Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather than on the new kernel. I just installed

Re: [CentOS] Re: yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/7/08, Robert Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Simpson wrote: do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in which case there would be a line like default=1 in grub.conf changing

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-05-22 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/22/08, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity. If you wanted to bond do you have to ask your network admin to configure a special switch setting for MAC addresses? depends on the mode of bonding http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Bonding

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Simpson
Checking /usr/share/zoneinfo/, i saw GMT, GMT0, GMT-0, GMT+0, UTC Greenwich. Does anybody knows the differences between all these or could provide a link to a reference? I found some infos but nothing that explains the subtlety. Basicly it comes down to GMT being based on the

Re: [CentOS] Re: kernels and irc

2008-06-06 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/5/08, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 6-5-2008 8:30 AM James Bunnell spake the following: i do pay for rhel. i made the mistake of converting to centos. damage is done. on the next major upgrade, i will return to rhel and will not

Re: [CentOS] Clustersuite package installation failed in Itanium server

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/9/08, Balaji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am new in Itanium server Installation and I have installed all the CentOS4.4 ia64 CDs and I have try to install clustersuite packages and i am getting the following error messages like error: %post(package name here) scriptlet failed,

Re: [CentOS] Clustersuite package installation failed in Itanium server

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/10/08, Balaji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I have installed emulator package in itanium server and then only i am installing the clustersuite packages in itanium server But i am getting the following error error: %post(package name here) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 and error:

Re: [CentOS] Hardware Specs

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/10/08, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:49 AM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose the easiest route if your into Dell/HP is just go to them and ask for Linux solutions. Dell I think claims to be the #1 hardware vendor for linux. They offer servers

Re: [CentOS] Commercial Support for CentOS 5 or above

2008-06-17 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/17/08, Daniel Chen (yongnche) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw there's one Commercial Support in Support menu on CentOS main page, but it's blank. Actually I'm looking for the commercial support for CentOS, is there anyone or organization which is doing this? Thank you very much.

Re: [CentOS] Centos on eeePC

2008-06-23 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/23/08, wonderer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Are there any experiences for CentOS 5 on one eeePC of Asus? Is to be considered here something? I consider myself as secondary equipment one eeePC 900 to add (here in Germany unfortunately at present only with Windows at this time).

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Simpson
Yup All upgrades / updates in the major versions (5.0 - 5.1 - 5.1) will happen automatically when you run yum upgrade, and when it's officially released for updates. And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other Linux distro also works like this sorry for the studid question but do we

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Simpson
Thanks guys. these things often occur to me at work where i am surrounded by windows boxen and 22 is blocked on the firewall. had to get special dispensation for gmail! /me has instant gratification problems :-) ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] bittorrent

2008-06-25 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6/25/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: After reviewing the man pages again (the upmteenth time), no help. might the default upload/download rate limits be bringing you down ? iirc, almost all BT clients have some limit or the other... rtorrent perhaps

Re: [CentOS] how do I find out which nameserver returns a DNS query?

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Simpson
Ok, sorry, let me re-phrase. I want to know on my own server, which of my nameservers replied to the DNS query. In this example 4.2.2.1 is our ISP's upstream DNS server, which is configured in /etc/resolv.conf - so it should technically appear there. But, let's say I query

[CentOS] bcm43xx CentOS5

2008-07-17 Thread Michael Simpson
Hi there, i am looking for a bit of advice on how to proceed with a wee problem that i am having. I have a BCM4306 pcmcia card (one of the later revisions) that i use to connect to my wpa2 wireless network. This is running on an old Dell Latitude (circa 1999). I used to use fedora (7,8 and then 9)

Re: [CentOS] bcm43xx CentOS5

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Simpson
I have other wireless devices using the same AP with no problems, and the same laptop performs well when booted into Windows, so this appears to be a problem with the bcm43xx drivers. I keep hoping that each kernel update will improve the situation, but so far in vain. b43 is great with the

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6 December 2010 15:40, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:27 AM, David Sommerseth d...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Mumble gamers' VOIP server (murmur)

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Simpson
On 13 March 2011 09:03, Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: I found a bug in the RPM: /etc/murmur needs to be owned by mumble-server.mumble-server so that it can write to its sqlite DB. There is a great write up in the section tips and tricks on the mumble website for installing it on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 php configure errors

