Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-13-2009 6:35 AM Max Hetrick spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: As for IMAP access, Horde is fine. It will also work with other backends like Kolab if you so choose. I also didn't want to use Zimbra because I run my own spam and virus scanning, and I didn't want to downgrade to what

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-12-2009 10:02 PM Nguyen Hai Chau spake the following: Thanks to Joseph and Nate for helpful answers. A stupid question: I do not receive your mails although already subsribed to this list. I read your answers on mail archive. I set up my account to receive email from list but it seems

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 11:46 AM James B. Byrne spake the following: On: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:36 -0700, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create iptables blocks when things like this happen. I went to the source forge website, but the rh

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 2:21 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button

Re: [CentOS] unable to read partition table in log

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-18-2009 1:04 PM P.A spake the following: Hi recently I noticed in the messages log, the following error May 18 15:59:52 mail kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 18 15:59:52 mail kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. May 18 15:59:52 mail kernel: sdb : status=0,

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-18-2009 3:18 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists-XASut8F7j/3ytjvyw6y...@public.gmane.org wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: I

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-19-2009 8:11 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. It

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 6:14 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 equinox86-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in when removed from the snap server? The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 8:32 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 3:19 PM Akemi Yagi spake the following: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate centos-T6AQWPvKiI1cRAk/vaj...@public.gmane.org wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I think the point is that there must be something very wrong/broken if a) security updates are missing for over a month, and b)

Re: [CentOS] xen kernel can't boot

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-21-2009 9:52 AM cjzjm100 spake the following: I had installed the kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 .However ,when i chosed that,the system could't boot.It just always reboot!When i chosed the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5,there was nothing wrong! What's the problem? Corrupt kernel?

Re: [CentOS] Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible

2009-05-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-22-2009 7:22 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, MHR mhullrich-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: I'm looking for any intelligent commentary on this - it may be a little off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows about this. �This isn't

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-22-2009 10:17 AM Peter Hopfgartner spake the following: JohnS wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 09:44 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: snip Would it make sense to install the kernel from CentOS 5.2? Any contraindications? Regards, Peter --- Now why in the world

Re: [CentOS] Fixing to bite the dust?

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-22-2009 5:18 PM sam spake the following: I dunno Nate, It started all this extraenous logging stuff after kicking memory from a paltry 256m up to 2 Gigs. The system has on occasion crashed with little else in the log files that would indicate any kind of other hardware problem,

Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-25-2009 9:26 AM William Warren spake the following: Tosh wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi Bill, On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? Something I totally left out in my last email - atleast 2 people have reported

Re: [CentOS] Fixing to bite the dust?

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 4:49 AM sam spake the following: Scott, All the memory is first rate stuff, DDR2 and new. Not sure if it *could* be a memory problem, as I've not dropped back to the 256 config to see if they go away but the whole machine crashed last night, and am now just going to do a

Re: [CentOS] problem with centos upgrade

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-26-2009 11:15 PM fabian dacunha spake the following: Dear All, I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl errors and it terminates OS is centos 5 (final) the part of errors reported

Re: [CentOS] Deluge torrent client issue

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-27-2009 6:39 AM attila.ma...@orange-ftgroup.com spake the following: Hi All, Does someone know, why I'm receiving the following error message for the Deluge torrent client under 5.3, when I'm trying to access the Web interface ? DBusException : The name org.deluge_torrent.dbusplugin

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 9:25 AM Dianne Yumul spake the following: Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer. That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime, isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against anyway. I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 1:56 PM Dianne Yumul spake the following: On May 28, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: what sort of license is this distributed under ? I'm sorry but I'm not sure. It's software that supposedly comes with it when you buy it. But the server was assembled by somebody else

Re: [CentOS] DR Server for Windows Machines

2009-05-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-29-2009 2:06 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: I need to setup a CentOS box offsite to have a series of files replicated to it. My problem is this machine won't have Samba on it but I need to replicate the hierarchy in question in such a manner that I can restore from it and

