientific Linux is one of the groups I read, in addition to CentOS, and that is why I couldn't find the email in the CentOS group. Also instead of saving the email, I saved the link to the information, only one of hundreds saved. I didn't think to look in my SL list of links, only CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-12 Thread Brent L. Bates
I remember someone saying one had to include some options on the boot command line for this to work. Nothing was automated for this to work. It took a little bit of work and that is why I saved the email or at least meant to save it. I was almost positive it was the CentOS list that I saw

Re: [CentOS] Joyeux Noel

2008-12-24 Thread Brent L. Bates
And a Very Merry Christmas to you too. That includes everyone else too. :-) Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: b.l.ba

Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Brent L. Bates
I was under the impression that CERN uses Scientific Linux, with some local additions, not CentOS. SL is another RedHat rebuild. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-02-05 Thread Brent L. Bates
stupid mistakes, but I've been more satisfied with them than the others we've tried. Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 ViGYAN, Inc.FAX:(757) 865-8177 30 Research Drive Hampton, Virginia 23666-1325 Email: blba...@vigyan.com

Re: [CentOS] File compare word by word

2009-05-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
in the second case. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: b.l.ba...@larc.nasa.govhttp://www.vigyan.com/~blbates

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
apcupsd doesn't work with new APC UPS's. APC has changed to some proprietary protocol, microlink?, for talking to their UPS's, so apcupsd doesn't work any more or at least not fully. There has been some discussion about this issue on the apcupsd users email list.

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brent L. Bates
://www.networkupstools.org/) to see if it will work with your UPS. One last thing, APC has changed their communications protocol (it's called microlink now) on new UPS's, so apcupsd doesn't work nearly as well as it used to. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone

Re: [CentOS] (c 5.6) Running 2 versions of Apache ?

2011-08-30 Thread Brent L. Bates
If they are looking for Micro$loth specific pages, I redirect them to Micro$loth's Web site. I figure if they want Micro$loth stuff, may as well send them to the source. :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2009-12-07 Thread Brent L. Bates
XFS is the most stable file system I've seen or used. I've seen it survive power failures and disk problems with out a problem. It is the ONLY file system I trust. It is stable, reliable, dependable, and practically bullet proof. I've been using XFS almost since it came into existence on

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

2009-12-07 Thread Brent L. Bates
I guess I forgot to include that some of those Linux systems I've used XFS on were 32 bit OS installs. However, lvm was not used on them, md NFS were, but not lvm. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

2009-12-08 Thread Brent L. Bates
Anyone thought about installing R from the Scientific Linux site? R is a standard part of SL. It might be a bit more compatible with CentOS than other sites. Just an idea. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA

Re: [CentOS] setup schedule cron job every other week?

2010-01-06 Thread Brent L. Bates
it on the 8th and 22nd of the month. The second will execute the command TWICE a day AND days 8-14 AND 22-28. The man pages says if any of the day parameters match, the command is executed. Unfortunately for the OP, the day parameters are an OR operation and not an AND operation. -- Brent L. Bates

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-02-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
-- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: b.l.ba...@larc.nasa.govhttp://www.vigyan.com/~blbates

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-02-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
Sorry about empty message. I accidentally hit the wrong buttons. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Brent L. Bates
Axis also has lower end cameras that don't cost a whole lot. Price depends on what options/capabilities one is looking for in a camera. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX

Re: [CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

2010-08-31 Thread Brent L. Bates
Stack size was only a problem for the 32 bit OS and not 64 bit. If one is dealing with a terabyte or more of data, I don't see them using a 32 bit OS. I really don't see any really good reasons for using anything but 64 bit any more, if the hardware supports it. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-06 Thread Brent L. Bates
. I hope this helps. Good luck. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: b.l.ba...@larc.nasa.govhttp://www.vigyan.com

Re: [CentOS] multi-boot drive partitioning

2007-12-18 Thread Brent L. Bates
adequate surge protection. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates

Re: [CentOS] Recommended software for mail greylist?

2008-02-29 Thread Brent L. Bates
all the other ones I found were scripts and I wanted something faster. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

2008-04-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
to break this great feature and removed it. I copied it back into to source we use. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research CenterFAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] sendmail aliases

2008-04-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
Actually it *IS* a source change. The `confAUTO_REBUILD' option has been deleted from the sendmail source files for some time now. One can put that option in the sendmail.mc configuration file, but it will not be used because it isn't in the source any more. I've double checked this and

Re: [CentOS] Re: sendmail aliases

2008-04-02 Thread Brent L. Bates
The excuse given for removing the automatic update of the aliases database file was that it was a security issue. The thought was that someone could tapper with the file and cause problems. However, all these files are checked for proper file permissions and if they are not set correctly,

Re: [CentOS] Force sendmail outbound routing for specific domain name

2008-04-10 Thread Brent L. Bates
isn't properly routing traffic between your two networks. I'm not sure you if you could put in a static route that would by pass your ISP's faulty routing tables or not. I'm betting probably not. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865