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Simpson
On 14 March 2011 17:35, Roberto Alvarado ralvar...@gtdinternet.com wrote: You need to install the devel packages: libxml2-devel.i386 libxml2-devel.x86_64 I find that, as a general rule, if trying to install something that isn't in the repositories that i use and it errors out with error x

Re: [CentOS] Mumble gamers' VOIP server (murmur)

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Simpson
On 15 March 2011 19:07, Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: BTW, I found that the initscript included in the Fedora RPM launches the server as root instead of mumble-server (unprivileged user) and murmur must drop privs once started. This causes the log file and sqlite DB to be

Re: [CentOS] Installation of various tools in centos

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Simpson
On 24 March 2011 10:20, hirdesh kumar hirdes...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is regarding the Centos 5.5. Now I want to install Amber Molecular dynamics software. But it requires few pre-requisite of gfortran compiler. Can any one tell me from where I can get the same for centos 5.5. Hirdesh

Re: [CentOS] centos server network speed check???

2011-03-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 29 March 2011 11:32, Anthony akcen...@anroet.com wrote:  On 29/03/11 11:29, mcclnx mcc wrote: To answer your questios: 1. network is Intranet not internet. 2. servers CPU and I/O are very light.  We did use sar -u and sar -b to check. 3. is NOT only one server has this network slow

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4 April 2011 23:11, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: I have to provide a reliable and scalable infrastructure, and that requires a reliable provider / updates. While I do not need Centos 6 today, this development cycle has certainly raised questions as to whether the

[CentOS] php53 and pear

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Simpson
Hi all We require some packages installed through pecl (apc and memcache) which we have done on CentOS 5.5 by installing php 5.2 from testing and also installing php-devel and php-pear to much success! We would like to move to php 5.3 after 5.6 comes out but I note that there is no specific

Re: [CentOS] Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Simpson
On 15 September 2011 19:58, James Nguyen ja...@callfire.com wrote On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:02 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: James Nguyen ja...@callfire.com So the premise for this question is that I setup an exclude=*.i368,*.i686 in my yum.conf. While doing a yum update I

Re: [CentOS] Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Simpson
There is a 64 bit flashplayer now that seems to work fine on 5.x and 6.x.  This is an old link so not sure if it's still good. http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html Sorry for continuing the OT but i don't want some poor sod finding the above in google The 10square plugin

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 7 December 2011 12:46, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 05:32:00 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: There is also use of denyhosts and fail2ban. They allow only few attempts from one IP, and all users can share attacking IP's (default is every 30 min) so you are

Re: [CentOS] UUID for network cards

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Simpson
On 15 December 2011 13:23, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 12/14/2011 04:47 PM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: Hello, The server connects correct the network with the updated HWADDR without any UUID. Why do I need an UUID? Thank you for help in advance. I'm only speculating

Re: [CentOS] Disable autoneg on r8169?

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Simpson
On 20 December 2011 14:34, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: In article 4ef0939c.9030...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 12/20/2011 12:59 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: 1. The switch being used has autoneg off and has port

Re: [CentOS] rsync from rescue boot

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
right, or ssh isn't allowing it and giving a bad error message. There was a buggy version of rsync that did this. It wasn't initialising the ssh session properly from my email a while ago: On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Ned Slider wrote: On 23/08/11 12:35, Michael Simpson wrote: Hello Is anyone else

Re: [CentOS] new mysql installation, kinda stuck- sorta solved

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3 February 2012 07:22, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Bob Hoffman writes: When you run into this kind of problems you can just remove or rename /var/lib/mysql and restart the service, it should reset you back to square one. Of course, make a backup first! Sometimes you need to run

Re: [CentOS] SSD Drives

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2 February 2012 18:19, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone installed a high I/O application such as an email server on SSD drives?  Was thinking about doing two SSD's in RAID1.  It would solve my I/O latency issues but I have heard that SSD's wear out quickly in high I/O

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Simpson
On 10/16/08, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:47 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: sbeam wrote: does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Simpson
Hmm, I am pretty sure at some point in the past registering to RHN was free without entitlements. That is how I have delegated systems and entitlements to other people within RPMforge. Maybe it is different now. I will have to find out and document on the Wiki in detail. -- -- dag

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Simpson
On 12/23/08, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: My LAN is behind a Netgear router, which does NAT. On the CentOS server I have fail2ban running. This morning my router reported 3 different IPs attempting to send UDP packets to port 38950, Since each address is only seen 4-5