Re: [CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

2009-06-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-1-2009 10:49 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 6-1-2009 9:43 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09 version

Re: [CentOS] release/update question

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 1:53 PM Radu-Cristian FOTESCU spake the following: --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Dag Wieers dag-ifyaizf+flcdnm+yrof...@public.gmane.org wrote: Communication problems are usually caused by both sides. Agreed. Besides the EUS source RPM packages are not released to the public, so

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 5:51 AM henry ritzlmayr spake the following: Hi List, optimizing the configuration on one of our servers (which was hit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior. The short story: On one of our servers an attacker did a brute force attack on dovecot

Re: [CentOS] how to debug random server reboots

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 2:30 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, One of our CentOS 5.3 randomly reboots, at different times of the day, and I can't see why it's doing it. I have looked through the logs, but don't see any thing in there that shows me why it has rebooted. How can I debug this?

Re: [CentOS] how to debug random server reboots

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 2:46 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: On 6/2/09, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 6-2-2009 2:30 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, One of our CentOS 5.3 randomly reboots, at different times of the day, and I can't see why it's doing it. I have looked

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-3-2009 2:27 AM Peter Hopfgartner spake the following: Epilogue: I've tried to disable TSO (ethtool -K eth0 tso off), as was suggested on the poweredge list. This did not help. I've configured the machine to start with the 5.2 kernel in /boot/grub/grub.conf, changing the default. It

Re: [CentOS] release/update question

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-3-2009 6:10 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:14:55 +0200: Probably the latter. CentOS 5 SP 3 would maybe have been a better choice than CentOS 5.3 Not if one wants to stay in sync with the RHEL naming scheme :-)

Re: [CentOS] how to debug random server reboots

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 11:53 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: On 6/3/09, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 6-2-2009 2:46 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: On 6/2/09, Scott Silva ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/w...@public.gmane.org wrote: on 6-2-2009 2:30 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 9:09 PM John R. Dennison spake the following: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:01:35PM -0700, Linux Advocate wrote: o godd. i have a quite a few linux boxes and not even one has been hacked. oh man !! That you have

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 10:18 PM bruce spake the following: you and i agreee on him figuring out what web apps are causing the issues.. or in fact, exactly what the 'atack' process is? i didn't see the initial threads.. was this simething that he discussed? did he say what the atack process was doing?

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-3-2009 11:30 AM Dave Jones spake the following: Epilogue: I've tried to disable TSO (ethtool -K eth0 tso off), as was suggested on the poweredge list. This did not help. I've configured the machine to start with the 5.2 kernel in /boot/grub/grub.conf, changing the default. It has

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-04 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-4-2009 5:37 AM Theo Band spake the following: I have a quad core CPU running Centos5. When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%. If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100%. This one is easy. 4 cpu's, 100% total each, a maximum of 400%. Since one

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-04 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-4-2009 2:14 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 6-4-2009 5:37 AM Theo Band spake the following: I have a quad core CPU running Centos5. When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%. If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100

Re: [CentOS] Intel Graphics support in future releases

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-6-2009 5:04 PM Ron Blizzard spake the following: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM, RedShiftredshift-lpo8gxj9n8azioh1ieq...@public.gmane.org wrote: I had the same question in the back of my mind. There are some great evolutions going on right now, but they take a lot of time to mature.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 cbea

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2009 4:42 PM Dmitry Zaletnev spake the following: Hi! I have a question to ask: where can I download CentOS 5.3 for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, and if this is impossible - ppc64 version. I want to install it onto my Sony PS3. Sincerely, Dmitry Zaletnev I don't think there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 cbea

2009-06-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-12-2009 2:14 AM Dmitry Zaletnev spake the following: What about http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/ There's two versions of YDL 6.1 iso: 112008 and 022009 (NEW), the first is fulfilled with bugs (rpc bind doesn't work, PS3 forget IP after power down...) and the second with bug fixes

Re: [CentOS] how to set ntpd listen only 127.0.0.1 ?

