[CentOS] mdadm update

2008-05-12 Thread Linux
Hi, I have uptodate x86_64 CentOS 5 with official repositories. mdadm version is v2.5.4 - 13 October 2006 This version is known to have problems with raid10 configurations. Sadly, I have a 4 disk raid10 on this system. I tried adding Dag's repository but system complains about some packages

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-12 Thread Linux
Well, I should add a terrible story for XFS... I did a yum update and after updating many packages I rebooted and viola... Old xfs module ruined my 1.2TB partition. After updating to correct module and hours of xfs_repair I had to move and rename 500 subfolders from lost+found. I am using CentOS

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-12 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Tru Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:00:18PM +0300, Linux wrote: Well, I should add a terrible story for XFS... I did a yum update and after updating many packages I rebooted and viola... You seem to enjoy living dangerously

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-12 Thread Linux
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Tru Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:40:22AM +0300, Linux wrote: What a coincidence. That is the 1st time I live such a thing. Well, show me a way to prove. /var/log/messages ? Only a small part of it. This log is after update

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Doug Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a matter of agreeing to disagree on the release of a kernel and a supported file system. If you had read my thread and subsequent paragraph you're taking issue with properly, you would have gotten that. My whole

Re: [CentOS] broken GFS

2008-05-14 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:50 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, what is WITH all these lame gmail addresses? linuxlist ? centoslist ?? Do I call you Mr Linux, or Mr List ? Nothing to do with gmail. About calling me, it's a nice thing but probably not needed. And I also know

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Linux
I guess your Gigabyte is a desktop one Well, in production I used to use Intel server and workstation boards. Not the best but more cooperative than most manifacturers with kernel team I guess. Currently I am testing some AMD stuff... On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ryan Nichols [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Linux
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically Linux hackers can hack the kernel to use very large RAM. Current applications are built to access up to 4Gb RAM at a time only. For machines with RAM of more than 4Gb you need to verify that the CPU comes

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-21 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like it is the way Intel chips are designed. One solution would be to ensure that 64bit is used. However, due to cost I am sure many would have gone for the 32bit machines with AHCI mode. Well, 64bit is the solution to

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-22 Thread Linux
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Guy Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not need two (2) raid controllers unless you want to have redundancy at the controller level. Adaptec, 3Ware, etc do RAID 50. For RAID 50, you need at least 6 disks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID For

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-23 Thread Linux
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is much more intelligently designed than any closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. This was valid until...quite a few years ago. Has hardware-raid

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-23 Thread Linux
3 disks is enough to supply a minimum level of redundancy. You should have 2 copies of each stripes on either 2 of 3 disks. But in 3 disk configuration loss of 2 disk means total loss. Go check with man mdadm. Lastly, it's kinda strange that your name is Linux: Maybe you're young and your

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-24 Thread Linux
tends to show theirs for a comparison. But again, according to general inclination, I have a great feeling that I am right. Besides, this is all about the philosophy of open-source. linux kernel-raid still has my vote. Nevertheless, closed-source firmwares are everywhere, should we become paranoid

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Fred Noz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to easy maintenance, readonly-root adds a layer of security. The security is broken if someone gains access to the root user, but then many security protections are lost if someone gains root. However, this should

[CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
Hi, Without any update, hardware/software modification, etc... one of my systems Hourly restart problem started again. Currently, I counted 5 restarts at 59th minute. No log entry, no console error, nothing really interesting. If I do not see camera records with my own eyes, I'll suspect about

Re: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Gregg McClintic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything in the bios called watchdog turned on? Waiting for morning (it's late night here) for further diag. Should I disable it? Or is it malfunctioning because of CentOS? Thanks...

