nate wrote:
(There are even some things the simpler Red Hattish tools can do that
the Debian ones can't, easily. rpm -qa, for one.)
rpm -qa typically just lists all of the packages on the system,
the equivalent in debian is dpkg -l.
Not really equivalent. The output is only sort of
R P Herrold wrote:
oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than
hijacking.
It's just a natural evolution of the conversation. IMO, the answer to
the original question is No, so the obvious next direction to the
conversation is okay, what instead, then?
Nate's answer was
Beartooth wrote:
Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ?
I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm
family
Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range
of both sets of tools, from the ground up. RPMs are simpler to build
than DEBs, and
nate wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates...
only with new kernels.
...and then only when you want what the new kernel provides.
I have my systems configured so yum is allowed to download and install
new kernels, but don't usually reboot unless I
Jason Pyeron wrote:
0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to
change configurations.
But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some
kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off
from a huge world of software
Rainer Duffner wrote:
But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some
kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off
from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this.
I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server.
Jason Pyeron wrote:
It's possible to
install some kinds of software without root access,
We will only need to push our web application
Are we talking about PHP or similar? In that case, you probably don't
need root access. I wouldn't really call that installing software. I
reserve
Dnk wrote:
Is there any real advantage to using 64 bit when I am right at the 4gb
ram threshhold?
Yes, unless you're not turning on swap. Once you add swap to a system
with 4 GB of RAM, you need either PAE or 64-bit to actually use the
swap. Since 64-bit CPUs became cheap last year,
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Most of the time, I find that the batteries are going
True, but a laptop makes a good low-power server, appliance or terminal:
- Hook a Drobo to it, and suddenly it's a media server for your house.
You just saved $200 by not having to buy a Droboshare.
- Does it
Ian Forde wrote:
You can always use the MySQL community RPMs.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads
Second that. I'm not normally a big fan of replacing stock system
packages with third-party ones, but I've never had a problem with MySQL
AB's RPMs on CentOS.
A nice side
Ralph Angenendt 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, and it
installed.
You need a combined
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, and it
installed.
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mcclnx mcc wrote:
we plan to setup our ORACLE database server (32 bits DB) and use dell
r900 server. This server can put up to 128GB RAM.
We are thinking use 32 bits CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2. My concern about
CENTOS 5.2 is it only support up to 16 GB RAM on 32 bits O.S.
Any suggestion?
To get
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
The comparison of PAE to EMS/XMS is completely bogus, the
technologies aren't alike at all.
They are alike in that they add an extra layer of indirection to work
around the fact that the pointer size cannot change.
PAE does *NOT* involve any bank switching;
I
jk...@kinz.org wrote:
Hi Warren, Nice explanation.
Thanks!
I would like to ask what you
recommend people do if they want to be able to ssh in from
anywhere on the internet. Say they are going to be traveling and
they know they will have to login from machines they have no
control over,
jk...@kinz.org wrote:
You are visiting the Otis Public Library in Norwich CT. They have Linux
based public workstations (w/Internet access).
(http://www.otislibrarynorwich.org/index.htm)
Do you trust the library, all of their employees, and every person who
has ever used the computer you
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?
there a better way than opening port 143?
ssh tunnelling?
I agree, though the default CentOS sshd
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have to build my own rpms
For this I will have to work with the developers to find out where the
spec file is and how to change it without breaking something (or get
them to change it!).
If you can build the RPM, you do have access to the spec file. If
you're
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I await the developers help.
It's not hard to do it yourself.
First, find the .spec file:
$ cd the/source/trees/root
$ find . -name \*.spec -print
Then see if there is a top-level 'make' rule for building RPMs:
$ grep -l spec *akefile
Amos Shapira wrote:
Is there a way to freeze a list of installed packages and exact
versions, then tell yum (or any other tool/script) to install exactly
these verions either on the same or another systme?
There isn't a need for an explicit feature. Just update one server,
test it, then copy
Amos Shapira wrote:
Assuming I take the approach you suggest and have to restore the cache
(with the tested versions) after it's lost in a disaster, is there a
way to do that (short of backing it up)?