2009-06-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-12-2009 12:17 AM luc...@lastdot.org spake the following: 2009/6/12 MontyRee chulm...@hotmail.com: Hello, all. I would like to use ntpd for time sync not rdate or ntpdate. but after installation the ntpd, I found that listened at all interfaces like below. udp0 0

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 cbea

2009-06-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-12-2009 10:28 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I don't have a PS3, and if I did, I doubt I could pry my kids off of it long enough to even attempt this. yeah right Scott, pretend you wouldn't be playing with them :-) I was on an Xbox last weekend. Got

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
snip B .Can i conclude that the attacker came through the horde framework ( cmdshell.php) ? The horde framework was installed from the centos repo.!!! I don't think the horde set on CentOS is very current. I just used the tarball from the horde website, and I keep it current.

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-13-2009 7:56 AM Bob Puff spake the following: Hello, I just got back from a datacenter where I installed a new server running CentOS 5.3. I set up a software raid with md0 being /. (Only one mount, didn't split anything up.) I just discovered that instead of raid 1, it did raid

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
snip I was going to suggest that you just have them burn a CD with CentOS 5.3 on it...all you really need is CD1 if you do a bare bones install using a KVM over IP. We do it for our colos if they ask. Cant see why your hosting provider wouldnt, all they are out is the cost of the CD, and

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-13-2009 8:30 AM Bob Puff spake the following: you'd need a remote console of some sort on that box. many brand name servers have these, HP calls it iLO, Dell calls it DRAC, etc. these have their own ethernet port, which has to be connected to the network and configured. you'd also

Re: [CentOS] lost RHEL entitlements

2009-06-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-16-2009 3:13 PM John R Pierce spake the following: John R Pierce wrote: see Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 near the bottom of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide if you have 4, its similar but different. if you have 3, time to wipe and upgrade IMHO. oops, eat my

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-16-2009 10:26 PM Linux Advocate spake the following: cmdshell.php) ? The horde framework was installed from the centos repo.!!! I don't think the horde set on CentOS is very current. I just used the tarball from the horde website, and I keep it current. ok. its just that

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 12:33 AM Chadley Wilson spake the following: Hi All, I would be lying if I said I am a newbie, but I am rusty so please bear with me. I am looking for a how-to for Redhat or Centos to remake the installation CD. First let me explain: I have an installation disc supplied to

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 8:49 AM Jim Perrin spake the following: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Tru Huynhtru-ifyaizf+flcdnm+yrof...@public.gmane.org wrote: Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: ... LOL ... Tru Oh GREAT, first we reproduce his email without his company's consent, and

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 8:00 AM Chadley Wilson spake the following: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chadley Wilson Sent: 19 June 2009 03:56 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
snip [CW] My Apologies, I forgot to mention that I am not disassembling the diskboot.img for the USB drive, but rather boot.iso which I assumed is the iso that is loaded as a ram disc when you boot from the cd. That would be the wrong assumption. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 10:19 AM MHR spake the following: Is anyone else seeing this situation? I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2009 10:20 PM Chadley Wilson spake the following: The initrd's are created as part of the post section of the kernel RPM. If you can get your driver into the kernel rpm it should get into the initrd. [CW] Hi Scott, thanks for the response, so you are saying that if I get the kernel

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2009 2:31 AM Kai Schaetzl spake the following: Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about portsentry at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1580 and can be downloaded here:

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2009 5:28 AM Robert P. J. Day spake the following: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-23-2009 3:34 AM Kevin Thorpe spake the following: Sorry, I've still got problems. I'm trying to set up a new Samba user. I've done useradd to put them in passwd, I've done smbpasswd to set a samba password. They're in the required group (spendtrak) for this share. I've even restarted

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-23-2009 5:16 AM Robert Heller spake the following: snip Right. It is not a matter on 'commonness' either. The big companies will likely opt for official RHEL and be paying RedHat the premium support contract. The smaller companies will be using CentOS. I'm sure if RedHat really

Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options [Solved]

2009-06-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-26-2009 12:27 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options Seems

Re: [CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following: On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well.