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading some of your recent comments, Anonymous looser, and I've really got to say this - you seem to make some authoritative style comments on things you really dont know much about. eg. in this case - the

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you cannot do it via the installer yet. Can anybody confirm the presence of raid10 personality in Centos 5? Installer does not have raid10 as an option. Not sure whether boot cd has this module or not. But

Re: [CentOS] XFS install issue

2008-05-31 Thread Linux
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also normally build all the extras kmods while I build the centosplus kernel, so they were also not yet done ... however I did go ahead and build I dont intend to blame anybody but kmod_xfs was a couple of days late for

Re: [CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread Linux
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:22 PM, David Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...which I think is because the IDE controller isn't really recognized, or is pretending to be a SATA controller: For my cruiosity, what is your current kernel version? ___

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-18 Thread Linux
working configurations with 4 disk cheap machines. Guess I should say something. /sd[abcd]1: 20 GB, ext3, RAID-1 as /dev/md0, linux-raid autodetect (type: fd), boot flag active, mounted as / (incl. /boot) /sd[abcd][23...]: whatever you want I installed grub like this: grub device (hd0) /dev/sda

[CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread Linux
Hi, I have a CentOS 5.0 running as a web server. # uname -a Linux hostnamehidden.net 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:37:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Every 59 minutes (maybe every hour) it reboots without any logs, without any traces and unfortunately with breaking software

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread Linux
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Benjamin Karhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Every 59 minutes (maybe every hour) it reboots without any logs, ] without any traces and unfortunately with breaking software raid. ] After reboot dmesg does not have any strange entries. this really only helps

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread Linux
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:43 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 02:02 +0300, Linux wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Benjamin Karhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Every 59 minutes (maybe every hour) it reboots without any logs, ] without any

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-12 Thread Linux
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:43 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 02:02 +0300, Linux wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Benjamin Karhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Every 59

[CentOS-es] Presentación

2011-07-10 Thread linux
Amigos: Mi nombre es Luis y llevo bastante tiempo trabajando con Linux a nivel de escritorio; ahora pretendo involucarme con el tema de los servidores sobre CentOS. Como no tengo preparación formal en tecnología voy a molestarlos con algunas consultas que me ayudarán a entender la forma de

[CentOS-es] Configurar cliente de correo en modo texto

2011-07-10 Thread linux
Estimados: Tengo instalado Centos 5.5 en modo texto sobre una maquina virtual sobre Ubuntu, estoy intentando configurar un cliente de correo desde la consola; me he documentaqdo que no existe un cliente de correo propiamente tal, sino que debo trabajar con dos componentes: un Mail User Agent

Re: [CentOS-es] Consultas sobre dependencias RPM

2013-10-07 Thread linux
Voy a añadir RPMForge, EPEL ya lo tengo instalado. Gracias por el consejo LV El 2013-10-06 19:52, David González Romero escribió: Lastima que Linux-l haya desaparecido, ahi había mucha buena info que otros podiamos usar. Luis te recomiendo intentar añadir los repo EPEL y RPMForge

[CentOS] file manager over ssh

2008-08-17 Thread Linux Man
Hello. I need to copy several file from one PC to another over Internet, both using CentOS. What file manager that works over console do you recommend me? Thanks at all Best Regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] file manager over ssh

2008-08-17 Thread Linux Man
2008/8/17 Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Linux Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I need to copy several file from one PC to another over Internet, both using CentOS. What file manager that works over console do you recommend me? Thanks at all Best Regards

Re: [CentOS] Re: file manager over ssh

2008-08-18 Thread Linux Man
Thanks too all for you help, works great! Best regards 2008/8/17 Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mike wrote: I need to copy several file from one PC to another over Internet, both using CentOS. What file manager that works over console do you recommend me? Thanks at all Best Regards

[CentOS] Stage2.img

2007-08-28 Thread semi linux
I've got a RAID card (3ware 9650SE-2LP) that wasn't supported by the in-kernel driver until 2.6.19+ Since CentOS 5.0 is based on 2.6.18-8.el5 is was looking for a way to incorporate their driver from the website so I wouldn't have to use the linux dd kernel option all the time. (trying

Re: [CentOS] Stage2.img

2007-08-28 Thread semi linux
/ recreating CentOS 5 stage2.img? It's obviously different from the old ones... is this documented anywhere? Thanks! - G. On 8/28/07, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux wrote: Since CentOS 5.0 is based on 2.6.18-8.el5 is was looking for a way to incorporate their driver from

Re: [CentOS] Stage2.img

2007-08-29 Thread semi linux
On 8/28/07, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux wrote: Good call... I had thought of that but had assumed it would only present me the same options as anaconda does (all local - hdx and/or fdx)... as it turns-out, the --source=http:// could work nicely... I'll give

