explain this better in a short paragraph, but I'm sure there's
plenty of people who've been there and arrived to the same conclusion:
Anything remote is unreliable, so don't depend on it for local settings.
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delete is very fast).
No other filesystem will be as reliable as Ext3 if the machine suddenly
loses power, but if you have a battery backup or something like that,
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Jim Perrin wrote:
Personal experiences may vary.
Yup. Do your own tests, involving your particular situation, then draw
conclusions. The average may just not apply very well in your case.
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jfs is
supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a
mail/news server
Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that
situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit.
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it harder to keep up with the updates):
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/
Wine is making a lot of progress recently, so it's probably worth
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Rogelio wrote:
Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It
requires Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for
Firefox)
I wonder if IE + Win Media Player under (a recent version of) Wine would
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http://www.linux.com/feature/135980
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Matt Hyclak wrote:
For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less
than 24 hours ago.
I was just curious, I was not demanding it right now or anything like
that.
Sorry if my inquiry seemed inconsiderate.
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even if I try to just update a specific
package.
Google got me this link, but no obvious resolution:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=8topic_id=5588viewmode=flat
Any pointers appreciated.
Backup, format, install, restore. ;-)
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out. ;-)
I'd be interested in a way of telling from within the OS whether or not
MWI is enabled...
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Florin Andrei wrote:
Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's
no difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which
kernel I use, at least for this simple test with dd.
I wonder if a test closer to real life, such as reading/writing stuff
the stuff that needs
good performance, but can be rebuilt from the master data in case
something ugly happens. Like pretty much anything in life, it's a trade-off.
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Weave comes out with a
version that's similar enough with Google Sync in terms of features.
Hopefully that will happen pretty soon.
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by 3ware.
I'm testing now the 16 port version for newer servers, no problems there
either (but not much usage yet, of course).
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that yet, I need to be physically there to babysit it, there
are way too many hacks and moving parts on that machine.
But yeah, in a nutshell, just do yum update and it will take you to
the next version - 5.2
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(*) - not an exact comparison, YMMV, if this knowledge burns down your
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John R Pierce wrote:
/boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it.
Wait. I thought mirror RAID is the same on-disk format like a plain
partition, so therefore a mirrored /boot will always boot. At least, it
always did for me.
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always install any FF version you want in /home/${USER}/firefox
and put that directory at the beginning of $PATH in .bash_profile
Voila, instant FF upgrade and you don't even have to remove the
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like to hear from someone
with first-hand experience with one of them.
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systems unless you _really_ need to do
disk forensics. You will see a performance improvement in almost every
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Craig White wrote:
don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3)
That's pretty extreme, it may not actually solve the original problem,
and in case of a crash you may have fun with repairing inconsistent
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them?
To become package maintainers - those lacking common sense need not apply.
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one of the other methods already recommended in
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Bowie Bailey wrote:
I know it's security through obscurity
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
It is bad if it's the _only_ protection.
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Anybody using these? Pros? Cons? Drivers for CentOS 5? Config /
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authoring and stuff like that. Even then, if you
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# Testing pre-requisites
for exe in wine unix2dos mplex dvdauthor; do
if [ -z `which ${exe
I
need to transfer video over FireWire, and it all needs to function
without headaches.
It may start working with a different kernel and/or a different libraw1394.
But honestly, I have no real clue. Sorry. :-/
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Akemi Yagi wrote:
I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the
distro kernel. This is upstream's decision.
wow :-(
Why did they do that?
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to either:
- increase the buffer even more
- stop messing around with the system
- should the previous fail, then get a dedicated drive
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Please don't reply to an existing discussion thread and change the
subject. Create a new message if you start a new topic.
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yum install mc and you can start using it. Can't get more intuitive
than that. I use it for PHP and C programming, and shell scripting.
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not negate the basic fact that it's one of the most
un-intuitive and essentially broken user interface designs ever. But
we're stuck with it, which is unfortunate.
Note: I'm not an Emacs fan. :-)
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Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700
Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her
fired five minutes later. With no severance package.
Viewed
evolved is a great illustration for why vi
still survives today. If it was a rational decision, it would have died
circa 1999.
Alright, time for me to disappear from this thread.
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that on CentOS 5.
So, I need to tell SELinux hey, this stuff under
/home/foobar/spool/cyrus is just like /var/spool/cyrus, don't relabel it
to something else. How do I achieve that?
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for CentOS 5 but so far no luck. The
best site so far is this:
http://djflux.net/rpms/fedora/6/
It's Fedora 6 so it may recompile on CentOS 5.
Anyone else using recent Asterisk versions on CentOS 5 64 bit? Where did
you get your packages from?
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Florin Andrei wrote:
Anybody implemented a working proxy ARP with CentOS 5?
I am trying to implement DNAT on a dual-homed firewall (servers behind
firewall are on private IPs) and that requires proxy ARP. I've tried
several different methods but nothing seems to work.
I figured it out. I
, and let the kernel deal with the differences? I.e. have
the old configuration as some sort of baseline that can be further tweaked.
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Florin Andrei wrote:
Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future,
such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this
case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences?
Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel
Florin Andrei wrote:
Apply this patch to the scripts/package/mkspec file (careful, at least
one line is wrapped by the Gmane mail archive, so unwrap manually):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/593172
Or just use the patch file attached to this message if the mail archive
doesn't
Florin Andrei wrote:
Optionally, do a make menuconfig and tweak the kernel options even more.