Re: [CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/19/2011 11:16 AM Scott Silva spake the following: on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following: On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server

Re: [CentOS] Server offline :-( please help to repair software RAID

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/28/2011 12:40 PM Alexander Farber spake the following: Thank you all, it seems to have finished - I'm rebooting. Just curious why is the State of md3 active, while the others are clean? If I remember right, clean means it is completely synced and not being written to or mounted. Active

Re: [CentOS] Rsync 3 from rpmforge

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/27/2011 7:46 AM Jussi Hirvi spake the following: Thanks for a triple answer. :-) Now I remember - like I said, I solved this problem once already. Hm, I should document better what I do... - Jussi Where's the fun in that? ;) ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/5/2011 1:55 PM Dave Stevens spake the following: Hello All, I want to ask about CentOS and money. Please do not start some kind of shitstorm over this, it isn't productive. I have just been looking at archive.org to see when the paypal option went missing from the donate menu at

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/8/2011 10:46 AM Jason spake the following: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. snip You know what they say; Just because you are paranoid does not mean that some one is NOT out to get you! ___

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 11:47 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by following the licensing requirements and be happy with that? I hear ya Johnny... The only hurry I am in over 6 getting out is that FINALLY some of the whining will stop... For

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 11:40 AM Janne TH. Nyman spake the following: Who cares? I find it amazing that these guys still keep on building and providing considering how their users treat them. Team CentOS, keep your heads up. For me, you are still the best thing that happened since sliced bread. I

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: snip [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this piece has taken ... If I had known the comment by 'Radu Gheorghiu' was coming, about 'waiting for somebody to come and fill their pockets', I would have spent it

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/16/2011 2:45 PM cen...@911networks.com spake the following: On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:47:30 -0500 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by following the licensing requirements and be happy with that? Johnny please don't take

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) (not)

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/17/2011 9:36 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/17/2011 09:46 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5/16/2011 3:08 PM R P Herrold spake the following: snip [I see 14 new posts within the past hour that composing this piece has taken ... If I had known the comment

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/23/2011 11:02 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic spake the following: snip Then everybody cough on that and started endless flame-war. I survived the rapture to come back to this? LMAO http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/24/2011 1:06 PM Brunner, Brian T. spake the following: snip When the 7th seal is opened there will be silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour (Rev 8:1), implying that the net will be down world-wide. THAT will cause Armageddon all by itself (Rev 9:16, 16:16). I thought

Re: [CentOS] Initial 6.0 trees in QA

2011-05-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/26/2011 11:50 AM Steven Crothers spake the following: snip Fedora and Debian in my opinion are both superior to the way CentOS opens community development. Having one developer doing all the packaging (Johnny) is a waste of resources and intelligence. A simple repository where we can all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/13/2011 7:23 AM James B. Byrne spake the following: I just want to say that I really, really, appreciate the information given on this site: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/calendar What I appreciate is the lack of fighting and Is it done yet? posts that were flowing out before...

