Re: [CentOS] OpenJDK vs Sun JDK

2010-04-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, April 16, 2010 02:54 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> RedHat has acknowleged that Sun's JDK is faster - despite the fact >> OpenJDK is native. Since it's native, it also means it's not platform >> independent (in the sense of compile once run anywhere.) > > What do you mean "is native" ? I

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: > Hey folks, > > Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? > If so, maybe someone can point me to it. > > Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of > CPAN modules, and the first basic p

[CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, One of our local town halls has asked me to implement a wiki-based website dedicated to ecological farming. The wiki is supposed to host a variety of documents in text, video and audio format. I've never used any wiki engines myself. Is there any one you can recommend in particular ? I'm u

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've never used any wiki engines myself. Is there any one you can >recommend in particular ? I'm using CentOS 5 on the server, so I would >be glad to use a solution where I don't have to jump through burning >loops (e. g. install a more recent version of PHP/Python/whatever) to >make it work.

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

2010-04-16 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
listserv.traf...@sloop.net ha scritto: > Problem: > Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. > Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. Just some toughs: you could try to install rbldnsd.i386 from rpmforge repo for caching rbl lookups > I certainly suspect a proble

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:59:08 +1000 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > > On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: > >> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > >> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > One of our local town halls has asked me to implement a wiki-based > website dedicated to ecological farming. The wiki is supposed to host a > variety of documents in text, video and audio format. > > I've never used any wiki engines my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've never used any wiki engines myself. Is there any one you can > recommend in particular ? I'm using CentOS 5 on the server, so I would > be glad to use a solution where I don't have to jump through burning > loops (e. g. install a more recent version of PHP/Pyth

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: >> Hey folks, >> >> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? >> If so, maybe someone can point me to it. >> >> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of >> CPA

Re: [CentOS] OpenJDK vs Sun JDK

2010-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> RedHat has acknowleged that Sun's JDK is faster - despite the fact >> OpenJDK is native. Since it's native, it also means it's not platform >> independent (in the sense of compile once run anywhere.) > > What do you mean "is native" ? > > The JDK (or rather the JVM) is n

Re: [CentOS] Building an "instant on" X terminal

2010-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by >> the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried >> it: It was impressively fast. > I was curious about this and insta

[CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread lhecking
We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from source. The symptoms are: read access i

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread m . roth
> On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: >>> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos >>> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far >>> to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 16.04.2010, 15:00 +0200 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x vers

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread m . roth
Someone wrote: > > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably > with any version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version > of samba or 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from source. Here's a q

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Tomas Ruprich
Hi, i don't know exactly if this would be usable for yourself, but very nice feature for our purposes is autobundling, see for example: http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm#POPULATE_AN_INSTALLATION_WITH_LOTS_OF_MODULES or http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/cgi-perl/automate

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread m . roth
Nikki, > > One of our local town halls has asked me to implement a wiki-based > website dedicated to ecological farming. The wiki is supposed to host a > variety of documents in text, video and audio format. > > I've never used any wiki engines myself. Is there any one you can > recommend in partic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread lhecking
> Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might > want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may > be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. Have used the same smb.conf for years on RHEL3 while moving from 3.0.x to 3.[2-4].x. ---

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Tomas Ruprich
Sorry, sent too soon. As for your problem with not knowing if the module was succesfully installed... i went around by trying use/require and printing version after each install. Tomas Fri, Apr 16, 2010 ve 03:26:16PM +0200, Tomas Ruprich napsal: > Hi, > i don't know exactly if this would be us

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Samuel Contesse
Hi, Have a look at: http://www.wikimatrix.org/ I would suggest you Dokuwiki which is really simple to implement and use. Sam -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: vendredi, 16. avril 2010 15:21 To: C

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-friendly wiki engine ?

2010-04-16 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/4/16 Niki Kovacs : > Hi, > > One of our local town halls has asked me to implement a wiki-based > website dedicated to ecological farming. The wiki is supposed to host a > variety of documents in text, video and audio format. > > I've never used any wiki engines myself. Is there any one you ca

[CentOS] Samba and ldap failover - RH / Centos problem?

2010-04-16 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi folks, I recently got my ldap master slave samba test environment up and runing. samba-3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1 openldap-2.3.43-3.el5 The ldap systems sync fine, samba users are authenticated by each server seperatly if I set tham in the samba conf. E.g. passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap2.fil

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Brian Sr
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:29 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might > > want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may > > be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. > > Have used the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread John Doe
From: "lheck...@users.sourceforge.net" > The symptoms are: read access is extremely slow, write access > seems to work in principle (e.g. creating a zeros-sized file on > a share), but writing even small files (100k) to the share eventually > times out with "out of memory or disk space" errors.