You may especially want to edit the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION field to reflect
the fact that you're building a custom kernel. I prefer to make that
field COMPANYNAME.x where x is the build number - start
not
sure yet, SQLite might be another option).
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unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new directory, and
then leave /opt alone.
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process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am
able to run `service postfix start`.
Anything in audit.log ?
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On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
OpenVPN normally uses UDP.
it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most
decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time
openssl is used for encryption
don't control the routers in between. I must use a proxy.
Fortunately, OpenVPN seems to work well with dante-server. Too bad
dante-server is not in EPEL, but RPM packages are available online.
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that setup (just mediatomb instead of ps3mediaserver)
and there's no avahi on my network. Yet the PS3 is perfectly capable of
discovering and using the DLNA server.
It might be useful for *something* but it doesn't appear to be required
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And Cyrus already has quota limits at the application level. Also has
built-in filtering with Sieve. Faster, more powerful, more scalable than
procmail friends.
It's just a suggestion, I'm not saying this is the ideal solution for
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Les Mikesell wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
It would be very nice if the init.d script would allow the sysadmin to
do something like service network saveroutes. I always thought that
would be a neat feature.
Routes only work when you can reach the next hop. That is, if you try
to add
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anything after that, just do a yum install.
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Gordon Messmer wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
Maybe it does reply, just on a different interface? Is this a
multi-homed system? Bonded interfaces?
There's only one interface with an IP address, and only one route back
to the office.
If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, re-run
Gordon Messmer wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, re-run the tests with
it non-promiscuous. Just to make sure the SYN is actually received by
that system.
I ran the test again with tcpdump -i eth0 -p and then thinking better
of it, with tcpdump -i
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--- linux-2.6.23.1.orig/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 02:07:58.0
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 05:42:47.0
-0700
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ echo 'cp $KBUILD_IMAGE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'
echo %endif
echo %endif
Florin Andrei wrote:
Get the vanilla kernel tarball.
Apply the mkspec patch. (*)
Now do this:
export RPM_RH5_STYLE=1
Otherwise the patch is pointless.
Or hack the patch and remove the if $RPM_RH5_STYLE; then conditionals
so it's always generated RH5 style.
Get the .config file from
conversations
moving to the centos-tech list.
Nah. It will be too fragmented and people will never figure out the
difference between the lists.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
I can't see anything to indicate why it doesn't show the disk, but I've
used dynamic disks for installation before.
I exclusively use dynamic allocation and it works for me with CentOS 5.2
as a guest.
Host is Ubuntu 8.10
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like a last-resort fallback solution, in those
rare cases when 64 bit really won't work (and even then it's due to a
bug, or lazy vendors, or something like that).
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MHR wrote:
I think you meant nspluginwrapper - ndiswrapper is for Window$ drivers
to run in Linux.
d'oh! brain segfault :)
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is fastest nowadays, but I guess you can do
a quick test and find out.
There might be some security implications for using a different crypto
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this.
Exactly. There are differences between file systems even when using very
large files sequentially. I did benchmarks on various controllers and my
experience was the same: the file system does matter.
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Scott Silva wrote:
on 1-23-2009 1:19 PM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following:
Quoting Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org:
I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the
sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed.
Isn't that supposed to be not the fastest lawnmower
absolute paths with
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of the transcode package, but the idea
is the same. Here's the actual command:
n=14
for i in `seq -w 1 ${n}`; do
echo ${i} out of ${n}
tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,${i} ch${i}.mpeg
done
sync
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booting Vista a lot more often
on my home PC - it's a long story and yes I am aware of all the
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to stay
with the crowd.
What I'm saying is, they will be able to figure out more things by
themselves on Ubuntu, if they can use a browser. Maybe even become
totally independent after a while.
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. :) It works fine for the most
part, but once in a while it can do silly things. That's fine for me,
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Linux distro. But with Ubuntu everything is just there, so the
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. In the end, Linux is the same, just different flavors for
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and it's using the best strategy (that worked before for the likes of
Intel, Microsoft and, yes, Linux in general): they're co-opting the
low-end first. Things are going to get pretty interesting a few years
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the zealots
Nah, it's just the way the human mind works, according to its current
blueprint. It can be pretty awesome in what it can do sometimes, but it
does have obvious fundamental flaws too.
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Ryan Pugatch wrote:
I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the
same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have
any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference?
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Oh, and no sparse files either :)
Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a
corrupted FS. :(
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service is enabled:
chkconfig --list iptables
Tip: if the FORWARD chain doesn't seem to work, check
net.ipv4.ip_forward in /etc/sysctl.conf, it's probably set to 0.
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provide some sort of plug-and-play recursive resolver, you just need to
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with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause
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nate wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause
with bonding?
I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs,
about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers
but I don't see them now.
Right, I
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote:
One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf() function in
/sbin/dhclient-script.
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Clint Dilks wrote:
Try adding PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network :)
aw, man :)
This is not fixing the leaking faucet. It's hammering the water pipe
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: \
| grep -v /ifdown-eth:
# to see if it's called from somewhere else than the regular places
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finding
the cause, which is what the OP requested. It will just make the problem
go away.
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