[CentOS] rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-04 Thread semi linux
Is there some kind of caveat to using the rootpw --iscrypted directive and then specifying a graphical install? I always seem to get the prompt coming up... If I remove the graphical and do a text install, it works fine and if I remove the --iscrypted and put a plain-text password in there, it

[CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-04 Thread semi linux
Sorry, should have specified - I'm using kickstart to load my machine(s). On 9/4/07, semi linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some kind of caveat to using the rootpw --iscrypted directive and then specifying a graphical install? I always seem to get the prompt coming up... If I remove

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-05 Thread semi linux
On 9/5/07, Johnn Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux wrote: Sorry, should have specified - I'm using kickstart to load my machine(s). On 9/4/07, semi linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some kind of caveat to using the rootpw --iscrypted directive and then specifying a graphical

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-07 Thread semi linux
the lines to make sure I don't have any special characters in there... The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in anaconda? I'm completely stumped. - G. On 9/6/07, Johnn Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux

[CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-20 Thread semi linux
I have a very odd problem connecting to some websites from my CentOS 5 box Target websites: www.connecttech.com www.3ware.com (two of my HW vendors) I can usually get some kind of response, but if the content (download or page itself) is larger in size (downloads never pass 100K), then it

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-20 Thread semi linux
On 9/20/07, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux spake the following on 9/20/2007 4:31 PM: I have a very odd problem connecting to some websites from my CentOS 5 box Target websites: www.connecttech.com www.3ware.com (two of my HW vendors) I can usually get some kind

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-20 Thread semi linux
On 9/20/07, James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux wrote: I have a very odd problem connecting to some websites from my CentOS 5 box Target websites: www.connecttech.com www.3ware.com (two of my HW vendors) I can usually get some kind of response, but if the content

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-20 Thread semi linux
On 9/20/07, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 4:31pm, semi linux wrote I have a very odd problem connecting to some websites from my CentOS 5 box Target websites: www.connecttech.com www.3ware.com (two of my HW vendors) I can usually get some

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-21 Thread semi linux
On 9/21/07, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 5:04pm, semi linux wrote Wicked! that worked... How weird... I'm going to have to look this up and read about it... it seems weird

[CentOS] Waking up X

2007-09-26 Thread semi linux
I just finished installing CentOS 5 (again)... and I'm having trouble with my X config (I _think_). If I 'startx' then switch to a console (using CTRL+ALT+F*) and then back to X (CTRL+ALT+F7), 1/2 the time it comes back, the other half I get a black screen and I can never recover the session. X

Re: [CentOS] Waking up X

2007-09-27 Thread semi linux
On 9/27/07, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/07, semi linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing CentOS 5 (again)... and I'm having trouble with my X config (I _think_). If I 'startx' then switch to a console (using CTRL+ALT+F*) and then back to X (CTRL+ALT

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-10-02 Thread semi linux
altogether... are there any other suggestions? - Gareth On 9/7/07, Johnn Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi linux wrote: The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in anaconda? The crypted password

[CentOS] Anaconda Partial Freeze...

2007-10-02 Thread semi linux
Hey, I'm trying to run a kickstart script on a new piece of hardware... I've never used this HW before, so it's possible that there may be something faulty... After the DVD boots, I type linux ks=http://blah/blah.ks; and hit enter. Once I get to the anaconda line which says running /sbin/loader

[CentOS] Lan Kernel Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Linux Man
I'm building a Linux box to act as Proxy/Router/Firewall. I'm using CentOS 4.5, with an old motherboard (Asus A8V-X), and two Ethernet NIC, based on a realtek chip, that's widely supported under 2.4 and later kernel (the cards were functioning excellent in another PC whit Fedora Core 1). CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Lan Kernel Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Linux Man
No, it doesn't use that. The unusual things that I use is Nat (S and D), and mark to support TC. 2007/10/22, Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Linux Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm building a Linux box to act as Proxy/Router/Firewall. I'm using CentOS 4.5, with an old motherboard (Asus A8V

Re: [CentOS] Lan Kernel Problem

2007-10-23 Thread Linux Man
or knoppix witch module was loaded for your two nic. Then try a # modprobe your_module_name_here then # dmesg to look if both nics where recognized. If so you have to update your modprobe.conf Alain Regards On 10/22/07, Linux Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a Linux box to act