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Simpson
On 12/23/08, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Michael Simpson wrote: GRC reports that ports are stealthed Try www.auditmypc.com or nmap-online.com rather than grc to look for open ports What advantages do they have, in your opinion? they're not grc auditmypc has been mentioned

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, PHP, Basic GIS

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Simpson
On 12/23/08, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Basically - the data will be plotted as a grid of regular hexagons. When locality information (museum record or photo voucher record in our own database) exists, the hexagon the record sits in gets drawn a

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question. - when to reboot

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/15/09, Kenneth Burgener kenn...@mail1.ttak.org wrote: On 1/9/2009 9:49 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: If a hard reboot is what you are attempting to avoid, with 'kexec' even the Linux kernel can be reloaded without a hardware reset. This is convenient if you want to avoid the long system

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/22/09, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de wrote: Warren Young wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM,

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Simpson
On 08/07/2009, Flaherty, Patrick pflahe...@wsi.com wrote: is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? I ask that cause of http://www.h-online.com/security/Rumours-of-critical-vulnerabi lity-in-OpenSSH-in-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux--/news/113712 and

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - null security context

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/29/09, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: . Does anyone use SELinux on their work-station i.e. the place where you try things out, debug things etc?? or is it really only for stable systems where not many OS changes and new program trials occur? I know that asterisk doesn't play

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Simpson
Miss Mailers anyone? http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/miss-mailers/ mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/30/09, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009 09:32:27 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:37 PM To:

Re: [CentOS] Lost konqueror navigation toolbars

2009-02-19 Thread Michael Simpson
On 19/02/2009, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:31:59 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: And to think we laughed at Windows for its registry, while both Gnome and KDE have implemented much of the same... No lessons learned here. Not the same at all.

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-04-01 Thread Michael Simpson
On 01/04/2009, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Is OpenSolaris still closely controlled by Sun? I don't know if Sun still governs OpenSolaris, I know they are very tight as often new technologies are rolled from OpenSolaris to Solaris, but OpenSolaris might

Re: [CentOS] Latest updates break b43 wireless

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Simpson
On 02/04/2009, Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/1 Terry Polzin foxec...@wowway.com: Can't connect to network even with no security. Is this possibly a firmware issue? I'm not seeing this problem. The broadcomm adapter on my laptop (see

Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Simpson
On 04/04/2009, Andrew Colin Kissa and...@topdog.za.net wrote: The BB bold does have VPN support at least i have tried the Cisco VPN concentrator connection and it works. I have not tested the other VPN's On 03 Apr 2009, at 11:43 PM, Scott Silva wrote: I can ssh from my blackberry, but no

Re: [CentOS] Update notification

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 28/04/2009, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/28/09, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: CentOS 5.3 New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop notification area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be

Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 05/05/2009, Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org wrote: Chris Boyd wrote: i use puTTY on symbian (UIQ3) on a SE p990i works with PKI but i don't think it has ssh-agent when i get my nokia n97 then i will continue to use it mike ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 07/05/2009, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Jason Aubrey wrote: I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it were

Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-20 Thread Michael Simpson
On 19/05/2009, Michael Casey michaelcase...@gmail.com wrote: It was down when I posted, thanks for the reply, It's online now :) i like to use http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ in these circumstances useful 2nd line check bw mike ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] How to remove the wrong wireless firmware module

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 05/06/2009, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: Welcome to the wonderful world of broadcom wifi. I use a bcm4306 rev3 with the stock kernel. I followed the instructions from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 using the bcm43xx legacy instructions The main difference

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 05/06/2009, Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Matt Harrington wrote: I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian. Any pointers? Linode offers you a xen virtual host - you can pick any distro you want,

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Simpson
On 12/06/2009, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: According to the guidance a linuxwireless.com the b43 driver (not bcm43xx or b43legacy) should work with the 4312 device. If I can't get bcm43xx and bcm43xx-microcode5.fw to work, then I may try to install the b43 driver and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on SSDs...