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/13/2011 9:48 AM Paul Heinlein spake the following: On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Devin Reade wrote: (I'm another one of those who has been delaying deployment of some new systems pending CentOS 6 due to wanting to maximize those systems' useful lifetimes.) I was wondering if hardware

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/14/2011 2:23 PM gvim spake the following: ,snip Then 21st, now 24th. Scientific Linux doesn't seem to have these problems. That's why I switched. Don't get it. gvim You forgot to switch lists... ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] getting old mail every 5 months or so

2011-07-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 7/5/2011 9:34 AM Bob Hoffman spake the following: Using centos 5.x, sendmail, as a server, downloading mail with thunderbird (although this happened with outlook too) every 5 or 6 months I open my mail client (thunderbird) and one of my mail accounts decides to download 1,000 or so

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 12:34 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 3:10 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all, I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
snip Craig, yes, and no. I am actually looking for a list of software packages that can be removed without breaking the running OS. like for example bluez-libs or cronie-anacron which isn't necessarily needed for a bare-minimum system to run. I honestly don't just want to delete stuff that

Re: [CentOS] dealing with spoofing

2011-09-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/1/2011 10:39 AM Kenneth Porter spake the following: --On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:48 PM -0400 Mailing Lists mailingl...@theflux.net wrote: http://www.openspf.org/Introduction - SPF FTW DKIM is another possibility. Blizzard (the game company) signs some (not all) of its mail with

Re: [CentOS] dealing with spoofing

2011-09-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 9/1/2011 1:14 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: On Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:43 PM -0700 Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: I get TONS of spam with legitimate DKIM signatures... DKIM and SPF do not stop you from getting spam. Their purpose is to keep you from getting joe

Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS

2010-03-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-25-2010 1:44 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: Hi all, I installed BackupPC on one of my Centos 5.4-machines following the wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC#head-725ed151d366bcf182cea92f765c373900cfc9dc, where BackupPC is installed from the c5-testing repo.

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

2010-03-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote: m.r...@... writes: m.r...@... wrote: [...] Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. Just a hammer, no

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB connection. I brought

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-16-2010 8:43 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000

Re: [CentOS] centralized user authentication

2010-03-25 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-25-2010 10:22 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: On 3/25/2010 12:04 PM, Steve Glasser wrote: Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth? I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap, configured with authconfig. I would start by

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problems on Centos 5.4

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-28-2010 9:35 AM Darmath spake the following: I installed CentOS 5.4on a WMWare Server virtual machine that's running on win7. Everything seems to work fine except I get a shit load of error messages from the console along the lines of when I type on the keyboard: Is the VMWare server

Re: [CentOS] yum to use different bind address

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-29-2010 5:31 AM Agnello George spake the following: Hi Is there a way i can use a diffent bind-addresss in yum . Thanks Yum shouldn't be binding to any address as it doesn't run a service.. It should try and access package info out through the default route of the machine

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-1-2010 6:42 AM Benjamin Franz spake the following: Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years,

Re: [CentOS] ClamAV clamscan command using huge amount of RAM

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-13-2010 9:56 AM Sean Carolan spake the following: We have a perl cgi script that accepts uploaded files and runs clamscan on them. While observing the system performance I noticed that each clamscan process consumes up to 250MB of RAM. Is this normal for ClamAV? This seems like an

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: which hardware for CentOS file server (Samba, 2 To storage, 50 users)?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Silva
snip And so on. In the end, I decided not to bother and just left. :o) Niki Good move. Something would have broke after you were done and YOU would surely be the new blame scapegoat. Everything was working great until HE was here... ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-27-2010 8:46 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: On 4/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gary Greene wrote: You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-1-2010 1:40 PM maillis...@gmail.com spake the following: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com mailto:rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: maillis...@gmail.com mailto:maillis...@gmail.com wrote: I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the

Re: [CentOS] Free and Robust Hotspot Management Software ?

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
snip - Linux-based solution: Endian Firewall - http://www.endian.com/en/solutions/technology/endianhotspot/ No hotspot functions in the free and open source version of Endian - FreeBSD-based solution: pfSense (see Captive Portal) -

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2010 2:22 AM Tom Brown spake the following: is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released? as far as i knew it was out - at least it seemed to drop on me on the 10th eg centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Remember... releases start to mirror before the official

Re: [CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-13-2010 9:37 PM sheraz naz spake the following: Hi, I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run up2date -l to get a list of updates but does that show packages that need to be

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