[CentOS] powernow-k8 config

2007-10-24 Thread Linux Man
Hello I'm building a router/proxy/firewall, the default governor is ondemand, but for this application, what governor is best suited? (for example conservative?) Thanks at all! Best regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Re: powernow-k8 config

2007-10-24 Thread Linux Man
I forgot tell that the os is CentOS 5 i386 sorry 2007/10/24, Linux Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I'm building a router/proxy/firewall, the default governor is ondemand, but for this application, what governor is best suited? (for example conservative?) Thanks at all! Best regards

Re: [CentOS] How to create initrd.img

2007-11-12 Thread semi linux
On Oct 15, 2007 5:49 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, anyone to point me URL on initrd.img creating? I have custom kernel and want to create initrd.img for install media. mkinitrd /tmp/initrd.img 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.hrb -v -f create unusable file for

Re: [CentOS] How to create initrd.img

2007-11-14 Thread semi linux
On Nov 13, 2007 5:49 AM, David Hrbáč [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alain Spineux napsal(a): On Oct 15, 2007 2:09 PM, David Hrbáč [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, anyone to point me URL on initrd.img creating? I have custom kernel and want to create initrd.img for install media. mkinitrd

[CentOS] Sendmail rbl - Need to bypass rbl for one local address

2008-10-14 Thread Linux Guru
Hi, Hope any one can help me. I am running centos 5.2 with sendmail and rbl feature.  I need to recieve all emails come to my sales account regardless of rbl . I looked on web and gave up. All I found was if I added To:sales@ ok in my sendmail.mc , sales account will bypass rbl and get all

[CentOS] Cluster fail over database getting stopped

2008-11-23 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, I am running RHEL3u8 two node cluster,which is running oracle 9i database.I am facing problem while rebooting second node causing my oracle database get stopped in the active node 1 which is running my database.so i checked below probabilities to find out when the database get stopped.

Re: [CentOS] How to delay failed ssh auth

2008-11-28 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, You can create the iptables rules to block the ssh connection limit rate wise. Create a new chain named ssh_check /sbin/iptables -N SSH_CHECK Redirecting all request for 22 port to new chain SSH_CHECK /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j SSH_CHECK Then

[CentOS] squid server for 10,000 accounts

2008-12-06 Thread linux-crazy
Hi all, I am running squid proxy server integrated with Content filter Dansguardian, squidguard and clamav for Http level scanning on centos 5 .Configured webmin management tool to create and manage access control using squidguard plug in. Now it is serving request for 100 machines and Below

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-09 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, Tell me how much is the swap space you assigned and also you can use below commands to trace out the cause of such huge I/O.Also are using SAN or local storage?.I don't think so you need explanation for below commands.Run all the commands and redirect it to some file and send it to

Re: [CentOS] iptables questionson CentOS

2008-12-09 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, If you want to allow one ip to access one destination then you can write the below rule in iptables. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.101.230 -d centosip -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.101.230 -s centosip -j MASQUERADE For remianing ip you can write a

Re: [CentOS] cluster - ip address lost when service stopped

2008-12-22 Thread A Linux Fanatic
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3 /etc/cluster/cluster.conf And external ip address is removed from bond0. - I assume here external IP is 10.0.181.41, right? Thanks Gowrishankar Rajaiyan | A Linux Fanatic

Re: [CentOS] cluster - ip address lost when service stopped

2008-12-23 Thread A Linux Fanatic
Fabio Macchi wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of A Linux Fanatic Sent: martedì 23 dicembre 2008 06:08 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] cluster - ip address lost when service stopped Fabio Macchi wrote

[CentOS] kcapid heavy cpu usage

2009-01-03 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, We are running java application on centos4 update 5 64 bit on sun blade x6250 hardware.But for the last couple of days we observed that kacpid daemon eating more cpu.Attached the top output below.Can any one suggest me how to fix the same since it is my critical production i need your

[CentOS] oracle10gR2 start up script for Centos 5 rgmanager

2009-01-06 Thread linux-crazy
HI, I am running oracle 10GR2 with ASM (raw luns) on two nodes running centos 5 cluster for high availability.Can any one provide me the oracle star tup (start,stop and status )script to use by the cluster rgmanager so that it will stop , start and check the status by the cluster .I am in