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Simpson
On 13 April 2011 18:08, Jim Nelson j...@broadtime.com wrote: On 4/13/2011 12:28 PM, John Doe wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if there are specific steps to take to install CentOS on SSDs... By example, no swap partition? Format with a flash fs? Sysctl parameters? Thx, JD We're running

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Simpson
On 13 April 2011 21:06, Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org wrote: Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. /var/log/messages was full of ntpd[7313]: frequency error -1707 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM messages. There was a lot of messages about the system limit for the maximum number of semaphore

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Simpson
On 17 May 2011 11:03, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:58:31PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Yeah...for you...think of the poor moderator! I'd be more than happy to moderate the list.  I can assure you that the current trolls will be back in their cages

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs ESXi

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Simpson
On 19 May 2011 05:39, Lucian luc...@lastdot.org wrote: No and I don't think it's the hypervisor's job to do that. Even in ESXi I don't think it's the hypervisor itself that does that. You could try however to mess with Openvswitch if you insist on such features, at least until someone decides

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Simpson
On 23 May 2011 11:04, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Doesn't SATA and SAS drives also wear out? Not in such a clear way related to usage.  You could have a SATA disk that you write to 24 hours a day and it could last for years.  With an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Simpson
On 16 June 2011 01:20, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Gordon Messmer wrote: Nothing that Red Hat did has increased the burden on CentOS. so says the person who has not done it - the rpm tool changed, adding a non-backward compatible compression scheme. as I

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Simpson
On 28 July 2011 03:09, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: you can build the kernel RPM

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-19 Thread Michael Simpson
On 19 August 2011 06:22, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:54:56PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: install the IUS package. Is there any reason to avoid IUS and stay with the CentOS package? No, not really. TUV broke php53 and it won't be fixed in any useful

[CentOS] rsync CR upgrade

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Simpson
Hello Is anyone else having problems on 5.6 using the new rsync from the CR repo I have only managed to get rsync (called from the cli) working again after downgrading it to the previous 2.x release as the newer version was just spitting out the ssh usage information and failing. This server is

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

2010-05-13 Thread Michael Simpson
sorry for bumping the thread, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589332 not bug but feature. seems a shame to have built in obsolesence from RH. also means new laptop i bought for the purpose of using 6 when it comes won't work even though it is several generations of cpu newer than my

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

2010-05-17 Thread Michael Simpson
On 16 May 2010 10:39, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 05/15/2010 11:48 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: What would be the proper way to request such a thing? s/request/offer to do this/ and its game on. Open an issue at bugs.centos.org, with the details, and we can help from there on.

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Simpson
On 31 July 2010 14:52, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: Is there any reason to use LVM on a personal desktop install of CentOS? It seems to me, for my purposes, that LVM is just a pain in the neck -- although I've always just let CentOS set it up during the install in the past.  I would like to

Re: [CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Simpson
as mentioned before there is azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ runs on java though but supports dht mike On 12/19/07, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:37:17 -0500: Anybody know how I can do the equivalent distributed for CentOS on

Re: [CentOS] name resolution question

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/18/08, Joe Greenseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain the following behavior to me? /snip from the DNS and BIND bible :-) talking about the options statement in resolve.conf The second setting you can modify is ndots, which sets the minimum number of dots a domain name

Re: [CentOS] Overclocking core 2 duo on centos 5

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/4/08, Ern jura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there ever overclocked core 2 duo on centos 5 Have to ask why you would want to do that? CentOS is an enterprise OS designed to give as stable a platform as possible so overclocking your processor is kinda going against the aim of using

Re: [CentOS] Wireless DELL M90 with CentOS 5.1 - pb with key encryption

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/7/08, MOKRANI Rachid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a laptop DELL M90 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. I'm using centOS 5.1 kernel 2.6.18-53 i386. I installed ndiswrapper v 1.52 I installed the driver http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R164255.EXE The wireless-tools is v

Re: [CentOS] Security help desperately needed - more info

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/7/08, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:53, Milton Calnek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: - samba Begin WARNING!! Errors when creating subnets: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down. : 1

Re: [CentOS] Security help desperately needed - more info

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/7/08, Milton Calnek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Simpson wrote: Hi there, Should the IP address supplied be the actual address for eth0 rather than the network address? ie 192.168.0.1/24 rather than 192.168.0.0/24 I dunno... what does 192.168.0.1/24 mean? what does

Re: [CentOS] Security help desperately needed - more info

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/7/08, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:13, Michael Simpson wrote: I could be wrong (often am) but it might be worth trying it out to see if it gets rid of the error pertaining to subnet creation. I took the notation as I set it from a book when I

Re: [CentOS] NFS mount

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2/15/08, neptuno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i mount a nfs share with user and password thanks Roilan http://www.google.com/search?q=mounting+nfs+share+centos+user+password try the third link down and please remember that GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND when it comes to asking questions like

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3/7/08, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3-6-2008 3:58 PM Scott R. Ehrlich spake the following: So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data

Re: [CentOS] Re: disable SELinux

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3/11/08, Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/03/2008, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this thread has successfully covered all ways to skin a cat... * chkconfig * system-config-firewall/securitylevel * manually * system-config-services Agreed.