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread Todd Denniston
david walcroft wrote, On 04/15/2010 10:59 PM: > On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: >>> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos >>> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far >>> to burn

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Bird
On 16/04/2010 14:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba o

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Alan McKay
> http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm#POPULATE_AN_INSTALLATION_WITH_LOTS_OF_MODULES > http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/cgi-perl/automate-perl-module-deployment-050426/page4.html This is a very interesting idea! Now my only problem seems to be that cpan does not allow m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Christoph Maser a écrit : >> We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to >> CentOS5, >> but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any >> version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or >> 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Brian Sr wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:29 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>> Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might >>> want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may >>> be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. >>

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The main problem with 3rd party repos is that you have to be careful about >updates causing dependency conflicts, especially if you use more than one. You've mentioned that before, doesn't 'priorities' resolve this nicely? I use c5-testing, rf, atrpms, epel, remi and some others and never have i

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/16/2010 9:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> The main problem with 3rd party repos is that you have to be careful about >> updates causing dependency conflicts, especially if you use more than one. > > You've mentioned that before, doesn't 'priorities' resolve this nicely? I > use c5-testing, r

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread John Doe
From: Daniel Bird > Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf > fixed it. Keep in mind that: "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption. You should never need to set this parameter." JD

[CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am using rsyslog to get logs to a central box and they are stored in the format of / I need a solution that can trawl through these directories and pick up exceptions like failed logons and sudo usage that sort of thing. Has anyone got any clues as to what might help to achieve this, i

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread rainer
> Hi > > I am using rsyslog to get logs to a central box and they are stored in the > format of > > / > > I need a solution that can trawl through these directories and pick up > exceptions like failed logons and sudo usage that sort of thing. > > Has anyone got any clues as to what might help

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
> > Good question. > How many servers do you have to collect logs from? > > a few thousand ultimately > I'd like to hear of people who have used both Splunk and/or prelude in an > environment with, say, 500 voice a few opinions. > in the log term i might use loglogic or something similar but in

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread David Miller
I recently ran across the Octopussy project which looks interesting. I haven't tried it out yet though. Can't say that I like the url too much either. http://www.8pussy.org/doku.php -- David On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am using rsyslog to get logs to a central bo

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread David Miller
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM, David Miller wrote: > I recently ran across the Octopussy project which looks interesting. I > haven't tried it out yet though. Can't say that I like the url too much > either. http://www.8pussy.org/doku.php > -- > David > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM,

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread rainer
> I recently ran across the Octopussy project which looks interesting. I Interesting , thanks. > haven't tried it out yet though. Can't say that I like the url too much > either. http://www.8pussy.org/doku.php ;-) They should _really__ never, ever let that domain-name expire _

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread nate
rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > I'd like to hear of people who have used both Splunk and/or prelude in an > environment with, say, 500 voice a few opinions. I use Splunk with a few hundred systems and it works alright, using it right can take some time though creating the reports and stuff, but i

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
On 16 Apr 2010, at 18:49, "nate" wrote: > rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > >> I'd like to hear of people who have used both Splunk and/or prelude >> in an >> environment with, say, 500> and can >> voice a few opinions. > > I use Splunk with a few hundred systems and it works alright, using > i

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 16-04-2010 16:38, rai...@ultra-secure.de escreveu: >> Hi >> >> I am using rsyslog to get logs to a central box and they are stored in the >> format of >> >> / >> >> I need a solution that can trawl through these directories and pick up >> exceptions like failed logons and sudo usage that sor

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread david walcroft
On 04/16/2010 03:58 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 04/16/2010 04:59 AM, david walcroft wrote: > ... >> I tried your command but this error came up >> >> [da...@reddwarf ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z >> /dev/dvd=rpm/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso >> :-( /dev/dvd: media is not recognized as recordable DV

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread david walcroft
On 04/17/2010 12:07 AM, Todd Denniston wrote: > david walcroft wrote, On 04/15/2010 10:59 PM: >> On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >>> On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos before and I've haven't used a -

[CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
I've had a Logitech cordless desktop on my primary desktop for the last few years, and every once in a while the number pad would just "go out" - the key and num-lock would still work, but of all the others would do nothing except the 5, which would pop-up a subwindow in some app on the screen tha

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, MHR wrote: > I've had a Logitech cordless desktop on my primary desktop for the > last few years, and every once in a while the number pad would just > "go out" - the key and num-lock would still work, but of all > the others would do nothing except the 5, which w

[CentOS] Volume keys don't work

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
A side effect that I just noticed is that the volume up/down controls keys no longer seem to function at all. I reset the keyboard shortcuts to use them, but even with the whole volume control panel enabled, they don't do a thing. What did I break? I don't remember seeing this one before mh

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread Robert
On 04/16/2010 06:17 PM, david walcroft informed us: > On 04/16/2010 03:58 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > >> On 04/16/2010 04:59 AM, david walcroft wrote: >> ... >> >>> I tried your command but this error came up >>> >>> [da...@reddwarf ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z >>> /dev/dvd=rpm/CentOS-5.4

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 09:25 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > I use a mix of media. dvd-rw and dvd+r dl > Is the 'bin' in CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso of any significance,as I > haven't seen it before. --- Alrighty just for kicks put that centos dvd.iso on your desktop. Now right click on it and

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 18:02 -0700, MHR wrote: > I'm going to reboot to see what happens, but I'd be really, really > disappointed if it all just comes back to life (meaning that it *is* a > problem in the system and not the hardware) You can't guarantee that, either way. It could still be a

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > You can't guarantee that, either way.  It could still be a problem with > the hardware (firmware) in the keyboard and when you reboot it gets a > "kick" and restarts. > Perhaps, but wouldn't it get a bigger kick, if you will, by replacing the

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 22:53 -0700, MHR wrote: > Perhaps, but wouldn't it get a bigger kick, if you will, by replacing > the keyboard batteries? Replacing the batteries has no effect on the receiver that's plugged into your computer, and that's the part that's most likely getting the "kick" when y