[CentOS] Apache Server Tuning for Performance

2009-01-20 Thread linux-crazy
Server built: Jan 30 2007 09:56:16 Kernel : 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 16:36:54 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Server Hardware : MAIN MEMORY (i) Memory Size 4 GB Dual-Core Intel 5160 processors. httpd.conf Timeout 300 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000 KeepAliveTimeout 150

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Linux Advocate
enough is enough already. can some centos admin please discipline, ban and/or get rid of Radu-Cristian FOTESCU aka beranger...@yahoo.ca please? not only has he physically threatened a contributor, his language behavior are more than inappropriate for such a professional

[CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
guys, i have installed mailscanner, spamassassin, etc on my machine. This was done sometime ago. Some of these rpms i got not frm centos repos. What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. yum info packagename just says; repo :

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
Frank, On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Linux Advocate wrote: What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. rpm -qi packagename # rpm -qi spamassassin Name: spamassassin Relocations: /usr

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. rpm -qi packagename # rpm -qi mailscanner Name: mailscanner Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.74.13 Vendor:

[CentOS] RPMs for vispan , spamstat, phplistadmin

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
Guys, i have heard of vispan, phplistadmin, spamstat from the mailscanner manual and would like to experiment with them. 1. Any thoughts on them? ( i am trying to avoid mailwatch bcos i think vispan is better fit for reporting) 2. I have googled for their centos rpms but no luck? Any ideas

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
Yes, I have found this is a limitation of yum. It would be nice if the information about the source repository could be stored somewhere. If these were installed after the initial OS installation, and you haven't done a yum clean, you might be able to glean some info from the cache: #

Re: [CentOS] firewall question

2009-08-06 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message From: William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 4:15:40 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] firewall question On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: Or IPcop? BTW,

[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
guys, i have the yum plugin - fastest mirror . But not even once i have seen it selecting repos which are near my region such as japan or australia ( where i get the best speeds). Something is wrong. It seems stuck with these 3 sites ; Determining fastest mirrors * ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de :

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
i have tried yum clean all , yum clean metadata - Original Message From: Linux Advocate linuxhous...@yahoo.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56:37 PM Subject: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
Hi Linux Advocate, I have found this a problem for the Australian servers I manage as well. I suggest you manually test the speed of some local mirrors then manually specify a mirror rather than relying on the fastest mirror plugin. If your ISP mirrors content locally then that'd

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
inetnum: 60.48.0.0 - 60.54.255.255 netname: XDSLSTREAMYX descr:Telekom Malaysia Berhad descr:Network Strategy descr:Wisma Telekom descr:Jalan Pantai Baru descr:50672 Kuala Lumpur country: MY . A couple different geo-ip

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
John R Pierce wrote: fwiw, it appears linux advocate is sending his email from a Malaysia IP per the email headres... $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic.net/db

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
this; -disabled the fastestmirror plugin ( frm the conf file by setting enabled=0 ) -modified CentOS-Base.repo [base-1] name=CentOS-5 - Base #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=os baseurl=http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ exclude=postfix* perl

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
this; -disabled the fastestmirror plugin ( frm the conf file by setting enabled=0 ) -modified CentOS-Base.repo [base-1] name=CentOS-5 - Base #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=os baseurl=http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ exclude=postfix* perl-MIME

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
my repos are configured to use mirrorlist. how do i add mirrors manually? If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which will be commented out by default. Here's an example of how I use

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch=$basearchrepo=os baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Regards, Oliver oliver what kind of

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
I maintain the RPM that is used as part of CentOS Extras and that we use on the CentOS servers in question. I did some major work on the app that CentOS uses for mirrorlists and isolists over the weekend. Especially in the AP region, as we have picked up some mirrors there recently.

