Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/26/11 5:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net mailto:bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
But it would allow other usages of that RAM. cache. Other programs with great memory usage. Of course, as mentioned earlier, you would have to test with your workload whether the extra overhead is more than made up with the extra memory availability. On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Warren

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Markus Falb wrote: On 22/07/2010 19:07, Warren Young wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:25 AM, John Doe wrote: I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain those exta 700MB... Very few programs can use PAE to get at that extra RAM. Can

Re: [CentOS] How current are packages?

2010-07-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Valentino wrote: I'm relatively new to CentOS. I ordered a VPS and requested CentOS 5.5. As I was installing packages, I noticed that some of the versions are pretty old - for example, Postfix is v 2.3 in the repo (and, according to Postfix's website -

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Thomas wrote: Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus It's worse than that. It's a Dell monitor on a custom built machine by someone who does not know what they are doing (me). Would a more focused picture help?

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 22, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Hi, I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or is the preferred way to upgrade to

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 22, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/22/2010 11:09 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I've read some posts in the forums which seems to indicate that not every CentOS version is well supported. Is it possible to install CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7

Re: [CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin Krieser
Another issue with trying to apply just security updates for older point updates is that newer updates may be built differently. On 5.3, a package may not require another package be installed. But at some point later on, say, 5.5, it may gain a dependency. So if you try to install it, it may

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/25/2010 8:49 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Anas Alnaffar wrote: I tried to run this command find -name *.access* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; Should have been: find ./ -name \*.access\* -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \; No

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Krieser
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:06 AM To: Robert Nichols Cc: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge On Mon, January 25,

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Anas Alnaffar wrote: I tried to run this command find -name *.access* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; and I have same error message Anas There must have been more to it, since the command above is invalid. you need to specify where to start the find.

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin Krieser
find on CentOS 5.4 supports find path -exec {} +; which avoids the negative effect of spawning new subprocesses when using -exec {} \; find on CentOS 4.8 does not support that. I'll have to give that a try sometime. A person gets used to a subset of a command, and doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Krieser
As mentioned previously, requiring certificates, and not allowing interactive logins, is safest. But even if you decide to allow interactive logins, there are things you SHOULD do. Disable admin/root login. Update sshd so that only named users can login via SSH, all other users that might

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:35 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How fast? The bigger issue is

Re: [CentOS] Install 32 or 64 bits

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Yaovi Atohoun schrieb: Hi all, I am going to install CENTOS 5..3 on three HP Proliant ML 350G servers. The processor is Quad-core Xeon E5420 and E5335 for one of them. They all have 1GB Memory. Should I install a 32 bits version or 64

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Rainer Duffner a écrit : Ideally, the zero'ing of the disk should take place before the OS is installed, via a boot-cd and using dd with the disk-device itself Erm... how exactly would you go about that? Let's say I want to do that with a

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning application sending disk images to an FTP server. The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and then stores it

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Rainer Duffner a écrit : Ever booted a live-CD? It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't recognize the controllers). The question was not about the

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Rainer Duffner a écrit : Yup. If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see where the throughput is best. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html Interesting thread. Guess I'll

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Kevin Krieser wrote: I'll second the recommendation for clonezilla. It knows enough about most filesystems (including windows ntfs) to only store the used blocks and it can use network storage over nfs, smb, or sshfs if you use

Re: [CentOS] magic.mime dependency problem between file and httpd

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 21, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: --- Package file.i386 0:4.17-15.el5_3.1 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime for package: httpd --

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very smooth. I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. I don't think I have ever had such a

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Joseph L. Casale schrieb: I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/ SMB shares. Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin Krieser
2.1's support ends in a couple months. The last time I tried to put a Linux on an obsolete box, it was on a computer with only 80MB of RAM. Pick an old enough distribution to fit that, and I had all sorts of problems getting a PCMCIA LAN card to work. If I had got it to work, it would

Re: [CentOS] simple if statement

2009-02-27 Thread Kevin Krieser
You don't really need to prepend the x if the $remaining is in quotes, do you? If you didn't use quotes, then you could end up with a error if $remaining isn't set. On Feb 27, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Tom Brown wrote: Hi Below if $remaining is empty i want the if to

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-29 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Matt Shields wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Krieser k_krie...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:20:47 Kevin Krieser wrote: The information IS in the headers, but many email

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM, cent osserver centoser...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Was that REALLY called for? Couldn't you have simply filed it in / dev/null? Yes, I

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:20:47 Kevin Krieser wrote: The information IS in the headers, but many email programs don't show the full headers, extracting only the information that many people want (subject, TO:, CC:, etc). So if you

Re: [CentOS] difference in x86 64 bit centos between 4.x and 5.x versions

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:41 PM, RobertH wrote: i am new to the x86 64 bit centos versions. ive always used the 32 bit version on industrial type HP hardware for those of you that are running x86 64 bit centos, other than specific hardware issues, are you finding that 5.x centos is better

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
You can install 5 on it, but you probably won't be too happy with it. Make sure to have more than the default amount of swap installed. On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
Just to comment that this was with an actual RH installation DVD, not CentOS. The only systems I've installed CentOS on has had at least 1GB of RAM. On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Kevin Krieser wrote: You can install 5 on it, but you probably won't be too happy with it. Make sure to have

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: Kevin Krieser wrote: At least with regard to the upstream provider, on X86 the desktop version has a limit of 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much more memory you have. And they removed the hugemem version, so instead of up to 64GB of RAM

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-06 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 06.12.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 23:57 +, Michael Holmes wrote: 2008/12/5 Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a server running

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-18 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:58 PM, thad wrote: Satchel Paige - Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings

Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-18 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:13 PM, mouss wrote: Jussi Hirvi a écrit : Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show (ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to say, for example rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp and get only argument list

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:32 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than guessing, why not look at the output from the rpm command he ran, which gives the name of the

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS 6's upstream be based on Fedora 10?

2008-07-30 Thread Kevin Krieser
I read this question as being Will RHEL 6 be based on Fedora 10? On 7/30/08 9:45 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hi All, The subject says it all. I'm asking because I've found Fedora 9 to be buggy as hell - it is one of the worst Fedora releases I've

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Krieser
On May 22, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Paul wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:42 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:03:23PM -0700, Florin Andrei enlightened us: Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 When it's done. For crying out

Re: [CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system

2008-04-30 Thread Kevin Krieser
issues. On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: Hi Kevin, Kevin Krieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just tried NTFS-3G on a thumbdrive, and I was able to create a file that differed only by case from another. Then something got corrupted. Could you please elaborate what