Re: [CentOS] Server to server communication

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3/19/08, Jim Wildman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, D Steward wrote: It looks to me like OpenAMQ will be the ultimate solution I'm amazed that RedHat with a finger in almost every opensource pie hasn't backed this or come out with their own competing option, since it

Re: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3/19/08, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey scott... are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? might it be possible that

Re: [CentOS] apache log directives

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/9/08, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to specify a CustomLog file name in apache based on the vhost? for example, I have 10 vhosts and instead of giving each one a CustomLog directive and specifying a different log file I'd like to do something in global that

Re: [CentOS] aide questions, please

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/9/08, Steve Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Marc Wiatrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think those errors are because selinux is off. Hmm, I don't ever really turn selinux off, but I had always thought aide treated

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/9/08, Timothy Selivanow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm try to bond a few interfaces together with the hopes of getting increased throughput, and I'm using a cisco Catalyst 2900 as the switch. I've tried using mode 0, 5, and 6 with nothing special on the switch, and mode 4 with some ports

Re: [CentOS] aide questions, please

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/10/08, Steve Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mike, I'm not sure I can do the reboot today as I have had to put the server into a temporary production status. The thing that is sort of bothering me, though, is that so much trouble occurs because of selinux when trying to use

Re: [CentOS] aide questions, please

2008-04-11 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/10/08, Steve Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I tried the new config file - the downloaded one - and it still gives me the errors. I then went through and removed the xattr options on all of them with no luck still. I have not ran the --check yet. OK, so what if I enable

Re: [CentOS] Centos issues

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4/13/08, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:56 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, hamood Iqbal wrote: snip but if i cant solve it i will switch back to suse. Did you consider it to be unfriendly to compare one project with another

Re: [CentOS] disable auto-negotiation gigabit ethernet

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Simpson
On 20 March 2012 14:29, sebastian cen...@secretusenet.com wrote: I can not disable the auto-negotiation (eth1) on my centos 6.2 via ethtool or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 Autonegotiation is mandatory for 1000BASE-T as both sides have to work out which pairs they are going to use.

[CentOS] yum update error

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Simpson
Hi folks bit of an odd one over the last few days i have been getting [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server error Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=updates error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (though not just with

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

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Simpson
On 25 October 2012 21:19, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Frank Cox wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com Subject: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6 I am about to set up a computer with Centos 6 that I'll

Re: [CentOS] apcupsd

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:56, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Anyone else around using apcupsd? I seem to be seeing a problem, and I'd like someone to check me on it: I edit /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol to replace the value of SHUTDOWN from /sbin/shutdown to /bin/false (we don't want 3 or 6

Re: [CentOS] who's in charge of the fortune d/b?

2012-11-30 Thread Michael Simpson
Then there's the skin I read about a decade ago, with a sysadmin skin of Doom (use the shotgun on that hung process) mark That would be psDoom http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ The more resources a process used the bigger the monster was that represented it mike

Re: [CentOS] sysctl -p at startup?

2013-01-08 Thread Michael Simpson
On 2 January 2013 17:54, Emmett Culley emm...@webengineer.com wrote: I understand that the contents of /etc/sysctl.conf should be read and executed at system startup. However that never happens and I have to run sysctl -p after every reboot to get the settings I want. This is happening on

Re: [CentOS] sysctl -p at startup?

2013-01-08 Thread Michael Simpson
Mike: Just on a hunch, check your /etc/rsyslog.conf file and look for: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. kern.* /dev/console If you see that, comment it out, reload rsyslog and that should

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Simpson
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014, Karanbir Singh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Great news guys, well done.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Simpson
On 9 January 2014 13:35, Leslie S Satenstein lsatenst...@yahoo.com wrote: As I see it, more and more alternatives to Oracle are in the market. Hadoop, is cutting into Oracle's revenue. So, RH needs to concentrate on promoting JBOSS and a version of HADOOP. Don't worry about Oracle. Fedora