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-26 Thread Linux Advocate
my region Linux Advocate wrote: johny, thanx for the link. i think 'my' should point to jp, cn, tw, au,sg. the setup u have there is ;) do all ISP's in .MY use the same peering/trunking or do different providers have different sorts of international backbone

Re: [CentOS] What repo did this rpm come from? rpm-VVa failures on new install

2009-09-20 Thread Linux Advocate
Vendor: Fedora Project If (Vendor == Fedora Project) then repo is epel if (Vendor == Centos) then repo is Centos if (Vendor == Dag Apt Repository) repo is rpmforge useful info. thanx. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Microsoft .mdb files in Open office

2009-11-23 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, Is there is anyway to Open Microsoft .mdb files in open office on Centos 5.3 ? Thanks linux ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Installation Help needed , CentOs on FC9

2009-02-05 Thread Linux student
Hi , I want to install centos on fc9 machine remotely and i don't want to ask/request datacenter people for installation .Is there any possibility to do this using live CD? yes i am allowed to request datacenter to boot system from LiveCD. Thanks ___

Re: [CentOS] Installation Help needed , CentOs on FC9

2009-02-05 Thread Linux student
Lanny Marcus on 2009-02-05 20:33 PM +0500, wrote : On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Linux student mysubli...@gmail.com wrote: I want to install centos on fc9 machine remotely and i don't want to ask/request datacenter people for installation .Is there any possibility to do this using live

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:40:48 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] realtime backup From: CentOS List I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a

Re: [CentOS] Mail from domain problem

2009-02-23 Thread Linux Advocate
in /etc/postfix/main.cf , set myorigin=$mydomain and not as $myhostname. From: Xia Guowen xi...@51poi.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:07:38 PM Subject: [CentOS] Mail from domain problem Hi, I installed a CentOS 4.7

[CentOS] centos 5.2 - latest rpms for mailcanner , clamav and spamassassin

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
Guys, What repo has rpms for mailscanner, clamav and spamassasin? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Repo order - priority plugins

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
Guys, what is the best way of arranging the repos with regards to their priority? Any ideas, especially for all non base ones? /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo - priority = 1, 2 /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kbs-extras.repo

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 - latest rpms for mailcanner , clamav and spamassassin

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
from the rpmforge repo? - Original Message From: Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk Linux Advocate wrote: Guys, What repo has rpms for mailscanner, clamav and spamassasin? RPMforge has clamav and spamassassin, but not mailscanner. Mailscanner has RPMs available

Re: [CentOS] Repo order - priority plugins

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
replies below... On 2/27/09, Linux Advocate wrote: Guys, what is the best way of arranging the repos with regards to their priority? Any ideas, especially for all non base ones? /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo - priority = 1, 2 /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d

Re: [CentOS] Repo order - priority plugins

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 2/27/09, Linux Advocate wrote: Guys, what is the best way of arranging the repos with regards to their priority? Any ideas, especially for all non base ones? /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo - priority = 1, 2 /etc

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need to setup HylaFax which leads to my first question, anyone got an opinion on whether or not to use HylaFax or HylaFax+? We use Hylafax together with Avantfax and are very pleased with the results. I cannot speak to HylaFax+ . We

Re: [CentOS] Repo order - priority plugins

2009-02-27 Thread Linux Advocate
Thanx kal, and to all who replied. i have understood the issue better. /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kbs-extras.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kbs-misc.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo you can put rpmforge at 10 and epel and atrpms

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 - latest rpms for mailcanner , clamav and spamassassin

2009-02-28 Thread Linux Advocate
Craig White wrote on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:46:47 -0700: you can get clam* and newer spamassassin rpms from rpmforge I suggest rolling your own SA. It's as simple as downloading the tarball and rebuilding it with the included spec file. It's a simple one-line command and documented on

[CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + vanderkooij rpms

2009-02-28 Thread Linux Advocate
Guys, i have just installed ( after reading the docs on the mailscanner site and centos lists ) Mailscanner, and was wondering a.) How do i test my installation? is there some sample spam/ virus messages that can be used to test. b.) MailScanner -V shows; b.1) LibClamAV Warning:

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
to the Synaptics module. Being new-ish to linux, I can't figure out the text-based editor (vi) to modify the file. I have System Rescue CD and Ultimate Boot CD, but (apparently) they don't mount the installed system. vi is not too difficult. from the commandline prompt, type ; vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + vanderkooij rpms

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
thanx. - Original Message From: tdu...@sc.rr.com tdu...@sc.rr.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Cc: Linux Advocate linuxhous...@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:38:35 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge

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