I don't see why this is a big deal.
First off, even way out at the end of a RHEL/CentOS
Sean Carolan wrote:
For a back-of-the napkin calculation can we not assume that data equal
to the entire size of the file will be streamed to the client during
playback?
You can if you're using some of the fudge factors others have mentioned
here. The headers for IP + UDP + RTP take at
lingu wrote:
1) How file systeem get corrupted on linux?
The same way any file system gets corrupted: data gets damaged or lost
on its way to the physical media.
2) why,when and how fsck to be run without lossing data?
The purpose of fsck is to bring the file system back into a
Ron Loftin wrote:
I'm considering a color laser printer
instead of the inkjets that I've been using, and I'm dithering back and
forth over the question of direct-connect or networked printer.
In that case, I'd get something with Postscript support. The native
printer language driver will
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I get pings around 60ms.
Pings within the same LAN? If so, that's slow even for 100BaseT. It
should be under 10 ms.
When I switch the cards around, the addon card attached to my
network, I get pings that alternate with one being ~1488ms and the
next 488ms! This
John R Pierce wrote:
raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes.
with 4 disks, thats just not an option.
for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is
probably fine... for primary database tablespace storage, I'd only use
raid1 or raid10.
RAID-10 has only one perfect
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I am trying to determine the root of an issue I am having.
How can I watch traffic destined to a specific port on my CentOS 5.1
box to see if its even hitting it? It would be udp traffic.
# yum install wireshark
# tshark udp port 1234
ann kok wrote:
inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255
What is this address meaning?
It means something's misconfigured. Can you post the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ?
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ann kok wrote:
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1B:21:07:A5:94
ONBOOT=yes
# BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
# BOOTPROTO=dhcp
Nowhere in here do you give the device a way to get an IP address.
You've turned off DHCP, but don't give a static address, so I guess it's
just picking a random value from
Les Mikesell wrote:
when has anyone seen a Centos system die from an update?
Just a few months ago, one of the Samba updates caused it to drop all
our Windows systems' mapped drives every 10 minutes or so. You'd be in
the middle of a big copy, and boom, there goes your share, and you have
Jimmy Bradley wrote:
would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine?
Not unless you put at least 4 GB of RAM in it, and from your description
of what you do, you have no good reason to do that.
If you don't have enough RAM to need 64-bit addressing, you're just
slowing
Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs?
Why not?
Because Linux is a perfectly good operating system already without
layering Emacs on top of it.
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James B. Byrne wrote:
I am not a fan of security through obscurity.
You're diluting a useful phrase.
It originally referred to practices where obscurity was the _only_
source of security. As soon as you saw through the obscurity, there was
no security. Of course, this means that there
Niki Kovacs wrote:
when doing a backup database dump,
the resulting dumpfile will be iso-8859-1.
This is controlled by the setup for the tables themselves. MySQL does
have a default character set, but it will let you create each individual
table in any character set you like, and even mix
Centos wrote:
any thing specific for centos ?
If you build and test the package on CentOS and it works, then you've
built a package for CentOS. There's no need to make it any more
difficult than that.
All that changes when you move an RPM from one system to another is how
packages are
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
- Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried
this with /path/to/dump my switches -v /home/me/dump.log
But that just produced an empty file.
Try appending 21 (without the quotes) to that command.
- Have the dump file be date-stamped with the
Scott McClanahan wrote:
grep out the next 5 lines after the first and only instance
The scope of grep's view of the world is a single line. At any one
time, it knows nothing more.
If you need to deal with multiple lines, I suggest perl. Untested code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while () {
Scott McClanahan wrote:
I'd like to skip those lines. I'd like to skip the line with bar and
the following five lines.
In that case, the perl code would be:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$eat = 0;
while () {
if (m/bar/) {
$eat = 6;
}
if ($eat) {
--$eat;
}
else {
Brian Mathis wrote:
Messing with DNS is really the wrong way to go on this. You'd be
forcing all of the DNS servers involved to start messing with their
caches, update more frequently, etc.., pushing the problem out onto
everyone else, and you have no control over any of it really. Cache
time
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